Archive for March, 2009
Correction #200
Everything I said about Geithner and Obama regarding the economy was wrong. The markets have spoken and nobody can dispute the all knowing wisdom of the markets.
footnote: That sound you just heard was a champagne cork popping. Not because the economy is back, but because this is my 200th correction post since [...]
Don’t buy Chinese….
Condoms. Based on their history, if I were anyone trying to NOT knockup a girlfriend I wouldn’t.
Sadly, its’ our own government buying them and putting 300 Americans out of work.
FYI: Obama is doing an awesome job
Obama is the greatest president in a long long while. We had a historic jump in the DOW yesterday, that’s how I know.
Oh, and his approval rating is still at 64%, sorry folks, people still like him and know he inherited a mess from the pompom toting sham of a president we just had.
A Stray Thought
I think anyone who anxiously awaits The Rapture should not serve in public office since they really don’t have any incentive in making a better future. In fact, it could be in their religious interest to make the future worse.
/sorta snark
Limbaugh has more power than Cheney
I find it AMAZING that Congressmen, potential governors and senate candidates all GOP’ers went ON RECORD to tell Cheney to STFU and go back under his rock. Yet, every time a Congressmen or Senator says something negative about Rush Limbaugh in 24 hours they are recanting.
Rep. John Duncan Jr. (R-Tenn.) said, “He became so [...]
That Didn’t Take Long
New Jersey files a lawsuit today to overturn a sports-betting ban:
A group representing gaming and horse-racing industries in New Jersey filed a lawsuit on Monday seeking to overturn a federal law that bans sports betting in New Jersey and most other U.S. states.
The suit filed against the federal government claims the Professional and Amateur Sports [...]
Dr. Dean is getting the old band back together
Good stuff.
I think Howard Dean the outsider is going to be a powerful force in Dem politics.
Breaking: Powerful Law Firm to Close, Delaware Heavy-Hitters Going to…
Philadelphia-based Wolf Block, a very powerful law firm with strong governmental ties, will dissolve, according to this report on Philly.com.
10 attorneys from its Delaware office, including former AG Charles Oberly and his former deputy, Kathleen Jennings, appear likely to move en masse to the firm of Drinker, Biddle & Reith.
This group of attorneys also includes former NCC [...]
GOOD FAQ post
I suggest anyone that has questions regarding the new and latest greatest bailout go here
23Mar2009 | Donvictimiti | 8 comments | Continued
Obama and Geither are Shockingly Clueless
Duncan Black nails it:
23Mar2009 | jason330 | 16 comments | Continued
Perks Watch
If nothing else, Perks Watch, The New York Times’ blog about various perks, incentives and cash American capitalists have received, should give Don Viti an aneurysm.
23Mar2009 | nemski | 3 comments | Continued
Science, With An Assist From Mother Nature, Trounces Jindal For The Win!
It really must be embarrassing when Mother Nature turns the mocker into the mockee. I doubt I’ll look at another volcanic eruption without thinking about Bobby Jindal. Hope they don’t use trains to help evacuate people!
Mount Redoubt Erupts!
Quote of the Day
I’ve made a lot of mistakes in my life. But failing to complain over the last 8 years wasn’t one of them.
- Paul Krugman
News Journal Deathspiral News
Gannett confirms more furloughs.
Despite all of your truly remarkable efforts to reverse the trend, our revenue numbers continue their downward slide and we have been faced with more difficult decisions.
One of those choices was between more layoffs or another round of furloughs. We chose, for most employees, a furlough program consisting of at least one [...]
Trading Local School Control for More Federal Money
According to this CNN Poll, Americans would cede some control of their school systems for more Federal funds:
A new national poll indicates that most Americans would be willing to give up some control of their public schools to the federal government in return for more money from Washington for those schools.
Fifty-six percent of people questioned [...]
QOD
Can a free market really exist with tort reform?
23Mar2009 | Donvictimiti | 9 comments | Continued
Good News/Bad News?: Tweety Re-ups w/MSNBC for 4 Years
Arlen Specter can presumably breathe easier. Chris ‘Tweetybird’ Matthews has signed an extension w/MSNBC that will keep him there until after the 2012 elections.
Matthews denies that he was raising the specter (too easy, ‘bulo knows) of a possible race as a bargaining ploy:
Mr. Matthews said that he had been serious about the Senate seat, now [...]
A Gun Aside
I don’t like gun posts. They are just about as bad as abortion posts when it comes to generating interesting threads. Having said that, I think I should mention that the only murderer I know personally, killed his victim with a gun he made from a kit.
It was a cap lock pistol and he [...]
Radical Eco Buddies
As I mentioned in another thread, Ed Begley is a very non-political guy. His message at the Delaware Great Green Expo on Saturday was very common sense oriented.
He said, for example, that he was raised by an old style conservative. (The kind who liked to conserve stuff.) He said that whether or not [...]
Submarine and Surface ship collide in Persian Gulf area
The submarine USS Hartford and amphibious ship USS New Orleans arrived Saturday in Mina Salman pier to “to further assess and evaluate the damage that resulted from their collision at sea,” the service said in a written statement.
It is no surprise that there are Submarines out there, no doubt they are hunting for some Iranian [...]
Live Blog Obama on 60 Minutes
It all makes sense on the surface, but he still seems very beholden to the Wall Street system to me.
22Mar2009 | jason330 | 9 comments | Continued
Evening Reading Requests
Hopefully you had a nice day in the semi-spring weather today because it is going away for the week and you get to freeze your man and lady parts off the next 4 mornings. El spellhisnamesomhowblo had a good post on articles worth reading, but I’d like to add two more for you this [...]
22Mar2009 | Donvictimiti | 3 comments | Continued
QOD
Which Amendment could we do without and still survive as a democracy/republic?
22Mar2009 | Donvictimiti | 37 comments | ContinuedSocial Media
