Other marketing blunders (I’m sure there are several others):

• Nova (a Chevy) means “does not go” in Spanish
• Vista (Microsoft) means “frumpy woman” in the country of Latvia
• Irish Mist (alcoholic drink), Mist Stick (curling iron from Clairol), and Silver Mist (Rolls Royce)—Mist means dung/manure in German
• Zyklon Sneakers (Umbro)—Zyklon was name of gas used by Nazi regime to murder Jews in concentration camps
• • Honda Fitta (car)—Fitta is an old, vulgar word for women’s genitals in Swedish, Norwegian and Danish

• Putting on makeup
• Writing
• Eating
• Playing electronic games or use of cell phone apps
• Drinking (no more cupholders, car costs would go down)
• Getting Dressed/Changing Clothes (admit it, you’ve done this!)
• Going to the bathroom (Guys, you can’t deny you’ve done this at least once!)
• Reading the newspaper or anything else
• Reading a map (of course if this is a law, they have to provide everyone a free GPS)
• Operating a DVD player (for the kids, right)
• Distracting communications that would ultimately divert drivers attention away from driving–this includes arguments with your significant other or any other member of your family, breaking up fighting kids in the backseat, and any stressful cellphone conversations wtih clients, co-workers, bosses, HR, payroll, security, banker, parole officer, etc. 

Of course additional ammendments may be added as new hazards are discovered or made up.

Find out how your representatives voted here (you shall know their names) and here is what they voted for (HR2454). 

For: 219
Democrat: 211
Republican:  8

Against: 212
Democrat:  44
Republican:  168

Which Republicans sold you out:
Reichert-Washington
Bono-California
Castle-Delaware
Kirk-Illinois
Lance-New Jersey
LoBiondo-New Jersey
McHugh-New York
Smith-New Jersey

And let’s not forget the sane Democrats who voted against the bill:
Altmire-Pennsylvania
Arcuri-New York
Barrow-Georgia
Berry-Arkansas
Boren-Oklahoma
Bright-Alabama
Carney-Pennsylvania
Childers-Mississippi
Costa-California
Costello-Illinois
Dahlkemper-Pennsylvania
Davis-Alabama
Davis-Tennessee
DeFazio-Oregon
Donnelly-Indiana
Edwards-Texas
Ellsworth-Indiana
Foster-Illinois
Griffith-Alabama
Herseth Sandlin-South Dakota
Holden-Pennsylvania
Kirkpatrick-Arizona
Kissell-North Carolina
Kucinich-Ohio
Marshall-Georgia
Massa-New York
Matheson-Utah
McIntyre-North Carolina
Melancon-Louisiana
Minnick-Idaho (I da ho, you da ho…sorry, couldn’t help myself)
Mitchell-Arizona
Mollohan-West Virginia
Ortiz-Texas
Pomeroy-North Dakota
Rahall-West Virginia
Rodriguez-Texas
Ross-Arkansas
Salazar-Colorado
Stark-California
Tanner-Tennessee
Taylor-Mississippi
Visclosky-Indiana
Wilson-Ohio

Now that it goes to the Senate, if you haven’t already contact them, get to it.

“The team continued implants for a year even though the equipment that measured whether patients received the proper radiation dose was broken. The radiation safety committee at the Veterans Affairs hospital knew of this problem but took no action, records show.”

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (who I understand is THE authority for radiation treatment) was one agency who was supposed to oversee the radiation treatments.  Maybe the government can set up a new agency to protect us from itself.

Make no mistake.  The Government has staged a hostile takeover of three major facets of our nation’s economy:

First, our financial sector is already firmly in Government’s hands.

Second, our manufacturing and energy sector is on its way.  How?  Let me connect the dots:

• Government Bails out GM and Chrysler.–CHECK
• Government asks GM CEO (employee of GM for 30 years) to step down.–CHECK
• Government converts its GM and Chrysler assets into Preferred Stock (which means it has voting rights…it didn’t have to do that, it could have just issued bonds)–CHECK
• Government owns over half the voting rights of GM and Chrysler–CHECK
• THEN the Government send them into Bankruptcy (couldn’t have done that BEFORE owning them, that would be CRAZY).
• Government creates a brand new division of GM to build little munchkin cars that noone (currently) wants to buy.–CHECK
• Government Motors then decides to spin off Hummer, the most gas-guzzling of the gas guzzling cars to another company–in China–for a profit–CHECK.
• Government then begins pushing HARD an “energy” plan which would (by Obama’s own admission) drive gas prices WAY up–COMING SOON
• The people of the United States like good citizens are then encouraged even more (through EXTRA tax incentives on top of the ones that are already in place) to buy the little piece of junk munchkin cars–call it “The People’s Car”–because they can’t afford a gallon of fricking gasoline–GOD HELP US ALL.

