I tried hard. Give me an A. It used to be sarcastic to refer to "A for effort."
The plight of the (delusional) Left-wing talkers
Carpentry joke du jour: What's the difference between Jesus and Obama?
Who will qualify for mortgage help? Not speculators. I'm glad about that. This via Insty:
MEGAN MCARDLE ON OBAMA’S HOUSING PLAN: “Well, the obvious point is that it represents a massive transfer to borrowers from lenders and the rest of us. As far as I can tell, there is no penalty for having borrowed more than you could realistically afford to repay–not so much as a speck of dirt on the credit report. The administration’s release talks a lot about ‘responsible homeowners’, but very few responsible homeowners have payments that amount to 43% of their monthly income.”
My take — let’s see what they’ve done with the first trillion before we give them any more money to play with . . . .
Dem culture of corruption: Rahm Emanuel's tricks. And remind me again - how do people with these political jobs become multi-millionaires?
Getting politics involved with the bailout was a big mistake
EPA expected to regulate carbon dioxide. Good grief. The world has gone mad. If they try to regulate fireplaces and wood-burning stoves, we will consider civil disobedience.
How much "authenticity" can a marriage handle?
The ten most famous UFO hoaxes
Redefining "hate speech." Volokh. With rules like those, how can anybody say anything about anybody?
Just name the "disaster":
Let me guess: this disaster can only be forestalled through yet higher taxes and still more suffocating regulations, which coincidentally benefit no one but authoritarian bureauweenies like Michael Bloomberg.
But here's some sanity from Mayor Bloomberg:
"One percent of the households that file in this city pay something like 50% of the taxes," explained the Mayor. "In the city, that's something like 40,000 people. If a handful left, any raise would make it revenue neutral. The question is what's fair. If 1% are paying 50% of the taxes, you want to make it even more?"
Economic warfare? Jules:
We could dicker all day about whether George Bush’s response to the Sept. 11 attacks was appropriate, proportionate, all that. We could argue all day about the same on Obama’s plan. No one sane thinks either man should not have responded in some way. It’s a question of how, how much, and what it gets you. At the current rate, Obama’s economic war will make Bush’s shooting wars look like an exercise in fiscal restraint and a bargain. If Obama’s plan works, fine. War’s over, we all go home. But at what point does Obama’s econ war get a downloadable counter, and when does Congress and the national media start squawking and declare a quagmire?
