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Anyone who has spent any amount of time studying 20th century history and/or is a big biography buff would likely greet the arrival of a new biography of Winston Churchill with a disinterested shrug. Especially when that biography of one of the greatest figures in modern history chocks in at a very modest one-hundred-and-ninety-two pages. What more could you possibly learn about a man who--in Chadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03781053410876242483noreply@blogger.com

Random, pretty much defined:

Last Five:
Crazy, Seal
Disco Inferno, the Trammps
Double Shot (Of My Baby’s Love), the Swingin’ Medallions
Smells Like Teen Spirit, Nirvana
The Bertha Butt Boogie, Part 1, The Jimmy Castor Bunch


Next Five:
Can’t Hide Love, Earth Wind & Fire
Something’s Changed, Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings
I Don’t Need No Doctor, Ray Charles
If You Could Read My Mind, Gordon Lightfoot
New Frontier, Donald Fagen

Over at Minnesota “Progressive” Project, a writer named “MNBearBud” plaintively asks “Can Minnesota Elect a Bold Progressive Governor in 2010?” It’s a mash note for As I have been helping out at a couple different DFL Conventions in the past couple weeks I have been hearing something that kind of disturbs me. The following quote is a [...]

After years of critiquing the public schools, I’ve seen any number of rationalizations from their defenders in education (who, in Minnesota, largely control the DFL party) and the media (who, in Minnesota, are largely in bed with the DFL) and the crop of “think tanks” that routinely mix people from the media, DFL and education.  [...]

Tax soda, pizza to cut obesity, researchers say: They compared data on food prices during the same time. Over a 20-year period, a 10 percent increase in cost was linked with a 7 percent decrease in the amount of calories consumed from soda and a 12 percent decrease in calories consumed from pizza.The team estimates that an 18 percent tax on these foods could cut daily intake by 56 calories per Chadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03781053410876242483noreply@blogger.com

Viewer discretion is advised because there is a heckuva cleanup in Aisle 7, which is light switches, extension cords, and pressure chambers.

In the recaps, Dana blurts “Cole, he’s dead!” as if that isn’t exactly what she had planned. As they’re dragging the bodies into the swamps of NYC, Cole says “They’re scum, Dana.” Well, they are in a pond, so pond scum isn’t completely unexpected. Ma and Pa Hassan are worried about their daughter, who is currently schtumping Tarin. Jack asks Farhad who stole the rods. I don’t understand why they had to get intel files from Hassan. Couldn’t Farhad just name the others? He knows who they are. Marcos survives a three story fall out of a window, and leaps into a bathoscope, only to discover the hospital doesn’t have a coral reef. He’ll have to be content with blowing himself up.

As we begin, we see Marcos has already drawn a complex circuit diagram on the wall of the bathoscope. Wow, he’s the fastest draw in the west. (And did he just happen to have a pen/pencil/charcoal on him? What’s more, the guys who know how to wire these vests aren’t typically the ones who blow themselves up. That’s a valuable skill, and I don’t think baddies want to take all the time to train someone on that tech only to lose it in one shot.) Rookie Owen informs Jack that drilling their way in could ignite the oxygen inside. Jack doesn’t care. Do it anyway! Owen also says the detonator is German military, so our guys are familiar with it. Uh, why? Did they spend time in the German military?

CTU has already discovered Marcos is Marcos Al-Zacar of East Harlem. His father was a professor and highly critical of American foreign policy. So, he’s no different than 95% of the faculty in the US, then? Mom still lives at 4211 East 117th Street. According to Google Maps, this is nowhere near East Harlem, and instead is not far from JFK Airport. Though, in Manhattan, 117th Street is in Harlem, just north of Central Park.

Hastings sees that Dana and Cole are back at CTU already. And, Dana has found time to change clothes. (Did she shower as well? Why couldn’t we see that? Shower! Shower! Shower!) For the first time, like, ever, CTU Director Hastings acts like a director of CTU and chews Cole and Dana up one side and down the other. He says their jobs are hanging by a thread, and that “you two have holy hell to answer for.” Of course, this is the last time we’ll ever hear of this. Dana is demoted, and now answers to Chloe. She hands Chloe something. A phone? The baton of authority? What?

And, of course. The Samir gang is near the hospital. They’ve found a surveillance location completely unnoticed by the crack CTU perimeter security. What’s more, they’ve tapped into the hospital video feeds. Uh, how? Never mind. Samir says not to worry, they’ll get the bomb into Manhattan. CTU radiation sensors will be down. Hmm, wonder how? Is there a mole lurking somewhere?

