Josh's Weblog

LA County Needs a Fair

2009-08-30T20:00:49Z

Stars and Stripes Forever

2009-07-06T04:34:18Z

(Via the Innocent Bystanders.)

Cap and Trade

2009-07-05T16:52:13Z

The Tax Foundation brings us a catchy tune explaining Cap and Trade:

(Hat tip to Hot Air.)

Patty Murry Asks for Health Care Stories

2009-06-26T18:28:32Z

Looks like Patty Murray, one of my Senators from the great state of Washington, is asking for health care stories to push for Obamacare. This is what I posted:

My wife is a nurse and I have friends on medicare or getting health coverage from the VA.

I don't see any evidence that the government is more efficient or effective in those areas so I'm wondering why the solution is to expand coverage to even more people. The government has no credibility when it comes to promoting efficiency and effectiveness in this area.

Americans are more satisfied with health care in the US than in Canada, why are we copying their desire to have the government be in charge?

I doubt she'll use my story in her speech.

McCain Speaks About Iran

2009-06-23T16:43:27Z

Barack Obama—Here's Here to Save the Day!

2009-06-21T00:26:55Z

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What's That?

2009-06-20T23:55:53Z

(Hat tip to NewsBusters.)

“Craigslist” by Weird Al Yankovic

2009-06-16T13:50:21Z

Five Key Reasons to Reject Class-Warfare Tax Policy

2009-06-15T22:42:47Z

The Center for Freedom and Prosperity has a new video:

Penny Visualization On Unemployment Predictions

2009-06-10T00:24:07Z

Mr. 10000Pennies is back!

Watch it and really understand what an information dump is.

(Hat tip to Instapundit.)

Update: Via Day By Day we find that 10000Pennies has a blog called Political Math and he posted the video with an explanation there.

Economic Reporting: Then and Now

2009-06-09T01:13:54Z

(Hat tip to Hot Air.)

Updated Employment Predicted vs. Actual

2009-06-05T14:39:06Z

Innocent Bystanders has updated their chart adding actual unemployment numbers to predictions of Obama's team used to sell the stimulus plan to a gullible American public:

The red dots are the official unemployment figures for the past three months. I guess it would have been worse without the stimulus because of the mild increase in government jobs.

It's clear to me that since most of the stimulus doesn't even take effect until 2010 and 2011, it should just be canceled. Poof, I just suggested saving an incredibly much larger amount of money that the Republicans laughable $23B they offered yesterday.

Republicans Offer $23B Spending Cut, Whoop-Dee-Do

2009-06-04T17:35:34Z

I should create a “too little, too late” category to characterize the latest effort of the Republicans to decrease the $3.6T budget by 0.64%. What's needed to rescue the economy from the Internet and housing bubble collapses is a sound fiscal policy, a sound monetary policy, and a realistic view of big government spending.

The GOP has no credibility on fiscal restraint, and hasn't since Bush 41, and the Democrats think they are resurrecting FDR in Obama, when instead FDR, Carter, and Obama are all cut from the same cloth. Obama speaks out against deficit spending from one side of his mouth, and spews a $3.6T budget blueprint onto an eager-to-spend Congress from the other.

What needs to be done, now, is to end the stimulus and rescue measures immediately and to focus instead on restoring the capital markets by remaking the United States as an attractive place for businesses that make real things for real people as quickly as possible. That's why I support infrastructure improvements but decry borrowing to make them happen.

I'm unhappy that there appears to be no leader that is making a credible call to end the borrow-and-spend cycle and to strengthen the dollar, but I have no credibility to make them do it myself.

Peter Schiff on Spotting the Meltdown Before It Happened

2009-06-04T05:07:34Z

Crisp It Up!

2009-04-27T13:31:01Z

I don't think it's just me, but a lot of podcasts that I used to enjoy seem to be gathering barnacles and getting longer and longer. I'm now firmly of the opinion that if a podcast is longer than an hour then I'm going to get bored while I'm listening to it.

Starting with This Week in Tech and followed by other podcasts like EngadgetHD, PC Magazine Podcast, and even The Instance! have started covering topics at depth where they ramble and as a result they are getting closer to two hours long than one.

I'm not sure that the Manager Tools/Career Tools method of breaking up long items into multiple short segments is much better, as I've been skipping topics lately when they are in three 40-minute segments.

I sure wish the trend was more towards Wall Street Journal This Morning, where they cover a lot of info in just a short amount of time. Of course they plan and execute a radio show every day so they are veterans at this stuff. However, all of the podcasts I listen to have been making shows for over a year.

I'm at the point where I'm considering cutting more programs off my list. Perhaps it's because I'm back to working from home 4 out of 5 days a week that I've lost my tolerance for long podcasts, but it really seems to me like they've gotten longer.

(I also hate how trying to grab links from google searches includes a bunch of stuff in the URL you don't want.)