BUST A CAP

If Matt Lauer had a brain in his head (he doesn't) he could have turned a useless waste of time into at least a grade B Western.  All he had to say was, "You wouldn't be talkin' like that less you're wearing a star and got 15 shooters with Heckler & Kochs standin' outside the door." But he didn't.

So The Leader was allowed to talk about " knowing the right person to kick in the ass" while it turns out that in 50 days he has yet to say one word to the Chairman of BP.  Useful.

I'm surprised he didn't use the phrase "bust a cap" in the region of someone's posterior as that is surely the preferred phrase in the South Side of Chicago where it is happening to children probably as we speak.  But this punk chose not to.  Is this what I am supposed to point to with my grandchildren as the standard that they should seek?  Dear Lord, how did we do this to ourselves?

I have promised not to go partisan but this increasingly irrelevant fool makes it difficult at times.  Apologies.  Anyway, Dustoff was on the Hill today making very little sense  which is really of no matter as he was speaking to members of the House of Representatives who for the most part are incapable of grasping anything of substance.

Gentle Ben was actually pretty positive and the stock market reacted well only to sell off again at the end of the day proving without a doubt that our world is totally dominated by the trading mentality and nobody, NO BOD EEE could care about fundamentals whether real or imagined.  To summarize what The Chairman had to say is to remind one's self how an economist will begin any sentence:  "Assume that..."  And that is precisely what Dustoff did.  "Assume that Europe stays in one piece, energy prices don't go crazy, China doesn't implode, yada, yada yada..." we should have growth in the range of 3-4% next year without inflation.  The guy is brilliant but he is a babe in the woods being politically clueless and completely market insensitive.   I kinda miss Greenspan.  With him at least you KNEW that he KNEW that you PROBABLY KNEW that all he was saying was crap and would treat it accordingly.  Of course not everyone did and, well, the rest was history.  I actually don't blame the guy as much as I probably should because I doubt he really believed that everybody was that dumb.  Which is why I really miss Tall Paul.  He KNEW everybody was dumb and acted accordingly.  But he got old.  So did I.  Those old Westerns were great.  The guy in the white hat would take off his star, unbuckle his gun belt and look at the bad guy and say, "I aint got 'em now."  You KNEW everything was going to be all right.