If The Zero wants to withhold Social Security and military pay, why not get serious and withhold so-called “welfare” payments as well?
Oh, wait. That’s right. What was I thinking? He has to keep bribes to his constituency going.
D.C.’s Drug of Choice
And on an unrelated (or is it?) note,
*heh*
Being “Poor” Ain’t What It Used to Be
I’ve known poor folks. This isn’t them. The meat?
…the average household defined as poor by the government is equipped with air conditioning, cable TV, a car, a television, a DVD player, and if a boy is in the house, an Xbox or Playstation. The size of the average poor American’s home is actually LARGER than the average living space of a typical middle-income European.
So, the next time someone opens their yap spewing about the poor in America–and all the kids going to bed hungry at night, etc.–tell ’em to shut their yap. While there are poor folks still in America (it’s a truism that the poor will always be with us because its… true), the number of genuinely poor folk is really very, very, very small and completely amendable to local solutions.
Poor kids going to bed hungry? I’d be willing to bet that 99% of “poor kids” going to bed hungry are completely, totally and in every way, shape, fashion and form traceable directly to parents wasting resources on their own gratification. Society’s problem there has a simple solution: punish those parents. If that doesn’t rein them in and compel them to care for their kids before satisfying their urges for personal luxuries, then removal of the kids from the home and further, more stringent punishment of those selfish parents should ensue. And those solutions are best left to local authorities to devise and implement.
Everyone’s a Criminal
…except, of course, those who get to decide who to persecute. No, I did not mean to say “prosecute”. I really did mean to say “persecute”.
It’s called anarcho-tyrany. “Anarcho” because of the anarchy encouraged by ignoring REAL criminals (because, well, it’s both hard and dangerous to deal with them) and “tyranny” for obvious reasons, like for example, it’s MUCH easier to slap a kindergärtner into handcuffs and sling ‘em into the back of a patrol car for drawing a picture of a gun, because the kid can’t fight back (and the “crime” the kid committed goes into the stats and “justifies” the SWAT team that was called out to deal with him).
By criminalizing common behavior by ordinary citizens, politicians *gag-spew* and bureaucraps can expand their power without end, as long as citizens are compliant in allowing themselves to be made subjects of an all-powerful government and the bureaucraps who really rule its subjects.
Nah. Let’s just fugettaboutit. Let the Feds barbecue all the innocent kids they want, Waco-style while giving real criminals and congresscritters (but I repeat myself) and such like free rein.
Graphic lifted from Hookers and Booze.
New Math or Just Innumerate?
(Note the date of recording.)
I think I’ll go with innumerate twit:
See? I told y’all not to trust that so-called “birth certificate”. Even The Zero (inadvertently) admits it’s hinky. (A guy who has created such a big fuss about the issue but doesn’t even know when he was born–or worse, when he IS NOW–is incompetent to manage his own affairs, let alone be president of a garden club. Just sayin’… )
[Censored]
*heh*
Important Distinctions
How I learned the difference between “ufda” and “feeda”… *heh*
Summer of 1978, coming out of a theater in MN (was a showing of Grease) into bright light. Two guys ahead of us. One pointed to some gum on the ground in warning with an “Ufda!” The other guy stepped in it anyway, lifted his foot and looked at it, then exclaimed, “Feeda!”
So (whatever “it” is *cough*), it’s “ufda” if you see it and “feeda” if you step in it.
Every time I see The Zero, I think, “Feeda!”
Just One More Example
from the litter of our post-literate society:
“suaree”
While I admire creativity and good story telling, and I appreciate folks who put themselves and their work on the line, online, it does bother me a bit when I see repeated examples of this sort of evidence of a lack of literacy in someone who’s offering up an otherwise rollicking read. It’s not a typical misspelled word, and it’s certainly not a typo. No, it’s a word the author has heard but is not well read enough to ever have seen in print before (or at least not in something written by someone else who’s literate enough to know the word is “soiree“).
Oh, one example of such a thing is certainly not enough to bother me, or at least not enough to keep me from reading an otherwise well-told tale, and, frankly, in an unedited rough draft I’m more than willing to accept more than a few such problematic and weird spellings and even word usage errors (although instances of such things as the repeated use of “then” for “than” really grate [“greatly” *heh*] on my nerves *sigh*) in otherwise good yarns. Still, I wonder how such a person managed to get through high school or even eighth grade English… until I reconsider the state of pubschool education in these (dys)United States.
Oh, well. It takes a bit more work, but copy-pasting forum-published “fun-fic” into a file I can edit for grammar, usage and spelling corrections isn’t all that difficult. Really. *heh*
OTOH, when I read such things in a book that’s actually been through the eyes of proof readers and an editor and then made it to print, I do get a tad steamed.
In case you’d missed it, I do NOT accept “can laboriously decipher and sound out weird heiroglyphs” as “literacy” even though that seems to be the current “edumacational” definition…
Dinner’s Getting Microwaved Tonight
Here’s why:
Yeh, yeh, the house is mostly cool, but I spent some time this afternoon doing some electrical work in some areas w/o AC, and I’m wrung out, so no stoves or ovens for me tonight. 😉
The Zero Shoots Himself in the Foot…
…and of course the Mass MEdia Podpeople Hivemnd is in full “duck and cover” mode on this.
Translation: “Nah, I don’t want actually to raise taxes enough to kill whatever jobs are left until after you fools re-elect me.”
To quote the best response to The Zero’s comment,
[audio: What-a-maroon.mp3]