Archive | September, 2008

26 September 2008 ~ 3 Comments

Here’s What I Think About the Bailout of 2008

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Now here’s a bail out plan that works! I’m against the $85,000,000,000.00 bailout of AIG. Instead, I’m in favor of giving $85,000,000,000 to America in “We Deserve It Dividend”. To make the math simple, let’s assume there are 200,000,000 bonafide U.S. Citizens 18+. Our population is about 301,000,000 ± counting every man, woman and child. [...]

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14 September 2008 ~ 236 Comments

Oprah Winfrey Celebrates 22th Season with Car Giveaways

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Television host Oprah Winfrey had a surprise for the 276 members of her studio audience when she opened the latest season of her daytime talk show on Monday — she gave them all new cars. The $7 million giveaway came courtesy of General Motors, which provided the free Pontiac G6 sports sedans, a new line [...]

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10 September 2008 ~ 95 Comments

Raising the Legal Driving Age in Massachusetts

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I remember being 16 and I couldn’t wait to get my Massachusetts driver’s license at 16 and a half years old. Now Massachusetts officials are proposing to raise the legal age for a driver’s license. It seems everytime I watch the news on tv at night there’s a new report about a teenager crashing and [...]

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02 September 2008 ~ 11 Comments

My PayPal Debit Card Was Cancelled and I Can’t Get A New One

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I normally wouldn’t care, but I really loved using my PayPal debit card. It allowed me to leave my money in my PayPal account for the interest with the money market account portion or take it out at any time wat an ATM and not have to wait for transfers to my bank> It provided [...]

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01 September 2008 ~ 1 Comment

McCain Did NOT Put Country First After Hurricane Katrina

Oh yeah – both Obama and Biden were either co-sponsors of, voted for or drafted Katrina relief or oversight bills. Biden was the sponsor of Senate amendment 1661, which was to provide emergency funding to victims of Katrina. The vote failed 41-56, with McCain voting against it. As Geiger notes:

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