Of course if this guy could learn to drink more pedestrian scotch, maybe he could afford a proper overflow tank for his radiator. OTOH, you have to keep your priorities straight. To ruin a good quote: Good Scotch will get you through times of leaky radiators better than a leaky radiator will get you through times of no Scotch.
Hugo Chavez, Daniel Ortega, Fidel Castro, and Hillary Clinton. Now there is a set of names you would only normally want to see together as the guest of honor list for a mass hanging.Yesterday the Central American country was being pressured to restore the authoritarian Mr. Zelaya by the likes of Fidel Castro, Daniel Ortega, Hillary Clinton and, of course, Hugo [Chavez] himself. The Organization of American States, having ignored Mr. Zelaya's abuses, also wants him back in power. It will be a miracle if Honduran patriots can hold their ground.
That Mr. Zelaya acted as if he were above the law, there is no doubt. While Honduran law allows for a constitutional rewrite, the power to open that door does not lie with the president. A constituent assembly can only be called through a national referendum approved by its Congress.
But Mr. Zelaya declared the vote on his own and had Mr. Chávez ship him the necessary ballots from Venezuela.
The Honduran Congress named an interim president, Roberto Micheletti, and the country's Supreme Court said it had ordered the army to remove Zelaya.Interesting position he's taking on the topic of a president illegally attempting to extend his otherwise constitutionally limited term. Chavez is threatening military action. I wonder how that will play in D.C.?
This is a model of a Dahlgren-style black powder cannon of the sort one might find in the late 1800s. This particular item has a bore of 3/4" which opens up several possibilities for loadings.
This is fired with a fuse, which allows for retreat to a safe distance when firing. The originals were fired with a quick match, which was similar in function, but faster. That much detail was more than I wanted to get in to.
"Dear sawed-off poofter:If the rumors of the US sending an anti-missile cruiser to the Sea of Japan are true, you might want to pick the smaller numbers in the missile-range pool.
It is our firmly held belief that your jumped-up skyrocket couldn't hit the birth records center in Hilo if your winning the next election to dogcatcher over there depended on it. I have prepared 3 tankers of Alaskan crude, and a case of top-drawer Tennesee whiskey that says you can't.
Come on, show us what you got.
Respectfully yours
B.H.Obama
President of the United States"
Smoot-Hawley is to Waxman-Markey as ...I need a new label for this sort of thing. I think I'll call it "Black Humor".
And some, like the above, go clean over my head.The Battle of First St. Albans is to the Battle of Bosworth.
Obviously.
The U-3 rate is the official unemployment rate, and is based on a phone survey of people all across the country.NOTE: Marginally attached workers are persons who
currently are neither working nor looking for work but
indicate that they want and are available for a job
and have looked for work sometime in the recent past.
Discouraged workers, a subset of the marginally
attached,have given a job-market related reason for not
looking currently for a job. Persons employed part time
for economic reasons are those who want and are available
for full-time work but have had to settle for a part-
time schedule.For more information, see "BLS introduces
new range of alternative unemployment measures," in the
October 1995 issue of the Monthly Labor Review. Updated
population controls are introduced annually with the
release of January data.
U-5 Total unemployed, plus discouraged workers, plusThis is probably a more accurate measure of the current unemployment rate.
all other marginally attached workers, as a
percent of the civilian labor force plus all
marginally attached workers.................10.6%
Of course, if Congress and the Administration knew they had to boost the economy or face hanging in a year they’d be cutting regulations and taxes like mad. That they aren’t doing so suggests that growth isn’t really their top priority.Whatever logo the Tea Party eventually comes up with, I'm voting for one that includes a crossed pitchfork and torch, to start with. Including a noose might be just a bit over the top, but just a bit.
The last reported unemployment rate was 9.4%. It takes about 150,000 new jobs a month to make the rate hold even, no up, no decline. The curve looks to be increasing slightly faster than linearly, but we'll stick to linear. I predict 9.8% unemployment by the end of June, said figure will be released around the 7-10th of July.
Whatever would give you such an Idea?
Now stand right here, and balance my beer on your head while I do this.
You get 10 pts for hitting a heart, and one for hitting inside the card.
You get 10 for hitting the trefoil club, five for hitting or getting inside the wreath, and one for hitting the card. This from 25 yards.On the night of June 24, the media and government become one, when ABC turns its programming over to President Obama and White House officials to push government run health care -- a move that has ignited an ethical firestorm!This is the sort of thing usually reserved for declarations of war and the like rather than announcements that an additional 15-20% of the economy is about to be nationalized, in addition to most of the auto industry and banking system.
Highlights on the agenda:
ABCNEWS anchor Charlie Gibson will deliver WORLD NEWS from the Blue Room of the White House.
The network plans a primetime special -- 'Prescription for America' -- originating from the East Room, exclude opposing voices on the debate.
"As he reached to hit me again, I drew my pistol," he said. "He saw the pistol, and I shot and missed him totally 'cause I was half-knocked. He took off running."It also sounds like the "perps guns" which are often "taken away from him and used against them" are apparently often "lost in the ensuing affray".
Chicago police who responded did what officers often do in the city's toughest neighborhoods. They pretended that the victim had not broken the law by defending himself with an illegal handgun.
"Nothing was said about the gun going off," he said. "The police come over to make a report. The guy said to me, 'Well, you're lucky you weren't killed. You should've had a gun with you. If you had killed the guy, then you would have had to say you took the gun off him.'"
Those need to be 100s or else the stack needs to be much taller.After half an hour of fun and games, I was allowed to pay for the gun and leave the store- without the gun. I was now in my "waiting period."All the indignities he had to suffer will doubtless have some kind of effect on the gun violence associated with the drug trade. Sure it will.
