A Lesson in “Equality”

Here is a fact you may not know, and about which you may not care but it is germane.
 
The four years at a service academy do not count for pay or retirement purposes – but the four years at ANY university with NROTC DO count. (Assuming an officer belonged to the NROTC and attended several [...]

Get a Rope!

There will be an upcoming ballot proposal for the so-called California Spending Cap.
Interestingly, the con position DOES NOT INCLUDE THE INFORMATION THAT PASSING THE SPENDING CAP WILL KEEP THE HIGH “TEMPORARY” TAXES IN PLACE AN EXTRA TWO YEARS! ($22 Billion EXTRA.)
(In error, in a previous post I said three years. I apologize.)
How did this happen [...]

I do dislike voting for the lesser of evils, and if you think that our current president is not driven by his own deeply held religious concepts, I believe you are wrong.
The difference between religion and government is that religion says you should be your brother’s keeper, and government says you must be your brother’s [...]

SOP To The Teacher’s Unions

The recently passed “Stimulus Bill” (the one that no one read) has an interesting hand grenade contained therein.

In the $100 billion for the Department of Education (try to find the word “education” in the Constitution), there is a clause forbidding a single dollar to be spent for private education.

That may effectively end a program that [...]

Sad

I always wanted to live in Europe for a few years.

Now I get to do so without traveling.

Why does this not please me?

Why Am I Not Surprised?

I am not surprised that the Obama family has selected as its White house pet, a “Portuguese Water Dog.”
The Europeanization of America continues.
We are France, with underarm deodorant.

Newspapers

Newspapers provide serendipity in news, while radio, TV and the Net are each, serial.
The eye can easily spot multiple subjects on a newspaper page, and prioritize the order of interest and reading, but until “news readers” like Sony and Amazon currently available can display a readable page at one time even electronics can’t easily compete.
A [...]

Octomom Syndrome

I have an objection to using public money for gang tattoo removal.
I know a very wealthy liberal who has donated such a machine for that exact purpose, and I applaud him for doing so but that is not stimulating an economy and has no call for federal tax money.
Somehow, gang members find the money for [...]

Gore Retreats

Finally, some good news on the AGW front.
 
Fearmonger Al Gore has removed a Disaster Graph from his roadshow slideshow, says the New York Times. http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/02/23/gore-pulls-slide-of-disaster-trends/
 
Read the article for yourself, but Gore was under pressure from scientists (finally!) to stop the fearmongering.
 
The NYTimes says, “The graph, which was added to his talk last year, came just [...]

So Much for Change

I wrote constantly before the election that Obama would change few of the Bush foreign policies. That prediction stands and has been confirmed – the changes are on the margin.
 
That does not mean that President Obama is a liar, although that is what the bush bashers would cry if the roles were reversed.
 
It is a [...]