Wall Street and the Outrageous U.S. Titanics

1. TITANIC 1: Disgust: Yeap, while we bail them out and the entire world sinks, they are still setting billions aside for their year-end bonus. We need a law,and we need to jail some of those guys, including those from AIG who partied in California and those who kept their bonus, be it $ 6 or 20 million (or much better, of course, how naive of me).

But the machine is nicely oiled: no presidential candidate is going to announce doing the right thing (see above), and Congress gets its money from those guys (and it is a millionaires' club itself anyway), etc., etc... Shameful

2. TITANIC 2: Racism: "what IF indeed Obama's lead narrowed and McCain came back?" Well, yes, racism is alive and about to vote against the "black guy", who is in fact only half-Black, i.e., what we will all be one day: a mixed blood, or mestizo. And what does it matter? (see New Orleans, passablancs, etc.)
Can the person, male or female, do the job, understand, respect, project a vision and brains? Yes? In that case, no problem. If that vision were the same as previous failure or another 100-years' war, well, then, maybe you'd need another vision...

Now, racism itself: of course they'll come out. 1990, Harvey Gantt proved it against Jesse Helms: you can have a 10 % lead, if you are black, you can still lose the real thing by 5 % or better despite those polls.
The only question is: have we changed? Racially? Maturity- and intelligence- wise?
Stay tuned till late November 4th or early November 5th....

Sad! And potentially terrible if we dash hopes and show we have not matured, changed, or acquired brains... And yet, we are less racist in daily life than others can be (French and Germans against their own 'big minorities,' whom they'd rather not hire, and blatantly try not to hire...

3.Final quizzical quandary:
Gift Llama? They say: "don't look a gift horse in the mouth." Ok, so you look at it at the other end???? But then the llama is trickier: it spits on you and so, being that backwards, probably because it is a southern hemisphere animal, do you look a gift llama in the.... rear end? (because it might spit on you? while a horse would relieve hind fluids instead?)
Anyone ever looked at this... quandary up close?

PS: also, because of the Corialis effect, remember to look a gift llama in the derriere COUNTERclockwise!