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Fred ain’t dead…

Posted on October 17, 2007 | Comments Off on Fred ain’t dead…

…he’s just in hibernation writing policy papers. Which makes Texas Gov. Rick Perry’s endorsement of Rudy more than a little suspect in the eyes of Texas Republicans. Meanwhile Fred’s going after government waste, always a good theme, given the huge numbers of government haters, never more apparent than today:

"We found $20 billion in waste. It is not getting better. We have computers that do not talk to each other, and departments that cannot pass an audit. Every department needs a top-to-bottom review with a strict cost-benefit analysis applied to every program."

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Sell out/buy in

Posted on October 17, 2007 | Comments Off on Sell out/buy in

I enjoy reading Cobb, a conservative black engineer, and descendent of a freed black Union soldier in the Civil War, who is decidedly not one of the race hustlers so prevalent these days. Particularly like his current post on who’s a race sell-out and who isn’t. And this remark by one his commenters:

"If you keep your credit clean, and save some money, you will have an easier time managing your financial life in America. If you don’t commit crimes and treat people ethically so they don’t sue you, you won’t have to worry about the justice system. Them’s the rules."

Yep. Worth the read. 

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Internet humor

Posted on October 17, 2007 | Comments Off on Internet humor

A friend in the Northeast sent me the latest collection of jokes making the email rounds. I notice they’re all attributed to the mentally challenged in the South and flyover country. Interesting how these stereotypes linger. Would they be as funny if the idiots portrayed were from Los Angeles or Boston? Depends on where you live, I suppose. Down here we prefer to laugh at New Yorkers and Californicators.

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Dentists, ugh

Posted on October 16, 2007 | Comments Off on Dentists, ugh

Alice, the Mad Housewife, has this post about the loopy Brits who pull their own teeth, or flee to Eastern Europe for reconstructive dental work. Really now. Aren’t these folks supposed to be doing just swell under socialized medicine? Frankly, I hate dentists, even the nice ones. I have been to too many. Too many. I started hating them round about when the third one in a row examined my teeth and then shook his head–oh so very sadly–and said, really quite mournfully: "This is the worst dental care I’ve ever seen." Salesmen. Every one of them.

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Caver rescue

Posted on October 15, 2007 | Comments Off on Caver rescue

They were lost in the one-way, two-mile cave where you spend most of the time on your belly squeezing through narrow openings (sounds wonderfully claustrophobic) and glad to be rescued. Why, they’d even do it again! But, next time, not at the taxpayer’s expense, we can hope.

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Lost in a cave

Posted on October 14, 2007 | Comments Off on Lost in a cave

Austin and Travis County emergency medical teams have enlisted the help of experienced spelunkers in searching Airman’s Cave, a 12,000 foot underground complex of tight squeezes near Barton Creek for three lost cavers who did not report in at midnight Saturday as expected.

UPDATE: Make that four lost cavers–three female, one male–possibly University of Texas students. More here. Photos and some history of Airman’s, and why it’s called that.

MORE: What was lost has now been found, and they were three, not four, afterall. 

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Weapon of misdirection

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Posted on October 12, 2007 in Scribbles

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