/…Michael Vick, disgraced, convicted as a felon, excoriated by his former boosters, booted from the NFL and sent to jail for five years is back.
Dropped four years ago by NIKE, the world’s largest sporting goods company, Vick has been re-signed by Nike to a multi-year contract.
Terms not disclosed….but the circle has been joined and the Philadelphia quarterback can say it, “the road’s been rough but I’m back………….
/…It was a stunning reversal of fortune moving DSK(Dominque Straus-Kahn) from 5 to 20 in Sing Sing to release
on his own recognizance and back on the road to the Elysee-Palace. Before his strange encounter in a New York hotel suite he was being
given better than 2 to 1 odds of winning the French Presidency. The encounter cost him his job at the IMF but he was preparing to leave that anyway
for the move on the Palace. It will be some time before the image of the “perv” walk is erased and before that’s erased there will be some messy days in a New York courtroom.
But in France, DSK’s tangle with the New York police is looked upon as a badge of honour! Make way for the DSK motorcade!! Maybe?
/…Conrad Black was whiplashed in a Chicago court by Judge Amy St. Eve and he’s going back to jail but there’s a silver lining….a couple of days after that shock, Black got some goods news!
Prosecutors told his lawyers they will be returning the 5 and a half million dollars they confiscated from the sale of his Manhattan apartment.
They have been holding the money for almost six years so he gets it back plus interest. Lord Black is on his way back BUT not before the prison detour. Nevertheless
the light on the other side of this tunnel is freedom road.
/…In Thailand, another stunner! That country has elected its first female Prime Minister.
Yingluck Shinawatra, is the 44-year-old sister of Thaksin Shinawatra, the prime minister who was ousted in a military coup five years ago.
His sister has never held political office but she leads her Pheu Thai party to a majority in the Thai House of Representatives. The hope is with this majority
she can calm the nation that was wracked by deadly riots just last year. Her victory is impressive when you consider the numbers…
Forty parties looking to fill 500 seats. Her party wins over 300. She’s earned substantial political capital which Thais are hoping will be spent wisely.
/…Now consider how easy it is to squander, political capital! Rob Ford arrived at Toronto City Hall with immeasurable political capital and even after
making some silly statements about blowing up work already done on solving transit problems, and sticking to that nonsense about Subways to Nowhere
he still had plenty. So as he was about to embark on his seventh month into the job, his approval rating high and his political capital account flush,
(Political capital-never easy to attain and even harder to retain-look at Flinty Mc Guinty) why would he squander his largesse on such a stupid decision.
“If invited I will not come to the Pride Parade.” NO NO NO! Substitute FATHEAD Ford for MAYOR FORD!
…don’t take my word, that his Political Capital account has diminished exponentially–check out Sue Ann Levy in today’s Sun.
She has been one of Mayor Ford’s major media boosters. She writes, “in their six months in office, I have never seen the mayor and his advisers
screw up something so simple as recognizing an important community in this city and attending just one(only one) of a signature series of events.”
… Sue-Ann Levy..The Sun July 3, 2011!
The Ford Political Capital account will not be replenished anytime soon and although there are supporters of his “hell no, I won’t go” mantra
you have to be seriously without political moxy or common sense to see Ford’s decision as anything but goofy!!!
His road back is uphill!!!
/…Others who are finding the road back difficult include Federer, the Williams sisters and Sharapova in tennis and
of course Tiger Woods. His ride continues on a muddy road. Lost his wife, his children, his home, his stroke and his health with no prospect
of finding the Road Back, at least in the foreseeable future!!!
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The Road Back
2011/07/03 2 Comments
/…Michael Vick, disgraced, convicted as a felon, excoriated by his former boosters, booted from the NFL and sent to jail for five years is back.
Dropped four years ago by NIKE, the world’s largest sporting goods company, Vick has been re-signed by Nike to a multi-year contract.
Terms not disclosed….but the circle has been joined and the Philadelphia quarterback can say it, “the road’s been rough but I’m back………….
/…It was a stunning reversal of fortune moving DSK(Dominque Straus-Kahn) from 5 to 20 in Sing Sing to release
on his own recognizance and back on the road to the Elysee-Palace. Before his strange encounter in a New York hotel suite he was being
given better than 2 to 1 odds of winning the French Presidency. The encounter cost him his job at the IMF but he was preparing to leave that anyway
for the move on the Palace. It will be some time before the image of the “perv” walk is erased and before that’s erased there will be some messy days in a New York courtroom.
But in France, DSK’s tangle with the New York police is looked upon as a badge of honour! Make way for the DSK motorcade!! Maybe?
/…Conrad Black was whiplashed in a Chicago court by Judge Amy St. Eve and he’s going back to jail but there’s a silver lining….a couple of days after that shock, Black got some goods news!
Prosecutors told his lawyers they will be returning the 5 and a half million dollars they confiscated from the sale of his Manhattan apartment.
They have been holding the money for almost six years so he gets it back plus interest. Lord Black is on his way back BUT not before the prison detour. Nevertheless
the light on the other side of this tunnel is freedom road.
/…In Thailand, another stunner! That country has elected its first female Prime Minister.
Yingluck Shinawatra, is the 44-year-old sister of Thaksin Shinawatra, the prime minister who was ousted in a military coup five years ago.
His sister has never held political office but she leads her Pheu Thai party to a majority in the Thai House of Representatives. The hope is with this majority
she can calm the nation that was wracked by deadly riots just last year. Her victory is impressive when you consider the numbers…
Forty parties looking to fill 500 seats. Her party wins over 300. She’s earned substantial political capital which Thais are hoping will be spent wisely.
/…Now consider how easy it is to squander, political capital! Rob Ford arrived at Toronto City Hall with immeasurable political capital and even after
making some silly statements about blowing up work already done on solving transit problems, and sticking to that nonsense about Subways to Nowhere
he still had plenty. So as he was about to embark on his seventh month into the job, his approval rating high and his political capital account flush,
(Political capital-never easy to attain and even harder to retain-look at Flinty Mc Guinty) why would he squander his largesse on such a stupid decision.
“If invited I will not come to the Pride Parade.” NO NO NO! Substitute FATHEAD Ford for MAYOR FORD!
…don’t take my word, that his Political Capital account has diminished exponentially–check out Sue Ann Levy in today’s Sun.
She has been one of Mayor Ford’s major media boosters. She writes, “in their six months in office, I have never seen the mayor and his advisers
screw up something so simple as recognizing an important community in this city and attending just one(only one) of a signature series of events.”
… Sue-Ann Levy..The Sun July 3, 2011!
The Ford Political Capital account will not be replenished anytime soon and although there are supporters of his “hell no, I won’t go” mantra
you have to be seriously without political moxy or common sense to see Ford’s decision as anything but goofy!!!
His road back is uphill!!!
/…Others who are finding the road back difficult include Federer, the Williams sisters and Sharapova in tennis and
of course Tiger Woods. His ride continues on a muddy road. Lost his wife, his children, his home, his stroke and his health with no prospect
of finding the Road Back, at least in the foreseeable future!!!
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