Celibacy and Lotharios

There are two polar extremes on the sexual-activity spectrum ... Jeffery Epstein whose daily existence revolved around orgasms ... and (truly) celibate priests and monks who deny their hormones for a higher good. (I don’t mean to cast this comparison as only a male one ... there are obviously female equivalents.)

Clearly, the human imperative is to procreate ... but most humans have crossed this reproductive threshold into the realm of pure physical pleasure without the bothersome result of conception. As far as I know, no other animal species has achieved this level of civilization.

It has long been asserted that celibacy channels humans’ coital energies into other creative outlets. Maybe so ... although lothario Harvey Weinstein made some pretty good movies ... and that coxswain Bill Cosby was quite entertaining as a performer.

But Bubba Clinton does support the notion that Casanovas are generally worthless.

We all know that the #MeToo movement was our nation’s convulsive reaction to this run-away male sexual aggression. But this movement has now met its end when it finally crossed another threshold by fingering Joe Biden’s sexual antics.

Topsy Turvy

Al Gore now says that all our extremely frigid weather is all because of global warming ... see: Climate Depot Story. Joe Scarborough is rolling his eyes and foaming at the mouth as he declares President Trump to be crazy. Kim Jong-un is making nice-nice with South Korea suggesting that the North might take part in the upcoming Winter Olympics there. California Governor Jerry Brown, in the midst of the marajuana purple haze that is now enveloping his state, has established his own immigration laws. Meryl Streep had no idea that Harvey Weinstein was the perviest of pervs. He was "a god."

Is the world losing its collective mind? Is down now up and versa visa? Are we all now topsy turvy?

Dirty Money

POLITICAL RULES: There are no rules in politics ...

Activist lawyer Lisa Bloom, daughter of that professional perv pursuer Gloria Allred, took it upon herself last fall to corral a bevy Donald Trump's sexual impropriety accusers ,,, to try to sway last year's election. And she did rope in a number of apparently reluctant accusers. However, in order to overcome their shyness, she offered some soiled money incentive ...  collected from wealthy liberals anxious to see Hillary win. These women  accusers were given or offered anywhere from $30,000 to $750,000 to relate their emotive sexual encounters to the national media in hopes of submarineing Trump's chances ... see: The Hill Story to understand how this sliminess worked back then. (Three of these accusers have reemerged recently to try to Harvey-Weinstein Trump. I wonder if they are getting a second round of financing?)

This pelf was so dirty one could barely read its numbers ...

Safety in Numbers

Weinstein? Who is Harvey Weinstein? Since we were treated to our first sexual perv, there has been such a flood of like-minded miscreants, that we have almost forget who opened the spillway. Now, the lawyer for perv Rep. John Conyers is threatening to reveal the dozens if not hundreds of Congresspersons (there has to be at least one female) who have engaged in inappropriate horizontal cha-chas on Capitol Hill.

This sounds like a safety in numbers strategy on this lawyer's part and, I strongly suspect, it just might work. So, if the 254 lechers are revealed whose payoffs cost us taxpayers around $16 million ... plus those 50 on the current Congressional "creep list" are unmasked, the print media should have enough fodder to feed a cattle drive. And John Conyers (and Al Franken) can lose themselves in this crowd.

And what might the political persuasions of these over 300 pervs be? My money is on at least 75% Democrats. If not, I'll down a hefty dose of Fletcher's Castoria ...

Afterward: I think I just figured out why they call themselves "congress" ...

Question?

Can we now assume that any female that starred in a Miramax film first had to have watched Harvey Weinstein take a shower?

Sexual Ptedator Awards

National Order Of Swamp Emeritus (NOOSE)

Today's Quote

The following came from a comment on the Diplomad blog:

Hillary was asked how Harvey Weinstein's behavior compares to her husband Bill's. Her response was, "Close, but no cigar."

Duck Dynasty

Evey cloud is supposed to have a silver lining. In the case of hurricane Harvey Weinstein, we might get lucky if his recent ignominy is the motivation for legions of Hollywood woodies to decide to abandon their three-day-beard-stubble look. I think that they must think it makes them look like a lumberjack (pun intended) or a foxhole GI (pun intended). Now, these macho men, rather than be judged guilty by association, might pay a visit to King Gillette's product ... or let their beards grow all the way in like the Duck Dynasty guys.

