Well, cept we can actually.

If we had an administration that would stop gettin in the way of it. Except we don't have one of those, we have an inept "under my plan, energy prices would necessarily skyrocket" administration.

Under his plan.

His plan. Make you pay more and shove bureaucrats in front of everything that could ease prices. Pay. You pay.

We all pay.

via Humpy girl chicka

also fuck coal. Be cold. And poorer. President Ladies Tee requires this of us all.

Posted by: Dave in Texas at 03:20 PM | Comments (172)
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Sounds about right.

Posted by: Ace at 01:24 PM | Comments (266)
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And larger than the national average.

Kansas - 6.9% to 6.1% = a decline of 0.8%

Maine - 8.0% to 7.4% = a decline of 0.6%

Michigan - 10.9% to 8.5% = a decline of 2.4%

New Mexico - 7.7% to 6.7% = a decline of 1.0%

Oklahoma - 6.2% to 4.8% = a decline of 1.4%

Pennsylvania - 8.0% to 7.4% = a decline of 0.6%

Tennessee - 9.5% to 7.9% = a decline of 1.6%

Wisconsin - 7.7% to 6.8% = a decline of 0.9%

Wyoming - 6.3% to 5.2% = a decline of 1.1%

Alabama - 9.3% to 7.4% = a decline of 1.9%

Georgia - 10.1% to 8.9% = a decline of 1.2%

South Carolina - 10.6% to 9.1% = a decline of 1.5%

South Dakota - 5.0% to 4.3% = a decline of 0.7%

Florida - 10.9% to 8.6% = a decline of 2.3%

Nevada - 13.8% to 11.6% = a decline of 2.2%

Iowa - 6.1% to 5.1% = a decline of 1.0%

Ohio - 9.0% to 7.3% = a decline of 1.7%

On the other hand, the unemployment rate in states that elected Democrats in 2010 dropped, on average, as much as the national rate decline and, in some states such as New York, the unemployment rate has risen since January of 2011.

Posted by: Ace at 11:13 AM | Comments (183)
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Good morning morons and moronettes. Even now, I am still depressed about the Obamacare decision and Roberts' disastrous betrayal. This photoshop perfectly captures my mood. It's like the country is sliding into an abyss, and there's nothing anybody can do to stop it.

Question: If the United States goes with full-on socialist health care, where are the people who are seeking medical care because they've been screwed by their own country's socialist health system care going to go?

Anyway...

I should have been able to take some time yesterday composing this week's witty and urbane book thread, but NOOOOOOOOOOOO, I made the mistake of thinking that this was an excellent time to install the copy of Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2010 that I bought at an absurdly low price from my company's "Buy Big-Ass Sofware At An Absurdly Low Price" program. What could go wrong, I thought? Heh. I spent pretty much the better part of day trying to debug some sort of glitch that completely stopped the install (which doesn't happen until about 10 minutes into the install) but told me nothing as to why except for a pop-up window that said "Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2010 Setup has encountered an error".

I finally got around the glitch by downloading the trial version install package and using my product key with that rather than the executable I got at the time of purchase. But the process sucked up all the time so now I'm behind on the book thread.

I know some of you will suggest that I ditch MS Office and go with something like OpenOffice. Meh. I've tried OO and it's clunky and kludgey, so no thanks, I'll stick with Microsoft, warts and all.

Book plug

Moron commenter spongeworthy has asked me to mention his buddy Tim O'Mara, who has gotten his first book published on a MacMillan label. This is a very big deal because big boy publshers like MacMillan don't pick up new authors unless they've hit a home run. You can read more about it on Tim's site.

Kindle spying on you?

Data collected from Nooks reveals, for example, how far readers get in particular books, how quickly they read and how readers of particular genres engage with books.

But they also know how quickly people read books, how long people wait between buying a title before they actually read it, which kinds of titles people are likely to buy and/or read after
finishing that book, and even things like which sections of a book are most frequently highlighted.

E-book sellers and publishers both stress that the information being shared is not tied to any individual reader. Rather, it's much like the data available to publishers of websites, who can see which pages, topics, headlines and layouts drive the most traffic and retain the most readers.

Quote mentions Nook but it applies to Kindle as well.

Thanks to moron Arthur for sending me this.

Personally, I don't see anything particularly sinister about this. My own company does something similar with its product and the idea is to make a better product, not to spy on people. Besides, you can always turn off the wireless access in your eReader, which is what I have done with my Nook, whose internet interface is pretty crappy, anyway, so I'm not missing anything. This is not the case with the newer tablets, but if this sort of thing gets to be a real concern, I've no doubt someone will develop a tablet app that functions as an alternate to the Kindle and Nook apps that keeps your reading habits private.

As always, book thread tips may be sent to aoshqbookthread@gmail.com

Hopefully, you all have been reading some good stuff this week.

Posted by: Open Blogger at 07:17 AM | Comments (187)
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Sponsored by Winter on Mars.

Looks a lot like their Summer. I blame Global Warming™.

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So Obama wants to make GM a centerpiece of his reelection campaign and the media once again misses the real story (SOP for the MSM in regard to Obama). The MSM focused on the increased sales year over year but really missed the boat on why that occurred. 36% of that increase was tied to fleet sales of which the U.S. Government (i.e. taxpayer) Was Responsible For 79% Of Those Purchases.

GMÂ’s sales figures for last month were the best since 2008 , up 16% for the month of June. YIPPEE! Well, wait just a minute. It seems that those rosey sales figures are due primarily to a 79% increase in fleet sales to the U.S.government in June. ThatÂ’s right. Our tax dollars are being used to pump up GMÂ’s sales figures ahead of next monthÂ’s quarterly report so that Dear Leader can point to Government Motors as a huge success. The incestuous relationship between GM, the UAW and the Regime has never been more glaringly apparent. IÂ’ve said it before and IÂ’ll say it again. GM is unsustainable without government subsidies and will ultimately go bust again, taking billions of taxpayer dollars down with it.

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...and manages to own Future Self. more...

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The Blob (195 , starring Steve McQueen. more...

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From Real Clear Politics.

Posted by: rdbrewer at 08:58 AM | Comments (436)
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12 min. and 14 sec. of stuff that will be forgotten 50 years from now.

Some of the riffs are pretty good, some are, you know, meh.

[Update:] Argh, this was on the ONT. Damn you all. Consider this a double post, and an open thread.

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