Result? Federal Government has taken over the energy industry and a huge chunk of the manufacturing sector–which narrows down further the ability for anyone to compete with the Government, therefore ENTREPRENEURSHIP in the energy and manufacturing sector goes away.  Noone can find a decent job that doesn’t involve dealing with the Federal Government.  And guess what…at the Government’s OWN admission, carbon emissions planet-wide doesn’t go down ONE BIT for decades…DECADES.

Next is Health Care:

• Government spends $19 billion on creating a system where doctors (many who are entrepreneurs) are bribed into putting their patients’ medical information on a DHHS managed database.–CHECK
• Government creates a “Nationwide Exchange” where people can compare plans…all of which will be forced to accept pre-existing conditions without exclusions.
• The private plans on the “Exchange” become too expensive, because (as happened in NY and other states) guaranteed issue results in noone buying insurance until they desperately need it…for a “pre-existing” condition.
• Government steps in to fix this “crisis” by creating a “Public Option” where tax-subsidized plan options are made available to compete with private plans…Those who can’t afford it are given a “hardship exemption” so they get it for free. (OH, and by they way, now it’s against the law NOT to get ANY coverage)
• Doctors (small business owners) who have stopped accepting coverage from Medicare and Medicaid will now be forced by law to do so, along with accepting “Public Option” patients.
• Finally, it becomes against the law to pay cash for medical treatment, because the DHHS can’t control it, so for “safety reasons” all transactions will be made through Government insurance coverage or maybe one or two (”bailed out”) insurance companies who will provide benefits to a few Government-owned companies in the Financial, Manufacturing, or Energy/Utilities sectors.

The result? The Federal Government has destroyed any aspect of Entrepreneurship in the Health Care sector and instead has full operational and informational control over your health care through the handy dandy DHHS database.  So whether you’re covered by a DHHS “public option” or benefits through a company (which will likely be owned by the Federal Government), your health care will be finely controlled by Bureaucrats in the Department of Labor and the DHHS.

Why am I telling you all of this?  What can we do?  They ignored us on the Financial sector, they’ve been ignoring and are continuing to ignore us on Manufacturing and Energy.  They will ignore us on Health Care as well.

I’m becoming more and more convinced that the only option left is for 37 states to call for another Constitutional Convention to create an amendment to clarify the tenth one.

But if that seems to extreme, at least understand this.  If we don’t act locally, starting RIGHT NOW…

Next is housing and education.  Then it’s all over…

Ok…key word here is “appear”, effectively admitting to the fact that such photos are no proof at all.  The Lafayette Consolodated Government further states that the cameras attempt to take two pictures 1)when the light is red and the car is headed for intersection and 2) when the light is red and the car is in the intersection “and did not try to stop.” Pause for a moment.  So, running a red is not enough to prove guilt, otherwise only one photo is necessary.  Apparently, guilt occurs when running a red light without trying to stop?  So, the cameras can deduce the acceleration of cars?  Hmmm…interesting.  Don’t buy it, but then again…what choice is there?  Come on you cajuns, change the law.

On a similar note…hat tip to Political Gumbo who reports that Obama wants to further the premise so popular with the use of traffic cams:  guilty until proven innocent:

Obama also planned to ask Congress to crack down on tax havens and implement a major shift in the way courts view guilt. Under Obama’s proposal, Americans would have to prove they were not breaking U.S. tax laws by sending money to banks that don’t cooperate with tax officials. It essentially would reverse the long-held assumption of innocence in U.S. courts.

Too many things happening now which don’t seem to be real.  Let’s not become numb with disbelief and paralyzed by inaction.

I’m all for equal opportunity, but what is the price of equal outcome?  Freedom of choice?

“Obama Promises US will Seek to Avoid Civilian Casualties in Afghanistan”

Really?  You mean the US doesn’t want to harm civilians?  Who wouldn’t believe this?  The headline should have been:

“Terrorists Man-made Disaster¹ Makers Continue Use of Human Shields”

1.  Please see item #34 of 100 mistakes in 100 days.