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Enjoyed a plate of frog legs an Atlantic salmon entree with a scotch at Hugo’s Frog bar this week. You would never know in Chicago there was a recession by the amount of people in the restaurants.

GO WHITE SOX'S

I wonder why President Obama isn't convening a nationally televised press conference to announce that he's adopting Bush's indefinite detention policy?

Glad to get the dinner updates: pizza, frog legs, salmon, with top-level jazz... great.

I mowed the lawn last night with one hand (an hour job with my push mower), and then ate cold beans out of the can. But I am not jealous of your guys' dinners, beans are awesome.

My week has been video editing, I am not good at it and it has been a real comedy routine. I can relate to Zoy's comment about emerging from a zombie state, been working on the video until after midnight (2 AM some nights) for the entire week. When I finally go to sleep, I dream about editing video. Trying to keep up with my regular job during work hours, was getting real close to just sitting there drooling on myself. (Which is more uncommon than you might think)

I wanted to give something to the 39 guys on my soccer team at our awards picnic tomorrow so I edited around an hour of highlights of the season out of 1020 minutes of game video, representing 13 of the 19 games the guys played. Those guys are awesome, they deserve this.

Began burning final DVD copies and discovered that the video editing software had effective clipped all of my chosen clips, and I had over 100 clips. Literally the clips would end with a person just ready to score a goal. I am not sure if I somehow compressed some of the clips by adding later clips or if the program trimmed the start and finish to smooth out the vid or transition between clips (maybe removing the hesitation that sometimes comes from the beginning of a clip?).

After some wailing and gnashing of teeth, I got into all the clips and added seconds to the front and back, then burned 50 copies of the DVD with a single burner.

Oh, yeah, and all of my video editing was done with a cast on my mouse hand due to a broken wrist.

I eventually got better at left-hand or two-handed mouse useage, but it made the job more interesting. I am quite certain the finished product will look like an amateur hack-job, but it will give the guys a little something to remember the season by.

Powerline is reporting that the Cap n' Tax bill passed by the House last night is without a version for Congress to read. It seems Pelosi was so hell bent on pushing a bill through, addendums, re-writes and sections never available for review were passed anyway as a bill. Is this really what the dems want as a party. The Republicans were far from perfect when they ran Congress but for one of the more important bills to be debated in the last 50 years to be treated like a cheap whore to be hustled out the back in the morning is reprehensible at best. I'm sure moderate democrats hoped for better with Pelosi but they’re seeing her true colors with this bill.

For those Democrats and eight Republicans who voted for this bill; God help you in 2010.

I'm glad Billy Mays is dead. I hated his annoying commercials.

"Billy Mays here for new Oxi-clean pearly gate cleaner. Is your salvation tarnished ? Your eternity looking a bit dingy ? Make your ever after shine with new Oxi-clean pearly gate cleaner!

Yes folks, try it today and we'll throw in a package of new 'Angel-brite'. Keep those wings heavenly white and smelling as fresh as day one in the garden of Eden. Order now!"

Now could someone please whack the Sham Wow guy too? And the Geico lizzard voice guy. And the Cavemen. And everyone at the f-ing Head-On factory.

Just an observation. I find each and every one of Egg's (usually Christian-hating) posts to be twice as annoying as anything Billy Mays ever produced.

But I wish him no harm.

People like Egg don't appreciate the joy of Billy Mays.... he was almost as mesmerizing as Bob Ross. Those who complain of Billy didn't watch his informercials the way they were meant to be viewed... naked and strung out. It'll make your soul feel oxi-cleaned. That being said... where are our 24-hour a day tributes to BIlly Mays??

Despite being in total disagreement on the Mays, I'm TOTALLY with you on the caveman... and add that goofy "money I could be saving with Geico" shit... I've had Geico, and had they spent as much time on customer service as they do on marketing and advertising... they'd have a gold star and skinny stamp of approval... but they don't, so screw them and their cave dwelling... uh.... ways

(Wes, that US loss created bald spots on the side of my head... true hairpull-inducing anger)

Wes, i was unable to watch the game, but it sounds like he US did a masterful job of gaining a lead on Brazil.

A win would have been great, but trying to contain Brazil for any length of time is a tall order.

It sure looks like Tim Howard will get some of the publicity that he has deserved for a long time. As an old amateur keeper (30 years ago) and a coach, I love watching good goalie play. One story I read said he faced an average of a shot-on-frame every two minutes in the second half.

I saw a short video about Tim Howard a couple years ago, he sounds like a quality individual as a person as well being a gifted keeper, so I hope his success brings some publicity to a good potential role model for young players to observe.

Well said. Wish I’d said that.

The opposition to real health reform boils down to two lines of attack:
1) the government will spend too much money and bankrupt us, or
2) the government will spend too little money and ration our care.

As has many times been pointed, the US spends more per capita on health than anywhere—way more, unsustainably way more, and getting, as a proportion of our total economy, larger every year.

Now we know why American health insurance costs more every year, yet continues getting suckier: it’s characterized by nearly complete market failure.

Rush dials the nuttery up to “eleven.”

Our healthcare costs 'per capita' are higher than other counties because darn it for some reason we Americans like anesthesia, CAT scans and MRI's. Rich nations healthcare is always more expensive than a Belgium or Canada due to the medical options available that add cost. Under Obama's plan options will be evaluated for necessity and determined whether the government will pay for it or it rationed by availability.

The below account from a birth at a Canadian hospital courtesy NRO gives a hint of what is to become of American healthcare:

"Despite attempts to summon help by partner Mark Schouls, who was pushing a nurse-alert button with increasing frequency as Lachapelle's contractions became more intense, the two delivered their new son, Kristophe, entirely on their own. Both nurses were hard at work" in the pre-natal waiting area where Lachapelle had been placed. She was sharing a room with two other women with at-risk pregnancies."

Two nurses for the whole maternity ward? Get this story out in front f new mothers and see how long they support "Obamacare."

I'll put Tom down for "Option 2."