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Thursday, September 21, 2006

Has anyone seen the counter culture of 9/11 conspiracy documentaries? We'll this on is pretty good, even if the kid sounds 14, which takes away from his message what is given back by his sincere intentions. Hinky says: "the kid stays in the movie"

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Friday, August 11, 2006

Software Glitch May Have Erased E-Mail Text in Enron Suits
The American Lawyer

The company handling electronic document production in the Enron civil suits says a software bug may have erased text in e-mails produced for discovery in the case over an 18-month span. Applied Discovery, a division of LexisNexis, says one client has reported a problem so far. Several of the lawyers handling the Enron litigation said if the problem was widespread and had corrupted the discovery process, it could cost tens of millions of dollars to fix and could foul up pending and settled Enron litigation.

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Tuesday, June 27, 2006

"Fill it up again! Fill it up again! It tastes so good, when it hits the lips!"

This is building up to be the official inside joke of 2006. You may as well put the NASCAR logo on it.

Hinky 11:39 PM

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Monday, August 15, 2005

Here's this jerkoff sportscaster, pimping his book in Coral Gables FLA to a bunch of pensioneers and landloards. It's about all the vulgar people and the foul language in the American media, and the decline in civility in the American street, and .... on the airplanes. 

 

His title: 100 people who are "screwing up" America, which sounds pretty vulgar for a guy who is knocking vulgarity.  It's funny that the experiences he draws on are from riding on airplanes and high tone dinners where Chevy Chase used the F word.  I couldn't help thinking that this fat mouthed, prissy sports news reader is why 2/3 of the country, and the rest of the world want to see and end to the American way.

 

Bernard likes Elvis, but not the "Gangster Rappers", and pulling down 7 figures isn't enough for him. He has to publish books and share all the farts in his head with America.

 

He seems like a chicken hawking asshole.

Hinky 12:38 AM

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Saturday, August 13, 2005

"They illustrate why, as Jagdish Bhagwati has reminded us all, FTAs should in fact be referred to as PTAs: "preferential trade areas." 

 

Now they are quoting this ass clown like his knows something we don't.

 

Yesterday, Jagdish Bhagwati was this hinkiest of them all, as CSPAN, or BOOKNOTES (i forget which) broadcasted his lecture in Greenwitch, Conn, regarding his new book: "In Defense of Free Trade".  And now, we are seeing this guy quoted everywhere in the WSJ, and in other places that hold high the Free Trade banner, as american workers are generally being ASSED OUT.

 

It's horse shit. The enlightened, internationalists who have been jamming the world view that America needs to uplift the suffering masses of the world by offshoring everything that bright business minds (and all those surplus MBAs who learned to look in the back of the books to the answers first, before the questions arise) can think to send to some small town where single mothers can fill the warehouse to sodder circuit boards in 16 hour shifts for a fraction of what a union worker in the US needs to keep the child support flowing to the wife who kicked his ass out for buying that bass boat instead of taking the kids to Disney that year. 

 

Here is Jagdish, flapping his mouth about uplifting people in far away places, sharing the wealth, and doing something about the misery in far away places, like Fat assed Sally Struthers on latenight TV talking about Feeding the Children.  And we are wondering why the hell most people grand parents got on a boat, and suffered to get to America if their great grand children were going to let this government of numb nut red neck hypocrits like Bloated Bill and his Joker faced wife sign the NAFTA in exchange for the grease from major corporations.  Why would an America vote for people who make regulations and laws they export entire industries for the sake of higher profits for the Corporations who grease their campaigns?  Why would we choose to do what these unfortunate economies own governments choose to avoid doing?  Why should transfer industry and wealth from out shores and send it to places that have made a perfect fucking mess of themselves?

