tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34954582024-11-21T06:02:50.528-05:00Politics. Random Meanderings. Drooling optional.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger44125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3495458.post-2765595393451423262009-02-18T14:46:00.008-05:002009-02-18T15:31:04.654-05:00

So President Obama "unveils" a $75 billion "mortgage relief plan", aimed at alleviating the burdens of some 9 million homeowners who might otherwise be unable to stay in their homes.I'm going to make some simplistic assumptions/generalizations about this bill, just for ease of illustration and also because I do not have the details of who will get what.The total package equates to an average of $

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I'll be the first one to say that I'm not surprised that Obama won and that McCain lost. As Rush Limbaugh has so aptly put it, McCain's entire campaign, other than Sarah Palin, was one big concession speech, and Barack Obama says "nothing" better than anyone else. Those two things together should cause no one surprise as to the result of the election.That being said, I'm still baffled as to how,

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While there are so many other things at stake, at risk, etc., this is a good example of the crux of the election. It's a frightening notion that whatever some cretin in Washington defines as wealth at any given moment, the owner/earner of it is unentitled to it:Even if you make less than $250K (or $200K, or $150K, or $120K), whatever you make/have could be redefined as undeserved wealth.Anyone

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Anyone who has seen the following message, most likely spread via email:With all the ideas being thrown around as to how to save the good ole USA from its current financial woes, here is the BEST idea so far!!I'm against the $85,000,000,000.00 bailout of AIG. Instead, I'm in favorof giving $85,000,000,000 to America in a We Deserve It Dividend. Tomake the math simple, let's assume there are

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As it seems to go with Sprint, I was having issues again, so I was again going to cancel my contract and get out of the broadband wifi deal and just get a freakin' iPhone 3G.I had not used my Sierra Wireless 595U card in some time because I kept getting PPP error #678 saying that the remote computer didn't want to talk to me. When I talk to Sprint, after the same lame diagnostics (that I've

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Recently there has been a lot of publicity regarding the critical defect in DNS caching - which essentially says, if you type "www.waxingcatatonic.com" (which takes you to this blog) it should go the computer who's address is "64.202.189.170" (at the time of this posting :) ). This critical defect allows attackers to change that address to whatever they would like (essentially), and it allows

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So I'm having lunch in the bar area of a local wings place. There are TV's all over the place with various sports stuffs playing. One set of TV's has been playing various bits about the New England Patriots spying "scandal" (IMO, it couldn't happen to a nicer team, but I digress).Then I look up and see Arlent Specter (R-PA)'s freaking face on the tube.Here's my question: where in the Constitution

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While bilge-spewing groups like National Geographic eruct fear-mongering junk like "Six Degrees Could Change the World", and that junk is advertised on other networks, facts to the contrary are ignored.What facts? Oh, you know, insignificant facts like the one that says that all 4 major global temperature trackers recorded the "single fastest temperature change ever recorded, either up or down" -

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As mentioned in my previous post, I just received a new wifi broadband card. The AirCard 595U. It's a fine card, but I had some initial trouble getting the software installed for sprint and just wanted to throw out the solution in case my one reader ever has the same issue.I'm running Vista Ultimate 32-bit on my laptop. On both the CD that came with the card, as well as after downloading the

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As part of what I guess will become a running series, I now present the instructions for creating the perfecto Mojito.A little background. Being into cigars, and therefore having a romanitc yearn to visit Havana, Cuba, I have had a long running interest in the Mojito. Whilst on vacation to Myrtle Beach, SC, I ran across a little place called Latitude 22 degrees, which purported to offer Mojitos

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Ok, by now virtually everyone has heard of the POS idea to not buy gasoline that happened on 5/15 (and has been happening since 1999). The whole premise is that it will hurt the "big oil" companies (it won't), and that it will make some sort of a statement about the state of gas prices, yadda, yadda, yadda.Well to combat that vacuous crap, I'm asking for my one reader to buy twice as much

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In looking at all of the available candidates for President in 2008, I've finally whittled my way down to my official '08 endorsements (for which I know the cavalcade of press has fervently been waiting) .For the 2008 United States of America Presidential Election, I officially endorse the ticket of General George Washington as President and Ronald Reagan as Vice President:For a short time I

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I was reading an article about the concept of a hate crime, and it seemed to echo (more verbosely) my own thoughts: It seems as simple as 1+1=2 to me that if the only difference between crime X and crime Y is the fact that in crime Y the perpetrator did it for racial reasons, then the government is now in the business of punishing thought and opinion. Does the fact that this even has to be told

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Earlier this morning, I saw this headline: "US man saved from alligator jaws" from the BBC. It seemed like an interesting enough story from the headline, but after reading it, there was a bit more to it than the headline indicated.Then, this afternoon, CBS came though with a truly American headline that tells oh so much more of the story: "Gator Attacks Naked Man on Crack". Awwww yeahhh, baybee.

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Ever since my honeymoon to Vancouver, BC back in '98 I had been on a quest to recreate the perfect martini I had there. Unfortunately I don't remember the restaurant name, but it was incredible. It was perfectly chilled, with a silky smooth taste and some very thin, beautiful ice crystals layering the top (a must have if done right). I perfected it sometime ago, but thought I'd put it out there

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Walter E. Williams is amazing in that he seems able to talk about a particular subject, and yet capture almost all of the tenants of conservativism all at the same time in his columns.From his 11/29/06 column, he finds it egregious that "at least two-thirds of the federal budget represents forcing one American to serve the purposes of another. Younger workers are forced to pay for the

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Thanks for all of your work. The lunches are free forever now.

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So, it seems that "US" Chefs are more interested in taste than in health (what about all of those decadent French meals?). Thank goodness for that. If I want to eat healthily, I'll cook myself (well, I'll cook for myself anyway. If I cooked myself, then that would just be another high fat meal...). When I go out I want good food.As I've said before, what about this is actual news?

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As a registered Republican (but conservative first), I have no problem saying that the Republicans completely gaffed this election cycle. However I do think that they would have had a much better showing if they had stuck to (or in some cases adopted in the first place) conservative principles.It was sickening to me to hear John McCain say, the morning after the election that things would have

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It was bound to happen and finally has. Heh.

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Despite the nuclear arms, despite the beatings, mass murders, and mass starvation, and despite the millions of oppressed citizens living in squalor, I've finally read a bright and happy story (well-timed with yesterday's news) about how jolly North Korea is.It turns out we were all wrong about Kim Jong Il. According to David Borenstein, apparently the vast majority of North Korea is not either in

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So 4 Republican Senators and one former Secretary of State constitute a "Senate Rebellion [Breaking] Out Against the White House" in regard to what should/should not be considered legal treatment of detainees in the war on terror?I found that interesting, but not because of the numbers (there are after all only 100 U.S. Senators, and the Republicans have a small majority).No, what I found

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I was perusing ASK.com's news site, and noticed a striking headline under the US Politics section:Of course I had to click on the link. Turns out it was about a murder/suicide in Clinton, IOWA, not from the actual politician and her wife. I think ASK needs to tweak some parsing logic....

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http://inertiacrept.livejournal.com/43187.htmlDon't be fooled by the title. Read the whole thing. And then heaven forbid, think about it.Thanks to krizazy for the link.

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