David Kelsen

Day: October 14, 2008

  • Lights on, Nobody home – Adios mi amor

    Is anyone paying attention to what vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin is saying?  

    Why is an ethics violator recklessly lobbing character assasination darts into the air?  

    If this is the strategy, are McCain campaign advisors frantically posting their resumes on Monster.com?

    Answers to these questions and more on Ramblings, forthcoming.

     

    Palin guilty of ethics violations
    Palin guilty of ethics violations

    The state Personnel Board investigation found that Gov. Palin did commit ethics violations by allowing her husband to use her office and position to put pressure on state employees in the effort to fire state trooper Walt Monegan.

     

    To date, two other ethics complaints are being investigated involving Palin.  One, by activist Andree McLeod, alleges that state hiring practices were circumvented for a Palin supporter. The case is not related to Monegan’s firing. The other, by the Public Safety Employees Association, alleges that trooper Mike Wooten’s personnel file was illegally breached by state officials.

    In what could concievably be called Palin-speaque “let’s just call a spade a spade.”

    After watching Palin’s carefully scripted (yet still clumsy) responses in the vice presidential debate, is there any question that anything she says is NOT meticulously composed?  The Republican propaganda machine is far, far too controlling to allow someone of Palin’s popularity to fly solo.  

    So what could possibly be the motivation behind sending this inexperienced, slightly stupid, albeit affable, less-than-squemish curd out to do the dirty work?  

    Let’s consider the two possible outcomes.  

    If the Republicans win, party loyalists can laud the feisty, fresh exhuberence of a political outsider who helped champion the cause and initiate true change in a stodgy, suffocating, good-old-boy network.  

    If the Democrats win, she’ll become a scapegoat for all the incoherent, asnine blunders made obviously by campaign organizing underlings with more venom than gray matter.  

    Either way, she’s screwed.  

    If the Republicans win, she’ll dissappear.  I expect a few controlled appearances, but for all intensive purposes, her political career will be over.

    If the Democrats win she’ll be disowned and fade back into the perpetual Alaskan dusk, never to be heard from again.

    by David Kelsen – scourge

  • 10 oversimplified steps illustrating why the bailout is bad idea from a historical perspective

    And 8 easy ways to fix it

    by David Kelsen

    Here is the chain of events as it has played out over and over again, throughout history, because people just don’t pay attention.

    • A country incurs an expense it cannot fund organically
    • A country borrows from a source other than it’s own government to acquire the funds necessary to complete or continue whatever that thing is.
    • After much more borrowing, the country no longer has the ability to borrow
    • A country decides to print more currency (or make currency available based on a theoretical expectation) to further support the thing, whatever that is
    • The amount of money (or the promise of more money) increases, the amount of goods and services do not
    • Demand increases with the advent of more money, the costs associated with suppling the new demand increase incrementally
    • Prices go up – goods and services progressively become less affordable – money is devalued
    • A country sets price limits on goods and services
    • Suppliers and manufacturers can no longer afford materials or the labor to produce materials –  supplies diminish – people starve (or fling themselves from buildings and bridges)
    • Rationing rears it’s ugly head – unemployment and crime grow like bacteria on roadkill

    Over-dramatic?

    Maybe…, well actually no, events similar to this have been recorded as early as 218 A.D. in Rome.  If interested look up Diocletian, John Law, Germany (1920-1923) or just google “Hyperinflation”.  This is not a new thing, and yet the powers that be insist on reliving the past, as in:

    “My foot is still bleeding from the last time I shot a hole in it”.

    What do we do?

    1. The housing market needs to hit bottom (estimates; late 2009 to mid 2010)
    2. Financial derivative bundling needs to vanish
    3. Companies that operate poorly need to fail
    4. Banks that participated in funky practices need to take the hit.
    5. Executives that commandeered a failed business and/or presided over questionable practices need to be compensated on bottom-line performance
    6. Politicians need to leave the party behind and start working for the people and the country (instead of their buddies)
    7. Oil companies should disburse profit-sharing checks – TO THE WORLD POPULATION
    8. Potato chip packagers need to fill the damn bag