Quote of the Day 07/09/2011 (Irony Edition)

I of course age not, but it is interesting to see my children getting older -Me, this morning

They grow like amazing little people-weeds, and whisper that I am getting closer to my final reward every day. :sigh:

Another Lost Decade

Mish's analysis of the latest economic report (which by the way surprised everyone but him) is full of fabulous charts and graphs, including the kind everybody can appreciate: A Lost Decade in full swing and getting worse.



I don't guess it is proper to say I "like" posting up lost decade graphs, but they do illustrate a point: this economy is in depression, still, and when it gets worse it will be a

(wait for it)

double dip.

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The last link is different now. The Dow Jones index is up about 8% in the last decade- not horrible. The S&P index however . . .

Because You Are ALL Horrible People

Is this another law we didn't used to need? Make it a FEDERAL offense to fail to report a missing or dead child? Really?

Jokes To Make Women Shake Their Heads

The second thing in as many days that a woman would probably not get. What am I, a chauvinist pig? Well . . .

I was walking by a conversation between two co-workers (both male) who were talking about a metal object. One of them referred to it as aluminium. As ours is a different sort of company, I stopped and interjected myself in the discussion:

VFD: Aluminium? What are you, British?
Dude1: ::fake accent:: if I wahs, would vat be a probrum foh yuuu?
VFD: Yeah, I would smash you right in your crooked teeth!
Dude1: !!!
VFD: That's a British joke, get it?
Dude2: LOL!!!

Good for the Gander

A point I have made repeatedly over the last few days in personal conversation is that it seems rather the opposite of Justice for Ms. Anthony to be convicted of Lying to The Only Ones when she was delcared Not Guilty of the crime they were investigating her allegedly having committed.

Neal Boortz is on the radio and I am selling junk on eBay, because he can phrase things better than I can. He put my sentiment into exactly the right words today. He was saying that he (as a juror) would never have convicted Anthony of the crime of lying to law enforcement officers because

"If they can lie to me, I can lie to them."

Exactly. Yes Virginia, the Police can say anything and everything to anyone they please during an investigation, and you are expected to tell them the truth or else. Is this fair? It is, if Jury Nullification can be introduced in a courtroom!

Quote of the Day 07/07/2011 (Translated)

President Obama: "everybody acknowledged that we have to get this done before the HARD deadline of august 2nd"

Translation: "I really really want to get this done before the Republicans go back to their home districts and get hammered by their constituents and come back and stonewall me big time"

There is no such thing as a "hard deadline of August 2nd." It is a desperation move to claim any such thing. God willing, the Republicans won't fall for it. You are praying for your country, aren't you?

Justice Finally Served: We Kill You Back Edition

So there was this guy who was here for a lifetime but technically not one of us, then he decided to rape/mutilate/murder a girl. Fast forward another lifetime and his appeals have run out, so his lawyers tried to say "Oh, the injustice of it all, that he was not allowed to speak to the consul from the country of his citizenship!"

You know what? That he did the deed is incontrovertible. You don't get to do what he did and live, that's all there is to it. Especially in Texas where, as was famously said, " . . . we kill you back."

Huge ++bonus points to Governor Perry for standing firm in the face of those who think the death penalty is too icky for modern times and allowing this Goblin passage over the river Styx.

Good riddance to bad rubbish.

Did You Hear The One About The Guy Who Set Himself On Fire?

The family "protective" services took his children and ruined his marriage, just like they are designed to do, and like happened millions of times before. But this time the guy wrote a really long, somewhat persuasive manifesto before setting himself on fire in protest.

I think I might have preferred to shoot a few people through the head, personally, and then maybe a quick trip to the back hills of Peru might be in order. But this guy immolated hisse'f and . . .

The
Press
Totally
Failed
To
Report
The
Story

You never heard of Tom Ball, but you know all about Casey Anthony, because the system whereby news of consequence is disseminated in the mainstream press has broken down. Not-guilty hot chick? Headlines. Dead white man? Meh. Spike the story.

I Don't Have That Problem

Ladies feel free to skip this post, you won't get it.

When I go drain the lizard, it's over the top, not through the front. It seems to me that all the complicated tailoring on the front of a set of tighty-whiteys is there to give Mr. Johnson some lebensraum. Some people apparently use that hole for access/egress though, and I don't get it. WHY would you yank your crank through that uncomfortable labyrinth instead of just pulling the whole shazam down and out of the way? So I was underwhelmed when Neal was all excited about finding that Hom came out with left-handed underpants. For $20 each.

Sure it's old news, but hey, how often do you get a chance to combine Mr. Johnson and the term lebensraum in the same sentence? I was tending some personal business in the head today and thought that up and LOL'd but good.

Yes, I was laughing hysterically alone in the bathroom by myself.

Interior Security

Some of us have been joking about this for a while, but it's not funny. What do you do to prevent terrorists sewing up bombs inside their bodies to get past airline security? How do you keep them from blowing up the airplanes? Do you strip everybody naked and see if there are any surgical scars? How about a fMRI scan for everyone? Give everyone a little EMP inside a bomb blast container and sorry charlie if you had a pacemaker?

You do profiling and have no-fly lists that make sense, plus strong visa requirement enforcement overseas before they get here, and that's about all you can do. Arguably, you talk to the militant islamists in a language they understand (do the war hard, and with pork products) but that won't be happening under BHO's Presidency.

We MUST ACCEPT some level of risk. Otherwise you end up with padded light poles on the sidewalks of London. Otherwise you get stuff like VIPR searches minding your business for you, and then you STILL can't stop somebody with a bit of plastique explosive sewn up inside them. The world is dangerous. You can't prevent hazard, no matter how much liberty you abandon in the quest for security. Therefore (drumroll, please):

Trading liberty for security is a pointless, fruitless exercise.