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More on the Handout Plan

CBS’ article on this convoluted mess is very good. The breakout articles on the actual points of the bill as well as a comparison between the Senate and House versions are also invaluable for seeing just how FUBAR things are and why we’ll be paying this shit off for decades.

Why are you still here? Clicky click.

My first impressions:
– Credits for buying a car? Really? So buying a NEW car when you can’t pay your bills is a good idea? This is “Buy American” incentives for the auto industry. Didn’t they just get billions of our money to save themselves?

– $4.6 billion for fossil fuel research and development? Oh, yah, right that “CLEAN” coal that Southern Company is promoting… PORK.

– $116.5 billion for education? And this helps out the economy how, exactly? If there are no jobs, then having a BA really doesn’t matter, does it?

– $870 million to combat flu. What? ::shakes head::

Sadly, the differences between the House and Senate bills are not significant.

Bend over, America! Get out the LUBE, you’re gonna need it.

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Wow! Top 15%!

According to website.grader.com, misangela.com is in the top 15% of ALL sites on the web. I know the numbers are so huge that this rank is practically useless (rank: 4,635,145), but still! It’s fun to say, “Why, yes, my site is in the top 15% of sites viewed on the web!”

And I’m in the top 1.5% of blogs! W00t! (Which would be Blog Rank 978,650.)

The Grader had much bitching about other elements of this site (total score: 68), but it’s really not designed for blogs, it’s designed for business sites. It is fun to let it grade your site, though, just to get some esoteric numbers to consider. :-)

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Marx Foods

This site not only offers good high end specialty items, they also host contests and have a really great recipe collection. I missed the comfort food recipe contest back in November, sadly, but I plan to do the next one. Golden Chili won the comfort food challenge and it sounds fabulous.

Great people at Marx Foods. Check them out!

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Found pic

I was looking through the myriad random photos I’ve got laying around on my Mac and found this one date stamped Feb 21 2004, but it must be before Jan 16, because Dickens died Fri Jan 16 04. I believe it’s the very last pic I have of Dickens and it’s the only pic of all four varmints together. Missy is at the top (noon), then DJ at 3, Dickens at 5 and Bernadette at 9.

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Missy was the newcomer. She’d been lurking around the apartment for several months and wormed her way into my heart. When we moved, I just couldn’t leave her behind. Dickens was very ill by this point, which Missy used as an argument that I really would need another cat. She was right.

The cats did not like Missy, of course, because she was new and she’s a diva. But they were so freaked out by the new place that they all put aside their petty differences and slept in the bed together as well as at night with us. YES, it was a tight fit! LOL

This didn’t last long, once they got acclimated, they dispersed to their previous alliances – but I did think it was awfully cute when they all put up with each other in the name of “OMG, where the hell are we???”

Finding this has made me a bit melancholy, but I’m still glad I found it. I