Barbara Bush On Jeb Running For President: 'We've Had Enough Bushes'

Appearing in an interview Thursday on NBC's "Today" show, Mrs. Bush was asked how she felt about Jeb, the former governor of Florida, seeking the presidency in 2016.

Mrs. Bush replied, quote, "We've had enough Bushes."

Early this month Roy Blunt hid language protecting Monsanto from judicial review of its GMO regardless of the consequences to Human health, Congress passed it without knowing what the bill said and Obama signed it

Conspiracy theorists of the world, believers in the hidden hands of the Rothschilds and the Masons and the Illuminati, we skeptics owe you an apology. You were right. The players may be a little different, but your basic premise is correct: The world is a rigged game. We found this out in recent months, when a series of related corruption stories spilled out of the financial sector, suggesting the world's largest banks may be fixing the prices of, well, just about everything.

You may have heard of the Libor scandal, in which at least three - and perhaps as many as 16 - of the name-brand too-big-to-fail banks have been manipulating global interest rates, in the process messing around with the prices of upward of $500 trillion (that's trillion, with a "t") worth of financial instruments. When that sprawling con burst into public view last year, it was easily the biggest financial scandal in history - MIT professor Andrew Lo even said it "dwarfs by orders of magnitude any financial scam in the history of markets."

That was bad enough, but now Libor may have a twin brother. Word has leaked out that the London-based firm ICAP, the world's largest broker of interest-rate swaps, is being investigated by American authorities for behavior that sounds eerily reminiscent of the Libor mess. Regulators are looking into whether or not a small group of brokers at ICAP may have worked with up to 15 of the world's largest banks to manipulate ISDAfix, a benchmark number used around the world to calculate the prices of interest-rate swaps.

Billionaire financier Ken Langone is known for his outspoken views on economic policy, so today he appeared on Bloomberg TV to discuss generational theft ...

"The thing about 1% like me there's a limit. What's the limit 100% of my income. Unless you say now he's got no income let's go after his assets. We may get there ... The money either comes from taxes or other activities... or a willing and compliant Fed saying how many bars you got? $1 billion? Turn the presses on! This is simple stuff! My problem with the Krugmans of the world is that they're brilliant ... they just may be too brilliant ... Losing weight is not a very scientific endeavor you consume less calories than you burn you lose weight ... so let's stop all this crap with all of these high fallutin' thoughts and ideas. You know what happens to people their eyes glaze over, I don't know what the hell he's saying."

I'll have the oil and vinegar dressing with my word salad.


She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist. -- Jean-Paul Sartre

"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." - Anaïs Nin

BTW, there is a new connection between wind power and train technology beyond motor/generator technology: condition monitoring. Railway company Knorr-Bremse teamed up with SKM to create condition monitoring for train running gear, based on SKM's experience with wind turbine gear condition monitoring.

_{*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.}