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How to use the Internet to tell if President Obama is talking.

Posted by Nerdus Maximus on Saturday, March 07, 2009 9:08:55 AM
Look at any stock index. If it is headed down, the President is talking.
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My new name for President Obama - Bad Moon

Posted by Nerdus Maximus on Saturday, March 07, 2009 9:06:06 AM
Just listen to Creedence Clearwater Revival's "Bad Moon Rising" and you will understand.
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The Nerdus for best use of the opposition's prhase aginst them by an opinion journalist goes to ...

Posted by Nerdus Maximus on Thursday, March 05, 2009 12:57:22 PM
... Tony Blankley for this gem.


Obama Lied; the Economy Died

Great job, Tony. Pick up your statuette on the way out.
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"Driving" GM and Chrysler to health.

Posted by Nerdus Maximus on Monday, February 23, 2009 12:07:38 PM
I think the advice from the team that President Obama has assembled to guide the U.S. auto industry back to health will be to use the Federal bail out money and their union pension funds to buy stock in Honda, Toyota and Nissan.

The Detroit News uncovered some interesting things about the members of the team. Only two of the eighteen people currently slated to be on the committee (eight primaries and their top assistants), own a vehicle from an American manufacturer. One of those is a Harley. Two just happens to be the same number as those who don't own a vehicle at all. Yes, the members of the team that is going to guide Detroit back to prosperity are equally likely to own no vehicle at all as they are to own one from a Detroit manufacturer. The majority have a history of owning vehicles from foreign manufacturers.

At least we know that they have an understanding of why people would not buy from Detroit!
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Those who don't know history are doomed to ...

Posted by Nerdus Maximus on Tuesday, February 17, 2009 11:56:11 AM
... believe President Obama. His overblown comparisons of the current economy to the Great Depression have become so egregious that even his home town paper is crying foul. Perhaps the Guiness records people would be interested in a new record category: most expensive pack of lies. The "stimulus" bill would be a hands down winner.
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Let's be consistent on "socialism" and public ownership of stock.

Posted by Nerdus Maximus on Monday, November 17, 2008 12:35:21 PM
One of the issues brought up by the various bailout plans is whether government ownership of stock constitutes "socialism". The definition my teachers always used was the the government ownership of the means of production was the defining characteristic of  Socialism. many Conservatives are concerned that the government buying stakes in various businesses in the process of bailing out industries moves us towards that classic definition of Socialism. Many of these same Conservatives supported that government ownership when it came to getting them a better return on their Social Security money.  This surface inconsistency brings out what I think is the real problem with Socialism.

Overall, it is a good thing if the government owns stock in businesses. There would be a lot less ill-advised anti-business legislation if the resulting drop is stock values and dividends hurt the politicians who made the laws. The problem is when government tries to run businesses. A sure way to drive businesses to ruin is to let the same people who run the government influence the running of the business. There is a way we can have the positives of government investment without the drawbacks of having government influence the running of businesses.

What we need is a class of stock with no voting rights that is the only kind of stock ANY government is allowed to buy in U.S. companies. This includes the U.S. government and any foreign government or sovereign wealth fund.
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Senator Barack Kevorkian

Posted by Nerdus Maximus on Monday, September 29, 2008 9:43:50 PM
A little medical analogy may help elucidate just how wrong Obama is about the economy. The economy is sick. There is understandable debate as to whether the best treatment is antibiotics, gene therapy or vitamins. Along comes doctor Obama who prescribes cyanide. You don't want to be his patient.

What does the economy need? Curbs to abuses? Maybe. Internal system changes? Maybe. Some incentives to strengthen it? Maybe. Tax increases? Only if you want to see it keel over dead!

A vote for Senator Barack Kevorkian is a vote for a dead economy.
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How much is that blue one in the window?

Posted by Nerdus Maximus on Thursday, August 14, 2008 9:21:17 PM
I was driving past a car lot today and couldn't help noticing that all the small cars were in the front row. They had signs in their windshields proclaiming things like, "Great mileage!" and "Economical!". The huge SUVs were all at the very back of the lot. It was hard to read the signs in their windshields at that distance, but I'm fairly sure they said, "Free to a good home."

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