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 [...]
More Change You Can Believe In
I swore that I wasn’t going to write about OsamaBama again, but I just can’t resist with such easy fruit hanging in front of me.
Part I - The Crazy Rev
Thanks in part to staying up entirely too late on Sunday night, I got up late on Monday morning and had the good fortune of being [...]
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 [...]
The Audacity of Racism
I hope that Jeremiah Wright doesn’t mind that I borrowed from his sermon title, but it seemed very fitting. Oh, you don’t know who Jeremiah Wright is? He, until very recently retiring, was Barak Obama’s pastor of over 20 years. He married the Obabma’s, baptized their children and spiritually fed them for two decades. Despite retiring from the pulpit in January, Wright continues to be a driving force in Obama’s life as his campaigns spiritual adviser. The continued association with and dependence on Jeremiah Wright is what is so disturbing about Obama’s backpedaling in the last 24 hours concerning some of Wright’s more controversial sermons.
An Ode to Eliot Spitzer
Client, Client Number 9,
Met his whores on the Amtrak line;
If the feds don’t cut him slack,
Should you give his money back?
And that, my friends, is riveting political commentary. You saw it here first!
And Who Signs Your Paycheck?
“To think that you’re going to intimidate a senator or any senator into voting one way or the other by gorging your phones with phone calls most of whom don’t even know where Gulfport, Miss., is is not an effective tactic. But it’s their right to do that.” –Trent Lott on the immigration bill backlash
The [...]
