• Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.
  - Blaise Pascal #
• Great game today. Reds v. Cardinals. Too bad it was a little wet. Pitcher Owings helped himself with a homerun. #

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• The reason there is so little crime in Germany is that it’s against the law.
  - Alex Levin #
• RT @TheFlaCracker: If you can read this, thank a teacher. It’s in English thank a soldier. If you are on walfare, thank ME! #
• Reality is something you rise above.
  - Liza Minnelli #
• Shaq is going to Cleveland!! Lebron and the big man could make a powerful combination. #
• Great article in WSJ about Iran and Web 2.0 and how Obama didn’t get it even though he “got it” to be elected. http://bit.ly/2m8LZp #
• Great idea! RT @KristineWirth: Wordtracker’s free keyword tool plugin for firefox - video - http://bit.ly/ty0zH #
• If it weren’t for Philo T. Farnsworth, inventor of television, we’d still be eating frozen radio dinners. - Johnny Carson #
• Check out this amazing basketball shot! Beat that Lebron and Dwight Howard! http://bit.ly/3Zte5P #
• RT @dailybayonet: RT @nkoscielniak: Congressman on Twitter. Time to start tweeting to vote AGAINST Cap & Trade http://bit.ly/GlRx #capandtax #
• RT @SherriEShepherd: RT @ReaganGomez: Mcmahon passed this week to introduce tonights guest. Farrah Fawcett w/music guest Michael Jackson #
• RT @Timm_Martin: Wow, we lost two pop icons in one day. RIP Farrah and Michael! #
• RT @MeilinSong: The Climate Bill Explained http://tinyurl.com/lfnvhr #
• RT @Timm_Martin: Stewart on Gov. Sanford: “Just Another Politician With A Conservative Mind And A Liberal Penis” http://tinyurl.com/mcvfqs #
• A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you. - Bert Leston Taylor #
• RT @justin_hart: The EPA’s internal nightmare over global warming: Part 1 http://ow.ly/fVAC #capntax #tcot #
• RT @JustinSage: Trent Dilfer states, “I think the Bengals are going to be one of those surprise teams this year.” Makes me happy #
• I don’t measure a man’s success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.George S. Patton #
• Great day. 4 basketball games and 1 baseball game. All wins! Transformers with the kids tonight! I get an A+ on Dad points tonight. #
• New rumor. Since Michael Jackson was 95% plastic he is going to be recycled as Legos so little boys can play with him now. #

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• When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: ‘Whose?’ - Don Marquis #
• RT @4windpower: Wind Power Works!: In connection with the Global Wind Day on 15 June, http://digg.com/u15kRH #
• RT @all_about_warm: Sir Paul McCartney calls for meat-free Mondays to combat climate change http://tinyurl.com/ntrprf #
• RT @im2byteme: LIBERAL ARGUMENT: There is no room for logic or historical fact in this discussion, my opinion is all that matters! #tcot #
• RT @TIBCO: Want to know your current cloud infrastructure and hosting options? This article may be for you: http://is.gd/Oi8W #
• RT @MeilinSong: Global warming causing mass migration http://tinyurl.com/lp9kqd #
• RT @WorkWithTrump: POWER POLITICS: EPA refuses to reveal dangerous coal ash waste sites http://bit.ly/KpbQv #
• Where all think alike, no one thinks very much. - Walter Lippmann #
• RT @im2byteme: REMEMBER? If we don’t pass the stimulus now we’re doomed! 3 mos later less than 8% is spent http://tinyurl.com/oymadz #tcot #
• Great article on email etiquette http://bit.ly/vjNjQ #
• RT @KarlRove: FactCheck takes a whack at “jobs saved” claim. http://tinyurl.com/nqvmoc #TCOT. (comment by me - great article - READ IT!!) #
• RT @CIN_Reds: RT @bsuccess Cincinnati Reds may have the worst offensive team ever. #
• These are rules to live by!! RT @Timm_Martin: The Manager’s Cheat Sheet: 101 Common-Sense Rules for Leaders http://tinyurl.com/ld2u35 #
• RT @XKingKong: 10 Most Unreal Landscapes On Earth http://digg.com/d1u4QD #
• If President Nixon’s secretary, Rosemary Woods, had been Moses’ secretary, there would only be eight commandments. ~Art Buchwald, 1974 #
• Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.Benjamin Franklin #
• Things could always be worse; for instance, you could be ugly and work in the Post Office. Adrienne E. Gusoff #
• RT @gorelied: ‘Global warming is just another term for ‘good weather’ http://bit.ly/Z9wp0 #
• Congratulations to Derek Cox of Mason High School for signing with UC baseball! http://bit.ly/Bi7q2 #
• To no one’s suprise: “California is so broken that we must look at every bold proposal out there” - Arnold Schwarzenegger #
• Best Buy is frustrating. Sent a repaired iPod back more broken than when we sent it in! Now have to wait weeks for a new one. #
• RT @tweedandvelvet: Try to stay out of trouble but if you must go to court I suggest you dress like this http://tinyurl.com/l6cm85 #
• RT @dansewell: RT @McMahill: DYK that Procter, candle-maker, and Gamble, soap-maker got together because they married sisters? Now You KNOW #
• RT @bwotdcom: RT @VegasPartners: Inside every older person is a younger person wondering, “What the hell happened?” #
• O’s Doc says NO to Obama care: think Obama will throw Dr overboard like preacher? http://twurl.nl/hha5ce #tcot #glp (via @TheFlaCracker) in reply to TheFlaCracker #
• RT @TheFlaCracker: Why do people that LOATH the DoD and their $700 hammer want to give power to same system and ruin $65 hospital aspirin? #
• RT @TheFlaCracker: Why oh Why didnt CARTER go to IRAN to oversee the elections. None of this would have happened if he had. #tcot #

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Why is it that every President in the modern age of media has been able to convince the media to not talk about their children but it is okay for the media to talk about the children of a Vice President contender, Sarah Palin?  David seems to be confused with the 14-year old daughter and th 18-year old daughter.

