Archive for February 11th, 2009

Feb 11 2009

Wow! $13 Bucks! Boy, I am stimulated …

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Oh for Pete’s sake, is this all we get from all the Chicken Little cries emanating from DC? It includes Obama’s signature “Making Work Pay” tax credit for 95 percent of workers, though negotiators agreed to trim the credit to $400 a year instead of $500 — or $800 for married couples, cut from Obama’s […]

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Feb 11 2009

Satellites Collide Over Antarctica

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Not sure why it happened, but apparently a Russian and US Satellite collided over Antarctica on February 10th. Word is (no formal announcements) that the US satellite was an Iridium communications satellite in Low Earth Orbit, the Russian satellite was one of the vaguely named Cosmos satellites, which could have been one of Russia’s reconnaissance birds. What […]

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Feb 11 2009

The Obama Implosion – Updated

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Final Update: Jennifer Rubin has probably summarized the result of the stimulus bill the best today: The president seems likely to win the battle but lose the argument — and the war. The battle is the stimulus bill which passed the Senate on Tuesday and will clear the conference committee this week. But the argument […]

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Feb 11 2009

Site Problems

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Folks, We are quite aware we are having site issues. Seems we are getting slammed by search bots who are thrashing the server. We attempting to find some fixes. Sadly, we may need to expand this little operation, which is beginning to get a little expensive. Not sure if we will have to suffer through […]

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Feb 11 2009

Stimulus Package Includes Plain Goofy Spending

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  Someone explain to me again why I have to mortgage the finances of my children and grand children for this insane stimulus bill – which does everything BUT stimulus? What is the emergency here – when this is what we are buying! But the money won’t just go to buy fuel-efficient hybrids such as […]

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