Did you know that in California, 1 in 22 people can drive in violation of the toll roads without a transponder and never pay the fine? Or park illegally in handicap spots? Or be alone and take the carpool lane?… Read More ›
Month: January 2010
State of the Union – My Thoughts
The following are my personal thoughts on President Obama’s State of the Union speech last night. The bulleted lines are from his speech, everything in italics or [brackets] or bolded is mine. The speech was long, so the post is… Read More ›
FOOD, Inc.
An eye-opening film into the structure of how most of our food is managed, engineered and controlled by a small handful of corporations and the unintended consequences that result. ~A.W. Chuck In Food, Inc., filmmaker Robert Kenner lifts the veil… Read More ›
Government Workers Are Better Than You
The current administration continues to elevate government workers into an elite class of individuals that are above the private sector working class. The following is for private sector workers, I’ll get to the public employees in a minute. According to… Read More ›
GM and Chrysler Employees – Only 0.1% of the Employed
UPDATE 04/24/10: For perspective, Fortune magazine (April 12, 2010) reports that 870,000 people will be hired this year for the census which could reduce the unemployment rate by 0.5%. GM & Chrysler only employ 170,000 people. So if all of… Read More ›
Banks Get to Pay for Government Expansion
The healthcare reform bill may be dead but there is still a need to understand why government expansionism is bad for business and for taxpayers. The elephant in the room on the healthcare plan was how the heck was the government going to pay… Read More ›
Uncertainty, The Storm That Never Ends
Nothing makes a recession last longer than market uncertainty. Contrary to what the government would have you believe, the “market” is fairly predictable. There are thousands of leading and lagging indicators that move in certain directions of varying amounts and can… Read More ›
Some Didn’t Get The Memo
A BATTLE WIN FOR THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, THE WAR GOES ON In today’s Wall Street Journal, “President Barack Obama suggested he’s open to Congress passing a scaled-back health-care bill, potentially sacrificing much of his signature policy initiative as chaos engulfed Capitol… Read More ›
Washington-Did you get the memo? The People Have Spoken
With 52% of the vote, Scott Brown defeats Martha Coakley for the Massachusetts Senate seat left vacant by the passing of Senator Ted Kennedy and becomes the 41st vote needed in the Senate to kill the health care reform bill…. Read More ›
Massachusetts Senate Race Update
Polls are closed now, as of 8:00pm EST. The numbers are just starting to come in, and Boston.com’s interactive map is back, but this time it’s real-time data feeding it. With only a few locations reporting counts, Brown is ahead…for… Read More ›
Absentee Ballot Abuse in Massachusetts
Why is this woman running around in Lawrence, Massachusetts with blank spanish-language absentee ballots and asking people to mark the box for Martha Coakley, the Democrat candidate?
Boston Globe Declares Winner in Senate Race! 8 Hours Before Polls Close
The Boston Globe posted the interactive map below on their website moments ago, which was quickly pulled as soon as a blogger posted this information on Twitter. There is no way the Boston Globe has any of this data. It… Read More ›
Update: Colonel Barfoot Gets to Keep His Flag
In a recent post I talked about a ridiculous Homeowners Association that was keeping an honored War Veteran from flying a flag in his front yard, and showed you the letter I sent to the Association. According to Fox News,… Read More ›
Six Miles of Orange County
I’ll be gone for the three day weekend so I did two posts today. This map is from Zillow. The city shown is Orange, CA which is not a high-end part of the OC but it’s not bad either…it’s a… Read More ›
Healthcare Reform: The Dirty Trick
The current healthcare reform bill uses a dirty trick to “lower costs” that many don’t know about… The benefits of the healthcare reform must not begin until after the next presidential election in 2013. The new taxes on American citizens and insurers… Read More ›
Government Claims: “Everyone gets a raise!” if Healthcare Reform Passes
So besides the “sun tan” tax I mentioned in a post here, how is the government going to pay for healthcare reform? From the same people who want to fine you for underinflated tires and ban black cars to save the environment… Read More ›
Triple Whammy: Foreclosures Rise, Retail Sales Fall, Unemployment Claims Rise
CNBC reports, “Foreclosures jumped 14 percent in December 2009 from the previous month, according to a new report from foreclosure listing Web site RealtyTrac.com. The increase came despite foreclosure suspensions during the holiday season from Citigroup, Bank of America and Fannie… Read More ›
New California Law: You Can Be Fined $1,000 for Underinflated Tires
The insanity never ends. The California Environmental Protection Agency:Air Resources Board (CARB), to save the earth, is going to require all California repair shops to check your tire pressure and inflate your tires to the proper pressure. If this service… Read More ›
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