Did you think we were done bailing out the UAW? Think again:
The new General Motors Corp. is trying to heighten interest in its sale of about $10 billion in stock held by its rescuers – the United Auto Workers health care trust fund and the governments of Canada, the United States and the province of Ontario.
Buyers will get an unusual bonus: the little-noticed forgiveness of about $45 billion in future federal income tax obligations to offset past losses and expenses of various kinds – a second bite of the bailout apple.
Writing off debt is nothing unusual. Most companies are allowed to do it – unless they went through bankruptcy as GM and Chrysler did. GM wrote off $80 billion in debt through bankruptcy. Now they’ll get to write off another $45 billion while Ford, who weathered the financial storm without taking TARP money or filing for bankruptcy, will get no tax relief for $27 billion in debt. Punish the private industry successes while rewarding the government-run failures. It’s the socialist way.
Kansas is ranked second in the nation behind Montana for wind energy potential, a fact which should have environmentalists jumping for joy. Instead, they’re trying to block the construction of transmission lines to wind farms in south central Kansas and north central Oklahoma. I guess Obama hasn’t communicated effectively enough about the need to go green. LINK Why? Well it… Read more »
The Ninja Babies are sitting up. Whoahoo!!!
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Come to think of it, haven’t the “instructions” to avoid STDs been around forever?
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Wait, didn’t Rachel Maddow assure us on Friday that, unlike those mercenary wingnuts at Fox News who let Republican guests pitch donation URLs on the air, MSNBC is “not a political operation”? Six full minutes of fact-checkin’ fun here via Johnny Dollar, who not only spent hours piecing this lowlight reel together but has an accompanying post delving further into… Read more »
The Dude #10; I agree things are worse than appear. Bernanke swore under oath before Congress that the FED would not monetize our debt only to later go forth and direct the FED to monetize our debt. Monetizing one’s own debt is the stupidest financial decision to make. It makes the economy looks pretty for a while but there’s no… Read more »
I think Tedtam’s #8 pinpointed the source of global warming.
Why is it that no matter what the topic this blog always winds up talking about drugs?
I never liked Maddow, anyway, so this puts a smile on my face.
Lawrence! You found your way back!
Thanks, Pyro, I liked the duck bubbles
#58 mh42
Here’s some visual aid for you.
Bob, go back to your Google search and scroll down just a bit. I kept scrolling down because I didn’t see anything at the top that seemed to support your allegation that no one from the neighborhood had complained about drugs being dealt from a barber shop. All I saw at the top were MSM newspaper reports about outrageous cop… Read more »
Sorry Lowrents. I just got home and was able to approve your first comment.
#53 My link was to a simple google search.
Bob clearly thinks it’s good, right & The American Way for the police to let drug dealing flourish in low income neighborhoods. Give ’em their freedom, man! They don’t need no stinking barber training or license. Plus it saves us money on LEO budgets. His link led me to another, which I will not cite here because it was full… Read more »
#35 Bob
Don’t give me any doubful benefits. Yes, I was trying to be funny, but at the same time I had no sympathy for customers at that
dopebarber shop who had their trims interrupted.Lie down with dogs and get up with fleas — or as Sarge mentioned, lice etc.
#47 kf That was cool. That QB was a great actor. I wonder if they had to tip the refs off? At the LC game, the kicker for CR missed the ball on a kickoff. The ball went about two feet and everyone just stood there looking at it for several seconds. Finally a CR player dove on it, which… Read more »
BTW Ham, nice blog you got here.
Susan Estrich has had some SERIOUS plastic surgery. I remember watching her years ago and noting how homely looking she was – she definitely had a face that was taylor-made for radio. I saw her on TV recently and only recognized her by that “gravelly” voice. Give that surgeon a medal!
#47 Katfishy
PERFECT! 😀
God BLESS that there edit button!
47 I saw that earlier. Perfect execution. LOL
I’m wondering how WB would report THIS PLAY if he saw it at an LC game…………..
#45 Tetam, when Sargie can substantiate this, I’ll be more than happy to burst my own bubbles.
#44 Sarge
Just think of his claims as soap bubbles. If you just leave them alone, they pop and disappear on their own. But if you keep encouraging him to blow more bubbles, then they never go away.
