Eiffel DNA
Friday, March 28th, 2008
A temporary Kevlar strucutre that will be bolted on to the top of the Eiffel Tower, doubling the surface area of the viewing platform and wighing only 1200kg.
My french co-worker hates it.
Archive for March 28th, 2008
Vote for him
Friday, March 28th, 2008the (dis) pencer wants your vote. He lists his platform, let’s analyze it:
1. A National Health Care - I just can’t get on board the idea of a nationalized health care system. I really think that the free market can come up with a method to provide health care in this country that is efficient for the consumer and profitable for the providers. However, I am strongly in favor of government regulation that dictates what minimum heath care coverage at what maximum price has to be offered to all citizens before a provider is permitted to offer service.
2. A useful rail system - Here here.
3. Bigger states, smaller laws - I can’t see it. Whether or not his idea has merit it rejects one of the fundamental principals in the founding of this country. Thomas Jefferson never considered himself a citizen of the United States first and foremost. He believed that his country was Virginia. States autonomy from the republic was the founders idea. The civil war, federal legislation and various Supreme Court decisions that followed have reduced the power of the states versus the federal government. You want to give some of this power back to the states? Sure, it’s what was meant to be in the first place.
4. Abolish the presidency - Again, a fundamental principal of our government from the start. You want to roll back some of the power grab from the Bush Administration? I am all for that.
5. Gun control - all for it. We will never outlaw guns in this country but limiting access to certain guns and knowing who owns guns should be a no brainer.
(dis) writes further:
once everything is up and running, then the timeline will call for abolishing the government entirely, we won’t need it. everyone will be pretty happy, and it’ll be smoooove sailing.
Hummm…I would have to see it to believe it.
