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Where is My Piece of the Pie?
The government gave out money to irresponsible homebuyers to help bail them out of their bad mortgages. But we were responsible and didn’t buy more house than we could afford, so we paid for our neighbor’s mortgage and continued paying for our own as well.
The government is giving money to people to buy new cars [...]
I’ve Called my Congress Critter — Have You?
My Congressman voted against this “crap sandwich” bailout bill on Monday. My Senators voted for it (and they’ll be hearing an earful from me when I can get through the switchboard).
This morning I called my Congressman’s office (all five, actually) to thank him for voting against the bill on Monday and to urge him to [...]
GOD BLESS AMERICA
We’ve Lost Our Darned Minds
Firs things first: John got sent on an unexpected business trip to Omaha, NE this week. His plane is probably starting it’s decent right about now. Yep, there he is:
He’ll be back on Friday morning, so it’s not so bad this time; although rumor has it that I might be getting sent back to Huntsville [...]
How Timely!
So, it’s T-33 hours and counting until we’re on the train to NYC and I’m starting to wonder what it’s going to be like. Anonymous (a world-wide distributed anti-scientology network with no real leader) is planning an anti-Scientology protest around the Times Square area on Saturday — just a block from our hotel! The Rev. [...]
Change You Can Delete
I wrote a follow-up to my original “The Audacity of Racism” post yesterday, but pulled it because I was afraid I had gone a little far into right field. Now I’m really feeling sorry that I did. The quote it was based on was this:
“Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. preached the Christian tenet, [...]
Our Financials are a Mess
I spent some time reading about yesterday’s Bear Sterns meltdown. By the end of the day, JP Morgan Chase and the Federal Reserve were saving them from shuttering their doors, and the Dow was down by nearly 200 points. It really got me thinking about this market of ours.
The price of gold on [...]
