OK, OK, OK--it was a bit of Washington theater, staged like only the House of Representatives knows how.
Still, 318-97 is a pretty lopsided vote, as the House Republicans trudge to the White House tomorrow to be treated to TheFullObamaMonty. The condescension oozes out of every pore of every Obama staffer, with that 'Tut-tut, little children' attitude they do so well.
We'll see what happens. In the meantime, Michelle Malkin points out that Obama has put his foot to the floor, pedal to the metal, in signing up just as much of the populace as he can to the Food Stamp program. We're at 14% of the population and counting...
This will not end well, ya'll. It can't. When the axe falls upon the entitlements, that means some proportion of the at 14% will consider its personal ox to have been severely gored. Think Greece, think Spain...remember Watts in 1968, Detroit in 1968...
This could get very ugly, and OS suspects that may be the White House's intended outcome.
Wednesday, June 1, 2011
Tuesday, May 31, 2011
SEIU Goes To College...Well..Attempts To Unionize Campus Operations
Ah, it's spring. Graduation has come and gone, academia is settling in for another bucolic summer, and students are staging sit-ins against the campus cafeteria. All we lack to make it a TotallySixties sort of event is the smell of the teargas, photos of nice carpets smeared in pig's blood and excrement, and Mom-n-Dad bailing Junior out of jail. (He's not a bad boy, just misunderstood, you know...)
A string of protests across the country against one of the predominant food services providers at colleges and universities has resulted in 50 arrests – so far. The arrests are part of what activists promise will be stepped-up focus on the company Sodexo.
Last week students at Ohio State University rallied on campus before moving into President Gordon Gee’s office, where seven were arrested after they refused to stop chanting (two non-students were arrested as well). They wanted the university to cut its contract with Sodexo, the company that hires and manages 124 of Ohio State’s 1,800 concessions employees at its stadium and events center.
Of course, driving this new round of youthful high spirits are our Marxist friends at SEIU.
OldSouth is just shocked, gobsmacked...
So the university administration has to calculate:
Lessee--The White House and SEIU are, shall we say, on good terms. Himself is their homeboy, actually. We've got people threatening property and bodily harm if we don't cave. But if we do cave, those goons will be all over our ass, and anyone we may let a service contract to--they'll unionize the whole place! We don't have the money for that operational model. The donors will turn tail, and no family wants to to send a student to a place that might go on strike during the next four years.
(Nice little campus you got here at Ohio State/Emory/U of Washington, etc...It'd be a shame if someone were to come here and BURN IT DOWN! Don't-chew think so boys? Yeah, boss, it'd be a cryin' shame...)
A string of protests across the country against one of the predominant food services providers at colleges and universities has resulted in 50 arrests – so far. The arrests are part of what activists promise will be stepped-up focus on the company Sodexo.
Last week students at Ohio State University rallied on campus before moving into President Gordon Gee’s office, where seven were arrested after they refused to stop chanting (two non-students were arrested as well). They wanted the university to cut its contract with Sodexo, the company that hires and manages 124 of Ohio State’s 1,800 concessions employees at its stadium and events center.
Of course, driving this new round of youthful high spirits are our Marxist friends at SEIU.
OldSouth is just shocked, gobsmacked...
So the university administration has to calculate:
Lessee--The White House and SEIU are, shall we say, on good terms. Himself is their homeboy, actually. We've got people threatening property and bodily harm if we don't cave. But if we do cave, those goons will be all over our ass, and anyone we may let a service contract to--they'll unionize the whole place! We don't have the money for that operational model. The donors will turn tail, and no family wants to to send a student to a place that might go on strike during the next four years.
(Nice little campus you got here at Ohio State/Emory/U of Washington, etc...It'd be a shame if someone were to come here and BURN IT DOWN! Don't-chew think so boys? Yeah, boss, it'd be a cryin' shame...)
Stanley Druckenmiller Interview With WSJ: Quote Of The Week
From WSJ, May 14, 2011
'A financial crisis is surely going to happen as big or bigger than the one we had in 2008 if we continue to behave the way we're behaving," says Stanley Druckenmiller, the legendary investor and onetime fund manager for George Soros. Is this another warning from Wall Street that Congress must immediately raise the federal debt limit to prevent the end of civilization?
No—Mr. Druckenmiller has heard enough of such "clamor and hyperbole." The grave danger he sees is that politicians might give the government authority to borrow beyond the current limit of $14.3 trillion without any conditions to control spending.
