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By Uppity Woman on Apr 25, 2009 in American Consumers, Banking Institutions, Credit Card Companies, Larry Summers, President Barack Obama | 47 Comments
Pretty much everyone you know has already been gouged by credit card companies while the Band Played On. Congress said nothing, the President said nothing. Nobody stopped every major credit card company in the USA from screwing with everyone’s credit scores by cranking up their interest rates in mid-stream and offering customers no options other [...]
By Uppity Woman on Apr 23, 2009 in Current Affairs | 48 Comments
Your government is getting ready to tell you a bit more loudly that if you are overweight, you are to blame for energy waste and Global Warming, which are caused by cars, smoking unless it’s the president, living, cow farts, inhaling, exhaling, driving to work 30 miles away, cooking, heating your home in winter, turning [...]
By Uppity Woman on Apr 21, 2009 in Economy, Home Loan, Housing & Housing Crisis, Unemployment | 37 Comments
The word is, only 610,000 people filed for unemployment last week (a holiday week). That’s a drop from previous weeks. Let’s all go out and buy a car. Of course, let’s face it, the number would almost have to go down at this point, simply because there are fewer people left out there who are [...]
By Uppity Woman on Apr 18, 2009 in Current Affairs, Michelle Obama, President Barack Obama | 97 Comments
Dogs. They are wonderful, you know. They love to be part of their pack. Their pack includes you. They like to know the pecking order. They look for a leader. If they don’t have a leader, they become a leader. This brings me to the question of who is in charge as the leader in [...]
By Uppity Woman on Apr 17, 2009 in Michelle Obama | 41 Comments
The Hill reports that a swarm of bees was discovered in Michelle’s Victory Garden. The Hill reports this as a benign incident, but Uppity knows better and has her own report below. Note: For those with no sense of humor or those with an MA over CA times 100 that is lower than three digits, [...]
By Uppity Woman on Apr 14, 2009 in Economic Stimulus, Economy | 13 Comments
Susan interrupts: Did that scare you?!?!?! I found that photo the other day, and just had to share it! Now for Uppity’s article: * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Here’ s Casper Greenpants Alan ‘The Federal Reserve is [...]
By Uppity Woman on Apr 10, 2009 in General Motors & Chrysler, treasury department | 50 Comments
Well would you look at the Piece of Crap GM hopes to put on the road? A death trap named PUMA, of all things. How come Ralph Nader doesn’t spend more time doing what he was actually good at instead of running for President? There was a time when Ole Ralph would have had a [...]
By Uppity Woman on Mar 25, 2009 in AIG, Christopher Dodd, Economic Stimulus, Economy | 13 Comments
Using the AIG rendition of the social idiot who shows up at the party wearing a plastic groucho nose, eyebrows and glasses prop, AIG tore down their headquarters sign this weekend and unceremoniously, if not surreptitiously, changed their company name to AIU–although IOU seems to be a more appropriate name. No kidding. You can’ make [...]
By Uppity Woman on Mar 18, 2009 in Current Affairs | 26 Comments
Technology has given us devices that act as flea and mosquito deterrents, but they have never quite been able to develop a device that deters or at least pacifies a larger more common pesky species known as Narcissistic Unruly Teens who tend to hang out in large intimidating groups in public places. You’ve seen them [...]
By Uppity Woman on Mar 4, 2009 in Current Affairs | 17 Comments
AIG, the company that so many big shots keep saying “Can’t be allowed to fail” is……..a Failure. … And this Failure is not about to be given yet another $30 billion (that’s $30,000, 000, 000) of money America doesn’t have in addition to the $150,ooo,ooo,ooo they have already stolen and wasted. NEW YORK (REUTERS) – [...]
By Uppity Woman on Mar 3, 2009 in Current Affairs | 27 Comments
Move over, George Mitchell. Annette Bening is the latest of Hollywood actors who imagine that they have been elected to run our foreign policy. She decided she was just the person to lead an entourage to Iran, because she somehow imagines that real life is a lot like a movie and she could act as [...]
By Uppity Woman on Feb 14, 2009 in American Consumers, Banking Institutions, Congress (House & Senate), Earmarks, Economic Stimulus, Economy, Housing & Housing Crisis, President Barack Obama, stimulus tax package | 86 Comments
The giveaway bill to special interests Porkulus Stimulus Bill has been passed. I would especially like to congratulate all the young Obama supporters, because you are all going to be paying this bill off for the rest of your lives, except for the part you pass onto your kids. Mom and Dad won’t be able [...]
By Uppity Woman on Feb 14, 2009 in Current Affairs | 79 Comments
Barack Obama has appointed America’s first Blogging Czar. Isn’t that creepy cool????? Actually, countries like China have had blogging czars for years, so it’s not all that innovative. I’m not sure they actually use the word “czar” though. That would be too obvious. In China, the blogging Czar looks for websites that aren’t very politically [...]
By Uppity Woman on Feb 10, 2009 in Congress (House & Senate) | 33 Comments
You know, that Tea Party might be closer at hand than we thought. Fifty-nine percent (59%) of American adults believe that when members of Congress meet with regulators and other government officials, they do so to help their friends and hurt their political opponents. In a solid display of agreement across party lines, a majority [...]
By Uppity Woman on Feb 10, 2009 in Barack Obama, Health Care, Medicare, Obama Administration, Obama's Cabinet, Tom Daschle | 197 Comments
Editor’s Note: Thanks, Uppity, for a great piece, for which I’m planning a follow-up. This is precisely what terrified me about Obama’s health care and privatization plans for Social Security, which his ga-ga supporters utterly ignored because they were in fantasy land over this phony baloney post-partisanship (whatever that is, well, it’s nothing but B.S. [...]
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