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Archive for February, 2006
Thursday, February 16, 2006 Non-Cheney (almost) quick hits By Steve Sebelius Oh, sure, we could do another round on Vice President Dick Cheney’s negligent shooting of a friend while hunting quail, but why? It’s like shooting fish in … um, it’s like hitting the side of a barn … no, that’s not right … it’s like … oh, hell it’s too easy, OK? Plus, Cheney said [...]
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Thursday, February 16, 2006 Housing starts hit January record By Ian Mylchreest The mild winter weather all across the country has created a record for new housing starts in January, reports Reuters. The number is expected to be a blip because of the weather and analysts are still saying that the housing industry will face a national slowdown in 2006.
The Commerce Department said January housing starts climbed [...]
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Wednesday, February 15, 2006 Let the news have some relevancy By Len Butcher Watched the network news last night and all the Big 3 led off with the shooting by our vice president of one of his hunting companions. They devoted as much as five minutes to this item, asking why hadn’t Cheney commented on it, why had it taken so long for the police to question him, [...]
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Wednesday, February 15, 2006 Told you so By Steve Sebelius Told you so.
On Tuesday, we at Various Things & Stuff predicted that a local government and the American Civil Liberties Union would end up in court over some ordinance that does violence to the First Amendment.
Little did we know how right we were. The ACLU filed a lawsuit Tuesday on behalf of two [...]
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Wednesday, February 15, 2006 Tax cheating is worse than ever By Ian Mylchreest The textbooks say that lower taxes results in better compliance but the opposite has happened in recent years despite cuts in income tax rates and a slew of deductions to lower the tax burden, says the IRS. In fact, reports the New York Times, more than a trillion dollars in income was not reported in [...]
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Wednesday, February 15, 2006 New Fed chief says rates could rise By Ian Mylchreest The recently enthroned chairman of the Federal Reserve Ben Bernanke told Congress some tough truths, reports Reuters. He said the economy was running close to capacity making inflation a real fear that might require higher interest rates to keep it under control.
The news wire reports that Bernanke appeared to want to establish his credentials as [...]
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Wednesday, February 15, 2006 Adelson sells down By Ian Mylchreest Sands CEO Sheldon Adelson will be selling $2 billion worth of stock in the company he built, Las Vegas Sands, reports the Associated Press. The stock went on a rollercoaster with a 59 percent rise in profit that was undercut in afterhours trading by the announcement that Adelson was bailing.
Adelson is selling some 42 million [...]
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Tuesday, February 14, 2006 Don’t defend the dick! By Steve Sebelius Our fellow blogger Len Butcher takes issue with the media focusing on the story of Vice President Dick Cheney accidentally shooting a fellow hunter Saturday. Why was the media so upset that they weren’t told until the owner of the ranch decided, a day later, to let the local paper know, Butcher wonders?
Yeah. We [...]
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Tuesday, February 14, 2006 Pay up, Fremont Street! By Steve Sebelius Those deadbeats over at the Fremont Street Experience are finally paying their debts to the American Civil Liberties Union, after losing a lawsuit that should never have been necessary in the first place. The ACLU was forced to use a legal maneuver meant to garnish the wages of deadbeat dads before the collection of downtown [...]
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Tuesday, February 14, 2006 Nothing to fear in ARMs By Ian Mylchreest The banking gurus like Alan Greenspan have been fretting about the balloons that might soon start popping on those fancy mortgage packages that in recent years have bought lots of buyers more bricks for the buck. The Los Angeles Times reports, however, that those fears have been exaggerated.
Defaults on these loans could result in $110 [...]
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