Topless Women

This woman is out protesting for the right to go topless anywhere in public - not just at the beach. There is this organization called Go Topless dot ORG that promotes the rights of topless women. Tomorrow, they will have rallies in Chicago and New York and I don't know where else. Not here where I live.

Maybe next year.
I do not understand why women would want to uncover themselves in public. I understand why they would want to COVER up in public. That's what I understand.

This is sort of backward or opposite of what I expect.

They claim that a woman's breasts are not sexual but a man would have trouble comprehending that. Be that as it may, I am certainly not going to get in their way. If they want to show off and claim it is their Constitutional right, so be it. Let the courts decide. In the meantime, I will try not to stare. This woman's sign says: "War is Indecent, not my Breasts." I think she is wearing purple angel wings, too. Please.

AN IDEA

From a Yahoo! News story: “WASHINGTON – Tinkering with Earth's climate to chill runaway global warming — a radical idea once dismissed out of hand — is being discussed by the White House as a potential emergency option, the president's new science adviser said Wednesday. That's because global warming is happening so rapidly, John Holdren told The Associated Press in his first interview since being confirmed last month. The concept of using technology to purposely cool the climate is called geoengineering. One option raised by Holdren and proposed by a Nobel Prize-winning scientist includes shooting pollution particles into the upper atmosphere to reflect the sun's rays.” Why not just use mirrors to shoot some rays back at the sun? Let me see, I’m sure we can come up with many other ways of cooling the climate down. How about manufacturing a giant refrigerated air unit and pointing it straight at the bad guy – the sun? Put the thing in Siberia where everything is colder. How about shooting ice cubes at the sun? How about wearing more layers of clothing so that your body heat stays with you and is not let off into the atmosphere? Is that feasible? Sure. How about capturing heat in small boxes during the day and closing the lids? Could someone invent a heat trap – like a mouse trap except for heat? Has anyone asked why it is we are trying to save the Earth anyway? Is it worth all the trouble? PLEASE.

Riots in Paris

I'm sure you noticed that a few Parisians rioted yesterday because they thought they were not getting a fair shake in their government's plans to easy the economic downturn in France - they thought the banks were getting all the benefits and they were getting nothing but a debt burden. The guys who created this mess were getting taken care of nicely and they were being ignored. I would not know. New Yorkers will not riot like that, unless, of course, they start running out of things to eat. This topless woman does not care either way - she lives in Rio.

Bargains

This is the first blog of 2009 so why not start with a topic that will no doubt be very popular this year? LIQUIDATIONS. Businesses are going out of business fast. When the time comes, they turn to specialists who get rid of inventory quickly. If you need to buy something right about now, you might be able to get good deals through these liquidations. You can either visit the stores yourself or you can try the internet. Some places to visit online: Redtagdotcom, Topperliquidatorsdotcom, liquidationdotcom, and (if you’re rich) Yachtauctionsdotcom. The art piece at left is not for sale, but if it were, I might offer $5,000 for it. Good luck.

Wyoming

This is from someone else's blog - I forget whose it is. It does not matter. The picture is not identified so it might be almost anywhere except not from around here. I think it looks like a lake in Wyoming. What do I know? The funny thing is - there are no boats on this lake. I wonder why.

Back at the Ranch

Well, as people get used to the recent turn of events and forthcoming changes, the market is down a little bit more - just where I like it. It will hover around 8500 for a while then start to shoot back up. Buy 100,000 shares of anything conservative. Don't get into any penny stocks - too risky right now. In six months, you can reinvest some of your profits in some cheap, high-risk stuff, just for fun. Meanwhile, back at the ranch, it appears Putin wants to get back in the driver's seat some time in the future. Communism may have changed, but totalitarianism sure hasn't. That's not him to the left, by the way. That's someone else - from another time and place - Angela, an opera singer. Ciao.

Listen to me

The instability in the stock market is being caused by nothing but fear and the instability and unreliablity of investors themselves. Listen to me now - buy cheap stocks and hold on to them. Period. Don't sell, don't move, don't panic, don't run, don't cry, don't collect $200 - nothing. Stay still and everything will be fine. The stock market is not for babies to begin with. If you're going to be selling at the first hint of lower earnings, play Monopoly instead. You'll make more money there.

Carolina Herrera New York

Here's a short list of people who either live, lived, or have close relatives in El Paso. Are you ready? F. Murray Abraham, Ana Alicia, Julie Andrews, Rich Beem, Tony Bennett, Vicki Carr, Sam Donaldson, Albert B. Fall, Greg Foster, Bobby Fuller, Pat Garrett, Eddie Guerrero, Jack Handey, John Wesley Hardin, Don Haskins, Carolina Herrera, John Houser, Victoriano Huerta, Tom Lea, Benjamin Loeb, Lisa Loeb, Ron Lucas, Don Maynard, Cormac McCarthy, Sandra Day O'Connor, George S. Patton, John Pershing, Mike Price, Debbie Reynolds, Nolan Richardson, Gene Roddenberry, Omar Rodriguez, Pepe Romero, Irene Ryan, Willie Shoemaker, Urbici Soler, Nikki Sixx, Lee Trevino, and Pancho Villa. It's not much, but it's all I've got. The list would be ten times as long if the local population would just call in to let me know that they have a famous relative in Chicago or Atlanta or London or Moscow or wherever. Take my word for it.