I was watching hockey highlights and one player through his gloves to the ice and everyone cleared out except the other player who did the same with his gloves—oh, I mean besides the two referees who were temporarily between the two about to bare-knuckle brawl. Then the fight began until the punches stopped flying. So can anybody tell me why it wasn’t stopped before it began? There was time to stop it, resources to stop it, and penalties to prevent it.

This type of fighting in little league, college, or international hockey is not tolerated. It’s against the rules, has little value to the sport except intimidation and punishment. What is the benefit to the young audience who thinks it’s cool?

I like a good fight as much as the next guy, but there is no logic to explain it. Yet it goes on…

Sports Guide Blog: More words on the subject.

Let’s move to baseball. Spitting, what’s the issue with this need for men to constantly be spitting something—saliva, tobacco, sunflower or pumpkin seeds? I mean it’s disgusting, unsanitary, and downright rude.

I went to the little league field to pitch, hit and field with the kids this weekend. The dugout was full of these leftover shell casings and bits of seed and saliva. Around pitchers mound same thing, as well as up and down the baselines and outfield. How freaken nasty!

The same field that little boys and grown men roll around on for hours in the hot sun is covered with excrement discharged from the mouth thousands of times by hundreds of people. Why is this behavior okay, what purpose does it serve?

Okay so the pro’s do it. Here’s a little notice to all the little leaguers, their parents and coaches—leave that behavior and steroid use to the pro’s—as much as you dress yourselves up in the same uniforms, buy the most expensive equipment and gear you’re not pro’s. You weren’t good enough for the pro’s when you were in your prime and no amount of dressing up in costume, or vicariously living your dream through you children, nor spitting is going to make it so now!

Worried about the spreading the flu much… Worried about getting the flu? Right.

Technorati Tags: Baseball, fantasy, flu, hockey fighting, little league, Neanderthals, P S A, Posers, spitting, spreading disease, sunflower seeds, Wannabes

Feeling stressed? You ought to have a tantrum

By Daily Mail Reporter

The end of the holidays, cold weather and economic gloom will make today one of the most stressful days of the year for returning to work.

But experts have come up with an unlikely remedy – throwing a tantrum.

Technorati Tags: copeless, problems, solutions, Tantrums

Dear iChef,

I keep trying the same thing over and over again and nothing ever changes. What can I do?

In the immortal words of Ritchie Cunningham, “Huh, huh, huh.”

Let’s try something new for 2009!

The word on the streets these days is,

…good riddance to 2008! 2009 is the year everything will turn around for me and CHANGE…

Well I have something to say about that! (of course you do…)

Unless you actually do something differently, the chances that something will actually change are very slim—unless you change certain behaviors in your life, the results will most likely be the same!

You know the old adage about insanity? It’s freaking insane to keep repeating the same steps of an experiment and expecting a different result! Change something!

I’m thinking these thoughts all the time. I even say them from time to time. But I haven’t put it down on paper. I’m not sure I could do a better job so I’ll not spend any time reinventing the wheel—and with that I will add that to the bottom of the list. Let me also state here that the list shouldn’t be taken in any particular order of importance. Start anywhere, somewhere, just start!

Do you have any advice, pearls of wisdom, ideas to help the rest of us? If so, let me know and I will add it to the list

Don’t be afraid to listen to others or discount what they have to say—even if they’re somehow involved or associated with a church. (That will be the second bit of advice I will add to the bottom of the list.)

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Hat tip to iChef Roberts on finding this gem (wheel.)

This is from Tom Ehrich. Tom Ehrich is a writer, church consultant and Episcopal priest. His Web site is www.morningwalkmedia.com.

Tom Ehrich: Break bad ‘08 habits

* Don’t believe in “something for nothing.” We cannot continue to suspend skepticism and careful evaluation just because we want things to be a certain way. A shell game is always a shell game.

* Don’t trust the banker who hawked you a home equity loan. In their headlong pursuit of bonuses, many financial workers broke faith with their customers, sold us inappropriate products, gambled recklessly with our money, and now want us to bear the burden.

* Don’t shop on credit. This is the year to tear up credit cards, stop drawing down home
equity loans, and stop using debt to finance our lifestyles. Even if it has short-term impact
on retailers, we need to get our personal finances in order. A healthy consumer economy needs to be spending real money, not plastic.

