He’s finally here – President Obama arrived in the UK early this am – making it to number 10 Downing street for breakfast with ‘Gordy’ – along with a bunch of other officials. So I guess it was not a very private affair of wives & hubbies…

Ooops! Shevckenko just put in one for the Ukraine: it is 1-1 now…

OK, coming back to the matter at hand, I got a cup of green maté tea – tastes a lot like the Japanese Matcha variety – but a little more of a bitter taste.

Yes, we have really copped it – this time around. 8 years of ‘W’ has put us in for it – looks like it will be a tough ride for a while. Finance is essentially a scheme for transferring future wealth into the present. But the bastard Madoff’s & CEOs of the world, acting like, good ole’ fashioned dictators, found a way to scam us out of our future wealth – which they themselves have appropriated in the form of healthy bonuses. The irony of it is that, now we are forced to engage in public borrowing – which again means that we, or our children, will have to pay for it for years to come. The croooked bankers and CEOs ought to be jailed really…

So will Obama, ‘Gordy’, and the remainder of the pack find a way to eliminate the corporate and public corruption and lack of good governance that got us into this mess? I hope so.

Beckham! to Gerrard to Terry and it is… 2-1 England. I ll leave it at that!