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Big Mac With a Side Of Juice: Mark McGwire's Incomplete Confession

11.01.10

That Grade McGwire has admitted to wide ranging steroid use during his craft.

On one hand, it was obvious that his admission comes much too modern to be very satisfying. So much testimony had been revealed about the beef producing habits of the "Bash Brothers," including the tainted, though inescapable, accusations of Jose Canseco, that I'm considerably less shocked than when I heard that George Michael was gay.

And I wasn't shocked...at all.

So part of me just wants to say, "Well Duh," and move on.

Part of me is so airsick of all this steroid garbage that I want to tip my cap to McGwire and say, "Nobility for you for coming clean," even while recognizing that not being "clean" is exactly why his credibility has sink in fare into question.

And maybe it's because the wisp of elderly that's crept into his red goatee, and maybe it's because of the lines and the taste of a jowl that now mark his aging countenance, but the sap in me somehow feels sorry for him. He's been swept up in the "steroid era" and is in all probability no more guilty than half the league.

Source: Bleacher Report

Obama's Address Signals Opportunities in Health Care, Clean Energy

30.01.10

President Obama has preordained his speech, the Republicans have had their say and the punditry has opined and moved on.

Investors should now upon what effect the State of the Union discourse and the president's 2010 agenda might have on their portfolios.

The idiom's focus, jobs, may well be the exact direction for the administration to take, but it's a macro plane approach. Investors should instead be after micro-level opportunities that will have a weighty effect on individual public companies.

That means vigour care. I've long predicted that the president wouldn't get his condition care bill, and with the recent election of Republican Scott Brown in Massachusetts, the prospective of the current proposal looks bare. In Washington, putting something on the back burner -- as the president seemed to indicate last night -- is the same as putting it on the shelf. While no one can portend what will come out of the legislative process, which is at to the fullest extent chaotic, the prospect of a "buyers option" -- that is, a regime-run health-care plan that would joust with private insurance companies -- is insensate.

Source: StreetAuthority

District domination

31.01.10

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Source: Tampa Tribune