Anagram: Dark Latte/ Trade Talk

      This is gonna be a shorty, HOCKEY HOCKEY HOCKEY!

     The Rangers freed up some much needed cap room and got rid of that bum Scott Gomez! YAY!!!! He was traded to the Montreal Canadiens for

Clarence Campbell with the Stanley Cup in 1957

Chris Higgins.  This is a move I can really get behind.  We free up money so we can go after either Dany Heatley or Marian Hossa ( or dare i say it, Both?) and get rid of some dead weight on the roster.

     Now maybe it’s because he’s an ex-devil that i treat Scott like this, but I really did think of him as dead weight on the rangers last year.  When you are the number one center on a team as high profile and the New York Rangers you are supposed to produce.  He simply didn’t do that last year.  16 goals, and only one goal in his last 16 games down the stretch.  Only 2 goals against the Caps and 5 games without a point is only slightly more forgivable because no one on the Rangers could figure out the kid Varlamov last year.

   Good riddance say I.  In other New York Rangers hockey news (I’m a bit late in talking about this) The Rangers went nuts during the draft and drafted centers in 3 consecutive rounds.  In the first round they picked up a kid by the name of Chris Kreider, who will go to play for Boston College. 

       In the second round, the Rangers got a kid by the name of Ethan Werek, who will clearly learn much from his coach in the OHL, where Ethan plays for the Kingston Frontenacs.  Their coach is Doug Gilmour.  The kid could do worse than to learn from one of the games great players.  A point of Interest here is that the Rangers got this compensatory pick as a result of the death of Alexei “The Siberian Express” Cherepanov, who died while playing in Russia in the KHL, with, most notably, Jaromir Jagr.

    In the Third Round the Rangers picked up a kid in the USA U-18 team in the United States development program.  The kid has a brother in the NHL now, and his father was one of the best players in the history of the NHL.  The kids name? Ryan Bourque, Ray’s son, and Rene’s little brother.  I hope you make it kid, if you have half your fathers talent, you’ll go far!

       That’s about it from here.  Have a good night, everyone!

Today’s Nuggets, pulled completely at random from Wikiquote:  But the mass of the old electors did not analyse very much: they liked to have one of their “betters” to represent them; if he was rich they respected him much; and if he was a lord, they liked him the better. The issue put before these electors was, which of two rich people will you choose? And each of those rich people was put forward by great parties whose notions were the notions of the rich — whose plans were their plans. The electors only selected one or two wealthy men to carry out the schemes of one or two wealthy associations.  Walter Bagehot

In order to achieve anything, you must be brave enough to fail.  Kirk Douglas

Assuredly we bring not innocence not the world, we bring impurity much rather: that which purifies us is trial, and trial is by what is contrary.  John Milton

Anagram: Madly In Anger/ Daringly Mean

         Apparently the military in Honduras is madly in anger with president Manuel Zelaya, to the point where they grabbed the man, in the middle of the night, still in his Pajamas, and booted his ass across the border to Costa Rica. 

   Well, the guy kind deserved the boot.  He was trying to do an end around on Term limits. He called for a  a referendum on the term limits, then the Judiciary said he couldn’t, but he apparently tried to anyway.  The Judiciary said this was wrong, and when the Military tossed his ass out, they said the military was within it rights to do what it did.

     That should be that.  The Justice system made a ruling, which was ignored, and the military moved against the president when he decided he was above the law.  But things are never that easy in this world.  Ever. 

     The move is being called a “Coup” in a great many countries, including here in the United States.  Now, I agree that kicking him out was a bit extreme, it was only a referendum vote, not an overthrow of the institutions.  If the highest courts in Honduras say it was within the bounds of the Constitution of their country, I am in no position to argue.  But now every leader in the western hemisphere seems to disagree about that.

     But now everyone wants to interfere, even those who say they don’t want to.  The OAS has said it wants Manuel Zelaya re-instated, and will not recognize any other Honduran government.  President Obama has called for respect of democratic norms and the rule of law, and a dialogue free of external interference.  As if to counter that concept, Hugo Chavez got his panties in a bunch over some stuff that happened at the Venezuelan embassy in Honduras and is now threatening to invade.

    I’m with my President here.  Let them make their own decisions, let them work it out themselves.  If all the stories I have read about this bum Zelaya are true, he really did his level best to subvert the constitution of Honduras and undermine the authority of both the congress and supreme court of that nation. 

    That’s it about Honduras. 

     I’m gonna go and listen to my new favorite Metallica Album.  Saint Anger.  I don’t know why people disliked that album.  I’ve given it a listen and have fallen madly in love with it.  It’s loud. It’s harsh.  It’s (DUH) angry.  I’ve even come to really like the snare drum sound on the album.  It fits the rawness of the album.  It might not be what yer used to hearing, but it fits the mood of the album.  Watch a viddy of some guy talking to Lars about that snare drum sound.

