President Obama Lectures Wall Street. My Lecture on Symbolic Expression.
President Obama’s statements at a press conference yesterday lecturing Wall Street does not help the economic crisis. By chastising bank executives for their billions of dollars in bonuses they paid themselves only months after the federal bailout, however, Obama points out to America how out of touch Wall Street is with the rest of the [...]
Jim Cramer’s MAD MONEY: A Defense.
Jim Cramer, the host of the stock trading television show Mad Money on CNBC, has received a lot of unfair attacks during this economic crisis. I first started watching Mad Money a couple of years ago as a guilty pleasure. With Cramer’s myriad sound effects, turbo charged segments—like the famous “Lightning Round” in which callers [...]
Scam Lotteries. I’m Rich! I’m Rich! I’m Stinking Filthy Rich!
This morning I won 2,500,000 pounds sterling from the United Kingdom National Lottery! Five times! I have five separate reference numbers so that I can quickly claim each of my winnings in lump sums!
But wait. Last week I won 1,750,000 US Dollars from the Ugandan Scholastic Lottery. THREE times! And I have three separate reference [...]
Economy Tanking: Ominous Signs Spell Need For Hope.
The Economy is Tanking.
The economy is tanking. The signs are clear that our financial system, our manufacturing, our gross domestic product, and our consumer spending is on life support. Each time it seems that things cannot get worse, things get worse. Wall Street journalists have been using the phrase, “It’s always darkest before the dawn” [...]
English Professor’s How To in the Stock Market: For Those of Us Wall Street Outsiders.
How to invest and trade in the stock market. This is the opening line to countless articles by how-to gurus in the financial world. Particularly since the collapse of housing, banks and the major Wall Street brokerages, the gurus are out telling everyone that they have the secret to locking in gains in a down [...]
How to Fix the Economy: Obama Gets to Work.
Before this past fall, 2008, the Iraq War concerned most Americans. As September stumbled into October, the stock market crashed, the flow of credit froze, and money began to evaporate in banks and the auto industry, suddenly the economy concerned Americans the most. As the adage goes, people vote their pocketbook.
I think that Obama is [...]
THE END OF BUSH-CHENEY REIGN OF TERROR ! !
OBAMA IS THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES!
The Bush-Cheney Reign of Terror has come to an end!
It is time to renew, rebuild and to reinvent.
It is time to stop thinking in terms of blue states and red states, but the United States.
It is time to put the resources, the equality, the opportunity and [...]
BIG BLACK HOLE FULL OF CRAP IN MY FRONT YARD
A CRAPPY DAY.
This morning I woke up, excited and optimistic about tomorrow’s Inauguration of Barack Obama, inspired by Martin Luther King events on the television, ready to begin the Spring semester tomorrow morning with renewed academic vigor, and my waste disposal service backed their garbage truck up my driveway, slid in the snow and landed [...]
Presidential Facts:The Benefits of the White House.
The upcoming inauguration of Barack Obama has inspired my ten year old son to ask me specific questions about the President of the United States’ job. They are the kind of questions about the White House that occur to a ten year old–who can’t remember the tragedy of the 2000 and 2004 elections–and which [...]
Lawsuit Against the Vatican. Child Abuse Cover UP and Vows of Silence.
A couple of months ago, a United States appeals court ruled that the Vatican can be sued for the sexual abuse committed by priests in the United States.
Trying to block the class action lawsuit, the Vatican argued that it was protected by laws granting sovereign states immunity from almost all US civil proceedings. The [...]
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