OT, houses falling down.

Um, the lobbyists aren't getting paid by the government. They don't pay independent contractors to lobby themselves.

Wow! Cutting taxes really does create jobs!

If we actually ended up with a small government somehow, a multinational would immediately pay a lobbying firm a billion dollars to un-smallify it.

You have cause and effect reverse. Here's the thing you understand: The Maj ority of Americans are Worthless Sleazy Thieving Low-Lifes. Repeat this aga in and again until it sinks it: The Majority of Americans are Worthless Sleazy Thieving Low-Lifes The Majority of Americans are Worthless Sleazy Thieving Low-Lifes The Majority of Americans are Worthless Sleazy Thieving Low-Lifes ... The Majority of Americans are Worthless Sleazy Thieving Low-Lifes

First comes the well-intentioned federal legislation and THEN the Worthless Sleazy Thieving Low-Lifes move in on the cash. That's how it works. And no t just the uber-wealthy do this. There was a federal crop insurance scandal a few years back where scum sucking grifter "farmers" were screwing the go vernment big time by doing things like planting massive acreages of waterme lons in places like the dust bowl, where they couldn't possibly grow, and t hen making a claim against the "crop failure." Another example is the first time home buyer tax credit a few years ago- hundreds of billions of fraudu lent claims, people claiming their children as young as 4yo as first time h omebuyers and things like that.

You're not getting it--think ahead. Once socialism fills the trough, do the companies and unions not crowd in? Would they do that if the trough were empty?

You need to look at it from the other direction. If we raised your taxes $50k, how many extra workers would you hire? If more than zero, should we hike your taxes $100k instead so you'd hire even more people?

Cheers, James Arthur

Oaky, this is starting to come together. First you've been ingesting debilitating levels of neurotoxin and now you're getting dosed by dangerously high levels of radioactivity.

You don't believe that, do you Fred?

George H.

Beer is only a mild neurotoxin.

A few months back I scooped up some sand there and sent it to Neon John for radiololgical analysis. He didn't find anything unusual.

The last crab season was a great disappointment. The classic SF dinner is cracked crab and sourdough and beer. Our cats love crabmeat too.

The crabs here are gigantic; one will feed us for a meal with enough left over for crabcakes or crab pasta. In New Orleans, one person can eat four of the tiny crabs.

I sure don't.

Why wouldn't you believe a report that cites a radio station which in turn cites, "anonymous workers" when it comes to radioactive food?

How about their report, "CDC investigation of Chipotle further supports corporate sabotage (bioterrorism) as likely source of E. coli contamination"

Well of *course* all this is true. The amazing part is that they can keep it so secret that you don't already know about it!

;)

Definitely do- Larkin probably glows in the dark by now.

At some wavelengths, I do.

This is hilarious:

ALL bluefin tuna caught off West Coast are radioactive

Lead researcher Delvan Neville attempted to minimize the risk of eating this fish, saying, "A year of eating albacore with these cesium traces is about the same dose of radiation as you get from spending 23 seconds in a stuffy basement from radon gas, or sleeping next to your spouse for 40 nights from the natural potassium-40 in their body," he explained.

I wonder how many BEDs [1] my wife has exposed me to.

The Army Engineers have been doing that sort of stupid stuff for over a century. See "Dams and other disasters" by Arthur E. Morgan for an earlier (1971) account of their nearly unbroken history of bungling and rewriting history.

Cheers

Phil Hobbs

Great book, Rising Tide by John Barry. It's about the great 1927 flood, the one Randy Newman sang about

I have a collection of bad-weather books, a couple about the great Galveston storm of 1900.

It's kinda sad to me... more of our science illiteracy.

George H.