Thursday, April 30, 2009
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
You stay classy, BHO.
He's really becoming Jimmy Carter redux, but while still in office.
To: Jon Favreau [speechwriterman@aol.com]
Subject: Re: some suggestions
Thanks, Jon. I don't think "Consolidation of Challenges" has quite the same ring as "Axis of Evil", do you? I like "Triumvirate of Malfeasance" though - imagine Bush trying to say that one - but that means we have to have three. I was thinking bankers, Afghanistan/Pakistan and pirates. Hillary wanted to stick North Korea in there, but I managed to convince her they'd only be flattered. Barack
To: Jon Favreau [speechwriterman@aol.com]
Subject: Re: some suggestions
Thanks, Jon. I don't think "Consolidation of Challenges" has quite the same ring as "Axis of Evil", do you? I like "Triumvirate of Malfeasance" though - imagine Bush trying to say that one - but that means we have to have three. I was thinking bankers, Afghanistan/Pakistan and pirates. Hillary wanted to stick North Korea in there, but I managed to convince her they'd only be flattered. Barack
Monday, April 20, 2009
Damn dirty hippies!!! Bring back DDT!!
From DDT to Dursban [Henry Payne]
Detroit, Mich. — Greens can take a bow: Bedbugs are back with a vengeance.
Responding to the biggest bedbug outbreak since World War II, the Environmental Protection Agency hosted its first-ever “bedbug summit” Tuesday outside Washington to address a widening public outcry. Some of the most vulnerable communities are inner cities like Detroit, and the major culprit, as it turns out, was the summit host.
Nine years ago, the zealots at Bill Clinton’s EPA banned the pesticide chlorpyrifos (to widespread media and environmentalist hosannas), the most commonly available household product in the world to address bedbugs, cockroaches, and other nuisances. Better known by its trade name, Dursban, chlorpyrifos had been available for 30 years in some 800 products in 88 countries around the world.
But despite widespread protest in the scientific community, EPA Chief Carol Browner erased Dursban from the shelves. “EPA has gone to great lengths to present a highly conservative, worst case, hypothetical risk based in large part on dubious extrapolations . . . and exaggerated risk estimates,” said Michigan State University toxicologist J. I. Goodman in a typical response.
Even Dr. Alan Hoberman, the principal researcher whose data Browner cited, told the Detroit News he disputed the agency's interpretation of his findings.
Such critics were also ignored by the press — as was evidence that the nation’s urban poor would be most vulnerable to a ban. Children insect-bite allergies and cockroach-induced allergens outnumber pesticide poisoning by 100:1. “Hardest hit will be lower-income families in cities like Detroit, who can ill afford a weekly house call from the Orkin man,” warned News writer Diane Katz, now with the Fraser Institute. “Yet that is precisely what the EPA is recommending as a substitute for a couple squirts from a can of bug spray.”
Nine years on, Greg Baumann — Senior Scientist at the National Test Management Association — confirms that the Dursban void has been largely unfilled, leaving millions to fight pests with less convenient preventative measures. Extermination, for example, costs between $400 and $900 — out of reach for low-income Detroit families.
And those accountable for this predictable disaster? The very media outlets who were cheerleading the EPA ban now feign ignorance. “Out of concern for the environment and the effects on public health, the EPA has banned many of the chemicals that were most effective in eradicating the bugs in the U.S.,” shrugs the AP in graph ten of its story.
And the EPA Administrator who approved the ban? Browner has been promoted to “climate czar” in the Obama administration.
Detroit, Mich. — Greens can take a bow: Bedbugs are back with a vengeance.
Responding to the biggest bedbug outbreak since World War II, the Environmental Protection Agency hosted its first-ever “bedbug summit” Tuesday outside Washington to address a widening public outcry. Some of the most vulnerable communities are inner cities like Detroit, and the major culprit, as it turns out, was the summit host.
