Government is like a bitch
Thursday, 9 October 2008 Jacob TomawThe financial crisis gets clearer and clearer each day.
Archive for the 'Government' Category
SNL skit NBC does not want you to see
Tuesday, 7 October 2008 Jacob TomawThis SNL skit is great, but for some reason NBC has pulled it off their sites.
If the movie is pulled or you cannot view it on your machine, here is a transcript.
How come
Wednesday, 1 October 2008 Joscelynn TomawSetting aside the moral hazard FDIC creates, why hasn’t the amount it covers been adjusted for inflation?
Investment Tip
Tuesday, 30 September 2008 Jacob TomawLooks like it is time to buy Mercury futures. (Can one do that, Jos?)
Stockpiles of toxic mercury kept by industry soon will be stored safely in the United States instead of ending up on the world market where it might pollute the environment.
Under bipartisan legislation Congress sent to President George W. Bush Monday for his expected signature, mercury exports would be banned in 2013 and the Energy Department would be required to store the heavy metal permanently.
Doesn’t that sound so gentle? The federal government is just going to hold onto companies mercury for them, by executing one if the clearly defined powers in the Constitution, Article 1, Section 8, Paragraph 20. I wonder what will happen if someone wants to keep a hold of their mercury?
Before we get another Patriot Act
Wednesday, 24 September 2008 Jacob TomawTake a deep breath, read about how the sky is not falling, and call and write your congressman reminding them it is an election year and you are not sheep.
Small Enough that One Person cannot #$%@ it up
Monday, 22 September 2008 Jacob Tomaw
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Real Toxic Waste
Monday, 22 September 2008 Jacob TomawThere has been a lot of talk about Toxic Debt and pols seem to have aligned to do something about it.
This got me thinking about Yucca Mountain and how pols don’t want to do anything about real toxic waste. You know, the nuclear waste managed by the Department of Energy. That is under loose security all over the country and can be used to make dirty bombs.
Maybe we should bundle it up and sell it to sovereign welt funds just like sub-prime mortgages. Wait, that might be the exact opposite of what we want to do.
We all get discount insurance now, right?
Wednesday, 17 September 2008 Jacob TomawI can think of a lot of things Madison and the gang were not likely have thought the Federal government would do when they signed the Constitution in 1787. Owning an insurance company (or any company, no matter how big) would have been really high on the list.
Can you point me to when the founders, or amendment writers, or Supreme Court used something like the phrase “too big to fail?”
Sorry Madison. “If men were angels,…”
Required Viewing
Sunday, 31 August 2008 Jacob TomawBefore you participate in the discussions of health care and education below, you must watch this.
Self-deportation, srsly?
Wednesday, 6 August 2008 Jacob TomawU.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has started a program to allow people to present themselves to ICE agent to be deported without being arrested.
The “Scheduled Departure” program allows immigrants who have been ordered to leave the U.S. but have no criminal history and “pose no danger to the community” to return to their home countries without first being arrested or detained, ICE said.
For the moment, I am going to ignore the absurdity of people who have so far successfully avoided ICE deciding to just leave.
So, ICE is making it really easy for people who have done nothing wrong, other than want to live and work here, to leave. However if you might pose a danger to the community, please for God’s Sake stay in the shadows and hide from authorities.
If we are going to have all such strict immigration law, let’s let anyone out of the country who is willing to leave.