Thursday, April 23. 2009
 Got MILFs? This from Iowa via Blair.
If the NYT dies, would that be a bad thing? (h/t, Small Dead Porcupines)
Disgraced sociopathic prof sues Columbia for $200 mill. Talk about truth and honor.
Liberal icon Izzie Stone was a Soviet agent. h/t, Viking
Is Janet Napolitano a retard? It seems like it. More: How the heck did she get that job?
UK Death Watch: Taxes up, economy down
Obama blaming America first. It might be fashionable in certain quarters, but it's not funny. Related: Why does O smile at dictators?
Cap and trade would cost you $3600/year. And accomplish nothing. Slightly related: Rick Moran thinks about greening the Repubs. We at Maggie's are passionate conservationists, but think that the Greenies are wacko pagans.
From Sowell on medical care:
Insurance is not medical care. Indeed, health care is not the same as medical care. Countries with universal health care do not have more or better medical care.
The bottom line is medical care. But the rhetoric and the talking points are about insurance. Many people who could afford health insurance do not choose to have it because they know that medical care will be available at the nearest emergency room, whether they have insurance or not.
This is especially true for young people, who do not anticipate long-term medical problems and who can always get a broken leg or an allergy attack taken care of at an emergency room -- and spend their money on a more upscale lifestyle.
This may not be a wise decision but it is their decision, and there is no reason why other people should lose the right to make decisions for themselves because some people make questionable decisions.
If you don't think government bureaucrats can make questionable decisions, then you haven't dealt with many government bureaucrats.
Wednesday, April 22. 2009
I had lunch yesterday with a friend who runs a fund at Fidelity in Boston. She mentioned how many friends and acquaintances she has who had been - or had felt - wealthy but are now in desperate straits.
They had overpaid for grand houses in Cambridge and Chestnut Hill, and then did million-dollar renovations and extensions. They overpaid and leveraged themselves further by buying weekend houses in Maine, Nantucket, Westport or Marion. They bought expensive cars, and paid $300,000 on interior decorating. Wherever they travelled, they stayed at the Four Seasons unless they were golfing in Ireland or Scotland. They had had the sort of blind optimism that led them to believe that $1.5 million bonuses would continue forever. They saved next to nothing. And these are not stupid people: these are bright folks, Ivy League MBAs who know math - but unwise.
She told me about somebody like that in their late 30s whose family has had to move into her parents' house in Natick, and who has their two homes on the market.
We spoke of the time-honored and traditionally-admired Yankee virtue of not living within your means, but below your means. We spoke about the Yankee virtues of "making do," "going without," and giving to others. We spoke about ostentatiousness and conspicuous consumption. We pontificated about whether getting and spending represented an emotional or spiritual emptiness, or a hollowness in a part of American culture. We reflected on whether the childish "I want..." had replaced more durable and mature motives and life guidelines. We touched on what God wants from us, as we always do when we are together. We remembered the old-time Yankee pride in driving old, beat-up station wagons to the tattered old WASPy yacht club in Marblehead. We remembered the old-time Yankee pride in owing nothing, and the pride and freedom that confers: owning your life.
Then, after an excellent no-carb lunch and with a couple of chardonnays under our belts, we went shopping.
Photo: Simple but charming living quarters from Sipp's snarky piece on homes: I'm going to say somethng rude now.
 It's Earth Day! via Am Thinker:
...it was not just Leftist conspiracy theorists who a few short were years ago accusing the government of lying to us about global cooling. Even books for schoolchildren like The New Ice Age by Henry Gilford, cautioned thirty years ago that the temperature of the earth had been steadily cooling and that a new ice age was certain. What investigative reporters and schoolbook publishers were insisting during the Carter and Reagan presidencies was being endorsed by some great scientists as well.
Sir Fred Hoyle is one of the leading cosmologists in human history. No scientist today can claim greater intellectual stature than Hoyle, particularly about our planet in the universe. In 1981, Hoyle published a book, Ice: How the New Ice Age will Come and How We Can Prevent It, in which this brilliant giant of natural sciences warned of the next ice age. The consequences, Hoyle warned, would be disastrous. It would:
"...hopelessly compromise the future...This is why our modern generation must take action to avoid catastrophe, an ultimate catastrophe besides which the problems that concern people, media, and government from day to day are quite trivial."
