Golden Girls

The more I think about this financial mess, the more you realize that the human psyche doesn't allow people to ever take blame until they are pushed so far against the wall that there is no way out. Take ARod, the spoiled steroid using third baseman for the NY Yankees or the people who owned that stupid Chimp who mauled that woman's face or that chick who popped out the 8 kids. ARod lied to everybody including Katie Couric (who has gotten a lot better looking recently) when he said he never did steroids and continued to lie until the evidence was overwhelling and then he said that he did do steroids but only for the three year period when he played on the team and for the fans he has no affection for today. It's just too perfect that he stopped the day he put on the pinstripes as he would never discrace this organization with that kind of behavior.


But more importantly nobody has taken credit (or blame) for basically bringing this whole financial thing to it's knees and the only thing I've seen is a combination of a bunch of our worthless elected officials in some dog-and-pony show where they lambasted the heads of the worthless major banks for leasing a worthless private airplane. I know this is a like a week late but I would love my elected officials to do something other than posturing for the cameras. Nothing comes of this, it just proves how idiotic the finance committee member are when they spend 20 minutes asking how many banks have their own private airplanes instead of putting these CEO's feet to the fire to find out why this thing went so wrong.

I remember as a kid thinking that the Congress (and Senators in particular) were the epitome of class, intellingence and responsiblity. But I look at the the collection of jackasses in Washington, it isn't a surprise nothing ever seems to get done. just look at the collection of kooks... from Harry Reid to Lindsay Graham, Chis Dodd, to Mitch McConnell, Chuck Schumer to Joe Lieberman, John Kerry to Orrin Hatch and Harry Reid to crazy man McCain. What do they all have in common? They are old, white and grumpy and probably should be living in some retirement comunity in Florida.

Watching all these 70+ year olds bicker is like watching an episode of the Golden Girls without the laugh-track..