I Gave them a Sword ...

Ferdinand the Bull
Adapted from the story by Munro Leaf
Play and lyrics by Karen Zacarias
Music by Deborah Wicks La Puma
Even the youngest children will be enchanted by this sweet tale of a Spanish bull that would rather take care of his flowers than fight! The score incorporates a variety of Spanish musical styles, including flamenco guitar, and the pun-filled dialogue includes lots of Spanish vocabulary words. In this fun and imaginative adaptation, including a pig named Cochina who wants to be a star, and a young matador who would rather be a dancer, everyone learns to be true to themselves.

MooPig has a severe boredom problem with what others are all talking about currently ... and in context of current events, nothing very much excites old MooP... It turns out MooPig, with Moo on the outside, spends most of his days grazing lazily on clover and pansies, picking a petal or leaf with a snuff from his big bull nose, saying, "She loves me ... she hates me... she loves me ... she hates  me."

As each petal disappears into the production of Bull Stuff, each new thought has origin in that rhythm of cutting, and pudding.

Next time you look at R M Nixon from the old days, after Watergate,  ... use the imprint of the old, lovesick, torn bull on the pasture, a stones' throw from the action, pining away the hours, ignoring the present.

Lost his will to fight, forever, retiring and growing older in the passing of hours.

MooPig's Historical Business Perspectives: Creative Accounting

INvitation to Graft
by PD and the un-Herds

Business in general has gone through some really bad evolutions. The worst we at "MooPig Business College" have witnessed is in business accounting. Accounting has been more creative, than useful, for about fifty years.

In the "Back When Days" there were payable's and receivables, a simple system for Mom2Pop Businesses: the old In or Out. At the end of each day we count up the receipts, and that helps us prepare for tomorrow.

As we all began to settle in with simple business language, it became the tax thing of liabilities and assets. That became the fall guy wording, so now it is not just two things but three categories ...

Just lately a complement of creative C-Class forces has added something to our day: Liabilities, Toxic Assets, and Assets. Now are we looking at the back side of the Bull?

Lord knows that I will be selling a property for what I have in it -- if I can no longer pay for it. Why is this property going to be called "Toxic?" Is it a WMD?

Quote of the Moment [SOURCE]
"...elite business interests—financiers, in the case of the U.S.—played a central role in creating the crisis, making ever-larger gambles, with the implicit backing of the government, until the inevitable collapse. More alarming, they are now using their influence to prevent precisely the sorts of reforms that are needed, and fast, to pull the economy out of its nosedive. The government seems helpless, or unwilling, to act against them." --economist Simon Johnson in The Atlantic.

We think nothing has prepared us for current Government in the mix as our taxing branch and as our prime debtor, business accounting model. Isn't that an invitation to graft, guilty just by associations?

"I certainly would find another line of business if I were CFO in a large bankrupt Corporation today," said MooPig Chief Finance Officer, Chuck Love.

Good thing for us MooPig Enterprises, aka Marmart, is still just a Mom2Pop value added retailer. Will you stick with us Chuckie, through our IN's and OUT's?

REfer also to: Banks Defrauding the Public? Huh? HERE

Hunting Season Opens: Cutting through the Bias, No Bull

No, not for just any Large Big Dumb Animals
Unless you mean Governors at the National Governor's Conference | Retrieved by Pat Darnell

Part-time MooPig CNN "Commentary Analyst" Wilma Storensen of Two Girls Waffle House, Knife River, MN has some tips for hunters this winter: "Many times we go hunting for Bull. We need lots of bull to fill in the cold, dark days and nights of winter. Most the time hunters hunting bull can see tell tale signs from bull scat over and around herds of heifers."

"For cold storage we like the not too young nor too old bull meat," says Wilma. She then divulges the top secret of Minnesotan success in cutting through the bull.

"If you want to improve your chances of catching perfect bull, there is one more ingredient to include in your hunt," says the crafty business woman and matriarch. "Without Bias, there will not be any Bull. You have to look for the bias."

According to CNN's Campbell Brown's commentary if there is No Bias, then there is No Bull. She provides us with this template of very up to the minute Questions to ask when hunting for Bull.

CNN's Campbell Brown admonishes Rendell. Here are the Questions posed by Ms Brown in OP/ED on CNN --

1. How many times have politicians been warned about the dangers of open microphones?
2. If a man had been Obama's choice for the job[National Homeland Security Sec], would having a family or not having a family ever even have been an issue?
3. Would it ever have prompted a comment?
4. Probably not. We [know] that with a man there tends to be a wife in the wings taking care of those Family concerns?
5. As a woman hearing this, it's hard not to wonder if we're counted out for certain jobs, or certain opportunities because we do have a family, or we are in our child bearing years. Are we? It's a fair question.
6. If you're a childless single woman, with suspicions that you get stuck working holidays and weekends, and the more burdensome shifts, more often than your colleagues [who have] families -- are those suspicions well founded?
7. Is there an assumption that if you are family free [then] you have no life?
8. Governor Rendell, ...I know what you meant to say, but your comments do perpetuate stereotypes that put us in boxes, both mothers and single women.
9. IN government and beyond, men have been given benefit of the doubt, when it comes to striking the right work\ life balance. Women are owed the same consideration.

