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[15 Dec 2008 | One Comment | ]

And other Democrats that pushed the dumb idea that “everybody should get a mortgage”, whether or not they had a job, or the income to afford a house. As we know now it was their incompetence that led to the subprime woes we see today.
60 Minutes says, it’s about to get worse.

But there is a bright side. It might put lefty bloggers out of business.

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[23 Nov 2008 | 2 Comments | ]

Thomas Friedman can’t wait for January 20th, he’s calling the “Code Red”!
“So, I have a confession and a suggestion. The confession: I go into restaurants these days, look around at the tables often still crowded with young people, and I have this urge to go from table to table and say: “You don’t know me, but I have to tell you that you shouldn’t be here. You should be saving your money. You should be home eating tuna fish. This financial crisis is so far from over. We are just …

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[22 Nov 2008 | One Comment | ]

I guess global warming isn’t economically feasible after all!
“NBC Universal made the first of potentially several rounds of staffing cuts at The Weather Channel (TWC) on Wednesday, axing the entire staff of the “Forecast Earth” environmental program during the middle of NBC’s “Green Week,” as well as several on-camera meteorologists. The layoffs totaled about 10 percent of the workforce, and are among the first major changes made since NBC completed its purchase of the venerable weather network in September.
The layoffs affected about 80 people, but left the long-term leadership of …