More Money Problems

Ah, it’s just getting uglier and uglier. Actually, it’s downright frightening.

Today’s Housing Bubble Post – Ripples Reaching Wider

Fallout from the bursting of the housing bubble is rippling further and further out. In the last few days three state government funds have realized they are in big trouble and are experiencing “runs.” And as a result, in the next few days we are likely to hear about the same thing happening in many other states. These are funds that cities put their cash into until it is needed to pay city employees, teachers, etc. The cities have [...]

Are You In The Middle Class?

In the middle class, but not doing so well?  Join the crowd.

What middle class?

If you consider yourself middle class—and statistically, I know most of us do, even those of us who are marginal on either side of the divide—and you’re wondering if you’re the only one who can’t seem to get it together, finances-wise, well, you’re not alone. The mid-20th century idea of “middle class” was not [...]

Before Football

Before we get totally into football, one interesting note I spotted about the Bush Administration.

Bush administration cites ’secrecy’ in Abramoff lawsuit.

In a court filing submitted yesterday evening, Bush administration lawyers claimed “that the Secret Service has identified a category of highly sensitive documents that might contain information sought in a lawsuit about Abramoff’s trips to the White House.” The AP reports: The Justice Department, citing a Cold War-era court ruling, declared that the contents of the [...]

Mid-Day Musings

Nice day around these parts, although it’s deeply winter just to our north.  Lots of snow and ice in the upper midwest.  Good luck, family and friends.  But, you know how to deal with it.  I can safely say “better you, than I”.

We have football to think about around these parts.  Wondering who’s gonna be coaching the Arkansas Razorbacks, with little movement, it seems, on the Tommy Tuberville reports. Of course, all that can change in a millisecond. SEC Championship game is this afternoon and (bigger around our house) Missouri plays Oklahoma for the Big 12 Championship this evening.  Courso picked Mizzou on ESPN’s GameDay this morning, putting on the tiger head and giving the crowd in San Antonio a boost.  So, I’ll be parked in front of the TV, wondering how we ever watched sports without HDTV.

How about a little political game of catchup…

Giuliani’s Top 10 ‘Shag Fund’ excuses — and why they’re wrong

So, after a very tough week, are things getting better or worse for everyone’s least-favorite scandal-plagued presidential candidate? Take a wild guess. In the fall of 2001, city cops chauffeured Rudy Giuliani’s then-mistress, Judith Nathan, to her parents’ Pennsylvania home 130 miles away on the taxpayers’ dime. Records show that city cops refueled at an ExxonMobil station [...]

Saturday Christmas

Just enjoy 

Apologies

Nice. Almost. Erin Burnett vs GWB.

Erin Burnett Apologizes, Wishes Bush a Great Weekend

It looks like Monkey-gate may be over. Earlier this week, Erin Burnett raised some eyebrows as she flippantly referred to [...]

Happy Holidays

Oh, go on.  Enjoy yourself.

Tonights Christmas Music Is:  The Chipmunks Christmas Song

Cutting the Budget

Don’t let this ruin your Saturday, but..

Bush intends to slash counterterrorism funding for police, firefighters and rescue departments across the country by more than half

Well, I mean, he did catch Osama bin Laden, so there’s really no more threat. Oh. Never mind. But at least Iraq is free. Sort of. Oh that’s right, we spent all our money and all of our military resources on a war we didn’t need and now don’t have anything left for the war we [...]

Who’s Saying What

The debate is getting good.

What The Huck Is Going On?

“Mike Huckabee [is] surging” in the latest polls. “Huckabee is behind Mitt Romney by only one point in Iowa, and has also moved into third place in both New Hampshire and South Carolina,” reports TPM’s Election Central. Get this: In Iowa, Huckabee trails Mitt Romney by only 1% (28% to 27%). The South [...]

Another Planted Question

This time the infamous “fickle finger of fate” is pointed at………

Condi Rice!  Come on down! 

Rice ‘Planted’ Question With ‘Friendly Journalist’ To ‘Help Erase’ Pre-Iraq War Legacy

In 2003, then-National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice helped push America into war with Iraq. She disregarded at least two CIA memos and a personal phone call from CIA Director George Tenet stating that the evidence behind Iraq’s uranium acquisition was weak. She infamously said, “[W]e don’t want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud.” In [...]

Let’s see if I have this straight.  The Right goes all crazy when some Dems show up to ask questions at the Republican debate, but it’s okay for their own Administration to do it? Where’s the outrage?!?!?