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Obama Warned Us – Government

We’ve been fighting about the proper size and role of government since the day the Framers gathered in Philadelphia…. But what troubles me is when I hear people say that all of government is inherently bad…. When our government is spoken of as some menacing, threatening foreign entity, it ignores the fact that in our democracy, government is us.

BARACK OBAMA, remarks at University of Michigan, May 1, 2010

“Although, with me as President, technically government IS a menacing, threatening, foreign entity.”

Random Thoughts: DeForest, Koch, and the Winter Olympics

When Gary Oldman is a really old man, I’m going to make a pun.

Beer index is pretty interesting. How bad can minimum wage be here if we’re one of the easiest places to earn a beer?

I think something people don’t factor in is that food is a lot cheaper in the U.S. than a lot of other first world countries.

Think Michael Brendan Dougherty makes a great point here. I’ve been the eyerolling Christian before, and I don’t find it a strength.

My biggest failing as a father so far is that my daughter has yet to see Frozen 🙁

Probably a little late on this, but wouldn’t DeForest Kelley have been a good name for a Captain Planet villain?

Actually, what the hell kind of first name is “DeForest”?

How powerful are the Koch brothers if they couldn’t keep an incompetent failure from being reelected as president during a bad economy?

Just a couple more Transformers movies, and Michael Bay should finally figure out how to make one watchable.

What annoyed me about Bob Costas’s gun rant was how he said things everyone’s heard a million times like it was new and interesting. Made him seem very isolated from others’ opinions.

Vladimir Putin seems very insecure. He strikes me as a big Nickleback fan.

Great new idea I want to pitch: Fall Olympics

I bet it’s easy to find people to play D&D with on the Virgin Islands.

Has Russia ever thanked us for not nuking them?

Is it really a Great Britain anymore?

It apparently takes more than a couple decades to get over Communism.

Russia should really join Germany’s support group on getting over being evil.

New winter sport idea: snow boxing

Maybe incoherent madmen are just people whose brains have bad autocorrect.

I hate to say it, but most of these countries are absolutely pointless and in a free market would not exist.

I hope we’ve all learned that just because a nation is full of white people doesn’t mean it’s a first world country.

If modern day Liam Neeson had starred in Schindler’s List, it would have been about him single-handedly killing all the Nazis.

Like Liam Neeson, I hope to become a badass when I’m an old man.

In Soviet Russia, torch lights you.

So what is Josh Barro? Did some site find an angry troll from their comments and made him a columnist?

Sounds like this Dong Nguyen is basically the J. D. Salinger of iOS games.

Poor guy just wants to make video games; he doesn’t want to be bothered with lots of people playing them.

If the Olympics wants better ratings, they need to get Simon Cowell as one of the judges.

I have a good slogan for a place that teaches figure skating: Go Figure

iTunes software for Windows is Apple’s portrait of Dorian Gray, where all the buggy programming absent their other stuff resides.

“I’ve made sadness into a color; I call it beige. Let’s use it for everything.” -conversation decades ago, I assume

Q. What’s a germaphobe’s least favorite country?
A. GERMany

Soon, maybe

MarsCraterTwenty years ago this summer, in July 1994, a comet known as Shoemaker-Levy 9 smashed into Jupiter. That was a big deal with scientists because they got to see just how big of a deal getting hit by a comet or asteroid was. I suppose if the dinosaurs were still around, they could have just asked them.

Last week, word came out that a meteorite had recently smashed into Mars. They’re not sure just when it hit. They think some time between July 2010 and May 2012. They don’t really know because they weren’t watching for it. NASA has been busy with Muslim outreach, and other scientists are too busy trying to prove that cold weather is a result of Global Warming.

Oh, and, in case you forgot about it, the Moon was hit last March.

So, what do these events, spanning 20 years, have in common?

Well, let’s look at them.

In 1994, Shoemaker-Levy 9 missed Earth by 400 million miles.

In 2010 or so, an asteroid missed Earth by 40 million miles.

In 2013, an asteroid missed Earth by a quarter-million miles.

Those of us that have decided the best thing would be to rooting for an asteroid strike? Take heart. The aim is getting better.