Author: David

Over-educated Curmudgeon, Bit-Bucket Tuner and Budding Brewmeister.
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Root and Branch: Extirpate the IRS

Conservative group’s lawsuit targets IRS employees personally

Look, folks, let’s just say it openly and without reservation: The IRS is simply evil. Period. I’ll accept no qualifications about “good people” working in the IRS. No, if they were truly good people, they’d find a job not working for an evil organization. Period. End of story. No excuses.

The fish rots from the head and from its inception, the IRS has rotted and is nothing but a poisonous evil whose sole function is to do evil and enable further evil to be done. Any lame justifications that it collects revenue for legitimate purposes fall, because most “feddle gummint” functions nowadays are constitutionally illegitimate (hence, based on lies, evil). Nope. The IRS has to go. Now, how to get there. . .

Pressure–and never, never, never stop pressuring–congresscritters to abolish the IRS and the oppressive, tyrannical, capricious income tax system it administers. Get involved in local politics in order to gain influence on political parties’ selection of candidates, at ever higher levels of government. Join with other “outsiders” to invade and take over the political apparatus of whatever party or parties you may have a chance to “subvert” to bring them back in line with constitutional principles.

And never, never, NEVER stop pushing back–twice as hard, and harder. If you are attacked, as the person and her organization in the linked article above have been, push back as that organization has. Make it as personal as the bureaucraps themselves make it. Hold them PERSONALLY responsible.

Keep it in bounds–not their bounds, the law’s bounds–but make sure they know it IS personal, because that’s the central meaning of The Founders’ Constitution”–personal, individual liberty and responsibility is THE central reason the Constitution was written to SET BOUNDARIES BEYOND WHICH GOVERNMENT MUST NOT GO!

The “feddle gummint” needs to be told to sit down, shut up and LISTEN to the PEOPLE. . . and then sit down and shut up–PERIOD!–wherever the Constitution says they have no business going.

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Because That Makes Sooooo Much Sense

[N.B., I corrected the headline on the linked article to read as a more accurate reflection of the information in it.]

Obama Orders Fox to Investigate Hen House Guard

Yep. That’s right. The Zero thinks that no one will notice he’s directed Eric Holder to investigate his own performance as an enforcer of the rule of law. No news there, really. After all, recall the reports of an “independent State Department investigation” of. . . the State Department’s handling of the Benghazi consulate attack? “[I]ndependent,” MHWA. . .

Where is Torquemada when you really need him?

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No Brainer

No, seriously. Absolutely NO thought seems to have been put into this ad for the Hyundai IX35 hydrogen fuel cell powered car:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HueuiSLt-HI

“Edgy” huh? #dumbassery

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Ebook Problems

Well, not all that many, but. . .

I keep forgetting to return library books. Now that a majority of the books I read are eBooks, it’s just a pain to have to get in the car, schlep six miles and mosey on back.

Reading too many different books at the same time. No, not simultaneously. I’m not that fantastic. *heh* But a several open and “in process” on one computer (in browser, in Kindle app), another on my Kindle Fire and maybe another one or two on one or more other computers on top of a hardcopy book or two sometimes becomes a bit cumbersome. *meh* It’s a problem I can live with.

Buying too many books. Yeh, yeh, that bundle of seven eArcs is tempting. OK, bought. Free books? I’m in. What? Amazon’s running a deal with a few hundred eBooks at “up to 85% off”? Sign me up for the marathon shopping spree.

It’s too easy to buy more books. Too easy. What? I’m complaining? *heh*

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Anyone Notice. . .

. . .that politics have been (mostly) absent around twc for the last short bit? Yeh. Even evil gets a bit boring after a while when all it does is repeat itself: Lies, Damned Lies, MORE Damned Lies and yet MORE. . . with no evidence of any creativity or even the scantest attempt to make the lies anything but blatant, bald-faced yawners.

*shrugs* Maybe that’s the plan, make evil so yawningly, terminally boring that there’s just nothing left to say about it.