* Don’t let your job define you. We grow up believing that career defines our worth and identity. Then, when we make necessary career changes, and especially when we have changes thrust upon us, we don’t just sputter financially. We descend into a pit of self-doubt and self-destructive behavior.

* Be generous even when you feel strapped. True community depends on people looking out for each other, especially when danger or distress loom. Any society can spend prosperity; a truly special society shares its food with the hungry.

* Learn to can vegetables and to make repairs. It isn’t about saving money, but about self-reliance and making do. As we stagger into the second year of a worsening recession, it is important that we each feel capable and not rendered powerless by a complex world.

* Learn from failure. The greatest shortcoming among recent leaders hasn’t been their
mistakes, bad guesses and faulty information, but their refusal to admit failure, to accept accountability for failure and to learn from failure. We the people, in turn, need to stop pouncing on failure.

* Rethink how you raise your children. We seem to be engaged in an epic experiment in non-
parenting, with too many children raised by minimum-wage employees, television and over-involved parents living through their children. The results are sobering: children who cannot think for themselves, who have a high sense of entitlement, who plagiarize without compunction, and who are intellectually and motivationally unprepared to learn. Who, then, will make the hard decisions and do the hard work that freedom and economic vitality require?

* Help your faith community grow by accepting changes. Now more than ever, our society needs faith communities that are able to heal at the margins, speak forcefully at the center, and help a distracted and floundering people find solid ground. Conflict and resistance to change paralyze too many congregations.

* Spend more time at home with loved ones. Even if we could still afford the parallel lives that many families lead (and we can’t), this is the year to spend more time together. Living overly busy, career-centered and separate lives hasn’t worked.

* Stop living vicariously through a celebrity culture. We need to look into our mirrors and stop seeing what we wish we were, and instead find peace in who we are.

• Stop spending time reinventing the wheel—it’s already been invented—sheesh!
• Don’t be afraid to listen to others or discount what they have to say—even if they’re somehow involved or associated with a church. We don’t know everything, if we did, we wouldn’t be in this mess in the first place.

Good luck with all of that!

—iChef PSA

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Others with something to say:

Michelle Malkin: Predictions for the New Year and See-Dubya’s New Year’s Resolutions

The Anchoress: A 2008 Round Up

Technorati Tags: Advice, insanity, Op/Ed, Sage, Tom Ehrich

Really? That’s a question? —More of what’s wrong with us as a people. What a freaken shame!

Let’s take a look at a couple of things including the question in question.

Is the question:

who is to blame for trampling a real live person to real live death?

or is the question, who is legally to blame?

or is the question, who can be compelled to pay for the death?

or is the question, who should pay?

or is the question, who can lawyers blame and compel by our legal system to make pay?

How about personal responsibility? How about that question?

Human beings pushed their way over the top of another human being because they wanted to buy a present and save a couple of dollars… I don’t know what more to say.

If you were the one on top.

If you were the one pushing the one on top.

If you were the one pushing the one pushing the one on top.

If you were all the way in the back and leaning on the person in front of you…

If you walked by.

If you could have done something and didn’t.

You’re all to blame!

But my guess is that we will blame the store and corporation for not doing something they should have done, probably the security person and a manager for some how causing the death because they should have known. There will be not personal responsibility taken—it’s always someone else’s fault…

You will here all kinds of ways it could have been prevented and procedures that should have been in place in anticipation—how pathetic! Yes, responsibility should also fall on providing a safe environment if you’re running a business—but how pathetic that you have to be prepared for such a disgusting display of killer behavior!

You decide:

Merry Christmas!

—iChef PSA

Technorati Tags: Black Friday Death, Blame Game, holiday shopping, Killer Behavior, Lawyers, Walmart

(Video) Wal-Mart Worker Trampled to Death by Stop the ACLU

Black Friday turns dark by kel-c SwekRed

Black Friday and Love – UPDATED
by theAnchoress

Unrestrained consumerism claims two by This ain’t Hell, but you can see it from here

I don’t know who started this Black Friday crap, but it’s got to be the biggest gimmick ever started and perpetuated by the idiot local news stations. Every year, expecting my local news anchors to tell me what has happened in my area, my senses are assaulted by the images and interviews with obese, jobless morons who would normally be stretched out on their well-worn couch with crumbs of what used to be a potato hanging from their scraggly beards, but instead decided to be the subject of a “news” report about other obese, jobless morons who camped out all night to get a few pennies off of things they probably can’t afford at any price.

