Ah, Spring
Bensblurb #529? 3/6/10
Ah, Spring....
Feel it? Let’s welcome March Madness, featuring my Texas Aggies, a national power? Who wooda thunk it. Here in Va., the snow banks are finally melting away and a few crocuses are about to burst minutely into bloom. It’s spring for sure when liberal colleges burst with demonstrations.
For instance:
“A tuition protest at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee turned violent. . . . The protest was part of a national Day of Action, challenging lawmakers in each state to stop cutting funding from education.”
Two thoughts: (1) This is more violence than all the Tea Party protests put together, despite the media fearmongering; and (2) Running out of other people’s money stinks, doesn’t it?--Instapundit
Meanwhile, here in Bureaucrat-land, we’re holding our breath over.....Yeah....Health Care:
Here’s Peggy Noonan in today’s Wall Street Journal, about our esteemed leader:
“In his speech Wednesday...the president seemed convinced and committed--but nothing he said sounded true. His [health care] bill will ‘bring down the cost of health care for millions,’ it is ’fully paid for,’ it will lower the long-term deficit by a trillion dollars.
“Does anyone believe this?...[H]e seems to devote more words to obscuring than clarifying....”
If that bill does become law, I predict, the Democrats will be crushed in elections next fall and we’ll all pay dearly for years on end. If it fails, the Democrats will still be crushed next fall, but our grandchildren may breathe easier financially. We’ll see soon enough.
ALSO, Congress, it turns out, isn’t the only place reflecting displeasure by voters this spring. According to a Politico review of publicly available polling data, numerous state legislatures are also bottoming out, showing...“stunning levels of voter cynicism.”
FINALLY, here’s something more about global warming and why we should really love it this spring, and not its opposite:
“Geologists have found evidence that sea ice extended to the equator 716.5 million years ago, bringing new precision to a “snowball earth“ event long suspected of occurring around that time....The new findings — based on an analysis of ancient tropical rocks in remote northwestern Canada — bolster the theory that the planet has, at times in the past, been covered with ice at all latitudes“.--Steve Bradt, Harvard staff writer
FINALLY, Fer sure:
Comedian Alan King: “Women live longer than men because they aren’t married to women.”--PS: He died at age 76.
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Ah, Spring....
Feel it? Let’s welcome March Madness, featuring my Texas Aggies, a national power? Who wooda thunk it. Here in Va., the snow banks are finally melting away and a few crocuses are about to burst minutely into bloom. It’s spring for sure when liberal colleges burst with demonstrations.
For instance:
“A tuition protest at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee turned violent. . . . The protest was part of a national Day of Action, challenging lawmakers in each state to stop cutting funding from education.”
Two thoughts: (1) This is more violence than all the Tea Party protests put together, despite the media fearmongering; and (2) Running out of other people’s money stinks, doesn’t it?--Instapundit
Meanwhile, here in Bureaucrat-land, we’re holding our breath over.....Yeah....Health Care:
Here’s Peggy Noonan in today’s Wall Street Journal, about our esteemed leader:
“In his speech Wednesday...the president seemed convinced and committed--but nothing he said sounded true. His [health care] bill will ‘bring down the cost of health care for millions,’ it is ’fully paid for,’ it will lower the long-term deficit by a trillion dollars.
“Does anyone believe this?...[H]e seems to devote more words to obscuring than clarifying....”
If that bill does become law, I predict, the Democrats will be crushed in elections next fall and we’ll all pay dearly for years on end. If it fails, the Democrats will still be crushed next fall, but our grandchildren may breathe easier financially. We’ll see soon enough.
ALSO, Congress, it turns out, isn’t the only place reflecting displeasure by voters this spring. According to a Politico review of publicly available polling data, numerous state legislatures are also bottoming out, showing...“stunning levels of voter cynicism.”
FINALLY, here’s something more about global warming and why we should really love it this spring, and not its opposite:
“Geologists have found evidence that sea ice extended to the equator 716.5 million years ago, bringing new precision to a “snowball earth“ event long suspected of occurring around that time....The new findings — based on an analysis of ancient tropical rocks in remote northwestern Canada — bolster the theory that the planet has, at times in the past, been covered with ice at all latitudes“.--Steve Bradt, Harvard staff writer
FINALLY, Fer sure:
Comedian Alan King: “Women live longer than men because they aren’t married to women.”--PS: He died at age 76.
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