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WELL, THEY’VE ruined a lot of other perfectly good words.

ANOTHER RANDOM THOUGHT: Has it occurred to anyone that the environmental movement always emphasizes risks that support their political ambitions for more environmental regulation - and ignore those that don’t (nothing to see here; move along now)?

Following that train of thought, mightn’t it be better for the American public to have smaller, less ‘regulatory-able’ federal and state governments? With a lessened ability of activists to achieve their ambitions via regulation, we might then be privy to more realistic risk assessment of our lifestyle choices.

FLORIDA LEGISLATURE accidentally outlaws sex. I’d recommend that the legislators get real jobs, but the evidence suggests that they’re not qualified.

BETTER LATE THAN NEVER: 50th anniversary of the first American manned spaceflight by Alan Shepard.

“THE FUNDAMENTAL FLAW at the core of ObamaCare is the mistaken belief that the government can spend your dollars more effectively than you can. This tragically pessimistic belief views all Americans with suspicion as either incompetent or unrighteous but either way in need of big-government control.”

Read it all.

AUGMENTED REALITY: when ordinary reality just isn’t enough. Progressives' Nirvana.

THIS IS AMUSING: follow this link (www.DNCcrybabies.com).

MAYBE THIS GREEN ENERGY THINGY isn’t so great after all. It’s a lesson the environmentalists are just beginning to learn - you can never do just one thing.

JEFF JACOBY on raising the national debt ceiling: "[R]eaching the federal debt limit will not plunge the federal government into default. 'Hitting the ceiling means that we can spend only what we collect in taxes,' wrote former Assistant Treasury Secretary Emil Henry in The Wall Street Journal..... Federal tax revenue for 2011 is expected to be $2.2 trillion, while net interest on the debt will cost $225 billion. With so much money coming in, the United States will have no trouble paying its creditors."

So tighten the belt. We can live on a mere $2.2 trillion.

WHEN JIMMY CARTER IS YOUR BEST-CASE SCENARIO, you're in trouble.

UNCIVIL WAR: States’ Attorneys General Rip Into Union-Controlled NLRB in Letter.

As Attorneys General of our respective states, we call upon you ... to withdraw immediately the complaint ... against Boeing. This complaint represents an assault upon the constitutional right of free speech, and the ability of our states to create jobs and recruit industry. Your ill-conceived retaliatory action seeks to destroy our citizens’ right to work.

Unless you work for a union, of course.

I SHOULD BE HAPPY: "the principal function of our national government is to transfer wealth from the young and the middle-aged to the elderly. Such transfers currently account for around $1.159 trillion, nearly one-half trillion more than we spend for national defense, and far more than any other category of the budget."

Read the comments, especially the one by Gregory Czapanskiy.

IN SOCCER, IT'S AN "OWN GOAL": Obama's Medicare chief inadvertently makes case for Ryan plan.

CENTER FOR AMERICAN PROGRESS: Storms kill over 250 Americans is states represented by climate pollution deniers. The Washington Examiner's Conn Carroll comments.

HMM. THE AIR FORCE has "issued a call for help making a miniature drone that could covertly drop a mysterious and unspecified tracking 'dust' onto people, allowing them to be tracked from a distance. The proposal says its useful for all kinds of random things, from identifying friendly forces and civilians to tracking wildlife. But the motive behind a covert drone tagger likely has less to do with sneaking up on spotted owls and more to do with painting a target on the backs of tomorrow’s terrorists."

FRANK & ERNEST solve the deficit problem. Cartoonist Bob Thaves may have gotten the idea from here.

RELEASE THE DEATH PHOTOS: an interesting pair of letters from the Washington Post. In the first, the attitude is “don’t release the photos, but I don’t trust the administration, someone should look at them” and in the second “I fail to understand why some people feel entitled to know and see everything” - which is exactly the point of those who want the photos released.

Release the photos (they’re going to come out anyway; either officially or by leak). It’s time to quit kowtowing to the “sensibilities” of the Arab street. If they get mad and want want to “kill infidels”, that’s fine, but they really ought to consider who has the bigger guns.

AWARENESS BOY: Senator Schumer would fit right in on the R.U. Sirius.

More here.

MORE PLEASE: South Carolina taking on Fed’s light bulb ban. Why not? Fair’s fair; the federal government has been ignoring us for years, it’s time to ignore them for a change.