Expert of Dumb

While speaking to a friend today he announced he has become an Expert of Dumb. When I asked him what he meant by that statement he replied that having to deal with the public face to face on a daily basis at his work he has in fact become the premier Expert of Dumb.

He works in a grocery store and gave some examples of the dumbness of the public he deals with daily - this is a high-end specialty grocery store and not a 'Big Chain' store so it would be safe to say the clientèle are a bit above average or maybe they are not. In the past few days over the holiday weekend he has had one gap-toothed individual ask for the gourmet burgers advertised in the paper only he pronounced the words like this: them gore-met burgarz that was abertized, another lady (or at least a female anyway) asking for Fillet Mignon as Fill-lets Mag-none.

I agreed with him, he has become a bona fide Expert of Dumb having to deal with people all day everyday and these two prime examples of the public mean.

Thought for the Day

Why is it that those who indulge in childish games always think everyone else indulges in them as well?

Drugged, Robbed then Killed in Rome

From the Newswire:

An American tourist was killed by a train as he walked on the tracks in a daze after he drank a cappuccino laced with drugs and then was robbed, railway police said Monday.

Frank Phel, 74, of California, died early Friday at the suburban Tiburtina station, police official Giovanni Piccolantonio said. Phel's hometown was not disclosed.

The suspected robber, a 54-year-old Italian man who was arrested Saturday, had chatted with Phel and his wife before fetching them cappuccinos at a local cafe and then adding a mix of drugs including sleeping pills, Piccolantonio said.

"This man approached these two tourists and earned their trust, and then offered them two cappuccinos with drugs," Piccolantonio said.

The robbery was filmed by security cameras at a nearby cafe, Piccolantonio said. Footage from other cameras also showed the man stumbling near the tracks, where he ended up by accident.

Phel and his wife, who was briefly hospitalized after the incident, had just completed a cruise in the Mediterranean and were going to Hungary by bus, Piccolantonio said.

Phel's wife went to Hungary, where her husband was born, after being released from hospital.

The U.S. Embassy in Rome did not have an immediate comment Monday on Phel's death.

Warren Buffett: America Is Already In A Recession!

Warren Buffett, whose business and investment acumen has made him one of the world's wealthiest men, was quoted in an interview published Sunday as saying the U.S. economy is already in a recession.

Asked by Germany's Der Spiegel weekly whether he thinks the U.S. could still avoid a recession, he said that as far as the average person is concerned, it is already here.

"I believe that we are already in a recession," Buffet was quoted as saying. "Perhaps not in the sense as defined by economists. ... But people are already feeling the effects of a recession."

"It will be deeper and longer than what many think," he added.

The 77-year-old chairman and chief executive of Berkshire Hathaway Inc. gave the interview while he was in Europe for what he called a "deferred shopping tour," looking for possible acquisitions.

Omaha-based Berkshire has about $35 billion in cash and is looking to invest. Berkshire's subsidiaries include insurance, clothing, furniture, natural gas, corporate jet and candy companies. Berkshire also has major investments in such companies as Coca-Cola Co. and Anheuser-Busch Cos.

Rally Cry of Freedom

"...for, as long as but a hundred of us remain alive, never will we on any conditions be brought under English rule. It is in truth not for glory, nor riches, nor honors that we are fighting, but for freedom -- for that alone, which no honest man gives up but with life itself."

This excerpt from the Scottish "Declaration of Independence" is the most remembered line of the declaration which predates the United States Declaration of Independence by 400 years.

It is appropriate rally cry for those in the United States today who will not submit to rule by the Neo/Theo-Con cabal. A rallying cry that is being heard and heard clearly, so much so the Neo/Theo-Con cabal is shitting themselves trying to disappear fast enough and the nation and the world are loving every minute of it.