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there are mistakes and then there are monsoons.

If this were tinfoil hat Tuesday, I would ask where was Soros????
economic problems in time for the elections?????

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304070304577396511420792008.html

why is this not a surprise????
fear as US leaves afghanistan women will revert back to less freedom

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/bre84919h-us-nato-afghanistan-women/

why is this not a surprise????
fear as US leaves afghanistan women will revert back to less freedom

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/bre84919h-us-nato-afghanistan-women/

There’s a full moon this week.

Hollywood Hypocrites? With a few exceptions, is there any other kind?

Does anyone with a functioning brain believe that these people who use the excessive money they get for playing make-believe to live their fantasy land lives of excess filled with sex and drugs give a rat’s ass about anything except themselves?

Wouldn’t the cost of one of the gowns the female hypocrites wear to functions like this be useful in supporting a food bank or the like?

Fu*k Wolfgang Puck and his menu of excess. I am so sick of these cretins and the media that slobbers over them as if they had some relevance in the world.

I have never been a Clooney fan. Now I just find him loathsome. That’s an evolution I suppose.

All this reminds me of the days of “Camelot” and JFK and the Rat-pack and Follywood comes to the White House. Look how well that ended.

By the way, bad news for those 2012 doomsayers. http://www.voanews.com/english/news/arts-and-entertainment/art-culture/Ancient-Mayan-Artwork-Calculations-Discovered–151103455.html

Looks like this we will be around for a long time to come. Look at the bight side. Now we really get an opportunity to screw up this rock!

Well, here a few miles from the  party it was relatively uneventful. The only news was neighbors making fun of it. The Nuggets/Lakers game was bigger. Phil Jackson where are you?
I enjoy digressions from what is passing for  politics these days. I’m bored by it all.
I was more interested in Bronwyn’s Nabokov discussions.

Perhaps a few parlor games:
If they were to make a movie of your life:
1- Who would you like to play you?
2- Now who do you think the  producers would pick that they think is REALLY like you. (ignore actor’s ages and deaths – this is a fantasy).
 

oh hell meeeschele may have to cut back on her vacations!!!!!

no wait that is just government workers that have to cut back

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/bre84a0vv-us-usa-obama-waste/

good question

http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2012/05/11/where-s-the-made-in-america-at-usaid/

where is the “made in America” label at USAID????????

http://wwwwakeupamericans-spree.blogspot.com/2012/05/142-house-democrats-join-republicans-on.html

142 dems join republicans over fast and furious

terrific mother’s day op ed by ann romney:

