Ruminations

A Brief Rant 1. A segment on NPR this morning discussed the diminishing funds available for research.  Whether you are talking about the N...

  I see that President Obama wants to keep 6,000 troops in Afghanistan after the end of the year.  Anyone reading my blog for the past ...

  Well, the crisis du jour is Russia and Ukraine.  Politicians make me want to throw up. Putin wants to rev up the ratings on the home ...

Well, it turns out I am not the only person to take issue with the Status of Forces Agreement being negotiated by Secretary of State John Ke...

This from the front page of today's NYT: WASHINGTON — Secretary of State John Kerry announced on Wednesday that the United States and ...

I wonder if there is anyone who thinks that we (the U.S. and various allies) have accomplished anything worthwhile in Iraq and/or Afghani...

We should have a single payer, universal healthcare system.  The ACA makes money for those who lobby Congress and for the insurance compan...

The debacle in Washington is a disgrace and an embarrassment.  I hope the Republicans get clobbered in the Midterm elections. But that...

The Government Shutdown.  It makes me so sad that our congress is so dysfunctional that they are shutting the government down.  The ques...

God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, The courage to change the things I can, And wisdom to know the difference. ...

If the budget is to be cut, sequestration may be the best/only way to cut it.  I am not totally convinced that now is the best time for budg...

I voted for President Obama and am very thankful that he won and not Mitt Romney.  But a word to NPR: Enough innauguration coverage!! I thou...

Shock, shock, Gordon Gecko doesn't care. No duh...

I was so prepared for the Supreme Court to rule against the Affordable Health Care Act. I am just astounded that they ruled the whole thing ...

From David Brooks column in today's NYT "First they went after the Rockefeller Republicans, but I was not a Rockefeller Republica...

I suggest that we put Congress on a contract basis.  We hire them as independent contractors (no benefits) to make a budget and they get pai...

My latest missive to the President was brief and to the point and fit nicely on a post card.  Somehow, President Obama has missed the fact t...

Several Items on the news yesterday really grated on me. First, President Obama is going on a "listening tour" about jobs.  He d...

The Onion nails it again: http://www.theonion.com/articles/drunken-ben-bernanke-tells-everyone-at-neighborhoo,21059/

I like to be in control of my finances and the only way that I have found to have that control is to have a plan...better known as a budget....