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What would be the fastest way for the government to inject money into the economy?

Could it possibly be to not take the money away from us in the first place?

Tax cuts are the fastest way to get money into the economy. Anybody who tells you different is a) an economist, b) lying to you, and/or c) lying to you because they want to take your money to buy your vote by giving some of it back to you. Don't fall for it.

This list has been stolen from Jimmy Moore, the Livin' La Vida Low Carb guy (whose link makes it a 51 Low Carb Blogs list).

1. HEALTHY FELLOW
2. DIABETES HEALTH TALK
3. GO HEALTHY GO FIT
4. HANNAH SUTTER
5. WORKOUT OR DIE TRYING
6. THE BODY TRANSFORMER
7. REAL FOOD AND MORE
8. KATE HARDING’S SHAPELY PROSE
9. TOTAL JENN MAKEOVER
10. SUSAN ALLPORT
11. A DIET EVOLUTION
12. MEATYOGI’S WEBLOG
13. FIT AND HEALTHY
14. WEIGHTY MATTERS AND STRAIGHT TALK
15. FAT FREE MIND
16. BALANCED EATING AND EXERCISE
17. BIG EASY ON LOW-CARB
18. LOW-CARB INFO AND RECIPES FOR LONG-TERM SUCCESS
19. THE LOWCARBIST
20. THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF REV. HAGGISMACJEDI
21. POLAR BEAR DESCENDING
22. THAT HEALTH RULES
23. LOW-CARB SOUTH AFRICA
24. LASER ROCKET ARM
25. THE CYCLE BROKEN
26. RANDOM THOUGHTS AND TWISTED THREADS
27. LITTLE BY LITTLE
28. MOM2DM
29. THEORY TO PRACTICE
30. SON OF GROK
31. GETTING A LIFE
32. NUTURING HOPE
33. KELLY THE KITCHEN KOP
34. CHEESESLAVE
35. IMPACK FITNESS
36. MY DAILY WELLNESS TIP
37. STAN HERETIC
38. ANDY’S BLOG
39. LYNN’S LOW-CARB LIFESTYLE
40. VADIM’S UNIVERSE
41. ERIKA’S LOW-CARB MENUS
42. SYBILIZED LIVING MENUS
43. NEWVISION’S TIME CAPSULE
44. A DAY IN THE LIFE OF A LOW CARBER
45. THE CARDIO-FREE ZONE
46. DIABETES TOO
47. THE WOWEE ZOWEE MENU BLOG
48. FOOD BLOG S’COOL
49. DAWN’S DREAM
50. WHAT SARA EATS

I got me some reading to do.

The 2009 Circle Hawaii Cruise - Holland America Zaandam, January 5-21, 2009

Text by Snookums, Pictures by Filbert

Part Ten

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January 18 (Sunday, Day 14, At sea)

Filbert woke up, showered and ate breakfast before Snookums even woke up. Dad went to the Veterans Get-Together. Mom and Judy went to their invitation-only suite lunch buffet and enjoyed it very much. (Dad ate at the taco bar and the grill chef helped him carry his tray.) Snookums and Filbert ate lunch with Eva and Stanley for 2 ½ hours before going to the 30-minute “How to Host a Hawaiian Party” event. We didn’t learn much but did learn that the proper way to cut a pineapple takes four days. (Shave the bottom off, put the pineapple on a towel on the counter for three days. Twist the top off and turn it upside down for another day. Cut and serve.)

Sunset on the 19th

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The 2009 Circle Hawaii Cruise - Holland America Zaandam, January 5-21, 2009

Text by Snookums, Pictures by Filbert

Part Nine

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January 15 (Thursday, Day 11, Hilo, Hawaii, continued)

Filbert spent most of the early evening on the verandah listening to his radio. He heard a Honolulu radio station telling of the University of Hawaii-Honolulu’s closure on Friday due to high winds.

On the verandah

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The 2009 Circle Hawaii Cruise - Holland America Zaandam, January 5-21, 2009

Text by Snookums, Pictures by Filbert

Part Eight

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January 15 (Thursday, Day 11, Hilo, Hawaii)

Everyone was up at 6 AM for a light breakfast in Mom and Dad’s big cabin in order to see the Kilauea’s lava flows. It was spectacular in the dark. With binoculars you could easily see the volcanic eruption and the lava being ejected into the air. The air smelled of sulfur and the smoke was easily seen. The ship was not in the path of the smoke or else it probably would have been ashy and very stinky. The lava flows were out of sight by around 6:30 AM and everyone went back to bed prior to the 10 AM docking.

