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Clearing the Browser Tabs – Dancing on our Dime Thursday Edition Posted: 22 Sep 2011 03:10 AM PDT Let me give you a couple stories of government spending that ought to turn you against big government now and forever. President Obama and his Democratic backup group shoved his Vote Buying Act Stimulus Bill down our throats on the premise that we had to spend over $800 billion dollars we didn’t have in order to create jobs right now. Most of us expected those jobs would involve construction or road repair or building equipment. None of us expected that over $760,000 would go to promote “interactive dance”, you know, for those poor dancers who can’t find other people with whom to imitate the art on a Grecian urn (via memeorandum). That little project created three part time jobs. That’s chump change, though, compared to the $16 muffins and $32 per person snack spreads provided by the Department of Justice to training conference attendees over the course of two years. In 2009 alone, the DoJ spent over $73 million on conferences. When conservatives like me talk about making the government smaller, we’re not just talking about cutting back programs like the virtual dance studies of the ridiculously expensive conferences. We’re talking about making the government small enough to manage competently, so that excesses like these will be rare exceptions. It is impossible for any group of people to oversee a government as large as the one in Washington and until we slash it down to a manageable size, this sort of shameful and intentional waste will continue unabated. And now, links! Another day, another damning story about Solyndra that ought to have a few people in the White House looking for legal counsel. It looks as if a few of Solyndra’s executives already have. This post by Keith Hennessey would make an excellent companion post to the first half of this week’s The Delivery. The President’s “plans” are hooey. We need to stop giving them the respect an honest plan deserves. Let’s watch as Ben Howe watches the Attack Watch watchers. You would think that one of the places President Obama would want to make his “tax the rich” case would be at one of his own fundraisers, but since the attendees paid almost $40 grand a plate, he kind of forgot to mention it. I know we Christians take a lot of heat from the less-religious for our faith but at least we’re honest about where we stand, unlike the creepy Cult of the Lightbringer. I’d be okay if the NHL went back to four divisions. They can call them the Patrick, Adams, Norris, and Smythe. Here is the satellite that will plunge back to Earth some time late this week, captured in a video by astrophotographer Thierry Legault. It’s not very clear, but you will see more detail than you expect.

The Delivery Presents – A Visit from God and a Trap Avoided, Hopefully. Posted: 21 Sep 2011 11:27 AM PDT One of the little known secrets to a good podcast is that if you ride your show off the rails early, as I did with Episode 112, you have the freedom to take it pretty much anywhere you want. It doesn’t take much, just a really bad impression of God Almighty and a thinly-veiled whack against the clunkiness of USTream that involved the Archangel Gabriel… I am convinced it is a mistake to engage the President’s jobs and tax proposals on their merits because neither of them have merit. They are political traps, and the only reason we’re not looking at them that way is because they were so amateurishly built and obvious. Then again, the President is an amateurish and obvious politician, so why do we expect his strategy to be any different? I had a couple suggestions for how the GOP can unstick themselves from the jobs/tax bills Tar Baby and put the heat back on the President and Congressional Democrats. I’ve been thinking quite a bit about digital media and what ordinary folks like you can me can do with the often-dizzying array of choices we now have before us almost every day. I then extend that into the world of “1000 True Fans” in a way that probably needs a bit more fleshing out, perhaps in a later blog post. If you are a creative type person and you’re trying to make it on your own on the web, you might find the second half of the show particularly useful. Even if you aren’t, take a listen and see if you can’t build in the comment section what I started in the show. [audio:http://www.takethatproductionsusa.com/podcasting/td/TD112.mp3|titles=The Delivery - Episode 112] This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

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