This is very damaging to the remaining credibility of Hillary Clinton:

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As much as we want to stay focused on the election, we must not forget that Bill Clinton lied under oath about his illicit affair with Monica Lewinsky. This is the former president of the United States who blatently lied to the american people and to the american congress. Granted, the republicans were very motivated to disgrace then president clinton, the fact still remains that bill clinton lied and got caught. Now, if you are one of the die hard clinton groupies who feels that somehow bill clinton did not lie and there was simply a misunderstanding about the definition of “sexual relations” then you you must have graduated from the george bush school of logic and intelligence.

Bill and Hillary Clinton are liars and cheats. They are written into the political playbooks of history as being the most formidable opponents an office seeker would ever face. Billary’s style of anything goes politics will prove to be an enormous setback to the democratic party.

The idea that Billary Clinton cannot win the presidential contest as the democratic nominee has been long debated.  Over the past week of low level, gangland style attacks on the integrity, vision and campaign of Obama  It has become very clear in the last few days of campaigning that Billary Clinton, may very well win the Democratic nomination.

What has also become clear is that Billary continues to engender a feeling of loathing, disgust and outright hate, amongst republicans.  The odd and disappointing part of all of their shenanigans this week is that Billary is so polarizing and have now succeeded in splitting the democratic party in an irreparable fashion.

I will never forgive Billary Clinton for their patronizing, insulting, mean spirited, and scathing remarks made this week in their effort to marginalize Obama and inject racism into this campaign in a way that, to date, had primarily been a republican tactic.  Obama is and always has been a man of the people.  He is no more a black candidate seeking presidency for the benefit of black people than any of the white candidates, Hillary included, are seeking political office to be a white president for the benefit of white Americans.

Even after the campaign had been won in landslide fashion by obama, Billary continued with their racially charged statements by dismissing Obama’s win by comparing it with that of Jesse Jackson some decades earlier.  I am not going to comment on the campaign and politics of Jesse Jackson because that is simply a distraction.  I am also of the mind that Billary as the democratic presidential nominee will recruit John Edwards as the vice presidential running mate. Which would really serve to erode the credibility of Billary and diminish support within the democratic base.

Back to the primary (no pun intended) reason that I think that Billary can’t win, it is because I believe that the following will happen as a result of Billary being the democratic nominee for president:  1)  Apathetic republicans will be motivated to vote against Billary and 2)  Democratic voters (not just black people) will have become disenchanted with the political machine and will withhold their vote for Billary in protest.  I have already made the decision that I will NOT to vote for Billary, if she is the democratic nominee for president.  I am sure that Billary has succeeded in the past week in also convincing other die hard democrats that voting the party line is no longer acceptable.  It is about what is doing what is best for our country and holding elected officials accountable for what they do and what they say.  I and other democrats are tired of being taken for granted and I simply refuse to have my vote and my voice co-opted by the white political establishment.

Billary cannot win against any republican.

Mitt quit! Mitt quit! Mitt quit!….

Mitt “I Quit” Romney campaign insiders have leaked to a credible news agency that Mitt, fed up with the constant accusations from foremost competitor, midget McCain, Mitt Romney finally tossed in his hat. This appears to be a weak excuse and it is believed that the insiders track is rumbling that that soon to be launched, explosive, damaging investigation into Mitt “I Quit” Romney’s finances and highly questionable investments in years past may well prove to be devastating. He conceded that despite his past success as a venture capitalist and his unmatched ability to suck blood out of a turnip and make decisions that are best for shareholders, despite any devastation experienced by employees and other stakeholders at the opposite end of the billy club, Mitt finally admitted that he is not at all qualified to be president of the United States. Now that Mitt “I Quit” Romney has conceded that he will, in the coming weeks, no longer be a viable presidential candidate, he reluctantly admitted to a source close to the Mitt “I Quite” campaign, that his old-school good looks (white men with no lips, a nervous smile and beady eyes are no longer thought to be “handsome” by those that follow the baby boom generation), high net worth and strong Mormon beliefs were not nearly sufficient to guide him in such an important role.

Although Mitt “I Quit” Romney had previously defended his tendency to “flip flop” on a number of important issues, he admitted that his imprinting as a capitalist pig simply does not allow him to be compassionate at a level that that would at least take into consideration the health and well being of less fortunate Americans. He went on to explain that his economic instincts, combined with the beliefs of the Morman faith (Black people are animals, monkeys, or something like that…whatever it was, they were not allowed to join the Mormon church), would simply drive his already personally long-held beliefs that poor people are poor because they are lazy, shiftless and unwilling to carry their own weight. He rhetorically stated, “After all, this is America. We can ALL work hard and become billionaires, can’t we?”

