Gettin Rid Oil - Pushin Solar

Hey Barry:

Good on y'all for pushin solar an stuff.

Read it here: http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jy6s4th2AWz2wvrF9UGpJs3t_WxgD9GNJBC82

Its da right thang, keep on it.

Your pal,

Supremes - Ugh

Hey Barry:

Da Supremes just got a scorecard. Guess what: they is helpin the rich stay rich an screwin the rest.

Dis bad for da country, Barry, an I knows y'all knows it.

Read the score here: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/07/03/MN5M1E8CDT.DTL&type=politics

Dis xplains why so many folks is bout to give up on the good ol U S of A. Cause eventually we gonna git it.

Positively depressin.

Your pal,

Optical National Security

Hey Barry:

Good that y'all on the case - keep US companies from sellin fibre optic secrets to da Chinese - or anyone else for that matter. The FT reported that story June 30, 2010.

We gotta keep our tech vantage where we can.

Your pal,

O M G - Supremes Backtrackin

Hey Barry:

Y'all wins one from the Supremes: Republican National Committee v. FEC, 09-1287. Y'all was pushin for it and the Supremes bought it. Good on ya.

Court upholds ban on soft money - that ties da hands of the corps and unions a little bit. Better'n nuthin.

Keep them FDR moments comin.

We with ya.

Your pal,

Supreme's - Jes Shoot Me

Hey Barry;

The supremes is at it agin.

http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-court-guns-20100629,0,7786166.story

They jes let us all - each an ever one of us - carry guns.

Holy cow, Barry.

Kin y'all do anything bout this??

Is gettin down right crazy.

Your pal,

Les Make a Deal

Hey Barry:

Its great thang for y'all - the bank reform is a deal. Now, y'all gotta git it passed.

Read it here: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2010/06/25/national/w071734D03.DTL

Read list of deal points here: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2010/06/25/national/w072553D07.DTL

I'm not seein the Volcker rule - no BS stocks as part of reserves. If'n we don git that, we is doomed to be back here in five years, guaranteed. Now it may be in the rule that a bank kin own only 3% of capital in BS stocks - mebbe thas it. If its not there, ya gotta fix that Barry.

But, big congrats to all y'all up there - sumthin we really need. Course, y'all kin make some adjustments down the road and we is countin on ya ta do dat.

Keep on it, Barry.

Your pal,

Terrorists Win - Supremes Kill First Amendment

Hey Barry:

Y'all gotta do sumthin bout talkin to 'terrorists'. Sum of us wants to jawbone wid dem, talk em down.

But da Supremes say I caint even talk to 'em.

Read it here: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2010/06/24/DDHM1E383N.DTL
Here da First: 'Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.'

We aint gonna win nuthin les we can talk to anybody - including terrorists. We is all bout open ideas - we aint fraid of no ideas atall.

Cept, now we is.

Dis da wrong way Barry.

Your pal,

Taxin Banks - EU Doin It

Hey Barry:

Les git Timmy on this - tax the banks. If'n the Euros can do it, we can too.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704853404575322533439813538.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

We needs ya here too Barry.

Your pal,

Taxin Oil

Hey Barry:

Mebbe now's the time to put some 'fees' on oil an stuff.

Read it here: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/06/22/MNBL1E0PCQ.DTL&type=politics

Best way to get outta the oil mess - make it profitable to use other energy.

Whattya say Barry: How bout it?

Your pal,

O Canada

Hey Barry:

Don give up on reformin da banks and da conomy. Jes take a look at Canada - they showin us how:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2010/06/20/international/i061220D58.DTL

Your pal,

Billionaires Givin Back

Hey Barry:

This aint for you, leastways I don think so.

This is for da billionaires who gonna give a bunch back to charity.

Here my comment: B F D

You billionaire guys want to be good an all, but yo money not the problem. Neva yo mind that behind every great fortune lies a great crime. No big thang.

Problem is effin royalty.

Don matter you gives away half or 90% of what yo got, we an our great grandchildren still gonna be stuck with bunch generations of useless stinkin rich folks who jes buys wot they wants, especially and specifically includin laws.

Good ol U S of A founded on the idea that ya gotta make it on your own - not live off daddy.

Nuther U S of A idea is that we'all gets to vote on laws - laws aint supposed to be for sale.

Onliest sensible thang is a big heritance tax. We gotta kill them too big fortunes cuz they is only gonna make our lives poorer if'n they stays round.

We is doomed if'n we dont kill them big fortunes.

Your pal,

Messy Oil

Hey Barry:

Caught yo talk testerday an I'm gonna give you a B.

[UPDATE - Ima uppin the grade to a B + , BP jes put $20 Billion inta the fund. Way ta go Barry!]

Good bout it was this: Y'all took the hi road an gave us some hope. Thas good.

