The Sunshine Empire

me: you’re being contrarian on purpose Biggus: I’m being contrarian because it’s my nature. me: like the snake that bit the man that saved it Biggus: Or the scorpion who killed the frog midstream. me: sorry, that’s what I was thinking of Biggus: Both work. I think the lion’s paw thing would have been more [...]

I found it really fascinating that Mayor 9/11 Rudy Guiliani was on CNN this morning defending the massive Wall Street bonuses that were given out over 2008 despite the meltdown in the financial services industry. Whether you feel that the bonuses are appropriate or not, he must not have any political aspirations beyond being Governor [...]

We are now just one month away from yet another Sunshine Empire Pacific Conference. This year our first tour stop will be Sacramento California for the first of what we hope will be two on the west coast. After making out first trip out in 2007 we’re becoming quite familiar with the left coast. Many [...]

A couple of thoughts on the stimulus package that passed the House this afternoon with absolutely no Republican votes. Part of me wants this to be a repeat of the 1993 federal budget that did not pass the House with a single Republican vote despite the prodding of then President Clinton(promptly resulting in the enormous [...]

“Money can’t buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.” -Spike Millgan

After the 2000 election the use of the “red” and “blue” states became the vogue thing that stuck around. That was not as bad as the remnants of campaign 2008 that have stuck around despite not being wanted. Joe the Plumber keeps popping up like an unwanted enlargement spam email, and the Minnesota senate race [...]

House Republicans today are expressing grave concern about the size of the stimulus package being proposed by the Obama administration, as well they should. Watching an economist talk on the prospects on Fareed Zakaria’s show on CNN this Sunday the comparison to Japan in the ’90′s showed that massive stimulus is a mixed bag. It [...]