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Happy Memorial Day
I second these words from Robbie, over at UrbanGrounds:
Compared to all of those who gave the ultimate sacrifice defending their country, my own service feels immeasurably inadequate. I am humbled and forever grateful for their service and their sacrifice.
Happy Memorial Day!
Memorial Day Burgers with Bourbon Slush
Actually, skip the burgers and let’s just go straight for the
Bourbon Slush. I am setting a reminder for tomorrow to remember to pick up the ingredients for the slush.
Your addiction to Federal Spending has affected me in the following ways…
The title of this post is a common line spoken by friends & families of people who are the subject of A&E’s “Intervention”, or as the Mrs. Swanky calls it, “Trainwreck Show.” You’ll hear that line in the last 12 minutes when the family is shown finally staging an intervention with their substance-abuse-ridden loved one. One by one, the family members read off their written statements about how they love this person & how their addictions hurt them. It’s horrible television, in my opinion. And I don’t understand the desire to watch it. Give me documentaries on the history of brewing beer any day.
I couldn’t help but hear the title of the post in my head as I read today’s editorial in the Washington Examiner, “Feds are broke but keep right on spending.”
The two key words in that sentence are “structural imbalance.” Sounds like something beyond the ability of mere mortals to change, doesn’t it? Part of the natural order, kind of like the swine flu. It just happens. Out in the real world beyond Washington, “structural imbalance” means: Washington politicians are on a spending rampage the likes of which has never before been seen anywhere in human history. The spenders include President Barack Obama, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, plus a supporting cast of bureaucrats like Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and his predecessor, Henry Paulson, and the Democratic majorities in the Senate and House (joined by a few Senate Republicans). These officials are terminally afflicted with what Sen. Tom Coburn, R-OK, calls “federal spending disease” (FSD) an incurable addiction in which the sufferer is utterly unable to stop spending other people’s money. An intervention by voters is the only effective treatment.
Federal Spending Disease. Great. Now when I go to vote, I’m going to be thinking of it in terms of an intervention, rather than just in terms of sending someone off to represent my wishes & needs. Maybe the Tea Parties can be rebranded as mass-group interventions?
Twirling, twirling, twirling towards freedom
Prominent attorney alleges investment firm threatened by Obama administration, eventually files motion to halt the Chrysler proceedings.
Associated Press investigates and reports on the Obamas “taking a walk and holding hands.”
(Why do I think of Citizen Kang?)
We are merely exchanging long protein strings. If you can think of a simpler way, I’d like to hear it!
All I need to know about the newspaper industry
Warren Buffett “would not buy most U.S. newspaper “at any price” according to the Wall Street Journal. To those heavily invested in dead-tree journalism: get out now.
Grade the President: F for Deficit
All you need to know about the President’s grade:
Crawfish 2009
Had our annual crawfish boil this past weekend. Mom, Dad, Mima & my father-in-law came down for it & some 50-plus great friends came by as well. We boiled four sacks of amazing crawfish that we bought from Sambet’s Cajun Deli. 144 pounds overall. Needless to say, I was deliciously exhausted the next day, but I didn’t let that deter me from cleaning the back yard. Mrs. Swanky and I managed to pick up any remaining recycling, stray crawfish remains and all the chairs, tables, and boiling apparati before the rains moved in.
This is the second sack of the boil being poured onto the table and was the largest sack of the boil, weighing in at 40 pounds.
‘Best U.S. Cities For Jobs’ - not in California or New York
Suck it, California & New York. Us lowbrow rednecks in the heart of flyover country with a governor being lampooned on cable news shows and in the ‘papers of record’ and home to President Bush must be doing something right. According to ABC News and Forbes, the top five metropolitan areas for jobs are in Texas. The number one small city for jobs is also in Texas:
The top of the complete ranking — which, for ease, we have broken down into the two smaller lists, of the best big and small cities for jobs — is dominated by one state: Texas. The Lone Star State may have lost a powerful advocate in Washington, but it’s home to a remarkable eight of the top 20 cities on our list — including No. 1-ranked Odessa, a small city in the state’s northwestern region. Further, the top five large metropolitan areas for job growth — Austin, Houston, San Antonio, Ft. Worth and Dallas–are all in Texas’ “urban triangle.”
I guess a state with a weak governor, low taxes, a diversified economy and reasonable regulation on home mortgages is doing something right, eh?
Democratic states are glaringly absent from the top of the list.
Indeed.
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