If you aren’t willing to do your homework and substantiate that bit of irrational nonsense, I suggest that you stick that biased, uninformed opinion exactly where it came from. (It’s stinking up the place.) Wait– Its irrational to say that the police act on complaints. Buty its not irrational to say: Naturally, they used SWAT teams to keep citizens safe… Read more »
Time for a little laugh… Look at the title of this article
Sargie, citizens are complaining about the raids. Duh! Look it up. Somebody living in the neighborhoods where these shops were selling drugs and gambling called the cops and said they didn’t want to raise their kids in that kind of neighborhood. If you aren’t willing to do your homework and substantiate that bit of irrational nonsense, I suggest that you… Read more »
#40 TT: WISS’IN nanny state stickin’ their wissin’ noses where they don’t belong!~#$@!#$
/cusses some more and spits.
The only solution is to vote these wiss’in rectums out of office and never forget, never let them back in. Do not give the opportunity to push/force their will on anyone else ever.
I say we remove all childhood from childhood.
Or just give birth to adults. Then we can be done with it all.
Thanks.
You’ve finally given another person’s arguments the same status as you’ve always given yours.
Its an improvement.
I give up Sargie. You win.
Your arguments are undeniably true because you declare them to be undeniably true. Facts be damned, full speed ahead!
We probably should be mentioneing here, Bobby, the kinds of disease that can be spread through improperly cleaned barber shop implements. Lice is just at the top of the list. There are those that are spread when cuts are made in one person and the same tool cuts another person. Health and Safety are two of the very unreasonable things… Read more »
Sarge, do you really think this is a good idea? Does sending a dozen LEOs to inspect raid barber shops make sense from a fiscal conservative perspective, considering that the “yield” from three such raids was three petty possession charges? Yes. I emphatically DO think its a good idea. I used to think it was a bad idea, just like… Read more »
Speaking of sorry excuses for a rational argument: Guess that’s a risk you run when having your hair cut by an unlicensed barber in a dope den. But I’ll give Mharper42 the benefit of the doubt. I suspect she was making a joke. btw, I’m (again) today’s featured writer at thespoof.com! (Don’t worry, when I’m rich and famous I won’t… Read more »
Sarge, do you really think this is a good idea? Does sending a dozen LEOs to inspect raid barber shops make sense from a fiscal conservative perspective, considering that the “yield” from three such raids was three petty possession charges? This is the kind of thing Guliani did. He pioneered the concept of having reps from multiple agencies and jurisdictions… Read more »
#30 SC
Guess that’s a risk you run when having your hair cut by an unlicensed barber in a dope den.
She does have an unusually gravelly voice.
And that doesn’t even include what she is saying.
BTW, gravelly is defined as “having a rough or grating sound” in case anyone wonders whether I misspelled somthing there.
Watching FOX news a while ago and I’ve got a question:
Did Susan Estrich use to be Carol Channing?
Just wondering.
Regarding the barber raids a thought just came over me. Can you imagin all those customers with half cut hair watching as their barber is frog matched out in cuffs?
WH Press Secretary Robert Gibbs puts his best diplomatic foot forward in India.
17 SC says: November 8, 2010 at 11:33 am #15 sarge, doesn’t the fact there was no warrant kind of defeat the purpose? It seems all the evidence would be thrown out. Nope. They are in places that are open to the public, and therefore there is a lesser expectation of privacy than inside a home or dwelling. 20 wagonburner… Read more »
#21 – BW in all honesty I’ve not dug any deeper at this point. If there are any added benefits in the dental or eyesight realm I’ve not been notified (BC/BS did not offer either of the 2 prior to this specifically worded increase that was exactly labeled “as a result of most recent health care legislation”) My deductible remains… Read more »
Who said anything about controlling the markets?
On a lighter note.
16 bweldon, Same happened to me. My daughter and her husband are teachers for Klein ISD and they just saw their deductable (per person) go to $2000.00 It is frustrating to me to see both parties do so little to help contain costs. The R’s prescription drug bill during the Bush years did nothing to contain costs and Obama care… Read more »
19 mharper, You would have a good point if you were talking about a CD or a Bond Fund, but my investments are well balanced and I am up 19% for the year so far. I was slightly positive last year which was pretty good considering most folks were down by 9%. Someone made a comment about Pump and Dumps…Any… Read more »
#17 SC, chances are good that there will not be trials for the handful of possession charges that resulted from that massive waste of money. The “perps” are more likely to plea down. But fear not, the cops will still get credit for the bust, make their stats, and the federal dollars will keep coming in. These would be the… Read more »
#18, Kat
Yeah but what % does your company cover? I know the total costs are up over $1500 per employee, and those numbers do not include the increase in vision and dental that are coming along.