Thursday, December 18, 2008

Why should taxpayers bail out the U.S. automotive industry? I don't want people to lose their jobs, but America was not founded on bailouts. Let the market do what it has to do. Businesses go out of business every day, why shouldn't the large ones? Especially, if they're not producing a product people want to buy? The trickle down theory? Well, maybe this country needs a good slap in the face about the value of money and that an economy goes up and it goes down. It's the nature of the universe. Ying & Yang. Black & White. Up & Down. Whatever you'd like to call it.

Tuesday, November 25, 2008

How about a Macroeconomic Financial Plan that includes/requires "executives" of sub-prime lending companies (predatory lenders) to pay back all monies "grossly received as salaries" to the originating lender. What is a gross salary? Any salary over $250,000.00. Does anyone really need to make more money than that? Operative word being "need"? Greed + Ego = Predatory Lender = Abuse of Freedom = Economic Disaster = Government Regulation = No more Freedom.

Thursday, October 30, 2008

Last quarter of 2008 coming to an end... football season is in mid-swing, the NBA season has started and we're going to have a new President pretty soon, not to mention our economic woes caused by greedy yuppies who found a loophole in the lending system. Goodbye sub-prime borrowers, you were never qualified for a loan in the first place. Thanks Greedy Yuppies - you've managed to sacrifice lending freedom and banking deregulation for your greed. Thanks to you we can expect money lending, i.e. spending it and stimulating the economy, to be difficult in the years to come. Hope it was worth it... Opps Sorry! I forgot... Yuppies don't give a shit... about anything but their own pockets. What's that quote from Bob Dylan about being responsible with your freedom?

Monday, August 25, 2008

I saw the opening ceremonies and a little of the closing ceremonies for the Olympics 2008. Amazing. Sorry to say, I missed most of the athletic events. I think the Olympics has lost it's appeal to me. Mainly because there are too many events now. I'd like to see them cut back the # of events. There are some that just don't belong. However, maybe I'm losing the spirit from a spectator point of view and not a participating athelete from a less fortunate background. I'll have to think about that some.

Wednesday, August 13, 2008

I thought the Olympic Opening Ceremonies were amazing this year. I could care less that the little Chinese girl was lip-syncing. Big deal. If I was "paying" to see the Chinese girl perform, I would feel differently.

Friday, June 27, 2008

George Carlin - May 12, 1937 - June 22, 2008. His twisted sense of humor will remain in our consciousness forever: www.georgecarlin.com Thank you George!

Wednesday, June 04, 2008

I really don't understand why any person, or group of people, with governing or military power, would prevent aid from being delivered to it's own people after a natural disaster. It's just heartless and completely without compassion for your fellow man. Maybe there's something that I'm missing or don't understand. I truly hope that is the case as far as Myannmar (Burma) is concerned.

Tuesday, March 04, 2008

Been skiing Mammoth since last Thursday. Post storm snow has been pretty good. A little icy in spots, but a few savories and treats to be found on the mountain.

Friday, February 15, 2008

I think it's time to update this site little bit. Been so busy with everyone else's can't even work on my own. I guess that's a good thing, but it doesn't feel like it when I look at my site!

Sunday, December 02, 2007

I'd like to have a cell phone that is just a phone. No #%@&ing email, instant messenger, e-chat, media center, web access, this, that, and all the rest. I'd like for it to easily plug into my car so I can talk hands-free while driving. Instead, we get all this stuff they want you to pay extra for. And if you don't want it, it's still a part of the programming on your phone. If I don't pay for it, I don't want it on my phone. I'm not crazy about portable devices. Can you tell?

Friday, October 19, 2007

I was just reading the news, which I try to avoid, it said, "$1.3B in losses hurt Wachovia; bank signals more trouble". These financial companies make press releases sound as if they are "entitled" to profits and then when they start to lose them it's not their "business" anymore, it's every one's. When are financial institutions going to grow-up and take responsibility for their own business decisions? All these lending companies are crying poor after they fed like vampires on the unsuspecting borrowers who didn't ever qualify in the first place for a loan. Those borrowers being the ones who thought housing prices would continue to go up and are now being foreclosed on by banks like Wachovia. Why should the government (i.e. you and I via taxation) pay to bail them out when they knew they were taking that risk in the first place? Isn't that called business? Isn't that also called a market? If you assume the risk to get the rewards, you also assume the risk to lose your assets. That's the Yin and Yang of business. Hello?!

Wednesday, August 15, 2007

Yikes - been a long time since I updated. I read a quote today that I liked. It was, "When we try to pick out anything by itself we find it hitched to everything in the universe." ~ John Muir ~ Way to go John.

Thursday, May 10, 2007

The Sun is 193,000,000 miles away (give or take a couple million depending on the time of year) and the light it creates takes 8 minutes to get here traveling at 186,000 miles per second. And you can't even go out and look directly at it. It is a star and it is an absolutely beautiful and amazing thing.

Monday, March 26, 2007

I like this... "Equations carry no guarantee that their solutions correspond to events in the real world, but if a mathematical model of a physical phenomenon is correct, then manipulating it's equations can be as useful as (and much easier than) manipulating the entire universe." Neil DeGrasse Tyson - from the book, "Death by Black Hole".

Friday, March 16, 2007

Send a message to the bloodsuckers in Congress about global warming:
Now is the time to act on global warming.
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