Monday, December 28, 2009

GOVERNMENT WORKERS OPTIMISTIC; private sector workers not. Of course. With the Democrats in power, the opportunities for government 'controllers' are endless.
ON NEWSPAPERS and spectator sports: “The news story ... was written like it was a sporting event. There were a few facts and then there were reactions from Democrats and Republicans as if their contests were what mattered.”

Yep. What I want from newspapers are the facts. I can supply the opinions myself.

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VICTOR DAVIS HANSON on his expectations for 2010. I’m not that optimistic.
DAVE BARRY’S 2009: ”Washington, rejecting ‘business as usual’, finally stopped trying to solve every problem by throwing billions of taxpayer dollars at it and instead started trying to solve every problem by throwing trillions of taxpayer dollars at it.”

Read it all.

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HMM .... From the Fox News website this afternoon.

Best Virtual Breadcrumbs for the Lost Traveler: Bushnell BackTrack Handheld GPS.

Couple Stuck in Oregon Snow for 3 Days After GPS Leads Them Astray.
I KNEW CONGRESS was full of clowns ...




... so this must be a sign of an advanced civilization.
SO TELL US how you really feel.

What I’d really like to know is David Michael Green’s solutions to the problems he’s listed.

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OBAMISM DEFINED: "Votes are bought with hundred-million-dollar earmarks; the attorney general predicates judicial action on the political ramifications of indicting or not indicting; federal bureaucracies are devoted to the new Caesar rather than the letter of the law.”
SO DRUNKENNESS IS A REQUIREMENT FOR CIVILIZATION? “A secure supply of alcohol appears to have been part of the human community’s basic requirements much earlier than was long believed.”