tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-40673876573688955132024-03-05T15:19:32.020-05:00Media Bashing, Politics, Music, Books, Incredulity, Non-sense and More!Jack Sharkeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18395717737450797868noreply@blogger.comBlogger261125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4067387657368895513.post-83231415307959301852010-06-23T12:59:00.004-04:002011-12-13T15:33:42.672-05:00Home Sales Down. Obama Surprised. I Wasn't.Sales of new homes were down 33% from April to May. Sales of existing homes were also down. Your government said this was "unexpected." <br />
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That is because your government is stupid. The false-hope giving tax credit to first time home buyers ended in May. So all we had was a false picture of improved home sales based on government interference while the credit was in effect.<br />
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Whenever a government interferes with the unseen hand of the market, we the public suffer. Government cannot solve problems, it can only help ferment solutions.Jack Sharkeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18395717737450797868noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4067387657368895513.post-22320939024722771902010-06-22T10:10:00.005-04:002010-06-22T11:22:40.805-04:00More Fiddling Whilst the City BurnsPresident Bush Press Conferences = 45 in 8 years.<br />President Obama Press Conferences = 2 in 1 year (on pace for 16 over 8 years).<br /><br />President Bush golf outings = 24 in 8 years.<br />President Obama golf outings = 32 in 1 year (on pace for 256 over 8 years).<br /><br />Bush did stop playing golf as he felt it sent the wrong message to the troops overseas, but he was lambasted all the same (watch <em>Fahrenheit 911</em>). Obama's press office said yesterday that it was good for the President to play golf so he could be relaxed and lead the country. The media tore Bush apart for not caring, but praises Obama for being cool and collected.<br /><br />Tony Hayward (inept BP CEO) = 1 sailing trip with his son over last weekend.<br />President Obama = 1 ball game in Chicago and a golf outing on the same weekend, yet people are up in arms because Hayward is relaxing while oil is flowing. Yet, it was Obama who pledged to not rest while he fought the oil spill.<br /><br />Am I defending Bush and Hayward? Nope, I'm just giving you the statistics.Jack Sharkeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18395717737450797868noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4067387657368895513.post-61819522620891220632010-06-21T16:37:00.008-04:002010-06-21T16:51:46.947-04:00This Is What Is Meant By "Nero Fiddled While Rome Burned"Remember that kid in college who would learn some cool buzzwords and then filibuster the class so we could all be impressed with her? Wanna know where she is today? Listen to the first 2 minutes and you'll find out. Check out the stupid smile.<br /><br />I want our military brass working diligently to get our people home, not answering moronic question from hack politicians whoa re trying to score points invoking images of the disaster de jour.<br /><br />I want to sue Arizona because they sent this bimbo to Congress.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ww0ojjhtGc">Watch your government in action.</a>Jack Sharkeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18395717737450797868noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4067387657368895513.post-18277957942165498062010-06-21T14:01:00.003-04:002010-06-21T14:07:31.318-04:00Rahm Emanuel May Be Dumber Than We ThinkListen kids, if you want there to be any chance that the Left gets defeated this November, you have to make White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel eat his words.<br /><br />He is telling operatives in his crazy, freedom-disliking party that complaints from the Right about the $20 billion Obama took credit for taking from BP to pay claims that BP was already paying for before Obama got involved will ultimiately lead to the Right's defeat in November. See, he thinks all of America, not just the lazy and dumb people, are still blinded by the non-sense Obama throws our way. <br /><br />Sure BP screwed up. Sure Tony Hayward is a twee fool. But remember this...BP has already paid something like $25 million in claims - <em>before your favorite Socialist even figured out what the hell a rig disaster really was.</em>Jack Sharkeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18395717737450797868noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4067387657368895513.post-41178935896805444252010-06-18T08:44:00.002-04:002010-06-18T08:54:50.200-04:00TWIR: Special Oil Leak EditionNow that President Obama and His Merry Band Of Congresspersons have decided to be in charge of the big giant Gulf Oil Spill / Leak / Disaster, I think it's important that someone with some intelligence weighs in.<br /><br />This thing in the Gulf is bad, and it's going to be bad for some time to come. In the short term parts of the Gulf are going to be in bad shape, but it will get cleaned up and the eco-system in the Gulf will regenerate. But since the Feds have decided to focus solely on the Gulf of Mexico, let's look at the other pressing problems that have, well, simply disappeared. They've just gone away.<br /><br />1. <strong>Jobs</strong>. Don't hear too much about jobs anymore, so I guess everyone is back to work.<br /><br />2. <strong>The Deficit</strong>. Apparently shrunk because no one seems to be worried about it anymore.<br /><br />3. <strong>Terrorism</strong>. Obama has triumphed. Except that twelve Afghan nationals who were training at an Air Force base in Texas, and who have serious security clearances, have gone missing.<br /><br />4. <strong>Lindsay Lohan</strong>. I guess she's behaving herself because I haven't heard anything lately.<br /><br />5. <strong>Illegal Immigration</strong>. Now that we've had to make part of our own country off-limits to American citizens because the border can't be protected from drug and human smugglers, we can all just stop worrying about it.<br /><br />Have a nice weekend.Jack Sharkeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18395717737450797868noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4067387657368895513.post-33526326471699722342010-06-17T20:04:00.002-04:002011-09-16T13:16:37.663-04:00Waterloo - Couldn't Excape If I Wanted toApologies to ABBA.<br />
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Anyway, I predict President Obama is going to rue the day he decided to get all up in BP's grill about this oil leak thing. It's bigger than both his intellect and his problem solving ability and it's going to eat him whole.<br />
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Watching that Waxman doofus attack Tony Hayward from BP really pointed out to me why politicians become politicians and CEO's become CEO's. <br />
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It's all about ability.Jack Sharkeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18395717737450797868noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4067387657368895513.post-27361153381948006192010-06-16T10:46:00.003-04:002010-06-16T10:55:51.067-04:00Just The Facts, As Best I CanI watched Barack America last night. I really tried, I really did, to be impartial and fair, but simply put, for twenty minutes last night the man lied to us.<br /><br />1. BP began drilling the relief wells about 52 days before the Obama Administration got involved. Barack Obama is the only guy in the world who could make BP look good right now.<br /><br />2. "Paperwork" has kept a near armada of clean-up crews from other countries from lending manpower and expertise.<br /><br />3. The federal government cannot control a private corporation's relief fund. But, there have been relatively few complaints about BP's speed in cutting checks to affected people, even though Barack Obama hasn't actually fought for them.<br /><br />4. One half of Obama's speech was demagoguery of the worst sort. Really all he did was demand support from us for his energy initiatives and job killing controls and taxes.<br /><br />5. The moratorium on drilling is absurd and has in fact killed jobs already in the Gulf area. As adults we should be very wary of people who just react to situations by attempting to eliminate all dangers, as opposed to leaders who "fight" for solutions as a result of learning from experience.<br /><br />Good luck America, you're going to need it.Jack Sharkeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18395717737450797868noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4067387657368895513.post-2154396335012276102010-06-15T09:06:00.002-04:002010-06-15T09:08:54.121-04:00I Wish I Would Make Up My MindSo I announced with great fanfare last month that the Smikring Moose was back. But seriously, that website is a lot of work and being lazy, and busy, I just didn't feel like putting that much effort in. So, I'm going to revive this blog. Now I know I'll probably only have like three readers for a while, but I really write this for me anyway. <br /><br />Let's see how long this works...Jack Sharkeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18395717737450797868noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4067387657368895513.post-53224273458232344552009-02-03T08:57:00.002-05:002009-02-03T09:01:20.587-05:00The EndThe people are ecstatic! The people are amazed! The people are righteously indignant!<br /><br />And some of them are even liking the new blog.