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Friday, March 14, 2003

It's a hell of a thing, my neck. I am in PC Richards, on 14th Street using a fire breathing Sony Vaio with a better radio than in my house. WFMU's single is better than in the car, driving through NJ.

The hinkiest thing today is the couple that kidnapped that kid. Berry berry hinky at best. They woman's eyes are like a horse, and the guy looks like a relative of Charlie Manson. Hinky looked up "Angry White Male" today, and found much has been said on the subject, but not nearly enough. But we'll fix that, when all the facts are in.

Buddy Lamp is blaring in the Store from this Sony, and It's time to go get the car, and get the Fuck out of town for the weekend. Be good, and don't forget to do something to bust Germany and France's horns this weekend (email their embassies).

Hinky 7:51 PM

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Goodafternoon, hinky stock Andrew Corp dropped 22% today after announcing it's earnings. This was one of the hinkiest with a p/e sitting somewhere over the 1000 mark, and remains hinky, even if the float is locked up by the employee options holders, or whatever hinky situation has developed in this high wire act. ANDW remains one of the guys with no chair now that the music has stopped.

Hinky 1:40 PM

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Wednesday, March 12, 2003

On urging from associates in near and far, we turn to what is hinky about France and Germany, two nations that stand ready to veto American efforts to rehab the middle east.

Let’s lay out the facts, before we turn to the boycotts against wine, cheese and cars from "Old Europe", which have sprung up in an effort to pimp slap them back to realities of World citizenship. Just what is the deal?

First, Nukes; end of story. The whole middle east needs to be scrubbed because Isreal has made a mess of it.

Here are the weapons problems:
and here too
.

Here is a little background about why someone might say something so strang as "Isreal has made a fucking mess there."

It's this mess that opens them and Western interests up to disinformation from other countries that call for an end to arms buildup to make Isreal look like a fat assed old man trying to pick a fight with the neighbor’s kids for walking on his lawn. Now wait, you might ask, is it really "disinformation" for them to have a opinion. Yes. Or, call it what you want, if it delay's a shake up of management in the dessert, it isn't helping anything. Here's more hinky background.

So the bombs and other hinky weapons of mass distruction shit they are waving around in our faces have and should have our attention like a toddler with a pack of matches at a gas station. This alone is reason to boot out old management in favor of new management there.

But, second, guess what? It's oil. Hal Linsey’s pretty much covered this one here.

The details here are simple; to review:

As of October 2002, Iraq reportedly had signed several multi-billion dollar deals with foreign oil companies mainly from Russia, France and China. Deutsche Bank estimates some $38 billion total profit on new fields. With the potential production capacity of 4.7 million barrels per day if all the deals come to fruition. The oil companies reportedly having signed deals with Iraq are Lukoil and Tatneft from Russia, TotalFinaElf from France, China National Petroleum Corp from China.

So what’s going on? A quick look at the broadband magic box shows that some people are very pissed, as it yields stories about Americans taking action with Boycotts, phone calls, forums and even Tee Shirts that aim to stick it to Old Europe.

Here's a story from the Christian Science Monitor, generally a great source of International paper, whether or not you use doctors or pray regularly.

And here is more coverage of mad boycotting consumers voting with their Visa and Mastercards

Others are calling the French embassy
and invading their web sites of the French. and of the Germans
And of course there is talk, on Forums like here, and like here> and like here.

There are even
Tee Shirts and gear addressing the boycott of "Old Europe":


Meanwhile, others are boycotting oil in Europe and directing their anger at the American president.

Here is a little background of the deal in the middle east from some who has lived there, the place where I’m willing to bet the cliché “between a rock and a hard place” was first uttered, around the time Saul became Paul. You’ll find an author with stongly held beliefs writing to “free Lebanon” from the restrictive traditions that prop up puppet heads like Sadam, so he can smoke Cubans and watch Marlon Brando on DVD, while everyone else walks around with bare feet.

Meanwhile, it's important not to lose sight of the Ace while we play international three card monty, so don’t forget to check out the charges being brought in nyc against the hinky accounting at Endrun and Worldcon. The WSJ.com reports that Feds popped a few weasles here in the US, former Endrun executives. They are charging them with a common scheme or plan to generate false earnings through an Internet movie-on-demand service that flopped. Also, the CFTC charged Enron with manipulating prices in the natural gas market.

And earlier, federal prosecutors office in Manhattan asked WorldCom to delay releasing the report because it could harm a continuing investigation into what Mr. Ebbers and others at WorldCom knew about the company's fraudulent accounting practices.

Good news in the Post for the under cover cops who protested the cop killings on Staten Island. After what seemed to be the hinkiest escape attempt ever, one of the group of cop killers was caught today on the Staten Island ferry as he tried to make a break for it dressed as a woman. A woman pointed him out to the police, telling them that the kid was either a man, or the ugliest woman she had ever seen (he was wearing a blond wig to boot). Goes to show you, it takes one to know one, and to know one that is not.

Here is another boycott that might be of interest against the Music Biz's hinky trade group, the RIAA, which gets 50 million per year to combat people making copies of music that they buy.

Hinky 1:54 PM