Friday, June 15, 2012

ENTITLEMENT GENERATION: I'm voting for Obama because he'll provide me with free sex contraception for the rest of my life.

Ask not what you can do for your country, ask what your country can do for you.
TECHNOLOGY: Quantum Dots Are Behind New Displays.
BETTER LATE THAN NEVER: Francis Gary Powers awarded posthumous Silver Star.
I GUESS the last person leaving California won't have to turn out the lights after all.
FINE WINE: now from New Jersey.
LEADERSHIP DOES MATTER. "The example set at the top is reflected in the behavior of others all the way down the chain of command. It is OK to disclose legitimate secrets that threaten our national security, put the lives of others in jeopardy, compromise sensitive operational capabilities and wreck relations with allies -- as long as the O-Team looks good in the leak."
BLOOMBERG: "[I]f government's purpose isn't to improve the health and longevity of its citizens, I don't know what its purpose is."



If Mayor Bloomberg doesn't know what the purpose of government is, then he damn well should not be in government.
ANOTHER BUMPER STICKER I'D LIKE TO SEE.

BRETT KIMBERLIN and the left-wing money-machine.
TAKE AWAY THE ABILITY TO FIRE PEOPLE, and you have airport security, public schools, Veterans Administration hospitals, the Postal Service, General Motors and Pinch Sulzberger, New York Times family scion.

To see how it relates to health 'care', follow the link above.
PRIVACY, viewed from the Left and Right.

WE'RE GONNA DIE unless we kill ourselves.
Society globally has to collectively decide that we need to drastically lower our population very quickly. More of us need to move to optimal areas at higher density and let parts of the planet recover. Folks like us have to be forced to be materially poorer, at least in the short term. We also need to invest a lot more in creating technologies to produce and distribute food without eating up more land and wild species. It’s a very tall order.
For grins, read some of the comments. This came from a Linked In discussion topic by someone who is "[t]rying to save civilization before it is too late".
LISTENING to bad advice.
GOOD GRIEF.



Translation: No to 4 more years of excuses. More here.
NOW THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION is backing out of the EU's emission trading system for aircraft flying to or through the European Union.
TERROR AS A TACTIC: the danger of SWATing.
OBAMA’S PRESIDENCY can fit into one tweet with #characterstospare: Failure.
FLYING ROBOT THAT CAN CRASH, RECOVER, AND KEEP FLYING:



Here's the Popular Science article.
WE HAVEN'T DROWNED YET: Obama Brags About Treading Water.
GOP MESSAGE: Untying Hands of Energy Developers will Help Economy Do ‘Fine’.
House Republicans will be ready to use President Obama’s gaffe about the private sector “doing fine” when they bring their Domestic Energy and Jobs Act to the floor for a vote next week.
[snip]
The package of bills — all of which passed out of committee with bipartisan support — pushed by [GOP Whip Kevin] McCarthy’s House Energy Action Team are intended to spur job growth while lowering energy costs.
So watch the Senate for any signs of  'bipartisan' support.
BOSCH introduces new autonomous robotic lawnmower.