Archive for February, 2009
Rogon Josh, Slumdog & India: Weekend Time Away From Our National Woes
A day away from writing about politics, the economy and our new president and his appointments is hard to do. A fertile field of possible subjects is laid out for consideration every day. But India has carried me away this morning.
Some months ago I wrote about a then little known movie that I [...]
Dance The Pelosi: A New Congressional Requirement??
Since the Presidents speech the other night I have been trying to gather my thoughts to make some cogent comments. This has been the first time since writing the Blog that I have had serious difficulty focusing on the subject. When I go to You Tube to review the content of his speech [...]
Recycling, Alternative Energy Sources and Automobiles
Today was recycling day in my household. Everyone knows about the good thing it is to recycle your empty wine & beer bottles, cardboard boxes and miscellaneous debris. What everyone doesn’t know is that there was a time when every American wasn’t a part time trash man (or trash person to be [...]
Obama-Housing Proposal and The Hired Help
The Housing proposal as a stimulus for the economy seems to have little chance of providing significant relief for the home builders and real estate in general. I know that housing is at the heart of our current problems and until the current inventory is reduced and building starts there will be no meaningful [...]
Rage-Outrage & Eric Holder
My last post among other issues indicated my irritation with Eric Holder’s comment that America is a nation of cowards when it comes to discussing race. I indicated that we may be many things but not cowards.
The inevitable knee jerk politically correct response to my Post came with a series of comments and questions [...]
Bernanki and Holder: Natives of Mordor? Agents of Sauron?
Yesterday seemed like a page from a Tolkien novel. Ben Bernanki in his speech gave such a sense of doom for America that I thought that he had to be an agent sent by Sauron to help prepare the take over of Middle Earth(America) by economic evil forces too great for us to defeat. I [...]
Obama In Denver—Solar Panels to End the Recession?
In Colorado many people have converted Presidents Day into Presidents weekend and make it a 4 day holiday for skiing by taking off Friday as well as Monday. President Obama has made it a 5 day weekend by coming to Denver today to sign the Stimulus bill. It is always exciting to have [...]
Auto & Airline Woes Being Addressed
Now that the politicians have got their record breaking Stimulus bill in shape we can all relax and wait for the results to send us all to new levels of prosperity.
Hardly likely to happen because of the Stimulus Bill, but with the distractions of political debate now resolved for the moment, individual initiatives can start [...]
Movie Break From Economic Woes
Break Time
Hammering in a blog on national economic problems occasionally requires a break to look around and see if the world is really still rotating. I checked this morning and it seemed to still be going around. There was one of those beautiful mountain sunrises with pink clouds sprinkled across a startling blue [...]
Almost $3Trillion: But Who’s Counting? by Heath Suddleson
Today we have a guest Post by Heath Suddleson. Heath always has a talent for condensing a problem into a clear understandable description. Buck
Almost $3Trillion: But Who’s Counting? by Heath Suddleson
Let’s go back to last September and remember that we passed an $850Billion TARP bail out package which was [...]
