Good luck reversing ANY government program, no matter how bad. Once a program is finally pushed through it doesn't matter how disastrous it turns out to be it's now some politically-connected group's (if they weren't politically connected it would never have been passed) God-Given Entitlement. Anyone trying to repeal it is trying to Beat Women and Starve Children.

I read a recent article that sodium boiler/reflector solar generators are literally burning the feathers off of migratory birds.

Windmills: The Politically Correct way to kill eagles.

Nah. They'll become ghouls and attack the smooth-skins at Tenpenny Tower.

I signed up for ShopRunner with an American Express card for free lifetime (supposedly) 2nd-day shipping. Newegg is one of the stores covered.

Right now at Amazon I'm using my Discover card (and not my Discover points) as Discover's Oct-Dec 5% bonus is on "any internet orders". (And I do have Prime there.)

That's the difference between the "Total Public Debt" and the "Total Debt". The latter includes the Intergovernmental Debt (such as the automatic "investment" of Social Security Trust Fund assets in non-marketable Treasury instruments, while the former only includes instruments sold publicly.

The much-ballyhooed "surplus" that Clinton had was in fact a small decline in the Total Public Debt while the Total Debt never declined (on an annual basis, at least) during his presidency.

Total Debt is what really matters. You're not getting ahead when your car, mortgage, and credit card debt have declined by $20,000 but your 401k loan has increased by $25,000. Your Total Debt has increased by $5,000. (Not a perfect analogy because of interest rate differentials, but the closest analogy I could come up with for a person where he "owes it to himself".)

While it's true that you could actually run a surplus and Social Security surpluses would still be "invested", increasing the Intergovernmental Debt, those funds would then retire Public Debt. This, along with debt retired by the actual surplus, would result in the Public Debt falling more rapidly than the Intergovernmental Debt increased and would lead to a declining Total Debt.

So, if the Total Debt didn't fall, there was no real surplus.

We should launch rockets from Australia. All you have to do is let them go and they'll fall into orbit. It would save a lot of fuel.

Oh, but it's not nice to profile. It'll hurt their feelings.

Boeing engineers have a union. I think that includes software engineers.

At least it's not on its way back in the middle of a giant energy cloud.

This isn't a "crap excuse". It is NOT "treason", but it is a felony violation of a "secret" law for which you would probably be tried in a "secret" court or at least in a court with no observers and sealed records (national security, you know).

Who is to say what warrant is "proper"? Wouldn't that be a judge, probably one in the same "secret" court system that issued the warrant in the first place?

Good luck with all of that.

It may be a "crap law", but her's wasn't a "crap excuse".

Martin Luther King Jr. himself file the copyright on the speech as an "unpublished work". Before being settled out of court, an appeals court overruled a lower court ruling that King had "published" the speech by speaking it and instead said that his verbal delivery was a "performance", allowing the copyright.

I knew the general concepts of the above and got the details from Wikipedia.

How can ice float? Can you build a bridge out of it?

Pro-gun control, pro-abortion, pro-illegal immigration, pro-nanny state to the power of ten (because liberals believe that people are too stupid to make their own choices since they might make the "wrong" ones and have to face consequences, which would be bad as everyone should be a Winner no matter what).

Political_stands

Funny how "racial profiling" is OK in the minds of liberal politicians for their cities but bad when done in a place like Arizona. I guess it's racism in Arizona and "just stopping the most likely offenders" in NYC.