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.thesmirkingmoose.com">The Smirking Moose Dot Com</a><br /><br />This is probably the last entry at this site. All further brain dribblings, rants and brilliant observations will from this time forward take place at <a href="http://www.thesmirkingmoose.com">The Smirking Moose Dot Com</a>.<br /><br />Sorry to make you have to update your Favorites folder, but this will be the last time, at least until some lame bar in Maine sues me for using their name or something.Jack Sharkeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18395717737450797868noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4067387657368895513.post-4317458482426786872009-02-02T08:55:00.002-05:002009-02-02T09:01:53.364-05:00And You Thought The Moose Was Just A Passing FancyTHIS IS THE BIG ANNOUNCEMENT YOU'VE ALL BEEN WAITING FOR.<br /><br />New blogs officially start tomorrow (or tonight if something aggravates me betwen now and then, which could happen) on the new and improved The Blog.<br /><br />Now, for the same low price, you get five pages of what you used to be thankful for only coming in one page.<br /><br />Five times more politics, media bashing, cultural criticism, and well, you know the rest. New colors, more graphics, a cool name, what the hell else do you people want? Well better content is a nice thought, and thanks for answering my rhetorical question, but better content is highly unlikely. It is what it is.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.thesmirkingmoose.com">The Smirking Moose Dot Com</a>Jack Sharkeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18395717737450797868noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4067387657368895513.post-3282754772803471212009-01-31T09:20:00.001-05:002009-01-31T09:21:41.006-05:00Big Freakin' News - Oulsham Is RetiringYup, kiddies, it's time to move on to bigger, and significantly cooler looking things! Join me won't you? I thought you'd say that.<br /><br />Very soon now there will be an announcement about where to find the continuing brain dribblings of a middle-aged malcontent.<br /><br />Stay tuned.Jack Sharkeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18395717737450797868noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4067387657368895513.post-19058642090140718032009-01-30T08:42:00.002-05:002009-01-30T08:56:33.929-05:00TWIR - Inter-Commensalism EditionMutualism is when two organisms feed off each other to each other's mutual benefit. Parasitism is when one organism feeds off a second without benefit to the second. Commensalism is when two organisms feed off each other and both are indifferent. Inter-commensalism is when everybody feeds off everybody else and nobody cares. We live in an inter-commensalist society kids.<br /><br />1. California readers will be happy to know they are now the proud parents of eight new kids born to a single mother who lives with her six kids at her mother's house. Now grandma, and you, will be feeding fourteen kids all because this woman wanted to get pregnant again so bad she fertilized invitro. This is the height of arrogance and irresponsibility on the parts of everyone involved prior to fertilization. I don't mind if she wants fourteen kids, but by golly, do it the old-fashioned way and earn those kids. <br /><br />2. Last quarter's GDP was down 3.8%, not the 5.4% analysts were expecting. This is good news.<br /><br />3. I am tired of hearing about the pain we are all in. Sending your child off to war and never seeing him alive again is painful. Dying of cancer is painful. Losing a limb to diabetes is painful. Not being able to afford to get the DVD player in the SUV fixed IS NOT painful. Not being able to get your nails done or play golf every Saturday is not painful. Everything short of actual pain is merely hard work.<br /><br />4. Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.<br /><br />5. I like that Obama shot from the hip at the Wall Street bonus folks, but one NBC reporterette actually said "Obama scolded them like an angry father." Moron. Hey lady, sometimes people don't say things nicely to get their points across, but keep your issues with your dad to yourself, okay?<br /><br />6. Inter-commensalism is a made up word. Commensalism is an actual thing, but the "inter" part was thrown in by a group of high school students scrambling to come up with an answer to a test, and I thank them for it, because inter-commensalism will become a regular part of the Oulsham lexicon.Jack Sharkeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18395717737450797868noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4067387657368895513.post-7767432828134097222009-01-29T19:31:00.003-05:002009-01-29T19:39:53.118-05:00Further Proof We Are All DoomedMy ever-patient SO took care of some telephonic business for me today. Without lying and adding stupid things for dramatic effect, this is how the conversation went. <br /><br />My Ever-Patient SO: I would like to change some things in Mr. Oulsham's account.