2 Cents For These?

The following are worth what you paid for them but the asking price is still 2 cents per each as they say on the loading docks.
When you have spent an hour on the tarmac with no word from the cockpit about take off or pulling up the the gate, you wonder if those pilots were [...]

Clunk Goes The Cash, Up Goes The Votes

I think it is quite important that the US maintain a strong heavy industry and manufacturing base.  I have nothing against the auto industry as an industry and believe it is a good thing that we make many products for consumers here and around the world.  I am not supportive however of Government, Inc. owning [...]

Numbers

Numbers have always played a significant role in the news of the day.  If there is a natural disaster we want to know how many people were injured or killed, how many homes were destroyed, etc.  If there is a war going on we like to have the casualty reports of dead and wounded.   The [...]

Almost Secret Battles

On November 11th 1918 the world rejoiced because the guns finally fell silent on the Western Front and the Great War came to a close.  The formal peace treaty was not signed for months and by then the greatest threat to everyone was the Spanish Flu outbreak.  The world rightly celebrated that event.  The carnage [...]

History Confronts Stereotypes For Those Who Will Look and Learn

The Jewish people have a stereotype reputation for being urbane, sophisticated, intelligent and achievers.   As stereotypes go that one is probably pretty well on target.  As a group whether religious or ethnic they have a remarkable record of success wherever they have existed.  There is also a stereotype among the literati that the Jews [...]

Stress Tests Weak Hearts

I wonder if our free market system still has a heartbeat sometimes.  There is no question that the interventions of Government, Inc. over the last 6 months has severely wounded the vital organ.  Our income tax chief who can’t calculate his own taxes correctly and who also happens to be the Secretary of the Treasury [...]

Reduced Nukes–Nirvana or Increased Danger?

Again the idea of a reduction in the number and quality of nuclear weapons has been pushed to the fore by the recent announcement of the new guy that he will negotiate anew with the Russians over a mutual reduction in nuclear weapons.  That sounds like a really good idea in principle and on paper.  [...]

Conflated Conflicts of Interest–Govt. Inc. Can Do No Wrong

Lawyers have had bad reptutations for generations.  Shakespeare even made them famous by wishing they all be killed.   They have been represented as having no scruples and willing to sell out anyone or anything for pay.  Sadly there has been so truth to that allegation over the years.  Much of it was created by the [...]

Bailout–Part II

As we all are well aware the Big Three Auto makers have already received a 25 billion bailout package from the Feds.  The articulated reason for this advance of Federal money is to “retool” and build new infrastructure in the auto industry to manufacture the new green cars of the future.   That is such a [...]