Here wot y'all left out: aint no details bout gittin it done.

Itsa a management problem, cleanin it up, and y'all didnt show managin.

Here how ta manage dis mess:

1. Set up a payment procees wid BP cash thas managed by govt - thas y'all - an pay em quick, don do no shilly shallyin round there.

2. Hire one person per county to be da govt coordinator for the clean up. Here wot he do: he holds one meetin wid da local county folks and makes a clean up plan by the end of the meet. May be an hour may be a week - but the end is a plan.

3. Then, he make a list of wot to do and wot all he needs to do it.

4. Then he make nuther list of wot he aint got an wot he has got.

5. Then he git on do phone an git wot's missin.

6. Then he tell y'all how much he spendin ta git it done an sends y'all the lists.

Then you - Barry Obama - make a list of wot is happenin county by county, beach by beach.

An that'll make y'all the manager.

Thas was missin from yo talk, but yo can still do dat.

Mebbe y'all doin all that already; if thas true, then all ya gotta do is tell us.

We with y'all Barry, keep on it.

Your pal,

Ghanistan Rocks

Hey Barry:

Ima guessin - or mebbe hopin - your question is how we gonna keep all da cash from the minin in Ghanistan.

Thas our goal so's the Ghanis can git some schools, roads, police, hospitals an other good stuff.

Here da answer Barry

1. Don allow no free money outflow - make a rule that all money goin out the country needs central bank OK first.

2. Dat gonna mean the customs and bank police have to be honest - an thas a big job. They gonna have ta import some temporary folks from the EU ta git that done.

3. Corps wot build da mines also gotta build da processin plants - goal is export finished products stead of raw ore. Keep lotta jobs in country.

4. Let the corps take out of country a max of 20% each year of capital they bring in. They gonna need good countants for dat.

Read sumwhere dat y'all gonna git accounting firms to compare contracts from other countries so dat the Ghani's don git totally screwed. Das all good, but most other countries allow free capital flow and dat will kill Ghanistan even deader than now. Gotta get creative here Barry - git yo guys on it.

5. Mining corps gotta pay a tax for mine safety inspection and nuther tax for roads an schools an police.

6. Wages gotta be high in da mines - they gotta have good unions so they can git good wages. Thas the only way ta git rid the Talis.

Jes in case y'all needs to argue bout dis - its da opposite of the Bush suitcase full of cash development program. But, if'n y'all needs help splainin it, I be happy to help y'all.

Your pal,

Barry - IT Czar

Hey Barry:

Liebermann wants to give you power over the internet.

Read it here: http://www.out-law.com/page-11102

Sounds good to me, especially if the commercial guys don like it - an they dont.

They kinda like the seniors who don want the federal govment messin with they medicare.

I say go for it.

Your pal,

Afghans Gonna Come Kill Us

Hey Barry:

Turns out they is whole bunch of scarce minable goodies in Afghanistan - enuf to make the country rich.

Read it here: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2010/06/13/national/w224428D29.DTL

So Barry, here's wot y'all gotta do: Y'all gotta make sure we don't do the Nigerian, free market, swindle the po folks an take all the money to Switzerland model that the good ol USA seems to like so much.

'Wot's the big deal, anyways,' yo may say. 'The corps got the money and we got the muscle - so full speed ahead.'

Here da deal - jes think on an Afghanistan wid ten times the money now and xactly same income distribution, graft and wot all.

Think the Talis pissed now, jes y'all wait til then.

Barry, wot y'all gotta do is make sure ALL the money stays in Ghanistan - course it'll be crooked, but they be some cash for the Talis and the police and the schools and wot not.

Bout our national security Barry, if'n we don help them folks, they gonna come kill us.

Pretty simple, Barry. Help us out here.

Your pal,

Bank Regs - Short Strokes

Hey Barry:

Here's list of wot we need from the bank regs as a first step: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2010/06/13/national/w014403D50.DTL

Lincoln's Rule - Regulate derivatives. Caint have no BS stocks floatin round wid zero oversight or disclosure. No Brainer here.

Volcker rule - Banks wot take deposits and make loans jes caint buy BS stocks, if'n they do, we'll be rite back here. No brainer - gotta have it.

Debit card fees - keep they hands out my pocket. Don wanna pay for no Swiss villas no more.

Consumer protections - Doh, same as above.

Keep on em Barry, this jes the first step.

Your pal,

Kyrgyzstan Riots

Hey Barry:

Ethnic riots are killing folks in Kyrgyzstan.

The government asks Russia for troops and Russia refuses.

Read it here: http://beta.thehindu.com/news/international/article454075.ece

Itsa big mess, Barry. Hope y'all on it.

Your pal

SWAPS Out of Banks

Hey Barry:

Blanche Lincoln wins the Arkansas primary and she's been pushing to get BS stocks out of the banks.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/06/09/AR2010060904197.html

Seems sum of y'all been resistin her on that.

