Sunday, February 22, 2009

And the Oscar goes to...An Obama Booster!

The annual parade of the stars comes into living rooms for so many tonight. How incredible it must be to win an award to act in a movie. Be voted the coolest of the coolest by the cool crowd, to stand in front of millions and thank so few.

On the steps of the Lincoln Monument just before the Inauguration of Barak Obama, these "most important" Americans were talking to us all about the struggles and the triumphs, which were about to culminate the following day when Mr. Obama took his oath of office.

Actors, Celebrities and Singers all reminded us how important they are, and the new administration reminded us all how important it is to be famous in the movies and on the pages of US and Star magazine. Martin Luther King III was there, a symbol of his great father’s work, a person who works toward those triumphs daily, the only one who was not an actor or performer, just a hardworking bearer of American justice and equality. And then there was the pudgy unshaven comedian Jack Black, telling us about something serious, like voting, Kal Penn, from the Harold and Kumar movies, looking into the camera, on the same stage as Mr. King, and telling us all how great it is to be an American at that moment, where were Cheech and Chong? I only wish Senator John Blutarski, could have been able to come to the stage and cry… "Toga!”

Where was the scientist that found the stem cell research solution for spinal cord injuries, in an era of no funding for stem cell anything? Where were the parents of Michael Monsoor who saved members of his SEAL Team's life by jumping on a grenade? Where was the widow of Billy Mitchuli who died on 9/11, and lost her father that same day? Where were the sacrificing Americans?

Instead we were fed a menu of “Movie Stars”. I get Tom Hanks…His heroic characters in Philadelphia and Saving Private Ryan. He is our modern day Carey Grant, John Wayne and Humphrey Bogart all wrapped into one. An Icon, who has painted pictures of the truth for us all to see, so much clearer, in his performances in important films. But Kal Penn, and Jack Black. I suppose Mr. Obama had already won, so it was far less a transgression than the organizers of the 96' Democratic National Convention made when they chose the Black Eyed Peas to perform “Lets get Retarded in Here” on the closing night. America’s indelible image of The Gore’s dancing to bad white rap ruined it for Al , not the hanging chad. (That’s another rant.)

The trouble with the inaugural pre-party was that insignificant pop idols dominated the show. Kal, Jack, Beyonce, and others were on center stage, the perceived important ones, not those that exemplify themselves day to day with no fanfare and money or fame. The selfless, those that Copland's "the fanfare for the common man" was written, they were omitted, but those that gain fame and fortune, and misbehave are rewarded with honor at the inaugural of the President. WTF!

Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Earmarked for prosecution!...Mmmm

The white haired ex-marine with the bronze star and keeper of the United States Defense Appropriations stares into the abyss of ruin, and this is oh so yummy:

Murtha runs Capitol Hill's Lobby establishment with the same slick efficiency that Steve Wynn runs Las Vegas Hoteling. "Get Um Here...and then shake the money out of um" Wynn and Murtha have turned it into a science.... Good for Wynn, that’s his job, Murtha...Not so much.

This is the recipe used by the distinguished gentleman from Johnstown and here are the ingredients:

One cup survival instinct
With No Moral Compass
One Political Icon's Kid - aged and fat
With No care for the law
One Obscenely Corrupt former staffer turned Lobbyist
With an eye on the "Mark"
Olive Oil - Lots of it

First take the survival instinct and ensure there are absolutely no morals in there at all:

Lets elaborate a bit. Congressman John Murtha sat in a hotel room in 1980 and had a long and extensive talk with FBI agent Anthony Amoroso. Special Agent Amoroso, on cheap black and white video had a spectacular, back and fourth with the Congressman about how he could be handed $50,000 in order to facilitate government business in Johnstown, PA, his district (Watch Video). Murtha salivated, but wouldn’t jump on the bait, like any cunning predator he circled and alluded to "working something out later" but didn't take. Guilty - NO! Indictable - Absolutely! And once indicted, you are finished in the federal system. So Murtha, survivor that he is, cut a deal with the cops..."I will lie and cheat and roll over on any single person you want me to.... please don’t indict me! I only went to a meeting"...which is not against the law.

So Murtha was faced with this...
FBI MAN: - we name you an "Un-Indicted Coconspirator" and you, Mr. Murtha testify under oath against your friends and colleagues...regardless if you know their actions.
Murtha: - "Where do I sign?"
And out went the morality of Jack Murtha.

Telling every one "I am a war hero, I got the Bronze Star” that may have been the first and more obscene lie...Bronze Star with NO "V" Device is like a good conduct medal given out with the rations. A Navy Man took his life for wearing the "V" when he didn't earn it, Murtha wears the "V" less Star like the great Senator Inouye wears one less arm, like a hero. Thing is Danny is one and Jack is an echelon officer who tidied up the supply tent and the General gave him a shiny medal to show off when he got home...Hero?