<br /><br />Person Of Questionable Intelligence On Other End Of Phone: I can't do that without his authorization. Do you have his credit card number?<br /><br />MEPSO: No, but I have his Social Security number.<br /><br />POQIOOEOP: That's no good. I have to have his authorization to change the account. Can you call him and get his authorization and then call me back?<br /><br />MEPSO: (Stifling a laugh): That's all I have to do? He asked me this morning to change the account for him before he left for work.<br /><br />POQIOOEOP: Oh, he already gave you his authorization? Fine then, how can I help you?<br /><br />I'm beginning to wonder if without stupid people there would be no people, except of course for you and I and MEPSO.Jack Sharkeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18395717737450797868noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4067387657368895513.post-68700456708092983592009-01-29T12:38:00.004-05:002011-09-16T13:16:03.337-04:00Except For Football, Ford Does Have A Better Idea.Apparently the people at Ford are better at running their car company than they are their football team. And isn't that a nice refreshing change?<br />
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Ford's losses were around $5 billion last year, but they are not (so far) asking for a bailout from me. I like this. I like this a lot. Chrysler and GM have both asked me for money, and apparently I gave it to them, even though I really didn't want to. I've given a lot of people money in the last six months. It seems like I am always giving somebody money and I'm starting to run out. I have lived a long life filled with people with their hands out, and maybe I'm starting to get just a teensie-weensie bit resentful.<br />
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So, I have decided that if you come to me for money, or maybe if you avoid me and ask my neighbors for money, I will not buy your products. This includes your crooked home loans, cars, and whatever else it is you think you can make but apparently aren't very good at. This also means I will become a customer of Ford exclusively because I want to support people who know how to make it on their own.<br />
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<em>But, you were just saying last week that the car companies aren't totally at fault here</em>, you might be saying. Yes, I did say that. But Ford understood the troubles in its market and worked within those parameters and the other noodniks didn't. It's that simple.<br />
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The people at GM and Chrysler might think they can sit on the couches of their shareholders and taxpayers like me and play Madden '09 and eat Fritos Flavor Twists forever and we'll bail them out without even making them make their beds, even though they're way older than they should be for this type of behavior. Eventually, everyone figures out that pity is best saved for those among us who truly deserve it.Jack Sharkeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18395717737450797868noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4067387657368895513.post-88881039258350668632009-01-28T14:45:00.002-05:002009-01-28T14:56:41.630-05:00Sad News - Billy Powell Dead At 56The music world lost one of its great under-appreciated players today with the death from an apparent heart attack of Lynyrd Skynyrd keyboardist Billy Powell at an all too young age of 56.<br /><br />Known as a guitar band, the Skynyrd sound was equally shaped by the rollicking Mississippi Delta flavoring of Powell's piano work. The opening to Freebird, one of the iconic intros in all of music history was penned by Powell while he was still a roadie for the band.<br /><br />Two images of Powell are forever burned into my memory. No one can forget the interview Powell did in 1977 after surviving the Skynyrd plane crash in Mississippi, with his bandaged nearly-severed nose and black eyes as he grieved for his friends. But I'll choose to remember a twenty-two-year-old Powell flipping the photographer the bird on the cover of <em>Nuthin' Fancy</em>, Skynyrd's 1974 release. The irony of a roadie becoming a rockstar overnight and then telling the world what he thought gave great hope to young, struggling, cynical musicians everywhere.<br /><br />Thanks Billy, for the music and for sharing yourself. Time passes quickly, don't let it slip through your hands.Jack Sharkeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18395717737450797868noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4067387657368895513.post-6783934481203008402009-01-27T12:56:00.004-05:002009-01-27T16:47:29.113-05:00Obama Gets It Right And Gets It WrongThe media has been telling us that Republicans are fighting for more tax cuts in President Obama's stimulus package which is what is holding it up. This is not exactly right. Obama's fight is with the Democrats who don't want <em>any</em> tax cuts included in the stimulus package. So it is Obama and the Republicans versus the Democrats on this one.