So for the past couple of weeks we have been trying to get Ethan to start eating some solid foods. We have been having varying degrees of success. For the first week or so he would grimace and just let the food dribble out of his mouth. That was rice cereal. Then we tried buckwheat [...]
Archive > October 2008
Halloween Party at Tori’s
This past weekend Dale and I headed down to Temecula to our friend Tori’s house for a Halloween costume party. Dale and I got all dressed up! We went political this year…I dressed up as Sarah Palin and Dale dressed up as Obamessiah!! That’s “obama gonna save us from ourselves” in layman’s terms. A bit [...]
Financial Crisis Myths
Over a month ago Hank Paulson and Ben Bernanke said that we should be really scared because credit was going to completely and immediately dry up, making it impossible for thousands of small businesses to get loans and make payrolls. They also claimed that the commercial paper market was in major trouble.
Just recently the Federal [...]
Astonishing Photos
I found some great photos of the sun at The Boston Globe. Catch a few of the great pictures courtesy of the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory SOHO (ESA & NASA).
Weekend at the pumpkin patch
This past weekend we were able to have a little jaunt to the pumpkin patch with our bff’s the Sanders fam! Our little babies were able to pick out their first pumpkins together and we all had a really fun time hanging out on a beautiful fall day that was actually cold (by cold I [...]
The Consolidation of Power
Karl Marx, on page 243 of his infamous book The Communist Manifesto, states that the “proletariat will use its supremacy to wrest, by degrees, all capital from the bourgeoisie, to centralize all instruments of production in the hands of the State.” He then states that “the following will be pretty generally applicable:
Abolition of property [...]
Origins of the financial crisis
Here is an excerpt from an article from 1999 about Fannie Mae and it distinctly shows how we ended up in the mess we are currently in. For some reason, people seem to be blaming republicans for everything and I’m not sure why. There is enough blame to spread around for sure, but this article [...]