We may do well to listen to the man. He knows how the math works, and it's not working in our favor.
He's sanguine about a technical default by the US government, since it may serve a bit of reality onto everyone's plate.
And his Quote of the Week?
"People aren't going to wonder whether 20 years ago we delayed an interest payment for six days. They're going to wonder whether we got our house in order."
Amen, Brother Druckenmiller, amen.
'A financial crisis is surely going to happen as big or bigger than the one we had in 2008 if we continue to behave the way we're behaving," says Stanley Druckenmiller, the legendary investor and onetime fund manager for George Soros. Is this another warning from Wall Street that Congress must immediately raise the federal debt limit to prevent the end of civilization?
No—Mr. Druckenmiller has heard enough of such "clamor and hyperbole." The grave danger he sees is that politicians might give the government authority to borrow beyond the current limit of $14.3 trillion without any conditions to control spending.
We may do well to listen to the man. He knows how the math works, and it's not working in our favor.
He's sanguine about a technical default by the US government, since it may serve a bit of reality onto everyone's plate.
And his Quote of the Week?
"People aren't going to wonder whether 20 years ago we delayed an interest payment for six days. They're going to wonder whether we got our house in order."
Amen, Brother Druckenmiller, amen.
Monday, May 30, 2011
Greece To Sell Assets, Surrender Sovereignity: Financial Times
Really, it's just like a bankruptcy, is it not?
European leaders are negotiating a deal that would lead to unprecedented outside intervention in the Greek economy, including international involvement in tax collection and privatisation of state assets, in exchange for new bail-out loans for Athens.
People involved in the talks said the package would also include incentives for private holders of Greek debt voluntarily to extend Athens’ repayment schedule, as well as another round of austerity measures.
Officials hope that as much as half of the €60bn-€70bn ($86bn-$100bn) in new financing needed by Athens until the end of 2013 could be accounted for without new loans. Under a plan advocated by some, much of that would be covered by the sale of state assets and the change in repayment terms for private debtholders.
The creditor takes a haircut, the debtor sells everything that isn't completely nailed down, and the court runs the debtor's life until the debts are all discharged.
It's a bankruptcy, pure and simple.
But, we dare not use that word, now do we?
This is what awaits us, sooner or later, in the US, if we don't develop the will to turn ourselves into a productive economy whose government exercises restraint in spending, legislating, and regulating. Only it's China toting the note. Do we wish to surrender large parts of our country and economy to the Chinese?
Really?
It will be interesting to see how this plays out in Southern Europe...
European leaders are negotiating a deal that would lead to unprecedented outside intervention in the Greek economy, including international involvement in tax collection and privatisation of state assets, in exchange for new bail-out loans for Athens.
People involved in the talks said the package would also include incentives for private holders of Greek debt voluntarily to extend Athens’ repayment schedule, as well as another round of austerity measures.
Officials hope that as much as half of the €60bn-€70bn ($86bn-$100bn) in new financing needed by Athens until the end of 2013 could be accounted for without new loans. Under a plan advocated by some, much of that would be covered by the sale of state assets and the change in repayment terms for private debtholders.
The creditor takes a haircut, the debtor sells everything that isn't completely nailed down, and the court runs the debtor's life until the debts are all discharged.
It's a bankruptcy, pure and simple.
But, we dare not use that word, now do we?
This is what awaits us, sooner or later, in the US, if we don't develop the will to turn ourselves into a productive economy whose government exercises restraint in spending, legislating, and regulating. Only it's China toting the note. Do we wish to surrender large parts of our country and economy to the Chinese?
Really?
It will be interesting to see how this plays out in Southern Europe...
Friday, May 27, 2011
Words Fail To Describe DSK, Himself And MizzMichelle, But Put Them All Together And Give It A Go
Captions Invited. Keep it clean, if you can.
OS thought of a few, but thought better of publishing them.
HT Jesse.
Lt. Jack Volz, KIA IN 1943, Finally Laid To Rest In Louisville This Weekend
For those who scratch their heads, and wonder what America is about, and what makes America tick, OldSouth shares this story from the Louisville Courier-Journal:
Army Air Forces 1st Lt. Jack E. Volz, a World War II aviator declared dead a year and a day after his B-24 Liberator went missing in the South Pacific in 1943, will be laid to rest with full military honors Saturday at Cave Hill Cemetery.
