Due to personal obligations, I will not be blogging until further notice. My apologies to all (3) of my readers. Not to worry, however. Tempus fugit.
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February 11, 2009 • 4:56 pm 0
Due to personal obligations, I will not be blogging until further notice. My apologies to all (3) of my readers. Not to worry, however. Tempus fugit.
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February 6, 2009 • 8:52 pm 0
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February 5, 2009 • 12:14 pm 0
For those who still think that Bill Gates is an intelligent man, I offer this story.
Bill Gates playfully frees swarm of mosquitoes by Glenn Chapman
Microsoft founder turned disease-battling philanthropist Bill Gates loosed mosquitoes at an elite Technology, Entertainment, Design (TED) Conference to make a point about the deadly sting of malaria.
“Malaria is spread by mosquitoes,” Gates said while opening a jar onstage at a gathering known to attract technology kings, politicians, and Hollywood stars.
“I brought some. Here I’ll let them roam around. There is no reason only poor people should be infected.”
Gates waited a minute or so before assuring the audience the liberated insects were malaria-free.
This asshole should be sued for intentional infliction of emotional distress. He subjected people to the suspicion that malaria infected mosquitoes were about and waited an entire minute before telling them the truth?
TED curator Chris Anderson fired back at the legendary computer software maker, joking that the headline for the video of his talk to be posted online at Ted.com would be “Gates releases more bugs into the world.”
As he has in travels on behalf of his eponymous charitable foundation, Gates detailed the strides made in dealing with malaria in affluent countries and the need to fight the disease in impoverished nations.
“There is more money put into baldness drugs than into malaria,” Gates quipped, triggering laughter. “Now, baldness is a terrible thing and rich men are afflicted. That is why that priority has been set.”
It’s also called supply and demand, you dork. When people are standing in line for a certain treatment, more of it will be made. ANd many middleclass men are getting the treatment, not just the rich.
Gates called for aggressive distribution of insect netting and other gear proven to protect people from disease-transmitting stings.
He also shared that a malaria vaccine backed by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation should start Phase Three testing in a few months.
“I am an optimist; I think any tough problem can be solved,” Gates said.
“The market does not drive scientists, thinkers, or governments to do the right things. Only by paying attention and making people care can we make as much progress as we need to.”
The Bono of the computer world, ladies and gentlemen!
“The market does not drive scientists or thinkers”? Really? What exactly motivated you, Mr. Gates, when you helped start Microsoft? Mosquitoes?
This gesture was beyond stupid. If Gates was even mildly informed about malaria, he’d have some concern about the ban on DDT.
Moreover, note the ridiculous obsession with equality: some people are suffering, therefore all must be subjected to the same suffering.
Filed under: Crazy liberals , Bill Gates, bugs, Crazy liberals, DDT, geeks, idiots, malaria, Microshit, Microsoft, nets, virus
• 11:58 am 0
The 7 Worst States To Start a Business by Matthew Bandyk
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February 4, 2009 • 4:58 pm 0
I don’t post on this story so much to make fun of Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), although that is part of my aim, but to demonstrate the double standard that exists in this media between gaffes uttered by Republicans and those uttered by Democrats.
If this sort of thing happens once, it’s understandable. It’s hard work undermining capitalism, and the perhaps the Speaker was tired.
But this was not the first time Pelosi thought America had a population of 500 million working adults.According to Nice Deb:
Speaker Pelosi made this same goof on Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace on January 18:
From the transcript:
PELOSI: Well, I believe that — I know that President-elect Obama is a strong supporter of America’s workers. I myself am a strong supporter of that legislation. We passed it with a strong vote in the House in the last Congress, and I continue to be supportive of it.
But in terms of what we have to do in the first 100 days, we must address the needs of this country. Five hundred million people will lose their jobs each month until we have an economic package.
WALLACE: No, 500,000.
PELOSI: What did I say, million?
WALLACE: Yes, 500 million. That would really be a recession.
Thanks to Geoff.
Can you imagine a Republican getting away with this bone headed mistake? No, neither can I.
Although Pelosi’s “500,000″ comment was unintentional, it is a fact that Pelosi and her liberal comrades do wish to make the current economic situation much worse than it is so as to justify all sorts of government intervention into the free market.Like all good liberals, Pelosi’s concern is not accuracy but accumulation of power.
Filed under: Crazy liberals , 000, 500 million, 500+, Nany Pelosi, unemployed
• 11:16 pm 0
Job prospects unclear for the ousted Blagojevich By DEANNA BELLAND
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January 31, 2009 • 7:08 pm 0
In the art world, one will rarely (if ever) find any class, taste, standards, or decency, but pure ignorance comes in droves.

