Hard Knocks Chronicles

Observations from a graduate of the school of Hard Knocks

Bank Robbery – Enhanced Withdrawal technique

 Murder – Enhanced Heavenly Transportation technique

 Grand Theft Auto/Car Jacking – Enhanced Auto Acquisition technique

 Bribery – Enhanced Negotiating technique

 Speeding – Enhanced Transporta… Read full post »

APRIL 30, 2009 10:40AM

The Pandemics Nobody Talks about

I'm not going to dismiss the Swine Flu - I think you need to do the logical things when the flu is going around. An ounce of Prevention is worth a Pound of cure.  Or a $2 mask, $2 in Sanitizer and staying home when your sick is worth $200,000,000 in… Read full post »

APRIL 28, 2009 1:09PM

The End Of America As A Moral Leader

"Should any American soldier be so base and infamous as to injure any [prisoner]. . . I do most earnestly enjoin you to bring him to such severe and exemplary punishment as the enormity of the crime may require. Should it extend to death itself, it will not be disproportional toRead full post »

 On their own shows these two Baffoons have offered to be tortured...

What they don't realize is A Pay-Per-View event featuring Hannity & O'Reilly being Waterboarded would garner enough money to solve the world financial crisis!

And annual reruns would fund world health care costs for eter… Read full post »

Currently there are at least 2 American soldiers in prison for the crimes the President feels we should overlook...

Currently there is an old German Military Prison guard being extrodieted  for crimes the President feels we should overlook...

Currently there is a young Somali man being charged… Read full post »

Because if it does not, then we can still have hope!  We can hope for change, not from President Obama (I used to Love saying that - now I am ashamed to have given money to this war criminal) but from the next president.

After learning that the Obama administration will… Read full post »

 

I seem to be suffering from a political hangover today – too much anger about the foolishness of the tea baggers and the Presidents leaning towards war criminals over the ideals that this country should have recovered in the last election.  One eye throbs with the anger of disillusi… Read full post »

APRIL 15, 2009 9:52AM

The Day Logic Took A Back Seat

Today, hundreds (but with the FOX TV filters, thousands) of people will march in cities across the country to protest President Obama.  Most of them will not know what they are protesting.

The talking points are confusing so many websites have suggested signage. 

They… Read full post »

He said that this financial crisis started when the banks started lending less - or something to that effect.

I think he is naive, or on the wrong track, to be thinking like that.  We have to realize this financial crisis started when Ronald Reagan  decided to change the tax code… Read full post »

APRIL 13, 2009 1:08PM

History’s Lessons Forgotten

As the right wing winds up their base for the Anti-government protests they are calling their national tea party it shows us two major things.  First that the sheep will follow if you call loud enough and second, that the American educational system has been failing for a very long time.… Read full post »

APRIL 10, 2009 10:25AM

Secret, Secret, whose got a Secret

Well, at least we now know there are secrets. 

There was a promise of transparency but we got translucency!  We know there is something there but we can't see the details.  It's a step forward but a long way from what we were promised.

I fear we have… Read full post »

 This week, more than ever, I have noticed a long list of left wing pundits stating that there are problems with this bill or that one because the Democrats don’t have the 60 (SIXTY) votes needed to get the bill passed in the Senate. 

 So, the Democrats… Read full post »

That could be a quote heard in ten Democratic Senator’s Office yesterday.  These Democrats - Baucus (D-MT), Bayh (D-IN), Cantwell (D-WA), Landrieu (D-LA), Lincoln (D-AR), Murray (D-WA), Nelson (D-FL), Nelson (D-NE), Pryor (D-AR), Tester (D-MT) -  voted on a tax break for the richest 0… Read full post »

APRIL 1, 2009 8:50AM

You break it, you bought it

A lesson we learned early in life.  Well, a saying learned early in life but a lesson yet to be learned.

 “We” have broken the environment, the banking industry, the housing industry, the auto industry, the manufacturing industry, media, healthcare and globalization…&nRead full post »

That is how Monday felt!  Cheney Aide backs Hersch’s claim, GM CEO fired, Prelude to the G20, Afghan strategy, O’Reilly plays victim, unfair treatment of blue-collar vs white-collar,  Drug wars, Spain thinking of indicting Americans for War Crimes, Floods, The GOP Budget, and ev… Read full post »

http://thinkprogress.org/stop-oreilly-harassment/

With the padded room a little more crowded now the Glen Beck has snapped as well, it seems O'reily is resorting to more low rent tactics.  What's he gonna do when he becomes Fox's #2 quack? Read full post »

That may be the best course of action in Afghanistan...

When you look back on the history of Afghanistan you will see that they always win.  For thousands of years they have defeated those who tried to invade or occupy their country. 

Why do we think we can… Read full post »

MARCH 26, 2009 11:34AM

Rethinking "Top Down" Economics

One simple thing about it makes no sense...

If we rely on the good nature of the Rich to create jobs we are turning employment into charity.

It also sets up a Labor shift where the jobs are not created until the Owner feels they are rich enough to "give"… Read full post »

MARCH 25, 2009 10:41AM

Is it wrong

Is it wrong that I was bored during the press conference last night?

Why were so many of the questions so simple or previously asked? 

Where were the deeper questions?  such as "how exactly will this administration reverse the programs that got us in this mess?" or "How will this… Read full post »

MARCH 23, 2009 12:00PM

The Herd needs to be Heard!

Timothy Geitner has announced his fix for the mess he and his friends got us into.  He is going to make it profitable for the rich to trade their bad assets back and forth. We don’t need the rich to invest in anything but their own companies, their own country and… Read full post »

MARCH 19, 2009 8:52AM

Ah, the Fed….

I should just leave it there but what fun is that

 Why did the Government allow a private corporation, owned by banks, to regulate the economy?  It’s a weird relationship and I know very little about it bit what I do know confuses me. Read full post »

MARCH 17, 2009 8:55AM

Weird Acronym and a rant

AIG is missing the “C” for All I Can Get

 It’s been said before but I’ll say it again.  Those who control the toys make the rules.  In this case the toy is the economy and the Government has allowed outside forces to control the economy.  It's time… Read full post »

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123690181841413405.html

You want to link Executive pay to performance?  Are you Crazy?  Why would you want to do that? 

Next thing you know they'll want to do the same for Athletes! 

Perhaps they'll even want to get rid of the compulsory "emb… Read full post »

It has been a few years since Ari was charged with telling the Grim Brothers (Bush & Cheney) fables but he hasn't missed a beat. 

 

He is once again trying to put Saddam Hussein in charge of the Sept. 11th attacks.

Many reports have said the opposite and noneRead full post »

MARCH 11, 2009 6:36PM

credit where credit is due

We must get out of this credit based economy!  We slowly slid into a place where no one can survive without a credit card.  You can't even rent an apartment without a credit check...

The craziest thing about our credit based economy is that it has become a ponzi scheme.  We are… Read full post »