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or any other checkpoints and general searches.

Including the internal immigration checkpoints.

No racket. I just came from a class and the teacher or instructor shows you the poses. I can't see how you can do Yoga without someone. I also agree the gov is looking for another tax. Yeah, tea parties!

Of course it can be taught. It does not, however, need to be nanny state regulated. Caveat Emptor.

Interesting analysis and lets say it is correct.
1. Systemic problems like this are very easy to conceptualize a solution for that will be effective.
2. Getting these solutions in front of decision makers is impossible.

Therefore California and their political leaders DESERVE what they are getting.... Read More

Correlary: Stupidity is incurable.

Well said Roger!

Everyone is not entitled to own a home unless an individual has the financial resources.

Anyone driving this buggy?

I agree with Mike! That would at least make some sense....

If you want more common sense legislation to be passed, go to Downsize DC dot com and sign up so you can send petitions to you represetitives to pass responsible legislation.

We had no idea!

We need to get before the American people a proposal for a for-profit education system. It will be attacked, yet we need to start this conversation with the American people. If we have an open and honest discussion about the trillions of dollars already spent on publik edukation, what we have received in return for those dollars; and then contrast ... Read Morethat with a system which has an inentive to provide the consumer with a great product, then we will WIN this debate. Yet this discussion needs to start.

Agreed. I believe they have such a program in N.O. or at least something of that genre.

imagining people in the pentagon reading off powerpoint slides in a meeting - that does not fill me with confidence.

@Daniel: Right on the money. It was also the cause for ignoring system design flaws in the Space Shuttles. A blue ribbon committee came to that exact conclusion.

Short version:
Smart analysis is hard to come by. But systematically ignoring it is common as dirt.
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I have a blunt friend that says it this way. Stupidity is incurable.

Is there any doubt the Dems would further this along? I am surprised as all hell the Bush admin didn't push it furhter themselves.

I don't care where the scientists are born, just as long as they get here. Unfortunately, the United States is becoming a less desirable place to live and work due to increasing taxes and regulations and our loopy immigration laws that turn away many foreign-born applicants, even after they complete their Ph.D studies!

There is no shortage of skilled and experienced engineers in the US. There*is* a shortage of well-paid jobs for engineers, scientists and technicians. Getting $50k annually for 3000 hours of work and minimal bennies, as many contact houses are offering, is not keeping people in engineering vs , say, teaching, where you work 1500 hours / year and make that same $50k after 10 years.

Our educational system sucks. So many great minds fail to become ignited in a system that has become a bloated bureaucracy. For those that actually complete an education in math or science - bravo!

higher taxes on beer, wine, smokes; legalize weed and tax that, tax each toilet flush, each tp square, and eventualy every fart in America. The big gov is going to have to find new ways to tax regular daily life. It's kinda like medieval England or a mafia controlled neighborhood.

You know DC just wants real politics to be something closer to Neuromancer. Can't blame them for trying, right?

When your First Lady has such marvelously toned arms, who cares if a hostile nation can bring down your government's computer system? Priorities!

Well living past 75, bedridden incontinent and senile is no bargain for anyone either. Living longer is not always better.

As I understand, Cap & Trade has not yet made it through the Senate, and a massive overhaul of health care has yet to take place and may not take place at all. Stop being such a bunch of fatalistic pussies willing to bend over and quietly take it while Socialists give you the shaft. Even if it's a battle you're destined to lose, you can at least know you raised hell while you had the chance ....

To much government and laws...simplify all of it and you'll see how much there is to go around.

end the fed, control inflation

Ed, Your two conditions is how my great-grand parents got in thou Ellis Island. There is no shame in that! Another condition was that they learn English and speak it in public. Jobs weren't available to them if English isn't understood and written. Remember the old X for signature well now it should be fingerprints.

Big brother is watching...

It's about transparency on the govt, for us. Almost anything that is government related, or taxpayer funded, etc... should have complete transparency IMO. This would be a great idea. Sicne we're being forced to pay for it -- we should know where our money is going so that we act accordingly.

Logan that was the funniest read here yet...I bet they wouldn't do it. But to agree with Barha up top, I'd support defense also.

It really is sick when they get a bunch of morons together in one place and at one time and they all really think they are doing good. Sad thing is they all lied to get there and they are doing nothing but causing the rest of us grief.

I'd be way happier if I could think that at the end of this 1st (I hope only) term, the admin would be similarly judged as having had near zero impact. Sadly, the damage is already being cast in concrete, and will be substantial --- health-care, cap-and-trade, SCOTUS, education, business, innovation --- there's no place to hide. I think I heard someone ask "Who is John Galt?"

Along with Heritage, one of the best informational sites around.

http://neoavatara.com/blog

I blog using reference to CATO, Heritage, CNS News and other sources.

Here is a link to a website...the site kinda tells it like it is
www.climatecooling.org

Crap and Trade says it all......I am going to drive the biggest *&*^& car I can find......just to be a bad child....Once when I was filling my Chrysler Aspen up, someone at the QT asked me how I was paying to fill it up with the prices going up.....I looked at them and said "Work." So they pointed out the upwardly mobile prices of that time, and I said, "More Work"...they gave up on conversation with me........

Well people you got what you asked for . You wanted change you got it now live with it

You know there are always con men willing to say this will save you money down the road, this is a wise investment, well remember this, Uncle Sam has run the largest Ponzi Scheme ever, it is called Social Security and the "trust" fund which, oh by the way they forgot to mention contains no cash, only 4 trillion dollars in IOUS stashed there during... Read More the last 40 years while all the money paid in that did not get paid out that year was spent on anything else to reduce the size of the budget deficit. And why wasn't the transfer of 4 trillion dollars included in the federal budget deficit, because Congress chose to call monies transferred from Social Security payroll taxes into general fund at US Treasury and intragovernmental transfer. Not really what Kerry or anybody else was saying when they talked about a soSo Why should I beleive Obama or any President is going to find 300 billion dollars in savings in healthcare. Show me the money before we add a single person to Medicare basically.