<br /><br />Nancy Pelosi (2008 World's Most Stupidest Person In The World Award winner) doesn't want tax cuts. She also doesn't want people having kids. According to her, federally funded contraception saves the federal government money, because I guess, there will be less kids for the Feds to feed. This is the kind of intrusion those of us who still think clearly mean when we talk about the welfare state. President Obama struck $85 million in contraception money from the stimulus bill in a correct effort to keep the bill as focused as possible. This was a win for the American people, and a serious blow to the Democrats - who quite frankly under their current leadership prove themselves time and time again not to be so American.<br /><br />This small win is offset by the Democrats claiming victory by postponing the cut to digital TV by another four months. They've had three years to print up the coupons and set aside the money and they've failed, but somehow they think another four months will make it all work. You see, instead of stupidly playing to the crowd by printing up the stupid coupons for stupid people to think they were getting something for nothing, they just should have subsidized the converter manufacturers on the back end. But you see this is stupid of me to think, because there would be no press and no tangible gift to the American piglets from the teat of their government pig-mom. So unfortunately common-sense and smart business strategies lose out once again to the something-for-nothing new Americans and their perceived need to be taken care of. Oh, and by, "new" Americans, I'm not talking about immigrants, I'm talking about people who think the government exists to provide for them. 'New' Americans range in age from about 13 to 87, so don't get all generational on this one. <br /><br />If the government can't provide $40 coupons to offset the cost of a mandated switchover to digital television (which is egregious to me to begin with), how can you possible still believe the government can do anything?Jack Sharkeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18395717737450797868noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4067387657368895513.post-11325182942626691092009-01-26T08:52:00.004-05:002009-01-26T14:59:57.750-05:00Two ThingsFirst. I will be rooting for the Arizona Cardinals on Sunday. As much as I admire the Pittsburgh Steeler organization, they are winners. The whole country recognizes them as winners. The Cardinals, on the other hand are losers. <em>Just rooting for the underdog eh Oulsham? Well, isn't that sweet?</em> you might be saying. Nope. I don't like losers. I think losers stink for the most part, but I do think the world needs more winners, so if a loser can become a winner, well then we all benefit. This fits right in line with my political beliefs. So, I root for people to become winners, and that's why I am rooting for the Cardinals.<br /><br />And another thing. President Obama is now going to allow each state to set their own emission levels for automobiles. <em>Yay! States Right! Right, Oulsham?</em> you might be exclaiming. Well not exactly. If the states want to set difficult-to-engineer emission standards for automobiles, making it nearly impossible for car manufacturers to be profitable, then the states should bail out the auto industry. The Federal government has already hammered a bunch of nails into the coffin of Detroit by removing the free-market from the auto industry, and now while they are on the other side of the coffin prying nails out with bailout loans, they are going to let the states hammer more nails in with a patchwork of unworkable emission standards. This is stupid.<br /><br />American automobile manufacturers are surely to blame for their own condition, but the Feds have to share in that blame. Bowing down to Japan's tariff wall and forcing restrictions that fly in the face of what the market is demanding are also important causes for Detroit's current state. Allowing the possibility of fifty separate emissions standards with one hand while we are writing them checks on the other just defies logic.Jack Sharkeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18395717737450797868noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4067387657368895513.post-38022728434598828762009-01-23T08:57:00.003-05:002009-01-23T09:15:35.121-05:00TWIR - Potpourri EditionThis is the second-to-last TWIR on the blogspot page. Be ready to update your favorites file on February 1. As we speak, an email is traveling through some wire somewhere with an inquiry into how much it will cost to get my name domain back. <br /><br />1. Chuck Schumer's office called me last night, ostensibly to apologize to trees for the inadvertent slur hurled their way Wednesday night. Chuckie's office also mentioned that it was all Governor Paterson's ineptitude that brought down Caroline Kennedy.