even the sports blogs are weighing in on some of the inanities of the "emergency relief in this bill, (found while waiting for the Phillies game to start)- NASCAR . (via Yahoo )
And the House bill started out in 10/2007 as a bill from Rep Rangle (NY) as H.R.3997 - "An Act to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide tax relief and protections for military personnel, and for other purposes." They couldn't pass a bill to provide financial help to our soldiers and families in over a year, but Wall Street and bankers...

Just call me Cassandra . . . I see a bad moon a rising . . .

A senior Asian Development Bank official said on Thursday that the dollar was likely to decline further, and he called for East Asian countries to make sure that their currencies rose in unison and did not gyrate.