law school ninja

Time for a little review on AIG. First, let’s recall that we as taxpayers have a $170 billion dollar investment in AIG, which amounts to an 80% ownership of the company. Of course, in real life, you and I don’t have any say in how AIG is run. We didn’t even get asked if we [...]

Meet my new favorite congressman, Thaddeus McCotter, representing the 11th district in Michigan. He had a particularly brilliant 2 minutes on the House floor the other day in response to the “outrage” on display over the AIG bonus money fiasco. Love this guy. Here is his YouTube page. Also, you can follow him on Twitter [...]

Turns out we won’t need the services of the good Dr. Kevorkian for those AIG executives after all. Senator Charles Grassley has retracted his call for them to either apologize or kill themselves. He’s actually after remorse, repentance, and contrition. Rest in peace, Dr. Kevorkian.

Here’s another brilliant way the government plans to ward off a financial meltdown: electric golf carts. Apparently the stimulus package will contain somewhere from $300,000,000 to $600,000,000 of taxpayer dollars with which the federal government plans to purchase electric vehicles, including these precious little golf-cart-looking things. Thank goodness! Our economy is saved!

Watch the Messiah in action as he works his magic on this poor college student. I’m not really even sure where to begin here. Aside from the fact that this guy is a total spaz, he clearly feels entitled to some sort of benefits simply because he’s managed continuous employment for 4-1/2 years. Wow. Why [...]

Once again, I’m baffled. A few months ago, we were told by a breathless Hank Paulson that we were perhaps hours away from a complete financial meltdown, the likes of which we’ve never seen. Remember? They said credit had frozen and it was an impending capital-D-Disaster. And the only way to avert Disaster was for [...]