The redundancy in government is mind blowing. You would think loans and grants for energy come from the Department of Energy. Well, some do.
But why is the Department of Agriculture "investing" $63 million to support 264 energy projects? To promote American energy independence. Sure sounds like something that the Department of Energy should be doing.
In addition small business in rural areas are eligible. It appears that the business might not have to have anything to do with agriculture. Suddenly it seems that this program is also venturing into the territory of the Department of Commerce.
I do have to say that I am also a bit amused that these grants and loans can be used for geothermal energy production. Give me some money so I can drill through the mantel and harvest the awesome power of liquid magma!
Tuesday, August 11, 2015
Friday, August 7, 2015
Government Force on Children
You will do as you are told or there will be consequences.
Children that are 8 or 9 years old do not fit in handcuffs. So how do you put handcuffs on a child? Put their arms behind them and use the handcuffs above the elbow.
What could cause a child so young to be treated as such?
Obey the state or suffer the consequences.
Children that are 8 or 9 years old do not fit in handcuffs. So how do you put handcuffs on a child? Put their arms behind them and use the handcuffs above the elbow.
What could cause a child so young to be treated as such?
- Screaming in class
- Trying to leave an isolation room
- Not doing as you're told
Obey the state or suffer the consequences.
More Climate Change : the Other Side of the Argument
Even after this presentation one of the politicians still argues that since there are so many scientists that think climate change is a problem caused by man it must be true. He went into this with a closed mind.
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Tuesday, August 4, 2015
Burt Rutan on Global Warming
Bad-ass aerospace engineer Burt Rutan goes over his research into the data of global warming/climate change. Awesome presentation of the good of increased CO2 and destroying the consensus myth.
I support the police but...
The stupidity is incredible. Just incredible.
Here is the set of information that the Court and the police had:
A U.S. Circuit Judge recommended waiting a day or two to get a better understanding of whom was responsible.
What happened next?
The day after the court's recommendation the police sent in an 11 man SWAT team knocking down a door and throwing two flash bang grenades through an open window at, guess who's house? That right. The 68 year old woman's house.
The 68 year old woman and her 18 year old daughter, yes, the story says 18 year old daughter, were put in handcuffs and interrogated. After it was obvious they were not involved they were released.
What happened next?
The next day the police asked the other suspect, yes, asked, to come in for questioning.
The police justified the first assault because they thought there might be someone armed and dangerous inside the home.
Seriously. WTF?
Here is the set of information that the Court and the police had:
- The police were receiving online threats coming from a specific IP address
- The IP address belongs to a 68 year old woman's wifi network
- The woman's wifi network is unprotected
- Two houses down from the woman is a man with a history of making threats against the police
A U.S. Circuit Judge recommended waiting a day or two to get a better understanding of whom was responsible.
What happened next?
The day after the court's recommendation the police sent in an 11 man SWAT team knocking down a door and throwing two flash bang grenades through an open window at, guess who's house? That right. The 68 year old woman's house.
The 68 year old woman and her 18 year old daughter, yes, the story says 18 year old daughter, were put in handcuffs and interrogated. After it was obvious they were not involved they were released.
What happened next?
The next day the police asked the other suspect, yes, asked, to come in for questioning.
The police justified the first assault because they thought there might be someone armed and dangerous inside the home.
Seriously. WTF?
Monday, August 3, 2015
Apocalypse? NO!
Since the new Obama regulations on climate change were revealed today I figured I should start posting some of my favorite videos showing you information the press will not tell you about on the subject. Enjoy!
MoveOn.org tries to bailout Greece
This is just amusing and silly. MoveOn.org on their front page has a link to make donations to bail out Greece.
Does a non-profit organization think they have the support size to bail out a country? Are they so in the bag for socialism that they believe having a sound economic policy is a threat to their ideals?
This is just plain silliness.
Does a non-profit organization think they have the support size to bail out a country? Are they so in the bag for socialism that they believe having a sound economic policy is a threat to their ideals?
This is just plain silliness.
Friday, July 31, 2015
Catch 22 Healthcare
A new Nebraska hospital sued the Department of Health and Human Services over the accreditation process for Medicare.
Forty physicians unhappy with the local hospital made their own. However, the ACA delayed them for 18 months due to waiting for a study on the effects of physician-owned hospitals.
Next they were reviewed to see if they could get approved for Medicare. They were denied because during the review they had no Medicare inpatients and yet they can't take in Medicare inpatients without getting accredited.
Seriously. Who writes these freaking rules?
Forty physicians unhappy with the local hospital made their own. However, the ACA delayed them for 18 months due to waiting for a study on the effects of physician-owned hospitals.
Next they were reviewed to see if they could get approved for Medicare. They were denied because during the review they had no Medicare inpatients and yet they can't take in Medicare inpatients without getting accredited.
Seriously. Who writes these freaking rules?
