Movie Review: UP
Month: June 2009
What Your Kids are Actually Learning in School
What Your Kids are Actually Learning in School
Quote of the Day:
If you want to understand how that leftist tactic has penetrated deeply into the culture, let me tell you a personal story. Recently, I was involved in an animated discussion with my daughter about her schoolwork. Things got a little heated, and in typical teenage fashion she became flustered when I pointed out some facts about her study habits that she did not like.
“Yeah?” she yelled, “Well you’re a….racist!”
Somewhat taken aback at this insertion of this word into our conversation, I must have momentarily appeared deeply shocked, because she abruptly started laughing and the tension was broken. Which, of course, made me laugh too at the ridiculousness of her words.
Still laughing, she said that she had learned at school that the best way to end a discussion you did not like was to accuse the other person of being a ‘racist’, ‘sexist’ or ‘homophobe.’ “Calling someone one of those names is a sure way to end the discussion,” she explained with a smile. “Kids at school use it all the time.”
Dr. Sanity, Like His Grandmother, Perhaps?
Oh, and check the cartoon at the link. Classic!
But What About Summer Glau?
U.S. Citizen announces that Alan Gura, the attorney who won D.C. v Heller, will be attending the Gun Blogger Rendezvous this September! Too cool!
101 days left before GBR IV, Sept. 10-13 in Reno!
But what about Summer Glau?
Quote of the Day
Quote of the Day
Every nation has a number of founding myths. Britain’s principal myth is that it is the birthplace of modern democracy and a land where the law is supreme. The shocking realization that “the mother of parliaments” may have been acting as the rudest of street sluts is not easy to stomach. Some of the same politicians who go around the world lecturing others, especially in the “developing world”, against corruption, have been exposed as practioners(sic) of petty larceny. – Amir Taheri, Coming Soon: An English Revolution
Great. When do we get ours?
$2,287,706,658,821 ($2.29 Trillion)
$2,287,706,658,821 ($2.29 Trillion)
I received an interesting email today.
It turns out that the number $2.2 trillion is not an uncommon one. It seems that in 2007 the country spent $2.24 trillion on health care.
The IMF estimates that worldwide bank losses on U.S. assets topped $2.2 trillion.
The projected cost to repair America’s infrastructure is estimated at $2.2 trillion.
Oil companies have paid a combined total of $2.2 trillion in taxes over the last 25 years, adjusted for inflation.
There’s more, but that gives you a taste.
But how do you visualize that much money?
My correspondent was ingenious. According to WikiAnswers, a single crisp new dollar bill has dimensions of
6.6294cm (2.61″) wide, by 15.5956cm (6.14″) long, and 0.010922cm (0.0043″) in thickness
Not much help.
Here’s a visual:
That’s Kheops’ pyramid, the Great Pyramid at Giza. Click for a bigger version of the image.
It has a volume of 2,583,283 cubic meters.
Now imagine all that stone was instead stacks of $1 bills:
$2,287,706,658,821.00
$2.29 trillion.
Boggles, doesn’t it?