HEH. BUT OF COURSE: Three states considering taxing electric cars to compensate for lost gas taxes. “Instead of taxing fuel to finance road infrastructure, a VMT tax system charges motorists based on their ‘road consumption,’ as measured by total miles traveled. VMT could be implemented via the use of GPS units, which records distance traveled and charges motorist accordingly.”
Archive for 2011
March 25, 2011
JOINED AT THE HIP TO OBAMA, G.E.’s Strategies Let It Avoid Taxes Altogether.
WASHINGTON POST: Anxiety Grows Over Japan’s Food And Water Supply.
BETTER LATE THAN NEVER: Administration to brief lawmakers on Libya.
JAPANESE SUPPLY CHAIN’S missing links.
HEH: “You know, that website that talks about airplanes, and ekranoplans, and tsunamis, and erotic male photography.” Shockingly, that doesn’t narrow things down as much as you’d think.
TRYING TO jog Nick Kristof’s memory.
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REPUBLICAN APPROPRIATORS STILL DON’T GET IT, and may face Tea Party primary opponents. They should.
“SMART DIPLOMACY” (CONT’D): Allies Are Split on Goal and Exit Strategy in Libya.
THEY TOLD ME IF I VOTED REPUBLICAN, we’d see the KKK breaking out all over. And they were right! “70-year-old John Paul Rogers wants to become the next mayor of Lake Wales, but critics say he could have a tough time bringing the town together because he’s a former member of Ku Klux Klan. . . . Voters will make the final decision when they cast their votes in the non-partisan mayoral race on April 5. Though party affiliation is not a factor in the race Rogers and Carter are both Democrats.”
But she’s politically reliable. My guess, however, is that they’re floating her name to draw fire and make the actual appointment — who will be just as politically reliable — seem better by comparison. So look closely when that’s announced.
CENSORSHIP at the Huffington Post.
REUTERS: Unlike Obama in Libya, Bush Was “Going It Alone” In Iraq. Well, except that he had a coalition twice as big. Really, Reuters just gets more pathetic.
MORE ON THE “kinetic military action” vs. “war” question.
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