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• 1 Matthew Dryden // Sep 26, 2008 at 3:09 am

  I am blessed with totally not caring about the upcoming US Election, as my Canadian voice doesn’t seem to carry any weight south of the border. Perhaps this comment would be better in list format:

  * I like what Matt Damon is saying
  * I don’t care much for Palin at all
  * Obama (yo momma) will probably win
  * McCain is getting pretty slanderous with his campaign
  * Obama isn’t a far cry behind either
  * Ignorance is bliss
  * That’s what all big-time media outlets say, anyways

  Matthew Drydens last blog post..Writing Here Makes Me Happy

• 2 Lg Marge // Sep 26, 2008 at 1:47 pm

  I definitely feel like ignorance is bliss! After reading extensively about the bailout timeline and recently reading about the polar ice caps melting, I’m having trouble sleeping at night worrying that:
  - it won’t matter that we need a bailout because the US will be under water soon;
  - I’ll have to shave my legs more often because it will be too hot to wear jeans;

  But seriously, either candidate has a lot of sh*t to try to clean up. To do my part, I’ve stopped using credit cards, and I’m thinking of buying a Chevy Volt.

• 3 Tasha // Sep 26, 2008 at 7:23 pm

  Well truly ingnorance can be bliss… I don’t have a clue on what to do, all I know is I’m doin all I can do….so I don’t have to live in a shoe!! That is all I am going to say about that!

• 4 Julia // Sep 27, 2008 at 10:38 am

  I too suffer from TMI in regards to the election, economy,etc. This is made worse when 3 days out of the week i work with folks that have severe NMI (not much info). Somehow, i manage to remain relatively silent. The stewing is killing me. There is enough stew simmering in my head to feed a small nation. One fine day my boss decides to throw this fine gem into my pot “I don’t believe in the mixing of the races”. How did we get there and why? I don’t know. We weren’t even discussing race to my knowledge. Aaarrggghhh! I will start feigning NMI until this all blows over. Oh, and I will keep laughing about it all.

• 5 isabella mori // Sep 29, 2008 at 9:22 pm

  coming back to buddha, who i believe would be a MUCH better president than anyone (but who, of course, wouldn’t run for presidency):

  ignorance is.

  and of course my excuse, a lame one, is that i can’t vote (i’m german, living in canada). but democracy isn’t just about voting.

  ideally, i’d pick SOME sources of information, study them, and then make up my mind.

  in reality, right now i’m busy hiding from my fascination for sarah palin.

• 6 Christa // Oct 2, 2008 at 2:29 pm

  Matthew – your Canadian voice carries weight, we just can’t hear you down this far.

  Mags – please forget about the polar bears. They don’t care about you. If you stop shaving your legs, allow the hair to grow long and consider adding corn-row decoration. It’s a nice fashion touch.

  Julia Loo – don’t stew. Spew. It’s your right as an American. If you can’t spew at work. Chew. Chew gum until can leave work and can spew with immunity.

  Tasha – we won’t let you live in a shoe unless it’s Jimmy Choo

  Isabella – call Buddha. Get his fat belly on the horn and let’s convince him to run for American President. pulease!

• 7 Coach Molinaro // Oct 2, 2008 at 3:43 pm

  Since everybody and his mother is proposing one bailout plan after another, I consulted my dear friend and former student, Mr Anthony Soprano, (who is not dead but “in the wind”) and asked him how he would handle the current Wall Street mess.

  Tony wants the government to invest the $700 billion with him – yes, he knows he’s a crook, too, just like those WallStreet and Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac crooks, but he’s a crook who knows how to “make it rain” for his investors. He would then lend the money out at half the normal street terms of $6 for $5 per week. (That’s 20% per week – a vig of over 1000% per year.) Tony would only charge half that because he’s a patriot and a real softie at heart. What a deal!

  Tony not only guarantees the loans but the interest on the loans – which he will share 50/50 with the government – and can do so because:

  1. He’s a business person who he doesn’t lend $$ to people he knows can’t pay it back.
  2. All of the loans would be backed by collateral – an arm and a leg for starters.
  3. Tony discourages payback of the principle amount; he frowns on it, thereby making this an investment in perpetuity as Myer Lansky used to refer to it.
  4. Very few borrowers would default. As Clemenza would say, “Oh,you won’t be seein’ dem no more.”

  As for the Wall Street guys, “Tony says “Friggem, let’em go belly up”. But to show that he is not callous or unfeeling, he will ensure each one gets a golden parachute – one that opens on impact.

  Why is this a good deal for us?

  In 2006, individuals paid Uncle Sam over $1 trillion in personal income taxes against a total federal budget in excess of $3 trillion. Our annual, never-ending, 50% share of the interest collected under Tony’s plan would amount to a minimum of $175 trillion per year, allowing the government to eliminate personal income taxes, fund the entire federal budget and eliminate the need for social security AND give each citizen – man, women and child – an annual dividend check of at least $500,000.

  Now we might properly ask, who’s going to be sure the Congress doesn’t use the money for other things and the answer is: See Clemenza, above.

  And that’s not all! It would put a permanent end to poverty and homelessness, allow us to buy all the health care we need and educate our kids at the very best private schools.
  And since none of us would have to work, we could forget about worries over outsourcing jobs.
  But if we want to invest all our dividend for the future and still have a reliable income for daily needs, we can do what they do in Sicily: kidnap each other and live off the ransom.

  Now, I know there are skeptics out there who are asking. “What assurance do we have that Tony will actually give us our cut and not keep it all for himself. After all, he is a crook.”

  Good question.
  The answer – I know where he is.

  I don’t know about you but I’m all for La Cosa USA Nostra: How about you?

  Coach Molinaro

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