Sunday, October 25, 2009
ARES TO LAUNCH TUESDAY
A day after its successful move to launch pad 39B at Kennedy Space Center, the Ares I-X flight test rocket is being prepared for a planned Tuesday (Oct. 27) morning liftoff.
Here are some pictures of the 327 foot long vehicle as it is moved to Pad 39B on the mobile transporter.
Tuesday's flight is a suborbital flight to verify vehicle systems. Go Ares!
Here are some pictures of the 327 foot long vehicle as it is moved to Pad 39B on the mobile transporter.
Tuesday's flight is a suborbital flight to verify vehicle systems. Go Ares!
UNDEREDUCATED
The President may be a graduate of Columbia and Harvard Law School, but he’s woefully undereducated where it really matters:
He was enrolled in Ms. Sakai’s kindergarten class at Noelani Elementary School [Hawaii public school] in 1967, but he was only there a couple or three months before he was off to Indonesia.So he missed out: All I really need to know I learned in kindergarten.
- Share everything.Life is tough when all you have going for you is an “elite education.”
- Play fair.
- Don't hit people.
- Put things back.
- Clean up your own mess.
- Don't take things that aren't yours.
- Say you're sorry.
- Live a balanced life.
NEW YORK VOTER FRAUD
Election likely tipped to Democrats. Why am I not surprised?
Voting needs to be made more restrictive, so only the motivated - and hopefully knowlegable - vote. In-person registration; in-person voting, and mandatory ID at both registration and in the voting booth would do for a start.
Voting needs to be made more restrictive, so only the motivated - and hopefully knowlegable - vote. In-person registration; in-person voting, and mandatory ID at both registration and in the voting booth would do for a start.
GOVERNMENT HEALTHCARE
Weren't there supposed to be at least 50 million doses of swine flu vaccine available by now?
“President Obama’s late-night declaration of a nationwide public health emergency last night shouldn’t be allowed to obscure the most important lesson of the developing swine flu crisis – The same government that only weeks ago promised abundant supplies of swine flu vaccine by mid-October will be running your health care system under Obamacare.”
Photo via Instapundit.
“President Obama’s late-night declaration of a nationwide public health emergency last night shouldn’t be allowed to obscure the most important lesson of the developing swine flu crisis – The same government that only weeks ago promised abundant supplies of swine flu vaccine by mid-October will be running your health care system under Obamacare.”
Photo via Instapundit.
MAKING SOMEONE (ELSE) PAY
If only. “You, however, may have an ATM-like role.”
To me, the key graf, mentioned almost in passing, is this:
To me, the key graf, mentioned almost in passing, is this:
Assurant, one of the nation's bigger writers of individual policies, ... leads in high-deductible plans of the kind Obamacare would ban (emphasis added).My suspicion is that it is exactly these high-deductible plans that are keeping the cost of health care from rising even faster than they are. Ban them and watch annual cost increases accelerate.
WALL STREET CRACKDOWN
The White House has decided to restrict compensation at seven firms that got special bailouts, and the Federal Reserve proposed to review pay practices at 28 unnamed giant banks. while critics are concerned that reining in pay makes it hard to keep talented employees.
Fortune magazine: ”Who cares if Wall Street talent leaves? It's not as if the best and brightest were doing a good job to begin with.”
True enough. But Fortune misses the real point: “Can the second-raters do better?”
[Update] Others are noticing, too.
[Another Update] And for the Obamanauts, recognition that the rules don’t apply to their side.
Fortune magazine: ”Who cares if Wall Street talent leaves? It's not as if the best and brightest were doing a good job to begin with.”
True enough. But Fortune misses the real point: “Can the second-raters do better?”
[Update] Others are noticing, too.
[Another Update] And for the Obamanauts, recognition that the rules don’t apply to their side.
HHS: OBAMACARE WOULD MAKE COSTS RISE
“The nation's medical costs will keep spiraling upward even faster than they are now under Democratic legislation pending in the House, a report from government economic experts concluded. [T]he report from the [HHS] Office of the Actuary ... carried an unusual disclaimer, saying that it "does not represent an official position" of Health and Human Services.”
From Hot Air: “We should ask why the administration doesn’t pay attention to its own analysis. Perhaps it’s because the ObamaCare push has always been about ideology over rational policy.”
Ed Morrissey has the right idea:
From Hot Air: “We should ask why the administration doesn’t pay attention to its own analysis. Perhaps it’s because the ObamaCare push has always been about ideology over rational policy.”
Ed Morrissey has the right idea:
A combination of health-savings accounts with a move away from comprehensive insurance to catastrophic coverage would not only better serve Americans but would result in a massive boost to the health-care industry.If only the Obama administration was half as smart.
IRAN DOUBLECROSS
Obama stiffed again.
An Instapundit reader has a good point: “he [Obama] turned his back on the Iranian people because that whole free election fight of theirs wasn’t nearly as important as the nuclear deal he was working out with Iran’s regime.”
So much for liberal “sophistication” ....
An Instapundit reader has a good point: “he [Obama] turned his back on the Iranian people because that whole free election fight of theirs wasn’t nearly as important as the nuclear deal he was working out with Iran’s regime.”
So much for liberal “sophistication” ....
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