Did you know the path of a bullet traveling towards a target 7 ½ football fields (750 yards) down range has a similar flight path to that of a football? The bullet has a high arching flight path that, like a football, either terminates on target or on the ground. Getting bullets consistently on target, […]
Archives for September 2015
Fossil Fuels—the Next Progressive Frontier
“I think it is imperative that we look at the Keystone pipeline as what I believe it is—a distraction from important work we have to do on climate change,” Hillary Clinton recently told a community forum in Des Moines, Iowa. Does distraction mean the pipeline offers the “kind of jobs versus rich green donor issue” […]
AOK with Vanguard GNMA
You can take comfort in knowing you’re AOK with Vanguard GNMA. Pay no attention to the doomsayers calling for the bursting of the bond bubble. “Vanguard GNMA is one of my two largest holdings, and I would like to see it as one of your top two,” writes Dick Young in the September issue of […]
Remembering Breaking Bad With Badfinger
You are polishing off the final episode of Breaking Bad, ready to cry because one of the coolest series ever filmed was minutes from its end. Then comes on the finale music that would really finish you off. The perfect music to sound the closing notes for Breaking Bad was Badfinger’s “Baby Blue,” written by […]
iPhone iOS9 Hack and Chinese Malware
Want to earn a cool million? Are you familiar with a security breach at Apple’s app store? I was clued in to these stories from our in-house systems and network manager. A security firm is offering up the million dollar bounty, the largest to date and capped at $3 million, for the successful hack. “Rather than […]
No U.S. Stake or Allies
The American Conservative’s Daniel Larison points out the ongoing folly of the neocon “War Dogs.” Arms provided by the Obama administration to the Syrian opposition end up in the hands of the jihadists. Were no lessons learned by the U.S. in Afghanistan? As could have been expected, taking out Saddam in Iraq and Gaddafi in […]
Beware Pension Liabilities
What happens when cities do not reform pensions? Or when government unions, refusing to compromise on pensions and retiree health care, insist that the wealthy pick up the tab? Welcome to Chicago, with its $33 billion in unfunded pension liabilities. Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel is now proposing gigantic tax increases in a city already heavily […]
The Passing of a Legend – R.I.P Yogi Berra
The WSJ writes, “Yogi Berra was among baseball’s greatest catchers, but his career was overshadowed by the more enduring fame that came from simply being Yogi Berra: the polite 8th-grade dropout whose contributions to American English rivaled Mark Twain’s. Mr. Berra, who died Tuesday at the age of 90, played for the New York Yankees […]
Stop Immigration, Legal and Illegal
France’s FN party leader Marine Le Pen has an explicit goal: “My aim is clear: to stop immigration both legal and illegal.” Le Pen continues, “Undocumented immigrants should not receive state-funded medical care and social security and social security payments to asylum-seekers should end.” The FN leader also called for “all foreigners on file for […]
Music Video: Way Back Home
The Fed would do us all a whole lot of good by setting a proper course on interest rate increases. Instead it continues to pander to Wall Street and is five years late to the party. The Fed has clearly lost its “Way Back Home”. A better R&B quintet sound would be hard to find. […]
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