Schizo America

In in this down economy, BOOZE is still selling well

Especially booze sold in ‘value added’ packaging, so you can feel GOOD about getting more numbing for your buck.

Jack Daniels’ maker Brown-Forman Reports 4% Second Quarter Operating Income Growth in Challenging Economic Environment; EPS Growth of 13%

Brown-Forman’s balance sheet remained strong and the company continued to operate during the six month period with an “A2” rating from Moody’s and an “A” rating from Standard & Poor’s (yes, we now know the ratings agencies gave ratings in certain industries without knowing a rat’s a** about the actual values of questionable assets they were looking at).

AND, the company’s Board of Directors has authorized the repurchase of up to $250 million of its outstanding Class A and Class B common shares over the next 12 months, subject to market conditions, getting their corporate value OUT of the public domain.

Even though I think America is Schizophrenic about its drugs

- they say that liquor is fine for us to drink on a daily basis

but anything else

and you go to jail -

B-F’s growth shows that corporations CAN addict their customers AND be financially viable.  Who knew?

I wonder if B-F’s Board would like to get into the car making business?  I hear there’s 35 billion up for grabs…

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Meanwhile, Jeb Bush wants to set up a GOP shadow government

Because, you know, you can’t actually follow what voters voted for, right?

Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush tells Newsmax that the GOP must broaden its appeal to avoid becoming “the old white-guy party,” and recommends that Republicans create a “shadow government” to engage Democrats on important issues as the incoming Obama administration seeks to enact its agenda.

Scary stuff.  Yet when his brother was ‘handed’ the election by the Supreme Court, he sang a different tune.

Here’s an idea…  Become part of the government, don’t set up a ‘shadow government’.  The Bushites didn’t do so well with the ‘shadow banking industry’, did they?  Their ‘shadow torture’ isn’t helping the US’ image in the global village…

So giving another Bush a soapbox for his opinions (after the first two Bushes hugged then killed Saddam Hussein, went to war, let Wall Street waltz away with billion dollar profits while Main Street suffered, and let the shadow banking system take the US and world economies down) doesn’t seem like a wise move on our part.  Bush should retire, along with his brother.

And take a look in the mirror, dude.  You’re an ‘old white guy’.

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Bush to receive first-ever International Medal of Peace

WTF?

But his religious beliefs, which he says impact his Presidential decision-making, preclude birth control as a method to protect yourself from AIDS…

But he started a pre-emptive war…

But he hasn’t been to funerals of his own soldiers, let alone those of innocent Iraqi civilians…

He thumbed his nose at the International community of nations and threatened to expand his war…

Ah, I understand. Its from Pastor Warren, the uber-Christian pastor of a wealthy mega-church, patting the back of his own…

For a moment there, I was worried what the world would think of us, if we gave Bush such an honor. But I see its a feel-good award and is probably meant to ease Bush’s humbling transition to civilian life.  Pappy Bush was given a house and free jet travel, lucrative speaking fees and board memberships.  Baby Bush will probably get the same thing from the free-thinking Christians that could conceive of George W. Bush as a Peacemaker…

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