I’m all for this idea:
President Bush will announce plans next week to establish a permanent human settlement on the moon and to set a goal of eventually sending Americans to Mars, administration sources said last night.
If I’m going to be taxed I’d certainly rather have the money go towards something like this instead of tobacco subsidies or misadventures in Iraq.
Via Kevin Drum who suspects the WMDs may have been hidden on the moon.
For you Wilie Nelson fans mousemusings has put up an MP3 of his new tune, Whatever Happened to Peace on Earth.
On the way home from a basketball game tonight I had the opportunity to spend a few minutes with Laura Ingraham who had this to say:
We need to take the country back from the elites!
Bush is an elite!
I wonder why it took her so long to figure this out.
Skimble quotes generously from this WSJ article and I give you just this little bit:
The program is supposed to encourage employers to retain prescription-drug coverage.
But companies are entitled to the subsidy regardless of how much of the cost they pick up themselves. As a result, it does nothing to halt the current rush by some employers to shift more costs to retirees.
In fact, benefits consultants are designing employer-sponsored prescription plans to save companies more money by unloading costs on their former workers without losing out on the new subsidy.
It makes me feel just so good to know that whatever part of my taxes is not going to support a Nevada swimming pool is going to help the bottom line of some government supported corporation.
Via Sisyphus Shrugged.
Rob Schapp, who posted litely in December, is back in fine form with a modest discussion of the latest trends in sexual modification and a prediction on some of the upcoming spam we will see.
Via Tim Dunlop.