MICHAEL RAMIREZ ROCKS

SEND US YOUR GOLD

Are these people serious?

Sure, just send in that old, dusty, useless GOLD you have lying around the house and we'll decide how much money we'll pay you for it. Trust us. Satisfaction is guaranteed.

Is that the biggest sucker bet ever in the whole, wide world?

On the other hand...

Is this the easiest fence for stolen goods you ever heard of, or what?

OH, THE HUMANITY!

Every time the president opens his mouth about the economy the stock market tanks. And every time the stock market tanks the media tell us why its not the president's fault; it's fear, or cheap banks or greedy investors. Fear? yeah, I'll buy fear. I'm afraid this administration is systematically dismembering the goose that laid the golden egg. Please talk about something else for a while, Mr. President.

WHEN PREACHERS DREAM

NO CIGAR

HANDOUTS NOT JUST FOR YOGI ANYMORE

HEAD 'EM UP, MOVE 'EM OUT

SIGH

QUOTE OF THE WEEK

"How can you tell if someone's a compulsive liar, I mean assuming his pants aren't on fire?"

From the TV show Psych

“YELLOW JOURNALISM” IS REDUNDANT

I've been hearing a double-portion of media indignation over supposed misdeeds perpetrated by "Wall Street" lately. Two incidents in particular have become favorite media whipping boys. One is full-fledged disingenuous. The other, if not disingenuous, is the product of sheer stupidity.

The first purported outrage is over the extravagant salaries and bonus' given to corporate CEO's while the country is mired in recession. That is nothing less than disingenuous. Those bonus and salary packages have been in place for years. Oh yeah, the bonus' in question were given BEFORE the current recession and Washington's porky-pig bailout. The weeping, wailing and gnashing of teeth over the CEO who spent the big sweaty wad of cash to redecorate his office is particularly vile. That may have been a lot of money but it was spent buying materials--which provided jobs to the people who supply raw materials and the manufacturers who turned them into something useful. The project also needed labor--which provided jobs for construction workers and decorators. In the real world that is known as STIMULUS.

The media Greek Chorus over the second "outrage" demonstrates that logic and reason can't hold a candle to possessing a journalism degree. I keep hearing incredulous statements in the news to the effect that banks which received bailout funds are actually lending less--GASP--not more. THIS IS STUPID. Keep your eye on the ball, now: the reason we're in this mess is because banks were making too many bad loans to people who could not afford them in the first place. THEY DAMN WELL OUGHT TO BE MORE CAREFUL IN THEIR LENDING PRACTICES. How retarded--or disingenuous--do you have to be not to see that?

Here's a thought, why don't you media types just report the news and leave the rest of us to draw our own conclusions?