At the first break, the 24 clock is at :08 and the wall clock is at :08. Coming back, the clocks are at :13 to :12. The early break throws Time off its game a bit.

The Samir gang once again opens up the rods. Now, Oleg turned into a bleeding, oozing Pizza Man because of exposure to the rods. If he didn’t get that exposure by opening up the crate every five minutes like the Samir gang is doing, how did he get it? Did he eat one of the rods? Why aren’t Samir and gang melting and having hair and skin fall off in chunks?

Now, half of CTU apologizes to Dana, for reasons I can’t figure out. Chloe tenderly says “Hang in there.” Arlo says “I’m sorry” for telling Cole about Kevin. Of course, then he creepily hits on her again.

Back and the Patron Saint of Clowns Hospital, Jack discusses geopolitics with Marcos.

At the break, clocks are at :18 to :17. Coming back, clocks are at :23 to :22.

In the hotel room, I guess this is what led to the “S” rating at the top of the show. Tarin and Kayla are lounging. Her arm glistens with sweat. Mom calls, but Tarin tosses the phone and dives in for more. He’s a machine!

Ma and Pa Hassan bicker. Actually, Ma is mostly right here. But not entirely. Ma says “Tarin is completely loyal to you.” Pa counters with “So was my brother.” But Mom gets in the last shot. “How could you have lost your way?” She still has her wedding ring on, I see. Perhaps there is hope for those two kids yet.

In Harlem, Elaine is packing to head to Aunt Shelley. However, Cole arrives with other plans. He’s not much for the calm, reassuring approach either. He badgers and harangues Elaine. And then, just hits her with the fact her son is wired to blow himself up. He says “We don’t know how much longer till your son can activate the explosives, we have to go!” Hurry up, Mom, you can watch! Yay!

At the break, clocks are at :29 to :28. Coming back, clocks are at :33 to :31.

And Cole has already arrived at the hospital. In less than ten minutes. NYC is a surprisingly small place, doncha know. Just after Hastings glowers at Dana again and says “everyone is replaceable,” Dana gets a call on her cell. It’s a southern accent, and I couldn’t help but think “Kevin?!” But, it’s Milton from Office Space. Well, he’s calling himself Prady from the Arkansas Dept of Corrections. I guess he took up another career after he burned down the office. He’s a parole officer looking for Kevin, and has records that Kevin called Dana’s cell phone. Dana denies knowing Kevin, but Milton wonders why the calls to her cell. Even though it’s 2:30 in the blessed AM, he wants to meet with Dana. And, not having learned her lesson, Dana agrees. Argh. We were so close to being done with the white trash thread. Dana calls Cole to tell him she’s in trouble again, and was caught in a lie. Cole has gotta be looking for the exits.

At the hospital, Marcos has three greens. One more and we hear a loud whump, and the sides of the pressure chamber bulge out with a puff of dust. Jack brings Elaine to talk to her son. “Marcos, you stop killing many many people right this instant!”

Chloe notices that there’s a 12% degradation in the video feed. It can only mean one thing. Someone must be tapping the feed. (What, are electronic video signals like water? You divert some from the channel and there’s less water at the other end?) Oops, it may all be a moot point. Marcos has 4 greens. (All together now, Jean-luc Picard fans. “There are four lights!”)

So, Jack goes back to his roots. He starts threatening people. He tells Marcos he won’t let Mom out of the city if Marcos doesn’t help them find the rods. He says he’ll escort Elaine to the blast site himself and make sure she gets a lethal dose of radiation. (Wouldn’t Jack get a lethal dose as well?) And if Marcos blows himself to smithereens, Jack will have Mom clean it up.

From their location, the terrorists can apparently see what’s going with binoculars! How did they find this spot that quick, and find a way to tap the video feed? They didn’t know they were even going to the hospital till a short time ago. I know, I know. Never mind. Somehow, the baddies have a way to trigger the vest remotely. But, for some reason, it doesn’t go off immediately. There’s a 60 second countdown. (Why?)

Jack knows he’s running out of time, so he urges Marcos to give him the needed information. Who knows where the rods are? Marcos says… Tarin! Hmmm. Well, thanks. Off you go. Jack shoves Marcos into the chamber and boom. Jack does a nice looking flip in the explosion. There’s a nice little mess that Housekeeping is going to have to clean up in the morning. Great splatter pattern for forensics to work with though.