Murtha testified against his colleagues...he tells the Federal Prosecutor on the witness stand, under oath, that he knew some one took money who didn't. He lied to save his political life and it worked. His colleague Congressman John Murphy from New York, who went to a meeting as all 434 other members do on a daily basis to facilitate business in their district, was faced with the dolt, Anthony Amoroso, Federal Agent - Murphy's Response "NO" and he exited. Special Agent Amoroso freaked out! (You have to see the expletive filled tantrum Amoroso throws at his rejection...it is brilliant!) But Murphy was damned to political hell. Murphy wouldn’t play ball with the prosecutors, and he went down. Acquitted of taking money..., which he didn't...conspiracy...the vague one, gets you every time.

Murtha tied the weights to him and shoved him overboard. Murphy to this day maintains his innocence. As others seek pardons, and agree to tacit guilt, Murphy said, " My office and I...am not for sale, I have no further Comment"

Murphy has a "V"... on his multiple Bronze Stars, and a Distinguished Service Cross, which means he bleeds "V", and a Purple Heart, for the shrapnel left in his face. He lives by Duty, Honor, and Country...Regardless of the past, a hero, shammed by Murtha.

Ensuring now there is no Morality in the Recepie, we need the Political Icon's Kid.

Susan O'Neill, daughter of the great "Tip" and the biggest fundraiser for Congressman Jack Murtha, has been up to no good.

The way it goes with the Murtha People is simple...Pay up and get a meeting...pay some more and get a response.... pay some more and get an answer...may not be the one you are looking for but its a years long process.

Ritz Carlton Crystal City, O’Neil throws the evening bash, $1,000 per person, at least 500 shows up and $500,000 goes into Murtha's campaign coffers. The young Senator from Pennsylvania is there, at his own table, every member of the democratic Pennsylvania Delegation is there, at their own tables paying homage to Murtha. The money usually goes to his wife’s breast cancer research center, and some funnels to the members.

At table 1 there is Murtha, talking with every single lobbyist, Grumman's CEO, Lockheed’s CEO, every little guy, every big firm that wants a dollar is there...and they know if they are there then the next day they are getting a meeting with the Legislative Assistant in charge of Defense Appropriations. (The Assistants are usually plowed at the bar).

Susan "O" takes home about 25% of the door, and can't do it clean like...she has a good thing going - but is now faking checks and donors just to make a couple extra bucks. Her dad said it once - "If you tell the truth the first time you never need to remember what you said the last time you met some one". What about the checks Susan, what do you tell them? Tip should have spent more time at home teaching the kids.

The part that makes this white wine reduction sauce so tasty is the obscenely corrupt lobbyist, talk about flavor...mum.

Paul Mags, gotta love him. If you had to cast him in a movie, you'd go to Tony Bennet and say, could you please be gangster.

PMA - Paul Magliochetta and Associates is the number one funder of Murtha froth. Mags allegedly pays guys to drive Murtha to and from Johnstown, to chauffer the old man around, to take his wife to the store, every little deed is done by Mag's Men.

Smaller things tripped up Daschle lately, but no Washington Post Insider followed the white haired Murtha Back to Johnstown, in a white Buick with a Mag Man driving the car, WTF.

Mags made it a family affair...if you call girlfriends family, you better get hitched, because souses dont have to testify against each other Paul.... Girlfriends that make no money materialize $9600 per election, Kids that have no jobs - $9600, I can't pay my college loans and I make 6 figures and these interns and secretaries are shelling out $9600 each, that’s like $18,000 pre tax dollars...is selling crack to pay Murtha and O'Neill leagal?

Mix all this together, and you have the makings for a Michelin rated feast! Poached Congressional Canary, covered in a White haired Wine Reduction sauce with a side of Lobbyist arrugala salad.

This is going to play out beautifully...Hey Jack...Danbury is nice...Allenwood is better...Mags is going to retire to Florida on your crystal ship in a bottle, and Susan, you're just out! - Nothing could be worse for the three and nothing better for the American public!

Monday, February 16, 2009

Vegas Baby - Smells like Bacon!

The American People are facing the biggest financial crisis of our time - Barack Obama

There will be no lobbyists in my administration....actually I wont accept donations from Lobbyists... - Barack and Co. ( He took money from my mother...lots of it! she's a defense lobby guru!)

So now we face the abyss, we look into it with no fear knowing that now that I walk in the shadow of financial death that I carry thy lobbyist and thy gaming consultant in my Black Hugo Boss Suit pocket.

Today Harry Reid the Senate Majority Leader muscled through the economic stimulus plan. In that plan more than 1% went to him! He is a lobbyist...don't let his "we have lost the war" dewey eyed flaccid voice trick you...he is a billionaire casino/real estate baron from Nevada!actually his big chested dad was, he is a rich kid that became a Senator, and uses family money or his big stack to push us all around.

