Obama's Supreme Court Justice Nominee's Policy Opinion

Obama announced his first potential appointment to the U.S. Supreme court, Sonia Sotomayor. She will surely come to regret the day that she said that: "[The] court of appeals is where policy is made."
Now of course, she followed that up with: "[a]nd I know, I know this is on tape and I should never say that because we don't make law." But, it's clear from the context of the entire quote from that session that she does know that although law is not made there, that she's sure that policy is made there.
The courts are not a place to make policy. I'm sorry, but they're not. The court should enforce the law. Sometimes in application of the law, even "Justice" does not get a fair shake. In those cases it is, under our current system of government, the role of the legislature to repeal the law or create new law to ensure that in application, justice can be served.
Policy has no place in the courts.

Two Plus Two Still Not Equal to Five

Abraham Lincoln once asked an audience how many legs a dog has if you count the tail as a leg. When they answered "five," Lincoln told them that the answer was four. The fact that you called the tail a leg did not make it a leg.

Warming? Um...no.

So, despite continual, solid, independently verifiable evidence of various sorts, the politicos with something to gain still harp away on the MMGW issue. (Man Made Global Warming). Funny thing, I think--since it's an easier sell to me if you just say you want to reduce pollution, NOT asserting any particular catastrophic consequence.

From an article by C. Booker:

the latest satellite information from the US National Snow and Ice Data Center (passed on by the Watts Up With That blog) shows that, after the third slowest melt of April Arctic ice in 30 years, the world's polar sea ice is in fact slightly above its average extent for early May since satellite records began in 1979...[and]
a DC-3 carrying an international team of scientists, using the latest electro-magnetic induction equipment [discovered] rather more efficiently that the ice was in fact "twice as thick" as they had expected.

As usual, real evidence keeps making enviro-fascist freaks look ever more ignorant.

Tax day rallies and tea parties give me hope

Seeing the number of tax day rallies gives me hope. Fair tax protests, (for The Fair Tax) and the Tea Parties as general tax protests, really seem to be getting some momentum. Hopefully they will continue and not lose momentum after tax day has passed.

20th Article Published for Bright Hub

I've just written my 20th computer security article published on Bright Hub. I really enjoy writing these. There should be 10 more done by the end of April ('09).

Proposed Cybersecurity Advisor a disaster in the making

In this article we find that there is a proposed advisory position for Cybersecurity, that would have the power to "disconnect federal or critical infrastructure networks from the Internet if they were deemed to be at risk of attack." I don't know if I like the idea of an appointed government bureaucrat having the power to disconnect parts of the Internet based on their opinion.

The bill also suggests creation of other entities that are essentially duplicates of services and functions already available in the free market system, that are currently in place, and don't need governmental interference.

I don't want a government position to squeeze out potential growth in the information security field, and I surely don't want them creating regulated or bureaucratic boondoggles & hoops to jump through whenever I want to work for a client.

/end rant

Boom! Headshot! x3

Justice is served. While we might want to believe that all conflicts can be resolved without violence, unfortunately for the idealistic, that's simply not true.
We don't want to encourage or reward undesirable destructive behavior.
Swift, decisive, incontrovertible action saved the day. (Granted, "swift" is in relative terms; ~5 days is swift compared to 30 days, 5 months, etc.)

Kudos to the captain, and the Navy.