6 December 2010 - Granite Grok

December 6, 2010

Busted….

"BUSTED" Update: A reader, and fellow blogger, Paul Sand, at Pun Salad, sent me this Reason.net spoof of Mythbusters and Obama – sort of what I hoped they would do!! (H/T: Reason.TV, Pun Salad) On Wednesday, December 8, Mythbusters will air an episode called "The President’s Challenge – Archimedes Solar Ray", to try busting the …

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There Is A God

The first batch of US currency with Tim Geithner’s name on it has been quarantined. About $110 billion in newly printed hundred dollar bills (loaded with new anti-counterfeiting features) were so hi-tech the printing process got screwed up, leaving blank spots on some of the bills. Rather than try to sort them, which an article at Yahoo! News claims would take at least 20 years to do by hand, they will have to set them aside for a year while they work up an automated method of sorting out the bad bills.

Show me the Tax cut

All those years of left wing class warfare about cuts for the rich but none for the rest of us we’re liberal lies. Plain and simple. You can’t extend something that does not exist.

Stop START then re-START

New Hampshire Senator Jeanne Shaheen chews up a large chunk of the Sunday Union Leader’s opinion page to sell us on president Obama’s START treaty with Russia. Most of the words revolve around suggesting this will enhance security, that it is a good deal for America, and that there at least a busload of experts, past and current military, former Secretaries of State, ex=presidents and sundry others who agree that this Treaty should be ratified. But few things stand between taking this at face value and moving forward on her recommendation.