Posts Made By: Rod Kaufman

Michael Koons said:

afer they filed to be a bank. My company has an Accounts Receivable, maybe a bit slow, but we have tripled since my partner and I bought it on 12/1/98, just finished our year at +17.7%, our best showing yet, but we see some clouds on the horizon. I had called my US representative a few weeks ago, but thought I would throw the question out here....how do I sign my company up for a "capital infusion?". I think we would do better with all of your money than many others that have received such funds in terms of both growth, profit and employment. I understand the application is only 2 pages long, I just need to sign up, tell me how? Are we not notified(nor in over our heads) because no one in our company makes even laughably near a million a year? Sorry, just sick of it all :S BTW our main leasing source was GE capital which is not doing any more leasing this quarter, and our thoughts were to start our own leasing company. We just need the "capital infusion"!!!!!

Don't know if your publicly traded or private but if it's the latter, you missed the deadline:
http://www.financialinstitutionlawblog.com/uploads/file/CPP%20PRIVATE%20FINAL.pdf

From my perspective today's Los Angeles Times editorial misses the boat on holding Bush and his administration criminally liable for their actions:
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-ed-rumsfeld24-2008dec24,0,3624077.story
Oh sure, the editorial mentions Gitmo, torture, the Geneva convention and the like but it doesn't come close to holding Bush himself criminally liable for his deception in bringing the country to war in Iraq. In the viewpoint of an experienced and trusted criminal prosecuter, Vincent Buligosi, there's ample evidence to do so and he presents it in his book, "The Prosecution of George W Bush for Murder". It's too bad the LA Times didn't consider the whole picture...

http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/12/28/rice.administration/index.html
If it wasn't so delusional and far removed from reality, the comment from Rice would be a good punch line...

Mike Strieber said:

Obama is considering speeding up a manned mission to the moon by using military hardware. I like this thinking; we could use a noble national goal to rally the nation. Certainly expensive and a lot of people will gripe, but even the gripers will be riveted to the tube watching a man climb down a "LEM" ladder. Besides, we can always waterboard those in opposition.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/bloomberg/20090102/pl_bloomberg/aovrno0oj41g

Many moons ago, I read a book entitled, "The Making of an Ex-Astronaut" by Brian O'Leary. In this 1970s text, one of the main gripes of the author is the duplication, at the cost of untold dollars, of civilian and military space vehicles. Former astronaut 'O Leary basically described the entire duplication of effort and materials as essentially unneeded. It's evidently taken this long for somebody to wake up to the fact that he was right...

How do people feel about the Bush legacy?
Ask them:
http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/01/13/bush.legacy.irpt/index.html
How does a Republican adviser see it:
http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/01/13/rollins.obama/index.html
Did Bush's speech yesterday help?
Only if you like Bushisms...

Another one goes unpunished for breaking the law:
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-justice14-2009jan14,0,3129787.story

He must really suck!
http://www.sltrib.com/ci_11453940
Read the comments section for a good laugh!

Lee Spain said:

I'll share this story:

http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/01/17/saudi.child.marriage/index.html

Just in case, anyone wants to slack off on electric car research!

Over and above the insanity of what this so-called cleric is stating, the admonition of "those who think she is too young are wrong and THEY ARE BEING UNFAIR TO HER!" tells you just how wacko these nut cases truly are...

Rod Kaufman said:

Rush:
http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/politics/2009/01/21/nr.sanchez.slater.limbaugh.cnn
Now we see where some of the conservatives around here get their kool aid...

I can't believe the conservative "logic" I've been reading to justify Rush's comments.
We are in the biggest finacial crisis since the great depression and millions of people are out of work. 14000 retail stores were projected to close last year in '09. Millions of people have no health care insurance and with the loss of their jobs, that number will quickly escalate. Obviously, the private sector is failing at this point so there comes a time for the government to step in and provide assistance and if ever there was such a time, it's now. I've yet to hear Obama stating he's going to advance legislation to enact socialism as a permanent solution for our financial debacle. I did hear him say he wanted some financial regulations in place to prevent the problem from happening again. I did hear him say he would enact some tax relief for families to provide some stimulus along with the rest that's was essentially proposed under Bush.
And yet, what do we get from Rush? A few months ago, before it was officially announced we were in a recession, he stated we entering the Obama recession! Then, two days later, it was announced we've been in a recession since '07! In other words, Rush had no idea how bad the economy really was and had no clue we were already in a recession. And now, his sage words of hope, "I want Obama to fail!"...

Rush:
http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/politics/2009/01/21/nr.sanchez.slater.limbaugh.cnn
Now we see where some of the conservatives around here get their kool aid...