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Nov 07 2008

Another Yucky All-Time High

Posted by Big Jim in What's So Funny About The News?

While much of the nation basks in the afterglow of Barack Obama’s election as president, the economy continues to dominate the news with a report today that the nation’s unemployment rate jumped to a 14-year high of 6.5 percent in October as another 240,000 jobs were lost. If you’ve ever been on a 10-meter diving platform with a bunch of people nudging you to jump, you know exactly how Obama feels…
And that wasn’t the only lousy economic news of the day either–Ford^W announced that it lost $129 million in the third quarter, and says it will cut another 2,260 white collar positions in North America. If I were them, I’d be working like crazy to design a car that costs $500 and runs on coffee grounds…
President-elect Obama is looking to the nation’s economic experts for help as he convenes a meeting with 17 members of his transistion economic advisory board Friday. Among those participating is super-investor Warren Buffet^W–who may be called on to draw on his petty cash fund to buy the banking industry outright…
Polling experts say that the outcome of the presidential election proves there was no white bias, suggested by the so-called "Bradley Effect^W". As far as they could tell, the only possible white bias was the one against Joe the Plubmer, Joe Six-Pack, and Hockey Mom…
Former New York governor Eliot Spitzer^W learned that Federal prosecutors won’t be bringing charges against him for his role in the breakup of a prostitution ring that put an end to Spitzer’s rising-star political career. The possibility of criminal action against Spitzer has been hanging over his head ever since the story broke out–just as I imagine a large meat cleaver has been hanging over other parts of him as well…
A fall snowstorm that has dropped almost 4 feet of white powder in the Black Hills of South Dakota and was swept up by winds gusting to 50 mph has created unthinkable travel conditions, and has stranded unknown numbers of motorists along Interstate 90 and elsewhere while visibility continues to be nonexistent. The upside to all of this–Mount Rushmore^W collectibles are, like, 80% off…

Tags: Barack Obama, economy, Eliot Spitzer, Ford, Warren Buffet

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Sep 24 2008

A One-Oracle Bail-Out Plan

Posted by Big Jim in What's So Funny About The News?

Super-investor Warren Buffet will sink $5 billion of his Berkshire-Hathaway money into Wall Street’s Goldman Sachs in an effort to keep it afloat. If only there were another 139 like Buffet–that would be an American bailout…
As Congress works to pass the president’s $700 billion government bailout plan, both Democrats and Republicans are pressing to limit the pay packages of executives whose companies get a piece of the bailout money. Hey, it’s either that or we start adding ticked-off shareholders onto their boards…
Republican vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin got a crash-course in foreign relations Tuesday when she met with Afghan President Karzai and former Secretary Of State Henry Kissinger. Both meetings went well, other than Kissinger hitting on her three or four times…
A Pennsylvania mom admitted that she helped her bullied 14-year-old son build an arsenal including a shotgun and gunpowder that the boy said he was using to plan a Columbine-style attack on a school. Authorities are trying to determine if she knew his plans for the weapons, which she said she gave him to boost his self-esteem–which I guess is the theme of the Mark David Chapman Institue For Young Assassins…
A Congressional investigation has found that the government paid more that a billion dollars in suspect Medicare claims for medical supplies that showed little connection to the patient’s actual condition. And you wonder why Capitol Hill is concerned about handing over 700 times that much to the same bunch?
As the O.J. Simpson armed robbery trial enters its eighth day in Las Vega Wednesday, Judge Jackie Glass must decide whether to permit evidence related to Simpson’s acquittal of killing former wife Nicole Brown Simpson and friend Ronald Goldman in 1994. The prosecution contends that Simpson was hiding his memorabilia from the Brown and Goldman families after they won a civil judgement against him, and the robbery was a further attempt by Simpson to hold onto the items–in other words, just the Juice being The Juice…

Tags: Congress, financial bailout, Goldman Sachs, Henry Kissinger, Medicare, OJ Simpson, Sarah Palin, Warren Buffet

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Jun 25 2008

Change That Bill Wants To Hook Up With

Posted by Big Jim in What's So Funny About The News?

Former president Bill Clinton has offered to help Barack Obama win the presidential election, although what his role in the campaign would be is unclear now. I’m pretty sure he doesn’t really need any help with believable excuses for his wife…
John McCain said Tuesday that his administration would require all official vehicles and office buildings to use "green" technologies, saying the government should put its own environmental house in order before criticizing its citizens. It’s a surprisingly logical conclusion–which is why Congress will never understand it…
A Justice Department report criticized its own officials for using "political or ideological" factors in hiring lawyers for an elite program, choosing law school grads with conservative credentials over those with liberal-sounding resumes. Maybe next time they shouldn’t put Karl Rove in charge of recruiting…
For the second year in a row, super-investor Warren Buffet is auctioning a lunch with him at a New York restaurant, with the proceeds benefiting social services to the poor and homeless. Last year’s winning bid was over $600,000–which means an hour of his time goes for about as much as some of Eliot Spizter’s lunch dates…
Senior EPA officials disclosed that the White House refused to accept their conclusion that greenhouse gases are pollutants that must be controlled, telling them that the email message containing the document would not be opened. In fairness, the president still hasn’t figured out what the "delete" key does yet…
Residents of a Missouri village are outraged after learning their mayor hired a man who claimed to be a former federal agent working undercover–only he turned out to be a criminal who mistreated and robbed many of those he arrested. Apparently he was undercover–from the law…

Tags: Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, environment, John McCain, Justice Department, Warren Buffet, White House

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More Wit And Wisdom From The Boy Who Would (Still) Be A DJ

Posts Tagged “Warren Buffet”

Another Yucky All-Time High

A One-Oracle Bail-Out Plan

Change That Bill Wants To Hook Up With

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