Posted by: aardvarkcola on: September 30, 2008
Republican presidential candidate John McCain suspended his campaign to work on the bailout package before Congress, but didn’t even manage to convince a single Arizona member of Congress from his own state to vote for it.
Arizona is represented in the U.S. federal legislature by eight members of the House of Representatives and two members [...]
Posted by: aardvarkcola on: September 26, 2008
When a presidential candidate’s party has conducted an unpopular war precipitated by an invasion of a sovereign country that didn’t have weapons of mass destruction or Al-Queda or 9-11 links, when it has run the world’s greatest economy straight into the ground, when it’s spending is greater than any other administration, when it took [...]
Posted by: aardvarkcola on: September 25, 2008
Do not piss off a clown.
John McCain, the Republican nominee for president, cancelled a guest appearance on the David Letterman show at the last minute. I could go on, but it’s more fun if you watched.
A lecturer I listened to had this thought. In ancient Greece a philosopher was getting a [...]
Posted by: aardvarkcola on: September 16, 2008
If you thought Bear Sterns and Lehman Brothers on the ropes was a big deal, prepare yourself.
American International Group, the insurance company you know as AIG, is teetering.
Why is that important news in bank crisis?
AIG is the largest insurance company on the planet, the 18th largest company of any kind in the world, [...]
Posted by: aardvarkcola on: September 5, 2008
Election in Canada
Governor-General Michaëlle Jean will meet with Prime Minister Steven Harper at 8:15 a.m. Sunday when Harper will tell her that he does not have confidence in parliament. The Canadian federal election is expected to take place October 14. Three Harper cabinet ministers will not run again, David Emerson (Foreign Affairs), Monte Solberg (Human [...]
Posted by: aardvarkcola on: September 1, 2008
How can you tell if Sarah Palin is from Wasilla or Wetaskiwin?
The girl seems down-right Albertan. She is about as Canadian as you can get. She likes moosemeat, she owns a float plane, her husband works in the oil-patch, she hunts, and even as the head of government she drives her own car to work.
The [...]
