Archive for June, 2004

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Another one bites the dust.
Scheduled for October.
Amplification: Scheduled for October in Vegas.
And they say what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas. Hah! Not this one my friend!

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Your Tax dollars at work.
As much as $100 million spent to protect a nonexistent “endangered” mouse.
“If we’ve shown that the mouse doesn’t exist, what happens to all that has been set aside? Because that’s been a huge economic burden,” wondered Brian Garber, assistant director of governmental relations for the Colorado Contractors Association.
Let the Ass [...]

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“Those who have tasted power and developed an addiction to it, studied of history, intend to repeat it.”
Read it. Via Say Uncle.

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Reaganomics beat the hell out of Carternomics
Over at Reason Online a little perspective:
Carternomics:
…Jimmy Carter’s chief domestic message was one of sacrifice and a dwindling of possibilities. Turn down your thermostats and put on a sweater, America, Carter told us. Your time has passed.
Reagonomics:
[T]he measure of Reagan’s greatness lies not so much in how true he [...]

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Christopher Hitchens - Almost 3 times as smart as a hedgehog.
The man in his own words:
[The fox] knows many small things, whereas the hedgehog knows one big thing. Ronald Reagan was neither a fox nor a hedgehog. He was as dumb as a stump.
And
[T]here came a day when Mikhail Gorbachev visited Washington and when the [...]




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