November 20, 2018 You too? I forgot that yesterday was the anniversary of Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address.

November 20, 2018

You too? I forgot that yesterday was the anniversary of Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address. I almost memorized it in the 6^th grade at Saint Mary’s in Bayonne. Let us stipulate that no other 272 word speech has had the impact it has had. I offer the simple fact that we are talking about it 155 years and one day after it was given.

The beauty of the market, any market, is that it takes all the insanities and irrationalities floating around and crashing into each other and renders it into the most sane, the most rational thing in the universe. When you sell a stock the price you get is not yesterday’s, not tomorrow’s but here and now. The market allows for, indeed encourages, “irrational exuberance” because it gives you a place where you can back what you believe with more than your mouth. If you are not prepared to hear the umpire say, “Strike 3”, don’t step up to the plate. Penn Central, Pan-Am, Kodak, and maybe GE. If a country, if a culture, does not allow for “creative destruction” you wind up with Bulgaria. Napoleon warned that we should let China sleep because “when she wakes she will shake the world”. Mao killed at least 60,000,000 of his oriental lanschmen. He also mandated that the starving peasants empty their bed-side chamber pot into their back-yard miniature blast furnace. Gandhi and Nehru condemned India to 50 years of subsistence living because Gandhi, a “half-naked fakir”, thought that operating a hand loom was the key to prosperity. At least Nehru had the benefit of being a Fabian Socialist, and let me say thank you to the Webbs, deeply believed that the key to pots filled with lentils was to set quotas, raise taxes, export surgeons, and import cement plants. [One of the paradoxes that Congresswoman Chiquita Ocasio-Cortes will not address is why was Socialist India filled with poverty and why weren’t there any poor Indians in non-Socialist America. Both India and China have prospered greatly as soon as the obeyed the command that Moses gave to the Egyptian whatshisname – “Let my people go!”. The two Americans, one of whom was born in Vienna, who are still revered in Japan as the creators of the Japanese miracle that began soon after Nagasaki cooled off are Edward Deming and Peter Drucker. The miracle ended when the Japs bought Rockefeller Center and Pebble Beach Golf Course.  The first brought 3 generations of steady cash flow to the extended Rockefeller family because they overpaid. The second was given back to the seller in lieu of foreclosure. The mists of memory are dimmed but wasn’t Japan supposed to be ichi ban in the business world now. I am not sure what happened but the market sure as Hell has spoken

I was watching Jemima Abrams explain how she lost the Georgia gubernatorial race in simple terms: White folk don’t like Black folk and they put the fix via voter suppression. How dare those crackers ask for non-photo id? Phone bill, cable bill, rent receipt, just to prove that the address on the voter rolls and the home address agree. Why you would think that Lester Maddux [D-GA] was still in charge.  Next stop Minnesota. Congresswoman Fatima Nonporkus, whose swearing-in oath will include Death to the Jews, said that “all White men should be in chains because they will not submit to Allah”.

Women in this country secretly admire Horace Rumpole because whenever he referred to his wife Hilda, he always said of her “she who must be obeyed”. Next stop Orange County with a quick stop in the Cotswolds. “The evidence is circumstantial”, said the somewhat befuddled Bertie Wooster. “Yes”, replied the ever-handy Jeeves. “Like when you find a trout in the milk.” 8 Republican Congressmen from Orange County, California were turned out of office last Tuesday despite ending election day comfortably ahead. Next, we turn to film-noir. “It’s simple,” said Thomas Gomez in “Key Largo”. “Your candidate runs. You count the votes and he wins. If he doesn’t win you count them again. And again. And again. Until he wins. Rick Scott lost 40,000 votes in Broward County after the polls were closed. Only a cad would mention Duval County 1948 or Cook County 1960 or Oregon 1998 or Minnesota 2004. What strange force binds those distant places together? Simple. They were Democratic counties. When they opened the boxes, their guy did not have enough votes. No big deal. They counted them again. The media gives them cover because they say that this time they will make beer from rain water. And then it will be drawn to market by carbon-neutral, non-polar bear drowning, unicorns. “Morons, I’m surrounded by morons.”

Bill DeBlasio, Mayor of New York, modern American Liberal, Democrat, Socialist, Social Justice Warrior, hated, hates Walmart. Bill DeBlasio, Mayor of New York, modern American Liberal, Democrat, Socialist, Social Justice Warrior. Not since August 22, 1939 has the American Left done a 180 requiring perpetual chiropractic care. Suddenly, the American Left, people such as Dr. Seuss, Woody Guthrie, Lilian Hellman, everybody in Manhattan, thought that while Hitler had some rough edges – as did Stalin. Remember the Bukharin trial? -  he was an OK guy. Hey, try making an omelet without breaking eggs. Besides, Papa Joe Kennedy liked him, didn’t he?” Sorry about those stiff-necked Sons of the Desert on the MV Saint Louis. Sometimes 900 people fall between the cracks. Are there some of you out there for whom the date August 22, 1939 sounds like tinkling brass?

That was the day when Albert Speer began to draw up the bid requirement for Xyklon-B and Auschwitz. That was the day when Germany and Russia, Fascism and Communism, decided to start World War 2. [The above is owed to the ledger every time I get to stress it. If people can argue about statues fork a war that ended 155 years ago, I can stress one that began 79 years ago. Which brings us back to Amazon in NYC. That Bezos would have bidded on the crematoria in Treblinka there is no doubt. That Bergermeister DeBlasio would have helped him there is also no doubt. That he would have introduced him to his pal, Governor “Little Shit” Cuomo, there is also no doubt. Cuomo opposed “fracking”, a 70-year-old oil drilling practice – one that I used when I was drilling wells in 1974, a thing that has made this country the swing producer of hydrocarbons in the world and lifted us from the thralldom of people who shout “Allah Akbar” as they crucify Christians and blow up buildings. What would have happened if Chick-fil-A or Hobby Lobby said they were considering moving to NYC? Let me answer. Bastinado. Is there a polite way to say “friggin’ hypocrites”? No? OK. Friggin’ hypocrites!

Basta!

Kevin Smith

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