SMOKE ‘EM IF YA’ GOT ‘EM

…and just remember, the more you smoke, the more money becomes available for children’s health care. A bill now signed into law provides for spending an additional $32.8 BILLION on the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP.)
Where’s the money coming from to pay for it? Lawmakers generated the extra revenue by increasing the federal tobacco [...]

I’M SO CONFUSED!!

It really hasn’t been all that long ago when I was reading in the McAlvany Intelligence Report how our greed and consumerism was wrecking the economy. We weren’t saving enough, we were spending too much, we were carrying too much debt. Nobody listened, though. We just kept spending and therefore, we were all guilty. It [...]

HEADS, I WIN –TAILS YOU LOSE!

In January, the average price per gallon was $2.01.…and here it is February, and the average price is $2.25, and yet the price-per-barrel is still averaging $40. Why the .25 cent increase in the short span of less than a month?
So, what’s with these gas prices? When a barrel of oil reached 150 bucks, prices [...]

WHAT? NO ‘CHUTE?

When a pilot bails out of his plane, he does so with a reasonable expectation that his ‘chute will open and that his life will be saved. The current Stimulus bailout plan now in Conference Committee comes with no such expectation that the ‘chute will open and the economy will be saved. Democrats will pull [...]

WE’RE BACK!

Tidbits from the B.S. Notebook has been on hiatus for several months but it will soon be back in operation.  The news events of the day simply dont allow me to sit by without venting on all the goings on.
So, I’m restarting this blog so I can “vent” and give you the opportunity to vent [...]