This is getting weirder by the day. The arrest of Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. is getting way to much attention, and here I am adding to it – because it’s becoming so strange I just have to comment on it. Here’s the deal: It’s dark and your neighbor sees two people with backpacks [...]
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The government announced the details of the $1 billion “cash for clunkers” program today. Here’s a relatively good Q&A on it. One thing the Q&A says that I disagree with – ok, I think they are 100% wrong – is this: Q: My old car or truck is worth more than $4,500. Should I use [...]
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I just ran across this site tonight and it seems pretty good. I added it to my blogroll pretty much sight unseen because of the name, and their “about us” page. It says: Whiskey & Gunpowder explores the crossroads of liberty, finance and moral philosophy. Frankly, we don’t believe these things can be examined separately [...]
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I don’t know how I missed this last week, but according to the Boston Herald here, Joe Biden actually said this. “We’re going to go bankrupt as a nation.” “People, when I say that, look at me and say, ‘What are you talking about, Joe? You’re telling me we have to go spend money to [...]
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Sergeant Pepper told the band to – nope, it wasn’t the Beatles. 40 years ago today, Apollo 11 landed on the moon. I’ve been listening to WeChooseTheMoon.org a lot over the past weekend. It’s being put on by the John F. Kennedy Library, and they’re doing a “real time” replay of the entire Apollo 11 [...]
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I don’t know why this hasn’t been brought up in any of the California budget news that I’ve seen. The state of California is issuing IOU’s instead of paying people and companies. I’m no lawyer, but that practice obviously (it’s obvious to me anyway) violates the US Constitution. Article I, Section 10, titled “Powers prohibited [...]
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Update: 7/21/09 – Last week the “old” GM stock was officially delisted. The ticker symbol was changed to MTLQQ to reflect the fact that it’s now the stock of Motors Liquidation Company. And it appears that investors are starting to understand that the stock is worthless – it’s dropped back down to about 50 cents [...]
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Get used to this headline. U.S. consumers fall behind on loans at record pace According to the story Soaring U.S. unemployment and a shrinking economy drove delinquencies on credit card debt and home equity loans to all-time highs in the first quarter as a record number of cash-strapped consumers fell behind on their bills. Delinquencies [...]
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IN CONGRESS, July 4, 1776. The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which [...]
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