Blog Love Omega Glee: Would You, Like, I Mean, Maybe, Consider, Just Think About It, Trading Links With Me? (6 April 2012)

After days of reading Franzine and vowing that today . . . Today! . . . was going to be the day that he would email Francine, or even . . . Victory belongs to the bold! . . . publicly comment on her blog, and then moments before Jake would hit "send", or "post", or "submit", after spending far too long to craft what was supposed to be just a casual, offhanded, "I had a few seconds of free time in my otherwise spectacularly busy day so I thought I'd kill time doing this and you happen to be the lucky recipient" message, he would chicken out and not hit "send", "post", or "submit", and instead hit himself in the head repeatedly for being such a fucking "coward", "chicken", or "loser".

But today . . . Today! . . . is the day that he is going to email Francine about . . . something. Jake was planning to offer to trade links but he already lists himself publicly as a follower of her blog and her updates are posted along with other blogs he likes--mostly wrestling blogs so her political blog stands out by contrast--in one column of his blog, and he noticed that she follows his blog as well . . . But he can't think of anything else to email her about.

Maybe he should just comment on her blog . . . but that would be publicly proclaiming his dorkiness. Plus he wouldn't want to be rejected by one of Francine's smoking caustic comments like she did with all the sad, horny guys who pretended to comment on her blog in order to hit on her when she was in the news briefly about being the stripper girlfriend of Sen. Rob Poorpeople. Jake doesn't like to think of himself as a sad, horny guy, so he waited. At least that flurry of commenting died down and her blog is back to normal.

Well, as normal as writing about conspiracy theories--like the U.S. government planning terrorist attacks on its own people in order to scare them into coughing up funding for wars overseas so that oil pipelines can be built in central Asia to benefit rich politicians and their rich cronies--can be.

Today, she's complaining about the government wanting to bail out huge financial companies that in their greed have nearly bankrupted themselves and now want the taxpayers to save them. Francine writes, "When poor people are losing their homes, the government tells them they have to be held responsible for their debts and won't help them out. They even make it hard for the poor people to declare bankruptcy anymore to escape their creditors. But when rich people are in danger of losing their money, the rich politicians who run the government want to ride to the rescue of their rich friends and bail them out with taxpayer money, even though the worst that could happen is that a corporation goes out of business and its overpaid executives and stockholders walk away with their personal assets--and usually considerable assets since some of these bozos got paid millions of dollars despite their faulty judgment and bad work--protected from any creditors who got swindled. If the government wants to play umpire in the free market, then maybe it should let those rich companies be held accountable for their bad decisions and let them suffer the consequences, not the taxpayers. The government's own debt is large enough as it is, and is enough of a drag on the economy. It shouldn't be buying up the bad debt of these companies, and basically rewarding them for their greed and swindling. All that does is encourage them to do it again. They bailed out these Wall Street con artists back in 2008 and we all know how that turned out. Yet here they are trying to do it again. Just say no to any government bailout!"

Professional finance seems a bit more complex than professional wrestling so Jake has no idea what she's writing about, and he decides not to comment. Instead, he types up an email offering to trade links. He looks at it, moves his mouse, and . . . and . . . and . . . clicks "send".

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