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Is this the best you can do John?

Posted in Politics, tagged , , , , , on October 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Is John McCain hard of hearing or is he just unable to comprehend Obama’s statement that for 95% of Americans there won’t be a tax increase?  Why do the Republicans trot out this tired mantra (Dems will tax and spend, tax and spend) over and over again?  Did we really have such a terrible 8 [...]

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Moyers and Galbraith

Posted in Economics, Investing, Music, jobs, tagged , , , , , on October 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Have recently started subscribing to Bill Moyers Podcast via iTunes. Perfect hour for my usual 3 1/2 mile walk.  Heard a very interesting conversation with James Galbraith (son of John Kenneth Galbraith) on our current economic crisis.
Galbraith argues that modern America has fallen prey to a wealthy, government-controlling “predatory class”:
Today, the signature of modern American [...]

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Market indexes in full swoon

Posted in Investing, tagged , , , , , , on October 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Boy, this is hard to look at isn’t it?  I can’t imagine how many people are out there who have 401K’s and IRA’s and never look at their statements – many are probably heavily weighted in these particular indexes and boy are they going to be sick when they open that quarterly statement and see [...]

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Digsby rocks

Posted in Computer Tips, Software, Tech World, tagged , on October 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

ant to hook up with your friends who are on various IM services? Take a look at Digsby . Very nice, not only allows connecting to AOL,Yahoo,MSN,IRC,GTalk, but also allows connections to Twitter, Facebook and other social networks.  And it has some very nice themes with some cool colors and bubble features for their talk [...]

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