Posted in Climate Change, Things that make me go hmm... on Jan 17th, 2012
The problems Nome has had with getting oil delivered is an interesting story, U.S. Icebreaker About to Reach Cut-Off Alaska Town. It appears that the city of Nome contracted with the Russians since they had a ice-classed tanker available. Although it was ice-classed it was not an icebreaker. So Nome had to convince the Coast [...]
Posted in Healthcare, Journalism, Things that make me go hmm... on Feb 1st, 2011
Last night my wife and I were discussing the decision by a judge in Florida that the Affordable Care Act was unconstitutional. My wife thought he ruled that only the Individual Mandate was overturned while I maintained that the entire bill was being overturned since there was no severability clause. Since it was dinner time [...]
Posted in Green Technology, Things that make me go hmm... on Dec 1st, 2010
I found it curious that my electric company was very insistent that I accept their offer for a free case of CFL lights. A small popup window would appear every time I tried to pay my electric bill. I didn’t need the bulbs since I already had replaced my lights and I had extra bulbs [...]
Posted in Politics, Things that make me go hmm... on Nov 3rd, 2010
The theme from our main stream media pundits is that the voters do not have the stomach to cut spending on key entitlement programs such as Social Security, Medicare, or Medicaid. Yet the voters seem to have no problem voting against levies for school programs. By voting against these levies levies the school districts will [...]
Posted in Things that make me go hmm... on Sep 14th, 2010
Recently I have been scouring the news in search of fiscally conservative Democrats campaign strategies or Democrats mentioning Pay-as-you-go budgeting as a budget deficit solution. I couple of months ago I thought that Ohio Governor Strickland was a likely choice to use a fiscally conservative Democrat strategy as part of his election campaign. Although it [...]
Posted in Things that make me go hmm... on Aug 15th, 2010
Recently I started reading The Forgotten Man and was struck with some of the similarities between the Hoover and Obama presidencies. I was also struck how both administrations have been stuck by unintended consequences. The Smoot–Hawley Tariff Act was supposed to protect American jobs and farmers. The unintended consequence was that it reduced exports dramatically [...]
Posted in Things that make me go hmm... on Aug 13th, 2010
I woke up this morning thinking about Proposition 8 and jury duty. The people in California were asked to make a judgment on the definition of marriage and they did. Judge Walker has determined as his principle fact that “Proposition 8 enacts, without reason, a private moral view that same-sex couples are inferior to opposite-sex [...]
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