Rational Conservatism from the Rocky Mountains
I like to think of myself as a well-informed citizen who keeps up on the issues of the day. But I am sometimes surprised by how ignorant I can be of very important issues. I get the feeling that I have been less than fully informed about Cap and Trade schemes, and I wonder how [...]
Well, still operating at single-digit Kb/sec speeds anyway, which is hardly distinguishable from being “down.” Hopefully Qwest can find a replacement 286 mother board in an old garage somewhere and fix their ailing gateway from our sleepy little rural community. So when I called their technical support to report the problem and get status (in [...]
So I am now well into day 2 of my internet problems. Earlier today Qwest genius technicians “restored service” to my house. Of course the service they restored was at 12Kb/sec, which is roughly equivalent to a 1987 modem, but hey, give them credit, they managed to get me back online. So long as you [...]
Obama’s newly submitted budget contains almost 1 trillion dollars in direct new taxes and an additional half a trillion more in “cap and trade” taxes on businesses which are directly aimed at reducing CO2 emissions from American businesses. So, those of us who warned that an Obama Presidency would put crushing burdens on American business [...]
So yesterday I had two significant Qwest events in my life. First, our internet service went down. Apparantly the 80286 PC they have in a box on the side of highway 285 which provides network connectivity for our rural mountain neighborhood had a floppy drive controller error or something, or maybe the 300 baud modem [...]
I’m not sure if everyone is aware of the concept of “squaring a circle.” The traditional definition of “squaring the circle” is to go back the ancient Greek mathematician “Oenopides” and his challenge to the Pythagoreans of the time to convert a circle into a square of identical area using nothing but geometric tools (protractors [...]
President Obama has turned to his own vice president to oversee implementation of the $787 billion economic stimulus package, part of which will be available this week for state Medicaid programs. Obama announced his decision before the National Governors Association in Washington on Monday, saying Vice President Joe Biden will help ensure the distribution of [...]
Wow, I just realized I didn’t post anything from Friday until now. That’s probably a record for me not being on vacation or something. So the question is “why?” I think the best answer is that I simply have not had much to talk about lately. I mean there are only so many ways to [...]
OK, so I’m going to take Eric Holder’s advice and delve just a tiny bit into the racial consciousness of this country. I’m just going to take one small aspect of the “racial awareness” classes I’v been subjected to over the years and pursue it. “Imagine for a minute if you watched TV and every [...]
Ted Kennedy’s health condition has worsened. Ailing Sen. Ted Kennedy may not return to the Senate, and speculation is brewing that the veteran Democratic lawmaker is setting up his wife, Vicki, to succeed him, according to a report in the Boston Herald Friday. The article quoted friends of the family who said the Massachusetts senator’s [...]
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