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Monthly Archives: January 2008

Congress brings back welfare

Congress is now arguing over who to include in the stimulus package. It was promoted as a tax rebate, however, Congress wants to include many individuals who never paid any taxes and exclude the group, top 5%, that pays over 50% of all the taxes. That’s not a tax rebate, it’s welfare. [...]

Global warming hits Baghdad

The first snowfall in 100 years hit Bahgdad a few weeks ago.  I know, but I just found out today! Al Gore is blaming China for manipulating the weather as China announced today that they can guarantee no rain during the Summer Olympics.  And I thought George Bush had the world’s only weather machine.

CNN Republican Debate

McCain looks like a doddering old fool insisting again and again that Romney wanted to set a timetable for troop withdrawals when it is very clear that Romney never said that at all. Nobody on the panel or in the audience could believe that McCain wouldn’t let it go. The best line? [...]

Is Conservatism irrelevant?

Today Sean Hannity is declaring that the Conservative movement has fallen behind the times and must modernize the message to be relevant again. He points to the movement toward McCain as a candidate over more conservative candidates. He is worried conservatives will become a marginalized fringe group by opposing such issues [...]

Geek post

Sorry for the geekiness of this post. I was hunting for this information yesterday and could not find it anywhere so I thought I’d post it in case anyone else is having the same problem.
I am running Leopard on a MacBook Pro with a Bootcamp Windows partition. I run Bootcamp through [...]

State of the Union

What did you think of the speech? Every time Bush gives one of these speeches, I find myself agreeing with almost everything he says. It was a good speech. It was probably forgettable and uninspiring though since it’s a lame duck year. It certainly did not compare to the Axis of [...]

Fed cuts interest rate

The Fed cut a key interest rate by 3/4 point this morning prior to the opening on Wall Street to help offset the large drop in futures overnight. It seems to be working. I love when my mortgage payment goes down and the stock market goes up.
All world markets struggled yesterday due to the [...]

Tragedy for Rick Burgess and family

Over the weekend, Rick Burgess of the Rick and Bubba radio show lost their youngest, two year-old son Bronner Burgess in an accidental drowning.  This is devastating news.   Rick, who was Andres first football coach, is just about the nicest person I’ve ever met.  I’ve always been impressed with what a strong family man he [...]

Bring on the Giants!

So it’s a rematch of week 17, Patriots vs. Giants in Super Bowl XLII. Who do you think has the advantage in a rematch, Belichick or Coughlin? It’s not even close. Belichick is a football savant. Manning already played the game of his life in week 17 and lost. [...]

LiveBlog: Pats vs. Chargers

2:00 My Patriots are taking the field for the chance to play in the Super Bowl! Philip Rivers is starting QB for SD. He’s hurt and did not look good in warmups. It’s extremely cold in Foxboro today. The Chargers probably do not like playing in the cold.
2:11 SD 3 and out, [...]