akabagel | Shared With: Everyone - Apr 04 2008 | government, al gore, energy, oil, global warming
I agree wtih Glenn's opinion of Gore. He's a db.
Quoted: The other villain of the moment is the global warming "denier." Anyone who disagrees, even in the slightest, must be ridiculed. On "60 Minutes" last weekend, Al Gore said: "They're almost like the ones who still believe that the moon landing was staged in a movie lot in Arizona and those who believe the Earth is flat. That demeans them a little bit, but it's not that far off."
Quoted:The "60 Minutes" piece wasn't just filled with misrepresentations of opinion; it had plenty of Gore-style hypocrisy. He was embroiled in controversy when it was revealed his mansion used 20 times more energy than the average American. His explanation? "Since then" his house has been retrofitted with solar panels. I'm sure Eliot Spitzer hasn't been renting many women since he was caught either. (Although I'm not betting my life on it.)
- akabagel | Shared With: Everyone - Mar 27 2008 | government, congress, economy, dodd frank bill, federal reserve, recession, housing market
Has anyone been reading about the Dodd-Frank bill? It sounds like a really bad idea.
Quoted: Valliere said that the idea gaining the most support is a plan from Senate Banking Chairman Chris Dodd and House Financial Services Chairman Barney Frank. Both are Democrats.
Quoted: The proposal, likely to be introduced soon after Congress returns from the Easter recess next week, would have the Federal Housing Administration guarantee hundreds of billions of new, lower-cost loans to troubled homeowners. Many borrowers would see their total principal on these new mortgages reduced under this program.
Quoted: "I think there's a growing populist feeling that if you're going to bail out Bear Stearns you better bail out individuals," said Greg Valliere, political economist with the Stanford Group, a Washington think tank.
And I don't understand why people think the Feds loan to JP Morgan to buy Bear Stearns is a 'bailout'. Why do people think this?
ShareViewed: 3 Times - akabagel | Shared With: Everyone - Mar 12 2008 | government, deficit, news
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Quoted: In its monthly finance review, the Treasury Department said the budget deficit totaled $263.3 billion for the fiscal year that began Oct. 1, up from $162.2 billion reported in the same period a year earlier....
ShareViewed: 1 Time - akabagel | Shared With: Everyone - Mar 03 2008 | obama, government, news, politics
Good ole' economist
Quoted: The sad thing is that one might reasonably have expected better from Mr Obama. He wants to improve America's international reputation yet campaigns against NAFTA. He trumpets “the audacity of hope” yet proposes more government intervention. He might have chosen to use his silver tongue to address America's problems in imaginative ways—for example, by making the case for reforming the distorting tax code. Instead, he wants to throw money at social problems and slap more taxes on the rich, and he is using his oratorical powers to prey on people's fears.
Quoted: Mr Obama advertises himself as something fresh, hopeful and new. But on economic matters at least he, like Mrs Clinton, has begun to look a rather ordinary old-style Democrat.
ShareViewed: 3 Times - akabagel | Shared With: Everyone - Jan 17 2008 | free speech, liberty, hate speech laws, government
Lets not allow anything like this to ever happen in America
Quoted: In February, 2006, he published the Danish Mohammed cartoons, which prompted an Islamic group's imam to file a complaint (.pdf) against Levant with the Alberta Human Rights and Citizenship Commission, charging Levant with "advocating hatemongering cartoons in the media," and the imam specifically accused Levant of "defaming me and my family because we follow and are related to Prophet Mohammed."
Quoted: Rather than dismiss the complaint as a blatant attempt to punish free thought and free speech, the Alberta Human Rights Commission announced that it would investigate. To do so, they compelled Levant to appear before a government agent and be interrogated about the cartoons he published, his thoughts and intent in publishing them, and the other circumstances surrounding his "behavior." Under the law, the Commission has the power to impose substantial fines and other penalties on Levant.
Quoted: Here are the noxious fruits of hate speech laws: a citizen being forced to appear before the Government in order to be interrogated by an agent of the State -- a banal, clerical bureaucrat -- about what opinions he expressed and why he expressed them, upon pain of being punished under the law. This is nothing short of stomach-turning:
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- akabagel - Apr 04 2008
You must be Matthew's friend before you can comment on this Fave.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenn_Beck
Glenn Beck is also a db. He seems to share the views of Big Oil across the board including getting rid of oil tax, supporting the iraq war, and how global warming is not being impacted by human action, blah blah blah. The title, "Be thankful for big oil" might reflect how he feels about what ever perks a "big oil" pundit gets for writing crap like this, but this artical really should have been named, "Gore is a db".
Matt, that was sarcastic, right?
Ok, ok, I guess dotting something called 'be thankful for big oil' and then saying I agree was unclear. I'm not endorsing Glenn Beck or his love of big oil. The oil companies are terrible and he's retarded for thinking we should get rid of oil tax. I only dotted this because I like that he is bashing on Gore. Gore is hypocrite.
Send Matthew a friend request or a personal message instead.