Free Marketing

AITOOW found it funny that the marketing executives for Trump got their panties in a bunch over the men's teams' failure to include an email address in their lit this week? They also brought out that old tired horse of a call to action. Hmm. Let's see. How could anyone ever find out more info on the company? Oh yeah. A little thing called a search engine? And could the website possibly be trump.com? You had to call out those sorts of things 15 years ago when websites weren't ubiquitous and then only if your site wasn't your name.com. And a call to action? Is anything more off putting? Today's consumer doesn't want the hard sell. Time to audit a current business school marketing class, experts! I did like how they panned the women's ad as a strip club dash card. It was. And I'm sure Trump liked having three hood rats as the face of his hotels. The first question I would have asked is - since Trump is a gauche arriviste, does he want to appeal to his peers or emulate old money like most new monied people do? Somebody also needs to remind the men's team that business people are the people in your highschool that copied the "accepted" standards. They don't ever go outside the box. They say the want to, but, they don't. They are conformists. They are not artists. Play it safe at all times.

And how much product placement was in Gossip Girl last night? Was it a homage to that new Morgan Spurlock movie? Why weren't there Gilt patches on the actors' clothing and Gilt ads on the cars? It was everyplace else.

The New OTBs

AITOOW is aware that internet cafes serve as de facto casinos for online gambling? Especially in poor neighborhoods. I wondered why I was seeing more of them every day.

Fish Tales

AITOOW read that viral infections may be the reason that salmon have been dying in the Pacific Northwest? Not global warming. Not dams. Although, I'm sure the Birkenstocks will find an indirect nexus to their Trojan Horses. Lox of luck.

Consider The Source

AITOOW thinks that Republicans should probably ignore the "advice" of liberal pundits on issues like Medicare and debt? Why would they want to help you?

Truth Be Damned

AITOOW wishes OBlahBlah would shut his face for one day so that they can opine on a multitude of more interesting subjects? How exactly are the poor sacrificing? By taking - social security, medicare, medicaid, unemployment, free education, free services, free roads, free protection et al? And they don't pay a nickel in taxes. I think you have it backwards as usual. The "rich" are the only ones who are sacrificing. The poor are the ones enriching themselves off of their fellow citizens.

Default Line

AITOOW doesn't understand why we have to default on the interest due payments to bond holders if we don't raise the debt ceiling? Why not pay those bills first and then default on non-creditors like government workers or social programs. Isn't that what California did? And where else are investors going to be able to find these levels of debt to invest in other than the US? So France and England become more credit worthy. They can't satisfy the demand. Therefore, you don't even have to raise the risk premium. Just two more reasons NOT to raise the debt ceiling.

Hen House

AITOOW wonders how there is not a conflict of interest between the credit rating agencies and the federal government that watches over them? They rate US debt. They haven't been prosecuted for fraud. Our debt hasn't been down graded despite trillions in new debt and ratios that have multiplied like leveraged debt. Co-incidence?

Charity Begins In Your Home

AITOOW would like to thank the Vice Plagiarizer In Chief for reminding us that compassionate liberals are only generous with other peoples money. 5k to charity after $300 last year? How may cheap jew references do think he's uttered in his life? Talk about cheap. The sad thing is you know he had to be goaded by Presidential advisers to pony up that much. On a similar topic. How transparent is OBrahmin's donation to a charity for military families. This and his recent marketing campaign to use military families as his vehicle for expanding his socialist agenda, championing his patriotism and clouding his pacifism is nauseating. Talk about tri-angulation. It's like the big oil companies' commercials touting their green energy initiatives.

Dish Of Salt

AITOOW would like thank Subway for reducing their salt usage? This way I don't have to stop eating their sandwiches 3 days before I go out in public. The bloated face look isn't in. I knew there was something wrong with their food. Who's next?

