I was against the bailout of the auto industry — and as you would expect — I am also against this nearly $1 trillion “stimulus”. Most of us think this so-called economic stimulus is going to be a big rebate check sent
Category: Politics
2008 Nobel Prize for Economics
Even More Toons on the Economy
Morphing US Presidents
Courtesy of Joe Knecht, a morphing view of the US Presidents [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYrZZ68zhSs[/youtube]
Bloomberg and CNN
I’ve not been a real fan of Michael Bloomberg, however, he does a nice job responding to the simplistic rhetoric of a CNN reporter… [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGgBjZTsPaw[/youtube] 6 min 23 sec
Lessons Learned
“The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed lest Rome become bankrupt. People must again
Changing Lightbulbs
How many armies does it take to change a lightbulb? 5. The Germans to start it, the French to give up without really trying, the Italians to start, get nowhere, then try again from the other side, the Americans to
Quotes from Ayn Rand
Given the change in leadership in the US, it’s probably a good time for a few pertinent quotes from Ayn Rand: * “A government is the most dangerous threat to man’s rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use
Black is In
Larry King commented on Barack Obama: “Black is in…my eight-year-old son wishes he was black.” (by the way, what is an old codger like Larry doing with an 8 year-old son?) What do you think this ‘black is in’ means?
The New President and Wealth
I was sequestered in meetings most of the day yesterday so I missed the coronation. I went to my desk around 5:00pm and opened the Yahoo home page and saw this: My first reaction was hmmm…. I knew that the