The GOP retakes NY senate with help from New York City democrats. That is a headline I never thought I would see. We will see if it holds up.
Elections in Europe. The beginning of the prologue of the crisis of authority.
Elections in Lebanon. Apparently I read all the wrong people. I thought Hezbollah’s bloc (the so call March 8 group) was going to win.
It is something of a surprise to see Robert Reich coming out against the bail out of General Motors. But he makes a fair case that bailing out General Motors does not advance liberal ideals, much less conservative ones.
Where is Andrew Jackson when you need him? He would have said “The Court has made it’s decision, now let them carry it out”
So torture is all right as long as you have a court warrant? It seems to me that if this was done to extract a confession everyone on the left would be screaming bloody murder.
If this goes through, it might help New York pension’s problems. But one has to note that the only way problems can be addressed in this country is by making future generations pay. Never are the people who caused the problem called upon to make sacrifices.
In the long run, regime change does not change much. Either for good or for ill.
The United States would recover most of its planned $50 billion investment in General Motors within five years, according to a preliminary Treasury Department estimate that foresees the company, now on the brink of bankruptcy, rebounding over that time to become a strapping global competitor.
I wounder how GM will become a global company when it will probably not be able to sell cars in Europe for a long time. If you read the whole article, you will see that the US was so confident of GM ability to compete that they made the German’s swear that Opel would not be allowed to sell cars in the US. It seems to me that the EU would be well with in its rights to demand that GM not sell cars in Europe.
Also, if you read the article you will see that US government seems to be planing on pulling some (most?) of GM production in China back to the states. How well do you think that is going to go over in China and how much luck do you think GM is going to have exporting cars to Asia?
Nowadays, a 138 billion dollar drop in revenue seems kind of small.
How we can avoid bailing out California when we are giving GM 50 billion?
After all, think of all the mentally ill who will be put on the streets if we don’t bail out California.
A reminder that playing games with figure eventually catches ups to you.
Anyone who has ever had to deal with their bosses overacting to information contained in an MSDS will appreciate this post.
Cometary on Der Spiegel’s report that Hezbollah killed Hariri. It helps balance out the people who are running around saying that the Spiegel article was just Mossad disinformation.
The Binghamton Newspaper put together a Google map showing the most heavily traveled “structurally deficient” bridges in Broome county. Their is also a list of all of the bridges in the southern tier of New York here. This type of information should be easy to get for all counties but it is not.
An interesting discussion on credit cards and “freeloaders.”
The games they play with propane tank refills.
China starting to get excited. What they are afraid off. They have a lot of money on the line. This makes printing our way out of the problem a little tricky.
Speaking of tricky, this is increasing the problems that Social Security faces.
Then there is the odd nuclear weapons test just to put all of those problems in perspective.