bfwebster on October 7th, 2009

ITEM: I reported earlier one possible end-run by the Senate to pass the increasingly unpopular “public option” in healthcare reform.  Here’s another one:
Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., is weighing a plan to bring the final health care bill to the floor without a public option — making it much easier to get the 60 votes [...]

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bfwebster on September 28th, 2009

ITEM: Milk prices have plummeted here in Denver over the past year. I used to spend close to $3/gallon for my favorite milk (Lucerne Skim Supreme Fat Free milk); now the price is around $1.60/gallon. It’s hurt the dairy farmers here in Colorado, and their response is to kill cows in order to reduce milk [...]

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bfwebster on September 18th, 2009

ITEM: See the guy weeping above? This is the ACORN community organizer (the paper’s phrase, not mine) in San Diego who offered to help smuggle underage girl into the United States for prostitution. Turns out that ACORN actually fired him.
NATIONAL CITY – Local ACORN officials reversed an earlier decision Thursday afternoon and fired a community [...]

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bfwebster on September 10th, 2009

9/12 UPDATE: Sandra and I are now here in DC, staying right downtown. We’re attending a meeting this morning over at the DC Armory and then will hit the National Gallery of Art. (It is sad how few times when went there during the nearly 8 years total that we lived in DC and the [...]

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bfwebster on September 7th, 2009

MID-MORNING LINKS [updated as I run across them]
ITEM: It turns out there’s at least one thing that the Communist Chinese government and I agree upon:

China alarmed by US money printing
The US Federal Reserve’s policy of printing money to buy Treasury debt threatens to set off a serious decline of the dollar and compel China to [...]

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bfwebster on May 5th, 2009

OVERNIGHT LINK (note the singular)
ITEM: The Onion has become so much better than Saturday Night Live at video humor:

Trekkies Bash New Star Trek Film As ‘Fun, Watchable’
Well, that’s probably it for the day. I have work to do.  ..bruce w..

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bfwebster on May 4th, 2009

MORNING LINKS — again, blogging will be light this week, due both to work and to hardware problems
ITEM: If there’s any question whether the departure of Sen. Arlen Specter (ID-Ego) from the Republican Party is a good thing, he settled it this weekend:
Mr. Specter continued: “If  [the Republicans] had pursued what President Nixon declared in [...]

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bfwebster on May 2nd, 2009

MORNING LINKS — such as they are
ITEM: Warmists are realizing that when you’re losing the data debate, the  scientific debate and the popular debate — you should just change the terms of the debate!
The problem with global warming, some environmentalists believe, is “global warming.”
The term turns people off, fostering images of shaggy-haired liberals, economic sacrifice [...]

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bfwebster on May 1st, 2009

ADMIN: Yeah, I know today’s post title doesn’t rhyme with the others — but here’s a quick test of your own nit-pickiness: did the difference between Monday’s title and the rest of the week bother you?
MORNING LINKS (and these are likely the only link you’ll get today).
LINK: Speaking of workers, I’m going to be tied [...]

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bfwebster on April 30th, 2009

OVERNIGHT LINKS — well, just one, really.
I’m heading out to the Left Coast for some time to come, so blogging will be a bit more sporadic and light. For today . . .
ITEM: Debra Saunders takes a look at Pelosi’s Tortured Explanation:
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi had been pushing for a “truth commission” to investigate the [...]

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