Great White Snark has the Venn diagram
| |||||
An unidentified intruder violated US airspace today, had not filed a flight plan, and refused to identify himself. DHS was forced to send unmanned drones to shot down the invader. Clear signs of socialist intent were found in the wreckage, with supposedly free toys for children. Authorities say he may have been looking for prostitutes, [...] Ambrose Bierce wrote in his Devil’s Dictionarythat “Radicalism is the Conservativism of tomorrow, injected into the affairs of today.” One of the joys of aging is to have been a radical in one’s youth, to continue to be a radical, and to be proven right (or in my case, be proven left?) about past ideas [...] My commentary relates to this article which is running in the Los Angeles Weekly: http://www.laweekly.com/2011-12-22/news/eric-bauman-l-a-democratic-party-kingmaker/#disqus_thread The accusation that Eric Bauman is “Macchiavellian” is based on the unstated premise that Macchiavelli wrote in The Prince that “The ends justify the means.” Macchiavelli never wrote that phrase and if Eric is Macchiavellian, it is because his long [...] If that damned pipeline the Republicans instructed President Obama to make an “expedited decision within sixty days” about is amongst those “14 provisions that he said infringed upon his power to conduct foreign affairs…” The omnibus gets a signing statement When President Obama signed a budget bill on Friday, he issued a signing statement claiming a right to bypass [...] BBC The 1 MW tidal turbine will power a computer data center and is 75 feet high and weighs 1430 tons. The blades move slowly, so there should be no danger to aquatic life. This is a commercial application, not a test. While 1 MW is small compared to wind turbines (some offshore turbines [...] Emissions reduction is up to 50 percent and fuel savings up to 35 percent for these diesel-elctric buses. They pay for themselves in 5-7 years. More at Cleantechnica. Privacy advocates are suing the Homeland Security Department to obtain information on a program that monitors the social media interactions of citizens following a federal vendor’s private sector plans to sabotage certain groups’ online activities with similar technology. |  | ||||
Copyright © 2012 Politics in the Zeros - All Rights Reserved | |||||
Recent Comments