Anywho, at least I can watch yet another episode of Poirot via Amazon Instant Video. I never tire of the saxophone in the theme music, and the acting, settings, costuming, dialog and even, to some degree, the fairly predictable Agatha Cristie plots, are all just wonderfully enjoyable. And, of course, the incidental music–quite apart from the theme music–is extremely enjoyable.

There’s that, at least, when all the rest of the world has gone mad, mad, I say. . . *heh*

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Early Crop

I have already been able to start harvesting an early crop of. . . dandelions. I’ve not yet harvested much of the crop, as I wanted to let ’em go to seed and spread the wealth a bit first. (Second crop should yield some nice, tasty flowers.) So far, I only have a goodly mess of greens and enough dandelion root to make a couple of pots of dandelion infusion, after a roast and grind. The greens are washed, ready to pat dry and freeze in a vacuum pack. The roots are cleaned and ready to roast this evening.

Looking forward to some good eats. A few plants harvested daily should keep me in dandelion “tea” and greens for a while, and as those I expect to sprout from seed come on, I ought to be able to make it through the rest of Spring and at least some of Summer with a bounteous dandelion feast. . . if my Good Neighbor doesn’t take it into his head to mow my lawn as he’s out playing with his riding mower (he’s done that once this Spring–oh well *heh*)

Continue reading “Early Crop”

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When Sucky Tech Turns. . . Semi-Almost-OK. Maybe

Several years ago, back in the olden days of the rough edges of wireless printing, I purchased a “Wireless Upgrade Kit” from HP that. . . sucked. Not only would the software not properly install on an OS it was supposedly designed for without sprinkles of small animal entrails and a vigorous application of a chicken bone rattle, when the software installed, the thing didn’t work. No, not “didn’t work well” just “didn’t work”.

I could’ve returned the thing, I suppose, but the PC end of the thing did work as a USB wireless adapter. . . in Linux, though, not in Windows. *shrugs* Fo gigure.

Fast forward several years (urm, 7 or so?). I ran across this thing while leaning out old techie junk and thought to myself, “Self, why not see if HP has finally made some workarounds or new software or whatever available?” I didn’t hold out much hope. After all, I had purchased an HP “wireless network capable” printer in the time since I had had such a wonderful experience with HP’s wireless printer upgrade kit (yeh, yeh: sucker), and it worked soooo well. Not. Decent printing, just could NOT hang onto a network connection. Period. But what can I say? I had low expectations but high hopes. *heh*

After an hour of messing with the thing. . . it worked! Color me bumfuzzled. . .

Now a down version of the wireless HP printer (exactly same AIO printer but w/o the crappy wireless “feature”) in the other room is connecting wirelessly to at least one lil notebook. Now I need (for values of “need” that include “Oh, heck that’d be cool” *heh*) to see about getting the other three computers in this room to also connect to it. If that works, then the several computers downstairs can be connected as well. Since I’m more or less off and today’s “small projects day” (in lieu of actually heading outside to do Big Projects Day ;-)), that sounds like a plan.

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Quick ‘n’ Easy

Another “notarecipe”. Snack or meal: you decide.

Quick sorta pizza. Take a pita round (or two or three or whatever). Add your fav pasta/pizza sauce and toppings (meat, veggies, cheeses). Bake. Add sides as you wish to make a meal or just have one as a snack.

I do a similar thing with corn tortillas as well. Different textures and flavors but still enjoyable.

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Classic Ripoffs #1,387

So, we received a notice from our local “baling wire and chewing gum” POTS carrier. In June, the basic residential phone charge will increase by 40%. Yep. 40%. Of course, that’s accompanied by the elimination of a service that has cost that same amount to have added on (which is why we never added it on), but–mirabile dictu!–the add-onservice that is being eliminated is now included in ALL customers’ basic phone charges.

In other words, the company has decided that everyone needs to pay that added charge, so they are simply adding the “service” to everyone’s account and charging every customer, instead of just the smaller number who wanted it before.

Of course the local “baling wire and chewing gum” phone company has to do this if the owners want to maintain their standard of living, since more and more folks in the area have ditched ’em for cell phone only services. In fact, we may just do the same, given this high-handed scam.