Oh my God. Oh my God.
This is a congressman who is concerned that the island of Guam will tip over if there are too many people on it. SERIOUSLY.
Favorite quote: "We don't anticipate that happening, sir." Can you imagine being an intelligent military officer who has to make tough decisions that can be second guessed by people who wonder if the Island of Guam will tip over if there are too many people on it? Can you?
And I don't want to hear ANY excuses. If he is having this much trouble with the real world, I don't want him voting on issues, laws and taxes that will affect me. WTF, folks... who the fuck elected him?
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
Two in New Orleans: A Double Portrait on iPhone Camera
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Benches: New Orleans Square
In the early, early morning light.
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Tuesday, March 30, 2010
Two presidents visit U.S. troops: The styles of Barack Obama and George W. Bush in photos | Top of the Ticket | Los Angeles Times
Two presidents visit U.S. troops: The styles of Barack Obama and George W. Bush in photos | Top of the Ticket | Los Angeles Times: "Two presidents visit U.S. troops: The styles of Barack Obama and George W. Bush in photos"
10 iPhone Photos from New Orleans
I sure had fun with the New Orleans group. And my buddy Charles came along to make the whole experience a ton of fun.
BTW - I love Muffalata's, baby.
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BTW - I love Muffalata's, baby.
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Sunday, March 28, 2010
Thursday, March 25, 2010
They Fly First Class « John Stossel
They Fly First Class « John Stossel:
"Will you and your family put off a vacation this year because you can't afford it? Too bad, because you have paid for some terrific trips -- for government bureaucrats. The Washington Times reports that last year $13 billion in tax dollars was spent to pamper 'public servants' on trips that double as vacation junkets.
The Securities and Exchange Commission, for example, frequently sent employees overseas on first- or business-class airplane tickets that cost taxpayers up to $10,000 each...
Likewise, agencies spend millions sending employees to private industry trade shows that just happen to be in resort locations such as Las Vegas. The Department of Commerce spent $7.5 million on conferences of this sort in 2007."
"Will you and your family put off a vacation this year because you can't afford it? Too bad, because you have paid for some terrific trips -- for government bureaucrats. The Washington Times reports that last year $13 billion in tax dollars was spent to pamper 'public servants' on trips that double as vacation junkets.
The Securities and Exchange Commission, for example, frequently sent employees overseas on first- or business-class airplane tickets that cost taxpayers up to $10,000 each...
Likewise, agencies spend millions sending employees to private industry trade shows that just happen to be in resort locations such as Las Vegas. The Department of Commerce spent $7.5 million on conferences of this sort in 2007."
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
A NEW LOOK : THE NEXT IDEAL | The Imagist
Hmmm... this makes me uncomfortable. Seems like the fashion industry is in 'deaf' mode about the whole healthy looking model deal. I don't know... this is only one shot. But still...
A NEW LOOK : THE NEXT IDEAL | The Imagist:
"Elite Paris' Fei Fei gives us that new feeling"
"There's an unwritten memo now circulating in an abstract way amongst a tight circle of model-makers and the message is this...the directive of the 00's to have armies of blank, disposable, lookalike girls marching at the service of the campaigns, magazines and the runways is over. New decade, new ideal and that agenda was pursued with distinction at the Marc Jacobs, Prada. Giles Deacon's and Louis Vuitton's Fall shows. Turning to the pages, what the early booking reports on the FW 10 campaigns and editorials is registering is a taste for the ultra-individual girl, somewhat in that 90's mode when Karen looked nothing like Stella who looked not at all like Amber who was totally different from Shalom who existed at angles worlds away from Kirsten."
Ottawa joins the war on photography - Boing Boing
WooHoo, after stomping on free speech, they now join the "We're terrified by Photographers" clan of imbeciles. Just can't fix stupid, so they need to be dealt with at the ballot box. Unless the other side is as stupid as this gang of jackals...
Ottawa joins the war on photography - Boing Boing:
"Good to see the Anglo-American stupid creeping up to Canada. I suppose if terrorists were precision bombers who had to place their charges to the millimetre in order to succeed, this would make sense, but given that no one's ever shown that terrorists attacks involve carefully photographing the attack-site (as opposed to simply walking up to it, finding a likely spot, and blowing up), this is simply a good way of absorbing police/security time that could be spent chasing actual bad guys."
