The reactors causing all the problems in Japan were made by G.E. In 1975 three engineers with G.E., who were reviewing the Mark 1 reactors, ended up resigning. Their reason? The Mark 1’s containment design in the even of a loss of cooling was so flawed that it would lead to disaster. Sound familiar? It […]
New numbers came out today and one of them shows that inflation rose 2.7% last year. That’s pretty bad when people aren’t making us much money and we still have a big unemployment problem, but the problem doesn’t stop there. Social Security recipients didn’t get a raise this year. The calculated that in June, so […]
It’s no wonder why the hard core conservatives love this chick. It seems like every time she opens her mouth nothing comes out but lies. Take this latest example. One of her reasons for resigning was that it was costing the taxpayers too much money to fight the ethics complaints. Well it turns out that […]
AIG has already received over $150 billion from the government, and now they want an additional $60 billion: American Insurance Group, the insurance giant that is 80-percent owned by the US government, is in discussions with the government to secure additional funds so it can keep operating after next Monday, when it will report the […]
But this time it’s a good kind of pain. Focus on the Family, James Dobson’s little group of hatred, is going to lay off over 200 employees, cutting it’s workforce by more than 20%. It turns out they dumped too much money into Prop 8 and their love of gay bashing, so they can’t afford […]
The McCain campaign has issued a response to Obama going after McCain not knowing how many houses he owns: Does a guy who made more than $4 million last year, just got back from vacation on a private beach in Hawaii and bought his own million-dollar mansion with the help of a convicted felon really […]
While the south cleans up from the catastrophe we call Katrina, I sit here in a soaked Ohio wondering what the President will do to help. The region is already high in the poverty level and the early estimates are at $26 billion in damage. They are saying as many as one million people could […]