 

The fact is, this capital flight to cheap labor is profitable.  No matter what Jagdish says through his wide smile that reminds us of Peter Sellers in "The Party" and his colloquialisms (like referring to James Bond movies where the character "Jaws" won't die, and neither will Protectionism), and his quoting Adam Smith on how people in rich nations will snore through the suffering of 1 million dead in China.  No matter what, I don't think we should race to change things abroad when things are so shitter here, where the consumers consume all that cheap shit Walmart trucks in from China on non-union rigs. 

 

Jagdish was running his mouth about a lot of shit someone who never mopped a floor would. Meanwhile, we are propping up countries labor forces with 6 dollar per hour jobs and video tapes of Friends to help them get the Limey out of their voices when they ask Americans to pay their bills, or buy a buying packages for 9 dollars per month to make our public companies profitable.  So let's get is straight Jagdish.  Most of these countries we are propping up with our "Free Trade" (give me a fucking break) can't even give Untouchables a half a fucking chance at a good life.

 

So let's take the Save the Children images out of the picture.  It is not poor children living near the dump in Mexico verses fat American union families. Obesity in America is not really an arguement for Americans to give away jobs to thin workers in broke ass places whose leaders rob everything and build nothing for these thin folks.  It's just entertainment that is not all that entertaining, unless you need to get rid of some guilt in Greenwitch, Conn by listening to Peter Sellers crack jokes about your fellow Americans.  The issue is corporate profit, which does not really address where the profit goes after it is clocked from the cheap labor in places only Jagdish can pronounce well.  Bernie Ebbers can't even tell you where the profit goes (although Scott Sullivan did a pretty good job when he sang in exchange for less time in the can).  Here they are, the Fortune 500, making record profits PIMPING labor all over the world, and pocketing much of the savings.  And here is hinky Jagdish, finding economist's reasons why it makes sense, beyond the robber barron motivations.

 

He's a real Untouchable.

 

 

 

Hinky 11:12 PM

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Wednesday, August 10, 2005

What's hinky? How about this fucking Iran, with their Iranian Republican Guard and their bombings and tough talk about Jihad in their version of congress, with all the little old girls sitting around with their beards hanging down from their head wraps that you want to pull and punch.

These assclowns need a new highway, from Bagdad. Fuck it-- we don't need flowers to welcome us either. These fucking nuts are lining up to see their god. How to you negotiate with that? The rest of the western world has their heads up there asses trying to appear lovable... That might even be more hinky. What is with these countries trying to play us off against these Nut Job States?

We it sure would take care of the unemployment problem in Russia if they would line up to knock these fucking Jihaad Jerkoffs out of the fucking box. Why should russia sit on half the worlds oil with their balls in the sand, while these fucking nuts bust ours, and the rest of the worlds with their threats and scientific nightmare promisies.

These stuffed suits at State need to get off their dead asses to line up Russia to take the land right down to the sea. I see pipelines and waterslides, parking lots and Disney's Iranland in the tea leaves. Any prick talking "Jehaad, Jihad, Jihaad, GEEhad, G-head" needs an orange suit and a bag over his head for a few weeks in Cuba. And the fake hippies should know Alla doesn't care how kind, fair and even handed you are about buying their fucking oil.

Hinky 5:37 PM

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Saturday, April 23, 2005

"The whole damn thing makes me sick," he said, turning from the television as the light placed a blue glow over the otherwise dark room. "She looks alive to me," he continued, "but then again, I am no expert like the judge who listened to her husband tell it... and what about the timing with the pope falling ill?"

His wife looked into his eyes, which are turned away and wondered, "what new hair has crossed his ass now?" "I know," she said.

He thought: "that's why she's there."

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Tuesday, March 15, 2005

Iran is getting nuked up, or not, maybe just saber swinging and holding out for more goodies from the west, the pay-off, the smear and everything else that private companies and individuals can not do under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, which makes bribbing countries and individuals- IL LEGAL for US businesses, whether it is routine in other countries or not.  Ass kissing India is looking the other way, again.

