No. I don’t plan on doing anything special for Talk Like a Pirate Day, but I figure it’s worth pointing out.
The weekend? Meh. Visit to Mom. Missed two or three different happenings Saturday evening. Mowed the lawn Sunday morning, and rested in the afternoon. Got woke up by rain at 4am this morning.
- The Dean Zimmerman Bribe[ry] case had small beginnings and the St. Paul paper has some more details. [press-patch]
- The St. Patrick’s Four are facing the first and only federal conspiracy trial arising out of civil resistance to the Iraq War, and the trial begins today. They’ve been tried before, almost a year ago, but were acquited by a jury. Apparently since that trial didn’t work out the way the gubmint hoped, now they’re being tried for conspiracy.
- Has enough time passed that talking about how various government agencies would respond to Katrina can be funny? I think so. [claire]
- A little story about Davy Crockett vs. Welfare that fits in rather nicely with GWB’s promise to spend hundreds of billions of dollars rebuilding New Orleans. Crockett was asked
where do you find in the Constitution any authority to give away the public money in charity?
and had no answer. Would that someone could explain that to all (except Ron Paul) of our elected representatives.The man who wields power and misinterprets it is the more dangerous the more honest he is.
reminded me immediately of Paul Wellstone, RIP. [endwar] - Ron Paul talks about The Coming Category 5 Financial Hurricane that will result from all this taxpayer money being thrown around:
Our spending habits, in combination with our flawed monetary system, if not changed will bring us a financial whirlwind that will make Katrina look like a minor storm.
[endwar] - If you spend 62 Billion here, 62 billion there … eventually it adds up to real money. The proposals right now for rebuilding N.O. are the equivalent of giving every man, woman, and child who lived there $120,000. Just this year. I’m pretty sure it would be a lot cheaper to relocate everyone to someplace that isn’t below sea-level.
- Rivrdog takes a look at The cost of rebuilding, too.
- The Truth Laid Bear has a roundup of Pork that could be cut from the Federal budget in order to come up with the billions promised to clean up New Orleans. [instapundit]