Morning News Roundup with Free Snark!

Corporations are dumping their private jets. They might as well, since the TSA is going to make it difficult to fly them.

Imagine, if you will, that you were running an airline. Let's suppose on every other flight that there was an outbreak of food poisoning; that on every third flight, all of the luggage was lost forever and that three or four times a year, one of your airplanes caught fire and crashed, killing all aboard. It would stand to reason that not only would you not be receiving a bonus at the end of the year, you'd be lucky if you still had your head. Those are the rules that sort of apply almost everywhere: Shitty performance is not rewarded. Except if you work for a financial institution, that is, where people were paid hefty bonuses even as the entire financial sector was collapsing around them. So the money that the banks got from the Treasury Department was used not to shore up the economy, but to give them a pot of ready cash to skim off for their own self-enrichment. (Memo to President Obama: Tell the General Services Administration to order tumbrels and a guillotine.)

U.S. Government to Blackwater: Your services are no longer required. Leave. About fraking time. Go find some other corner of the planet in which to randomly kill passers-by. See if they like it any better.

This falls into the category of Who Gives a Flying Fuck: President Obama does not require that a coat and tie be worn in the Oval Office. Really, who gives a fuck? Preznit McPoopypants required that a coat and tie be worn in the Oval Office and look how well he ran the country for eight years. We're on the verge of the Great Depression- the Sequel, if we're not already sliding into it, and it is largely due to the atrocious mismanagement and incompetence of the Bush Administration and his party.

I don't give a rat's ass if the uniform of the day in the Obama White House is tutus and ballet slippers if only they can bring a modicum of competence to the job.