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Guest BlogIt seems that my friend, Bill Husztek, a self-proclaimed conservative curmudgeon, has discovered the miracle of Obamacare. It has awakened the American press corps from a fifty-year coma... -- Jack Durish "For tis the sport to have the engineer Hoist with his own petard" – Hamlet Reading this morning’s Washington Post Editorial page, I had to rub my eyes and check the heading on the paper. Surely I thought someone was playing a joke upon me because there in bold print were two of the page’s three editorials in total opposition to every thing I know of the current Liberal programs. First, came "Ethanol takes a Hit – EPA policy change helps right an environmental and economic mistake." It opened with this,"ONCE TOUTED as a climate friendly renewable alternative to foreign oil, the corn-based liquid ethanol has been exposed as an environmental and economic mistake." Then,"Lured by federal subsidies, Mid-western farmers have devoted millions of acres to corn that might have otherwise been devoted to soil conservation or feed-grain production. Meanwhile, a `dead zone’ fed by fertilizer runoff spreads at the mouth of the Mississippi and production costs throughout the grain dependent U.S. food industry rise." I felt all my Conservative corpuscles swell in pleasure with this, "on Friday the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) delivered another policy defeat for ethanol - which is to say, a victory for common sense." Finally, I feasted on these closing statements: “In the case of ethanol subsidies the benefits do not outweigh the costs." And,"Indeed, the only flaw we can see in the EPA's announcement is that it doesn't go far enough." The second Editorial Title that caught my attention was this: "Liberalism gone awry". It was a delicious morning of reading these editorials in the Washington Post of all places. Is it possible that those people down there at that paper aren't in fact socialist wanna bees, but rather really Patriotic Americans with whom I tend to disagree? I shudder to think that, and yet... ? Please don’t let me wake up and find out it was all an April fools joke. You can read more of Bill's thoughts at Loomings of an Intemperate Mind
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JM Bob
11/19/2013 03:16:41 pm
Great headlines chosen there Jack. News pieced together really well and you covered the point about the zombie resurrection. Glad to see Obama care website is finally working out for people. The other stories are a bit over my head, although I do like my cereal. On that note I think its time to sleep, good nite Jack, thank you and everybody there in the USA.
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11/20/2013 03:48:35 am
Thanks for stopping by and commenting. The author of this post, Bill Husztek, does love finding irony in the news
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11/20/2013 04:28:39 am
The fun of living inside the beltway is the un-learning of everything that Society spent so many dollars teaching me in my youth.
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11/21/2013 06:34:52 pm
I admit, don't read the WashPo much [I'm a HuffPo kind of guy] but if Jeff Bezos has his way, brace yourself for a new and improved WashPo in the near future. News is cool again. I'm a big fan of the BBC daily podcast. I'm a fan Jack and keep up the great writing. I thik you might have the next Oliver Stone hit in your writing. ;/)
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11/22/2013 01:51:10 pm
You may be a fan of Bill Husztek. He wrote this posting. But I hope you're my fan, too. Thanks for stopping by and commenting and come back often.
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bill husztek
11/23/2013 03:36:21 am
Thankyou, very much.
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