First Week In

OK, so it's President Obama's first week in the White House and already we have some action taken, and I know all of us are blabbing out our ill-thought but dearly held notions on what he is doing, what he should be doing, what we would be doing if we were him, blah blah blah, and I'm no exception, so I'm going to weigh in on the matter.

Plus, I use this web LOG mainly for the LOG part, that is, to jot down notes so that in the future (if Blogger.com decides not to nix my existence) I can look back and see where we were, when - and thus to see how far we've come.

First - his first day in office he froze White House salaries - like it!

Then he put restrictions on lobbyists in his administration: a two year restriction - like that as well.

However, he mentioned that he might keep warrantless wiretapping - WRONG! Big warning sign! That was the one issue on which I claimed that the President had just usurped the Constitution, and for that former President Bush should have been impeached. If the new President continues warrantless wiretapping, then I must, by logical extension (if I want to retain my pro-Constitution stance) proclaim the same. Please, President Obama, replace the balance of powers as laid out by the Constitution.

Does anybody remember the axiom about absolute power?

Moving on (for the time being), I like that he wants to revisit the EPA's reports which is a lead to revisiting states' rights to limit greenhouse gas emission - like that.

Another stimulus package, another 700 Billion dollars (you know, we are all just numb to the numbers now - it's like asking us to count the grains of sand on a beach. We can't actually conceive the number of grains of sand on the beach, we just see the beach and that's all we can comprehend - if we really understood BILLIONS we would all be screaming in the streets at the thought of spending that much money) - bad idea.

Let me tellya, folks, I'm no economist, but I'm really coming to the conclusion that in all honesty perhaps we might simply need to let the whole thing crash and see if we can force ourselves to build a better mousetrap from the scraps in the rubble. Seriously, there are some economists out there who actually took the risk to admit that perhaps there is no amount of money that is going to prop up this thing, and maybe we're just staving off the inevitable. And if we didn't shoot them all this money, at least when the inevitable DOES happen we are not also out this amount of money.

BUT - the new President DID bring out yesterday the fact that when these giant bloated sonsofbeaches were at the trough asking for bailout money that they still were funnelling up to 18 BILLION into bonuses. I think my brother-in-law this morning told me that the CEO of Citibank got a 2.5 million dollar bonus just for a projection. A projection! He hadn't even DONE anything, and he got this bonus. Or was that the CEO who went out and bought a private jet for 3.5 mil while his company was asking for bailout bucks? The greed is so rampant, so prevalent, that you just can't keep the stories straight anymore!

Kudos, however, to our President for calling them shameless. Now, let's have him do more than shame them and have them nationalize their ASSets!

Yeah, that's right - I said it. All you Republos go gitcher guns, pitchforks, whatever, 'cuz here I say it:

SOCIALISM.

That's right. Socialize the whole shebang - banks, investment companies, the auto manufacturers, the entire health care network, and Exxon Mobile (which just earned 45 billion in 2008 - looks to me that would be a sizeable chunk off the bailout $$, huh?) - take 'em over!

That's what we're doing right now anyway with the bailout package - it's already socialism, but it's the type of wimpy socialism that turns so easily into oligarchy. I liken us to the 85% of Venezuelans under Chavez - sure he says they all now own the land, but they certainly aren't allowed to set foot on it.

It's time to do it right, if it's going to be done - let's do it.

Now, as for me, I'm going to get a well-deserved drink.

Victory Gin!

(by the way, that was a reference to 1984, the novel by George Orwell, not the album by Van Halen . . .

great album, by the way, I oughta put that on. A little "Panama" would put my spirits right . . .

and speaking of spirits,

where's that gin?)

VG

Dumbest Songs that were Megahits

Just had some song flash through my head today, as I was wandering around the storeroom doing some meaningless filing, and that song was

"Wake me up, before you go-go, 'cause I don't plan on going so-lo."

and I thought to myself, what a stupid song, what a complete waste of energy and brainspace and why did it pop into my head after two decades?

So, not to step in Dave Barry's toes, but here's a quick list of stupid moronic songs that were actually megahits and really nobody knows why, because those of us who were there really did make fun of them at the time:

Wham - Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go
Billy Ray Cyrus - Achy Breaky Heart
Ricky Martin - Livin' La Vida Loca

and some of you out there may want to put on the list "Macarena" by Los del Rio, but to be honest, I think that song actually isn't all that bad! (as I dodge the tomatoes being lodged at my head by outraged audiophilies!)

and for those of us who go WAY back, back to 1968, (the year after Sgt. Pepper, the year OF the White Album - you'd THINK everybody would have really been really sensitive to put out their quality material, but NO . . . we get)

The Ohio Express with Yummy Yummy Yummy I've Got Love in my Tummy.

Oh, my Lord, how putrid!


VG