Yay Bush!... Did I Just Say That?

Ok so I know some of you might want to call me a traitor or two-faced for my praising of Bush for his new $17.4bn bailout of the auto industry today. But understand that I am purely a moderate non-partisan type who is siding with Democrats presently because their solutions out our current problems seem to be working the best. But seriously folks, Bush just gave his party a slight repreve when he approved this new bailout after his constituents in the Senate shot down the original plan.

The plan is going to be broken down as follows:

• $14.4bn in immediate emergency loans to automakers
• Another $4bn will be made available in February
• The money is to come from the $700bn in approved funds for the financial industry at the request of Henry Paulson

Read more on this bailout here.

In other news, remember that whole Watergate Nixon scandal in the 70s? Well the man who secretly helped reporters uncover it, Mark Felt, better known as 'Deep Throat', has died today at the age of 95. At the time, he was considered a national threat by the FBI and most of Washington for his apparent lack of discression in hiding the secrets he was entrusted with. However, Felt is now widely seen as a true patriot by many Americans. Here was a man with a lot of power in the FBI who had nothing to gain and everything to lose for uncovering Nixon's skeletons to the world. Instead of backing down or taking a massive payoff to remain quiet, Felt used his expertise in intelligence to help right a massive executive wrong and essentially single-handedly orchestrate Mr. Nixon's oust as President. Mark Felt, you will be forever remembered as an American hero.

Last night was our company Christmas party and it was for sure a blast! We had excellent Mexican food at El Torito and we did an interesting version of a White Elephant gift exchange. Basically, everything is predertmined in this poem our secretary had. None of us knew that the gifts we picked would definitely not be ours at the end, which broke my heart because the gift I initially got was a sweet vodka mixing kit, complete with some nice and expensive SKYY Vodka and another fancy liquor that I dont quite remember. Well at the end of the night, instead of a new addition to my booze cache, I had 'The Terminal' in hand and was quite sad. Don't get me wrong, I appreciate the gift and the free dinner. I've just already seen this movie and in my opinion it is meh at best. Maybe one of my friends will want it?

That's all for now!

~David