Wait for it!

Wait for it!


Monday Mega-Edition!

Secretary Geithner, maybe at some of your former jobs - Central Bank Commie, Wall Street bigwig, used car salesman, whatever - you could just totally pull stuff out of your ass and make it work for you, but I'm thinking this time it's gonna come back to bite ya.

"Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner said Tuesday there is 'no risk' the U.S. will lose its top credit rating amid a new analysis that revised its outlook on American debt to 'negative.'"

"There is no chance that the U.S. will lose its top credit rating, Geithner said, forcefully disputing the notion that S&P or other ratings services might downgrade U.S. bonds from their current AAA rating.
'No risk of that, no risk,' Geithner said on the Fox Business Network."

Source: The Hill Finance & Economy Blog

Clark County budget woes
A Community Conversation

HoosierTaxpayer has challenged the local blogger community to save Clark County from its financial rut.

It is difficult to add much to his and Goliath's lists. Legalizing sin and freeing prisoners is a little radical for my taste, but they've made compelling arguments, and I'm inclined to agree.

I do have the following refinements of their ideas and few additional options to throw out there:

1. Goliath & HT don't fully understand the art of annexation. You must maximize the Mcmansions and minimize the mobile homes. So, yes, by all means sell Bordon, but then annex either The Knobs or Prospect. BONUS long-term economic benefit if after annexing Prospect, we pass an ordinance that the River Fields folks must STFU. Presto! East End Bridge and related economic activity in the county.

2. I concur with my colleagues on the furloughing of non-violent offenders from the county jail. They added sex crimes, but they don't hang around enough feminists. Sex crimes are violent crimes. Listing both is unnecessary, and we need something that fits on a bumper sticker.

3. Sell Jeffersonville Mayor Tom Galligan and Sheriff Danny Rodden to feed rescued wildlife. Hear me out! Rodden takes money scalped from caged inmates to make nice with the 4-H people by buying a poor piggy to be fed back to caged inmates. Galligan is a serial tree and wildlife-habitat killer. It would really just be evening things up with Mother Nature. Karma would totally approve as would PETA. Oh, and I almost forgot, they cost the county a fortune (Rodden's costs are obvious; for Galligan's see annexing Mcmansions above).

4. Mug Dr. D. Rumor has it he's making bank. I'm just sayin'.

5. Travel to St. Louis or wherever Galligan's big blue monster is docked (update: this option just got cheaper and easier; it has arrived), seize the hideous thing and put the mystery guys with the city okay to partake of the scrappin' in properties acquired in the canal zone to work on that bad boy.



Cowboy pic of the week!

Monday Editorial Comment
Raise your hand if your brain accidentally said, "I'd like to go to work on that bad boy."