15 Jun 2010

Top 100 School Administrator Pensions in Illinois

Tom over at The New Editor posted this and I'll link to the site.

This equals out to $887,925,790.00 for 100 people. Here's one reason why the state is over $4B in the red.
8 Mar 2010

How God Created Virginia

How God Created Virginia

Brilliant and hilarious!
4 Feb 2010

Beware the Demonsheep!

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The demonsheep has appeared and is making its way into political campaign videos! Beware!

19 Jan 2010

Thomas Jefferson to Richard Price, January 8th, 1789

"It is to me a new and consolatory proof that wherever the people are well-informed they can be trusted with their own government; that whenever things get so far wrong as to attract their notice, they may be relied on to set them to rights."
14 Jan 2010

Old Computers = Ineffective Government

This is according to the White House Budget Director...

Yeah, I don't think so. I'm pretty sure that the government didn't have computers in the 1940's during WWII and amazingly enough, we won.

Very similar to a musician blaming his/her problems (lack of technique, knowledge of instrument or music, etc.) on their instrument.

You can summarize this in one word: Stupid.

9 Oct 2009

On Obama's Nobel Peace Prize

So, I think like everyone else this morning, I was a bit shocked to see that our president had received the Nobel Peace Prize. Reading through a few of the articles throughout the world, I came across this comment from a reader on the Times Online UK. This actually may be reasoning as to the nature of today's events:

I am now confident that we are in an alternate universe as opposed to the one that we went to sleep in yesterday. This morning NASA launched rockets into the moon looking for ice. I am convinced that these actions have compromised the space-time continuum and have altered the very fabric of the universe thereby changing our existence as we know it. The proof of this altered reality is that we find out this morning that President Obama has won the Nobel Peace Prize and Marge Simpson is going to appear nude in Playboy.

I can find no other explanation for these events. I am utterly terrified. I will be selling tin foil hats later today.

God help us all.

(Jason Cordell)

28 Sep 2009

Andrew Klavan on Celebrities

Brilliant and to the point.

19 Sep 2009

A Cartoon Predicting the Future

Very interesting to see this was made 50 years ago. And look what is happening now...

18 Sep 2009

We the People Stimulus Package

A great watch!

24 Aug 2009

The National Debt Road Trip

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Passed along to me. Quite interesting. Enjoy.

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