Monthly Archives: March 2010

Zombie factories – let’s say you run a hospital. It’s now 2014 and there is no pre-existing condition test allowed, and no annual or lifetime benefit cap. A patient arrives in your ER – they have no insurance, no assets … Continue reading →

CDR Financial is back – court documents are naming most of the who’s who of Wall Street conspiring to lowball the interest paid to government agencies holding cash raised by bond sales waiting until the projects were completed and the … Continue reading →

Korea update – the thinking at this point is the most likely cause of the sinking of the South Korean Navy ship is that they hit one of their own mines…

Radio host taken off air after questioning Glenn Beck’s sanity. For 24 hours. With pay.

The new Republican strategy on health care: “repeal and replace.” Under the premise that they probably won’t be able to repeal the entire bill outright (at least until 2013 anyway), Mitch McConnell (the senate Republican leader) is proposing keeping some … Continue reading →

Judge upholds new DC gun control laws – Washington Times reports that Federal judge has upheld DC’s post Heller attempt to reregulate guns. This judge thinks the Right to Keep and Bear Arms is limited to Bearing a weapon inside … Continue reading →

Anyone else see a political subtext to the 3 Musketeers ad currently running on Clear Channel players?

Chris Krok has a new job. He used to do late nights on WSB-AM in Atlanta. He’s been spending time working and stirring things up in Macon Georgia. His new job is at KLIF in Dallas/Fort Worth.

Art Bell on Coast to Coast Tonight – Art Bell will be sitting in this morning on Coast to Coast. Cook up your chupacabra burgers and get ready for the fun.

Ann Ziff, widow of Ziff of Ziff-Davis Publishing has given $30 million to the Metropolitan Opera in New York. One of the purposes is that The Met has been working to make its Operas available in HD in about 1,100 … Continue reading →

Treasury dumping is starting…. China has unloaded some of their Treasuries, and the Swap rates between US Treasuries and other types of debt are starting to open up, signaling that the market believes the US Treasury will have to start … Continue reading →

South Korean military ship sinking has sunk – the ship patrols the Yellow Sea near the North / South Korea border. It isn’t clear yet which country (if any) might have attacked the ship. Hope you 20 somethings who voted … Continue reading →

Air America’s final revenge – one of the assets listed for sale by the bankruptcy trustee is Air America’s email Mailing list. This has happened before that when a company goes into bankruptcy, the trustee will break the promise of … Continue reading →

What bandwidth costs… just got an email from one of my ISP contacts offering bandwidth for $4 per Mb/month. A few years ago, $100/Mb was more typical. Streaming doesn’t need “burstable” bandwidth – it’s a constant steady stream. For someone … Continue reading →

Native American Child Molestors – Beck is reporting on a person asking Representative Grayson of Florida about a House provision to provide funding for Native American Child Molestors. Here is a defender of that point of view. The funding is … Continue reading →