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One of the most stressful cities in the entire [...]

I kept hearing this phrase on the radio and seeing it in headlines “despite Government action economy still collapsing.”  Uh, guys let me make this clear to you it is BECAUSE of Government action that the economy is collapsing!   Now we are going to give Congress and the White House to the guys who thought [...]

Sorry, Burkean Mama, for my AWOL this past weekend. I was tweeting and texting in here, but that isn’t the same as a post. Friday I saw the movie, An American Carol, with my local Town Hall gathering group which is located in Madtown, WI. Most of the weekend I was fixing up my Blackberry [...]

Hey I had very important skatie girls to cheer on and while I am gone you guys are suppossed to pick up the slack around here.  I come back and there is only one post here.  As Miss Ann Throphe said to me repeatedly this weekend “work harder, do more.” 

Today, we added a text messaging service for updates on pending matters when posting here can not be done fast enough.

Get your own at TextMarks!

Okay as I said a few days ago http://marlettsmith.com/blog/index.php/2008/09/26/two-wrongs/   I really didn’t know if the bailout was right or wrong.  What I suspected was that it was wrong but needed to fix a bunch of other wrongs the government had inflicted on the market.  But in just a few paragraphs Mark Steyn has brought me [...]

Okay McCain takes time off from campaigning to try and seriously address the financial situation; Obama’s poll numbers go up.  McCain and Bush tried hard to get more oversight of Fannie Mae; Obama’s poll numbers go up.  Obama has managed in only three years to receive more money from Fannie Mae than any other Senator [...]

Howdy all, a few Interesting Items for your information. Enjoy -
In this issue:
1. Rescue
2. Stevens
3. Palin Stories
4. Goon Squads
5. Ulysses
6. Expires
7. Debate
1. Rescue. The proposed bailout rescue of the financial system ran into a roadblock Thursday when Barack Obama showed up at a negotiation session in [...]

At NRO there is an amusing look at the financial crisis through the lens of one who has recently passed a kidney stone. http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=YWE1YTg0N2I5OTQ1ZWNkYjFmYTNjZjQ2ZmMzYmM5ZjA= The article is fun and ends with this sentence which is the funniest ever written:
Is that too much to ask of this mess? That from whatever pain we have to endure, we [...]

Powerline has linked to this great video explaining the housing mess: http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives2/2008/09/021622.php
I gotta tell you I understand things so much better after watching this I feel like an idiot for what I missed before.  I really didn’t understand that the CRA and the sub-prime mess was linked to why it was so darn hard for [...]

Classical Values and Instapundit are discussing the need to listen to economists.  This leads to the question which economists?  Wasn’t Keynsian economics responsible for the failures of the 70s?  Wasn’t JK Galbraith an actual moron?   Doesn’t it matter which economists you listen to?   Classical Values compares economics with brain surgery and that is an excellent [...]

I understand the conservative case against the Wall St. bailout.  I understand that government interfering in the Free Market will just do more damage to the Market.  But isn’t the ugly truth of this bailout that the government is meddling to fix what the government broke?  The mortgage business didn’t go down a rat hole on [...]

Gateway Pundit has the story up that one of the Marines slandered by Rep. Murtha is fighting back. 
A Marine Corps lance corporal from Pennsylvania has sued U.S. Rep. John Murtha, saying the Democrat lawmaker slandered him by saying he and other marines killed 24 Iraqis in Haditha in “cold blood.” Justin Sharratt has filed the [...]

Howdy all, a few Interesting Items for your information. Enjoy -
In this issue:
1. Clarification
2. Financial
3. Hackers
4. Protest
5. Alaska
1. Clarification. I wrote last week about Governor Palin attempting to kick the Troopergate investigation to the state personnel board. One of my correspondents passed along the following additional information [...]

The MSM is only happy talking about the military when they can create a controversy.  Sgt. Peralta’s amazing courage in Iraq would go unnoticed if he hadn’t been denied a Medal of Honor and therefore giving the media a chance to stir up a storm of outrage.  http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/military/20080918-9999-1n18peralta.html
Whichever medal he receives Sgt. Peralta gave his [...]