Bitch Please

AITOOW wonders if black people are so rude when they speak because people usually ignore/discount them and what they have to say? Therefore, they believe they must first create a scene to be acknowledged. Additionally, they have built up animosity to being belittled in the past and expect the same negative reaction to their words this time around. They anticipate that negative behavior with equally poor initial behavior. It's especially prevalent in disputes because it isn't just about being heard (treated as an equal), it is about being prejudged for ones (lack of) intellectual capabilities (treated as an authority). Or maybe they are just childish assholes who haven't yet learned how to control their emotions?

Black To The Future

AITOOW felt a little rush of nostalgia when Barry Bonds was acquitted by the lone vote of a black woman this week? It's nice to know that America can still count on the prejudice or corruptibility of the black mother archetype to spring whatever black criminal the rest of a jury pool feels is guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. Free OJ!

Elect Paul Ryan

AITOOW doesn't understand why Paul Ryan isn't the GOP's top choice for President? He's young, charismatic, bright, articulate, measured and fiscally responsible. He was even on the Spender in Chief's Deficit Commission. Plus he's from an area of the country that is up for grabs.

The Real Unemployment Number

AITOOW would like to thank the Bureau of Labor Statistics for giving us (what I've contended all along) the real number of working Americans? Although I'm sure it's typically just an inexact estimate (don't we get tax info that can be aggregated?) and doesn't include self-employed workers that have little to no income coming in on one side or off the books workers on the other, they still say that only 45.4% of Americans have jobs! That's 54.6% of people unemployed not 9%! Can we start using this as the metric now! I want the drumbeat to be "Over Half of America Out of Work" from now on.

Figs To Dates

AITOOW doesn't understand how the media and Dems perceive the Libyan rebels as utterly unable to defeat the Libyan army by themselves while they could see no way the similarly equipped Iraqi rebels could be defeated by the US military?

Boston Rube

AITOOW remembers self-proscribed Svengali Boston Rob writhing in teary eyed misery on Survivor? What a little bitch. A far cry from the "mastermind" he is now masquerading as. Doesn't he remind you of a slightly skinnier Jimmy Kimmel? He really is a perfect depiction of a Boston douche bag.

Anarchy In The USA

AITOOW finds it unbelievable that the Make It Rain Party can only be forced at gun point to relinquish their grimy paws of 1% of the budget? Isn't interest on the debt over 10%? What's even more unbelievable is that they will pay no penalty for their irrational behavior. If they were a person they would be diagnosed with a disorder. Their sanity would be in question. They would be kicked out of their homes. Does anyone remember that they green lighted 6 billion for reparations to Indians and black farmers? Do people remember that they gave 200+ billion to doctors as an aside to the health care bill? Do they remember that the health care legislation cost is spread over 10 years though the actual outlays only accumulate over 5 years? Did they not notice that half their buddies were kicked out over this issue 6 months ago? Are they anarchists? People blame Clinton's second term on the government shut down. We were in a boom. People were profligate. The national debt was in single digits. There was no China. Feeble, Bob Dole was the option. Perot 2 stole votes. Republican's didn't turn out because your grandfather's candidate (Dole) was the option and he looked like he was senile. Many Republican congressmen were dirty. Yoy had no Fox News, etc. Please remember those variables next time you try and learn from history, Boner. The only thing worse than not learning from history is drawing parallels from dissimiliar scenarios.

Chewing The Fat

AITOOW wonders if being fat is genetic why there are never any fat people in concentration camps?

Free Market

AITOOW finds it interesting that the EU states and the US have taken divergent paths to sorting out their fiscal problems? One of them is using austerity which props up its currency and makes it an option for fixed income and one of them is spending like a sailor on shore leave which kills its currency and makes it an option for equities. It's almost like they got in a room and decided to game the system for the welfare of all. No competition. A perfectly split pie. Something for everyone. And nobody left out. I'm sure it's a coincidence.

The Dog Ate My Spirit

AITOOW thinks the anti-social behaviors blacks evince are less about feeling unwelcome in their country and more about not having to contribute to it? It's a convenient/effective excuse for laziness to feign indifference or animosity towards the common weal.

Diary Of A Wimpy Lib

AITOOW thinks Rachel Maddow does a convincing job of playing a boy in Dairy of a Wimpy Kid?