Give the Green Weenies a highfalutin’ name for something, tell them it’s just awful for the climate and for children and other living things, and they’ll vote to ban it. Thus for dihydrogen monoxide. The No. 1 greenhouse gas. Also known as water vapor.
Via The White Sepulchre.
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Tagged climate change, dihydrogen monoxide, water vapor
Nevermind Big Oil. Nobody benefits from government corruption like Big Ag.
“At the stroke of midnight on December 31 of this year, the 45¢ per gallon Volumetric Ethanol Excise Tax Credit (VEETC), commonly known as the blender’s credit, and the 54¢ per gallon tariff on imported ethanol, will expire.”
The price of gas would drop. And millions of Mexican peasants, for one, suffering from price hikes on their staple corn tortillas, would benefit. Unless Big Corn’s political toadies-on-the-take fight off a challenge and save their tax subsidies.
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Posted in Obamalot, Scribbles, South of the Border
Tagged Big Corn, ethanol subsidies, VEETC
“”I love the symbolism of two Democratic presidents––not one, but two––endorsing Bush tax cuts, saying, ‘We need them crucially to help the economy’.”
Via Instapundit.
Tax cuts won’t be enough, however, to push unemployment down again— not with all the uncertainty of pending environmental, health care and other new Democrat-inspired federal regulations that hit business. Executives will still wait and see before they start investing and hiring again.
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Tagged Bush tax cuts, Obamalot, President Clinton
The Jelly Roll Blues arguably was the first published jazz composition. Ferdinand Joseph LaMothe (better known as Jelly Roll Morton) claimed to have written it in 1905 after inventing the musical form three years earlier.
I especially like Morton’s 1920s version of Louis Armstrong idol Joe “King” Oliver’s Doctor Jazz. The first time I heard it, though, I thought Morton was saying “Cactus Jack,” referring to legendary Texas pol John Nance Garner. Not likely.
Civil War note: Morton got his start playing piano in a brothel in New Orleans, then wandered the country, made records, etc. Wound up in D.C. in the historic Shaw neighborhood which grew out of freed slave camps and was named for Union Colonel Robert Gould Shaw. He commanded the 54th Massachusetts, one of the first Union black regiments, which was celebrated in the movie Glory. Jelly Roll Morton, whose music still is available, died in 1941.
You could hardly do better than to own a copy of Doctor Jazz. Even though it has nothing to do with Cactus Jack.
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Posted in Library, Scribbles, Texana
Tagged Cactus Jack, Doctor Jazz, Jelly Roll Morton, The Jelly Roll Blues
Seems military recruitment and other buildings, such as the Pentagon, are taking rounds from a mysterious, apparently amateur, shooter whose ballistics match. In five incidents since Oct. 17, s/he fortunately hasn’t hit anyone.
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Posted in Blogosphere, The War, Troops
Tagged D.C. sniper, Jihad, military center shootings
No, it’s not snowing at the rancho. Just on my Civil War blogs Knoxville1863 and the 13thMississippi Infantry Regiment because the plug-in involved has no effect (without significant nanotech) on the actual weather (duh) and can’t be used here because I’m not using Version 3.0 or higher.
Or, so I thought. Seems I have misspoke. Heh, I did it. Altho it’s hard to see on this white background. Happy snowfall, whenever it does appear. The kind you just watch, though it does accumulate at the bottom of the page if you don’t scroll up. At least you don’t have to shovel it.
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Tagged 13thMississppi.com, Knoxville 1863, Knoxville1863.com, snowfall plugin wordpress
Where? Washington, D.C., the capital of the Nanny State. Where else?
“Even as most of the country remains mired in serious housing recession, the capital has bounced back smartly . . . . The rise has been so dramatic that for the first time in five years, the average asking rent in D.C. is higher than in New York City….”
Read it and weep, taxpayer.
Via Instapundit.
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Tagged Capital of The Nanny State, Rise of the Imperial City, Washington D.C.
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