GameStop Health Care

I’m no government know-it-all; I’m just a mom, a former elementary school teacher who believes simple is best.  I have been watching as our government partakes in a circus-like atmosphere, trying to choose a health care plan that will cost too much, both literally and figuratively.  I personally have prayed for the uninsured for years; I [...]

Damn Yankees.

In case you needed another reason to hate the Yankees:
This year the Yankees moved into a new stadium. According to baseball economist Neil deMause of the excellent Field of Schemes website, the facility cost a stunning $1.56 billion, and the total project (including replacing 22-acres of parkland that had been destroyed by the construction) totaled [...]

Today.

So I’m having sort of an author tryout over at Wizbang today. They’re letting a bunch of us post over there for a week and the winner will get a full time gig.
If you don’t already frequent Wizbang, I recommend that you do. Especially today since I’ll be posting over there…:) And who knows, if [...]

Mongo only pawn . . . in game of life.

WASHINGTON (AP) – President Barack Obama is calling on Congress to approve $250 payments to more than 50 million seniors to make up for no increase in Social Security next year.
The White House put the cost at $13 billion.
The Social Security Administration is scheduled to announce Thursday that there will be no cost of living [...]

Blindfolded.

The AP is reporting that President Obama is “looking at any way to create jobs”. That’s interesting. He must not be looking very hard. Or maybe he really is looking, but managed to get something in his eye. Or maybe he’s faking it. Never waste a crisis, you know. It’d be hard to imagine that [...]

Say it ain’t Snowe.

If one lone Republican supporting your socialist bill indicates “bipartisan” support, then Max Baucus and the Democrats got that yesterday as the first hurdle to a government takeover of our insurance industry was cleared.
Here’s Liberal in Republican clothing Olympia Snowe ruminating on whether a “public option” might be the thing to fix “what’s wrong” with [...]

“Oh, Homey.”

Marge Simpson to appear in Playboy.
No joke:
She has just turned 20, boasts an hour-glass figure, and has millions of male admirers around the world. But there Marge Simpson’s similarity with your average Playboy cover-girl ends.
In a bold departure for both Hugh Hefner’s empire and America’s longest-running television sitcom, Ms Simpson has nonetheless agreed to become [...]

Obama wins Nobel Peace Prize.

Just so we keep this in perspective, Jimmy Carter also won this award once.
The US president, Barack Obama, was today awarded the 2009 Nobel peace prize “for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and co-operation between peoples”.
The Nobel committee said “only rarely has a person such as Obama captured the world’s attention and given [...]

Wait, what?

The divorce between Peter Brant and supermodel Stephanie Seymour is getting ugly. According to new legal filings, Brant alleges that Seymour spends $257,000 per month, including $50,000 on new clothes alone (via NY Post.) Brant also alleges his ex is stealing his prized items from their Connecticut home and continuing to abuse controlled substances like [...]

Obama, Jack and Squat.

In the world of SNL, life often imitates art.  NBC’s darling President Obama was not spared this weekend, and this opening sketch sums things up somewhat nicely.  I say somewhat because despite the mocking of what little our President has not done, the unbelievable spending, lack of promised transparency, and general dividing of our nation [...]