Friday, December 03, 2004
misc stuff
It'll probably freeze tonight unless the cloud cover returns but the weathercritter is saying back to the 80's by Monday. That probably means rain and I wonder how that will affect Jimmy moving his new 32' x 80' trailer down a long dirt road with lots of 90 degree turns that day. One culvert he has to cross has exactly one inch of margin.
Nothing much interesting down here today. I'm stuck on a design problem. Dull as dishwater but it needs to be resolved. The check valve in the greywater system got blocked and gave me an hour's entertainment cleaning it out and mopping up the mess, decided to test the chimney draft, filled the house with smoke as usual, and continued to load Rustbucket with all the true scrap from the shop. Tomorrow is housecleaning (HAH!) day and it seems like a good idea to make a dump run as I'm nearly outa Bugler anyway.
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Rather sketchy but it's a start (from Fox).
National Sales Tax Promoted as Fairer System
This article references H.R. 25, Fair Tax Act of 2003 (132 pages) which I've linked earlier but Robert Longley has a good "first read" with informative links.
There is a competing bill, H.R. 4168, Individual Tax Freedom Act of 2004 that I have not read in it's entirety (86 pages of "stuff", slow to absorb for this old critter).
I can certainly understand why most folk won't bother to read the proposals; dry, miserable legalese isn't my taste in lit either, but the alternative is the godawful spin the MSM puts on it when it is mentioned at all. The downside of the proposals are the virtual elimination for our wonderful leaders to buy votes with our money and the abject horror of thousands of million-dollar lawyer/lobbyists in Foggy Bottom, a.k.a., Washington, D.C. (Miasma Central) on the bread line!
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Since we've lawyered and taxed ourselves out of being a producing country, let's buy lots more Chinese crap at Wal*Mart. The Chinese need the bucks to continue developing all the goodies Clinton gave them.
China tests ballistic missile submarine
And whilst we're fiddling with nukes, I havent forgotten you anon!
UN Needs More Power to Find Any Iran Nukes -Envoys
Reuters - By Louis Charbonneau
" Several military sites that inspectors would like to visit are technically off-limits to the U.N.'s nuclear watchdog. It only has clear rights to go to facilities declared to it as nuclear sites.
Access to other sites is possible, but must be negotiated and can be highly problematic.
Last December, Iran signed the IAEA's Additional Protocol, granting it more authority to conduct short-notice, intrusive inspections. Although the protocol has not been ratified, Tehran has been acting as if it was in force.
"If a country has a strategy for hiding its nuclear program, then the Additional Protocol is of little use," a U.N. diplomat said, adding that the IAEA would not have been able to prove Libya had a nuclear arms program if Muammar Gaddafi had not confessed and handed over the bomb designs. " (snip)
Why not later on this evening?
An attack on an American city by terrorists armed with a small nuclear device is an even bet within a decade, some experts say
SF Gate - Sunday, November 21, 2004
Want to blow up your neighborhood with a 10 kiloton nuke? It's fun! National Geographic had a better version up a bunch of years ago but I couldn't find it today.
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Would you like to know how your congresscritters scored with the ACLU?
U.S. House of Representatives
U.S. Senate
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Yesterday's pooch when the weather was better.
Nyerlathotep (Tep). RIP old friend.
Nothing much interesting down here today. I'm stuck on a design problem. Dull as dishwater but it needs to be resolved. The check valve in the greywater system got blocked and gave me an hour's entertainment cleaning it out and mopping up the mess, decided to test the chimney draft, filled the house with smoke as usual, and continued to load Rustbucket with all the true scrap from the shop. Tomorrow is housecleaning (HAH!) day and it seems like a good idea to make a dump run as I'm nearly outa Bugler anyway.
* * * * * *
Rather sketchy but it's a start (from Fox).
National Sales Tax Promoted as Fairer System
This article references H.R. 25, Fair Tax Act of 2003 (132 pages) which I've linked earlier but Robert Longley has a good "first read" with informative links.
There is a competing bill, H.R. 4168, Individual Tax Freedom Act of 2004 that I have not read in it's entirety (86 pages of "stuff", slow to absorb for this old critter).
I can certainly understand why most folk won't bother to read the proposals; dry, miserable legalese isn't my taste in lit either, but the alternative is the godawful spin the MSM puts on it when it is mentioned at all. The downside of the proposals are the virtual elimination for our wonderful leaders to buy votes with our money and the abject horror of thousands of million-dollar lawyer/lobbyists in Foggy Bottom, a.k.a., Washington, D.C. (Miasma Central) on the bread line!
* * * * * *
Since we've lawyered and taxed ourselves out of being a producing country, let's buy lots more Chinese crap at Wal*Mart. The Chinese need the bucks to continue developing all the goodies Clinton gave them.
China tests ballistic missile submarine
And whilst we're fiddling with nukes, I havent forgotten you anon!
UN Needs More Power to Find Any Iran Nukes -Envoys
Reuters - By Louis Charbonneau
" Several military sites that inspectors would like to visit are technically off-limits to the U.N.'s nuclear watchdog. It only has clear rights to go to facilities declared to it as nuclear sites.
Access to other sites is possible, but must be negotiated and can be highly problematic.
Last December, Iran signed the IAEA's Additional Protocol, granting it more authority to conduct short-notice, intrusive inspections. Although the protocol has not been ratified, Tehran has been acting as if it was in force.
"If a country has a strategy for hiding its nuclear program, then the Additional Protocol is of little use," a U.N. diplomat said, adding that the IAEA would not have been able to prove Libya had a nuclear arms program if Muammar Gaddafi had not confessed and handed over the bomb designs. " (snip)
Why not later on this evening?
An attack on an American city by terrorists armed with a small nuclear device is an even bet within a decade, some experts say
SF Gate - Sunday, November 21, 2004
Want to blow up your neighborhood with a 10 kiloton nuke? It's fun! National Geographic had a better version up a bunch of years ago but I couldn't find it today.
* * * * * * *
Would you like to know how your congresscritters scored with the ACLU?
U.S. House of Representatives
U.S. Senate
* * * * * *
Yesterday's pooch when the weather was better.
Nyerlathotep (Tep). RIP old friend.
