And also the doctor’s gonna give you money and you get to sleep with the nurse. And one other thing… Free drugs!
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And also the doctor’s gonna give you money and you get to sleep with the nurse. And one other thing… Free drugs! h/t: JJ Share on Facebook Steve Rattner, the man Barack Obama originally appointed to oversee the auto bailout, needs a bailout of his own. Wall Street financier and former auto czar Steven Rattner is in settlement talks to resolve his role in the “pay to play” investigation at the New York state pension fund, according to people familiar with [...] Fitting, the day the United States sets a record for debt in a month ($220 billion, up 14-percent from last year’s already staggering number) we get news from Greece. The Greek government is run by the Socialist party. The Socialist party spent money until it no longer could, resulting in the collapse of its economy [...] I’ve only seen a couple of episodes of Undercover Boss on CBS.- Each week the CEO of a major corporation goes undercover to work somewhere within his corporation. It’s a great concept and a great reality show. Kudos to CBS for doing it. This is from the 7-Eleven episode. This is [...] Federal pay has now officially outstripped private sector pay. From USA Today: Federal employees earn higher average salaries than private-sector workers in more than eight out of 10 occupations, a USA TODAY analysis of federal data finds. Accountants, nurses, chemists, surveyors, cooks, clerks and janitors are among the wide range of jobs that get paid more [...] Buzz on this documentary has been heating up in the blogosphere lately and, as www.threedonia.com’s resident evil industrialist I figure I ought to comment on it. I am awaiting this movie the same way Porvaznik and JohnFN await the first pitch on opening day! I hope to see it in a theater. If not, I’ll buy [...] Share on Facebook Want to know why Ron Paul will NEVER be President? This pretty much sums it up. There are plenty of good reasons to dislike the Federal Reserve… and then there are Paulie’s reasons. Cocoa Puffs anyone? h/t: Jonah Goldberg at The Corner Share on Facebook
“What in the wide, wide world of sports is going on here?!” I’ve put off this post for a long, long time. Except to folks like me it’s a mind-stultifyingly boring topic, and one practically requires a PhD in numismatics to comprehend it. But, the federal budget is in the news a [...] Gotta love those Democrats. The Land of Lincoln is, as you know, in the midst of a deep, dark budget crisis. We’ve got billions in debt and crumbling infrastructure, all thanks to Rockin’ Rod Blagojevich and a compliant, Democrat-controlled state legislature that spent the last eight years handing out cash for every goofy program they could [...] Ms. McArdle exercising her 2nd amendment rights. At a rather young age (10?) I recall reading an article about standardized tests. Researchers were doing studies to determine if standardized tests unfairly measured “low income” and/or “minority” children. The example they used was one of those common, simile problems often used to test a kid’s [...] Is the NFL a single entity or a collection of 32 individual entities that can act separately? That basic question comes up before the U.S. Supreme Court this week. The case, NFL v. American Needle, comes up for argument this week and New Orleans Saints QB Drew Brees weighs in at The Washington [...] …it pretty much means you and I are paying for it. Sitting at my desk, listening to a couple of coworkers bragging about all of the “free” appliances they recently had installed. For one: a new gas furnace and two freezers (about $7,000 worth of booty). For the other: a new gas furnace and a new [...] The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse by Albrecht Durer Are we in for a Zimbabwe-like hyper-inflationary Great Depression? This guy from a website called Shadow Stats named John Williams thinks so. Tyler Durden has the breakdown. Durden quotes Williams (his site is subscription only): Williams does not mince his words: The U.S. economic and systemic solvency [...] Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke passed the Senate Banking Committee for reconfirmation by a vote of 16-to-7. Every Republican and one Democrat voted against. According to Larry Kudlow, this means the vote could get interesting once the vote hits the Senate floor. The reconfirmation now goes to the floor of the Senate, where it’s going to be [...] A budget twice the size of the state of Idaho’s – for 800,000 residents. What’s worst? That the city spends more per-capita than any other in the country, or that all the spending is doing nothing to curb the problems it targets. Despite its spending more money per capita on homelessness than any comparable city, its homeless [...] In the wake of the President and Congress approving another gagillion dollars in spending, we decided that it was a good time to release this little gem. We were going to wait until tax day, but we think everyone can use another Christmas present – especially these days. Now, if you are a frequent visitor to [...] …Robust Martin Hutchinson has an enlightening post at the Bear’s Lair blog. In it, he shows how the recent economic downturn is related to the coming one (the one that will come if AGW-alarmists get their way). Faulty modelling is to blame: The denouement in both cases may also turn out to be similar. In Wall [...] The Weekly Standard has an interesting piece on Belgium’s troubles in keeping itself together. The second thing he insists on is