From the good doctor at Hot Air, Maybe this time…

The difference between promised benefits and expected revenues for Social Security and Medicare amounts to about $107 trillion dollars, which Doug Bandow of the Cato Institute points out is double the annual Gross Domestic Product of the entire world. The most strident opponent of the New Deal would never have dreamed of predicting this level of cost overrun. Name any government program that has been around for more than five years, and the odds are good it costs at least triple what its opponents originally said it would cost.

Doc Zero, speaking of the many and frequent short-comings of the many and frequent federal government programs: “Maybe this time, Americans will insist their Senators kill this deranged health-care scheme before it gets signed into law… instead of taking risks on a government that has never failed to disappoint them.”

Yeah…maybe.

On the order of a “dog bites man” story: Dem Bill Owens Takes 1 Hour to Break 4 Campaign Promises.

The surprising thing was how quickly Owens played “gotcha!” with the electorate which sent him to Washington only four days ago. MEMO to BIll Owens: there’s another election less than 12 months from today.

Today’s college football marquee match-ups: Saturday Morning Splurge.

Heading the list:
LSU vs. Alabama.
Right behind:
Ohio State vs. Penn State.
Of course, many fans’ own college and/or university and today’s opponent is the most important game on the schedule Saturday.

The Fourth Kind Versus Fire in the Sky: “Actual Events”, Hoaxes, or Hollywood Hype?.
DBKP’s LBG dissects the new movie to see if the movie lives up to it’s billing as “true events”.
THIS WRITER’S OPINION: The film’s a load of hype.

Read why.

23% Believe in Ghosts, Do You?
All 23% must be watching television because there are enough ‘ghost’ shows to fuel an entire network.