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The speech.
Transcript of President Obama's address to the joint session of Congress 09/09/2009OBAMA: "A bill for comprehensive health reform was first introduced by John Dingell Sr. in 1943. Sixty-five years later, his son continues to introduce that same bill at the beginning of each session ( Read more... ) -
A great quote from a fellow libertarian.
"We have learned some things from comparable experiences of the 1930s' Great Depression, perhaps enough to reduce the severity of the current contraction. But we have made no progress toward putting limits on political leaders, who act out ...their natural proclivities without any basic understanding of what makes capitalism work." - James Buchanan -
A correction
I'm told that my memory of the reading lessons is a bit distorted. That what I recall was already at the point when I could, somewhat, read - and it was essentially one of the "follow-up" sessions I was describing. One I was, apparently, particularly not in the mood for and therefore felt strongly about. The rest I stand by, and have heard no ( Read more... ) -
Dragon Knight
The last post made me want to tell the story of the Dragon books by Gordon Dickson, and their importance to me ( Read more... ) -
Long weekend recap
Lets see now. Friday I had a somewhat failed attempt at going to the gym. It's been two weeks and my arm muscles just refused to work. It was highly annoying - but I realized just about half way through my normal routine that I was no longer doing anything productive. So I cut it short. Then onto the political rally, which lasted till a little ( Read more... ) -
As time goes by
I made it to the gym. One hour on the treadmill, which is the minimum I always do. It went by particularly fast yesterday, since I found a commercial-free showing of Casablanca. Nice. Usually I push myself extra hard for an additional 10 to 20 minutes, but opted against it last night. Good thing I did, it turns out, for while at it, everything ( Read more... ) -
Crime.
Turns out I know the woman with the four kids who was beaten, tied up, and left for dead (actually in a coma) in Bartlett. Not very well, but I met her on at least two occasions, and have several mutual friends/acquaintances with her. Odd feeling. I don't know her well enough to truly care, but the proximity (both geographical and social) is a ( Read more... ) -
Maybe...
Helped a friend of mine pick her kid up from the hospital last night. She wanted to show me some of the things she's done to her new house, and we wondered over to the back yard. There, she showed me a dog that her neighbors found just the other day. A puppy. Looks to be largely Pit. Starved to near-death, has some open sores on the hind legs ( Read more... ) -
City/County consolidation info.
More as a "note to self", a rather informative research paper concerting city/county consolidations. Has a general pro-consolidation feel, but is full of information regardless.http://www.alleghenyconference.org/PEL/PDFs/
