January 2012

Following up on my previous story about the Hollywood style assassination of an Iranian nuclear scientists, I have been thinking what it would mean if the U.S. actually was involved in it.

First off if we were involved in this bombing there is no way our government would admit it. It would create such a diplomatic nightmare for our country that we have no option but to deny it.

Now having said that, what if we were behind this attack? Well if we were then it shows a difference in policies between the current President and previous one. It would show that George Bush is a man more for a guns-a-blazing, costly war solution, where as Barack Obama is more into the covert, keep it simple and clean approach.

The Obama style approach is one we saw when it came to finally getting Osama bin Laden and when it came to the fall of Gadaffi. The Bush style approach is one we saw in action in Iraq for the past several years. Our country is still paying for that war and almost 4,500 U.S. soldiers paid the ultimate price for.

If I had to make the choice of which way to go, I would take the Obama style any day of the week. It's swift, clean and costs much less in terms of money and life. The other point to make here is that this style of approach may have set Iran's nuclear ambitions back a few years by simply killing one guy. It's not like you can go to Craig's List and just take out an ad for a nuclear scientists. They are hard to come by and now Iran needs to replace this one.

So if the U.S. was behind this assassination, I got to applaud our nation. We finally realized full blown war isn't the only answer to these type of problems. Of course that could change this time next year if President Obama is not given a second term. That's something to think about when heading to the polls this fall.

Sounds like someone some serious anger issues:

It's an age-old and vexing question: How much is it fair to shave off the tip at a high-end restaurant to signal dissatisfaction with the waitstaff? Two percent? Five percent? Should you stiff them? For leveraged buyout king John Castle the other night, the answer was easy: Just crack the little fucker's finger.

Castle, 76, is the chairman and CEO of Castle Harlan, a private equity firm. Before that, he was CEO of the investment banking firm Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette. His is a positively Romney-esque tale of the value of raiding companies to extract value—his business acumen has subsidized a lifestyle that included purchasing the Kennedy family's Palm Beach, Fla., compound in in 1995 and hosting magnificently lavish weddings there for his children, complete with Trader Vic's catering and Mar-a-Lago luncheons.

And on Saturday night, according to a complaint filed with the Palm Beach Police Department, he reacted to subpar service by calling his waiter a "schmuck" and breaking his finger. Castle and his wife Marianne, the complaint says, were having dinner at Club Colette, an elite Palm Beach private dining club (restaurants are for poors), when their waiter Paul Kucik made the unforgivable error of bringing them the check. Which is vulgar, I guess? From the report, which was first reported by the Palm Beach Daily News:

Romney-esque? More than you might think. Castle has been donating money to Romney and actually does all his donations to the GOP. Supporting a candidate or even party like that is enough to make anyone angry!

Here's the live updates as they come in from New Hampshire's primary.

Bob Cesca picked up on this little doozy from Mitt Romney:

“With regards to their ads, I haven’t seen them,” Romney said, after being implored by Gingrich to “calmly and directly” take some responsibility for spots that the former Speaker of the House alleged were “untrue.”

But moments later — in the same response, in fact — Romney made it clear that he hadn’t told the entire truth.

“The ad I saw said that you’d been forced out of the speakership. That was correct,” Romney said.

Get that? Mitt said he didn't see the ad, but then said he did. How can anyone trust this guy to be the most powerful man in the world? Hell his dishonesty is probably enough to turn off a used car salesman.