When Did The Hindenburg Go Down

The Hindenburg Had a Ceiling Too

N August 1, the U.S. president announced that a deal raising the debt ceiling and cutting spending had been reached. The White House called it a “win for the economy and budget discipline.”

If it was such a win, why does it feel like we just got hit in the face with a clump of dirt?

The market obviously doesn’t think anything is solved. On Tuesday, the S&P got hammered for the seventh day in a row—making it the longest losing streak since the dark days of 2008. The Dow Jones was down too. So was the Nasdaq.

More than a trillion dollars in stock market wealth simply evaporated.

Coming after politicians supposedly saved the nation, the stock market crash was particularly ominous.

“I would have expected to see a (stocks) relief rally almost immediately upon passage in the Senate,” said Fred Dickson, chief market strategist at The Davidson Cos. in Lake Oswego, Oregon. “It hasn’t happened.”

Instead markets slumped hard! Why?

Simply put: The debt deal stinks. The compromising Congress may pay the immediate bills, but nothing has been done to even begin to fix the debt problem.

More ominously, no one believes anything Washington says anymore. Everyone can see what a farce it has become. Politicians on the verge of bringing the whole government to a halt over cutting a couple of hundred billion dollars a year over 10 years (most of it back loaded years into the future)—while the economy is going further into debt by the trillions. Fiddling while America burns.

And it is not just the average guy on the street who sees America’s peril. The big players see it too. The debt ceiling fiasco was played prime-time for the world to see.

What did the big players do? Just look at what went up and what went down.

As the stock market slid and the value of America’s businesses evaporated, one investment soared. Unfortunately, it is an investment that indicates more trouble ahead for America.

Our First Contributor's Post: About God & Lebron

The Arab spring, Wall Street CEO’s robbing the world, Chinas rising power, Sarah Palin’s stupid, etc.  Important events occur on a daily basis.

So why do we care so much about overpaid Alpha Males with freakish athletic talents who live like kings when they are not playing to what amounts to no more than child games that we all grow out of when we discover drugs and sex?

Well yes, sometimes we live through athletes.  We rejoice on their victory as if it were ours (it isn’t).  We are touched when a human story unfolds before us in real time, and feel a part of something bigger than us because of it (we aren’t).

And sometimes, well… sometimes we just wanna see somebody fail. -body, that’s who. (Dictators?  Wallstreet thieves?  Rapist and murders?!?  Well… they might not make for a wannabe funny rant, so let’s not get into it.)

Now, among walking freak shows of jumping high and running fast, nobody can hold a candle to the infamous Lebron James.

His vision, his athleticism, his perfect blend of height and girth, his stamina, and his humongous freaking penis (probably!)…  why, I would sexually harass “The King”, drug him and try to be his baby’s momma if I weren’t a heterosexual male with no doubts at all as to my sexual inclination.

Lebron’s physical gifts are as plentiful as Snooki is irrelevant.  Lebron’s the perfect candidate to make a clone army to defend the Empire, instead of the stupid Mexican they hired in Jango Fett.

Lebron is the heir to hundreds of years of his ancestors being bred like dogs, the product of searching for the biggest, strongest and dumbest Homosapien available.

What an amazing cosmic turn of events that the byproduct of this tragedy is now the walking conglomerate getting paid millions to bang cheerleaders and put the ball in the basket in between cummings.

The talent, the physical specimen, and the flying spaghetti monster-given gifts are insurmountable.  He has everything… except the will.