That aint good Barry. Ya gotta think on that one.

Your pal,

Rendition?

Hey Barry:

US critic Webster Tarpley on RT Video says that we kidnapped an Iranian nuclear scientist and brought him back to Tucson, AZ.

See it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DdSzANRt214

Les assume we did that - why we so sloppy?

Is all over the news. Aint no secret.

We gotta get better at it or give it up.

Whattya say Barry - no more news of this stuff.

Your pal,

China Ups Wages, Folks Will Buy More

Hey Barry:

China is uppin salaries so's Chinese will buy more stuff.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/08/business/global/08wages.html?src=busln

Its wot we oughta be doin.

Mebbe some Merican factories can compete now, but Barry we gotta get more money inta hand of folks like me.

Keep workin, Barry - we with y'all.

Your pal,

Dallas Fed: Do More

Hey Barry:

Richard Fisher - Dallas Fed CEO - says it: pass the current bill, but don give up after.

We gonna need deeper reform or we gonna be rite back here.

Read it: http://www.dallasfed.org/news/speeches/fisher/2010/fs100603.cfm

We needs ya on this Barry, keep it goin.

Your pal,

Oil as Utility

Hey Barry:

Its time to open the discussion bout makin oil a national utility.

Itsa simple idea - when sumthin gets so big that evybody jes gotta have it, then is time for the govment to step in. An thas where we is bout oil today.

If'n the guvment dont step up, then the folks wot runs that bizness gonna screw us - thas totally predictable.

Here da solution - make a National Oil Public Utility Commission [NOPUC] that reglates the oil corps. Da goal is to keep the oil weasels from screwin us.

The method is this: the corps can set they prices so dat they get a reasonable return on investment, but they gotta show the NOPUC they profits and returns before they can change prices.

An, NOPUC can make sure they don do stupid thangs like they done in the Gulf.

Wattya say Barry - bout time for dat.

Good thang is jes talking bout it may scare them suckers inta betta behavin - could happen.

Your pal,

Bank Weasels Win Delay

Hey Barry:

Them bank weasels is still at it.

They'd sooner see us all rot than lose a nickel. Makes me wanna - you know.

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6532B620100604

UPDATE - G20 still talkin tough: http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20100605-701338.html?mod=WSJ_latestheadlines

Mebbe they make sum good happen - we'll see.


Your pal,

Blood, Tears, (T)oil and Sweat

Hey Barry:

Sum of da pundits sayin that the oil thing is your make or break; read Carolyn Lochead here: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/06/03/MNFE1DOLPC.DTL

They aint right, Barry, but seems ta me that y'all gotta get in front of it, big time.

Y'all been tryin, but yo aint there yet.

Y'all lives in a 'gimme NOW' world an y'all dealin wid a complex mess. So far, seems y'all is behind the complainin when yo needs to be in front.

Jes like Churchill in WW2. He inherited a mess and hadda get in front of it. Thas when he pulled out his blood and tears thing:'I have nothing to promise you but blood, tears, toil and sweat. We will fight them on the beaches, we will fight them in the fields and we will fight them in the streets. We will never surrender.'

Thas a pretty po rememberin of that speech, but Barry, mebbe it has sum lesson for y'all there.

Your pal,

Kyrgyzstan - More of the Same?

Hey Barry:

Here's a downbeat view of events in Kyrgyzstan - more of the same according to BORUT GRGIC in the NYT.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/01/opinion/01iht-edgrgic.html.

Is he right?

Time will tell, but we gotta keep our eyes open.

If he's right it'll mean more of the same old. An, that'll mean nuther revolution in bout 5 years.

Your pal,

Ship Turnin

Hey Barry:

Y'all up there is gettin that big boat to turn round.

Read it here: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/05/30/EDS81D45T8.DTL

DefiNITEly the big FDR thang. Good on y'all.

Your pal,

Hillary: Tax the Rich

Hey Barry:

Been talkin bout a Prince tax - even Hillary says itsa good idea.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/05/28/clinton-rich-paying-fair-share-taxes/

Its where we gotta be, Barry.

Check it out.

Your pal,

Savin Face - North Korea

Hey Barry:

We're talkin punishin the NK's for sinkin a ship.

Read it here: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/05/27/MN7P1DKSA5.DTL&type=politics

Why we doin that?

Coulda been an old forgotten mine, or mebbe some drunk non-com pushed the wrong button.

Don matter if thas true or not - we surely do not need another war.

Les give the NK's some wiggle room and git outa this mess. Aint nobuddy doubtin yo 'resolve' - y'all showin it well in Ghanistan.

Whatta ya say Barry - keep us out of this'un.

Your Pal,

Flyin Safely

Hey Barry:

Y'all keepin us safer by requirin GPS on planes.

