BAR STOOL ECONOMICS

TEAM SHYDOG CHECKS OUT "BEVERLY"--THIRD OLDEST CACHE IN AMERICA

SHYDOG DOUBLE TROUBLE AT CHICAGO'S "BEAN" WITH NIKON D80 DIGITAL 35MM SLR

THAT'S PIGEION SHIT COMING OUT OF HIS MOUTH...

UNDER THE BEAN

NOT A GARMIN GPS GOT US TO THE GARMIN STORE--SEARS TOWER AT LEFT...

GROUND ZERO!

BUDDAMAN, SHYDOG, AND LEAD DOG IN THE BEAN...

LEAD DOG WITH BEVERLY LOG

CHRIS AND RICK AT BEAN

ME READING THE GEOCACHE LOG

PHOTO GALLERY FROM BAGO FIELD TRIP TO CHICAGO

It is 7:10 a.m. and 31.1 degrees. Patrick got up with me and went to bed with Junior.

Carmen Diaz and Diane Lane made all the other ladies at the Oscars look bad...

Had a draft PBR Saturday at BWW--still the finest Beer in the World...

Gators didn't lose since they didn't play. Go Vols! good job!!!!

February 10, 2008 -- 40 years ago, American and South Vietnamese forces crushed North Vietnam's Tet Offensive; a simultaneous military attack and guerrilla uprising aimed at seizing the northern provinces of South Vietnam. Yet the communists succeeded in turning military disaster into a propaganda victory. See Arthur Herman's new article in the Wall Street Journal, The Lies of Tet.

FROM THE BLOG, ONE YEAR AGO TODAY:

It is 8:38 a.m. and grey and 37.0 degrees F. and 25 knot wind. Patrick is sleeping at my feet on his afghan in front of the space heater. Last night an ice storm blew thru here. Sounded like a freakin' freight train (NOT a passenger train.) Ice was tinkling against the window panes. Pretty scary. Patrick was his usual log-self. We have six antique HUGE Elm trees around the house. The one in the back yard let go with a big limb sometime in the night. So I've got some hard labor ahead of me when it warms up a bit. Thank the Good Lord it didn't land on the roof. I rode in a 2000 Trans Am WS6 yesterday. Massive horsepower!!! Pewter in color. (Only 6,000 built; with corvette motor). Today's quote: "The essence of war is violence. Moderation in war is imbecility." --Lord Fisher

AND TWO YEARS AGO TODAY:

It's 7:44 p.m. and Junior just went into town "real quick" and Patrick is here with me.

Junior has been practicing with his new acoustic/electric guitar on the internet this afternoon. Mudbelly and I went on a long long hike in the woods.

At 10:00 a.m. the US Supreme Court issued a writ of certiori in a case involving the constitutionality of Partial Birth abortions. Several Appeals court circuits have blackballed it.

Looks like things are looking up for the anti infanticide crowd...

FROM THE INBOX:


Subject: Bar Stool Economics
>
>
> Suppose that every day, ten men go out for beer and the bill for all
> ten comes to $100. If they paid their bill the way we pay our taxes,
> it would go something like this:
>
> The first four men (the poorest) would pay nothing.
> The fifth would pay $1.
> The sixth would pay $3.
> The seventh would pay $7.
> The eighth would pay $12.
> The ninth would pay $18.
> The tenth man (the richest) would pay $59.
>
> So, that's wha t they decided to do.
>
> The ten men drank in the bar every day and seemed quite happy with
> the arrangement, until one day, the owner threw them a curve. "Since
> you are all such good customers," he said, "I'm going to reduce the
> cost of your daily beer by $20." Drinks for the ten now cost just $80.
>
> The group still wanted to pay their bill the way we pay our taxes so
> the first four men were unaffected. They would still drink for free.
> But what about the other six men - the paying customers? How could
> they divide the $20 windfall so that everyone would get his 'fair
> shar e?' They realized that $20 divided by six is $3.33. But if they
> subtracted that from everybody's share, then the fifth man and the
> sixth man would each end up being paid to drink his beer. So, the bar
> owner suggested that it would be fair to reduce each man's bill by
> roughly the same amount, and he proceeded to work out the amounts
> each should pay.
>
> And so:
> The fifth man, like the first four, now paid nothing (100% savings).
> The sixth now paid $2 instead of $3 (33%savings).
> The seventh now pay $5 instead of $7 (28%savings).
> The eighth now paid $9 instead of $12 (25% savings).
> The ninth now paid $14 instead of $18 (22% savings).
> The tenth now paid $49 instead of $59 (16% savings).
>
> Each of the six was better off than before. And the first four
> continued to drink for free. But once outside the restaurant, the men
> began to compare their savings.
>
> "I only got a dollar out of the $20,"declared the sixth man. He
> pointed to the t enth man," but he got $10!" "Yeah, that's right,"
> exclaimed the fifth man. "I only saved a dollar, too. It's unfair
> that he got ten times more than I!" "That's true!!" shouted the
> seventh man. "Why should he get $10 back when I got only two? The
> wealthy get all the breaks!" "Wait a minute," yelled the first four
> men in unison. "We didn't get anything at all. The system exploits the
> poor!"
>
> The nine men surrounded the tenth and beat him up.
>
> The next night the tenth man didn't show up for drinks, so the nine
> sat down and had beers without him. But when it came time to pay the
> bill, they discovered something important They didn't have enough
> money among all of them for even half of the bill!
>
> And that, ladies and gentlemen, journalists and college professors,
> is how our tax system works. The people who pay the highest taxes get
> the most benefit from a tax reduction. Tax them too much, attack them
> for being wealthy, and they j ust may not show up anymore. In fact,
> they might start drinking overseas where the atmosphere is somewhat
> friendlier.
>
> David R. Kamerschen, Ph.D.
> Professor of Economics
> University of Georgia
>
> For those who understand, no explanation is needed. For those who do > not understand, no explanation is possible.
>
GO GATORS!!!
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