<br /><br />2. Former French President Jacques Chirac was bitten Wednesday by his clinically depressed Maltese Poodle. A clinically depressed French Poodle would have more sense. I think anyone who has a clinically depressed dog has too much time on their hands.<br /><br />3. A kinder, gentler, Oulsham: I will no longer take cheap shots at people just for a laugh - unless I know the laugh is sure-fire. Immune from this new Blog Edict are Voldemort, Mr. Potter (from It's A Wonderful Life) and many Canadians.<br /><br />4. I want more stories about Mrs. Biden's slip of the tongue on Oprah last week. Where are they?<br /><br />5. Al Roker is the biggest horse's ass this side of a Clydesdale barn. His chasing down President Obama on the sidewalk during the parade was loutish, selfish, overbearing, insensitive to the people gathered to watch the parade and see the President, and unprofessional. It was also unseemly for a grown man of some achievement to publicly act like a hormonally challenged adolescent at a Jonas Brother's concert. Mr. Roker has been nominated to win The World's Most Stupidest Person In The World Award. But I have instituted new guidelines at the Oulsham Institute of Stupidity and I have to find a video of him in the act.<br /><br />Have a nice weekend.Jack Sharkeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18395717737450797868noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4067387657368895513.post-11719222549371027052009-01-22T19:08:00.005-05:002009-01-26T16:28:45.206-05:00TWIR - Vinyl EditionI know it's 12 hours early, but lucky you, there will be a regular TWIR tomorrow morning.<br /><br />I'm sitting hear listening a to a virgin remastered version of "Eat A Peach" on a 180gram vinyl disk through a brand new pair of KEF speakers and I am loving it. Eat your heart out people who aren't my friends, because you will probably never get to enjoy this treat. <br /><br />1. Rediscover music the way it was meant to sound - with odd-order harmonics - not those nasty even-order harmonics digital gives you. Listen to more vinyl, buy a vacuum tube amp or vacuum tube DAC and live your musical life once again.<br /><br />2. Go to the Princeton Record Exchange, Nassau Street, Princeton, the next time you have a winter afternoon to kill. If you're looking for an album, or a dreaded nasty CD, and they don't have it, you really don't need it.<br /><br />3. I got Blotto's "I Want To Be A Lifeguard" and The Monroes "What Do All The People Know?" EPs there in near mint condition for $4.00 each.<br /><br />4. The "Eat A Peach" I mentioned, on the spectacular 180gram vinyl was $40 bucks, but it has completely remastered graphics and some bonus tracks. You can hear Duane breathing as he plays that way high open-D tuned acoustic during "Little Martha." Go buy a remastered vinyl copy of your favorite album and find out what you've been missing. The record label we should all love and honor is Vinyl Lovers Records. <br /><br />5. I got a mint condition 1968 Mamas and Papas Greatest Hits import pressed only in England for $3.00. It sounds fantastic.<br /><br />I am a sorry, sorry, person, but I'm happy.Jack Sharkeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18395717737450797868noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4067387657368895513.post-10405874772802280142009-01-22T09:00:00.002-05:002009-01-22T09:09:48.891-05:00Caroline, NoIn this installment of The Blog, I will do the job the media refuses to do:<br /><br />(<em>sound of phone ringing</em>)<br /><br />Caroline Kennedy: Erra, hallo?<br /><br />Voice Of Democratic Operative On Other End: Ms. Kennedy, this is (<em>insert name of person from Chuck Schumer's office here</em>). Ms. Kennedy we have a problem.<br /><br />CK: Erra, what, you know, is the problem, you know?<br /><br />VODOOOE: Ah, Ms. Kennedy, you are dumb as a tree and you have no experience or talent for the job, even though my boss Chuck Schumer doesn't either, but at least he went out and got the public fooled. You on the other hand are simply not qualified for the job.<br /><br />CK: Erra, I know, you know?<br /><br />VODOOOE: But, herein lies the paradox. We Democrats still think the public loves the Kennedy's, and what after-all with the family legacy and other assorted tidbits, we realize the falsely perceived public relations nightmare Governor Patterson will have if he doesn't appoint you.<br /><br />CK: Erra, yes, I know, you know?