   That’s it from here.  Later!

Today’s Nuggets, By George Orwell, Via wikiquote:  The point is that we are all capable of believing things which we know to be untrue, and then, when we are finally proved wrong, impudently twisting the facts so as to show that we were right. Intellectually, it is possible to carry on this process for an indefinite time: the only check on it is that sooner or later a false belief bumps up against solid reality, usually on a battlefield.

We have become too civilized to grasp the obvious. For the truth is very simple. To survive you often have to fight, and to fight you have to dirty yourself. War is evil, and it is often the lesser evil. Those who take the sword perish by the sword, and those who don’t take the sword perish by smelly diseases.

Fate seemed to be playing a series of extraordinarily unamusing jokes.

Anagram: Spending Spree/ Snipped Greens

      A quick bit of annoyance before I write today.  This really gets my goat.  I didn’t even know I had a #$%^#$%^ Goat til I watched this and then, there ya go, It got my $#%^%^&* Goat.  Bastards! We need health care, we need the budget balanced, we need a million other things, and these $%%$&^@# take time to recognize Michael Jackson? Go F*** yourselves! Get to the work of crafting legislation, you bunch of lazy bums!

    I do like the way she puts it though, at the 30 second mark.  “A young man has left earth.”  THE ALIENS TOOK HIM BACK!  YAY!!!!!

    And while 50 is too young to die, he was by no means a “young man” If you are 21  and you die, Yes, you died a “young man”  50? Not so much.

      Onto other things. Personal crap up next, by all means, read something else if talking about spending a few bucks on crap doesn’t interest you. 

    I did something I don’t normally do today.  I spent money, and a fair bit of it.  Well, actually I do spend money a lot, but usually only on stuff I need.  It’s usually bills, food, traveling expenses and the like.  You know, necessities.  Today it was different….well, a little.  I did Kinda need most of the stuff I went out and got.  I needed dress pants.  I had only 3 pairs of pants, and needed more, because I’m gonna be working everyday again.  I have 5 dress shirts, but I needed more, and some of the ones I had actually aren’t doing that well.  Buttons falling off, seams falling apart and the like.  The ties weren’t doing too well either, and I needed an upgrade.

     Couldn’t go to telco for this stuff either.  Telco sells cheap crap, at least as far as their shirts go. I ended up going to JC Penney, and got the stuff that was on sale, 60% clearance.  3 pairs of pants, 2 shirts, 2 ties, dress socks, and a few shirts and socks for my wife.  Total was $192.  Saved over $100 bucks.  Walked in with that being the plan, executed the plan to perfection.  Took 20 minutes. 

    Spent a few extra bucks on stuff, because I have money, enough where I can spend a few bucks, and not really have to worry about it.  Nothing major, nothing Insane.  A few CD’s and a few extra things while food shopping.

    I picked up the new Chickenfoot cd.  The few tracks I’ve listened to so far sound nice.  Good stuff.  If you liked Sammy Hagar and Michael Anthony in Van Halen, you’ll like them here.  If you like Joe Satriani, you like him here.  A better name for the band would be “VAN HAGAR WITH SPECIAL GUEST JOE SATRIANI” but that probably would not have done as well as “Chickenfoot”.  Well maybe it would have…

   I also picked up 2 Metallica offerings, one I used to own but gave away, and one I’ve wanted  for a while. Ride the Lightning and St. Anger.  And yes I wanted St. Anger.  I heard a few songs on the radio when it came out, and I liked them. Crazy me.  First time I heard Frantic  and the title track, I thought they were  great, but hey, that’s me.  Can’t please everyone.  They changed up and people weren’t ready for that kind of change.  The band lost Jason, picked up a better bassist in Rob Trujillo, and got heavier and faster.  For this you want to fault them?

   I have ride the lightning chugging through the speakers now tho.  I’ll hit the St. Anger tomorrow.  The Song? Escape.

  On that note, I am out, except a second video and a few quotes.

    The Second viddy is from Bloomberg, on cap and trade legislation that just passed the house. I don’t know that the bill goes far enough, but I do know that we need something in place now.  We can alter the legislation with further bills later on if need be.

  Later!

Today’s Nuggets, Via Wikiquote:   The emphasis of study upon a particular aspect of music is in itself ideological because it contains implications about the music’s value.  Lucy Green

He(Fred Astaire) is the most interesting, the most inventive, the most elegant dancer of our times… you see a little bit of Astaire in everybody’s dancing–a pause here, a move there. It was all Astaire’s originally. George Balanchine

To talk about other people’s affairs is a great mistake. To praise them, too, is unfttting. In any event, it is best to know your own ability well, to put forth effort in your endeavors, and to be discreet in speech.  Yamamoto Tsunetomo

Anagram: No Time At All/ Total Menial

       This is gonna be a short one.  I’m tired, it’s been a long day, got up at 6, worked 12½ hours, got home, ate, took out the garbage, and here I am. I have things to do tomorrow, and the wife wants to hang, so I really don’t have much time right now.

