Archives for May, 2009

As this blog correctly predicted last November (http://www.shoutbits.com/2008/11/gm-cant-be-saved.html), General Motors’s failure has become a political circus. As with the Chrysler looting (http://www.shoutbits.com/2009/05/obama-commander-in-thief-or-you-cant.html), the Obama Administration’s main goal is to bolster the UAW, which helped elect the Democrat supermajority. The law has been turned inside out, and the US looks more like a thuggish banana republic [...]

A very logical commenter pointed out an analysis error in the Airline Unions blog. The original blog claimed that thousands of people were killed each year because higher flying costs pushed them to drive instead of fly. While this blog stands by the effect of unnecessary costs like the TSA and airline unions as a [...]

Last February a Continental commuter airplane crashed into a neighborhood outside of Buffalo, killing all aboard plus one person on the ground. After further investigation, the likely cause of the crash was an excess buildup of ice on the aircraft, reducing the airplane’s ability to generate lift and making it difficult to control. While such [...]

Considering that this blog called the President a thief last week, it was surprising that the Whole Foods blog generated the most responses of any entry to date. Just to be clear, we agree that much of the foods they sell are not actually ‘organic.’ Their fresh produce can be very tasty and they have [...]

While the world most people inhabit rarely adopts Hollywood and Berkley fads, the ‘green’ movement has indeed caught fire with people who actually work to eat. Bemused by Kabbalah, Scientology, earth auras, and the like, regular America seems interested in being ‘green.’ Naturally, wherever there is a fad, an enterprising company will step up to [...]

President Obama seems intent on reducing the US to the status of a third world nation. For a politician who lauds ‘sustainability,’ Obama’s spending plans are the zenith of unsustainable excess. Not content to simply spend the US to bankruptcy, Obama is also bent on destroying the capitalist system that ultimately feeds Washington’s greed. The [...]

Joseph Nacchio, former Qwest Communications CEO, now sleeps on a thin mattress in a Pennsylvania federal prison. For the thousands of investors and Qwest employees aggrieved by his actions, his six year federal sentence feels like sweet justice. While it is right to rejoice in justice, even when harsh, Nacchio’s case is more retribution than [...]