So this semi-functional puddle of piss work of art ought not surprise anyone.
You have to admire the gratitude of liberals. Abuse and ignorance is what W. gets for defending Muslims from tyranny, for fighting a global network of terrorists, for removing a ruthless dictator, for keeping us safe for 8 years under highly straining circumstances. Be sure about one thing: If W. had a “D” after his name, he’d have bronze statues erected in his honor in Times Square, not urinals made in his image courtesy of a sculptor/jerk.
The Sisyphus Files: The Irrelevance of Modern Art and Aliza Shvarts
The Sisyphus Files: From the Aliza Shvarts School of Artsy Ideas / Meet Professor Pia Lindman
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• 6:59 pm 0
Yet another example of dumbing things down for those who cannot be bothered to learn some rules.
Its a catastrophe for the apostrophe in Britain By MEERA SELVA
On the streets of Birmingham, the queen’s English is now the queens English.
England’s second-largest city has decided to drop apostrophes from all its street signs, saying they’re confusing and old-fashioned.
But some purists are downright possessive about the punctuation mark.
It seems that Birmingham officials have been taking a hammer to grammar for years, quietly dropping apostrophes from street signs since the 1950s. Through the decades, residents have frequently launched spirited campaigns to restore the missing punctuation to signs denoting such places as “St. Pauls Square” or “Acocks Green.”
This week, the council made it official, saying it was banning the punctuation mark from signs in a bid to end the dispute once and for all.
Councilor Martin Mullaney, who heads the city’s transport scrutiny committee, said he decided to act after yet another interminable debate into whether “Kings Heath,” a Birmingham suburb, should be rewritten with an apostrophe.
“I had to make a final decision on this,” he said Friday. “We keep debating apostrophes in meetings and we have other things to do.”
Eventualy, youll bee making othur finall desisions wich will make this one appeer easy in comparisun.
Remember that England WAS THE global super power. Now apostrophes bother them.
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• 6:26 pm 0
Russian newspaper mourns another murdered reporter By MIKE ECKEL
The dead loom over the morning editorial meeting at Russia’s leading investigative newspaper. Novaya Gazeta’s staff is trying to plan the next issue and editor-in-chief Dmitry Muratov is in an understandably foul mood.
In a corner hang photos of four reporters he has lost in the past eight years – one beaten to death, one allegedly poisoned, two shot – the most recent on Jan. 19. It’s not easy to put a paper out these days, Muratov says.
“There’s usually a lot of jokes, laughing, talk about ideas. But our batteries are totally spent,” says Muratov, 47, billows of pipe smoke filling the long pauses. “How can there be any sort of (normal) frame of mind when a journalist is being buried?”
That journalist was Anastasia Baburova, a 25-year-old cub reporter. She and a human rights lawyer were shot execution-style by a masked man with a silenced pistol as they walked together a few blocks from the Kremlin.In a country considered one of the most dangerous for journalists, no Russian newspaper has suffered like Novaya Gazeta. In a country where most media have been cowed into submission, no other newspaper publishes such probing investigative articles and acid commentary about government corruption, police-state politics and Chechnya war abuses.
“Every two or three years, we lose someone,” says Elena Kostyuchenko, a 21-year-old investigative writer for the paper. “But you just have to write, write, write and keep writing. You have to.”
Some 16 journalists have died in contract-style slayings or under suspicious circumstances in Russia since 2000. Many more have been assaulted or threatened.
Under Vladimir Putin, who became president in 2000 and now is prime minister, the TV networks watched by most Russians were taken over by the state, their news operations highly sanitized. Big-selling newspapers are either sympathetic to the Kremlin or owned by Kremlin-allied business groups.
Of the many free-spirited papers that sprang up when the Soviet Union collapsed, Novaya Gazeta — meaning New Newspaper — is a rare survivor.
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• 10:01 am 0
Yesterday, when the roll was called, I voted against the misnamed economic stimulus plan which ultimately passed the House.
The American economy is hurting and that means Americans are hurting. Middle class families are being hit with continuing layoffs and our retirement and college savings are being ravaged by the markets.
We should be acting boldly to preserve, protect and create jobs. We should cut taxes on small businesses and middle class families to help create jobs.
Unfortunately, Nancy Pelosi has crafted a “stimulus” bill which will do little if anything to stimulate the economy. The bill presented to the House is a borrow and spend bill which would drive this years’ deficit to over 2 trillion dollars.
It is simply not accurate to describe this bill as an economic stimulus plan. It is however a massive government spending plan.
