Miscellaneous 114

1) http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/11/business/new-agency-proposed-to-oversee-freddie-mac-and-fannie-mae.html - Say what you want about Mr. Bush, people; the fact that he started two unnecessary wars, presided over an out of control level of discretionary spending, mushroomed the budget deficits, etc., you DO have to give him credit for one thing. The dude did recognize the problem over at Fannie and Freddie and tried to do something about it. I mean, you can say that he didn't try hard enough and ultimately rolled over to the pander-bears in Congress FROM BOTH PARTIES, but he tried. That's a hell of a lot more than Barney Frank and Maxine Waters did, that's for sure.............2) When the January job figures came out, there were two two pieces of data that went conspicuously missing from certain cable coverage. On one side of the dial, Fox News refrained from mentioning (at least in Prime-Time) the 243,000 new jobs that were created (O'Reilly simply said that the economy was getting "slightly better"), and on the other side of the dial, MSNBC never once mentioned the fact that the workforce had actually shrunk by 1.2 million (a significant factor as to why the unemployment rate dropped to 8.3%). Nope, folks, if you wanted to get the entire analysis on the unemployment situation, you had to switch on over to CNN and get it from the professionals; Anderson Crowley, John King, Candy Crowley, etc.. It's kind of a shame, isn't it?............3) Alright, I'll admit it, I've got "Linsanity" now, too. I saw the end of the Toronto game on MSG and the frigging guy was Tim Tebow to the nth. First he made that drive to the hoop and then he frigging wins it with a three-pointer with less than a second to go. Youza, huh? And, the thing is, folks, unlike Tebow, who probably WON'T be a long-term solution for the Broncos, this kid is only going to get better. I mean, just the fact that he doesn't have to study 8 hours a day at Harvard anymore alone....