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I’m getting a bunch of hits today from people looking for answers to various Battlestar Galactica questions. They keep hitting my old posts. I presume the interest is based on last night’s episode. My problem is that I haven’t seen last night’s episode, and won’t have a chance to do so until tonight. I’ll try [...]
After a layoff of more thna a month, there will finally be a new episode of The Unit on Sunday night. I write up my entry as soon as I can, but sometimes it takes me a few days.
This morning I clicked on a link that was supposed to go to a page on the Apple.com website, but I ended up on a Washington Post 404 “page not found” page. I went back to the referrer, checked the link, and it was properly set to go to apple.com. So I typed”www.apple.com” in my [...]
via Tom Smith at The Right Coast, who labels it, “more gloom and doom.”
Today’s New York Post was just depressing on pension and tax issues. First, in YOU HURT, THEY PROSPER, an editorial predicted a massive tax hike to hit the state: “Is it fair to ask the people who make more to pay a little bit more in this time of crisis?” he wondered last week, arguing [...]
Mayor Bloomberg has an opinion article in today’s Daily News offering a rather weak reform of NYC public employee pensions: Pensions. New York City offers full retirement benefits after only 20 years of service for uniformed workers. In this day and age, with people living longer, taxpayers cannot afford to continue hiring workers who will [...]
Senator Tom Coburn published his remarks on the stimulus bill. The entire thing is worthwhile, but the section listing much of the nonsense in it is especially notable: I am going to wind up here and finish, but I wanted to spend some time to make sure the American people know what is in this [...]
From a Blog at the Chicago Tribune. Mayor Richard Daley said today Chicago has compiled a wish list of “shovel-ready projects” to spend federal economic stimulus funds on should Congress approve a plan. Unlike hundreds of other cities, however, Daley said Chicago won’t make its list public. “Yes, we do, we have our list, we’ve [...]
Worse than doing nothing: President Obama’s economic recovery package will actually hurt the economy more in the long run than if he were to do nothing, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said Wednesday. CBO, the official scorekeepers for legislation, said the House and Senate bills will help in the short term but result in so [...]
As government becomes ever more intrusive, it inevitably discovers that it can accept no rivals for the people. Any entity that announces universal truths and morality will just get in the way: via Bolivian president rejects criticism by bishops, calls for founding of ‘new church’. President Evo Morales of Bolivia said last Thursday in Brazil [...]
