Highlighted Happenings

click here to view all events.

    No events to show

    Random Recitals

    Something about the fact that I made some contribution to either my country, or those who were less well off. I think back to what Camus wrote about the fact that perhaps this world is a world in which children suffer, but we can lessen the number of suffering children, and if you do not do this, then who will do this? I'd like to feel that I'd done something to lessen that suffering.

    Lively Links

    Links change randomly each time the cache is refreshed.

    Page 1 of 230123450100Last »


    time to name names and put the blame where it belongs

    On Hank Paulson’s bald head.

    When AIG started to become unwound last fall, who better to know just how much Goldman Sach’s own rape & pillage squad was going to depend on its AIG bad bet insurance than the former CEO, Paulson himself – and who else but the Treasury Secretary would be better positioned to make sure that at least his alma mater – if [...]



    ratcheting up the pressure

    I assume these recent speeches by Obama are intended to publicly call out Blue Dogs and Senate Republicans to get along and go along once the Economic Plan is presented. From today’s speech at George Mason University:

    This crisis did not happen solely by some accident of history or normal turn of the business cycle, and we won’t get out of it by simply waiting [...]



    $25 Billion for New Signs and Renovations

    WAMU logo

    Ever since my favorite local bank, Washington Mutual (I know it is not a local bank) was taken over by JP Morgan I have been wondering about how its new overlord would handle the name of the organization.  I was thinking that it could keep the Washington Mutual name since it has for me been a good bank and therefore if others feel [...]



    First You Were Against the Bailout Before You Were For It

    1936 Chrysler Airflow Series C-9

    These days I sometimes feel like I am living in a psychosis.  I have been absolutely opposed to the financial sector bailout from the beginning.  Our government freaked out and reacted poorly.  Too much money was approved with too little oversight for an industry that has become too big and monopolized for its britches.  I favor using government to restructure [...]



    my obama-topia

    I just heard on the radio that that DLC quisling Rahm Emanuel is Obama’s likely choice for Chief of Staff. Crap.

    While my opinion doesn’t mean squat, here’s my dream cabinet, which includes promoting FEMA back to cabinet level (and taking it out of Dept. of Homeland Security):

    Department of Agriculture: Senator Tom Harkin
    Department of Commerce: Rep. Peter DeFazio, D-Oregon
    Department of Defense: General Wesley Clark
    Department of [...]



    a pie in the face is the very least i’d like to give john mccain

    I’d very much like to give him a piece of my mind.

    I was born on Long Island, just a few train stops from Hofstra University. If all you know of Long Island comes from F. Scott Fitzgerald (or Paris Hilton), that strip of expensive real estate may seem like a giant McMansion tract. But when I was born in Garden City in 1965, Long [...]



    Can’t afford a home? Here is $7500

    Part of the recent bailout bill includes a provision to allow a refundable tax credit of 10% of the home purchase price up to $7500 for new home buyers for purchases after April 9, 2008 and before July 1, 2009.  A “first-time”  home buyer is one that has not owned a home for three years prior to the purchase.  By the way, ownership of [...]



    The Day Hank Paulson Lied

    Is it just me or has anyone else noticed that there is a pattern with Congress passing legislation that the American people do not want and know is not in their interest?  First they kick it around a little and then have a vote or two that fails to pass the proposed bill.  Then they tweak the bill a little while some of the Congresspeople [...]

    Page 1 of 230123450100Last »