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Your week in Quickies [quickie] Mar 01 2009, 04:28 EST [updated Mar 01 2009, 04:33 EST] [permalink] Dolph Lundgren's Bio [jackdied] Mar 01 2009, 04:27 EST Did Chemical Engineering at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockhol Full Text The Most Wonderful Time of the Year [jackdied] Feb 27 2009, 10:11 EST [permalink] My neighbor reminded me that street parking permits expire tomorrow. Today is a Friday which means The Office of Traffic and Parking is open for three hours from 9am to Noon. If this year is like past years the line will be two hours long every day for Full Text Senate to Constitution: FOAD [jackdied] Feb 26 2009, 18:10 EST [permalink] The Senate has passed a completely unconstitutional bill to give Washington D.C. a seat in the House. People used to call this kind of thing a "Constitutional Amendment" but now it just requires 60 votes. Here is the conclusion from a National Review ar Full Text One of These Is Actually a Protest [jackdied] Feb 26 2009, 16:15 EST [updated Feb 26 2009, 16:21 EST] [permalink] There are two ways to protest violence in the Middle East. The Hitchens Method One way is to do it like Christopher Hitchens. While he was walking down a street in Beruit he saw a swastika and promptly defaced it. Then he got shitkicked by some Lebane Full Text Democrats employ the Crazy Ivan strategy [jackdied] Feb 26 2009, 15:30 EST [updated Feb 26 2009, 16:20 EST] [permalink] Are they doing a Crazy Ivan or just throwing flaming darts at the board-O-promises? First we have Obama's earmarks in the Omnibus (they are hangovers from 2008) and second we have Speaker Pelosi ditching the Assault Weapons Ban. I have no idea what is g Full Text WalMart vs Congress [jackdied] Feb 26 2009, 10:07 EST [updated Feb 26 2009, 10:25 EST] [permalink] WalMart, the largest private employer in America, had gross revenues of $405 billion last year and took 3.3% of that in profits . This month congress spent $800 billion on the stimulus and another $410 billion in an omnibus budget resolution. That is in Full Text Krugman's Sniping [jackdied] Feb 25 2009, 23:33 EST [updated Feb 25 2009, 23:36 EST] [permalink] Paul Krugman is both a Nobel winning economist and a political hack. When forced to choose he always goes with hack: Traditionally, the division between conservatives and liberals has been over the role and size of the welfare state: liberals think that Full Text Education is not for Everyone [jackdied] Feb 25 2009, 07:04 EST [updated Feb 25 2009, 09:14 EST] [permalink] Some back of the envelope math. 1/3rd of the population is under 18, that's 100 million people. Last night Obama said everyone should go to college as part of their patriotic duty. Oh, and those extra four years will be "free." So we can expect an ext Full Text Single Bottle Beer Sales Banned in DC [jackdied] Feb 25 2009, 05:18 EST [permalink] The busy bodies have gone and banned single bottle sales in the heart of the Leviathan. In addition to not solving the stated problem (homeless drunks) this will make it prohibitive to sell ultra-premium beers that go for $10+ a bottle. Imperial Beer T Full Text Jem != Jen [jackdied] Feb 25 2009, 00:40 EST [updated Feb 25 2009, 00:44 EST] [permalink] I just found out that a woman I know is named "Jem" and not "Jen." I must have heard other people, including her husband, refer to her by name hundreds of times over the last five years. Thankfully the "Massachusetts pronunciation guide" says the names Full Text Obama's Address to Congress [jackdied] Feb 24 2009, 21:51 EST [updated Feb 24 2009, 22:02 EST] [permalink] Remember when Bush said "When someone's hurting, Government has got to move?" This speech is like an hour of that. It turns out government is like a magic pony that can grant an unlimited number of wishes. In fact we'd all be soooo screwed if it weren' Full Text Proof That God Loves Me (and beer) [jackdied] Feb 24 2009, 12:22 EST [updated Feb 24 2009, 12:30 EST] [permalink] Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy. - not Ben Franklin We have had enough snow in Massachusetts that I'm behind on recycling. Today we have a curb again instead of a snowbank so I was putting out a month's worth of Harpoo Full Text Motto Bump [jackdied] Feb 24 2009, 02:32 EST [updated Feb 24 2009, 02:54 EST] [permalink] The blog motto has been updated to Men are not fit to rule men and saints don't run for office. Paraphrased from C.S. Lewis quoting (?) his friend J.R.R. Tolkein (citation): The most important job of any man, even saints (who at any rate were at Full Text Goverment That Works [jackdied] Feb 23 2009, 22:55 EST [updated Feb 23 2009, 23:19 EST] [permalink] This weekend Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger echoed Obama's inaugural address and called for "doing what works." The problem with programs "that work" is that no politician ever called for "programs that don't work." If the high hurdle for a new program Full Text Your week in Quickies [quickie] Feb 23 2009, 18:54 EST [permalink] Poaching may become a felony in PA [jackdied] Feb 23 2009, 18:53 EST Poachers are dicks .. but a felony? Get back to me when you hear a Full Text Simple Civility [jackdied] Feb 19 2009, 06:42 EST [updated Feb 19 2009, 09:02 EST] [permalink] At 6am sharpish the alarm went off across the street at the Italian restaurant/liquor store (they share the same building and Mom & Pop owners). After a couple minutes of beeping I decided it was a proper building alarm and not just a car alarm. So as a