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The left have gone bonkers (again) over Texas schoolbook changes that, among other things "cast the United Nations in a critical light."
The reason for their angst is because Texas buys so many textbooks that
other localities wind up using the same editions. Egad! This from
people who see no problem with textbooks written by Howard Zinn, and
ilk. Now to the point.
California's size, and political clout on everything from global
warming, emissions, and unfit congress critters, means
everything they do has impact on the rest of us. The state has
become a laboratory for socialism run by the political equivalents
of Dr. Josef Mengele. Which is why I, an Easterner, spend
so much time with, and have such shadenfreudal delight over their
failures. As cuzzin Ricky said ...
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Heres
a depressing but documented comparison of California taxes and economic
climate with the rest of the states. The news is breaking bad, and
getting worse (I keep updating this fact sheet):
California has
the 3rd worst state income tax in the nation. 9.55% tax bracket starts
at $46,349 for people filing as individuals. 10.55% at $1,000,000
By far
the highest state sales tax rate in the nation. 8.25%. 7% is next
highest (does not include local sales taxes) Table #15
California corporate
income tax rate (8.84%) is the highest west of the Mississippi (our
economic competitors) except for Alaska. Table #8 -- we are 9th
highest nationwide.
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BLAH
... RE the windmills; when they fail it is pretty spectacular and dangerous.
ReplyDeleteRAK
That's not a failure, RAK.
ReplyDeleteThe new windmills are coal-powered.
HA! Knee slappin good un.
ReplyDeleteRAK
"The new windmills are coal-powered."
ReplyDelete10!
When at college in the 70s a professor in the engineering department was doing some windmill research. One afternoon while showing off his large windmill to his sponsors he was disappointed that there was little wind so that they could see the vanes turn. So he turned off the automatic feather and set the feather to max to catch the slight breeze. Once the vanes started turning they got to talking about other things and he forgot to turn the feather back to auto. That night the winds picked up to gusts around 60 mph, that is when the vanes tore off the hub and went flying downrange. One of them tore right though the middle of the instrumentation shed, turning $100,000 in recording equipment to scrap.
ReplyDeleteAll of this was unknown to my roommate and I at the time that we saw a cartoon in the paper where one character in the cartoon mentions that Windmills are the energy source of the future. The other character replies "They burn pretty good, huh?"
We cut out the cartoon and taped it onto the professors door late that evening. He got a call at 4 AM about his windmill accident, after surveying the damage, he got into his office about 7 AM and found the cartoon on his door. He punched his fist right through the cartoon and the glass window behind it. Took nine stitches to repair his fingers. We were very glad he never found out who put the cartoon there.
The turing word for this is keraftw, which is roughly what this vulture's last word was. Juice, you may not want to look.
ReplyDeleteAlear,
ReplyDeleteThanks for thinking of me caring about a vulture. Remember a story from 1995 Merced, CA and turkey vultures??? Better known as raptors, hundreds+ made their homes in the eucalyptus trees on M Street; puking and crapping all over peoples patios, pools, yards and children's play equipment.
STILL, I prefer them to those windmills. :]
Great story David!
ReplyDeleteDavid thanks for a great anecdote!
ReplyDeleteDavid,
ReplyDeleteYour story warmed my heart, but I'd really like to know if that was a "learning experience" for the prof?
I doubt it was a learning experience for Doc. He was always the kind of guy who blamed everything that went wrong on everyone else.
ReplyDeleteMy roommate and I kept a low profile around him for another semester till we graduated. Doc had a lot of pull in the department and could have made things pretty tough on us.