March 20 Dashcam Compilation

Yesterday was a weird driving day for me.

Teachers Sign Petition to Ban Water

Student outsmarts teachers and school staff, getting them to sign a petition to ban dihydrogen monoxide. #facepalm A few actually had the sense to research it first, before jumping straight into activism mode.

Jon Stewart Vs. Sebelius on Obamacare

Link, because the Blogger/YouTube interface sucks, and won't let me embed the particular video.

You probably know that Jon Stewart is a flaming leftist, and hosts a "fake news" show on Comedy Central called The Daily Show.  Kathleen Sebelius is the Health and Human Services Secretary.  Even Jon Stewart doesn't think it's fair that corporations get a year before fines (or taxes, take you pick) are imposed, but the individual mandate takes place immediately.  Jon even brings up that the "Affordable Care Act" is leading to full-time employees being cut back to less than 30 hours, so that employers don't have to pay for their healthcare.

Jon is effectively agreeing with Republicans!

He does however, want to go to "single-payer" healthcare.  That would be socialized healthcare.  Government-run healthcare, as they have in Canada, the U.K., and Cuba.

EDIT:  The individual mandate has been pushed back, so that it doesn't kick in until after the 2014 mid-term elections.

Poo-pourri Commercial

I've never tried the product.  I'm not endorsing it.  The commercial is friggin' funny though.

Actual Bank Robbery in Detroit

Oops!

Tanner Faust/Hot Wheels 332 Foot Truck Jump

How did I miss this?  I guess I was concerned with moving and settling in.

Stunt and RallyCross driver, and Top Gear U.S. host Tanner Foust jumps 332 feet, in a Hot Wheels trophy truck at the Indy 500 race in 2011.

Harbor Freight 12-Ton Press Fix

I bought a shop press from Harbor Freight, when they put them on sale.  It's been working fairly well, except for the fact that the ram was free to float back and forth maybe a quarter inch.  I could almost get a beer bottle cap into the gap between the press frame and the ram weldment.  That quarter inch of slop is a problem when you're trying to press out a little pin.

Fortunately not terribly difficult to fix.  I went to the Home Depot, and bought 4 nylon bolts, and nuts to match.  Drilling the holes only took a few minutes with the hand drill (not the drill press shown in the background), but shaving the nylon bolts down to fit just right, took some time.  Here's a quick video to illustrate the problem, and how I fixed it.  Kinda dumb, more of a slide-show really, because I don't have a proper digital video channel, and no microphone.

How To Convince a Socialist

You can view the video here also, or download it in mp3 audio format if you like.  You won't miss much listening without video.  He's really just standing there, the whole time, without any visual aids.

Okay, so I've been greatly troubled by the fact that I'm having difficulties talking about gun control with leftists.  I think their main argument is that the government needs to ban guns for the greater good.  I have tried using facts and logic to argue that gun control just doesn't work, but that really just doesn't work.  I believe that the universe may have delivered what I needed in the form of this lecture on video.

Perhaps instead, I appeal to the desire of the leftist for greater government control, and try to paint a picture where they are a victim of government control, for the greater good,

Far more people are killed and injured by car accidents, than with firearms.  Shouldn't the government have direct control over what you can drive, how many miles you can drive, how far from work you are allowed to live?  Can it mandate that you take a bus or a train because, statistically, they are safer modes of transportation, regardless of how much time you'll waste waiting for the train, or waiting for your shift after your train arrives where you are going?  Can the government decide that, for the greater good, it needs you to work in Kansas, and that your spouse is badly needed in Washington?  Can the government decide that the skills you have aren't right for a teaching job, and for the greater good, we need you to work in a factory that produces the wheels for train cars?  I don't want to be limited to what guns I own, or told that I can't own any.  Why shouldn't government be able to tell you where you can live, or what you do for a living, regardless of what you want?  Can you still be happy living under government control, where the greater good demands that you must make sacrifices?  Do you really not believe that humans, Americans, have free will and property rights, than government has more power over your life than you do, regardless of what you want?

There may be something to this. 

News Anchor Fail Compilation

In the words of Ricky Gervais, "Watch it.  It's funny."