Nine years ago, the zealots at Bill Clinton’s EPA banned the pesticide chlorpyrifos (to widespread media and environmentalist hosannas), the most commonly available household product in the world to address bedbugs, cockroaches, and other nuisances. Better known by its trade name, Dursban, chlorpyrifos had been available for 30 years in some 800 products in 88 countries around the world.
But despite widespread protest in the scientific community, EPA Chief Carol Browner erased Dursban from the shelves. “EPA has gone to great lengths to present a highly conservative, worst case, hypothetical risk based in large part on dubious extrapolations . . . and exaggerated risk estimates,” said Michigan State University toxicologist J. I. Goodman in a typical response.
Even Dr. Alan Hoberman, the principal researcher whose data Browner cited, told the Detroit News he disputed the agency's interpretation of his findings.
Such critics were also ignored by the press — as was evidence that the nation’s urban poor would be most vulnerable to a ban. Children insect-bite allergies and cockroach-induced allergens outnumber pesticide poisoning by 100:1. “Hardest hit will be lower-income families in cities like Detroit, who can ill afford a weekly house call from the Orkin man,” warned News writer Diane Katz, now with the Fraser Institute. “Yet that is precisely what the EPA is recommending as a substitute for a couple squirts from a can of bug spray.”
Nine years on, Greg Baumann — Senior Scientist at the National Test Management Association — confirms that the Dursban void has been largely unfilled, leaving millions to fight pests with less convenient preventative measures. Extermination, for example, costs between $400 and $900 — out of reach for low-income Detroit families.
And those accountable for this predictable disaster? The very media outlets who were cheerleading the EPA ban now feign ignorance. “Out of concern for the environment and the effects on public health, the EPA has banned many of the chemicals that were most effective in eradicating the bugs in the U.S.,” shrugs the AP in graph ten of its story.
And the EPA Administrator who approved the ban? Browner has been promoted to “climate czar” in the Obama administration.
Friday, April 17, 2009
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Thursday, April 16, 2009
Geebus.
Now let me just preface this by saying that I'm a convincable believer in deficit spending IF interest rates are less than GDP -- its basically free money. Running a 2-3% deficit when GDP was 4-6% never really bugged me. Granted, thats really all I've known in my life BUT... this is shocking.
A trillion here, a trillion there and soon we're talking about some real money.
A trillion here, a trillion there and soon we're talking about some real money.
Saturday, April 11, 2009
I know I don't normally post here, but...
is it safe to say that Bev Perdue has already established herself as one of the worst governor's in the history of our fair state?
Just reading the article about our Superintendent of Public Schools, and wow. That's a very Nixonian play by Mrs. Perdue there; the old "I know you're the elected official, but I've created this appointed position with the exact same powers as yours, so you can just go along now" play.
I'm not even sure I understand all of the financial stuff she's doing right now (the taking of cash from various coffers to pay for different governmental programs), but she sure seems to have pissed a lot of people off really early in her tenure.
Just reading the article about our Superintendent of Public Schools, and wow. That's a very Nixonian play by Mrs. Perdue there; the old "I know you're the elected official, but I've created this appointed position with the exact same powers as yours, so you can just go along now" play.
I'm not even sure I understand all of the financial stuff she's doing right now (the taking of cash from various coffers to pay for different governmental programs), but she sure seems to have pissed a lot of people off really early in her tenure.
Thursday, April 9, 2009
Hmmm.... not sure how to feel about this
Electricity Grid in U.S. Penetrated By Spies
From MY limited experience, the reason I doubt the veracity of this is that most of the SCADA networks are not physically connected to even the private networks.
Maybe I'm wrong.
From MY limited experience, the reason I doubt the veracity of this is that most of the SCADA networks are not physically connected to even the private networks.
Maybe I'm wrong.
Tuesday, April 7, 2009
Expiration date politics
Last week:
"Today, we've learned the lessons of history," President Obama said yesterday in London, sounding like the staunchest free-marketer denouncing the government's protectionist response in 1930, which deeply worsened the Great Depression.
"We have rejected the protectionism that could deepen this crisis," he said. "History tells us that turning inward can help turn a downturn into a depression."
