Financial Bailout Working Principles

Rep Eric Canter (R-VA) was asked by Minority Leader Boehner to lead a working group in the House on the Wall St. bailout plan. Here’ the working principles they released last night.

Common Sense Plan to Have Wall Street Fund the Recovery, Not Taxpayers

Rather than providing taxpayer funded [...]

Convenient Bipartisanship

There’s something terribly ironic, or maybe tragically ironic, about the Congressional action on the Fed bailout plan in Congress today.

Speaker Pelosi says she won’t bring it to a vote in the House without at least 100 Republicans assured to vote for the plan, even though she could bring it to the floor and overwhelmingly pass [...]

I’m a Mac

I actually like the new ads that Microsoft is running that poke fun at Apple’s “I’m a Mac” campaign (which is getting a little long in the tooth, even if still amusing). However, learning that the production images used in the new Microsoft campaign were created on a Mac is the kind of priceless irony [...]

Deal or No Deal Banker Goes Belly Up

The television show Deal or No Deal factors heavily in the Federal bailout plan for the financial services industry after news leaked that the silhouetted banker on the television show Deal or No Deal had become the latest victim in the subprime mortgage crisis.

Yes it is parody and satire, which is all we are left [...]

Shining City on a Hill

I particularly liked this part of the President’s speech last night.

“To sustain this shining city on a hill,” Mr. Bush said, “we need to rescue the ignorant, irresponsible folks — from Wall Street to Capitol Hill to Main Street — who got us to where we are today. We must guarantee that no [...]

Another Unenforceable Useless Law

Just like the hands free cellphone law… it will fail because of massive civil disobedience and enforceability. But here’s the thing that really pisses me off, practically every police, sheriff, and CHP car I see driving around features an officer yakking away on a cellphone stuck to his/her ear. When the people who are telling [...]

Black Box on Board

When I first read that this guy canceled his GT-R order my first reaction was to wonder if he was taking delivery (no) and then to think he must be a real narcissistic dumbass. However, you really have to read the article to see the gist of his argument, which is that Nissan is applying [...]

Android & iPhone, Same Thing Only Different

I watched the Android coverage over the last couple of days and quite honestly, I don’t get it.

Mossberg comes out with a column that basically says, to paraphrase, “the Android is a real competitor to the iPhone, here’s all the things that are better on the iPhone.”

“Google’s new G1 phone announced today is [...]

Send Ward Connerly

Tutu said rampant corruption and crime in the country was “horrible”, and added that affirmative action had been poorly applied and had resulted in the appointment of inefficient and incompetent people occupying jobs they did not deserve.[From News - South Africa: Tutu lays into affirmative action]

People occupying jobs they don’t necessarily deserve or [...]

Socialist Government Bids on Socialist Airline

“With the aid of (Venezuela’s) socialist government, we are certain that we can resolve a large part of the problems which have beset Alitalia and its employees,” the Italian news agency cited Aserca director-general Hugo Santoro as saying in a statement.

[From Venezuelan carrier Aserca to lodge Alitalia [...]

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