Government

I got back late Saturday night, after Lobo and I fought delays on American Airlines for hours in Dallas. Even as I had such a terrific time in Ruidoso (and of course in LA as I became the second person from my kindergarten class of 28 students in Ruidoso, NM to be a guest on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno -- click here to see the clip), I was excited to get back to NYC and ... read more

Fox sent me a questionnaire to fill out about my hometown as we broadcast live from Ruidoso, NM where I lived from the age of 1 til 23 when I moved to NYC.  We'll be broadcasting live at the Win, Place and Show honkey tonk bar on main street during Happy Hour today from 5-6pm EST. It has been so much fun to come home to Ruidoso with NYC-career people...weird, but I suppose juxtaposing Win, ... read more

One of the head Illuminati crooks who have destroyed our economy by lying to everybody about their assets and earnings for years, Vikram Pandit, the CEO of the largest new welfare institution in the country, Citigroup, was on Charlie Rose last night. I don't know why Charlie Rose was so nice to this guy who just took billions of dollars in welfare for his rich shareholders and their lenders.  ... read more

I was playing with http://trends.google.com this weekend after a friend told me he was worried about the suicide rate climbing in this country as the economy gets worse and the government keeps sending what's left of our money to the crooks on Wall Street and those who support them. Some interesting search word trends: Searches for the word "depression" are climbing strongly this year, but ... read more

Citigroup executives and employees have been lying to their customers, investors, the government and -- best case scenario -- even themselves for the last few days, weeks, months, and years. The CEO and his stooges either lie to our faces just about every time any of 'em talk about their company or else they have to be some of the most incompetent executives I've ever heard of. I mean, how ... read more

1. Let’s Lever Up the Bailout! 2. Let’s Buy Big 3 Call Options 3. Let’s Treasury Short S&P Puts 1. We should take the $700 billion for TARP and just lever it up 30 to 1like the guys who used to be in charge of risk control at the brokerage firms like Lehman and Bear used to do. That’d only cost $300 trillion.  And if we are gonna make all this return on our $700 billion investment, ... read more

Here's some of what we're going to be hitting on Where's My Money?! this week: 1.  So Goldman's TOP execs turn down their bonuses since the company's directly receiving almost as many welfare tax dollars than all of the rest of NY State's medicare recipients combined (about $16 billion in medicare in NY state in 2006 vs. the $10 billion Goldman took).  Let's remember Goldman does have about ... read more

1. Paulson’s A HORRIBLE Trader 2. Volatile Markets Volatility 3. Fear the Financial New World Order 1. I’m just going to remind you guys that Hank Paulson, our Treasury Secretary, thought that it was a great use of his Goldman shareholders’ money to spend tens of billions buying GS stock when it was more than 3x higher than today’s price. This is the guy you all believed when he ... read more

Homegrown Rock to the rhythm and bop to the beat of the radio You ain't got the slang but you've got the face to play the roll You can play with me -- "Fans" by Kings of Leon Here's what will be eating away at my brain all weekend -- * Do I even have to comment on this one? Seeking Help to Bring an MLS Team to Portland New York Times, United States - 14 hours ... read more

Some are bound for happiness, some are bound to glory Some are bound to live with less, who can tell your story? I was down in Dixie Land, played a silver fiddle Played it loud and then the man broke it down the middle. See the sky about to rain, broken clouds and rain. -- Neil Young A few ... read more