Blog Heap of Links for the day 13 March 2012

Geez this guy is unusually stupid. It is like the liberals elected Chancy Gardner and and they are all Shirley McClain masturbating as he utters one inanity after another, and needs a teleprompter to even do that.

36 200 years spans approximately 6 generations...if you think about a family business, it usually runs through 3 generations of family members before it goes tango uniform or the family sells it off. Perhaps the distance of time from founding to dissolution isordained in some regard — based on what different generations value and reject.

...officials with the 11th Judicial District Drug Task Force were sent to the 1500 block of Southeast Whitney Court in Bartlesville where a resident had gone into [his] room and discovered what appeared to be marijuana and a large amount of cash. The other residents being informed of the discovery called the Washington County Sheriff's Office.... [Um... not the most compatible roommate situation, I would say. Or someone got on someone's bad side.]

206 I love this singularity bubkis. Computer technology is advancing so fast, yadda yadda yadda.

The logic has not changed since they were invented. We're still playing out all the variations on the same thing, is all, it's still rather infant.

Computer technology has advanced in much the same way internal combustion technology has advanced. Cars keep getting faster and faster and faster... soon no doubt they will develop conciousness and rebel against their human masters.

Um no, it's just a car. Obviously that's silly. But with computers, lots of people assert we're somehow getting closer to conciousness, based on the fact that we are getting calculators to do basic arithmetic faster.

67 If a conservative is a vegetarian, he doesn’t eat meat.
If a liberal is a vegetarian, he wants all meat products banned for everyone.

America was the first country to attempt a Constitutional Republic. The founders greatly distrusted a Democracy and made sure we did not have one. To quote Mel Gibson (who I am sure was quoting someone else) "Why should I trade one tyrant 3000 miles away for 3000 tyrants one mile away"?

The founders set up the federal government with a limited set of powers and even added the bill of rights after to assure that those powers could not grow. But it lasted only until Adams cooked up his scheme to have the Supreme Court determine what it meant and usurp all the power to the feds.

So, no we didn't lose it in the 1920, we lost it in the early 1800s shortly after it was written.

It was completely gone by the end of the FDR regime