The bottom line is that Mitt is a capitalistic pig, Mormon (sure, he is downplaying his faith now (once a Mormon, always a Mormon) and basically untrustworthy, as proven by his inability to stick to a consistent message.

…and then I woke up…damn, those dreams of mine!

The following is the lead-in to an article that appeared USAToday, this week:

DILLON, South Carolina (AP) — Hillary Rodham Clinton downplayed recent acrimony between her campaign and that of Barack Obama as her husband, former President Bill Clinton, suggested she may lose Saturday’s Democratic presidential primary because many black voters will side with Obama.

I find it curious that this argument of people voting along racial lines is only being raised as it relates to Obama’s campaign. If black people are going to vote along racial lines (and I am not saying this is NOT the case), then aren’t white people and mexican people (especially mexicans) doing it too. And hasn’t this really been the case all along? I am not surprised by this, only by the fact that, until now, white people, have come to realize and take exception to the fact that RACE COLORS EVERYTHING (NO PUN INTENDED)! (Bill and Hillary represent the views of all white people, right? Just as a single black person is oftentimes characterized as representing the views of the black race).

I know that they are part of the elite class but it is not possible that anyone who happily accepts the title of the “first black president” who is married to a white woman who claims to have been committed to blacks and their problems throughout her life (these are my words and not hers; I am simply trying to paraphrase a bucket load of bull shit into a couple of sentences, could not have been aware of the enormous racial divide in this country. In reality they are rednecks who have for years been pandering to black folks and the have-nots, in order to maintain elected positions.

Let’s not just limit this assumption that people make decisions in favor of their race to the President Obama/Hillary battle. In essence, what Bill is insinuating is that people favor those who are of the same racial make-up as themselves and disfavor those who are racially dissimilar to themselves. Hmmmm, definitely sounds like intellectual aptitude deserving of a Rhodes Scholarship.

So, let’s theorize about what the impact is likely to be due to this supposed tendency of people to let their decisions be overwhelmingly influenced by their race? Let’s look at the employment market? What about law enforcement? How about sentencing for criminal convictions? Then there is educational opportunities or a lack thereof. Oh, let’s not forget to consider access to healthcare and treatment and diagnosis of disease. And what about the media coverage of people of color versus others? Oops, did I imply that the very media that run these fucked up stories are biased against people of color?

Anyway, I yell “BULLSHIT” to all of these shenanigans. Bill and Hillary put a new layer of stench on an already funky pile of mile high shit!

I was resisting the urge to write about this nonsense but the media’s insistence on denying the obvious is, well, annoying me. For whatever reason, the media continues to romanticize yet another so-called movie star who is so angst filled that they can’t cope with their own success, yeah, RIGHT! Give me a break. I make sure to tell my kids on an ongoing basis that no amount of fame or fortune is worth putting their life at risk and living dangerously. Behavior, good and bad, has consequences. When the BAD consequences are romanticized, then it is difficult for children and young adults to understand that careless, fatal mistakes are, well, fatal.

It is certainly a tragedy that a young adult with so much talent and promise, and a daughter, is dead at the age of 28 years. What I can’t get over is all of the attention being paid to this tragedy, from the perspective of idolizing a man who had everything to live for and still chose to exhibit reckless, self-destructive behavior, which appearantly killed him. Of course, there is the ever present sugar coating of the drugs all being “prescription” versus crack or meth. But in the end, it appears to me that Heath is as dead as a doornail and no different than a any other crack head or heroin addict who takes one too many trips on the escape road to nowhere.

Just as with Brittany, Amy Whinehouse and others, the media is doing all of us a disservice by giving so much positive attention to life threatening, illegal and disgusting behavior. Rich drug addicts don’t have more fun, they just have fancier funerals. The Grammy nominations forAmy Whinehouse should be retracted, period. How can we overlook her drug addicted behavior and praise her artistry; there simply can be no separation of the two.

Just do us all a favor, Amy. Either get your act together or bring this to a swift end. Even Anna Nicole has faded into obscurity and you, Amy, are nowhere near as appealing to the masses as she was. In the end, we common folks, frankly, don’t give a damn!

The SocGen trader was familiar with the bank’s internal controls

A Paris-based trader working for Societe Generale has cheated the French bank out of 4.9bn euros ($7.1bn), in what appears to be the biggest fraud by a single trader in banking history. Societe Generale said it discovered last week that a trader concealed massive trading positions built up over 2007 and 2008 through “a scheme of elaborate fictitious transactions”.

You can find the rest of the story here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7206798.stm

The bank alleges he used in-depth knowledge of the control procedures gained while working in the bank’s middle office in his former job.

He joins a long line of “rogue traders”, whose dodgy dealings have cost their employers dearly.