Here are some good news reads for today, December 11th, 2006.

Pakistani / US status changed to MNNA – Basically, they now enjoy many of the perks that countries like Japan, Israel and South Korea enjoy.

US Was Tapping Princess Diana’s Phone – Cool, we had a tap on her phone in the days and nights before she was killed in that fatal car crash.

Iran’s “Holocaust Didn’t Happen” Conference – Real live or South Park…you make the call.

Me, Me, Me, Me – The spirit of entrepreneurship…is it bad. This nobel laureate thinks it may be.

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It is sad, but true that most of the people are happy to let all of the work be done by a small percentage of the people. Yet, most people like to complain. It has always been that way, and I am sure that it will most likely continue to be that way.  I am sure that is most of the reason why we have such a bunch of back slapping donkeys in the house and Senate.  When did anyone who calls themselves a Republican think they would hear something like this in a financial news bulletin?

Treasuries are about to have their best week since September based on expectations President George W. Bush will curb spending in response to Democratic control of Congress.

I just received that from a bank that we are working with in one of their daily market updates. The Congress’ members should all be ashamed of themselves no matter what side of the aisle they have been sitting on.  Their job is not to look out for each other, it is to represent the people of their district and their state.  Jokers.

My favorite part of the festivities the other day, when president Bush spoke, was when Bush started to talk about how, “Stay the Course” did not mean keep doing the same thing. Sure pal.  It would have been nice to see Chuck Barry out there with the hook or someone throwing a cream pie in his face right after he said that. I think one of those would have been an appropriate response. What a jerk.  With all due respect, if there is any left in the Presidency, I have not seen someone who is so full of crap in a long time.  Somehow he has convinced his minions that repeating after him is all they need to do. I hope Bush Bot Mania is over and we can get back to living like normal Americans again.

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Well, I was a bit surprised to hear the news this morning right before President Bush spoke, that Donald Rumsfeld is stepping down.  Not that it came as a total shocker, but it was surprising that it came so soon.  What was funny about this morning, more than listening to our President have to field a bunch of questions that he fumbled with, was listening to a newscast on MSNBC while the news of the resignation came over the AP wire.  Nora O’Donnel was talking to another O’Donnel at the White House when the WH O’Donnel’s phone rang.  Distracted, she looked down at the phone and tried to figure out if she should answer. Nora O’Donnel in the studio reported that the AP was apparently reporting that D. Rumsfeld was stepping down as the Secretary of Defense.  During the conversation between the two one could hear protesters outside the White House, but you could not really make out what they were saying.  About 3 minutes after the news went mainstream about the resignation, you could start to make out what the protesters were saying…rather singing.  “Nah, nah, nah nah, nah, nah, nah, hey, hey, hey, good bye.”

Comedy.

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