Cincinnatus is long dead.
"Public Servents"? hmp.

Insurance, private or public, is the problem. It started with FDR WPA avoidance. And employer and individual insurance have to be taxed the SAME. The only insurance I could see working is capitation reinsurance for doctors. My granpa used to give his doctor cousin a goat every year to care for ten. If they got sicker than goat cost, doc paid/lost. ... Read MoreRegardless of what insurance (home, car, health), I always get fleeced. Only the salesman benefits. And they never KNOW what they are selling. CDS was no exception. I tried to buy $7.5K deductible with no HSA and they would only sell me <$2.5K or >$25K, yet Milton Friedman and RAND said decades earlier my amount (inflation adjusted) was right. Pay for your own dentist and you'll get long lasting amalgalm or just pull it instead of planned obsolescence porcelain bonding.

§900 cont.-(Story's Commentaries 1833)

Aristotle, in ancient times, upon a large survey of the republics of former days, and of the facile manner, in which they had been made the instruments of their own destruction, felt himself compelled to the melancholy reflection, which has been painfully repeated by one of the greatest statesmen of modern ... Read Moretimes, that a democracy has many striking points of resemblance with a tyranny. "The ethical character," says he, "is the same; both exercise despotism over the better class of citizens; and the decrees are in the one, what ordinances and arrets are in the other. The demagogue, too, and the court favourite are not unfrequently the same identical men, and always bear a close analogy. And these have the principal power, each in their respective governments, favourites with the absolute monarch, and demagogues with a people, such as I have described.

§ 901.-(Story's Commentaries 1833)

This dark picture...affords a warning, which, like all the lessons of past experience, we are not permitted to disregard. America, free, happy, and enlightened, as she is, must rest the preservation of her rights and liberties upon the virtue, independence, justice, and sagacity of the people. If either fail, the... Read More Republic is gone. Its shadow may remain with all the pomp, and circumstance, and trickery of government, but its vital power will have departed. In America, the demagogue may arise, as well as elsewhere. He is the natural, though spurious growth of republics; and like the courtier he may, by his blandishments, delude the ears, and blind the eyes of the people to their own destruction. If ever the day shall arrive, in which the best talents and the best virtues shall be driven from office by intrigue or corruption, by the ostracism of the press, legislation will cease to be national. It will be wise by accident, and bad by system.

The people that give Canada and the UK as great examples of medical care models, are not getting the whole story. One example is the higher incidence of mortality in women with breast care versus the US. Criticized for ordering "too many" mammograms and costly "CT scans", the current US system is saving lifes of women, where the UK is not. I can ... Read Moregive Medicare examples where decisions are made for bureaucratic reasons and not valid medical ones. Regulations end up costing taxpayers more money with little gain or justification.

exactly. They will hold a gun to your head as they clean out your wallet. They are not promising not to penalize people who do not sign up for their plan. They are blanetly standing there saying they will fine you $1,000 if you do not sign up. That is just the begining.

Mr Kilmartin : CO2 can in fact be looked upon as a harmful emission in as much as it contributes to atmospheric imbalance. And I am talking about industryial , not biological sources. Other pollutants associated with the burning of fossil fuels , coal in particular are even nastier. Just let me know how you feel about that coal plant when they ... Read Morewant to build it in YOUR backyard. Bottom line is that people are just going to have to get used to the reality of the cost of the energy we use in massive quantities.

This so called 'Climate' Bill will do noting but destroy the American way of life. Not suprising though, the Statists hate the American way of life, and now that they are in charge, are hell bent on destroying it. I hope we can last until November 2010.

There's always a catch when one of the largest corporations that has been criticized for not providing benefits for its employees, decides to support a socialist plan of medicine. Sounds like a sort of mob rule type of arrangement Obama and Wal-Mart are making here.

And you are right, Peggy. Sotomayor's in as the next Supreme Court Justice. Vote is simply a formality.

I was happy to see how the Supreme Court voted - tight decision 5-4 - shows the importance of Supreme Court nominees.

We need to do something then about 'bulletproof' EULAs that are written to give all rights to the company, and none to the user.

Article I, Sec. 8 and the Fifth Amendment are Constitutional authority. Even if it was unconstitutional, it wouldn't be criminal, just invalid.

Bad policy, but not unconstitutional policy.

Well what I have heard is that we should stop looking at the GM situation as anything except a gigantic jobs program. We certainly have enough of those... and did you notice that Fords stock is going up !

its all their's-- we lost 4.324 brave men and woman, they better appreciate it. iof they don't take care of it themselves, we are NOT going back!!!!!

I highly doubt, Iraq will be able to maintain itself cut off from American tax dollars and the daily attacks will probably make even their oil useless to them.

This should have been a no-brainer. Is the second circuit the new ninth circuit now?

New London was supposed to be obvious, too.

Justice Ginsburg's discent was a joke and demonstrates my distain for liberals in general and liberal judges in particular. STOP legislating from the bench!! If you want to make laws then switch branches, otherwise, do what the judicial branch was intened to do, INTERPRET the law's Constitutionality. Don't interpret the law to your suit personal beliefs or conform to current norms!! And THAT's why Sotomayor scares me.

Right Paula, I am an American, no hypen. I am not a Czech-American, or a German/Czech-American, or German-American, or European-American, I simply am an American. Can we please drop the damn hypens!!

The really sad thing is that no matter what the decision, some one would have sued.