In the last few years the Federal Reserve has loaned trillions of dollars to banks, many of them foreign. The GAO report isn’t an easy read, and it’s layered with ass covering (We were audited! See? It’s all ok.) but … Continue reading
This is an interesting slip of the tongue. Leslie Paige, who represents watchdog group Citizens Against Government Waste, says the government should withdraw the dollar bill from the market and force Americans to use the coins. “I think Americans will … Continue reading
This seems like a really bad idea. A yearlong experiment with the nation’s electric grid could mess up traffic lights, security systems and some computers — and make plug-in clocks and appliances like programmable coffeemakers run up to 20 minutes … Continue reading
I’ve seen a lot of dead things on the road in Texas but this was my first dead horse. We thought about getting a stick and beating it, but decided the arrest report wouldn’t look good, especially with a carload … Continue reading
I’m not a religious person, in fact I think religion is silly superstition. But I don’t like football, basketball, NASCAR or any other spectator sport either. But if there ever was a time when good, old fashioned civil disobedience was … Continue reading
“So, sure…I understand gunbunnies. Or Sniper Babes, or Hot Shots, or Ammo Girls…or whatever you want to call them. Paid to be the pretty giggle and jiggle that will hopefully hypnotize gun nuts into forking over cash. If a little … Continue reading
Is there some banker/maid fetish thing I haven’t heard of? Another international moneyman has been busted for sexually assaulting a maid at a luxury Manhattan hotel, cops said last night. Mahmoud Abdel-Salam Omar — the 74-year-old former chairman of Egypt’s … Continue reading
At least they’re getting married. That’s more than I can say for most of the welfare recipients in this country.
You know why the soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan are in in danger? Because it’s a fucking WAR and the enemy is trying to kill them! Not because some jackass in the US burned a book. If anything the US … Continue reading
Every time I see one of those, “In 2100 we’ll be doing X” stories I think of the hilarious predictions from 1900 about what 2000 would be like. Here’s my prediction for 2100. We still won’t have fusion, flying cars … Continue reading