Friday, December 12, 2008
ToDaZeD Quote of the Week
quoted quote
Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the Republican leader, warned on Thursday that “a government big enough to give us everything we want is a government big enough to take everything we have.”
How big a government do we need to give back Liberty to the Individual?
Don't do it, Dubya!
blockhead...
Ever wonder just ‘xactically what they’re taking your money to bail out?
It’s this:
That, there is the 2,215 page, 22 lb., 2007 master contract between the UAW and Ford. G’head—read it at the linky.
Even a Nobel prize economist knows Chapter 11 is the only way to go…
Whaaa? No Styrofoam Columns?!?
Whaaa? No Styrofoam Columns?!?
hysterical historic occasion
It’s gonna be a zoo in DC for the coro inauguration of That One. Anticipating roughly 4 million people to attend the festivities, every shark on the Eastern Seaboard the DC Chamber of Commerce is in high clover gear.
Hotel rooms are booked for a hundred mile radius —at triple and quadruple regular rates, 3 day minimum stay pay required—and locals are renting out their ‘spaces’ for exorbitant amounts. More power to ‘em. [Get your deposit early and all payments in ca$h, folks.]
“It’s going to be like the Million Man March," said author A’Lelia Bundles, a Washingtonian and descendant of Madam C.J*, one of the nation’s first black female millionaires. “People are excited. It’s almost like emancipation and Jubilee.”
...
Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., the chair of the inauguration committee, said she was writing to some Web sites to ask them not to sell scalped inauguration tickets. She’s also crafting legislation that would make it a federal crime to sell the free tickets.
...
Washington’s Mandarin Oriental is offering a “Presidential Privilege” package for $200,900 that includes four nights in the hotel’s 8,000-square-foot Presidential Suite, designer outfits for inaugural events by Ralph Lauren, a chauffer-driven Maserati Quattroporte, dinner for eight at the hotel’s restaurant and daily spa treatments.
Such a deal...
At the JW Marriott Hotel, $1 million will buy 300 hotel rooms, $200,000 worth of food and private access to a tented, heated balcony overlooking the parade route of President-elect Barack Obama’s inauguration.
Oh, sure—what kind o’ K Street Snake is gonna snap that up?
Earl W. Stafford is buying it all - and giving it away to… disadvantaged people… the “People’s Inaugural Project,” inviting those who would never otherwise have a chance to wear tuxedos or satin dresses to the president’s swearing in.
“Let dem touch those t’ings!”
...Guests found by nonprofits and social service groups will also get gowns and tuxedos, and grooming from hairstylists and makeup artists. There will be a prayer breakfast and luncheon the day before the inauguration, Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
..."These are distressed economic times, so you don’t want to be wasteful,” [Lavern Chatman, president of the Northern Virginia Urban League] said. “But how do you give people hope? How do you make people a part of something? This is an investment and one that will be in people’s souls and hearts. So I don’t see it as a one-time thing; I see it as a lifetime experience."
I see it as pandering and paternalistic condescension that will buy thousands of votes—each.
Emergency legislation approved by the City Council of the District of Columbia...allows any Washington establishment with a liquor license to serve alcohol until 5 a.m. and serve food 24 hours a day from January 17 until the morning after Obama’s swearing-in on January 20.
I’m just glad I’ll be 2,500 miles away.
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
Ramahannakwanzivusmas Kerfluffles
srsly.
It began when a parent was upset her child was told to sing “Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer." The parent is concerned the words “Christmas” and “Santa” hold religious meaning.
...the performance is not mandatory.
Somebody please tell me why this question has not ended the “discussion” entirely?
"What is wrong with you?? How dare you be so intolerant of someone else’s beliefs?!?"
Tell me how that wouldn’t end the outcry.
Tuesday, December 09, 2008
The Shifty Paulson Story
a metaphor for a wish
OR *clicky*clicky*
What an Original Idea!
really oughta scrape the serial numbers off first...
On December 10, you are encouraged not to call in sick to work. You are encouraged to call in “gay"
...A day without gays would be tragic because it would be a day without love.
...NOW, it’s time to show America and the world how we love.
Wow. It seems like I’ve heard that idea somewhere before… Hm… Where could it be? What is the ANSWER?
So, great - as companies are looking for places to cut the excess, trim the budget, tighten the ol’ belt, now is a great time to demonstrate your reliability, consistency and dedication to the outfit that provides your paycheck.
