Change We Can Believe In [Victor Davis Hanson: A list of modest suggestions for REAL change]

pajamasmedia.com ^ | November 29th, 2009 | Victor Davis Hanson

[spodefly]

BTTT

[afnamvet]

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[stevie_d_64]

But I kinda liked the “William J. Lepetomane Home for the Criminally Insane”

Harumph...Harumph...Harumph...

Hey, wait a sec, I didn’t get a Harumph out of that guy!!!

[garjog]

Wouldn’t he be an ideal president? Senator, too. Wish we could install him directly.

[EvilOverlord]

If elected president, I promise to VETO any budget that does not cut the federal budge by 10% in real terms every year of my first term.

That may result in no budget being passed, or a veto override, but this is the kind of stand a president has to take to actually accomplish fiscal restraint.

Hmmm...how to make sure the military is funded when the congress can’t pass a budget?

[Blind Eye Jones]

I think there should be courses offer on why you shouldn’t take Bill Ayers course and become a brain-dead liberal. There should be courses on such subjects as the elitism and racism of the left, the PC codes, postmodernism relativism as a strategy for leftist indoctrination, the new virtue: amorality as the highest morality, victimology, etc. The sooner students get a handle on what’s out there the sooner they’ll come to their senses. If the left can infiltrate academia, so can the right as an equal opportunity venture.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

A few good points, tainted by spots of stupidity (e.g. “ugly wind turbines” — the works of the human mind practicing advanced engineering are “ugly” only to Luddite morons (but I repeat myself)).

I agree with the point that form should follow function - but does it, in the case of the wind turbine? The function should be defined not as "getting free power from the wind" but economically producing power when wanted/needed.

The wind turbine might be a solution for that function - provided you only want power when the wind is blowing. And assuming that the capital cost and maintenance cost per KwHr of the wind turbine is better than the costs of nuclear and fossil-fueled power plants. If not, the wind turbine would be ugly even if you were making them out of rainbows.