Wednesday, July 29, 2015
Road Rage
Roads and transportation are just a rich subject right now. Line one from a blog post at transportation.gov has just set me off.
I would like a citation on "lags behind the rest of the world." Do we lag behind the three poorest countries: Malawi, Burundi, or Central African Republic?
The Secretary of U.S. Department of Transportation must not be aware of the internet. I did a quick search to see if there was a ranked list of expenditures on roads by countries and one popped up from 2013. Surprise, surprise. Guess who spends the most on roads? Here's the list:
I've recently posted how broken gas taxes and green car subsidies are. I just finished how California built a road at $130,000 per foot!
We are wasting money on roads left and right through bad policies and inefficiencies. Politicians just make blanket assertions about falling behind the world to squeeze more money out of us. We are only falling behind in smart spending.
This is like a social justice movement that has achieved its goals will say "we have come a long way, but there is much more to accomplish" without laying out what needs to be done or lies through statistics to make it look like they actually have not been successful.
We have been taxed too much. Stop lying to us to justify taxing us more. Spend the money wisely or start privatizing things we can privatize!
It's like they are no longer trying to hide their lies.
Today, our Nation's investment in transportation lags behind the rest of the world.
I would like a citation on "lags behind the rest of the world." Do we lag behind the three poorest countries: Malawi, Burundi, or Central African Republic?
The Secretary of U.S. Department of Transportation must not be aware of the internet. I did a quick search to see if there was a ranked list of expenditures on roads by countries and one popped up from 2013. Surprise, surprise. Guess who spends the most on roads? Here's the list:
| Country | $ in Millions |
| United States | $74,164 |
| Canada | $20,109 |
| Australia | $18,417 |
| France | $15,860 |
| Germany | $15,503 |
| Russia | $11,235 |
| Poland | $11,108 |
| Spain | $7,893 |
| Turkey | $6,918 |
| United Kingdom | $6,872 |
| Mexico | $5,223 |
| Romania | $4,383 |
| Norway | $3,637 |
| Netherlands | $3,053 |
| Azerbaijan | $2,085 |
| Czech Republic | $1,727 |
| Finland | $1,244 |
| New Zealand | $1,121 |
| Ireland | $618 |
| Slovakia | $576 |
| Bulgaria | $459 |
| Lithuania | $457 |
| Serbia | $452 |
| Latvia | $299 |
| Luxembourg | $293 |
| Georgia | $288 |
| Albania | $280 |
| Estonia | $210 |
I've recently posted how broken gas taxes and green car subsidies are. I just finished how California built a road at $130,000 per foot!
We are wasting money on roads left and right through bad policies and inefficiencies. Politicians just make blanket assertions about falling behind the world to squeeze more money out of us. We are only falling behind in smart spending.
This is like a social justice movement that has achieved its goals will say "we have come a long way, but there is much more to accomplish" without laying out what needs to be done or lies through statistics to make it look like they actually have not been successful.
We have been taxed too much. Stop lying to us to justify taxing us more. Spend the money wisely or start privatizing things we can privatize!
It's like they are no longer trying to hide their lies.
$130,000 per foot
What is $130,000 per foot? A new stretch of road in California.
DOT has put up a blog post announcing the completion of a $1.1 billion project for 1.6 miles of road. The Presidio Parkway website says it is 1.5 miles. The $130,000 figure ($130,208.33 to be exact) uses the 1.6 mile figure for the best case scenario in dollars spent per foot.
What's even worse is the subtitle of DOT's post is the following:
Exemplifies transportation investment? Let's do a little math.
What if we want to build one road that connects one side of the nation to the other? We will use google maps and plot from San Diego, California to Bangor, Maine. That is 3,229 miles.
How much would that cost at $130,000 per foot?
$2,216,385,600,000! Take a quick screen capture of usdebtclock.org and that road would be about one ninth of the national debt. That one road is more than four times as large as the federal deficit!
Exemplifies transportation investment? I think we need to find a way to privatize roads. We can not afford the federal method.
DOT has put up a blog post announcing the completion of a $1.1 billion project for 1.6 miles of road. The Presidio Parkway website says it is 1.5 miles. The $130,000 figure ($130,208.33 to be exact) uses the 1.6 mile figure for the best case scenario in dollars spent per foot.
What's even worse is the subtitle of DOT's post is the following:
Federally funded project exemplifies transportation investment nation needs, officials say
Exemplifies transportation investment? Let's do a little math.
What if we want to build one road that connects one side of the nation to the other? We will use google maps and plot from San Diego, California to Bangor, Maine. That is 3,229 miles.
How much would that cost at $130,000 per foot?
$2,216,385,600,000! Take a quick screen capture of usdebtclock.org and that road would be about one ninth of the national debt. That one road is more than four times as large as the federal deficit!
Exemplifies transportation investment? I think we need to find a way to privatize roads. We can not afford the federal method.
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