Hoyle, writing only a decade before the whole global warming jihad became chic science, had studied the climatic trends, the astronomical effects, the impact of carbon dioxide in our atmosphere -- everything, really, that the druids of global warming cite today -- and he had come to exactly the opposite conclusion as today's politically correct science of official global warming.
There is no doubt that there will be a surge in ice. Question is when. Technically, we remain in an ice age, defined as periods in which there are polar ice caps. During most of earth time, there weren't.
Related: Since fat people are now the cause of global warming, Jules suggests that Al Gore preach more about that.
Bloggers for hire?
In America today, there are almost as many people making their living as bloggers as there are lawyers. Already more Americans are making their primary income from posting their opinions than Americans working as computer programmers or firefighters.
Difficult for me to believe.
Juan Williams:
...over the last week I find myself in a fury.
The cause of my upset is watching the key civil rights issue of this generation — improving big city public school education — get tossed overboard by political gamesmanship. If there is one goal that deserves to be held above day-to-day partisanship and pettiness of ordinary politics it is the effort to end the scandalous poor level of academic achievement and abysmally high drop-out rates for America’s black and Hispanic students.
How well did waterboarding work?
Why trying to control carbon emissions will make no difference at all. But what do facts matter? Power grabs always find excuses for it.
In a time of victory, why is the Left still so angry?
Tuesday, April 21. 2009
From Black Sphere (h/t, SDA):
As a black man, I love it when ignorant white women like Janeane Garofalo speak for all blacks. It's thrilling to me that Janeane would take time out of her busy Hollyweird life to protect me and my peeps -- the downtrodden, the oppressed...the lowly Negro.
For her efforts, I thank Garofalo, and anoint her Janeane Garofalo: White Chick Protector of the Lowly Negro.
Read the whole thing.
 The Sting, from Krauthammer, hits that nail on the head. One quote:
Notes The Washington Post: "But as his admirable summation of recent history made clear, these pursuits have little to do with the economic crisis, and they are not the key to economic recovery." Obama rarely fails to repeat this false connection. A crisis -- and the public's resulting pliability to liberal social engineering -- is a terrible thing to waste.
If you do not love and admire Charles Krauthammer, raise your hand. (I am sure our readers know that Charles is a paraplegic retired Harvard Psychiatrist, with a second career as Brainy Guy.)
It's been cold, rain and stormy, noisy wind here. "Feels like 34," weatherman said yesterday. We are eager for some global warming - solar, anthropogenic, cow farted, or otherwise.
 A new book of Mark Twain's unpublished work. One quote:
Twain describes his dentist: "He was gray and venerable, and humane of aspect; but he had the calm, possessed, surgical look of a man who could endure pain in another person."
Bummer: Online shopping taxes are on the way. Government = Greed.
Dems promise that gummint medical care will deny you treatment. Duh.
Kinky gerontophiliacs? Is it legal?
Piracy: There's been lots of it since the Barbary pirates.
Sin City on the Tigris: Baghdad getting back to normal.
Ban Ki Moon annoyed with Ahmadinejad. Delegates walked out.
The truth behind the Maersk Alabama story.
Spengler outs himself to be...David P. Goldman, of First Things
 Miss California (on left) is a gay marriage skeptic. Will Wikinson defends gay marriage on libertarian grounds.
It's about time we added The Other McCain to our blogroll
Cuts of $100 million? A joke. Who is he kidding? (Probably lots of people who can't add.)
What's the state of manufacturing in the US? Not too bad.
I'm with Jules: this is the sort of reporting I want from the NYT
Politics and public pension shakedowns
DHS Threat map (h/t, Moonbattery)
Monday, April 20. 2009
 The little known killing fields of Jews (h/t, Jungleman)
Gummint may try to convert TARP funds to equity. No wonder they don't want to let the banks return the money.
It is scientific misconduct. No doubt about it. It's politicized "science."
Drowning the low-lying Caribbean islands? Who cares? The people can go to the People's Paradise of Cuba and be happy. Come to think of it, though, doesn't coral grow?
The ethanol scam.
Is Hollywood "progressive"? Quite the opposite. But knowing no history - or anything else - they think they're cool.
Are Tea Parties a sickness? You put 10 demented ladies going menopausal in pink t-shirts, and it's a front-page protest. Yet half a million good citizens defending American values is a sickness? I think the O would rather chat with Chavez than with me.
