Archive for August, 2010
Don’t Look Now, but Here Comes Fannie Mae Again!
You would think, after watching our government push the housing market into a flaming pit of ruination and woe, that the last thing we’d want is a resurgent Fannie Mae sallying forth into the nation with a mission to sell more dodgy mortgages. And yet… “Buy new with $1,000 down,” the advertisement says, the words [...]
Free Markets, Dungeon Masters, and A Little Girl’s Lemonade Stand.
Whenever I hear someone say we have a real free market economy here in America, I have to stifle a bitter laugh. I liken running a business to playing a game of Dungeons and Dragons with a Dungeon Master who loves his dungeon more than the game.. Even if you’ve never played, you know the [...]
Okay, Who Want 600 Large to Study Why Flies Hate Being Swatted?
Do you remember the panicky days of early 2009 when we absolutely had to have a trillion dollar Vote Buying Act Stimulus Bill or the nation would kerplode like a planet hollowed out by greedy Dark Matter miners? The President and various flunkies from the White House and Congress spread throughout the land like locusts [...]
BREAKING: Giant Republicans Roam Seattle, Are Cowed from Attacking Democrats by Cleverly Placed Signs!
I get a kick out of the grassroots left at times. A guy in Seattle, WA has started a group called “RepublicansAreADisease.com”, wherein the anonymous author encourages all the oppressed and downtrodden Democrats in the state of Washington to Get Mad As Hell and Not Take It Anymore. They should, he explains, destroy Republican yard [...]
One New Law Every Other Day? No Wonder the President Broke His Promise!
One of the promises President Obama made America while he was on the campaign trail was the “Sunlight before Signing” promise wherein he said he would “not sign any non-emergency bill without giving the American public an opportunity to review and comment on the White House website for five days”. He promptly broke that promise [...]
In the Good Old Summertime…of 1901.
This is beautiful stuff — a video of high-resolution photographs and a movie shot by Thomas Edison at the turn of the century of bathers at Atlantic City, NJ. The photographs span the decade from 1900-1910 and the Edison film dates to 1901. The video is in full 1080p, so be sure to make sure [...]
Have At You, Totalitarian Government!
Game on! Virginia’s lawsuit challenging the Obama administration’s health care reform law cleared its first legal hurdle Monday as a federal judge ruled the law raises a host of complex constitutional issues. U.S. District Judge Henry Hudson’s decision stemmed from Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli’s claims that Congress exceeded its authority under the Constitution’s Commerce [...]
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