The “Big 3″ are asking the US Government to loan them $25 Billion. Let’s do some math…
Market Cap of GM: 1.76B
Market Cap of Ford: 3.32B
Value of Chrysler: unknown (privately held). Let’s be generous and say $5B
So I’m not going to advocate that the government take these companies over. I don’t think the government should own business enterprises. I also realize that if a takeover bid were to go forward the stock prices of these companies would rise. But still, their combined market value is roughly $10 billion, and they want a bridge loan for $25 billion? That’s insane.
I was disappointed last night, trying the sample ballot tools from MPR, Star Tribune, and League of Woman Voters, I found errors in the results provided by all three.
MPR gave me the wrong slate of school board candidates, and also the wrong judges. The Star Tribune list wasn’t complete, and the League of Woman Voters didn’t highlight contests in the Judicial races, so there were a couple of contested seats that I didn’t look into before going to the polls, and I was caught unprepared.
The day before the boy she raised is likely to become the first African American to be elected President of the United States, Madelyn Dunham has passed away. It’s just very unfortunate. I hope her spirit is still alive and able to look down to see events transpire tomorrow.
It reminds me of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, who both passed away on July 4, 1826 — exactly 50 years from the day the Declaration of Independence was signed and our nation gained its independence from Britain.
Seriously, stuff like this makes me not only scoff at the idea of moving “to the suburbs” for the sake of the supposedly better schools, it makes me think twice about sending kids to public schools altogether.
The two students insisted they meant no harm when they bought souvenir swords during a spring break choir trip to Britain.
But their purchases — a Lord of the Rings replica sword and a set of three samurai blades — ended with expulsion, leaving their parents to contend that the punishment is too severe.
Explain to me how we’re better off as a society due to this action by the school. What a moronic example of “zero tolerance.” I’m so sick of that bullshit. Stop being afraid of the students!!!
I am connected to the Minneapolis Wireless Internet system — putting all of the house’s internet related program activities through a single WiFi connection to a doohickey at the end of the block.
It seems to be working fairly well. I’m not sure I have my internal wireless access point configured just right. I’ve had to do some adjusting with the settings. I am able to download this sort of thing though, and this sort of thing is one of those indicators that the Internets are working:
Central to her reading of history is the notion that premodern cultures possessed two complementary and indispensable ways of thinking, speaking and knowing: mythos and logos. Mythos was concerned with meaning; it “provided people with a context that made sense of their day-to-day lives; it directed their attention to the eternal and the universal”.[9] Logos, on the other hand, dealt with practical matters. It forged ahead, elaborating on old insights, mastering the environment, and creating fresh and new things. Armstrong argues that modern Western society has lost the sense of mythos and enshrined logos as its foundation. Mythical narratives and the rituals and meanings attached to them have ceded authority to that which is rational, pragmatic and scientific – but which does not assuage human pain or sorrow, and cannot answer questions about the ultimate value of human life. However, far from embarking on a wholesale rejection of the modern emphasis in favour of the old balance, the author contends, religious fundamentalists unwittingly turn the mythos of their faith into logos. Fundamentalism is a child of modernity, and fundamentalists are fundamentally modern.
To live is to worry; we all lead stressful lives. Little did I know, but like many Americans I too suffer from mild anxiety disorder, something I didn’t realize until recently. Will my forecast be right? Will my business survive? Am I a good husband and father? For millions of Americans weather, specifically storms and the cold, dark days of winter, is a constant source of anxiety and depression, thought to be flip-sides of the same coin. My friend and trusty psychiatrist, Dr. Abraham Verjovsky, tells of patients frightened to walk in the rain for fear of being struck by lightning. Bitter cold is a source of angst, some can’t function; they become paralyzed when winter sets in or severe storms approach. “Roughly 75% of people suffer from anxiety or depression, or have a spouse, child, sibling or parent who does,” Verjovsky explained. Sadly 80% people who suffer in silence don’t seek help, which is unfortunate. “About 90% of people who try therapy and medication see improvement in their moods,” according to Verjovsky. For some children weather anxiety can turn into specific phobias, affecting their ability to attend school, sleep alone or function normally. Oprah is fond of telling us to “live our best lives.” I couldn’t agree more, and there’s no stigma in getting the help you deserve. I hope you soaked up Saturday’s therapeutic sunshine because a little freezing drizzle will change to light snow later in the day Sunday; a slushy coating possible by Sunday evening, but no significant accumulation is expected. A cool, windy week gives way to more 30s next weekend. Repeat after me, “No big storms are in sight”. No kidding!
That’s a good man, who has the guts to share that. He could just say “it’s gonna rain.” He’s interested in doing more.
WASHINGTON – The economy skidded to a near halt in the final quarter of last year, clobbered by dual slumps in housing and credit that caused people and businesses to spend and invest more sparingly.
The economy? A near halt? Like it almost just…stopped? Maybe you’re thinking of economic growth… You never made it to calculus, did you?
PS I heard this same lede read on the radio this morning. The dumb doth rule us.
But the post provides a good rundown of comparative legislative accomplishments between Obama and Clinton. Basically, Clinton’s arguments about “solutions” ring pretty hollow.
David Schuster gets suspended from his job at MSNBC for asking whether the Clintons are “pimping” out their daughter by having her campaign, but not allowing the press access to her to ask questions and do interviews.
A poor choice of words, to be sure, but I think “pimp” has become a less offensive word through its use in network TV shows like “Pimp my Ride” for example. Schuster wasn’t using the word in this sense, of course, but still — it’s obviously not considered a taboo word anymore.
So I’m not trying to forgive Schuster. I’m not saying his suspension was unwarranted. I’m just saying that his statement nearly lost him his job. He got a major reprimand for it.
The question I have is this — what consequences will Bill O’Reilly face following this statement about Michelle Obama:
That’s wrong. And I don’t want to go on a lynching party against Michelle Obama unless there’s evidence, hard facts, that say this is how the woman really feels. If that’s how she really feels — that America is a bad country or a flawed nation, whatever — then that’s legit. We’ll track it down.
