Is it maxed out?
Unfortunately, not as long as Obama thinks he can continue to gin up his own base by keeping him there. And apparently he’s still got it in his wallet:
If Zimmerman is acquitted, look for race-obsessed and truth-challenged Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Tom Perez to act against Zimmerman. We’ll see once again what that corrosive “common cause” can do.
He really is a quite despicable man.
And yeah, I know. I’m a racist, too cowardly to discuss race.
…allows trees to get by on less water. Of course, this can’t possibly be allowed to be good news:
The immense volume of water that trees pull out of the ground winds up in the atmosphere, helping supply moisture to farming areas downwind of forests. So if trees use less water, that could ultimately mean less rain for thirsty crops in at least some regions of the world.
It could mean lots of things — good, bad and indifferent — and the vast majority of them unpredictable, given the non-linear nature of the equations and our lack of understanding of the complexity of all the interactions, which is why it’s crazy to be attempting to make costly public policy on the presumption that Carbon Is Evil.
Some thoughts (mostly in comments):
The idea of going to a theme park, on your parents’ dime, with fashionable political fear, having undertaken no scholarly preparation…every single thing about this enterprise seemed wrong.
And expensive and destructive. We have a generation that’s putting off home buying and starting a family because they wasted tens of thousands on either useless degrees or (worse yet) never graduated at all.
If Obama can suspend the employer mandate, why couldn’t a Republican president suspend the capital gains tax?
Or the corporate income tax? Or the whole damn code?
Democrats never think through the long-term implications of their lawlessness, because they assume that through it, they will gain eternal power. We can’t let them.
[Update a few minutes later]
“Repeal the Bill of Rights!” So say Obama supporters. No surprise to me. Just more of that old-time “liberal” fascism.
“I’m so old, I can remember when most of the people doing that were white.”
Well, to be fair, a lot of them doing it today are still white. And now, as then, they’re Democrats.
This guy probably just got more readers than he’s ever seen. That’s the good news.
The bad news is that he probably just got more readers than he’s ever seen, and most of them aren’t going to bother to ever return, now that they’ve seen him.
It might have helped if he’d, you know, actually put forth a substantive criticism.
There is no scientific evidence that reducing intake is good for your health.
I’ve cut back myself, because I seem to be empirically salt sensitive, in terms of my blood pressure, but EPID in that regard, I think. I’ve also switched over to sea salt to get a wider variety, including potassium. I’d never prescribe public policy about the matter, or make war on it, as Nurse Bloomberg has.
…of ObamaCare:
Now a central tenet of the fundamentally flawed law, the employer mandate, is collapsing. What ever will Democrats do?
In a word: panic.
Actually, panic and break the law. The unambiguous start date for Obamacare’s employer mandate, according to Section 1513, is the “months beginning after Dec. 31, 2013.” With the delay, however, President Obama has declared that he is not bound by mere law. All he is missing are mirrored sunglasses and a big military hat.
Obamacare’s employer mandate is a microcosm of liberalism itself. What may sound good at first ends up harming the most vulnerable among us. Businesses that dare to provide jobs to 50 or more employees face steep fines unless they provide expensive government-sanctioned health insurance. Because Obamacare now defines 30 hours a week to be full time, the result is entirely predictable: Businesses are laying off workers and cutting back work hours.
Gee, if only someone who understood economics, human nature and incentives had predicted this?
Oh, wait.
The overreach of the Muslim Brotherhood:
It is difficult to welcome a military overthrow of democratic results. It is, however, more difficult to regret a prophylactic coup against the exploitation of democratic success to adopt measures inimical to the development of a democratic culture.
I’d note that in passing ObamaCare, the Democrats didn’t follow Jefferson’s advice, either. It was a similar tyrannical overreach which John Roberts, to what should be his eternal shame, didn’t slap down.
Wow. It’s not just the prosecution who should be disbarred for this, but the judge as well, or at least sanctioned. She’s certainly provided plenty of basis for an appeal in the unlikely event of a conviction. Sounds like Zimmerman was smart to have his gun ready — Martin certainly could have been armed. So much for the false narrative of the innocent twelve-year-old, hunted down by the murderous white man.