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The proposed bailout of the financial services sector is a “loan” of $700 billion. I put quotes around “loan” because the whole point is for the government to buy bad debt, so it’s really a handout. We all will buy our little share of these bad mortgages, regardless of whether we took out [...]

This Newseek article presents a fantastic case as to why Sarah Palin is actually a dangerous choice to govern the United States. The author goes on to discuss the bizarre situation in US politics where qualifications for office are actually a detriment:

Ask yourself: how has “elitism” become a bad word in American politics? There [...]

There is a great (although badly-drawn) cartoon here that explains very well how we got into this credit crunch.

This is a fantastic video from MSNBC where a journalist named Ari Melber destroys a McCain representative on a blatant misrepresentation that the campaign is attempting to make about Obama’s voting record.

Stormpulse.com looks like it might be a good (although maybe too fancy) way to keep an eye on hurricanes in the gulf. I bring this up because at the moment, Ike is headed directly for my hometown.

Even though I often agree with them in principle, I pretty much ignore the Daily Kos people as being the Democrat equivalent of the Drudge Report and Rush Limbaugh. However, this post really spoke to me, and makes an observation that I have also been making: the Republicans just seem to want to slam [...]

Brenda and I are often wondering what games exactly will be shown in our area on Sundays. We no longer have this problem, however, due to this site. It provides maps of the major network coverage of the upcoming weekend’s games.