Tuesday, January 4, 2011

Union Parallels Between US and UK

An article by my husband in the Washington Examinor titled Winter of Discontent. Enjoy.

Bad Gas

If you've been wondering my your mpg has dropped, blame ethanol which reduces engine efficiency. Oh, and expect your car's performance to drop some more because the fickin' frackin' EPA wants to increase the ethanol in current gas blends by 50%.

Oil refineries sue EPA over ethanol plan

And just how does burning corn (which uses more fuel to make than it produces) and lower vehicle efficiency help the environment? How?

Sunday, January 2, 2011

Bill Quick's Predictions

All these seem plausible....

Happy New Year 2011!
Predictions:

1. Hillary will leave the Obama administration.

2. Attorney General Eric Holder will leave the Obama administration.

3. Germany will pull out of the Euro.

4. The Yen will collapse.

5. Sarah Palin will begin her run for the White House.

6. Mitt Romney will not.

7. Nor will Mike Huckabee.

8. The housing market will collapse again, and take several major financial institutions down with it this time.

9. California will experience what would be called “sovereign default” if it were an independent nation.

10. There will be an effort to recall Jerry Brown - from the left!

11. Major rioting will hit Los Angeles as the city, county, and state drastically scale back welfare programs at every level.

12. Mike Bloomberg will begin a run for the White House. Within three months he will end it.

13. The Supreme Court will strike down the individual mandate requirement of Obamacare after taking up the case on an expedited review basis, at the request of all sides.

14. The City and County of San Francisco will file for bankruptcy.

15. Gold will break $2000 an ounce.

16. There will be a successful “Black Swan” (who could possibly have imagined?) terrorist attack on the American heartland. The Obama administration will attempt to impose draconian new security measures. These will be rejected by Congress.

17. Obama’s personal popularity will sink below 40%. His job approval ratings will sink below 30%.

18. At some point, the House of Representatives’ approval ratings will be higher than President Obama’s.

19. Iran’s President Ahmajihadi will be assassinated.

20. North Korea’s current iteration of Dumb Leader will be replaced, not by his son, but by a military junta. Tensions in that part of the world will cool.

21. Militant Islamic terrorists will set off a nuke - in Russia.

Have a Happy New Year!

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-Bill Quick

Saturday, January 1, 2011

No, NO, NO

The Liberal Reckoning of 2010 The year voters saw the left's unvarnished agenda and said no..

Friday, December 31, 2010

Happy New Year

Personally 2010 has been a roller coaster of amazing highs - spending the night in Cinderella's Castle - and profound lows - my father's death. Just two examples.

But life and the years go on. I will always treasure the memories not only of the past years events both happy and bitter but also the support the readers of Shout First have given me. I am grateful for the positive experiences and even the negative ones. My husband had a bad health scare but it revealed a medical condition that he is now receiving treatment for. Ultimately a good thing.

Thank you. And it is my heartfelt and fervent wish that everyone, everyone have a brighter New Year filled with good fortune, love and peace.

The Business of America Has Always Been Business

Jamestown unearths 400-year-old pipes for patrons Because I love archeology, I was attracted to this article but my take away is that from its very first moments of existence, people came to the colonies and America to make money and have a better, freer life.
Tobacco's popularity created a large demand for pipes that were typically made in London using white clay from Dorset, along England's southern coast. Interested in the lucrative new industry, investors in the Virginia Company sought to add pipemaking to its trades and sought out adequate clay from the surrounding area.

Settlers, Kelso said, were under "tremendous pressure" to give investors the instant gratification they needed because "they put so much money into it," and didn't want to lose their lifeline to England. Colonists tried different trades such as silk making, glassmaking, lumber, sassafras and tar, with no financial success.

"The whole idea was to make money for investors and they enlisted all these specialists that would search Virginia for profitable resources that they could exploit," Straube said. "Tobacco was the quickest and easiest and most successful."

Minimum Wage Basketcases


Minimum Wage Laws in the States

When you look at this map, just remember that the states with the highest "minimum wage" are the ones suffering the worst economies and voter exodus. Just sayin'.

Shocker - Medicare is broken

Duh.
What you pay for Medicare won't cover your costs
Must be a slow news day.

Thursday, December 30, 2010

Your Taxes On Vacation

Before you read this, check to make sure your stomach is strong enough. President and family on multi-million dollar Christmas vacation in Hawaii

Another Ignorant Leftie

Complete with video - he's such a useless tool
Liberal Star Blogger Ezra Klein: ‘Constitution Has No Binding Power on Anything’; Confusing Because it’s Over 100 Years Old

Bloodied Snow Plows

Sanitation Department's slow snow cleanup was a budget protestIf true, these men have blood on their hands. People died because the roads were not cleared. For shame!

