Candidates stance on Money and How to save your own. . .

The following site should not be used as your answer for whom you should vote for, however it does have some very interesting information about the candidates viewpoints and stances on financial matters.

Your Money: McCain Vs. Obama

Additionally, if you want some ideas on how to same money, CNNMoney.com also has a descent article about how to save money. I plan on doing a more in depth post on this when I have the time to research it.

How to Save $8,919.45 a Year

Time Off . . .

I apologize for not posting as I regularly do. I am finishing up my degree and have been swamped with school lately. As a quick post today, (I have a few tests and papers to write) I found the following website about household design with a lot of interesting items.

I especially enjoyed the pictures below, however there is also a lamp disguised as a noose and other strange things available. The noose even costs a few thousand dollars, though I imagine it would not be that hard to recreate simply.

CribCandy

Here you go Finance Sector, take my money and a lavish vacation. . .

I found a recent article at CNNMoney.com to be very revealing about how our money is being spent. Following along with my previous post (Free Money) about why the bailout needed to be closer to a loan, this illustrates my point perfectly. I have placed some of my favorite bits from the article below and a link to the original article at the end.

Will Wall Street's woes hit the Yankees?
The New York Yankees are counting on corporate titans to pony up as much as $850,000 a year for luxury boxes in the team's new stadium.

The political uproar over AIG spending $440,000 on a beach retreat for its top agents - right on the heels of the insurance giant getting a taxpayer-funded bailout - may mark the beginning of the end for Wall Street's culture of excess.

Will there be AIG-like fallout for Bank of America or any other financial company that ponies up for baseball's primest real estate - particularly if they're also participating in the $700 billion financial bailout? Early indications are there will be. Says U.S. Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD), a member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform: "It is absolutely unconscionable that a company would ask for billions of dollars from taxpayers who are struggling to keep their homes and pay their bills - and then in the next breath spend $850,000 of that money on a luxury skybox to watch a baseball game."

[By Jon Birger, senior writer for Fortune, Original Article]

Funny Email Pictures . . .

I am studying and working at the same time, but I just saw this in my inbox and it made me smile so I wanted to share it.

Awesome Halloween Costumes Part 2.3

I apologize for the links, but I am swamped with school for the next few days and will just be placing a few filler posts for the next few days. I will continue with my Halloween themed posts today with a few sites that have some good and easy do it yourself costumes. The Fun Times Guide has them arranged a bit better than the Fox News link, but both have great ideas.

Jim and Lynnette's Fun Times Guide - Best Halloween Costumes to Buy or Make Yourself

Fox News - 8 Killer Do-It-Yourself Last-Minute Halloween Costumes

The Sun in all of its Glory

Wow, these pictures speak for themselves. These came from a gallery post of 21 pictures here. Additionally, the SDAC or Solar Data Analysis Center at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland USA has a page dedicated to the Sun and its many different faces.

Their site is found here showing many more views.

In 2006 NASA launched the STEREO mission to study the sun in 3D. An excerpt from their website explaining the mission is below:

STEREO (Solar TErrestrial RElations Observatory) is the third mission in NASA's Solar Terrestrial Probes program (STP). This two-year mission, launched October 2006, will provide a unique and revolutionary view of the Sun-Earth System. The two nearly identical observatories - one ahead of Earth in its orbit, the other trailing behind - will trace the flow of energy and matter from the Sun to Earth. They will reveal the 3D structure of coronal mass ejections; violent eruptions of matter from the sun that can disrupt satellites and power grids, and help us understand why they happen. STEREO will become a key addition to the fleet of space weather detection satellites by providing more accurate alerts for the arrival time of Earth-directed solar ejections with its unique side-viewing perspective.

For additional information about that mission, follow this link.

Unnecessary and Necessary Kitchen Items, MMM . . . Crepes.

Although I will never hear the end of the cinnamon in the spaghetti incident, I actually enjoy cooking. And no not just the drop a slice of toast in the toaster and sit back and watch kind of cooking. I can still whip up a mean batch of peanut butter cookies from scratch if it was a life and death situation.

Along those lines, a secret love of mine is Good Eats. I have Good Eats set to record on my DVR and have a few of those saved for perpetuity. (He recently had an episode on where he made Cracker Jack from scratch that I want to try.) Well, one thing that I really enjoy about his program is all of the different implements of torture that he has in his kitchen. Well, not really torture but he has some great, easy to use, gadgets in his kitchen that he regularly uses. One of those that I have yet to purchase are the measuring cups that slide up to push out the measured item. That description really does not do them justice so here is a link and a picture. (I found out that they are called Wonder Cups and are really not that expensive.) Another item that I want is the small kitchen scale to measure items by weight. I just think that's cool.

A recent article by Ricardo DeAratanha of the Los Angeles Times discussed which items we actually need in our instruments of destruction in the kitchen and which ones are superfluous. That link can be found below:

Kitchen Essentials, and Items You Can Pass By