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Social Security Crowd Big on Protesting Government Spending

Look at those photos of tax day protests — those anti-Obama “tea party” events to protest taxes, government bailouts and big spending budget proposals. Did you ever notice how the faces in the crowds are mostly retirees who are the benefactors of the biggest government entitlements ever: Social Security and Medicare?   .

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Nerdy Way of Measuring Change From the White House

A websites robots.txt file tells search engines what they should and should not index.  When the robots.txt file lists a path or file as ‘Disallow,’ then the search engine will not index that location and it will not show up in searches. The robots.txt for the Bush White House website was nearly 2,400 lines and included [...]

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Bailout Bowl – Football Bowl Games Sponsored by Bailout Recipients

Tax dollars have been hard at work  play.  Some of those high profile sponsors of college football bowl games were big recipients of TARP bailout money.  Who is enriched? Follow a simplified money trail.  Your tax dollars … to the government … to banks in the form of a bailout … to ad agencies … to [...]

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Bush Spends His Time Reading

Karl Rove’s  opinion piece in the WSJ “Bush Is a Book Lover”  explains alot about the past 8 years. The article tells us about the vast quantities of books that he and Bush have read each year for the past few years. Rove and Bush had a contest of sorts to see who could read the most [...]

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A Look at the Lame McCain Campaign

Requiem for a Maverick, about the lame McCain campaign, has the sub-title “John McCain ran one of the most incompetent, schizo campaigns in history.”  Worthy read.

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“Going To the Polls” a Quant, Old Fashioned Notion

Another election rant. The media talked and wrote about polling places, the impact of the weather on voting, and more. How quaint. How old fashioned. I live in a county that is all vote by mail. The vast majority of my state is that way. All of Oregon is vote by mail. Younger voters [...]

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Lame: The Endless Race Thing From the Media

I’m excited that Obama won and that the long campaign is over. Dear media, I really don’t want to hear how Obama is the first “African-American President” or listen to any talk of the significance of his race. Let’s just welcome him as our new president. Quit parading around the race card and get on [...]

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PR Consultant Helped Palin Grab Spotlight

I always wonder how someone can “come out of nowhere.”  A $31,000 PR contract served as an effective catapult according to this article in the Washington Post: During her first months in office, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin kept a relatively light schedule on her workdays in Juneau, making ceremonial appearances at sports events and funerals, meeting with state [...]

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Country First: Bank? Mortgage Company?

McCain rally with bank ad no, mortgage company, no, campaign slogan as backdrop. Not the best of times to look like, or look like you are sponsored by, a bankor mortgage company. 

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Many Millions of Dollars for 3 Weeks Work

Apparently, the CEO of WaMu, Alan Fishman,  was on a plane from NY to Seattle when the company was seized. He got on the plane a CEO and got off the plane unemployed.  But shed no tears, he gets to keep his multi-million $$$  bonus for joining WaMu 3 months weeks ago plus he gets a multi-million $$$ golden parachute. [...]

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