RANT: Traffic lights and global warming

Sunday, August 9, 2009

Driving to a doctor’s appointment today, I missed EVERY light. Argh! Leaving aside the cop making an illegal left, that exasperates me. Almost as much as state gooferment cars. In missing every light, I had ample opportunity to observe that I was sitting at intersections, with traffic queueing up behind me, with no cross traffic. Argh!

If Stamford U can make a car that drives itself, can’t we have a “smart” traffic light?

No traffic to use the cycle, free it. Allow the direction with traffic to go. Seems obvious that a lot of gas is being wasted. No wonder folks speed up to get through on the yellow. Or even, on the edge of red. The technology is archaic.

But what would you expect from the gooferment. Roadways are essentially the same as the Fifties. Sure there’s more standardization, but that is not necessarily good. For example, NJ’s jughandles are a specific solution to the high density of traffic. But, that makes no sense in sparsely settle areas. But, even the jughandle has been eliminated or overwhelmed by volume.

See there is a fundamental flaw in the meme. Laws don’t prevent anything. Give me the good old Law of Gravity. You can’t break it if you tried. We need to privatize the roads. Like Professor Block has written. Then we’d get some innovation in roads. Wouldn’t you like to ride on the FedEx expressway or the UPS highway? Bet you the speed limit would high and enforced.

And, just maybe I wouldn’t miss every light.

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TECHNOLOGY : Lawrence Lessig on the Google Book Search Settlement – “Settlements: Static goods, dynamic bads”

Sunday, August 9, 2009

MediaBerkman : Lawrence Lessig on the Google Book Search Settlement – “Settlements: Static goods, dynamic bads”.

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Prof Larry is one of those folks I consider a “internet conscience”. When he speaks, I listen. He’s usually right; usually thought provoking.Besides what else do you have to ddo on a dreary Sunday morning?

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POLITICAL: Australia wastes billions in national health

Sunday, August 9, 2009

Australia: Billions wasted in national health care system

The Australian [Australia]

“Australia is wasting much of the $94 billion it spends each year on health services and will not be able to afford even the current, flawed system without major reforms. The Prime Minister’s National Health and Hospital Reform Commission will publicly release more than 120 recommendations in Canberra today, handing the government a blueprint for change, but allowing for ‘long-term’ implementation that pushes the most politically sensitive reforms beyond the next election. Among its recommendations will be taking responsibility for some health services away from the states and giving it to the commonwealth.” (07/27/09)

http://tinyurl.com/krv3za

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Argh! And we are going to volunteer for this nonsense.

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INTERESTING: traffic lights and global warming

Saturday, August 8, 2009

Driving to a doctor’s appointment today, I missed EVERY light. Argh! Leaving aside the cop making an illegal left, that exasperates me. Almost as much as state gooferment cars. In missing every light, I had ample opportunity to observe that I was sitting at intersections, with traffic queueing up behind me, with no cross traffic. Argh!

If Stamford U can make a car that drives itself, can’t we have a “smart” traffic light?

No traffic to use the cycle, free it. Allow the direction with traffic to go. Seems obvious that a lot of gas is being wasted. No wonder folks speed up to get through on the yellow. Or even, on the edge of red. The technology is archaic.

But what would you expect from the gooferment. Roadways are essentially the same as the Fifties. Sure there’s more standardization, but that is not necessarily good. For example, NJ’s jughandles are a specific solution to the high density of traffic. But, that makes no sense in sparsely settle areas. But, even the jughandle has been eliminated or overwhelmed by volume.

See there is a fundamental flaw in the meme. Laws don’t prevent anything. Give me the good old Law of Gravity. You can’t break it if you tried. We need to privatize the roads. Like Professor Block has written. Then we’d get some innovation in roads. Wouldn’t you like to ride on the FedEx expressway or the UPS highway? Bet you the speed limit would high and enforced.

And, just maybe I wouldn’t miss every light.

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POLITICAL: Open email to Bill O’Reilly

Saturday, August 8, 2009

Dear Mr. O’Reilly,

I think you are wrong about the “birth-er” controversy.

Strategically, coming off the fiscal and liberty performance of the Bush years, the R’s have nothing to brag about. They can’t claim to be the “party of small government and individual liberty”. They acted like the party of big gooferment that they are.

Tactically, the birth certificate belies the “open and transparent” claim of the Obama campaign. Why spend millions to conceal a trivial document. Why fight to hide everything from his early years. Obama is nothing to show as an example of fiscal restraint or champion of liberty. The D’s too are the party of big socialistic government. It just took a while for the Sheeple to tumble to con that had been pulled on them.

I don’t KNOW where Obama was born. I don’t know why all the effort to conceal a document. I don’t know much. But I DO KNOW that when a politician puts that much effort into hiding something (i.e., his entire past), then there is a smoking gun or a smelly skunk in there somewhere. And, I’d like to see it.

We, as a country, have a unique habit of ignoring the facts. Wilson did campaign a peace platform. FDR did engineer Pearl Harbor. Kennedy’s assassination is unexplained. Bush41’s no new taxes. Clinton “I did not have sex with that woman”. Bush43 creating the TSA. Obama’s porkulus and Government Motors. Economi

I, for one, would like to put some stakes in the ground. Let’s start with the birth certificate!

