The Last Big Question: Will Health Care Reform Be Paid For By The Rich or the Middle Class?

There’s only one big remaining issue on health care reform: how to pay for it. The House wants a 5.4 percent surtax on couples earning at least $1 million in annual income. The Senate wants a 40 percent excise tax on employer-provided “Cadillac plans.” The Senate will win on this unless the public discovers that a large portion of the so-called Cadillacs are really middle-class Chevys, expensive not because they deliver more benefits but because they have higher costs...... (cont.)

Earlier this summer I remarked to Ms. Jimmer that I thought,we were having a mild hurricane season because the Gulf Stream had cooled and wasn’t allowing the killer storms to propagate. I went on to say that I thought that if that theory held that we would be in for a brutal Winter.

She just nodded in that way that she does that lets me know that she was totally disinterested in in my line of reasoning and that I should shut up so that she can continue watching  “What Not to Wear".  So I did. And she did.

Vindication!

We all seem to be struggling a really brutal Winter. Over the last week Orlando has had a memorable string of sub-freezing nights and down right cold days. Now there is a wet cold front coming our way that holds the potential for snow flurries over the next couple days. Not that there hasn’t been really cold weather here in the past. I personally remember 4 or 5 snow events here in my life and have one hell of a story to tell about the 1989 Christmas Freeze that singlehandedly destroyed the Central and North Florida citrus industry.

Read more about the cold here

and here (This one gets kinda technical)

For balance I stumbled across this possible bit of nonsense.

Or is it?

I recommend that you read this: The Problem With Music by Steve Albini