Archive for May, 2009
Government Motors For Evah?
Let’s think about the comparative strength of the UAW, General Motors, and the Japanese car companies as depicted in the mainstream media.
Back when G. Gordon Libby thought America was a free country it was:
1. GM-Large and in charge
2. UAW-Large
3. Japanese car companies-Weak
For most of my life it closer to this:
1. Japanese- Large, but not quite [...]
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Tags: Car Companies, GM, Honda, Toyota, UAW, Unions
Remember When…
George W. Bush had the Democrats worried about Republicans attracting Hispanic voters?
It wasn’t hype. W spoke fluent Spanish, had middle of the road views on immigration, and appointed a bunch of Hispanics to high profile jobs.
The whole theory that Republicans are a bunch of evil geniuses is going down like a lead zeppelin. Seriously, [...]
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Tags: GOP, Hispanics, Latinos, Politics, Republican Party, Sonia Sotomayor
Fantasy
I don’t have a fantasy baseball team this season, but nonetheless I’m confident if I did it would be beating your or anybody else’s fantasy baseball team this week.
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Tags: MLB
Deep Thought
If both Orland and Denver make the NBA finals: left will be right, the earth will stop spinning on it’s axis, cats and dogs will get along, and a black man will be elected President of the United States of America.
Meaning in the universe will cease to exist.
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Tags: Denver Nuggets, Dwight Howard, Kobe Bryant, LA Lakers, NBA, Orlando Magic
Chris Bodenner nailed it, calling this quote from Harry Reid, “The Incoherent Cowardice Of Harry Reid”.
REID: I’m saying that the United States Senate, Democrats and Republicans, do not want terrorists to be released in the United States. That’s very clear.
QUESTION: No one’s talking about releasing them. [...]
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Tags: Gitmo, Harry Reid, Senate
One major aspect about climate change that has been missing from main stream media accounts is the history of global warming science and how policy makers have responded so far. The green house effect has been known since the mid 19th century, with the role of carbon dioxide and combustion going as far back as [...]
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Tags: Climate Change, Kyoto Protocol, Waxman-Markey
Credit Card Company Collusion
There is a distinctly threatening tone in this NY Times article on credit cards fees.
Now Congress is moving to limit the penalties on riskier borrowers, who have become a prime source of billions of dollars in fee revenue for the industry. And to make up for lost income, the card companies are going [...]
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Tags: American Express, Bank of America, Citigroup, Credit Card Fees, Credit Card Industry
I’s Gonna Get Some Culture
I periodically go through these phases when I feel like I’m missing out on cultural activities and products for no good reason.
There are always all these movies I’d like to see, but I keep putting them off or failing to talk my friends and family into watching them with me. I say I’ll see [...]
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When I Was a Lad…
So maybe I’m just having a premature “old man” moment, but since when did CDs start costing 20+ bucks?
I mean it’s been years since I remember purchasing a CD in a store and it’s not that much more then I remember it costing, but seriously. You can get the same music from itunes and everybody [...]
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Tags: CDs, Music
Flake Carbon Tax
Via E-mail Optimo directs me to check out the Flake carbon tax bill. Here’s the pitch from Rep. Bob Inglis & Dr. Laffer :
CONSERVATIVES don’t support tax increases that are veiled as “cap and trade” schemes for pollution permits. But offer us a tax swap, and we could become the new administration’s best allies [...]
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Tags: Cap and Trade, Carbon Tax, Climate Change, Jeff Flake, Waxman-Markey
Without Delay
This video of Rep. Luis Gutierrez arguing against further delay of H.R. 627 (Credit Card reform) is from David Waldman at Congress Matters:
Rep. Luis Gutierrez:
Members of the House, a consistent argument that we hear from the other side is about the alleged lack of transparency and bipartisanship in this House. Yet [...]
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Tags: Congress, Luis Gutierrez
Here is a Matthew Yglesias post from earlier this week discussing carbon auctions and the compromises being made to pass the cap and trade bill
But let me take some time out to express outrage about one aspect of the change that doesn’t really have a huge environmental impact, the decision to give away the carbon [...]
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Tags: Carbon Auctions, Climate Change, Global Warming, Waxman-Markey
I’ve seen a couple of people link to this Chris Bowers piece and other politics of Star Trek related posts.
Star Trek is a rare phenomenon in popular culture: a detailed, future fantasy universe that is both based on our own past and that takes an overwhelmingly positive view of our future. Most popular culture [...]
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Tags: Liberalism, Star Trek, The Fuuuture
Pakistan in the News
On Sundays I often complain about the talking heads on Meet the Press or the morning shows and the various silly things they said about US politics.
A good portion talking head energy over the last week was dedicated to Pakistani politics. Nothing I saw this morning struck me as too off base, but I couldn’t [...]
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Tags: Asif Ali Zardari, Pakistan
Thank You Internets
I for one take take great comfort that incorrect analysis of basketball tactics will now result in wide spread condemnation.
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Find New Taboos
I just finished watching The Wire last month, which I then followed by watching the first season of Weeds. The two shows put together make quite a contrast despite being theoretically about similar subject matter. It’s like watching a show which effectively teaches you how you might behave as an highly effective drug dealer, then [...]
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Tags: The Wire, Weeds
The End of America?
Via friend of the blog and hot shot public policy analyst Optimo comes this awesome map of the United States divided into new countries as predicted by foreign policy “expert” Igor Panarin.
Optimo bring the skepticism:
Let’s recap:
1) South Carolina, Tennessee and Kentucky join the EU, under the same central government as Vermont.
2) Kansas and Missouri (not [...]
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Tags: Igor Panarin, New American Civil War
Work Hard and Take Shortcuts
Watching the ESPN talking heads discuss the most recent A-rod steroid allegations earlier today I noticed one of his few remaining defenders mentioned that he was an especially hard working player when he was younger.
You hear people throw around both the idea that steroid using players are lazy and don’t train hard as well repeatedly [...]
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Tags: A-Rod, MLB, Steroids
Tiptoes
From Liz Kelly’s Celebritology:
I’m not sure I’m comfortable living in a world where “Tiptoes” — an obvious instant classic — goes straight to DVD while the barf-inducing “Girlfriends Past” gets wide release in multiplexes nation-wide. Luckily, though, it is rentable. And, shockingly, in a quick scan of reviews from Netflix viewers the concept itself (a [...]
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Tags: Matthew McConaughey
Supreme Court Strategery
It occurs to me that if Conservatives were really on their game they’d find a ‘moderate’ women or minority candidate for the Supreme Court and start talking up the pick as a way to bridge the partisan divide instead preemptively bitching about Obama picking a non-white guy before he even made a pick.
At least [...]
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Tags: David Souter, Supreme Court
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