Ron Paul Revolution
I want a President who is anti-war, recognizes the issues with our national debt and trade imbalance, and is in favor of reducing the size and power of the Federal government. My vote is for Ron Paul.
As promised in a previous post, I wrote a letter to the editor of The Sun in response to their editorial on tearing down the Skyway. There it was today, filling up a huge section of the editorial page. Reprinted here: Editor, The Sun: The Skyway has certainly become a hot topic since waterfront development…
And now for something completely different… So, back when I owned my Eclipse I bought all these neon lights. When I traded it in, I pulled them all out and they were shoved in a box doing nothing. Last year I had the brilliant idea of throwing them on my John Deere LA145. It has…
I just completed my annual review of our 2006 spending and setting up our budget for 2007. Starting back in 2000, after I graduated from college and got a “real job”, I set up a simple spreadsheet that let me keep track of how much money I was spending and on what. I knew that…
I haven’t done much financial blogging lately, but today I have a good reason to. The stock market rallied a bit today, and everything in my portfolio was up… except for Valero (VLO) and Nighthawk Radiology (NHWK). Valero I can understand. Oil prices fell a bit, and so the oil refiners will follow. But Nighthawk…
Before both the Iowa caucus and the New Hampshire primary, I noticed a rise in a new type of spam – fake blogs causing Google alerts to send not-so-subliminal political messages: Google Blogs Alert for: Buffalo Central Terminal Bill Clinton Photo Gallery By admin They’re staying at (we’re not devising this up) Tiggywinkles Animal hillary…
Once again, the government’s attempts to fix “problems” they are incapable of fixing will screw us, the consumer. The latest energy bill has a provision to ban incandescent light bulbs. From the Chicago Tribune… “In this bill, we ban by 2012 the famously inefficient 100-watt incandescent bulb,” said Rep. Jane Harman (D-Venice), who co-sponsored that…