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Um, excuse me, but when did it start?

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Just a footnote about the tax protests: the conservative group behind them has associated the name ‘Tea’ with them, and some people are referring to the protests as teabagging, which – if you don’t know what it means already – you might take a moment to check out, because it’s hilarious.

Even better is the Rachel Maddow report on it that Adam showed me:

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There are tax protests going on today, because the government is spending a god-awful amount of money – more god-awful than usual. Or maybe they’re because a group of people who are accustomed to getting their way aren’t getting their way after 8 years. I’m not going to defend or attack what our government is doing at this point, but there is a sentiment going around these tax protests that I feel the need to say something about.

“You can’t spend your way out of debt”

Really? REALLY? Because last I checked, that’s exactly how most companies operated – most companies, at the start, have no cash flow and require a loan or investment – which they spend – in order to keep going until they can build up cash flow and start making money. If that cannot work then I guess we haven’t had any successful businesses in the last couple of hundred years.
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Yahoo seems to have changed the layout of Yahoo Movies recently. I was looking at what was playing locally and saw this:

It sounds ominous. If I don’t sign in are they going to close The Nugget?

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Where local restaurants are going to offer food. And someone emails you to ask what restaurants will be there. But the mail bounces after several days because the mailbox is full.

So – the day of the event – you get a call asking what restaurants will be there. And you don’t know. I guess it doesn’t really matter, does it? Or just nobody cares. The caller mentions to you that he tried to email quite a while ago but the mailbox was full. And you say “Oh, yes, it probably is.”.

Maybe it’s just a New Hampshire/Vermont thing. This is, after all, the land where plumbers and electricians rarely answer their phones, return calls, or show up when they say they will. It used to be that they were really busy, but now they just don’t get around to it.

And, in the spirit of this new blog, I present to you: Toilet Bat.

And remember to always look before you sit! Or else you may be in for a nasty surprise!