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Wednesday, October 7. 2009

Weds. evening links

I pledge allegiance to the debt


Here we go again. Dems plans for Urban Renewal. How did that work out last time?


How Hopey Changey is strangling our economy. Tiger. I hear the same things from businessmen. Including from Coyote.


Confessions of a Middlebrow Professor


Wilkinson: Cap and Trade is ritual self-flagellation


Even if you're not in the union, you have to pay the union to work on a Federal project.


ACORN threw out Repub registrations. Surely that is a Federal crime.


Is Washington studying the wrong war?


Free money in Detroit. Obama delivers! But wouldn't a bus ticket to Texas, where they have jobs, be more useful?

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From "Confessions of a Middlebrow Professor":

"Unlike the independent highbrows and unself-conscious lowbrows, middlebrows, it seems, are so invested in "getting on in life" that they do not really like anything unless it has been approved by their betters."

What a great description. Good article - especially for those who think liberal arts is a waste of time.
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#1 Meta on 2009-10-07 20:48 (Reply)
"Hi Neighbor, Have a 'Gansett!" Memories of the '50'
's Red Sox on the telly: Curt Gowdey, Irene Hennessey, Ted Williams, The Jimmy Fund, and 'Gansett.
#2 greenmtnpunter on 2009-10-08 08:26 (Reply)
I have no allegiance to the debt. After the next revolution, we'll start from scratch and that debt won't be my problem.
#3 NJSoldier on 2009-10-08 11:44 (Reply)
Mr Wilkinson says that, if the US imposes cap-n-trade, we will get "nothing...unless the rest of the world goes along." We will get nothing even if the rest of the world does go along, because there is no human-caused climate threat. It doesn't exist. It's a lie, a chimera, false-to-fact. A dime spent combatting "climate change" is a dime wasted in its entirety.
#4 Geoff on 2009-10-08 12:27 (Reply)
Geoff ... I agree with your premise that "there is no human-caused climate threat it's a chimera ..." In Texas, we call that a con game. In Washington, it's called a money-maker for Congress.

Marianne
#5 Marianne Matthews on 2009-10-08 14:52 (Reply)

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