Mother’s Day Op-Ed from Ann Romney
Posted By Luke Gunderson On May 10, 2012 @ 11:37 PM In Ann Romney,Mitt Romney,Op-eds,Values | No Comments
Tweet [1] [2]Ann Romney holds a kitchen table scheduling meeting while holding one of her new twin grandsons. Photo by baby’s father Tagg RomneyThree seasons of motherhoodIt’s hard to imagine now, but before the birth of my first child, I had never held a baby. Not once, not in my entire life. No baby at home to tend, no niece or nephew to babysit. So you can imagine, the day my first boy was born I felt woefully unprepared.My mother took pity on me and stayed for two weeks, but that wasn’t nearly enough time. As she was preparing to leave, I cried like I was the baby. I told her that I wasn’t ready, that I had no idea what to do. In her smile I saw the truth. Ready or not, my son couldn’t wait, and somehow, I would make it through.Of course, she was right. Some might say it was the mothering gene kicking in, the same one that every mom throughout history has possessed. Maybe. But I don’t think so. I was a good mom because my own mom was the best.I suppose my mother was somewhat unusual for her time. At 30 she was — and expected she always would be — a career woman. She worked as a cosmetics rep and was happy in that job. She never expected to get married, but then she found the one man in all the world who could change her mind — my dad.The same passion she had for her work she poured into being a mother. I never lacked for confidence or a sense of self-worth. How could I when my mom seemed to think I had hung the moon? People would tell her, as people are wont to do with little girls, that she had a beautiful daughter. “If only you knew,” she would say, “how much more beautiful she is on the inside.”Ringleader and troublemakerSuch words gave me my place in the world. She let me be who I was, which meant playing baseball and football with the boys, and catching frogs and hunting for snakes out behind the house. I think the thing she loved the most was that I was always the ringleader, always more likely to get others into trouble than to follow along.Growing up as her daughter is what prepared me to be a mother myself. So began a different phase of my life. People often ask me what it was like to raise five boys. I won’t sugarcoat it. There were times I wanted to tear my hair out. I can remember visiting my friends’ houses, seeing their daughters’ manners, the way they helped with the chores. Then I would return home to my boys, hoping only that my house was still intact.Still, those were wonderful times. My boys had a way of putting their emotions and their disputes on the table. And more important, they had a way of leaving them there, of walking away without worrying about the things that might distance them, or letting hard feelings fester and grow. That directness and forgiveness shaped me into who I am today.I’m a grandmother now. In fact, the gift I received this Mother’s Day is two more wonderful grandchildren, twins, bringing the total to 18.As every grandparent knows, it’s a different role than being a mother or a daughter. I am able to adore the grandchildren, and to smile as my children go through the same struggles I went through when they were young. I’ve lived through three seasons of motherhood, and I have seen the beauty in each.A tradition of lilacsOn Mother’s Day, Mitt always brings me lilacs, a tradition he started the year I became a mother. When our home is filled with their fragrance, it reminds me of so many things, and stirs so many emotions. I think of my five sons and the women they married, whom I love as if I had raised them. They have become my daughters.And I think about my mother. I remember she was a wonderful cook. I remember how much she loved my dad. Ours was a loving home, where I knew the light was always on. I wish I could tell her again how much I love her. The most trying time of my life was when I became the mother who had to take care of her as she was suffering in the last stages of ovarian cancer. The hardest thing for us all, I think, is the day we lose our moms.Crown of gloryCherish your mothers. The ones who wiped your tears, who were at every ball game or ballet recital. The ones who believed in you, even when nobody else did, even when maybe you didn’t believe in yourself.Women wear many hats in their lives. Daughter, sister, student, breadwinner. But no matter where we are or what we’re doing, one hat that moms never take off is the crown of motherhood.There is no crown more glorious.

Good ad

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=lfL4vnqVJJg

 Hugsabunch.all around and Happy Mothers Day!!!!

HAPPY MOTHERS DAY!!!  To all the women who have children and to those who are expecting.  AND all the women who have pets!

A Special Shout out to all the women who are serving our Country…THANKS MOMS!!!  ;-}

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGWf0ERvKH8

To be honest, I do not understand the great fuss made about JPM loss of 2 billion dollars.  The company is worth 140 billion dollars; its stock sells for about 36.00 per share. So yes,  the loss amounts to something like 50 cents a share, and when it is over the loss might amount to 75 cents a share.  So what!!!   The company will earn money this year despite these losses.

      Further,  whether we like to believe it or not, there is a great deal of risk in the  trading by our large banks, and they lose large amounts each year.   Fortunately, their gains almost always amount to much more than their losses.   
 
       Far better, from my perspective, that a bank owns up to multiple errors resulting in such a large loss than to do
what  a number of European banks (Belgian Dexia,  Spain’s Bankia) have done –   hiding  their losses until they go bankrupt.
 
       But yes, there are a number of U.S. banks which I worry about,   especially Bank of America and Citicorp, which I call giant zombie banks. If Europe has an economic accident and our markets are hit hard, I just pray that our government, while protecting depositors, lets all the zombie banks fail. Of course, I hope it never comes to that.

 
 
Note:  I do not own the stock.  If I thought the market was strong — which I do not, I would buy JPM stock in the next  month.  Jamie Diamond, while very outspoken (he once shocked a meeting of our major bank officers, among them people from Goldman Sachs, by denouncing Obama in very harsh terms — and he is a Democrat),  is one of the most  decent people on Wall Street.  He was once rumored to Obama’s choice for Tres. Sec. — if Geithner resigned.

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