I published an article today predicting that Congress would drag SOPA critics in for show trials soon. Little did I know that they had already done so as the blackout killed the bill. But the CEOs of the big internet companies have yet to bow down to their government gods.
TAX AND SPEND:
NASA mission finds NASA spacecraft previously crashed on the far side of the moon. So the government is stealing our money to find wrecks it produced by previously stealing our money.
EDUCATION:
The government resists online charter schools. What a surprise.
The media claims some student is taking a stand against bullying by holding a poetry event. I kid you not. I guarantee you hundreds of thousands of students take a stand against bullying every day by resisting them or fighting back, but you never read about those heroic children. Poetry doesn't defeat bullies, but the press and politicians love it. Every kid has been bullied. The ones who fight back don't get bullied again.
GLOBAL WARMING:
I previously noted that Alaska is suffering the coldest winter in recorded history. Canada is also unusually cold. Apparently Europe and Russia are also suffering a brutal winter. Us climate skeptics generally note that weather is not climate. The frauds, on the other hand, want to use every warm weather observation to support their fraud while they conveniently ignore cold weather. Case in point: this article on the mild winter in the contiguous US states. The saddest part is the cold is killing people, not the heat, which is always the case.
Record February snow storm in Denver. I still fear a terrible winter. We're not halfway through yet.
The global warming frauds try to scare us into believing that climate change will destroy most life on earth in a couple of decades. They typically cite mass extinctions in the past for support. But now it turns out that the greatest mass extinction in the history of the world, commonly called the P-T extinction, the extinction that ushered in the age of the dinosaurs, took place over hundreds of thousands of years.
POLICE STATE:
The police state tactics against Megaupload have convinced another hosting site to shut down. The intimidation is working. This is the consequence of the great evil of government.
POLITICS:
Voter fraud in Nevada too. How much of this will people tolerate before they reject the system?
Ron Paul is really showing the divide between the old statists and young idealists. Paul dominates among Jews in Nevada.
I'm happy to hear that people are loading big money into a Super PAC to oust big government Republicans, but I'm not thrilled about the anonymity. Actually, it's the not the anonymity I don't like, it's the possibility that foreigners will influence our elections. I wouldn't care about the anonymity if it wasn't for the possibility of foreign intervention. I'm probably being naive. I imagine foreigners can freely donate to incumbents much like they did to Obama in 2008. It's only outsiders who are restricted. This illustrates the conundrum the power of coercion creates. You know Congress won't allow this to continue. They don't want to be ousted from their phony-baloney jobs.
It looks like the federal government coordinated a second assault on the Occupiers across the country.
"It was a week when authorities across the nation took similar action, from McPherson Square in Washington, D.C., to Thomas Square in Honolulu. It raised once again the question of whether the Occupy movement has a future, and if so, what kind."If the government had just obeyed the law from the beginning and required Occupy protesters to either get permits or protest on their own property, this would never have been a problem. Occupy Dayton moves into private offices provided by a local church. That's excellent. I'm happy to see they're following my advice.
LOCAL:
In another grotesque example of how people fall for the seen versus the unseen, the DDN proclaims new fuel standards will create jobs. This is an example of the broken window fallacy.
MISC:
Congratulations the the Giants. Twice they've edged out the Patriots in the Super Bowl. I appreciate how the Giants and the commentators are saying that Manningham's catch was routine. That's what receivers are trained to do. That's right. But most fail. Receivers drop easy catches so often it should be a scandal. Receivers in the NFL are terrible. That was a great catch and great throw.
What the Super Bowl illustrated once again is that the team that pays the least for a quarterback is likely to win. The salary cap is the greatest detriment to winning a Super Bowl, not the other team. The team that spends the most on the highest paid position, the quarterback, has less money to spend on everybody else, and therefore tends to lose. I'd love to see an analysis of the contracts of Super Bowl quarterbacks, but ESPN will never do such a thing.
I don't want to hear crap about how Brady will win another Super Bowl. Brady plays in the AFC with Pittsburgh and Baltimore. The AFC north is the best division in the NFL. If the Patriots played in the AFL north, they may never win the division. As it is, Brady may never see another Super Bowl. Don't get me wrong; I want Brady to win a forth so I don't have to hear about the incredibly lucky Joe Montana any more. But I also don't want to hear about the proclamations of fools.
I wonder if Pepper Hamilton sued Android partners over my old cell phone patent.
Scientists have discovered our brains are more drawn to socializing than to alcohol or cigarettes. I've always said this. What we call addition is a bunch of crap. If a person has a healthy social life. If a person's social life involves drinking, smoking, drugs or work, they might become addicts. And if a person has no social life, he might become addicted. But the social life, or the lack thereof, is always the most important dynamic. Scientists probably had to study this because they have no social lives.
Terry Jones's Medieval Lives looks like something everybody should watch.
This is a funny chart, but it if you think about it, it explains why friends with benefits is a much more natural association than a permanent couple. The permanent couple didn't arise until people wanted to pass savings through generations. We owe everything we enjoy today to the savings of our ancestors. But we also suffer the consequences of permanent relationships as a result. Much like we suffer the consequences of grains.
Earth is so very small.
I'm still unimpressed with this dark energy concept. Imagine if somebody tossed a rock into a pond. That would produce a wave full of whirlpools that relentlessly expanded. If you were a creature who evolved in one of those whirlpools, you and your observable universe would be limited to the wave. You would never be able to comprehend the force that created your wave: the rock tossed into the pond. That force would be operating in a dimension beyond your comprehension. You might call it dark energy. I don't think the universe is as complicated as cosmologists wish it was.
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