You know, I didn't realize how simple and easy the Gov's health care plan was:


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People holding garage sales and selling toys or clothing of children could be breaking the law and subject to government enforcement or lawsuits, because of the "Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act of 2008." The guy who wrote this article wonders - is it really about safety, or is it about stopping sales of used items so that people will buy ( Read more... )

So, around the world, governments that have instituted 'climate change' policies are now admitting that they aren't working - at all. In fact, carbon output is continuing to increase, despite Cap and Trade kind of regulations. The corporations (as always) find ways around the regulations or get exemptions, while they pass the increased costs to ( Read more... )

"How do you weaken the drug traffickers? You take away their obscene black-market profits.

Al Capone and the mafia got rich running alcohol during Prohibition. When Prohibition ended the violence ended too. Jim Beam distributors don't do drive-by shootings on outlets that sell Jack Daniels. And neither Jim Beam nor Jack Daniels are killing ( Read more... )

Well, first they raised the cigarette tax, smacking around the poor who are addicted. Now they are looking at a VAT (value added tax), the kind they have in Europe. This tax ends up being the equivalent of a sales tax, although it gets added up along the line and eventually passed onto the consumer. Rates range from 5%-25% in the so-called ( Read more... )

Eforcity has the Rapid Car Charger for LG Chocolate VX8500 for $3.99 - $3.74 Code LGVX85CC = $0.25 with free shipping.

I figure one or more of you have one of those phones...

This is not Micro USB. It is LG's proprietary interface right before they switched to Micro USB. This will pretty much cover all phones released 2007-Mid 2008.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcSSwW4K4AU

This guy was harassed by the TSA for carrying a couple thousand bucks in cash (from sold memorabilia). They harassed him to no end, and he simply asked if he was required to answer the questions. Eventually, they released him after much harassment. What they didn't know is that he recorded the ( Read more... )

Obama says that if we blow a trillion dollars, then we'll create a bunch of new jobs and unemployment won't go above 8 percent. Well, we blew the money, and they now admit its soon going to be over 10 percent ( Read more... )

*Edited June 27th* 
The "Cash for Clunkers" bill will give taxpayer money to people who trade in cars for new cars that get better gas mileage. http://www.ajc.com/services/content/printedition/2009/06/19/clunkers0619.html

It won't do anything to take old cars off the road, in case you though that. Dealerships often have a "pit" where they put cars ( Read more... )

A day after getting swept by the Red Sox, the Yankees win one in what is being called possibly one of the strangest endings to a baseball game.

http://newyork.yankees.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20090613&content_id=5304386&vkey=news_nyy&fext=.jsp&c_id=nyy

What luck! So, the plot thickens in the AL East. I don't want to spoil it, so just watch the ( Read more... )