Full Text A Chicken in Every Pot [jackdied] Feb 17 2009, 11:13 EST [updated Feb 17 2009, 11:14 EST] [permalink] On a lighter note I just started a 4lb chicken in the crockpot (crockpots being God's gift to bachelors). The recipe is simple: Start with celery, parsley, and other flavorful things. Finish with anything else you have handy like peppercorns, basil, Full Text Obama to sign Stimulus today [jackdied] Feb 17 2009, 10:04 EST [updated Feb 17 2009, 10:13 EST] [permalink] It was so important that Congress was given just twelve hours to read it before voting. But Obama is signing it four days later? In Denver?! Go screw. The excuse for the delay is that it took time to correlate and format the bill into a state fit for Full Text Ethics via the New York Times [jackdied] Feb 17 2009, 03:08 EST [updated Feb 17 2009, 03:09 EST] [permalink] A column in the New York Times asks Why Not Bring a Neanderthal to Life? (by cloning). I'm afraid I can't see the [ethical] problem. If we discovered a small band of Neanderthals hidden somewhere, we'd do everything to keep them alive, just as we try t Full Text President's Day Bowling: Hells Yeah [jackdied] Feb 16 2009, 23:56 EST [updated Feb 20 2009, 23:06 EST] [permalink] The President's Day tourney attracted 21 entrants. As usual it was more multi-culti than the average faculty meeting or the current President's cabinet. White, black, asian; male and female; straight and gay. Oh sure, it was 2/3rds* [updated] straight Full Text Those Ignorant of History Are .. bound to screw it up. [jackdied] Feb 15 2009, 22:16 EST [updated Feb 15 2009, 23:03 EST] [permalink] While vanity googling friends and family I ran across a picture of my brother, his wife, and her parents at a military ball. Her father is captioned as a "Pilot and WWII Veteran." The Top Gun in question was born after WWII ended and looks younger than Full Text BSG Plot Twists [jackdied] Feb 13 2009, 23:30 EST [updated Feb 13 2009, 23:31 EST] [permalink] One time I was at a party and a guy introduced himself as "Steve." Then he started laughing and said "just kidding - my name is Mark!" Then he started laughing and said "just kidding my name is.." but I had already walked away. That's my take on the BS Full Text Consider the Numbers [jackdied] Feb 13 2009, 12:24 EST [updated Feb 13 2009, 12:38 EST] [permalink] If all 435 members of the House spent 24 hours a day for an entire 365 day year considering the $800,000,000,000 stimulus bill they would be considering $209,000 in spending per hour (link goes to google calculator). That number assumes they divvied up t Full Text Father Coughlin Returns [jackdied] Feb 13 2009, 09:06 EST [updated Feb 13 2009, 11:50 EST] [permalink] The House convened this morning and started with a prayer by a Father Coughlin. Presumably not the Father Coughlin who was a popular radio host and booster of the original New Deal. That guy is a touch dead and was such a Socialist that even FDR had to Full Text Dems Won't Show Anyone the Bill [jackdied] Feb 12 2009, 23:32 EST [updated Feb 13 2009, 09:02 EST] [permalink] Despite promises that congress would have 48 hours to read the 1500 page compromise bill before voting no one has it at 5pm with a 9am vote scheduled. Oh, except the lobbyists who were leaked their targeted earmarks. The most ethical congress in history Full Text QOTW [jackdied] Feb 11 2009, 14:44 EST [permalink] Obama wants to stay in touch with everyday Americans, as symbolized by his reluctance to surrender his BlackBerry. - Kathleen Parker, in the Washington Post. Yes, just like the 0.3% of everyday Americans who have a BlackBerry. Full Text Your week in Quickies [quickie] Feb 11 2009, 11:23 EST [updated Feb 11 2009, 11:30 EST] [permalink] The Obamma Dollar Bill [jackdied] Feb 08 2009, 08:54 EST Leader worship does not go over well with me. (via) Full Text The Stimulus is a Scam [jackdied] Feb 10 2009, 22:54 EST [permalink] Remember the Patriot Act? Given a chance to write and quickly pass "emergency anti-terrorist legislation" every law enforcement bill that was possibly related was stuck in there. The stimulus package is like that but instead of law enforcement it includ Full Text Hopenchange Arrested [jackdied] Feb 08 2009, 21:25 EST [permalink] As Bruce points out Shepard Fairey, the artist who did the iconic Obama "Hope" poster has been arrested for the 14th time. Is there anyone the Obama camp vetted? As I mentioned a year ago Shepard may be a good artist but he's also a giant dictator lovin Full Text The Simple Love of Milk [jackdied] Feb 08 2009, 00:43 EST [updated Feb 10 2009, 23:04 EST] [permalink] For a weekend post allow me this idle premise - milk rocks. In this decade beer, bourbon, and gin (my other favorite beverages) have undergone a revolution of acceptance and a recognition of brand difference. Milk is overdue. If you think that all milk Full Text My Day With Free Masonry [jackdied] Feb 07 2009, 18:08 EST [updated Feb 07 2009, 18:09 EST] [permalink] Last weekend KZ and I went to an open house event at the Woburn, MA lodge. The free breakfast was shit and the presentation was only only slightly better. We might join despite. I am heavily predisposed to liking the Masons: I am a member of the next o Full Text Fire People Now or Face Fines [jackdied] Feb 06 2009, 21:20 EST [permalink] Politicians are simple minded fools on both sides of the Atlantic. Samizdata reports that the UK parliament is proposing to raise the amount of unemployment that companies will have to pay. 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