Not in my backyard: Uirghur terrorists. How about one-way tickets to Paris? My intuition tells me that they might not appreciate the blessings of America.
Shriver in Am Thinker:
In all my years of watching news coverage in America, I don't believe I have ever witnessed more condescending, amateurish, purely politicized reporting than what just transpired among the liberal MSM covering America's Tax Day Tea Parties. The Tea Parties represented a very significant news event.
Finally, something that cheered me: Cow farts
More on the govt's opposition to solar power. But that's fine with me. I think oil is great stuff, and a gift to humankind.
Fred Barnes: Defeat Obamacare. Related: Socialism and cancer
Michelle O and her no-show paycheck. It's the Dem ideal: money for nothin'
Who said this?
"Edicts of nondiscrimination are not enough. Justice demands that every citizen consciously adopts a personal commitment to affirmative action, which will make equal opportunity a reality."
Close the service academies? Jules
Re Elaine Showalter's new book on women authors:
"I believe that women writers no longer need specially constituted juries, softened judgment, unspoken agreements, or suppression of evidence in order to stand alongside the greatest artists in our literary heritage." That, she acknowledges, may not sit well with some literary critics, men and women. The Chronicle Review talked with her about why she thinks the time is right for the kind of broad survey she's undertaken and why it's taken so long to get it.
A blast from the past on Fascism (Parts 1,2, and 3): Volokh
Hate-spewing sanctimony: Garofolo. People use ad hominem when they run out of arguments, but this is ridiculous. Who is this person, anyway?
The O's tax plans running into resistance. Hmmm
Sunday, April 19. 2009
 More links later tonite - probably.
Good news: people increasingly AGW skeptics. As John says, The public is catching on. Follow the money...
Related: Lefty Court disallows Alaska offshore drilling. Insane.
Alice Waters: Let them eat organic grapes. I cannot stand people like that. Alice needs to check out a Big Mac.
I never heard of "teabagging" before. Maybe I'm innocent. I still don't know what it means.
Justice Stevens renders an opinion on who wrote Shakespeare's stuff. Whoever it was, I will continue to refer to him as Shakespeare.
If you tax the rich at 100%, it's still not enough for the O's budget
Conservative college speakers need bodyguards.
Is waterboarding worse than killing?
The Left and Islam. Why are they friends?
"We Chinese need to be controlled." Why? Because otherwise "we would do what we want." God forbid!
2nd Amendment, Montana-style
Excellent Afghanistan battle report at Villainous
Faculty scared by veterans. I guess gratitude never entered their mind.
Alarmed by Obama, at Am Thinker. A quote:
Obama's most transparent strategy, about which much has been written, is to cement American citizens' economic dependence on the government, and therefore on him. In order to achieve this, Obama has deepened and prolonged an otherwise fixable economic crisis, creating menacing conditions for social disintegration and chaos. His tax policies and private sector takeovers ensure jobless rates that will rival those of the Depression era, greatly increasing the number of individuals who will look to government for their survival.
But Obama's strategies go far beyond mere economic control.
Saturday, April 18. 2009
Despite the current global cooling, the Dem congress is determined to tax the heck out of your energy use and the EPA wants to regulate the heck out of it. Via Breitbart:
The court case, brought by Massachusetts, focused only on emissions from automobiles. But it is widely assumed that if the EPA must regulate emissions from cars and trucks, it will have no choice but to control similar pollution from power plants and industrial sources.
The EPA wants to unleash a "regulatory barrage that will destroy jobs, raise energy prices for consumers, and undermine America's global competitiveness," complained Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla., one of Congress' most vocal skeptics of global warming.
In addition to carbon dioxide, a product of burning fossil fuels, the EPA finding covers five other emissions that scientists believe are warming the earth when they concentrate in the atmosphere: Methane (CH4), nitrous oxide (N2O), hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), perfluorocarbons (PFCs), and sulfur hexafluoride (SF6).
Bloomberg: Waxman won't compromise
As readers know, we don't think this is about science: we think it is about taxation and control, with the science as a convenient untruth. I guess we could be wrong, but we do read the info.
