Archive for March, 2009

Or something like that:

Something with the WordPress layout has caused things to go a little “off”.  Hopefully as I publish new articles, this fixes itself. Apparently this WordPress theme doesn’t like it when you use the break feature to put stuff after the jump.  Oh well.  Fixed now.

I have obtained an exclusive picture of the latest global warming rally.

Leno On the Stimulus

Posted: March 25, 2009 in Government Spending

h/t Conn Carroll

Maxine Waters Is an Idiot

Posted: March 25, 2009 in Stupid Democrats

There is no other explaination for the lack of coherence in the questions she is asking Secretary Geithner. h/t Megan McArdle Listen to her talk.  This type of speech pattern is typical of someone who is trying to sound a lot smarter than they really are.

h/t Anchoress It really is quite amazing how you can change this video to be an American politician with Barack Obama as the target (or for that matter George W Bush).  It fits.

New Dream Theater!

Posted: March 25, 2009 in Dream Theater, Music

A new Dream Theater CD was just announced. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 13, 2009 New York, NY: Progressive metal veterans DREAM THEATER have announced BLACK CLOUDS & SILVER LININGS as the title of their tenth studio album. The band commenced work on the album – their second for Roadrunner Records, following up 2007′s Systematic Chaos [...]

Inheireted Deficits

Posted: March 24, 2009 in Government Spending

Note a few things about this chart. The budget deficit started to rise again after 9/11.  The costs of the war were (and continue to be) extrememly high. Notice how those deficits were back on the decline after 2004.  Who was in charge of Congress? Notice how the deficits have gone back on the rise [...]

Link Damn.  I’m already a year into the down side of the hill. h/t John Goodman

One of the factors that lead to the problems in the banking sector (and for that matter any other sector) was the ability to over-leverage.  Banks were allowed to borrow money at rediculously high levels.  This lead to widespread problems when what they were borrowing to invest in went belly up.  They suddenly owed money [...]