First the houses. Waxman/Markey (the Cap and Trade bill) contains 397 new regulations and 1100 new Federal Mandates. One (just one, mind you) makes selling almost all private homes a Federally Regulated Transaction. FRT’s require that you would have to have your house inspected for “greenness” and if it didn’t pass you would have to [...]
Tagged abuse of power, green, Nanny State, numbers, pointless gesturesa thousand words. However, if you combine a picture with an additional 4 or 5 well-chosen words, you get the best cartoon I’ve seen for some time.
Tagged humorThere have been some interesting bits of speculation at the Gormogons about a number of odd diplomatic occurrences related to Iran’s nuclear weapons program, Israel’s potential responses, seemingly inexplicable American foreign policy activities that may or may not be related, etc. While I’m not sure about the conclusion, this article provides some food for thought [...]
Tagged foreign policyI have spent a fair amount of my life chasing after the “Know Thyself” advice allegedly inscribed at the Temple of Apollo at Delphi. While there is a certain chicken and egg dimension to the issue (am I naturally self-absorbed and therefore predisposed to the “Know Thyself” quest, or has the quest created the consequence [...]
Tagged abuse of power, Obama, wtf?I don’t know, but today’s links have a common thread: art. First, a lovely painting (OK, it’s really just a cartoon) entitled ACARE from Diversity Lane which addresses the age-old moral dilemma of what is to become of newly unemployed ACORN staff. Second, another great piece from Iowahawk entitled Earn Big $$$ the NEA way! [...]
Tagged abuse of power, ethics, health care, humor, wordsmithingI guess this is just “Dad” talking, but I’ve really enjoyed watching Rat Jr. become more politically aware and seeing how her political thought has evolved over the past few years. Thankfully she seems amazingly unafflicted by most the socialist, utopian crap that was bubbling around in my head, preventing rational thought when I was [...]
Tagged quotes, wtf?There’s an excellent article over at the Gormogons that answers the question of why, if Obama is popular in other parts of the world, do those other parts of the world still hate America? Short version: The Fallacy of Foreign Policy Egocentrism. Well worth a read.
Tagged foreign policy, ObamaSometimes, as I’m reading the stuff that comes up in my RSS reader (I use Brief, a Firefox browser extension, in case you were wondering), I run onto posts that I think I want to write about but, either I don’t have time at the time, or I’m not sure what I’m going to say [...]
Tagged health care, Nanny State, pointless gestures, workplaceRatlands is using WP-Gravatar