Synchronicity strikes again. Even as the Senate moves towards passing what may be the single worst and most disasterous piece of legislation in our generation, I happened to turn on TCM this evening and found the 1959 film version of “Li’l Abner” (itself based on the 1956 Broadway musical). Just a few minutes ago, a [...]
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Imagine, all of this squalor could be yours, you lucky US IBM employees! In case you are not a technology worker, over the past 15 years an increasing number of skilled jobs in this country have been going to (largely) Indian workers who come to this country on what is known as an H1B visa. [...]
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First it was the NY Times editorial telling Tom Daschle that he needed to step down as the Obama Administration nominee for Secretary of Health and Human Services — which Daschle did the same day the editorial came out, specifically citing the Times as he did so (“I read the New York Times this morning…”). [...]
Yeah, this pretty much sums it up: Hat tip to Mark Hemingway at the Corner at the National Review Online. ..bruce w..
A nice photo of the special ops version of the Marine Corps Osprey, courtesy of Defense Link. This bird has been adapted to search and rescue, or recovery of people in the wilds. This photo is from a training mission over the Florida coast. The Osprey has been a very ambitious project that has taken [...]
Just watch and enjoy: Hat tip to The Borderline Sociopathic Blog for Boys. ..bruce w..
[UPDATED 02/04/09 -- 1124 MST] It appears that Josh Marshall (see below) is just echoing President Obama (maybe that’s what Josh means by “Talking Points Memo”), who said in different interviews yesterday (scroll down to “Little Pork Spending in Bill”) that “most of the programs that have been criticized, as part of this package amount [...]
The wonderful Stimulus Watch website gives you an opportunity to see what funding is proposed in the House Stimulus package for any part of the country. I decided to look up Colorado, and in particular Parker, which is where I live, in hopes of doing some first-person investigation of any proposed projects. Nothing. In Parker, [...]
Let’s look at the track record so far, two weeks into the Obama Administration: Tom Daschle, now-former nominee for Sec’y of Health and Human Services, leaves the Senate, earns millions of dollars per year for uncertain work, fails to pay taxes and has heavy lobbying-like involvement from the health industry; his withdrawal was announced after [...]
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Now that they are beginning to see that the original bailouts and TARP is not working, your government is preparing yet another exotic scheme to try and rescue the financial industry. From the Financial Times: US set for ‘big bang’ financial clean-up Barack Obama is gearing up for a “big bang” announcement next week that [...]
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