inkman

Cash for clunkers is a great example why the government is not capable of running the health care system. The clunker program offers up to $4500 for your low gas mileage, less than a 25-year old car. When you trade in your gas-guzzler the dealer advances the $4500 credit, destroys the car, and bills the government. This is where the wheels come off the program....
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Tabloid's claims threaten Edwards' role at party's convention
By Mark Johnson | Charlotte Observer

RALEIGH, N.C. _ Former Sen. John Edwards has a deadline to save his spot on the national stage.

With two weeks to go before their national convention, a number of Democrats are saying that Edwards needs to publicly address National Enquirer stories that have alleged he had an affair with a...
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I've decided that since no one on this site needs beauty hints, all of you being beautiful, what you really need are stock tips.

Jim Cramer does nightly Stock Market reviews in the United States on CNBC. In his youth, he was a Marxist. His hero was Lenin, whom he vaguely resembles.

He says, invest in Brazilian and Russian stock markets, as opposed to U.S....
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Yahoo is fighting to avoid being taken over by Microsoft. Here's the latest news:

Yahoo Nearing Deal to Combine With AOL

April 9 Yahoo! Inc., fending off Microsoft Corp.'s $44.6 billion acquisition offer, is close to striking an agreement to combine operations with Time Warner Inc.'s AOL unit, a person familiar with the situation said.

Yahoo would gain control of AOL and give Time Warner...
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Hope everyone is okay! Will write more tomorrow
Inkman

My Favorite Sonnet
My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun (Sonnet 130)
by William Shakespeare

My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun;

Coral is far more red than her lips' red;

If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun;

If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head.

I have seen roses damasked, red and white,

But no such roses...
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While Shakespeare was regarded as the foremost dramatist of his time, evidence indicates that both he and his world looked to poetry, not playwriting, for enduring fame. Shakespeare's sonnets were composed between 1593 and 1601, though not published until 1609. That edition, The Sonnets of Shakespeare, consists of 154 sonnets, all written in the form of three quatrains and a couplet that is now recognized...
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