We’re From the Government, And We’re Here to Help | Shall Not Be Questioned
So the bottom line is that if I remove the doors from the shed I can store 18,000 pounds of explosives. If I put the doors on I can only store 50 pounds. It doesn’t have to make sense. It’s just a government rule.
How about if we store 18,000 pounds of governent officials with fifty pounds of explosives?
Show Comments (9) Campaign Cash Shows Unsustainable ‘Burn Rate’ for Romney and Gingrich : The Other McCain
Thus, when you look at the campaign cash numbers, the chatter about Romney’s “electability” is much less plausible, Sheldon Adelson’s big bets on Gingrich look like wasted money…
In a bit of political chess, Mr. Adelson is ready to not only directly support the former House speaker in the Republican primary, but to use his cash to push Rick Santorum from his position atop the latest national polls, according to people who have discussed the matter with Mr. Adelson.
Adelson’s got 25 billion bucks. He could fund an entire presidential campaign out of spare change. And he says he’s willing to do just that.
This, by the way, is why the lefties are screaming about Citizens United again. People like Adelson can buy and sell lefty moneybags like George Soros, and now they are free to do so in the political arena.
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EBL: Karl Rove: You are “mentally ill” if you think a new GOP candidate will emerge…
Karl Rove on Fox News Sunday strongly dismissed any suggestion of a new GOP candidate emerging. Has Jeb Bush has told Karl Rove privately “No”? Joe Trippi (in the panel discussion) suggests that the fear of Republicans of Barack Obama winning again is very similar to what Democrats experienced about George W. Bush in 2004 (which of course gave them John Kerry and John Edwards).
Yep. You don’t win by trying not to lose to the other guy, you win by nominating somebody you want to win.
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Moonbattery » What If…? Part II
What if Andrew Napolitano continued to ask “What if…?” until the establishment he challenges with his libertarian views took notice? Here’s what — he would get fired from Fox Business Network:
Asking questions as Judge Andrew Napolitano did in a recent broadcast on his now cancelled daily show may very well be the reason behind his recent dismissal from Fox. Though specific details are hard to come by because the Judge has yet to give any interviews on the matter, it’s believed that his refusal to bow to commonly manufactured media narratives is among one of several key reasons he his no longer with the network.
The alleged last straw:
At least he’s in good company, as Glenn Beck fans will agree.
Infowars says that News Corp. is being blackmailed by the Obama regime over the Euro-hacking scandal with threats to indict the Murdochs themselves.
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If It Ain’t Broke, Don’t Fix It: Ancient Computers in Use Today | PCWorld
If you’ve recently bought a MetroCard for the New York City Subway or taken money from certain older ATMs, for instance, your transaction was made possible by IBM’s OS/2, an operating system that debuted 25 years ago and faded out soon after.
I built a couple of overclocked boxes that ran on OS-2, because the most advanced voice recognitions system of the time only ran on OS-2. That OS was probably fifteen years ahead of its time. I could do things with it – especially involving graphics – that wouldn’t be possible for years with others operating systems.
Go look at the quite old site I built for my writing stuff back in the day. That globe that is the logo for IW3P.com (Iceberg World Wide Web Productions.com)? I created that with a program running on OS-2.
I still miss XyWrite, for that matter.
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Essay arguing that campus smoking bans are unsafe | Inside Higher Ed
5 – Honesty. The implication that tobacco smoke poses a significant health risk to others outdoors is disingenuous. A university’s first mission centers around truthful discourse, and we should be teaching our students to differentiate between significant risks (such as smoking) and totally insignificant risks (such as secon hand smoke outdoors). We should be teaching our students to deconstruct misleading government and advocacy group statements, such as the claim that “these is no safe level of exposure to secondhand smoke.” By such criteria, there is no safe level of exposure to sunlight either.
Shhh. This doesn’t fit the nanny-state narrative of tyranny for your own good.
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What’s going on? Are they super-confident of victory in November? Counting on our short memories? Or is getting Michelle away from the White House a big priority?”
Um…
I think it’s pretty obvious. She’s trying to milk the gravy train as much as she can before the voters kick her gigantic booty out of the White House.
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12 Times That Being Cheap Will Cost You – Yahoo! Finance
Opting for layaway to feel like a saver
If you’ve got problems with managing money, don’t look to layaway to solve them.