Friday, April 17. 2009
 I know it's a cheap shot which is beneath Maggie's dignity, but that photo (Caption This) from Wizbang isn't a person walking a dog: it's a dog walking a person. I just use the photo to make the point that, in general, it only takes about 3 hours (9 20-minute lessons at 2-3/day) to train a pup to heel (his nose at your left knee), and it will never forget with regular reinforcement of the lesson. Nobody wants to be seen in public with a dog that will not heel because it's a reflection on you, like a kid that throws food. Pinch collar and dog yummies. An untrained dog means you don't really care about the animal, same as an uncivilized kid. In the Obama's defence, that is a darn good-looking PWD (if a bit older than the ideal 6-9 weeks), but any dog can be easily trained. Obedience is what they are bred for. It just takes a few minutes and a little firmness. The training is the real bonding. Train that dog the way you train the Dems in Congress. Sit! Heel! Vote!
Government should bail out dying media. Brilliant! Just like Chavez. Or Pravda. Put 'em on the gummint payroll and they will play nice, like the BBC and the CBC.
Treasury "allows" bank to return TARP funds; bank complains about changing the rules. Duh. Take their money and you're on their plantation.
Does Georgetown hate its Jesuit heritage?
Dem crook du jour: The Car Czar. So many Dem sleazes that it seems normal now. Not news.
From Tiger:
An old pro like Barack Obama has to be more amused by these protests than worried about them. The left is laughing for a reason.
If the right wants to succeed in civil resistance, it needs to study the tactics of the left and adopt the methods that are not incompatible with its own morality.
Related: Thousands protest: the Left sneers
Finally, a war the Left would embrace with enthusiasm
Journalists have journalist arrested. That's the spirit! (h/t Insty)
LaShawn outs herself as a right-wing extremist
Why many with 6-figure incomes do not feel rich
Obama apologizes to innocent asteroids
How the CIA extracted info from Jihadists.
Krauthammer shreds Obama's BS. Amazing to me how the O gets away with it.
NYT: Tea Parties dismissed as group therapy. Dem leaders have a different view: Tea Parties are Neo-Nazi racists and militias. I guess they are referring to people like the Neo-Nazi skinhead neoneo.
And another Dem Rep calls them despicable. Huh? I thought dissent was patriotic...never mind.
And via Driscoll:
Related: “Never before in history have so few been able to accuse so many so often and so pervasively of so much they didn’t say and don’t mean”, Roger L. Simon writes, in his look at “Tea Party Derangement Syndrome.”
Social pathology and structural poverty. A quote:
The biggest question to ask liberals is: Why don't you support those solutions that have worked so well in your own life?
It is hard to avoid the feeling that the Left is endemically racist and classist: That they have simply decided that what works in their own lives will never work to raise poor blacks, Hispanics and whites out of poverty.
If that's not true, I would like to hear from liberals: Why don't you just encourage all the people you feel sorry for to adopt those work and life habits that made your own friends and families successful?
Dick Morris on the anti-success President. A quote:
Obama’s perverse view of fairness threatens to create reverse incentives, militating against growth, jobs, expansion, and upward mobility.
For decades, astute observers of national welfare policy warned of the perversity of the incentives which kept the poor on welfare and discouraged them from taking jobs. Employment meant that their slightly higher income would be more than offset by the loss of other benefits like food stamps, day care, rent supplements, and Medicaid. Work didn’t pay.
Now Obama is applying the same crazy policies to the upper end of the economic spectrum.
Upward mobility is alive and well in the United States, at least until Obama took over. A study conducted in the late 1990s examined the economic fate of those consigned to the bottom 20% of incomes in 1980. The analysis concluded that more than four out of five had left the bottom quintile and one in five was now in the top 20%! It is true that the top quintile is getting richer while the bottom is getting poorer, but the bottom is not the same people. There is, fortunately, a constant churning at the bottom as new immigrants move in and those who used to be on the bottom begin their long, thrilling, upward climb to the American dream.
But Obama does not believe in individual upward mobility. He would penalize it, tax it, regulate it, inveigh against it, and disincentivize it.
Thursday, April 16. 2009
 Buffett tends to drive cars until the wheels fall off. His new one is a Chinese E-6. Good story.
Photo from the Fortune article.
Cincinnati photo via Moonbattery:
Also, the 101 freedoms the Left doesn't want you to have.
Sarkozy: Obama is unoriginal, unsubstantial and overrated.
