He said:
I am not in favor of concealed weapons. There has not been any evidence that allowing people to carry a concealed weapon is going to make anybody safer.
So let’s have him order the Secret Service to stop carrying concealed weapons. Clearly they don’t make anybody safer.
for the coming tax hikes.
If you run the numbers for that and other income brackets, you’d better sit down. Our spending policies are not digging a hole, they are conjuring up a Stygian abyss.
If your family income in 2006 was between $75,000 and $100,000, the extra taxes that you will have to pay at some point in the future add up to about $14,000.
If your income was between $100,000 and $200,000, your future tax hike will be about $28,000. If your income was between $200,000 and $500,000, then your future tax bill just went up by $90,299.
Which would be cheaper for the New York Times: Printing and delivering the newspaper or giving each subscriber a brand-new Kindle?
What we’re trying to say is that as a technology for delivering the news, newsprint isn’t just expensive and inefficient; it’s laughably so.
Did Rich Lowry just make the Republican case for confirming Daschle?
With Geithner and Daschle in prominent positions in the Obama administration—and Charlie Rangel heading Ways and Means—Democrats will have saddled themselves with three prominent symbols of non-compliance with tax laws at the same time they will eventually have to push for higher taxes. And as any journalist knows, three makes a trend.
Any reason for a healthy backlash seems worth considering.
Update:
Testify, Tom!
Meanwhile, my new plan is this: I’m going to stop paying taxes in hopes of getting an appointment in the Obama administration.
but that doesn’t keep them from trying.
Jonah Goldberg calles it “borderline grotesque“. I don’t know where he got the “borderline” part. Again, can you imagine Bush supporters or even Reagan supporters doing something like this?
These people are a laugh riot!
The Change will not be commercialized?
“Our lawyers are working on developing a policy that will protect the presidential image while being careful not to squelch the overwhelming enthusiasm that the public has for the president,” White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki said.
Photographer Sergei Larenkov has re-shot WWII photographs, matching the original perspectives, and then blended between the two to provide a haunting result.
is also grammatical.
And yes, I put an apostrophe in the article title on purpose.
Not just any astronauts, either. I shook hands with Lt. Gen. Tom Stafford and Capt. Eugene “Gene” Cernan of Apollo X. Cernan later commanded Apollo XVII and was the last man to make footprints on the moon. He’s ridden the Saturn V twice. Flown to the moon twice.
Want to look at two of the fastest men alive? Apollo X set the record, 24,791 mph, on the return flight from the moon.
Cernan, Left and Stafford, Right
I told them it was a deep honor for me to meet them, and thanked them for what they did for mankind, the country – and me, since I grew up watching their exploits. Cernan remarked that he’s amazed that there’s a whole generation of adults in their 30’s and 40’s who were born after Neil set foot on the moon. When some younger folks tell him they watched him on the moon he thinks, “Yeah, maybe if your dad held you up to the TV screen as a baby.”
They were at the Charles M Schulz Museum for the opening of To the Moon: Snoopy Soars with NASA.
I hope I look half as sharp as Cernan when I’m about to turn 75. Stafford is already 78, the old-timer. Wow.
I also go to meet Lt. Chesser, the frogman, and Capt. Smiley, the helicopter pilot, on the Apollo X Recovery mission, and Jamye Flowers Coplin, who was Gordo Cooper’s secretary, the one who had the big Snoopy Plush as the astronauts were heading off to board their spacecraft.
No, she doesn’t know where that Snoopy went. She suspects it went home to be a kid’s toy.
And another one in your computer.
Impressed? Well, check these out.
Update:
You just knew there’d be more. Lots more.
Do you?
This was about one year before I started working in computers. Yes, I actually used a 300-baud acoustic modem.
We tax businesses out of the state, export our pollution, and now we’re making it even harder to buy gas!
Here’s what you can do with a mobile phone camera, a computer, and some creativity.
is John Carter (not of Mars, but of Texas), author of the Rangel Rule legislation.
Carter, a former longtime Texas judge, today introduced the Rangel Rule Act of 2009, HR 735, which would prohibit the Internal Revenue Service from charging penalties and interest on back taxes against U.S. citizens. Under the proposed law, any taxpayer who wrote “Rangel Rule” on their return when paying back taxes would be immune from penalties and interest.
Remember the Annointed One scolding us during the campaign?
“We can’t drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times … and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK,” Obama said.
Well, it doesn’t apply to Him.
“He’s from Hawaii, O.K.?” said Mr. Obama’s senior adviser, David Axelrod, who occupies the small but strategically located office next door to his boss. “He likes it warm. You could grow orchids in there.”
I remember the grief Nixon got for building a fire and turning up the air conditioning in the summer. Why do I suspect that He won’t get any such razzing?
Bubba is floored because he can’t get away with this.
Go watch the video first. I’ll wait.
Back?
OK, Bill, here are a few reasons why George can get away with that and you can’t:
Nice one about the dogs, though.
Not wanting Obama’s presidency to be the funniest thing in the news, the City of Berkeley pipes up with this.
Berkeley’s public library will face a showdown with the city’s Peace and Justice Commission tonight over whether a service contract for the book check-out system violates the city’s nuclear-free ordinance.
to pay for my travel expenses? This sounds like a great idea, but I’m a little broke.
People…. Get mad,,,,,, get angry,,,, get involved!!! They survival of this country may depend on citizen action to regain control of our out-of-control government!!!! I’m not counting on President Obama to solve our problems. He was the third highest recipient of campaign contributions from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in the last 10 years behind Chris Dodd(D) and John Kerry(D), and he was only in the senate for 4 years. Fannie and Freddie have received many billions of dollars of “bail-out” money and are wanting/needing more.
Anybody want to join me for a taxpayer march on Washington???
I really had no interest in seeing this film. After reading this interview, forwarded to me by a friend, I may just have to check it out.
Before the bill comes due.
The Wall Street Journal points out that it’s really just a 40-year wish list.
Add the roughly $20 billion for business tax cuts, and by our estimate only $90 billion out of $825 billion, or about 12 cents of every $1, is for something that can plausibly be considered a growth stimulus.
Update:
Apparently now that if you want to read the bill you need this honkin’ PDF.
Michael Medved, wanting to have his cake and eat it too, wonders if The One might emulate the Nasty Little Man’s political failure without doing his concomitant damage to the country.
Good luck with that. I fear that The Messiah is just Jimmy without the funny accent, and in a nicer suit.
Update:
There is, ironcially, the possibility of a Willie Horton scenario.
Looks like I won’t have much Obamedy competition from the late-night shows.
On Sunday night, while doing my cardio, I caught what appeared to be rebroadcast of an episode of Larry King LIve. King asked The View’s Joy Behar why comedians didn’t make fun of the new president. The comedienne replied that this prez was just too perfect.*
It is. It’s all just too perfect.
For this young woman it was a lot of work, I’m sure.
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