Just ask one question: Why the prodigious effort to hide it?

fjohn

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RANT: Gooferment Flood Insurance

Saturday, August 8, 2009

http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/2009/08/07/flood-insurance-mend-it-or-end-it-but-dont-just-extend-it/

Flood Insurance: Mend It or End It, But Don’t Just Extend It
Posted by Mark A. Calabria

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Before leaving for the August recess, the House of Representatives passed a bill (HR3139) to extend the authority for the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) until March 2010. The program was set to expire on Oct. 1, 2009. The bill now goes to the Senate. Instead of taking up HR3139, the Senate should insist on real reforms to the NFIP, rather then a blanket extension.

Since Hurricane Katrina, the NFIP has operated under a deficit of close to $17 billion, which had to be borrowed from the Treasury in order to pay claims. Under the NFIP’s current structure, it cannot even make the interest payments on its borrowing; these losses will ultimately hit the taxpayer.

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In one instance, a house in Houston this is valued at around $100,000 received over $800,000 in flood insurance claims over a 20-year period, before it was finally destroyed.

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At the very least, we, te taxpayer, should only be forced to insure something once.

And, what exactly is the gooferment doing in the “insurance business” any way?

Argh!

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TECHNOLOGY: Stories from the Enola Gay

Saturday, August 8, 2009

http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/23208

Dropping the Bomb: Stories from the Enola Gay
  from mental_floss Blog by Ransom Riggs

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Ms. Akiko Takakura, who was less than 1,000 feet from Ground Zero in Hiroshima when the bomb was dropped

Many people on the street were killed almost instantly. The fingertips of those dead bodies caught fire and the fire gradually spread over their entire bodies from their fingers. A light gray liquid dripped down their hands, scorching their fingers. I, I was so shocked to know that fingers and bodies could be burned and deformed like that. I just couldn’t believe it. It was horrible. And looking at it, it was more than painful for me to think how the fingers were burned, hands and fingers that would hold babies or turn pages, they just, they just burned away.

For a few years after the A-bomb was dropped, I was terribly afraid of fire. I wasn’t even able to get close to fire because all my senses remembered how fearful and horrible the fire was, how hot the blaze was, and how hard it was to breathe the hot air. It was really hard to breathe. Maybe because the fire burned all the oxygen, I don’t know. I could not open my eyes enough because of the smoke, which was everywhere. Not only me but everyone felt the same. And my parts were covered with holes.

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It is hard to imagine one human could do this to another. It takes a gooferment to be so heartless.

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RECOMMENDED: Julie & Julia

Friday, August 7, 2009

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1135503/

Julie & Julia

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Julia Child (Meryl Streep) and Julie Powell (Amy Adams) are featured in writer-director Nora Ephron’s adaptation of two bestselling memoirs: Powell’s Julie & Julia and My Life in France, by Julia Child with Alex Prud’homme. Based on two true stories, Julie & Julia intertwines the lives of two women who, though separated by time and space, are both at loose ends…until they discover that with the right combination of passion, fearlessness and butter, anything is possible. Written by Columbia Pictures

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It was “funny peculiar”; not “funny haha”.

Maybe it resonated so well for the mid-life crisis aspect.

Not a chick flick, it had a poignant tone to it. Sadly funny.

I liked it; Frau didn’t. YMMV

p.s., especially funny; who would ever write a 700 page book? rofl!

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MONEY: Gold was debunked?

Friday, August 7, 2009

from FACEBOOK

The Gold standard debunked 80 years ago.. THere’s not enough Au or Ag in the ground to support an Earth-wide economy of 6+ Billion people….

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I believe, respectfully, that you missed the point. It’s not about Au or Ag. It’s about selecting something (anything) that limits the “sovereign” from adulterating the currency. With a fixed amount of Au in the universe, who cares if a dollar maps to micrograms as opposed to ounces. The respective gooferments can NOT just print more “wealth” that they use. From the Civil War to the Fed, prices gently declined. The greenback and the gold specie were circulated equally. “Good as gold”. Unfortunately, the Fed allowed the politicians to escape the chains of fiscal discipline. They can’t raise taxes so they inflate the currency. Look at the value of a dollar. It lost GT10% against the Euro last week alone. Argh!

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I’ve blogged about my realization at the Smithsonian. The franc of Louis 1 was a hockey puck of gold; fast forward to Louis 14 and it’s a thin shirt button. That demonstrates inflation.

If we mined all the gold, currency units would be mapped to ounces of gold. Who cares if it mili ounces or nano ounces. It restricts how much currency the gooferment can print.

It doesn’t matter if it is gold, silver, or something else that’s limited in supply. The idea is to PREVENT gooferment from creating it. Out of thin air!

Argh!

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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: The unanswered questions of the Kennedy assasination

Friday, August 7, 2009

http://www.motherbird.com/deep_politics.html

Deep Politics and the Death of JFK by Peter Dale Scott
Book review by Jodey Bateman

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Scott says that at this point it is not possible to say what specific individuals plotted to kill Kennedy. However, there is publicly available information, easy to obtain, on why a much larger group of individuals was willing to stage an official cover-up to make it appear that the Kennedy assassination was simply a horrible accident without political significance.

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And, that is why dear Sheeple, we will never get the truth about anything.

The gooferment is corrupt.

Slowly, but surely, with age, I am becoming an anarchist.

The gooferment is the meme that kills and enslaves us.

We need to find a better answer.

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