U.S. Supreme Court overturns decades-old restrictions on corporate campaign spending

One small step for liberty. McCain-Feingold should never have become law. It should be entirely overturned.

Brown Win Forces Democrats to Re-Evaluate Health Care Reform Game Plan

The people of Massachusetts should know somthing about government run healthcare. It was passed in their state. If they voted for Brown as a proxy for being against government run healthcare, they must not how it is being run in their own state.

Medical marijuana in New Jersey

It looks like New Jersey is going to allow chronically ill paitents to be able to get Medical Marijuana. The bill is not perfect. It does not allow paitents to grow their own. It only allows 2 ounces per month. Depending on the quality of the marijuanna sold, it may not be enough for some people.

It is a good start.
It is going to be interesting that Cozine may be signing the bill but won't be responsable for implementing it. I wonder how Chris Christie will implement it.

Did the US allow the bomb attempt in order in expand the use of body scanners.

Looking at the two links below. Did the US allow the bomb attempt to occur in order to expand the use of body scanners at airports?

We now know that the US had intelegence about the bomb attempt before it occured.
They also want to expand the use of body scanners.

Although this may be interesting, I personally believe that it was incompentence that allowed the attack to occur. The expanded use of scanners is just a bonus.

I do not want goverment employees looking at my naked body.
I'm sure they don't want to look at my body either.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/12/29/obama-systemic-failure-allowed-terror-suspect-board-flight/
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/12/29/tsa-looks-expand-use-body-scanners-airports/

Energy-efficient traffic lights can't melt snow

A downside to having energy efficient traffic lights. They don't melt snow. Drivers can't tell the color since they are covered by snow. Accidents happen. I'm sure that the accidents are worth more than a town saves on energy. The energy costs of fixing a car have to be greater than what was saved on electricity. Towns are working to fix the problem, which will cost more than the electricity saved. Using an old fashioned light bulb fixes the problem. All because of global warming.

Trenton Makes the World Takes

While riding on Amtrak, I noticed a bridge that had a sign that read
"Trenton Makes the World Takes".

Since Trenton is now more of a state capital than a manufacturing city, I thought the sign should read "New Jersey Makes Trenton Takes"

Obamanomics. Chains you can believe in

Obamanomics. Chains you (or we) can believe in.
I love the saying and the sign. Someone blogged it first.

Teachers don't have a right to pray in schools.

During a student led prayer, a coach is not allowed to bow his head or to kneel.
All apearences of religion are being removed from schools.

I am not a religious person, but a teacher has rights too.
Students are not being asked or forced to pray, so what is the issue here?

Will the stimules package backfire.

Will the stimulus package backfire.
I am seeing news posts about tax tea parties.
We elected this bunch of crooks, but it is nice to see dissatifaction with the policy of fixing the credit crises with more credit.

Inflation is bound to happen as the US curency loses value do to the extra spending without a real source of income.

Taxing "the rich" will fail as they will less incentive to make money, reducing the tax base.

Sorry to be all doom and gloom, maybe the silver lining will be dissatified people voting in the next election.

Ipod shuffle crashes PC

When I connect my new 2nd generation ipod shuffle to my computer, the screen goes blank.
The only way to recover is to remove power from the computer. Turning it off is not good enough.
This happened to me twice.
I connected the shuffle by connecting the USB cable to the computer and then connecting the ipod shuffle to the cable. My computer is a Dell.

I think the problem is with electro-static discharge when I connect the ipod to the cable.

I connected the ipod shuffle to the cable, then the cable to the computer with no problems.
I should not have to be so exact to prevent a computer crash.