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I watched algore's speech last night. He laid out his wish list for America, to much applause from the gathered socialists. He forgot to say that actually doing what he wants will force a tax hike the likes of which we've never seen. On top of spending the entire so-called surplus. Better to eliminate social security and medicare, triple our effective police protection by ending the war on drugs, separate school and state, eliminate the standing army and replace it with a population armed to the teeth at their own expense. The market will do the rest. You think the economy is good now? Do this, and we'll wonder how we ever lived in such squallid conditions.
One of the TV commentators claimed that there was no humor in the speech. Not true! I laughed hard when I heard this paragraph, though I was laughing at him, not with him:
Within the next few years, scientists will identify the genes that cause every type of cancer. We need a national commitment equal to the promise of this unequalled moment. So we will double the federal investment in medical research. We will find new medicines and new cures - not just for cancer, but for everything from diabetes to HIV/AIDS.
My links to the speeches at the Washington Times keep breaking. They seem to move things around so you can't get to them. Their Election 2000 page seems to stay put, however, and you can find the transcripts there by looking for "remarks by".
Troy Wolverton at CNET Amazon's Bezos wants a piece of your mind: Jeff Bezos is asking for feedback on a proposed new look for Amazon's home page. Dave Winer wrote him an email asking for help on his web site. Hehe. [script]
So Jeff, please visit, your input is very important to me.http://www.scripting.com/
You have so many great ideas, let me have them for free!
Angus Glashier is playing with Trellix. He's moved his weblog here for a little while. I like "Manila" better. [latte]
Anonymous at WOIFM? - Prerequisites to Being a Modern Liberal Democrat - hehehehehehehehe. [metajohn]
The Universal authority for National Flag Registration (UNFR) has a system for designing flags. They have published a catalog with 177,489 flag designs. The first 3,419 flags are here (135K). [tbtf]
Reuters via Yahoo Finance - Paul Allen, George Soros-backed Transmeta files IPO: They're looking for $200 million. Their accumulated deficit as of June 30 was $119.4 million. [/.]
Colonel Dan at Sierra Times - How Clinton Survives: Jefferson warned us of the coming tyranny of the executive. It arrived in January, 1993, with Comrade Klinton. Dan tells us how he got away with it. [sierra]
America has seen this despot repeatedly impose his personal and political agenda on the country and come away clean without paying the price -- political or legal. Waco, Ruby Ridge, perjury, obstruction of justice, flagrant abuse of executive orders, money schemes with communist China, bombing of innocent people and sovereign countries to distract and divert attention from the latest bimbo eruption, the effective use of FBI files and the IRS to pressure his opposition and the Gestapo like storming of a private home in Miami to steal a 6 year old -- all indicative of an arrogant man who cares nothing for the law.
H.L. Mencken at LewRockwell.com - Constitution for the New Deal: a flash from the past, 1937 to be exact, that is as true during King Klinton's reign as it was during FDR's. [lew]
All governmental power of whatever sort shall be vested in a President of the United States. He shall hold office during a series of terms of four years each, and shall take the following oath: "I do solemnly swear that I will (in so far as I deem it feasible and convenient) faithfully execute the office of President of the United States, and will (to the best of my recollection and in the light of experiment and second thought) carry out the pledges made by me during my campaign for election (or such of them as I may select)."...
To coin money, regulate the content and value thereof, and of foreign coin, and to amend or repudiate any contract requiring the payment by the United States, or by any private person, of coin of a given weight or fineness;
To repeal or amend, in his discretion, any so-called natural law, including Gresham's law, the law of diminishing returns, and the law of gravitation.
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All powers not delegated herein to the President are reserved to him, to be used at his discretion.
Charley Reese at the Orlando Sentinel - Mapping genetic code could lead in direction of good -- or evil: Guess what, boys and girls? At least some of the variation in academic ability is due to genetics. Get over it. [lew]
Once we do that, then we can recognize that the original meaning of the Declaration of Independence was about equality before the law. No matter where our intelligence quotient falls and no matter what genetic traits we have, the law must see us all as exactly equal. Where we are getting into trouble today is ordering teachers, to cite one example, to produce equal scores on standardized tests from unequal students. The silliness of this would be plain if we ordered football coaches to produce equal athletic prowess from all students.Why do some people insist that the English or math teacher can do what we all agree the football coach cannot? Why are we willing to accept obvious differences in athletic, musical and artistic ability but not in academic ability? And why do we have a tendency to blame people for what they don't have?
Chris Hiers Cartoonery - Passing of the Baton: hohohohohohohohohohohohoho. Will likely reappear here when the next cartoon comes out.