Caused by warming?

WINTER MAY BE COLDEST IN 1000 YEARS
BRITAIN’S winter is the coldest since 1683 and close to being the chilliest in nearly 1,000 years.

Latest figures reveal that the average temperature since December 1 has been a perishing -1C.

That makes it the second coldest since records began in 1659.

Wednesday, December 29, 2010

Random Round-Up 12-29


President Obama Job Approval

Closing the books on the worst Congress

Please Stop 'Helping' Us

According to TIME, Nothing Happened in 2010

Voters really don't like ObamaCare -- still



From the Wall Street Journal - Death Panels Revisited The left won't admit that Sarah Palin had a point about rationed care..

Woman Who Protested TSA Pat-Downs At OKC Airport Banned From Flying

IRS Declined to Audit 97% of Potential Tax Shelters Without Required Approval

Debunking That Study on ‘Mis-Informed’ Fox News Viewers

The Five Worst Op-Eds of 2010

Only one in five Americans want government to regulate the Internet

111th Congress Created More National Debt Than First 100 Congresses Combined

The top 10 violations of the Constitution by Obama and the 111th Congress



'Shall' D.C. Decide for Patients & Doctors?

Actually, Bush Vetoed Bill with ‘End-of-Life’ Provisions

Well, DUH - Health plans for high-risk patients attracting fewer, costing more than expected

The Dumbest Government Decisions

Hot Sensations Vs. Cold Facts

Things the chattering class got wrong

Population Patterns Show Rejection of Liberalism

A truce in culture wars as voters focus on economy

Carbon Rationing By Other Means

Dogma and the New Progressives

Thomas Sowell - Promises and Riots



The Obamacare tax hangover

Unlearning the Lessons Being Taught

Here’s how serious people transcend ideological differences

AP-GfK Poll: Baby boomers fear outliving Medicare

VDH - How Did All That Happen?

Sanitation Union Fires Back At Accusations Of Slow-Down

The Obamas Police Food and Football (Updated) Why their comments on Michael Vick and school lunches make us queasy

The ten most underreported studies from 2010



Mike's mosque myopia Bloomberg is such a tool.

Rationing Revealed at the Heart of Obamacare

Ken Blackwell - If We Don't Balance Books, Others Will

Global Warming Skeptic Predicts Brutal Winter, Warns “You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet

Is there any weather pattern that would cast doubt on global warming?

Local Government Stupidity Contest

Big Nannies of the Year

What the Health Care Bill Means for You in 2011

Idiots Making Food Illegal

New Prohibitionists Gradually Eat Away Our Freedom to Choose

My husband Calls out Ed Rendell

Ed Rendell is a Wuss about China

Tuesday, December 28, 2010

Round-Up 12-28

Santa Baby... Defund ObamaCare.

It's a sign the tingle has gone - Chris Matthews: Why Doesn't Obama Just Release The Birth Certificate?

The *true* John Conyers scandal.

President Obama under pressure to deliver on climate AND YET there's this... The Abiding Faith Of Warm-ongers

EPA's Endangerment Rule Threatens States' Sovereignty

The Cancun Climate Con

Ethanol: No End in Sight

The EPA and the Alarmist Narrative

Teen Birthrates and the Media

Pigford Investigation Resources Careful, cleaning out this fraud pigsty is gonna get messy.

Ya think? GAO Sees Problems in Government’s Financial Management

The String-Pullers in Internet Regulation

White House attempts to quiet revived talk of 'death panels'

Consumer Confidence Shows Surprise Drop in December

Has Government Grown Since the Recession Started?

Whistleblower Protection Act

Using Regulation Against The Will Of The People

Dispelling the VAT. I would only agree to a VAT in America if it was as public as the current sales tax is AND we completely eliminated both corporate taxes and income/estate taxes. Period. Otherwise, VAT is nothing but a scam.

Boston Taxpayers Pay $8.4 Million for Teachers' Union Softball, Legal Defense

Changes to data collected on unemployment duration

Shell's Plan to Drill for Oil in the Beaufort Sea This Summer

How Much Debt Did the 111th Congress Leave Us?

Investigating Obama's Eating Habits

Early Word: Obamacare High-Risk Pools Unpopular, Expensive

Poll: Opposition to Individual Mandate at All-Time High

Political End Runs

Fleeced: The upper 1% earned 19.6% of total income before tax, and paid 41% of the individual federal income tax. "No other major country is so dependent on so few taxpayers"

EPA to Regulate Greenhouse Gases

The States' 'Day of Reckoning'

European anarchists grow more violent, coordinated

I am the YouTube airline pilot

Tuesday, December 21, 2010

Still Out Sick

Merry Freakin' Christmas to me!

