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Politics
Tuesday, March 18, 2008
Do not allow free speech to be hurt in Kentucky
Email Rep. Tim Couch and Jimmy Gigdon and tell them what putzes they really are - oh, and while you are at it, tell them that House Bill 775 is really really stupid and that they are idiots for even considering it and should burn in hell for proposing it. Or, if you think that is too strong, tell them something similar.
jimmy higdon can be e-mailed directly:
tim couch has a feedback form here: http://www.lrc.ky.gov/Mailform/H090.htm
You can see HB 775 here: http://www.lrc.ky.gov/RECORD/08RS/HB775.htm
Here is a short description:
AN ACT relating to information technology.
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 369 to establish definitions relating to Internet Web sites, blogs, or message boards; require registration prior to posting information to these interactive services; identify persons, businesses, or entities that post information to these interactive services; establish penalty provisions.
November 29, 2000 New Jersey Court protects anonymous internet critics of New Jersey company - upholding 1st amendment - see http://www.citizen.org/pressroom/release.cfm?ID=551
On appeal, it was again protected…
http://www.aclu-nj.org/news/appealscourtprotectsanonym.htm
See others here: http://epic.org/free_speech/
Since it has gone to Labor and Industry - e-mail those people too (see http://www.lrc.state.ky.us/org_adm/committe/standcom.htm for current list)
Labor and Industry (H)
Rep. J. R. Gray (D), Chair - form at http://www.lrc.ky.gov/Mailform/H006.htm
Rep. Charlie Hoffman (D), Vice Chair - mailto:charlie.hoffman@lrc.ky.gov
Rep. Joni Jenkins (D), Vice Chair - mailto:jonijenkins@aol.com
Rep. Rick Nelson (D), Vice Chair - form at http://www.lrc.ky.gov/Mailform/H087.htm
Rep. Jim Stewart (R), Vice Chair - mailto:jim.stewart@lrc.ky.gov
Rep. John Arnold Jr. (D) - mailto:john.arnold@lrc.ky.gov
Rep. Denver Butler (D) - mailto:RepButler@aol.com
Rep. Dennis Horlander (D) - mailto:dennis.horlander@lrc.ky.gov
Rep. Brent Yonts (D) - mailto:brent.yonts@lrc.ky.gov
Rep. C.B. Embry (R) - form at http://www.lrc.ky.gov/Mailform/H017.htm
Rep. Thomas Kerr (R) - mailto:thomas.kerr@lrc.ky.gov
Rep. Russ Mobley (R) - form at http://www.lrc.ky.gov/Mailform/H051.htm
Here is what I am telling them:
============== concerning ========================
HB 775 (BR 1943) - T. Couch, J. Higdon
AN ACT relating to information technology.
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 369 to establish definitions
relating to Internet Web sites, blogs, or message boards; require
registration prior to posting information to these interactive
services; identify persons, businesses, or entities that post
information to these interactive services; establish penalty
provisions.
Mar 4-introduced in House
Mar 6-to Labor & Industry (H)
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Please send T Couch and J Higdon home without even considering such nonsense. Protect our first amendment. We have the right to free speach. We have the right to do so anonymously.
New Jersey upheld this in 2000, it went to appeals, and was again upheld. Do not go down this road.
Tuesday, February 05, 2008
Defining Experience
In what type of world does being the wife of a politician qualify you to be a politician?? I just don’t understand. Can someone explain this to me please? Was she getting experience while her husband was getting it in the Oral Office? Was she getting experience while her husband was Governor of Arkansas for 12 years?
I know she was on some committees and the New Yorkers for some reason made her a Senator (twice) - I believe so she could run for President.
Monday, April 16, 2007
global warming… its caused by us
You may have seen the movie “An Inconvenient Truth” that was put together by a politician.
In it he claims (and shows a graph to prove it) that the CO2 levels are higher than they have ever been - and not just a little, a LOT. It basically looks like an L on its side (___|).
Michael B. McElroy, Gilbert Butler Professor of Environmental Studies and director of Harvard’s Center for the Environment, has a message: “This is not controversial,” he says. “It’s not just a gentle warming. And it’s caused by us.”
He goes on to say, “There is a close association between climate and the level of gases like CO2 and methane.”
We have raised the level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere to a point that is higher than at any time over the past 450,000 years,” McElroy says. “Arguably, it’s higher than it’s been for several million years. Concentrations of CO2 will climb to twice what they currently are by the end of the century. That’s a complete change in the atmosphere.”
