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Clearing the Browser Tabs – Much Ado About Nothing on Paper Friday Edition Posted: 09 Sep 2011 03:10 AM PDT How I long for the days when our President remembered the phrase “co-equal branch of government”. Last night, Barack Obama went before Congress and flat-out commanded it to pass his jobs bill as if he were a toga-clad Emperor and the very fate of the Republic rested in his hands. It didn’t take but a couple hours for the Associated Press, of all places, to find that the President’s main claim that his over $400 billion wish list would be paid for entirely was hooey. You can put Herman Cain among those not particularly impressed by the speech. I posted my own video rebuttal last night and I think it packs a lot more substance and optimism into four minutes than the President’s Vote Buying Reprise Second Stimulus proposal. Still, if you’re one of the folks who believes this stimulus plan will be the one that finally works, feel free to chant along with the official White House cheer: What do we want? A JOBS PLAN!! When will we get it? REAL SOON! And now, links. I love it when Duane Lester lets his funny flag fly. This idea for enlivening the Presidential debates is fantastic, as is his homemade graphic. James Pethokoukis provided the Scary Chart of the Week. The green line, like the honey badger, don’t care about Presidential speeches. In a related post, Glenn Reynolds went long-form (at least that’s long-form for him) to jump with both feet into the business of people who really did buy the hopey-changefulness of the 2008 election. In another related post, Chuck Schumer can’t stop running his partisan yap long enough to differentiate between “the economy” and “Barack Obama” (via memeorandum) Bob Belvedere wrote a good post about war and politics and incendiary rhetoric. There is a plan here, folks. It may not be particularly well-considered nor carried out with particular elegance, but this is how progressive politics has always worked. We are fortunate that the administration and its allies have run the whole operation where we can see many of its moving parts. Shouldn’t a grown adult be ashamed to reveal this much ignorance about commonly-used technology? I wrote yesterday about the horrific crash that killed nearly every member of the Russian hockey team Lokomotiv Yaroslavl and one proposal to keep the team going. The KHL has floated another idea that I think it marvelous. Over 30 active players from around the league who had played for the team in the past have announced they will go back to play there again. If they are selected by Lokomotiv’s new coach, their original team will pay their salaries for the year. That will allow the team to pay out its current contracts to the deceased players’ survivors and continue to operate. I haven’t read Robopocalypse, though it’s on my Amazon wish list and I have it in audiobook form. It looks like the kind of story I’d really enjoy and one that could be made into a slam-bang movie, perhaps with Steven Spielberg at the helm. I consider myself an avid fan of the Scooby Doo cartoons, at least the first two runs of the show, but I learned quite a few things I didn’t know from this article at Neatorama. Great research and cool trivia tidbits abound! Finally, let’s close the work week with this insightful meditation about 9/11 and life by Joy McCann. I pulled this essay on the Muppets after Jim Henson from Kurt Loder’s Twitter feed. It is a fantastic tribute to Henson’s amazing creations and why they are a mere shadow of what they once were. The author put his finger on the reasons I’m not nearly as fond of Kermit and gang as I once was, and it’s not because I got older.

VIDEO: My Rebuttal to the President’s Jobs Speech Posted: 08 Sep 2011 04:59 PM PDT Since the GOP opted not to give a rebuttal to the President’s big jobs speech tonight, I decided to make my own. It’s a little over four minutes long and contains many of the same themes in the sample rebuttal I offered yesterday, but I did have to do a bit of rewriting since Governors Walker and Jindal weren’t available to me. Do forgive the amount of time I spent looking up and down. I recorded the video on the camera built in to my iMac and I had to remind myself where the camera was, since the Apple designers have hidden it so cleverly in the monitor. I also worked from a script, which I usually don’t do in my podcast. If I do this more often, I’ll have to remember to read less and look at the camera more.

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