At the break, clocks are at :49 to :47. Coming back, clocks are at :53 to :50.

Jack calls Hassan and asks about Tarin. Hassan says “I knew it!” But, Tarin is off with Kayla somewhere and she’s not answering her cell. For some reason, Jack doesn’t think to track Kayla with her cell. Arlo tracked Dana that way just a couple hours ago. That has to be child’s play for CTU.

Mom tries again and this time Kayla answers while Tarin is in the shower. Mom warns Kayla, and, frightened, she tells them she’s at the Teodore Hotel, Suite 514. Tarin is already out of the shower. That was quick. Kayla nervously heads to the bathroom to change, and Tarin looks suspicious.

The episode fogs up the mirrors as the clocks tick towards :00 and :56.

(In the previews for next week, we see Hastings running while shouting “Security! Security!” Maybe he heard Rosie O’Donnell was coming to visit. Ok, can check that one off. My guild requires me to make at least one Rosie O’Donnell wisecrack a season.)

Number of times someone says a variation of “Now!”, “No!”, “Move!” or “Go!”: 68
Number of times a “protocol” or “grid” is mentioned: 8
Number of times a “perimeter” is mentioned: 8
Number of times Jack/someone says “Drop the weapon!”: 6
Number of torture scenes : 3
Number of moles: 2
Approximate Body Count: 33, plus one helicopter, plus one thumb, plus one earpiece, plus Farhad (twice)

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Remember when Obama was going to “restore” America’s respect around th world?” Either do most Americans: The Democracy Corps-Third Way survey released Monday finds that by a 10-point margin — 51 percent to 41 percent — Americans think the standing of the U.S. dropped during the first 13 months of Mr. Obama’s presidency. Democracy Corps and Third Way [...]

…may get their marginal yuks referring to Republicans as “wingnuts” or “the stupid party”, we will always have the “Naked Thugs In Showers Party“. Thank you, Rahm “It Home” Emanuel.

Nurses in a Brit hospital allow a man to die of dehydration: Kane Gorny was so desperate for a drink that he rang police to beg for their help. They arrived on the ward only to be told by doctors that everything was under control. The next day his mother Rita Cronin found him delirious and he died [...]

Iranian sock-puppet “president” Ahmadinejad says 9/11 was an inside job… Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Saturday called the September 11 attacks on the United States a “big fabrication” that was used to justify the U.S. war on terrorism, the official IRNA news agency reported. …guaranteeing him a post-term job either on Conspiracy Theory with Jesse Ventura, or [...]

So the word is that Tom Petters has a tumor:

Petters' defense attorneys pleaded for leniency and mercy, saying their client suffers from a tumor on his pituitary gland.

"The long-term prognosis for Mr. Petters' condition is bleak; he faces the risk of blindness," said defense attorney Paul Engh in court documents. "The tumor is not growing at the moment but cannot be ignored."

As it happens, I know a little about pituitary tumors, since I had one that was growing and had major surgery in 2007 to remove it. It is true that, if left untreated, the tumor could cause blindness. At the time I had my surgery, I had lost up to 30% of my vision because the tumor was impinging on my optic nerve. Once the tumor was removed, I regained the lost vision within a matter of weeks.

One thing you should know -- pituitary tumors are not rare at all. In fact, up to 20% of people have them, although most are asymptomatic. This link from the Mayo Clinic lays out some of the worst-case scenarios, most of which were present in my case, especially the severe headaches.

So, is the long-term prognosis for Petters bleak? Not especially. If the tumor grows, he should get surgery for it and might require permanent hormone replacement through medication. I take a bunch of little pills every day and have my endocrinologist on the speed dial. But I can tell you this much: I live a pretty normal life now. And if he is treated properly, Petters will live a normal life as well. In jail.

Michael Moore is pledging to whip Obama and Democrats in Congress into shape – liberal shape – if he is named the next White House chief of staff. And Moore vows to sleep in the White House basement and work for $1 per year if the president hires him. “Now, don’t get too giddy with excitement [...]

UPDATE (3/9/10): I got one important fact wrong in this piece, which is referenced at the end.

