Thursday, March 07, 2013

GUN CONTROL thought for the day:
Participating in a gun-buyback program because you believe that the criminals have too many guns is like having yourself castrated because you believe that the neighbors have too many kids.
From my email.
SO WOULD I: "I’d like to see the Public Health community work on this sort of, you know, actual public health matter instead of focusing on trendy political subjects like guns and soda."
FLORIDA HOUSE may block ObamaCare's Medicaid expansion endorsed by Gov. Rick Scott.
WASHINGTON POST: Organizing for Action should be renamed Paying for Access.
EX-POLITICIAN schools Nobel Laureate about economics.
THINGS YOU DON'T NEED TO KNOW: Pilot farts can be dangerous. But if you're flying economy class, go ahead.
SO WILL NFL TEAMS start moving to low-tax states?
POLICE: "You're on your own."
MAYOR McNANNY: Bloomberg to target teens wearing 'loud' earbuds. Doesn't he have some streets to sweep or garbage to pick up?
THOMAS SOWELL on economic mobility: "We should be concerned with the economic fate of flesh-and-blood human beings, not waxing indignant over the fate of abstract statistical brackets. Unless, of course, we are hustling for an expansion of the welfare state."
TSA RELAXES carry-on ban of small knives; flight attendants upset. Silly me; I would have thought they would happy to have 'armed' passengers.

I note with some amusement that the pocket knife I carry today, a 50-year-old knife once carried by my father, would be illegal to carry on an aircraft even under the new rules because it was one of the first to be marketed with a 'safety' (locking) blade.
BLOOMBERG CITY, as seen by Dunkin' Donuts. Oh, the agony....
ONE-SENTENCE EDITORIAL: "A pen in the hand of this president is far more dangerous than a gun in the hands of 200 million law-abiding citizens." From the Peoria (IL) Journal Star (2/21/13).
CAMERA CHIP makes already-compressed images. Reading the article, it strikes me that we're moving back to analog processing and dumb terminals (where the actual processing is performed outside the smart phone).
I CAN LIVE WITH THIS....



....especially if it's Harry Reid's Senate over the sinkhole.

ERIC HOLDER: You betcha. The President can authorize a drone strike within the U.S. boundaries.
PILOT REPORTS mystery black ‘drone’ at JFK airport.
"IMAGINE A GOVERNMENT AGENCY with only two tasks: (1) building statues of Benedict Arnold and (2) providing life-saving medications to children. If this agency's budget were cut, what would it do?"
JAIL SENTENCES for teaching sentences. It's about control. It's always about control.
OH PLEASE, throw me in that briar patch: If Democrats Want to Solve the Sequester, They Should Move Left. On one thing at least, this article is correctRepublicans have been, and should remain, the party of smaller government.
LOSER, NOT LEADER: Obama is all politics, all the time.
LAWRENCE KUDLOW: Sequestration is good for the economy.