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The Difference is One of the Problems

Perhaps you’ve seen all the articles online and in business rags about “Main Street versus Wall Street”, or how “Main Street” has finally become fed up with corruption on Wall Street and is rejecting the greed that has fueled the system, or how blah blah blah. That Fortune article even goes as far as to [...]

MoMajic Mo Money

I was speaking with Mo the other day regarding the state of the economy and he told me a ton of things but one really stuck out: “If I was anyone in this country right now I’d pull no less than 20% of my money out of my bank in cash and find a nice [...]

Endgame – No Comment

Watch for yourself.

1 min 17 seconds

Wikileaks – HOLY CRAP WHAT A SITE!!

Ok so this Palin email hack thing is exploding quickly. I guess the story was broken on Wikileaks.org. GlazedNConfused and I have been discussing this topic and the site for the last few hours and are wondering just how legal the site is and how much potential trouble these folks could be in, if ever caught. [...]

How Does Banking Work?

Watch this entire series. Even though it will terrify you, after watching it you will completely understand how the market is crashing.

Liquidity is Confidence.

So like every other morning, today I was listening to NPR on the way to work – sorry gang they are the closest thing to real news on the radio. Anywoot, they had this expert financial buff on there who was talking about the state of the economy, GLOBALLY. Here are a few things he [...]

Capital Gains Tax, Heal Thy Country!

In case you’ve been living on Saturn for the last six months and this is the only BB post you read when you came back, bad news: our financial system is going to hell in a handbasket. This handbasket has been carried by very wealthy individuals who put their philosophy first before everyone else. This [...]

Some things to ponder.

Here are some quotes on Socialism. “The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.” – Winston Churchhill. “Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint [...]

Some flashback for my 80s friends.

Sit back and enjoy. Midnight Oil   Living Colour

Who is in charge anyway?

My father told me years ago that there is a god and he comes in the form of money. That may be a cynical view of the world, however it is rather difficult to argue against it at times. That said, unless you live under a rock in Sonoma, you know that not only the United [...]

It’s Hopeless to Resist the Sweet, Alluring Siren Song of Fascism

“Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power” Mussolini, you sly dog – you saw this coming! So before the U.S. slides into a Brazillian society, you may want to check out this article about how we got there. Short and sweet, please note the juiciest bit [...]

O’Reilly ORLY?

I love this clip. Nuff said.  

Is it Fascism or Socialism – I forget.

First lookie here! I tried to tell people. I did. I really tried. I posted here on this famous website of 7 readers (I think they all write for it too) about the direction the good old USA is going. I mentioned it back when Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae were “bailed out” by the government [...]

A Bit on Success

Recently we have been working on a Facebook Application called The Lunch Game. The premise is simple – we have a database of 500 thousand restaurants in the United States that is searchable by your location and the type of food you want to eat. To delve a bit further it also allows you to [...]

9/11 by Keith Olbermann

It is a tragedy regarding what NBC is doing to this guy right now. Ladies and Gents – I give you argueably the best orator on television today talking about 9/11 memorial services.  

Palin Interview!

Palin was finally interviewed – here are some clips as well as responses from political “gurus”.     Now here is Matt Damon talking about Palin. I never understood why people made fun of Matt, seems like an intelligent guy to me. His comments are EXACTLY ON MARK. Consider his statements on soccer mom.  

Currently My Favorite Political Cartoon Series

I am of the love at you!

I have this bit on here where I show the Daily Spam – basic gist being I post a cool Spam email that I received and comment on. Today I received a spam email that pointed to a Russian Bride website. I have to admit I was intrigued for the very simple reason that this entire [...]

OPEC and You.

Do you recall how the price of oil/per barrel was 152 bucks back in July? Well it turns out that through conservation efforts, leading to a lack of demand, people just being tired of the price of gas, and the increase in the value of the dollar that a new problem has arisen: The Members of [...]

Our Financial Institutions: Delicate Like Paper Flower

Perhaps you read about this interesting phenomenon in BusinessWeek. Apparently, an investment media group somehow picked up an archived article that was 6 years old and distributed it as current news on their website. Unfortunately, the news was UAL going bankrupt. This caused the company’s stock to plummet from $12 to basically nothing just about [...]

Gov Mac

If you have been living under a rock you may not have heard the the ol’ US of A has taken over both Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae. Given the complete debacle that these two companies turned out to be, and the fact that a huge portion of the US economy, and oddly enough the [...]

My Voting Guide for November

Average, moderate, non-obsessive, relatively sane American, I understand your frustration. I can relate to your apathy towards the current political process, and the “lesser of two evils” choices that has been the status quo since (at least) JFK. I too will be tempted to write in “I.P. Freely” or “Hootie McBoob” on the ballot in [...]

The Death of a Legend

No, I am not talking about Isaac Hayes. His lame South Park stunt killed my love. No, I’m not referring to Bernie Mac either, although he was a great standup comedian (but no legend). I’m talking about Jerry “East Bound and Down” Reed. The man had a great influence on my life – allow me [...]

Chrome Colored Musings

So driving into the office today with Enigma we heard a strange little diddy on NPR regarding the “slip up” made by Google regarding pre-announcing via email the release of their completely open source web browser- CHROME. Word has it that Google created said web browser as they were concerned that the evil dark wizard [...]