Read it here: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2010/05/27/national/w060727D75.DTL

Thank you.

Your Pal,

Mama Deals

Hey Barry:

Mama Sox says it all for us:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGt5bjf31o4

Update: Crystal didn't win the prize, but she won lotta fans. You go girl!


Your pal,

Whackin Citizens

Hey Barry:

I read the other day that y'all still got some American on the whack list.

An I ain't happy bout it, Barry.

Here da ting: how's I gonna know when I gets on the whack list? An, here nuther ting: it jes aint American to be whacking citizens.

I got dat dis guy seriously bad - aint arguin there.

But Barry, y'all need betta solution. So here it is.

Before y'all whacks im, ya gotta take away his citizenship - make im stateless.

Do that, then whack away.

Keep us American Barry - don go down the King road. We don want it.

Your pal,

Incompetent Drillers

Hey Barry:

Leastways we knows why they's oil all over the Gulf - cheap, stupid and sloppy drillers.

Read it here: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2010/05/23/national/a210203D04.DTL

Jes don ever call them guys when y'all needs a good job at sumthin.

Your pal,

Costin the Goodies

Hey Barry:

I is a big time supporter of more benefits for Americans - we gotta have em cuz it's jes right and we don got very much. And, cuz more benefits mean us reglar folks can spend mo money.

But, here's da ting, them benefits cost big bucks. Now the EU is findin out its benefits is costin too much.

Read Steven Erlanger here: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/23/world/europe/23europe.html?src=linkedin

Here's how USA different - we got lot less benefits here than they got there. And, we don tax our rich folks near as much as they do.

So, Barry, keep pushin out the benefits. But, member that y'all gotta up the taxes on Princes to pay for it.

Taxin them Princes is a good idea anyways. Keep on that one too.

Y'all gonna be FDR II real soon.

Your pal,

Ya Gotta Have Friends

Hey Barry:

Wow!

We can't be alone and be safe.

What an idea.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5juui7didNwh_vzBmJyrbjxkeF-IgD9FS2PN80

More FDR - keep em comin.

Your pal,

'Y'all Gonna Save Gas'

Hey Barry:

OK, even nuther FDR thang.

Keep em comin.

Put the gas limits on cars - no need to wait on Comgress.

Read it here:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/21/business/energy-environment/21fuel.html?src=busln

Your pal,

Senate Passes Regulation

Hey Barry:

Nuther FDR thang.

Read it here in the WAPO:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/05/20/AR2010052003503.html

Good on y'all.

Now, y'all gotta git on the git on the conference committee and git a law y'all can sign.

Jes member the main thing - don let them commercial banks sell no BS stock and no surance or we is all doomed.

Your pal,

Shia LaBeouf - Economist

Hey Barry:

Even actors have figgered out the bank thang:


"You can make the marketplace more transparent. If people had known who was paying for the mortgages instead of having to rely on Moody's triple-A (bull) rating -- transparency would have helped. The triple A rating thing is ridiculous. That's like Oliver [Stone] paying you for a review. The people who were bundling this toxic crap were paying Moody's for the review of their crap. That's ridiculous. You can't have bank holding companies acting as hedge funds. You can't have them taking a million-dollar pension plan for Joe Schmo the bus driver and treat it with the same risk appetite that you treat George Soros' pocket money. It's fundamentally ridiculous. And it hasn't gotten better very recently, actually. They went from bundling mortgages that were crap to bundling life insurance policies and betting on people's deaths. And you can't blame it all on the Street.... People's mentality needs to change. If the Greece contagion thing takes off and it goes from Spain to Ireland to Portugal things are going to change drastically for the world. Soup kitchens, it won't be that type of change. You won't get a depression that way. But it'll be very difficult. I think, my generation, it's hard to have hope when you got a $700-trillion derivatives debt to pay and a bubble about to explode and $500 trillion worth of GDP. You took all the money in the world and put it in a pot, you're $200 trillion short. It's scary, man. You know the average person born today owes $8,000? The average person getting out of college owes $75,000 with no job. I mean it's scary. My generation, it's a scary situation."

link: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/movies/2010/05/shia-labeouf-wall-street-2-indiana-jones-steven-spielberg.html

No mystery there.

They is some good news: the Senate is goin to vote.

Will wonders never cease?

Your pal,

Mama Sox Rocks

Hey Barry:

She got soul.

Check it out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhvigY_n2wQ

Your pal,

Greeks Dog Banks

Hey Barry:

The Greeks are really PO'd at them bank weasels and are comin after 'em.

Read it here: http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSLDE64F0BB20100516

Les give the Greeks some help, sounds like a neighborly thang.

Your pal,

Go Crystal

Wowsers.

Sing it girl: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UQi6hy31Gk

Ima big fan.