Is Nothing Sacred?

Ming hasn't posted in a couple of weeks since he was enjoying taxpayer provided free accommodations in the same cellblock as Bernie Madoff. Ming is sad to report that poor Bernie is in the dumps over the government's latest heartless ploy.

Today at 10:AM Ebay will close bidding on Bernie Madoff's two gold tickets to the Mets season opener at the new CITI Field. So far the bids exceed $3,000.

Has it come to this? Make a little fifty billion dollar booboo and the Torquemada's of the Inquisition purloin your cherished right to see the Mets in action. Surely a civilized society would instead send Bernie on the prison bus to the game. If they chose to be vindictive they could make him leave in the top of the ninth, should the score be tied.

Fortunately, the Solons who run things have not meted out such draconian punishments entailing incarceration and confiscation of Mets tickets to the descendants of Jesse James who run our major banks and insurance scams.

Ming's favorite peccadillo is the billions funneled through AIG to allow foreign banks such as UBS to enjoy not only reimbursement for their credit default swap fliers but their profits on them as well. All this when the glorious UBS is under indictment for tax fraud while refusing to divulge the names of 52,000 U.S. citizens who they enabled to evade their U.S. income taxes. But the Government is on the job and will squeeze $3,000 or so from sale of Bernie's baseball seats for one game. You just can't make this stuff up.