This is the time of year I miss CA.
Right now, though, the creeks are full. The waterfalls are running. The rattlesnakes won’t be out until April. The first flowers are breaking up the scenery along the sunnier trails. They’ll be replaced by the later flowers, but this is the time for rich clusters of lavender canyon pea, full bushes of pinky-violet wishbone flower and meadows of yellow-gold fiddlenecks.
It IS this spectacular.
Coyote Blog is the link.
Update: So in other words, I was hiring people in Florida in August of 2009, and will not find out until sometime in 2011 the true cost of this labor, because only now am I being told what taxes I have to pay on this labor. And people wonder why businesses are reluctant to hire. We may think we have a Constitutional ban on ex post facto law, but businessman know this is BS.
I remember the Reagan years. They were not “all hail Reagan”.
There were tons of dissenters and people who thought he was a half wit and a danger to the world. Frankly I was one of them. And Iran/Contra still ticks me off.
Michael Kinsley writes honestly in the LATimes about NOT wanting Obama to be emulating Reagan. Apparently in Obama’s image control to the center he’s convinced the media to compare him favorably with the man.
I’d say in one major way, Obama does well.
He decides on a course of action.
When the law or Congress says “nyet”, he just does it anyway. Reaganesque indeed.
In foreign policy….he decides on what is required and then does what is needed to get there no matter who gets screwed. (UK? Israel?)
[UPDATE: Maybe not. ABC news is saying this is and old agreement and everyone new about it.]
Although the treaty [New START] was not supposed to have any impact on Britain, the leaked cables show that Russia used the talks to demand more information about the UK’s Trident missiles, which are manufactured and maintained in the US.
Washington lobbied London in 2009 for permission to supply Moscow with detailed data about the performance of UK missiles. The UK refused, but the US agreed to hand over the serial numbers of Trident missiles it transfers to Britain.
Seeing as how this was in Wikileaks yet the Telegraph has the scoop, can we assume American Journalists are just not bothering with research at all?
