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Subject: The $100 Bill

It's a slow day in a little East Texas town. The sun is beating down, and the streets are deserted. Times are tough, everybody is in debt, and everybody lives on credit.

On this particular day a rich tourist from back east is driving through town. He stops at the motel and lays a $100 bill on the desk saying he wants to inspect the rooms upstairs in order to pick one to spend the night.

As soon as the man walks upstairs, the owner grabs the bill and runs next door to pay his debt to the butcher. The butcher takes the $100 and runs down the street to retire his debt to the pig farmer. The pig farmer takes the $100 and heads off to pay his bill at the supplier of feed and fuel.. The guy at the Farmer's Co-op takes the $100 and runs to pay his debt to the local prostitute, who has also been facing hard times and has had to offer her "services" on credit. The hooker rushes to the hotel and pays off her room bill with the hotel owner. The hotel proprietor then places the $100 back on the counter so the rich traveler will not suspect anything.

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/internecine

I don't think I will often have a word of the day. Maybe I should have a "word of the moment"? One thing about hechtmail.com is we do not have internecine discussions. We barely have any discussion at all to the outside world.

This is the web site I got it from: http://www.sunrisesunset.com/calendar.asp?comb_city_info=Denver,%20Color... You can change the city with the link at the bottom.

It is a web calendar with the month's of February, 2010.

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/23592?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=f...

This is a really interesting article about chess and computers and not because it is about chess.

I think everyone interested in the future of man and computers will find it interesting

This is an original song. Performed by Robby G and written by Pete E and Robbie G. All rights reserved. Copyright 2010.

It seems to me odd that the leaders of the Senate don't allow the GOP to filibuster. It would appear they don't even want to entertain the option.

It seems cowardly to me. They don't need 60 votes. They need some courage.

“Any idiot can face a crisis, it is this day-to-day living that wears you out.” Anton Chekhov

http://www.thenation.com/blogs/notion/522881/sotu_as_national_rorschach_...

As I understand things, the Senate health care bill is more conservative than the House bill.

So, the House doesn’t want to pass the Senate bill because it is too conservative.

The Senate doesn’t want to make changes to the bill to make it more liberal because they think there bill is better and they don’t have the votes to make it more liberal.

So the House is left with a choice. They can either pass the Senate bill which is closer to the House bill than the status quo or they can not pass the Senate bill.

If they do the first then they get a lot closer to what they want than if they let the bill die.

Now, people are worried about reelection.

Can you imagine running against an incumbent who voted for a liberal bill and then got scared and didn’t vote for the slightly more conservative bill?

If you liked either bill then you would be mad at him for not passing either bill.

"To understand the State of the Union, we must look not only at where we are and where we’re going but where we’ve been. The situation at this time last year was truly ominous. [...] First, we must understand what’s happening at the moment to the economy. Our current problems are not the product of the recovery program that’s only just now getting under way, as some would have you believe; they are the inheritance of decades of tax and tax, and spend and spend. [...] The only alternative being offered to this economic program is a return to the policies that gave us a trillion-dollar debt, runaway inflation, runaway interest rates and unemployment," Ronald Reagan, in his first SOTU address.

Many newspapers are trying to make money off the net. This link: http://gatheringofthevibes.com/forum/showthread.php?t=32465 talks about how Newsday spent $4 million for a new web site that filtered some content for subscription only viewing. The news is not how they only got 35 users, it is who was able to get $4 million to do the web site?

Many people left comments on the above site. Some are interestingly about the New York Times. Worthy of 10 minute review.

"A skirt in a shirt" is another way of saying "I'm a woman trapped in man's body." I thought that up myself.

http://my.barackobama.com/page/content/fairelections/

If you want to dispute the Supreme Court's decision, sign up. Or you can just sit at home and mope.

HUEVOS RANCHEROS (Serves 2)
VEGETABLE OIL (Tbsp) 2
MEDIUM ONION (Count) 1
GARLIC CLOVE (Count) 1
JALEPENO PEPPER (Count) 1
DICED TOMATOES (14 - 16 oz. Can) 1
SALT (tsp) 0.25
CORN or FLOUR TORTILLAS (Count) 4
BUTTER or MARGARINE (Tbsp) 3
LARGE EGGS (Count) 4
SOUR CREAM (Tbsp) 2
CILANTRO (Tbsp) 1
MEDIUM AVOCADO (Count) 1
ALUMINUM FOIL

