Saturday, February 04, 2012

Tommy Flanagan Trio - A Blue Time

China's Privatized Transportation System


"[...]Transportation economist and Vice President of Policy Research at Reason Foundation, Adrian Moore, says that China is using toll roads and science to keep up with the largest car market in the world. He sat down with Reason.tv to talk about what he calls, "the most important bilateral relationship in the 21st century."

"Moore has been working with China on free market transportation solutions for booming cities that are attracting hundreds of thousands of people every month. China's demand for cars is being driven by its new middle class, which is roughly the size of the entire United States population.

"Doing transportation right is something China can't afford to do wrong. Moore explains what it is doing right and what this "capitalist country" can learn from the "avowedly communist country[...]".

Friday, February 03, 2012

Immigration Status Quo Is Unsustainable


Rubio delivers keynote speech at HLN (Hispanic Leadership Network)
conference in Miami. (English language starts at 1:33 min.)...Exerpt: "[...]And I would submit to you that there has never been an economic system that provides the opportunity to do that better than the American free enterprise system. No economic system is perfect. But nowhere in the world have more people from all walks of life been able to empower their children and their grandchildren more than they were able to do here in the twentieth century in the American free enterprise system.

"And I also submit to you that today it is under assault. That our country today is run by a President that’s as divisive as any figure in modern American history, who sadly has chosen the route of dividing Americans against each other for the purpose of gaining votes and political support.

"His message is one that basically says to people, the way to protect your job is to raise your boss’ taxes. That the way for you to do better off is for someone else to be worse off. That the only way you can climb up the ladder is if we pull some people down.

"Now let me tell you, that language is common all over the world. You find it often in the third world. But it’s never been who we are.

"As I said in a speech at the end of last year, we have never been a nation of haves and have nots. We have always been a nation of haves and soon to haves, a people who have made it and people who believe that given the chance they will make it too. And if we lose that, we lose the essence of what’s made us great in terms of economics.

"And so, when the choices that are put before us today are dangerous ones, because if we choose this path of pitting people against each other, if we buy into this notion that our economy really can’t grow fast enough for all of us to prosper so we’re going to have to somehow empower government to distribute the wealth of this country among us, we’ve chosen to become like everybody else. We’ve chosen to become like the countries that your parents and grandparents came here to get away from. And that’s a powerful message. And that’s the message that we need to deliver. And that’s the message we need to work on delivering. It’s a winning message, but it’s a difficult message to get to because the gateway issue of immigration stands in the minds of so many people who we live next to and love.
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[full transcript]

Original RC Ornithopter


"The original Sean Kinkade (SK) Park Hawk! Version 1! What an amazing machine. Its hard to believe when you first see it, but it is the easiest thing to fly and has proven to be quite robust. Robert found this gem hanging from the roof of one of our local hobby shops and had to pick it up. I had been eyeing it for quite a while and maybe I should have picked it up. Either way its a joy to witness and to fly."
Wanna buy one? Go straight to the source!
http://www.flappingflight.com/

Thursday, February 02, 2012

PJ News Break

Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Warren Buffet's Phoney Challenge Discussed

Who's Really Behind The War On Newt?

Gov. Jerry Brown is Just as Clueless the Second Time Around

Monday, January 30, 2012

Obama - Thick-Skinned or Thin-Skinned?

Sunday, January 29, 2012

Amazing Grace (a cappella) - Hayley Westenra