OTOH, here in CA, if you’re the kind of guy who has always been a marginal dufus; who, when the boss is looking for a volunteer to handle a difficult project, you’re the guy sneaking off to the men’s room; the guy who could [and has] screwed up each and every minor task you’ve ever been assigned; if you have trouble mailing a letter, much less writing one—Call In Gay. Even if you’re a Mormon with 23 kids. You’ll be unfireable.
"Smells Like Nixon...*"
tape me, baby!
Chicago Trib goes out with a bang.
[ok - into Chap. 11… still...]
“Whatever I say is always lawful,” Gov. Blagojevich said.
*
Gov. Rod Blagojevich and his chief of staff John Harris were arrested today by FBI agents on federal corruption charges. ...simultaneously at their homes at about 6:15 a.m.
Blagojevich and Harris were accused of a wide-ranging criminal conspiracy that included Blagojevich conspiring to sell or trade the Senate seat left vacant by President-elect Barack Obama in exchange for financial benefits for the governor and his wife.
..among other “Chicago Way” actions.
Monday, December 08, 2008
The Constitutionally and Historically Ignorant Speak
thieving sidewinders...
Your hollow reassurance of the day:
"I believe in common-sense gun safety laws, and I believe in the second amendment,” Obama said at a news conference. “Lawful gun owners have nothing to fear. I said that throughout the campaign. I haven’t indicated anything different during the transition. I think people can take me at my word."
*snerk*
The “common sense gun safety laws” The One has voted for include full-out “gun bans, ammunition bans and even an increase in federal excise taxes up to 500 percent for every gun and firearm sold.” “Common” to whom, One? I ain’t clappin’ like dat, y’all.
"We don’t dispute [the gun sales hike] because the numbers from the federal system certainly confirm that there is increased activity out there. We just think it’s a bit stupid,” said Peter Hamm, spokesman for the Brady Campaign against Gun Violence.
Your contempt encourages me.
[Hamm:] “Anyone who thinks they need to rush out and buy a firearm clearly has not been paying attention to how quickly we make progress on this issue. We don’t think these are first-time buyers. We think they are people who already have more than enough guns at their homes to protect themselves and are buying more."
“More than enough guns” to protect myself from what, do ya think?
We used to live, here in The Country, in a nice, safe area - the only concern being the occasional escapee from a juvenile detention facility in the area. T’other evening—not late, but fully dark [6pm]—I dashed down the road for some milk at the little store in the up-scale ‘retirement comuuuunity’.
In the dark, I apparently took the wrong cow path into Bizzaro World. As I walked into the store, I saw Santa at the check-out counter buying a soda and some chips. Thinking it charming and kinda small-towny, I got my milk and joined the Jolly Elf in line, only to realize, Santa was half in the bag. hm…
Behind me came a hood-rat, complete with pulled-up hood and spastic muscle contractions indicating he was loaded to the gills, zoned to the bone, hip to flip-city. Making sure I had time to get into the Giant SUV™ before he was done, I left the little neighborhood store only to find a couple of other ...how ya say… bums clearly domicile challenged individuals waiting outside [an older woman and a 20-something male with an odd gait].
Sure enough, Mister Hood Spazz joined ‘em and off they wandered down toward the creek.
Lovely.
Change is in the air.
So Mister Hamm, as I wander around my home after the early dark, walking the dawgs, checking calves, feeding animules—not much more than a mile as the crow flies from such Bizarro World denizens—exactly how many guns do you believe I need to protect my home, my property, and the lives I am responsible for?
Sunday, December 07, 2008
Instrumentus Mustelidae
where’s the lotion for US?!?
Sold out for a lousy seven thousand pieces of silver.
Scientists have discovered a lotion that can save the lives of U.S. soldiers exposed to chemical weapons — a product vastly superior to the standard-issue decontamination powder.
Naturally, the Defense Department wants to scrap the powder and switch to the more-effective lotion.
...After being lobbied by the companies making the powder, several members of Congress pushed through two earmarks worth $7.6 million that forced the military for the past two years to keep buying the inferior product.
...Among the lawmakers who championed the earmarks are Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y.... [who] received nearly $7,000 in campaign donations from the beneficiaries of these earmarks in recent years ...; [and] Arlen Specter, R-Pa.,...[who] got more than $47,000; ...and Charles Schumer, D-N.Y.
She so deserves that SecState position. Best EPIC FAIL UPWARD, evah.
[Rohm and Haas, the Philadelphia company making the M291 resin] spent $830,000 lobbying Congress and the military on the decontamination kits and other issues in 2005, public records show. Since then, the company has spent another $2.3 million lobbying Congress.
