Lassen County’s local weekly paper has done it again. They missed the point on an important issue. Not long ago the paper editorialized that $$$ trump public safety. They said “not so†and eventually printed an editorial that was reasonable. Today they editorialize that alternative heating methods trump our safe water system. “The city of [...]
Here is an Recovery Act for America that contains a political provision that excludes one state unless the governor is removed from office (Section 1112). This from a party that wants due process for Gitmo inhabitants but not for a citizen of this country. None of the funds provided by this Act may be made [...]
From Read the Stimulus. org It is time to read the document and related material. Don’t wait for the press to give you the tidbits that are acceptable for public consumption. Here is the purpose of the stimulus package: SEC. 3. PURPOSES AND PRINCIPLES. (a) STATEMENT OF PURPOSES.—The purposes of this Act include the following: [...]
President Obama’s first week as Prez was a bit down with the financial markets (01/23/09). Oil rose $9.96 to $46.47. The Dow declined 203.66 or 2.46%; NASDAQ is down $52.04 or 3.4%; and the S&P was down $18.17 or 2.14%. That wasn’t good enough so he attacked Rush Limbaugh. Obama needs to remember he is [...]
From the New Era of transparent government in America: The Wall Street Journal reports on where some of the TARP funds went The Treasury had said it would give money only to healthy banks, to jump-start lending. But OneUnited had seen most of its capital evaporate. Moreover, it was under attack from its regulators for [...]
Reuters provides us with a glimpse of how the new White House Chief of Staff, Rahm Emanuel, will respond to dissenters. UPDATE And now we find out that he is the “New Obama Hottie”.
A new president is sworn in. A speech is given. The markets are down. The Dow fell $332.13 to $7,949.09 (-4.01%). NASDAQ ended at $1,440.86 (-5.78%) and S&P was at $805.22 (-5.28%).
It looks like 2009 is shaping up to be another dry year. Mike Smith, our local news broadcaster, recently reported that 2008 ended up being a dry year. The SAC Bee reports – La Nina is here — get ready for another dry year La Niña was also present last winter, and it brought the [...]
The financial markets had a tough time in 2008: Dow Jones Industrial Average started 2008 at $13,264.82 and ended down $4,488.43 (-33.84%) to finish at $8,776.39 NASDAQ started 2008 at $2,652.28 and ended down $1,075.25 (-40.54%) to finish at $1,577.03 S&P 500 started 2008 at $1,468.36 and ended down $583.11 (-39.71%) to finish at $903.25 [...]
I love the NY Times. They are calling for a gas tax to increase costs to the American citizens There are several ways to tax gas. One would be to devise a variable consumption tax in such a way that a gallon of unleaded gasoline at the pump would never go below a floor of [...]