A valued commenter and concerned citizen offered the following opinion in recent days:

The Democrat agenda is about helping those in need, Mr. D - ACORN is a great example of this. Whereas Conservative Republicans (with that I mean literally the politicians and the media, not you personally, or actually any of the Republicans in my life) are about supporting the people who keep the needy people needy - the agenda to destroy ACORN is a great example of that.
As it turns out, our commenter is correct. The Snidely Whiplashes are on the loose and the agenda to destroy ACORN is indeed happening apace, and only one state away from Minnesota. Look what's happening in Wisconsin:

MILWAUKEE – Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen announced today that the Milwaukee Election Fraud Task Force has brought additional electoral fraud cases against five Wisconsin residents. The Department of Justice, acting as Special Prosecutor for Milwaukee County, has filed felony charges against Maria Miles, Kevin Clancy, Michael Henderson, Herbert Gunka, and Suzanne Gunka, all alleging election fraud arising out of the November 4, 2008, Presidential Election. “The integrity of elections is dependent upon citizens and officials insisting they be conducted lawfully. Wisconsin’s citizens should not have to wonder whether their vote has been negated or diminished by illegally cast ballots,” Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen said.
Sounds like a grandstand play to me. We all know there's no voter fraud -- it just doesn't happen, as social justice centers at top-flight law schools remind us. This must be a misunderstanding or something. And what does this have to do with ACORN anyway?

According to the criminal complaints, Miles and Clancy served as Special Registration Deputies (“SRD”) for the City of Milwaukee in advance of the 2008 Presidential Election. Each worked for the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (“ACORN”). Miles and Clancy are each charged with the felony offense of Falsely Procuring Voter Registration as Party to a Crime. The complaint alleges that Miles and Clancy submitted multiple voter registration applications for the same individuals, and also were part of a scheme in which they and other SRDs registered each other to vote multiple times in order to meet voter registration quotas imposed by ACORN.
Really? Can't be. Must be some trumped up thing. This Van Hollen guy can't be serious about this.

Henderson is charged with one count of Voting by a Disqualified Person and one count of Providing False Information to Election Officials, both felonies. The complaint alleges that Henderson registered to vote at the polls on November 4, 2008, thereby certifying that he was a qualified elector. It also alleges that he then cast a ballot. At that time, Henderson was on an active period of probation for felony convictions from Rock County. A felon on an active period of supervision for a felony offense is prohibited by state law from voting in any election.
Now, I lived in Rock County, Wisconsin for six years in the 1980s and I know how things are there. That's not possible. There were never any felons in Rock County. It must be a mistake.

Herbert and Suzanne Gunka are each charged with the felony offense of Double Voting. The complaint alleges that they each voted in the November 2008 election by casting absentee ballots before the election. The complaint also alleges that after casting absentee ballots, they each voted in person at their polling place on election day.
But that doesn't happen. There is no voter fraud, as reputable online journals like Slate assure us. This must be some Republican plot to keep the poor and needy from exercising their franchise.

So what is the deal here, anyway? What is Van Hollen's excuse for this sort of reckless behavior? The complaint against the ACORN employees, Miles and Clancy, is here, in a PDF format. The invaluable Ed Morrissey has compiled some of the key information:


The Miles-Clancy complaint has some interesting allegations, which will undoubtedly create problems for ACORN in the future. According to Maria Miles, ACORN required employees to register five people in a six-hour period. Over the course of a week, that requirement gradually increased to 20 new registrants in a six-hour period. If they failed to meet their goals on any one day, they would get docked an hour’s pay. If they failed to meet that goal three days in a row, ACORN would fire them.
Meet your quota or get fired? Are we sure of that? ACORN exists to help the needy. This sounds like something out of Glengarry Glen Ross. Coffee is for closers, after all. But that can't be right, can it? Organizations that help the needy would never behave that way. And of course it couldn't be like that. It was worse. Let Morrissey explain:


So instead of getting fired, ACORN workers began registering each other. Not only did that protect their jobs, but one of them began having sex with the supervisor in order to keep from getting fired.
Registering each other? That's a handy euphemism for Topic A. But that can't be right. Again, from the complaint:


Miles indicated that at one point, Gabriele Robinson began sleeping with their supervisor, Edward Williams. Miles stated she would go to Robinson’s residence and hang out for the day. She stated at the end of the day, Williams signed off as though they had turned in their 20 signatures for that day, giving them their pay. Miles stated that she and Robinson did this at least once a week, and that they received payments for those days when they did not turn in registrations because Robinson was sleeping with Williams.