No Black Friday Shopping For Me by nicedeb

Technorati Tags: financial crisis, holiday shopping, News, PSA, Put the shovel down!, shopping madness, unemployment, Wafer-thin-mint?

Rep. Joe Knollenberg(R-MI): We Aren’t Using Taxpayer Money For Bailouts, Tinkerbell Sprinkled Pixie Dust By: Pam

That’s right, you tell them Knollenberg..Tell them how Tinkerbell flew in and sprinkled pixie dust all over the treasury, and now, magically, they have all kinds of money, and not a dime of it came from the taxpayer!

Watch as he tells Cavouto that it isn’t our money:

You might think about messing with Jim, but I’m telling you—“You don’ tug on Superman’s cape, you don’t spit into the wind, you don’t pull the mask off the old Lone Ranger and you don’t try to mess around in an interview with Neil!”

More:

Video: Bailout money doesn’t belong to us by Ed Morrissey

Why are you worried about bailouts, anyway? Don’t you know it’s not your money, but that it belongs to Congress? If I asked which party produced the Congressman who gave that assessment, you might be surprised (via Michelle):

The first rule of smaller government is that the money does not belong to Congress. It belongs to the people who earned it, and should be treated that way. The money should be treated as such and used with great care on only those essential government functions, and only to the extent necessary. If one is ever tempted to declare that tax monies do not belong to the American people, that person has ceased being conservative at all, and has begun being imperial instead.

Technorati Tags: Auto industry, Bailout, Cavuto, Don't mess around with Jim, Don't mess around with Neil Cavuto, financial crisis, GM, Jim Croce, Neil

Somebody responded, “I don’t think people are smart enough to know.” Which opened up a different variety of worms which we will discuss at later date.

Here’s what I think based on my many years on this planet:

First of all oil skyrocketed out of control very fast. Any reason to speculation that oil would not meet demand was a reason for it to go up.

Let’s go down a list:

• Going to war in Iraq—oil up (nothing changed—oil still flowed, just speculation that there might be a problem)
• Hurricanes that could affect the Gulf oil platforms.
• Boutique gasoline mixtures—caused gas prices to increase.
• Taxes—to provide money for this and that.
• Refinery fires—remember them?
• Don’t forget the new emerging markets—India and China and supply and demand…
• How about rumor that the world supply of oil is running low?
• How about the maniac Mr. Imma-Dinna-Jacket from Iran making the world think he’s going to disrupt the oil supply line?
• Don’t let me forget the analysts, whose words like, I can see oil at (unheard of inconceivable price of) $100 a barrel—and then we marched right up to $100 plus!
• Oil speculators, like the late 90’s day traders—out of control!
• Oh, I almost forgot the value of the US dollar. Oil prices are based on the dollar, because of weakness in the dollar (due to printing up more money for all this debt and selling our debt to other countries, the value of the dollar significantly fell like a rock)—the dollar bought less or things like oil cost more—this was also a cause for the swift increase of the price of oil.

Up, up an away in my beautiful balloon!

By the way the cost of getting oil never changed about $2-$3 a barrel!

Speculators making millions, corporations making unheard of billions, and guess what, the government making trillions in taxes on the same corporations profits and taxes on consumers at the gas pumps and taxes on the speculators trading. By the way where does that tax money go that the government quietly can’t pile high enough or fast enough???

So, we had another little bubble… Getting bigger and bigger. Corporations and speculators and GOVERNMENT getting richer and richer, while the bomb ticks away! People start warning sirens. Tic tick tic.

You remember the stock market bubble: peoples personal wealth increasing, corporations that didn’t even have earnings or a product worth billions on paper, and the government (where do you think all the tax money goes—SURPLUS???) getting richer and richer, while the bomb ticked away. People sounded the alarms—”irrational exuberance!” Stock market can’t keep going up, there’s no fundamentals…” Poof! All gone

So people finally started crying here at home about the high price of gas at the pump and leaders like Obama, Reid, H. Clinton, Pelosi talked about windfall profit tax (because they thought they could get away with it and then talked about government taking over the oil industry…)

Bush mentions drilling for the oil that we have right here in our own backyard… The mere mention sends speculators reeling in panic. The music stopped and everyone rushing for the last chair. Obama, Reid, H. Clinton, Pelosi, telling people that drilling will only bring the prices down by pennies 10 years from now—hahahaha! The public not buying it! Drill baby drill is the chant!

