Summer doldrums

With everything that's going on you would think that I could find something that would hold my interest long enough to write about it. I mean look at President Bush. He seems to think that you can grow hair and shine shoes with executive privilege these days. He at least believes he can hide under that warm and fuzzy blanket up to and including his final trip back to Crawford.
Now Harriet Miers is using the same blanket along with former deputy assistant to the President Sara Taylor and a gaggle of e-mails between staffers and the Attorney Generals office about the U.S. Attorney dismissals.
From Plamegate to this debacle the list of those living a lie grows by the day? What possible motivation do they use to go on? How do they even get up in the morning. I don't believe I will ever understand.
But the real problem now is that the story has gone cold. As a matter of fact the whole administration is such a mess that nothing is surprising anymore. God bless the reporters that day in and day out cover this stuff because I don't think anybody listens to it anymore. It's summer and that's what matters to the people I talk to.
There was this one thing that caught my eye on a financial news show today. A lady named Mary Sue Williams won the big Million Dollar stock pickers challenge put on by MSNBC. It has been going on now for some time and it included ordinary folks like Mary Sue right through big name professionals. What was striking was how the big condescending financial news show dealt with the fact that this novice, salt of the earth waitress from Ohio kicked the butts of the ordained so called experts. Instead of showing an ounce of humility for an industry that is so bloated with self serving opportunists it's ridiculous, they treated it like one of those financial make over segments. They had the nerve to bring on two more experts who said things like "you got lucky, now it's time to invest wisely", blah blah blah.
A few years back (quite a few) the top dog in investing was Peter Lynch and this woman whether she knew it or not was following his advice and did quite well at it. After all she picked WD-40 because she used to be a welder and said it is a great product. My kinda people. So now with success under her belt the experts find it necessary to bring her in to the herd of the mediocre or less. What a way to screw up a good story.
Then the host, looking to spice up the story asks her for a second time, in a different way, "what kind of personal things do you want to do?" Mary Sue, after answering the first time, "education for my kid's and maybe buy a car,"she adds, "payoff my mortgage." I thought way to go girl, just because they're on television doesn't mean they're any smarter than you and you just proved it.