Mike McCready

It’s about time we sent this guy to the loony bin!

In case you missed it, this is a song about America’s health care system called We’re Number 37 by Paul Hipp. The best line is: We’re #1 in tanks. We’re #1 in planes. We’re #1 in war with #2 for brains Check it out:

I’m seeing on TV that the authorities are taking this manifesto offline. This is the manifesto written by the pilot of the light plane that crashed into the IRS building in Austin, Texas. I have not read it all yet (and don’t endorse it) but in the interest of free flowing information I’m posting [...]

There’s no real relationship between these two topics except they’re both on my mind. I was just reading in today’s New York Times about Spain’s growing and worse than expected jobless rate. I spend about a third of my time in Spain and the strange thing is that the bad economy isn’t nearly as noticeable in [...]

There’s a documentary that you can probably find on Pay-Per-View Movies or Movies On Demand or whatever your cable company calls them. It’s called “Collapse” and to say it was thought-provoking is an understatement. If you don’t read any further or do anything else, do yourself the favor of watching the trailer video below.

In Spain you NEVER see pictures of the first family’s children. José Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, Spain’s prime minister doesn’t allow it. However, this week in New York at the UN Sumit Spain’s first family had their picture taken with Barack and Michelle Obama and The US State Department posted the photo on Flickr. Of [...]

In Spain the government collects value added tax (VAT) on exchanges between retailers and consumers. It’s similar to the sales tax in that it’s an indirect tax that is collected from someone other than the person who actually bears the cost of the tax (namely the seller rather than the consumer). This is gripping [...]

José Luís Rodriguez Zapatero, Spain’s recently re-elected Prime Minister has announced that his cabinet will, for the first time in history, be made up of more women than men. Of the 17 cabinet members nine are women. Zapatero is a self-proclaimed feminist and his previous cabinet sported an equal number of both men and women. Most [...]

To read this post on The Huffington Post click here. I’ve been having a number of conversations with Democrat friends who are avidly supporting Obama’s race for the nomination. I respect that and have said before that while I support Hillary Clinton I have nothing but praise for Senator Obama and will support him if [...]

To read this post on The Huffington Post click here. Last night, Eve and I were fortunate to attend the Elton John concert / Hillary Clinton fund-raiser at Radio City Music Hall in Manhattan (never a lack of things to do here). We’ve been supporting Hillary Clinton’s tumultuous race for the nomination and in spite of [...]