Today:
United States Imposes Tariffs on Softwood Lumber from Four Canadian Provinces Due to Canada’s Failure to Comply with the Softwood Lumber Agreement
"Today, we've learned the lessons of history," President Obama said yesterday in London, sounding like the staunchest free-marketer denouncing the government's protectionist response in 1930, which deeply worsened the Great Depression.
"We have rejected the protectionism that could deepen this crisis," he said. "History tells us that turning inward can help turn a downturn into a depression."
Today:
United States Imposes Tariffs on Softwood Lumber from Four Canadian Provinces Due to Canada’s Failure to Comply with the Softwood Lumber Agreement
I cannot fathom what kind of idiots we have in charge of our lives.
The idea that we can get 100% of our energy from wind is such lunacy I dont even know where to start.
How would the power get transmitted efficiently from tens of thousands of windmills to individual homes?
How would the power get generated when its needed? There is currently NO way to efficiently store electricity, thats why its so expensive to produce "peak" energy.
How would damn dirty hippies react to the idea of tens of thousands of windmills out in the ocean or solar panels in the desert killing wildlife???
We are so fucked.
How would the power get transmitted efficiently from tens of thousands of windmills to individual homes?
How would the power get generated when its needed? There is currently NO way to efficiently store electricity, thats why its so expensive to produce "peak" energy.
How would damn dirty hippies react to the idea of tens of thousands of windmills out in the ocean or solar panels in the desert killing wildlife???
We are so fucked.
Monday, April 6, 2009
Everything he says should come with an expiration date
Barack Obama goes ahead with missile defence shield despite disarmament pledge
Telegraph [UK], by Toby Harnden & Bruno Waterfield
The United States would continue to develop a missile defence shield until Iran abandoned its nuclear ambitions, President Barack Obama said in the Czech Republic. "As long as the threat from Iran persists, we will go forward with a missile defence system that is cost-effective and proven," he told a crowd of about 20,000 gathered in Hradcany Square, next to Prague Castle.
Just days before the expected launch of a North Korean missile in violation of the spirit if not the letter of every agreement Pyongyang has ever signed with the international community, Barack Obama's Pentagon will release a budget that guts the U.S. Missile Defense Agency.
Telegraph [UK], by Toby Harnden & Bruno Waterfield
The United States would continue to develop a missile defence shield until Iran abandoned its nuclear ambitions, President Barack Obama said in the Czech Republic. "As long as the threat from Iran persists, we will go forward with a missile defence system that is cost-effective and proven," he told a crowd of about 20,000 gathered in Hradcany Square, next to Prague Castle.
Just days before the expected launch of a North Korean missile in violation of the spirit if not the letter of every agreement Pyongyang has ever signed with the international community, Barack Obama's Pentagon will release a budget that guts the U.S. Missile Defense Agency.
Thursday, April 2, 2009
What the fuck ???????????????
Hundreds mourn man who killed police officers
San Francisco Chronicle, by Leslie Fulbright
Nearly 500 people gathered at an East Oakland church Tuesday to say goodbye to Lovelle Mixon, the 26-year-old parolee who was killed by police after he went on a shooting rampage that left four Oakland officers dead. The open-casket service, held at Fuller Funerals on International Boulevard, was about an hour long and had such a large turnout that a number of guests were forced to stand.
San Francisco Chronicle, by Leslie Fulbright
Nearly 500 people gathered at an East Oakland church Tuesday to say goodbye to Lovelle Mixon, the 26-year-old parolee who was killed by police after he went on a shooting rampage that left four Oakland officers dead. The open-casket service, held at Fuller Funerals on International Boulevard, was about an hour long and had such a large turnout that a number of guests were forced to stand.
Burn Langley to the ground and salt the earth!!!
The New York Times reports:
A withering internal report made public on Wednesday criticized the Office of the Director of National Intelligence for bureaucratic bloat, financial mismanagement and a failure to end the turf battles among America’s spy agencies that led to disastrous intelligence failures in recent years.
