Posted in Daily Life, Personal Insights, tagged block, budget, burden, buy, buyer, car, Cash For Clunkers, choice, class, con, consumer, cost, credit, crush, dealership, demand, destroy, economy, engine, government, hardship, incentive, liquid glass, low-income, market, mileage, new, price, pro, program, purchase, salable, shred, stimulus, supply, trade-in, truck, used, value, vehicle, voucher, water glass on August 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Cash For Clunkers seems like a pretty good program. Bring in a not-so-great vehicle and get up to $4500 in credit toward a new vehicle, a value virtually no one would get from a traditional trade-in program. There are a few stipulations but nothing outlandish. And it’s helping both the consumer and [...]
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Posted in Daily Life, General Mischief, Personal Insights, tagged alternate history, armageddon, atone, author, bacteria, Beowulf, blight, blink, burst, construst, dead, death, denial, destroy, disillusionment, doom, doomsday, eco group, eco warrior, economy, end, Ender, Ender's Game, European, extinction, fantasy, fearmongering, fertile, fiction, giant, global, global warming, government, Homo sapiens, hopeless, human nature, ignorance, imminent, intelligence, invulnerable, knowledge, millenia, New World, nuclear, Orson Scott Card, Pastwatch, personal, planet, pollute, prophecy, quasar, red, Redemption of Christopher Columbus, religion, religious, rule, safety, sci-fi, science fiction, scientist, social, species, stability, stable, survive, time, Wal-Mart, world, zealot on July 28, 2009 | 1 Comment »
If you’ve read much of the Science Fiction/Fantasy genre, you’ve probably heard of Orson Scott Card. Probably best known for his “Ender” series (beginning with Ender’s Game), he has authored dozens of books and short stories as well as having worked on scripts, comic book novelizations, video game dialogs, and many other projects.
Buried somewhere [...]
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Posted in Daily Life, Personal Insights, tagged money, Americans, politics, vote, death, Barack Obama, government, election, president, candidate, economy, Washington, spending, America, bank, executive, Robert Heinlein, Stranger In A Strange Land, perception, deception, dishonor, corruption, cowardice, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, destruction, lie, cheat, electoral college, representative, fiat, crazy, wrong, politicians, trillions, millions, saviour, China, nonsense, local, state, national, uncontrolled, Democratic, Communist, platform, worldwide, global, understanding, parallel dimension, Rip Van Winkle, legislative, judicial, infiltrate, facet, council, corporate, greed, hell, consequences, Dark Ages, inflation on March 26, 2009 | 1 Comment »
My fellow Americans, and other readers from around the world, I believe something very strange has happened to us. An author named Robert Heinlein once wrote a book called Stranger in a Strange Land, and while I’ve never read said book I feel the title is all too accurate in describing my little corner [...]
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Posted in Daily Life, General Mischief, Humorous, tagged act, allocation, America, appropriation, bill, Congress, Democrat, economy, excess, expenditure, funds, House, legislature, Obama, politics, Republican, Senate, spending, stimulus, Washington on February 11, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Supposing any reader of this blog has some cursory knowledge of the current state of the American economy (in the crapper) and my inherent mistrust of politicians (crooks, cons, and thieves, the lot of them), here’s my take on the new stimulus that was passed yesterday.
It’s crap.
I know all the governmentals were standing around wringing [...]
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Posted in Daily Life, Personal Insights, tagged Barack, desperate, economy, FDR, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, government, inauguration, Obama, power, president, president-elect, socialist on January 22, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Unless you’ve been in a coma or huddled in the dark under a very, very large rock, you’ve heard abour our new president. Not just “president-elect” anymore but now officially in charge of the full enchilada, Barack Hussein Obama is the man in charge, commander-in-chief.
I don’t know about you but I didn’t exactly go [...]
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