Miles also advised the agents that the individuals would travel in groups and, if and individual registered a citizen to vote, the other SRDs would tell the citizen, “It doesn’t hurt if you sign this one also.” Thus, multiple SRDs recorded a signature from the same person. Miles stated that they were “all hoodlums” working for ACORN and they all had criminal histories, and that they were going to “do whatever they had to do” to be able to gain their money at the end of the day.
Sometimes people have to "do whatever they had to do." After all, coffee is for closers. And if it requires registering each other, hey -- what are you gonna do?

This is all a novel version of helping the needy. But one still has to doubt the veracity of the complaint, which must be a dirty trick from a bitter Republican. Well, one problem with that -- Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen, a fellow with a name that is almost redolent of Gilded Age perfidy, is a Democrat.*

*Update: I got that last part wrong. As it turns out, Van Hollen is that rarest of rare birds, a Republican Attorney General. So our valued commenter's theory might be right. Except for one thing -- the prosecutors Van Hollen is working with in Milwaukee County aren't Republicans. And one of the lead prosecutors tells an interesting story here:

Milwaukee police officers sat on their hands for months last year instead of investigating possible voter fraud cases from the 2008 general election.

It's an incredible claim, but it's coming from a credible source:

Assistant District Attorney Bruce Landgraf, the Milwaukee County prosecutor responsible for overseeing campaign and election issues.

"Honestly, the Milwaukee Police Department largely ignored your double voter (and other) referrals received in January 2009 for the first six months of 2009," Landgraf wrote in an e-mail to a city elections official on Jan. 26.

Speaking with unguarded candor, the veteran prosecutor said in his note that MPD's tardy response had a major impact. The cases involve voters who may have cast more than one ballot, felons who may have voted illegally and other cases of possible election fraud.

"Sadly, several probable cases of genuine voter fraud were harmed by that delay," Landgraf wrote in an e-mail obtained through an open records request.

The assistant district attorney was even more pessimistic about the investigation of more than 500 individuals who registered to vote on election day but whose addresses could not be confirmed later by postcard.

"I do not expect them to ever get to the Address Cards," he said of the Milwaukee cops.

George Will has been writing a national news column for about 35 years now. If you assume that he writes twice a week and that each column averages about 800 words, that means he's written, conservatively, 3 million words. And all this is aside from his bi-weekly column for Newsweek, his various baseball books and the thousands of words he's uttered as a fixture on the Sunday chat shows, which have probably added a few million more words to the total.

You could conceivably ignore every word Will has written or spoken in that 35-year career and still celebrate him for the following exchange he had yesterday with Robert Reich:

ROBERT REICH, AMERICAN PROSPECT: The health insurers are not, George, you said they’re popular and everybody likes their health insurer. They like their doctor. They hate their health insurer. And health insurance is going up in terms of rates 20, 30, 40, 50 percent in many states. In fact, Goldman Sachs just this past week has said to its many of its investors, “Invest in some insurance companies because they don’t have competition, and they have, are exhibiting huge profits.” That is money directly out of the pockets of Americans.

GEORGE WILL, ABC: A, you say they have huge profits. As you know, confiscate all the profits of all the health insurance companies, with those profits you could finance our healthcare for 48 hours. What you do for the next 363 days I don’t know. Second, you say there’s not enough competition? Fine, let them compete in a national market across state lines.

REICH: Yes, let them compete across state lines, fine. But not a race to the bottom. Set minimum federal standards because we’ve seen over and over again that the recipients of health insurance don’t know what they are buying very often. Until there are common standards, minimal standards, then people are going to be taken. And that is what’s happened over and over again.

WILL: There you have the premise of this legislation and the core of today’s liberalism: the American people are such dopes they can’t be counted upon to buy their own insurance.
Emphasis mine. Those 30 words indeed sum up liberalism and the liberal impulse -- the overweening need to protect people from their own dopiness. You aren't competent to make such decisions, so Robert Reich is duty-bound to make them for you.

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One of my best childhood friends is a hard-core lefty. I remember a time, many years ago, when I met him in Milwaukee for a night of bar-hopping. I had brought along another friend of mine, a college friend that my childhood friend did not know well. After the bars closed that evening, we decided to go get a little late night nosh and visited the Marquette University-area Real Chili, a true Milwaukee institution. My college friend had not been there before and before he could place an order he needed to make a trip down the hall, if you know what I mean. My childhood friend, filled with the certainty that he knew what my college friend ought to eat, placed an order for my friend and then told him what he was having, despite my warning that my college friend wouldn't appreciate his effort. As I expected, my college friend took umbrage and I had to stop the two from engaging in a fistfight in the restaurant.

