February is such a weird month. If every month had 31 days we'd all live longer. This was on Drudge, I don't even know what it means. Remember how New Orleans was going to be like "The Forbidden Zone" in Planet of the Apes? Well, it's gone from "Forbidden Zone" to Mardi Gras. Liberals! If Saddam used warrants, does that mean he's better than Bush?
A meticulous paper trail alleged to link Saddam Hussein to the execution by hanging of 148 Iraqis was shown to a Baghdad court today as his trial resumed for a brief but unusually well-mannered session. Saddam, it was announced, has ended a hunger strike for health reasons.
Ended for health reasons? Isn't declining health the desired result of a hunger strike? Isn't that what garners sympathy? Why stop?? Sheesh. Ramsey will make it all better. Poll: Does this mean Saddam was the Gatekeeper? Keeping a lid on terrorism? I can't find the other BBC poll stating that 75% of Iraqis think removing Saddam was a good idea. VDH: The Other Iraq. Anna Does the Supreme Court. A real test of the new Right Winger, Justice Samuel Alioto/Hitler,(who, according to democrats, once proposed banning sunsets.) Which way will he swing? Cindy Sheehan's influence spreads to India.
Blah, Blah, Blah. Iron Maiden fans! Isn't that Eddie the Head superimposed over Bush's own? Protestors never fail to do something to take the sting or effectiveness out of their posters. What happened to Hitler? Too passe? Bird flu spreads to cats, thus making it dead cat flu. I know, I shouldn't joke. I have dead cats, ur, I mean cats. From Boortz.com:
Moving right along, David Warren says that Americans don't really understand what is coming our way. And what would that be? Radical Islam ... again. He says that the so-called "Danish cartoons" were a red herring from the start. It was a fake issue trumped up by Muslims to stoke outrage.
Never yell "fire" in a crowded theatre, never yell "We're going to crash" on a crowded plane.
Think taxes and regulations are a good thing?
Today's Opinion Journal describes the "Meathead Effect."
It takes hard work to drive anyone away from California's sunshine and scenic vistas, but politicians in Sacramento have been up to the task.
The latest Census Bureau data indicate that, in 2005, 239,416 more native-born Americans left the state than moved in. California is also on pace to lose domestic population (not counting immigrants) this year. The outmigration is such that the cost to rent a U-Haul trailer to move from Los Angeles to Boise, Idaho, is $2,090--or some eight times more than the cost of moving in the opposite direction. What's gone wrong? A big part of the story is a tax and regulatory culture that treats the most productive businesses and workers as if they were ATMs. The cost to businesses of complying with California's rules, regulations and paperwork is more than twice as high as in other Western states. But the worst growth killer may well be California's tax system. The business tax rate of 8.8% is the highest in the West, and its steeply "progressive" personal income tax has an effective top marginal rate of 10.3%, or second highest in the nation. CalTax, the state's taxpayer advocacy group, reports that the richest 10% of earners pay almost 75% of the entire income-tax revenue in the state, and most of these are small business owners, i.e., the people who create jobs. And things may soon get worse, thanks to Rob Reiner, who played the liberal "Meathead" on the "All in the Family" sitcom in the 1970s and now plays the same part in real life. He and his rich Hollywood friends have put an initiative on the state's June ballot that would add a 1.7-percentage-point income-tax surcharge on "millionaires" with income over $400,000, with the proceeds earmarked for universal pre-school.
All of this feel good legislation actually hurts the much vaunted "Little Guy" in the long run. You can't help the poor by hurting the rich. Meathead. Good Morning Mrs. Entity: How Larry became Lily.
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