When gas prices shot through the roof, we had to make some unpleasant budget decisions. Unlike the federal government, which can just keep printing money or insisting on more tax revenues, we had to find some things we could do without ini order to keep afloat. Deciding what we could live without was, at [...]
The DOW dropped 300 points, taking it to about 50% of what it once was. People can’t pay their mortgages. More and more folks are out of work every day. The automakers are going out of business. Taxpayers are forced to continue funding the record-setting losses of insurance giant AIG. More than a dozen states [...]
#1… Admiral Mike Mullen, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, just stated that Iran now has accumulated an adequate amount of fissile material to produce its very own nuclear weapon. Admiral Mullen went on to say “And Iran having a nuclear weapon I’ve believed for a long time is a very, very [...]
Things they are a changin’. If you want to be happier, and survive in today’s world, there are some new things you should constantly be aware of. Here are some of those things… #1 – Warning: Don’t let anyone take your picture if there is any chance that you don’t want the entire world [...]
Recently there was a tragic animal attack in Florida. A 200 pound chimpanzee attacked the best friend of the owner of the chimpanzee. It was a sad story all the way around. Long time owner of the chimpanzee was forced to stab the animal with a knife in an attempt to end the attack, and [...]
Human rights will have to wait… US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton made it clear in her talks with Chinese leaders that human rights were now on the back burner. Of greater import are the economy and the environment. Here’s what Sophie Richardson, Asia advocacy director at Human Rights Watch, had to say: “Secretary Clinton’s [...]
Rick Santelli is a CNBC reporter who does weekday reports directly from the floor of the Chicago Board of Trade. This week Rick Santelli cut loose and opened up on the Obama administration’s housing rescue plan for about five minutes. His brief tirade almost instantly went viral on the Internet, and CNBC was flooded with [...]
If you’ve ever bought a house, you know you need a real estate attorney. Among other things, that attorney reads the contract. If you want a contract written, you need an attorney to write it. If you are asked to sign a contract before paying or receiving money, you get an attorney to read the [...]
President Barrack Obama’s Stimulus Bill has passed. The Stimulus Bill will cost Americans almost $800 billion. It wasn’t easy for President Barrack Obama to get the Stimulus Bill passed – not at all. There were many arguments and many skeptics. But in a show of political clout, President Barrack Obama did get the Stimulus Bill [...]
At the risk of sounding insensitive – and ignorant – I really can’t see what some people are upset about. It may have been in bad taste. It may not have been funny. Such things are matters of personal taste. But I really couldn’t get anything racist out of it. If you haven’t seen [...]