Tag Archive 'donations'

Nancy Pelosi’s Culture of Corruption - Dianne Wilkerson

Posted by Moonage on 29 Oct 2008 | Tagged as: Ethics

This one is precious.  First, we start with the evidence:
When it gets real fun is when you read her rap sheet.  She’s already in trouble for lying under oath to protect her nephew on manslaughter charges, tax evasion in the 90’s, and not reporting donations.  Apparently the people of her district tired of her shenanigans [...]

That pesky fundamentals issue

Posted by Moonage on 19 Sep 2008 | Tagged as: 2008 Presidential Race

When the stock market tanked on news of AIG being bailed out by the government, and Lehman joining the ranks of failing spec banks, John McCain did the unthinkable, call it maverick if you will, and told the US the economy was fundamentally OK.  Barack Obama immediately seized that comment and hammered away at McCain. [...]

Obama flips on public funding

Posted by Moonage on 20 Jun 2008 | Tagged as: 2008 Presidential Race, 527's

Barack Obama announced this week he will not accept public funding.  That in itself is no big deal.  The big deal is what he had said earlier:

“Senator John McCain has already pledged to accept this fundraising pledge,” Obama wrote. “If I am the Democratic nominee, I will aggressively pursue an agreement with the Republican nominee [...]

Bear Stearns and the candidates

Posted by Moonage on 02 Apr 2008 | Tagged as: 2008 Presidential Race, Ethics, Fun with Numbers

Here’s the ugly headlines making the rounds at this time:
Bear Bailout: Employees’ Fortunes Vanish

“This is gonna go down as the biggest theft in all of financial history, said William Smith, portfolio manager of Smith Asset Management and a former Bear employee. “The $2 a share stock price is more symbolic than anything because the alternative [...]

Media putting money where their mouth is

Posted by Moonage on 21 Jun 2007 | Tagged as: Ethics, Fun with Numbers, Media, National Politics, The Media

A lot of people feel media in general is horribly biased towards Democrats and liberal politics. Other people think it’s a conspiracy theory. MSNBC kinda puts it all in perspective in a very simple way I had never even thought of doing. They looked at where journalists give their money. Now, [...]

Google officially gets political

Posted by Moonage on 25 Oct 2006 | Tagged as: Opinions

People have accused Google of allowing their political leanings to affect some of their content searches.  Google of course denied the allegations.  But, it was kind of obvious something was amiss.  The reason I yanked Googe AdSense was because no matter what I wrote about Bush, their "unbiased" searches would ALWAYS come up with something [...]