Be a Martyr!

Wednesday, 31 December 2008, 10:17 | Category : Authors, Wink
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A recent Winkest Link mentioned the ridiculous concept of a “War on Christmas”. Some alleged Christian invented this phrase. The focus of a real Christian is love, not war, but…

As we discussed, there is no war on Christmas. This imaginary swipe at Christians was created out of thin air. The word ‘war’ was [...]

Never Ending Problems

Monday, 29 December 2008, 9:04 | Category : Authors, Kasson, Obama, Politics
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There is less than one month left until he is the big dog. It wont be long until he has to take responsibility for his actions.  He is coming in with record high approval ratings (82%), but it is not going to be easy.  As he is quickly finding out more global problems arise than [...]

Happy Holidays!

Thursday, 25 December 2008, 9:22 | Category : Authors, Ike
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There is no special message, no ulterior motive, nothing exceptional about this post.
We here at the Winkest Link would just like to wish you all the very best of happiness during these holidays.

Join us in the “War on Christmas”

Monday, 22 December 2008, 16:46 | Category : Authors, Humor, Wink
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Are you a soldier in the “War on Christmas?”
Gosh, we hope so. We need all the help we can get.
We are off to a flying start. We have most business-owners saying “Happy Holidays” rather than “Merry Christmas.”
Next we need to eliminate Christmas trees and any mention of Jesus.
Then we can close [...]

Shuttle For Sale: $42,000,000

Friday, 19 December 2008, 6:00 | Category : Authors, Humor, Kasson
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One shuttle for sale by NASA.  $42 million isn’t that bad, considering an Airbus A380 is about $325 million.  So quite a savings.  Second of all the space shuttle cost about $1.7 billion ($1,700,000,000) to make.  In fact, the average launch cost is $450 million. Sure it doesn’t have the amenities, or an engine for that [...]

Obama Rickroll’d

Thursday, 18 December 2008, 15:12 | Category : Ike, Obama, Politics
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Now this is what we’ve been waiting for.
As you may remember from about a month ago, we here at the Winkest Link have been a tad skeptical of President-elect Obama’s cabinet positions that are supposed rivals. After all, Hillary Clinton, Peter Orszag, and Bill Richardson are not the biggest opponents Obama could find. In fact, [...]

Shoe Problem

Wednesday, 17 December 2008, 9:26 | Category : Authors, Bush, Cessna, Politics
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–Sorry about getting this in so late; it’s finals week and I haven’t had time to watch my primary news source (The Daily Show)–
So we all know by now the story of Muntadhar al-Zeidi, the man that threw his shoes and shouted at President Bush at his news conference in Iraq. What some of us [...]

CEO Bonus (Part II): Solutions

Monday, 15 December 2008, 6:00 | Category : Authors, Politics, Wink
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If you haven’t already please read part 1.
How does a CEO end up with a bonus in the ten to hundreds of millions of dollars range? Why does the Board of Directors approve such outrageous payouts? Well…

      Any of them might be the next CEO & they all drool over that possibility.
      Increased [...]

CEO Bonus (Part I)

Friday, 12 December 2008, 6:00 | Category : Authors, Politics, Wink
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Merrill Lynch lost $11 billion this year and the CEO requested a $10 million bonus. The Board of Directors was actually considering it before the CEO withdrew the request amid a firestorm of criticism.  
Was there ever any possibility that lower level employees at Merrill Lynch would get a bonus? The bonus for 4000 Merrill Lynch [...]

Corruption and Justice

Wednesday, 10 December 2008, 5:00 | Category : Authors, Cessna, Politics
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OK, you all know who Rod Blagojevich is, I won’t bore you with that, let’s just cut straight to the opinion stuff.
First of all, Blagojevich grossly overstepped his power as a politician. The standard joke here is that that’s just typical Illinois politics. Go ahead and use that one, I already have several times today. [...]