CHOP coarsely, one medium onion
CHOP finely, one garlic clove and one jalapeno chile
PREHEAT (toaster) oven to 350 degs
HEAT nonreactive two quart saucepan on stovetop
ADD 1 Tbsp oil
SAUTE onion, garlic, and jalapeno, stirring occasionally, for about five mins until onion is tender
STIR in one can (14 to 16 ozs.) of diced tomatoes
ADD 0.25 tsp salt
HEAT to boiling
REDUCE heat and simmer uncovered
WRAP four tortillas in foil, place in oven
MELT three Tbsp butter or margarine in skillet over medium heat
REDUCE heat to low and cook four eggs slowly, flipping once, until the whites are set and the yolks thicken but aren't hard, meanwhile chop one to two Tbsp of cilantro and slice an avocado
PLACE tortillas on plates
PLACE one egg on each tortilla
SPOON two Tbsp tomato sauce over each egg

http://funstufftosee.com/frogleaptest.html

Can you do it?

Yes, some of us over react, see the previous post about President Obama. Not just is that poster speculating, if the elections were held a week ago, they are not; but he also speculating that all judgment of good or bad ended a week ago. A far bigger concern should be The Supreme Court allowing elections to be bought and sold, to the point that people don't wake up. I have faith that they will and so does this weekend Keillor column.

I think it is a must read for those upset over current events.

Government is in the hands of realists and in the end we shall prevail.

http://www.kansascity.com/273/v-print/story/1701518.html

Dave:
As a loyal Marathon County Democrat I beg you to do the right thing. Vote yes on the Senate Health Care bill. You know there are hundreds of reasons not to, but we need your leadership to get this through the House.

I hope you saw this article in the NYTimes by Paul Krugman:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/22/opinion/22krugman.html?pagewanted=print

Please do the right thing.
AM Hecht
Op-Ed Columnist
Do the Right Thing
By PAUL KRUGMAN

A message to House Democrats: This is your moment of truth. You can do the right thing and pass the Senate health care bill. Or you can look for an easy way out, make excuses and fail the test of history.

Tuesday’s Republican victory in the Massachusetts special election means that Democrats can’t send a modified health care bill back to the Senate. That’s a shame because the bill that would have emerged from House-Senate negotiations would have been better than the bill the Senate has already passed. But the Senate bill is much, much better than nothing. And all that has to happen to make it law is for the House to pass the same bill, and send it to President Obama’s desk.

Albert Einstein is quoted as saying:

“Any fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius-and a lot of courage-to move in the opposite direction.”

http://thinkexist.com/quotation/any_fool_can_make_things_bigger-more_com...

Work, life and love is very complex. Is any one a genius, or even touched by one, to have the courage to move in the opposite direction?

I believe that if the elections were held this Tuesday that we would end up with something north of 300 Republicans in Congress. I am not sure of the current numbers but it would be a loss of about 120 seats which is twice as bad as 1994.

I am guessing that at least 6 Senate seats and maybe as many as 10 Senate seats would be lost. Obviously, Lieberman would switch sides and probably Ben Nelson would also switch sides. This would give the Republicans control of both Houses.

If things don't turn around by November, and I really don't expect things to get that much better, Obama will go down as the worst President in history.

http://www.drewlitton.com/drews-views/2010/01/17/mlk-day-a-way-to-remember/

While not usually the way I think of professional sports, it still exposes our weakness for them.

http://www.nytimes.com/external/readwriteweb/2009/09/16/16readwriteweb-5...

Is an article I found talking about security on Facebook. If you use Facebook, you can become a fan of NY Times Tech Talk. The site where I found the article.

I know the odds are basically ZERO that a single vote will make a difference today but the race in Massachusetts is worth voting.

Why? Am I being hypocritical?

Probably I am.

The main reason why a vote in a Senate race rarely matters is two-fold. First of all, the odds are against you changing the outcome of your race and, second of all, the odds are that it really doesn't make any difference whether the Democrats have 43 or 44 votes. It does make a difference at 50 and 60. This is one of the times where it makes a difference at 60.

So, normally you have an absurdly small number like 1 in 100,000 (of making a difference in a single race) multiplied by a small number like 1 in 10 being the important number like 60. Now, you know that this race does make the difference so, assuming my numbers are correct (which they aren't) then a vote in Massachusetts today is worth 10 times the vote in a normal Senate election. I also think Massachusetts is fairly close today.

BTW, I thought it was absurd a few days ago when the Democrat was at 90. I think it also absurd when the Democrat was at 17.7%. Too bad I didn't make both bets and take a sure 70 cent profit.

He is well know contributor to hechtmail.com! Happy birthday AM!

What else can I say???

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