This was fine with me because I now had to go find ammunition since a gun without ammo is like a Democrat without union money. Impotent.
"Other recommendations contained in the bill include a $77million reduction in NASA's proposed space operations budget, which includes the space shuttle and international space station; a $6 million reduction in science; and a $332 million shift in funds from the Cross Agency Support account to a new budget line-item included in the subcommittee's mark. Dubbed Construction and Environmental Compliance, the new account would be funded at $441 million. Congressional aides said the new line item and accompanying funds are aimed at consolidating NASA's various construction efforts into a single pot of money."When budget items are shifted into a "single pot of money" the usual term for this is "slush fund". It's a pretty good bet that little or no science will be performed here.
The researchers then introduced the genes into the livers of mice. While normal mice gain weight when put on a high-fat diet, Liao says that the engineered mice "remained skinny despite the fact that they ate about the same and produced the same waste" and were as active as their normal counterparts. They also had lower fat levels in the liver and lower cholesterol levels. As in the cultured cells, the engineered mice did not convert the fat into sugar, which could have the dangerous side effect of promoting high blood sugar and diabetes. Instead, the scientists found a measured increase in their carbon dioxide output; the excess fat was literally released into thin air. The mice exhibited no visible side effects, although more detailed studies are necessary to verify that.Of course, since your CO2 emissions go up, your taxes will also, or you can buy an emissions credit from a fat person, allowing him to super-size his lunch at Burger King.
It appears to be 1.5 to 2 inches in dia. Comments over at Jawa Report where I found this suggest it's made of rubber.
As you can see, there's a bit of divergence. Oh well, I guess, no ones perfect.Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and Symantec Chairman John Thompson say the Obama administration's plans to revise tax policy on foreign profits will force U.S. companies to move more employees overseas due to the higher cost of business and lower profits such policy would trigger.Which brings to mind a story from back in the 80s that suggested that the Mexican government was working with a consortium of large businesses to create a "New Economic Zone" or ZEN from a modest chunk of the Baja peninsula by defining the "knee cap" area on the western side of the peninsular as a low-tax haven for businesses. This area would be run on a similar basis to Hong Kong, and would provide businesses that relocated there a much friendlier environment in which to work.
So for example - make the bottom exemption the first $30,000 of income.The percentage is governed by the amount congress spends, but the problem here is that no one seems to be able to accurately predict either the total that will get spent, or the GDP of the country in some future year. Allocating monies to be spent over some extended time frame would also muddy the picture.
Then a fixed percentage for every subsequent dollar with no ceiling.
The percentage would be determined by the budget Congress approves.
Let's say that requires 20% this year (hypothetical - I have no idea what the real % would be).
If you make $29000, no tax.
$31000 - tax is $200
$100,000 - tax is $14,000
$1,000,000 - $194,000
The start point is shown here with our happily enthusiastic model, Bob. Note the panic-stricken bystander crowding in behind the thugs, who hasn't gotten the memo about the holdup yet. Whatever you do to the thugs, the bystander is supposed to survive the experience, untouched.
In fact, there are 3 of them. The angle could have been better here, but behind the nearest gunman are, in fact, 2 assailants, one of them with a gun and one with a knife, and behind the gunman is the third baddie, apparently a rabid midget, represented by a popper, with yet another luckless pedestrian located directly behind him. Your mission is now to move to your left and while firing on-handed, deal with the gunman and the knife man as you pass by, and find cover, just outside the picture, where you shoot the rabid midget without hitting the pedestrian.
This is a view of the popper. Now imagine there's a no-shoot directly behind it. Earlier, I had tagged this thing with one shot, so no sweat, right?"The financial crisis is not the crisis of capitalism. It is the crisis of a system that has distanced itself from the most fundamental values of capitalism, which betrayed the spirit of capitalism."
President Nicolas Sarkozy, October, 2008
And that’s why I’m calling on Congress to pass fleet modernization legislation that can provide a credit to consumers who turn in old cars and purchase cleaner, more fuel-efficient cars. (emphasis added)Notice that he promises a credit, and not, like, actual money. In the article I found here, the "credit" is most likely a tax credit, and won't amount to much, certainly nowhere near enough to cover buying a brand new Pelosi GT.
In an article I saw back in the early 80s, the Canadian importer spoke to the wonders of the Dacia. When they arrived in Canada, and were off loaded from the boat, about 30% of the brand new vehicles failed to complete the short drive to the dealership. To keep things simple and cheap, all Dacias used a common key, which resembled a nail with a handle. The author mentioned that he never removed the key from his own personal car, hoping someone would steal it. No one ever did.My job at the time was as head of the Romanian industrial espionage program. Ceausescu tasked me to mediate the purchase of a minimum, basic license for a small car from a major Western manufacturer, and then to steal everything else needed to produce the car.
Three Western companies competed for the honor. Ceausescu decided on Renault, because it was owned by the French government (all Soviet bloc rulers distrusted private companies). We ended up with a license for an antiquated and about-to-be-discontinued Renault-12 car, because it was the cheapest. "Good enough for the idiots," Ceausescu decided, showing what he thought of the Romanian people. He baptized the car Dacia, to commemorate Romania's 2,000-year history going back to Dacia Felix, as the ancient Romans called that part of the world. In that government-run economy, symbolism was the most important consideration, especially when it came to things in short supply (such as food).
"Too luxurious for the idiots," Ceausescu decreed when he saw the first Dacia car made in Romania. Immediately, the radio, right side mirror and backseat heating were dropped. Other "unnecessary luxuries" were soon eliminated by the bureaucrats and their workers' union that were running the factory. The car that finally hit the market was a stripped-down version of the old, stripped-down Renault 12. "Perfect for the idiots," Ceausescu approved. Indeed, the Romanian people, who had never before had any car, came to cherish the Dacia.
