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August 19, 2012
Overnight Open Thread (8-19-2012)Less pain and blood in the urine = a pretty good Sunday. Bad Idea Jeans - 2012 Edition Hey Let's Have a National Maximum Wage A modest proposal from Gawker's Hamilton Nolan: Let's have a maximum annual income of, oh, $5 million, pegged to inflation. All income above that would be taxed at 99 percent. Our precious national sports stars, celebrities, and corporate executives could still be fabulously wealthy. The daydreaming poor could still have a nice big number about which to hopelessly dream. Five million dollars a year. Five million! Anyone with $5 million can invest it conservatively enough to earn 5 percent a year and still be making $250K per year without lifting a finger. In other words, $5 million provides you with the means to live as a member of the one percent without ever touching the principal. It's everything that any reasonable person could ask for, financially speaking. Hey Let's Impose a 75% Tax on 'the Rich' That's the plan of new French president, François Hollande, to make the rich pay their 'fair share'. The call to Vincent Grandil's Paris law firm began like many others that have rolled in recently. On the line was the well-paid chief executive of one of France's most profitable companies, and he was feeling nervous. Unsurprisingly there's now an exodus of French companies and executives to London. Hey Let's Nationalize Facebook This time from Philip Howard of Slate: Over the last several years, Facebook has become a public good and an important social resource. But as a company, it is behaving badly, and long term, that may cost it.
When You've Lost the $1 Newrag Demo.... And note that most of the claims Joe made during his infamous 'I have a higher IQ than you' rant weren't even true. The 'Solyndra' as a Unit of Measurement for Wasted Government Money Which really helps put everything in perspective: What gave me the idea was something in a posting by Moe Lane on Romney's trip to Jerusalem, where he wrote: "President Obama did best, with his ever-so-sudden $70 million funding of Israeli missile defense (that's about .14 solyndras*)". So, how about the $535 million in Solyndra loan guarantees be rechristened as equaling one "solyndra"? This way, the bridge to nowhere would have cost three-quarters of a solyndra ($398 million), the direct Defense Department costs of the Iraq war were 1,416 solyndras, annual farm subsidies are 43 solyndras, the annual budget of the Commerce Department is 15 solyndras, and so on. Unless someone else claims it Moe Lane deserves all the credit for this one. British company BCB invented The Wall Breaker, a non-explosive, compressed air cannon which fires standard plastic water cooler drums to breach walls, gates and doors for rapid quick entry. It can be fired every 10 to 15 seconds. The water jugs can be filled with water, sand, or other materials. Okay but I'd like to see its effect on a real structural wall before I buy one. "We didn't know what 90 percent of the switches did" The US has long had an entire squadron dedicated to flying potential enemy aircraft including pretty much every model of the MiG. "In 1985 we had 26 MiGs -- MiG-21s and MiG-23s. We had had MiG-17s originally but phased them out early, and by the end of the program we still had more MiG-21s than anything else. On the MiG-21: "It had no gas - a point-defense fighter. Don't Click This If You Don't Want To Feel Old A veritable time capsule of 80's cheesy goodness. Also includes an exclusive with teen heart-throb, Bryan Cranston. Weekly AoSHQ Commenter Standings Top 10 commenters: Top 10 sockpuppeteers: The group. Yeah. Where it's at - the Twitter Tonight's post brought to you by a very Maetenloch Christmas list: My grandmother died a few months ago and so my mother has been going through her scrapbooks and found this. I'm guessing this was from when I was 12 or 13 years old - still very much a geek but starting to care about impressing girls. This was from the period when I discovered the family typewriter and began sending out funny memos and 'newsletters' to friends and family - kinda an early analog version of blogging. Apparently my grandmother thought my entirely reasonable and helpful list was funny enough that she saved it all these years. Notice: Posted by permission of AceCorp LLC. Please e-mail overnight open thread tips to maetenloch at gmail. Otherwise send tips to Ace. | Recent Comments
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