..."In self-defense, we’ve gone to our representatives in Congress and we’ve said: ‘You know, let’s lay our cards on the table — we’re in business to provide a living and jobs in your district,’ “ Kohn said in a recent interview.
No, you flaming douchetool, you’re not. You’re in business to make a product and a profit. And you’ve been bested cuz you didn’t keep up. Get with it or get out - don’t go weaseling your way to the Weasels for a weaselly little bailout. Ya weaselly little doocheweasel.*
*apologies to actual stoats and mustelidae everywhere.
Saturday, December 06, 2008
*checks calendar*
the early bird
And yet, I like it:
OR *clicky*clicky*
Friday, December 05, 2008
*sniff* *sniff*sniff*
something rotten in D-troit...
If Ford can do this *clicky*clicky* for video in Brazil, what’s stopping ‘em here in the Land of Opportunity? Oh yeah - the UAW, the real beneficiaries of the Bailout.
The only option—to rational people who ain’t political whores, that is—is for the “Big 3” to take their Chapter 11 lumps, cancel the Gravy Train UAW contracts and reorganize along the lines they’ve built in other, more capital-friendly nations.
Maybe then Harry ‘HoreHouse” Reid and Nanny Nancy Pelosi can get real jobs commensurate with their skills…
“...descriptive but true..."
Voters? Citizens? Whassat?!?
The One Reigns
Bit twixt his teeth, That One bypasses the little peepole [we stink] and rides our wallets like a rented mule.
President-elect Barack Obama and Congressional Democrats might bypass major congressional debate and begin to construct a national cap-and-trade mechanism through regulation at the Environmental Protection Agency.
A transition official said that the idea is under consideration.
...Phil Schiliro, appointed to be Obama’s legislative director and a long-time former chief of staff to Rep. Henry Waxman, fought for a full decade to put the Clean Air Act into law. ...declined to comment
No-Drama Obama.
Ok - "Big Brother" I get -- but "Big Mother?!?"
wonder what this’ll do for property values...
The [Kenneth City FL 26-page “neatness ordinance"] ... sets standards for upkeep and appearance and gives town officials the right to enter homes. If the owner refuses to allow the official to enter, the town can go to a judge for an “administrative search warrant” to allow access to the interior of buildings. Violations would cost up to $250 a day.
Is your room picked up? beds made? kitty box cleaned?
Do You Have DUST BUNNIES!?!?!?!?!?
I sure would like the Torch ‘n’ Pitch Fork concession for that City Council meeting…
The California Facepalm
we do it every day...
a letter from U.S. Sen. Diane Feinstein, D-Calif., on Thanksgiving Eve makes clear what few taxpayers know: The billions in auto loans are a giant honey pot intended for any auto manufacturer in the nation.
...[She wrote to] Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid: “I do not support disadvantaging the next generation of American automobile companies in an effort to save the first generation.”
...But long-simmering hostilities between the California and Michigan delegations on auto issues threaten the deal. California legislators want that money to subsidize their own Silicon Valley-based auto industry, which they argue is the future of American transportation.
...In fact, Tesla Motors, a struggling San Jose start-up manufacturer of electric cars in Feinstein’s back yard, has already applied for $400 million in EISA loans to build a new plant for making a luxury $60,000, battery-powered family sedan.
Tesla’s chairman, Elon Musk, is doing some very good things in the privatization of space, so I guess I’ll give him a break on this… But, yeesh.
Wednesday, December 03, 2008
ToDaZeD Reazon not to leave the house
like I need a reazon
Bush had no idea what was to come just 7 months into his Presidency: OTOH That One ...
President-elect [not yet, bubbie] Barack Obama plans to appoint a new White House official to coordinate efforts to prevent terrorists from obtaining nuclear or biological weapons, advisers say, giving the highest priority to thwarting a catastrophic attack that a bipartisan panel warns could come in the next five years.
Oh. Gee. That oughta work.
A law requiring the position, passed by Congress more than a year ago and signed into law by President Bush, has been ignored for more than 15 months, in part because Bush opposes giving the Senate the power to confirm the official.
...
The need for a top-level official to coordinate nonproliferation programs - now spread across numerous agencies - is expected to gain new urgency today with the release of the sobering new report that warns that without drastic new measures, the world faces the real prospect of a nuclear or biological attack by 2013.
So we’re trying to equate nuclear non-proliferation where nations, like US - not Iran, are forced to give up nuclear power and random freakazoids with dirty suitcases?
whachoo talkin’ ‘bout?!?
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