Well everyone, it's time once again for BFFFFA! No weigh-in data today, as I've found that weighing in on two different scales (the farm, the Arlington apartment) screws with the data--so I'll wait until I'm back at the Farm tomorrow morning to do the weekly weigh-in.
What's on your minds? Still coming down from that pleasant election night high? Wondering what the hell happened at Fort Hood? Thinking it's about time President Obama began to actually take responsibility for the economy, rather than blaming George Bush for it?
Lots to chew on--so talk amongst yourselves.
WHAT A WEEK! As some of you may know I'm a small bidnez man and have been for 15 years. Well I'm in one of those rare businesses that actually do better during tough economic times, and this may be the best week I've ever had. I'm seriously thinking about dumping the old lady, heading to Foreign Cars Italia for that black F-1 Ferrari with the tan hand-rubbed (I like the hand-rubbed thing) calf's leather upholstery, and road tripping it to Vegas babee! But then again, maybe I'll sleep on it.
ReplyDeleteJust a word on politics and then I have to go. I hate to say I told you so but I told you so. You may recall I said regardless of the election outcome the Dems will push ahead with this health care monstrosity. I hate being right.
One wonders...will the Ft Hood shooter ultimately be tagged as another PTSD "victim" scarred by his experiences in counseling returning GI's, a muslim terrorist, or a persecuted minority who devolved into mental illness due to the constant discriminatory slurs of the Army neanderthals.
ReplyDeleteThere was already a hint of the latter point of view on TV last night. One commentator couldn't seem to let go of Assad's exposure to returning troops bitching about "ragheads".
I'm bettin' it won't be the terrorist thing. ...and if it is determined that this asshat's actions are politically motivated, think anyone in today's "Army of One" has the stones to charge him with treason or commiting a terrorist act rather than murder? Doubt it. The Army's going to run like a scaulded dog from any hint that this could be a religious or political act against the US or the Army.
This sumbitch needs to get healed pronto, then face a firing squad, but I'm betting he gets life in the brig or ten years in the nut farm.
Hassan is the result of political correctness and it's influence on the military.
ReplyDeleteA good friend of mine works, er make that used to work, for Johnson and Johnson. They're letting about 7,000 folks go this week including my bud. Some are still waiting to hear. My friend has been in the business for 25 years. My sources tell me that in advance of next week's sales force RIF, they cut roughly 40% of the inhouse people.
ReplyDeleteInteresting take on the J&J thing here.
Hey Gibbsie. How's that recovery coming buddy?
John S - I had heard (admittedly early reporting) that they had killed that poor, obviously tortured peace-loving soul who clearly had been subjected to Army facism. Yeah, we're going to hear a ton of that crap. And if I'm standing any where near a person spewing it, it will take a special kind of self-control that I may no longer be capable of mustering to NOT punch said spewer in his spew-hole. If we need volunteers to pull the trigger, switch, trapdoor (name your method), please add my name to the list.
ReplyDeleteAnd as for being exposed to "bitching about ragheads" being understandable motivation for his unconscionable actions, if that had even a shred of validity (it does not), there wouldn't be a single liberal who bitched about conservatives still bitching.
Rumblings in Texas to warm up the electric chair (which is no longer used there). Did the people Hassan shot have any influence on the decision that he was to be deployed? Wrong, just plain wrong.
ReplyDeleteI have long believed that the biggest problem in our country is personal responsibility and accountability - clearly the case here. There is no one - not the military, not the muslims, not the wars - but the shooter who is at fault. All that the blame game will do is perpetuate this national belief that we are just not really responsible for what we do. Disgusting.
I'm with Plume. Watch the vid...what dip*&#@ on an Army post doesn't see this guy as worthy of watching/interviewing/profiling?
ReplyDeleteSomewhere in the IDF HQ is a lonely analyst saying "Oya Va! We tried to tell them!"
John S - with regard to J&J, you heard right. I call on J&J in my line of work, and the last six months have not been pretty.
ReplyDeleteWhere was your buddy based? Was he/she in field sales or home office?
GG.
ReplyDeleteProduct Director in a pharma div. I don't know what's been widely announced so I'd best not share more on here.
BTW, another buddy also does a lot of consulting to J&J. Maybe ya'll have met.
GHD - You really strain the lines of credulity when you close with a statement like that. :-)
ReplyDeleteCongratulations on the good business year. But a foreign sports car? You could get the best pick up truck (only American made still qualify for that, thankfully), an ATV, a duck boat, a fishing boat. a climbing deer stand and maybe even have enough left over for a really good unicycle for what you'd pay for that non-utilitarian transport.
Don't forget that maxim, unless it is going to make you money (i.e. utilitarian), "If you have to feed it, fuel it...I believe there is something else in there, can't seem to recall for some reason...rent it."
Ben Franklin said buy things that appreciate and rent things that depreciate.