Now they are giving me antibiotics normally prescribed for pneumonic horses.

I promise I'll get back to ya'll.

Saturday, December 18, 2010

Out Sick

I've had a couple of "sick days" here but hope to be back up and blogging soon.

Monday, December 13, 2010

Random Round-Up 12-13


President Obama Job Approval

From our friend Boris who is a wolf in sheepdog's clothing - Snooty Europhiles should be forced to crawl in penitence. The 'blimpish Little Englanders’ who opposed monetary union were right all along

New WikiLeaks Document Dump Targets Liberal Media – Part 1

To revive the economy, pull back the red tape

Government Unions vs. Taxpayers The moral case for unions—protecting working families from exploitation—does not apply to public employment.

“Cultural Defenses” and Incest

I blame Reid for a lot of things - Blame Reid, Not Republicans, for ‘Obstructionism’

Kicking the Medicare can -- again

Swindle of the year

The Hawkeye Handouts The tax bill is becoming a favor festival, starting with ethanol.

Good! Dems could miss last chance to pass their own agenda

Cynical beyond belief. Media Creates New Palin Scandal! Sarah Accused of Bringing Hairdresser on Haiti Trip "That's right, what the Palin-hating AP and others fail to report is that the "hair stylist" is Bristol Palin."

Political class, Middle America headed in opposite directions on economy

Bewildering Media Non-Reaction: Obama/Clinton Presser, Socialist Sanders’ Filibuster



After 25 years, time has come to clean up the tax code (again)

Tea Party-backed freshmen win plum committee assignments

Forget the Rich, Let's Increase the Tax Base!

ObamaCare: Flight of the MDs

Everyone Hates Ethanol Subsidies. Why Can't We Get Rid of Them?

Media Demands That President Obama Start “Acting Black” If you remember the "Not Black Enough" debacle, this isn't really news.

The Crisis of the Middle

Another Failed Climate Conference

Virginia Federal Judge to Rule on Constitutionality of ObamaCare

Virginia emerges as a bellwether

Obamacare Heads to Court This Week

The Dems' Crackup

If China Blows Up, So Will Every Other Market

Climate Change and Biodiversity

Yes, ObamaCare Still Worse Than You Thought

Obama Signing Child Nutrition Bill Into Law

Eagle concerns stymie wind farms

Sunday, December 12, 2010

Random Round-Up 12-12


President Obama Job Approval

Emergency Rooms: The Canary in the Health Care Coal Mine

Arsonist Strikes on Cape Cod, Leaves Calling Card: 'F--k the Rich'

The Collapse of the Guantanamo Myth This week a Democratic Congress ratified Bush-era policy by refusing to fund any effort to shut the detention facility.

Christie Going After Tenure in Fight With Teachers’ Union

Big Government Economics Is Dead (Again)

Middle America's Economic Woes

Who said? Can you guess which voice of moderation on the Left said this? “In 2012, the Republicans will have their nasty little primary, which will basically be mean people fighting dumb people. So after about two years of this stuff, we’re going to start looking pretty good to people again.” Answer: Van Jones: We are coming for the media and that’s not all

What happens next in the tax-cut standoff: Three scenarios

Still deaf to the voters

It’s a Wonderful Leftist Life Barry Bailout's transformation of Bedfellow Falls marches on.

One nation, under too many laws

Outrageous public-employee pension obligations kill the city's ability to provide vital services

Pigford’s Original Black Farmers Unhappy Over Massive Fraud – Media Ignores


The Cancun Crack-Up The biggest climate conference achievement: Sun tans.

A GOP quip in need of a GOP policy: how would repealing Obamacare create jobs?

Obama riles Dems by spurning New Deal complacency

Killing Obama’s ‘Build America Bonds’ Is a Big Reason to Like the Tax Deal

Should We Gloat Over Obama’s Childish Behavior?

Gary Becker – The Economist’s Economist

Muslims Save Jews in Untold WWll Story. Exhibit showcases photographs of Albanian Muslims who sheltered Jews during the Holocaust

Subsidy Trains to Nowhere Can we sell you a ticket to Borden? It only costs $4.15 billion.



Excellent Polling Data on Spending Restraint vs. Deficit Reduction

When greens pollute

GOP wants Obama to show his sincerity on earmarks

Wow, Obama's relying on Biden. And I thought the Clinton presser looked bad. As the Ground Shifts, Biden Plays a Bigger Role

It’s a Long Way Down

How to get Julian Assange: U.S. should use aggressive prosecution to charge WikiLeaks villain