I just finished listening to Meet the Press and a good portion of the hour was on health care reform. My problem with the direction that Congress and the President is taking is that they are talking about compromise and secondarily about the ultimate cost. I, as a voter, don’t care about compromise. I care [...]
Posts Tagged ‘News’
Money Discipline
No one would ever mistake me for an ultra frugal person. Most of my life if I saw something I wanted, I bought it (maybe not right away but soon). That is not to say I haven’t bought those things by looking for the best deal because I have. But someone who buys everything they [...]
Taxes
Yes, as an individual I would love to have less taxes. Less taxes give me more spending and saving money which makes life simpler. In reality though, I am a bit of an altruist. This streak in me makes me want the appropriate amount of taxes for everyone. I bring this up for 2 reasons. [...]
Bailouts
In watching various interviews regarding the US Government Bailouts of the Financial Industry and the one being discussed for the Auto Industry, I have some thoughts. One assumption that seems to be at the center of all of these bailouts is that these companies are too large to fail. I don’t agree. When a person [...]
Movie/Film Reviews
Reviewers, in general, are there to get as big of an audience as they can. Since I love movies, reviews, spoilers and the like, I have had a great deal of opportunity to listen, read, view many reviewers. In that time, my observations lead me to believe that most of them try to achieve audience [...]
What is Change?
Ok, we’ve just elected someone who defined himself and his candidacy based on change. What is it or really, what should change be? I’ve heard and read discussion that change is about bringing new approaches to everything. I think these written and spoken conversations define new approaches as something truly new and never been tried. [...]
Dear Mr. Obama
I voted for you. I saw and heard lots about hope and change. I certainly believe in these times we could use both. I saw and heard bits and pieces of your policies. Many of them sound smart. What I hope that you can deliver on though is something else. I would like to see [...]
Imperfect Candidate for President
I was talking Presidential politics with my brother today. My brother is very opinionated and even passionate in his cynicism…errrr…viewpoint. I can’t say that all that cynicism is unfounded though. As I’ve stated in past posts, I am rooting for Barak Obama. I even spent a bunch of time this week watching the DNC showing [...]
Pixar doesn’t care about Copyrights
What a great post that Crunchgear made regarding how Pixar violated copyright law. Apparently, they don’t respect the current copyright laws and are, by example, telling us to not respect the laws either. Maybe we should re-write the existing laws so they work in today’s world to increase content creation rather than limit it. The [...]
FISA, Renewal, and Obama
There have been some negotiations in Congress regarding the FISA renewal. FISA is the law put into place after 9/11 that gave US Government agencies extraordinary powers to investigate people. To me, the law is not only not necessary but also puts our government on a direct path to a police state. No, it’s not [...]
Running Thoughts
For most of the week, I’ve been busy with working on the multitude of Guitar Scale Sheets (I talked about them in the last post) and so had no clear ideas for posts. I’ve always worked with the notion that I must have some additional ideas to bring to any conversations that I jump in [...]
Clinton caught but redirects
I don’t get to watch news programs much because my boys are busy with homework and such around news time. I did read on a few blogs that today Hillary Clinton was asked about Reverend Wright. Up till now, she has deftly avoided answering these questions. It was the right thing to do to stay [...]
Democrats vs McCain
I’ve been seeing a lot of polls stating that both Clinton and Obama are below McCain nationally lately. Now I’m not a well known or respected pundit but I am a voter and I have a thought on this that has not seemed to occur to the Democrats in charge. McCain is ahead in the [...]
Obama on Race in America
Today, Barack Obama made an amazing speech on Race in America today (3/18/08) though it was far more personal to him and to anyone who reads it (see the link above) or anyone who watches it (youtube). I find it hard to say anything about this speech that I haven’t already read. It is worth [...]
Olbermann on Ferraro
I’m a pretty big fan of Keith Olbermann. His show format is not my favorite but he is a straight shooter and doesn’t put his foot in his mouth as often as other new commentators (they all do it eventually so that’s about the highest praise I can give them – heck, it’s about the [...]