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Blogs I’ve Been Following This Week
I’ve been on vacation most of this week, enjoying some time off and kickin’ it with my posse. Meanwhile, my decision to hire lame duck Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as a blog consultant is really working out great. Her tips on how to field dress a moose for under $5 are amazing – watch for my post on this in the near future.
In the mean time, here’s what caught my brief attention span this past week…
Money Help for Christians – With two kids ages 12 and 9, I am always looking to gain additional insight that can help me teach my kids to become financially literate as soon as possible. This week Craig had a great piece on financial parenting that is definitely worth taking a look at. If you don’t have kids, you may still want to read the piece if only to learn what a toea is. And, no, that is not a typo.
Canadian Personal Finance Blog – Most of my regular readers know by now that when given the choice of spending a little time somewhere in the fresh air and wide open spaces of this big beautiful planet of ours, or sitting on a nice comfy couch with a bag of potato chips, a cold frosty one, and a big screen hi-definition television, I’ll always choose the latter. So it’s no surprise that I instantly gravitated over to Big Cajun Man’s site to see what he had to say about today’s TV trends.
Early Retirement Extreme – I was interested to see Jacob’s piece on what bloggers should be paid for their services. Based on Jason’s traffic, he calculated that his salary for blogging at ERE should be $375,000. Fair enough. Using his same handy dandy formula for my blog, I determined that my blogger salary should be 72 cents. (Note to self: Reevaluate Ms. Palin’s consultant pay and benefits package as soon as possible.)
Credits and Debits
Credit: Convicted con artist and scumbag financier Bernard Madoff started his 150-year prison sentence this week. One-hundred fifty years! Using the same accounting tricks Madoff used on his victims, the Federal Bureau of Prisons has determined that Madoff will have to serve 2487 years before he is finally eligible for parole.
Debit: The U.S. House of Representatives released Tuesday a 1,000-page bill that would make health care a universal right. The plan is estimated to cost $1,500,000,000,000 over the next ten years. As I feared, the Obamunists continue to push reckless socialist policies that will eventually run this country into the ground. We really do live in a Bizarro world when the majority of people believe that the solution for making something more efficient and affordable is to put it in the hands of the government.
Debit: America’s own version of the old Soviet rag Pravda, The New York Times, echoes the Obamunists’ stated goal of Universal Health Care, saying that it will “broadly expand health coverage to the more than 40 million Americans without insurance.” Of course, this widely quoted, but dubious, figure seems to overlook an inconvenient truth: there are millions of people that really should be excluded from the tally like illegal aliens, and Americans that can afford their own insurance but choose not to have it. When taking that into account, the number of uninsured drops dramatically.
The Way-Back Machine: Past Posts You May Have Missed
From February 2009: (When you’re a newbie, “Way-Back” is a relative term, folks)
No, I Won’t Get Over It: Obama’s Mortgage Bailout Plan Stinks – Well, it does. Here’s why. And, yes, I was having a bad day…
Don’t Feel Guilty Tipping Your Servers 15% – This post is also a great lesson on how to quickly alienate a loyal reader. I’m sorry but I do not buy in to the claim that the tipping standard for servers is now 20 percent. When, and why, exactly did this increase? The standard is based upon a percentage and, therefore, should be immune from increases due to inflation. Did Obama change this rule too when I wasn’t paying attention?
Update: My Shameless RSS Experiment — Week 5
We’re now into week five of My Shameless RSS Experiment. I got one new subscriber this week. At this rate I should reach my 100-subscriber goal about the same time Bernie Madoff gets out of prison! 
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[...] Len Penzo says, “America’s own version of the old Soviet rag Pravda, The New York Times, echoes the Obamunists’ stated goal of Universal Health Care, saying that it will “broadly expand health coverage to the more than 40 million Americans without insurance.” Of course, this widely quoted, but dubious, figure seems to overlook an inconvenient truth: there are millions of people that really should be excluded from the tally like illegal aliens, and Americans that can afford their own insurance but choose not to have it. When taking that into account, the number of uninsured drops dramatically.” [...]