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    Deception at Core of Obama Plans

    <a href="http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/03/a_dishonest_gimmicky_budget.html">http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/03/a_dishonest_gimmicky_budget.html</a> Deception at Core of Obama Plans By Charles Krauthammer WASHINGTON -- Forget the pork. Forget the waste...
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    There goes another trillion

    <a href="http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/Report-Obama-administration-weighs-funds/story.aspx?guid={4FC38582-3613-4173-8304-1F7F0DEF7510}">http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/Report-Obama-administration-weighs-funds/story.aspx?guid={4FC38582-3613-4173-8304-1F7F0DEF7510}</a>
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    What would we do without Congress protecting us?

    And protecting chimps too... <a href="http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0209/Fast_action_on_the_Hill.html">Congress passes bill banning chimps as pets</a>
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    Why are we giving these people taxpayer dollars?

    A lot has been written about the mass wave of stupidity behind housing loans during the bubble era. But this is shocking beyond belief - <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/21/nyregion/21scam.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss&pagewanted=all">Citibank falls for Nigerian 419 scam.</a>
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    Active traders, prepare to get the shaft from Washington DC

    <a href="http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c111:H.R.1068.IH:">Transaction tax on stock trades</a>
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    $1 trillion dollars, and not even enough time to read the bill before voting

    <a href="http://cnsnews.com/public/content/article.aspx?RsrcID=43478">So much for "change"....</a> (CNSNews.com) ? Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J.) predicted on Thursday that none of his Senate colleagues would "have the chance" to read the entire final version of the $790-billion stimulus...
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    They are going to need one heck of a marketing program to sell this...

    <a href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/food_and_drink/article5707554.ece">India to launch cow urine as soft drink</a>
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    OMG, the British R coming!

    <a href="http://jalopnik.com/5141430/how-to-hack-an-electronic-road-sign">http://jalopnik.com/5141430/how-to-hack-an-electronic-road-sign</a> <img src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/jalopnik/2009/02/OMG_British_Hacked_Sign_01.jpg" alt="" />
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    Forget about creeping socialism

    We are about to be steamrolled by outright communism. <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/04/us/politics/04text-obama.html">http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/04/us/politics/04text-obama.html</a> Finally, these guidelines we're putting in place are only the beginning of a long-term...
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    For people interested in fundamental analysis of securities

    Check out <a href="http://www.profitcents.com">ProfitCents</a>. Though they sell subscriptions to more advanced reporting tools, they have a wonderful AND FREE tool that will quickly help you judge the financial health of publicly traded companies.
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    Hopefully this lax attitude towards taxes will impact the policies they enact

    First Geithner, then Daschle. Now this: <a href="http://www.marketwatch.com/News/Story/Story.aspx?guid={E9A951C9-1578-4513-9773-4700FFE23E08}">http://www.marketwatch.com/News/Story/Story.aspx?guid={E9A951C9-1578-4513-9773-4700FFE23E08}</a> White House performance officer...
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    Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice....

    While the memory is still fresh of the $700 billion bailout bill last September - you know, the one that if it wasn't passed, the world would end. Even though NONE of the funds have been spent on the purpose we were given when the bill was passed, the world has still failed to end. Well...
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    The Dow is distorted

    <a href="http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2009/01/bianco-the-dow-is-distorted/">http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2009/01/bianco-the-dow-is-distorted/</a>
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    Are you due a CA. state income tax refund and don't want to get stuck with an IOU?

    Then choose to apply your refund to your 2009 state income taxes and reduce your state withholding taxes (or underpay your quarterlies) to offset the refund you are due. There's more than one way to skin a cat.
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    What would make you vote with your feet?

    A recent poll in this folder asked where you would go if you lost your job here and couldn't find a suitable replacement. This is intended to complement that poll. The catalyst may or may not be job loss. I was just wondering what would make people leave the area.
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    The effect of contago on USO

    <a href="http://www.marketfolly.com/2009/01/how-contango-affects-crude-oil-etfs-and.html">http://www.marketfolly.com/2009/01/how-contango-affects-crude-oil-etfs-and.html</a>
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    How to make an Option ARM look conservative

    From <a href="http://mrmortgage.ml-implode.com/2009/01/07/wamus-new-1-million-5-year-1-balloon-loan-878-per-month/">http://mrmortgage.ml-implode.com/2009/01/07/wamus-new-1-million-5-year-1-balloon-loan-878-per-month/</a> NEW WAMU LOAN MOD - THE 5-YEAR BULLET! Below is an actual example...
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    Happy New Years!

    <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/08/AR2009010803110.html?hpid=topnews">January 1st strike in Pakistan kills two al Qaeda leaders</a>
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    Our new Democrat overlords...

    From <a href="http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=30143">http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=30143</a> Pelosi?s rule changes -- which may be voted on today -- will reverse the fairness rules that were written around Newt Gingrich?s ?Contract with America.? In reaction, the...
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    Hackintosh anyone?

    I was just wondering if anyone here has hacked a non-Apple PC to run OS-X. I've been considering doing so with a few of my machines and was looking for advice/experience from anyone here.
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