Day: September 28, 2005

Via Michelle Malkin, comes this lil bit on New Orleans conflicts. Heh, New Orleans: the entertainment capitol of government incompetents.

NOLA Mayor Ray Nagin and police superintendent Eddie Compass compounded the monumental idiocy of Governor during Katrina and prove that they are the gift that keeps on giving. After a press conference where Compass belatedly hung up his spurs, Nagin refused to answer questions, instead blowing off even email queries with

“No comment,” Nagin wrote. “The chief asks everyone to respect his privacy. He requested the press conference be held the way it was handled. He is a good man. Don’t mess with him!”

Good man.  Lousy police superintendent.  Gee, since he was taking money for a job he was incompetent to do (and thus did not do), he is a thief. That doesn’t fit with the average joe’s definition of a “good man,” but then Nagin’s a politician, and a NOLA politician at that. Taking the bucks for NOT doing the job just seems to be standard practice there.

Beldarblog is written by a Houston area lawyer who mostly fizzled out for a while after the 2004 election, but has come back with some great stuff in recent months. This lil snippet, written in the wake of Rita, is priceless:

I’d a whole lot rather listen to the second assistant deputy chief fire marshall for Hedwig Village at a Hurricane Rita press conference than to any CongressCritter of either party.
The CongressCritters ought to have to wear placards around their necks — or maybe better yet, those sashes, like beauty pageant contestants wear — labeled with phrases like:

• “Useless Panderer”
• “Only Here for the Graft”
• “Harbors Delusions of Relevance” or
• “Do You KNOW Who I Am? (And why should care right now?)”

Sounds about right to me.  How about adding,

• “I couldn’t think of anything useful to do with my life, so I became a congresscritter”
• “Pork, pork, pork, pork, porkety-pork, porkety-pork!”

Note: added the link to the Spam Song, cos, well, it’s sooooo appropriate.

Victory with a BIG ole “V”

Those of y’all who read this blog regularly have figured out by now that

• I am no fan of the Iraq War
• I believe we can win there and that we have a moral imperative to win.

Seem like contradictory stances? They aren’t.  As I have said before, were I in our leaders’ shoes, I’d have adjudged Iraq to have been the wrong place and time for another armed conflict, even though I know from the facts on hand now (as well as when Jean Fraud sKerry voted to send the troops, then voted not to fund them) that there was much more than adequate cassus belli for the war.

And I’d have shot Bremmer before sending him in after the major push was over.  What an idiot—and I say that based on his record.

I’d have spent the $300,000,000,000 and counting on things I consider to be more profitable for our security, even given the fact that I openly applaud the great things already accomplished in this ME adventure and recognize that when the terrorists have to resort to shanghai-ing unwilling victims to be human bombs, we are bleeding the terrorists dry over there, rather than having them go all splodydope on us here.

Regardless of how we got there, or what missteps have been made along the way, whatever has been accomplished so far will have been blood and treasure poured down a sinkhole if we leave before the job is done.  And leaving without Victory will do more than anything else to encourage more 9/11 behavior from Islamic fascist savages.

In terms even a barking moonbat ought to be able to understand (but will refuse to understand), one shoots rabid dogs.  One does not back away (or run away) after offering them a cookie.

And that’s why one of the very few (4) graphics at the head of my blog is linked to this post:

Modded after a note from NAP urging me to go ahead and use her code (even though I modded it here and in my head–no, my blog head, sillies. *sigh* Readers. Gotta love ’em. 🙂

No, really: get this book!

The FairTax Book

I have blogged elsewhere a couple of times ( _1_, _2_) about this book and the bill now in Congress that it details. I’ve also posted sporadically on the issue of taxation.

This book, and the bill it explains, answers almost all the issues I have with the taxation situation in the U.S.

The FairTax is NOT the “Flat Tax”. It is designed to replace all the federal payroll/income taxes you now pay (including Social Security and Medicare). More fairly. More efficiently. More helpfully—for individuals and the country as a whole.

And still fully fund all current federal government agencies and programs.

Check out the Fairtax.org website for some advance info while you’re waiting on your copy to get to you from Amazon.com. 🙂 And after you read your copy, consider signing up for one of the Fairtax mailing lists. The one for my home state has been a big encouragement to me, and a source of more information about how others are dealing with their congresscritters on this issue.

It’s time for taxes to be fair.

FairTax.

Crossposted at Cathouse Chat