It must be Spring. Campus moron infants must have their fun. Learning physical chemistry is apparently not on their agenda.
Beware of the geeks. The health and climate experts are usually wrong.
The Englishman says this guy in photo needs Courage to "give him enough confidence to tell the woman the dress was not flattering":
Mourning Michigan. Dr. Clouthier
Very sensitive: Georgetown hides Jesus at Obama's request. But I thought Georgetown...never mind. Jesus is old hat: Mohammed is cool, dude, and he was big into underage chicks. Can you dig it?
Want Cadillac health care?
You can have Cadillac health care. You want lots of doctors, no waiting lists and coverage for virtually all your medical and psychological needs? Sure. But there's a price to pay. I know, you're already pinching pennies because your nest eggs have been decimated and you're wondering how you're going to put the kids through college. Still, if you want unlimited health care, hand over half your paycheque to the government.
Photo below from Michelle's Tea party update:
One more dangerous right-wing fanatic, and another reason to attend your local tea parties, via Ace:
"The Sleuth" in the WaPo thinks this must have been a thrill for the Dead.
I think that's exactly backwards - but it tells you where she's coming from.
Wednesday, April 15. 2009
 Tea Parties all over. Martini Parties too, but in private I suppose. Photo from Ann Arbor. Map of today's Parties: Lots of 'em.
Also, Why you should go to one. LAT: Tea Parties are insane. Tea parties are about future taxes: Q&O.
Each one is identically different: Sipp.
Pirates talking tough. AAARRRGhhh. It's the most trivial of our international problems. Related: More support for the pirates. Let's all collect bottles of Bacardi for the poor fellows.
Social class in America:
For readers who somehow missed this snide, martini-dry American classic, do have your assistant Tessa run out and get it immediately (Upper), or at least be sure to worriedly skim this magazine summary over a low-fat bagel (Middle), because Fussell’s bibelot-rich tropes still resonate.
When Viktor met Olga.
More Lefty thugs preventing free speech at UNC. Aren't different points of view interesting?
The unbearable lightness of Paul Krugman
If you are a single guy, and paid your taxes today honestly (or at least filed your extension), your reward, besides feeling patriotic and honest, is the young lassie below the fold courtesy of Obama and Timmy Geithner. She's waiting at home for ya.
Continue reading "Thursday morning links, posted early"
Big Dog (not Bird Dog) is a danger to our country: I am a right wing extremist.
 IRS agents see double standard on tax errors (Image via Theo)
Breaking news: Sunspots cause climate fluctuations
DHS targets conservatives instead of Moslem terrorists. I knew that creating that Dept. was a bad idea. She is watching me? This is a bad joke.
Illinois gets the pork. Like Roger says. Related, Jesse Jackson Jr. offered Blago $5 million for Senate seat
Faked Obama story passed off as real by the MSM
Are we wasting $ on Alzheimer's care? Sheesh. I think I have a mild case of it, but I do OK.
Black Caucus duped by Fidel. (Why is there a Black Caucus? Don't we have a black President, for heaven's sake? Sheesh. It's just skin tone.)
Gov. Rick Perry and the Tenth Amendment. Nobody told him that the Constitution was obsolete.
More on the paper scam. Mankiw. It's only $8 billion.
Kaus takes a look at medical care costs
Metrosexual Dems go all giddy about guns. Jules:
I’m thrilled about the handwringing, Kumbayah-singing, peacenik left’s new enthusiasm for swift, extra-judicial 7.62 justice by executive order, and the lack of calls for human rights investigations, prosecutions, etc.
He's not joking: We have created more pirates. Good grief. We had the power to create Jihadists, and now we create pirates. Yo ho ho.
Mao and Marx have disappeared from China. Remarkable paean to Capitalism, but
...meanwhile in the USA, Modern Collectivism. A quote:
Collectivism holds that the individual has no rights. Your life, your existence, your interests and the product of your labor now belongs to the group. If the group needs a bailout, heath care, green cars, low mortgage rates, a job, an education—anything at all, it now becomes your responsibility to provide it, whether you want to or not.
You see it in both the redistributive legislation, which takes money from people who’ve earned it and give it to those who have not, along with the language itself. Phrases like “we’re all in it together”, “I am my brother’s keeper” and “shared sacrifice” boil down to the same frightening reality: You are here to serve. And unlike the charity of volunteerism, the “will of the people” is implemented by force, not by voluntary trade.