Volz’s remains will arrive from Hawaii just before noon Thursday at Louisville International Airport, where a military honor squad will escort him to a hearse that will make the trip to Ratterman’s Funeral Home in St. Matthews.
“It’s such a special miracle,” said niece Marilyn Simonds, 63.
Volz, 21, and his crew and plane vanished on Oct. 27, 1943. Sixty years later, in 2003, someone who had passed by the wreckage in Papua, New Guinea and picked up Volz’s identification card turned it over to a Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command team, which located the crash site in 2005.
In early 2007, after the Army obtained DNA samples from family members, the crash site was excavated and the remains were taken to Hawaii.
After the matches were confirmed, the Army sat with the family, presenting some three hundred pages of evidence that these remains were indeed those of Lt. Volz, and arranged for the funeral at one of the great historic cemeteries of the country. A portion of his remains will also be interred with the remains of his crew in Arlington Cemetery in August.
Lt. Volz was one of millions of young lives cut short by the utter madness of collectivist, utopian and nation-as-religion monsters of the twentieth century. But in America, the sacrifice he made to help set things right is not forgotten. Here is an opportunity, in some small way, to redeem this tragedy, and to remind ourselves and the world who we all are when we are at our best.
Here's hoping, and encouraging, that many will take the time to pay their respects at the funeral home and cemetery tomorrow, to give the young man a fitting welcome home.
The funeral home is here.
Cave Hill Cemetery is here.
Army Air Forces 1st Lt. Jack E. Volz, a World War II aviator declared dead a year and a day after his B-24 Liberator went missing in the South Pacific in 1943, will be laid to rest with full military honors Saturday at Cave Hill Cemetery.
Volz’s remains will arrive from Hawaii just before noon Thursday at Louisville International Airport, where a military honor squad will escort him to a hearse that will make the trip to Ratterman’s Funeral Home in St. Matthews.
“It’s such a special miracle,” said niece Marilyn Simonds, 63.
Volz, 21, and his crew and plane vanished on Oct. 27, 1943. Sixty years later, in 2003, someone who had passed by the wreckage in Papua, New Guinea and picked up Volz’s identification card turned it over to a Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command team, which located the crash site in 2005.
In early 2007, after the Army obtained DNA samples from family members, the crash site was excavated and the remains were taken to Hawaii.
After the matches were confirmed, the Army sat with the family, presenting some three hundred pages of evidence that these remains were indeed those of Lt. Volz, and arranged for the funeral at one of the great historic cemeteries of the country. A portion of his remains will also be interred with the remains of his crew in Arlington Cemetery in August.
Lt. Volz was one of millions of young lives cut short by the utter madness of collectivist, utopian and nation-as-religion monsters of the twentieth century. But in America, the sacrifice he made to help set things right is not forgotten. Here is an opportunity, in some small way, to redeem this tragedy, and to remind ourselves and the world who we all are when we are at our best.
Here's hoping, and encouraging, that many will take the time to pay their respects at the funeral home and cemetery tomorrow, to give the young man a fitting welcome home.
The funeral home is here.
Cave Hill Cemetery is here.
Thursday, May 26, 2011
Walgreen's, Winner Of The 2011 'Let No Good Deed Go Unpunished' Award
Really, just can't make this stuff up.
From the Detroit Free Press, recounting the heroic actions of a Walgreen's pharmacist who repelled armed robbers, and likely saved several innocent lives.
May 10, 2011
BENTON TOWNSHIP -- They wore masks.
They wore gloves.
They brandished handguns.
But there was one thing two robbers didn't anticipate when they barged into a Benton Township Walgreens drugstore early Sunday and tried to march workers into the back room: A worker already in back carried a handgun and knew how to use it.
Township police Lt. Delmar Lange said the worker fired multiple shots at one of the bandits, forcing the men to flee.
"He could see the hostage situation developing," Lange said. "He could not retreat any farther. He was in the back room. If it was me, I would have done the same thing."
Lange said the worker, whose name was not released, saw one of the robbers force another worker from the front of the building toward the rear. That robber then saw the worker in back and started to pursue him.
The worker then fired multiple shots.
The robber tried to fire back, but his gun malfunctioned. The robber and his partner ran out.
Lange said none of the four workers was hurt in the 4:30 a.m. incident in the store at Napier Avenue and M-139.
