Archive for March, 2008
$3 million tax cut on Larry Ellison’s estate
James Temple, Chronicle Staff Writer
Thursday, March 27, 2008
Larry Ellison, ranked 12th on the Forbes 500 list with a net worth of $25 billion, has bagged a $3 million tax break after arguing that his flamboyant Japanese-style estate in Woodside is functionally obsolete.
The chief executive officer of software giant [...]
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Tags: billionaires, Corporate Welfare, county general fund, Forbes 500, Larry Ellison, Oracle Corp, palace, property taxes, school funding
Fed tries to shake stubborn rates with cut
Sam Zuckerman, SF Chronicle Staff Writer
Wednesday, March 19, 2008
Chairman Ben Bernanke and his fellow Fed policymakers approved an unusually large 0.75 percentage point cut in the federal funds rate, which serves as a benchmark for short-term loans such as adjustable-rate mortgages. The move followed a series of unprecedented [...]
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Tags: Central Bank, economy, federal funds rate, Federal Reserve, financial markets, interest rates, meltdown, Wall Street
America needs to Get Laid!
With a spiraling national debt, trade deficit in the trillions of dollars, an elective war, which is little more than a $20 billion dollar a month rape of the national treasury by well-connected corporations, with no end in sight (to say nothing of tens of thousands of lives lost, both American and Iraqi), an economy [...]
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Tags: America, distraction, economy, Eliot Spitzer, genital fixation, get laid, Great Depression, Media Whores, misplaced priorities, mockery of journalism, San Francisco Chronicle, sex, sex sells, trade deficit, Worthless Mass Media
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The story is becoming all too familiar: a lone gunman cuts loose in a schoolroom or other public place, and everyone is left dumbfounded, trying to make sense of what happened, and why it happened.
There are the [...]
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Tags: baby-boomers, conservative backlash, desperation, economic deflation, firearms, Generation X, mass-shootings, Northern Illinois University, Reagan Revolution, revolution, violence
