Have the Left eaten your brain yet?

If you over react without all the information, you might be an Obama Zombie.
If you believe spreading the wealth will help you or the poor, you might be an Obama Zombie.
If you think tax breaks for some are good and not for others, you might be an Obama Zombie.
If you believe the government should take the role of god, you might be an Obama Zombie.
If you still believe that "Yes, you can." then you are an Obama Zombie.

Signs we are still rich capitalist

"Consistent with the findings of the National Broadband Plan, the report points out the great broadband successes in the United states, including as many as 290 million Americans who have gained access to broadband over the past decade. But the statute requires more. It requires the agency to reach a conclusion about whether all, not some, not most, Americans are being served in a reasonable and timely fashion,"(Link)

As Pres. Obama is touting about the unemployed which shows off his failures as a manager, this report is about the 12 million Americans without broadband internet access! WTF! We have people without clothes and these guys are worried about nationalized Broadband? When will it become a right? When will homes be forced to provide access to the children living in the home? When will companies have to offer broadband as a benefit to its employees?

Dial up sucks, but there is no right, there should be no mandatory public support.

NASA & their empire of dirt

"When I became the NASA administrator -- or before I became the NASA administrator -- he charged me with three things. One was he wanted me to help re-inspire children to want to get into science and math, he wanted me to expand our international relationships, and third, and perhaps foremost, he wanted me to find a way to reach out to the Muslim world and engage much more with dominantly Muslim nations to help them feel good about their historic contribution to science ... and math and engineering," (NASA Administrator Charles) Bolden said in the interview. (foxnews.com)

I completely agree that one of NASA’s missions is to “re-inspire” children to be interested in space and want to study science and math. Expanding international relationships seems vague as I would hope it would be in connection with space exploration projects with other countries and some of those countries will have large Muslim populations but to believe that one of NASA’s missions is to make them feel good about their historical contributions to science is at best misdirected and at worst, a fundamental alteration of NASA’s purpose.

Muslim countries are well aware of their historical contributions, they live there. By there I mean literally the pre-enlightenment age, as it was the birth place of civilization, the middle-east would have been the home of all things science and math, of course this was before Mohammad was given the words of god (according to their religion) and the Qur’an being written. Much like those that claim to have discovered America (of which there were already people here) the important date is still in 1492 as that is when things changed and Europeans, for better or worse, continued to come here until this very day. (The Vikings, Chinese, Polynesians, or whoever else, did not come back)

It is much like what have you done for me lately when it comes to math and science, if you don’t keep up on improving it or making it an important part of your culture it really doesn’t matter if you were best at it, just ask the Egyptians, Greeks, Romans and Sumerians how their empires are doing today.

I think NASA and our president needs to focus on teaching U.S. citizens about its history, math and science to assure we don’t become like those other empires of dirt.

Chris Mendelsohn 2010

Rep. Pete Stark mocks voters

This congressman seems to just think he is dealing with people that mean nothing. I guess I'm glad to see one congressman showing how he real feels about voters, but he isn't even trying to answer the question in a meaningful way.

The Obama Scholars of tomorrow

I believe, I believe, I believe there is trouble right here in river city.

Is reading this making you dumber?

“The Shallows” - Nicholas Carr

"Carr’s sighted that the internet works like a drug, it instantly gratifies someone, can be available universally. And like its narcotic counterparts. It short circuits our brain consciously and sub-consciously disabling our minds to think deeper, think creatively." (Source)

There is a satisfaction in thinking of something and looking it up immediately. But sometimes I do have trouble recalling something I read on the internet, but just because it takes less time to boil a subject on Wikipedia rather than read a Ph.D's need to write a 300 page book on a subject to justify the $25 price, I don't know that I learn anymore. Life has become a bunch of "Trivia Pursuit" facts but I don't know that it makes you dumber.

Iowa primaries June 8th, 2010

As June 8th is in just a few days, I will jump in and give my pre-game report. Yes "game" as those involved seem to play it that way.

For Governor, we have Vander Plaats, Roberts & Branstad, although among those that will vote in Tuesday's primary the two conservatives will get more votes, I believe the former governor Terry Branstad will win. This is unfortunate as he is the "McCain" in this race but doesn't represent the current views of a majority of Republicans much less conservatives. Although Branstad may have the best chance to win in the fall he represents a continuation of the policies that got us here in the first place.

For Congress (3rd District) we have Zaun, Gibbons, Funk and Rees. I believe this is how they will end up in the vote but will Zaun get 35% I do not know. If no one gets 35% there will a runoff. The other problem any of these candidates will have is that Polk county which makes up a huge chunk of the 3rd district voting block is much more registered Democrat than the state. The last Republican to represent Polk county (Greg Ganksy) never won the county. He was able to take 49% of its votes and then take 55-60% of the vote in the other counties. Since then we have been redistricted and more Democrats live in the district now.

If any of these gentleman are going to win they will have to win a lot of independents in the fall and have to move their roderic to the center. They don't want to move to the center on what they believe, but how they say it. Last Friday I was listening to some of them talk to Steve Deace on WHO radio and they used a lot of "red meat" to describe what they wanted to do, Zaun was not on that day and may have saved himself some recorded quotes to be used against him later by Boswell.

Don't for get to vote.
Chris Mendelsohn