...Tareq & Michaele Salahi

Tareq & Michaele Salahi gained "famed" 1st by crashing the a White House state dinner party. It was a scandal that was news for weeks around the world, mostly here though. Then they parlayed their "fame" into a reality show by joining the poorly rated Real Housewives of Washington D.C. Now they are back int he news for yet another scandal. Tareq has decided to divorce his wife of 8 years after she ran off with the Journey guitarist Neal Schon earlier this week. Tareq called the FBI after he thought his wife was abducted, but it turns out she was traveling with the band. Interesting fact, Michaele dated Neal years ago. Tareq is citing adultery and abandonment as the reason for the divorce. He said in a statement, "Due to the abandonment of the marriage and adultery by Michaele, I have suffered both emotional and physical harm. Over the objections of me, she continually exposes our friends and acquaintances to her adulterous relationship and has flaunted the same throughout the community, the nation and indeed the world, and thus caused me to suffer great harm, humiliation, and embarrassment." No one knows if this is real or Memorex. This couple loves attention and they live by the any press is good press rule of life. Tareq has been seen with Michael Lohan lately, apparently Lohan is helping him get through this. Also there is a rumored sex tape featuring Michaele and Neal, I hope not. Tareq is having financial problems, and I do think that aided in Michaels's decision to leave him, she really loves the high life. As I mentioned the show they were on was cancelled after 1 season, the only failed Housewives show so far, but Bravo used this latest Salahi hoopla as a reason to run a marathon of the failed show... Possible spin off maybe? A reason to shoot a season 2? I really hope not. Though I do not know if this is real or for show I am giving them a Digit Up for the out of nowhere entertainment.
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...Jobs

Where are the jobs? The jobs report for August showed that there were NO new jobs created. Also, the job creation totals for July were cut to 85,000 from 117,000, and for June to just 20,000 from last month’s estimate of 46,000. We will all be watching the President's speech this Thursday about his plan for creating jobs, but it will be a lot of talk and just talk, nothing he can do. His administrations said they expect the unemployment rate of 9.1% to stay that way until the end of 2012... Black or white, educated or not, man or women unemployment seems to be affecting everyone. I keep hearing about companies looking for people who are "qualified" for the positions the need filled. They claim that they just cannot find them. That may be true, but why not train them? In 2011 most people are trained to do tech jobs over labor and skill jobs, but if trained anyone could get the job done. Of course everyone want sot blame Washington now and they may be able to, but for how much of it? Taxing companies may or may not work. For sure that will give the government more money but it will not change the unemployment situations. Basically this is becoming the new norm. If you have a job keep it and if you do not... I am giving this news a Digit Down. I am also preparing for another recession.

...Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. National Memorial

On Monday the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. National Memorial was introduced to the public. The 30 foot stone monument is located adjacent to the FDR Memorial, between the Lincoln Memorial and Jefferson Memorial. It was designed by Chinese artist Lei Yixin. It took over 20 years and it came with some controversy, due to funding, but it seems to be worth it. I am giving the memorial a Digit Up.

...America

Rocks. Unless you have been living under one for the past 28 hours then you already know that America's credit rating has been dropped by Standard & Poor's from AAA to AA+ for the 1st time in U.S. history. Though no one knows what this means for sure for America's short term future, because the markets have yet to dictate that, so far I have heard nothing too good. I find it horrible that we must wait for the markets around the world and here in NYC to dictate the nation's future. I understand how it works, 75% anyway, and I do not like it. Most say that eventually this will impact all of us who need to take out a loan for a home, car, business, etc. In normal times, in another country, a downgrade in a country's sovereign debt rating probably would force its government to pay higher interest rates to convince investors to keep buying its debt. Standard & Poor's reasoning for doing this is because they feel that the bill that was passed by congress to cut $2 trillion worth of spending over 10 years is not enough. They were looking for a minimum of $4 trillion, and they warned the government about that. Also they feel as if the political climate in D.C. is too unstable to be a safe enough bet right now. Still U.S. debt is special. Treasury debt is considered the safest investment in the world. Even after the downgrade. Investors don't doubt the U.S. government's ability to repay the $9.8 trillion it owes. So what does China think? Well they said, "The U.S. government has to come to terms with the painful fact that the good old days when it could just borrow its way out of messes of its own making are finally gone." Other nations are also concerned about what this will mean for their economic situations as well. There will most likely be a special meeting among the G8 nations to talk about how to fix this issue. Honestly there is nothing that can be done int he near future. There needs to be massive cuts across the board and people will just have to be pissed off about it. New leaders will need to be selected to run certain departments in our nation before it is too late, though the S&P has already warned that we can be further downgraded in6-24 months. The "bright side" of this is that they are the only agency to downgrade us and they also gave AAA ratings to a lot of home loan agencies, and we all saw what that did to the economy. Still things need to change. Politics need to be put aside and major moves nee to be made. I doubt this will happen so I plan on converting all of my assets into cash, because eventually even gold will fall. And if you are wondering, it takes about 9-18 years for most countries to regain a AAA rating after dropping to an AA+ rating, and it has only happened 4 times. I am giving America 2 Digits Down for letting things get this bad.

...The Rally to Restore Sanity And / Or Fear

I honestly do not know what this was about. I watched most of it and I thought, "What is the point?" Really what was it? Both Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart pretty much put on a live variety show that just happened to take place in Washington D.C. and mention politics. Some of it was corny and cheesy and very scripted. It was a back and fourth between Stewart and Colbert over Fear vs. Sanity and nothing was actually solved. Towards the end Stewart got serious and addressed the problems as he saw it in speech, which can be seen below.

With an estimated 215,000-250,000 people there no one knows what, if anything, this rally achieved. I would like to think it was just a nice outing with people who wanted to have a good laugh or two. Or maybe it was more like a live political comedy show? I am not sure actually, I am not sure the people there even know...or the host. For that reason I am going to have to give this all a Digit Down.

...The Real Housewives of D.C.

BORING! I know it was just the 1st episode but it was dull. It really just seems like one big tea party and Obama campaign put together. I swear everyone on the show is Probama and trying to show just how much they know him and because they know him that makes them something special. Well the truth is it does not, Whoomp Whooomp. So far if I had to choose a favorite one I guess it would be Catherine, the Brit with the sharp tongue, I like. The best part of this show is trying to figure out which one of these families will go broke 1st, and that would be the Salahi family again. I hope the season gets better, although the big climax was already revealed months ago, the Salahi's crash the White House, major. This show barely got green lighted anyway. If it ere not for that party crash this show would have never existed, so it does not surprise me that it is horrible. I really hope Bravo thinks long and hard about how they will improve on this show next season, there is always a 2nd season. I also hope that Bravo things even longer and harder about the future of the Housewives series. he O.C. Housewives are good, but taking a backseat to NYC, and everyone is taking a backseat to Atlanta and Jersey. I know that Bravo is considering adding Austin and then Miami to its Housewives franchise, and I do no know if that is such a good thing. Texas should have been done a couple of years ago and Miami should have been done right after the O.C. series started. Miami is sort of overexposed to us anyway, we can live without it. I am giving this a big Digit Down. Better luck next time Bravo.