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...Let's hope that pop's fetish for uniform perfect pitch will fade, even if the spread of Auto-Tune shows no signs of slowing. A $99 version for home musicians was released in November 2007, and T-Pain and Auto-Tune's parent company are finishing work on an iPhone app. "It's gonna be real cool," says T-Pain. "Basically, you can add Auto-Tune to your voice and send it to your friends and put it on the Web. You'll be able to sound just like me." Asked if that might render him no longer unique...
Disturbingly, the one area in which the U.S. has absolutely no influence is the security of Pakistan's nukes. The military won't let the U.S. anywhere near the arsenal. So the only way to avoid the nightmare of nuclear weapons in the hands of extremists is to trust in the Pakistani military's safeguards--and pray that Zardari and Kayani get serious about eliminating the extremists...
...stimulus package will explode the debt--so they want to make George W. Bush's debt-exploding tax cuts permanent. They say Democratic spending plans are full of pork--then they propose an extra $24 billion for the Army Corps of Engineers, the federal equivalent of Oscar Mayer. Let's just say their idea bank could use a bailout...
...enough lard to provide grist for refuseniks. Criticism of the stimulus measure, along with the withdrawal of two Obama appointees who have had tax problems, has put the White House on the defensive. On Feb. 3, Obama summoned network-television anchors to Washington for prized Oval Office interviews and let it be known that he had hectored Democrats to strip pork out of the package; that sound bite was overshadowed by Obama's concession that he had "screwed up" in the Tom Daschle nomination. By the next day, the tax break for filmmakers had vanished, along with plans to subsidize...
...first" provisions to prioritize repairs to highways, levees and other infrastructure over new construction, which would create more jobs while reducing future federal obligations. We do need to rescue states to prevent them from raising taxes and firing workers, but just as it was crazy to let bailed-out banks and automakers spend our money however they pleased, it's also crazy to give carte blanche to bailed-out states. But the Senate summary noted that "funds are distributed whenever possible through existing formulas and programs," a polite way of saying reforms are not welcome here...