<br /><br />VODOOOE: So, Ms. Kennedy, we are going to give you the opportunity to withdraw your name from consideration. Thus, saving face for everyone involved. In return, you will be considered for a future State or Federal position or Cabinet post. Do you understand Ms. Kennedy?<br /><br />CK: Erra, yes, I do, you know, understand, you know? Ummm, erra, who is this again?<br /><br />That my friends is how politics really works. Do I have proof that this conversation actually happened? No more proof than that it didn't happen.Jack Sharkeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18395717737450797868noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4067387657368895513.post-5345713705867003862009-01-21T08:52:00.005-05:002009-01-21T09:29:52.604-05:00All You Zombies Show Your FacesCold-hearted, mean-spirited people who were unlikely moved in any way by Barack Obama's Inauguration yesterday:<br /><br />1. Rush Limbaugh<br />2. My ex-wife<br />3. Sean Hannity<br />4. Mr. Potter (from A Wonderful Life in case you didn't get it)<br />5. Voldemort<br /><br />Whoa, Oulsham, are you telling me you are a BASTARD now? <br /><br />Well, there are some (see items #2 and #5) who might disagree, but no, I'm not really changing my stance at all.<br /><br />Do I want Mr. Obama's programs to be passed wholesale? Absolutely not.<br /><br />Will I continue to call Barack Obama Barack America? Absolutely.<br /><br />After yesterday, do I think Obama is as leftist as I once did? No, which will cause agita amongst the leftists.<br /><br />Do I think he might be the right leader at the right time for this country? It's very possible.<br /><br />Do I believe he believes in the same America I believe in? Yes, with some small differences.<br /><br />I was moved and enthused about the seamless way our country can do things it sets it's mind to. I wish Mr. Obama all the best regards I can muster and I truly hope he is guided to do the right thing for me, for you, for your family and mine. It's just that I hope and pray Mr. Obama realizes that sometimes doing the right thing is doing less than you think you should.<br /><br />Tomorrow I will probably be back to my regular self, but for today, I say, this whole America thing is pretty damned cool.Jack Sharkeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18395717737450797868noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4067387657368895513.post-91829594546305876112009-01-20T12:51:00.001-05:002009-01-20T12:54:20.038-05:00An Inaugural Conversation OverheardTelevision: picture of G.W. Bush.<br /><br />First Person: Oh there's that idiot.<br /><br />Second person: I voted for him twice.<br /><br />FP: You voted for him twice and you're proud of it?<br /><br />SP: Yup.<br /><br />First Person storms off in a huff.Jack Sharkeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18395717737450797868noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4067387657368895513.post-62487429504518659902009-01-20T12:40:00.004-05:002009-01-21T09:31:43.371-05:00The New Tone?"...the brown man will stick around, the redman will get ahead man, the yellow man will get mellow, and white will embrace what is right."<br /><br />Robert Lowry is the fool who said this. He may be a pastor who worked with MLK, but if that is not the rhetoric of division I don't know what is.<br /><br />What if I made the speech and I said something like, "the brown man will get down, and the white man will wear jack boots and goose step down Main Street?" I don't think it would go over very well.Jack Sharkeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18395717737450797868noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4067387657368895513.post-79515090231412165752009-01-20T10:25:00.004-05:002009-01-20T10:30:52.860-05:00Roses Are Red, Violets Are Blue, Blackberries Are AnnoyingEnough already with Barack America's Blackberry. I don't care that he has a Blackberry. I could afford one, I've just made the choice not to have one. That doesn't make me any less a cool cat than Obama is. In fact, if Obama feels his Blackberry is so necessary why doesn't he just buy one for everyone? Huh?Jack Sharkeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18395717737450797868noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4067387657368895513.post-49964388763018995962009-01-20T10:22:00.003-05:002009-01-20T10:25:25.309-05:00If I Wanted A Royal Family I'd Move To EnglandMichelle Obama is wearing a muted cream cape-looking thing. Not flashy at all. Mrs. "I Shouldn't Open My Mouth Just Like My Husband" Biden looks extraordinary in her red, flashy outfit. Scrumptious.<br /><br />Mrs. Obama brought a box of cookies or something to Mrs. Bush. If I were Laura I'd get Lynn Cheney to eat one first.Jack Sharkeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18395717737450797868noreply@blogger.com0