David Letterman, Sarah Palin

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• The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true. - James Branch Cabell #
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• One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.
  - Rita Mae Brown #
• In a QBR being bored. Looks beautiful outside. I should be playing golf. #
• Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something. - Plato #
• Why is airport food in O’hare in Chicago so bad AND so expensive? We really need high speed rail in the Midwest! #
• RT @tweedandvelvet: The last button on your dress shirt is stitched horizontally. http://tinyurl.com/n29×9n This is why. #
• RT @frozenhiker: Change is inevitable so if you can’t embrace it, you can’t be happy. #
• Where we have strong emotions, we’re liable to fool ourselves.
  - Carl Sagan #
• RT @all_about_warm: House agriculture panel not back climate bill just yet http://tinyurl.com/nd8l98 #
• RT @4windpower: Wind farm concerns voiced: She said while the technology may still be in the early stages, ….. http://digg.com/u15aMG #
• RT @Eleplumps: Climate Change: Obama Sounds Too Much Like Bush (source: climateark.org): http://tinyurl.com/lhl9rj #
• Always and never are two words you should always remember never to use.
  - Wendell Johnson #

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I am happy to see that even Bob Lefsetz appears to agree with me that Conan is boring and NBC will need to do something to save this great show. I really liked this quote on Lefsetz Letter:

If NBC were smart, it would immediately pay off Conan and reinstall Jay at 11:35.  But it won’t, it’d rather lose the franchise and blame it on something other than its ineptitude.  Just like the record business!

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It appears that I am not the only one that thinks that Conan is boring.  Letterman took over the top spot in ratings last week when he had Julia Roberts as his guest and Conan had Eddie Murphy.

Conan’s market share has dropped 56% since he took over on the first of June.

Looks like it is time to start looking for a replacement to the very boring Conan.

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It seems that there is one thing that President Barach Hussein Obama and I disagree on (only ONE thing you ask).  I think that Conan O’Brien is not up to the task of the Tonight Show.  BHO thinks that he is. 

I am so glad that the leader of the free world is worrying about poor Conan in this time of economic unrest and while North Korea is playing nuclear games with us.

I picked up this video from the very funny blog, CrZay.

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I am not a big fan of federal government spending.  There are few times when I think that the government can do a more effective job of spending than my local municipalities where they are far more accessible to my influence.  However, the current economy definitely needs a kick-in-the-butt and so I supported the stimulus bill (now called “Economic Stimulus Package Act of 2008“) if it really is going to be used for getting things done on a local level.

I wrote about this back in February in my article “38 ways to fill the stimulus bill with pork and save our economy“.  I still question that the stimulus is being adequately implemented but an article in the Sunday edition of the Cincinnati Enquirer gives me some hope.  This is exactly what we should do as a stimulus - create hundreds of small projects that will get people in the local communities working.  I only hope that most of the jobs the article cites were contractors as opposed to government workers.  As contractors, this will insure that these entrepreneurs stay in business and can augment this public money with some private sector jobs and keep these workers on their payroll.

Perhaps more of this money should be doled out to the local municipalities instead funding TARP.

In keeping with my tradition, I am not reprinting the article in its entirety.  Please click through and read the entire story but here is the beginning discussion.

The sidewalks on Mandarin Court in Forest Park are set to be replaced using federal stimulus money.

 

Stimulus benefits big - and small

President Obama may have been thinking big with his $787 billion stimulus package, but his counterparts in local government are thinking decidedly small.

As local cities and counties put together their applications for some of their first tastes of stimulus money, they’ve come up with block grant applications where the typical project costs less than $250,000.

The city of Covington, for example, has broken down its line items as small as $1,650 each - to replace 117 curb ramps in the neighborhood around Decoursey and Winston avenues, to make them handicapped-accessible. Cincinnati is giving out grants as small as $8,556 for a program to prevent teen pregnancy and violence.

The list of local applications for the Community Development Block Grants also includes $61,200 for sidewalks in Forest Park, $93,000 for air conditioners in Sharonville and $56,008 for playground renovations in Hamilton.

In Woodlawn and Lincoln Heights, taxpayers will spend $100,000 to resurface one-seventh of a mile of Prairie Avenue, and install curbs for 20 houses along the way - a project that Rev. Jesse O’Conner hopes will stop the flooding in his basement.

Without curbs or gutters, rainwater comes down the street and settles on his property. He’s even had precast concrete parking blocks installed in place of curbs in an effort to prevent floods like the one that put eight inches of water in his basement last week.

“We need to get people working again, spending money,” said O’Conner, a General Electric retiree who’s lived on the street since 1954. “It needs to be spent, not put in the bank somewhere.”

Those projects may sound like small potatoes in the context of a spending plan usually measured in the millions, billions and even trillions. But local officials say it’s important that smaller communities aren’t forgotten in the effort to pump federal taxpayer money into the economy.

“So far, everything coming out of the stimulus has been mega-projects that only big communities get,” said Hamilton County Commissioner David Pepper. “We heard a lot of discussion from smaller communities who said, ‘What about us?’”

Local governments in the region have been allocated more than $5.3 million in additional community development block grants, Applications for specific projects were due Friday, and governments are guaranteed to receive the funds as long as they meet federal criteria.

They hope to get some of that money in time for summer construction, though it may come as late as Sept. 30.

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• Watched “Angels & Demons” last night. The book was better overall but the ending was more realistic in the movie than in the book. Go see it #
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• Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.
  - Isaac Newton #
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• The future will be better tomorrow. - Dan Quayle #

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