Tag archive for ‘Wow’
Bail out on the bailout
Put simply - the problem with the bailout is this - who are we bailing out, exactly, with the current Bill (HR 1424)? The now 420+ paged monstrosity includes things such as tax breaks for employers who encourage their workers to take bicycles to work, a 2500+ dollar tax for electric vehichle purchases, an alternative fuel tax credit, credits for biodesiel and alternative fuels, credits for carbon dioxide sequestration, credits for geothermal heat pumps, tax breaks for the steel industry, changes to the Alternative Minimum Tax system, oh and among my personal favorites, a seven year amortization table for the expenses associated with development and running a motocycle racing track. Yes, you heard me - motocross racing tax provisions.
Edwards “Bangs the Help” - and lies about it…
To quote John Edwards, there are in fact two Americas, the America where I get to have illicit affairs while running for President and lie about it, and the America where if you did that, you’d probably wind up castrated.
But hey, perhaps just like Sen. Edwards went to learn about poverty by working at a [...]
The “real” McCain game changer as Vice President - Pick Hillary
In the race for who will be the Vice Presidential nominee for the Republican ticket, pundits and commentarists alike exclaim that Sen. McCain needs a dynamic choice - a “game changer” - that will somehow propel the party back to national prominence and expunge the significant defects of Sen. McCain’s voting record with some of [...]
Barack Obama, “ein Mann aus dem Volke!”
I’m sure by now my readers have seen the speech by Senator Obama on what I’ve comically referred to as “Obama - the World Tour.” Put simply - if you’ve been living under a rock - Sen. Obama went to Germany and delivered quite a nice speech. In response - US media is gushing over [...]
Make mine a mocha-layoffa-chino please…
Starbucks, the nation’s left-wing-nutjob-8-dollars-a-cup-of-joe shop, has finally figured out the economy is slowing down. I suppose when gas costs more than four bucks a gallon - getting that mocha frappachino for six bucks doesn’t seem like such a good idea. Starbucks Corp. announced today it will close 600 company-operated stores in the next year. The [...]
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