It's a story of selfless courage--the pharmacist could have been killed. In these situations, often no innocent person emerges alive, once herded into the back of the store. No witnesses, no way to prosecute effectively, and hey--who's gonna get worked up about a couple-a-thugz knocking over a Walgreen's anyhow? Just go ahead and kill 'em all.
Now, in a sane situation, the gent would receive the heartfelt thanks of corporate HQ, a bonus quietly tucked into his pocket, a raise, and a couple of weeks off at the company beach house, to gather his wits about him.
However, to quote John Belushi: But, NOOOOOOOOOO!
Walgreen's fired his ass! That'll motivate the rest of the employees to go that extra mile for the customer...Pharmacist John Hoven found out the hard way that some companies never let good deeds go unpunished. But, at least he's still alive, as are the others who were in the store that early morning.
That also is equivalent to setting a billboard up over every Walgreen's that announces: Hey ya'll! If you wanna walk in here with guns and rob this store, terrorize and kill people, come-on-in, bubbah! Ain't no one gonna give yew a bit of worry!
Out of concern for his safety, OS will be avoiding Walgreen's in the future. Notice how many of these stores are in dodgy locations (cheap real estate), and how easily someone with bad intentions could walk in, hide out for a few minutes, and then wreak havoc, given the store layout?
There are other pharmacies out there, and many grocery stores now have pharmacies.
If'n ya'll feel inspired to share your feelings and future shopping plans, John Lott shares this email address with us: consumerrelations.bb@walgreens.com
Hey-lookie-here: Walgreen's has a customer service link on its site!
Shoot-farh! They even got a phone number, that they pay for, to field customer inquiries and opinions. Isn't that handy! 1-877-250-5823
Now, these horses-asses won't actually respond to the complaints, not until they notice that their stores have emptied of customers, or a few customers end up getting shot because Walgreen's doesn't consider them worth defending. It will take either financial bleeding, or customers bleeding, to rouse them from their sleep.
OS ain't volunteering as a customer no moh'.
From the Detroit Free Press, recounting the heroic actions of a Walgreen's pharmacist who repelled armed robbers, and likely saved several innocent lives.
May 10, 2011
BENTON TOWNSHIP -- They wore masks.
They wore gloves.
They brandished handguns.
But there was one thing two robbers didn't anticipate when they barged into a Benton Township Walgreens drugstore early Sunday and tried to march workers into the back room: A worker already in back carried a handgun and knew how to use it.
Township police Lt. Delmar Lange said the worker fired multiple shots at one of the bandits, forcing the men to flee.
"He could see the hostage situation developing," Lange said. "He could not retreat any farther. He was in the back room. If it was me, I would have done the same thing."
Lange said the worker, whose name was not released, saw one of the robbers force another worker from the front of the building toward the rear. That robber then saw the worker in back and started to pursue him.
The worker then fired multiple shots.
The robber tried to fire back, but his gun malfunctioned. The robber and his partner ran out.
Lange said none of the four workers was hurt in the 4:30 a.m. incident in the store at Napier Avenue and M-139.
It's a story of selfless courage--the pharmacist could have been killed. In these situations, often no innocent person emerges alive, once herded into the back of the store. No witnesses, no way to prosecute effectively, and hey--who's gonna get worked up about a couple-a-thugz knocking over a Walgreen's anyhow? Just go ahead and kill 'em all.
Now, in a sane situation, the gent would receive the heartfelt thanks of corporate HQ, a bonus quietly tucked into his pocket, a raise, and a couple of weeks off at the company beach house, to gather his wits about him.
However, to quote John Belushi: But, NOOOOOOOOOO!
Walgreen's fired his ass! That'll motivate the rest of the employees to go that extra mile for the customer...Pharmacist John Hoven found out the hard way that some companies never let good deeds go unpunished. But, at least he's still alive, as are the others who were in the store that early morning.
That also is equivalent to setting a billboard up over every Walgreen's that announces: Hey ya'll! If you wanna walk in here with guns and rob this store, terrorize and kill people, come-on-in, bubbah! Ain't no one gonna give yew a bit of worry!
Out of concern for his safety, OS will be avoiding Walgreen's in the future. Notice how many of these stores are in dodgy locations (cheap real estate), and how easily someone with bad intentions could walk in, hide out for a few minutes, and then wreak havoc, given the store layout?
There are other pharmacies out there, and many grocery stores now have pharmacies.
