The Other McCain

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It Looks Like The Debt Limit Increase Will Make The CR Fracas Look Like Beanbag

by Smitty Keith Hennessy has a detailed post, from which I’ll mooch his bullet points: First, a temporary continuing resolution has a hard deadline, while a debt limit increase does not. Second, defaulting on a debt obligation is potentially far more serious than a temporary government shutdown. Third, a freestanding debt limit increase bill doesn’t […]

Oh Sure, Right After I Got Wrecked Converting The Traditional IRA To A Roth

by Smitty (via Insty) Mrs. The Other Smitty and I this year listened to the financial adviser and converted the modest Traditional IRA to a Roth. By making the optimal choice on what to do with the sudden profit, we managed not to get completely destroyed on income tax. The amount of money in question […]

Sexy Asian Farmhouse Antiques

by Smitty Fish Fear Me has a picture of a folding sign in his neighborhood that is right off of Engrish.com. Sort of brought the mighty Tap to mind: Maybe it’s too subtle for some, but mocking the over-sexed nature of rock’n’roll by trying to find innuendo in common agricultural objects is, to my twisted […]

Sweet, Sweet Quantitative Easing

by Smitty There is something special about nihilistic joy. You spot doom on the horizon. You track it. Doom comes in, at constant bearing and decreasing range, despite every possible maneuver to avoid it. And the doom is so huge as to cause the people in charge to loop in stage one of the Kübler-Ross […]

Is Steven Crowder Taking Estrogen?

by Smitty I suppose he doesn’t owe anyone an explanation for this sort of behavior: I’m generally in the ‘fan’ column where Crowder is concerned. Furthermore, I shouldn’t get too judgmental before understanding the context. And I’ve taken any number of affectionate swipes at Stacy McCain here in the blog. Keeps the place lively. Yet […]

Failure Is The New Success

by Smitty Just a Conservative Girl brings this ad: Update: linked by DaveC.

Half A Century In Space

by Smitty (via Digg) Mashable has a nifty graphic showing major space vehicles over the last 50 years. It was 50 years ago when people first flew in space. Here’s an infographic that shows you the spacecraft humans have flown to reach that great void over the past half-century. With just two flights of the […]

Icelanders, For Some Reason, Not Interested In Getting Bent Over

by Smitty Icelandic banks like Icesave were wrecked in the 2008 economic fracas. The Dutch and the Brits had dropped $5 billion into Icesave, which also died. So the British and Dutch governments bailed out their citizens, and then tried to get the government of Iceland to cut a deal with the governments to repay […]

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