Alarming News: I like Morgan Freeberg. A lot.
American Digest: And I like this from "The Blog That Nobody Reads", because it is -- mostly -- about me. What can I say? I'm on an ego trip today. It won't last.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: We were following a trackback and thinking "hmmm... this is a bloody excellent post!", and then we realized that it was just part III of, well, three...Damn. I wish I'd written those.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: ...I just remembered that I found a new blog a short while ago, House of Eratosthenes, that I really like. I like his common sense approach and his curiosity when it comes to why people believe what they believe rather than just what they believe.
Brutally Honest: Morgan Freeberg is brilliant.
Dr. Melissa Clouthier: Morgan Freeberg at House of Eratosthenes (pftthats a mouthful) honors big boned women in skimpy clothing. The picture there is priceless--keep scrolling down.
Exile in Portales: Via Gerard: Morgan Freeberg, a guy with a lot to say. And he speaks The Truth...and it's fascinating stuff. Worth a read, or three. Or six.
Just Muttering: Two nice pieces at House of Eratosthenes, one about a perhaps unintended effect of the Enron mess, and one on the Gore-y environ-movie.
Mein Blogovault: Make "the Blog that No One Reads" one of your daily reads.
The Virginian: I know this post will offend some people, but the author makes some good points.
Poetic Justice: Cletus! Ah gots a laiv one fer yew...
The hippies have taken over the coastlines, which sends my two primary requirements for my retirement environment — I want to wake up to the smell of real salt air, and I want to shatter the beer bottles from last night with a large-caliber sidearm in my own backyard — into a collision with each other. Hippies hate guns. Everything will be rainbows and unicorns as soon as we get rid of all the guns.
Well, there are 375 miles of coastline still open to me. In recent years, the appeal of this thought has been on a slow crescendo. Not really all that slow at times. You see, I am in California.
There is a difference between these two states; a rather striking one.
California may have more sunshine and better beaches, but Texas has more jobs.
According to new research by the Texas Public Policy Foundation, a nonprofit free-market research institute, the second most populous state in the union created 129,000 new jobs in the past year, a 1.3 percent rate, far overshadowing the declining and most populous California, which lost 112,000 jobs during the same period.
“Texas’s superior economic performance is noteworthy,” said conservative economist Arthur Laffer, a senior fellow of the foundation who conducted the analysis. “It’s just striking how the states with no income tax outperform the states with high income taxes.
“And the reason is simple: employers move to the location that promises better after-tax returns. Texas constantly focuses on improving its economic competitiveness and the citizens of Texas are benefiting because of it,” he said in a written statement.
The study attributed the competitive growth to the state’s economic policies, including no income tax.
“Our study shows that it is these Texas policies of relatively low taxes, low spending, and less regulation that have helped the Lone Star State weather the Great Recession better than California and the nation as a whole,” the report reads.
State and local government spending in Texas has remained steady at about 18 percent of the state’s private economy while California’s has increased from 19 percent to nearly 26 percent since 1987.
You take a more permissive attitude with regard to the things people do, and more stuff happens. Actually, California does know something about this — we take a permissive attitude with regard to things people aren’t supposed to do, like kill other people and take their stuff. We get more of that. Starting a business and hiring people, though…just forget it. We here in California hate that. We might not say so, but we make it more difficult pretty much every way we can. And we get less of that.
It would be nice to live in a state with an unemployment rate two points under the national average, as opposed to two points over it.
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Please, please don’t mention that Texas is an “open shop” state. Along the coast it’s hot and humid, not to mention the mosquitoes as large as dive bombers. Besides the people “tawk ike is”. So please tell the people not to move here, uh,… there.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZ72nSZZLDE
- drowningpuppies | 10/24/2010 @ 06:07