Change for Madoff

I knew instantly...

that this plan could work. The few regulations rarely caused the overseers to look askance. I knew if I could get away with it for eight months, it would build on its own accord and take flight into numbers only dreamed about. It did.

Jail didn't scare me ~ I knew the big house man was good for a pardon. He had nothing to lose and everything to gain. TARP covered us all very smartly. We were too big to fail and people would forget about us as soon as American Idol came on.

It was well worth fifty billion for me...

A fictitious 'think' for Bernie ~ the truth lies with Madoff.

Prompt from Sunday Scribblings

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I just don't get it...

The Sunday Scribblings prompt for "I just don't get it...' is perfect for this time of year when spring peeks and leaves, when political bouts rage and when deception seems the order of the day.

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Thinking about this topic reminded me of people who are too lazy to learn the truth. People who forward disinformation by byte-tons and the recipients who accept it as truth. People who fail to explore facts before espousing opinions or voting. People who follow a current fad without thinking.

From there, I wandered to computer malware, hackers, phishers and scammers. How do obviously intelligent people decide the only way to make a buck is to resort to crime? Is it too much to ask that they infect each other and leave regular folks alone?

From there, I found I spend too much time shaking my head or rolling my eyes and saying...'I just don't get it.'

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Fractal created in Apophysis.

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Out from the Gloom

Michelle at Poefusion Friday 5 offers these five words for prompt: fizzy, sylph, freckled, rabble, suasion. It's a fun meme, come along and play!

One fizzy-headed sylph
clad in gauzy green
materializes
from the nether gloom,
from that freckled world
of a well-warped bush.

The see-through sylph
draws a shouting crowd
spouts a plot of fuzzy math
and browbeats rabble
in ill-based suasion
before retreating to her lair.

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Qualitative Experiment

Sunday Scribblings #101 -
The prompt this week is: "The Experiment" or "Experimental."

My response:




analysis
begins
calculated
data gathered
excel'd
footnotes listed
guidelines
hidden
input varietal
jiggered
kneaded
logic lost
missing cells
numbers chewed
opinion spat
political smiles
qualitative
reports
spun in a false web
truth choked
unstated
views exposed
weird wins
x-ray's down
yawns abound
zipped files deleted

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Flim Flam for Poefusion

Poefusion's Friday 5 offered these words: green, snug, snake, boggle, racket. This is a fun meme - feel free to join in...

I attempted my first limerick and came kind of close before I tried a tanka. Obviously, the daily news is getting to me and I couldn't get off topic which is usually easy for me.

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head divider smirks
snug with his own folding green
forked tongue of this snake
spins out another racket ~
maroon's turned to a boggle

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top twisted snake of the packet
so snug in a shameful racket
packs deep pockets with green
his forked tongue boggles me
he has earned a crooked jacket

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I Can't Not Rant

It's a time of learning.

The smaller-government folks are making laws against civilians and ramping up protection for theirs and their ilk while sowing dragons' teeth and studying athletes' steroidal addiction.

Our state, alone, has the dubious honor of an airport staller (his tapping was heard round the world), a man (who has been likened to a fern) of dubious comport whose computer dials random phones at dusk, one who yearns to make it illegal to coerce a woman into having an abortion, and another electee who'd like to see milk named our state drink. Still another advocates a yellow sticker on auto license plates of those who DUI'd. Not the leading sinners, of course, but the regular drunks. There are those who've decided to fill in part of the small lake in order to make a scenic road wider and speed-friendly.

Government is like crabgrass pushing its way through any tiny crack. Taxes grow, expenses are out the door, the deficit is out of sight and the only smaller things I see are my social security check, dividends and freedom.

I heard the leader of this particular brand announce, in his inimitable fashion, that we should be wary of letting 'the others' gain the White House because THEY would threaten our peace and prosperity. I had massive wtf eye jerk there.

It's a time of learning, all right, but those in power must be using brain stiffeners.