Congress, and Hillary Clinton, are planning on sending about $900 million dollars to Gaza. The funds would be distributed through the UN. This would presumably allow money to be dispersed without going through Hamas.
I have an idea. Why don’t we just put $1 billion dollars in a boat off the coast of California, and have mortar practice. Or maybe we could pile it all up and shoot it with tanks.
Or we could pay down the national deficit, but that wouldn’t be any fun.
Here is an argument thread from Debate Point which says that Osama Bin Laden is trying to make the world a better place.
I suppose it could be an interesting argument if you wanted to consider ethno-centrism. But I am just going to go ahead and say that they are just wrong. Bin Laden is educated enough to understand the inherent evils which he is committing.
I guess Microsoft had a glitch (fatal error) in the accounting which doled out severance pay to several thousand employees. The mass firings were a company first, and represented a little under 5% of their total employees.
It seems that some of the employees received more than their fair share of severance monies, and the company is giving them two weeks to give it back. I think they should have just let a sleeping dog lie on this one. It’s incredibly bad PR, and not a great morale boost.
I still don’t understand why anyone could continue to have faith in this lumbering company. They just don’t innovate like Apple, in fact their products hardly change. Vista was complete failure, and Internet Explorer is like pushing a boulder up a hill. When was the last time you used your Hyper Terminal program? Do you even have a modem? Did you even think to check when you bought it.
It is painful to think that we use operating systems designed by a company that can’t issue severance checks correctly.
If you were going to accept an award at the Oscars, what would you say? Who would you thank? Who helped you get there?
Remember, it has to be a fairly brief acceptance speech.
Apparently Putin warned Obama of the pitfalls of socialism while he was in Davos at the World Economic Forum. Essentially Putin said, look we tried making the state role an end all and be all, and it doesn’t work. Not only is it a bad idea, but it makes your nation completely uncompetitive on the world stage.
It’s is astounding that the ex head of the KGB is offering the US advice on Capitalism versus Socialism. But what I really want to know is why our media never reported this? How can they just skip over such a great story?
My second thought is why Ron Paul isn’t our president right now?
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Obama said he would not pursue a mileage tax. And thank god for that. It seems a little wierd to have the government knowing when and where I may drive at all times. Furthermore, what is the problem with the gasoline tax? If you use a lot, you pay a lot. It felt like a mileage tax would be just another way to punish you for using highways, or driving at peak times, which would almost certainly have a higher rate.
Obama seems to be going back on what his administration says quite a bit lately. It’s almost like a perpetual foot in mouth syndrom. Biden doesn’t help him out, and neither does Geithner.
As soon as they said they wouldn’t nationalize banks the markets shot up today. That should tell you something.