The Certified Skeptic

Here’s a pertinent article I found while surfing around looking for more information on the credit and economic crisis.
For what it’s worth…
How to Ruin the U.S. Economy
by Ben Stein
Posted on Monday, October 6, 2008, 12:00AM
1) Have a fiscal policy that creates immense deficits in good times and bad, burdening America’s posterity with staggering burdens of […]

In an attempt to save the apparently fragile financial systems of the world, an agreement has been reached among the administration and congressional democrats, and republicans on the basic points of a deal designed to have the U.S. — specifically you, me, our children, grand-children, and many more future generations — buy distressed and worthless […]

I found the following website while searching the web for information about the current credit crisis and our economic system in general. It takes about three hours to listen/watch all 20 chapters, but was well worth the time in my humble opinion.
http://www.chrismartenson.com/crashcourse
I’d really like to hear from anyone with comments and criticism of the ideas […]

Friday, May 16, 2008
NYT Headline Today: Bush Rebuffed on Oil Plea in Saudi Arabia
I find it sad and embarrassing to have our president pleading with the Saudi’s to produce more oil because the price is too high here in America. Saudi Arabia is the country that produced 15 of the 16 hijackers that perpetrated the […]

No Comment Needed:
Cubans sneak ashore during U.S. security drill
Thu Mar 8, 2007 4:57 PM ET
By Jane Sutton
MIAMI (Reuters) - While hundreds of U.S. law enforcement agents intercepted imaginary Cuban migrants during a massive training exercise in south Florida, two boatloads of actual Cubans sneaked ashore on Miami Beach on Thursday.
Boaters dropped off 21 Cuban migrants […]

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Alright — a serious entry today. I’m not feeling particularly light-hearted.
What prompts my thoughts today are recent reports from the Middle East, Afghanistan and Iraq to be specific, about a couple more suicide bombers. One blew himself up at a ribbon-cutting ceremony for a new emergency room at a hospital in Afganistan. […]

How about a good conspiracy theory today?
The more I hear about the Scooter Libby trial and the behind-the-scenes goings-on at the White House before the Iraq war, the more convinced I am that the real truth may still be lurking in the shadows. I usually discount conspiracy theories but this has me intigued.
Why did we […]

How do you feel about Iran right now? If you’re like me, you’ve probably bought-in, to some extent, to the axis-of-evil story that Bush has been repeating over and over for the past 5 years. You begin to believe that Iran is just another Iraq; that Islamic extremists are in control; […]

One more thing for today: This guy Ahmahinejad is a Dangerous NUT!
News Item:
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — The United States is incapable of inflicting “serious damage” on Iran, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Tuesday, as a second U.S. aircraft carrier group steamed toward the Gulf as a warning from Washington for Iran to back down […]