REVIEWING THE REVIEWERS: A roundup of book reviews from all over.

JENNIFER RUBIN: Obama’s Centrism Could Drive the GOP Out of Business. “The president-elect may end up pleasing conservatives more than McCain would have.”

MORE ON THE SAGA OF Barack Obama and his Blackberry.

JOE THE PLUMBER meets Chairman Mao in Gaza.

SHANNON LOVE: “California has followed the grim path of the Great Lakes states. As I wrote before, those states were once the industrial dynamo for the entire Earth, yet they destroyed that enormous economic dominance by political policies hostile to economic creativity. Likewise, California had a golden era as an economic and cultural dynamo. Well up until the late 1980s California was the place to go to make it big. People moved from other states to California. Now, internal migration has reversed. California looks less like a dreamland and more like basket case waiting to happen.”

RALLYING RESISTANCE to the antivaccine crusade. Some related thoughts of mine are here.

BLOG STANDS UP FOR laid-off employees.

IN THE MAIL: From Dr. Michael Ozner, The Great American Heart Hoax: Lifesaving Advice Your Doctor Should Tell You About Heart Disease Prevention (But Probably Never Will).

CHRIS DODD, DOING WHAT HE DOES:

Thanks to Sen. Christopher Dodd, Rep. Barney Frank and others, the lending industry spent years issuing mortgages to millions of Americans who had no hope of repaying. Sen. Dodd and Rep. Frank believe homeownership is a right unfettered by income or credit history, and over time, they were instrumental in forcing the industry to lend to some of the least creditworthy Americans.

As everyone knows, the results were disastrous. The housing bubble they helped create and inflate has burst, driving the economy into recession, the lending industry into chaos and millions of Americans into foreclosure, bankruptcy or both. (But at least Sen. Dodd got his millions in campaign cash from the financial industry and special rates on his mortgages from Countrywide Financial.)

Lesson learned? Don’t be silly. In December, GMAC got $5 billion from the government’s $17.9 billion bailout of the domestic auto industry, which Sen. Dodd supported, and immediately lowered its lending standards. No longer would buyers need a credit rating of 700 or higher. Now, people qualify with scores as low as 621, which is 2 points above “poor” and 102 points below America’s median. As columnist George Will put it, GMAC is using taxpayers’ dollars (more accurately, money borrowed against tax receipts far into the future) to issue subprime loans.

Subprime got us into this mess, and subprime will get us out! Er, well, possibly. I doubt it, though.

STEPHEN GREEN: Is Time Rooting For Israel’s Defeat?

But the real story is in the comments: “Stephen,you are beating a dead horse…I picked up a copy of Time a few days ago…light as a feather.” And thinner than a Macbook Air . . . .

HMM: AP: Clinton acted on concerns of husband’s donors.

WITH ALL DELIBERATE SPEED: Obama’s Plan to Close Prison at Guantánamo May Take Year.

THE WHITE HOUSE PRESS CORPS: An Army of Jeff Gannons.

A DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE ON THE ECONOMY:

I’m sure they love calling it a Depression in Washington.

It’s sort of like my mother-in-law, who was a young single woman in New York City during World War II. While for many, World War II is remembered as a time of rationing, danger, death, or at least absent family members, my mother-in-law remembered it as a time when she had lots and lots of dates. (New York being full of young officers about to debark, or directing various war-related activities.) Really her golden era.

Likewise, though much of the country suffered during the Depression, for Washington, it was a time when complaints about taxes and regulation were discredited, other power centers were economically crippled, and legislators and executive officials ruled supreme. So I would expect that usage to thrive in Washington.

Related thoughts from Tim Noah.

TIN CUP OVERLOAD: William Beutler is tired of being asked for money, by everyone from Barack Obama to Wikipedia.

TRYING TO AVOID A COLD? Get more sleep.

SOLUM ON BARNETT ON LUND ON SCALIA.

ARGUING FOR TAX REFORM:

“The largest source of compliance burdens for taxpayers, and the IRS, is the overwhelming complexity of the tax code,” Olson writes. “The only meaningful way to reduce these burdens is to simplify the tax code enormously.”

