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Wednesday, April 29. 2009

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Quoted in a piece at Villainous:



In the 1970s, it took $46,870 to add a year to the life expectancy of 65-year-olds. By the 1990s, it cost $145,000.



Does gummint support for R&D do any good?


Quoted at Ace:



Isn't it fabulous how Obama has reconciled with our enemies and put fear into the hearts of Americans? Does any image illustrate so neatly the wrongheadedness of the Obama administration than Americans scrambling in terror from Air Force One?



Protein begins:



Obama is running the banking, housing and automobile industry out of the White House (along with letting Rahm play with the US Census) so why not be in charge of Science, too?



The politicization of GM. Quite discouraging and distressing, but that's what happens when you mix politics with real life. Everything becomes politicized and part of the spoils system.


Fair and balanced rules cable


Carville: Dems will rule for 40 years


The end of Capitalism? McArdle.


But not the end of Capitalism for Al Gore. He got rich quick.

Posted by The News Junkie in Hot News & Misc. Short Subjects at 06:19 | Comments (8) | Trackbacks (0)

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Won't be Rahm. remember the Lancet Report that came out three weels before the 2006 election? The one that overstated Iraqi civilian war deaths by between ten and twenty times?

The new "cluster sampling" protocol used for that Soros-funded report was developed by the fellow O just hired to design the statistical protocol for the next United States census.

Don't believe me --look it up.

10 to 20 times.

Spread the word. Lord help us.
#1 buddy larsen on 2009-04-29 07:15 (Reply)
a "weel" is an old Celtic time measurement equal to five of our days plus 48 hours.
#1.1 buddy larsen on 2009-04-29 07:19 (Reply)
Re the price of extending life (disclaimer, I am 65 years old), referring to the government's price deflator

http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/data/GDPDEF.txt

one sees that in 1970 it was 27.056 and in 2008 it was 123.244.

So, the current price of extending my very valuable life one year is only $32,000 in 1970 currency. A drop of 32%.

By the way, $4/gal gasoline is cheaper than it was in the 60s for the same reason, plus mileage is abou 50% better and real incomes are about 100% better, making it even cheaper.
#2 Bob Sykes on 2009-04-29 08:02 (Reply)
There's no such thing as 'capitalism'; Marx made that up. It's just another way of saying 'freedom'.
#3 ahem on 2009-04-29 08:32 (Reply)
carville and 40 years of Democratic rule actually made me feel better. Because most of those predictions are usually wrong!. Remember the predictions in the 90's and early 00's about Republicans running things for a long time. What the Republicans need are some good candidates. Communicators that don't need telepromters.
#4 grant1863 on 2009-04-29 09:18 (Reply)
Yes, appealing and articulate, savvy people. But they rarely go into politics, if they are conservatives.
#4.1 Bird Dog on 2009-04-29 09:33 (Reply)
Yes, the Republicans do need some good candidates. And soon. But we do have a reservoir of good, grown-up people in this country, still. And I think they will emerge as the emergency defines itself more and more clearly. This childish, self-centered amateurism on the part of the Democrats will become more and more clear in he next months, and good grown-up people will answer the call to save us, even if they are damn busy saving themselves and their families from the poor house.

Yes, Specter's desertion has made it possible for the Democrats to have a filibuster-proof Senate. But how often does the vote on an important bill fall exactly within party lines? It seems to me, after years of observing the antics of Congress, that bills usually get crossover votes from the other party.

At any rate, let's pull up our socks here, and watch closely what's going on in the next few months. And let's not despair, because despair tends to make one foolish.

And we're not that, are we?

Marianne

P. S. I just wish we had Daniel Hannan, the Brit who made that marvelous speech in Parliament, as a citizen. He could out-orate Obama eveny time he opened his mouth.
#5 Marianne Matthews on 2009-04-29 12:18 (Reply)
Don't forget that Dannye boy is a HusseinO supporter?worshipper who, to date, has no desire to speak him down.

Leave him where he is.

America doesn't need more stupified koolaid drinkers.
#5.1 Leag on 2009-04-29 13:05 (Reply)

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