If'n ya'll feel inspired to share your feelings and future shopping plans, John Lott shares this email address with us: consumerrelations.bb@walgreens.com
Hey-lookie-here: Walgreen's has a customer service link on its site!
Shoot-farh! They even got a phone number, that they pay for, to field customer inquiries and opinions. Isn't that handy! 1-877-250-5823
Now, these horses-asses won't actually respond to the complaints, not until they notice that their stores have emptied of customers, or a few customers end up getting shot because Walgreen's doesn't consider them worth defending. It will take either financial bleeding, or customers bleeding, to rouse them from their sleep.
OS ain't volunteering as a customer no moh'.
Wednesday, May 25, 2011
Now, What We Really Lack Are Criminal Prosecutions Of Criminal Acts: Utah Begins To Confront BofA
Finally, one state AG located his spine. Finally.
The vision of Utah State Troopers hauling BofA out of their offices in New York and Charlotte, into the vans, and onto a state-chartered airplane does hold a certain appeal.
Make them miss their tee times, for say, the next fifteen years. Sobriety might just make a return visit to the banking industry.
If small businessmen or ordinary citizens act with such utter contempt of law or decency, they are out of business at least, and risk jail. Apart from Madoff, who turned himself in, have we seen any criminal prosecutions flow from the 2007-2008 debacle?
We're not there yet, but one AG, somewhere, will step up before too long, as the real damage to the economy and culture really set in, and the extent and shamelessness of the screwing administered this country become more apparent.
The vision of Utah State Troopers hauling BofA out of their offices in New York and Charlotte, into the vans, and onto a state-chartered airplane does hold a certain appeal.
Make them miss their tee times, for say, the next fifteen years. Sobriety might just make a return visit to the banking industry.
If small businessmen or ordinary citizens act with such utter contempt of law or decency, they are out of business at least, and risk jail. Apart from Madoff, who turned himself in, have we seen any criminal prosecutions flow from the 2007-2008 debacle?
We're not there yet, but one AG, somewhere, will step up before too long, as the real damage to the economy and culture really set in, and the extent and shamelessness of the screwing administered this country become more apparent.
In Contrast To Wisconsin, Ohio, illinois, California: Tennessee Legislature Passes The Budget Unanimously (with 3.9% spending cuts), And Goes Home
Really, ya'll. It can happen.
The November 2010 election mattered in Tennessee. The teacher's union had its wings clipped. The legislature cut spending, still leaving in some favored programs, and extra money for disaster relief.
Then they adjourned, and went home. Refreshing, is it not?
The Senate passed a $30.8 billion budget on Saturday, making it a clean sweep in the Tennessee General Assembly, with both chambers unanimously approving a budget that could have easily been a contentious battle given the state’s economic constraints.
The House approved the budget 96-0 on Friday.
Republican Gov. Bill Haslam and lawmakers benefited from recent revenue increases that allowed Haslam to restore many cuts that mattered most to Democrats, and in the end the bill was still roughly 3.9 percent less than the previous year’s budget. The state is constitutionally obligated to pass a balanced budget.
Haslam, in his first year as governor, had stated relentlessly during his campaign that the state was going to suffer massive losses of federal economic stimulus money, and his estimates on that count proved fairly accurate. All told, the state will have about $1.8 billion less in federal funds than a year ago, and of that total about $1.4 billion was attributed to the loss of stimulus funds.
Haslam, like his predecessor, Bredesen, comes from a business background, and understands math. He is a conservative, but not an ideologue.
In many previous years, with many more Democrats in the legislature demanding more spending on every pet project, or split control amongst the parties, budget battles would last until midnight July 3. The reviled Don Sundquist lied in 2000 about proposing an income tax, demanded it in 2001, and Legislative Plaza filled with thousands of truly pissed-off voters. Sundquist sent in the troopers on horseback to break them up, to no avail. Bredesen didn't even bring the subject up during his tenure.
All those folks, and many more, showed up to vote in 2004, 2006 and 2010. Especially 2010, after a two-year dose of LifeUnderObama.
Tennessee runs balanced budgets. Tennessee has noooooo income tax.
Tennessee has myriad problems, to be sure, but OS would not trade problems with Illinois for anything.
The November 2010 election mattered in Tennessee. The teacher's union had its wings clipped. The legislature cut spending, still leaving in some favored programs, and extra money for disaster relief.
Then they adjourned, and went home. Refreshing, is it not?
