I can use Google perfectly well on my laptop.  Except for one thing.  The logo for Google, in red nblue and yellow, at the head of the page, comes out just as dots and dashes.    It doesn’t make any difference whether I log in to www.google.com or to www.google.uk.

This is worrying me, but everything else seems okay.   Any suggestions what I should do?

Here’s what Google looks like right now (I went there myself and took this screenshot):

It’s Samuel Morse’s birthday. He invented Morse Code.

I think there’s also a balance, though. For me, I’m interested in protecting the environment because of the way a toxic environment harms people. I don’t care so much about the environment just for its own sake. But when it starts impacting people in negative ways, I need to care for and love those people by doing what I can to improve their lives by improving the environment. Polluted water and air can be major problems, and to that extent it’s important to clean up the environment.

I’m also worried about unintended consequences, like in this case of Nancy Pelosi’s child-safety law. Apparently the law is intended to keep toxins away from children’s toys, but it’s too ambiguous and is also applying to books. Nobody knows what they are allowed to sell, so they can’t sell anything at all. And businesses can face lawsuits if they can’t prove their products are safe.

Here’s a great video that’s not really related to the environment, but it is related to politics:

Be sure to watch the end. Hillary Clinton says: “You had the most enthusiastic supporters of anybody I ever saw. My goodness, everywhere I went, they were literally running down highways holding your signs. I never had a chance to tell you that, but your message obviously resonated with a lot of people.”

via the Campaign for Liberty

But think back to 2006. The economy wasn’t doing so terribly then, though things were supposedly “slowing down”. President Bush’s biggest problem was not his management of the economy (although that’s not even the President’s job, anyway). The problem with him was the War in Iraq. I also oppose the War in Iraq and that is the reason why I think President Bush was harmful to this country. I don’t have a problem with his handling of the economy, however. Certainly it was better than the president before him.

What happened in 2006 were the United States midterm elections.

“All United States House of Representatives seats and one third of the United States Senate seats were contested in this election, as well as 36 state governorships, many state legislatures, four territorial legislatures and many state and local races. The election resulted in a sweeping victory for the Democratic Party which captured the House of Representatives, the Senate, and a majority of governorships and state legislatures from the Republican Party.”

The economic recession became reality in the 2 years after their victory.

Not a single Democrat senator voted against the “economic stimulus”, an action which certainly did far more harm to the economy than good. Is it any wonder that the economy has become so terrible since the Democratic victories of 2006?

Congress is far more responsible for the economic downturn than the President. We’ll see if Congress is smart enough to pass bill H.R. 1207, the Federal Reserve Transparency Act, which is being debated right now.