by Kasson To few surprises, the national debate has moved past Obama’a birth certificate, and the Gates incident. To where it probably belongs, health care. Since our politicians spend all of their time arguing debating, they might as well do it on something worth while. My problem with the debate is that it is not [...]
By Kasson I have changed the banner to better reflect the site and its purposes. It is a picture from a recent trip to D.C. and is of (obviously) the Washington Monument taken from the WWII Memorial. EDIT: If you cant view the new picture, you must delete your cache/temporary internet files. (Which may take [...]
By Kasson As you have probably heard by now, Arlen Specter, the longtime Pennsylvania Republican has switched to the Democratic Party. He states that the switch is due to the shift of the Republican party to be more conservative. This is entirely true, and probably the ultimate reason of him switching. Once Al Franken is [...]
The Dalai Lama has been refused a visa for a peace conference in South Africa. South Africa says it doesn’t want to shift attention from the 2010 World Cup (to be held more than a year after this visit). South Africa also said that they have, in recent years, had a good trade relationship with China. [...]
The first real mistake admitted by a president in almost a decade. Sure the mistake wasn’t large, essentially failing to vet Tom Daschle, and find that he has some unpaid taxes. But this is a major step forward in the office of President. The reason people didn’t like Bush was that he was caught red [...]
Today I was going to write about Blagojevich, but this morning a news story on Good Morning America caught my eye. Citigroup has just purchased a $50 million dollar jet. Citigroup which has received atleast a $45 billion bailout, claims that they are not using the bailout money for that. I find this to be [...]
The strength of the dollar has soared (sword?) today, due to Obama releasing some details of his economic plan. Through my investigations, I have found Obama heavily invested in the dollar. In fact he required all proceeds from his book sales to be changed into dollars. Is he manipulationg the market? Is this illegal? Since [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Merrill Lynch Was considering giving John Thain, its CEO, a $10 million BONUS, thats in addition to his salary of $83 million. Merrill Lynch explained it by saying that he made the stockholders including himself money by selling Bank of America. To me selling assets doesn’t really deserve praise. Anybody could sell something they own [...]
