DISQUS

Good job Senator. The simple fact is that borrowing money to spend and raising taxes are not the way to economic prosperity. Those ways can only devalue the dollars in our pockets, kill jobs and empower those countries who loan us the money.

It is insane to think that the government borrowing trillions is going to help those entities that create jobs. Those businesses need to borrow to grow and now must compete with T-bills for funding.

If the government does not borrow the money that is is spending then it must print it feeding the worst of all taxes, inflation.

On top of that we are to impose the most regressive of all taxes, a carbon tax? Insanity.

Do you suppose that there would be a bigger turnout among young people if they learned the real difference between democracy and other systems?

A comparison of the US system vs say Cuba? Real differences, people thrown in prison for speaking out, demanding freedom, etc. Not the socialistic pap that is handed out today.

If youngsters think that there is no difference then who blames them for not participating?

There is a lot of bad stuff in our world. Our kids need to know that.

JMHO

Geeks = lotsa math

Non-geeks = some math + some long division.

That is the hyposthesis. How much math do non-geeks need to learn? I think that they need to learn enough to function in life.

When I ask someone how far away a place is, they say 4 hours. If someone asks me how far away a place is I say 250 miles. It should be the same thing to both of us.

I know that I can drive 250 miles in 4 hours. Everyone should know that. But that only occurs if everyone can divide 250 miles by 60 miles-per-hour and then round it off into 4 hours in their head.

That is how much math a high school graduate should have. 250/60 = 4+ is long division, but just a little bit.

I am a geek. I have numerous calculators and even a slide rule (which I still use just because I can). But I do math in my head all the time because it makes life easier. Every high school graduate should be able to do math in their head because it makes life easier.

JMH(Geek)O

John

Everything that you said is true however I am still asking where the evidence is. Politicians are adept at making true sounding but untrue statements that they then use to implement new, sometimes costly, public policy.

This could be one of those. I would expect a man of science like yourself to demand supporting evidence before accepting any such claim.

But then, your slide rule needs adjusting too. ;-)

In the "big debate" sited above Governor Lynch claims that preventing the burning of construction debris "protects the health of our citizens." The French government claims the same thing for the 35-hour work week. Is there hard evidence to support these claims or are they just nice sounding claims?

The governor goes on to cite reductions in mercury, lead and arsenic in the atmosphere. If a home builder burns the wood ends left over from constructing a house how doesthe atmospheric content of mercury, lead or arsenic increase? Answer: It does not but the cost of the house does.

Lord save us from the do-gooders who only drive up the cost of things while accomplishing nothing.

Send the fin cops over to rec.ponds where they will be horrified by the rampant discussion of koi in private water-features.

The koi are colorful, hardy and voracious. The voraciousness results in two things: (1) all of the unprotected plants disappear, yummy roots first; which leads to (2)the koi get big, too big for the water-feature.

The conundrum of those events often causes newbie water-feature owners to remove the koi. But many of the soft-on-fish folks cannot bring themselves to toss the former pets onto a nearby compost pile so what do they do? You guessed, it, into the nearby creek or river they go, happily swimming away in search of new roots to munch.

Go get 'em, fish cops, and leave that poor restauranter alone.

You bet. I still keep my Post Versalog handy to thrill the grandkids with magical mathemetical feats. Ok, so they are not thrilled but they pretend well.

One never knows when Lower Slobovia might launch an attack on the world's calculator battery industry. My patient practice will pay off big time!

It needs adjusting. See the gaps between the slide and the frame in the upper left corner. That will reduce the accuracy and make it difficult to use. Get out a small screwdriver, loosen the three screws, squeeze just enough with one hand (left if you are a righty, right if you are weird) and tighten the screws with the other.

A properly adjusted slide rule will hold its position even when held vertically and slide with a smooth, even feel.

Sorry for this late observation. I have arrived on the Telegraph blog scene only recently

Doesn't Killington get open first every year. I know, not NH but close enough for an easy drive.

Got it. Thanks.

It looks like a pretty comprehensive and fair questionaire to me providing ample opportunity for the candidate to explain the nuances of his answers.

I can see where candidates would like to avoid answering - they like to keep their options open, not be pinned down. However, if they felt public pressure to complete the questionaire perhaps they would do so.

When most candidates for a position, state representative, for instance, do not answer then it is not a campaign issue. If most answered and some did not then the answerers could put some heat on the non-answerers and gain some political advantage. But when everyone avoids then it becomes a non-issue and everyone keeps on keeping on.

Hmmm. How can we raise this issue next time? It is too late for this go-around I fear.