1 First.  But I don't care

2 1, funny.

3 Dana Perino on Fox says that she thinks the light bulb ban will be repealed.

It may seem like a relatively unimportant item,  but it will please a lot of people who hate those squiggle bulbs,  plus it will deprive GE of income,  which I think is a good thing.

4 For not in doing or contriving, nor in choosing between this course and another, can I avail; but only in knowing what was and is, and in part also what shall be.

Buddha?

I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.v. Frost

5 3 We can hope.  In kind of an Operation Enviro-Chaos, hold hearings about the mercury in the bulbs...

6 Back to original.

7 Back to original.

If it ain't broke...

8 If it ain't broke...

Don't worry, after taxes and user's fees, you will be ...

9 Remember way back when Obama supossedly lifted the ban on drilling in the gulf? A lot of said, yeah we'll believe it when they start issuing permits. Well have there been any permits yet?

http://tinyurl.com/25nrfy6

Not no but......

10 New laws going into effect now from the WSJ.

http://tinyurl.com/26a8ubc

The one with the most impact is the illegal and unconstitutional power grab by the EPA in going forward with the AGW scam by executive fiat.

If congress doesn't turn this around VERY quickly it will kill a lot of people. Or, maybe the action going on in TX will wind up in court and the courts will issue an injunction.

11 I have a question.  Why did the bill for health care for emergency workers (9/11 responders) have to be flown to Hawaii for Obama to sign it?

Could it not have been signed when he returned to DC?  Is there some sort of deadline on signing that I don't know about (possible)? 

12 Don't worry, after taxes and user's fees, you will be ...

Most ridiculous thing the IRS ever broadcast is for tax returns NOT to be filed by the IRS deadline. /Talk about a set-up for exploitation if ever there were, particularly with revisionist mutations of "meaning". As if the IRS can't hold filed tax returns submitted by the deadline until actually processed. Is there a law stipulating that the IRS must process a filed return within X-days? Hardly.

13 pajamasmedia.com/instapundit/112462/ "IF THIS HAPPENED HERE, I HOPE THAT POLITICIANS WOULD BE SWINGING FROM LAMPPOSTS: Nationalizing Private Pensions In Europe. And this time, not metaphorical lampposts, either." Morning.. Nice start to this year, no?

14 Buddha?

Galadriel.

15 Towns and Cities aren't the only ones going bankrupt. So is the RNC.

http://tinyurl.com/2cvqwtb

The unreleased official budget of the RNC reveals that the Republican Party's national governing body and premier fundraising apparatus begins the 2011-12 presidential election cycle more than $20 million in the hole.

One wonders why that is? LOL, the picture illustrates one major reason.  The other major reason, and probably the biggest one of them all. The base hates the RNC RINO leadership and will no longer contribute. They are now contributing to two major causes, Jim DeMint's conservative PAC and Sarah Palin's PAC. Also to individual Tea Party candidates.

DeMint's and Palin's PACs were swimming in money. RNC, there have been a LOT of wake-up calls in the past two years.

Does it take a two-by-four?

16 Why did the bill for health care for emergency workers (9/11 responders) have to be flown to Hawaii for Obama to sign it?

NYC needs the cash flow. As I said earlier, this doesn't help 9-11 responders, it is a city bailout.

17 Got Oil?

Policy & Permits. With Obama, no matter the law, simply execute, enforce and prosecute policy.

The global social justice point is, prevent American industry from occurring.  It isn't "fair" for any developed nation to remain developed when there are so many nations that refuse to properly develop (void human rights) ripe for plunder.

18 more than $20 million in the hole.

RNC Michael Steele's only job description has been to fund raise.

He certainly never attempted to organize a conference to revamp the GOP Primary Electoral process, that could strengthen the GOP against being raided by Democrat votes particularly in "open primary" states.

I'm for a single national GOP platform (constitutional conservative translated via fiscal conservatism -- don't feed the socialist bureaucratic Beast any tax funds), a single GOP national primary election date followed within the month by a primary run-off election date between the top two.  Maintain candidate "advertising" and propaganda online through the RNC website and direct links -- save footing MSM costs for the general election.

