Archive of entries posted on 18th July 2013

How to Make Your Warm Soda Ice-Cold in 2 Minutes

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With global warming (aka “summer”) afflicting us all, here’s a handy tip to fix that “I don’t have time to wait for this soda to cool off in the fridge” problem:


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By the way, if you don’t want to wait the 5 long minutes suggested in the video, stir the water/ice/salt mixture vigorously for 2 minutes, and you’re done. Faster fluid flow rate gives you better heat transfer. SCIENCE!

Obama Warned Us – Tax Code

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We’ve got a tax code that is encouraging flight of jobs and outsourcing. And that’s why we’ve specifically recommended … that Congress change our tax code so that we stop giving tax breaks to companies that are moving to Mexico and China and other places, and start putting those tax breaks into companies that are investing here in the United States.

BARACK OBAMA, debate, Oct. 12, 2004

“Technically, a bankrupt solar power firm isn’t shipping jobs overseas.”

What’s with the courts starting to make sense?

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ConstitutionThe courts in the U.S. have long been known for making stuff up as they go along. Like the Right to Abortion that they insist is in the Constitution.

The courts are like the Pharisees of old. Remember how they somehow found that you could only walk so far on the Sabbath? Or could spit on a rock but not the ground? That came about by taking the Ten Commandments, making interpretations for certain circumstances, then expanding on those circumstances and elevating those new laws to the level of the original Commandments. They didn’t go back to the original Law and ask if something was in the letter or spirit of the original Law.

And that’s what our courts have been doing. But recently, there have been smatterings of common sense. And I’m not sure what to think about that.

Another court has ruled that the president has violated the Constitution with recess appointments. Recess appointments are allowed, but can only be done when the Senate is … get this … in recess.

That’s the third court to make such a ruling, and the Supreme Court gets the case in their next session.

A court making sense? My view of the world will never be the same.

The sun hates black people

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20130716-cmeNASA says the sun has fired a shot at the earth. Since the sun is so far away, it’ll take a couple of days for the coronal mass ejection to reach the planet, and we don’t know for sure what damage it’ll do, if anything. Probably nothing more than screw up a satellite or two.

And that’s the problem. The NSA uses satellites as part of its tracking of Americans, and if the sun is screwing with that, it means the sun must hate Obama. And that makes the sun racist.

There could also be aurora when the charged particles hit the upper atmosphere. And who’ll see that? People way up north. Eskimos, Canadians, and other snow-dwellers. Not a lot of black people. So, the pretty lights in the sky? Not for blacks. Because the sun is racist.

That storm that flooded New Orleans a while back? You remember Hurricane Katrina, right? Well, you know what started that storm? Besides George Bush and Karl Rove? The sun. It heated up the water and then did some science stuff and then a Hurricane started and killed a bunch of black people. Because the sun is racist.

We need to take action against the sun and make it stop being racist. How do we do that?

Twitter.

Or maybe Facebook.

I think if we use social media to bring attention to the sun’s racism, we can make it stop being racist. Or at least get Obama to raise the sun tax so it isn’t able to afford to be racist.

Sometimes the simplest solutions are the best.