There is an impulse in many lefties to do things like that, to place an order because they know better. It animates their push to enact Obamacare, to install a cap and trade regulatory scheme to protect us from our own exhalation, to create federal laws regarding the installation of pool drains. Even if there is an existing set of regulators and regulations in place, it may not be sufficient. There must be ever more power concentrated among those who know better. It is the reason that a valued commenter on this blog wrote the following the other day:

The Democrat agenda is about helping those in need, Mr. D - ACORN is a great example of this. Whereas Conservative Republicans (with that I mean literally the politicians and the media, not you personally, or actually any of the Republicans in my life) are about supporting the people who keep the needy people needy - the agenda to destroy ACORN is a great example of that.I'm going to assume the commenter is serious in believing that. Another valued commenter offered the following riposte:

the relationship tween the democrats and 'the needy' is akin to smokers' relatiosnhip to r j reynolds.Leaving the typos aside, who has the better argument? Consider what Robert Reich believes, then draw your own conclusions. I trust you to do that.

I laughed my brains out watching this BBC piece about “Fulla”, the highly successful Moslem competitor to the Barbie Doll. No, not about the doll itself – I mean, cool and all.  Yaaay free enterprise! The yuks came from the BBC’s video viewer. I’ll put the spoiler below the jump. Per This Is Spinal Tap, the volume control on [...]

From an email of the Freedom Foundation of Minnesota:
Metro Transit has set a goal of 897,000 riders in 2010. Monthly ridership goals begin at 45,000 in January, climbing to 71,600 in June and ramping up to 102,000 in November. In the first three full months of operation, ridership has averaged around 45,000.

Officials estimate passenger fares will only cover an estimated 21% of Northstar’s $16.8 million 2010 operating budget, requiring taxpayers to subsidize the difference. For every $14 round trip ticket purchased between Big Lake and Minneapolis, taxpayers kick in an operating subsidy of $29.66 per ticket to keep the trains running. Total operating cost per round trip: $43.66, based on Metro Transit’s operating $16.8 million operating budget and projection of 897,000 riders.

Yet the taxpayers’ ticket to ride on Northstar is far higher when you take into account the amortized $317 million capital costs - a combination of federal, state, and local funds – that it took to build the line. Using a standard federal government formula, Northstar’s capital costs come to $25.3 million annually.

Thus, the true taxpayer cost of operating Northstar is about $42 million annually: $16.8 million in operating costs and $25.3 million in capital costs.While I won't quibble the data -- I haven't checked every one of their figures -- let's take it as correct. Let's also assume that some of those 45,000 people are substituting Northstar for their cars. Certainly for some it's greater value than for others, and their benefits should be accounted. And the benefit of less congested roads and less maintenance needed therein should be counted. Do we think this will account for the entire amount? As I often say about cost-benefit analysis: We usually can measure the costs pretty well but we measure the benefits pretty poorly. It will be little more than a SWAG to get the benefits. I do know this press release doesn't get all the benefits written down yet.

I still would argue that if the elasticity of demand for Northstar riding is sufficiently high, we should lower the price of the ticket. Would FFM agree? I'll have to get them on the air some day to find out.

Just realized that this coming Saturday, March 13th will be an action packed day. At noon, you have the Kill The Bill rally at the State Capitol. But very likely at the same time you also have the much anticipated Northern Alliance Radio Network First Team interview with one Karl Rove. Yes, the political mastermind/evil genius/talking-point distributor himself will be sitting down with Brian and Chadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03781053410876242483noreply@blogger.com

More reason to suspect that we're unlikely to see a robust jobs recovery anytime soon comes from an article about employers and consumers asking Who will blink first?: Therein lies the standoff that helps explain the weakness of the recovery and the depth of the jobs crisis. Each side--employers on one, consumers on the other--is waiting for the other to spend more. Until then, the recovery will Chadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03781053410876242483noreply@blogger.com

Minnesota Majority is organizing a rally this Saturday at noon on the steps of the State Capitol in St. Paul to call on Congress to Kill The Bill: Even though every major poll clearly shows that a supermajority of the American people oppose the current health care "reform" bill, Nancy Pelosi is planning to jam the bill through Congress with a vote scheduled for March 18.If you care about Chadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03781053410876242483noreply@blogger.com