The report, by the inspector general, was the most detailed account to date of problems that bedevil America’s intelligence agencies more than four years after Congress and President George W. Bush created the director’s office to overcome weaknesses exposed by the Sept. 11 attacks.
It criticized as excessive the amount of time that successive intelligence chiefs have spent briefing the White House and Congress compared with the relatively little time they have devoted to managing a byzantine intelligence apparatus.... [T]he report made clear that many of the goals of the intelligence overhaul in 2005 are far from being realized. While the national intelligence office was created to help streamline intelligence analysis and force collaboration among the Central Intelligence Agency and its 15 counterparts, the report concluded that there has been insufficient progress on either of those fronts.
“This report reads like back to the future,” said Amy Zegart, a U.C.L.A. professor who has written extensively on intelligence matters. “These are the same kind of management and information sharing problems that plagued the C.I.A. before 9/11.”
A withering internal report made public on Wednesday criticized the Office of the Director of National Intelligence for bureaucratic bloat, financial mismanagement and a failure to end the turf battles among America’s spy agencies that led to disastrous intelligence failures in recent years.
The report, by the inspector general, was the most detailed account to date of problems that bedevil America’s intelligence agencies more than four years after Congress and President George W. Bush created the director’s office to overcome weaknesses exposed by the Sept. 11 attacks.
It criticized as excessive the amount of time that successive intelligence chiefs have spent briefing the White House and Congress compared with the relatively little time they have devoted to managing a byzantine intelligence apparatus.... [T]he report made clear that many of the goals of the intelligence overhaul in 2005 are far from being realized. While the national intelligence office was created to help streamline intelligence analysis and force collaboration among the Central Intelligence Agency and its 15 counterparts, the report concluded that there has been insufficient progress on either of those fronts.
“This report reads like back to the future,” said Amy Zegart, a U.C.L.A. professor who has written extensively on intelligence matters. “These are the same kind of management and information sharing problems that plagued the C.I.A. before 9/11.”
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
FEWER!
"for a continent of “family friendly” policies, Europe is remarkably short of families. While America’s fertility rate is more or less at replacement level – 2.1 – seventeen European nations are at what demographers call “lowest-low” fertility - 1.3 or less - a rate from which no society in human history has ever recovered. Germans, Spaniards, Italians and Greek have upside-down family trees: four grandparents have two children and one grandchild. The numbers are grim, and getting grimmer."
Monday, March 30, 2009
Another needle in the overinflated balloon
Global warming is a sham!!!
If one thing more than any other is used to justify proposals that the world must spend tens of trillions of dollars on combating global warming, it is the belief that we face a disastrous rise in sea levels. The Antarctic and Greenland ice caps will melt, we are told, warming oceans will expand, and the result will be catastrophe.
Although the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) only predicts a sea level rise of 59cm (17 inches) by 2100, Al Gore in his Oscar-winning film An Inconvenient Truth went much further, talking of 20 feet, and showing computer graphics of cities such as Shanghai and San Francisco half under water. We all know the graphic showing central London in similar plight. As for tiny island nations such as the Maldives and Tuvalu, as Prince Charles likes to tell us and the Archbishop of Canterbury was again parroting last week, they are due to vanish.
But if there is one scientist who knows more about sea levels than anyone else in the world it is the Swedish geologist and physicist Nils-Axel Mörner, formerly chairman of the INQUA International Commission on Sea Level Change. And the uncompromising verdict of Dr Mörner, who for 35 years has been using every known scientific method to study sea levels all over the globe, is that all this talk about the sea rising is nothing but a colossal scare story.
Despite fluctuations down as well as up, "the sea is not rising," he says. "It hasn't risen in 50 years." If there is any rise this century it will "not be more than 10cm (four inches), with an uncertainty of plus or minus 10cm". And quite apart from examining the hard evidence, he says, the elementary laws of physics (latent heat needed to melt ice) tell us that the apocalypse conjured up by Al Gore and Co could not possibly come about . . .
