Archive for August, 2005

Possible Gas Shortages

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Me and my big mouth. Gas hit $3.30 in places around Milwaukee. $3.50-3.75 isn’t out of the question. Now, gas stations fear shortages. The problem is state law that says stations can only changes prices once in a 24-hour period. If that price is below the point where supply equals demand then we will have […]

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German Fool

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Jürgen Trittin, Germany’s environmental minister, can crow all he wants that it’s President Bush’s fault that Katrina was so powerful. The next time a disaster hits Germany I’ll just blame it on the Holocaust. It makes about as much sense.
“Katrina Should be A Lesson To US on Global Warming”

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BoV #112

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Don Surber hosts the best of the worst with the Bonfire of the Vanities.

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Times’ Caption Caper

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Armavirumque’s James Panero catches the NY Times in a Walter Duranty moment.
“What Happen on Bourbon Street“

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Nagin’s Poor Planning?

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New Orleans mayor Ray Nagin told CNN’s Aaron Brown that the thousands stuck in the leaking Superdome may be there a week(!) because of the flood waters. Add this to the looting begining to plague the city and the Big Easy is becoming the island from Lord of the Flies. Brown gave the mayor and […]

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New King’s X

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Very, very cool. New King’s X! This is really, really cool! Don’t believe me? Listen to “Alone.”
I’ve loved the band since high school. They are a power trio in the vein of Rush. Only these guys can all sing, love harmonies, feel the funk, and never felt the need to make 20-minute sci-fi rock pieces.
They’ve […]

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$3.00

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Going home from work today I saw a station selling gas for $2.99. I’m so glad I filled up Sunday and saved about $0.30/gallon. I won’t be shocked to see $3.25/gal gas within a week. Expect a mild recession and even an interest rate cut by Alan Greenspan.

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Carnival of the Vanities #154

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INCITE hosts this week’s Carnival of the Vanities. It’s a “small” one, only 48 posts.

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“When the Levee Breaks…”

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With Katrina moving slightly to the east when it came ashore yesterday, I figured New Orleans lucked out again by not getting a direct hit by a powerful hurricane. Storm surges flooded the east, but today the levees broke engulfing 80% of the city. The beloved French Quarter with her old, romantic buildings is two […]

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Carnival of the Capitalists

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Oodles of business and economics posts all in one nice place. CaseySoftware.com hosts this week’s Carnival of the Capitalists.

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Wi-Fi at the Fair

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Wireless internet is no fad when rural Manitowoc County has wi-fi at their county fair. Kevin at Lakeshore Laments demonstrated it worked well at the local GOP booth.
“Fair Blogging”

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Steve Harrigan In An Idiot

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Anderson Cooper isn’t the only television infotainment idiot. Add Fox News Channel’s Steve Harrigan to the list. He proves that just because you have a Ph.D. it doesn’t mean you’re smart. I saw the moron standing at an angle toward Hurricane Katrina’s high winds while talking about how Mississippi officials were telling people to just […]

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Katrina’s Second Act

I just know Mother Nature wants to kill a stupid reporter. She couldn’t get the job done when hitting Florida. She’s now in the gulf gathering energy. I hope she pulls it off. It will teach those idiot “journalists” not to tease Mother Nature. What I don’t hope is it hits New Orleans. It’s a […]

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KPMG Fined

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The corporate world dodged a bullet with KPMG agreeing to a fine and an outside monitor instead of an indictment. The accounting firm sold questionable tax shelters a Senate subcommittee said cost the federal treasury $1.4 billion. If KPMG would have been indicted it might have dissolved like Arthur Andersen did. Corporations were worried since […]

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Civil War Smear

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It’s still August, a slow news time. Thus we get a ridiculous story about John Roberts’ choice of words to refer to the Civil War.
When John G. Roberts Jr. prepared to ghostwrite an article for President Ronald Reagan a little over two decades ago, his pen took a Civil War reenactment detour.
The article, which was […]

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