Author: Kip Hooker

Amazon.com has promised to hire 7,000 more people in California if the state puts a recently enacted online sales tax on hold for two years, More jobs, lower cost of living for consumers . . . yeah there is no way good government is going to let those greedy corporate bastards get away with that crazy scheme.

‘Sleeping gas’ thieves target super-rich at Italian billionaires’ resort Apparently there were no Obama speeches available to them.

Don’t think of it as the federal government but as your “federal family.” Or so goes a meme the administration is currently trying to popularize. We, of course, are not at all fooled by this “all in the federal family” push towards paternalistic government. No matter what they say, Big Brother is not our keeper.

Panel: Supercommittee should look at wartime contract waste, fraud. No word yet on if a super-duper-committee will be needed to look at the waste and fraud of super-committees.

The Justice Department just confirmed that it has “filed a civil antitrust lawsuit to block AT&T Inc.’s proposed acquisition of T-Mobile USA Inc.” The usual reasons were trotted out. Lack of choice. Higher prices. Poorer quality of service. You know, all the stuff that is normally caused by Obamanomics.

Well Dressed Burglar Steals Pennies From Family Dollar. In other news well dressed burglar steals from families and then goes on vacation in Maratha’s Vineyard!

So the fed is divided over interest rates. Good. Some time ago Abe Lincoln told us that a house divided could not stand. Here’s to hoping that Honest Abe was right. Because Old Ben hasnt been anything but wrong.

WikiLeaks accidentally leaked a quarter of a million secret State Department cables — putting at risk the lives of a number of US informants, according to published reports. So does this mean Sean Penn and Naomi Watts are going to make a movie disparaging Julian Assange? Somebody cue the crickets.

James Hansen, head of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, was arrested outside the White House as he joined protesters in urging President Barack Obama to reject TransCanada Corp. (TRP)’s $7 billion pipeline. Meanwhile in outer space the the ISS remains in peril. Memo to Obama, perhaps you should have retired this fool instead of the Space Shuttles.

Poverty is spreading, particularly among children. The hardest hit include what was an emerging middle class of African-Americans, Latinos and other minorities. Or so says Jesse Jackson. Jesse Jackson, if you didn’t know, claims to be a civil rights activist. We find this somewhat hard to believe. To put it as Ayn Rand once did “The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.”

Strange songstress Lady Gaga prompted many jaws to drop during the MTV Video Music Awards on Sunday. It wold seem that Gaga has made the age old mistake of assuming that because art can be shocking; anything that is shocking must be art. For our part though we hope Gaga will someday do something truly shocking . . . like making music that doesn’t suck.

People who oppose efforts to solve global warming will one day be loathed like racists, Al Gore said in a recent interview. Apparently the man that gave us the internet doesn’t realize that is can be such a useful tool for discovering the meaning of words. Otherwise he might have learned that “loathed” is hardly a term that can be applied to William Fulbright, Robert Byrd or his own bigoted father.