Just Putting This Out There

Trust your instincts. It works for driving, and it works for reporting.

When everyone else was ganging up on DSK for raping a hotel maid, it smelled fishy and I let it lie without comment. Now the sub-headline is she's a tool of the internationalist elite and he's being prevented by her unprosecutable charge from running for President of France. But that was a private story, then a foreigners' story.

This here is local, but it still smells off somehow. I don't know whether to believe it but wouldn't put it past the current head of State . . . and I don't know quite what to make of the story, either. I usually skim Vanderboegh's long posts if I bother with them at all, but instinct led me to read this one and glad I did. Regular readers know I almost never link something and say "Read the whole thing" but that is today's homework assignment:

Federal TSA agents grope everybody at a high school prom (and other assorted outrages). To prevent the great terrorism!!! Read all about VIPR and tell me why I almost didn't forward this one.

Republicans Have Obama Over a Budget Barrel

The Republicrats in the House of Congress have the President by the short-hairs but he may not be bright enough to realize it. The latest news is that there will be no deal on a short-term increase of our debt limit, but maybe we can work out a short-term deal. Got that? Good.

The nation would REALLY be thrown into a sour economic state if we were to default on our outstanding minimum credit card balances treasury notes. It would be far better for us as a country to tell every Federal agency to go find something else to do for a while* while we put ALL the incoming tax revenues to continuing debt service. But there is an alternative to paying our national bills: default.

Continue to spend money like a drunken sailor on social welfare and corporate welfare programs and "invest" in money-pit pipe dreams like nationwide high-speed rail and whatnot. Let the people who fund our nation's deficit spending be told "sorry, tough tits" and just don't pay them. Surely they will just continue to fund our nation's excessive spending, right?

Right? I mean, then, we could NOT pay our bills and continue spending! Hooray! Oh, the brilliance of The Obama!

The Republicans know they hold the reins of this power. They know the people want less spending and no tax increases. The Republicans can stand by for an electoral defeat in 2012 if they cave. Still, how much confidence have you that they will stand firm and force the President to concede?

What a sad state of affairs in which to find our Great Experiment!

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*This could, of course, all be a New World Order plot. The something else the few-million unemployed workers may be encouraged to do by the MSM could very well be Greek-style riots in the streets. Then, of course, Something Must Be Done and God only knows what they would try to ram down our throats at that juncture . . .

Not My Problem!

When O.J. Simpson was running from the Police, he interrupted my television show and I asked my folks "Who's OJ Simpson?"

Today the question is "Who's KC Anthony?"

Some woman caught a case and was declared not guilty of killing her child by the people who heard all the evidence from beginning to end. WHY is this national headline news, and WHY do the national pundits care? It's just another little-kid-mudered case. Oh wait, sorry I forgot to factor in the "Hot Defendant Variable" which in this case is somewhat higher than normal and "Cute Female White Child Involved Variable" which in this case is "Affirmative." Also in play is the "Possibly-Crazy Biatch" card, which applies to at least the defendante and her momma.

Get off my airwaves. Go be crazy in front of somebody else. Stop covering this and get back to how The Obama is destroying my nation. Oh, wait you don't want to talk about the bad stuff going on in D.C., even though you are a "reporter"? Oh well cover this non-story then, and I'll just change the channel. As usual.

I can't help but note that, as with the O.J. case, nobody is making much noise about going out and finding the real killer. . . .

Racism And Christianity: Not Compatible.

• You can't be a Christian and not believe in the Bible
• You can't believe in the Bible and be a racist
• Therefore, you can't be both Christian and racist.
  

Racism: the belief that one "race" or ethnic group is superior to another, biologically
Culturism: the belief that one culture is superior to another

I caught flak for telling The City on an Official Form that my "race" is Human. I changed it to reflect my skin color, though that is arguably inaccurate (if you look at my grandparents' skin color and national origins). Down on the inside, I stand by the original entry on the form. Because I believe what my Bible tells me:

"God ... giveth to all life, and breath, ... And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth"

Black man? My brother
Brown man? My brother
Yellow man? My brother
White man? My brother

Trace that family tree back far enough and you end up with the same mother and father for all of us. Geographic necessity may have caused some minor variations to help us adapt to our surroundings, but when you cut our throats we all gush the same red blood.

