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I'm so surprised!!!!! /sarcasm

Top bailout recipients also major lobbyists

As I've been saying all along, this recovery/bailout/stimulus money is nothing but a massive transfer of wealth to the politically connected.

Deja Vu!

The Daily Show With Jon StewartM - Th 11p / 10c

Changefest '09 - Obama's Inaugural Speech

Barack Obama Interview
John McCain Interview

Sarah Palin Video
Funny Election Video

Video of Jefferson as the Fox in the Gingerbread Kids Story

Snow clearing pictures from 1/18/09

This is our driveway after 1.5 hours of clearing snow. The wind packed the snow like concrete so I had to shovel it all first to break it up, then use the new snowblower on it. The yellow shovel marks the edge of the driveway.

This is our driveway after 2.5 hours of clearing snow. I gave up and only did enough for 1 car to fit through.

Dell mini 9

This is the new Dell mini 9 with my mouse next to it for comparison on size. I'm setting this up for someone but it's so cute I could resist taking a picture of it. This was $399 at Sam's Club with a 1.6ghz Atom processor, 1gb ram and a 16gb SSD hard-drive, 1 year warranty, Windows XP home.

Tired of Winter Driving?

This is exactly how I feel right now, tired of winter!

Great story on the BarackBerry

WSJ article

It's a shame we cannot let the President have his Blackberry, I love mine and can't imagine giving it up. I can understand the points the article makes though. This is just one small reminder of what it's like to be President, it's one of the toughest jobs in the world.

What we fear

I think Peggy Noonan summed up what most people are feeling right now:

In terms of public support, Mr. Obama shouldn't get too abstract. He should be thinking hardhats. People want to make their country stronger—literally, concretely, because the things they fear (terrorism, global collapse) are so huge and amorphous. Lately I think the biggest thing Americans fear, deep down—the thing they'd say if you could put the whole nation on the couch and say, "Just free associate, tell me what you fear?"—is, "I am afraid we will run out of food. And none of us have gardens, and we haven't taught our children how to grow things. Everything is bought in a store. What if the store closes? What if the choke points through which the great trucks travel from farmland to city get cut off? I have two months of canned goods. I'm afraid."

Mere Presidents

Vote for Micheal J. Totten

Please read this post and vote for someone I call a friend. I met Micheal Totten while living in Oregon through another friend, Scott Carter. Micheal has gone on to become a fantastic independent journalist with a great blog. Please vote in the poll for him. Micheal and I do not see eye to eye on many issues but he is a fantastic writer and a person of great moral fiber in my opinion.

http://www.michaeltotten.com