Go green or Go home

People are always bashed for being bandwagon fans. It seems that the society we live in gives tremendous respect to those who can spot a good thing before anyone else knows about it. In business foresight helps turn a profit; in sports it helps you win your fantasy league; and in food you get to be labeled with the sought after term “foodie”. But what good is it to be avant-garde if there is no one to follow you? Without bandwagon fans innovative ideas will be like a Milan Fashion show- yeah the cloths have never been seen before, but no one wants to see them ever again. So three cheers to the bandwagon fans and three cheers to the people whom you have made great.

And in case you are wondering what about the next wagon to jump into?  Well the super bowl wagon is gone and the NBA payoff’s wagon has not arrived yet. So May I humbly suggest we all jump into the global warming wagon.

Al Gore, it looks like your cause has reached bandwagon status. From multinational companies to multinational terrorists it seems like the best thing to do is jump on the wagon.

Here is a quick sampling of the new green Hybrid-bandwagon:

Green in the corporate world:

GE’s ecomagination campaign : I was watching Sunday night football on NBC in November and they actually turned off the studio lights and did a broadcast in the dark in an effort to go green.

Green’s brings harmony: Liberal Rev. Al Sharpton and conservative Rev. Pat Robertson sit down for a friendly chat to encourage you to care about the earth. wecansolveit.org

Even terrorists care about the environment shouldn’t you?

Al-Zawahri, Al-Qaida’s number two man, stated that global warming would “make the world more sympathetic to an understanding of the Muslims’ jihad against the aggressor America.” The link to the original AP story on yahoo.

Consider this a warning from osama and me: recycle or face jihad!

goog

So google shot up today, and apparently it was due to: google’s tremendous drop before, a large short positions on the stock, and google beating estimates. the rise in earnings had people buying the stock. this repurchase probably caused a short squeeze- further raising the stock. just to show how much money you could have made: an april option, that is now in the money, went up 40 dollars a batch. if you bought 2 contracts you would have made $8,000 overnight, but this stuff is boring. This attached blog, however, is not so boring. somehow the blogger was able to put google, crazy college kids, eliot spitzer, “tricycles”, and california into one post:

“Ok, I’m a stupid college student. I shorted 100 shares of Google before close today and don’t know what to do. I just blew all my money and don’t have enough for my margin call tomorrow. I won’t be able to sleep tonight. My parents will KILL me if they hear about this.

So, for those of you who made tons of cash today and live in the Los Angeles area:

I’m willing to sell myself to you tonight. I will even bring my girlfriend so you can have TWO girls. I’m asking for $5,000 for a night you will never forget. You can have both of us anyway you want. You can even do us without a condom (if you aren’t showing any signs of a desease). You can have us all night long until 7:00 am tomorrow.

I need the payment in cash. See my pics. My girlfriend and I are much better than the whore picked up by the NY governer. And we don’t do this for a living, we are safe. Please don’t waste my time with BS. Just post your e-mail address and I’ll get back to you if you can help.”

original yahoo finance post

In a quest to clear his family’s name…

So it looks like Roger Clemens is locked in a battle with public opinion. The Rocket emphatically denies bending over, pulling down his pants, and getting infused with HGH and steroids. In a press conference, that mirrors the plot line in National Treasure when Ed Harris’s character accuses Nicholas Cages’ character’s great great grandfather of being a conspirator in killing Lincoln, Clemens bemoans the tough battle ahead as he tries to clear his name. And while I would like to believe the Rocket – man I honestly think he probably took steroids, HGH, or both.

Some Evidence:

• My Centrum Multi Vitamin is a good way to get B-12 in a non-injection form
• Yes, on his tape McNamee never said Roger was juicing, but McNamee also never retracted his own statement
• 6-8 record before allegation of roids and 8-0 record after the allegation
• Andy Pettitte
• Dumb jokes during the press conference like asking if drinking water would make him look guilty or Roger’s lawyer saying he advised Roger not to do the poly and then saying the only way Roger would take a poly was if Roger hit the lawyer over the head with a 2×4

I was listening to some commentary from Mike and the Mad Dog on 660 and I think what they said was right: Clemens knows there will be no evidence and he is trying to get more attention than McNamee in an attempt to discredit the trainer. I think in reality a lot of Clemens’s arguments don’t make sense. At this point perhaps the only way for Clemens to save his family name to find the lost legendary native American city of gold, Cíbola. Stupid roids are messing up baseball. Maybe congress will get the answers out, or maybe only the President’s book of secrets has the answer.

And I guess his wife needs it now also, since she needs to bulk up to look proportionate with him.