Steve's barking; getting my stupid on

I get my stupid on at least twice a week. I buy lottery tickets.
I believe that if only the world would listen to me, we would be living in the new Garden of Eden.
I have started something new, leaving my keys in the car as I get out.
Now I'm not ashamed of doing or thinking stupid things for I'm after all I'm a human and we humans are suppose to do stupid things and have stupid thoughts. Look at the presidents, Obama saluting with a coffee cup in his hand, Bush saluting with a dog in his hand, Regan calling ketchup a vegetable, and how about FDR ending the stimulus to soon.
The problem with getting your stupid on is the people who think that they are the all mighty perfect and expect others not to do or say stupid things. Normally there's nothing wrong with stupid things being said or done and we should not take offense as long as we learn from them or the damaged done is minimal. We learn from our stupid and some times we even feel good about our stupid (think about me buying lottery tickets).

Steve's barking;Economic evolution?

Why can't we think in the terms of that deary science having evolution moments. (Huh)?
We think of inflation as too much money chasing too few goods when just about all inflation is based on supply and demand.
Adam Smith's invisible hand, becomes a very visible hand when it comes to monopolies, and what government should do about them.(Huh)?
If the price of goods goes up government might just have to print money to cover the cost, the cost of goods doesn't go up because you print money. (Huh)?
The vast majority of  of what we do to alleviate problems have nasty side effects and some one has to decide if the side effects are wort it. This is true in nature and fixing up economic problems. (Huh)?


The Fed's Quantitative Easing has a nasty side effect it reduces a safe return to ordinary lenders.(Huh)?(People living on fixed incomes. (Who are they)?)
Is the Fed buying bonds helping create jobs? Probably not. (Huh).
Is it reducing the US debt? Yes, yes, yes, yes, but we don't understand it. Therefore we don't know it. Therefore it isn't. (Huh)?

You might say what I'm wighting is wonkish ,but I don't have a freaking idea what wonkish means.(Huh)?

Steve's barking; Oil prices are saying please help me I'm falling and I can't get up

Oil prices as of today have been falling, this despite the fact that Russia is having an economic problem due to the Ukraine. Some group of radicals have taken over the oil fields in Iraq. Saudi Arabia, well there Saudi Arabia.
Indications that the oil refineries have very little capacity to take in any more oil.
Are the Asian countries that were using oil at a record amount just a short time ago having such a down turn in their economies that they don't need that much oil. Did they build up their refineries and are taking oil on the sneak from Russia and Iraq?????
Bigger question are we producing too much oil by fracking that were on the verge of an oil bust????
Was there collusion a short time ago and a rift happened?

Steve's barking: Ray Rice and mob justice

I've been told that the US is a nation of laws. Really!
Ray Rice hit his future wife in the elevator in a casino in Atlantic City and knocked her out.
He then dragged her out the elevator.
He didn't deny hitting her when approached by hotel security.
Atlantic City and New Jersey are not prosecuting him.
Every body knows that Ray Rice struck his then fiance now wife.
The NFL his employers regulator took away 2 games from him as punishment.*
The media said that wasn't enough.
They demanded Ray Rices head.
A video surfaced from the security camera in the elevator that show the whole incident and it seemed horrific.
The commissioner of the NFL now could now accommodate the mob and gave Ray Rice an indefinite suspension. His team the Ravens cut him. Most likely because of the mob his sneaker company and the computer company fired him.
Sports writers and most sports commentators are piling on. They who said that a two game suspension was not enough are now placated.
I can't keep but wounder why these same sport writers/ commentators didn't demand that Mike Tyson and Frank Mayweather not be aloud to fight after it was revealed that they were in physical domestic disputes. Were were the outcries saying that Keyshawn Johnson should be punished and barred from TV for a long period of time. Jason Kidd's punishment for domestic violence, being traded to the Nets, was punishment enough. Was that the thinking of our holier then thou writers and commentators.
Were were the boob tube commentators when Solace Knowles attacked JZ in the elevator. Ban her from recording for six months. Are they sexist.

 I wounder if Ray Rice's biggest sin was being recorded by security cameras.
Janay Rice, victim of domestic violence, double victim because her husband probably will have a hard time finding work. Triple victim of the media.

At no time do I think that those mentioned should be punished by their companies, what I am saying is that mob punishment is wrong and can be very picky.

* If suspention isn't spelled out in the contract or the collective bargining agreement, then it's wrong.

Steve's barking at domestic abuse

It's not alright to strike your partner, even if you partner is much larger then you.
It's no alright to compare you partner to previous partners.
It's not alright to shove your hand in your partners face or point a finger in your partners face.
It's not alright to ridicule your partner.
It's not alright to sneak out on your partner, and when confronted say I'm an adult and I can go were I want and do what I want.
It's not alright to use money as a bargaining chip.
It's not alright to threaten your partner( I'm going to kill you, take you for all your money, keep you from seeing........).
It's not alright to keep putting your partner down (you ugly, stupid, have not friends, or taste).

All these things hold true if your partner is male, female, same sex or a,gerbil unless of cause they get off by abuse.

Steve's barking; Don't you wounder about this guy Snowden?

Didn't this guy Snowden before he defected ( I mean spilled the beans on NSA of what we all suspected anyway) work on counter cyber attack? Don't those who work on counter cyber attacks try to find flaws in the system and even have dummy Cyber attacks on banks like JP Morgan Chase?
Isn't this guy Snowden in Russia?
Wasn't Cyber stealing (attack) Target, JPMorgan Chase, Home Depot ext. coming from Russia?
Didn't this guy Snowden tell just recently of co-workers at NSA looking at nude pictures that they gleamed off the internet from  cyber space?
Wasn't naked pictures of celebrity females turning up? Weren't they hacked from Apple's Cloud? Didn't Apple let NSA look at it's cloud? Did Snowden have those pictures?

Let me add something to those idiots on the boob tube, the problem isn't that nude pictures of celerbrities were hacked, if you have any information on you IPhone such as your bank account, it can be stolen from Apples I cloud even if you don't think you saved it. You nimrods this could be the greatist security breach in  history with disastrous consequences.

Steve barking the comedian as a bully

Are comedians bullies?
Joan Rivers past away and she was given great praised by her peers. All over the the TV all you can hear is great praise for.
I thought her only as a bully, then again television news has has becoming a bulling pulpit not to be confused with a bully pulpit.
Personally I liked Joan Rivers except her later years were her comedy became mean. She made fun of fat people, of people who had a hard time dressing themselves, any little flaw was fair game.
I like Jon Stewart, and Bill Meher but they too make me cringe. Does being a comic mean that you have too be mean? Is it just satirist? Do satirist get a bye?
 Am I a bully?
 Na no one reads what I write anyway.
If at one time you made fun of yourself does that give you a bye.
The reason I'm confused about comic and bulling is not that long ago the same people who complained about bulling in schools and in the work place praise the comic who makes fun of some one in the public eye no mater how much it might hurt that person and in reality that person may have done nothing to deserved that ridicule. Least not forget the classic bully thinks he's funny and so do his friends.
Do I think the satirist should stop making fun of the high and the mighty. No, not by a long shot.
Am I contemptuous of people who make fun of other people just because they can?
Yes. Just as I look down on those guys who make fun of nerds and nerds who make fun of those not as smart, and in crowd that destroys the self confidence of a person who has trouble finding friends.

In conclusion I found no one who would call Joan Rivers a bully, at least not the way I would.
Being bullied hurts. Most Times the bully does't even know that their bulling.

* There are many people who knew Joan Rivers personally who would call her one of the kindest people  you could know.