It’s common sense and worth a read, but a few figures stand out:

* Americans spend 7.6 billion hours annually trying to figure out their federal taxes. Working eight-hour days, five days a week, 50 weeks a year, that’s the equivalent of 3.8 million full-time workers.
* At the average hourly wage of $27.54, that tax-preparation time amounts to $193 billion, or 14 percent of aggregate income tax receipts.
* A staggering 60 percent of individual taxpayers are so bewildered by the tax code that they hire outside preparers. An additional 22 percent buy computer software.

The bottom line: Paring the tax code’s 3.7 million words to something comprehensible would effectively return money to the taxpayer at no “cost” to the government. Individual taxpayers could do something else with their time, the small-business owner could concentrate on creating income, and the IRS (and, consequently, the taxpayer again) could spend less money on compliance and enforcement. Heck, taken all together, tax receipts from a simplified tax system might actually rise.

But if Obama and Congress still aren’t convinced after reading Olson’s report, they should consider the sorry case of one of their own: Even Rep. Charlie Rangel, chairman of the nation’s top tax-writing committee, can’t understand the basics of the tax code.

Well, I’m convinced.

MICKEY KAUS: “Facing an economic slowdown, possible deflation, declining readership and competition that gives away its product for free, the Los Angeles Times raises newsstand prices 50%.” Well, that’s thinking outside the box!

A STIMULUS PROPOSAL:

If the Government wants to stimulate the economy, then why not just declare a payroll tax holiday immediately?

It’s fast to turn on, fast to turn off once CPI ticks up, and you don’t have all these “is it really shovel ready” questions you have with fiscal stimulus.

People will save some of the tax cuts, but people need to pay down debt too. That’s why you keep it going until there is enough spending that it starts to show up in CPI.

And a critique:

The main problem with a payroll tax holiday is that it minimizes Congressional opportunities for graft and larding out goodies to their contributors. That makes it both wise and politically unfeasible, at least until we get a better class of congresscritter.

Uh oh. We’re screwed.

CHANGE: Obama to send 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan.

DON’T JUST SIT THERE: Go vote for Michael Totten.

VIDEO: Joe the Plumber the Reporter in Israel.

ROLAND BURRIS MONEY QUESTIONS: The soap opera continues.

UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE IN MASSACHUSETTS: A “disaster.”

A LOOK AT the new 2010 Toyota Prius.

NICK GILLESPIE: Remember Obama’s Pledge Not to Let Earmarks Get Into His Massive Stimulus Package?

FROM DAVID BERNSTEIN: Praise for The New York Times.

WELCOMING BONO TO THE PUNDITOCRACY with a big Bronx cheer.

ALTERNATIVE STIMULUS PROPOSALS: “Republicans are taking President-elect Obama at his word that he wants bipartisan input for the stimulus package.”

OH, GOODY: “Last week, Congress’s oversight panel for the TARP funds confirmed in a report that the Treasury Department essentially has no idea what banks have done with the astronomical sums they’ve been handed.”

ANDREW BREITBART: Is He Really That Crazy? Why Would Mickey Rourke Defend George W. Bush? “Hollywood needs more Mickey Rourkes. It’s just more interesting.”

CHANGE: Obama selects former Harvard classmate to head FCC. “U.S. President-elect Barack Obama has selected Julius Genachowski, a technology executive and former classmate from Harvard Law School, to lead the Federal Communications Commission, a Democratic source said on Monday. Genachowski served as chief counsel for former FCC Chairman Reed Hundt, the chairman under former President Bill Clinton, and held various positions at IAC/InterActiveCorp (IACI.O), as well as other technology posts. Genachowski, who has been advising Obama, had been considered the front-runner for the job.”

CALIFORNIA UPDATE: “The number of people leaving California for another state outstripped the number moving in from another state during the year ending on July 1, 2008. California lost a net total of 144,000 people during that period — more than any other state, according to census estimates. That is about equal to the population of Syracuse, N.Y. . . . With state government facing a $41.6 billion budget hole over 18 months, residents are bracing for higher taxes, cuts in education and postponed tax rebates. A multibillion-dollar plan to remake downtown Los Angeles has stalled, and office vacancy rates there and in San Diego and San Jose surpass the 10.2 percent national average.” It’s like the whole high-tax, high-regulation thing isn’t working for them.

WHEN DEMOCRACIES DECIVILIZE.