Speculators can’t get rid of their oil futures fast enough! Oil is plummeting! Faster on the way down than it was on the way up! No drilling won’t matter—just mention it and it dropped over $50 per barrel…

Now, oil’s more than $100 a barrel cheaper! Was that a bubble I heard pop???

The biggest loser will be the government—all the tax revenue—poof! Gone!

And now, we’re in the middle of this mess with the financial crisis, not seen since the Great Depression. The sub prime mortgage debacle is ground zero and a real estate bubble popped. The first stage cause—people who can’t afford homes and banks being forced by government to give them loans. Second stage, the banks knew people couldn’t pay back the loans and didn’t want to get stuck holding the short end, packaged up the bad loans under some prime beef and sold it off to the suckers! The world wanted a piece of the action and got it! People sounded the sirens! Nobody listened. Poof! Trillions evaporated! Jobs gone! Companies gone! Wha happen???

So you have this halt to the world economy and everybody (all the nations including this one) responsible. You know how I know everyone is responsible? Because even those with their hands clamped in the cookie jar aren’t aren’t to blame… Nobody is being dragged through the streets to be executed over this HUGE MESS. People involved are even getting new jobs and positions—how is that possible? How is it possible that there isn’t anyone in trouble or losing their job over this? Where is the accountability?

The Government convinces everyone that almost a trillion dollars are needed after injecting billions into a failing system for over a year. They say the money is for buying bad loans from the banks. And now the government is starting to bail out private industry by taking them over. And the appropriated money that was NEEDED is now being considered to bail out the auto industry—WHAT? You said it was for this and now it’s going to be for that? The government is definitely going to need more money! Think about this, Social Security doesn’t have the money in it that it has collected because the money was used for something else… Tick Tic Tick.

List of bursting factors:

• Bush mentions drilling
• Speculators go running!
• Economy slamming down because of the sub prime mortgage disaster.
• World economy affected and speculation that the world is in for some very bad times.

Oil at $50.96 on November 12, 2008

Oh, we haven’t even touched Social Security or Health care yet—Tic Tick Tic—BOOM!

—iChef PSA

PS

We are truly fucked! I wish the global warming would hurry up already and end this disaster we let happen!

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Other Voices:

Oil spirals below $55 per barrel by Ed Morrissey

Bailout-mania: If you didn’t see this coming… By Michelle Malkin

More reader mail on bailout-mania By Michelle Malkin

We Can Solve the Financial Crisis by Destroying OPEC

There’s a way to force the oil cartel to compete with other energy sources.
– by Robert Zubrin Dr. Robert Zubrin, a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, is an astronautical engineer and author of Energy Victory: Winning the War on Terror by Breaking Free of Oil.

Detroit Climbs Aboard the Bailout Gravy Train by William Teach

Detroit is a Petri dish, in which mad scientists have allowed the loathsome bacterium that is liberalism to flourish without restraint. As a result of this misguided experiment, the former capital of industry has been reduced to a Third-World hellhole. The most liberal city in America has bankrupted itself, and now has its hand out.

Estimated cost of feds’ financial crisis countermeasures thus far: $5 trillion By: Pam on RightVoices

Video: Subprime Banking Mess..How the markets really work By: Pam on RightVoice

Paulson: Um, change of plans on the bailout money by Allahpundit

The money bit (pun intended) comes at 1:15. It seems the Troubled Asset Relief Program will no longer involve, er, troubled assets, but rather injecting capital — which, per Slublog, sounds like a good idea to one of the very few bloggers able to comment on this mind-boggling subject beyond the level of ideological boilerplate. (Me not included.)

What’s A Moderate Depression? by MaxedOutMama

The Fed’s Ponzi Scheme: “It’s none of your business where the money is going.” by: Mark Epstein

Every recession has silver lining by Public Secrets

Technorati Tags: Bush, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, global economy, Global Warming, Government, Oil Prices, US dollar value, war, world economy

The Guard

Dedication, Pride, Commitment, Sacrifice,

Honor. The Sentinel epitomizes the meaning of all of these words combined together all the time!

Dedication, Pride, Commitment, Sacrifice, Honor are the words that exemplify what the Tomb of the Unknowns Sentinel is all about.

• Not sometimes—always!
• Not only when they’re feeling up to it—always!
• Not only when it’s sunny and nice out—always!
• Not one of the qualities—all!
• Not part of a quality—all!

