Monthly Archives: October 2009
Allan Meltzer doesn’t believe the government report on the stimulus – even if the facts show otherwise
The good professor visits NPR Marketplace to tell us not to believe the government’s report on the stimulus savings jobs. Dr. Meltzer was singing a tune when he was sucking Bush’s bull and deficits didn’t matter and the dividend tax … Continue reading
Filed under Asshat, Conservative politics, dead conservatives
Dick Armey proud to be corrupt lobbyist
Dallas News: Led by former Republican leader Dick Armey, the conservative group FreedomWorks has attacked the Washington establishment this year, challenging bailouts, health care legislation and other policies that violate the group’s free-market ideology. “Free market ideology” = whatever groups … Continue reading
Filed under Conservative politics, Corrupt pigs, Dead Elephants
The ABA has been claiming that community banks shouldn’t be regulated because they are awesome
Really? 98 of the 105 so far are small banks. A year after getting a lifeline from the Treasury Department, Midwest Banc Holdings Inc. once again finds itself in a precarious capital position. Credit quality at the Melrose Park, Ill., … Continue reading
Filed under Lobbyists, Stupid banks
A company developing supplements from mushroom jumps 28%. Hmm.
It’s woth $63M and got some crap approved in Netherland Antilles. Hmm: Total Nutraceutical Solutions, Inc. (TNS) (OTCBB:TNUS), announced today that it has received approval for importation of ImmuSANO™ and GlucoSANO™ from the Inspectorate of Public Health, Bureau of Pharmaceutical … Continue reading
Filed under Scam
The moral majority
Family first: Let’s talk about that. Just last week, I asked this question, what’s up with South Carolina Republicans? Beginning with Mark Sanford, the famously wayward governor, why can’t they seem to be staying out of trouble these days? There’s … Continue reading
Filed under Asshole, Conservative politics, Dead Elephants, Hypocrite, Moral Majority
Sure, the stimulus saved about a million jobs, but who’s counting the number of new jobs a tax cut would have created
There’s nothing a tax cut can’t save (it can be in the form of an income tax cut, the repeal of the estate tax, a capital gains tax cut or any combination of the following – as long as its … Continue reading
Breaking … Fox is running out of new material
It’s kinda like the twitching legs of a dead frog. From Media Matters via AMERICAblog: Fox News and BigGovernment.com have featured misleading headlines to revive the widely debunked “death panel” smear. It’s so bad that even hard core Fox News … Continue reading
Filed under Fox "News", Liars
Are there any societal benefits as a result the financial industry profits?
Less than zero: The government estimates total financial industry profits each year, and it is easy to compare them to the size of the economy. In the six decades from 1929 through 1988, those profits averaged 1.2 percent of gross … Continue reading
Filed under Financial meltdown, Financial regulations, Wealth divide
I am a PC. You are a capitalist pig that is about to be infected by a virus
Here is the city: One IT expert told Here Is The City: ‘This is probably the most dangerous threat to PC networks since Y2K. But it can only be downloaded onto a network if employees have been viewing inappropriate content … Continue reading
Filed under Technology, Virus
CIT threatens bankruptcy, again
Just do it CIT Seen Filing for Bankruptcy in Coming Days Time for another pity party for Mrs. Peek.
Filed under Bankruptcy, CIT