Kilauea lava flow pictures:

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The 2009 Circle Hawaii Cruise - Holland America Zaandam, January 5-21, 2009

Text by Snookums, Pictures by Filbert

Part Seven

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January 14 (Wednesday, Day 10, Honolulu, Oahu)

Filbert and Snookums woke at 7 AM and not to watch the docking process. Rather, we wanted to get off the ship as soon as it docked in order to use the free WiFi next door at Aloha Tower. We managed to do that and while we were sitting in the open air mall, a bird pooped on Filbert’s left shoulder. He said it’s supposed to be good luck and he was also happy it didn’t land on his keyboard. (So, I guess it was good luck!)

Aloha Tower

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Via the fabius maximus blog, a quote from Roger Pielke, Jr.:

Peer review is simply a cursory check on the plausibility of a study. It is not a rigorous replication and it is certainly not a stamp of correctness of results. Many studies get far more rigorous peer review on blogs after publication than in journals. I use our ownblog for the purpose of getting good review before publication for some of my work now, because the review on blogs is often far better and more rigorous than from journals. This is not an indictment of peer review or journals, just an open-eyed recognition of the realities.

Emphasis mine. Remember this when somebody throws the buzz-word "peer-reviewed" in with the equally specious buzzword "consensus" when talking about questions of science.

Our Kremulakian Overlords. Another in a series of brilliant missives from the ever-impish Iowahawk:

When our scientist first discovered your planet 6.3 Kremulakian moon-orbits ago, I argued before the High Admiralty that it would be a suitable world for conquest and colonization. The Inner Council accused me of madness! They said we Kremulaks could never survive in your stupid planet's hostile hot temperatures. They said our nostrils would mutate and explode under your intense atmospheric pressures. They said that Hu-mans would never vote us into their control councils.

Fools! I wagered Supreme Overlord Gromfnorg-0 himself that not only would I survive, but that I would win quick election to your Earth Commerce and Energy committee -- without even using my visual cloaking device! Little did he know that I, Lord Waxulon-6, had been carefully monitoring your Earth-frequencies and Earth-internet and Earth-basic cable news, and had discovered the outpost which you Hu-Mans call "San Francisco." Needless to say, my little bet has paid off handsomely -- winning me over 6000 Kremulakian trading crystals.

Victory over you puny race was even easier than I anticipated. In fact, the only resistance I encountered was on the invasion-saucer voyage, when Pelosicon-8 and Obamulak-3 kept trying to recalibrate the music-frequencies. And the impudent weak-glanded Algor-11, who needed to make biowaste stops at every refueling station between here and the Antares subcluster.

I laugh, because otherwise I'd cry. Or rant.

The 2009 Circle Hawaii Cruise - Holland America Zaandam, January 5-21, 2009

Text by Snookums, Pictures by Filbert

Part Six

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January 13 (Tuesday, Day 9, Lahaina, Maui)

Today started with a bang. Actually it started with six short blasts of the ship’s horn around 5 AM!! Filbert woke up a few seconds prior to the ship’s horn since his sleep apnea machine lost power. He realized that the ship had no power and that’s when the ship’s horn went off. The captain came on the PA a few minutes later (yes, a few minutes – someone should have come on the PA within seconds of the six short blasts!) and said that we were without power and that he would keep us informed. About 15 minutes later he came on again to say that there was no fire anywhere and that they were still looking into the cause of the power loss. Around 15 minutes later he came on the PA and announced that the engineers knew the problem and were fixing it. Finally the power came back around 7 AM and the captain said that we would get to Maui around one hour late.

Calm sea, dead ship

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The 2009 Circle Hawaii Cruise - Holland America Zaandam, January 5-21, 2009

Text by Snookums, Pictures by Filbert

Part Five

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January 12 (Monday, Day 8, Nawiliwili, Kauai)

Today dawned bright and sunny and a perfect day for using the minivan we rented. Filbert and I took the rental car shuttle from the pier to the airport and got the car and then came back to the pier and picked up the other three. Everyone had their bottles of water bottles and Dad had his black coffee from McDonald’s so the adventure could start. It was 9:30 AM.

The plan was to drive north on 56 and then west on 560 until it dead-ended at pretty much due north Kauai. Yep, you can not drive around the island of Kauai because there are no roads on the Na Pali coast. Our first “detour” was Lydgate State Park. We didn’t get out but drove around its small parking area and two roads and saw a nice beach with people camping on it.

Our first real stop was at the Kealia Scenic Overlook. We stayed there for a good thirty minutes and not only enjoyed the great ocean view, but managed to see several pods of whales in the distance as well as a pod of 20 or 30 dolphins feeding on a huge school of fish. The dolphins were so busy eating that they didn’t bother performing any dolphin “tricks” for us, but it was still a neat thing to see. We also saw four Hawaiian monk seals swimming very close to the edge of the water. It was a beautiful place to spend some time in the sun and after this stop, everyone put sunscreen on for the rest of the day.

At the scenic overlook

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