The Senate passed a $30.8 billion budget on Saturday, making it a clean sweep in the Tennessee General Assembly, with both chambers unanimously approving a budget that could have easily been a contentious battle given the state’s economic constraints.
The House approved the budget 96-0 on Friday.
Republican Gov. Bill Haslam and lawmakers benefited from recent revenue increases that allowed Haslam to restore many cuts that mattered most to Democrats, and in the end the bill was still roughly 3.9 percent less than the previous year’s budget. The state is constitutionally obligated to pass a balanced budget.
Haslam, in his first year as governor, had stated relentlessly during his campaign that the state was going to suffer massive losses of federal economic stimulus money, and his estimates on that count proved fairly accurate. All told, the state will have about $1.8 billion less in federal funds than a year ago, and of that total about $1.4 billion was attributed to the loss of stimulus funds.
Haslam, like his predecessor, Bredesen, comes from a business background, and understands math. He is a conservative, but not an ideologue.
In many previous years, with many more Democrats in the legislature demanding more spending on every pet project, or split control amongst the parties, budget battles would last until midnight July 3. The reviled Don Sundquist lied in 2000 about proposing an income tax, demanded it in 2001, and Legislative Plaza filled with thousands of truly pissed-off voters. Sundquist sent in the troopers on horseback to break them up, to no avail. Bredesen didn't even bring the subject up during his tenure.
All those folks, and many more, showed up to vote in 2004, 2006 and 2010. Especially 2010, after a two-year dose of LifeUnderObama.
Tennessee runs balanced budgets. Tennessee has noooooo income tax.
Tennessee has myriad problems, to be sure, but OS would not trade problems with Illinois for anything.
Tuesday, May 24, 2011
As OS Predicted, DSK And His Homies Are Pursuing The Maid's Family Out The Second Cousins Back In Africa
Not amazing, really, but--shall we say, breathlessly brazen?
Friends of alleged hotel sex fiend Dominique Strauss-Kahn secretly contacted the accusing maid's impoverished family, offering them money to make the case go away since they can't reach her in protective custody, The Post has learned.
The woman, who says she was sexually assaulted by the disgraced former head of the International Monetary Fund, has an extended family in the former French colony of Guinea in West Africa, well out of reach of the Manhattan DA's Office.
"They already talked with her family," a French businesswoman with close ties to Strauss-Kahn and his family told The Post. "For sure, it's going to end up on a quiet note."
Large numbers being bandied about, don't-cha-know. Seven figures, bubbah! But how do deliver a seven-figure bribe to a remote African village with no electricity?
There will be demands for change of venue, to Arkansas, perhaps. Reasoning is, they may not like French people much there, but they really hate African people.
If convicted, endless appeals.
And the stories about the maid will become more scurrilous.
She has a child, and she'll hear that DSK and his Socialist colleagues have very very very long memories...will the DA be around to protect them in 5/10/20 years, hmmm?
Eventually, members of family back in the village may begin departing this vale of tears.
Some quiet contributions to 'charities' of the governor, and a quiet pardon in the final hours of his term.
OS can already hear the Gulfstream warming up on the tarmac in New Jersey.
Let us sincerely hope OS is dead wrong on this.
Friends of alleged hotel sex fiend Dominique Strauss-Kahn secretly contacted the accusing maid's impoverished family, offering them money to make the case go away since they can't reach her in protective custody, The Post has learned.
The woman, who says she was sexually assaulted by the disgraced former head of the International Monetary Fund, has an extended family in the former French colony of Guinea in West Africa, well out of reach of the Manhattan DA's Office.
"They already talked with her family," a French businesswoman with close ties to Strauss-Kahn and his family told The Post. "For sure, it's going to end up on a quiet note."
Large numbers being bandied about, don't-cha-know. Seven figures, bubbah! But how do deliver a seven-figure bribe to a remote African village with no electricity?
There will be demands for change of venue, to Arkansas, perhaps. Reasoning is, they may not like French people much there, but they really hate African people.
If convicted, endless appeals.
And the stories about the maid will become more scurrilous.
She has a child, and she'll hear that DSK and his Socialist colleagues have very very very long memories...will the DA be around to protect them in 5/10/20 years, hmmm?
Eventually, members of family back in the village may begin departing this vale of tears.
Some quiet contributions to 'charities' of the governor, and a quiet pardon in the final hours of his term.
OS can already hear the Gulfstream warming up on the tarmac in New Jersey.
Let us sincerely hope OS is dead wrong on this.
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