Now, what did Michael Steele spend his term leading the RNC doing? 

19 15The unreleased official budget of the RNC reveals that the Republican Party's national governing body and premier fundraising apparatus begins the 2011-12 presidential election cycle more than $20 million in the hole. But hey, put us in charge again. We'll put the government on a crash diet! Honest.

20 Now, what did Michael Steele spend his term leading the RNC doing? Want to buy my book?

21 Heh.. sorry.. gotta tighten that shit up..

22 F&F keeps emphasizing the "gay slurs" on this Big E non-event. I think we see where the push is coming from now and why they waited so long.

23 Go out to take the kids to school after break and the car battery is dead. Of course the jumper cables, other car, and college age son, still on break, are 6 miles or an hour away (dc rush). Roadside assistance hasn't called. What a way to come back to the start of the year.

24 LOL, I have come to the conclusion that anytime Fox Management determines that Obama needs a good ball slurping they put Wendell "Great Pyramid" Goler on.

25 22 F&F keeps emphasizing the "gay slurs" on this Big E non-event. I think we see where the push is coming from now and why they waited so long.

Posted by: Vic at January 03, 2011 08:02 AM (M9Ie6)

I'm sure it was the dreaded "f-word" which they use themselves to designate particularly femine gays. Being super sensitive about language is going to go really far in helping everyone adjust to dadt repeal. But when you have a grand agenda, don't stop. Just keep pushing.

26 Dagny, look at your dead battery as God's way of keeping you away from worse harm. A blessing!

27 Good morning!

Mr Y-not was reading up on that massive bird die-off.  It turns out, they were red-winged blackbirds, not starlings or grackles (which a lot of us assumed).  That's a crying shame.  They're beautiful birds with a wonderful song that really says "summer" to me. 

I guess they roost in a huge groups (tens or hundreds of thousands), so a few thousand dying is a relatively "small" percentage.  I hope it was just a freak accident as they seem to suspect. 

Also, the male red-wing blackbirds are highly polygynous (they have lots of lady friends).  So, truly, they are practitioners of the ace of spades lifestyle! 

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29 It's old.... Ezra Klein Can't Understand the Washington Post It's older.... Ezra Klein's Top Ten List of Stuff That's Too Old to Understand

30 Posted by: Gabriel Malor at January 03, 2011 07:39 AM (XVaFd)

Your inner geek is strong.

31 Your inner geek is strong.

You should see his outer geek.

32 In the Failed State of Spoiled Brats

Beginning today, in California...

Marijuana will be legal.

Transfats will be illegal.

The Jokes Almost Write Themselves

33 Beginning today, in California...

Marijuana will be legal.

I'm pretty sure that proposition didn't pass. 

34 Just don't smoke that F'n Marlboro in public, - it's a felony in CA.

35 34 Just don't smoke that F'n Marlboro in public

Yeah.  The hysterically funny (in a depressing way) things are all the warning signs posted at apartment buildings, condos, etc, that actually state someone may have smoked a cigarette in or near the building at some time.  Ridiculous. 

36 Y-not at January 03, 2011 10:04 AM

As I read it, they've reduced the penalties for possession.

37 Bohemian Rhapsody on 4 violins http://tinyurl.com/25cofr2

38

From CNN Money:

After three years of economic pain, a growing number of economists think 2011 will finally bring what everyone's been hoping for: More jobs and a self-sustaining recovery.

"We're looking at some leading indicators on employment, and they're all flashing green lights," said Bernard Baumohl of the Economic Outlook Group, a Princeton, N.J. research firm.

Though most economists still expect a painfully high unemployment rate of about 9% at the end of this year, some think that stat masks more important signs of strength.

 

So unemployment is still going to be at 9% but at the same time we're going to have a robust year for hiring. MiniTrue would be proud, very proud

39 These aren't the jobs you're looking for...

40 Oscar-nominated British actor Pete Postlethwaite has died at the age of 64, a spokesman has announced.

Journalist and friend Andrew Richardson said the actor, who was appointed OBE in 2004, died peacefully in hospital in Shropshire after a lengthy illness.

