Totally Inappropriate Open Thread

For Chuckles – (oYo) What’s on your mind??

Charles Lemos Poisons The Well

Former PUMA Chuckie Lemos is now blogging over at MyDD and he had this to say about the Rick Santelli video above: After watching the above, I first had to check my calendar. Somehow I felt I traveled back in time to the early 1970s to witness first hand Richard Nixon’s “northern strategy,” his pursuit of [...]

President Re-Election Does the Vision Thing: A Play in One Utopian Act.

THE SCENE: A five-star hotel suite somewhere in America. (What – you thought he’d actually be at home, doing his job?) PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA and FIRST LADY MICHELLE OBAMA are sitting at a linen-covered table set with heavy silverware and a pink rosebud in a crystal jar, sipping coffee and discussing the challenges and benefits [...]

Friday: Ok, forget it. Just bleed us dry.

We are finally finding out why the banks are sitting on all of the money we gave them last fall.  It turns out that after they sucked the bonuses out of them, it simply wasn’t enough cash for lending.  They are still undercapitalized.  What we *didn’t* know is that banks were getting much of their [...]