Talk about whatever.
Saturday, May 06, 2006
Friday, May 05, 2006
Kennedy to enter Rehab.
Fox News is reporting that Patrick Kennedy will enter rehab for addiction to pain medication.
I think we need to afford him the same courtesy we afforded Rush. Be glad that he is getting help and wish him well.
I heard Rush today saying that that his family needed to get him help. That he should know about that himself. I ask my leftwing commenters to listen to Rush Monday (or today if he is still on) and I'm betting you will hear Rush comment on this as the good person he seems to be.
Anyway, I wish Kennedy well and hope God blesses him in his recovery.
Update: Here is the story on Kennedy. I also heard on the news that Kennedy is dealing with bi-polar disorder as well. So he was really taking chances. I'm glad he got help before it was too late. This family has had enough tragedy.
Thursday, May 04, 2006
Waiting...
for the left to scream about how unfair it is that someone rich and connected gets special treatment in regards to an obvious problem.
I wonder how long I will wait?
Another Kennedy problem
*Let me add this: At least Rush stayed out of cars and bars when he was medicated and he wasn't even a freakin Congressman.
Pic via Iowa Voice
LST gives us: U.S. troops, poolside in Baghdad…God Bless America!
*You know you have freedom when you can wear a bikini and a machine gun!
Milk and Oil Do Mix.
You are farmer Brown, a dairy farmer for the past 25 years. You have invested a large amount of time, money, and sweat equity over these years for livestock, barns, pasture, feed, laborers, milking machines, trucks and other equipment. Milk prices over the past 25 years have been sporadic. In some years it has been so low that you were not able to buy feed, new equipment, pay laborers, and you had to sell some of your herd. In those years, you really questioned why you remained in this crazy business. Firing workers that you had become attached to was extremely painful. All this time you fought competition from cheap imported milk coming into the U.S. market. These foreign companies did not have to pay the taxes you paid, spend money on government mandated programs. You may not have liked your situation…and you may have complained on occasion…but all in all, you accepted all of this as part of the business and made the best of it.
Suddenly… and without warning… two countries (Alpha and Beta) with extremely large populations begin to implement free market principals in their economies and allow their private sectors to invest and make business decisions without government interference. Their pay scale to workers are extremely low compared to the industrialized world and their economies boom since they currently have a huge labor advantage. Alpha and Beta have full employment at wages that are much higher than in the old economy. The citizens begin to accumulate money and now have cash to spend on whatever they want….and they want milk! Alpha and Beta do not have enough milk cows to meet their countries demand. So Alpha and Beta begin to buy milk on the world market. In order to secure huge milk accounts from other countries, Alpha and Beta have to offer more money for the milk. Which they do, and they secure milk for their populations. Alpha and Beta buy so much milk that a shortage of milk results on the world market. Other countries who import milk begin to scramble to secure milk supplies for their populations. This results in the price of milk skyrocketing because demand exceeds supply. People want their milk and willing to pay a certain price for it.
Meanwhile, farmer Brown is minding his own business and notices that his milk purchaser is willing to pay more money for his milk. Soon he is getting calls from other milk purchasers wanting to buy his milk for unheard of prices. Being a prudent businessman, he sells his milk to the highest bidder. All his hard work over the last 25 years is paying off.
But what is this! Soon people show up on farmer Brown’s door step, yelling that he and Big Milk is gouging them…They ask “How can you do this on something as basic as milk? What kind of monster are you? You crook!” He tries to explain to these people that he does not set the price of milk. He only sells it to the highest bidder. They either do not want to hear that or are not capable of understanding how our economy works. They want to blame someone, even if it is unjust and unfair. Now these same people want the government to step in to regulate the price of milk and punish him by taxing him. Can any rational person who understands how our economy works expect this to fix the problem?
The problem here is a shortage of milk. Not farmer Brown, the milk purchasers, Big Milk… whatever. If the government regulates the price of milk, milk suppliers will still have to buy milk on the open market but will be limited in how much they can pay for it. If the going price for milk on the world market is $2.50/gallon and the government mandates that milk be $2.40/gallon, how can these milk suppliers buy any milk? Are you going to force milk suppliers to lose money? Would you? Won’t happen. So, the result of fixing prices is a severe shortage of milk.
What about punishing these farmers for their obscene profits through taxes? Hmmm. Does this add to the world supply of milk….No. What it does do is reduce farmer Brown’s profits at the expense of foreign competitors, who don’t have to pay the tax. If they place on import tax on milk as well, the price of milk goes up accordingly.
How do we fix this problem….well the easiest way is to increase the milk supply. Which means that more cows have to be raised. Well, cows take a couple of years to mature to the point that they are able to be milked. Plus, an increase in cows means that farmer Brown will have to purchase more equipment, build more barns, buy more feed, vet bills, hire more laborers, etc. He needs large sums of money (some of which he has to borrow) to pay for all of this. Unfortunately, the government just raised his taxes and have place restrictions on how many cows that he can have on a certain amount of acreage. Also, for every cow that he buys, there is a chance that the cow may grow up without the ability to give milk. We call those Dry Cows. Since his farm is surrounded by dairy farms, he cannot buy more land, therefore no more cows. Also, since cows belch greenhouse gases, the government is threatening to tax him even more to account for global warming. Farmer Brown feels the rewards are not great enough to exceed the risks. So he keeps the same number of cows. Unfortunately, his cows are getting a little long in the tooth. His cow population begins to drop. Now he is not producing the same amount of milk.
