Ho Hum

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FYI:  It's snowing... again. Really cool time-lapsed video of snow piling up during the last storm! [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMhUZAq5IxQ[/youtube]

Murtha the Victim of Medical Malpractice

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Now, our doctors in this country are well trained and heroic. But they also make mistakes. Indeed, if a doctor at the BETHESDA NAVAL STATION can make a mistake DURING A SURGERY ON A PREEMIMENT CONGRESSMAN, what are the chances that doctors across the land make mistakes of this magnitude every day on regular people like you and me?

Late Night Video — Rahm Emmanuel Apologizes

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The SNL version of Rahm Emmanue apologies, that is. This is likely NSFW, but strikes me as old school SNL -- taking a famous person's weaknesses, making them funny and using that the comment on a bigger picture. There is likely no chance that they could maintain this sharpness as a regular feature, but I liked this.

The Running of the Hypocrites

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Which is really the only name you can give the Federal government's budget season opened by the release of President Obama's budget blueprint last Tuesday. The plan calls for letting the BushCo tax cuts expire (except for people making less than $250K), eliminating the tax subsidies for the oil and gas industry, raising taxes on hedge fund managers; and it calls for investments in public education and college, domestic energy production, the beginning of a fund to finance health care for the uninsured. It is a pretty strong plan (I do have some reservations about some of the energy initiatives) that begins to retilt the playing field back towards the middle class.