Tendown April 26 2015

Tendown 171 is here. This is Tendown 172.

1. How much do the 1% of the 1% contribute to political campaigns?

Half.

2. And how much do companies shift the burden of paying their workers to taxpayers?

150 billion a year.

3.  Bruce Jenner.  Ain't that a helluva thing.

4. We Get Dumber.

5. 

Anytime a member of the picked upon "affluent" would like to trade financial statuses with me, as representative of "the rest of Americans" I'm down.  

6. For every dollar spent on lobbying by labor unions and public-interest groups together, large corporations and their associations now spend $34. Of the 100 organizations that spend the most on lobbying, 95 consistently represent business.

7. 

Who could have seen this coming?

Oh yeah, that guy.

Judge Stephen Reinhardt:“this case involves nothing more than an irrelevant, rambling statement made by a witness during the course of a grand jury investigation.”

Told you so.  

8. True or False.  There's a Keith Sweat Festival this summer in Jamaica.

You say no. I say yes.

9. 54% of Republicans believe....

That Obama is Muslim.

10.   Steph. Curry.

And one more...

That's all for this time.  I'll be back next time.  If there is a next time...

Your pal,

Jim