Saving the Credit Markets: Exempting the excise tax on wooden arrows.
A four page bailout bill becomes a four hundred page tome stuffed with fat, and it’s done to attract recalcitrant House members to vote for it. It passes the Senate, and the Dow is down 262 points as I write.
When members of congress wonder why 90% of the American public holds them in contempt: see […]
……..PALIN!!!
Fearing that McCain would exercise his ‘maverick’ bona fides by selecting Joe Lieberman as his VP - as the media had insisted - I cheered when he instead picked Alaska Governor Sarah Palin. I’ve withheld comment since I didn’t know her any better than anyone, but since the left is desperately comparing the top of […]
……..Biden???
It’s been just over fortyeight hours, but it’s already a cliche: So much for change we can believe in.
1. Obama’s early primary force, especially among the young demographic, was the idolatry of those who desperately wanted to believe bumper sticker platitudes coming from the thoroughly charismatic and swaggering candidate. Youth want their own identity, their own separation […]
McCain will be president. He’s the NotObama.
In the buying and selling of almost anything - certainly homes or shoes - this adage applies: Given adequate function, the fastest selling or the highest volume will be not those that are the most attractive, but rather the least offensive. [Traditional floorplans with beige walls; plain toes in black or brown.]
And that’s how we’re […]
“God put us on earth to help each other.” Tony Snow dies at 53.
I love good people. Not just people who are superb at what they do, but people who inspire others to excellence as well. People who, through articulation and example, can better illustrate life’s purpose in, say, twenty seven short video minutes than Nietzsche, Kierkegaard and Hegel managed in serial tomes.
If you have time, […]
Dr. Kempe, I Presume
It’s easy now to look back at last Saturday and forget the car troubles ninety miles south and two hours shy of the graduation ceremony, or the steaming tall Pike Place Roast delivered to my lap two minutes before walking in the door. All that matters is, after enormous dedication and hard work, Baby Kelly […]
While we worry about declining real estate prices, there are villages in Africa worried about their next meal.
One of the things I love about Lake Grove Presbyterian Church is the amount of time, talent and giving that goes to worldwide mission outreach programs. One of those is a now ten year partnership, through Worldvision, with a federation of sixteen Wolof villages in Senegal. Not mission in the sense of “here, let me give […]
For those steeped in the real estate doldrums
LAUGH, and the world laughs with you…
HT Bob McCarty via Hugh Hewitt
The Lighter Side of Serious: What’s wrong with this picture?
All pulled from the MLS today:
Offered at $385,000: One Fire Hydrant!
Window coverings negotiable!
Wonderful use of color!
Yes! The world really is flat!
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[If anyone would like to preview any of these properties, please let me know…]
Match Day: May we have the envelope, please?
Would YOU buy an appendectomy from this woman?
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The process starts at the beginning of the fourth year for med school students everywhere. Disciplines are chosen - Anesthesiologist? Pediatrics? Surgery? - and applications for residency made to those programs around the country that fit the criteria. There are acceptances and rejections, the acceptances then lined up for […]
