Monthly Archives: November 2008

Let’s Catch Up On Obama: He Is Going To Create Or Save 2.5 Million Jobs

Posted by Pam on 11/28/2008 1 comment

Which is it? Is he going to create or save? There is a big difference, but ultimately, the numbers for unemployment will remain the same. The President-Elect, Talking Turkey The real news is that Obama had clearly run out of …

Happy Thanksgiving

Posted by Pam on 11/26/2008 18 comments

Tuesday Hot Topics

Posted by Pam on 11/25/2008 2 comments

Feds unveil plans to unfreeze consumer debt market (AP) AP – The government has introduced a pair of new programs that will provide $800 billion to help unfreeze the market for consumer debt which Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson calls vital …

Sunday Night Hot Topics..Open Thread

Posted by Pam on 11/23/2008 10 comments

My blogging will be light for the next few days. I had surgery on Friday morning and came home today. I will post stuff and check to make sure that comments are getting through. Use this thread to discuss everything …

A Letter to My Brother Newt Gingrich

Posted by Pam on 11/23/2008 7 comments

Candace, Twenty-nine states have a constitutional ban restricting marriage to one man and one woman. Those states are: Alabama Alaska Arizona Arkansas California (with the passage of Prop Colorado Florida Georgia Kansas Kentucky Idaho Louisiana Michigan Mississippi Missouri Montana Nebraska …

Looks Like The Bush Tax Cuts Are Here To Stay

Posted by Pam on 11/23/2008 8 comments

Expiration date watch: Repealing the Bush tax cuts I suppose the meltdown on Wall Street had a lot to do with those “considerations”. The near-unanimous chorus from economists about the dangers of raising taxes in the middle of a recession …

NBC Fires WEATHER CHANNEL Environmental Unit — During Network’s ‘Green Week’ …

Posted by Pam on 11/23/2008 4 comments

The layoffs totaled about 10 percent of the workforce, and are among the first major changes made since NBC completed its purchase of the venerable weather network in September.

Friday Open Thead

Posted by Pam on 11/20/2008 6 comments

Use this thread to discuss any topic I may have missed..Some possible talking points: Judge Orders Five Detainees Freed From Guantánamo — In the first hearing on the government’s justification for holding detainees at the Guantánamo Bay detention camp, a …

UPDATED..Franken Turning Recount Into Another Florida..And That’s A Good Thing UPDATE: Soros Involved..UPDATE II:Challenged ballots: You be the judge

Posted by Pam on 11/20/2008 45 comments

We all remember this: Team Franken challenged this ballot yesterday Why is it being challenged? Well His team seems to think they had a better shot at attracting the “less educated”, but as Ed points out, this challenge negates everything …

UPDATED: FHA:The New Subprime..What Better Time To For Obama To Appoint Penny Pritzker Secretary of Commerce..Update: Pritzker says no, thanks to “vetting issues.”

Posted by Pam on 11/20/2008 8 comments

The same people whose reckless practices triggered the global financial crisis are onto a similar scheme that could cost taxpayers tons more As if they haven’t done enough damage. Thousands of subprime mortgage lenders and brokers—many of them the very …

Scroll for Updates..POLL: Should The Taxpayers Bailout General Motors?

Posted by Pam on 11/19/2008 6 comments

[poll id="28"] Ace offers these 2 options: Step One: Eat Shit UAW Step Two: Die Via Hot Air- Rasmussen Poll: 48% say it’s better to let GM fail

Rep. Joe Knollenberg(R-MI): We Aren’t Using Taxpayer Money For Bailouts, Tinkerbell Sprinkled Pixie Dust

Posted by Pam on 11/19/2008 12 comments

That’s right, you tell them Knollenberg..Tell them how Tinkerbell flew in and sprinkled pixie dust all over the treasury, and now, magically, they have all kinds of money, and not a dime of it came from the taxpayer! Watch as …

Zawahiri calls Obama a “house negro”

Posted by Pam on 11/19/2008 5 comments

Well that’s a fine how do you do! Ace: Maybe now the hard left will finally get really mad at al Qaeda. Sure, an attack that kills 3,000 people on American soil can be ascribed to a, “fundamental absence of …

Average total compensation for a Big Three autoworker is $73.21 an hour Toyota, Honda and Nissan pay a still-generous $44.20 an hour in total compensation — a cost edge of nearly 40%

Posted by Pam on 11/18/2008 8 comments

Quite a difference, wouldn’t you agree? Credit this idea to Robert Reich, the former Clinton administration official. We’ve had lots of disagreements with Reich in the past, and no doubt will in the future. But on this he’s right: If …

Obama’s Attorney General: Eric Holder…You may as well plan to scroll for updates…

Posted by Pam on 11/18/2008 6 comments

Shall I remind you of the Marc Rich pardon President-elect Obama has decided to tap Eric Holder as his attorney general, putting the veteran Washington lawyer in place to become the first African-American to head the Justice Department, according to …

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