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.
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.
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.
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.
