Posted on March 7, 2008 by doesthismakesense
The perception of oil as a good or evil thing truly depends on your perspective. The general public tend to form their opinion, positive or negative, based on the price of gas and to a lesser extent environmental impact. For the large multinational corporations, the countries who produce it, and others who profit [...]
Filed under: Economy, politics | Tagged: alberta oil production, canadian oil, gas prices, historic price of oil, obama, oil prices, oil sands, saudi arabia, top exporters of oil to the united states | 2 Comments »
Posted on February 25, 2008 by doesthismakesense
Quite possibly the biggest, most shocking announcement of the presidential campaign season took place on Sunday (what you missed it?). Ralph Nader, the 74 year old lifelong consumer advocate, is throwing his hat into the ring for President (again) in his great crusade for irrelevance.
What irrelevance you say? Nader only received 442,000 [...]
Filed under: Funny, politics | Tagged: 2008 presidential campaign, al gore, dick cheney, george bush, green party, john mccain, ralph nader, ron paul | 1 Comment »
Posted on February 16, 2008 by doesthismakesense
Flash back to the immediate post 9/11 U.S. where Americans sat on edge, constantly aware of the possibility, probability of another attack from ‘Al Qaeda’, the terrorist organization who launched the horrific attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
The threat was so real that President Bush created a whole new [...]
Filed under: politics | Tagged: al qaeda, president bush, senator mccain, terror alert, the war on terror | Leave a Comment »
Posted on February 15, 2008 by doesthismakesense
Does this make any sense?
U.S. Economy running headlong into recession (Allen Greenspan proclaimed it today and he should know considering he drove us there.)
Fighting the Vietnam of the 21st Century in Iraq — our generation needed an unwinnable war too!
Free falling dollar and mounting government deficits (not to mention the first baby boomers qualified for [...]
Filed under: Sports, politics | Tagged: capital hill, congress, roger clemens, steroids, taxpayers | Leave a Comment »
Posted on February 15, 2008 by doesthismakesense
Boy this one is almost too easy, I mean c’mon you set yourself up this time Uncle Sam. Changing the department of war to the department of defense….now that’s a good one but Project Lifeline?
Let me explain. Project Lifeline was a program recently announced by Henry Paulson, the Secretary of the Treasury, which [...]
Filed under: politics | Tagged: chicagoland illinois foreclosures, economics, foreclosures, free market, politics, project lifeline, uncle sam | Leave a Comment »
Posted on February 14, 2008 by doesthismakesense
Well it’s painfully obvious that Ron Paul is going to fall way short of becoming the Republican nominee for President and I don’t blame the people for not voting for him. He had some wacked out beliefs that on closer inspection are very hard to get behind such as:
Eliminating the IRS and the federal income [...]
Filed under: politics | Tagged: president. libertarian, republicans, ron paul | Leave a Comment »
