Happy Thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving.

Obama Code Name

So the car companies are asking for some of that $700B because they need short term loans to make payroll. And to pay the guys they've laid off $20-$26 an hour to watch TV and sit around? http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5185887

They warn that if they don't get the loans, they may have to declare bankruptcy and people wouldn't buy US cars. Nobody's buying their cars now, so what's the difference?

But the news isn't all bad. G's getting bigger, so life's good.

Post Election News Bites

Change has come to America.

Namely that the nearly two year long news coverage of the 2008 election is finally at an end. It's hard to know what to do with ourselves. The credit crisis isn't solved, more layoffs are coming, and we're still involved in two undeclared wars in foreign countries. Cheer up, we have Madonna's divorce, Angelina Jolie's new baby and Lindsay Lohan's train wreck of a life to keep us distracted.

I thought I'd share the Onion's take on Post Election Blues


http://reason.tv/picks/show/602.html

News Pron

Take the Anchor or Porn Star Test

Don't forget to vote.

Everybody bellyaches about how crappy the two parties are. So they don't vote as a form of protest or because they think their vote won't matter because they live in a solid blue or red state.

In States where it's overwhelmingly going to one party (ie. NY is a blue state) it makes little difference if you vote for a Dem or Rep. But it makes a huge difference if you vote for a 3rd party, because your vote shows up statistically as growing support for 3rd parties. Groups like Libertarians or Greens don't get taken seriously because their candidates get so few votes and thus they get so little press coverage and campaign donations. So if you're mad at how both the Rep and the Dem's have served themselves and got us into this war and financial mess, then vote 3rd party.

Me I'm voting Libertarian. Any party that's for holding people accountable for their actions (and not just scapegoats), reducing taxes and Fed spending and legalizing pot sounds good to me: http://www.lp.org/issues/crime-and-violence