Monday, July 11, 2011

YOU DON'T SAY: Medicare is Lousy Health Insurance.
THAT'S THE PROBLEM: “I’ve never had a real job. I’ve only worked in public service.”
Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner has told the White House he intends to step down after an agreement is reached with Congress to raise the debt limit.
See the second paragraph under "Around the Bigs."
OOPS! TESTS SHOW wireless network could harm Global Positioning Satellite [GPS] systems.
STOP GLOBAL WARMING: fly more often.
YOU'VE NEVER SEEN A DRIVE SYSTEM LIKE THIS



The article is here.
THE CLOUD isn't looking so good.
WAR DOGS -- a photo essay. More here.
GOOD QUESTIONS FROM MY EMAIL: After Katrina, the media blamed the lack of response on the Bush administration's dislike of black people. Can we then conclude from the lack of media coverage and response by the Obama administration that Obama doesn't like white people?
Where are the Hollywood celebrities holding telethons asking for help in restoring Iowa and North Dakota and helping the folks affected by the floods? Where is good old Michael Moore?

Why is the media not asking the tough questions about why the federal government hasn't solved this problem? Not asking where the FEMA trucks and trailers and food services are?

Why isn't the Federal government moving Iowa people into free hotels in Chicago and Minneapolis ?

When will Spike Lee say that the Federal government blew up the levees that failed in Des Moines ?

Where are Sean Penn, Bono, and the Dixie Chicks?

Where are all the looters stealing high-end tennis shoes, cases of beer and television sets?

When will we hear Governor Chet Culver say that he wants to rebuild a 'vanilla' Iowa ... because that's what God wants?

Where is the hysterical 24/7 media coverage complete with reports of shootings at rescuers, of rapes and murder?

Where are all the people screaming that Barack Obama hates white, rural people? My God, where are Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt, Oprah, and their pals?

How come you will never hear about the Iowa flooding ever again? Where are the government bail-out vouchers? The government debit cards?

More people died in these floods than from Katrina ... how come the media doesn't report that?
There must be one heck of a big difference between the value of the people of Iowa and value of the people of Louisiana.
MICHAEL BARONE on why the Civil Service is no way to run a business: "No rational person would choose civil service as the way to manage a large organization."
GOP SEEKS A BALANCED BUDGET AMENDMENT: "We think it's pretty clear regardless of what we are ultimately able to negotiate here in the short term that we put the federal government in this kind of fiscal straitjacket for the future so that we cannot get into this position again."