Best opening sentence to a news report I’ve read in a long, long time:
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/jun/13/obama-administration-cut-access-federal-websites/
Awesome.
Jun 132011
Jun 072011
U.S. funding for future promises lags by trillions
Some people often complain that I blather on about politics when I should just stick with obscure bits of aerospace. Well… how The Hell is the United States supposed to have any kind of aerospace industry, let alone colonize the universe, when we have politically driven financial disasters like this???
Unless the US FedGuv gets spending under control – cut spending by 50%, for starters – the US is very soon going to be relegated to the “has-been” section of history.
Jun 062011
Anybody else catch Anthony Weiner’s press conference? Leaving aside the politics and the accusations… the press conference was just plain cringeworthy. When a politician screws up in an astonishingly embarassing act, lies about it and then gets caught, a “mea culpa” press conference is appropriate. But one where he drags it on for that long? Yikes.
Get up there, say “I done farked up,” give the bare factual details, appologize to those you’ve wronged… then *leave.*
Hopefully some energetic young go-getter in the press will bring Mark Foley to the next Weiner press conference. Heh.
May 202011
No, really.
Emergency Preparedness and Response: Zombie Apocalypse
If zombies did start roaming the streets, CDC would conduct an investigation much like any other disease outbreak. CDC would provide technical assistance to cities, states, or international partners dealing with a zombie infestation. This assistance might include consultation, lab testing and analysis, patient management and care, tracking of contacts, and infection control (including isolation and quarantine). It’s likely that an investigation of this scenario would seek to accomplish several goals: determine the cause of the illness, the source of the infection/virus/toxin, learn how it is transmitted and how readily it is spread, how to break the cycle of transmission and thus prevent further cases, and how patients can best be treated. Not only would scientists be working to identify the cause and cure of the zombie outbreak, but CDC and other federal agencies would send medical teams and first responders to help those in affected areas (I will be volunteering the young nameless disease detectives for the field work).
Gives useful tips about preparedness, such as planning evacuation routes, meeting places for families, what sort of supplies to have on hand. Mostly, though, the page serves as a lead-in to how to respond to other types of disasters such as earthquakes and floods.
Pfff. Yeah, like those could happen.
May 132011
Ye gods.
Court: No right to resist illegal cop entry into home
INDIANAPOLIS | Overturning a common law dating back to the English Magna Carta of 1215, the Indiana Supreme Court ruled Thursday that Hoosiers have no right to resist unlawful police entry into their homes.
In a 3-2 decision, Justice Steven David writing for the court said if a police officer wants to enter a home for any reason or no reason at all, a homeowner cannot do anything to block the officer’s entry.
Jumpin’ Jeebus! An American *always* has the right to resist an illegal act.
May 022011
I’ve not paid a whole lot of attention to the claims of the birther movement. Some of the early claims were intriguing, but the discovery of the Hawaiian newspaper birth announcements pretty much ended my interest. I’m willing to entertain a lot of ideas about leftists working to subvert the Constitution for nefarious ends (see: any gun control bill ever), but some decades long conspiracy to train some nobody baby of nobody parents to someday slime his way into the White House is way beyond believability.
That said, the recent release of Obamas birth certificate does have some oddities to it. The first, of course, is the timing: if it’s worth doing now, it was worth doing a few years ago, when the idea that Obama wasn’t born in the US first cropped up. And if he didn’t want to release it (for reasons that are murky at best), why release it at all? And why now, as opposed to, say, just before the 2012 election when it could be used to smack down a potential Trump run for President?
And then there’s this:
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I don’t know squat about Adobe Illustrator. Is what this guy talking about accurate? If so, there sure do seem to be some weirdnesses with the birth certificate that would seem to indicate that it’s a digital forgery.
And if it is… why? Seems to me if the White House went to the effort to fake up a birth certificate, they’d take an extra five minute to print out a high quality paper version of it, then scan that. Releasing a birth certificate that has easily discovered digital “fingerprints” is beyond lazy. So, what possible explanations would there be for this?
UPDATE: Check the comments for a plausible, indeed probable, explanation for why the text is on a separate layer from the background.
Apr 292011
http://english.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2011/04/29/2011042900595.html
Jimmy Carter Goes To Seoul and says:
one of the most important human rights is “to have food to eat and for South Korea and Americans, and others to deliberately withhold food aid for North Korean people… is indeed a human rights violation.”
Yeah. It’s our fault.
Apr 072011
See if this makes any sense to you (especially the woman who bald-face lies on camera).
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Apr 032011
Remember how leftist nutjob Jared Loughner only went and killed a Republican-appointed federal judge because of horrible, horrible hate speech from Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin, and how ever since then everybody has been all nice and civil? Keep that in mind as you read this:
NY Lawmakers Receive Threat Letter
Someone claiming to be a state employee sent an email to every member of the New York state legislature claiming that he was going to run a terrorism campaign against the state and its citizens. The reason? Because state governments aren’t genuflecting sufficiently to Unions.
Mar 272011
Take a gander at these articles and try to keep in mind that the Obama administration is the Most Transparentest Administration EVAR.