On NPR this morning a piece telling that coffee drinking is up among college students. Coffee houses are packed in the evenings.
But then, they switch to the dark side, the evils of coffee. It ruins your sleep, turning good virtuous hivalue REM sleep into unhealthy Starbucks sleep. Coffee drinking leads to sleep deprivation, a serious problem among college students. NPR raved along on this line for several minutes.
Damn. We have college students drinking something fairly innocuous, and NPR is nagging about it. Coffee won't get you into the kind of trouble that beer or pot can.
Then for an encore, NPR switches to a piece about how the University of Vermont is saving the planet by banning bottled water.
Monday, January 14, 2013
Sunday, January 13, 2013
How to balance the NH budget
We do it the old fashioned way, we estimate more revenue than we are gonna collect. That way we can spend more. All it takes is estimates, not real money, just estimated money.
The state Democrats are pushing to put estimated revenues from gambling into the budget. Doesn't matter that we haven't passed the necessary laws to open the casino's. It doesn't matter that last time they tried, the law failed to pass the House and the Senate. It doesn't matter that the estimated revenue from gambling is about ten times what is likely to happen. Only thing that is different this time is new governor Maggie Hassan says she will sign an expanded gambling bill. Previous governor Lynch had promised to veto it.
But the Democrats want to include hypothetical revenue from as yet illegal gambling operations in this year's revenue estimate.
Can you say deficit spending disorder?
The state Democrats are pushing to put estimated revenues from gambling into the budget. Doesn't matter that we haven't passed the necessary laws to open the casino's. It doesn't matter that last time they tried, the law failed to pass the House and the Senate. It doesn't matter that the estimated revenue from gambling is about ten times what is likely to happen. Only thing that is different this time is new governor Maggie Hassan says she will sign an expanded gambling bill. Previous governor Lynch had promised to veto it.
But the Democrats want to include hypothetical revenue from as yet illegal gambling operations in this year's revenue estimate.
Can you say deficit spending disorder?
Friday, January 11, 2013
Men's clothing styles
Nice fashion section in the Wall St. Journal. Showing really fancy shoes at $6K a pair and "bespoke"suits at $7K. Shirts for $500. Clearly the well dressed Wall Streeter can blow $15K on a decent outfit. Groovy.
Then I think of Steve Jobs, appearing at Comdex, pushing Apple's latest products dressed in T shirt and jeans. Real business men don't blow $15K on clothes.
Then I think of Steve Jobs, appearing at Comdex, pushing Apple's latest products dressed in T shirt and jeans. Real business men don't blow $15K on clothes.
Cannon Mountain Ski weather
The mountain is in good shape. We have been getting an inch or so a night sifting down, but haven't had a real snow this week. Right now the temperature is hovering right around freezing. It's overcast and no wind is blowing.
Thursday, January 10, 2013
Power Grows out of the Barrel of a Gun
Mao Tse-Tung said that. In the United States today the citizens have power (guns). This power is used to support and defend the Constitution and to suppress crime. Obama wants to take that power away. He doesn't want to waste the crisis of the horrible massacre in Connecticut, so he is pushing for "gun control". A phrase that means what ever you want it to mean. Taking guns away from citizens takes power away from citizens, leaving them defenseless against government force and criminals.
Obama is talking about an "assault weapons" ban. Trouble is, there are no objective differences between "assault weapons" and pretty much any kind of gun. So banning "assault weapons" really means banning nearly everything that shoots. And that's what Obama wants to do.
It is not true that some guns are more deadly than other guns. All guns are deadly. The Connecticut shooter would have killed as many no matter what kind of gun he used. We cannot improve public safety by banning the more deadly kind of guns, because all guns are deadly.
I am not prepared to give up the power that arms represent merely because the "gun control" people are dancing in the blood shed in Connecticut.
Obama is talking about an "assault weapons" ban. Trouble is, there are no objective differences between "assault weapons" and pretty much any kind of gun. So banning "assault weapons" really means banning nearly everything that shoots. And that's what Obama wants to do.
It is not true that some guns are more deadly than other guns. All guns are deadly. The Connecticut shooter would have killed as many no matter what kind of gun he used. We cannot improve public safety by banning the more deadly kind of guns, because all guns are deadly.
I am not prepared to give up the power that arms represent merely because the "gun control" people are dancing in the blood shed in Connecticut.
Wednesday, January 9, 2013
NYC Ferry Crash
First amusing comment by a TV newsie. "The ferry is parked." Right. Anyone knows that vessels are docked, not parked.
The ferry crashed into its dock, hard enough to bash a big hole in the bow and injure a lot of passengers who were standing up to disembark. The ferry probably isn't as well equipped with grab irons as a subway car is.
A likely cause of such an accident is failure of the engines to provide reverse power. The vessel approaches the dock at a fair rate of speed and the skipper depends upon reverse thrust from the engines to slow her down. If the engines stall, fail, or refuse to go into reverse, the vessel will crash into the dock. Our ever clue-full (or is is low information) newsies have not asked anyone if the engines were working and providing reverse power.
The ferry crashed into its dock, hard enough to bash a big hole in the bow and injure a lot of passengers who were standing up to disembark. The ferry probably isn't as well equipped with grab irons as a subway car is.
A likely cause of such an accident is failure of the engines to provide reverse power. The vessel approaches the dock at a fair rate of speed and the skipper depends upon reverse thrust from the engines to slow her down. If the engines stall, fail, or refuse to go into reverse, the vessel will crash into the dock. Our ever clue-full (or is is low information) newsies have not asked anyone if the engines were working and providing reverse power.
Voting for Warming
NPR has been going overboard on hot-button topics. In one morning they advocated "organic" food, the nomination of Chuck Hagel for defense secretary, and Global Warming. A Trifecta of liberal hot-buttons.
One young lady said "Of course Global Warming is happening, 90% of scientists say it's happening."
She must be a liberal arts major. Competent people know that scientific controversies are settled by measurements, observations, reproducible experiments, not by counting people's opinions.
Nor is she aware that a good deal of evidence put forth by the Global Warmers is fake. I went thru the great Hadley CRU document leak. I saw with my own eyes where the programs were jacking up temperature in modern times.
One young lady said "Of course Global Warming is happening, 90% of scientists say it's happening."
She must be a liberal arts major. Competent people know that scientific controversies are settled by measurements, observations, reproducible experiments, not by counting people's opinions.
Nor is she aware that a good deal of evidence put forth by the Global Warmers is fake. I went thru the great Hadley CRU document leak. I saw with my own eyes where the programs were jacking up temperature in modern times.
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