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 [...]

2 Cents Worth–Constitution, Dollar, Sports, Weather

It appears we will have some sort of health reform bill in the near future.  Forgetting all the political and indeological arguments I do wonder how much more it will cost each of us.  The free lunch analogy will apply here like it does to everything.  To pay for all those without coverage who say [...]

Political Scattershots

Once again with a nod to Blackie Sherrod, the best sports writer ever, I offer the following comments and opinions.  They are worth 2cents at most.   Some may be gems, you never know.
I notice that the number of jobs the new guy says he is going to create with the stimulus package continues to vary [...]

Political cart before the legal horse

Watching politics makes for great spectator sport.  I love the drama with the Gov. of Ill. and his putative appointment of a Senator to succeed Obama.  A classic example of Chicago politics in action.   They have the network system and the crony system down to a science there.   Every back is scratching so many other [...]

Money, Markets and Politics

With all the ado the last couple of days about Lehaman, Merril Lynch and reports on AIG it would do us all well to review a few of the basics of our economic system and the real world implications of any bankruptcy of these companies.   Of course the politicians will put their own spin on events to promote [...]

Bible Stories for Politics and just folks

Surely you agree that there is a difference between us and politicians.   We ordinary folks are all the politicians can talk about during a campaign but do they really relate to us and our hopes, dreams and wants.  The one who can do the best job of making us think that they do is the [...]

Diplomacy then for use now

Regardless of how our election turns out the US will have to negotiate and deal with friend and foe alike for our security and to protect our vital interests at home and abroad.  I really don’t like for politicians of any stripe to “select” their historical examples and use them out of context when offering [...]

Trust the people with the oil facts, not the politicians

By popular demand I will augment the discussion about offshore drilling  and the the oil business generally so everyone can reach their own conclusion and not rely upon the spoon fed information of some of our more verbose politicians.  We need to examine a bit about exactly how the oil leasing  and production business operates [...]

Oil Facts, not fiction

I am getting really irritated by the comments of politicians about our energy situation and those who oppose trying to drill now for more oil.   Their arguments are disingenuous at best and outright spin lies at worst.   Just this weekend I heard more than one say that it would take 30 years to develop offshore [...]

Assessing Presidents

With the presidential campaign in full swing, I ruminated recently about how I would judge some of the many Presidents who held office during my lifetime.   They really do run the gamut in ability and achievements or lack of them.   They also varied a great deal in their personal appeal.   You may not like what [...]