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Archive of entries posted on 19th February 2014
That Paper’s Not Going to Stack Itself, You Know
The director of the Defense Intelligence Agency said that the documents stolen by Edward Snowden, if printed out, would make a stack “more than 3 miles high”.
I’m just surprised Obama hasn’t proposed that as a jobs programs.
No Matter How Hard You Try, It’s Still Not Complicated
Link of the Day: Here’s Your Sign
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You’re going to need this reference link if you weren’t on the internet 10 years ago.
Oh, and a reference link for my title.
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Wisdom of the Day: Billion CBO House Supplies
I don't want a car that gets more than 60 miles per gallon, I want a government that gets more than 3 hours per billion.
— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) February 18, 2014
White House: Don't listen to the CBO. We prefer the economists who said the stimulus would give us 5% unemployment by 2014.
— Political Math (@politicalmath) February 18, 2014
First off, I didn't "burn down" your tree house. I cut down the tree and the house happened to fall into a fire I set separately.
— Matt Roller (@rolldiggity) February 18, 2014
Saw a guy in an electric wheelchair try to cross a flooded street and my Oregon Trail experience told me he was about to lose his supplies
— Brian Essbe (@SortaBad) February 19, 2014
Risky Business
A new report shows that Americans lead the world in gambling losses, at $119 billion.
Sounds kinda low. What about what we lost on that double-or-nothing bet on Obama in 2012?
Obama Warned Us – Mail Call
When I took office, I decided that each night I would read 10 letters out of the tens of thousands that are sent to us by ordinary Americans every day –- this is my modest effort to remind myself of why I ran in the first place. Some of these letters tell stories of heartache and struggle. Some express gratitude, some express anger. I’d say a good solid third call me an idiot — which is how I know that I’m getting a good, representative sample.
BARACK OBAMA, remarks at University of Michigan, May 1, 2010
“It also told me that I’m still suckering 2/3 of the American people.”
Straight Line of the Day: A New Report Shows That the Federal Government Adds a New Regulation Every 3 Hours. Also Every 3 Hours…
Works like this: I feed you Moon Nukers a straight line, and you hit me with a punch line in the comments.
A new report shows that the federal government adds a new regulation every 3 hours. Also every 3 hours…
Winter Olympics Primer: Bobsleigh
You may not be aware, but the Winter Olympics are still underway.
Apparently, there’s more than Curling going on. There’s also skiing. Not water skiing, but skiing on snow. And there’s a lot of that. And, there’s Bobsleigh. Some calls it Bobsledding. The Olympics call it Bobsleigh.
The four-man bobsleigh competition is the top of the various bobsleigh events. There’s two-man. There’s women’s competition. But, the big deal is the four-man bobsleigh. The competition begins soon, and the medals are awarded this coming weekend.
In preparation, we’re offering another primer on Olympic events. So, with a little Help! from our friends, we’ll explain the four-man bobsleigh competition.
Each team consists of four men, stacked like cordwood atop a sled. One wears a top hat.
The team must navigate down a hill of snow, all together.
It is permissible within the rules to lighten the load, allowing the team to increase speed, if you can ring the lasso of the Overhead Mad Scientists with the foot of the man on top.
If successful, the top man dangles overhead, allowing the other three to pick up speed.
When the rope breaks, he rejoins the others on the sled…
…and they continue downhill until they fall over.
When that happens, they mount skis, and finish the course by avoiding umbrella-carrying snowmen.
As they approach the end of the course, the lead snowman, with an umbrella flamethrower…
…lights the team’s ski poles on fire.
The team then reaches the end of the course, and orders a ticket to London. First team to Heathrow wins.
Enjoy the rest of the Olympics.
Random Thoughts: PBS, Minimum Wage, and Voltron
Government didn’t step in to save Firefly, so unless something on PBS or NPR is better than Firefly, I don’t see why my tax dollars should go to it.
Where did the president get the idea he can make innovation happen in a determined number of years? Guess he plays a lot of Civilization.
If you mess up a RoboCop reboot, you should just not be allowed to make movies ever again.
Math hates a minimum wage increase and all our entitlement spending, but no one elected Math so I don’t know why we’d listen to it.
But I just saw Obama claiming a minimum wage increase would create 140,000 jobs through wage-magic or something.
If you needed the CBO to tell you a minimum wage increase would cost jobs, please please stay out of politics.
So a minimum wage increase would cost jobs for the benefit of making mainly middle-class teenagers wealthier.
Obama’s war on job-lock is going pretty well, actually.
Why can’t multiple tanks form together to make a giant tank robot? Has no defense contractor ever seen Voltron?
“Have we tried reversing the polarity? I don’t know of what; whatever has a polarity.” -me trying to be helpful in a Star Trek episode
“If we raise the prices on goods, people will buy even more of them!” -Obama’s economists, I assume
“I have a Nobel Prize; you’ll do as I tell you!” -Paul Krugman yelling at a math textbook
Why Do Democrats Always Have This Problem?
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel says he needs to borrow $900 million for his city.
Who does he think he is? A solar panel company?