Archive for March, 2009
Will this mean more layoffs in Delaware?
Of the nearly $76 billion in credit card loans in 2008, nearly $46 billion came from Bank of America (BAC, Fortune 500), JPMorgan Chase (JPM, Fortune 500) and Citigroup (C, Fortune 500) alone, according to credit rating agency Moody’s. Fearing a wave of credit card-related losses, banks have been aggressively setting aside funds to help […]
It’s a small world after allllll. It’s a small world after allllll
Disney Layoffs Massive, Employees Say ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. — Sources close to Eyewitness News inside Disney World say there are massive layoffs going on at Central Florida’s number one employer.Employees at the theme park tell us the number of people let go in recent weeks is in the hundreds. However, Disney would not confirm the […]
Deep Thought of the Day
Free Marketers and Republicans are to restraint like drunken frat boys are to self-control.
Claymont Steel Poisoning the Air-Will DNREC Act?
Claymont Steel continues to pollute the air at an alarming rate, according to a piece by Jeff Montgomery in today’s News-Journal. University of Southern California professor Constantinos Sioutas made the observations in a newly released report based on data collected by a Claymont Coalition monitoring team working with the international group Global Community Monitor. Levels […]
KWS Wants to Ease Insurance Co Reserve Requirements
Redwaterlily has the details and good questions: During her campaign, from what I recall, Karen Weldin Stewart often told the audience about the fact that the insurance market is very stable and that the insurance companies are solvent because of strong regulations. If that is the case, how is loosening those regulations in the best […]
The Victim Party
Just watch the first 5 seconds. Mitt Romney jokes that the bad federal government is going to arrest him for being a capitalist.
Today’s winner of (insert echo voice) “Dumbest Comment” goes to…(insert Drumroll)
Fade drumroll now insert Rod Roddy (now dead but still best dam announcer ever) David Anderson! Camera cuts to David, now being spotlighted, looking around for other David Anderson’s in audience because he never wins anything, is always the guy that loses and can’t imagine he would be picked for anything. Insert Rod Roddy “Yes! […]
If you are rich you are now a victim…insert violin
The war on the wealthy, is just a full of shit as the people spewing it. Slate writer Daniel Gross lays it out in typical factual form Obama’s proposals don’t mean the government would steal every penny you make above the $250,000 threshold, or that making more than $250,000 would somehow subject all of your […]
Pastor Slayer Almost Died of Lyme Disease
The alleged assailant at yesterday’s rampage at a St. Louis-area church had suffered from a severe case of Lyme Disease and had lesions on the brain as a result, according to this CBS News report. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch had written extensively of the plight of Terry Sedlacek last August. His was a severe case […]
QOD
If people making above 250,000 a year plan on cutting back to make less money and be taxed less, isn’t that a good thing? I think they call it supply and demand. As they supply less, demand will still be just as abundant and someone else will pick up the work their lazy unpatriotic asses […]
New York May Repeal Rockefeller Drug Laws
According to the NYT: The Assembly approved legislation, 96 to 46, that would restore judges’ discretion in many lower-level drug-possession crimes that are felonies by eliminating laws that require a prosecutor’s consent before judges can send certain felons to drug treatment instead of prison. In addition, the measure would permit about 2,000 prisoners to apply […]
Oh and BTW…F*ck Iowa
While I’m out here pissing people off maybe some Iowans (?) want a piece of me? Read this and let’s get it on! For Republican candidates seeking the support of right-wing activists in Iowa, who will exercise outsize influence in the presidential selection process in four years, that strategy — while not entirely defensible in […]
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