No, not that kind. This kind:
A Headline I NEVER Wanted to See
I’m going to have nightmares tonight. Newsmax (emailout) headline:
“The Naked Truth About Nancy Pelosi”
Oh, thanks for the image, Newsmax. *shudder* Now, I just want to put my (mental) eyes out… Give anyone else the heebie-jeebies?
*heh*
What a Maroon!
Useless oxygen sink. Worthless even as chum (as chum, she’d poison the waters). Pass the healthscare bill in order to find out what’s in it?!?
[audio:What-a-maroon.mp3]Un-Freakin’-Believable!
Friday, March 5, 2010, Hairy Eyeball Reid actually said,
I guess that “stimulus” package is working just like you’d hoped, Hairy. Of course, it’s done nothing to stimulate any sort of intelligence, human compassion or even simple common sense in you, you %$#@*!~ idiot pussbag. (I feel so much better for having raised the level of discourse several orders of magnitude above that set by Hairy Eyeball Reid.)
Multiple serial counseling sessions with Dr. Tarr and Mr. Fether are too good for this useless oxygen sink. (Apologies to other useless oxygen sinks for the insult of associating you with this worthless bag of puss..)
One More Corrupt Politician Bites the Dust
There is something fundamentally sad about a man who goes to his grave apparently unrepentant of his sins. And that is the only sad thing about the death of John Murtha. As far as his place in the Congress: good riddance to bad rubbish. As far as one more soul (in all liklihood, from the evidence of his life) self-consigned to hell: at least he will be in familiar company. Say hello to Teddy, John.
Oh. Is there some rule about speaking ill of the dead? Well, I don’t see any sense in speaking of the dead other than as I have spoken of them in life. Seems rather hypocritical to me. I’ll not dance (or do other, less savory things) on his grave, and I do regret the apparent fact that he died an unrepentant sinner, but the loss of one more corrupt politician is in some senses a reason for rejoicing.
“Common Sense? We Don’t Need No Steenkeeng Common Sense!“
In the face of such stupidly ironic statements from The Ø! as,
“When times are tough, you tighten your belts. You don’t go buying a boat when you can barely pay your mortgage. You don’t blow a bunch of cash on Vegas when you’re trying to save for college.”
That from the idiot who apparently thinks spending money the country DOES NOT HAVE on wasteful, useless, pork to buy votes for his agenda is the way to deal with a national economic crisis. Cue Bugs Bunny:
[audio:What-a-maroon.mp3]“We live in an era in which… government of the government, by the government, and for the government apparently can never vanish from the Earth, but instead will continue to grow…
…Meanwhile, appeals to common sense are futile: we all know the common sense solutions to many problems, but the government of the government by the government and for the government isn’t about to allow that.”–Jerry Pournelle
A common sense approach to dealing with an economic crisis engineered by “feddle gummint” meddling is really quite simple. Not painless, but simple.
“Feddle gummint”: stop spending money we do not have.
Getcher stinking hands off my money! Effect the FairTax and operate the “feddle gummint” on whatever it brings in. Period.
“Feddle gummint”: stop spending money we do not have. That WILL mean fewer “feddle gummint” workers and pork programs and meddling in the personal lives of citizens, which, of course, means less power for Beltway self-anointed elites. Oh, boo-hoo.
Of course, absent some serial counseling sessions with Dr. Tarr and Mr. Fether, I doubt the Beltway Bandits will release their deadly grip on the throat of the U.S.
But miracles happen.
Due to an amazingly uninformed assertion made in comments, I’m adding one lil video that packs enough references to enable ANYONE who wants to do their own homework to fact check it, even glean more information by ignoring the Mass MEdia Podpeople Hivemind propaganda and simply doing a little research:
Quite contrary to the myth propagated by the Hivemind, politicians *spit* and anyone with a commie/socialist/class warfare axe to grind, typified by comments such as this,
I think we can sum up the cause of our current economic crisis in one word — GREED. Over the years, mortgage lenders were happy to lend money to people who couldn’t afford their mortgages.
The Federal government required financial institutions to make sub-prime loans to people who could not afford to pay them back. Outright lies such as the one I quoted above (and no, I will not link to that lying site. Google it if you want) are the core of the meme The Ø!’s administration and co-conspirators are flacking.
But it is a lie. Sure there was greed. Largely on the part of those who sought the loans they could not afford to pay back and on the part of politicians whose “careers” were boosted thereby.
On the Passing Scene…
I think readers here will be unsurprised by the fact that I am disquieted (rather, “pissed off”) by the “feddle gummint’s” ever more intrusive (and indeed, iniquitous) meddling in local and even personal, private affairs. As some recent readers may also be aware, I’ve discovered the Martin Marprelate Letters and begun repairing that woeful lack in my education by reading them. So, it will surprise no one, I trust, that I here combine, in one brief snippet from , the two:
“This is a pretty matter that standers by must be so busy in other men’s games. Why, sauceboxes, must you be prattling?”
If that doesn’t sum up the gaggle of congresscritters, feddle gummint bureaucraps and black-robed statists as succinctly as possible, then I’d like to see a more succinct and telling comment.
Bring ’em on!
Are You In?
I found this in my email inbox. It has some holes and gaps and faces an even steeper uphill battle than The FairTax bill, but it has a certain rough appeal, doesn’t it?
