#OCCUPYFAIL

Posted on November 8, 2011 by ChrisA

A recommended search over at Instapundit.

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Posted on November 8, 2011 by ChrisA

Live in Chicago? My suggestion is to move.

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“What’s the deal with these weirdo Democrats who feel they need to post lewd photos of themselves?”

Posted on November 7, 2011 by ChrisA

Jamie Wearing Fool asks.

The problem is guys (citizens) like this have no alternative but to stay in politics. Who is going to hire them for a ‘real job’? Oh silly me, I forget. Lobbyist is not a ‘real job’. LOL. Guess there’s hope after all.

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48% of 7th through 12th graders experience sexual harrassment in the last year

Posted on November 7, 2011 by ChrisA

I head this on the radio (or whatever) this morning and immediately wondered if the definition of sexual harrassment had changed.

Ann Althouse has a good analysis.

I’m not suggesting bad things don’t happen, just looking critically at survey questions that inflate the numbers by grouping things together that don’t belong together if we’re deciding how outraged we’re going to be and what steps we ought to take to intervene.

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Thinking Small

Posted on November 7, 2011 by ChrisA

In an editorial last August, Erika Stutzman asks the question…

What happened to our big ideas? In 1979, the Eisenhower Tunnel was completed. The federal and state government had blasted through the mighty Rocky Mountains with a four-lane highway to complete America’s interstate system. In recent years, we’ve talked about high-speed trains, extra lanes, you name it. Now, we’re just going to slow it down.


Here’s the answer to Erika’s question. I suggest looking in the mirror next time.

Also, look at the cost overruns of RTD’s Fasttracks and California’s high speed rail.

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President Goldman Sachs…

Posted on November 7, 2011 by ChrisA

Now I understand. Color me slow.

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“But the Tea Party blames the government and OWS blames business.”

Posted on November 6, 2011 by ChrisA

Still, there’s an underappreciated potential for agreement.

The potential intersection is interesting but I don’t see it happening. Follow the link and then the link to the graph. I know, too much work.

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iPhone vs. Android OS

Posted on November 5, 2011 by ChrisA

“One strange thing was navigating to a flash website and having video actually play. It makes a huge difference.”

Confessions Of An iPhone User Who Recently Switched To Android

and further reading…

11 Killer Features That Android Users Don’t Want The Apple Fanboys To Know About

Most Android devices have a removable battery

What an ‘effing novel idea. What great mind thought that up?

Big h/t to Newmark’s Door.

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“The banks pee and pooh on us every day”

Posted on November 5, 2011 by ChrisA

Occupy Protesters Make a “Deposit” at Bank in Eureka, CA



At about 8:09 am, Officers responded to the 5th Street branch of US Bank for a biohazard report. A US Bank representative reported that she came to work to find an unknown subject(s) had urinated and defecated in the entry way to the bank. This is the second occurrence of this type at US Bank this week.


What a great group of folks.

Hey, Bank Transfer Day, I’m all for it. Me, I’m not a big fan of credit unions, but I think it’s a great way to hit the banks where it hurts. But defecating and “peeing” on their doorsteps deserves jailtime.

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Posted on November 5, 2011 by ChrisA

Triple the Cost and double the time: Great news: $98 billion estimate for California high-speed rail is lowball

Makes RTD’s Fastracks almost look sane.

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68 yrs ago today: Graphite Reactor goes critical (Yesterday)

Posted on November 5, 2011 by ChrisA

“Charging of the graphite reactor began at 4:30PM on November 3rd at a rate of 2.5 tons per hour. On November 4th at around 5AM a chain reaction was detected. 30.4 tons of natural uranium slugs were loaded into 369 channels surrounding the center of the pile face. The control rods were pulled out for a total of 110 seconds and then replaced.” Gawne said the photo of the control board (inset, right) was taken during an effort to document instrumentation and operation of the reactor. Gawne added this note, “I am sure you are aware of the story and have been told it many times and at various points. In October running up to the point of criticality there was an effort to document a procedure on how to bring the reactor to criticality. The engineers produced a very large document – about 200 pages. A very frustrated manager kicked the document back, citing that it was too wordy and all he needed was a check list as they staged the loading of slugs in batches.”


Read more here.

We need more managers like this guy. Of course, we would need less lawyers to.

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Occupy DC (but you can fill in the blank)

Posted on November 5, 2011 by ChrisA

A class act.

McCAIN: Wow. Wow. And so they had somebody whose job was apparently to monitor you?
FIELDS: Exactly, yes. So for about three hours, I had someone following me around, harassing me, screaming things out to me. And I actually did not feel comfortable, because at one point there were a whole group of men surrounding me saying, ‘F—Michelle Fields.’ And I went to a police officer and I told him that I felt these people were harassing me. And the police officer said he’d take care of it, but it never ended. These people were harassing me for the entire evening.

McCAIN: Oh, my goodness. Oh, my goodness. These are the enlightened, tolerant, liberal, progressives.
FIELDS: Supposedly.

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Bonuses for Execs at…

Posted on November 4, 2011 by ChrisA

… you guessed is Solyndra.

Solyndra executives were awarded quarterly bonuses worth up to $60,000 apiece earlier this year as the California solar-panel company headed for bankruptcy, court documents show.

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“This is good news. Unless…they’re lying about the not lying.”

Posted on November 4, 2011 by ChrisA

Imagine that.

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The first criticality of the Graphite Reactor took place at 5:00am on this day in 1943.

Posted on November 4, 2011 by ChrisA

Historic Oak Ridge

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60 minutes ambushes Pelosi

Posted on November 4, 2011 by ChrisA

Or so I’ve heard. That’s one (of many) shows I don’t watch. Many years ago I saw them do a “hit piece” on something I knew about (sorry we’re talking > 10 or 15 years ago, don’t even remember what it was on) and it was so easy to see their interest was not so much in the truth but in their agenda. I haven’t watched them since because how can I trust them?

So even though they have apparently done a “hit piece” on Nancy Pelosi, I have no interest in seeing it. Even if I agree with them, it carries no weight with me.

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“And I just racked it, and they ran.”

Posted on November 4, 2011 by ChrisA

“We had people who attempted to break into our building,” the landmark Rotunda Building on Frank Ogawa Plaza outside City Hall, Tagami said Thursday. He grabbed a shotgun that he usually keeps at home, went down to the ground floor and “discouraged them,” he said.


Peace through strength.

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“How much more? Between 12-20% depending on what you purchase”

Posted on November 3, 2011 by ChrisA

We’re talking a trip to the grocery store.

Of course, I’m sure the government can fix that.

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Student loan crisis

Posted on November 3, 2011 by ChrisA

Screw you.

The real problem is that we’ve been running a higher education bubble, one that — like the real-estate bubble — has been pumped up by cheap government money. Since 1999, student loan debt has increased by 511%, while disposable income has increased by only 73%.


And YOU are SCREWED! Hope it felt good.

Recommended listening, Ross Kaminsky interviews Instapundit’s Glenn Reynolds.

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As the maxim goes, people get the government they deserve.

Posted on November 3, 2011 by ChrisA

Elsewhere, in an experiment in socialism which I predict is doomed to be a most expensive failure, Boulder voters approved, by a 52 percent to 48 percent vote, a measure which will allow the city to sever its ties with the local electric power utility and set up a city-owned utility. A companion measure which slightly increased a utility-related tax passed by 141 votes out of more than 26,000 votes cast. Can you imagine a bunch of far-left radical environmentalists (i.e. Boulder city government) who never met a carbon tax they didn’t like (or any other tax) running an electric utility? As the maxim goes, people get the government they deserve.

Amen.

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