Interesting articles to read for January 26, 2009

Some interesting articles to read:

Nancy Pelosi says that the federal government may spend even more of your tax dollars to help financial institutions. This is beyond the $700 billion in TARP funds.

Would you agree that Rahm Emanuel is the second most important man in the country, after Barack Obama? If that’s the case, we are in for a long four years. As if we weren’t already.

After his first week in the White House, Obama has an approval rating of 68%. Good, but not a record.

Russ Feingold is going to introduce a Constitutional amendment to end Senate appointments by state governors.

We, the taxpayers, have bailed out auto companies like GM, which are now using the money to built electric cars which are predicted to make up a whopping 5% of the market by 2020. Smart … real smart.

On Friday, auto industry supporters in Congress asked Obama to support another $25 billion in federal loans for car companies to make more fuel efficient cars.

Europe may be the recipient of some of our Gitmo detainees.

For the second time in history, it snowed in the United Arab Emirates. Must be all that global warming.

China is going to take a stab at universal healthcare.

Do you have your Pocket Obama? “It is an unofficial requirement for every citizen to own, to read, and to carry this book at all times.”

Hawaii is considering a state-funded program that would provide airline tickets for homeless people stuck in Hawaii to return home.

You’ll enjoy this use of tax dollars … $135,536 to teach government school children in Bethlehem, PA how to ice skate.

For your entertainment .. here are some of the more odd laws on the books in Minnesota.

A story about a man who jumped into a river on a dare and was paralyzed .. now he has been awarded $76.6 million.

A woman in Iowa was arrested after not returning a library book.

A new study found that coffee drinkers are less likely to develop dementia.

Another study out of Great Britain found that divorce makes men richer.

A man in Australia was fired for his “un-Australian” bathroom habits.