My Thoughts on Changes

Take the test… Geeze, some of those Neo-Cons should be vaccinated against rabies…
Give Up Blog

“Liberals have a preternatural gift for striking a position on the side of treason…Whenever the nation is under attack, from within or without, liberals side with the enemy.”
“We must study this vile liberal technique of emptying garbage pails full of the vilest slanders and defamations from hundreds and hundreds of sources at once, suddenly and as if by magic, on the clean garments of honorable men, if we are fully to appreciate the entire menace represented by these scoundrels of the press.”
“Taking these consequences into account, it is no accident that it is always primarily the liberal who tries and succeeds in planting such mortally dangerous modes of thought in our people.”
“Liberals are always wrapping their comically irrelevant charges in a haze of lies…”

Net Neutrality should be kept as is. Don’t fix what is NOT broken.

Sen. Wyden (and the WSJ) fall into Net neutrality misinformation trap by ZDNet‘s David Berlind — George Ou clearly thinks the dirt he keeps finding under the Craigslist/Net neutrality rug is amounting to a story that’s stranger than fiction. To the extent that it’s disturbing, it is indeed strange. But, from my point of view, it’s business as usual. In case you’ve been missing the action, here are some bullet […]

Chávez, I mean, although I’m not a fan of his antics… As for America “losing influence in the region”, they’ve been doing that to themselves for over 50 years in the hearts of the people, with facts and political rhetorics. A Dictator is a Dictator, is a Dictator, ad nauseam. It doesn’t matter if they wear the Fascist “Black” or the Socialist “Red”. The U.S. has had, and still has, a sad history of supporting all those “Black-clad” dictators in the past and that didn’t endear them with the peoble that was being oppressed by them. What really hurts the American government is to have a dictator to whom they cannot attach puppet strings. But of course, they expect to win every single one of their chess matches. If “Rome” was ever a clue…
BBC NEWS | Americas | US bans arms sales to Venezuela

“It’s the empire and it has a great capacity to do harm to the countries of the world,” he told the Associated Press news agency.
He said his government would not respond with punitive measures.
US officials argue that the rule of President Chavez is eroding democracy and human rights in Venezuela and that he is working to undermine American influence in the region.

How about actually using some of those billions of dollars being used in an invented war to fund some of that R&D… Stop the lip service and switch to facts.
Update 7: President Touts Hydrogen-Powered Cars – Forbes.com

President Bush had an Earth Day message for drivers worried about soaring gasoline prices: The nation must move more quickly toward widespread use of hydrogen-powered cars.

Econ 101 on Illegal Immigrants
Each year, for example, the U.S. Social Security Administration maintains roughly $6 billion to $7 billion of Social Security contributions in an “earnings suspense file” — an account for W-2 tax forms that cannot be matched to the correct Social Security number. The vast majority of these numbers are attributable to undocumented workers who will never claim their benefits.
If those funds could be earmarked for local support, they would make a sizable dent in education costs. Local school districts are estimated to educate 1.8 million undocumented children. At an average annual cost of $7,500 (averages vary by jurisdiction) per student, the cost of providing education to these children is about $11.2 billion. That means roughly half of the education costs for undocumented immigrant children could be met if these Social Security funds could be redirected.

Oddly Enough News Article | Reuters.com

LONDON (Reuters) – British anti-terrorism detectives escorted a man from a plane after a taxi driver had earlier become suspicious when he started singing along to a track by punk band The Clash, police said Wednesday.
Detectives halted the London-bound flight at Durham Tees Valley Airport in northern England and Harraj Mann, 24, was taken off.
The taxi driver had become worried on the way to the airport because Mann had been singing along to The Clash’s 1979 anthem “London Calling,” which features the lyrics “Now war is declared — and battle come down” while other lines warn of a “meltdown expected.”

I hope the trend is contagious and other states catch up.
THE BRAD BLOG: “MD House Votes 137 to 0 to Ban Diebold Touch-Screen Voting in 2006!”

A House united. That seems to be the effect that Diebold has had on the state of Maryland where they had initially deployed their paperless touch-screen voting machines in 2002 as one of two “showcase” states along with Georgia.
That “showcase” has turned into yet another public relations fiasco for Diebold of late.
The Republican Governor there recently slammed Diebold’s paperless system, called for paper ballots and announced he had lost confidence in the State Board of Election and its Diebold-supporting Director, Linda Lamone, to carry out a fair election. Then information surfaced that Lamone had allowed MD to use uncertified Diebold software in the 2002 and 2004 elections. Then revelations were made public of massive machine failures in 2004. And now this from MD’s Democratic House…