Resisting ObamaCare, Gandhi Style - Forbes.com
Resisting ObamaCare, Gandhi Style - Forbes.com:
"The prerequisites for any movement's success are credible leaders and a moral high ground. The first means that opponents of ObamaCare cannot--cannot--let Mitt Romney come within sniffing distance of their cause. He is trying to position himself at the forefront of the Repeal ObamaCare movement to further his presidential ambitions. But he couldn't be a worse spokesman given that as governor he was responsible for implementing a universal coverage program in the Bay State that is identical in every essential respect to ObamaCare, including the individual mandate. He has to be banished from every anti-ObamaCare panel, podium and platform lest the movement be accused of partisanship and hypocrisy.
As for maintaining the moral high ground, ObamaCare opponents have to be very careful when invoking rhetoric from the revolutionary period. Tea Partiers quote the Founders, especially Thomas Jefferson who said that the 'tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of tyrants.' But any hint of violence--even inadvertent--will compromise their cause because there are crucial differences between our colonial and current rulers. The colonial rulers were monarchs who used violence to extract taxes from Americans to enrich themselves and their motherland. But Democrats are imposing mandates to force Americans to do something for their own alleged good--and taxes to redistribute wealth among Americans. This is wrong and completely at odds with the spirit of American freedom and self-reliance. But the Repeal ObamaCare movement can only succeed if it convinces potential beneficiaries of redistributionist policies of the rightness of its cause."
A Photo Editor - Spencer Heyfron Breakaway
This is a really good interview. And this particular paragraph is so telling. I am NOT a big fan of photography schools... and this one paragraph sums it up nicely.
A Photo Editor - Spencer Heyfron Breakaway:
"APE: So, for two years you were his second assistant. How was that, did you learn a lot from him?
Spencer: Oh my God, I learned more the first day than I had in my whole college years. It was so crazy, the difference between learning it academically and theoretically at college and then being the real world. The first week, just, so crazy. I can remember the first job was Dolly Parton. I learned so much that day, the whole process of a commercial photo shoot really."
Gap in health care law's protection for children
Well, now that it is passed, we are finding out what is in it, eh... Nance...
The Associated Press: Gap in health care law's protection for children:
"Obama made better coverage for children a centerpiece of his health care remake, but it turns out the letter of the law provided a less-than-complete guarantee that kids with health problems would not be shut out of coverage.
Under the new law, insurance companies still would be able to refuse new coverage to children because of a pre-existing medical problem, said Karen Lightfoot, spokeswoman for the House Energy and Commerce Committee, one of the main congressional panels that wrote the bill Obama signed into law Tuesday.
However, if a child is accepted for coverage, or is already covered, the insurer cannot exclude payment for treating a particular illness, as sometimes happens now. For example, if a child has asthma, the insurance company cannot write a policy that excludes that condition from coverage. The new safeguard will be in place later this year."
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
Canada and Free Speech
I guess the two don't mix. There are any different points of view in the world. Refusing to hear another makes someone bigoted, blind and stupid. I would defend anyone's right to speak. But fascists don't get that. Too fuckn rich. Ideas don't hurt. But intolerance can kill.
"limits to free speech..." guess the University needs to get someone to teach the meaning of words. Free speech that isn't free isn't free. No fkn brainer. It is limited. Sad.
"limits to free speech..." guess the University needs to get someone to teach the meaning of words. Free speech that isn't free isn't free. No fkn brainer. It is limited. Sad.
Ann Coulter: Should she limit her speech in Canada? - Point of View:
"American conservative Ann Coulter's three-day Canadian university tour has drawn the University of Ottawa into a debate over the limits of free speech."
Another Senseless Drug War Death - Reason Magazine
Don't read this if you are a 'zero-tolerance' sort of whackass.
Another Senseless Drug War Death - Reason Magazine:
"At the heart of this outrage, though, once again, is our increasingly demented, hysterical, all-too-literal drug war. Until we're ready to dispense with the notion that gun-toting cops in ski masks going commando at a public gas station is an appropriate response to an alleged $50 drug transaction, we're going to see a lot more Jonathan Ayerses."
Sunday, March 21, 2010
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