 

Of course, if you are an Egyptican Magician (by way of Lybia) how owns the largest wireless carrier in Iraq, you can pay, smear, grease or bribe anybody with an invoice calling himself "a consultant," so byzantium is alive and well, and there continutes to be more that one way to skin that cat. 

 

Iran wants to run shit in the middle east, to have a voice and influence the region.  They want to be the head honcho when Isreal is put into forced retirement. Iran says they have nukes, or want nukes, or will buy nukes, and we say talk to Ms. Rice.  They say if you don't quid, there's gonna be no pro quo. They say. They say a lot of shit, but somebody should ask the president of Pakistan. Colon Power gave him 6 minutes to change his mind before the Deltas would rob every nuke he had, and It makes me wonder why why we are kissing asses in Iran to turn the heat down in Iraq. 

 

Several possible reasons, but we are thinking it boils down to the French (state of mind), who lead the world in second guessing, goading and gaming American agendas and interests.  In many ways, I'm thinking the Spanish are more French than the French, but that is a different story that takes place in Latin America, and points south where the harvest is sweetest.  Nonetheless, the West is basically divided, over money and philosophy, while Iran's Brainwashed Republican Guard are teaching teenagers to work with C4, and the wet arts.  Well, these nukes are what's hinky today, and so are are the war games these numb nuts are playing over the oil. 

 

Hinky grew up with that Nuclear Fear, deep down in that assneck regions where you could not help to wonder what's the sense of quadradic equasions if they were going to tear the roof off the mother sucker anyway...  

 

Now they want to bring it back; the old ways, fear, punctuated with FDA approved pain relief that governments can offer a la Joe Stalin's Hollywood.  If this is limited government, you better ask Benjamin "Ben" Dover to help you pay for it at tax time.

 

 

Here's a blast from the past for all you Iranian Republican Guards out there, planning your attacks with children's back packs:

King Of The World
Steely Dan
Hello one and all
Was it you I used to know
Can't you hear me call
On this old ham radio
All I got to say
I'm alive and feeling fine
If you come my way
You can share my poison wine

CHORUS:
No marigolds in the promised land
There's a hole in the ground
Where they used to grow
Any man left on the Rio Grande
Is the king of the world
As far as I know

I don't want your bread
I don't need your helping hand
I can't be no savage
I can't be no highwayman
Show me where you are
You and I will spend this day
Driving in my car
Through the ruins of Santa Fe

CHORUS
No marigolds in the promised land
There's a hole in the ground
Where they used to grow
Any man left on the Rio Grande
Is the king of the world
As far as I know

 

I'm reading last year's papers
Although I don't know why
Assassins cons and rapers
Might as well die

If you come around
No more pain and no regrets
Watch the sun go brown
Smoking cobalt cigarettes
There's no need to hide
Taking things the easy way
If I stay inside
I might live til Saturday

Hinky 12:04 PM

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Sunday, February 27, 2005

Hinky wonders who guards the guardians these days.  Book TV does a fair job, with compulsively watch-able interviews and commentary by authors of books that aim at watching the guardians if nothing else.  Yesterday an author, call him Larry was talking about Pullman Porters when the country used trains.  It was good stuff for Corporate Welfare TV. See, http://www.booktv.org/

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Sunday, February 20, 2005

To paraphrase: Baby boomer have to grow up and tell the kids not to do drugs. The Bush said this on tape to a close friend who is leaking his private conversations to the press made before his election. I'm thinking he's a far cry better than Dan Quayle, if we are going to have a Senator's son running the show. 

Hinky 11:33 AM

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Sunday, January 30, 2005

What's hinky today?

Well, copters and planes appear to be falling from the sky in Iraq in unknown ways. We're sick of it, or sick because if it is more like it. Troops are being lost and scattered across the sand in ways that the media can not figure out. Are they being shot down? Can't tell. Just know they are falling around election day in Iraq.

