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Read an article today from Business Insider today that dumbs down what exactly Mr. Geithner’s plan is to “fix” this mess.  Unfortunately, the chances of this actually fixing things is very slim.  To sum it all up in layman’s terms, he wants to change preferred stock to common stock to make the numbers look better without dumping actual money into banks. (at least for now)  This of course places responsibility right on the tax payers if more loans start defaulting.  So by fudging some numbers, the hope is that it will inspire some confidence with nothing to back up that confidence.  I suppose that might work because we the people don’t seem to pay attention to what is actually going on unless it immediately affects us.

A good example of this was demanding that the car companies build more fuel efficient cars.  No one cared before gas rose to about 1/4 of what a gallon costs over in Europe.  If cap and trade gets pushed through you can bet we’ll all start complaining about our electric bills too.  But not many people are talking about that.  Mark my words, we will be if this goes through.

Is anyone else sick of all this fuzzy math?  We’ve been doing it for years though, especially with the budget, and the biggest tool for that has been social security.  I’m sure Bush did it too (although probably not as well) but possibly the best example of fuzzy math is the myth of Clinton’s surplus.  Its easy to say you had a surplus when you convert public debt to inter-government holdings while also borrowing heavily from social security.  Then you can tell everyone about how the public debt has gone down and ignore that the deficit is really a combination of public debt AND inter-government holdings.

Maybe we need to rethink who is in charge of our treasury….

Far to often, weddings focus solely on the Bride-to-be.  Most men take a back seat to the planning of the biggest change in their lives.  News flash guys!  This will only show that you don’t care and leave you in hot water with the future wife and lots of wedding gifts for the kitchen and living room that you will never want to use.  This is your day too and you need to step up to make sure you get something as well.   Enter The Man Registry.

The Man Registry (TMR) is a place built by guys for grooms.  Here you will find a wealth of knowledge and advice for the planning period leading up to your big day.  Aside from a very informative Groom 101, they also offer a registry full of non-pussy gift ideas that your single bros won’t be embarrassed to buy you.  TMR can also be followed on twitter to keep you up to date with new tips as your day approaches.

So what are you waiting for?  Take back the wedding and make sure you aren’t going to be stuck with 15 different vases and a monstrous wedding bill.  They also have a new blog section for you to check out with a recent post from my good friend Rob from @drinkinggames.

Apparently Terry Stahl broke into the house of his estranged wife and was holding them hostage.  For what I do not know.  After all of the hostages were let go, he apparently shot himself in the head.  He laid in the house for a few hours with the wound before Police sent cameras in to see if he was alright when it became apparrent there would be no more communication.  A story ran today in the Belleville News Democrat and can be found here.