Who owns the US debt?
Geldpress breaks it down for you, with actual numbers: Hat tip to Conservative Grapevine. ..bruce w..
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More finanicial perspective
Remember those “massive Bush/Republican deficits”? Bush was a piker compared to Obama and the Democratic Congress. From Greg Mankiw via Instapundit. ..bruce w..
North Korea Preparing Missile Test
Word has been circulating around national security focused sites that North Korea is preparing to test their home grown long range missile. According to reports, recent reconnaissance has shown components that look like parts of a Taepodong-2 missile being moved via rail to the North Korean rocket test site on the east coast. This facility […]
Stimulus Cartoon – SD Union Tribune
Thanks to Ron Smith for this cartoon form the San Diego Union Tribune
“This redistribution of wealth is trickier than I thought”
Wisdom from the Monty Python crew: Hat tip to Steve Hayward over at the Corner at National Review Online. ..bruce w..
The Pepsi Universe
“Nothing in Common“, starring Tom Hanks and Jackie Gleason, is one of those films that comes back to me at odd times in snippets. In it, Hanks plays an ad executive who struggles in his relationship with his father (Gleason) after his parents divorce. But for me the best parts of the film show the […]
A reminder of a time of real crisis
At this site you can see a selection of posters from World War II. It is easy to mock them today or to wince at the ethnic caricatures, but it was not at all clear through much of WW II who was going to win or where the final borders would be drawn. Hat tip […]
Quote for the day
“Can you imagine a world repopulated by senators? The living would envy the dead.” — U.S. Representative Randall K. Jepperson IV in Boomsday by Christopher Buckley
A Sign Of Hope? – Uptick In Iron Ore Shipments
In a noticeable and welcome break from downward pointing leading indicators, we have an important one headed upward. The dry bulk shipping index, which measures how much stuff is being sent over the oceans, actually had an upturn. This was one of the earliest things to crash, as companies around the world suddenly came to […]
“The country’s in the very best of hands!”
Synchronicity strikes again. Even as the Senate moves towards passing what may be the single worst and most disasterous piece of legislation in our generation, I happened to turn on TCM this evening and found the 1959 film version of “Li’l Abner” (itself based on the 1956 Broadway musical). Just a few minutes ago, a […]
