Internationalism

The Obama administration recently abandoned the “ownership” of the internet, having invented this medium. They did so in the interest of internationalism, but there are many “unintended consequences.’
The first just appeared. When the US controlled domain names all domain names were in English.
The ICANN (International Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) has approved “non-Latin characters.” [...]

Decision Week

The Virginia, New Jersey, and now with the withdrawal of the New York official Republican from the Congressional race, that race will more clearly demonstrate an Obama referendum. This will be an interesting week to examine.
The Republican New York candidate (Dierdre Scozzafava) who withdrew was behind both the Democrat and the Conservative Party candidates – [...]

Hillary Gets it Right!

Filed under “At least she is honest”)
(Pakistani Daily Times)
“(Hillary) Clinton told senior Pakistani newspaper editors in Lahore, AFP reported. “The percentage of taxes on GDP (in Pakistan) is among the lowest in the world… We (the United States) tax everything that moves and doesn’t move, and that’s not what we see in Pakistan,” she said.”

A Swipe At Al Bore

(Comment:An admission extremism is masking the problem)
Exaggerated claims undermine drive to cut emissions, scientists warn
Mark Henderson, Science Editor
“Exaggerated and inaccurate claims about the threat from global warming risk undermining efforts to cut greenhouse gas emissions and contain climate change, senior scientists have told The Times.
Environmental lobbyists, politicians, researchers and journalists who distort climate science to [...]

Government-Think

The Sacramento Bee has been all over a great story about the excess buying of vehicles – from 50 Prius vehicles to huge trucks – by the California Department of Transportation.
There are 37 Prius that were not spoken for by State agencies, and they are being converted to electric plug-ins at further taxpayer cost. Since [...]

World-wide Wealth Redistribution

“East-west climate row at EU talks “
EU leaders have begun a summit in Brussels deeply divided over how much money to offer developing nations to cope with climate change.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8332484.stm
It seems the EU has about the same internal relationships as the religious-right to the Republican Party, or the Blue-Dog Democrats to the Democratic Party – which [...]

Enron By The Sea

Democrats are too easy a target when it comes to out-of-this-world spending, but it is not a cut and dried issue.
(I fear the Republicans invasive personal proclivity and their mixture of politics and religion – but they are not currently in power anywhere that threatens me.)
There are “moderate” Democrats even on the San Diego Silly [...]

A Little Perspective

President Obama BEGGED for the right to make these decisions. He WORKED for the right. He SPENT a fortune  (other people’s fortunes) for the right. He DEFEATED strong political competition with 8 years in the White House (Remember “two for the price of one”) and eight more years on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee – [...]

Fighting For a Draw

Apropos of my previous remarks of the problems that attend fighting men in pajamas (or beards) with technology – there is even a more basic question: How do you fight a war if civilian casualties are off-limits?
In WWII, we PURPOSELY destroyed Tokyo, Dresden, Nagasaki and hundreds of other cities for the express purpose of ending [...]

A Message for California

Tax refugees staging escape from New York
By ANDY SOLTIS Last Updated: 6:08 AM, October 27, 2009 Posted: 2:53 AM,
October 27, 2009 (NY Post)
 New Yorkers are fleeing the state and city in alarming numbers — and costing a fortune in lost tax dollars, a new study shows. More than 1.5 million state residents left for other [...]