Congress just blew off an amendment to the healthcare reform bill that would have allowed reimporting drugs from Canada. What I can’t fathom is why we should need to reimport drugs from anywhere since it should be cheaper to eliminate the middle man (Canada) in the first place. Isn’t that just the craziest thing you [...]
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Reimporting Drugs from Canada, huh?
Posted in Uncategorized on December 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I’m So Sick of Rampant Greed
Posted in Uncategorized on July 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I have been ranting and raving about the greed that collapsed the world economy, but that’s old news (sort of). Everything in American society is just mired in greed. Ryan Seacrest just signed a deal for $45 million to say about 200 words once a week on American Idol for the 4 months the show [...]
School Software – Learning Management, Testing, Content Creation
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Educational Software, Gutenberg, Guttenberg, Kindle, Learning Management System, LMS, ONline Learning, School Software on June 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
We are developing an entirely new software system for schools and are just about ready for the first round of testing the software and at the same time are looking for suggestions for desirable features. Shortly we will be asking for volunteers to help us test the system.
We aren’t prepared to announce all of the [...]
TARP Funds to be Repaid by Banks at a Discount – Oh boy?
Posted in Uncategorized on May 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Many banks are scrambling to repay the money the government loaned then when it looked like the banks would collapse because of all the many misdeeds and poor decisions and stupid risks they had taken. This may sound like a good thing, yet they are being allowed to buy back the warrants that basically gave [...]
$18 billion in bonuses paid by Wall Street firms in 2008
Posted in education, government, tagged 18 billion, bonuses, ceo compensation, ceo pay, corporate corruption, federal bailout, wall street on February 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I doubt the number $18 billion in bonuses is accurate, it is likely many times that amount, but lets go with that for a minute. As far as I am concerned, those $18 billion came directly from taxpayers since every firm that paid those bonuses was receiving far more in taxpayer money than they paid [...]
Are you trying to decide between buying a Mac or a Windows PC?
Posted in Uncategorized on January 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Buy an Apple Mac instead of a PC. I’ve been using mini-computers and PCs since they were invented and since I develop software for a living, I’ve been mostly using PCs since that’s where my business lay. After nearly 30 years I got fed up with Windows, especially Vista, so I finally splurged and bought a Mac. It’s worth the extra money, nearly double the cost of a PC.
Financial Crisis vs. Econ 101
Posted in energy, energy policy, financing, government, public policy, tagged bailout, Chrysler, economics, financial crisis, Ford, GM on November 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
In Economics 101 we all learned that bigger is better due to economies of scale. The logic went that if 10 companies produce 100 widgets each, 1 company that could produce 1,000 widgets would have a distinct cost advantage. Makes sense, right? You can eliminate all the duplicated management and overhead and [...]
Who won the presidential debate?
Posted in economy, energy, government, politics, renewable energy, tagged Debate, election, mccain, obama on October 16, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I’ll keep this short. I don’t know if Obama won, but I do think McCain lost. McCain didn’t seem sure of himself, he kept targeting issues that didn’t matter, and missed most of the substance. He should have talked about John McCain and not Barack Obama.
Many years ago when I went to a sales training [...]
McCain thrusts William Ayers into the National Spotlight, Again
Posted in government, politics, tagged ayers, keating, mccain, obama, politics, william ayers on October 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
William Ayers was a relative unknown until John McCain brought him up during the campaign. Ayers did what he had back in the late sixties and early seventies to gain attention; McCain’s making an issue out of a non-issue is telling would-be activists that if attention is what you are after, violence works. At the same time, McCain’s guilt by association strategy leaves him far more guilty from his association with Charges Keating who victimized 23,000 people and cost the government $3 billion during the period while he and McCain were close friends.
What is McCain’s Plan for Housing?
Posted in economy, government, politics, public policy, tagged economy, financial crisis, housing, john mccain, mccain, plan on October 10, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Essentially the McCain plan is a gift for banks and homeowners that bet heavily on ever increasing housing values. His plan is to buy mortgages where the borrow’s home is worth less than the current market price and to refinance it at the current market price and do so at bargain basement interest. If someone [...]
