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Recipient: Cary Jeffries
Sender: A Whole Passel of Fine Folk
Subject: Another Baker's Dozen
The thirteen web video links below
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IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT ENERGY SAVER LIGHT BULBS!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-LOtKIIKcg
7 minutes & 57 seconds of my all time favorite comedy:
"Dr. Strangelove"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmlTlICB9-4
A Collage of Images Set To The Theme of My Favorite
Movie Love Story: "Summer of 42
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=voheCy5lTxQ&feature=related
Barack Obama's Greatest Hits
http://hotair.com/archives/2008/08/28/video-barack-obamas-greatest-hits/
An Amazing Teenage Girl's Power Point Presentation; This
puts to shame the output of a number of Hollywood producers and/or directors.
This film was made by a 15 year old
girl. It is the hottest thing on the internet and on Fox News today. Lizzie
Palmer, who put this YouTube program together, is 15 years old. There have
been over 3,000,000 hits as of this morning (3/29/09). In case you
missed it, here it is. Watch all of it.......and, pass it on!!
http://www.youtube.com/v/ervaMPt4Ha0&autoplay=1
Boing Boing tv Best of 2008: TCHOcolate
Magical
http://www.boingboing.net/2008/12/30/boing-boing-tv-best-1.html
LiveLeak.com; Mail Call: SNAFU
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=06b_1237330429
Kids say the darndest things! From Art Linkletter
http://carolynspreciousmemories.com/Videos/kids_artlinkletter.html
8 minutes & 7 seconds from my second favorite melodrama: "On The
Beach"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9suIauSBWJg
LiveLeak.com - The High Cost of Media Bais
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=a73_1240024571
Theo Spark; Sunday Song: Celtic Women - Raise Me Up
http://www.theospark.net/2009/02/sunday-song-celtic-woman-you-raise-me.html
My All Time Favorite Warner Brother's Cartoon: "One
Froggy Evening"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jhq0N4ORYjM
The American People Don't Care About Pork Projects In
Stimulus
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEfICUoWKBw
Recipient: Cary Jeffries
Sender: Marc S.
Subject: HAPPY NEW YEAR!
Old Woody here looks like he tied a second one on
the night before, just in case the first one fell off!
Recipient: Cary Jeffries
Sender: Marc V.
Subject: TREKONOMICS
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=30665
Trekonomics
by
Jed
Babbin
02/12/2009
President
Obama says we have to act boldly to solve the financial crisis. On Tuesday,
supposedly explaining the new and improved bank bailout plan, serial tax evader
and Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner added that we have to try things that have
never been tried before.
The Obama team wants to boldly take our economy where no economy has gone
before. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the birth of “Trekonomics.” It’s
like the old “Star Trek” series, just without the brainy, logical Vulcans.
And Obama’s Trekonomics begins with a violation of the Prime Directive for a
free-market economy: that government policy shall not hinder industry’s
planning for the long or short term. As I learned the hard way while working in
the aerospace industry two decades ago, even minor revisions to tax policy —
if done too often — can prevent millions or billions in investments in
research, new plants and equipment and hiring.
In
contrast, Geithner promised to “bring the full force of the United States
government to bear to strengthen our financial system.” But he didn’t say
how, when or why. Which is the principal problem with the Geithner plan: it’s
not a plan, it’s an idea.
As if to drive the instability knife deeper, Geithner did say of his new
strategy, “We will have to adapt it as conditions change. We will have to try
things we've never tried before. We will make mistakes. We will go through
periods in which things get worse and progress is uneven or interrupted.”
This announcement was the perfect antidote to confidence: any credibility Obama
and Geithner had gained in the over-hyped lead up to the announcement was
vaporized. Wall Street expressed its opinion of Geithner’s plan by dropping
like a rock: the Dow Jones sank nearly 400 points, nearing the pre-Obama bottom
of about 7800 points.
Geithner’s approach — Obama’s, of course — is based on the assumption
that doing something quickly is more important than doing it right. And if you
don’t know what you’re going to do, make an announcement that is designed to
placate people with vague promises of bold action.
Which is precisely the opposite of what our economy needs. It’s no wonder the
Dow Jones Industrial Average sank. Geithner’s speech sowed doubt: he tossed a
financial grenade into the mess Hank Paulson made last fall and then stood back
to watch the rubble bounce.
This is becoming a parody of government. FDR said we had nothing to fear but
fear itself. President Obama and his team don’t fear the fear: they embrace a
piece of it, react to it and then find another.
But according to Geithner, “When the crisis began, governments around the
world were too slow to act. When the action came, it was late and inadequate.
Policy was always behind the curve, always chasing the escalating crisis.”
Which was true last fall, and is still true today. Hank Paulson demanded the
bank bailout, using apocalyptic rhetoric to stampede Congress. And since the
Obama administration began (was it only a month ago?) we’ve heard little more
than how bad the crisis is.
The financial markets cannot have confidence in themselves and regain their
strength until they know that the biggest influence on them that is beyond their
control — government policy — has stabilized.
But in his big moment, Geithner promised the markets only continued
experimentation and gave them no reason to expect a stable policy for another
year or more. He thus guaranteed that we will be in a worsening recession at
least until the spring of 2010.
Even if you spend money at warp-speed, it takes a long time to run out of it.
Geithner’s plan promises to spend up to another $2 trillion in the financial
market rescue. And this comes on top of the $1 trillion that’s in the
president’s faux-stimulus package.
President Obama seems comfortable with that time table. In his first prime-time
press conference, he was asked how Americans should judge the success of his
stimulus plan. Answering ABC’s Jake Tapper, Obama said that it will take time
to work. The president proposed that his success be judged by three criteria at
the end of the year.
First, Obama said we should measure how many jobs have been “created or
saved,” repeating the goal of four million jobs to be in one category or the
other.
Second, he said that if the credit markets are operating properly (and here he
mixed the Geithner plan with the so-called stimulus), that is another measure of
success. (But what is “properly”? Maybe he and Geithner will figure that
out.)
Third, the president said that success will be achieved if the housing market
has been stabilized and the rate of foreclosures has been reduced. There, at
last, is a measurable criterion.
As the Congressional Budget Office said last week, the Obama-Pelosi
“stimulus” bill will — in ten years — do more damage than good to our
economy. We’d be better off if Congress took six months off rather than
passing this awful bill. Which it may do today.
Our free market economy — at least what’s left of it after Bush, Paulson,
Obama and Geithner are done with it — craves a reason to be confident in
government. Not for government salvation, but for stability of government action
and minimization of interference.
Obama’s Trekonomics promises only experimentation and continued instability in
government action. He and Geithner will take our economy where no nation has
gone before at the warped speed of government spending. And while they do, our
economy will have no opportunity to recover.
Recipient: Cary Jeffries
Sender: Lisa S.
Subject: Hot in Australia...
AT
120 DEGREES IN AUSTRALIA , IT WAS SO HOT FOR A WEEK THAT KOALAS
WERE ASKING
PEOPLE FOR WATER. IT'S NEVER BEEN SEEN BEFORE.
ONE
WENT TO A HOUSE TO TRY TO HIDE FROM THE HEAT AND TO
GET A BIT OF SHADE AND HERE’S
WHAT HAPPENED WHEN
THE OWNER GAVE HIM SOMETHING TO
DRINK. IT'S REALLY CUTE.
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