Oh well, I'm sure it was nothing important anyway. I mean, the middle class didn't NEED that $1Trillion did they? What, you didn't hear about it? Oh, it was nothing, really. . . I mean, why else would the story be withdrawn?
In case you really didn't hear about it, here's a link with the full text of the story . . . get it while it lasts. The birth certificate controversy taught us that Obama's people are good at scrubbing information off the face of the Internet . . . .
I wish I had the time to fact check the original story. Does anyone know if anybody went to the trouble already?
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
Don't Ask, Don't Tell Is GOOD Policy.*
Chairman Mullen says regarding the DADT policy: "we have in place a policy that forces young men and women to lie about who they are"
Bullshit
It requires them to not come out and tell god-and-everybody they enjoy doing things that ought not to be done.
What you do with your jimmy is not 100% of your personality, if you are a normal person with a sound mind. If it is so all-consuming a part of your ever-lovin' self that EVERYONE YOU KNOW must know what you like to do with your jimmy, you have bigger problems than what you do with your jimmy. Mental problems, of the sort that only Jesus can fix.
Don't Ask/Don't Tell is a fairly good way to weed out those persons who are so mentally-disordered that they cannot contain their sexual proclivities to off-hours clandestine action like their 'breeder' brothers-in-arms. If a man is schtupping his LT's wife and HAS TO blab about it, he is also unfit for service.
I had never given this serious thought but the conventional arguments around the topic always bothered me. Anti-DADT types tend to be (in my experience) either flamers or rather soft in the head. I never could come up with anything much more than a "What? Who thinks that?" when they erect the straw-man of potential retribution/assaults against queers in the service. Finally it occurred to me: DADT puts a mental check on people who need to be able to deal with mental checks. If you just can't refrain from telling your sergeant you suck [deleted]s, how can we be sure you will be stable under non-peacetime conditions NOT involving your junk? If you're too crazy to keep your crazies to yourself, you NEED to not be in the trenches. It's not that we couldn't deal with the ickyness of serving alongside a friggen homo (other countries' soldiers do so w/ no problem). . .
It's that you HAVE TO come out that's the problem, not that you're out.
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*if we must have a policy at all. Frankly, if we are not going to have an official state church and we refuse to stick to even a basic set of morals, as long as you can keep it zipped up on-duty AND it doesn't interfere with your duties (neither is necessarily a guarantee, by the way) then we, as a country, don't have much of a basis for saying anything one way or another about what you do with your fiddly bits.**
**Longest sentence of the YEAR!
Bullshit
It requires them to not come out and tell god-and-everybody they enjoy doing things that ought not to be done.
What you do with your jimmy is not 100% of your personality, if you are a normal person with a sound mind. If it is so all-consuming a part of your ever-lovin' self that EVERYONE YOU KNOW must know what you like to do with your jimmy, you have bigger problems than what you do with your jimmy. Mental problems, of the sort that only Jesus can fix.
Don't Ask/Don't Tell is a fairly good way to weed out those persons who are so mentally-disordered that they cannot contain their sexual proclivities to off-hours clandestine action like their 'breeder' brothers-in-arms. If a man is schtupping his LT's wife and HAS TO blab about it, he is also unfit for service.
I had never given this serious thought but the conventional arguments around the topic always bothered me. Anti-DADT types tend to be (in my experience) either flamers or rather soft in the head. I never could come up with anything much more than a "What? Who thinks that?" when they erect the straw-man of potential retribution/assaults against queers in the service. Finally it occurred to me: DADT puts a mental check on people who need to be able to deal with mental checks. If you just can't refrain from telling your sergeant you suck [deleted]s, how can we be sure you will be stable under non-peacetime conditions NOT involving your junk? If you're too crazy to keep your crazies to yourself, you NEED to not be in the trenches. It's not that we couldn't deal with the ickyness of serving alongside a friggen homo (other countries' soldiers do so w/ no problem). . .
