Immigrant Texan

I am a northerner by birth who moved to Texas for the Army. Now out of the Army and working on becoming a "naturalized" Texan, I will use this blog to talk about current events, politics, and money matters that would otherwise be forced upon those within earshot.

Tuesday, July 12, 2011

I concede defeat, on to Twitter

Turns out when I'm not ingesting oxycodone by the handful and flat on my back recovering from ACL surgery I don't have the patience...

Tuesday, June 21, 2011

Paulson and the Chinese Fraud

Over the past three weeks, Sino Forest Corporation , a Chinese company which "manages" forest land in China and produces various w...

Sunday, June 19, 2011

Are Gold and Silver the New Beanie Babies?

I have a perverse interest in reading about crazy people, whether serial killers or end of the world types . One group which has interested...

NY Times on paying off your mortgage

I wrote a post on this last year , but the New York Times did a much better job recently covering the story. Not surprisingly they have be...

Saturday, June 18, 2011

Casino War

I recently finished a road trip to California, likely the last road trip involving driving through West Texas, New Mexico, Nevada, and Arizo...

Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Book Review: Obama's Wars

I read quite a bit, though my interest is highly concentrated in history, finance, current events, and derivations on those three subjects. ...

Friday, March 25, 2011

What was getting out of the Army worth?

For the past 9 months I've been telling myself that I should do a financial analysis of my decision to leave the active duty Army to ent...

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