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Markets like predicatability, Politicians like votes
[jackdied]
Jul 03 2009, 01:53 EDT [updated Jul 03 2009, 02:10 EDT]
A short op-ed at CNBC posits that Government spending promises are scaring business into spending inaction. This isn't a hypothetical today or during the Great Depression. Then we had the government making electricity generation [a new thing] a priority Full Text
Retroactive Stimulus Idea
[jackdied]
Jun 30 2009, 22:33 EDT [updated Jun 30 2009, 22:34 EDT]
The $800 billion stimulus package is slow to be spent. Estimates are that only 25% will be spent in 2009. As a retroactive idea why not just return all the money spent at the country's biggest oil producer and the country's biggest employer? Every bill Full Text
Your week in Quickies
[quickie]
Jun 29 2009, 18:28 EDT
the blog of unnecessary quotation marks
[bobsalive]
Jun 29 2009, 18:26 EDT
Many, many examples of a grammatical pet peeve. (via)
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Obama's Health Care Infomercial
[jackdied]
Jun 24 2009, 22:11 EDT [updated Jun 24 2009, 23:11 EDT]
I'm watching it so you don't have to. My prediction is that ABC will gladly echo the administration's message: FREE SHIT FOR EVERYBODY. Because no politician wins votes by promising to make anything worse and/or more expensive.
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Your week in Quickies
[quickie]
Jun 18 2009, 14:25 EDT
White House eyes Pocket Knife controls
[jackdied]
Jun 18 2009, 14:24 EDT
By reinterpreting an old law banning importation of switch blad Full Text
Government is Good at One Thing
[jackdied]
Jun 12 2009, 23:39 EDT [updated Jun 13 2009, 00:20 EDT]
Before my next post I'd like to reiterate:
The Government is Good at One Thing
That one thing is spending extremely large and inefficient amounts of money to attain a goal. Many people banded together can make a things happen just by brute force. Thin Full Text
Wedding Trivia
[jackdied]
Jun 07 2009, 12:10 EDT
If one of the menu options is "filet mignon with lobster tail" then the other options don't matter. In my locale of 50 people (6 tables) there were two girls who got the vegetarian option and one guy who got the chicken (he's from Florida, if that helps Full Text
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