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Although I have some complaints about the proposed bailout package, I'm starting to have more complaints about the media complaining about the bailout package. No one seems to bring up the point that the government is already on the hook for billions of dollars if banks go under (through the FDIC insurance program and similar programs for credit ( Read more... )

I've been hoping recently that someone would write a good article providing statistics on where the money in the current sub-prime lending crisis actually went. Clearly the banks ended up with a lot more defaults on their loans than they were expecting and it seems like an obvious question to wonder who actually ended up with that money. In the ( Read more... )

I went back to look for the Golden Eagles, but they were no longer around. Instead I saw a Prairie falcon and a Peregrine falcon (I think). They were over 100 feet away but I managed to take pictures of them through the binoculars (the digital camera does a surprisingly good job of focusing through the binoculars, which effectively gives you a ( Read more... )

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So as I was windsurfing this afternoon, five fighter jets flew right in front of me in close formation about 300 ft above the water. Just as they passed me (and I'm pretty sure they were waiting to spot me), they turned on their smoke trails. Later they went into a big orbiting patern. I assume that these were the precision flying guys ( Read more... )

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The dizziness hits him in waves, the lights fading and shifting redder, he stumbles slightly and leans back against the wall. He sees her now, dressed in a lavender cotton blouse and beige pants walking to the empty ( Read more... )