Welcome to reality people…
*written by someone in the oil business...:-)
The Evil Cheney explained...
by someone who knows him best:
New York, N.Y. - In her new memoir, NOW IT'S MY TURN(Simon & Schuster/Threshold Editions, 2006), Mary Cheney writes that when she told her parents she was gay, the first words out of her father's mouth "were exactly the ones that I wanted to hear: 'You're my daughter, and I love you, and I just want you to be happy.'"
VANITY FAIR editor Todd Purdum reports that Mary Cheney tells her story in a voice very much like her father's, and that she came out to her parents when she was a junior in high school, on a day when, after breaking up with her first girlfriend, she skipped school, ran a red light, and crashed the family car. Cheney writes that her mother hugged her, but then burst into tears, worried that she would face a life of pain and prejudice.
via Drudge
h/t Cormac
Wednesday, May 03, 2006
Moussaoui gets life in prison
Not to make light of this very serious event, but if you listened to the first juror who spoke while thanking those involved in the trial, she said, "Thank you for giving us everything we needed, even if it was just a smile." (oh geeze)
No one who would say something like that would ever vote for the death penalty.
Give me your thoughts on the whole thing.
Democrats and the free market.
Oxblog sums it up pretty well with a Democrat's own words.
My favorite quote?
"SEN. DURBIN: Am I the only one of your guests here that think that profit taking is a problem? [I hope so! Socialism is so 1973.]"
Tuesday, May 02, 2006
For those who think Rush was treated differently because of who he was....
You are right.
"The truth is that Krischer never had a case. In November 2005, the assistant state attorney handling the investigation stood up in open court and made the mind-blowing admission that he had “no idea” whether Rush had committed a crime—after pursuing Rush, and crawling through every aspect of his private life, for over two years. He claimed he needed the court to authorize the evisceration of Rush’s doctor-patient privilege so he could interview physicians. Why? Because after months and months of poring over Rush’s actual medical records the prosecutor had no proof that Rush had done anything wrong. This should have come as no surprise since that’s what Rush had told them and shown them all along the way.
Nor did the harassment stop there. Rush was treated far differently from the average person at every juncture—but, of course, you already knew that because, as we’ve noted, the average person would not have been investigated for such a “crime” as doctor-shopping at all. For another example, real prosecutors are duty-bound to keep investigative information confidential. If they are ready to charge someone formally and back up the charges in court, fine. Otherwise, Americans are not supposed to be tried in the press. But Rush was the exception. His private medical records were splashed all over television once they were in the hands of the prosecutors."
The more I find out about this case, the sicker it makes me. Rush was charged with this for one reason and one reason only.
He was a conservative.
A Centcom endorsement!
The Captain received this e-mail from US Central Command:
Hi, Kiril:
I caught your post about the 101st Fighting Keyboardists. Good luck with the project! I’m not sure if you have been to the US Central Command website but we regularly post news, photos, audio and video from Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom. You (and your fellow bloggers) are welcome to use any materials you find on our site. If you’d like to receive the weekly electronic newsletter and monthly Coalition Bulletin, just ask.
If you could add a link to CENTCOM, it’d be appreciated (I’m trying to spread the word about our site!). I’ve attached the CENTCOM logo, should you want to use it with the link. Thanks!
SPC C. Flowers
CENTCOM Public Affairs
Turning off the news.
mediabistro has this:
"FNC's 19 percent primetime decline in the demo compared to April 2005 is pretty steep. But it's nothing compared to CNN's 38 percent primetime plunge."
Their viewership was compared to the same month last year. I just think people are sick to death of all the negative news coverage. They are told Iraq is a mess, yet a new government is finally emerging despite the "predictions" of civil war. Even in the midst of a booming economy all the media can talk about are high oil prices, global warming, and Washington scandals that never seem to go anywhere, but are talked about to death.
And finally, to those of us who are deeply interested in all these things, we are finding much more information and news sitting at our computers than in turning on the news.
Almost There.
Iraqi The Model gives us the lowdown on the emerging government of Iraq.
"The process of forming the cabinet has reached a good milestone that promises an end to the long disputes that consumed months over who-gets-what especially when it came to security-related posts that are no more a problem, actually some analysts and politicians expect the next 24 hours to witness the announcement of the final formation of a large part of the cabinet."
Read the whole thing. This wasn't an easy road. We can at least all be glad to have reached this point.
Democracy. It doesn't come easy.
*I just found this. It seems Mohammed of Iraqi The Model truly knows that it doesn't come easy.
Sad.
The ACLU....
busy protecting rights again. BUT it's the rights of haters that everyone on the right and left agree shouldn't have the right to infringe on someone's most private moments in grief.
You remember the members of the Topeka, Kan.-based Westboro Baptist Church that have protested at military funerals in several states? They shout ugly things at military funerals and funerals for someone who was gay. The church seems to think that the soldiers' deaths are a sign of God punishing America for tolerating homosexuality.
Gov. Ernie Fletcher signed a new law in March that bans protests within 300 feet of memorial services, wakes and burials. Violators can be charged with first-degree disorderly conduct, punishable by up to a year in jail.
But the ACLU thinks it's too broad. The lawsuit was filed on behalf of Bart McQueary, a Kentucky man who has protested alongside the church members on three occasions.
Could the ACLU be any more horrid?
via Backcountry Conservative
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