bfwebster on June 20th, 2009

Hope at last!
US To Trade Gold Reserves For Cash Through Cash4Gold.com
Makes as much sense as any of the financial plans coming out of Congress and the Administration these days. ..bruce w..

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Bruce Henderson on May 14th, 2009

I honestly don’t blame the administration for talking up the economy over the past few months. I am sure they wanted to see if they could nudge Americans into coming out of the bunkers and buying again. It worked for George Bush after 9-11, maybe they can give it one more go?
Sadly, Sally and [...]

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bfwebster on April 29th, 2009

MORNING LINKS
ITEM: Speaking of swine flu hysteria, this may be a good time to invest in pork belly futures – there may be a shortage soon.
ITEM: Yet another way in which Western Europeans are looking for the US to help them financially.
ITEM: Here’s a slideshow of items from the Michael Jackson Neverland Ranch auction. Some [...]

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bfwebster on April 28th, 2009

MORNING LINKS (Yeah, didn’t feel like doing overnight links last night)
ITEM: The photo above says more than a thousand op-eds on how unseriously the Obama Administration is taking the threat of terrorism. While the White House is scrambling to distance Obama himself from this idiotic stunt, a lot of people had to sign off of [...]

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bfwebster on April 26th, 2009

MORNING LINKS — apparently, Monday’s also a snowy day
ITEM: I went to bed with rain falling outside and woke up to about an inch of snow on the ground, with more falling. And apparently we could get more on Friday Morning (May 1st).
ITEM: For about two years before things collapsed, my co-blogger, Bruce Henderson, was [...]

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bfwebster on April 23rd, 2009

OVERNIGHT LINKS
ITEM: I figured that Janet Napolitano had some kind of security credentials beyond being a Democrat from a border state who was current on all her taxes. It doesn’t appear so (the credentials, that is; not the taxes; hat tip to the Drudge Report):
In an interview broadcast Monday on the CBC, Ms. Napolitano attempted [...]

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bfwebster on April 22nd, 2009

MORNING LINKS — yeah, I’m up early
ITEM: Jim Lindgren over at the Volokh Conspiracy does the simple investigation that no news organization (except possibly Fox) seems willing or able to do. His finding: states with the highest unemployment rates have high tax and unionization rates, while states with the lowest unemployment rates have low tax [...]

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bfwebster on April 20th, 2009

[For those of you coming in from Ace of Spades HQ, here's the Atlas Shrugged review.]
AFTERNOON LINKS
ITEM: Visualization is always a good thing. The Heritage Foundation graphically illustrates the minuscule nature of Obama’s proposed  — and far from realized — cuts (hat tip to Instapundit):

MORNING LINKS — things are heating up a bit.
ITEM: The stimulus [...]

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bfwebster on April 15th, 2009

Sandra and I rode the Denver Light Rail (first time!) from Lincoln Avenue up into downtown Denver. Our first clue that there might be a good turnout was the fact that the train were were on was full of people with signs:
And as we walked up to the Colorado State Capitol, we saw that Denver’s [...]

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bfwebster on April 14th, 2009

[Here are Wednesday's links as well]
MORNING LINKS
ITEM: USA Today has an outstanding article debunking the various myths about the Columbine shooters who killed just over a dozen of their fellow students 10 years ago:
They weren’t goths or loners.
The two teenagers who killed 13 people and themselves at suburban Denver’s Columbine High School 10 years ago [...]

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