Move Your Money out of the too-big-to-fail, bailed-out-but-we-still-won’t-give-you-a-loan-and-we’re-raising-your-rates banks and into the small local banks that have been truckin’ along all this time, supporting our communities, giving us loans, and treating us like the neighbors we are. This is a movement launched by Arianna Huffington, whom you may or may not care for, that makes … Continue reading America, move your money!
As if there hasn’t already been enough bad news this year, there’s this little bit of additional local gloom: Colorado is about to become the first state to lower its minimum wage since the minimum wage became law in 1938. The three cent drop is coming because the state’s minimum wage is tied to inflation … Continue reading Colorado minimum wage to drop
“Obama is trying to pretend we’re not at war,” intones former Vice Pres. Cheney. Well, bully for Cheney. He got pegged as Darth Vader when he was in office, and now he won’t shut his trap because he’s the expert?? Doesn’t he realize how little weight former vice presidents carry in this country? Zero. When … Continue reading Cheney, go snarl someplace else
I saw a Dex ad yesterday reminding me that a new phone book season is coming soon. And when it arrives, those trashy blocks of paper will begin proliferating on my porch like rabbits (apologies to rabbits everywhere). Hoping to head off the impending population explosion, I went looking for a way to weasel out … Continue reading Phone books: opt out!
It’s almost verboten in our society to speak of profiling, much less engage in it. Profiling is not Politically Correct, you know. And yet, that’s exactly what we need to be doing where airline safety is concerned. It’s what we should have started doing immediately after 9/11. Muslim extremists from the Middle East have sworn … Continue reading PC it isn’t, but profiling is logical
The Nigerian terrorist who set off an incendiary device on a Detroit-bound airliner yesterday was instantly subdued by alert passengers and crew. Had he succeeded in bringing down that plane, with some 300 souls on board, we’d have never heard the end of of the infamous Christmas massacre, the great Muslim terrorist victory on one … Continue reading Yet another terrorist failure