So if you say something bad about the ever-hated Jew because his "ethnicity" is marked on the form as Jewish, you are a dumb ass and really ought to spend more quality time in your Bible. If you look down on the black man, or say the white man is out to get you, ditto. Excuse me if I do not share your enthusiasm on the subject.

Now, if you say that a culture which denigrates women and promotes fatherlessness, drug use/abuse/dealing, crime, and the like is of equal value to a culture which elevates women and motherhood, values the two-parent (opposite sex) married family foundation, discourages drug use and frowns on crime, you are a fool. And probably a government-educated fool at that.

Independence* Day, 2011

Happy 4th of July everybody. Let's all try to pretend for a day that we do not live in a socialist kleptocracy, okay?

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*...speaking of which, how independent are we of England when China is buying illegally-high amounts of our sovereign debt through English markets? Whatever would we DO if China didn't buy up all our debt?! Stop taking so much money from the People at gunpoint? The horror!

Oh well, hey where are the fireworks? Oh, banned. Where are the gun shooting galleries? Oh, banned. Well, at least the air conditioner with the federally-approved refrigerant works great, thanks God.

Another Reason to Read Mish:

Remember the scary headline from mainstream economists saying China was going to dump U.S. Treasuries and blah blahs about a new world reserve currency being something beside the US Dollar?

Well, Michael Shedlock pooh-pooh'd it at the time, and now it turns out instead of buying less US debt, China was buying more than previously disclosed.

"Unexpectedly"

Saturdays: When the Real News Hits

Things have gotten worse to the point that every day there is some horrible news coming out. It used to be that they would wait until the Saturday newspaper was printed to release the really bad stories . . . the least-read day of the week gets the least outrage, and you can say you covered it when really you spiked a story.

Am I the only one who winces a little when waiting for search results to come up the first time I check headlines on a Saturday anymore?

Well anyway, if you want most of the headlines worth reading you need to visit at least Instapundit and then maybe Fark.

Fun examples:
Instapundit: Boots on the ground in Somalia after drone attacks . . . make that war #6 on Obama's watch.
Fark: A cancer that can help make zombies . . . or something like that.

Much Too Close To Home

Praising the Constitution: Good!

Praising the Constitution at its burial: sadly accessible satire. Also good thinking, as one would expect from TSM.

Because Those People Are Inferior, You See

The same court that upheld the ability for the Federal government to force you at gunpoint to buy health care payment insurance has handed down another humm-dinger.

The people of Michigan passed a law that said they won't discriminate against, or show favoritism toward, protected classes - including "minority" ethnicities. That is, we won't grant contracts for road projects to you because you are a hispanic woman owned business, and we won't count it against you when you apply to college because you are a white man.

The court has ruled that this puts minorities at a disadvantage. Because, we can only suppose, those people are not as able as the rest of us to do (fill in the blank) without the almighty government helping them out. They just couldn't do it without us, don't you see?

This is racism, plain and simple. The days when "affirmative action" had arguable merit in the United States are past.

K.I.S.S. Your Scrollbar (Instead of Whatever is Next to it!)

I use Firefox 3.something at work on a relatively large monitor, and the buttons for controlling the browser are frustratingly small. I had already found and happily installed the Kempleton Large theme and my buttons on the huge screen at work are back to a usable size; the scroll bars are still easy to miss. This is especially bothersome when another application (Photoshop) lives juuuust off the edge of the screen (tool dialogs are on the next screen) and missing the vertical scroll bar takes me all the way out of the browser.

I looked around online and started to get discouraged. I found some people recommending changing the code inside Firefox to change scrollbar width. I kept looking. It turns out, the vertical scrollbar width is an "advanced" Windows setting. Changed. Fixed. Wonderful.

That, and the fact that IT Buddy has been able to implement some long-wanted changes to our in-house software in the last couple of days, has got me pretty happy about the computery stuff at work lately. Like the song says: it's the little things . . . that meeeean alot!