Layaway isn’t a debt-reduction plan, it’s a marketing ploy that gets insecure shoppers to think they’re saving upfront when they’re really racking up late fees and interest.
Remember, stretching out payments isn’t responsible if you can’t afford the item in the first place.
Weird. When I was young, hardly anybody had credit cards. In fact, Mastercard and Visa didn’t exist, Amex was only carried by zillionaires, and the most common credit card (IIRC) was Diners Club, which was mostly used by business folk to pay for lunch. If ordinary people couldn’t pay cash, they generally used layaway. I did myself, several times, including once for the “English Racing Bike” of my dreams, which I paid for out of my paper route money.
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Legacy Media: Hostage Crisis? What Hostage Crisis?
No, the pencil-necked liberal hack wants to talk about… contraception.
Sure, why not? It’s a winning issue for Obama and the left, and a lot of Santorum backers are diving headlong into the Obama Briar Patch.
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A post wherein I agree with Ron Paul | Questions and Observations
Actually, there’s a lot Ron Paul says I agree with, but there’s about 5 to 10% of what he says that makes him, at least to me, unsupportable.
But he and I see eye to eye on this thought (from an article about an interview he did with Candy Crowley):
Paul seemed almost baffled that everyone has been talking about social issues at a time when he and others are more concerned with preserving basic civil liberties and the economy.
Folks, for this election social issues is a loser. Sorry to be so blunt, and burst the social issue’s activists bubble, but this is the distraction the Obama administration badly needs and it is playing out pretty much as they hoped, with the candidates concentrating in an area that is so removed from the real problems of the day (and the real problems of the Obama record) that it gives relief.
Additionally, it gives visibility to the one area that usually scares the stuffing out of the big middle – the independents who are necessary to win any election (and, until this nonsense started, pretty much owned).
What is going on now is a self-destruction derby. And the tune is being called by the left (if you think the George Stephanopoulos question on contraception that started all this nonsense during one of the debates was delivered by an objective and unbiased journalist, I have some beachfront land in Arizona for you) and kept alive by the media.
How I see it is Americans, in general, don’t give much of a rat’s patootie about all this nonsense at this moment in history. They’ve watched their economic world collapse, they’re upside down in their houses (or have lost them), they’re seeing their children, great grandchildren and great, great grandchildren enslaved to government debt, they’re out of work and they’re suffering – economically.
And the GOP goes off on the usual nonsensical social issue tangent when there is a table laden with a feast of issues that are relevant to the problems with which the majority of Americans are concerned.
Americans are one of the most church-going – and least religious in their daily lives – peoples in the world.
But give the Stupid Party a chance to live up to its name, and it will rise to the challenge of its name every time.
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Why I’m Still in Cali | Random Nuclear Strikes
I never opened the bugout bag, but somehow sand got in anyway. Happily sand just falls off the plastic Kel-Tec .223, and you can wash a Glock.
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Softwar, iPhones, Glocks, .223s, and barbecued elk on a beautiful beach. The California life isn’t all bad.
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» A young Republican meets Occupy at CPAC – Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion
But when, instead of simply articulating why conservatism works, we talk about Occupy in the same unnecessarily incendiary tone the left used to trash the Tea Party, we lose our chance to win over the cardboard sign crowd.
And if the young Occupy-ers I met at CPAC taught me anything, it’s that there’s plenty of winning over to be done.
I doubt it. I don’t think the non-astroturfed occupiers are numerous enough to make much of a difference to anybody.
Oh, sure, some of the amateur Occupiers are sincere – but in an inchoate, clueless way. The reason they are Occupiers rather than Tea Partiers is that they are gullible enough to buy the leftist spin about the Tea Party, plus the fact that the TP has been successfully (with some reason, I should add) painted as an geezer movement – anathema to the hipster mind.
What the Occupiers boil down to, however, is this: A larger portion of union-generated astroturf, the same people who will be bused off to the polls to vote Democrat as they are every election, and a much smaller contingent who are generally pissed off about the economy, but are clueless about the causes for their travails. I doubt they will be much of an electoral factor either for Obama or his opponent.
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2 – I am staggered at how easily the concepts of Democracy and the Rule of Law – two of the pillars of the modern world – have been brushed aside in the interests of political expediency. This is not just a eurozone phenomenon but of course the removal of elected governments and the instalment of “insider” technocrats who simply serve the interests of the elite has become a specialisation in Europe. Many will think this kind of development is not a big deal and is instead may be what is needed.