People like that claim that its because of this or that - too much cars, too much asphalt, too much methane, etc. What it really is is just too much us.
Here is an estimate of how many people were on the planet earth for some different time periods…
Year Millions of people
-10000 4
-8000 5
-7000 5
-6000 5
-5000 5
-4000 7
-3000 14
-2000 27
-1000 50
-750 60
-500 100
-400 160
-200 150
0 170
200 190
400 190
500 190
600 200
700 210
800 220
900 226
1000 310
1100 301
1200 360
1250 400
1300 360
1340 443
1400 350
1500 425
1600 545
1650 470
1700 600
1750 790
1800 980
1850 1260
1900 1650
1910 1750
1920 1860
1930 2070
1940 2300
1950 2400
1960 3020
1970 3700
1974 4000
1980 4430
1987 5000
1990 5260
2000 6070.
Now, pop those numbers in your graph making program and see what kind of graph it makes.
Why, its an L on its side (___|). Why, its us. We keep exhaling that darned CO2.
I have a solution… we have a little over 6Billion people on the earth… lets whack 2/3 of them. This would take us back to the mid-1900’s in population and destroy that darned leg. Or, perhaps we whack 5/6 of them and go back to the mid 1800’s - surely that would take care of it!
I’m not being serious, of course. But, we need to keep the numbers in relation to reality. Politicians are politicians and will always be politicians, even if they can create the internet and show pretty pictures (or not so pretty pictures) and graphs of the CO2 levels - isn’t that what Ross Perot did, and we didn’t elect his big eared head in 1992.
Anyway, things are not as simple as “car emissions” or “power plant emissions” and people (all 6 BILLION of them) need to understand this. What if, for example, instead of whackin’ them all, we got everybody to hold their breath for one minute a day. That in and of itself would cut CO2 emissions by 1/86400 a day. That doesn’t sound like much, but when you consider that we have about 1000 tonnes of CO2 in the air, it has to help.
And that is provided to you by someone who is not a politician and has no plans of being a politician… so don’t vote for me for nothin… just hold your breath - say, from perhaps 3:05p.m. to 3:06 p.m.?
Wednesday, October 18, 2006
Traffic in Lexington - what a terrible loss
So, apparently the LFUCG has decided that
1) They want to increase the number of poeple who live downtown
2) They want to make it safer for pedestrians
3) They want to have a new grocery store downtown
So, what are they doing to accomplish this?
They are putting together a 20 year plan.
This plan includes
1) Taking most of the 1-way streets and returning them to 2-way
2) Adding tons of new apartment types downtown
3) Changing the timing of the lights
Results:
1) more people downtown
2) traffic much slower entering and leaving downtown
Real results:
Lexington becomes even worse for business. Traffic is already bad for the size town that Lexington is. They have (historically) done some things to improve this - like the south part of New Circle, the 1 way roads downtown - and they have done some things to make it worse - man-o-war, roads around Hamberg, cloverlfeafs.
And don’t even get me started on the airport, horse sales, all the empty buildings with the very high rental rates, the high cost of property at the research farm on the north end of town, etc.
Wednesday, August 24, 2005
Eating my Corn Pops and thinking
I was sitting at my desk eating my Corn Pops and thinking… Well, perhaps, wondering is a better word.
I was wondering about when authors of computer viruses, trojans, etc. would finally be taken serious by the governments of the world and actually have something done about them.
Then, I was glancing at cnn and I saw the following headline, “Bluetooth device to save stroke victims”. I have not read it yet. However, my imagination has doctors installing devices into people - pacemakers, health monitors, drug dispensers, regulators of different types, etc. These devices are bluetooth enabled to allow the medical people to read information and make adjustments without having to physically touch the equipment.
So, bluetooth virus finds the device, and whamo someone is dead.
Of course, instead of doing something about the virus makers - who are the true terrorists of this century - they will have the manufaturer of the devices start adding antivirus software. People will have to plug themselves in every day and get a anti-virus update. Then, while that is happening a 3-D image will project out of their chest advertising the latest ware - because that would truly be the last great advertising opportunity!
Perhaps I’m just being optimistic that the advertising and marketing companies will wait until someone is ill to use them as a human billboard… sigh…
Well, I have to go to work. Have a good day all.
--Moose
