| Doomed to Repeat History | | 2008-06-09 23:00:00 | | At this moment, the Senate is debating a package of punitive measures against the major domestic oil companies, including a new windfall profits tax. We've been down this road before and to disastrous consequences.Twenty eight years ago, President Jimmy Carter sign into law the Crude Oil Windfall Profit Tax Act (P.L. 96-223). According to a 2006 report by Congressional Research Service economist Salvatore Lazzari:"The WPT had the effect of reducing the domestic supply of crude oil below what the supply would have been without the tax. This increased the demand for imported oil and made the United States more dependent upon foreign oil as compared with dependence without a WPT."In the tables below, Lazzari estimates the impact of the Act on domestic oil production and the increased reliance on foreign oil. Table 5. Estimated Reduction in Domestic Oil Production in Response to | | By: Tax Policy Blog | | |
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| Without Laughter, We Would All be Doomed | | 2008-05-02 19:27:41 | | I came across this video on YouTube that I just had to share with you all. It is an excellent housing bubble parody and will certainly put a smile on your face (hopefully anyway) and break the bleakness that has overwhelmed out housing market. Enjoy…. | | By: Florida Mortgage Report | | |
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| Is Entrecard doomed because of new pricing system? | | 2008-04-16 04:09:13 | | Here's something I read at "Affiliate Confession" that kinda brought a unique view to the floor about Entrecard this very evening.
"Is Entrecard doomed because of new pricing system?"
Entrecard is supposedly "an easy way to network with other blog owners." In other words, it's a traffic generating blog widget.
In the recent days, the credit pricing structure has been completely changed and is no longer based on how many cards are dropped on your blog, but solely based on how many advertisers have placed ads on your blog.
Continue reading... | | By: Princess Sabrina - Just memories... | | |
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| Why Massachusetts' health care plan is doomed to fail | | 2008-03-29 16:49:17 | | Romney thought he'd use the creation of a mandated health insurance plan for all uninsured residents to launch his bid for president. His campaign failed and the failure of the state plan may be only a couple of years behind. Even the lowest co-pays are out of reach of many, but if you don't choose a plan, you lose your state income tax refund. The Nation has a good breakdown of why this failure is inevitable.Atom
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| Further Proof That Society Is Doomed | | 2008-03-28 12:39:28 | | Yes, that red arrow is pointing at lower back tattoo stickers. In case you are one of those uptight parents that think your 12 year old daughter is to young for a real tramp stamp you can head down to your local Toys “R” Us and pick up a sticker to slap on her back. [...] | | By: Where the Boggs are Always Cold | | |
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| RIAA Doomed as EMI considers pulling out | | 2008-01-12 10:31:22 | | Of all the bright Public Relations ideas to come along in a while, EMI is questioning the value of music industry trade groups like IPFI and RIAA. This is good news for everyone who has been a victim either justly or unjustly of the two major enforcement arms of music and video media folks. Somewhere [...] | | By: techwag | | |
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| Operation Barbarossa - Doomed from the Start | | 2007-06-15 02:59:00 | | As the 66th anniversary of Nazi attack on the Soviet Union approaches, the blog is taking a look into history, and finding some facts which have not appeared in many Russian textbooks, or Western documentaries. A particular book by Geoffrey Megargee titled "War of Annihilation" is dedicated to the events of the year 1941 on the Eastern front; the author attempts to shed light on the true involvement of the German army's high command in the atrocities committed on the Eastern front, as many German generals have often shifted this blame toward the leadership of the Reich and the the heads of the SS.A brief segment of the book highlights the obvious miscalculations that the German military planning committed in the wake of the invasion. It is often accepted by many that the German army was invincible going into the Soviet Union, yet the level of preparation for the invasion in June of 1941 gave the Nazi machine little chance of a quick success, even before they met their foes. The result | | By: Russia\\\'s True Tales of Terra | | |
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| Leave Football Alone Mark; A New League is Doomed to Fail | | 2007-05-31 12:34:41 | | It’s been tried before and failed, and now if a group of men with more money then they know what to do with it try it again, mark it down - it will fail. If your not following, a report broke Wednesday that Dallas Mavs owner Mark Cuban and a group are looking into the shot at forming a new football league that would rival the NFL. The league would play their games on Friday nights, and would focus on players drafted lower than the second round.
Right off the bat, this possible league has failure written all over it. Never mind the fact that Friday night is, across the country, the night for high school football, but how about those players drafted lower than the second round that go on to solid NFL careers? Why in this day and age would a player pass up the shot to play in the NFL to jump to a league that looks more like something thrown together like a backyard game then a league that long run would succeed.
Cuban told the AP on Wednesday that “We think there is more deman | | By: NFL GridIron Gab | | |
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| We are all doomed. | | 2007-05-30 05:27:57 | | I go on Yahoo answers now and then to spread a little knowledge around. Then I read this:
What is that peice of music called?
it goes - dada da dadadadada dahhh dada da dahh
it’s clasical n well famous
I have no words. People, this is who’s going to be paying your social security one [...] | | By: Project-D | | |
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| May 15th Gas Boycott Doomed | | 2007-05-10 11:49:01 | | The last time I talked to my mom she asked me to blog about this and I neither agreed or argued because I knew that a one day boycott is as useless as disagreeing with mom.From MSNBC courtesy of The Rite Wing Technopagan (God luv 'em)"The real problem with this idea is that — as some versions of this e-mail helpfully suggest —these "boycotters" simply top off their tanks May 14 or wait to fill them up May 16. All that does is shift sales from one day to another. Any money “lost” from lower gasoline sales on May 15 will be made up with higher sales on the days before and after the “boycott.”"The only way to affect gas prices is to reduce consumption. As this has a side effect of reducing funds to countries that support terrorism and improving air quality it's an effort that is highly worthwhile.Since the coffee is still brewing I'm just going to copy and paste a post I made elsewhere on how to reduce gas consumption painlessly:gasbuddy.com tracks prices all over America o | | By: Dyre Portents | | |
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| I’m doomed | | 0000-00-00 00:00:00 | | When I have sold my car, I have signed another contract witch stated that if the car had hidden flaws I am obligated to pay the new owner the reparation costs. Now, the new owner has come to tell me that his driver airbag is missing. Now comes the big question: how do I know [...] | | By: Internet toughts | | |
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