Uh huh. Starting with Tom Friedman at the NYT. (And probably in the Barack Obama White House).
Even though Janjuah claims to have no insights, there’s quit a bit of good analysis here. Read the whole thing.
His investment advice? “Gold and non-financial high quality corporate credit and blue-chip big cap non-financial global equities.”
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MICHAEL PATRICK LEAHY: Why Is Santorum Rising?
Why is Michelle Bachmann rising? Why is Newt Gingrich rising? Why is Herman Cain rising? Why is Newt Gingrich rising (again?)?
Because three quarters of Republican voters can’t stand Mittens Romneycare.
Next question?
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Boy Meets World: The Complete Series (Seasons 1-7 Bundle)
I guess somebody must have watched this – it survived through seven seasons. I wasn’t one of them, though.
Remember – anything you buy from Amazon through any link on this site puts a commission in my pocket, at no cost to yourself, so thank you very much! Also, arf! from the Presidential Pomeranian.
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With Video: Open message to everyone who reads this blog | Thoughts and Rantings
Update: Go read this too please. Thanks!
I will not go into it, I will not quote any of it. I will simply ask you to go read.
Looks like I was used as a pawn, in a feud between Ed Morrissey and Robert Stacy McCain.
This guy sent me a link to this. Tell you the truth, I didn’t find it either impressive or persuasive. A long, rambling, threat-filled rant full of vaguely delineated grievances doesn’t seem to me the best approach to a dispute with a lethal wordslinger like Stacy McCain.
Besides, I like Stacy, so I guess that this fellow won’t ever link to me. OTOH, my sense of devastation is somewhat limited by the fact that I can’t recall him ever linking to me before this, either.
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Professor Jacobson, Maybe We Should Both Start Blogging About Sports … : The Other McCain
Anyway, your blog’s hostility toward Santorum is effectively canceling out my blog’s hostility toward Gingrich, so maybe we should both find something else to blog about — celebrity gossip, perhaps — until this damned primary campaign is over.
So…what is my position doing as far as orthagonal relationships to your likes and dislikes?
I’d vote for Gingrich enthusiastically, multiple wives or not. Nobody in America gives a damn about the “social issues.” I’d hold my nose and…reluctantly, kicking and screaming, probably vote for Santorum. Because nobody gives a damn about the social issues, especially socon Presidents after election – see Bush, George W. But if it comes down to either of them against Romney, I have no dilemmas whatsoever – because I won’t vote for Mitt Romney under any circumstances, including in the general election. The biggest threat to liberty in this country is socialized medicine, whether Romneycare or Obamneycare. Choosing between voting for either is not a choice for me, because I won’t vote for either one of them.
My biggest fear of Santorum, by the way, is that if he’s elected, he’ll suddenly develop a Bush-style religion-based “compassionate conservatism,” and decide that Obamneycare really means well, and just needs to be tweaked to make it “work better.”
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Dreams From My Single-Parent Family
In September of 2009, a cell-phone video that depicted Chicago public school students beating a fellow teen to death circulated throughout the Internet and the mainstream media.
Curiously, none of the media outlets that covered the story bothered to recollect that President Barack Obama had once served as a community organizer and then a state senator in these very same South Side neighborhoods.
Lots more. Read it all.
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New Bible appeases Muslims, yanks ‘Father,’ Jesus as ‘Son of God’ « Creeping Sharia
But now there is a major controversy developing as the latest altered Bibles are being created by organizations that most would think of as being more conservative and reasonable. At the forefront of the controversy are the Wycliffe Bible Translators, the Summer Institute of Linguistics and Frontiers, all of which are producing Bible translations that remove or modify terms which they have deemed offensive to Muslims.
That’s right: Muslim-friendly Bibles.
Included in the controversial development is the removal of any references to God as “Father,” to Jesus as the “Son” or “the Son of God.”
Hmmm….
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Articles: Does Ryan Now Agree with Gingrich?
So Paul Ryan has now come to agree with Newt Gingrich about how Medicare reform should be implemented. No one should be surprised. Gingrich helped reform welfare during a Democrat presidency. He knows how to reform the whole entitlement leviathan.
This is why I support Gingrich. Unlike his opponents, he has actually done before what needs to be done again, and more thoroughly.
When you’re dredging out the Augean Stables of American governance, it’s helpful to hire the guy who has already proved he can wield a shovel effectively.
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