I assume this is not news to anyone that the “Dear Leader” of North Korea and puppet star of Team America Kim Jong Il is dead. If that isn’t a reason to drink champagne, then I don’t know what is. Seriously, that guy sucked at life. I look forward to Kim Jr. and his military cabinet making a wrong move so the international community can give the thumbs up to us nuking them off the planet.
The Super Mario bonus points of this situation is that now rumors are surfacing indicating the circumstances surrounding Kim Jong Il’s passing were a tad “massaged” by the North Korea propaganda machine. You see, dying on a train doing leader-y stuff is a good way to say that Kim was a man of the people until the very end. Whereas being choked to death by a concubine because she didn’t adequately understand the safety word could possibly be frowned upon by one’s adoring public.
Okay, I made that death up. Funny nonetheless.
America finds herself once again in a state of political deadlock. Payroll tax cut extension this time. Senate passed it. House didn’t like it, so they kicked it back. Senate adjourned for Christmas in the meantime. One crux of the argument is centered around the so-called “Millionaire Tax”, which is clearly a liberal attempt to empty Scrooge McDuck’s money bin for their eeeeeeeevil liberal agendas. Agendas like replicating Ellen Degeneres into a gigantic clone army and taking over Tatooine.
These “it’s funny because it’s hyperbolic” DuckTales/Star Wars references doing anything for ya? Appeals to a narrow demographic of nerd, I tell ya. And I guess they technically took over Hoth...
Europe keeps making deals to stave off its sovereign debt crisis and the markets say “Yaaaaaaaay!!!” Then the markets sleep on it, wake up at 3:30 am in a cold sweat and say “OH SWEET GOD NO” because yesterday’s deals were evidently not quite deal-tastic enough. And then all hell breaks loose once again the following morning.
Lather, rinse, repeat. For like a couple months running now. It’s right up there with watching your never-hugged-enough-as-a-kid cousin go in and out of bad relationships. So easily pgredictable that you stop genuinely caring. This is what has been dictating the tide on international economics.
On the bright side, we won the Iraq War. Until we find a new reason to declare war on them. Based on my life’s frame of reference, it’s a pretty regular thing. Nah, in all fairness Obama didn't declare some sort of arbitrary victory. So we didn’t WIN persay, we’re just not fighting anymore.
Saudi Prince Alaweed recently invested $300 million in Twitter. He promptly followed the major bet by tweeting “omg totes just dropped mad coin on Twitter lol #ChristmasPresentForMe”
Bank of America continues to regret its gobbling of Countrywide. They recently paid a $335,000,000 settlement over violations of fair lending practices. Evidently they engaged in routine discrimination of 200,000 black and Hispanic borrowers through higher rates, outright denial or pushing them into needlessly expensive sub-prime products. My former competition knows how to keep it classy.
The National Association of Realtors released information stating that home sales from 2007-2011 were on average revised downward 14.3% from their original releases. This came after they saw their numbers were deviating from other national metrics. Now, while this isn’t ideal, it doesn’t change a damn thing that’s happening right now at the ground floor. It may have an effect on public perception of housing going forward, though. And as we all know, perception is reality. All that being said, November existing home sales came in at an unseasonably strong +4.0%.
Well my faithful and beautiful readers, here we are at the end of 2011. T’was an interesting year. I hope I have provided you a chuckle or two via my ADD and politically-incorrect ramblings over the past 12 months. Goodness knows I tried. And you guys and gals have come through for me with your support and referrals, making this one of my best years to date. I appreciate that greatly. My best to you and your own.
I love you. I love you so much.
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