Well ole'poker face Harry just pushed $8 Billion or more than 1% of Barack Obama's entire stimulus plan into a single line on the appropriations side....a high speed rail from Orange County to Vegas Baby! That's right the more money that goes into MGM the more money his family makes....he'll lie and say its a blind trust, but when you have a cool billion in the bank nothing is blind.

So much for doing the right thing like forgiving mortgages for those people that you insisted should be given homes even though they had no jobs, no income, and no real right to have what every other poor dumb SOB that work 16 hour days at jobs that are unforgiving saving a lifetime to buy a little piece of freedom have bought and are now upside down because of no regulation by ....yes you Harry Reid, the perfect example of a guy that worked so hard for daddy's land! So Harry doesn't do the right thing and help out the working man and his non working speculating brother.

Harry drives $8 Billion into a high speed rail program taking those same poor SOB's that are hurting out there in ground zero of the housing crisis in Orange County California taking them to Las Vegas Baby! This High Speed Rail program will increase tourism! I am sure the unions are behind it too. The more money into Vegas the more the service union makes to NOT support its collective employees.

Go get 'um Harry, sounds like Cassidy and Co. In DC didn't need to pay a dime to their on staff lobbyists to get you to ensure that your big trust gets bigger. This is strikingly similar to old Jim Frist and his voting for health care that benefited his HMO.

Where is Mr. Smith! Where is Thomas Jefferson, Where is Abe!, Where are the idea-crats that make good law, and look out for the people!...what they "ought" to get versus what the "want"...that separates the good ones from the bad ones.

Can this be said for anyone up on Capitol Hill? Dan Inoyue...Jim Sessions...yes there are a few, but not the Majority Leader...Imagine Lyndon pushing for only domestic Oil use...he had the bully pulpit, but used it more wisely...Harry you are rich enough don't you think?

Monday, February 9, 2009

Afghanistan...Aaron Sorkin, couldn’t write it better!

The Defense Department made a bold statement today, the Don Rumsfeld years are still here!

CJC stated that they are sending more troops to Afghanistan, but limiting the deployment to 30,000.

The Taliban is sweating!

30,000 US troops to do a 120,000 troop level job.... sounds like somebody wants to get the job done...right.

John McCain said he'd follow Osama Bin Laden to the Gates of Hell.... I wonder how many troops he'd take with him? Sounds like Obama is going to send "up to" 30,000 troops to the gates of Pakistan, where they will unfortunately find only the "sherpa sherpa, derpa, derpa , Mohamed Jihad!"...

Take the fight to them Men!

Saturday, February 7, 2009

Buy Bank of America

The concept of the Gentleman Farmer always resonated with me. The conservative hardworking businessman truly embodied.

We live in a more complex time than the time of the Gentleman Farmer who had his lot, worked it, and made the best of what he could. When he worked hard, innovated, cultivated and executed a plan of action he would become successful. The world would change, the market for his products would change, growing, contracting and evolving. This is what kept him on his toes. The smart, hardworking businessman / gentleman Farmer would in turn thrive and re-position as tides changed. If he did not he would fail.

What he was paid was what he earned. The more talented and hard-working the more he was able to "derive" from the fruits of his labor. If he was lazy, or mismanaged his lot, he failed and was paid nothing.

Executive pay today has lost that element of accountability. Merrill Lynch and its Chief Executive, lavishing money on a pretentious office re-do. Yes its important to have a showplace to meet with bankers and billionaires and heads of state, The White House will undergo a transformation this month, $150,000 for Mrs. Obama to put her stamp on an entire house. John Thain $1.5 Million on his personal office. What does this say to those that have their monies invested at Merrill Lynch? What does it say to those that keep getting higher fees month after month at Bank Of America, for what are you charging?

Charging fees to children and widows, to college students and moms and maids and merchants, to enrich themselves, and compensate themselves even though they are underperforming and failures at their jobs.

Who is standing up for everyone? Not just the historically discriminated against classes. Everyone!

In reality it is the Upper Middle class that gets hurt the most. The class that has worked so hard to achieve some taste of a good life that saves and squirrels away a nest egg that is above the FDIC insurance cap of $100,000. Then B of A goes away and a lifetime of education and work – gone.

Maybe the concept of paying a man what he is worth should come back as a principle, not right. The gentleman farmer always collided with the banker. Jefferson v. Hamilton.

Thursday, February 5, 2009

Inaugural Blog-a-crat

I stood in a cafeteria and watched Barack Obama on TV.

The Bailout is coming! The Bailout is coming! The Bailout is coming!

I have gotten my horse and am waiting to see if there are two lanterns in the tower or if there will be only one! When I see the light I am going to race through the Cities and scream the Bailout is coming! The Bailout is coming!

The part of this that makes no sense is that I am screaming it to others, to the Bankers and their banks, and to all others who will get bailed out. Will I, undoubtedly NO! But its fun to ride around town screaming.