Republicans are criticizing President Obama for not being vocal enough in support of the Iranian protesters, while the Iranian leaders are accusing the US of meddling in Iranian affairs and helping to incite the protests. Others, primarily Democrats, feel that he has taken just the right approach by more or less staying out of it and letting the Iranians determine their own fate.
How do you feel President Obama has handled this touchy situation so far and what else do you think he can or should do?
Will Bernie Madoff’s 150 year sentence serve as a sufficient deterrent to other ponzi schemers?
Bernie didn’t get the lenient punishment he was hoping for from the courts, and rightfully so. 150 years is a long time for a non-violent crime, but considering the staggering amount of money this guy ripped off of hard working Americans over decades, do you feel this sentence is appropriate and will serve as enough of a deterrent to keep others from attempting similar schemes in the future? Or is the power of greed simply too strong?
Captain Richard Phillips doesn’t just talk the talk, he walks the walk. When the going got tough on the high seas near Somalia recently, Captain Richard Phillips put his life on the line to save his crew from a rabid band of modern day pirates. After having his ship attacked, not only did the Captain and crew fight back, but the Captain offered himself as a hostage to the Pirates in order to save the lives of his crew. Now, I don’t know what the captain manual says about situations like this, but making a decision like this with your life to save others is truly heroic. We need more people like Captain Richard Phillips.
AmeriGobble salutes you Captain!
Need we say more?
What is up with this guy? He appears to enjoy all the attention he is getting from the world as North Korea tests nukes and launches missiles with all the delight of a child playing with fireworks on the Fourth of July. And, yet, although North Korea is isolated from the world and has UN sanctions against it, nothing seems to be able to stop this guy. Plus, he has a massive army that seems to be just as crazy as he is.
How long can he play this game with the world and will his plan lead to a successful transfer of power to his son, who may be just as crazy or even crazier?
Well, Shaq, aka the Big Cactus, plays with King James. Do you think this is going to bring a Championship to Cleveland?
Yes, I think they can. I also feel this gets Kobe our of his championship hangover. It will be an entertaining year and a great christmas game against the Lakers. What do you think, do you think it’s going to be show time in Cleveland or will they get distracted and come up short again?
These pre-game openings are going to hollywoodesque.
The scariest thing about today’s economic crisis is that you simply can’t believe, and more importantly trust, what you hear from media analysts, pundits, brokers, financiers, bankers, politicians and so called economic experts, because the credibility of their advice has been shattered. They were almost all wrong regarding our current economic meltdown and they all seem to have an agenda that isn’t your financial well being.
First they said we weren’t in a recession in the first half of 2008, when it sure felt like one on main street. Then they said the recession started back in 2007 and that it would be a mild one. Then the inevitable happened and we had a complete credit collapse and stock market crash in the fall of 2008 because we had created a credit based economy where wealth was based on bubbles by people spending enormous amounts of money they didn’t have.
They then said our whole system would collapse if we(the taxpayers) didn’t “recapitalize” the same greedy institutions that helped create the credit crunch via the tarp program. The result, we gave enormous amounts of our yet unearned future tax dollars to the very institutions and people that failed us as a society so that they could continue to pay executive bonuses and make more money lending our own money back to us.
After all this, it suspiciously appears that the scheme on the American taxpayer continues with the recent announcement of enormous profits for institutions that were seemingly on the brink of disaster, the recent rapid rise in the stock market and rising commodity prices. are they propping up stock prices and commodities to make even more money for themselves on the taxpayers dime. Now that’s an agenda that doesn’t include your financial well being.
Now a mere few months after the TARP payouts, many institutions are giving the money back as the stock market is rallying and commodities are again on the rise. The pundits are saying the worst is over, credit is flowing again, money is cheap, and it is time to get in and do it all over again. Don’t miss out they say!! It seems there is always an agenda and it isn’t your well being.
So, who do you trust in these economically trying times when nobody seems to know much of anything other than optimistic speculation?
