Early Voting for the 2008 Presidential Election for Blount County, Tennessee, has been announced. You will be able to vote early from October 15 through October 30 at the following locations:
Election Commission Office
383 Court Street
Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Saturday, 8:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.
Everett Gym
3185 Everett High Road
Monday through Friday, 11:00 [...]
Despite some misleading headlines, the bailout package is NOT a done deal. Top lawmakers have agreed on the details, but the bill is still up for a vote today. You can see an article with details at the Wall Street Journal. Let you Congressmen and Senators know what you think about this bill. I have [...]
Contrary to the political posturing on both sides of the bailout issue…
Solutions don’t come from Washington.
PETA has written a letter to Ben & Jerry’s asking them to start using human breast milk instead of cow’s milk for their ice cream.
PETA said the health of consumers and cows would benefit from the switch.
This is ridiculous. I am sure PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) was formed as a good [...]
Just a reminder that there are other options outside of John McCain and Barack Obama when it comes time to vote for President. Go check out Bob Barr. I know what you are saying: voting for a third party candidate is throwing your vote away. Not true. If that attitude is changed in enough people, [...]
I decided not to do these daily, but I heard this song this morning and decided I needed to post it. Have a great Friday!
Besides being $700 billion, there is an additional disturbing piece of the bailout legislation. It states:
Decisions by the Secretary pursuant to the authority of this Act are non-reviewable and committed to agency discretion, and may not be reviewed by any court of law or any administrative agency.
Wowsers! I’m all for limited government intervention, but this [...]
An alternate solution to the current financial hiccup was discussed today by Dave Ramsey. This solution involves a temporary exemption for the mark to market policies set for specifically by Sarbanes-Oxley. Brian S. Wesbury and Bob Stein detail this solution at Forbes.com.
…this solution of giving the U.S. Treasury almost unlimited power to buy distressed securities could [...]
Senator Joe Biden, the Democratic Vice-Presidential candidate, said yesterday that it is patriotic to pay more taxes. He then went on to say:
“We want to take money and put it back in the pocket of middle-class people,” Biden said in an interview on ABC’s “Good Morning America.”
Noting that wealthier Americans would indeed pay more, Biden [...]
If you are looking for a small, straightforward Linux distribution – especially for old hardware – check out Puppy Linux. There are several small distributions, but this one seems to be very good. I am using it on an old IBM T22 Thinkpad, which has a 900 MHz processor and 256 MB of RAM. The [...]
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