It's that you HAVE TO come out that's the problem, not that you're out.
********
*if we must have a policy at all. Frankly, if we are not going to have an official state church and we refuse to stick to even a basic set of morals, as long as you can keep it zipped up on-duty AND it doesn't interfere with your duties (neither is necessarily a guarantee, by the way) then we, as a country, don't have much of a basis for saying anything one way or another about what you do with your fiddly bits.**
**Longest sentence of the YEAR!
KE Finally Got His 15 Minutes
One of the guys that used to work where I work was fired for having . . . enthusiastic personality traits. The lawyers won't let us say that he was hi on meth half the time, but some of us have our suspicions. Anyway, he made it into the local paper! Unfortunately for him, that paper was Busted! in Austin.
One of the men still working here was wondering what you would have to do to be arrested for a "traffic violation." I told him "It's KE, are you really surprised? The fellow shut his mouth and walked away -there was nothing else to say, really.
One of the men still working here was wondering what you would have to do to be arrested for a "traffic violation." I told him "It's KE, are you really surprised? The fellow shut his mouth and walked away -there was nothing else to say, really.
Do Want: Para GI Expert 1911 in STAINLESS!
Valentines day is just around the corner and you already know what I want, so . . .
Monday, February 1, 2010
A Sex Tape? SRSLY?!
The Breck Girl had a sex tape? And he wanted to be President? What a piece of work, GAWD! And you thought Obama was an empty suit. You were right, but wow what a piece of work Edwards is turning out to be!
This is the caliber of men running for high elected office in the United States of America today.
What are you going to do about it?
This is the caliber of men running for high elected office in the United States of America today.
What are you going to do about it?
Public School OFA Recruitment!
You know who else liked to sign school children up for his private army?
That's right. His private army* is setting up recruiting centers under the watchful eye of your government "schools" and your precious snowflake will soon be turning you in to the beautiful leader for not being sufficiently loyal to him.
What are you going to do about it?
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*Of course it's not an army yet. Come on now!
That's right. His private army* is setting up recruiting centers under the watchful eye of your government "schools" and your precious snowflake will soon be turning you in to the beautiful leader for not being sufficiently loyal to him.
What are you going to do about it?
********
*Of course it's not an army yet. Come on now!
Ugly Words.
You would like to blow up children in a park if you don't think unions should be able to intimidate you into silence.
You would like to murder 2 million people if you want your country to be ruled by the rule of law.
This is the state of political discourse in the United States of America. What are you doing about it?
You would like to murder 2 million people if you want your country to be ruled by the rule of law.
This is the state of political discourse in the United States of America. What are you doing about it?
Sunday, January 31, 2010
Russia Cracks Down On Protestors?
Bears sh*t in the woods?
On the 31st day of the month, protestors gather to protest the Russian government. The russian government says "yah, uhm, someone else had the park reserved for an event that day" (every single time) and declares the protest illegal.
Riot police, beatings with truncheons, the whole works. Just like old times, eh Russia?
Russian oppression: what's the worst thatdid could happen?
On the 31st day of the month, protestors gather to protest the Russian government. The russian government says "yah, uhm, someone else had the park reserved for an event that day" (every single time) and declares the protest illegal.
Riot police, beatings with truncheons, the whole works. Just like old times, eh Russia?
Russian oppression: what's the worst that
Nuclear Power Does NOT REQUIRE Cap & Trade Passage!
Obama is leaving his dying 'healthcare' scam to twist in the wind. He is now pushing for Cap and Trade, a so-called environmental pollution reduction measure that would not only NOT reduce pollution, it would raise your electric bill $3000 a year. Think how little you can afford that, then think how little the whole country could afford it.
Cap and trade WILL crush the United States' economy. Sacrificed on the altar of "green" energy.