The enlightened nations of the world need to band together and send more troops to kick rebel ass on those dunes, including the Jordanian, Iranian, and Syrian fucks who are showing up to rumble. But since that won't happen, America has to turn up the amp on these rouge fucks in the sand.

I am no arm-chair quarterback, and I don't know shit about the cameras and lenses they have pointed there from outter space, but I am thinking heat sensive images should show and pin-point rockets going off from the ground, which in turn should trigger a reply. Not an email reply to the "holy men" calling for voilence there. But carpet bombs, whether or not these fucks are hiding behind their wives skirts near a church when they fire their missles. It's furstrating, and the mind looks for answers, alternatives, solutions, suggestions: "where are they buying the weapons?" "why can't they plant tracking devices in the weapons, at the plant... are the weapons manufacturers in line, or are they part of a major supply chain problem that needs a 'fix'. They clip presidents, why not arms manufaturers who demand privacy in countries with shabby constitutions? Who the fuck else is thinking these thoughts? Why don't they track the rebels with their ammo purchases? Who is arming them? Why can't gun control work when we control the docks and can shake down every arms dealer who sets foot? Are their economic insentives in place for these arms dealers to dime each other out? Doesn't anyone speak Arabic? Who is selling them their shoulder fire rockets? Who is making them? Would a explosion at the plant change the profit margins on their venture, a venture that takes American lives?" The mind wonders. It's hinky, and futile, like the water and bags of ice I brought the cops and firefighters at ground zero on the 12th, 13th and 14th.

If a murder case is not solved and cleared off the board at the precinct, where does it go? It's hinky. It remains with the police, in a drawer, gathering dust, sitting in a drawer, with nobody viewing the facts, putting 2 and 2 together, putting the pieces together in different ways to complete the jigsaw puzzle. It's in government hands. Three hundred seniors in nursing homes puzzling out the case would do better than the cold case method of moving on and burying the injustice. But this is how the government handles it for now. The case gets cold like the people in the ground, as the government handles it.

Iraqis are voting for new government today. Hope, springs; marginal improvements are major improvements in some places. In New York they used to say (the new comers in broken english, and their sons in street tones) "I've been al over the world and this country (America) is not perfect, but it's the only game in town kid... if you know somewhere better let me know, I'll go with you"

In Iraq, the pols are closed, the dye is cast. Hundreds of candidates. Sunnies are not voting.
America has voting locations in Detroit and other part of towns with high concentrations of Iraqis. I wonder if German Iraqis and French Iraqis are voting? Hinky, yes, but there is no margin for error here. The oil, the mentalities, the competing interests, the bomb. They are learning to shake down the US Libyian style. They buy or make a bomb and get paid not to use it. Others make them to sell to others who would shake the US down. For years, we paid. Lybians, others. Now we barter; which only makes sense. You put down the gun, and we won't take it from you and slap you ass so hard that your grand-childern won't be able to sit down and study at the Swiss, French, English, and American universities, where you send them to learn the game and double park outside the disco with Diplomat plates. Barting makes sense. "you hand over the bombs, or we take them and lock down your hinky republick and make you and your's unpaid janitors in public rest rooms in the red light districts." Pakistan had ideas; dreams really. Bombs would keep those Indians off their back.... bargaining power, with military arts and science. They forgot, or never knew where Texas hold'em is played, or the mentality of the rounders from Middle Village, the Bronx and Brooklyn who clean up the table each week in AC. It's science and art, but it's traps and tricks. There are three of us at the table, and two unknown parties with deep pockets, playing to win. That's 3 out of 5, giving us a 60% chance of cleaning them out split three ways. It's a living. But with bombs, no more than .04 percent is acceptable risk, so Collin Powell gave Mushariff (sp?) 6 mintues to surrender or not. Special forces were 6 mintues away from taking every nuke in Pakistan, and Powell put the question to their clown ass leader, who did the right thing. He's wit us now. Powell's son ran the telephone companies; digital lines, VOIP, the software converts the words to texts, which can be searched like any document.

