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Archive for December, 2010
These things drive me nuts, but this one is sooo true and hilarious to see it all in 12.75 minutes.
(ht Maggie’s Farm)
Axel has a girlfriend, Axel has a girlfriend. (Buffy)
It was just 2 days ago we got this headline:
Dow Closes Up 249 Points on Jobs News
Encouraging employment news and hopes that Europe’s debt crisis may ease, boosted the major indexes on Wednesday.
Economy Added Fewer Jobs Than Expected in November
ps – here’s a great quote of the day…..
The commission’s plan claims to balance the budget (by 2035) by relying far more on spending cuts than tax increases — but it does so by assuming a phony “baseline”: That is, it takes as its starting point a fantasy world where the Bush tax cuts lapse, but Washington still spends according to the programs passed by President Obama and the Democratic Congress over the last two years.
Like in Norway - at one businesses, in a country seemingly obsessed with toilet time, women on their period have to wear red bracelets so the boss knows why you might be using the restroom a lot more than is usual (allowed?).
(ht (Interested-Participant via Jawa)
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Or the speedy train appropriated $900 million by Congress from Nowhere to the Middle of Nowhere in CA to get a D elected in the Central Valley who was going to win anyway.
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Or Boston siting a business for having an unsafe building after one of the city tow-trucks plowed into said building and made it unsafe!
“Whoops, sorry about that, but I’m going to have to site you. Get these bricks cleaned up in 24 hours!!”
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Or what about the basics? Here’s a question? If the government cuts taxes and there is a deadline in order to get the tax cut passed, then isn’t it a tax increase if the tax cut is allowed to expire?
But really the “news you won’t believe” in this story is this quote:
A good plan would acknowledge that the recent health reform law represents the best shot at curbing the inexorable rise in health costs and deficits, and that repealing or obstructing the law, as Republicans aim to do, is antithetical to deficit reduction.
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And finally – David Ignatius seems completely surprised that with Congress and the public hollering about detentions at Gitmo that instead the new weapon of choice seems to be the unmanned drone at 10,000 feet that doesn’t allow for any interrogations or chance to prove innocence or to run or fight back. AND that people don’t seem to care.
When was 1984 written again? Wasn’t Ingatius alive?
What a world.
Thomas L. Friedman was generous enough to post some wikileaks direct from China.
In a nutshell: HaHa, those Americans are so “American” it’s ridiculous. If they had any sense at all they would be more like us.
UPDATE: Read Daniel Foster:
The latest — and thus, by definition, worst — Thomas Friedman column is a real beaut.
