Introducing robots that can ride motorcycles.
Archive for July, 2009
Pain, and lots of it. Note that a large amount of their plan is achieved just by letting the massively economically successful Bush tax cuts expire. Obvious statistics show that they increased the progressivism of the tax code and drastically boosted the economy, but the Democrats don’t care about that; they care about control, and lower tax rates mean less control.
Volokh has an entirely too sane proposal for how health care should be reformed. Of course, we could also eliminate health care legislation and concerns from the federal level of government entirely and get the same effect essentially working * 10: 50 states all trying different proposals as they determined which effects worked best. That would require federal government officials giving up some of the power they’ve seized since our country’s founding, however.
That seems to be the questions the Democrats are asking themselves. They voted down an amendment to the Obamacare bill that would have stopped funds from paying for illegal aliens’ health care, they’re proposing that we need to pay for China’s emissions (and if we pay for China’s, why not India’s?), and they’re channeling the stimulus money to those states that need it least.
Does any of this make you think Democrats actually have American voter’s best interests at heart?
Not much. It was a political stunt. On the other hand, look at this curve. Sure, it flatlines under supersonic, but in the next few years as we jump to suborbital, it will resume its previous trajectory. That’s why SpaceShipOne is the craft that’s really remarkable.
He thinks African-Americans “are more fundamentally rooted in the American Experience.”
Obama just tried to claim that Republicans have controlled Congress for the past 8 years. I’m sure he knows very well that just isn’t the case, but it sure would be nice to misdirect people about which party was responsible for the especially outrageous spending and corruption, and approval rating of the past two years, wouldn’t it?
Over at Popular Mechanics. I’ve been watching the Tweel for a while, actually. I want it to move over to bicycles.
My question: when does our manufacturing on demand get good enough that consumers can design their own cars with nifty technologies such as these? Maybe someone should be forwarding these ideas to the open-source car company …
At least, over at the Washington Post.
For recovering a struggling economy?
But hey, Obama didn’t promise to help boost the economy, he promised to make things “more fair”.
$1,191,200 and two months produced 2 lbs of frozen ham, sliced.
Apart from the fact that the entire bill was corrupt kickbacks to political cronies, why do I suspect there’s more pork to this item?
Michael Graham gives the globe a well deserved fisking over it’s stance on elderly drivers in Massachusetts.
It wasn’t a Kennedy tragedy, it was a Kopechne tragedy. The fact that the man stayed in power for so long does not reflect well on the Commonwealth of Massachusetts or the Democratic Party.
It turns out that most of Mexico’s guns do not in fact come from the U.S. Only 8% actually do. It’s funny that the Democrats keep on making up numbers in order to try to restrict our rights and freedoms, and for them to try and seize ever more power.
Or how the U.S. manages Medicare. ( i.e. poorly). But anyhow, Obamacare is extremely close to the universal health care that Massachusetts just implemented. So how’s that working out? And how will it work when we have government measurements telling us how healthy we are or are supposed to be?
As Glenn Reynolds points out, Obamacare isn’t about decreasing costs or improving health care in the U.S., but about consolidating power. Nothing else makes sense. And the socialist-lites who think that we’ll actually do better under the sorts of universal health care options Obama and the Dems are trying to ram down our throats are the same rubes who voted them into power and are now starting to realize what a swindle that was.
More info here. Despite Obama wishing otherwise, I hope the protesters succeed in reforming, or even overthrowing, their government.
That’s something major that we didn’t know how to treat now solved. It’ll also come in really handy when we start becoming a real space-faring civilization.
The Director of the CBO had this to say yesterday. In other words, our debt is absolutely unsustainable (and yet Obama and the Dems want to spend a lot more), and our revenue is way too low (and yet Obama and the Dems want to continue raising taxes and corporate loopholes, even though companies are already fleeing our country and off-shoring workers because of the harsh business environment.
You do the math.
