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Pulled this from Ace of Spades’ Overnight Open Thread. We’ve giggled about Greece already here, why not do it a little more? Here a sample of policies that led to the crash. After fifteen years of contribution, a person could retire at 110% of his salary. Retirement was possible at the youthful age of fifty. The unmarried [...] 
This has been discussed for quite a while, and it has of course been controversial ever since its implementation, but thank goodness we’ve finally gotten around to lifting the ban on HIV infected tourists. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, as well as the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention together announced the [...]  Not surprisingly, those of us here in the Gulch have a hard time understanding crazy people. Major Nidal Malik Hasan is no exception. He is, of course, the 39-year-old Army psychiatrist who is the main suspect in the recent murderous rampage at Fort Hood, which has turned out to be “the worst case of violence on [...]  Pretty bad. Here’s one from Frozen Tundra Land, where Representative Gwen Moore from Milwaukee has returned home to seek the counsel and wisdom from her district, or something like that. The first thing you’ll notice when you read the news stories from reporters coming back from these meetings is that they are just plain, outright shocked that [...]
Not to criticize, but I’ve never understood people who have such a cavalier attitude toward life. I know this is supposedly “how life should be lived,” and perhaps I’m not living it to the fullest behind my desk as I happen to be now. But I’d rather vegetate behind my keyboard than try to figure why my [...]  I had to take one of my semi-regular jaunts outside of the Gulch and into the real world, and as you can see I’ve been absent for a few weeks. On my way back, trying to keep up with current events, I was of course bombarded with stories of Michael Jackson’s death. I first heard about [...] 
Now, I don’t want to get into personal, family matters, but are you absolutely SURE you want to go down this road? I mean, I know you’re all broken up about David not being with us any more, but isn’t it best to just let sleeping dogs lie? The family of American Actor David Carradine has asked [...] 
Yeah, yeah… I know. You thought you heard you weren’t going to be seeing a dime more in taxes. But like some Jedi mind trick, Obama Wan Kenobi will wave his hand and make you forget that ever happened. In the next week, legislators are expected to introduce bills in the House and Senate promising to [...] 
It’s old news, but it’s good to get these bad ideas circulating as much as possible, so everyone can see them. I was having a discussion with someone I consider to be fairly well-informed, and she was surprised there was even any talk of a soda tax, so while it’s in the news we might as well [...] 
CNN has a brief story about the sudden resurgence in sales for Ayn Rand’s star performer, Atlas Shrugged. Of course, it shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone even mildly informed these days as to why this book is seeing an increase in sales. We’re living it, for goodness sake! Federal takeovers of giant corporations, government-run [...] |
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