Friday, October 9, 2015

Jason Chaffetz Also Wants to be Speaker of the House!


Yet another contender for the position of Speaker of the House of Representatives. I'm well into my bottle of Rum right now so I'll just leave this here.

Paul Ryan Next Speaker of the House?


There is a unifying label for the agenda of the GOP, but it's a toss-up between Pure Natural Selection and Passive Eugenics. They both kind of mean the same thing. It could also be called Objectivism, a philosophy touted by Ayn Rand.

I sense that Ayn Rand wasn't really promoting the idea as much as she was really exposing the heart of true human behavior: An unmitigated sense of self preservation, a world without health care, where only the strong survive.

The problem with this idea is that people who are weakest of mind are self-aggrandizing sufferers of the Dunning Kruker Effect, and wouldn't last a day on the African Savannah.

So, Paul Ryan's voting record and social values are not really surprising.

Thursday, October 8, 2015

Speaker of the House: Profile of Congressman Daniel Webster (R) Florida


Kevin McCarthy has pulled out of the race for Speaker of the House of Representatives. Many Republicans are interested in Congressman Daniel Webster from Florida for the seat, I thought I would collect some info on the potential Speaker.