Friday, February 5. 2010
Where not to die in 2010.
Also from Tax Prof: Law School Only Makes Economic Sense If You Go to a Top 70 School. Top 70? I'd say Top 25.
Fun in Hartford: NORTHEAST FISHING & HUNTING EXPO COMING FEB. 26-28
A bamboo bike?
How come no family members help this poor lady?
The wealthy don't pay the estate tax. Small businessmen, farmers,, and regular people are the ones who get stuck with it.
Rent control in NYC: Taxpayers, Meet Your New Tenants
Unpleasant Grannies rage against Tim Tebow's existence. Wonder whether they have grandkids...
Steyn: Credibility is what�s really melting
Tim Blair: Their faith upset by recent events, warmenists are lashing out.
Related: We have been swindled:
We've been set up as marks by a gang of opportunistic hucksters who have exploited the na�vely altruistic intentions of the environmental movement in an effort to control international energy consumption while redistributing global wealth and (in many cases) greedily lining their own pockets in the process.
Perhaps now, more people will finally understand what many have known for years: Man-made climate change was never really a problem -- but rather, a solution.
For just as the science of the IPCC has been exposed as fraudulent, so have its apparent motives. The true ones became strikingly evident when the negotiating text for the "last chance to save the planet" International Climate Accord [PDF], put forth in Copenhagen in December, was found to contain as many paragraphs outlining the payment of "climate debt" reparations by Western nations under the watchful eye of a U.N.-controlled global government as it did emission reduction schemes.
Then again, neither stratagem should come as any real surprise to those who've paid attention.
The EU is a tyrant. It is time for the Euroweenies to man up and rebel.
"I found it fascinating that the people who were editorializing against it were The New York Times Company and The Washington Post Company," Thomas said, according to a report in The New York Times. "These are corporations."
Thursday, February 4. 2010
Re Ted Kennedy, via Never Yet Melted:
...Kennedy waxed sentimental about Washington in the early 1960s: “It used to be civilized. The media was on our side. We’d get our work done by one o’clock and by two we were at the White House chasing women. We got the job done, and the reporters focused on the issues. . . . It was civilized."
Email from a friend:
One of our institutional equity market strategists reacted to Pres O's proposal to tax banks to recover TARP money. Everyone knows the the gov't is net ahead on its bank investments, but here are the actual returns (costs or benefits to taxpayers) as calculated by my colleague:
Bank bailouts: + 16.9 billion profit to date
AIG bailout: - $30.4 billion projected loss
Automaker bailout: - $30.5 billion projected loss
Homeowner bailouts: - $50 billion projected subsidy
Looks to me that the logic leads us to tax homeowners. Ooooooooops! I just realized that he is proposing that, too.
Who says there's nothing amusing in the newspapers anymore?
(From yesterday's MarketWatch)
 Justice Department seeking "retarded" or "mentally ill" lawyers.
Art as manifesto: The Bauhaus group
Our blog pal Mr. Free Market signs off. I guess his site has not been corporate enough. We shall miss him.
TREES WILL NOT BECOME UNSTOPPABLE KILLING MACHINES, ADMIT CLIMATE SCIENTISTS
College life: The Hamilton follies cont'd
Burlington VT: Our experiment in socialism
Kudlow vs. Schumer?
Blue Crab:
Longtime readers know that I have a brother with Down Syndrome.
My brother is considerably more decent, honorable, polite and has a better vocabulary than Mr. Emanuel.
By a very large margin.
Why does the US MSM ignore all of the climategates? Perhaps they do not wish to confuse us.
Powerline: Obama Attacks Churches, Charities and Home Values
Is the O's dishonesty harmful? Reason
Obama Budget Includes $4 Billion Bonanza for ACORN
Our friend Roger begins:
Last week, Howard Zinn, reigning anti-American historian of America, died of a heart attack. He was 87. Zinn’s gift to posterity was A People’s History of the United States, a book that has done more than any other textbook to instill hatred and contempt of America in the nation’s teachers and their students. No wonder it was such a runaway success. First published in 1980, it has gone on to sell some 2 million copies. And its brief against America was memorialized in “The People Speak” a 4-part mini-series that aired in December.
The outpouring of sentimental pap that Zinn’s passing occasioned was as large as it was nauseating. Typical was Bob Herbert’s emetic eulogy in The New York Times...
Americans do care about the "greater good." Right now, that means caring about the federal debt.
Wednesday, February 3. 2010
Thinking creatively about medical insurance. He says:
It was pretty crazy for Congress to decide under McCarran-Ferguson that the insurance business should be balkanized into 50 state markets.
Nowhere is the craziness more severe than in New England, where state insurance pools are tiny and health-insurance and health-care costs are the highest in the nation. Even a medium-sized state, say North Carolina (population 9.2 million), would largely escape this problem.
From Dennis Prager's What I Said to the Republican Members of Congress:
It is very easy to say, "Vote for us and we will give you, we will give you, we will give you." It is much harder to advocate what is right and to say, "Vote for us, but no, we won't give you" -- even though that is the more moral and the more American position. So you have the far more difficult task.
