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- Robert Heinlein
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Don't Mention the Flimflam - NYTimes.com
Don't Mention the Flimflam - NYTimes.com: But none of it was true; Ryan’s budgets were flimflam through and through, consisting of huge tax cuts for the wealthy that outweighed even his savage cuts in aid to the needy, so that all the claims of fiscal responsibility rested on giant magic asterisks on both revenue and spending. And although it took a couple of years for this reality to break through the conventional wisdom, at this point pretty much all the people who praised Serious Honest Paul have now conceded, in effect if not in so many words, that he’s a phony after all. They’ll never admit that they were wrong — hardly anyone ever does — but SHP can no longer play his accustomed role of serving the base while basking in the approbation of the VSPs.
Ducks Meet the Culture Wars – Phenomena: The Loom
Ducks Meet the Culture Wars – Phenomena: The Loom: Commenters on these posts left remarks like ”PLS SHOOT ME NOW AS I CAN TAKE NO MORE OF OBAMA AND HIS SPENDING.” (Of course, I wrote my article back in the Bush years, but, hey, who needs to get bogged down in reality?)
This is a tried-and-true tactic that politicians have trotted out for years–long before the sequester. Back in 2008, I wrote about how then-vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin sneered at spending that “goes to projects having little or nothing to do with the public good–things like fruit fly research in Paris, France.” In 2011, Republican Senator Tom Coburn groused about all the money NSF wasted on things like studying shrimp. Now, I will not get into a debate about precisely how much money should go to the National Science Foundation, versus, say, subsidies for oil companies. I just want to address the question of why we fund basic research in the first place.
This is a tried-and-true tactic that politicians have trotted out for years–long before the sequester. Back in 2008, I wrote about how then-vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin sneered at spending that “goes to projects having little or nothing to do with the public good–things like fruit fly research in Paris, France.” In 2011, Republican Senator Tom Coburn groused about all the money NSF wasted on things like studying shrimp. Now, I will not get into a debate about precisely how much money should go to the National Science Foundation, versus, say, subsidies for oil companies. I just want to address the question of why we fund basic research in the first place.
Friday, May 4, 2012
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Fwd: Electric Planes Take to the Sky at NASA Green Flight Challenge | Autopia | Wired.com
-Bill
Begin forwarded message:
From: Bill Murray <wrmurray@gmail.com>
Date: October 1, 2011 11:16:07 AM EDT
To: Bill Murray <wrmurray@gmail.com>
Subject: Electric Planes Take to the Sky at NASA Green Flight Challenge | Autopia | Wired.com
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