Weekend Update and Other Trivia

I've been having problems with the host of this blog and they don't have a phone or e-mail address that I can contact them to report the problem. There is only a support group where I can post the problem and hope that someone will read it, but it's been a week now and no response. The fix is easy and would take five minutes, so you can imagine how frustrated I am... So, if you come across a page where the post is in the left hand sidebar and you can't read it, go to my homepage, please.

It seems that everything is back to normal in Gaza. There is still a blockade in place so only limited economic commerce can happen, and only a few rockets are being fired into Israel every day. You know, like the ceasefire that was before...

George Will states in his latest column that our national deficit for this last year is actually $3 trillion instead of the $454.8 billion that has been reported, if the government were to use honest accounting practices and not ones that hide the costs of many federal programs. His numbers come from the 2008 Financial Report of the United States Government, which plays out several scenarios in determining the national debt, which may be closer to $56 trillion instead of $10 trillion.

The Kentucky National Guard has been deployed to help in the aftermath of a winter storm that has left 1.3 million people without electricity. This may be part of the infrastructure that needs upgrading from bailout money. too bad it was ignored for years... FEMA could have helped, we know there are parking lots in Alabama and Mississippi full of trailers that were never used for Katrina relief, they could be used to help with the overflowing emergency shelters at the very least.

Sarah Palin was asked to speak at the GOP retreat this weekend but she declined, saying that she was needed in Alaska for state business. Except that she lied to them and was actually in Washington DC for a dinner. "Asked about Palin's no-show, House Republican leader John Boehner shrugged.

"Whatever," Boehner said."

And the new GOP Talking Head has come out with both guns firing. In a slavish suck up to Newt Gingrich, he said that the Republican Party needs to go back to the Contract with America, which was penned by Gingrich back in 1994. Unfortunately, most polled recently don't remember exactly what that was, so it looks like there's gonna have to be some old schooling taking place...

Smart Investing Joke:

If you had bought $1000.00 worth of Nortel stock one year ago, it would now be worth $49.00.

With Enron, you would have $16.50 of the original $1,000.00.

With WorldCom, you would have less than $5.00 left.

If you had bought $1,000.00 worth of Budweiser (the beer, not the stock) one year ago, drank all the beer, then turned in the cans for the 10 cent deposit, you would have $214.00.

Based on the above, my current investment advice is to drink heavily and recycle.

And, some old rush Limbaugh jokes:

"Rush Limbaugh was arrested at an airport because he had illegal Viagra. So apparently, Dick Cheney isn't the only Republican who's locked and loaded." --David Letterman

"What is it with Republicans and Viagra? First Bob Dole, he was doing the ads for Viagra. Now you got Rush Limbaugh. Say what you want about Bill Clinton, but the man was always there to answer the call, ladies and gentlemen" --Jay Leno

"Rush Limp-baugh was detained for more than three hours at the Palm Beach Airport after officials found a bottle of Viagra in his possesion with someone else's name on it. Oooooooooooh. How ironic is that: the one Republican with a plan to get cheap prescription drugs and they try to arrest him." --Jay Leno

"Happy birthday to Rush Limbaugh. He's 55 years old. You have to give Rush credit... He's probably the only Republican in the country with a cheap prescription drug plan." --Jay Leno

"Rush Limbaugh and his third wife has broken up. Apparently, she came home early and found him with their pharmacist." —Jay Leno

"Rush Limbaugh and his wife are divorcing and experts say this could get ugly. I'm confused, are they splitting up or having sex?" —Craig Kilborn

"Rush Limbaugh spoke out on the Iraqi prison pictures situation today. He said it's entirely generated by the media. What? Is this guy on drugs?" —Jay Leno

"Rush Limbaugh is in trouble. Prosecutors say that they have enough evidence to put him away on 10 felony counts. This would be the biggest blow to the conservative movement since Anne Coulter announced she had a penis." —Bill Maher

"Pretty ironic, that the only Republican with a prescription drug plan is Rush Limbaugh. Actually today Rush said he would have no comment on his drug problem until he could figure out a way to blame it on the Clintons." —Jay Leno

"Rush Limbaugh is a drug freak. Apparently, he was able to lose the 'big fat' part but not the 'idiot' part." —Jon Stewart