     So a viddy and a few quotes before I call it a night.

     That’s it from here… That’s right, for once there will be no commentary to go along with the video.  No time for it.  Sorry.  Catch ya later!

      And no Bullshit about Michael Jackson.  I was never a fan, and his death is NOT NEWS.  It’s ENTERTAINMENT. If I wanted to be entertained by his death, he would have had to die in a very grizzly and public manner to meet my needs in that area. 

Today’s Nuggets, By Mark Twain, Via Wikiqoute:  Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered — either by themselves or by others. But for the Civil War, Lincoln and Grant and Sherman and Sheridan would not have been discovered, nor have risen into notice. … I have touched upon this matter in a small book which I wrote a generation ago and which I have not published as yet — Captain Stormfield’s Visit to Heaven. When Stormfield arrived in heaven he … was told that … a shoemaker … was the most prodigious military genius the planet had ever produced.

I have no race prejudices nor caste prejudices nor creed prejudices. All I care to know is that a man is a human being, and that is enough for me; he can’t be any worse.

I was a-trembling, because I’d got to decide, forever, betwixt two things, and I knowed it. I studied a minute, sort of holding my breath, and then says to myself, “All right, then, I’ll GO to hell.” 

I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Anagram: Creeping Death/ Renegade Pitch

       Join the “Die” chant.

      So let it be written.  So let it be done.  To kill the first born Pharaoh’s son.  I’m creeping death.

       Nothing particularly evil today, just thought today I’d toss out the name of one of my favorite songs into the title of a blog, with some lyrics,  just to do it. 

    Well…maybe a little evil…

      Kim Jong Il has it in his tiny little mind.  According to Japanese sources, he plans to launch a missile towards Hawaii on July 4th.  Good lord, please don’t let this mini me numb-nuts bastard be that stupid.  I can almost picture it.  A launch with that as it’s aim would provoke a military response from us.  a LARGE military response.  Nuke for nuke? I don’t know, they couldn’t go bullet for bullet with us… if all we used were handguns owned by the populace. 

     I don’t want to downplay the seriousness of the situation, but C’mon.  Kim Jong Il has to be kidding with this crap.  Yes, i can almost see the reason for them being all pissy about the United States and South Korea getting together to do something about the minor threat they pose, but a threat to “wipe out” the United States, and this threat of a long range missile launch at Hawaii seems at best ludicrous.  They can’t handle South Korea, and there gonna talk crap to us.   Please.

    Maybe he’d feel better if he got a cool hat like Yul Brynner in the picture above.  Maybe I’ll send Kim Jong  Il one.

     In Other News….

    Let me throw a headline I just read at you.  You can imagine my reaction…

     Wall Street Begins Campaign to Thwart ‘Populist Overreaction’

   oooOOOOOoooo… DIE….DIE…DIE…DIE..DIE  (there’s that die chant again)

    Some of the things in this story, I tell you, make my heart skip a beat. Make me want to set the world on fire.  Well I kinda want to do that anyway, but i didn’t need this kind of help. 

   There is talk of an “Image makeover”, That the industry be recognized as “playing a positive part in the solutions to the problems we face.”

    Yeah, like starting the whole f****** thing off.  That was positive.  How about creating things like CDO’s and CDS and the like, that took a bad situation in the housing market and made it infinitely worse (think bear stearns, AIG) 

    There is TONS more. The problem I’m running into here is partly that I am so pissed about just watching these bastards try to spin this thing to make it look like they either aren’t responsible, at least in part, or, even worse, that it’s OK to trust them, after watching them screw this nation into the ground, that I’m having problems thinking straight. 

    Yes, we need them to get their shit together so everyone can move forward.  But a marketing campaign built around building “trust” in these gibbering idiots….no.  NO.  I will NOT listen to it now.  In a year or 5 maybe, maybe when I am less busy dealing with, on a personal level the aftermath of bad decision making by these assholes and their ilk, but now?  A campaign to “thwart” populist backlash, before the problems are even fixed?  ARE YOU FRIGGIN HIGH?

    See? I told you there’d be a little evil here today.   🙂

   I’m done, except for a second video and a few quotes.

    Bloomberg from end of day Wednesday 6/24 Talking about a report from the Fed.

   That’s it for me.  Later.

Today’s Nuggets, by George Orwell, Via Wikiquote:   So far as I can see, all political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome.

Political language — and with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists — is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

Circus dogs jump when the trainer cracks his whip, but the really well-trained dog is the one that turns his somersault when there is no whip.