Lighter Side

Masters its Friday.  Miller Time and to get you in the mood for a stellar weekend, enjoy this classic performance by The Temptations back in 72' of Papa was a Rollin' Stone.  Solid.

It's Friday, we're an hour away from the Market Closing, check out this article from the Onion:

NEW YORK—Following a particularly stressful day at her high-powered job, sultry career woman Jessica Barrett, 34, announced Tuesday she would take a hot, steamy bath upon returning to her spacious Manhattan penthouse.

Barrett momentarily lets herself get lost in the distant promise of warm suds gently caressing her naked body.

Fellow Masters, take a break from the market, enjoy this money two minute video from Blame Society Productions of Chad Vader going to community college.
This time, Chad attempts to pass the notoriously not difficult entrance exam at Greendale Community College.

OAK HARBOR, WA—Executives from the Shell Oil Company blasted a floundering, oil-covered sea otter Monday, accusing the small aquatic mammal of grossly exaggerating the effects of last week's hazardous petroleum spill.

According to Shell president Marvin Odum, the otter has been putting on "quite a show" in front of rescue workers and clean-up crews, and is making the 860,000-gallon, three-mile-wide toxic slick seem like a much bigger deal than it actually is.

Enough of this market for one week, time for some humor.  Enjoy this new report from theOnion.com. Panelists discuss whether Obama's openly loving, considerate family is a slap in the face to the average American who only bears feelings of resentment towards relatives.
Including a plan to replace Obama's wife and kids with more average like citizens, welcome to the real world as Morpheus once said.

On the search for AMC's Mad Men Wallpaper, join the club.  The Masters have some fresh images with a little more style than what is currently being offered by the masses.  Check it out for Mad Men Goodness, Don Draper style. 

An experimental treatment in which a human virus carrying color-sensing genes was injected into monkeys' eyes resulted in a drastic reduction in red-green color blindness. What do you think?

Mandy Fielding,
Systems Analyst
"Wonderful. Now those monkeys can obey traffic lights like everybody else."

Love is in the air -- "I want you to know, that he was right," Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said at a CNBC town hall meeting Thursday night in Washington, D.C., in reference to Cramer's rant about the Fed's failure to open the discount window to troubled banks. "At that point, we were at the beginning of this great panic."
Cramer said Friday on CNBC's Stop Trading that the recognition "took my breath away. Geithner has done a fabulous job. I believe in the stress test. I think he saved the system. I was not in his camp initially."
Then the two met in private and made out.

Girlfriends' spokesperson Kelly Ambrose joins us in the Financial Fallout Shelter to discuss why Boyfriends moving in with them just makes fiscal sense right now. 
"In a recession it just doesn't make sense for two people that say they love each other to pay seperate rents".  Almost 1.2 million couples could move in together and save the nation $220 billion today.

One of our readers pointed out this weekend that Doug Kass couldn't have seen Joni Mitchell at Woodstock because she was never there.  The conversation of Doobage Kass talking up Woodstock, Stocks & Love and what not can be found at this story we ran last week - Doug Kass Watch: CNBC Appearance (Video Included).  Joni Mitchell was originally slated to perform, but canceled at the urging of her manager to avoid missing a scheduled appearance on The Dick Cavett Show. So Doug, Pass the Dutchie on the Left Hand Side.