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Money doesn’t grow on trees. Or does it?

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Thought occurred to me recently concerning the size of the national debt. Follow me for a minute.

There are roughly 250,000 leaves on a typical tree. Found this out by googling it. In addition there are typically 350 trees per acre in a mature forest.

250000
X 350
87500000

Ok, so we have 87.5 million leaves per acre.

Next we have 640 acres per square mile.

87500000
X 640
56000000000

This gives us 56 Billion leaves per square mile.

Now as a part time resident (and native) I knew WV has about 25000 square miles. Turns out 24231 is exactly the right answer.

56000000000
X 24231
1356936000000000

1356 Trillion leaves. That’s a [...]

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First with a h/t to @MelissaTweets.

Backscatter/Naked scanners/Child Porn facilitators will not even detect plastic explosives like PETN.

http://gizmodo.com/5712481/fool-the-tsas-scanners-with-pancakes

Seems like while we were discussing body cavities it was entirely unnecessary to stick it where the sun don’t shine. Just get out the rolling pin and go. Pancake your PETN or other malleable explosives and walk on through the backscatter machine to your assigned gate.

Innocent homemaker laying out dinner for her family? Or al-Aqsa martyr planning her next attack?

Just roll it down flat and backscatter will not pick it up. According to the report the backscatter will also NOT pickup knives, guns and other contraband if said contraband is properly placed on the body. It relates to image resolution and angles of [...]

The REAL problem with airport security

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and with financial reform, and health care, and Social Security, and MediCare/caid, and terrorism is this;

We have a government that thrives by driving us with fear. If they can scare us, they get more power. It is like a Pavlovian parlor trick.

Create FEAR = get POWER.

etc, etc, ad nauseum.

It is not that these problems (the supposed underlying problem) don’t all have some risks associated with them. Poverty, injury, death. But the government has a vested interested in overblowing the danger in order to get us to release power to them. In fact, all too often, we DEMAND they take the power and do something.

We will never be free as long as [...]

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Where are your children?

“Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious.”
George Orwell.

Among all of the furor and angst over Obama giving a speech to a bunch of kids in school I have just one question, where are your children?

Are your children in the public school system?

The public school system will have roughly 18,000 hours to teach your children.

And they will teach your children that the government can solve any problem. And should.

This school system is hostile to free market economics and results in more than half of today’s graduates holding an opinion on communism as being a “lifestyle” choice like wearing red pants and plaid shirts. Maybe a little odd but not evil.

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Money doesn’t grow on trees. Or does it?

The REAL problem with airport security

Where are your children?