Revelation

Harvey Weinstein

It seems there is an awful lot of wood in Hollywood ...

Woody Allen

A Few Observations

- Global-warming alarmists point to our recent hurricanes as evidence of their religion ... saying that warmer waters makes for more powerful storms. However, there is another factor that seems to be neglected ... the speed of such hurricanes over water. Both hurricanes Irma and Maria were very slow moving and thus could pick up more energy independent of the actual water temperature. Hurricane Nate is fast moving and would seem to be far less dangerous.

- Why was Harvey Weinstein finally outed after decades of his well-known boorish behavior? Malia Obama has been an intern of his for some months and she has been seen recently bundled up in a parka when around Weinstein (a well-known local protection against his groping hands). Perhaps Harvey had earlier made a move on Obama's number one ... and the NYT is in payback mode?

- The Las Vegas shooter, Stephen Paddock, owned several airplanes and was a licensed pilot. He could have loaded up one of his planes with ammonium nitrate and flown it into the same crowd he shot up (it was right near the Las Vegas airport) ... and killed multiples more country-music fans than he did.

- The U.S.stock market is currently extended and overbought. Just about everyone expects at least a 10% correction ... but we don't know when. I believe that all stocks will suffer then ... but the ones which will be most punished will be the high multiple tech stocks typified by the FANG group (Facebook, Amazon, Netflix, and Google). Staying with multinational companies with price-earnings multiples below 15 and dividend yields above 3% should offer a modicum of safety. And don't forget that, after the bloodbath, to be a buyer.

Bossum Buddies

Harvey Weinstein and Michael Moore

Bubba Clinton and Harvey Weinstein

Both from Powerline blog

The Payoff

Joe Scarborough keeps asking the same question on his Morning Joe show.  How will Obama’s raising the tax rate on the upper 2% of income earners generate any significant amount of revenue?  Were this to happen … Warren Buffet won’t be paying any more taxes.  Michael Moore won’t be paying any more taxes. Harvey Weinstein won’t be paying any more taxes.  Jon Corzine won’t be paying any more taxes.  Hedge fund managers won’t be paying any more taxes.  Anyone who earns money from dividends or capital gains … or those who can afford a good tax attorney won’t be paying any more taxes under Obama’s scheme. 

Do you find it strange that these people are also the ones who have been the big fund raisers for Obama?  So Obama, by being so fiercely adamant in his fiscal-cliff solution, can let his plutocrat friends off the hook while, at the same time, appear to be appeasing the Wall-Street Occupiers.  The people who will be paying more taxes will be those schlemiels who earn $250,000 to $500,000 per year in ordinary income and don’t have any significant offsets.  They are the ones who will be taking in the shorts.  And they are the ones, as the small business owners, who are said to be the major job creators in the country.

On the other hand, how might Obama go after the real millionaires and billionaires?  He could limit total deductions and other income-tax offsets to something like $35,000 or $50,000 or $75,000 … just like what Mitt Romney had proposed in the Presidential debates … and like what the Republicans are currently offering in the fiscal-cliff discussions.  Under this methodology Warren Buffet, Michael Moore, Harvey Weinstein, Jon Corzine, hedge fund managers, and their ilk would be the ones taking in the shorts … instead of the small-business job creators.  And, using this methodology, raising $800 billion in taxes (or much more depending on the limit put on deductions) over ten years would be a piece of cake. 

Therefore, one could reasonably conclude that The Barry’s insistence on just raising taxes-rates on the 2%-ers is really, in truth, a sly payoff to his benefactors by our consummate demagogue-in-chief.

Postscripts:  Please don't assume that, by my not mentioning spending and entitlement cuts, I do not favor them.  I do.  I think they are a must and the ratio of government spending cuts to revenue additions should be at least 6:1.  Also don't infer from the above that I would like to increase the tax rates on dividends and capital gains.  I don't ... however I would be in favor of eliminating the "carried interest" tax loophole that hedge fund managers enjoy.  It is a distasteful  taxing gimmick and it would be a tragedy if this carried-interest tax avoidance loophole was the reason taxes went up on actual capital gains and dividends.