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Archive for October, 2008

GM, Chrysler request $10 billion in aid: sources – Yahoo! News

Tuesday, October 28th, 2008

GM, Chrysler request $10 billion in aid: sources – Yahoo! News Gee, pretty soon the U.S. government will have nationalized all of our major industries, and all at the bequest of the actual industries, as opposed to places like Venezuela where the government proactively nationalized the major industries.  If I seem to recall Marx’s predictions, [...]

Note to All Candidates

Friday, October 24th, 2008

Please take me off your automated dialers list.  I voted yesterday.  If only it were that easy…

Armstrong 50-50 for Tour de France: team boss – Yahoo! News

Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008

Armstrong 50-50 for Tour de France: team boss – Yahoo! News Dear Mr. Armstrong, First off, I love the way you ride and the way you won 7 Tours.  I even believe you were clean doing it.  That being said, enough of the drama.  Ride or don’t ride the Tour.  Layoff the need to have [...]

Living in a Battleground State

Tuesday, October 21st, 2008

Ah, the joys of living in a battleground state… Sure, my vote counts “extra”, because the state is contested and I’m still on the fence, so these guys definitely want to sway me one way or the other… However, the constant robo-calls and incessant ads are driving me nuts…  In fact, they have the opposite [...]

AC/DC turns off iTunes for “Black Ice”

Monday, October 13th, 2008

AC/DC turns off iTunes for “Black Ice” (Reuters) by Reuters: Yahoo! Tech “Maybe I’m just being old-fashioned, but this iTunes, God bless ‘em, it’s going to kill music if they’re not careful,” lead singer Brian Johnson, 61, told Reuters. Darn new fangled contraptions.  Who does Apple they think they are selling music in a convenient [...]

Don’t ya’ just Love Airlines?

Tuesday, October 7th, 2008

Was recently looking into flights for a cross country trip and saw these two options: Look closely. The first flight says: Continental Airlines.  Flight 5628 operated by Northwest Airlines.  Leaves SFO at 12:38 pm, arrives CLT at 10:30pm, changes planes in MEM.  Cost $483 Second flight: NWA 272/5916. Leaves SFO at 12:38 pm, arrives CLT [...]