Sunday, August 17, 2014

BloggeRhythms

Maria Bartiromo appeared on Fox & Friends this morning. While sitting back casually, discussing the topics for her own show today, Sunday Morning Futures, she made two extremely significant points quite succinctly.
 
When asked what she thought the reason was for gasoline prices decreasing in the U.S., despite the conflicts in the Middle-East, she replied that due to technological development, such as fracking, as well as the inevitability of the opening of the Keystone XL pipeline, the nation will be an oil exporter by 2020 in addition to meeting its own needs domestically.
 
Therefore, not only isn’t the Middle-East’s oil as important here as it was, but neither is Russia’s which she now feels is a major concern for Europe, but not the U.S.
 
She then went on to note that New York Governor, Andrew Cuomo, just returned on Thursday from a trip to Israel, where he wanted to see the status of the conflict with Hamas for himself. Her observation regarding the visit was that Cuomo had an interest in the situation, going there to view it first hand, while at the same time, the incumbent was vacationing on Martha's Vineyard, playing lots of golf.
 
So, here we have two quite significant issues, each seriously affecting the nation and its citizens. And while both are heading toward the best solutions possible under the circumstances, the solutions are occurring in spite of the roadblocks placed there continually by the incumbent and his administration. 
 
After hearing Ms Bartiromo’s comments some further research showed the Governor’s agenda.
 
According to Kenneth Lovett of www.nydailynews.com, Cuomo was in Israel for 28 1/2 hours, squeezing in eight events, six of which had public components.
 
On Wednesday, he “and a delegation of New Yorkers met Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Reuven Rivlin, had pizza with students from New York studying in Israel and toured the Western Wall and the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, one of the Christianity’s holiest sites.
 
Then he hosted a dinner on a balcony of the King David Hotel for Jerusalem’s mayor and the U.S. ambassador to Israel. An orange moon hung over the city.
 
On Thursday, he huddled with Israel’s defense minister, and visited, in the coastal city of Ashdod, one the nine locations of Israel's Iron Dome anti-missile defense system. The delegation then headed south toward Gaza, eventually meeting up former Israeli President Shimon Peres and automatic-weapons-toting Israeli soldiers, including two born in the U.S.”
 
Therefore, although staying in Israel only a short while, the governor crammed a significant number of important events and visitations into his trip. 
 
On seeing the tunnels first-hand, Cuomo “marveled,”I thought they were hand-dug tunnels that went several yards right across the border. These are tunnels that go miles.”
 
Which is probably the same perspective the incumbent gets when finding his golf ball in a huge sandtrap.
 
And now, today’s update on Bill Clinton’s wife.
 
The Las Vegas Review-Journal obtained her contract and related documents related to a scheduled October 13 speech at a University of Nevada Las Vegas Foundation fundraiser.
 
According to an article in the Journal, “The documents show that Clinton received $225,000 to speak at the fundraiser, a discount from her initial $300,000 asking price. But the fee was only the first of Clinton's many stipulations.”
 
She insists on staying in the ‘presidential suite’ of a luxury hotel of her staff's choice, with up to five other rooms reserved for her travel aides and advance staff. Also reportedly requiring the Foundation provide a private plane which cannot be any private plane; “only a $39 million, 16-passenger Gulfstream G450 "or larger" will do the job.”
 
Furthermore, “It is agreed” that she will be the only person on the stage during her remarks and also requires that she have final approval of all moderators or introducers. 
 
Additional requirements to her standard speaking contract state that she has to stay at the event no longer than 90 minutes and will pose for no more than 50 photos with no more than 100 people. There is no press coverage of video or audio taping of her speech allowed, with the only record being made by a stenographer whose transcript is given to her and the stenographer's $1,250 bill to be paid by the UNLV Foundation.
 
So, there is apparently quite a  long list of requirements to be met for those wishing to hire Bill’s wife to speak. However, since after paying all that money, all the customers get is 90 minutes of hot air nobody really wants to hear any way, wouldn’t it be easier and certainly far more pleasant, to just mail her a check, get credit for the donation and tell her its OK if she just stays home.  
 
That’s it for today folks.
 
Adios

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