Here is some of what is currently in the plan:
- It creates 32 new federal programs, totaling $136 billion. (37 percent of the total cost)
- It expands 60 existing programs, mostly programs favored by the political left.
- It spends $6 billion in corporate welfare to help broadband companies get more customers.
- It spends $600 million to “prepare our country for universal healthcare”.
- It spends $1 billion on Amtrak.
- It spends $400 million on climate change research.
- It spends $50 million on the National Endowment for the Arts.
- It spends $3 billion on a new “prevention and wellness” fund, which includes $335 million for sexually transmitted disease education and prevention.
Every penny is passed on to our children and grandchildren in government debt and will undoubtedly lead to massive tax increases in the future.
This reckless spending is why I voted NO.
Now the bill goes to the Senate and later will come back to the House. As the process continues I will try and advance an alternative bill which I believe would unshackle the American economy and create millions of jobs.
Our plan calls for a smarter simpler stimulus plan with twice the jobs at half the cost. No waste, no delay, just jobs.
- A 20% tax cut for small business to create jobs.
- Across the board tax cuts for middle class families.
- Extend bonus depreciation on small business expenses to encourage investment.
- And, to help our neighbors who have been laid off, we want to eliminate income taxes on unemployment benefits.
This plan would stimulate the economy and create millions of new jobs.
I think most Americans know that cutting taxes on small business and middle class families will do more to stimulate the economy and create jobs than Nancy Pelosi’s massive borrowing and spending.I will try and keep you informed as the debate in Washington continues.
Sincerely,
Eric Cantor
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January 29, 2009 • 4:04 pm 0
Washington Post: Gov. Rod Blagojevich Delivers Remarks at Impeachment Trial
Illinois senate votes to oust Governor Blagojevich
The Illinois state senate on Thursday convicted Governor Rod Blagojevich of abuse of power, removing him from office amid charges that he tried to sell the U.S. Senate seat once held by President Barack Obama.
More than two-thirds of the 59 senators, acting as a jury following the two-term Democrat’s impeachment on January 9, voted to find him guilty, effectively ousting him from office.
The vote was televised live from the state capitol building in Springfield, Illinois. Blagojevich is the first governor in Illinois history to be impeached and removed from office.
(Reporting by Andrew Stern and Michael Conlon, Editing by Peter Bohan)
Fox: Illinois Senate Kicks Blagojevich Out of Office
NY Times: Blagojevich Ousted by Illinois State Senate
Chicago Tribune: Impeached Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich has been removed from office
AP: Ill. gov unanimously convicted, tossed from office
Filed under: Crazy liberals, Democrats Behaving Badly , bribes, Cook County, corruption, Crazy liberals, Gov. Rod Blagojevich, Illinois, impeachment, lies, power, Senate, Springfield, state
• 9:25 am 0
Everyone is talking about how much money the government is spending, but very little attention is being paid to where they are spending it or what they are buying with it.
The government is putting money into banks, even when the banks don’t want it, in hopes that the banks will put it into circulation. But the latest statistics shows that banks are lending even less money now than they were before the government dumped all that cash on them.
Filed under: Crazy liberals, The Government Engineered Mortgage Crisis
• 2:19 am 0
Is it something in the air in Cook County that turns politicians into shady, law breaking goons with endless arrogance?
While Barack Obama’s egomania is thick and undeniable, he’s not nearly as bad as another Illinois politico, the Governor Rod Blagojevich. Blago was caught on tape allegedly seeking to sell Barack Obama’s Senate seat for lots of ca$h, which I guess is standard m.o. in his neck of the woods. Ever since he was arrested, Blago has put on a thick woe-is-me Joan of Arc act. (Except that Joan of Arc was actually innocent.)
Upon getting a phone call from federal agents, the Democrat Governor recently said “I thought about Mandela, Dr. King and Gandhi and tried to put some perspective to all this and that is what I am doing now.”
I don’t know about you, but the last people I’d be thinking about when facing incarceration is Mandela, Dr. King, and Gandhi unless I was an egomaniac like Blagojevich with a martyr complex. Why stop there, Rod? Why not insert Jesus, Buddha, Pope Benedict and the Dalai Lama into the conversation also?
Filed under: Crazy liberals , Cook County, Crazy liberals, Crook County, Democrat, Dr. King, egomania, Gandhi, Governor, Illinois, Mandela, narcissism, Rod Blagojevich, Roland Burris, Senate seat
• 1:22 am 0
Woman’s Day: Extraordinary Uses for 16 Ordinary Household Items By Woman’s Day
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