John Rosemond, who writes books on child rearing, says that the most important vitamin you can give to a child is Vitamin N, his term for the word "No." You have given America Vitamin N.
 FOX News may have Megyn Kelly but check out one of our Maggie's Farm fact-checkers (photo).
The intolerant Left: Tebow and NOW at Hot Air
Hypocritical Repubs
What is the IPCC supposed to be doing?
Related: Global warming is dead
The wine train stimulus scam
Keep an eye on Iran this month
An excess of Ivy League
Legal Insurrection: Here's What Early Draft Of Constitution Said
Insty:
CHANGE! (Or is this Hope! instead?) Estate Tax Repeal Creates Boom for Lawyers. Yay, lawyers!
Read and weep: The new tax proposals
Frank Rich wants to see more violence
Dems worried about 2012
Government medical care: Canadian pol to US for heart surgery
Photo from Theo, of course
Tuesday, February 2. 2010
Rahm Emanuel terms budget doubters and dissenters "f-ing retarded." That would include me, and I'm sure he is correct. Respectful debate on the merits is great, isn't it?
Speaking of f-ing retarded, Punxatawny Phil is. 6 more weeks of winter? Well, duh. Tell me something I don't know, genius.
Miss Megyn Kelly. Indeed she does. And brains, too.
Monday, February 1. 2010
Government spending on education increases its costs. Of course it does. "Free money" gets spent, plus more.
The Feds have no business tinkering with education, which is properly a local responsibility and for which no responsibility has been given, and over which no power has been granted, by the Constitution.
It is nothing but Fed payoffs to teachers, teacher's unions, and academia. Feeding the Beast.
Chart above via Dino. It splains a lot. No real world experience.
The new Blaser R8
Peer groups and self-control
Too cold for windmills in Minnesota
100 years of radio broadcasting
Now, Pew Says, Marriage Is a Better Deal for Men Than Women. Maybe that's why gays want marriage?
We do get it, Mr. President; we just don't like it
Russia urged China to dump Fannie, Freddie bonds in 2008
Your Tax Dollars at Work: the Civil ‘Service’ That’s Eating America
More on the Pachauri scandal. Related: IPCC loses all credibility
By all means keep the public out of the health care debates. The people are a real problem for politicans.
The "aspiring classes". Aren't we all? All aspiring for different things, too.
Haitians beg USA to take them over. No thanks.
Record cold grips the planet. What does this mean?
Remember this?
To: Howlin
Howlin, every single one of these memos to file is in a proportionally spaced font, probably Palatino or Times New Roman.
In 1972 people used typewriters for this sort of thing, and typewriters used monospaced fonts.
The use of proportionally spaced fonts did not come into common use for office memos until the introduction of laser printers, word processing software, and personal computers. They were not widespread until the mid to late 90’s. Before then, you needed typesetting equipment, and that wasn’t used for personal memos to file. Even the Wang systems that were dominant in the mid 80’s used monospaced fonts.
I am saying these documents are forgeries, run through a copier for 15 generations to make them look old.
This should be pursued aggressively.
47 posted on Wednesday, September 08, 2004 11:59:43 PM by Buckhead
From Tom Bowler's The Decade the MSM Won at Pajamas.
 Guess how many Conservatives are in Congress from New England.
We met Dan Debicella this weekend, and will get behind his campaign in CT-4 to unseat a one-term knee-jerk Pelosi acolyte.
Dan is the son of a police officer, grew up in Bridgeport. Wharton, Harvard MBA, and McKinsey on his resume. An impressive young fellow.
Since his opponent has voted according to Pelosi's commands essentially 100% of the time, I offered him my campaign ad line: This District deserves a guy in Congress to speak for the people of CT, not for the people of San Francisco.
He says on his campaign website: "I am running for Congress to restore the values of free enterprise and individual liberty to Washington."
He sounds like a practical, accomplished, Maggie's sort of guy. Why he, or any other fine person, would want to enter the world of politics is beyond me, though.
NH teacher, 100, gets degree a day before dying
The O admits he lied about "If you like it, you can keep it."
Roger Simon: Climategate: Al Gore and the politicization of science
Spiro Agnew: Prophet
Homosexuality in Afghanistan
Ugh. Awful RINO Lindsey Graham Pushes Climate Policy Because “Congress Needs a Win”
Like the slave trade: Americans arrested taking children out of Haiti
UN climate change panel based claims on student dissertation and magazine article
Union greed has dismembered Michigan
The O: Let's work together, you f-ing bastards
Payoff: Sugar Tariffs Cost Americans $2.5 Billion in 2009. I thought we had free trade.
Via SDA:
Now is the time at SDA when we juxtapose!
Carol Platt Liebau (Harvard Law Review), February 2009 - "[Tom Pirelli] did most of the day to day work. Barack Obama was nowhere to be seen. Occasionally he would drop in he would talk to people, and then he'd leave again as though his very arrival had been a benediction in and of itself, but not very much got done."
Byron York (National Examiner), January 2010 - Many observers have remarked that, even when dealing with the most momentous issues facing the country, Obama has seemed oddly removed from the hands-on work of making policy.
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