If one thing more than any other is used to justify proposals that the world must spend tens of trillions of dollars on combating global warming, it is the belief that we face a disastrous rise in sea levels. The Antarctic and Greenland ice caps will melt, we are told, warming oceans will expand, and the result will be catastrophe.
Although the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) only predicts a sea level rise of 59cm (17 inches) by 2100, Al Gore in his Oscar-winning film An Inconvenient Truth went much further, talking of 20 feet, and showing computer graphics of cities such as Shanghai and San Francisco half under water. We all know the graphic showing central London in similar plight. As for tiny island nations such as the Maldives and Tuvalu, as Prince Charles likes to tell us and the Archbishop of Canterbury was again parroting last week, they are due to vanish.
But if there is one scientist who knows more about sea levels than anyone else in the world it is the Swedish geologist and physicist Nils-Axel Mörner, formerly chairman of the INQUA International Commission on Sea Level Change. And the uncompromising verdict of Dr Mörner, who for 35 years has been using every known scientific method to study sea levels all over the globe, is that all this talk about the sea rising is nothing but a colossal scare story.
Despite fluctuations down as well as up, "the sea is not rising," he says. "It hasn't risen in 50 years." If there is any rise this century it will "not be more than 10cm (four inches), with an uncertainty of plus or minus 10cm". And quite apart from examining the hard evidence, he says, the elementary laws of physics (latent heat needed to melt ice) tell us that the apocalypse conjured up by Al Gore and Co could not possibly come about . . .
Damn dirty hippies
and their stupid CFLs
All I do is take out the ones that have burned out, put them back in the box, and take the box back to Lowes for a refund.
So far I've returned about 2 dozen in under 3 years.
All I do is take out the ones that have burned out, put them back in the box, and take the box back to Lowes for a refund.
So far I've returned about 2 dozen in under 3 years.
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
PLEASE dont let Geitner swindle us out of MORE money
Dear Sen. Hagan,
The latest plan by Treasury to clean out toxic assets is nothing more than 3 card monte on a grand scale.
Look at the application -- only companies with $500 million in cash and $10 billion under management are able to take part. We call those institutions "banks".
So these "banks" are going to sell their toxic assets to each other, which means they basically make a guaranteed 70 - 80 cents on the dollar thanks to our tax dollars.
THEN they'll go ahead and sell them on the open market at some cut rate price, maybe 25 - 35 cents on the dollar to some hedge fund.
That means they are going to end up making profits above and beyond the ORIGINAL, inflated value of the "toxic" assets.
Since you didnt read the Spend-ulus package or didnt understand what the big words meant, I'll go slow -- taxpayers are being RAPED by bills like this. Please please please dont vote 'Aye' on anything that anyone associated with Goldman Sachs tries to pawn off on Congress.
Best of luck!
The latest plan by Treasury to clean out toxic assets is nothing more than 3 card monte on a grand scale.
Look at the application -- only companies with $500 million in cash and $10 billion under management are able to take part. We call those institutions "banks".
So these "banks" are going to sell their toxic assets to each other, which means they basically make a guaranteed 70 - 80 cents on the dollar thanks to our tax dollars.
THEN they'll go ahead and sell them on the open market at some cut rate price, maybe 25 - 35 cents on the dollar to some hedge fund.
That means they are going to end up making profits above and beyond the ORIGINAL, inflated value of the "toxic" assets.
Since you didnt read the Spend-ulus package or didnt understand what the big words meant, I'll go slow -- taxpayers are being RAPED by bills like this. Please please please dont vote 'Aye' on anything that anyone associated with Goldman Sachs tries to pawn off on Congress.
Best of luck!
Sometimes you roll, sometimes you get rolled.
One thing everyone has to admit -- except for Social Security reform, Bush got damn near EVERYTHING he wanted, every time, including funding for the war even while the Dems controlled BOTH houses of Congress. There was actually a time where one Dem Congressman said they should be the "carpet party", because Bush rolled them over so many times.
