Simply Red - Holding Back The Years

Uploaded by simplyredvideo on Apr 26, 2009

This was a big hit in the eighties, I remember it well. It reminds me of myself, frankly. I keep holding on.

ABC Not Sure Whether Death Threats In Trayvon Martin Aftermath 'Going Too Far'

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Comment:

So, whatever happened to civility?

Young and Restless

Charlie Cook - NationalJournal.com  h/t  Transterrestrial Musings

The piece is about how Obama's hold on the youth vote is shaky.

“I see victims” [Darleen Click]

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In an exchange on Twitter, one young female sneered at me that her taxes and insurance premiums had “paid for your births” (somehow obligating me to SHUTUP about the 1st amendment and birth control). I told her that, no, when my husband and I had our kids, medical insurance was for catastrophic events and that a normal birth was paid for out-of-pocket. (IIRC that was $1500 in 1978)

Comment:

"Shut up" rears its head again.

Kardashevian Aspirations: 30 Minutes with Andrea Rossi

Kardashevian Aspirations: 30 Minutes with Andrea Rossi: Uploaded by ColdFusionNow on Mar 11, 2012

Modified microbes turn carbon dioxide to liquid fuel

An integrated electromicrobial process to convert CO2 to gasoline substitutes.

The electrochemical formate production and the biological CO2 fixation and higher alcohol synthesis now open up the possibility of electricity-driven bioconversion of CO2 to a variety of chemicals. In addition, the transformation of formate into liquid fuel will also play an important role in the biomass refinery process, according to Liao.

"We've demonstrated the principle, and now we think we can scale up," he said. "That's our next step."

Comment:

This may be a big deal.   If you can reliably recapture carbon dioxide, then reprocess it into liquid fuels using this method, you can close the carbon dioxide loop.

h/t Instapundit

Why the Supreme Court may rule against ObamaCare

You can call this a prediction.  It is a plausible way to strike down ObamaCare without causing too much of a controversy.  It may even get some votes from liberal justices.  How?

The method of enforcement, that's how.  The individual mandate may be deemed legal, but the way the penalty is enforced is not.  Some of the justices pointed out that this is not a tax.  That's a clue to their thinking.  If it is not a tax, then what is it?  But maybe that doesn't even matter.  It, whatever it is, will be enforced through the IRS even though it isn't an income tax.  The enforcement mechanism is inappropriate.  Therefore it violates one part of the "elastic clause" in the Constitution, which is

To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof.

It isn't necessary either for ObamaCare to be enforced through this improper mechanism.  What justification is to made for it being necessary?  If funds are needed, simply raise the tax rates.  If certain individuals need to be brought into compliance, simply put deductions or credits into the code.

Normally, penalties are levied for failure to follow the tax law.  ObamaCare is not a tax and a penalty for not following it is not in violation of the tax law.  Therefore, it is unconstitutional.

In a rational world, this is what could happen.  But it may not happen this way.  We shall see.