ReplyDeleteBen Franklin never tried to lease a vehicle that he was going to drive 50,000 miles a year. I can never make the math work on leasing vehicles. But then, I live in the boonies. Urban assaulters can probably get by with it.
Looks here's the deal. The fighter jocks get the babes; the C-130 pilots get drunk at the bar of the O club. The singers and lead guitarists get the wild sweet young thangs; the drummers get to hang out with the roadies.
ReplyDeleteNobody, nobody ever snorted cocaine off a blonde's ass in a pick up truck (not that that's my thing, it ain't, well part of it isn't, I mean... Jesus nevermind). Anyway the point being, everybody's got a pick up truck. Hell I got a Colorado sitting in my driveway. But a Ferrari, THAT my friend is what you want.
Okay, point taken on the pickup truck, but what about the unicycle?
ReplyDeleteWatch FOX NFL Sunday for coverage of my brigade's Soldiers during the crew's swing through the AOR.
ReplyDeleteHere's some fodder.
ReplyDeleteWASHINGTON (Dow Jones)--A U.S. senator on Friday introduced legislation to break up institutions deemed "too big to fail."
The bill would give U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner 90 days to create a list of banks, hedge funds and insurance companies whose collapse he feels would drag down the economy. Within one year of enactment, the Treasury Department would be required to break up those firms.
"If an institution is too big to fail, it is too big to exist," Sen. Bernie Sanders (I., Vt.), the legislation's author, said. "We should break them up so they are no longer in a position to bring down the entire economy."
The Obama administration and House Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank (D., Mass.) are pushing legislation to regulate and to wind down large, complex financial institutions. The plan has run into opposition from federal bank regulators and members of Congress.
FYI, I always thought Ayn Rand was sexy.
ReplyDeleteIt was an act of terror and our illustrious leader, our commander in chief, small c and small c, will not use the word terror in his lexicon, had it down-played immediately because he knew it was a Muslim. The FBI determined it was not an act of terror immediately and they were not even on the scene. The politicians already knew so they tried to dispell our reaction to the news we would get ultimately. As the evening has evolved we have learned he is a radical and was reported for his comments and nobody would deal with him for fear of the impact on their careers. That was implied, but career officers live and die with the poltical will in D.C. and the upper echelons of a treacherous bunch of people in our government. Those of us left with our heads in our hands in Nam, in the Gulf, and now in Iran and Afghanistan, know what that means. Since 2006 this country has softened its stance on defending itself from terrorism in many ways. The training camps on our own soil have grown and the cells are often observed but not shut down, even to and including the very radical Muslim school in Alexandria, Va. His cousin says he is a good American and is trying to paint him as a PTSD sufferer. Then he should not have been a counselor. We paid him to be a doctor and paid for him to go to college. He preached against fighting his Muslim brothers and said outright that Muslims should rise up against the aggressors here in this country. He praised the shooters in Little Rock for killing the soldiers at the induction center. I do not believe his family should be blamed, but they do not know him like those who lived with him in the Army. If he could not stand hearing harsh stories he was in the wrong business. He should not have decided to be a doctor. Cry me a friggin' river.
ReplyDeleteHe is a terrorist by defintion. The dictionary says that is " to carry out a threat of terror, an act of violence, or intimidation, or subjugation, demoralization, by force...one who terrorizes..." He killed a bunch of unarmed people. Just like a person with an IED, or a dirty bomb, or a satchel bomb, or any other weapon capable of killing multiple targets, he killed and intended to kill more than one person.
Mass---- a large quantity or number. How many does it take to make a number large. More than one? Is twelve dead and 31 enough to qualify for "mass?" It is for me. That is why I get sick of hearing the news and the politicians blow smoke about no weapons of mass destruction were found in Iran. What the hell is a chemical weapon...bomb, rpg, cannon and ammo, rockets, automatic weapons that are drum fed, ad infinitum. Are they intended to kill one person or lots of persons? That is the most stupid comment I have ever heard. The people willing to give the order to use the damned weapons on other human beings, like Saddam, on his own people or any other people, are the real weapons of mass destruction.
Destruction---- the act or process of destroying; demolition or slaughter.
The guy was a terrorist. I may be nuts, but he killed 12 and wounded 31. He fits the definition. He was a damned Muslim. They were unarmed. We are at war. He did not want to fight the enemy. He is a traitor. How should he be treated. Obama will want his ass kissed just like he wants to kiss the ass of those at Gitmo.
I ask you why?
Michael D. "Moon" Mullins, author of "Vietnam in Verse, poetry for beer drinkers."
Welcome to the CW, Mr. Mullins. Thanks for your thoughts.
ReplyDeleteDamn-it will you stop bringing up that unicycle incident. That was years ago and as far as I know she made a complete recovery (although her Daddy did have to adopt a highway). It just goes to show, you CAN live a healthy and happy life with just one gonad.
ReplyDeleteOh did somebody mention Ayn Rand...oooo baby.