CYN.ICAL Links

While the rest of the country is trying to figure out how the newly passed health care fiascobill affects their households, the Democrats seem to be getting easy to understand messages on how the health care bill affects THEM.

"Morelle said someone threw a brick through the double glass doors at the HQ, shattering one of them and spider-webbing the other. The weapon: A brick, to which a piece of paper bearing the message "Extremism is defense of liberty is no vice" was attached with a rubber band."

The Democrats here are quite fortunate. Even when Americans are very angry, and with good cause, they still exercise uncommon restraint. But that restraint isn't likely to last much longer. Next time, instead of bricks, it will likely be high-velocity rifle bullets. And they won't merely be breaking windows.

And she IS actually running for Congress... it looks like she'll fit right in there, if not even set a new low for speaking without a brain engaged. The amount of idiocy she displays in less than 10 minutes is positively astounding.
"In an August appearance on The Gallo Show she evinced some fairly exotic opinions on gun ownership. Such as: “I think the government has the right to know what guns are in the homes ….”"

Start hoarding nickels! I think the cleverest bit, is that since nickels have a face value, you're hedged from downside risk too, since as long as they remain legal tender, you can't lose your initial investment. So basically you can profit from all the upside, while limiting the ways you can lose. Sounds like a win-win.

In the event that you don't believe that a society run completely by women would be the ultimate in nanny-state hellholes, we have a little real-world example for your education:

"Delegate Jeannie Haddaway-Riccio , Vice President of the women’s caucus is leading 35 other delegates (all women) on a campaign for passage of HB 65, that would shockingly require Maryland men to submit their fingerprints and other background information before they can initiate communication with a foreign woman if they use an “International Marriage Broker”."

A TSA agent was arrested on January 3rd in Terminal One at LAX, a source told NBCLA. He had just gotten off duty and was behaving erratically, saying, "I am god, I’m in charge."

Haha. Obviously a classic case of absolute power going straight to his head. Practically the entire Homeland Security bureau is made up of this kind of person, and they get extremely inflated egos by being able to boss other people around, and taser anyone not subservient enough. After a long enough period of acting like a big man, with no one willing to slap some sense into them, it's not surprising that they might eventually think that they're the Big Man Himself, or comparable.

"Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger today signed into law a bill that requires buyers of handgun ammunition to leave thumbprints and detailed personal information with registered ammo sellers, as well as put restrictions on online bullet sales."

Well, it's been pretty obvious where California is heading, and it seems that they've only piled on more speed. Since this new law has set a new standard, you can certainly expect more and stronger restrictions to follow. Also, I do find it quite interesting that they've set the effective date out so far into the future. Why delay 'improving public safety' for nearly a year and half? Unless they want to spread out, or even delay, the outcry that will come from this law? Hmm.

"Americans with below average IQ’s should have lower income tax rates than their more intelligent fellow citizens because their diminished natural intelligence (DNI) makes it more difficult for them to earn a living. It’s just not fair to expect them to pay the same tax rate as Americans with IQ’s that are average or above."

When you start basing everything on what's "fair", you open yourself up to a lot of ridiculous ideas, as this sardonic article helpfully demonstrates.

"[I]f they had access to a DNA profile in a database, they could construct a sample of DNA to match that profile without obtaining any tissue from that person. “You can just engineer a crime scene,” said Dan Frumkin, ... “Any biology undergraduate could perform this.”"

Beware the databases! And this is likely to cause headaches for prosecutors in current and future trials. Maybe old-fashioned police work isn't so outdated and useless after all!

"Amid a boisterous debate on health care reform, people flooded members of Congress on Thursday with so many e-mails that they overloaded the House's primary Web site. ... Ventura said new technology called "load balancing" is in place to try to handle spikes in volume. So far, the House Web site remains available to the public."

So Congress is just now using "new" load balancing technology? Figures. Everyone else was using it back in 2001, at the latest. A patent search shows that 1998/99 is around when it mostly started. One could possibly be excused for thinking that a major site and network with a fairly heavy consistent load, and coupled with enormous irregular load spikes, would have figured all this out sometime sooner than nearly 10 years later, or even been riding on the crest of the technology wave and been using and developing the technology from the very beginning. Oh, but wait. We're talking about government here. I guess with near unlimited resources, you can get away with the crude, brute-force approach, even though it's terribly inefficient and wasteful.

Hah, actually, only for what little remains of the year. And those grasshoppers will be back again next year, and from the looks of things, will probably stay longer too.

"In 2009, Cost of Government Day falls on August 12. Working people must toil 224 days out of the year just to meet all costs imposed by government - a full 26 days longer than last year. In other words, in 2009 the cost of government consumes 61.34 percent of national income."