post VEEP debate:

I am not kidding.   You are going to think I’m kidding, but I’m not.   Sarah Palin did not read her debate answers, not all of them.   I mean those who opose that ticket often offer the compliment that she reads teleprompters well.   For some predictable questions, she was well practiced for the answer.   She made great eye contact with the camera but not every time.   You can play back some exchanges from YOU TUBE and see her looking down and not listening.
She also occasionally had her hands busy inside the podium.

I may be wrong, but I like my little theory.   The nice lady was reading text messages from maybe a BlackBerry rather than a teleprompter.    When she spoke of a General McClellan, she was not thinking of the Civil War.
A 44-year-old woman who needs glasses was trying to read
  McKiernan from a really small screen.

Slate online magazine had a little piece about nothing more than how coming from Alaska can make you really American.  It was only obliquely about Palin, but there was the coincidence of a BlackBerry ad on the same page

How about all of Palin’s winks over the course of the debate as a signal to send more text.   “I got that last one, how about another”   WINK

notes for September 24th

this is the place for any comments on the longer than usual bite from yesterday wherein Rocky’s DADDY suggested that one of the candidates for president announce a key cabinet position or two months before
having the actual authority to appoint anybody.

Next BITE: Joe Biden’s helicopter, he and two other senators were
passengers, was forced down in Afghanistan.  It is true, an absolute FACT.
It required two bloggers working for ABC news to check out that fact.
I am a blogger because I do speech bites AND make notes
about it at here.  I don’t expect people attached to BIG news organizations to call themselves bloggers.   Jake Tapper and Matthew Jaffe did what I would have done as they checked web sources by Googling .   A few people may think that Biden was just a little deceptive; he may have implied that the copter went down under fire.   It went down safely for a respite from a snow storm.

Joe also did not approve a video ad for his own campaign.  It was the one that made Senator McCain look way behind the times with archival footage of the candidate wearing silly glasses and a bad suit.  Those silly glasses might be somewhat like the ones I’m wearing now.  Joe Biden does not want to make John McCain look outdated, but does not mind saying many, many times that his friend McCain is out of touch and just doesn’t get it.    Didn’t Senator McCain say “you just don’t get it” OR “he just doesn’t get it” attempting to turn Biden’s words on the top ofthe ticket in the first debate.

We are not giving the text of everything we say on http://speechbites.com

I didn’t exactly predict it, but …

a bite from September 15th; notes or script fragments:

Now even though the audience remains small,
what we are saying or have said matters much more
than some would think.   Case in point, over the weekend,
very unusual for the investment business, U.S. Treasury Secretary
Henry Paulson along 5 or 6 other investment firms tried
to figure some way to fit Lehman Brothers
with a life jacket.

None of those involved had listened to Rocky’s DADDY
on speech bites back in early April.  After Lehman’s had a stock offering
to raise a few billion, we pointed out that they had been conned
out of a few million dollars here in Japan.

So, early in the week after the weekend of the 14th of September,
I’m in a told-ya-so mood.  The Associated Press through
the International Tribune online publishes a timeline
for the pending collapse of Lehmans does not
mention the scam in Tokyo for 350 million dollars taken
from Lehmans just before their April Fools DAY stock offering
which actually helped the market at the time but should not
have been considered legal in light of the sting.

a bit of the bite from early April:
The scam or the earlier story, as I read from both
American and Japanese English language sources, goes like this:
Some contract or temporary employees at an investment
firm named Marubeni in Tokyo used a conference
room at a Marubeni office to entertain
people from Lehman Brothers; they entertained them with
the idea of loaning money to a firm named Asclepius which was
a wholly owned subsidiary of LTT Bio Pharma
which has fewer than 40 employees.

Here is the tricky part:
Asclepius could go bankrupt shortly after getting the loan
of something like 350 million dollars not yen, and the bankruptcy
never touches LTT Bio Pharma, the parent company.

And, those contract employees at Marubeni were fired
and were reported by the company to the police for prosecution
which leaves Marubeni clean by Japanese custom.

not such a sweet song (small chunk of notes)

I like to be not so serious, so

that the JOKER cannot say to

me “why so serous”

I like to be, as an American,

non-partisan OR bi-partisan.

I have become the anti-Georgia Georgian.
Georgian because I’m from that state in the U.S.
“anti” because hunger for the profits from
oil flowing through their pipeline
has probably corrupted
the government of the country
named Georgia.

As I pretend to be a critic of journalism,
the biggest factor IS that little gets through
to the news consumers of the nation
that is thought to be the world’s
media center unless it is repeated.
Make it echo until it becomes a shout.
What I heard shouted from early
August was that the Russians were
the aggressors.    The Russian military
became aggressive acting only
in response to what the Georgian
military did on the night of the 8th.

You should have heard the rest
of what I said on speech bites

hey, GOOD-LOOKIN’ (pieces of a script)

How do you feel about looking good?

Sounds like a silly question, and sounds like …
the hill.com as in Capital Hill like in D.C., USA
actually called their listing the 4th Annual
50 Most Beautiful People on Capital Hill.

Here in Shizuoka, Japan, we are home to
last year’s MISS Universe. A new MISS Universe
was crowned a couple of weeks ago. Dayana Mendoza
of Venezuela for 2008; for 2007 it was Riyo MORI.

In Japan the word in Japanese that translates
to beautiful is not used very often.  kawa-ii is used
more often and translates to “cute” in English.

…   and, then of course, I said much more
on the audio presentation.

re-thinking THE PROMISE

Chapter ONE was real purpose

chapters 2 and 3 were about
the PROMISE which became way too
convoluted, so I deleted.  I believe
I can make it simpler:

(1)  I do a podcast

(2) I hope for profit from the podcast

(3) If there is NO profit to be had, I’ll produce
ONE per week uploaded on Wednesday afternoons
or evenings Japan time because, though we project to 
an English-language-using audience,
Pat Boggs prospers in Shizuoka, Japan
(home to a recent MISS UNIVERSE).

(4) For possible profit we are
focused on branded merchandise.

(5) If the number of branded items sold in any
calendar month is more than 200, we will
produce and upload an additional bite
on each Monday of the following
calendar month.

(6) If the number of branded items sold in each of three
consecutive calendar months is greater than 600, we would
produce and upload 5 days a week for the next three
calendar months.  And, that’s a promise.

(7) Though the PROMISE is only for 1 per week with
NO sales, we are going to see just how many we can
produce from late July of ‘08 to late August.
We are thinking that the only way to sell
the branded merchandise is to
spoil the audience first.

previously we had the idea of partitioning off people who bought branded mercahndise from those who didn’t.   that remains a possibility, but if it is not necessary, it’s not necessary