Archive for February, 2008

Pondering the Term

Thursday, February 28th, 2008

Insignificant significant other…

A Worthy Topic

Saturday, February 23rd, 2008

And not one with an obvious answer either…

The Tax Rebates

Monday, February 11th, 2008

Otherwise Known As Economic Stimulus

As someone who is at least nominally considered to be conservative, I am really really (and I do mean really) annoyed by this. I understand the philosophy of it. People have money to spend, so they buy things. Someone has to make these things (or at least drive the truck that brings them to the store) and therefore has a job that pays a salary. Now this person wants to buy things and well the economy grows. Or the pie gets higher. Or something…

Of course the government doesn’t have any extra money to toss into the economy and it’s not a conservative thing to be using government expenditures in such a manner anyway. Tax cuts and rebates on the other hand, that is conservative, so that’s what they call it. From my viewpoint though, it looks like a government spending program not a tax cut. The truth is in the stated intent of the program, economic stimulus.

If You’re Going To Do It Do It Right

The problem with tax rebates as stimulus is that people do economically inefficient things with the money. Like saving it. Or by stimulating the criminal parts of the economy that you’d really rather be left alone. Some percentage of the money doesn’t get to where you want it to go. If you want to dump 170 Billion (with a B) dollars into the economy, then dump 170 Billion dollars and stand by it. I won’t like it, I’ll disagree with it and think it’s a bad plan, but at least I can respect and appreciate the intent. This way though, it takes 170 Billion dollars to get something less than 170 Billion worth of stimulus. Maybe we should change what we print on our money to “Doing Less With More…”

Don’t expect me to give it back though…

Your Hippy Name…

Thursday, February 7th, 2008

Me?  I think I’m going with Leaping Volkswagen…

The Warcraft Commercials

Monday, February 4th, 2008

I’m sure you’ve seen this one, it’s still my favorite.

I like this one too…

Which reminds me, why don’t we have a mage in my guild?

Super Bowl Live Blogging

Sunday, February 3rd, 2008

Thoughts during Alicia Keys bit:

Dang those some big earrings, ain’t no dainty platinum hoops for that girl…
Pick a song, and play it…

Terry Bradshaw is annoying

Not so bad if you mute him though…
With the TV turned off I don’t even notice him…
Hard to watch the game like that though…

The Declaration of Independence thing was cool

The Coin Toss

He chose wisely…

Audi has a nice looking car

Underarmour is not macintosh

Would people please stop trying to repeat that commercial

Does anyone care about the game?

NE 7 NY 3

In the pregame, the doritos bob’s house commercial was pretty good

Tom Petty put on a nice show

Next year I wanna see ZZ Top

I guess it has the makings of a blow out

NE does have more than twice the points of NY

NY wanted a game changing play from the special teams

They may have got it…
Maybe not

Peaches the offensive coordinator

Run better plays…
Guess so, they just scored…
Run more plays like that…
She is available for calling plays I guess (no idea why, but she is a Giants fan)

Wow