The following article comes to me by way of Linda. It's titled, "The Preposterous Reality: 25 Hedge Fund Managers Are Worth 680,000 Teachers (Who Teach 13 Million Students)".

In 2009, the worst economic year for working people since the Great Depression, the top 25 hedge fund managers walked off with an average of $1 billion each. With the money ( Read more... )

Well well, it appears that LJ is still alive and breathing. Moreover, it even appears that there are still people I know and love who post regularly on this thing. It's been so long since I've seen my old brain-in-a-jar icon. Ahh, nostalgia.

Anyway...

Happy Passover.

The news implores me to complete my Census 2010 card. It cites, as a perk, the fact ( Read more... )

http://makemevoteobama.org/

It's up and running!

I think I'll launch a website concerning that entry I posted yesterday. I'll take comments from interested parties there. More details soon.

Heading into election season, I once again have to endure ongoing ridicule and ostracism that I face from my Democrat-loving peers. And once again I am struck by the fact that, when it comes to personal decision-making, there's not a single issue with which they actually agree with the Democrat platform ( Read more... )

The other day I invited Leftists to demonstrate their stupidity by equating the Russian invasion of Georgia to the US invasion of Iraq. Barry accepted my invitation!“We’ve got to send a clear message to Russia and unify our allies,” Obama told a crowd of supporters in Virginia. “They can’t charge into other countries. Of course it helps if we are ( Read more... )

You have got to be kidding me.The United States has been left diplomatically isolated after European members of NATO moved to reject an American proposal to scale back ties with Moscow following Russia's invasion of Georgia ( Read more... )

I came to a realization the other day.

I support Barack Obama!

And what I mean by that is the same thing that Obama and the rest of the Left mean when they say they support the troops.

In other words, I don't want him to actually win. I believe his candidacy was ill-conceived from the very start and that he never should have run in the first place. I ( Read more... )

In the process of responding to an anonymous reply to my previous post, I found myself stating some basic principles that I thought I should elevate to a top-level posting. The original reply (which, I gotta say, sounds a little bit like a troll, but it doesn't matter) says:No, the eco-freaks' goal is the control of the economy. Co2 scrubbers ( Read more... )

This just in from the Heartland Institute.Scientists at Columbia University are developing a carbon dioxide (CO2) scrubber device that removes one ton of CO2 from the air every day ( Read more... )