Forever and Always

…and it is their honor to be every bit of it, to guard the unknown men and women who have served and died for this great country.

“Here Rests

In Honored Glory

An American Soldier

Known But To God”

The Tomb of the Unknowns, near the center of the cemetery, is one of Arlington’s most popular tourist sites.

The Tomb contains the remains of unknown American soldiers from World Wars I and II, the Korean Conflict and (until 1998) the Vietnam War. Each was presented with the Medal of Honor at the time of interment and the medals, as well as the flags which covered their caskets, are on display inside the Memorial Amphitheater, directly to the rear of the Tomb.

The Tomb is guarded 24-hours-per-day and 365-days-per year by specially trained members of the 3rd United States Infantry (The Old Guard).

The Memorial Amphitheater has been the scene of the funerals of some prominent Americans (such as General John J. “Black Jack” Pershing) as well as the site of both Memorial Day and Veterans Days celebrations.

Click Here For More Information On The Vietnam War Unknown

The Sentinels Creed

My dedication to this sacred duty is total and wholehearted.
In the responsibility bestowed on me never will I falter.
And with dignity and perseverance my standard will remain perfection.
Through the years of diligence and praise and the discomfort of the elements,
I will walk my tour in humble reverence to the best of my ability.
It is he who commands the respect I protect.
His bravery that made us so proud.
Surrounded by well meaning crowds by day alone in the thoughtful peace of night,
this soldier will in honored glory rest under my eternal vigilance.

Wikipedia:

The Tomb of the Unknowns (also known as the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, although it has never been officially named) is a monument dedicated to American servicemen who have died without their remains being identified. It is located in Arlington National Cemetery in the United States. The “Unknown Soldier” of World War I is a recipient of the Medal of Honor, the Victoria Cross, and several other foreign nations’ highest service awards. The U.S. Unknown Soldiers who were interred afterwards are also recipients of the Medal of Honor, presented by the U.S. presidents who presided over their funerals.^[1][2][3]

WinkMartindale

Throughout history, a lot of soldiers have died in wars without their remains being identified. In modern times, nations have developed the practice of having a symbolic Tomb of the Unknown Soldier that represents the war grave of those unidentified soldiers. They usually contain the remains of a dead soldier who is unidentified (or “known but to God” as the stone is sometimes inscribed) and thought to be impossible ever to identify, so that he might serve as a symbol for all of the unknown dead wherever they fell. The anonymity of the entombed soldier is key to the symbolism of the monument – since their identity is unknown, it could theoretically be the tomb of anyone who fell in service of the nation in question, and therefore serves as a monument to all of their sacrifices. Much work goes into trying to find a certain soldier, and to verify that it is indeed one of the relevant nation’s soldiers.

Protecting this country by computer monitoring (tagged words filling up a database by computer) incoming phone calls by suspected people who want to harm us (from outside this country) is condemned up and down by privacy advocates, politicians on the other side, and the community jesters—riling the sheeple.

Then those same advocates, above mentioned, will look into an individual private citizen’s background and even garbage because he asked a question that puts their candidate in a bad light with the intent to discredit and malign him—ASTOUNDING! I’m not sure if the HYPOCRISY meter needle goes any higher than that!

Ed Morrissey: How did people get dirt on Joe the Plumber?

How did so much information about Joe Wurzelbacher’s taxes and licensing get out to the public so quickly? Officials in Ohio want to know the answer. They apparently suspect that state and local government systems got exploited in order to attack Joe the Plumber.

Hypocrites! But this hypocrite is of the most dangerous kind, because the original cause of being wary of government surveillance is VERY important! WE as a people should be very wary of the government surveying US.

These most dangerous hypocrites are surveying individual people because they spoke out, they broke the law to look into private records—looking for something to discredit an individual because he asked the wrong question… (remember freedom of speech?) (remember freedom of privacy?) (you remember when we were allowed to ask our government questions and not be thrown in jail—you better because that’s where we’re headed!

Will you have the courage to ask a question from your government leaders—knowing you could be dragged by chains from a pickup truck on a gravely dirt road? Hmm. Think about it!

My question is, why aren’t the politicians involved, speaking out on this grave breach of an individual’s privacy—simple, because they benefit! (why are the Privacy Advocates sitting on their hands, not screaming about it—because they were the one’s breaching it) (why isn’t the public sheeple condemning it—because the jesters aren’t telling them too…)

Here is what they do:

YOU'RE PUNISHED: OBAMA CAMPAIGN CUTS OFF TV STATION AFTER TOUGH BIDEN INTERVIEW...

