2010 ELECTIONS - THERE'S ONLY ONE ISSUE
First diary here. (a) bear with me, please, and (b) I’ll keep it as succinct as possible. OK, with regard to (b) I’ve failed. My prior drafts striving for pithiness just didn’t seem to flesh out the...
View ArticleA comforting note from the government
While I was away on business, my wife called to tell me we had received a note from Fannie Mae saying that our mortgage, which we recently refi’ed , had been sold by our bank to Fannie Mae, but to...
View ArticleLame Duck Dodd Announces Big Payoff
Senator Dodd is reported this morning to be floating the idea of scrapping proposal for an independent Consumer Protection Agency in favor of folding the agency into the Treasury Department where Tim...
View ArticleThe Bad News Bears
For those either too young, or too goal oriented to watch old reruns, it’s an old movie about a bunch of misfit kids on a little league team. When they start they couldn’t find a baseball if it was...
View ArticleThe Fix is In...For Now
President Obama gave a stirring speech announcing several things that will be popular among the broad economy (i.e., all us small timers). Using $30 Billion of the TARP repayments to disseminate...
View ArticleTipping the Balance Sheet – the FED
I’ll keep this short, but it bears watching because it has a lot do with whether a lot of us get to keep our jobs. In previous rants I’ve decried what the Bush Fed, which is still the Bush Fed, did on...
View ArticleRenaming Contest
Rachel Maddow’s contest for renaming the filibuster got me to thinking. It was entertaining to see the suggestions and the basic idea of a national civics lesson was refreshing. It’s also a...
View ArticleArtistic Jobs Creation - Let's Build a Pyramid
I'm serious. The solution is as simple and time tested as human civilization and it is art and it will provide utility. Consider: When the Egyptians built the Great Pyramid, and its successors,...
View ArticleThe Last Thing She Said
He was holding onto a tree as the water roared around them. His hand interlocked with hers as the frothing unleashed monster that had besieged New Orleans since 1703 demanded submission in a...
View ArticleOBAMA DEBT CEILING SPEECH
Imagine my astonishment when i received the following as an attachment to a White House robot email response. You see, a few days ago I sent an email urging President Obama to support a new bill...
View ArticleSo why is it?
Not a regular diarist here by any means. Kos helped fire me up 2006 & 2008 and I went out and knocked on doors in one of the reddest states in the union & made phone calls for candidates all...
View ArticleMidnight Run
It of course hasn’t received much attention from the press because...well, they’re the press...but Orange Mussolini’s cancelling Speaker Pelosi, et al’s trip abroad (which was of course illegal for him...
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