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More Snow Pics
Confluence in Winter
Took the daughter and dog for a short hike down to the confluence of the Rappahannock and Rapidan rivers.
Lots of snow on the ground.
The Grouch Is Back…
Denny at Grouchy Old Cripple is back to blogging after a short stay in the medical/industrial complex.
Check out his Amazing Medical Odyssey. Pretty funny stuff.
ROP to Introduce ‘Boob’ Bombs
Okay, so the morons who introduced the world to the concept of Fruit of the Kaboom or Suicideroos, are now planning boob bombs to bring down Western flights.
From the Daily Mail:
Britain is facing a new Al Qaeda terror threat from suicide ‘body bombers’ with explosives surgically inserted inside them.
Until now, terrorists have attacked airlines, Underground trains and buses by secreting bombs in bags, shoes or underwear to avoid detection.
But an operation by MI5 has uncovered evidence that Al Qaeda is planning a new stage in its terror campaign by inserting ‘surgical bombs’ inside people for the first time.
A leading source added that male bombers would have the explosive secreted near their appendix or in their buttocks, while females would have the material placed inside their breasts in the same way as figure-enhancing implants.
What will the Mad Geniuses of Islam come up with next?
Too Much Meatloaf
Just noticed the double posting of Meatloaf’s version of Jail House Rock, two Wednesdays in a row.
Sorry about that.
Party On, Dude
Via The Other McCain:
From supermarket tabloid The Globe:
President Barack Obama has blown $10 million on drunken White House parties, Washington insiders tell GLOBE. This week's Special Report rips the lid off the Commander-in-chief's outrageous antics, including boozy conga lines and dinners featuring $150-a-pound Japanese beef! It's must reading for every American.
Economy to Get Worse, Before It Gets Really Bad
Arthur Laffer, who’s economic theories, put in to practice by President Ronald Reagan, set the U.S. on a 25-year period of economic growth and prosperity, says The Obama and Democrats’ fiscal policies will drive the already desperate economy completely over the brink in 2011.
From Human Events:
Arthur Laffer, creator of the Laffer Curve that showed how low tax rates boost economic growth, is warning anyone who will listen that the economy is headed for a “train wreck” in 2011 that will make the current recession look tame by comparison.
The famed economist, whose supply-side, tax-cutting policies enacted by President Reagan in 1981 put the economy on a record-breaking, 25-year economic trajectory of growth and prosperity, is telling Americans not to be lulled by sporadic signs of growth this year, because the economy is headed for a sharper decline next year when tax rates are expected to jump sharply, sending the economy into a new tailspin.
“It will make the decline in U.S. output from 2010 to 2011 worse than the decline in output in 2008 and 2009 which will catastrophic,” Laffer said in an interview with HUMAN EVENTS.
In a wide-ranging discussion about where the economy is headed, and the fiscal, tax and monetary reasons why, Laffer gives a bleak forecast of where President Obama and his administration are taking the country in the next three years — which he predicts will end with Obama’s defeat in 2012.
“Obama is a fine, very impressive person. He really is. Unfortunately, everything that he is doing in economics is exactly wrong. He is a crappy president,” Laffer said.
“Whenever a country is in the throes of spending too much and raising taxes, it’s a fiscal catastrophe in the making and this is what is happening now,” he said.
Read the whole thing here.
Time Lapsed Vancouver
This is probably the coolest thing I’ve seen in along time:
Jailhouse Wednesday
Everyone’s Finally Equal
A short film adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut’s story Harrison Bergeron:
The film is produced by these folks: The Moving Picture Institute.
Here’s the text of the original story, one of my favorite short stories.
Mr Blue Sky
Citizens United Vs. FEC
Good summary of what’s at stake with the Supreme Court’s recent ruling striking major portions of the odious McCain Feingold Campaign Finance law.
A Win for the 1st Amendment
Hurray, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a major portion of the McCain Feingold Campaign Finance law that placed restrictions on campaign funding and speech.
“If the First Amendment has any force,” Justice Anthony M. Kennedy wrote for the majority, which included the four members of its conservative wing, “it prohibits Congress from fining or jailing citizens, or associations of citizens, for simply engaging in political speech.”