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Nerd talks to two women at once, world fails to end. Film at eleven.
Nerd talks to two women at once, world fails to end. Film at eleven.
Case study: Connecticut. The Democrats have a veto-proof majority in both houses of the legislature. We have a Republican governor however. And there are defections among the Democratic ranks because of her threatened veto.
Democrats in the State Senate have approved a budget that will increase taxes in Connecticut by 2.5 billion dollars. That’s a little over $700 for every man, woman and child in the state. Of course, it’s only targeting the “rich”, so why should anyone care?
Simple. When the taxes get too high on producers and employers, they vote with their feet. Connecticut can ill afford further job losses in the private sector. Why do I say private sector? Because public sector jobs are parasitic by nature. Public sector jobs are paid for exclusively through taxation, and therefore require a robust private sector for their funding.
And one of Connecticut’s problems is this – we have too many government employees. State and local governments alone — not including people who live and work in Connecticut for the federal government — employ nearly a quarter of a million people. That works out to about 6,450 government employees for every 100,000 residents of the state! Compare with Massachusetts, which has about 50% more government employees, but nearly double the population — it works out to about 4,950/100,000.
Of course, the Democrats answer is always the same: government must not do with less.
So they will raise taxes, businesses and capital will flee, and the middle class will be left holding the bag.
Well, we are pretty much guaranteed that the Waxman-Markey Cap and Trade bill will pass the house tomorrow. Republicans had no say in the bill, they weren’t allowed into the room during the debate. No amendments were heard. No dissent brooked. And the Democrats haven’t read the bill.
They’ll pass it anyway.
They’ve even called it the largest tax increase in history. They don’t even have to lie about it any more.
We cannot stop them. The Republicans, even if they had the will, do not have the votes. The Democrats are completely on board with this nonsense. The bulk of them are true believers in “Global Climate Change”, and the ones who know it’s bunk are all for destroying industries that haven’t tithed them heavily enough.
Which is why you’ll notice that ethanol gets a pass and coal takes it up the ass.
We are all Chicagoans now.
I’ve got something in my back yard I haven’t seen in years. Lightning bugs! Little green dots blinking all through the trees. If I didn’t have a street light in my line of sight, I’d be able to enjoy them a little more.
Good to know they’re still around.
You can see your breath and it’s 66 degrees out.
One of these days, I’m not going to have one of those days.
But liars figure.
Just got a robocall – an automated survey on “health care reform”.
First question – “Press one if you have insurance through your employer or your spouse’s employer. Press two if you are uninsured or on Medicare or Medicaid.”
I pressed 0 and it hung up on me.
But if you want to know where that stupid fucking “47 million uninsured” shit comes from, this is it. Lump all the Medicare and Medicaid in with uninsureds, and leave no option for self-insureds (even if I had an actual insurance policy, it would still not be “through” my employer, I’m self-employed).
I’m experimenting with the X31. Figured I’d toss a new drive in it and put Windows 7 on there. The vista drivers for power and other stuff don’t work, of course.
Lenovo has drivers for the Windows 7 Beta/RC.
I don’t remember seeing this happen for the Vista release. Maybe MS finally got their shit together and has the hardware vendors getting ready to support older hardware on the new OS. That would be quite a change, eh?
Oh, so far? Windows 7 runs fine on a 6 year old laptop.
Argentine glacier says “What global warming?”
How many times does a “scientific” theory need to be falsified before the scientists go back to the drawing board?
It would appear that in the case of Anthropogenic Climate Change (the phenomenon formerly known as Global Warming™) that there is no amount of counter-evidence sufficient to require a review of the premises of the theory.
At this point, the warmists are just winging it and hoping that nobody notices.
Norton Ghost. Epic Fail. Four tries to simply migrate and expand a disc.
Linux, dd command. First try, win. Followed up with a little Partition Magic, and we now have 140 GB free.
Lesson – reach for the Fedora first.