Note Egypt’s position in the above.
Seriously, what are we graduating these days? I’ve got a full-rant post waiting in the wings about how I’m trying to hire an administrative assistant/project manager, pay $12-$15/hour, college degree preferred, flawless English a requirement, please send writing sample with resume, and out of 100 applications only one sent a writing sample.
h/t: ZeroHedge.
Good series of Instructables about how to build small buildings using plastic bags & earth.
Step-by-Step Earthbag Building
How to Build an Earthbag Roundhouse
PS: if you don’t know about Instructables, take the time to browse the site. There are how-to’s for everything from constructing buildings, to using software, to building weapons, to forging & casting, to just about anything under the sun that it is probably legal to do (check your local laws).
Develop a biodegradable plastic bottle that threatens the profits of the $400B recycling industry.
I smell a bipartisan industry protection bill coming.
Scientists figure out how to create mussel glue in the lab. This is cool 3 different ways:
1) We now have some new, waterproof adhesives for marine construction and development.
2) The same glues can be used in surgery
3) It doesn’t work the same way traditional glues & epoxies work.
Give it a read, it’s pretty neat stuff
What could possibly be their motive for this
Bejing authorities block internet searches for “Egypt”
Oh. Never mind.
After last week’s failure of the “Stop Me Before I Spend Again” SOTU speech by The Won, the left went all out to smear anyone and anything they could find that disagreed with his policies in order to deflect from his ineptitude.
Thankfully, most of this nonsense was washed under the standard news cycle by the uprising in Egypt. And, unsurprisingly to anyone here, the uprising in Egypt will be one of the final nails in the coffin that represents the adroitness of the Obama Administration.
This short series will dispel these silly notions that most folks you will come up against in future discussions with folks on the left (aka: The Sinestra) so that you can quickly get past these straw men and get down to the part of the discussion the Sinestra hate: The facts.
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The Act was written and passed by Congress and then signed by John Adams in 1798. It required privately employed sailors and seamen who had participated in international commercial transport to submit to a $0.20 per month (approximately 1%) payroll tax to the federal government so that a “Marine Hospital Service” could be established in the nation’s larger commercial ports.
This, per the folks on the left, is PROOF POSITIVE that the Founding Fathers were in favor of socialized medicine.
Please, stop laughing. They’re serious.
They ignore the fact that there is a very specific non-mention of sailors and seamen who engaged in domestic shipping, because the Congress knew they could only do this under their powers to regulate maritime activity and international commerce.
They also ignore that the majority of these hospitals were owned and operated by the US Government and staffed by US military personnel. The private hospitals that were contracted by the US Government at the outset of the program were soon replaced by military staffed hospitals.
Furthermore, and most importantly, they ignore that, despite repeated tax increases, the funding was completely inadequate to fund this service and that funding had to borrowed.
You will recognize the Merchant Hospital Service today as the Public Health Service, encompassing the cabinet level Department of Health and Human Services and the Centers for Disease Control.
Now that is what I call Mission Creep.
I haven’t checked in with Cap’n Bob and the lovely Damsel in quite a while — they’ve been building a new house and blogging up a storm about it. Check ’em out. I like those steel doors!
And Dirtcrashr’s been firing on all cylinders recently — his post on the high-speed-rail concept’s this week’s a fine piece of work. Check him out.
Oh, and here’s a classic for you featuring the mesmerizing Sarah Howells. One of the few modern hit songs with some actual dynamic range. Crank it!
[The children] fought over them, so he took them away. Trying to explain that they are only silly gadgets, he smashed one in front of them.
“It was supposed to make them happy but it didn’t,†said Tompert. “I wanted to show them it was a just a thing. They were stunned. The whole house was silent that day.â€
Emphasis mine. I sure don’t want to see what this guy does when he wants to make his kids sad.
h/t: Uncle.
Not for the squeamish. And NSFW.
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It’s just hilarious that nobody in the White House saw the natural acronym for the Winning The Future slogan:
