Lots of videos today.....
Remember the bankers wife who got $200 million risk-free from the Federal Reserve? Here Elliot Spitzer of CNN talks with Matt Taibbi about this and other scandals....alas it's only a 5 minute interview. I could watch these two intelligent guys make sense of complex financial issues for much longer....
Matt Taibbi - "I had a fun sit-down with Eliot Spitzer last night to talk about the "Housewives" story -- he's probably my favorite interview on the finance stuff because he knows this material so well, and always has interesting things to add. In any case, here's the video from last night's appearance:"
Funny cartoon video, made by someone in the casino industry, about life as a Blackjack dealer with a compilation of stupid things customers say and do......really good, life from the inside.....
If you've played Blackjack or ever had anything to do with a casino you'll love this one.....6 minutes.....
The President at the White House Correspondents Dinner, with a wonderful roasting of Trump among other treats....his "birth" video is also a classic......although it's 18 minutes his funny bits are about 15 minutes, then 3 minutes for the troops etc. Say what you like about him, he does have a sense of humour.....
I've seen three of these, and this is the best one yet......
And here's another thought - he gave this address Saturday night, when he had just given the order to go in and get Bin Laden.....pretty cool dude.....
WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama exercised his revenge Saturday after weeks of attacks from his would-be Republican challenger Donald Trump, joking that the billionaire businessman could bring change to the White House, transforming it from a stately mansion into a tacky casino with a whirlpool in the garden.
With Trump in attendance, Obama used the White House Correspondents' Association annual dinner to mock the reality TV star's presidential ambitions. The president said Trump has shown the acumen of a future president, from firing Gary Busey on a recent episode of "Celebrity Apprentice" to focusing so much time on conspiracy theories about Obama's birthplace.
After a week when Obama released his long-form Hawaii birth certificate, he said Trump could now focus on the serious issues, from whether the moon landing actually happened to "where are Biggie and Tupac?"
"No one is prouder to put this birth certificate matter to rest than 'the Donald,'" Obama said, referring to Trump's claims the same day that he was responsible for solving the issue.
A rare event folks - the Miami Herald has done an excellent job of investigative reporting of ALF's [Assisted Living Facilities] in Florida, and the incompetence of the agency that oversees these homes. Some nightmarish stories of what is being done to mentally and physically impaired people with no recourse......although we can't blame this scandal on Scott, equally I cannot see him adding staff to the agency or tightening standards as that would be "more gumment regulation" in the Ricksters business friendly Florida.
If your parents, or an auntie is in an ALF you'd better read this story.....
A Miami Herald investigation of Florida’s assisted-living facilities found that safeguards once hailed as the nation’s best have been ignored in a spate of tragedies never before revealed to the public.
BY ROB BARRY, MICHAEL SALLAH AND CAROL MARBIN MILLER
RBARRY@MIAMIHERALD.COM
For more than a decade, Bruce Hall ran his assisted-living facility in Florida’s Panhandle like a prison camp.
He punished his disabled residents by refusing to give them food and drugs. He threatened them with a stick. He doped them with powerful tranquilizers, and when they broke his rules, he beat them — sending at least one to the hospital.
“The conditions in the facility are not fit even for a dog,” one caller told state agents.
When Florida regulators confronted Hall in 2004 over a litany of abuses at his facility in the rolling hills of Washington County, they said he chased them from the premises while railing against government intrusion.
Under state law, regulators could have shut down Sunshine Acres Loving Care or suspended the home’s license, but they did neither. Instead, they ordered the 50-year-old Hall to see a therapist for his anger and to promise not to use “any weapon or object” on his residents — allowing him to keep his doors open for five more years.
In that time, Hall went on to break nearly every provision of Florida’s assisted-living law: He threw a woman to the ground, and forced her to sleep on a box spring for six days after she urinated on her covers. Though the temperature outside reached 100 degrees, he forced his residents to live without air conditioning. And during a critical overnight shift, he fell asleep on the job while a 71-year-old woman with mental illness wandered from her bed, walked out the door and drowned in a nearby pond.
