Monthly Archives: December 2010

She Calls Herself Fiscally Responsible

Posted on December 18, 2010 | 1 comment

Again with politicians making up language that fits their needs.

I once had an English teacher in high school.  We were reading “The Merchant of Venice”.  In the story, Shylock loses his estate due to a quirk of law.  On one of our tests, the English teachers asks the True or False question:

Shylock lost half of his estate due to his legal dealings with Antonio.

I answered, “False”.  After all, he lost the whole of the estate.

She marked it wrong, saying that if he lost ALL of his estate, certainly he lost half of it as well.

Words have meanings.

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More Government Nanny State Statism

Posted on December 16, 2010 | 1 comment

They did it again.

Inn an effort to “do something” about a “problem” people have turned to legislators to “fix” the “problem”.

And, in this case, the problem is…….

Cribs.

Drop-side cribs to be specific.

Done.  Kahput.  Banned.

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Have You Ever Noticed

Posted on December 15, 2010 | 1 comment

You know when we have one of those little holidays, or heck, even one of the big ones, and the garbage guys don’t come to your house?

And you have to leave the trash out the next day to be picked up?

And then, by next week, they are back on track and pick up your trash on the normal regular day.

That’s cool.  But you know what it tells me?

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The Problem With the Tax Debate

Posted on December 15, 2010 | 2 comments

With the advent of the Tea Party we’re seeing the tax debate being held more and more in the public square.  I actually hear people talking about the “death tax” and “tax cut vs tax extension” in coffee shops and YMCAs.

I think it’s great.

However, in almost every single conversation, there is one aspect of the debate that I think gets left out; and it drives me crazy.

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They Know This Healthcare Law is Crap

Posted on December 13, 2010 | Leave a comment

It really started a long time ago.  While the Democrats controlled the Senate with a bone crushing majority, they knew, they KNEW that they had to have 60 to pass Obamacare.

So, they id what they had to do, scheduled vote after vote and passed the thing in the dead of night on Christmas Eve.  The bill wasn’t perfect, but they could send it to the House, tweak it, and get it through later.

But then Scott Brown won.  So the only option left open was for the House to pass the Senate Bill as was.  And they couldn’t do it.

Only they did.

But they knew then that what they had done was crap.

They knew it then.

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Women Are Better Than Men

Posted on December 13, 2010 | Leave a comment

At some things.

Like going to college.

Like getting a bachelors degree.

Like getting a Masters degree.

Like reading and writing.

But not math.

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A Quick Study on the Impact of Taxes

Posted on December 12, 2010 | 6 comments

Students Demanding That We Tax The Rich

The great debate of the day is The Compromise™. Or rather, what we’re gonna do about  taxes on the rich.  Obama ran on it for two years beginning in 2006.  Liberals believed; believed either that he WOULD let the Bush Tax Cuts expire or that he COULD let the Bush Tax Cuts expire.*

And he didn’t.

He neither could nor would.  And the great debate rages.

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One Day I Woke Up And Needed a Fresh Cut Pine Tree…

Posted on December 8, 2010 | Leave a comment

…about 8ft tall.  Not too much shorter, no need for a short freshly cut pine tree.  And certainly not much bigger; simple could not USE a big freshly cut pine tree.

Oh yeah, and I want it delivered to my house.  Maybe-maybe not.  But at the very least, it has to be dropped off for me to pick up no further than 3 tenths of a mile from where I live.

And when I say freshly cut, I mean literally, this sucker was in the ground 36 hours ago.  MAX!

Sounds silly doesn’t it?

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From the File Labeled “No Shit”

Posted on December 7, 2010 | 4 comments

So, the big news out of Washington is that Obama has compromised with the Republicans.  Tax cuts for everybody all the while extending unemployment benefits for some more amount of time.

The complain from the Left, and I admit that I’m impressed the Left cares about such nonsense, is that the tax cuts will add to the deficit.

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Posted on December 7, 2010 | Leave a comment

So, I used to go to college.  And I’ll use those days to illustrate my point when it comes to money, revenue, expenditures, debt and savings.

Back then it was more clear-cut on what was discretionary spending and what wasn’t.  Further, back then my income was much more fluid and variable than it is now.

Okay, back in the day….

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