Stimulus Fix

Republicans want a stimulus of 400 billion dollars.
Easy fix:
Get the tax cuts out and leave projects. That’ll fix it.

Republicans.

They’ve been lying to us since at least Reagan. Now they say the notion of creating jobs and wealth by using government money (our money) is ridiculous.
The only ridiculous thing is that once again people are starting to believe them.
We’re people. We’re really not that bright.

Grim Tale.

A fable:
Once there was a motley group of kind of powerful people who met to consider a knotty problem. The problem was unusual in that the motley group’s job was to try to keep people’s lives OK, and in this case the only thing the motley group could do was to listen to another motley group tell them there was nothing the first motley group could do other than complain.
So. One member of a motley group tried to concisely summarize what happened in the meeting between groups and oops! he said a thing to which some other people (from neither of the original motley groups) took offense.
Which just goes to show that you can’t please some of the people some of the time, you can’t please some of the people all of the time, and you can’t please all of the people some of the time.

left-wing socialist agenda

A letter to the editor today talked about the Democrats’ “left-wing socialist agenda” and some guy named Rush’s opposition to it. That started me wondering about the U.S.A. and just what kind of a country it’s supposed to be; that led me to the Constitution of the United Stated, which is the foundation document for the U.S.A.

So here’s how the Constitution starts (the Preamble): “We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.” Short and sweet.

Now: I don’t know much about “left-wing;” I think it’s a term invented and used by the “right-wing,” which I can describe in some detail if the need arises. I bothered to check the wiki for Socialism and found “state or collective ownership and administration of the means of production and distribution of goods, and a society characterized by equal opportunities for all individuals with a fair or egalitarian method of compensation.”

Darned if the Preamble and the wiki for socialism don’t seem a lot the same, what with the “We the people” and “general welfare” and such.

I’m not saying the Constitution describes a socialist state, but I would say that people are wrong when they oppose government spending on projects and programs that benefit “we the people.” How to pay for the stuff doesn’t seem as clear, but “common defense” and “general welfare” and such have to be paid for somehow, and it seems to me that the place to go for money is: where the money is.

Propogation fronts

I’ve been thinking about what happens to a flash of light in a vacuum. It zips off in all directions (at the speed of light) and makes a bubble of wavicles (or so I’m told); the thickness of the bubble depends on the duration of the flash and I think it doesn’t change; the color of the light doesn’t change (that’s the wave part); the brightness of the light diminishes (that’d be the particle part).

There must be a way to apply the same model to the Big Bang universe creation theory. Unless the BangHole continues to spew universe (stays lit), the propogation front should mimic that of a flash of light, at least at the beginning. There’s a Bang, and a shell zips off in all directions; however, instead of a bubble of wavicles there’s a bubble comprosed of mass and energy.

Then I get really confused. I visualize this unvisualisable mass-energy amalgam bubble seething outward from the Big BangHole, far outpacing the only constant in the newly created Universe – LightSpeed – in its haste to become part of – something that was not.

Yay Steelers!

Now THAT’s a SUPERBOWL GAME!

Just politics.

Kay Bailey Hutchison, Republican, says more infrastructure spending is good, particularly Military spending. Military construction. Also too, building up debt is bad. Also so too, tax cuts is the only real way to go.

Lesson learned?

Obama wanted stuff in the infrastructure bill that would make Republicans support it.
All the Republicans voted NO!
That’s a good lesson and I hope Obama & the Democrats will take it to heart.
Don’t write your bills like the Republican idiots want them. They won’t participate anyway.

Better late than never?

No.

Mental lapse

My Palm Zire went pffft! actually one day it worked and the next day it didn’t. What a shame. I dug out my Handspring Visor and took 4-5 hours to kluge my way through the Linux apps that talk to it – Linux has apps for Anything, including my old 640×480 Agfa digicam – so I didn’t lose my mind after all (well, maybe 2 days worth at worst).
There must be a really cheap version of that old PDA on sale today. Maybe KMart has something on its bargain shelf.