Back to the Future ll

O's nominee for Secretary of the Treasury, Timothy Geithner was confirmed this week by a Senate vote of 60-34, assuring Americans that even if you fail to pay $34,000. in payroll taxes..you can take America's financial reins. He is a recent graduate of the Charles Rangel institute for Tax Evasion, one of our finest establishments in the image of the great Adam Clayton Powell.

Back! Back to the Future!

Seriously...One of O's first moves as President was setting new rules Barring former lobbyists from overseeing industries that had employed them. That's the right thing to do.
The second thing he did in this area was to WAIVE THE RULE to appoint Bill Lynn as Deputy Defense Secretary. He will have authority over Defense Budget and Procurement decisions. His former employer? Defense contractor Raytheon.

Countdown

Pitchers and Catchers in 20 days, baby!

Separation of Church and Steak

Big O got it right when his inauguration speech included what he termed Non-believers with other religious groups in our country. A great many good, hard working Americans choose not to believe in any God, and that should not impact the others. Believe as you choose..the are greater issues facing us.
A great lady..Gilda Radner..in character as Roseanne Rosannadanna pointed out that none should be forced to eat meat at a church barbecue..there should be a complete separation of Church and Steak.

NY Senate Drama

It looks like NYs Guv Paterson is leaning towards dark-horse Kirsten Gillibrand to fill Clinton's seat, but old Crone and one-trick-pony Caroline McCarthy is reportedly enraged at this candidate for her pro-gun stance for which she received an "A" rating from the NRA. McCarthy, who holds her seat only by virtue of the sympathy vote she got from NY after Colin Ferguson lit up the LIRR train years ago and killed her husband and wounded her Son among several others. What McCarthy REALLY knows and won't voice is that if just ONE law abiding person had been in that Car with a gun..legal or not..her husband might be alive and we never would have heard of her..we certainly never hear FROM her doing her job. As soon as she got there, she picked out a desk and put up her feet.

21 Days!

Pitchers and Catchers report to Spring training camps in 3 weeks...it's the light at the end of the sports tunnel...hockey, Football, and that ridiculous ghetto game all take a back seat in 21 DAYS!

More Kennedy Krap

So,.... Caroline pulls her hat out of the ring for Hillary's Congressional Seat. Could it be because her Uncle Ted, the Hero of Chappaquidick, is headed for the big dirt nap soon? Watch for her to quickly set up residency in Mass. in order to slide into his spot. After all, the Kennedy name carries a lot more weight up there. If that doesn't work out, maybe Big O will create a new post..Ambassador to Skankville.

Hang on tight

Tomorrow, January 20th 2009, a new President of the United States will take the oath of Office. I wish him the best of luck in his endeavors and a word of caution.. Forget the stars, the pomp, all of the inaugural balls, Bruce Springsteen, Jennifer Lopez, all the Rappers and other luminaries in attendance. This country of ours is in for the biggest sugar-crash any of us have ever experienced in our lives. Obama really doesn't have a halo. He has no mystical powers...he is about to find out that he is headed for business-as-usual....he will be up against huge layers of Federal speedbumps and entrenched programs and special interests...all aligned to block his best efforts. Indeed, there is no new blood in his cabinet..only recycled professional politicians. God help us all.

Torture?

B. Hussein Obama decided that his administration is going to take a kinder, gentler, approach to the interrogation of terror suspects. The CIA under Leon Pannetta, a bureaucrat with no intelligence experience, will direct that all of the water which was to be used in the future for Waterboarding during interrogations will now be employed in creating cocoa and hot chocolate to try and create a rapport with the terrorists under suspicion. This will no doubt trigger an immediate spirit of cooperation with those misguided individuals who formerly resorted to beheadings and roadside bombings.

More Kennedy

NY Gov. David Paterson will soon name a candidate to fill the junior Senator slot to replace Hillary Clinton's seat once she is confirmed as B. Hussein Obama's Secretary of State. The smart money is on Caroline Shlossberg- CALL ME KENNEDY because Paterson's puppet masters (Bubba and Uncle TED) have scripted it this way. Paterson needs their nod in 2010 when he will try to legitimize his Governorship in the Empire State (you gots to dance to the tune WE play) The electoral process has all but disappeared from NY political arenas, with cross- endorsements of candidates and back room deals.

New York Yankees

Newsday's Wallace Matthews joins the ranks of YankeeOrg-Haters with his criticism of the signing of Mark Texiera. As with others of his ilk, he misses the point...MLB is a BUSINESS, pure and simple, and the Yankees are among the FEW successful businesses in the country today. The attractive lease arrangements, tax breaks, Bond issues, seemingly favorable Stadium funding for the Yankees (and Mets) are all good business for New York. The Yankees provide a solid entertainment venue year after year, with record attendance figures. Who says a family can't afford to go to a game? It's a luxury item akin to a Broadway show with its transportation costs and a dinner afterwards. The same families bemoaning the costs of Baseball games probably have one or two newer-model cars in the driveway that they can't afford either.
The Yankees also provide MILLIONS in revenue-sharing dollars to other teams, whose owners don't buy free agents, but instead buy houses or airplanes. A succesful business puts its money back into itself.