Money Can't Buy

 Bill and Melinda Gates are splitting the sheets. Yup. Divorce billionaire style is about to hit the headlines and isn't Amerika just lucky as can be to be able to witness a very public division of their property. Amerikans will want to know who gets what and when will whomever gets whatever the other doesn't want. What? It's complicated. So our intrepid Billy boy is in possession of $130.5 billion dollars. Oh yes. That's how the Forbes folks have Gates' net worth posted as. One hundred thirty billion and 500 million bucks. There are nations on and around Planet Earth haven't that much money on their very best day. So Billy and Melinny (that's Gates' pet name for Melinda) will have to split one titanic mountain of sheets to satisfy the divorce court judge. That judge will NOT be Judge Judy. If their divorce were to be handled California divorce style, well, the billionaire pair would each get $65 billion and $250 million dollars and that would I suppose be equitable. Face in a palm plant goes right about here. The Gates' bungalow located along the shores of Lake Washington (that's in Washington state), will be sold to the highest bidder and the proceeds divided between Billy and Melinny. The Gates' call their digs Xanadu 2.0. That seems silly but that's just me, besides the movie Xanadu really sucked. Of course the mansion is not the only property owned by the Gates. Oh hell no. They own a beach front mansion along the shores of the Pacific Ocean in Del Mar, California, an "equestrian estate" in Florida, 242,000 acres of farmland in Louisiana, Arkansas, Nebraska, and miscellaneous lots here and there where squeezing rent out of the poor is maintained for sport. Farmland? The Gates' own farmland? Golly, who knew. Well, the Forbes people obviously knew but just regular folks and the folks what ain't got more than about squat didn't know. The folks what ain't got more'n about squat most likely really don't care. Billy and Melinny have been married 27 years. Jeepers, if a couple hasn't figured out how to live together after 27 years, there was something wrong with the relationship from the start. Anyway, this tale of love gone wrong and what does the bank statement read today only proves that money can't buy them love. Insert a Beatles sound track right about now. The Beatles popular hit 'Money Can't Buy Me Love'? If you've never heard it well, google it and enjoy. I'll bet the lawyers working the Gates' divorce are gonna pocket a king's ransom in 'time billed'. Yeah lawyers suck too. Now it's time for the lowly and poverty stricken machine art. While it's true that money can't buy you love, it is true that money can buy you a cup of coffee. However if you head to a Starbucks, you're gonna need more than a buck. Starbucks sucks! 

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I'm thinking that Melinny is gonna want the horse property in Florida. The notion seems almost plausible. :]