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Back Up

We… well I… am back up for another year or so. Plans: More updates on the kids. More Star Wars the Old Republic news/views. iPad app reviews. We’ll [..]
Post Launch Thoughts on SWTOR

During the Thanksgiving Day weekend I gave my Initial Impressions of Star Wars: The Old Republic. Since then the game launched, and is undergoing its weekly Tuesday morning [..]
Hopefully in SWTOR Friday

Well, not that they fixed my pre-order registration issues (I still can’t post to the official forums, but that is a fairly minor annoyance at least until I [..]
Sidd and laughter

Okay, time for a non-SWTOR related post… I haven’t updated things about Sidd and Ari for a while, so I’ll do a few updates. Ari is in second [..]
SWTOR – After Launch

Like most MMOs, Star Wars: The Old Republic will need new content after launch to keep players in the game. World of Warcraft regularly adds Content Patches. These [..]
UPDATE – SWTOR Preorder Woe

UPDATE 3 (14 Dec 11pm EST) – The issue has been resolved. I just got an email saying thank you for registering your Pre-Order Code. Thank you to [..]
SWTOR Legacy Names

So now serious thought has to be given to a Legacy name. Posted by: James Ohlen “This build has our first iteration of the Legacy System! At its [..]
Game Moments that Stick with You R...

Back on the old original XBox is where I played the predecessor to Star Wars: The Old Republic came out, the original Knights of the Old Republic. It [..]
SWTOR Digital Copy or Physical Copy

Update: I pre-ordered the digital edition. So I’ve been wondering if I should pre-order Star Wars: The Old Republic by going to Best Buy/Game Stop which might have [..]
My Daily SWTOR Blogroll

These are the Star Wars: The Old Republic sites I follow every day (well… a few times a day usually). Ask A Jedi Darth Hater Old Republic.net Republic [..]

Tag Archives: banks

The Bailout Bait and Switch and the Auto Industry Bailout

Posted on 20 Nov 2008 by Brian A. Thomas | Permalink 0

I don’t have the time to go into it fully, so I’ll keep this short. Sarcasm mode on. How surprising, the big $700 Billion bailout that the banks [..]

Politics auto makers, bailout, bankruptcy, banks, chrysler, Congress, economists, financial institutions, gm, honda, toyota

Purposely Ruin the Country, Get a $70 Billion Bonus

Posted on 26 Oct 2008 by Brian A. Thomas | Permalink 0

Executives at 6 US banks will get $70 billion in bonuses for their work this year. That is a full 10% of the $700 billion bailout package these [..]

Politics bailout, banks, exectuive bonus, Federal Reserve, Guardian, rate cut

Rethinking the Windfall Tax on Oil Companies

Posted on 29 Apr 2008 by Brian A. Thomas | Permalink 0

I have been an opponent of putting a windfall tax on oil companies, particularly in light of the fact that on profit per dollar basis, drug companies and [..]

Politics banks, Diesel, diesel prices, drug companies, gas, gas prices, oil, oil companies, profit, windfall tax