February 8, 2010
Filed under: Sports — @ 3:00 am
What a great Super Bowl game! It went down to the wire and was anybody’s game until that last interception and score by the Saints. It’s not like Payton Manning to make that kind of mistake (more like Brett Farve) but it just goes to show…anything can happen. Congratulations to the New Orleans Saints.
The Colts had their chances to score
But New Orleans came through with one more.
When the final gun sounded
The world was astounded,
The Saints aren’t the ain’ts anymore.
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February 5, 2010
Filed under: Politics — @ 3:00 am
I think Obama’s tough stance on China is not only appropriate but needed. They respect only strength. This may be a more common occurrence over the next decade as our interests continue to collide. Meeting the Dalai Lama sends a message that we will do whatever we damn please, thank you very much! The fact that they hold a lot of our debt means nothing. The growth of their economy is still dependent on exports. Before you embark on revenge, dig two graves – Confucius
China thinks ’cause they’re holding our debt
They can dictate the rules for Tibet.
Their claims of internal
Are seen as infernal,
When the Dalai Lama cannot be met.
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February 4, 2010
Filed under: Sports — @ 3:00 am
The World Anti-Doping Agency has marijuana on it’s list of banned ‘performance enhancing’ substances. That’s a description I never considered. The only performance improvement I ever saw was an increased ability to consume all manner of snack foods. Unless this is a new Olympic sport, I think someone’s blowing smoke.
In watching discussions unfold
Marijuana it seems is remold,
From spaced-out entrancing
To performance enhancing,
It still leaves the judges stone-cold.
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February 3, 2010
Filed under: Politics — @ 3:00 am
Obama’s budget essentially kills the current project to send men back to the moon. Sounds good to me. Been there, done that. Mars is the new destination. He also wants to leverage private enterprise to make new rockets. Somebody please tell the Congressmen from Florida and Utah that their pork barrel just got smaller. To infinity and beyond!
Said Obama, “no man-on-the-moon,
It’s time to be changing our tune.”
To see their pork barrel
Put in such peril
Has Congressmen starting to swoon.
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February 2, 2010
Filed under: Investing — @ 3:00 am
Toyota’s really taking on the chin with this massive recall due to faulty gas pedals. At least they were smart enough to stop selling any more cars. I can’t imagine the number of lawsuits that await them, not to mention the blow to their image as a quality car maker. The good news is I don’t hear any excuses. They admitted to the problem, stopped production and sales and are committed to making the fix. When Ford and Firestone faced a recall in 2000 it took the government to identify the problem and force the issue. That’s why people will still buy Toyota’s instead of Fords.
The stock of Toyota is taking
A beating ’cause pedals are breaking
Apart, as opposed
To stopping and those
Who own them are feeling some aching.
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February 1, 2010
Filed under: Politics — @ 3:00 am
We’re now learning some of the unintended consequences of the recent Supreme Court ruling allowing unlimited corporate spending on elections. What is to prevent a foreign nation from sponsoring their own candidates and funding through an American subsidiary? Sounds far-fetched but now that it’s perfectly legal anything can happen. For a new Senator, Al Franken has some surprising common sense. That does not bode well for an extended political career.
Al Franken is worried elections
Are open to foreign infections
With companies unbound
From throwing around,
The cash to insure their selections.
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January 29, 2010
Filed under: Limerick Poems — @ 3:00 am
Here’s a little something different. All that Apple worship got my creative juices up so let’s try a little prose. I hope you enjoy!
Our Father who art in Cupertino,
hallowed be thy name.
Thy products come,
Thy marketing be done,
In Best Buy as it is in Walmart.
Give us this day a new ‘i’ something.
And forgive us our Zune and Windows,
As we forgive Microsoft.
And lead us not into an open architecture,
But deliver us from Google.
For thine is the iPhone, the iMac and iPod for ever.
Amen.
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January 28, 2010
Filed under: Events — @ 3:00 am
And the answer is…an iPad! Glad that’s finally over. Now the Apple minions can go back to the blogs and resume their online chanting. I’m not necessarily a critic but I’m just not sure who needs these things. Then again, I didn’t think people needed 80,000 apps on their phone! Build it and they will come…Apple seems like the only company that’s able to pull this off.
Is the iPad truly that great?
I’m sure we’ll get lots of debate.
But from where I’m sitting
The description most fitting
Is an iPhone that put on some weight.