In a state where tens of thousands reside in assisted-living facilities, the case of Hall’s Sunshine Acres represents everything that has gone wrong with homes once considered the pride of Florida.
Stephen Colbert at his best, gently nailing politicians [Mitt Romney this time] while seeming to praise them....very funny.....4 minutes.....
It may be a first in American history: we're at war during peacetime. At least, that's what Mitt Romney seems to think.
On Tuesday night's "Report," Colbert took a look at the GOP potential candidate field, which is one man weaker now that Haley Barbour has bowed out. Mitt Romney had seemed to be rising to the creamy top, but thanks to some confusion about war and peace (come on, it's a long book...can you blame him) his chances may be dwindling.
Of course, given that the collective American memory can be measured with an egg timer, maybe forgetting that we're currently engaged in three wars isn't such a big thing.
An amusing take on the dilemma the Republican super-majority in Tallahassee has with the Budget coming due.....and where are the jobs?
By Ralph De La Cruz
Florida Center for Investigative Reporting
Florida Center for Investigative Reporting
Now the fun really begins. The kids are at the cash register, and it’s time to settle up.
For eight weeks, Republicans have behaved like little kids whose parents have given them a grocery list and a $100 bill and asked them to buy the family groceries. Don’t forget the jobs, the adults reminded them.
But the kids ran right past the jobs section, trashed the education aisle and spent all their time in the anti-abortion and union-busting departments, using super majorities to run over, through and around the public’s store. To grab whatever goodies they wanted: leadership slush funds, high-calorie property insurance giveaways, the sweet payoff of prison privatization and, of course, the guilty pleasure of drug testing poor people.
What fun. But hey! Y’all better not say “uterus” or you’re going to be in big trouble.
Is your name Shawna? Did you know you are not allowed to use a tanning booth any more because you are almost certainly too tanned already?
Onion News has the sad, pathetic story.....2 minutes......
Todays oldies joke
OLD people have problems that you haven't
even considered yet!
An 80-year-old man was requested by his
Doctor for a sperm count as part of his physical
exam.
The doctor gave the man a jar and said, 'Take
this jar home and bring back a semen sample
tomorrow.'
The next day the 80-year-old man reappeared
at the doctor's office and gave him the jar,
which was as clean and empty as on the
previous day.
The doctor asked what happened and the man
explained, 'Well, doc, it's like this -- first I tried
with my right hand, but nothing. Then I tried
with my left hand, but still nothing.
'Then I asked my wife for help. She tried with
her right hand, then with her left, still nothing.
She tried with her mouth, first with the teeth in,
then with her teeth out, still nothing.
'We even called up Arleen, the lady next door
and she tried too, first with both hands, then an
armpit, and she even tried squeezin' it between
her knees, but still nothing.....'
The doctor was shocked! 'You asked your neighbour?'
The old man replied,
'Yep, none of us could get the jar open.'
even considered yet!
An 80-year-old man was requested by his
Doctor for a sperm count as part of his physical
exam.
The doctor gave the man a jar and said, 'Take
this jar home and bring back a semen sample
tomorrow.'
The next day the 80-year-old man reappeared
at the doctor's office and gave him the jar,
which was as clean and empty as on the
previous day.
The doctor asked what happened and the man
explained, 'Well, doc, it's like this -- first I tried
with my right hand, but nothing. Then I tried
with my left hand, but still nothing.
'Then I asked my wife for help. She tried with
her right hand, then with her left, still nothing.
She tried with her mouth, first with the teeth in,
then with her teeth out, still nothing.
'We even called up Arleen, the lady next door
and she tried too, first with both hands, then an
armpit, and she even tried squeezin' it between
her knees, but still nothing.....'
The doctor was shocked! 'You asked your neighbour?'
The old man replied,
'Yep, none of us could get the jar open.'
Todays bonus short joke
A man goes into Barnes & Noble and asks the young lady assistant:
"Do you have the new book out for men with short penises? I can't remember the title."
She replies, "I'm not sure if it's in yet."
The man says: "That's the one, I'll take a copy."
"Do you have the new book out for men with short penises? I can't remember the title."
She replies, "I'm not sure if it's in yet."
The man says: "That's the one, I'll take a copy."
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