January 06, 2009
A Musical Interlude
The animation is good, but the music is better.
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Gupta for Surgeon General
He may be a television personality, but he's also one heck of a doctor. Why not? He's likely to be less frightening than C. Everett Koop, who seemed to enjoy scaring the heck out of a generation of kids.
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January 05, 2009
The NYT Goes There
In its latest concession to the worst revenue slide since the Depression, The New York Times has begun selling display advertising on its front page, a step that has become increasingly common across the newspaper industry.What really makes this sad is that it didn't have to happen. The Times has always skewed left, but for the most part, they played fair. Under the management of "Pinch" Sulzberger, however, the reporting has grown more shrill, partisan and libelous.The first such ad, appearing Monday in color, was bought by CBS. The ad, two-and-a-half inches high, lies horizontally across the bottom of the front page, below the news articles and a brief summary of some articles in the paper. In a statement, the paper said such ads would be placed “below the fold” — that is, on the lower half of the page.
The Times and other papers may try to blame the recession for their woes, but the downturn in the newspaper industry goes back too far for that simple explanation to fully work. They just can't seem to bring themselves to consider the possibility that it's not just the market or the internet that is killing them - their death might be self-inflicted. (H/t: Hot Air)
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January 04, 2009
Senator Smalley
Whoever knew lutefisk was a hallucinatory substance?
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The Obama Tax Cuts?
Huh. I look forward to seeing how Congressional Democrats explain that these tax cuts are okay, but Bush's were the worst thing ever.
WASHINGTON -- President-elect Barack Obama and congressional Democrats are crafting a plan to offer about $300 billion in tax cuts to individuals and businesses, a move aimed at attracting Republican support for an economic-stimulus package and prodding companies to create jobs.I have no doubt the media will somehow manage to provide Obama cover on this one. Frankly, I don't care as long as the final result is less money out of my paycheck confiscated by the government.The size of the proposed tax cuts -- which would account for about 40% of a stimulus package that could reach $775 billion over two years -- is greater than many on both sides of the aisle in Congress had anticipated, and may make it easier to win over Republicans who have stressed that any initiative should rely relatively heavily on tax cuts rather than spending.
The Obama tax-cut proposals, if enacted, could pack more punch in two years than either of President George W. Bush's tax cuts did in their first two years. Mr. Bush's 10-year, $1.35 trillion tax cut of 2001, considered the largest in history, contained $174 billion of cuts during its first two full years, according to Congress's Joint Committee on Taxation. The second-largest tax cut -- the 10-year, $350 billion package engineered by Mr. Bush's in 2003 -- contained $231 billion in 2004 and 2005.
The entertainment value of watching Democrats defend 'trickle-down' economics is just gravy.
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December 31, 2008
Hey, 2008 is Almost Over
I'm celebrating in high style. My wife's at work, so I'm eating tomato soup and watching "Planet Earth" with my daughters. My older daughter just laughed watching a wolf chase and take down a baby caribou.
I'm not sure whether to be concerned or proud.
Anyway, happy new year, all.
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December 30, 2008
And I Thought Maine was Bad
Now this is what a tax-hungry state looks like.
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December 24, 2008
Merry Christmas
In those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be registered. This was the first registration when Quirinius was governor of Syria. And all went to be registered, each to his own town. And Joseph also went up from Galilee, from the town of Nazareth, to Judea, to the city of David, which is called Bethlehem, because he was of the house and lineage of David, to be registered with Mary, his betrothed, who was with child. And while they were there, the time came for her to give birth. And she gave birth to her firstborn son and wrapped him in swaddling cloths and laid him in a manger, because there was no place for them in the inn.
And in the same region there were shepherds out in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night. And an angel of the Lord appeared to them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were filled with fear. And the angel said to them, "Fear not, for behold, I bring you good news of a great joy that will be for all the people. For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Savior, who is Christ the Lord. And this will be a sign for you: you will find a baby wrapped in swaddling cloths and lying in a manger." And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God and saying,
"Glory to God in the highest,
and on earth peace among those with whom he is pleased!"
When the angels went away from them into heaven, the shepherds said to one another, "Let us go over to Bethlehem and see this thing that has happened, which the Lord has made known to us." And they went with haste and found Mary and Joseph, and the baby lying in a manger. And when they saw it, they made known the saying that had been told them concerning this child. And all who heard it wondered at what the shepherds told them. But Mary treasured up all these things, pondering them in her heart. And the shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all they had heard and seen, as it had been told them. And at the end of eight days, when he was circumcised, he was called Jesus, the name given by the angel before he was conceived in the womb.
Luke 2:1-21 (English Standard Version)
Merry Christmas, all. Thanks for reading.
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