I've decided that for the most part I'm going to stop commenting on and posting about the ongoing financial shenanigans. My reason? It's become so ridiculous that satire is no longer necessary. It has become pure satire by it's very nature. Quite possibly, decades or generations from now this whole episode will go down in the history books as one of the biggest gag-reels of all time (next to of course, the creation of man and all the havoc we've visited on this once sleepy planet)

Since I am a knuckle-dragging, mouth-breathing malcontent, my attempts at properly explaining the sheer absurdity of it all have failed. So I shall leave it to the pros... as the old saying goes;

"anything that you want to say has already been said better by somebody else"

Or, in smart person talk, I'd like to quote Mark Twain. He said a rather interesting thing about General Funston, a U.S commander involved in the rarely mentioned military adventure in the Philippines-

 “No satire of Funston could reach perfection,” Twain lamented, “because Funston occupies that summit himself... [he is] satire incarnated.”

And so it goes with the current debacle we see unfolding. Ideologies have been flipped on their heads overnight. Ridiculous, comic assertions have been fielded all over the place. In many cases, I don't know anymore if I'm watching news or a live feed from a kindergarten class run amok. It has the same end effect though....

Oversimplifications, lack of understanding, childish finger pointing..... and yet we all seem to be missing that this may just be the joke of the century, and it's at our expense.

So anywho. Words fail me. I shall no longer pontificate about the state of the markets or the economy, at least not for the next little while.

And now, with that done and out of the way, it's time for me to leave you with my thought for the day:

I was thinking that the U.S political system would be greatly helped along if a law was passed regarding who could be president. It should be made law that the president can not be a member of or aligned with either the republicans or the democrats. If, for some reason a third party ever does make significant inroads (Ha!) then that party too will count as being off limits for anyone who wishes to be pres.

Why?

Because that way the pres will be equally neutral, or equally nasty, to both sides of the aisle. Also, with the pres having no ideological or party loyalty owed to him or her by congress, the things that really matter would get passed, and the stuff that doesn't would be helped on it's way out the door. If neither party had "their man" or "their woman" in office it would go a long way to helping restore the system of checks and balances!!!

That is all.

On the docket for tomorrow:

Lima Beans. Gift from the Gods or scourge of humanity????