Joe Lieberman

This guy says American's are against the public option and that they don't want an inefficient tax payer funded health reform with one breath. And then says American's are happy with Medicare...really.

I know this tape is a couple weeks dated, but how do pols get away with stuff like this?

Homeless...ness

Christina Davidson over at The Atlantic has a couple good pieces up on homelessness. You should check them out here and here.

While I was sympathetic to homelessness she hits on a point that increase the sympathy tenfold. Most of us believe homelessness was the fault of the homeless. That is "they" could have done something. Much like we look at a fat person as a glutton. But the fact is that in categorizing homelessness as a victimless epidemic we are deluding (read trying to convince) ourselves that it could never happen to us...when in fact nothing could be further from the truth.

Jobs, Jobs, Jobs

I said it back in January that worrying about the deficit was trivial and that unless govt or business (the consumer is sitting this one out guys) spent money the whole will only get deeper because of how vicious cycles work.

Froomkin over at HuffPo hits on something major. I'm with him. The D's are way to timid and scared for me. They let the Rs pressure them into worrying about deficits when they have no such scruples at all.

Again Mr. President, Ms. Speaker the longer we linger in the double digit unemployment range the worst...I said the worst...it will get. Vicious cycles do NOT fix themselves. It's amazing that the Ds have the ultimate chance to be heroes and are too scared to step up to the plate.

Check Froomkin here

He!! of a Life

T.I. did it again, my bro is still riding with Weezy F, but this joint is off the chain.

The Real Economy

Taibbi hits on something, the real economy and markets couldn't be more disparate. Story here.

This is for you....

I guess republicans?

This "I hate everything Obama" meme is getting tired. How can winning the Nobel Peace prize at anytime ever be a bad thing? Seriously? Why not just congratulate the man and move on?

Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy

"Typical Vikings fakery."

This was the rejoinder from a buddy of mine when Favre smacked the football world in the face with his greatness once again. Fakery. Meh. I guess. Sounds a little like player hation to me but I digress.

Brett we love you a lot. You mean so much to us. We're a community of people who were born in Minnesota and call Minnesota home. We don't pick teams based on our vicinity or team colors or locations. We don't have "2" teams (how is that possible?). We're Vikings today, tomorrow, forever. You're awesome thanks so much man.

If you're from Minnesota you understand!

Sincerely
rc

Hilarious. Absolutely Hilarious

A couple of you have asked about the decrease in political and business blogs. I'll try and get back to that...soon, in the meantiem let the hilarity ensue.

Tim the Bear

By far the best part of the new The Cleveland Show. The lone reason I'll watch tonight. His Palinian ramblings are hilarious and HuffPo's voice overs aren't bad either.

Lost: If Found Call 800-MINNESOTA

Can anyone tell me why our esteemed mulletioed Governor is out running for President some 24 months in advance and not back attending to the state of great lake affairs? Seriously. He's still the governor right?

Slice You Gotta Step It Up Baby

Slice you got looped by dude twice. Come on baby. You're game is on your feet with your hands. YOU HAVE TO FIGURE OUT A WAY TO IMPOSE YOUR WILL. Plus to be straight up and down your fist should be tighter than they are. You're doing to much training on all the other stuff and not enough training on your boxing. I counted less than 30 non jabs thrown in the first round. Fight. Do you. My feeling is that you could have won this fight if you fought. Do you man. Most heavyweights are fat and out of shape. You look good, like you've been up running at 5AM. Stop trying to be a well rounded fighter and just fight. My ethos has always led me to lose my way, not someone elses.

Law and Order: SVU

I'm an original Law and Order guy, but SVU has gained some traction with me during it's seemingly incessant re-runs on all things cable. That said, I think I just witnessed the second best episode of the L&O franshise ever. Seriously, i won't spoil it for anyone who hasn't seen it, but it's was pretty darn bloody and clever. I figured it out...kinda sorta...then went back on my original thesis only to be surprised at the end that my initial incling was right.

Anyways it still runs a distant second to the passing episode from about 10 years back, where the executive killed someone for exposing him as a passer. For those of you who don't know "passing" is a term assigned to lighter skinned minorities who pretend to be white to enjoy the advantages.

SNL Absolutely Inapprorpriate But Absolutely Hilarious.

Minnesota Teen Beaten

Very sad. Minnesota teen has his faced bashed in with brass knuckles and ax handles while racists bashers spout anti-Obama rhetoric.

Read full story here

Bloomberg

Not the guy, the network. Although it's eponymous.

I recently upgraded cable packages to include Bloomberg televisions. Most serious investors and traders watch Bloomie I was told. The research, analysis and commentary is ALL business focused no bloviating or grandstanding or 6's pretending to be 10's you get with other networks or so I was told.

Well it's true. Bloomie is head and shoulders above the other business and investment networks. For a serious market man it really isn't even close. I just finished watching a full hour debate on free trade it was orderly, informative and cordial. No talking heads cutting you off or cursing the name Obama under their breath. One side for, one side against. Cogent, articulate and rational analysis on both sides. How awesome! There morning shows are just as orderly. I learn more in 15 minutes about the overnights on Bloomie than I do watching ersatz market makers on the other channel.

Oh yeah, and as free trade goes, can anyone tell me how you could possibly be for free trade and against labor unions?

You're Kobe Now Dude?

My little bro thinks he's the Kobe of Europe...seriously. He signed that ladies autograph "Kobe Bryant."

Money May-$

My sis had a wedding yesterday (good times, congrats again bride and groom), so I didn't have a chance to see Mayweather/Marquez. It looks like Marquez went the distance and warriored-up but that wasn't unexpected. What was unexpected is the clinic that most analysts say Money May put on. I've seen a couple highlights here and there (btw when is boxing going to go primetime?) and he looked like his usually brilliant self. Rolling the shoulder, sticking the jab. My concerns about Pacman have been muted for now. I just found out Floyd will get the winner of Pacman-Cotto. And seeing how Cotto stood toe-to-toe with the cheating steel wrapped hand Margeurito, I wouldn't bank on Pacman dominating.

Check out the PBF compilation below.

"Fascism, Socialism, Communism...

...these things are apparently interchangeable if you don't know what they mean." Ha! This is hilarious. Thanks to SG for the find.

C-Level Promotions

Good short read on internal v external C-Level promotion. My thoughts run mostly parallel to those of the author in that firms need to spend more time developing internal talent (think MLB) than trying to poach "famed" hires from the outside. The risk of losing talented other C-Level execs and spending hundreds of millions of dollars on failed projects the new guy wanted to brand himself are too high.

Read it here