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What Cable News Do you Watch?
November 5, 2009 | Filed under Fox
Most Americans watch Fox. Wonder why since they are so bad? Here are the latest ratings from election night:
FOXNEWS 4,043,000 (1,130,00 25-54)
MSNBC 974,000 (308,000 25-54)
Headline News 842,000 (341,00 25-54)
CNN 826,000 (227,000 25-54)
Interesting Stuff.
. . .and we may have found a candidate!
October 26, 2009 | Filed under GOP
Newt Gingrich said he would run for president in 2012 if there is support for his candidacy. Win or lose, his candidacy would do wonders for our party. [via] [video]
Obama thinks Americans making less than $250K grow their own food?
October 22, 2009 | Filed under Obama
Obama’s administration plans to give the FDA sweeping new powers to over see the safety of the food supply. Everyone thinks this is a good idea. I think safe food is good. How are we going to pay for it? Half of the expanded FDA will be paid for by a new $500 tax on [...]
Why government should run businesses
October 22, 2009 | Filed under Obama
Imagine a future where Major League Baseball is in trouble. Three of the top teams are about to fail, but the new president is a huge baseball fan and decides to offer a bank-style bailout to the Yankees, Red Sox and Rangers. The teams are able to stay solvent and the season is able to [...]
Democrats target new tax on Advertising?
October 22, 2009 | Filed under U.S. Senate
The advertising business isn’t doing so hot. The various firms we work with are laying off staff, cutting expenses and just trying to hold on until business gets back to normal. Of course the ‘MadMen’ have had to cut back on campaign donations to Democrats and of course to their K Street lobbists. Senate Democrats, [...]
Government’s Good Intentions: Inverted Incentives
October 21, 2009 | Filed under Obama
The government has been offering first time home buyers and $8,000 incentive when they buy a home. On its face it seems like a good idea that might help the real estate market. But this $8,000 bonus is helping first time home buyers – i.e. people without a history of repayment or default – buy [...]
Four minutes you need to watch . . .
October 20, 2009 | Filed under CO2
In December Obama will sign a treaty giving US sovereignty to a ‘world government’ transferring wealth from the US to the third world. Lord Christopher Monckton has a warning for all Americans:
Don’t punish the troops for political failure
October 19, 2009 | Filed under Military, Obama
Afghanistan has been a failed state for my entire lifetime. They have no history of democracy and their current leadership was installed by our government. From all accounts the most recent election was evidently a massive failure – fraught with fraud and malfeasance. Obama and his team are using the failure to put any military [...]
Obama’s Hope Built on a Lie
October 17, 2009 | Filed under Debt, Nuclear, Obama
When Shepard Fairey created Obama’s ‘Hope’ poster he stole the work of Mannie Garcia, the owner of a small freelance photography company. When confronted by authorities Shepard claimed that he did NOT use Mannie’s photo, but more recently he has admitted to perjury as well as destruction and fabrication of evidence. His lawyers have indicated [...]
Venture Capitalists Falling Out of Love with Obama
October 15, 2009 | Filed under Obama
All my friends in the venture capital industry (and I mean all) backed Obama in the 2008 election. They loved his plans for government investment in technology, research and development. Tim Mullaney from Bloomberg explains that venture capitalist are having a “Lovers’ Quarrel” with Obama over his new tax proposal. Specifically his “plan to double [...]
Punishing speech is Unamerican
October 14, 2009 | Filed under Gossip
This evening my business partner confronted me about this blog. He was concerned that my political speech in this blog was bad for business. Several of his associates expressed to him their concern about my positions on various issues including health care, immigration reform, tax reform, environment and energy, right to bear arms, capital punishment [...]
Confession: I think global warming is a scam. . .
October 14, 2009 | Filed under CO2
Many of my friends on the Left (and some of you on the Right) have suspected for years that I was skeptical of the whole global warming concept. Does man impact climate in some way? Sure, I will give you that. But I believe that the changes in climate that have been going on for [...]
Shame on TechCrunch!
October 14, 2009 | Filed under Gossip
Robin Wauters wrote a post titled, “Applause for Finland: First Country to Make Broadband Access a Legal Right“. This is a good thing? The Finnish government is requiring that each person in Finland receive a 1 Mbps internet connection and boosting the right to 100 Mbps by 2015. Should this be applauded? This sort of [...]