We need THIS Change
*It will never be accomplished unless we do something about it now, not later! The only way that congress would ever vote for such a bill is for Americans to demand it to the point that our elected officials feel they have no choice. That means many Americans, which includes you, must push to get a bill written and persuade a majority to vote for it. Therefore, this must be distributed to every American who has a PC, every American! Will you help or are you just blowing smoke when you get upset with congress when they play partisan politics? Lets help bring about a Change in Washington that is more than just spoken words, a Change that Americans will be proud of, a Change that will benefit future generations. If something is not done our Children and grandchildren may not have a country like we had to grow up in. Can Americans depend on you to to distribute this and support it or will you make excuses as to why it will not work? I’m in; what about you?
*This is the best thing I have ever read pertaining to Government. It doesn’t matter what political party you like.. This is what’s best for EVERY AMERICAN!*
*Congressional Reform Act of 2010**
*1. Term Limits: 12 years only, one of the possible options below.*
*A. Two Six year Senate terms*
*B. Six Two year House terms*
*C. One Six year Senate term and three Two Year
House terms**Serving in Congress is an honor, not a career. The Founding Fathers envisioned citizen legislators; serve your term(s), then go home and back to work.
*2. No Tenure / No Pension: **
* A congressman collects a salary while in office
and receives no pay when they are out of office.**Serving in Congress is an honor, not a career. The Founding Fathers envisioned citizen legislators; serve your term(s), then go home and back to work.
*3. Congress (past, present & future) participates in Social Security:**
* All funds in the Congressional retirement fund
moves to the Social Security system immediately.
All future funds flow into the Social Security
system, Congress participates with the American
people.**Serving in Congress is an honor, not a career. The Founding Fathers envisioned citizen legislators; serve your term(s), then go home and back to work.
*4. Congress can purchase their own retirement plan just as all Americans*.
Serving in Congress is an honor, not a career. The Founding Fathers envisioned citizen legislators; serve your term(s), then go home and back to work.
*5. Congress will no longer vote themselves a pay raise. Congressional pay will rise by the lower of CPI or 3%.*
Serving in Congress is an honor, not a career. The Founding Fathers envisioned citizen legislators; serve your term(s), then go home and back to work.
*6. Congress looses their current health care system and participates in the same health care system as the American people.**
Serving in Congress is an honor, not a career. The Founding Fathers envisioned citizen legislators; serve your term(s), then go home and back to work.
*7. Congress must equally abide in all laws they impose on the American people.*
Serving in Congress is an honor, not a career. The Founding Fathers envisioned citizen legislators; serve your term(s), then go home and back to work.
*8. All contracts with past and present congressmen are void effective 1/1/11. *
* The American people did not make this contract
with congressmen, congressmen made all these
contracts for themselves.**Serving in Congress is an honor, not a career. The Founding Fathers envisioned citizen legislators; serve your term(s), then go home and back to work.
If you agree with the above, pass it on. If not, just delete.
N.B. While I deleted some multiple “???” and “!!!” and redacted a few comma splices, the above is essentially as I received it in my email inbox.
Congresscritters’ Motto?
Just a passing thought, demonstrating that even on this Fourth Day of Christmas, I cannot entirely abandon cogitations on the passing scene…
I believe I have discovered (with apologies to Mary Brown for the redactions) THE motto that could have been the inspiration for the political careers of most of our “belovéd” *spit* congresscritters:
“Better a champion turd-tosser than a forty-second-rate turnip-carver.”
Yep, I do believe the realization of that truth may have inspired more congressional careers than any other revelation, for our “belovéd” *spit* congresscritters are all striving to become champion turd-tossers and shit-shovelers and have almost all achieved amazing heights in their pursuits of this goal, lading prodigious amounts of fecal matter on citizens’ heads…
“You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.”
Which of the following definitions of “voluntary” applies to Harry Reid’s use of the term in the video below?
[audio:http://www.thirdworldcounty.us/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/thatword-f.mp3]voluntary
3 entries found.
1voluntary (adjective)
2voluntary (noun)
voluntary muscle (noun)Main Entry: 1vol·un·tary
Pronunciation: \?vä-l?n-?ter-?\
Function: adjective
Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French voluntarie, from Latin voluntarius, from voluntas will, from velle to will, wish — more at will
Date: 14th century1 : proceeding from the will or from one’s own choice or consent
2 : unconstrained by interference : self-determining
3 : done by design or intention : intentional [voluntary manslaughter]
4 : of, relating to, subject to, or regulated by the will [voluntary; voluntary behavior]
5 : having power of free choice
6 : provided or supported by voluntary action [a voluntary organization]
7 : acting or done of one’s own free will without valuable consideration or legal obligation— vol·un·tar·i·ly adverb
— vol·un·tar·i·ness noun
synonyms voluntary, intentional, deliberate, willing mean done or brought about of one’s own will. voluntary implies freedom and spontaneity of choice or action without external compulsion . intentional stresses an awareness of an end to be achieved
. deliberate implies full consciousness of the nature of one’s act and its consequences . willing implies a readiness and eagerness to accede to or anticipate the wishes of another .1
Exactly. None of those definitions in any way, shape, fashion or form reflects the system of income taxation that Harry Reid describes as “voluntary”. The system of income taxation that Harry Reid, Bag of Pus, NV, describes as “voluntary” has exactly NO correspondence to any meaning of the word. None. Zip. Zilch. A big zero with the rim kicked off.
I wonder if he’d testify that paying income tax is voluntary if he were subpoenaed to do so in a tax court. *heh* (For all the good it’d do. Past IRS commissioners have also called our system of income taxation voluntary, but that hasn’t stopped the IRS from forcibly seizing property and placing citizens in durance vile for opting out. Fumduck liars. )