Month: July 2005

Today’s Economic News

DIA +.38%, SPY +.07%, QQQQ +.23% 10-Year Treasury -4/32 to 4.16% Oil -61 cents to $60.01 Dollar +1.2% versus euro and yen The primary stock specific news today was an analyst upgrade of IBM.  Aside from that, stock traders...

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License to steal and kill

Halliburton was given a license to steal and kill. Cheney’s no bid, no accounting, no rules war profiteers have taken war profiteering to a whole other realm, making our foreign policy in Iraq not security, or democracy,...

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On Kos Anonymous

I’ve tried to make it clear that diaries about Daily Kos make me uncomfortable.  I frequently have to spend considerable time dealing with emails from outraged Kossacks, who blame me for not doing more to stop them....

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The Face of Dumbed Down Americans

To good to not share.   (permission granted by author to post Andrew Wahl. if anyone needs proof I have an email from him.} Another reason we’re dumbed down from a journalists’s point of view. Some snippets...

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BREAKING: Shuttle, Reinquist News

 Just got up (hey, I was awake all night) and turned on the TV for the shuttle launch. But there’s trouble in Paradise.First, there will be no shuttle launch today. A faulty fuel tank sensor, not the remnants of...

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