that Americans may have an especially hard time seeing what is wrong with Belgian federalism as it now exists. With its already enormous devolutions of political authority to Flanders and Wallonia, Belgium now [...] While the GOP as a whole needs revamping… some in there still have juice… From Rep. John Carter (R. — Tex) the Timothy Geithner Penalty Waiver Act and here’s Carter’s press release: Carter says the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution mandates equal penalties for similar offenses, and that the failure of [...] I hope I don’t offend anyone; this is a sincere question and I am very interested in learning what y’all (you’se guys for Rich and Stosh, you’ins for Eric) have to say. I haven’t looked at the numbers but there is no question our nation graduates way, way, way too many people in certain majors. [...] Along the lines of Sammy Sosa’s swing for the bleachers I posted last night we have this from India and other Asian markets. Share on Facebook “Whatever it is, I’m against it!” Alright students, listen up. I’ve had all I can take of this Climate Change/Global Warming/Ice Caps receding/El Nina/El Nino/CO2 Good/CO2 Bad/Carbon Footprint/Carbon Offset/Cap and Trade/Crap and Trade nonsense. In the words of Popeye the Sailor, “that’s all I can stands, I can’t stands no more!” I know this is [...] Someday we’ll have to have a Glenn Beck open thread because while I am afraid his head is going to explode or — more likely — some Lefty whack job is going to kill him — the stuff he says makes more and more sense. The conventional wisdom on health care, stimulus, cap and [...] Prospering under people and systems where humans are the ultimate arbiters of right and wrong is and always has been dicey given the vagaries — and the very well-known dark sides — of human nature. Bottom line — I don’t and can’t fully trust any system or person whose final judge of good/evil is [...] A study has found that although older people are less likely to contract the swine flu, they are far more likely to die if they do get it. An analysis of more than 1,000 California patients hospitalized with H1N1 flu during the first four months of the pandemic found that infants were most likely to be [...] I get this from a college buddy who is now a financial guy… It’s funny cuz it’s true — the older I get the riskier they both seem. And the joke came with it: Dan was a single guy living at home with his father and working in the family business. When he found out he [...] Motherf*&$er: 1. With negative connotation. a. An obnoxious, despicable, or contemptible person; a very unpleasant person. Freq. as a term of abuse. OED 2d ed. 1989 Today’s example is a plural. Each and every California State legislator is a motherf%$#er. From the Los Angeles Times: Reporting from Los Angeles and Sacramento – [...] Share on Facebook The OED is down today so this definition comes from A Preface to Philosophy 3d ed. by Mark B. Woodhouse, Wadsworth (1984). Deontological: “Any ethical system or standard in which the rightness of an act is defined by reference to factors other than the act’s consequences.” Today’s example comes from my dear State of California. The U.S. Supreme [...] Before headin’ out to the ole punkin patch yesterday I was watching the Saturday FOX News business block and Brenda Buttner was interviewing some dolt who was lambasting health insurance companies. She dropped — in a question — the fact that health insurance companies run about a 2.5% profit margin. I’d never [...] Here’s a video of Senator Al Franken (nice job Minnesota) trying to act like a Senator and scoring a “point” on a health care expert from Hudson Institute. As an example of liberal nuttiness… BoingBoing posted this video under the headline: Al Franken kicks eleventy-million kinds of ass in health-care hearing. Of course [...] I chop down trees, I skip and jump, I love to press wild flowers. What does Al Gore and his minions claim to hate? CO2. What do trees inhale? CO2. What do trees do with that CO2? Make trees, er wood, er lumber. So the more trees we have the more wood we have the more [...] Environmentalists hard at work saving the planet Hey, High School kids! Do you want to help the environment? Reduce man’s grimy footprint on this pristine globe? Make the world a better place for polar bears and unicorns? Then go to College and get a degree in Engineering. Or Agriculture. Or Business. What’s that you say? Engineers, Farmers [...] And it’s a one-punch knockout. From Reason Online. Watching Capitalism, you’d never know that the federal government colluded for decades with the financial, real estate, and construction industries to divert resources into housing in the name of promoting home ownership—even for people who couldn’t afford it. You’d never [...] The end is near: Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, chair of an advisory council known by its German acronym, WBGU, is a physicist whose specialty, fittingly, is chaos theory. Speaking to an invitation-only conference at New Mexico’s Santa Fe Institute, Schellnhuber divulged the findings of a study so new he had not yet briefed Chancellor Angela Merkel about it. [...] From the Washington Post: The Obama administration is taking on Cheerios. And popular cold remedies and swimming pool drains and rhinestones on children’s clothing. With much of Washington focused on efforts to revamp the health-care system and address climate change, a handful of Obama appointees have been quietly exercising their power over the trappings of daily life. [...] |
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