Dow drops 778 after House nixes Wall St. bailout

September 29, 2008 · Filed Under Business, Campaigns, Crime, Elections, Ethics, Government, History, Legal, News, People, and Society · Comment 

It seems just about half the members of the U.S. House of Representatives have half a brain, or, if not that, then at least the commonsense God gave to individuals fiscally responsible for managing household budgets.

Barack Obama, however, is not among that crowd: he had this strange idea that the very CEOs that got the financial institutions into a mess should receive "reasonable compensation packages." Those CEOs should be paying compensation to the U.S., to the homeowners they helped defraud by giving mortgages to people who never should have qualified for them in the first place.

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New Orleans escaped by a thread and prayer

September 2, 2008 · Filed Under Government, Health, Legal, News, People, Society, and Weather · Comment 

Hurricane Gustav logo by Dave J. (Scoop0901) With all the local, state, and federal resources – money and manpower – that were poured into Louisiana, especially New Orleans, it’s hard to think that anything more than prayer saved the city from being ravaged at least as bad, if not worse, than it was a short three years ago.

Despite all the money pumped into coordinating services and evacuations, an estimated 10,000 residents of New Orleans stayed in town despite the mandatory evacuation orders. It’s hard to imagine these people would test their luck and stay.

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April 4th is one of those days with that makes history interesting

April 4, 2008 · Filed Under Books, Government, History, Internet, Life, People, Society, and Technology · Comment 

April 4 has a couple of interesting items that have made an impact on society. One that’s helped lead mankind forward digitally, the other helped lead mankind forward, somewhat, through civil rights.

April 4, 1975: Bill Gates and Paul Allen form a small software interest, though the company’s name, , wouldn’t come for a few months. Initially, the company was based in Albuquerque, New Mexico, but later, doing business for the Washington state highway department, running a small company known as , and later, in 1986, moving to Redmond, Washington, where the world soon became familiar with the word: .

Cover image of Bill Gates' book, Business at the Speed of Thought

Business @ the Speed of Thought (Penguin Joint Venture Readers)
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April 4, 1968: Martin Luther King, Jr., assassinated at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, at 6:01 p.m. Years later, in 1989, one of his closest confidants, the Rev. Ralph Abernathy, would write a book, And the Walls Came Tumbling Down, which presented MLK in a very different light than many often saw him in public.

And the Walls Came Tumbling Down: An Autobiography
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