News and politics

Stop it, you’re making stuff come out of my nose. Tip from the Instapundit. Read more

The Current Administration is stimulating the economy by sending $250 Social Security "bonus" checks to dead people.  The explanation is straight from the Bureaucrat Handbook: The agency blames the error on the strict mid-June deadline of mailing out all of the checks, which didn’t leave officials much time to clean up all of their records.… Read more

Brett Arends slams banks as investments in the WSJ Online: For the retail banks: It’s hard to have much faith in – or respect for – their business model. Too many rely on nickel and diming customers – on everything from overdraft fees, credit card gotchas and low interest paid on deposits. Tip from Mahalanobis. Read more

Iraqi businesses, like ours, are hiring cheap foreign labor Mr. Radhi said he had employed hundreds of Iraqi waiters, dishwashers, cleanup crews and cooks. He said he had had enough of what he called Iraqis’ suspect work ethic and was in the process of looking for more foreign workers. Several of my Indian friends have… Read more

Fearless Leader is exhorting the Cabinet to trim the federal budget by $100 MILLION dollars.  Not everyone is impressed.  I’m reminded of this, from xkcd: Update (21 April).  The ranks of the unimpressed grow.  But! xkcd is doing a book (Tip from the Geek Press). Read more

The Rules are for you Little People, not for us Connected Guys.  No wonder folks are throwing Tea Parties. Read more

Congress wants to cap all consumer loan rates at 36% to help out the little people The high-interest, short-term loans that pawnbrokers give out, backed by undervalued jewelry, camera, instruments and the like, would be covered under the bill. As well as the undervalued CDs from the previous owner’s dog’s music club selections, the crapped… Read more

The San Francisco Examiner published an op-ed dissing gun control: When the government passes laws that only peaceable people obey, they are simply leaving the same people at the mercy of violent predators. Read the whole thing, including the comments.  Remarkable! Tip from the Instapundit.  Graphic swiped from the Black Sphere. Read more

I’ve often said that my generation, the Famous Boomers, is pretty much a gang of mendacious jerks, the kind of people who sell out their musical heritage for patent medicine ads, or worse.  Now with New Improved President Barack-0 and his sidekick Timmy, we Boomers are selling out our children.  They’ll get even.  There are… Read more

Following up on Secretary Clinton’s sensitive remarks at the Basilica of the Virgin of Guadelupe, we have this In a press release, the White House accidentally listed a sex line number for journalists seeking an "on-the-record briefing call with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and National Security Advisor Jim Jones to discuss the NATO summit."… Read more