Filed under: Lifestyle — @ 3:00 am
This city in China is a center for making Violins. With at least nine factories and over 150 shops, it’s the livelihood for most of the people. Now they’re embarked on a project to teach more children how to play. With all the effort spent making them, someone should know how to play the darn things. Of course, it’s the children who are doing all the playing. After 12 hours a day in a Chinese factory making everything by hand, the workers’ hands are too worn out to play.
In this city, the Violin brings
A livelihood from making the things.
As orders keep coming
Their economy’s humming
Though it literally ‘hangs by a string’.
Filed under: Events — @ 3:00 am
Here’s good one. Brit Hume, ex-Fox newscaster, is advising Tiger Woods to convert to Christianity and find forgiveness. Why do some religious people become so self-righteous? I think it’s because they’re missing the ‘hypocrisy’ gene. They figure if it’s okay for the Bible to be contradictory, then why can’t they be the same? You need the gene to resolve this rather simple equation.
Brit Hume says of Tiger “convert”
Be Christian and quit chasing skirts”.
Hypocritical blather
From a poor Dan Rather.
His brain has been rendered inert.
Filed under: Investing — @ 3:00 am
I don’t understand all the fuss about ’strategic defaults’ as homeowners walk away from mortgages that are 1000’s of dollars over the properties value. It’s just good business and exactly what smart companies do. There is no “moral obligation” to pay back a secured loan.The house is pledged as collateral for the loan. If it is returned to the lender in lieu of payment and does not cover the cost of the loan, then the lender made a mistake and will take a loss. Business 101.
A strategic default gets the ire
Of bankers who stepped in the mire.
The loan had been hedged
With collateral pledged.
If they need more they should have asked prior.
Filed under: Lifestyle — @ 4:01 am
Here we go off into a new year. Lot’s of hoopla and reflection ad infinitum. I always thought if you want to change something then do it now. Waiting for a calendar event seems more like stalling. Either way Father Time doesn’t know the difference. He just marches inexorably on. One day at a time is all we can hope for so let’s make each one count.
The old year will pass with some sorrow
And the new year will most likely borrow
Much of the same.
It’s a calendar game
Not a start or and end but tomorrow.
