Random Attempts at Humor

I don't know where to start -- the continued nationalization that they say isn't really nationalization of our the businesses and banks that the government allowed to consolidate into behemoths which they say are now so big that their shareholders are a better use of welfare dollars in this society than feeding hungry children. I guess there are three main points in that convoluted sentence I just ... read more

Seriously, this confiscation of wealth is bad enough. But then to have to suffer through watching these self-serving, self-dealing, power-mongering Republicans and Democrats pretending they have a) a clue about b) no culpability, much less FULL culpability for our economic nightmare of slippery socialism that they've wrought. I hate to say it, but I have been warning as loudly as I ... read more

* My SpokeUp.com Bookmark of the day: ” FDIC's Bair Says She'd Be `Very Surprised' by U.S. Bank Nationalization”. When the largest bank in the US, Citigroup has taken in half a trillion in welfare and the US government is now telling it what assets to buy and sell and when, including forcing Citigroup to sell its brokerage practice to Morgan Stanley which can pay for it with the ten billion in ... read more

How I Feel Most of the Time When I Interview Elected Officials from The Socialist Republican/Democrat Regime: Ben Bernanke and Hank Paulson discussing sending welfare to banks so that they can afford to pay back the loans they owe the government: How the babyboomers and the Republican/Democrat/Ivy League regime they've put in charge feel about fiscal responsiblity and personal ... read more

Here's what I'll be speaking up again about this weekend:

*  NY Post: NYers Thought Bubbles

*  Obama Taps Killefer for New Post - ... read more

My recent featured youtube videos from my homepage on SpokeUp.com - Duck Tales Inflation Lesson: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_LWQQrpSc4 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid as Tarp Advocates: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQfyOr3e-34 Han Solo as a Tarp Advocate: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTB1uUpu-2w I'll start posting these every few days here on the blog so you ... read more

As I've been so vocal and adamant against all the forms of corporate welfare (you can call it "bailouts" if you want), I've gotten one question over and over as these two real quotes from my blog comments asked: "What should we do about it?" "What are you, we, going to do about all this?" So many people write to me saying they feel that, now more than ever, they don't have a voice as ... read more

Some thoughts that are kicking off the playoffs in my own head this weekend: * I'll introduce this more formally in an upcoming post this weekend, but I want to let readers know now that after two years of blood, sweat and tears, we're proud to beta-launch SpokeUp.com - The social network for individuals who speak up. You can visit my profile page at http://spokeup.com/pg/profile/cody and ... read more

But give my daddy a job cause he needs one Hes got lots of mouths to feed But if youve got one, I'll have a machine gun So I can scare all the kids down the street Father christmas, give us some money We got no time for your silly toys We'll beat you up if you don't hand it over Give all the toys to the little rich boys -- The Kinks The liars and crooks who run the investment banks ... read more

My own version of Sunday Comics -- How are all these ad-hoc rules and bail outs supposed to create confidence, again?: - [The credit agencies]: "I'm not going to so my math homework. Look at these unsolved problems. Here's a number in mortal combat with another. One of them is going to get subtracted. But why? What will be left of him? If I answered these, it would kill the suspense. ... read more