The TSA says there are no children on the the ‘no-fly’ and ‘selectee’ lists. Yet, little Mikey Hicks (a frequent flyer), has been getting patted and searched since he was 2. Is it any wonder that I find these lists and their proposed expanded usage troublesome.
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Let the Prizes for Good Intentions Commence
With the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize last night, I wish to announce the following intentions:
- I intend to invent practical cold fusion. People will be able to build home electricity generation systems for less than $100. Where’s my physics prize?
- I intend to get a perfect score in the next Olympic archery competition. Where’s my gold medal?
- I also intend to get perfect scores in all of the other Olympic shooting sports. Where’s my other gold medals?
- I intend to buy a ticket for tonight’s mega-millions lottery drawing that has the winning numbers. Where’s my check?
Look, if President Obama had achieved anything he is working international peace and diplomacy, I would say he has earned the prize. The problem is, he hasn’t achieved anything, for now. I don’t blame his getting this award on President Obama. I blame it on the fawning worship way to many people have for the man. Though, if I was in his shoes, I would be turning it down and saying I didn’t deserve this award.
Edit:
Since I can not reply to comments on my LiveJournal while at work, I am adding some additional items here:
- The Nobel Peace Prize is not about campaign promises, it is about bringing peaceful resolutions to conflicts. So, I don’t care about how many campaign promises he has kept. That’s not the issue here.
- If he truly feels that he does not deserve the prize, why didn’t he turn it down.
- I am currently attempting to find an article that backs this up. But, he was apparently nominated on January 19, 2009 (close of nominations is February 1). This certainly points to other reasons for his winning the prize.
- I’ll add one other thought. I wonder how much of the prize is for the simple fact that he is not George Bush?
A Couple of Things This Morning
1. I heard something on the radio that I think would be a good thing to add to the government healthcare bill. In order to keep your government coverage, you would be required to have an annual physical as part of a preventative healthcare regimen. This would hopefully keep the costs down by catching problems early.
2. You can’t finance a car if your name is on the terrorist watch list. The summary of the story is, a man who is working at a famous medical school and has an 815 credit score can not borrow any money in this country because his name is similar to one on the terrorist watch list. Once again, people are being punished without the due process of law. The terrorist watch list is wrong and needs to be abolished.
Now That’s How You Prove a Point
Pheonix Man Kills Himself in Gun Safety Demonstration
A 26-year-old Phoenix man accidentally killed himself early Sunday while explaining gun safety to two Sierra Vista residents.Samuel Benally Jr. was at an apartment on West Tacoma Street when he said guns should be kept unloaded because people could point them at their heads, said Sierra Vista police Sgt. Brett Mitchell.Benally then demonstrated by putting his own 9mm Ruger, which he believed to be unloaded, to his head and firing it, Mitchell said.
The first rule of gun safety is, treat all firearms as if they are loaded. This guy was a moron.
Texas Is Apparently Not One of the 57 States
Apparently, Hillary Clinton considers Texas a foreign country. So, we don’t need to worry about seceding from the USA, the State Department already cut us loose.
More and more, I am finding myself calling the current administration the Amateur Hour.
They Just Don’t Get It
Apparently, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi was on Good Morning America (I can not find a direct link to the transcript, this is the video) saying that they needed to get a compromise on a new assault weapons ban that includes registration and prohibit the transportation of weapons across state lines. First of all, those who believe in the Second Amendment as an individual right compromised from 1934 to 1994. We are sick of compromising. Here is a novel approach. How about going after those who intentionally break the law and punish them to the fullest extent of the law.
As to registration, why? Registration will not solve or prevent any crimes. Will the money from firearms registration be used to pay for free public ranges the way the money from vehicle registration does? The only reason I can see to register firearms is to take them away at a later date. If they want compromise, are they willing to accept the registration of printers, printing presses, and other means of using your First Amendment rights?
Also, why do they want to ban the interstate transportation of firearms? Are firearms that are legally transported across state lines that big of a problem?
I Can Not Make This Crap Up
A woman in New York was struck and killed by an arrow. Below is a headline from a New Your Paper:
Blackhawk 4000 Arrow in Bronx Incident: a horrifying missile of destruction
They have the coack of a women’s archery team shoot a similar arrow through a bag of flour, a watermelon and into a mannequin at 10 yards. Just about any modern bow is capable of doing this with about any arrow. Yet, the article makes it sound like these hrrifically overpowered arrows are the problem. I have news for these people, it’s not the arrow that is the problem. The problem is the idiot who shot the arrow at something without a proper backstop.
I Am Horrified by This
13-year-old boy is a father of a newborn baby girl
Baby-faced Alfie, who is 13 but looks more like eight, became a father four days ago when his girlfriend Chantelle Steadman gave birth to 7lb 3oz Maisie Roxanne.
He told how he and Chantelle, 15, decided against an abortion after discovering she was pregnant.
Neither one is mature enough to realize the enormity of what they have done and what they have in front of them.
Ahhh…. Government Mandates
Problems Plague U.S. Flex-Fuel Fleet
Under a mandate from Congress, federal agencies have gradually increased their fleets of alternative-fuel vehicles, a majority of them “flex-fuel,” capable of running on either gasoline or ethanol-based E85 fuel. But many of the vehicles were sent to locations hundreds of miles from any alternative fueling sites, the analysis shows.
As a result, more than 92 percent of the fuel used in the government’s alternative-fuel fleet continues to be standard gasoline. A 2005 law — meant to align the vehicles with alternative-fuel stations — now requires agencies to seek waivers when a vehicle is more than five miles or 15 minutes from an ethanol pump.
The latest generations of alternative vehicles have compounded the problem. Often, the vehicles come only with larger engines than the ones they replaced in the fleet. Consequently, the federal program — known as EPAct — has sometimes increased gasoline consumption and emission rates, the opposite of what was intended.
The Postal Service illustrates the problem. It estimates that its 37,000 newer alternative-fuel delivery vans, which can run on high-grade ethanol, consumed 1.5 million additional gallons of gasoline last fiscal year because of the larger engines.
The vehicles that would allow the agency to meet federal mandates were available in six- and eight-cylinder models — not the four-cylinder variety it traditionally purchased. Alternative fuel was used less than 1 percent of the time in 2007-2008.