EUGENE VOLOKH on how mapping political contributions may discourage donations. If this was done to the other side, it would be McCarthyism . . . .

MICHAEL VS. MICHAEL: Michael Yon may sue Michael Moore.

TOM MAGUIRE: Obama Continues The ‘Torture’ Backpedaling. On the other hand there’s this: “Advisers to President-elect Barack Obama say one of his first duties in office will be to order the closing of the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay.” Not that these are entirely inconsistent . . . .

JON ENTINE: Think Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were a politicized financial disaster? Just wait until pension funds implode.

Funds worth trillions of dollars start to plummet in value. Political pressure to be “socially responsible” distorts the market decisions of government-related enterprises, leading to risky investments. Investors who once considered their retirements safely protectedwake up to a sinking feeling of uncertainty and gloom.

Sound like the great mortgage-fueled financial crisis of 2008? Sure. But it also describes a calamity likely to hit as soon as 2009. State, local, and private pension plans covering millions of government employees and union workers with “defined benefit” accounts are teetering on the brink of implosion, victims of both a sinking stock market and investment strategies influenced by political considerations. . . . Traditionally, public investments and union-based corporate pension funds were managed according to strict fiduciary principles designed to protect workers and taxpayers. For the most part they invested in safe government securities, such as bonds or U.S. Treasury bills. Professional managers oversaw the funds with little political interference.

But during the last 30 years, state pension funds began playing the market, putting their money into riskier and riskier securities—first stocks, corporate bonds, and foreign investments, then real estate, private equity firms, and hedge funds. Concurrently, baby boomers whose politics were forged in the 1960s and ’70s began using those pension funds to advance their social visions. Investments designed for the long-term welfare of retirees began to evolve into a political hammer. Some good occasionally came from the effort, as when companies were pushed to become more accountable in their practices. But advocacy groups often used their clout to direct money into pet social projects with dubious fiduciary prospects. Sometimes the money went to the very companies and financial instruments that, in the wake of the market meltdown, are now widely derided.

Read the whole thing, which, sadly, won’t come as a big surprise to InstaPundit readers.

UPDATE: A reader emails:

Thank you for another great article. I believe (as I suspect you do) the pending pension crisis will be worse for the country than subprime loans.

In fact, because of this, I have begun making changes to how my family leads our lives. Thanks to my hard work, we find ourselves in the top 5% of income earners. I expect our taxes to skyrocket when the day of reckoning arrives for public pensions (we both know payouts will not be cut). So, we have decided to stay in our house, which will be paid off when I hit 42, and we are socking away as much cash as we can. I have also downgraded the type of new car I am going to buy this year. I expect my cash flow to be greatly reduced by much higher taxes as we move into 2010 and beyond, and I want us to be ready. Atlas shrugged?

I have also decided to run for city council where we live. The Army of Davids needs to get off the sidelines and get into the game. Our elites have made such a mess it is time for all of them to go.

Any other folks out there thinking the same way?

COMING SOON: “Bacon: A Love Story.” Shockingly, not by John Scalzi.

WELL, DUH: “San Francisco’s surveillance cameras in high-crime areas do not prevent violent crime, according to a new study by researchers at the University of California.” Related thoughts here.

JAMES TARANTO’S Best of the Web is back from hiatus.

PROPUBLICA responds to Dave Kopel’s criticisms.

UPDATE: Kopel responds to the response.

THE EYECLOPS BIONICAM, which was getting a lot of pre-Christmas buzz, is now marked down sixty bucks to $19.99. For that price, I ordered one myself. I’m kind of jealous of what kids today get, but I console myself with the immortal words: “It’s never too late to have a happy childhood.”

Though for me, some people might say a more apt motto is: “You can’t always be young, but you can always be immature.”

UPDATE: Julie Cork emails:

Hi Glenn,

I noticed your post about the Eyeclops. I got one for Christmas this year, and while it’s lots of fun the focusing requires plenty of patience and a steady hand. Also, I’ve found that an extra light source is very helpful. On the remote chance you’re interested, I’ve been posting Eyeclops photos on my blog (juliecork.wordpress.com) this past week.

I hope you enjoy yours!

Well, I have a steady hand, anyway.

A WEIRD FIREARMS POLICY from the Nassau County District Attorney. Looking at the website, I see a “cash for guns” program.

