Clinton wins NH Battle

It looks like Clinton pulled off a big surge in female support to defeat Obama in New Hampshire.  I guess we have a game…

Clinton Is Victor, Turning Back Obama; McCain Also Triumphs – New York Times

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Against a “Anyone-but-Obama” campaign

I haven’t been an Obama fan but if stuff like this (Anyone-but-Obama campaign) goes down I will protect and vote for him.  I would like to vote for Edwards when my Primary comes along but if it is close and Edward’s isn’t in it I will go for Obama over Clinton.

Clinton Allies May Dump Millions Into Anti-Obama Group – Politics on The Huffington Post

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2008 Here we come…

I think 2008 will be a banger of a year.

I think there is a good chance we will be seeing a recession on the scale of the early 80’s.  I don’t rule out a 30’s style one either.

My liberal economic policy comes from an understanding that democracy will eventually call for socialism and even communism (no not the Stalinism…) and that if we want to avoid VERY hard times even a revolution in the future we need to slowly move in that direction.  The US has had domestic tranquility in spite of capitalism not because of it.  The reason we have been able to do it is because of exploitation of both the environment and the Third World.

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And here it comes – Paul Krugman – Op-Ed Columnist – New York Times Blog

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Military Religious Freedom Foundation

An important site the is a watch dog on all of the 1st Amendment abuses happening in the military.  No wonder those in the military are so religious.  They make non religious (or liberally religious) afraid to come out and constantly reinforce a apocalyptic world view.

Maybe we should start sending FreeThought care baskets…

Welcome to Military Religious Freedom Foundation

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NH Prediction

My prediction is that Obama will sweep NH by a 10% margin.

I am probably wrong but that is what I think at this early hour.

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Wow actual readers!

I am thrilled that I some people having been checking out my blog.

I am sorry I didn’t realize that I had so many respones waiting moderation so now I will have to keep up with that. Previously only a few friends had been posting.

I promise to keep up and I think once I have approved a message of yours you should be able to respond.

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Politics Drives Economics, recently anyway

Obama stump speech strategy of conciliation considered harmful | Corrente

More on why I don’t like Obama.

This also makes the statement that for the last 30 years politics has driven economics as where it historically has been the other way around.  Why is that?  My assertion is because of the relative good economic conditions we have had for the past 60 years.

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Housing Mess I

Good review of the housing mess.  A little scary!

Housing Crash Continues, Bubble Pops

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Blu-ray HD rundown

http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/newstex/IBaD-0001-21882911.htm

Another break down of the Blu-ray HD-DVD race.  I personally am looking forward to a fully loaded Blu-ray player under 150 before I buy.  You have to be careful with Blu-ray in particular because there are a lot of features that are not in the spec but a lot of media could use.

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Growth Economy is Unsustainable

We need to get our economy out of the belief that fast growth is the only thing worth having.

WallStreet doesn’t like companies that just turn a reliable profit.  If they are not growing then they are not worth having.  Look at Microsoft as a primary example.  It is not enough that quarter after quarter they post big profits and give their shareholders dividends.  They are seen as not being sexy the the stock price suffers.

To be sustainable we need to realize that we don’t need growth for profit.  The main reason is because traders like to flip stocks not just buy into a company and enjoy the dividends.  Many companies don’t even pay out dividends which I always thought was strange.  Their entire stock price is hinged on the idea of growth and that the stock will be worth more tomorrow than today.

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