April 2008
28 posts
What would I say about who's getting elected?
The next President of the United States will be John McCain. Why? Because Senator Clinton is a woman with baggage (about 220 lbs of Bubba) and Senator Obama is an African American with no experience running anything. If you think otherwise you are thinking wishfully. This election will be an extension of History and will not make History. Let’s face it, America hasn’t...
What would I say about a Recession?
There has been a plethora of speculation concerning the prospect of a Recession. The press has characterized a Recession as JAWS lurking in the water ready to strike the vulnerable swimmer. Recessions don’t strike, they are labeled after the fact based on definitions prescribed by economists i.e. 2 quarters of no economic growth. The term Recession is similar to the term...
What would I say?
The New Empire, Google, has introduced it’s App Engine program to the public. Their approach to introducing App Engine has been employed successfully for generations. You make the product readily available and virtually free, then you turn the customer into a crack whore. In this case, a web crack whore. Of course. like a good web crack whore you must allow your pimp (let’s call...
What would I say?
There is a song entitled- “Breaking up is hard to do”. Apparently it is getting easier. One need only cast a glance at IAC, Motorola, and AOL/Time Warner to argue the contrary. Breaking up may be hard but it may also be the “go to” strategy for underperforming businesses. When we broke free from the British Empire, our motivation was freedom- freedom from taxes and...
What would I say?
I have watched with interest how the former Empire, Microsoft, has conducted it’s imperialist assault on the wounded Yahoo estate. It seems ego has replaced reason and the battle is evolving. The latest tactic on the part of the Empire hails from China and is over 1000 years old. In this Chinese form of negotiation, the pursuing side tells the pursued that the offer will be reduced over...
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It seems that there has been a hoax perpetrated against the people. The new Empire, Google that is, has admitted to a head fake in the recent FCC auction of 700 Mhz Spectrum. The result was Verizon and AT&T paying $ Billions for waterfront property that is open to the public. Now the Empire can offer mobile applications on top of the spectrum purchased by the former monopolies. Well done...
I managed to reach the pretender, Mr Giamatti,...
“The right of a nation to kill a tyrant in case of necessity can no more be...”
– Me
What would I say?
I hear that MySpace has cut deals wth the 3 leading purveyors of music: Sony, Universal and Warner in which MySpace will spin off it’s music portion (what’s left?) and the music labels will own a sizable interest in the new entity. We had a chance to do this with the British but instead decided to kill them. It seems these music labels are very much like the British of my day...
What would I say?
The new evil empire know as Google, we had Great Britain in my day, is rumored to be in discussions to purchase the parasitic phone service- Skype from Ebay. I wonder if they are planning to “Buy it Now” or keep bidding for it. The former CEO (yes, she does remind me of my Abigail) was none to pleased with the people from whom she purchased pirate-phone. Apparently she didn’t...
What would I say?
The once mighty Bear Stearns recently atomized 10’s $ billion in a few weeks- a prodigious feat of greed, stupidity and malfeasance. The bumbling leaders of the commercial Bank known as Bear Stearns bet the farm on morgage-backed securities and junk paper. As a result, thousands of investment bankers, traders, and stock brokers are on the brink of financial dispair. So what’s the...
“In politics the middle way is none at all.”
– Me
“The Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation. If I were an...”
– Me
“My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the...”
– Me
“I must not write a word to you about politics, because you are a woman.”
– Me
“All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects...”
– Me
“Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.”
– Me
What would I say?
So, here we go. I have been watching with interest as the good people of the United States and the Aliens abroad have been conducting themselves of late. Allow me to comment on a few of the items that have been troubling me in the Netherworld. President George W. Bush. What would John Adams say to you? Where do i start? First of all, get the kids out of the desert. Let the people of the...