TAXPROF: “Texas A&M faculty are protesting plans to give $2,500 - $10,000 bonuses to the Top 15% of faculty solely on the basis of student evaluations.”

FROM ED DRISCOLL, a camcorder buyer’s guide.

“WE DON’T EVEN BOTHER RAISING OUR HANDS ANY MORE:” Obama’s scripted news conferences.

I GUESS I PICKED A GOOD YEAR TO SKIP THE CONSUMER ELECTRONICS SHOW, as some people are saying it’s not what it used to be. But it could be worse: “Moving from gadget lust to lust gadgets, times are really grim for CE’s sister industry—porn. The Las Vegas Review Journal reports that the number of vendors dropped by 18 percent at the Adult Entertainment Expo (once part of CES and now running concurrently).” Hard times for gadgets and porn? What’s the world coming to?

RICK MORAN: Jack Bauer in a post-Bush world.

THIS LOOKS COOL: Kind of like an HD version of the Flip Video camera, only from Sony, and still under 200 bucks. The proliferation of these cheap cameras can only be a good thing for the blogosphere.

ENSURING SOCIAL PROGRESS by refusing to reproduce. Insert your own sarcastic comment here. (Via David Thompson). More from Cassy Fiano.

WHICH, AS I RECALL, WAS KIND OF A CHILLY YEAR: Sea Ice Ends Year at Same Level as 1979.

JAY ROSEN on Why the Internet Weakens the Authority of the Press.

FREE FINANCIAL ADVICE from Suze Orman.

BLACKBERRY PAIN strikes early.

PORKBUSTERS UPDATE: RELABELING EARMARKS to get around Obama’s no-earmarks rule. “They may not be called earmarks, but lawmakers are looking to write legislative formulas into the package to ensure that their districts share in the wealth and won’t simply be at the mercy of Washington’s bureaucracy or the nation’s governors. House Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-S.C.) is leading the effort, personally lobbying Obama, top Obama adviser David Axelrod and committee chairmen on the issue last week. Clyburn said numerous Members, particularly freshmen, are concerned that they could sign on to a massive package with nothing to show for their districts. . . . The Majority Whip said he doesn’t fault Obama for trying to eliminate earmarks from the bill. “I know the politics of all this. I just think they’re wrong about it,” he said, adding later, ‘I love earmarks.’”

So will Obama let them get away with this — making it plain that his no-earmark promise was bogus — or will he try to impose some discipline?

If he lets them get away with this, it’ll be fair to characterize the “stimulus” bill as a big porkfest and not much more. Pigs at the trough — with Barack Obama as Hog-Slopper-in-Chief. Not an auspicious beginning . . . .

MAKING INEXPENSIVE SOLAR CELLS MORE EFFICIENT, with nanotechnology.

PROFESSORS: As sexy as DJs and Personal Trainers!

IN THE MAIL: From Tony Blankley, American Grit: What It Will Take to Survive and Win in the 21st Century.

FROM MAURICE STUCKE, a call for new antitrust realism.

DAY 1 OF THE DETROIT AUTO SHOW: a wrapup.

FINDING A GUN LAW UNCONSTITUTIONAL as violating the Second Amendment.

ARE PRINCE HARRY’S CRITICS BEING culturally insensitive?

SOCIALIST TIES? Close enough to be worth airbrushing, anyway. I wouldn’t think this was something that needed hiding, but apparently those who know more, do . . . .

POLITICO: NYT reporter warns of one-term Obama. You wanna at least wait until he’s sworn in before that kind of speculation? Oh, who am I kidding . . . ?

RESPONDING TO A DEER SURPLUS: “For nine days in December, Knox County was one of the top deer-hunting destinations in the state. That’s just what biologists with the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency were hoping.” Heck, I see ‘em in my neighborhood all the time. And wild turkeys. That was unheard of just a few years ago. Somebody tell David Baron.

RICH PEOPLE VS. POLITICIANS:

Warren Buffett and Bill Gates, with about $60 billion in assets each, are America’s richest men. With all that money, what can they force us to do? Can they take our house to make room so that another person can build an auto dealership or a casino parking lot? Can they force us to pay money into the government-run retirement Ponzi scheme called Social Security? Can Buffett and Gates force us to bus our children to schools out of our neighborhood in the name of diversity? Unless they are granted power by politicians, rich people have little power to force us to do anything.

