September 2008

Obama gets what McCain doesn’t

Starting out with promising a tax rebate is just as old as Republican rhetoric- and not really explaining how regulation would benefit all of us, but, in 2 minutes, his financial plan makes a lot more sense than John McCain: He has the plan posted at http://my.barackobama.com/page/s/economyplan but it misses the point about regulating the Read More

McCain the knee-jerk jerk

Read this, and realized, we’ve got another finger-pointer running for President. No, Christopher Cox hasn’t done a good job, but he wasn’t the one who voted to allow the deregulation of the banking industry many moons ago… no, that would be John McCain. Republican presidential candidate John McCain told a crowd of Iowa supporters Thursday Read More

How to solve the financial crisis- what you won’t hear from Obama or McCain

There is no question that Wall Street is flailing about, while our President and the two candidates are woefully inept at making any proposal to stop the hemorrhaging and start working on the fundamental issue (which the candidates have correctly identified) greed. The following NY Times article has a lot of finger pointing and posturing- Read More

Why we should be burying our power lines…

In the oldest cities in Europe they don’t have these problems- when the wind blows. Only in the US- where we somehow think it makes sense to put “Public Utilities” into “Private” hands and leave our infrastructure in the stone age. Note the difference between these two “providers” of utilities: Dayton Power & Light Inc. Read More

State invasion of privacy: keep the bedrooms of Americans private, please.

I’ve often wondered how sodomy laws were supposed to be enforced. It’s dark, you’re getting busy and the back door gets opened when you meant to go through the front- instant criminal. The impeachment of Bill Clinton was supposedly about lying- yet, the questions had no business being asked. The correct answer when it comes Read More

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