There is so much wrong in this article, I’m not really sure where to begin.

Jeff Farrington makes it easy though when he makes a matter-of-fact, I’m-better-than-most comment aimed at making SURE you know (in case you didn’t already) that he’s a legislator, and ALL legislators “obviously” have health insurance.

Lucky him. He works part time and pulls around $71,685/year + fringe benefits… “Part-time” refers to the mere 93 scheduled session days this year. This includes one in July, one in August, and one in October.

Did I say, “plus health insurance”? Haha

Then, we see that 90% of freshman Coming into MSU have health insurance. Why don’t we compare that to the general population, where that number dips to about 60% or so.

What’s that say? To me it says that only a certain class of people gets to go to MSU.

Good thing we voted out affirmative action a couple years ago…

I’m ashamed.

Here’s the article. (link)

http://www.forbes.com/sites/insertcoin/2012/02/03/you-will-never-kill-piracy-and-piracy-will-never-kill-you/

https://market.android.com/details?id=com.trueknowledge.android.evi

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/androidandme/~3/siOTlW3vjoA/

This is messed up. (scroll down) It’s unbelievable… Black man in Georgia…You think this would be a white man in Georgia? Death penalty with no physical evidence? Wishy-washy witnesses? Race or no race, this is messed up, and is why I will not support the death penalty unless the accused’s face is CLEARLY on camera in the MIDST of the crime, and/or with a confession in front of a jury or with a lawyer present (i.e. not one of these jailhouse confessions In front of an educated white cop & without a lawyer present). If a guy wants to confess, let him do it in front of the jury or his lawyer.

Total failure of the justice system IMHO. Buddy of mine served on a jury last year for a burglary. Had a witness: this lady (and the prosecution) claimed she had a positive ID because of the brand of jeans the guy was wearing!! She recognized the “pocket stitching” (guy was wearing a mask). Gotta be kidding me. Only one “witness”. It’s scary that there are lawyers out there prosecuting this stuff…

From The New York Times, Tuesday, September 20, 2011 — 9:23 AM EDT:

Georgia Board of Pardons Rejects Clemency for Troy Davis

Troy Davis, whose death-row case ignited an international campaign to save his life, has lost what appeared to be his last attempt to avoid death by lethal injection on Wednesday.

Rejecting pleas by Mr. Davis’s lawyers that shaky witness testimony and a lack of physical evidence presented enough doubt about his guilt to spare him death, the Georgia State Board of Pardons and Paroles ruled on Tuesday morning that Mr. Davis, 42, should die for killing Mark MacPhail, an off-duty police officer, in a Savannah parking lot in 1989.

Read More:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/21/us/troy-davis-is-denied-clemency-in-georgia.html?emc=na

And so here in Michigan we have a governor who wants to cut taxes on corporations (to “stimulate job creation” of course), and raise taxes on retirees by taxing their pensions – AND cut the per pupil school funding by around $400.

Is this guy for real? (Well yeah…his name is Rick Snyder)

“There are a million consumers out there who would drink more wine” if sweet wine was more socially acceptable, Mr. Hanni said. “We need to remove the idea that a sweet wine is not appropriate with a steak or that you’re a moron for liking it.”

In December, I used 20.1 (thousand) cubic feet of natural gas (units correct?) and the bill was a total of $208. This was based on a gas company actual meter reading (as opposed to estimated).

In early January, I installed a programmable thermostat that my Dad harvested from my old house up in Interlochen. I programmed it to (1) drop to 58 degrees during the day while I’m at work; (2) drop to 62 degrees at night (after 10pm, before 5am); (3) 69 degrees at all other times.

December wasn’t NEARLY as cold as January, and I was expecting my January gas bill to approach $300+.

INSTEAD, in January my gas bill was $248 – BUT this was based on an ESTIMATED consumption of 24.2 (thousand) cubic feet. My ACTUAL consumption, based on a meter reading I just took myself (the gas company estimated my meter reading two days ago), was 20.5 (thousand) cubic feet – meaning my consumption in January is BARELY more than it was in December, even though it has been much colder than December. Furthermore, the gas company estimated my consumption based on the history for this address (my assumption), and it was done two days ago which means my actual consumption was probably slightly less than December.

Based on my calculations of what my bill SHOULD be based on ACTUAL consumption over 30 days, somewhere around $200 is what I come up with.

So, with that all being said, and based on one month of observation, it PAYS to get a 5×2 programmable thermostat (programmable for 5 days during the week, and the two days of the weekend), AND it pays to let the daytime temperature drop to 58 degrees if you’re not home. A lot of people hum and haw and argue that the gas used to reheat the house back to living temp outweighs the gas saved by letting the temp drop to 58. I’ve actually timed how long it takes to reheat the house, and it’s somewhere around an hour. What you have to ask yourself is how many times and for how long does the furnace run during the day to maintain “living temp” when you’re not home (if you don’t have the thermostat drop the temp for you)? My guess is that it’s way more than an hour.

Anyway, I can’t wait to see what next month’s bill is…two months of positive data is better than one. My guess is that the thermostat saves me somewhere between 20-30% off my gas bill.