A GS-9, or a lowly municipal clerk, has far more life-and-death power over us. It’s they to whom we must turn to for permission to build a house, ply a trade, open a restaurant and myriad other activities. It’s government people, not rich people, who have the power to coerce and make our lives miserable. Coercive power goes a long way toward explaining political corruption.

Gov. Rod Blagojevich’s hawking of Barack Obama’s vacated U.S. Senate seat; Ways and Means Committee Chairman Charlie Rangel’s alleged tax-writing favors; former Rep. William Jefferson’s business bribes; and the Jack Abramoff scandal are mere pimples on the government corruption landscape. We can think of these and similar acts as jailable illegal corruption. They pale in comparison to what’s for all practical purposes the same thing, but simply legal corruption.

Read the whole thing.

HELPING HORSES AT HORSE HAVEN. My sister does a lot of work with this charity. Its website is here.

VIDEO: Joe the Plumber comes under Rocket Attack in Sderot.

Plus, questioning the press.

CHANGE YOU CAN BELIEVE IN: Former top Bush officials back Eric Holder.

JOE THE PLUMBER IN ISRAEL: Views both pro and con. I’d just say that the professionals who have been covering the mideast have set the bar for journalism pretty low . . . .

DID AMERICAN POLITICAL HISTORY begin in 2001?

15,000 MARCH AGAINST HAMAS in Marseilles. Well, good.

INDEED: “One might think that when the battle is between Israel on the one side, tacitly supported by the Palestinian Authority, Egypt, and Jordan, and Hamas on the other, supported by Iran and Hezbollah, one would at least hope for an Israeli victory, even if one is dubious about its prospects. But I get the feeling that for many, it’s more important that Israel, and the world, learn a lesson about the ‘limits of military force’ than that a violent, fanatical, backwards, illiberal, anti-Semitic terrorist organization be humbled defeated.” I’d rather see Hamas learn a lesson about the limits of terrorism, but that’s just me . . . .

A BAD REVIEW: “What would someone have to say on Meet the Press to prompt a follow-up question from David Gregory.”

“Or was Gregory patronizing black people?“

MICKEY KAUS: “Does the GOP Congressional leadership dare launch a fight over whether Davis-Bacon style wage schedules, beloved by organized labor, apply to various projects that use Obama’s stimulus funds?” I think they have to. The military term is “spoiling attack.” Plus this: “The incoming Obama team should actually want wages on stimulus projects to be a little below normal market wages, in order to nudge people to move into regular, non-stimulus private and public projects as the economy recovers, no? That was FDR’s policy for the WPA, though he had to break a strike to get it.”

GM ROPER: Today, I am a Jew.

A NEW plug-in car from Chrysler.

ORIGINALISM AND HELLER: Randy Barnett on Nelson Lund on Justice Scalia.

A LOOK AT the politics of Hamas in London.

TWO MORE REPORTS ON turning adult stem cells into pluripotent stem cells.

Plus, New Method Releases Adult Stem Cells From Bone Marrow.

DANIEL DREZNER: So much for “Bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb bomb Iran.”

SOME THOUGHTS ON pensions and taxes.

But hey, it could be worse. And will, if some people have their way . . . .

AN Obama Bubble?

MORE PROBLEMS for Eric Holder? Just remember, conservatives — Zoe Baird and Kimba Wood got knocked off during the appointment process, only to be replaced by . . . Janet Reno.

PRINCE HARRY: A “royal Walt Kowalski?”

I MIGHT BE A JEW! “Believe it or not, she thought I was a Jew because when we met I was holding a copy of Glenn Reynolds’ book An Army of Davids. No, this is not a joke.”

CHRIS DODD UPDATE: Dodd could face serious challenge in re-election bid.

Incumbent Democratic Sen. Christopher J. Dodd is up for re-election next year, and will likely face the stiffest challenge in his political career. This could prove to be as big — maybe bigger — than U.S. Sen. Joseph Lieberman’s 2006 re-election bid. . . .

Dodd’s popularity in the state has fallen as quickly and as sharply as the Dow Jones. His approval ratings are below 50 percent for the first time in his political career. And he still has to deal with the controversy surrounding the preferential treatment on two home mortgages he received. He’s promised to release all the documents related to the Countrywide VIP program once the Senate Ethics Committee completes its investigation.