So we got those bombs, but what about North Korea, China, Brazil. They are sellers, raising money to "improve" their lot. Understandable, but we barter now. So we should help them improve their lot by making the world safe. That's basic, like oil. Everyone can understand it. No oil, no heat. Everyone wants to play. Texas hold'em, and war games. Hinky has this to say: The point of society can not be masterbation. You know, divorce and an apartment in the city where you bring the hookers to do the things for 150 dollars that your ex wife denied you. The most beautiful, talented, fastest, strongest, largest, best, designer bomb does the same thing they all do. The point of society can not be masterbation, and all this war and gaming, arms deals and the PR that does the false explaining. Distant cousins. You see, the plans are falling out of the sky there; with troops on them. That is no joke. It's not a movie. The building fell and the smoke smelled for months below 14th street. We all changed our routes to go drinking downtown, but nothing worked. The smoke still smelled for months-- people's ashes in the air. I once read that there are the remains of Roman's in every dust clowd. It was in Harper's-- google it if you don't believe.

The vote is over there. There is a winner right now, an new leader of the deforested cradle of man. And it's not Saddam, or his sons, quoting "the Godfather, pop." French hate this. They had contracts, signed! They had field, lock up with legal documents, which they forgot are only as good at the government they are written upon. The contracts were big, bigger than Airbus and their move was bold, bolder than Airbus. But these sunbelt cowboys do not sleep like that. While you are eating goose livers, they are wolfing down beef, and pushing their plates aside to make way for documents that outline plans.

The election is over. A chapter begins; a new group of bozos are in place to pick up the ball and do their level best. Let's hope it turns out better than Haiti. They get in, that first day and have a look at the problems and the players. And after they are done puking for three days, they try to act fast, to make the mess less messy. Scopo nuovo scopo bene.... "a new broom sweeps best," and there are misteps. Marshall law while they train their home grown police to step in and kick rebel ass to stop the voilence. These rebels can't be bought, which is too bad because the alternative is a small plot of sand in most cases, if they are not scattered across the land. The remains of Romans remain in the air 2000 years after they are gone. It's true. I read it in Harpers. Google it if you don't believe. This is getting like Dr. Bronner's Castle Soap bottle now.

Meanwhile, back in the US, maybe you can't find a job, and you are thinking of starting a franchise? Maybe you are a vet, returning from the dessert, looking for work but can't find it. So you think-- the mind looks for anwers, suggestions, solutions, alternatives, other routes. You know, be your own boss, a chance to call the shots, and take the lumps for you mistakes. Make a big profit, like those guys overseas selling cigs and jeans. Looking at the franchises that are cheap to start? Think twice. First, lookup ex-franchisees of your chosen business opp., those folks who might not use all those glowing words that the franchise company's people have for you. Talk to the guy who could not make it happen, and find out why. Was it the franchise or the man?

Secondly, think about these points made to the FTC when considering the passage of the UFOC, which is designed to require full disclosure of the fees, charges and risks associated with buying a franchise.:

"The other issue that I have is with the fact that the current--and this might be just a theoretical problem that

might have not have an answer to, is franchising covers such a huge number of industries, from hotel franchises at one point

to the other end of the spectrum, janitorial franchises, which really in most cases are the type of franchise directed to

people who have less resources for getting a lawyer or resources even to review the document. You held up that

document. The most complex franchise disclosure documents and disclosures are in this industry, and most frequently they

require a very small investment."



http://energycommerce.house.gov/107/hearings/06252002Hearing603/print.htm

Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade, and Consumer Protection              

