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A while back I was dismayed by an editorial/comment by one of the editors of the Costco magazine regarding Al Gore and Glenn Beck. I took exception to a membership magazine disparaging Beck while hoisting Gore on a pedestal to schlep his most recent book. My post, Costco Disconnection was perhaps my most read and certainly most commented on article. You can follow the link if you want to read the original posting.
The mascot of our local school district happens to be a dog. Needless to say there aren’t many sports games played that the famous song by The Baha Men isn’t blared over the loudspeakers ten years after the song was popular and 9.5 years after it was tolerable.
The “dog” in this post is none other than our esteemed VP, Joe Biden. For the life of me I cannot understand why he is not kept under wraps. Even the lame-stream media cannot smother all of the things that come out of his mouth. Maybe his freedom is part of a “contrast” strategy whereby Obama looks bright and measured by comparison. A more likely scenario is that by shooting off his mouth, BHO can always jettison him before the next presidential election in favor of a more “suitable” running mate. By “suitable” I mean Hillary (she is famous for wearing pants suits).
“You know the old saying: Two people can keep a secret provided one of [them's] dead.”
I guess you could call this excerpt from The Night Manager
The Mini Getaway series is about some of our mini vacations of no more than a long weekend:
Being from Pittsburgh we have many nicknames and jokes about Cleveland or the Mistake On The Lake. When my wife first suggested a trip to Cleveland I wondered what she had been drinking and how much. We had been there a few times for my son’s high school crew races, but we were in and out and didn’t really do any sightseeing. It was one of the nicer races for spectators.
News briefs are a collection of interesting news stories and this volume is chock full of stories from an upside down political world…
Brief 1: The Keystone State (Pennsylvania) has recently announced that they are making changes to their appliance rebate program. Pennsylvania budget deficit projects are not good so you would expect that a rebate program might be on the chopping block. Not in Pennsylvania’s upside down world. It was announced that the rebates are actually INCREASING, some by more than 100%. In all fairness this is “stimulus” money (federal tax dollars versus state tax dollars).
What do you call a man who;
Has over four decades serving the public in law enforcement,
At the risk of having my head removed from my body I have a few thoughts on the GSM (Ground Zero Mosque) controversy:
Marketing is defined as:
Synonyms: vend, merchandise, peddle
Notable Quotable:
“Never… ever suggest they don’t have to pay you. What they pay for, they’ll value. What they get for free, they’ll take for granted, and then demand as a right. Hold them up for all the market will bear..”
Lois McMaster Bujold
Can you give an example?
I was somewhat surprised to read that General Motors is planning to sell stock sometime in the near future a little over a year from its “bankruptcy.” I used the parenthesis around bankruptcy because what the Obama Administration did for General Motors was not a typical bankruptcy. Investors were not protected or given preference as was their right;
You may have heard of Adam Smith and most certainly Karl Marx, but what about John Stuart Mill or Jean-Baptiste Say or John Manard Keynes? These men and many others are the forefathers of classical economic thought and On Classical Economics
On Classical Economics is not a book for light reading and probably is more for folks who really want to probe the depths of classic economic theory.