Obama... not so much.
Obama... not so much.
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
The Sanford Revolution? Looks good to me !!!
Posted by Philip Klein on 3.23.09 @ 11:07AM
Dave Weigel has a piece about how wealthy Republican donors, especially those in the Club for Growth crowd, are starting to look at Mark Sanford as their potential 2012 candidate in reaction to his consistent defense of limited government and principled stands against the bailouts, the stimulus package, and other aspects of Washington's economic agenda. Especially interesting is that Sanford has the potential to tap into the grassroots Ron Paul fundraising network, which amassed a $35 million war chest in 2008.
Weigel reports:
One of the biggest questions affecting Sanford's chances in 2012 is how he'll navigate foreign policy issues. In a recent American Conservative profile, Sanford said he was against preemtive war. In 1998, he didn't vote for the resoltion making regime change in Iraq official U.S. policy. Should he run, GOP rivals won't be able to attack him on economic or social issues, so they'll try to pin him as weak on national security. How he responds to those charges will determine whether he can cobble together a coalition of Paul supporters and mainstream Republicans. Should Sanford respond to attacks on his foreign policy views by explaining away his past stands and offering hawkish rhetoric, he'll alienate the Paul crowd, whereas if he takes his views on non-intervention as far as Paul did, he risks losing support among the rest of the party.
Of course, much of this will depend on what issues are important two to three years from now. Right now, foreign policy issues are taking a back seat to size of government issues among conservatives. If this continues to be the case, it will be easier for Sanford to skate by similarly to the way Bush did in 2000 -- present himself as somebody who wants a strong military but opposes nation building. However, by the time the primaries roll around, the world may look a lot different, and a terrorist attack or another international crisis will make foreign policy and national security issues much more important in the GOP primaries. Under those circumstances, it would be difficult for Sanford to unite the Paulites with the rest of the party, because the ideological divisions are simply too great between non-interventionist conservatives and those who support an agressive military response to security threats. If Sanford sides with the Paulites, he risks being seen as a softie by the rest of the party, and yet if he sides with the rest of the party, Paulites will see him as another bellicose neocon. But if he does find a way to navigate national security issues and manages to build a broad coalition of limited government voters, then he'll be a very formidable candidate, especially in New Hampshire.
Dave Weigel has a piece about how wealthy Republican donors, especially those in the Club for Growth crowd, are starting to look at Mark Sanford as their potential 2012 candidate in reaction to his consistent defense of limited government and principled stands against the bailouts, the stimulus package, and other aspects of Washington's economic agenda. Especially interesting is that Sanford has the potential to tap into the grassroots Ron Paul fundraising network, which amassed a $35 million war chest in 2008.
Weigel reports:
Paul and Sanford had been friendly when both men served in the House, said Paul’s spokesman Jesse Benton, the congressman’s grandson-in-law. “If Dr. Paul voted no on a bill and Sanford voted yes,” said Benton, “Sanford would come up to Dr. Paul afterward and talk it over. He would give a thoughtful consideration to why he’d voted the other way.”
According to Benton, Sanford is one of the only Republicans Paul might outright endorse if he ran for president—and if Paul doesn’t mount his own bid. “He’s the type of candidate that Dr. Paul could get excited about,” said Benton. “A lot of the people from our movement could find a lot to like in Mark Sanford.”
One of the biggest questions affecting Sanford's chances in 2012 is how he'll navigate foreign policy issues. In a recent American Conservative profile, Sanford said he was against preemtive war. In 1998, he didn't vote for the resoltion making regime change in Iraq official U.S. policy. Should he run, GOP rivals won't be able to attack him on economic or social issues, so they'll try to pin him as weak on national security. How he responds to those charges will determine whether he can cobble together a coalition of Paul supporters and mainstream Republicans. Should Sanford respond to attacks on his foreign policy views by explaining away his past stands and offering hawkish rhetoric, he'll alienate the Paul crowd, whereas if he takes his views on non-intervention as far as Paul did, he risks losing support among the rest of the party.
