Archive for June, 2009

The Consequences of Safe Havens

June 30th, 2009 | No Comments

Too often in politics an idea springs up, gets a wave of support amongst the masses, political correctness yields to political pandering, and legislation passes because of that idea. Then, after the fact, people understand why the idea was never enforced in the first place.  Nebraska has done just that.  Trying to deal with the [...]

Sonia Sotomayor quits the Belizean Grove

June 22nd, 2009 | 1 Comment

Sonia Sotomayor, in a move to appease those criticizing her ethics, quit the Belizean Grove.  Now, the problem she’s got is this just looks stupid to me, and some others.  What’s the point in quitting AFTER membership becomes an issue?  I mean, really?  What’s the point?  It’s already an issue, you honestly agreed with their [...]

62 year old man jokes about knocking up 14 year old girls

June 11th, 2009 | 2 Comments

OK, I gotta admit, I stole that headline from some other blog.  But, it’s so spot on I couldn’t resist. Now, back to the story.  This story ran Sunday: Sarah Palin speaks at fundraiser in St. James Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin told a crowd of more than a thousand in St. James Sunday night that [...]

Controlling health care costs through MEDPAC

June 8th, 2009 | No Comments

First of all, let’s see what MEDPAC is.  From their site: The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) is an independent Congressional agency established by the Balanced Budget Act of 1997 (P.L. 105-33) to advise the U.S. Congress on issues affecting the Medicare program. The Commission’s statutory mandate is quite broad: In addition to advising the [...]

Obama Taxing health benefits

June 8th, 2009 | No Comments

During the presidential campaign of 2008, John McCain, the straight shooter, said he’d consider taxing health benefits in order to pay for expanding health coverage to everyone else.  It was one of the deciding factors in deciding the race.  Obama jumped all over McCain on the issue, and of course, promied everyone his coverage would [...]

Facebook and the death penalty

June 3rd, 2009 | No Comments

Sometimes I feel like most of my views are totally contrarian.  That beliefs in traditional values and harsh consequences for harsh actions is something most people can’t deal with.  Then I see something like this on Facebook: Results: Is the death penalty wrong? Yes 7,880 No 16,568 Now, Facebook’s as hip as it gets.  This [...]

The price of gas

June 1st, 2009 | No Comments

Anyone notice anything about the price of gas lately?  I have.  So has AAA:   Regular Mid Premium Diesel 85 **E85  MPG/BTU  adjusted  price Current Avg. $2.512 $2.668 $2.762 $2.378 $2.085 $2.744 Yesterday Avg. $2.502 $2.656 $2.751 $2.369 $2.077 $2.733 Week Ago Avg. $2.424 $2.575 $2.666 $2.324 $1.986 $2.613 Month Ago Avg. $2.061 $2.189 $2.267 [...]

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