This is a profoundly anti-American ideal.
image by Big Fur Hat of iOwnTheWorld.com
George Bush had a dog too, but that pup wasn't a PR stunt - he had it long before he was elected, and it wasn't a stage prop.
Tuesday, April 14. 2009
Until today,the greatest news headline evar- the gold standard, really - has been:
But now a new competitor in the WTF sweepstakes, 8 pica division, is in, and it's a daisy:
Japanese Popstar Dressed As Pineapple Robbed In Malmo
I'd like to give the author credit, but these things write themselves these days, don't they?
Legal scam or real problem? Chinese wallboard
Is there a freedom not to buy medical insurance? Why does that question even need to be asked?
Animal nutritionists at the National Zoo
A "quick" bankruptcy for GM? Megan
Nuclear disarmament: a bad idea in many ways.
A generation of selfish, self-centered liars. Perfect for the Brave New World.
Yes, the Dems killed it, but
What’s a bunch of African-American kids, versus the teachers’ union? Especially in this administration?
Related at Ace who says Obama hates black people.
Goldman beats expectations. Clever dudes down there. From what I heard, they hedged their AIG debt with AIG shorts.
Speaking of Goldman, Wilkinson considers whether there is something nasty about wanting to make lots of money. Of course there isn't: everybody is free to pursue their own (legal) aspirations. The contemptuous assumption that "all the rich are crooks" is as foolish as "all poor are honest." People without functional morals are well-distributed everywhere.
News flash: Economics is an art, not a science
Pirate photo via Theo. Rick Moran offers another side to the Somalia piracy story. Of course, lousy fishing conditions do not justify piracy. These pirates are just thugs with a heretofore easy gig.
Shades of Larry Summers: Disney uses science to attract boy viewers
We posted previously that Western Civilization is not consistent with Brown University's values. Jules attempts to comprehend what is consistent with Harvard's values. It's confusing to say the least. He quotes young Kristol 3rd:
Harvard today happily pays for future bankers to take accounting courses at MIT, but refuses to pay for aspiring military officers who take ROTC courses. Since 1994, anonymous donors have generously picked up the tab, providing hundreds of thousands of dollars per year for Harvard’s ROTC students.
Monday, April 13. 2009
Bravo to our Navy, our SEALs, and to Captain Phillips.
 NY taxes now #1.
Mr. Silver says of the coming tax hikes: "We've done it before. There hasn't been a catastrophe." Oh, really? According to Census Bureau data, over the past decade 1.97 million New Yorkers left the state for greener pastures -- the biggest exodus of any state. New York City has lost more than 75,000 jobs since last August, and many industrial areas upstate are as rundown as Detroit. The American Legislative Exchange Council recently said New York had the worst economic outlook of all 50 states, including Michigan. And that analysis was done before these $4 billion in new taxes. How does Mr. Silver define "catastrophe"?
I think he could more accurately say that it hasn't been a catastrophe for the politicians.
Move along. Nothing to be learned here.
A history of the computer mouse. h/t, Thompson
Turns out that all of that about the evil Bush power grabs was insincere electioneering. Gee, who knew?
Daniel Hannen MEP on the Brit NHS:
Imagine that, in 1945, we had created a National Food Service. Suppose that, in the name of "fairness" and "need and not ability to pay", sustenance had been rationed by the state. Conjecture that every citizen had been allocated one butcher, one baker, one café and so on. We all know where that would have led: to bureaucracy, to duplication, to surpluses in one field and scarcity in another, to racketeering, to hunger. No one, not even Prescott, is suggesting that we socialise food distribution - even though food is at least as basic human need as healthcare. As those Americans of whom you seem so contemptuous might put it, John, go figure.
Chris Dodd's "Banking for Change" does seem like an unfortunate choice of campaign motto
More on China's excess of males
The NYT, Obama, and the UN Human Rights Council
The Blago case: Biz as usual?
The AP is sword-rattling towards the internet. I agree with the article that the relationship is symbiotic.
The Left hopes the New America will no longer be exporting democracy. I understand Realpolitik, but it hardly seems like something to be enthused about.
What is it about Europe and free speech?
Proposed: the right to sue the Fed gov for the weather
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