Weekend Update--Wassup?

All in a Day's News

I got an ice cream

Obama is on another vacation.  This time, Martha's Vineyard.  Well, at least it's in America and stimulating the American economy.  And besides, he has time to read his favorite book, "How to Lose Friends and Negatively Influence People."  It's sort of like, "How to Win Friends and Influence People" only the outcome isn't the same.  Perhaps he has a NOOK, a Kindle or most likely someone on the payroll to read to him while feeding him grapes.  Maybe Obama should have read this, "Economic woes offer awkward backdrop for Obama's vacation--Fourteen million people are out of work. Millions more are losing fortunes in the stock market. America's AAA bond rating has slipped.  So should President Obama be vacationing next week in Martha's Vineyard off the coast of Massachusetts, where the average home costs $650,000?  Yes, says White House press secretary Jay Carney. Obama, like most Americans, needs down time to recharge his batteries for the battles ahead. And besides, he says, "The presidency travels with you...Obama is scheduled to take his family to the secluded island next Thursday for a 10-day trip that will mark his third consecutive summer vacation there...offering a relaxing mix of ocean beaches, golf courses and restaurants.  The trip comes after the unprecedented downgrading of U.S. credit by Standard & Poor's and a nearly 1,500-point dive in the Dow Jones industrial average this month."

Stocks Tanked

"The stock market took another pounding Thursday, with the widely watched Dow Jones Industrial Average  shedding 419.63 points to close at 10,990.58.  What’s bothering traders now?  The stock market seemed to get hit Thursday by a combination of jitters over the possibility of a banking crisis in Europe and a series of US economic reports that weren’t very good. The result: a bad taste in many investors’ mouths."  

Dr. Evil "Soros"

Also in the news, of all people, George Soros.  He just wanted to share that we are headed for New Great Depression.  "Euro Collapse Could Spark Global Depression, Soros Tells L'Hebdo (Thursday, August 18, 2011 06:47 AM).  Billionaire investor George Soros said a collapse of the euro may spark a global financial crisis in a “new Great Depression,” L’Hebdo magazine reported, citing an interview.  'It seems to me that one still doesn’t understand what would happen if the euro collapsed,” Soros told the Swiss magazine in an e-mailed pre-release of tomorrow’s edition. “It would lead to a banking crisis that would be totally out of control.' "  How did he become a billionaire--by stating the obvious?  And what does he have to worry about?

Fukushima Nuclear Plant, Japan

Japan's Meltdown Update
As none of us should be surprised,  "Fears of food riots strike Japan after rice trading is halted due to a 40% price spike triggered by massive hoarding of the remaining radiation free rice supply.  It is time to start paying very close attention the events unfolding in Japan as the nation teeters on the verge of food riots which may serve as an example of what other nations in a similar situation would face.  As we approach the 5 month marker since the onset of the Fukushima nuclear disaster, Japan has repeatedly assured the public that the nation’s food supply was safe from radiation. Japan has given those reassurances despite warnings from experts that the nuclear fallout has already surpassed 20 Hiroshima bombs with no end in site and experts say 'off-scale' levels of lethal radiation at Fukushima infer millions dying. 
Time and again those assurances have proven to be false. Radiation has been found in everything from soil and sewage to tea and beef.  Even worse, a just released report revealed that Japan ran simulations back as far as 1984 which showed 18,000 deaths from acute radiation exposure and a 55 mile radius would be rendered permanently uninhabitable. All of these factors have entirely destroyed the public’s trust in their government.  In an attempt to regain the public’s trust, Japan just announced hours ago that they will no longer offer any assurances of the safety of the nation’s food supply."  I have been following this tragic story since it's beginning in previous blogs, "CNN:  "A Tale of the Half-Life and The Half-Wit" and "Media Meltdown:  Nuclear Disaster."

Debt Man Walking--2012

On the American Job Front...

The U.S to Deny Taiwan New F-16s.  Yep.  They can keep their old planes instead of our government putting America to work.  "Bowing to Chinese pressure, the U.S. will deny Taiwan's request for 66 new F-16C/D fighter aircraft, a Taiwan Ministry of National Defense (MND) official said.  'We are so disappointed in the United States,' he said."  66 NEW aircraft!  How many jobs did that cost America?  I mean, I thought Obama's whole campaign on Bus Force 1 (which was NOT made in America) was about "JOBS."  And not so odd, the bus wasn't even patriotic.  It was visually communistic.  At least he was greeted by so many friendly Americans.  Thank you!

World News
The White House Calls On Syrian President to Step Down.  "In his first explicit demand, President Obama called on Syrian President Bashar Assad to leave power. The White House issued a written statement praising the protesters' "pursuit of a peaceful transition" and "strongly condemning" the Syrian regime's "brutality.  "The future of Syria must be determined by its people," the president said in a statement. "But President Bashar al
I can think of countless events of brutality in America (such as the Branch Davidian's Complex incident, The Second Uprising at Wounded Knee and the Kent State Shootings) but no government called for America's president to "step  down."

Losing Friends 
"Obama Administration Sides With Hamas – Tells Israel to Apologize to Turkey or Else …Update: Netanyahu Says He Won’t Apologize.  Posted by Jim Hoft on Wednesday, August 17, 2011.  I personally verified this story with a contact in Israel.  It is not propaganda, but in fact TRUE.  Will Netanyahu be asked to "step down" next?  "Israel’s largest daily newspaper, Yediot Ahronot, reported on Wednesday that the Obama Administration is threatening Israel to either apologize to Turkey over its bloody interception of a Gaza aid flotilla last year, or risk strained ties with Washington.  Israeli diplomats in Washington told the newspaper that they had received a communique from US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton insisting that the rift between Israel and Turkey was harming American interests in the region, such as affecting regime change in neighboring Syria."


Who IS Stepping Down

Looking for a "JOB"

Who's the KING?

The Burger King "King" is Stepping Down and not per Obama orders.  He is leaving for marketing reasons.  Apparently, he's "creepy."  Even Burger King is embracing "Change."  Burger King has fired the King!  And more changes from the burger giant..  "Burger King wants a new image and they are going healthy.  Home style burgers with a new spicy pepper grill sauce are being test marketed." Plus new decor for their restaurants."  I wish them the best.  Flavor Flav has applied as their new mascot.


It seems like an ideal time for vacation to me.  While he sucks on his ice cream cone, what it Obama's explaination for America's malaise?  It's the Republicans who wish to see America fail for their own political gain.  Really.  It couldn't be his own agenda.  As Charles Krauthammer writes in the Washington Post Article, Bad Luck? Bad Faith?, "A plague of bad luck and bad faith — a recalcitrant providence and an unpatriotic opposition. Our president wrestles with angels. Monsters of mythic proportions."


Disclaimer:  Opinions expressed here are solely those of the author unless otherwise stated.  You can put lipstick on a pig but it's still a pig.