Nobrainer’s Think Tank

It’s time to start planning the mother of all road trips. Russia is planning to build a 64 mile tunnel to link to Alaska. Great googely moogely.

The project, which Russia is coordinating with the U.S. and Canada, would take 10 to 15 years to complete… [T]he tunnel… at 64 miles will be more than twice as long as the underwater section of the Channel Tunnel between the U.K. and France, according to the plan…
The Bering Strait tunnel will cost $10 billion to $12 billion.

By 10-15 years and $10 to $12 billion, I assume they actually meant 20-25 years and $20 to $25 billion.

So who’s got some vacation retirement time in 2032?

Or, at least, he’s helping to reduce carbon dioxide emission. His current (right now) speech in the Senate is so stupid that I felt compelled to turn off my TV. (Yes, I was watching CSPAN again.)

The gist: Anything that costs someone their job is bad. Anything that creates downward pressure on anyone’s salary is bad. And the acceptance of free international trade is an abandonment of what has gotten us to our current standard of living.

In other words, exposure to competition from anyone willing to do a job cheaper is bad. From which, it logically follows that freeing the slaves was bad. Similarly, it follows that allowing women into the workplace was an equivalently horrible blunder.

Sorry Mr. Dorgan. Our current standard of living is built upon a system that continually sheds outmoded jobs.

I can conclude only that Mr. Dorgan is knowingly lying through his teeth to protect his cushy Senate job (likely), or that he has the IQ of a size 12 boot.

I’m going to have to say: not a chance. At least if you expect predictions to be useful and somewhat specific. If you accept that some Bible Code — to be found after the fact — said something like “shooting… death… school” as an acceptable prediction, then yes, I’m sure the Bible Code “predicted” what happened yesterday.

I wrote this post because people are searching for things like “virginia tech bible code” and finding my site, which offers no predictions, but seems to be the best spot on the web for combining “virginia tech” and “bible code,” which I think means that no one who studies the code managed to use it it in any way to predict anything.

I think all race tracks should have launch ramps like this.

[CollegeHumor]

the fact that 45 million Americans are uninsured is a moral disgrace.

A moral disgrace would be if 45 million Americans were not allowed to have any health care whatsoever.

A few times in the last few weeks I’ve wondered what happened to Nancy Pelosi’s first 100 hours gimmick. Certainly the new Congress made some noise, but it was in like a lion out like a lamb from my perspective.

Courtesy of Mike, I was led to an NRCC video about the first 100 days (yes days, not hours) of the new Nancy-led Congress (video below). As for the video itself: eh. It’s weak. But it has been 100 days already and things in DC are pretty much as was to be expected. Which is to say vastly different from what was promised.

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