In 1994, he was nominated for an Oscar for In The Name of the Father.



RIP Mr Kobayashi

41 36 Y-not at January 03, 2011 10:04 AM

As I read it, they've reduced the penalties for possession

---

Oh, that makes sense.  Voters decisively reject legalizing it (via Prop 19), so the state decides they'll just work around them.  Again. 

Because what California needs are more stoned people.  An employer's dream come true! 

Gawd I'm glad I left that hell-hole. 

42 Because what California needs are more stoned people.

I've always argued that the Reds have a vested interest in weed.  It's soma for a potentially disgruntled generation.

43 The weed ration has been raised to 20 grams. Repeat. The weed ration has been raised to 20 grams. 

44 In other entertainment news, the runaway movie hit is “Avatar,” a futuristic epic about humans who travel to an alien planet to mine a precious mineral that they believe will give them the power to emit believable dialogue.

We spent the year with a Congress also on a quest for “Unobtainium.” If it weren’t so expensive, the similarities would be laughable.

45 Garbage breaks suicide jumper's fall

46 For not in doing or contriving, nor in choosing between this course and another, can I avail; but only in knowing what was and is, and in part also what shall be.

Situational for Galadirel. Were there some doing or contriving she believed would work she would have. A line later she says "Yet hope remains while all the Company is true." which was a subtle poke at her reading of Boromir.

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35 34 Just don't smoke that F'n Marlboro in public

Yeah.  The hysterically funny (in a depressing way) things are all the warning signs posted at apartment buildings, condos, etc, that actually state someone may have smoked a cigarette in or near the building at some time.  Ridiculous

On Friday past, I took my kids to the video store to rent some movies to watch, and was rather puzzled (in an amusing sort of way) by the ratings given to some of the movies. While checking the rating of one of the movies it had: PG-13 for fantasy violence, adult situations, and some smoking.

Smoking?! Smoking in movies is now a part of the rating system? I can remember watching episodes of Perry Mason and other shows where everyone in the courtroom (including the judge) was lighting up, and now smoking requires a rating? Funniest end of a civilization evah, here we come. 

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49 "IF THIS HAPPENED HERE, I HOPE THAT POLITICIANS WOULD BE SWINGING FROM LAMPPOSTS: Nationalizing Private Pensions In Europe.
Morning.. Nice start to this year, no?

Posted by: Dave C at January 03, 2011 07:38 AM (XEGGe)

One wonders how long it will take for this to happen here.   The most recent election probably bought us some time, but how much?  I recently applied to cash out my 401k and just eat the hit now, rather than lose all later - but the plan forbids it unless I terminate employment.  Should I manage to find a different job, closing out the plan will be job 1.  Job 2 will be getting the remaining money converted into assets outside the US, and hopefully off-books, in preparation for bugging out.

Fuck these leeches. 

 

50 One wonders how long it will take for this to happen here.

Semi-credible rumors of 401K takeovers have been flying at ZeroHedge for quite a while now.

51 Semi-credible rumors of 401K takeovers have been flying at ZeroHedge for quite a while now.

Too much riskin' going on 'round here.  Your savings should be in nice, safe, Government Patriot Bonds.

For your own good.

52 50,  51   Last year I told my bank manager (a youngish guy) that there were rumors about that when I put some money in a CD.  He looked at me like I was crazy, and I told him that things were NOT going to get better over the summer.  

He thinks I am a genius,  of course.  

The next step will of course,  be just this.  Or taxing the money in them at your current rate,  not at a future retirement rate.

If we don't stop Obama he will end up confiscating "too large" homes,  "excessive non-agricultural land, taxing second cars and boats,  paying an "exit tax" to go out of the country,  etc. etc.  The only thing that protects us is the thin red line in the House.

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The biased article says that NYC workers called out that Monday and Tuesday and implies that it was an illegal job action, but fails to mention that the Saturday before was freakin' Christmas!  Yeah, you might get people making a long weekend out of it because of Christmas, ya think?

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