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paikea

paikea posted Really, What Else Did We Expect From the POTUS in His Final State of the Union? - Snarkiness Alert! | Jan 29, 2008

Full State of the Union Text so, i'd like to make some entirely SNARKY remarks over a few of the things Shrub had to say...just for fun - and, sorry, the colors i picked out don't seem to have translated onto the blog page, so i made my bits bigger to separate them from the speech bits - arrghh...

John

John posted Taxes & Bar Stool Economics | Jan 30, 2008

A friend sent me an email with the treatise below in it. As this is the fourth time this particular missive has come to me, I'm tackling it once and for all here and now. The body of the email goes like this: Suppose that every day, ten men go out for beer and the bill for all ten comes to $100. If...

Urban Lenny

Urban Lenny posted I Just Threw Up In My Mouth A Little | Jan 28, 2008

EMBARGOED UNTIL DELIVERY January 28, 2008 STATE OF THE UNION ADDRESS As Prepared for Delivery Madam Speaker, Vice President Cheney, Members of Congress, distinguished guests, and fellow citizens: Seven years have passed since I first stood before you at this rostrum. In that time, our country has...

Mr.Nice

Mr.Nice posted The Three Trillion Dollar War | Feb 29, 2008

Superb eye-opening article from the Guardian yesterday which features an interview with the Nobel prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz on the true cost of the Iraq war. The True Cost of War In 2005, a Nobel prize-winning economist began the painstaking process of calculating the true cost of the...