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January 27, 2010
Filed under: Events — @ 3:00 am
The Supreme Court dropped the ball on this one. Allowing corporations unlimited spending in elections is ridiculous in the extreme. People talk as if corporations are people and deserve free speech. Unfortunately, that’s how they’re viewed by the law. However, a quick look under the covers and you’ll see soulless entities who neither take nor accept any responsibility for their actions. Combine this with a gullible American public and we’re liable to elect someone like George Bush. Oops…maybe this won’t change anything after all.
The Supreme Count has fumbled the ball
Allowing corporations to give it their all.
With little reflection
You’ll see an election
Can now become a cash free-for-all.
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January 26, 2010
Filed under: Sports — @ 3:00 am
It’s cinderella time for the New Orleans Saints. Enjoy the party! I remember the first time my Denver Broncos went to the Superbowl after years and years of losing seasons. You feel a rush of excitement and a sense of relief all at the same time. We’ve joined the club…we’ve arrived. Of course we lost the Superbowl to Dallas who had been there many times before but no matter. The Broncos went on to keep winning and finally got that first Superbowl victory. We won’t know how this one plays out for another two weeks but either way, the New Orleans Saints have crossed a threshold. Savor the moment. I wish them the best of luck…they’re gonna need it!
New Orleans came away with a win
As poor Brett took it hard on the chin.
With a Super Bowl coming
The fans will be humming
“When the Saints Go (at last) Marching In’.
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January 25, 2010
Filed under: Lifestyle — @ 3:00 am
Thanks to the dedicated work from this group of scientists we now know that sitting too long is not healthy. Duh! I’d like to believe I could whip myself into shape by sitting on my ass but even I know that doesn’t work. Of course there are lots on infomercials that tell me I can but then again…they’re infomercials. Now we have a group of scientists stating the obvious. Maybe if they try real hard they can invent the wheel!
Cholesterol, tobacco and fat
Are things that we need to combat.
But ’sitting’ to long
Doesn’t make you grow strong?
I don’t need to be told to know that!
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January 22, 2010
Filed under: Entertainment — @ 3:00 am
Once the dust settles, we’ll be right back where we started with Jay Leno and the Tonight show. NBC can’t figure out what went wrong with his new show. They think it was the earlier time slot. Wrong…the show was missing the desk! Having Jay and the guest sitting in those butt ugly chairs like they were in my living room was a non-starter. There was nothing to lean on, bounce a pencil or hold a coffee cup. So instead of spending a few hundred dollars on a new desk, the brass at NBC buy-out Conan O’Brian for $45 million to get his desk. Needless to say, these guys are not the ’sharpest pencils in the box’.
NBC has been slogging away
To get back the old time slot for Jay.
You can have what you will
For forty-five mil.
That’s the size of Conan’s payday
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January 21, 2010
Filed under: Events — @ 3:00 am
The N.Y. Times says it will be charging for some of its content next year. I have no problem with that if the cost is reasonable. I think we need good solid news organizations as relying on blogs for news is the equivalent of listening to talk radio. That said, I’ve experienced old line newspapers that still try to charge outlandish subscription prices. When industries undergo dramatic change, most of the old guard fail to make the jump. They’re like the old lady in the infomercial “help…I’ve fallen and I can’t get up”.
At first look it may sound too greedy
But to many news sites are seedy.
If charging a fee
Be the best you can be
Or you’ll find that we’re not all that needy.
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January 20, 2010
Filed under: Investing — @ 3:00 am
I keep telling you, China is the enemy to worry about…not some Islamic terrorist. They have the ability to seriously disrupt the fabric of our economy. Fortunately, it will disrupt theirs as well. It’s the capitalist equivalent of the nuclear standoff. Google is threatening to leave but I doubt they will. “Money talks and bullshit walks”. In a large corporation, human rights and censorship are bullshit if you show ‘em the money.
In China there’s no way to appease
Their leaders who do what they please.
Will their spying and hacking
Send Google packing
Or just get them down on their knees.
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January 19, 2010
Filed under: Events — @ 3:00 am
Why are we enlisting the help of Georg W. Bush for Haiti relief? Didn’t he demonstrate his glaring lack of skill with the Katrina flood? Why don’t we just ask bankers to help fix the mortgage mess…oh yeah…we did! We love people with titles regardless of how they used them in the past. I’m sure he’s just being used as a famous face to put in front of the cameras but the irony was too hard to resist. Now if we could just get these banking bozos to fade into obscurity like Bush then we may have a chance to fix this thing. Not likely.
Poor Haiti has nothing like FEMA
So George Bush will proffer the arena,
To use all the skill
He acquired on the ‘hill’
In response to the mess from Katrina.
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