Every now and then, somebody wanders in here searching for Ura Hogg.
It’s an old Texas joke, folks. There was no Ura. No Hoosa, either.
But there certainly was a Miss Ima. And, besides being gorgeous, and the daughter of a governor, she was a great philanthropist, too.
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Hope you can read the sign on the back of the truck: Moses Transports.
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Thus, you have one Oregon professor proclaiming that skepticism about climate change (previously known as global warming until the warming stopped about fifteen years ago) is evidence of a mental disease requiring treatment.
Meanwhile, an Arkansas university “research team” has concluded (very scientifically I’m sure) that political conservatism is a sign of low intelligence or other “cognitive impairment.” No treatment suggested. Conservatives just have to try harder to meet the liberal “norm.”
And, of course, there’s the University of California system’s echo chamber:
“Political activism has drawn the University of California into an academic death spiral. Too many professors believe their job is to ‘advance social justice’ rather than teach the subject they were hired to teach.”
Yep.
Via Drudge Report and Instapundit.
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Try this list of just one day’s moves by the largely-Democrat federal bureaucracy on new regulations for business. Great timing, right?
Hey, after eight years of the Republican Bush, one can imagine the tsunami that was building up in the regulators’ hearts and minds. It just had to come through.
“In his first three years in office Mr. Bush put into place 28 major regulations. Mr. Obama’s three years have seen 106 major regulations. In dollar terms the Bush regulations cost $8.1 billion and Obama’s $46 billion.”
With our economy-killing president, the wonder is that there’s been any recovery at all.
Meanwhile, economics author Amity Shlaes warns that double-digit inflation could be closer than Obamalot thinks:
“Bernanke talks about prices in one area — energy, for example — as different from those in the rest of the economy. The [1922] Germans, in their denial, thought their problem was limited to exchange rates, and that their domestic economy had hope. Risibly, Chancellor Joseph Wirth tried to tie down prices by regulating foreign currency. The equivalent, and equivalently risible, move today is the Ralph Nader effort to get the administration to push down oil prices.”
Via Instapundit and WSJ.
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I didn’t take this shot. I wouldn’t. Mr. Boy did, soon after receiving a camera as a gift. He went pretty wild, snapping pictures of all kinds of things adults are so used to seeing that they hardly notice. Like this one on a plane going to visit family. Heh.
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