Conservatives are ALL racists!
October 14, 2009 | Filed under Gossip
Yes, if you are a conservative you are now classified: racist. For example, Rush Limbaugh suggested that the media was ‘over-hyping’ the prospects for a black NFL quarterback because the media wanted to see a black quarterback succeed in the NFL. Was he right? It doesn’t really matter. The problem is that instead of arguing [...]
Which country makes the most stuff?
October 14, 2009 | Filed under Trade War
A. China
or
B. United States
If you are like 90% of all Americans you picked China. You would be wrong. The world’s largest manufacturer is the United States. Last year we produced more than $3.7 trillion worth of goods. According to UN data, U.S. factories produced twice as much output in 2007 as China and as [...]
Health care is worth paying for. . .
October 13, 2009 | Filed under ObamaCare, U.S. Senate
The Senate Finance Committee is going to vote on their version of health care reform today and it looks like the bill will pass. Price Waterhouse Coopers released a report suggesting that the average family’s premium would increase by $4,000 under the Finance Committee’s plan. I asked myself, if we could provide health [...]
The Nobel Peace Promise?
October 9, 2009 | Filed under Obama
You should have heard by now that Obama was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. I am not sure what he is winning for. The promise that he will one day be worthy of the prize? The only 9-month act worthy of a Nobel prize is the act of childbirth and the last time I checked [...]
US GDP Down 25% since 2000!
October 8, 2009 | Filed under Debt
David Malpass in Wall Street Journal article titled, “The Weak-Dollar Threat to Prosperity“ suggests the weakness in the dollar is a real problem for America. Uh, really? The more interesting point he makes is actually very scary. Take a minute to think about this fact:
“Measured in euros (a more stable ruler than the ever-weakening dollar), [...]
H1N1 – a case study for socialized medicine
October 7, 2009 | Filed under ObamaCare
Imagine that a pandemic griped our country. The government organized a group of handpicked doctors to come up with a vaccine. The group voted to determine what the vaccine should include – the voting was not unanimous. Once the voting was complete the government then contracted with several pharmaceutical companies to manufacture the vaccine. The [...]
Handouts aren’t Stimulus
October 7, 2009 | Filed under Debt, Obama
Thousands of Detroit residents lined up yesterday for $3,000 stimulus checks from the Obama administration. Turns out they were confused. Instead of receiving checks, the residents were asked to complete an application explaining their need. Detroit was granted $15MM by Obama to help residents pay their bills and rent.
These sort of direct handouts aren’t any [...]
Obama caught in astro-turf photo op!
October 6, 2009 | Filed under ObamaCare
For someone who is as intelligent as Obama, he hasn’t been acting very smart. Yesterday Obama called 150 health care workers, many of whom were doctors who recruited by a Democratic-funded group who supports the President’s plan. In view of the press when they arrived White House staffers handed out white lab coats to each [...]
Failure we can’t afford. . .
October 6, 2009 | Filed under Debt, Obama
Obama is back from Europe where he staked our national prestige on a bid to win the Olympics for Chicago. The world voted, overwhelmingly, against Obama and America. While Obama was risking his international political capital on games that won’t occur until after he leaves Washington, the world was also voting against the Dollar and [...]
Health Care Reform is 100% Guaranteed!
October 5, 2009 | Filed under ObamaCare
Yep, it is now a forgone conclusion that both the House and the Senate will pass something called ‘Health Care Reform’. The bills coming out of each chamber will bear little resemblance to one another, but that will be by design. Senators and Representatives will feast on their triumph for quite some time – the [...]
Nevada won’t pay for health care reform?
October 1, 2009 | Filed under ObamaCare, Reid, U.S. Senate
The Senate Majority Leader, Harry Reid from Nevada, has negotiated provisions in the Senate health care reform bill that exempts his state from ‘new’ costs associated with the bill. Why should Nevada be exempt from the cost of health care reform? Senators from Michigan, Oregon and Rhode Island complained that their states should be exempt [...]
Obama to be ousted in bloodless coup? Really?
September 30, 2009 | Filed under Military
The media is all a flutter with reports that the military may be planning to oust Obama. John Perry has the lead story titled, “Obama risks a Domestic Military ‘Intervention“. Gore Vidal chimed in suggesting “We’ll have a dictatorship soon in the US“. Okay, this must be just a couple of kooks, right? Lots of [...]
