When they do it, it’s called a ‘stimulus package’ There are bailouts all over the place these days numbering in the tens to hundreds of billions of dollars each. The word billion is as common as a grain of rice in a 5-pound bag. Now, we find ourselves in the ‘trillion’ category, when you count [...]
You may like her. You may hate her. Whatever side you are on, you cannot deny that the choice of Governor Sarah Palin for John McCain’s VP has begun a huge national debate – has feminism finally going to be taken seriously? I know many strong and accomplished women and one thing that puzzles me [...]
The candidates met the people face-to-face at Belmont University in Tennessee. Do we have a horse race or did Obama pull away down the stretch? What did you think? ***NOTE*** For the next four weeks, I will be giving out my new Armchair Energist cap to someone at random every Friday through Election Day. Sign [...]
Gee…I didn’t know that the starting lineup for the Dallas Cowboys weren’t already registered to vote. Vegas police raided the local ACORN office and found that the fix was in. And please don’t tell me this ‘grass roots’ organization isn’t really AstroTurf!! Aren’t you glad that ACORN received some of the pork pie Bailout Bill? [...]
…his civic duty! The electronic voting machines in Springfield aren’t like the ones in Bergen County, New Jersey Democracy in action!
“Vote early and vote often” – Al Capone In the Windy City, one of its nefarious celebrities was a community organizer in his own right. ‘Scarface’ Al Capone was only trying to get out the vote…like Sean-Puff Daddy-P. Diddy-Diddy-Combs’s “Vote or Die”? Sorta – except the ‘die’ part was literal and not figurative. Now, another [...]
The good news? Crude dropped over 10 bucks. The bad news? No one may be able to buy the cheaper gas as a result. After a tenuous morning session, the market watched, listened and reacted to the House vote on the financial bailout for Wall Street. The bill, as well as the markets, went down [...]
This morning, President Bush presented the outline of the Bailout Bill that was bouncing around the House this weekend. In order to clam the markets, the President was at the podium at 7:30EDT to try and get out in front of the possible downturn. It didn’t work. Skeptical traders began the day selling off and [...]
It wasn’t exactly the ‘Thrilla in Manila’, but the Presidential candidates started duking it out tonight. What did YOU think?
I had written about Senate Leader Harry Reid’s ploy to restrict oil shale production in the US. It was hidden in an appropriations bill and Senator Reid figured no one would notice. Wrong! The good senator decided to park the wording smack-dab in the middle of a pork-laden appropriations bill, timed just for the re-election [...]
