“”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
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.
Goodies from the Bureaucrash store
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Tagged "smoking is healthier than fascism", bureaucrash, Fight The Nanny State
I doubt most American Christians have any idea what the World Council of Churches does from one year to the next. But many of those who do must be saddened, if not outraged, by the WCC’s recent return to the Middle Ages and its endorsement by the Presbyterian church.
“This understanding denies the connection between today’s Jews and Moses, Jeremiah and Isaiah. It marks a return to ‘replacement theology,’ the medieval view that the Church has replaced Israel in God’s plan and that all biblical references to Israel refer to the “new Israel”—that is, to Christians. For centuries, that view was the theological basis for denying rights to Jews in Church-dominated Europe.”
This time, of course, it’s intended to deny history, i.e., Israel’s claim to the land and its modern right to exist as a Jewish state. And it forms the basis for such things as financial divestment, and demands to end the checkpoints and tear down the barriers that keep out Palestinian suicide bombers.
Not that any of that will happen. It’s just a philosophical return to the bad old days, and blind to boot. Considering that the majority of the Palestinians all this allegedly is designed to help are Muslims, whose Imams have their own brand of “replacement theology.” Which applies to Christianity as well as Judaism.
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Posted in Israel, Scribbles, The War
Tagged Israel, Palestinians, presbyterian church, replacement theology, world council of churches
The pale blond anarchist doesn’t care who gets hurt in his private war:
“Mr. Assange doesn’t mail bombs, but his actions have life-threatening consequences. Consider the case of a 75-year-old dentist in Los Angeles, Hossein Vahedi. According to one of the confidential cables released by WikiLeaks, Dr. Vahedi, a U.S. citizen, returned to Iran in 2008 to visit his parents’ graves. Authorities confiscated his passport because his sons worked as concert promoters for Persian pop singers in the U.S. who had criticized the theocracy….”
Ah, but in the anarchist’s world, some “crockery” inevitably must be broken.
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Tagged collateral damage, Hossein Vahedi, Julian Assange, Wikileaks
THE TEXAS SCRIBBLER 