News Roundup

Who will win in November? Good question, but most likely the "experts" will be wrong again. They were for McCain then said he was dead politically and now he is the Republican nominee. Clinton was the Democratic nominee the pundits said and Obama was only testing the waters or looking for a VP slot. Now he is the likely nominee. It will be interesting to watch.

Obama takes a cheap shot at McCain on the Senate floor. Of course the bill being voted on didn't need Obama's vote to pass, its popular legislation. The more controversial bills where his vote could make a difference are a different matter.

As the 1970's theme song goes "Don't do the crime if you can't do the time". Poor little boy is whining he doesn't like jail and doesn't know how he will survive 8 months of it.

A reminder on who said there were WDM in Iraq and when.

Have a good weekend and remember Monday is Memorial Day, make it more then just a day off work or school. Remember why we have the day and who made the day and our country possible.

Opps

ID-protection ads come back to bite pitchman

SAN JOSE, Calif. - Todd Davis has dared criminals for two years to try stealing his identity: Ads for his fraud-prevention company, LifeLock, even offer his Social Security number next to his smiling mug.

Now, Lifelock customers in Maryland, New Jersey and West Virginia are suing Davis, claiming his service didn't work as promised and he knew it wouldn't, because the service had failed even him.

Ouch.

Stupidity

Struggling Ohio village mulls income tax to get share of lottery winner's payout

AMELIA, Ohio (AP) — Officials in the southwest Ohio village of Amelia say they are resisting the urge to quickly pass a local income tax to get a share of the $196 million lottery ticket that was sold there. The windfall could mean more than $1 million to the struggling village of about 4,000 people east of Cincinnati. But Mayor Leroy Ellington says he wants to hear what residents have to say before the village council decides.

Questions:
1. What is to prevent the winner from moving before collecting the ticket?
2. Retroactive laws are not constitutional and
3. If the government promises no one else will get taxed except the "rich", well that was how they got the amendment to the constitution approved for income taxes, only the rich will be taxed.

Do you feel rich?

Simply Amazing

The currency of the United States discriminates against blind people the courts have ruled.

It also discriminates those who are color blind and illiterate or do not know how to read Arabic numbers.

And judges and lawyers wonder why people seem to think Shakespeare's line "The first thing to do to improve society is to kill all the lawyers", while often taken out of context is not such a bad idea in theory.

More feel good environmentalism. Wind is clean, coal is dirty energy. Of course no one is counting how much energy was used to build the wind farm verses the coal plant in their calculation.

The Anti-Human Agenda

Go read the article, very good.

A tongue-in-cheek comment from my university said if we could just get rid of the students it would be a great place to work. Some environmentalists think if we could just get rid of all the people on the planet it would be a great place to live. Generally over-population is a major part of the environmentalists’ argument that humans are causing all the problems, including climate change. Satire is a good measure of this position typified by the bumper sticker that says, “Save the Planet, Kill Yourself.”

Ironman

Well tonight I did something I rarely do. In fact, I think I was in college the last time I did this.

I went to a movie on opening night.

Normally I manage to go to 1 movie every 2 years, and those are usually discount tickets shows.

But this was worth the price of admission. The movie was fun and yes the good guy won (if you were hoping the bad guys would win, this is Marvel comics not Animal Farm).

So wife and I enjoyed the movie and made for a nice date night, especially after the crazy weeks we both had.

Go see the movie, but leave your 5 year old's at home, they will get bored in parts and scared in others. But for the rest of us, its a fun picture to see.

May Day

May 1st is Labor Day for most of the rest of the world. The US will celebrate it on September 1 this year. One reason we don't celebrate it with the rest of the world is political. The communists basically co-opted the day long ago and turned it into a day for pro-communit parades and propaganda.

Much of Western Europe and parts of Asia adopted May 1 as its labor day due to the efforts of the socialists parties in those countries.

Today, most of the people who are celebrating May 1 as labor day think about politics and what this day symbolizes about as much as Americans think about politics and what September 1 symbolizes when we celebrate our labor day. There will be some politics but most people are more concerned about getting away for the long weekend and will be on the road or at friends house or hosting a BBQ for friends.

That is your political and historical trivia for the day.

For those of us living in the Western United States, good news on the snow pack. The Colorado River will start to refill this year which is good.