There you have it from MooPig's own: "Bull Hunters, remember Look for the Bias, and Happy Hunting!"
What’s your opinion of Ed Rendell’s comment about Janet Napolitano? Tell us what you think.


Reference
Brown, Campbell: No author cited, 12.04.08, SOURCE LINK HERE

Here Come da' Energy Czar...

by Pat Darnell | 12.06.2008
Now first things first. Energy Czar Position opening up. Obama has said it, so I reckon it is the lingo we will be using. But why use Czar -- why not something Native American like Lameduck Sitting Bush... or Chief Comic-Relief Cosby'er...

Summary: The wrangle over the creation of a high-level energy council or climate "czar" could determine which appointees will run the three agencies, which have the biggest impact on energy and climate policy. ... appointees to run the departments of Interior and Energy and the Environmental Protection Agency... [Retrieved HERE]

Obama, Aides Consider Appointing Energy 'Czar'
By STEPHEN POWER and NEIL KING JR. | Dec 6, 2008
WSJ
What is a "Czar" -- besides a tyrannical leader of an enigmatic but defunct Caucasian National Royalty -- being here resurrected by the First Black President of the USA? Obama, we hired you because you promised you wouldn't be like all the others. In this stage of two presidents, -- because I see you executing more often lately than Lame duck Sitting Bush -- I think your DC crowd of talking heads are dragging their under utilized feet.

Sort of like this fence straddling cowboy in the photo: Prez Obama says, "Son, your country needs you as Czar... of somethin' or another."

Bull rider gives a faceBook of good faith, but later: "Do I really want to ride that bull out there in all that mud."

Is that the Maynard G Krebs motto I hear on the wind from Baltimore? "WORK?"

Bob Denver, played his best friend, beatnick Maynard G. Krebs ("Work?!?"), an abvious prototype of today's teenage slacker. (Which would make sense, since 'Dobie Gillis' was running on Nick at Nite ten years ago!) Maynard G. Krebs looks like he stepped right out of a modern Abecrombie and Fitch ad! [SOURCE]

The only way that the environment will ever be fixed by Federal action is if we put a herd of Angus on the White House Lawn.

Dennis Quaid

Dennis Quaid's Secret to Happiness -- Sorry this post has nothing to do with Dennis Quaid. MooPig is trying a new tactic to get certain market segments to look in and do a page view. It's actually just another article about Obama and the winds of Bull-Baiting...

"Alexander Cockburn: Obama, the first-rate Republican"
by Alexander Cockburn: Is there anything the front-runner will not say to become President? No progressive cause would have a chance with him in charge...
Sunday, 26 October 2008 | [SOURCE: Read it HERE]

"After eight years of unrelenting assault on constitutional liberties by Bush and Cheney, public and judicial enthusiasm for tyranny has waned. Obama has preferred to stand with Bush and Cheney. In February, seeking a liberal profile in the primaries, Obama stood against warrantless wiretapping. His support for liberty did not survive for long. Five months later, he voted in favour and declared that "the ability to monitor and track individuals who want to attack the United States is a vital counter-terrorism tool".

"Every politician, good or bad, is an ambitious opportunist. But beneath this topsoil, the ones who make a constructive dent on history have some bedrock of fidelity to some central idea. In Obama's case, this "idea" is the ultimate distillation of identity politics: the idea of his blackness. Those who claim that if he were white he would be cantering effortlessly into the White House do not understand that without his most salient physical characteristic Obama would be seen as a second-tier senator with unimpressive credentials.

"As a political organiser of his own advancement, Obama is a wonder. But I have yet to identify a single uplifting intention to which he has remained constant if it has presented any risk to his progress. We could say that he has not yet had occasion to adjust his relatively decent stances on immigration and labour-law reform. And what of public funding of his campaign? Another commitment made becomes a commitment betrayed. His campaign treasury is a vast hogswallow that, if it had been amassed by a Republican, would be the topic of thunderous liberal complaint.

"Obama's run has been the negation of almost every decent progressive principle, with scarcely a bleat of protest from the progressives seeking to hold him to account. The Michael Moores stay silent. Obama has crooked the knee to bankers and Wall Street, to the oil companies, the coal companies, the nuclear lobby, the big agricultural combines. He is more popular with Pentagon contractors than McCain, and has been the most popular of the candidates with Washington lobbyists. He has been fearless in offending progressives, constant in appeasing the powerful... (Cockburn, A; 10.26.2008) Excerpt retrieved HERE; emphasis's by Pat Darnell]

"...So no, this is not an exciting or liberating moment in America's politics. If you want a memento of what could be exciting, go to the website of the Nader-Gonzalez campaign and read its platform on popular participation and initiative. Or read the portions of Libertarian Party candidate Bob Barr's platform on foreign policy and constitutional rights. The standard these days for what the left finds tolerable is awfully low. The more the left holds its tongue, the lower the standard will go." (Alexander Cockburn co-edits counterpunch.org, the US left-wing website, and is a columnist for 'The Nation' and 'The First Post')