This one is for boose.

Read even a portion of this painfully left leaning piece on how the corps of engineers totally screwed up the levee system in New Orleans and then tell me how pumped you are to let government manage everybody’s health care.

NEW ORLEANS STILL MIGHT HAVE FENDED off Katrina if its levees hadn’t played matador defense. After Hurricane Betsy pummeled New Orleans in 1965, Congress assigned the Corps to protect the city from a 100-year storm. The agency’s first mistake was calculating that 100-year event as a modest Category 3 hurricane, even though Betsy had been a 4, and the National Weather Service later proposed a more severe 4. The Corps then made such egregious engineering errors that it wasn’t even ready for a smaller storm. For example, its levees sagged as much as 5 ft. (1.5 m) lower than their design because the Corps miscalculated sea level and then failed to adjust for subsidence. Some were built in soils with the stability of oatmeal. “These were inexcusable, lethal mistakes,” says University of California, Berkeley, engineering professor Robert Bea, who led a post-Katrina investigation for the National Science Foundation. The Corps also built most of its levees around swampland, a conscious effort to promote the development of low-lying subdivisions like New Orleans East. That no longer seemed like such a good idea after New Orleans East went underwater during Katrina. “That should be the first lesson: build levees around people, not around wetlands,” says Paul Harrison of Environmental Defense.

The basic problem is that protecting New Orleans from deadly storms was never anyone’s top priority. That’s why the city’s main hurricane project was 37 years behind schedule when Katrina hit. Louisiana’s congressional delegation steered Corps funds toward boondoggles that had nothing to do with flood protection, like a $2 billion effort to channelize the Red River for barges that never materialized. Stingy local officials actually helped scuttle a Corps plan to build pumps and floodgates along Lake Pontchartrain, a plan that could have prevented much of Katrina’s flooding. “We can beat ourselves up about the past–or we can use the past to do business differently in the future,” says Corps Colonel Jeffrey Bedey, who is now overseeing construction of, yes, huge pumps and floodgates along Lake Pontchartrain. “I don’t just mean we the Corps. I mean we the country.”

Can’t wait for the ‘corp of health care’ to determine how billions dollars should best be spent on protecting my health. I just hope the legislation will enable even more pork barrel projects than the corp of engineers currently provides.

It’s odd cause some argue that things like education are to important to left up to the markets. The result? High School graduate rates have remained unchanged in thirty years while cost has increase significantly. Over the same period microwaves came into existence and were refined with more features while costing less to produce. In some wired way, by using government to ‘protect’ valuable things in society from free markets what seems to be valued becomes inverted. An outsider comparing education to microwave would have no choice but to conclude we care more about microwaves than education.

I fully agree with Colorado school officials.

“It causes a lot of conflict on the playground,” said Cindy Fesgen, assistant principal of the Discovery Canyon Campus school.

Tag should not be allowed at school because it might cause psychological harm for children. This is a departure from my previous position, but Darwin and the 9th circuit of appeals convinced me that the constitution grants every single person a right to never feel bad about anything ever.

In the spirit of preventing psychological harm, I just want to fully apologize for posting this after Diatribe already did. Diatribe you are still a unique and special little snowflake. Even if you are a wanker.

It is no surprise that John Racy, a psychiatrist with much experience in Arab societies, has noted that homosexuality is “extremely common” in many parts of the Arab world. [1] Indeed, even though homosexuality is officially despised in this culture and strictly prohibited and punishable by imprisonment, incarceration and/or death, having sex with boys or effeminate men is actually a social norm. Males serve as available substitutes for unavailable women. The key is this: the male who does the penetrating is not considered to be homosexual or emasculated any more than if he were to have sex with his wife, while the male who is penetrated is emasculated. The boy, however, is not considered to be emasculated since he is not yet considered to be a man. A man who has sex with boys is simply doing what many men (especially unmarried ones) do. [2] And this reality is connected to the fact that, as scholar Bruce Dunne has demonstrated, sex in Islamic-Arab societies is not about mutuality between partners, but about the adult male’s achievement of pleasure through violent domination. [3]

Link Here.

I was at a lame-o orientation today and the benefits representative was going over the retirement packages we could choose from. Paraphrasing, he stated that those with a higher salary will have a larger portion of what they put away for retirement matched by the university than compared with those with lower salaries.

The actual statement he made was longer and used numbers so it took us all a second to process the meaning. There was a girl at my table from across from me that was painfully liberal. Me and the liberal girl both got to the meaning pretty quickly. Effectively, the more the university pays you, the more it will give towards your retirement.

Once I got to the meaning of the statement I immediately thought that I needed to work on getting rich so I can enjoy that benefit. The liberal girl made plain here thought because she blurted out: ‘the rich get richer’. The libertarian sees a benefit of wealth and thinks about how they would like to acquire that wealth. The liberal sees the benefit of wealth and thinks about its injustice.

Libertarians in conjunction with Conservatives have built the single greatest system of reducing poverty by focusing on giving benefits to the wealthy. We call it capitalism and we understand the basic concept that you must reward those that would use wealth most efficiently. In so doing, everyone gains.

Liberals in conjunction with Socialists have built one of single greatest systems of reducing wealth by focusing on distributing it equally. They call it socialism and they foolishly believe the basic concept that you must take from the wealthiest for a just society. In so doing, no one gains.

The liberal instinctively recoils at rewarding those the market deems most valuable while the libertarian instinctively invents ways to be deemed more valuable by the market.

That’s the difference.

It also follows research suggesting that the massive increase in Government funding for daycare provision over the past decade, aimed at helping children to progress more quickly, has in fact hindered their intellectual development as well as exacerbating their behaviour problems.

Huh, who knew? Oh thats right; I did.

This opinion piece is about citizens taking the responsibility of developing infrastructure. Two things to note:

1. Some of my readers are probably crapping their pants. On what justification do they forcibly steal money from what group of people to give to another group of people if that other group no longer needs infratstructure.

2. As you read through the mistakes and errors the local city government made in providing infrastructure, bear in mind thats the same organizational structure some people want to manage health care for everyone.

Look at the lies coming out of Greenpeace. This is the kind of deception that tricks people into supporting their politics.

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