Comments about ‘Jay Evensen: On second thought...’

I love the reference to Jesse Ventura and I always love spontaneous humor. I'm reminded of an interview between Ventura and the late Tim Russert on "Meet the Press". Russert question Ventura about reports of his having a loaded weapon in his office at the state capitol. Ventura explained that he needed protection but, not to worry, he kept his ammunition in a seprate place from the weapon he kept in his desk drawer. Then Russert asked him with a smile, "So, are you packin' heat today?" to which Ventura responded with a clenched fist and said, "Just this!" Classic! Now that was a civil discourse.

On second thought Jay Evensen........

The pictures of presidential candidate Mitt Romney delivering a speech in a mostly empty Detroit stadium on Friday were played and replayed over the weekend as yet one more example of how his campaign may not yet be ready for prime time. Delivering what had been billed for days as a "key speech," Romney found himself in the cavernous home of the Detroit Lions built to hold 65,000 people but speaking to just 1,200 people. The economic address immediately became a lightning rod for its unflattering optics and the candidate's odd ad libs. A new survey found that the tooth fairy left about 42 cents less in 2011 than it did the year before. When kids lose teeth now, they're like, "Ehh, I'm gonna hold onto this until the market improves." How about Congress starts repealing the commodities modernization act ?. For better or worse the Magic 8 Ball has made more decisions for more people than the president and congress combined. Let's also ban a crooked culture hidden under the heavy dirty dust of politics corruption and crony capitalism the Koch Brother's and their Ethanol 15 and the 54 ethanol manufacturers, plus K Street and Wall Street Corporate sneakiness and their outright-scams and con-games, more corruption and crony capitalism in Congress along with insider trading, crooked offshore tax safe havens in secret bank accounts that they invested in up-market homes and hotels, tons of loopholes that allow qualifying Institutions to still serve as conduits for Tax Evasion, Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae that caused the mortgage meltdown and toss the crooks in prison, this commodities modernization act helped create the ENRON debacle and is still having repercussions on the US and World economies with ill conceived market trades. Ex-Sen. Phil Gramm is credited with the ENRON language of the bill, but what about the other proposals that negated 'bucket shop' laws in the states? Who stood to gain then, as now? And did these self same greedy capitalists (lobbyists and lawmakers) conspire to 'help' Congress again with the $700 billion bailout of financial institutions in 2008? I think whoever drafted this proposal should be sent to prison and stripped of any and all wealth they amassed.