More bailouts, backed by taxpayer funds…great?

 
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — The Federal Reserve announced a new program to help the battered market for short-term business loans – taking its closest step yet to lending directly to businesses.
The program addresses commercial paper, a form of short-term funding that is crucial to many businesses operations.
In the past month, the amount of money outstanding [...]

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Quick Hits vol. VII

To all celebrating Rosh Hashanah….”L’Shanah Tovah”.  For no other reason but to inform and broaden your horizons.
Voteforthemilf.com Who would of thought McCain would have known what a ‘milf’ is?  Would have loved to have heard that conversation at campaign headquarters.
Michael Moore sure points out the obvious when it comes to this bail out….”The rich are [...]

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Quick Hits vol. VI

Thank you.
The WoodLawn Review would like to thank all those who have taken the time to visit our blog.  The 24th of September was, by far, the best day we have had in our short but exciting history!!!!  Traffic more than doubled any other days traffic.
 
To all those long suffering Detroit Lions fans, maybe the [...]

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Why not keep our energy?

When it comes to our oil, natural gas, hydro electric power or wind energy.  Why can’t we keep it at home then sell the surplus.  Instead we are in a situation where Canadians are exposed to the rise and fall of energy costs and only a few benefit from it.
Here is what’s at issue.  Canada is one [...]

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Steal from the Green Party

It is a pitty that our political system has not matured to the point where the inclusion of all parties and their ideas can occur for the good of the country.   See Proportional Representation.   In the meantime, our only hope is that one of the Big Two political parties steal ideas from the smaller parties.  Why not, [...]

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Lets get “proportional”

As our current election rolls on and polls suggest who and what people will vote, it appears that Canadians are frustrated and feel their voice is not being heard.
Whether it be the choice of leader or the fact that a party is simply not trusted with the responsibility of a majority, it seems Canadians do not like what they [...]

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Jack Layton, more suited to be the thorn.

Today, in response to the dramatic rise in gas prices, Jack Layton “promised to beef up monitoring on fuel prices.” What does that have anything to do with the reason prices have risen?  There is no denying that there are station owners out there who are deceitful and will take advantage of the situation and those businesses [...]

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It’s not easy being Green, Shift that is.

Could it be that we are seeing a perfect example of the ‘Medium being the message’ in Mr. Dion’s efforts to educate us on his “Green-Shift“. In this case Mr. Dion is the “Medium” and his message is being obstructed by it(him). This is saddening, due to the fact that climate change is a reality [...]

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Which Harper are we getting?

It would seem we are seeing a transformation during the election of 2008.  And unfortunately it is one that just helps perpetuate the image of the sterotypical politician.  Mr. Harper, the mask has lifted and you are simply just another politician who is looking to hold onto his job.
First it came the prerequisite throwing around of [...]

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Excise taxes and Trucking

When I worked in the private sector, I remember be bombared by catchy phrases and slogans that HR would email or post on the walls of the office. One that comes to mind after reading the comments by Mr. Peter Nelson (Executive director of the Atlantic Provinces Trucking Association), is the phrase “Don’t complain unless [...]

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