Baltimorons

Sure dead people vote - sometimes it's hard to tell the difference between the living and the no-so-living. But in Baltimore, seems the dead still walk amongst us.

The undead zombies are now signing speed camera traffic tickets even though each ticket is supposed to be reviewed by a live officer. Over 2,000 - yes thousand - tickets have been signed by an officer who died months before. Government corruption is very much alive and well in Maryland as in most other states.

People need to take to the streets and stop this wanton misuse of "official" power.

T$A

Give us your money - if you don't, you're a terrorist.

Liberty Airport in lovely New Jersey is the latest place you want to avoid. That is, unless you want your money stolen. Michael Arato, a TSA supervisor, admitted to allowing the theft of passengers monies in exchange for kickbacks. One week he received $3,100 to "look the other way." In fact, Mr. Arato decided this deal was so good - he stole money himself at his "security checkpoint" in terminal B. Between $400 and $700 per shift.

Apparently the Department of Homeland Security has been "trying" to crackdown on theft by TSA employees. Seems they are not trying hard enough. You know if it's going on here - it's going on everywhere.

So, what's the difference between the TSA and a Mexican drug cartel? At least with drugs, you usually get what you pay for.

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p.s. Sharky&Sharky believe that one bad apple, make that a bushel - oh what the hell the entire orchard of bad apples that is the TSA should just fall to the ground and rot.

Still On Hold?

A vitally important government worker for the bankrupt state of California was found dead at her desk last Saturday, Feb. 12th. Probably happens all the time. What doesn't happen all the time is that no one noticed she was dead until a day later.

Rebecca Wells, of the L.A. County Department of Internal Services - the risk management section no less, was found Saturday slumped over her desk by co-worker Hattie Robertson when she came in to the office to do "a little work."

The last time someone had seen Ms. Wells metabolizing oxygen was Friday at 9:00 a.m.

Foul play is not suspected but detectives Webb and Gannon are on the case.

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Holidazed And Confused

Get ready for some green beer, false patriotism and big union expenses - Evacuation Day, March 17th, and Bunker Hill Day, June 17th are fast approaching.

In the state of Massachusetts (aka Taxachusetts), the "Hack Holidays" are expected to cost the taxpayers big time as all affected union workers will receive holiday pay or double time for the fake holidays. Those poor non-union workers will receive two floating holidays.

Spokesman for House Speaker Robert A. DeLeo was "unable" to explain how this measure was "inserted" into the $27.6 Billion budget. Oh my, we just don't know. But not to worry - if you don't pay your taxes, we'll steal your house.

Sharky&Sharky love to see our government at work - especially when we are paying them double time for nothing.

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10 Geopoliticking Time Bombs

Seems much of the world is all a flutter with the recent events in Egypt. Rainbows and Unicorns abound. But is this the beginning of something bigger and far more dangerous than a bunch of demonstrators throwing rocks at tanks?

The following graphic shows 10 countries that have oppressive authoritarian dictatorial governments that could be the next domino in the chain of events started by Egypt. NONE are a true democracy and ALL are at risk of organized "overthrow."

Clearly the majority are in the Middle East and northern Africa but Asia and the Pacific Rim host two - China and Vietnam, while South America has Venezuela.

UPDATE 02/13/11
Looks like Yemen is the first country to move

UPDATE 02/16/11

Libya has joined the fray


UPDATE 02/20/11
Morocco is now on board the list


Let's go down the list:

Pentagon - "We Got Egypped"

One thing the U.S. government loves to do is gamble with the taxpayers money. The latest long shot marker that has to be paid is courtesy of the spooks in the Pentagon.

Over the past several years, approximately $125,000,000 has been spent by the "Wizards of Washington" in an attempt to predict political unrest and upheaval around the globe using various computer modeling software. This is not a new dream by any stretch of the imagination, and has been going on for decades. For the U.S., predicting geo-political trends is big business - especially when one of your biggest exports is death, via military hardware and munitions.

Whoops - hello CIA - is anybody home?

So, what's the track record? ICEWS (Integrated Crisis Early Warning System) a Darpa created prediction program, was able to predict 4 of 16 rebellions, political upheavals or mass ethnic violence accurate to the quarter in which they occurred. Not bad, but Egypt was no where on the radar screen.

"All of our models are bad, some are less bad than others" said Mr. Mark Abdollahian an executive at Sentia Group (one of the companies behind the Pentagon's undertakings) whose efforts have offered the following:

"But think of this like Las Vegas. In blackjack, if you can do four percent better than the average, you're making real money."

Ahhh, money. Something the U.S. needs a hell of a lot of before China turns us over to a collection agency.

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Super Bowl XLV Commercial Hype

And a banned one.



Enjoy - Oh and the game too.

CEOh My God

Food For The Poor, was established in 1982 as a non-profit organization charged with providing assistance mainly to Caribbean and Latin American countries. Those most in need of food, could count on Food For The Poor for basic caloric sustenance.

Sharky&Sharky love do gooders - but you got to be kidding us! Without further adieu, here's the CEO of Food For The Poor.

Org Chart

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Barney Brown Shows the Way to Improve

First, going forward into the future, Sharky&Sharky, want good fortunate to be showered aplenty on Mr Brown. After 38 years in prison, he has a message for the young and old. He truly is an example of the existential mantra "Existence precedes Essence":



Note that the folks that lost his records belong to the same tribes that will handle your Obamacare records, bureaucrats and public administrators.

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It's All Fun And Games T'il The Food Runs Out

Egypt has gone from an "orderly" dictatorship to a country in chaos in a few short days. The Mubarak regime is over - but what is likely to fill the void? As of right now, nothing good.

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Other than the fact that you can always count on one-half of a country willing to kill the other half (see above), the Egyptian people as a whole may not know what democracy is, but that does not mean they do not want it. Thanks in large part to technology's "social media tools", Egyptians were able to access an independent communications and propaganda source outside the government mantra. After 58 years of government propaganda it is not surprising that the Egyptian people would not accept the government's explanation as to what was actually occurring. People believed what they read on Facebook and Twitter because they wanted to believe it. So here they are and where do they go from here?

Gamal, son of Hosni, ain't gonna cut it. In all probability, the Mubarak regime was not prepared nor informed of the true situation or the degree of participation. Both the Egyptian security forces and the military simply stood down and waited and watched. As police station after police station was assaulted and breeched, weapons removed and prisoners released, no one intervened. Even the sight of tanks in the streets did not deter the protesters from their mission. But this vacuum must and will be filled. But with what? Let's hope it's better than the following image.

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