I still won’t be staying away from the good stuff.
And I’ll continue to not worry about H1N1.
In fact, the current outbreak of the H1N1 virus, which emerged in San Diego and southern Mexico late last month, may not even do as much damage as the run-of-the-mill flu outbreaks that occur each winter without much fanfare.
… Then maybe I can load up on a whole lotta pork shoulder for cheap.
U.S. pork producers are finding that the name of the virus spreading from Mexico is affecting their business, prompting U.S. officials to argue for changing the name from swine flu.
At a news briefing, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano and Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack took pains to repeatedly refer to the flu as the “H1N1 virus.”
Pork, soybean and corn prices have fallen in the last two days…
And if someone could go ahead and cause beer and whiskey flu outbreaks, I’d be mighty appreciative.
Not surprisingly, the current folks in charge in Washington willing to throw good money at anything that might have some good regardless of how bad an idea it might be in its entirety. Among those things is high speed rail. To be fair, I think high speed rail is extremely neat. In a world of limitless resources, I’d demand that it exist to an extent in the US much more than it does. But resources are limited and I have yet to see a real justification for why it is actually good and necessary.
What really bothers me though, is that one of the justifications for high speed rail is that you can travel without having to “take your shoes off.” In other words, the justification for federal intervention in and funding of high speed rail is the oh-so-wonderful federal intervention in air travel.
Brilliant.
Beyond that, am I really supposed to believe that the sprawling TSA, the Transportation — not Air Travel — Security Administration is really not going find a reason to, um, how should I put this, uh, “secure transportation”, in this case rail, by making sure that we don’t have bombs in our shoes.
Maybe that last point deserves a “nevermind” because I can believe that the federal government would be willing to tax one form of transportation (cars) to subsidize some other form that proves over and over again that it can’t pay for itself (Amtrak).
From what I’ve read, the GM restructuring “plan” is to screw-over their bondholders and give themselves to the federal government. Double-U Tee Eff?
I hate GM more and more with every passing day.
Proving once again that language is no barrier, Congress (both sides of the aisle) and Obama are committed to increasing pay for volunteers.
Fortunately Obama has tasked his cabinet with finding $0.1 Billion, which will help to fund the “$5.7 billion national service bill”.