June 25, 2002

10:00 AM

2322 Rayburn House Office Building

Hinky 10:40 AM

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Thursday, December 16, 2004

As usual, if you are looking for something hinky in the area of economics, Crudele in the business section of the nypost.com is the one to point it out.  Today is not exception.  "Hedonics" he explains, is a way that government statistics are cooked to make the Consumer Price Index appear that there is relative price stability where there is none.  You might yawn and say "so what," but the CPI is the benchmark; it's the number the whole world looks to when they reset the price of things each morning before the bond market wakes up and begins trading billions of dollars across boarders with lightning speed. When it moves, money movies--  ALL the money.  Crudele's reports about the way these numbers can be shaped, moulded and cooked like clay should make us all a bit more fatalistic about the American economy.  Policy gets support with statistical tinkering. The dollar flops.  Gold rallies.  Central banks sell in the EC, while Asia buys.  Oil spikes, and capital moves from one pocket to another at the speed of your new Dell, which Crudele would tell you is faster and better than ever (a "hedonic" reason to adjust the CPI).  It's like the man said: "Figures don't lie; but liars figure".

What's not hinky?  Well, the chickens are coming home to roost for all those Dot.com zillionares who sold out into the greatest bubble market in the history of mankind.  Time Warner (what is left of AOL), is under investigation for all the scam deals AOL did 5 years ago before buying Time Warner.  AOL destroyed 104 BILLION DOLLARS in MARKET CAPITAL.  And when they say market capital, you should read "people's pensions" and "health insurance policies" and "widow's retirement benefits" because that's what it means for the trusting saps who bought that Virginia company's profoundly hinky stories.  104 Billion... say it.  104 Billion is ten times more than the market for movies in the US. It's about 40% greater than the entire insurance market in the US. It's a lot more than the market size of a lot of entire industries in the US.  So the next time some MBA says this or that business, say Specialty Advertising (the Tshochsky biz ) is a "70 billion dollar industry", just think, AOL wiped out that much and must more with hinky buyouts of hinky software companies with hinky technology that still requires that everyone become a touch typist to get anything done using it.  That's one company serial rollups of smaller businesses who sold out at massive profits based on "new metrics" and "new paradymes" and fresh thinking that enabled fiduciaries to forget, overlook, by pass, and rationalize looking away from fundimentals such as price to cash flow (p/cf), or price to ACTUAL earnings (p/e) ratios before giving the green light to buy these hinky over valued, half baked, crack pot, pipe dream, securities.  I recall the days netscape, yahoo, and aol started trading, I was pitching stocks at a brokerage firm. The stock traded at thousands of times earnings. I remember thinking: "they got to the bankers".  It was a suprise then, but it gave rise to the question in my mind of "how will this end.. indightments and a vast government mop up of prices and new regulation or in a computer age that changes everything."  Well, I am still a monkey, typing away on my visual CB Radio, while the Elliot Spizter and young law grads are paper chasing securities fraud 5 years after the fact, as the federal reserve is pretending to look to the Labor department's cooked Consumer Price Index.

Ten years ago (maybe more) I read a statistic in the Harper's Magazine Index that stated the number of times the offical unemployment figures in the UK under Maggie "Meatball" Thacher had been stated based on a new offical definition of unemployment, which made it look lower was 18.  I was in Grand Central Station, walking and reading under the dirty cieling of unlit stars. I thought, "that is what makes America better" or maybe just not as ungreat as any of those hinky European governments. Now, the cieling is clean, but there are American troops posted with dogs and automatic weapons at all the doors, and Alan Greenspan is sorting through redefined benchmarks to make massive corruption (very wasteful corruption) look regular, like one of Thacher's toadies trying to tell the American people things are not as bad as they think when they can't afford both medicine and food in the same week. 

Hinky wonders if there has been any word on Chelsea Clinton's "Holiday" (not "Christmas") bonus at that big untouchable consulting firm that hired her right out of college?  Bill and Hill must be very proud, just like Paris' dad looking at the Hilton Hotel chain sales figures rocket up after his daughter's world wide DVD release.

Hinky 10:56 AM

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