Bay Area Briefs

No, not those briefs.




                                                                  


                                                                  And, definitely not these.


I am referring to brief musings on stuff going on in my world, like Nancy Pelosi being elected the Democratic Minority Leader for the 112th Congress - by a huge margin, I might add.

This 150 to 43 victory is what I would call overwhelming (approx. a 78% to 22% margin) and should serve as a benchmark for the chest-thumping Republicans who claim to have "taken back the country." A recent Rasmussen Report shows that the American public favors the Republicans over the Democrats by a narrow 45% to 40% margin. I wouldn't call that overwhelming nor is it a mandate.

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More happy news: Murkowski in Alaska has officially handed Tea-bag Princess Palin and her minion, Joe Miller, a dandy defeat.

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Say, what? A headline in today's St. Pete Times, "Kottkamp wanted security on Italy trip." "Who the hell is Kottkamp," many of you are probably asking? Well, that is the point! If people in Florida don't know he is their Lieutenant Governor, it's rather arrogant for Kottkamp to think the Italians would know who he is, or even gave a rat's patootie.

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And, now the SOG City Oracle Hershey Squirt Award goes to:

Verizon Business, a subsidiary of Ivan the Horrible's conglomerate. The buzz in the Bay area business world is that in keeping with the spirit of the season it was decided that this year Verizon Business was going to have a heart; albeit a heart not unlike that of Dick Cheney, the Darth Vader of the Beltway. 

Rumor has it that this year's layoff notifications will occur a week before Thanksgiving instead of at Thanksgiving. This is so that the recipient of the pink slip would not have their last day fall on Christmas Day like it did last year. Verizon Business decided that it would be "cruel" to can someone on Christmas Day, so now the newly unemployed will be out the door a week before Christmas. 

How nice. How very nice! (Click the link for translation) 

By the way, that Christmas Day canning was our little gift from Verizon last year. So, a Merry Hershey Squirt Christmas from us...and, may it serve you well.

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A final note for our governor-in-waiting: Hey, bub, you best be getting started on creating those 700,000 new jobs. The unemployed are piling up pretty fast around here. You may have a problem keeping up.

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