Crazy work week doing forecasts and budgets, glad to have a night away from the laptop. Bunch of stuff happening out there:

Look, I don’t know how well – or even if – President Obama’s stimulus package that went into law last year on this date has made that much of a difference. I doubt not even his economic team does. So the Prez does himself an incredible disservice when, as he did today, he uses ridiculous platitudes like, “There has never been a program of this scale, moved at this speed, that has been enacted as effectively and as transparently as the recovery act.” The fact he can say such things with a straight face diminshes both and his Presidency. Look, people know the difference between the usual political hyperbole and flat-out bullshit. And when it comes to the latter, he’s off the charts.

So Tiger Woods is going to come out of hiding this Friday, huh? To read a statement without taking questions. I don’t know, I don’t see what would be wrong with inviting a few carefully-chosen golf writers to ask him tough questions in a respectful forum on, say, the Golf Channel or ESPN, where he has a chance to speak honestly and at length. Doing something like the wonderful “Studio 42 With Bob Costas” on the MLB Network, I think, would do him a world of good. By avoiding questions, all that’s going to do is delay the zoo for another day. And that day will come, believe me…

Can we all agree now that the whole man-made global warming thing was nothing more than a hoax of monumental proportions propagated by a bunch of self-serving zealots interested not in science, but in pushing their own anti-capitalist, anti-free market agenda, knowing it would be swallowed wholeheartedly by the tax-and-spend liberal elites of the world. Mark my words: today it’s just a trickle of corporations and financiers and states backing away from their prior commitments; soon it will be a tidal wave, leaving only the most in-denial zealots who simply can’t bring themselves to believe their lives and their cause was nothing more than a flimsy house of cards built on rank dishonesty, corruption, and lies. Science, indeed.

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Pool temp: 56 degrees