BOMB ICELAND; SAVE THE WORLD; SHORT GOLDMAN

while many of us are operating under the assumption that the cloud over europe is an annoyance that will dissipate soon, this might not be the case. first of all the volcano might just keep erupting away for 2 years! second this is a baby volcano, sometimes connected to eruptions from Katla, a big mother volcano.

what might this mean? we should all think this thru but i would be selling airline stocks. this affects our whole global system. there are flowers grown in kenya bound for london that aint going to london. food, drugs ( was thinking legal here but maybe bad for drug cartels also) anything and everything that flies in and out of europe. should lower EU growth, bad for euro versus the dollar. bad for DHL; got to be bad for some insurance companies. companies are going to invoke force majeure clauses, claiming acts of god for non- performance of contracts. its going to be a mess. maybe go long cruise line stocks. we can travel between london and new york by ship; slow the pace down a little

maybe we will look back on this a major event in history that we didnt take seriously at first.

what should we do? well i think we should nuke iceland. here we have this little pissant island that borrowed billions and gambled it away and went broke and then did a reverse haiti; it destroyed europe!

what does goldman have to do with this? nothing. other than its probably their fault. they probably created a synthetic cdo that was long europe and airline stocks and sold credit default swaps against it and figured out how to trigger the volcano.

they are the next pinata. karmic payback for a bunch a greedy motherfuckers.

JEWS AND REPUBLICANS; AN OPPORTUNITY

i think i understand why the jews in america became democrats originally. whether poor or not, jews in america were subject to anti semitism and the democrats were better than the republicans re the disadvantaged.

why jews are still democrats is completly beyond me. now they are faced with a President who doesnt give a shit about israel and is willing to jam israel into a peace process that could could get and be ugly. he forgets that israel is the only democracy in the middle east and they are the only ones with the means and motivation to deal with the real enemy, a nuclear Iran.

this is an opportunity for republicans to reach out to american jews with a strong pro israel postion.

marx said something like capitalism will manufacture and sell the rope that will hang them. well the jews are doing the same by continuing to support Obama

POLISH LOSS;LACK OF COMMON SENSE RULES

poland is one of the promising countries to come out from under the yoke of the former soviet union. the recent loss of its president and a cadre of his leadership is a human and political loss of much magnitude.

i dont know who was flying the plane but this was a major fuck up and was avoidable, in part or in whole.

first you dont put your whole administration on one airplane
two, you dont have some cowboy flying the plane

i hope poland recovers from this and doesnt get pulled back into the clutches of russia

SOMALI PIRATES; SHOOT EM UP

for the first time, private security on a commercial vessel shot and killed a Somali pirate. immediately there is hand wringing. is this ok, who has jurisdiction, etc. it is unfortunate but if the world community thru and entity such as nato or such, wont shut these guys down, then owners are within there rights to do what is necessary to protect the lives and property aboard their vessels. yes shooting bullets should be the last step; but still a legitimate step.

this is a joke. there is a whole economy based on piracy and we are doing dip. its just like the Barbary pirates which we ultimately sent in the marines. we should not put ship owners in this position. it is interfering with world commerce and the world needs to intervene

MANS BEST FRIEND

speaking for myself, sometimes the rat race, the state of the world etc. gets me down. but recently, mans best friend, in my case Wrinkles, my daughters old english bulldog reminded me how to laugh at the absurdity of it all.

yesterday as i was getting dressed for work i spied 4 ducks doing mischief in the swimming pool. i charged out to scare them away with wrinkles hard on my heels. at some point my geometry savant dog figured out that a straight line between her and the ducks was through me. pursuing this point A to point B strategy she bowled me over in mid stride causing me to fly into the swimming pool nearly fully clothed.

needless to say the ducks escaped and wrinkles peered at me quizzically wondering what i was doing in the swimming pool dressed for work. i had to just laugh hysterically. reshowered, redressed and refreshed, i sallied forth into the silliness.

thank you wrink

THE POPE MUST GO!

the abuse of a child is the most heinous crime conceivable. as the story unfolds it is clear that then archbishop ratzinger knew he had a priest that had abused children. abuse is really a euphamism for a truly evil act. he approved the priest being moved to munich for therapy. his old #2 is taking the fall for him but it is not good enough. under the concepts of failure to supervise and breach of fiduciary duty the pope should resign.

24

we all have guilty pleasures, i have too many but includes watching the program 24. for those of you similarly afflicted i want to share question about the last episode.

a young suicide bomber locked himself in a barometric chamber in a hospital and was trying to blow himself up. ctu disabled his device electronically but he was hard wiring it to override. for some reason there were three fuses and three lights that needed to turn green to ignite. he is working away, one green light, two, and ultimately three and boom. but i have a question

why didnt ctu turn off the lights inside the chamber? he couldnt hardwire the circuits in the dark?

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