Author: Scott (Page 70 of 80)

Just be careful messing with the Tongans

Scientists sailed Thursday to inspect an undersea volcano that has been erupting for days near Tonga — shooting smoke, steam and ash thousands of feet (meters) into the sky above the South Pacific ocean.

What ever will Barney Frank do about this?

Fannie Mae plans to pay retention bonuses of as much as $611,000 each to key executives this year as part of a plan to keep hundreds of employees from leaving the government-controlled company.

Rival mortgage finance company Freddie Mac is planning similar awards, but has not yet reported on which executives will benefit.

Bill could affect gardens, farmers markets, CSAs, and more.

Designating the Food Safety Administration (FSA) as sole regulator of food safety rather than the individual states, including granting FSA the power to implement and administer a “national system for regular unannounced inspection of food establishments” under its own terms. (“Food establishment” is so broadly defined in the bill that it can be anything from a meat packing plant to a backyard garden.)

As a “little guy”, I’ll let the rest of you “little guys” in on a secret…

Bigger government (more regulation) is not good for you. It only helps those big enough to  bankroll compliance with the regulations maintain their market share and take yours as well.

Sounds reasonable to me.

Let the bad economy run off advertisers.