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December 2011
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McGehee
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Charles G. Hill channels me, or I him:
You can see the pattern here: keep escalating the conditions until one of them applies. Stopping on the third question implies something not exactly poverty, but well short of wealth. How much would I have to have backstopping my current income to keep worries at an absolute minimum? (I have just defined “wealth,” at least according to my lights.) It would have to be enough to restore my current, um, lifestyle with no discernible compromises — twice. (Because after the first restoration, I’d be on edge about every little thing.) I am loath to declare a dollar amount, if only because some of what is lost is time, and I can’t buy that for any number of dollars. ► Determining the Envy Quotient
That said, the “current lifestyle” I would need to be able to restore, would not necessarily be the one I’m ... currently ... living. A house that holds heat in winter, and holds it out in summer, would be included—and there’s no telling what other luxuries I might require after something like that.
Then again, in my opinion the one thing surest to adhere to poverty is hating people who have things I don’t. So while I’m not rich, I’m also not poor and never have been—regardless of how broke I may have been from time to time.
My upbringing never made much of the Tenth Commandment as such, so I can’t say why I take it as seriously as I do.
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Dividing by Zero
So Right, It's Embarrassing
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September 2011
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Recently President Obama returned to the White House, and after the band finished playing he asked an aide what tune that was. “They usually play ‘Hail to the Chief,’ but I’ve never heard this one before,” he said.
The aide flushed and stammered a moment, then took a deep breath and said, “Mr. President, that was ‘Nearer My God to Thee.’”
Obama grinned broadly, “I knew they admired me but that’s a bit much, don’t you think?”
President Barack Obama’s chief political adviser on Tuesday conceded that a dark cloud looms over the American economy and Obama’s political future, describing the president’s road to a second term in the White House as “a titanic struggle.”► Axelrod: Obama faces ‘titanic struggle’
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Theftists
Twenty Twelve
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Remember, and resolve never to let it happen again.
There are things the government must do to ensure that—some it’s doing, others it’s not, and there are also things it’s doing that are counter-productive.
So where does that leave us?
We need to draw on the lesson of Flight 93 for more than just dealing with hijackers at 35,000 feet. Relying on the government—for personal safety, for our daily needs, even for leadership in a crisis—is the surest way to make sure we do face another 9/11-scale crisis someday.
In fact, looking at our national debt and our still-imploding economy, one can argue that we already are.
“We are tougher than these times,” yes—and we are bigger than our government.
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When you try to post a link on Google+, the site automatically tries to access the linked page so it can put up an excerpt and image—but if the site is a side feature on a relatively small newspaper’s website, and it’s getting slammed with traffic because of a link from The Drudge Report, well, that poses a problem.
Fortunately this isn’t Google+. Anyway…
Drudge, the gosh-darned son of a biscuit, had me going for a second with this link:
PALIN RUNS!
So, there’s that.
It might not be a bad idea to clean out the cobwebs around here, I suppose…
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June 2011
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McGehee
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I’m not sure how I ended up on all these Washington Times email lists, but the one put out by Jim Robbins might be a keeper if the Times’ subscription management feature worked worth a damn—which it doesn’t.
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Twenty Twelve
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Supporters of Mildred Romneycare need not bother trying to push me into voting for their guy if he wins the GOP nomination for 2012, for the following reasons:
1. It won’t work.
2. If he needs my one vote to win Georgia, winning Georgia won’t help him.
3. He couldn’t even beat John McCain for the nomination last time around. John McCain! Even Barack Obama managed to beat McCain.
I relented on McCain after he chose Sarah Palin to be his running mate in 2008, and look how much good that did—for him, for Palin, or for America. It won’t matter who’s in the #2 spot on a Romneycare ticket. I’ll vote down-ballot but not for Mildred.
The GOP nominated Bob Dole in 1996 because it was “his turn.” It nominated John McCain in 2008 because it was “his turn.” It doesn’t work.
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Twenty Twelve
The Etch-a-Sketch Candidate
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Somewhere on Wall Street, a band is striking up to play “The World Turned Upside Down.”
It started five months ago when Bank of America filed foreclosure papers on the home of a couple, who didn’t owe a dime on their home.
The couple said they paid cash for the house.
The case went to court and the homeowners were able to prove they didn’t owe Bank of America anything on the house. In fact, it was proven that the couple never even had a mortgage bill to pay.
A Collier County Judge agreed and after the hearing, Bank of America was ordered by the court to pay the legal fees of the homeowners’, Maurenn Nyergers and her husband.
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So, how did it end with bank being foreclosed on? After more than 5 months of the judge’s ruling, the bank still hadn’t paid the legal fees, and the homeowner’s attorney did exactly what the bank tried to do to the homeowners. He seized the bank’s assets. ► Bank of America Gets Pad Locked After Homeowner Forecloses On It
We’ve generally been treated well by BofA, but we knew when we signed up with them we were getting into bed with a corporation that, under certain circumstances, could make a colony of fire ants look like the Care Bears and could make bread mold look like a whole pack of Einsteins.
And the way the federal government has handled the mortgage crisis has turned out to be just the kind of circumstance we envisioned.
We need more people biting back.
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Zdoobid
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McGehee
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Charles Krauthammer has been taking a beating from movement conservatives for several months, largely because he hasn’t been particularly charitable to Sarah Palin.
I used to listen to Rush Limbaugh every day, but between AM signal interference at Castle McGehee and an incompetent aftermarket stereo installation in my truck, I’ve gotten out of the habit. So I first learned of this from Jim Treacher, by way of Instapundit.
I’m not sure slamming Krauthammer is the way to deal with some of the things he’s saying here—especially if Palin is going to run for president. After all, from the quotes in Treacher’s post it appears Limbaugh has zeroed in on an issue Palin will need to address if she runs.
“... Krauthammer the other day on Fox – I happen to see it, said that Sarah Palin still doesn’t cut it for him,” Limbaugh said. “’She’s got good instincts,’ but she’s just not properly schooled. And he said ‘I don’t mean schooled in the right places, she’s just not learned. She’s had two-and-a-half years to school herself on matters of policy. She just hasn’t done it. She can’t demonstrate it. She’s just not properly schooled.’”► Limbaugh speculates on what gave rise to Krauthammer as an opinion maker
It appears, in fact, that Palin has been schooling herself, but she hasn’t been expressing it in ways a Beltwayite like Krauthammer would comprehend.
Maybe she could go meet with Dr. K and do a PowerPoint presentation (or borrow Gingrich’s slide projector) to get through to him.
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May 2011
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There is one thing about the parliamentary system that I think we could benefit from in 2011: the ability to remove a head of government with a no-confidence vote.
If we had that here, the recent 97-0 Senate (still Democrat-controlled, remember) rejection of the Obama Administration’s proposed 2012 budget would have moved the upcoming presidential election to early July of this year.
What’s not to like?
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