Of course, much of this will depend on what issues are important two to three years from now. Right now, foreign policy issues are taking a back seat to size of government issues among conservatives. If this continues to be the case, it will be easier for Sanford to skate by similarly to the way Bush did in 2000 -- present himself as somebody who wants a strong military but opposes nation building. However, by the time the primaries roll around, the world may look a lot different, and a terrorist attack or another international crisis will make foreign policy and national security issues much more important in the GOP primaries. Under those circumstances, it would be difficult for Sanford to unite the Paulites with the rest of the party, because the ideological divisions are simply too great between non-interventionist conservatives and those who support an agressive military response to security threats. If Sanford sides with the Paulites, he risks being seen as a softie by the rest of the party, and yet if he sides with the rest of the party, Paulites will see him as another bellicose neocon. But if he does find a way to navigate national security issues and manages to build a broad coalition of limited government voters, then he'll be a very formidable candidate, especially in New Hampshire.
Monday, March 23, 2009
We are so completely fooked
EPA says that global warming is a threat to humanity.
The staggering cost of that jackassery, coming on the tail of reading THIS bad news from Sweet Dee about how the Goldman crew are quietly raping us and taking control of basically the entire economy without even a whimper, has me in a very sour mood.
The staggering cost of that jackassery, coming on the tail of reading THIS bad news from Sweet Dee about how the Goldman crew are quietly raping us and taking control of basically the entire economy without even a whimper, has me in a very sour mood.
Friday, March 20, 2009
Good to see the honeymoon is over
The Banality of Obama
I saw another post similar to this earlier this week -- we live in the Information Age, and people should be making choices based on easily available info, and yet, we cant even buy health insurance like Blue Cross from another state.
Instead of a "big idea", we get big goobermint, big business & big labor.
De-centralize NOW!!!
Neither a Hedgehog Nor a Fox
I tend to go in cycles on how I feel about Peggy Noonan, especially wrt how she hammered Sarah-cuda, but I think she hits the nail on the head here -- we do live in serious times, and worrying about NCAA brackets, going on the Tonight Show, instigating a fight w. Rush -- NOT things we need.
And my boy Charles K brings the stiletto for the coup de grace.
Quit fucking around and fix the banks, jackass.
I saw another post similar to this earlier this week -- we live in the Information Age, and people should be making choices based on easily available info, and yet, we cant even buy health insurance like Blue Cross from another state.
Instead of a "big idea", we get big goobermint, big business & big labor.
De-centralize NOW!!!
Neither a Hedgehog Nor a Fox
I tend to go in cycles on how I feel about Peggy Noonan, especially wrt how she hammered Sarah-cuda, but I think she hits the nail on the head here -- we do live in serious times, and worrying about NCAA brackets, going on the Tonight Show, instigating a fight w. Rush -- NOT things we need.
And my boy Charles K brings the stiletto for the coup de grace.
Quit fucking around and fix the banks, jackass.
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Dear Sen. Hagan,
As someone who voted AYE not even 2 weeks ago for a pork laden bill that spent 9 BILLION dollars of our tax dollars ( and yes, I am one of the 50% of citizens that actually PAYS taxes), I can only hope you don't think that tax payers will believe any crocodile tears you might shed about this whole AIG mess. The bonuses were part of legal contracts signed months ago, and if Congress tries to write bills of attainder to claw back legally earned money, then you (plural) will be no better than King George III.
I hope you are aware of the righteous wrath building here against big government, big business and big unions. All of them are feeding at the trough, and all that matters is that every dollar spent for handouts, corporate welfare and pork is just another dollar stolen from someone who earned it.
Regards,
Rear Admir0l
Raleigh NC
I hope you are aware of the righteous wrath building here against big government, big business and big unions. All of them are feeding at the trough, and all that matters is that every dollar spent for handouts, corporate welfare and pork is just another dollar stolen from someone who earned it.
Regards,
Rear Admir0l
Raleigh NC
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