On the news this morning, they were noting that it’s only 100 days until Inauguration Day. Which also means a certain someone only has 100 days left on the job. Let’s hope he doesn’t screw up the works too bad…
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Category: News
News and goings on.
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A Lot Can Happen in a Year…
Dow Jones Index on 10/9/07: 14,164.53
Dow Jones Index on 10/9/08: 8,579.19
Ouch.
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Worst. Advice. Ever.
So the market is down eleventy percent in the last few days, and people have lost a lot of paper worth in the stock market. What’s Jim Cramer’s advice? Sell, sell, sell! (Or as Sarah Palin might say, “Sell, baby, sell!”)
I thought the first thing everyone buying stock learns is, “Buy low, sell high.” But, silly me, I guess that’s what you do when you want to, you know, make money.
How he still has a job is beyond me. Wait, I know – he gives the NBC networks that market “advice” and provides some obnoxious “entertainment” at the same time.
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A Quick Note…
…to Sarah Palin: it’s not pronounced “I-raq” and “I-ran”. It’s “Ear-raq” and “Ear-ran”.
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Megan’s First Birthday
We went up to Monticello this past weekend for Megan’s first birthday. It was at the Fireman’s camp, and Julia and Kaitlyn had a blast at the lake. Julia would have stayed in the lake the entire time if we let her. Kaitlyn, on the other hand, wasn’t as eager to go into the lake, but warmed up to it soon before we left.
Here’s a video of the birthday girl checking out her cake.
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Cake Wrecks
Sharon pointed me to a blog about messed up, strange, or otherwise awful cakes. I think it just goes to show that you can have a blog about anything at all. This one makes me laugh though. It was certainly an enjoyable waste of a few minutes.
I was going to put another picture up, but decided that I really don’t want to have that kind of stuff on this site. So here’s a link instead. (I just feel bad for whoever had to “decorate” that cake.)
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T-Shirt Headlines?
Have you seen this new link on some articles on CNN? It takes a headline and converts it into a t-shirt. Like this one about mean teens.
Who is going to walk around wearing a shirt like that? It’s really strange.
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Gas Tax Holiday
I’m glad to see nearly everyone is opposed to this gas tax holiday. Even better is that most people see it as a completely transparent attempt, especially on Clinton’s side, as attempting to court votes.
While we’re at it, why not have an income tax holiday for a few weeks in the summer? That would help a lot more than just repealing that silly old 18.4 cents per gallon tax. We need a real tax holiday, people! Sure, the government doesn’t need that money. They can just borrow it any have someone else pay for it later. It’s that thinking that has balloned our deficit to $9,361,427,723,127.68 (as of 9 May 2008 at 02:08:35 AM GMT) or over $30,000 per person.
Maybe we should start thinking about how we’re going to start paying that down?
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A Mean Looking Bike
This just looks mean. A company in the UK has put the front of a bike on a wheelchair. Supposedly, it’s supposed to be for people in rehabilitation. But it just looks downright mean to me.
What do you think? Useful? Mean? Pointless?
So I’m watching the Super Bowl now, knowing full well what happens. I only got to see bits and pieces of it, because it was going on Monday morning/afternoon here. Luckily, Fox Sports 3(?!) here is showing it again, but they aren’t going to all the commercial breaks you are normally showered with.
What amazed me today was how aware everyone is about the goings on in the US. It’s like they all know the Super Bowl was today (well, yesterday, I suppose). And they know about Super Tuesday coming up. It’s all very interesting. It’s also a bit sad that most people in the US have no clue what is going on outside the country, and have no interest in that either.
So I’m happy to see what was supposed to be a coronation to a perfect season just get totally ruined. It’s always fun to root for the underdog. And seeing the Manning brothers get the MVP in consecutive years was interesting as well.
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