Day: May 21, 2005

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Thank you, Dan

…for introducing me to The Nose on Your Face
 
Subtitle: “News so fake you’ll swear it came from the mainstream media.”
 
heh
 
“ACLU Files Bear Class Action Lawsuit” was the post Dan Riehl of Riehl World View —look in my blogroll under, umm, Riehl World View. heh— chose to link to that introduced me to “Buckley F. Williams” (and a better blog nome de plume for The Nose on Your Face I wouldn’t want to be tasked with imagining).
 
There’s even a commenter to the post who references Gordon Dickson’s The Right to Arm Bears.
 
 
Cool.
 
Other posts at The Nose on Your Face that, umm, bear reading: 
 
New Strain Of “Shapeshifting Grackles” Discovered
New “Drunk Pill” On The Horizon
Newsweek Article Spurs Wave Of “Islamo-rappers”
Newsweek Editor Apologizes, Magazine To Begin Inquiry
 
Oh, just get on over there and start reading. I gotta kick myself that I took so long finding this stuff…
 
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Two thoughts converge

..but not in a snowy woods
 
This article, “Rednecks: the Virtues Thereof” by Fred Reed, and this post “Make room for daddy — he’s packing heat!” by Jay Tea at Whizbang! converged in my reading today…  In the first, Fred offers such nuggets as
 
“If some upscale flowerbed like Fairfax County outside DC ever had to deal with hard times, it would the best show since Aunt Sally sat on that ant nest. It isn’t just that they can’t do anything. They can’t even think about doing anything. I mean, suppose that after the asteroid hit the cops had other things to do, like look after their families, and a larcenous parasitic lawyer encountered some Diversity with a knife in its hand and an itch for his television or daughters, what would he do? Get extra therapy? Hit him with a rubber stamp? Say, “Can’t we talk about this?”
 
Now, in the country, people had a slightly less lenient attitude toward having their homes invaded. Nobody ever shot anybody, much anyway. People didn’t think it was civilized. They did have dogs and shotguns and rifles. Further, they had the backbone to use them if the need arose. Which is why it didn’t.”
 
(Click the link, there’s a LOT more where that came from!)
 
Such thinking provides illuminating wisdom to a question asked by Jay Tea concerning a father, who had gone to pick up his 17-year-old twin girls from a frat party where alchohol was flowing freely, who, when confronted by a bunch of drunk fratboys, showed them he was armed in order to back them down:
 
“It’s understandable, then, that such a father would be considerably upset when he arrived to pick up his girls. And that he’d be a bit fierce when he’s surrounded by drunken fratboys who don’t want to see the girls leave just yet.
 
But does that necessarily justify pulling a gun on the fratboys?”
 
Well, read Fred’s article for the answer… it’s in there, not very well hidden between the lines.
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Watch it: it’s that damned global warming, again!

Yeh, you can bet the moonbats’ll be all over this
 
Sea levels not rising fast enough for enviro-loons.
 

“Increased snowfall over a large area of Antarctica is thickening the ice sheet and slowing the rise in sea level caused by melting ice.”–Nature.com, May 19, 2005

Yep.  But, the ice caps are melting at an alarming rates, according to moonbat enviro-loon religious doctrine.
 
Oh, and this just in.  Chicken Little says many are reporting that the sky is falling.  Filmateleven.
 
(Cluebat: the Great Divorce of the 21st century is not a left/right divide but a clear demarcation between the Fantasists and the Empiricists. Note: I did not include a link to the Empiricists, because they aren’t an organized group like the Fantasists.)
 
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A Big Lie: Eight chilling words

“I’m from the government. I’m here to help.”
 
“In Missouri, user fees paid by motorists generally are supposed to go to fix roads. Those fees include the 17 cents-per-gallon gas tax, state sales and use taxes on vehicles, and licensing fees. Last year, motorists in Missouri paid nearly $1.2 billion.”—Kansas City Star, August 24. 2003
Right.  And the same article revealed that more than $192,000,000 went for… other things.  It’s the principle whereby congresscritters have raided Social Security taxes (when they are forced, they are NOT “contributions”) for years: what they can steal for other things, they will. After all, why not? It’s not their money, anyway.
 
Similarly, when monies from taxes earmarked for public education rose, they were raided by state legiscritters, so that funding for education was in danger of being “cut.” Right.
 
It just doesn’t matter folks.  Once the leeches in any government further from you than the reach of your arm get ahold of your money, they’ll do any darn thing they can get away with to buy political favors, knowing that most people simply will NOT hold them accountable… especially if they can steal someone else’s money and bring home the pork.
 
Face it: Any—any—government more remote than your county seat is corrupt…  well, at least more corrupt than your county government.
 
(Happy place. Must go to my happy place… )
 
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Holey moley, indeed!

Well, maybe this will get the attention of those troglodytes over at NASA
 
heh
 
I’m no fan of the “Kill space exploration” efforts by entrenched bureaucrats over at NASA, but this seems a little much. From Overlawyered via a tip from a commenter on Jerry Pournelle’s Chaos Manor in Perspective‘s Current Mail page, yesterday:
 
Russian court: astrologer can sue NASA
 
“A Russian court has ruled that an astrologer can sue NASA over plans to bombard a comet whose destruction would ‘disrupt the natural balance of the universe’.” Reversing a lower court, the panel ruled that it was appropriate for Russia to take jurisdiction over Marina Bai’s lawsuit, which demands $310 million…
[More at the link.]
 
I mean, OK, NASA, as it currently functions is a dinosaur that ought to be put out of our misery (heh), but this is just a wee tad much, don’t you think?
 
I guess it just goes to show ya that the good old U.S. of A. has no corner on the market of stupid lawsuits.
 
See more of this kind of thing at Overlawyered.  There’s enough overlawyering noted there to bring on one of Kim du Toit‘s (shameless plug for one of my fav blogs 🙂 patented RCOB (Red Curtain of Blood) moments… read only if your blood pressure meds are working well.  🙂
 
LIL UPDATE: Whizbang!’s generous Carnival of the Trackbacks (now in edition #XII) will have this story listed in the links.