Blast from the past:

Choo Choo Charlie Rangel

Think!

—iChef PSA

Technorati Tags: Biden, censorship, Charlie Rangel, Election 2008, freedom of speech, Government, hypocrisy, Hypocrite, joe the plumber, Media bias, News, Obama, Opinion, Politics, privacy, Sheeple

No, I’m not an idiot and neither are you—People and companies worth billions (certainly not idiots) lost everything—makes me glad I didn’t earn my billions yet…

But when something is there one day and gone the next WE need to know where it is so that our brain doesn’t implode—somehow if we know who has it we can at least be angry at someone and scream at them in effigy. We need someone to blame…

However, we might not like who it is. WE might not be willing to accept the obvious.

You see WE (little alchemists we all are) don’t have a problem when we are turning lead into gold, or one dollar into two dollars. This achievement is heralded as a great feat of strength in the Costanza Households around the world during festivus.

If WE can expect magical gains, WE should be ready to accept devilry, when more than we started with is taken away! Shouldn’t WE?

All of this boils down to one thing: PERCEPTION. When perception becomes reality and seeing what we believe is the norm it creates a big big problem. The more people on the ship the more carnage is possible and likely—the whole world was aboard the Loveboat on this one!

What’s added to this boatload of disaster is panic and fear!

What do WE need to feel better? I mean what besides the worth that you told yourself that you had—TRUST! Trust is what could help us. Mmm, also patience for the log journey. And maybe a little common sense and realistic goals—that will help too.

Well, WE could have patience, common sense, and realistic goals on our own—let’s be honest. But trust, that one we need help with. Trust WE can’t do alone. Trust is what we should be looking for. Absolute trust, but maybe that’s like searching for the recipe to turn lead into gold.

But if we can muster the patience and look to the long term, all WE can realistically hope for is a little trust—well, that’s what common sense told me anyway…

AP— Trillions Disappear in Stock Market, but Where Did Money Go

NEW YORK — Trillions in stock market value — gone. Trillions in retirement savings — gone. A huge chunk of the money you paid for your house, the money you’re saving for college, the money your boss needs to make payroll — gone, gone, gone.

But if you no longer have that money, who does? The fat cats on Wall Street? Some oil baron in Saudi Arabia? The government of China?

Or is it just — gone?

Robert Shiller, an economist at Yale, puts it bluntly: The notion that you lose a pile of money whenever the stock market tanks is a “fallacy.” He says the price of a stock has never been the same thing as money — it’s simply the “best guess” of what the stock is worth.

“It’s in people’s minds,” Shiller explains. “We’re just recording a measure of what people think the stock market is worth. What the people who are willing to trade today — who are very, very few people — are actually trading at. So we’re just extrapolating that and thinking, well, maybe that’s what everyone thinks it’s worth.”

Shiller uses the example of an appraiser who values a house at $350,000, a week after saying it was worth $400,000.

“In a sense, $50,000 just disappeared when he said that,” he said. “But it’s all in the mind.”

Still, you run into trouble when you think of that potential money as being the same thing as the cash in your purse or your checking account.

“That’s a big mistake,” says Dale Jorgenson, an economics professor at Harvard.

Hey, the above is from Harvard and Yale professors—See, I must know what I’m talking about—those guys are from Harvard and Yale, they’re smart!. After all aren’t those the schools that are teaching and preparing the people that WE hope to become President of the USA…

—iChef PSA

PS

Reasons WHY, WARNINGS, possible PREVENTION, BLAME, TRUTH, don’t seem to matter (and it must be everybody’s fault because no one is interested in finding out) and that’s why TRUST is hiding…

From the Anchoress (doesn’t seem to matter): McCain on Fannie 2006

From Michelle Malkin (doesn’t seem to matter): Finally: New McCain ad on ACORN

Hope and change: Some hedge fund managers starting to feel bullish

From Ed Morrissey (doesn’t seem to matter): The quotes that explain the entire financial meltdown

Technorati Tags: Billions, common sense, Costanza, festivus, Harvard, Hope Patience, iChef PSA, Illusion, love boat, Magic, Millions, Money gone, President, Retirement, Thousands, Trillions, Trust, Wall Street, Yale