Of course, there’s no actual reason for him to wait until then, except that he doesn’t want you to see them now. And this is fun:

In fact, there’s already a grassroots effort coming out of Woodbury called Dump Dodd 2010. They’ve registered with the Federal Elections Commission as a Political Action Committee, allowing them to raise money and contribute to a potential challenger; they’ve launched a Web page (www.dumpchrisdodd.com), and they’re hawking Dump Dodd buttons and bumper stickers. (The material on the Web page is not flattering or unbiased in its view of the senator. It’s slanted to cast the senator in the most unfavorable light possible — surprise.)

They’re also urging supporters to write letters to the editor to their local newspapers expressing their disappointment and disapproval of the senator — and mentioning the Web page in those letters — in an effort to recruit supporters for the movement.

It looks like another hard-fought Senate campaign is shaping up here in the land of steady habits.

Stay tuned.

THROWING ISRAEL to the wolves?

COURTESY OF JACK BAUER, a new form of torture.

HMM: Obama Says Recession Requires Scaling Back Promises.

IS OBAMA OFFERING a revival of Clintonism?

JOE THE PLUMBER TO FOREIGN REPORTERS: “You should be ashamed of yourselves.”

UPDATE: Video.

FROM MEGAN MCARDLE, a story that previews what government-run health care would be like . . . .

LIVE-BLOGGING the Golden Globes.

I’M SURE IT’S AT THE TOP OF BARACK’S PRIORITY LIST: Anne Hathaway Demands Explanation For Rick Warren.

CRITICISM OF CHARLIE RANGEL AND NANCY PELOSI:

Furthermore, Mrs. Pelosi has failed to keep her promise to have the House Ethics committee finish their probe by Jan. 3 into Rep. Charlie Rangel’s failure to report income taxes on a Caribbean villa, his usage of four rent controlled apartments in Harlem, his involvement with an offshore firm asking for tax exemptions, Mr. Rangel’s use of official House stationary to solicit funds for a school in his name and contributions from an oil company to the school. Mr. Rangel is also committee chair for the powerful House Ways and Means Committee in the new Congress, which makes the changes in the fairness rules circumspect.

In the meantime, Mrs. Pelosi has not asked Mr. Rangel to put down his gavel while a House Ethic’s subcommitte expands the investigation into his activities.

So much for ending the “culture of corruption.”

A SALE ON GARAGE-ORGANIZING STUFF. I’ve got the Gladiator workbench and cabinets. I always kind of wanted the “garage refrigerator,” but — not being Jay Leno — I don’t really have the garage to justify it. But it seems cool, somehow. I always wanted to put in the floor tile, too. . . .

UPDATE: On the garage refrigerator, reader Stan Beck writes: “Remember…..man’s rule #1 — the garage fridge is for beer ONLY! Except for refrigerated manly snacks such as beef jerky or chip dip.” A nice chardonnay is right out.

CAMERA ADVICE: A reader emails: “Can you recommend a decent point and shoot (fairly compact) digital camera? My budget is between $200-$250. I’ve been using my SONY HANDYCAM for still shots, etc. but that’s not really what it’s intended for. I’m not really a photo enthusiast and take many closeups (pictures of toys) as well as pictures of buildings and landscapes.”

There are so many good digital cameras in that range that it’s hard to go wrong. But they’re still selling the Canon Powershot SD770 for $159, and that seems like quite a deal to me, as I mentioned before.

UPDATE: Reader Michael Cummins writes to recommend this Samsung. I’ve never used a Samsung digital camera, but for $132 it seems hard to go wrong, and I like the fact that it has a wide-angle lens. With pocket cameras you find yourself wishing for more wide-angle more often than for more telephoto, at least in my experience.

ANOTHER UPDATE: Reader John Richardson emails: “I bought my Canon Powershot SD770 on Black Friday from Amazon. The price was the same $159 that you mentioned in today’s post. It is my first digital camera as my first love is still film. It is a sweet little camera. The best thing about it is the price. I was in Sam’s Club yesterday in Asheville and their price was $199. $40 bucks less than Sam’s Club is sweet and mine also included an extra 4GB SD card.”