Largest Number Discovered

The largest integer ever.

PALO ALTO, CA – An international mathematics research team announced today that they had discovered a new integer that surpasses any previously known value “by a totally mindblowing shitload.” Project director Yujin Xiao of Stanford University said the theoretical number, dubbed a “stimulus,” could lead to breakthroughs in fields as diverse as astrophysics, quantum mechanics, and Chicago asphalt contracting.

“Unlike previous large numbers like the Googleplex or the Bazillionty, the Stimulus has no static numerical definition,” said Xiao. “It keeps growing and growing, compounding factorially, eating up all zeros in its path. It moves freely across Cartesian dimensions and has the power to make any other number irrational.”

To Hell with Our Constitution

Walter Williams illustrates why Allenby’s advice in “Lawrence of Arabia” still stands as some of the best advice ever. When Brighton implores, “Surely you aren’t going to just do nothing!” he replies, “Why not? It’s usually the best.”

Stimulus package debate is over how much money should be spent, whether some should given to the National Endowment for the Arts, research sexually transmitted diseases or bail out Amtrak, our failing railroad system. Dr. Higgs says, “Hardly anyone, however, is asking the most important question: Should the federal government be doing any of this?” He adds, “Until the 1930s, the Constitution served as a major constraint on federal economic interventionism. The government’s powers were understood to be just as the framers intended: few and explicitly enumerated in our founding document and its amendments. Search the Constitution as long as you like, and you will find no specific authority conveyed for the government to spend money on global-warming research, urban mass transit, food stamps, unemployment insurance, Medicaid, or countless other items in the stimulus package and, even without it, in the regular federal budget.”

Read the whole thing. It’s worth your time.

Important information on Enemy Tactics for Coalition combat troops heading to Afghanistan

Michael Yon has your back:

This information can save your life. The enemy already knows the tactics they are using, but likely not all NATO/ISAF forces are aware.

Any enemy that repeatedly attacks U.S. Marines deserves at least grudging respect.  The Marines respect this enemy, and that’s saying a lot.  Too bad the Marines have to kill so many of these guys; many would probably make good police or soldiers if they were not in cahoots with the enemy.

Beyond Parody

This kid just has to be making fun of Obama and his droids. If not, he’s a real head case. It’s so hard to tell which.

Outrage in Oregon

Remember that Marine who was arrested for a non-existant crime? The DA had to drop the charges (because, duh, there was nothing to charge him with) but that didn’t stop the school from holding a secret, kangaroo court.

Maxwell asked to have his “trial” open to the public, which is his right, but was denied.

The tribunal was told repeatedly that they lacked the authority to impose a rule dealing with firearms. But the children who sat in judgment of the veteran were not interested in the law or the facts. They were only interested in attacking and embarrassing a man who had committed no crime but had chosen to exercise his right to protect himself and others.

The “trial” was a sham. No one present even seemed to know what the “charge” was. When confronted by the fact that the school has no authority to make rules about firearms, they said that was “not relevant.” Then they said they were not charging Maxwell with having a firearm. When asked what they WERE charging him with, they seemed to not know. They then said they were charging him with having a “knife and a rifle in his car.”   When told they had no authority to make rules about guns in his car, they said THAT was not “relevant.”

The “prosecutor” was one Patrick Moser “Acting Coordinator of Campus Judicial Affairs” who can be reached at moserp@wou.edu.

Here’s what I emailed:

Subject: Maxwell deserves an apology

Congratulations on bringing shame and ridicule to your school. Your sham “prosecution” of a man who committed no crime, held in secret, has shown you and your school to be political attack dogs and legal idiots.

Maxwell is owed an apology for the insult and waste of his time and, in the spirit of the risible “punishment” handed out I suggest that you and everybody else involved in these proceedings do the following:

A) Get a psychological treatment for your obvious neuroses.

B) Write on the blackboard a thousand times “THE LAW APPLIES TO EVERYBODY”