For years, some of us have been saying that the entire cure for our energy problems is nuclear power generation. It is clean, renewable, reliable, and SAFE. But the watermelon environmentalists declare that it is horrible. Obama is risking their ire (I hope he gets it in full, by the way) in an attempt to get his cap and trade regulatory scheme in place.
Wait, what? How is cap and trade related to nuclear power?
It doesn't have to be. It's a sweetener for the Republicans who haven't seen the handwriting on the wall about cap and trade. A vote for Cappin' Trade is a vote to kill your political career and they should all know it by now. Obama is trying to convince you that he cares to increase the amount of nuclear power plants as a way to reduce pollution. The press is going out in a full-court press to spin this just the way he likes it. This is a red herring.
The Cap & Trade bill has some loan guarantees for the nuclear power generation industry, to help them get some power plants kick-started. Obama knows full well two things: 1) we could underwrite those loans entirely outside of the framework of the environmentalist/communist cap & trade scam, and 2) these plants won't get built anyway. There are too many environmental regulations to overcome, to meet even the least ambitious of pollution reduction timelines. Then there is the question of what to do with the spent fuel.
For anyone with half a brain, this is a no-brainer. Every other country that relies heavily on nuclear fuel recycles it. Jimmy Carter got all scared of terrorists getting their hands on the fuel en-route and forbade it to be recycled. You shouldn't have to worry about how awful Yucca Mountain could be for the environment. You should just turn the spent fuel back into fresh fuel again. Simple, no? That's why, IF YOU STAY ON YOUR SENATOR, Cap and Trade doesn't have to pass. Tell them to get the nuclear plants on line WITHOUT cap and trade.
Cap and trade WILL crush the United States' economy. Sacrificed on the altar of "green" energy.
For years, some of us have been saying that the entire cure for our energy problems is nuclear power generation. It is clean, renewable, reliable, and SAFE. But the watermelon environmentalists declare that it is horrible. Obama is risking their ire (I hope he gets it in full, by the way) in an attempt to get his cap and trade regulatory scheme in place.
Wait, what? How is cap and trade related to nuclear power?
It doesn't have to be. It's a sweetener for the Republicans who haven't seen the handwriting on the wall about cap and trade. A vote for Cappin' Trade is a vote to kill your political career and they should all know it by now. Obama is trying to convince you that he cares to increase the amount of nuclear power plants as a way to reduce pollution. The press is going out in a full-court press to spin this just the way he likes it. This is a red herring.
The Cap & Trade bill has some loan guarantees for the nuclear power generation industry, to help them get some power plants kick-started. Obama knows full well two things: 1) we could underwrite those loans entirely outside of the framework of the environmentalist/communist cap & trade scam, and 2) these plants won't get built anyway. There are too many environmental regulations to overcome, to meet even the least ambitious of pollution reduction timelines. Then there is the question of what to do with the spent fuel.
For anyone with half a brain, this is a no-brainer. Every other country that relies heavily on nuclear fuel recycles it. Jimmy Carter got all scared of terrorists getting their hands on the fuel en-route and forbade it to be recycled. You shouldn't have to worry about how awful Yucca Mountain could be for the environment. You should just turn the spent fuel back into fresh fuel again. Simple, no? That's why, IF YOU STAY ON YOUR SENATOR, Cap and Trade doesn't have to pass. Tell them to get the nuclear plants on line WITHOUT cap and trade.
Saturday, January 30, 2010
Good News/Bad News Re: My Rearview Mirror
My car's rear view mirror had a nasty buzz right at cruising speed (65MPH). Annoying.
I pulled the mirror off and tightened the screw that holds the works together. Should be good to go. I'll know after another trip to the car parts store to get some rearview mirror epoxy . . . because the mount broke off of the glass and took a little bit of windshield with it. :(
I pulled the mirror off and tightened the screw that holds the works together. Should be good to go. I'll know after another trip to the car parts store to get some rearview mirror epoxy . . . because the mount broke off of the glass and took a little bit of windshield with it. :(
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