Obama: It’s a Good Time to Buy Stocks
President Obama said Tuesday that now is a good time for investors to buy stocks if they focus on the big picture.
The Dow plunged Monday to its lowest level in 12 years.
“What you’re now seeing is a profit and earnings ratios get to the point that buying [...]
Bob Greene is a master, and writer who’s style influenced my early days. He’s done a number of tributes over the years, but none have been better than the one he just offered to Paul Harvey who passed away Saturday at the age of 90:
I’ve never been one to attend the performances of symphony [...]
The Chief Justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court, The Hon. Eric Magnuson, is unhappy that the man who appointed him to office, Republican Governor Tim Pawlenty, has asked him to cut his budget by five percent. To do so, the judge and the StarTribune allege, “could leave our courts in chaos.” Apparently the Chief Justice [...]
“A million trillion here, a million trillion there; pretty soon you’re talking about real money.”
— Everett Dirksen
$2 TRILLION?
White House’s $2.5 trillion plan draws criticism over lack of details.
By EDMUND L. ANDREWS and STEPHEN LABATON, New York Times
WASHINGTON – The White House plan to rescue the nation’s financial system, announced Tuesday by [...]
My hand-writing is atrocious and I admit that with more shame than pride. I dutifully learned my printing and cursive writing styles in school, but my thoughts have always been faster than my hand. Trying to get them down in longhand is like trying to rein in a team of stampeding horses — when the [...]
From JB over at Fraters Libertas:
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From Chris Muir’s Day By Day web-comic:
Boy, and I thought Keanu Reeves creeped me out.
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Jon Favreau — head speechwriter for the Office of the President-Elect from the Non-Hating Party of Diversity, Tolerance and Equal Rights for All Women Who Support Abortion — was feeling the, er, love at a recent party as this Facebook photo shows (Favreau’s the one on the left, via PR Junkie and The Washington Post):
Hope [...]
The total cost of the 2008 bailouts compared to past government programs, via The Lumberjack, with numbers from Boing-Boing:
I’ve got a couple of hundred dollar bills and I’m going to go get in line for the color copier at Kinko’s. Sure, they won’t be exactly like the ones the government is printing, but they’ll be [...]
This is Ben and Faith. Hi! Earlier today the Night Writer directed our attention to an article about a couple who had waited until their wedding to kiss (hubba hubba! btw). They are both abstinence instructors in the Chicago area schools and they decided together to match their words and their [...]
