... Paulson said the government’s program would be designed to complement the efforts of banks to raise fresh capital from private sources. He said that the government’s stock purchases would be of nonvoting shares so that the government will not have power to run the companies. ... (Read more...)
Somali Pirates have threatened to blow up the Faina in 3 days if their demands are not met. In response, Bush has threatened to blow up the Faina in 2 days if they don't surrender. Oh, wait. Sorry, that was what I dreamt last night.(Read more...)
Their Marsupial Majesties at the British Columbia "Human Rights" Tribunal have dismissed El-Mo's complaint against Maclean's and voted unanimously to acquit the hatemongers: The panel has concluded that the complaints are not justified because the complainants have not established that the Article is likely to ...(Read more...)
... and they aren't planning to put in just one extra space, but two of them. Is there something they know that they're not telling us? Do we need room, not just to account for a 10-fold increase in current debt, but to be able to account for a "more-than-10-fold increase" in current national debt? (Read more...)
INCOMING ASTEROID: A small, newly-discovered asteroid named 2008 TC3 is approaching Earth and chances are better than 99.8% that it will hit. Steve Chesley of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory estimates that atmospheric entry will occur on Oct 7th at 0246 UTC over northern Sudan to the Red Sea. Measuring only a few mete...(Read more...)
And you thought there was no difference between McCain and Obama? "A middle school teacher in Missouri was suspended Monday for putting a video on YouTube of his students chanting lines from Barack Obama speeches and wearing military fatigues. "The video, called "Obama Youth -- Junior Fraternity Regiment...(Read more...)
Evidently the Juice didn't have enough Pork to offer the judge and jury. Or maybe they just weren't politicians? In any case, thanks for small miracles.(Read more...)
In this video, you will hear President Bush, in his own folksy down-home accent, tell his audience that "deserving" families with "bad credit histories" should have a nice home, "just like anybody else," and that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are there to help them get it. Huh? Deserving families with bad credit histori...(Read more...)
Expanded from 3 to 450 pages, newly laden with pork, Congress has passed America's death sentence, an unconstitutional transfer of private wealth which nationalizes the equivalent lifetime earnings of 533,000 people, a self-inflicted wound that would murder one hundred times as many human lives as we lost on 9/11. (Read more...)
