Friday, July 25, 2003

2 Key Economic Barometers Post Large Gains in June

Let's hope so. Of course, this report comes to us from the New York Times, which means, well, maybe the opposite is true. Dang. Now I don't know what to think.

Governor Arnold?

God help me but I love this guy. As Governor? Who knows. Seems like another movie star did pretty well at the job. Sure, The Terminator can never be President, but he would certainly be a breath of fresh air.
This article on the flap over FCC deregulation of broadcast media is interesting. Why is it that whenever Congress is in an absolute panic over something, there's some other agenda really at work?

Friday, July 11, 2003

Ann Coulter's New Book

Yes, it does come off a little rant-y, and there are some (even conservatives) who feel she paints with too broad a brush. I am not entirely certain she's wrong about the majority of liberals and dems in the current congress. The anti-American attitudes that came to the fore in the 60s are rampant, IMHO, in the likes of Nancy Pelosi, David Bonior (okl, he's not in congress now, but he was), Tom Daschle and others.

Ann's defense of Joe McCarthy is interesting, mostly because I believe it stays on point. I remember in school when I was first becoming aware of politics, following up on teacher commentaries on the evils of Joe McCarthy, asking "but did he ever catch any communists?" Stupid me. My first assumption was that, whatever McCarthy was, that communism was bad. The responses I would get ranged from laughter to a kind of mumbled dismissal of the question itself. One teacher indicated, well, MAYbe he caught a few, but well, you know, he hurt a lot of people, and bla bla bla. Coulter's book indicates that, given the relevations of the decoded Venona memos, that yes, McCarthy actually WAS on the trail of real commies in our government. Enemies in our government. Wasn't this a problem? This doesn't seem to be the point, really, in the left's mind, I guess.

Blog back to normal, whatever that is.

This blog is now fixed and set up more or less the way I want it. Fewer posts up at one time, and the archiving is working the way it should.

Paige's Blog just keeps on going. I know I brag on this girl's writing a lot, but it's pretty good, plus I have the pleasure of "looking in" on Paige every once in a while.

Paige now has her own computer, purchased for the trip to college in a few weeks, and it's set up right next to mine where I can chat with her while she types and listens to tunes. Kind of nice.

Bumbum (Demarée) finally realized she can't really hack an all-night job along with a job working with retarded adults at a group home plus afternoons working for the theatre as a reservation-taker and gal Friday. So she said goodbye to the night shift and now has two jobs she really likes.

Wednesday, July 9, 2003

Get attorneys out of health care

That's the message I get from the Opinion Journal today.

Wednesday, July 2, 2003

Yahoo! Mail is pretty good. In my new job, I like to be able to check my personal mail from work once in a while, but I don't want to be downloading it into Outlook. So I have all pop accounts forwarded to Yahoo! Mail. Advantage? I can keep it handy no matter where I am (and I'm never too far away from a net connection), and here's the kicker -- Yahoo! Mail's spam detector is one mean mother. I love it. It does a really good job of filtering out most spam with no trouble, and putting it into a bulk mail folder. It does catch a few non-spams there, but you can add filters to overcome these few problems. Check into it.
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