Odds and ends, 3/24/08

So last week the Hillary Clinton campaign sent us a news release about all the wonderful stuff she wants to do for veterans. Not surprising, as she was going to be at the American Legion here in town that same day. So I read down the list and thought, wow, this is going to be expensive. So I called her campaign people to ask how she was going to pay for all that.

They didn't want to talk to me. They said to look at her Web site. I looked, and under veterans issues I found word for word the news release they e-mailed to me. I did a little looking around otherwise, and still found no mention of how she was going to pay for all this stuff.

So I e-mailed her campaign people and asked this question: "How much would these programs cost in a given year?"

So far, I have not received a response. And I do not expect one.

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Tomorrow I plan to post some photos of birds I have seen lately. Namely some crows at Huntington High School and some buzzards in Lawrence County, Ohio. I didn't want to get too close to the buzzards. For one thing, they might have flown away. For another, their primary means of self-defense is to vomit on intruders, and I can think of few things more disgusting than buzzard vomit.

Sorry if I offended anyone with that last paragraph.

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BusinessWeek.com had an article explaining why ExxonMobil isn't increasing production of oil, even though it is making money hand over fist doing so. It's a complicated read, but it has information on the international oil trade, such as details of development deals with exporting nations, that I had not read before.