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Hump Day Wild Card — 3/18/09

Posted by DFO

March 18, 2009 5:50 p.m. • 29 comments

In the news this evening: Actress Natasha Richardson dies here. US mortgage rates slide toward 30-year lows here. Obama picks McCain’s team to lose in the first round here. ‘American Idol’ crushes “Dancing With The Stars’ in a reality TV matchup here. Fed launches $1.2 trillion effort to revive economy here. And the Wild Card remains in play …

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Charlie on March 18 at 2:35 p.m.
Obama’s climate plan in reality will cost us consumers the 2 trillion dollars. Industry will just past the cost on. Wait till the “D’s” push this ugly duck through congress. I’ve already sent emails to our congressmen for a no vote. This will make AIG look like peanuts.
Staci on March 18 at 3:25 p.m.
Who was it on here who had info on Hauser-area drinking establishments a couple weeks ago? I’m trying to find out if the old Rainbow Resort (I know it had a different name last time I was there) is open again.
hmoffsuite on March 18 at 4:04 p.m.
Charlie >> “Obama’s climate plan in reality will cost us consumers the 2 trillion dollars”

“Never waste a good crisis” – Rahm.
hmoffsuite on March 18 at 4:14 p.m.
Incidentally, what do you service veterans think about Obama on this one ??

http://ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=322183610326971
Charlie on March 18 at 4:48 p.m.
hmo, Manufactured crisis also.
hmoffsuite on March 18 at 5:18 p.m.
I spose you all have heard that we can’t refer to those guys that drive airplanes into our buildings as ‘terrorists’ anymore. Makes us, as a Country, sound too angry. This Obama stuff just gets worser and worser. Check out this story tonight.

http://www.newsmax.com/index.html
toadman on March 18 at 5:50 p.m.
Wow hmo - you’re taking the Fox news rhetoric and b.s. way to far. Frankly, I’m done taking you seriously.
KevinTaylor on March 18 at 5:59 p.m.
Sen. Patty Murray’s office sent this e-mail today (emphasis mine):

U.S. Senator Patty Murray, a senior member of both the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee and the Senate Budget Committee, applauded President Obama’s decision not to pursue a budget proposal that would have allowed the VA to bill a veteran’s insurance company for service-connected disabilities and injuries.

“President Obama did the right thing in dropping this proposal. Injured veterans and their families have already paid enough of a price, they shouldn’t have to worry about the tab for service-related care.

“The President is living up to the promise he made to our veterans. First he provided a budget that makes historic investments in the VA. And not only did he listen to our veterans, but he heard what they had to say. And he changed his budget based on their concerns. That’s change that veterans can take to the bank.

“President Obama is right – we need to look for ways to save money. I look forward to working with him to do that in a responsible way that doesn’t add any further sacrifice to the men and women who have served our nation.”
Stickman on March 18 at 8:39 p.m.
The news about Natasha is hard to take, such a nice woman was she.
hhuseland on March 18 at 9:28 p.m.
Staci: check with hauser thoughts at:http://www.hauserthoughts.com/
JIMMYMAC on March 19 at 12:20 a.m.
rates are down, still working……..
JBelle on March 19 at 12:44 a.m.
roger that. likely to remain so for several more hours.
cantyoureadthesigns on March 19 at 1:14 a.m.
A few more hours, this night, eh JBelle?

March madness in your biz…
Arch_Druid on March 19 at 7:15 a.m.
First of all Hmoffsuite, I wouldn’t take a rag with an obviously GOP bias and utterly radical with it hysteria any too seriously. I have gotten their crap and don’t believe the majority of what I’ve seen. If it were true, given how hostile the general news media has been toward Obama, they’d have no trouble investigating and bringing it to the attention of the public themselves. Sounds more like a case of projection where Newsmax is concerned. They are less inclined to call “terrorists, terrorists” as that would be too angry.

Now as for Natasha Richardson, I don’t think that a mere fall in wet snow would have produced a concussion, some form of hematoma and then death. Hitting something hard that was BURIED in the snow that produced the concussion, hematoma and finally death; that I’d agree with. As for her death being a real tragedy, yes it is. I am sorry for her family and husband. Truly sorry.
hmoffsuite on March 19 at 7:34 a.m.
Arch. Don’t you remember the media loves Obama? Any negatives put out there are merely a reflection of his many errors in judgement. They can’t spin it all, all the time.

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