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.
Filed under: Everything Else
February 6, 2009 • 8:52 pm 0
10 Most Ticketed Cars / 10 Least Ticketed Cars
Filed under: Everything Else , cars, least, most, tickets
February 5, 2009 • 12:14 pm 0
The Illogical, Vacuous, Leftist Gesture of the Day
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
The 7 Worst States To Start a Business by Matthew Bandyk
Filed under: Everything Else
February 4, 2009 • 4:58 pm 0
Nancy Pelosi Unfamiliar with Population of United States
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
You Don’t Say
Job prospects unclear for the ousted Blagojevich By DEANNA BELLAND
Filed under: What Liberal Media?
Stumble It!