Moonage Political Webdream

A few months or so ago, Obama hit the beach and started delivering his “economy is recovering, but not enough” message. Some think this was in response to the rather catastrophic forecast of the first Tuesday in November. Personally, I do. “It’s the economy, stupid.” Simple message, hard to debate. The message then was that [...]

Right as Obama is gearing up for another round of stimulus funding, Germany’s Angela Merkel blindsided him some of the craziest advice Obama’s probably heard since the last Tea Party rally: “It’s urgently necessary for monetary stability that public budgets return to balance,” German Economy Minister Rainer Bruederle said at a press conference Monday, according [...]

Per Barbara Boxer: “I’m going to put in the record … a host of quotes from our national security experts who tell us that carbon pollution leading to climate change will be over the next 20 years the leading cause of conflict, putting our troops in harm’s way,” Boxer said. “And that’s why we have [...]

Arizona did a rather strange thing last week that has gotten little to no attention.  Kinda surprising to me.  Their legislature voted to eliminate permits for concealed weapons.  The governor signed it to.  This is not exactly a trend, but it may become one: I’m sure Arizona legislators possibly took two figures into consideration: Year [...]

I get the newsletter from the Kentucky Legislative Research Commission.  It’s full of all kinds of neat stuff that doesn’t make the news a whole lot.  In fact, more often than not I have to just paste the text in here because no media feels like fooling with it.  So far, this has been the [...]

Barbara Mikulski (D-Md.) , Benjamin Cardin (D-Md.), Mark Warner (D-Va.), and Jim Webb (D-Va.), all joined forces to secure $2,000,000 for the oyster recovery program in the Chesapeake Boy. I’m assuming the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science has something to do with this.  From their page: When Captain John Smith first arrived in the Chesapeake [...]

OK, so Obama’s nominee for surgeon general, take two, isn’t exactly what most people would think the top health icon on the country should be.  I got a problem with this.  Now, first of all, let’s look at what has been the icon of health in the United States over recent history.  Currently it’s a [...]

Things aren’t looking for the immediate future to me.  I’m sure that’s a shocker.  But, the way I see it, even with market fluctuations and such, things are looking rough for the rest of the year.  Here’s why I feel like I do right now:   Historically, unemployment sort of stays flat using annual averages.  [...]

Anyone notice anything about the price of gas lately?  I have.  So has AAA:   Regular Mid Premium Diesel 85 **E85  MPG/BTU  adjusted  price Current Avg. $2.512 $2.668 $2.762 $2.378 $2.085 $2.744 Yesterday Avg. $2.502 $2.656 $2.751 $2.369 $2.077 $2.733 Week Ago Avg. $2.424 $2.575 $2.666 $2.324 $1.986 $2.613 Month Ago Avg. $2.061 $2.189 $2.267 [...]

This is fun.  This is another one of those “fun with numbers” things I like to do.  I got this via email, so don’t really know it’s source.  I have verified the list itself ( it’s dated, but accurate ), I have not verified the added content.  If anyone finds an error, just holler. TOP TEN [...]