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another extremist chimes in:
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That sounds like my wife’s accounting when I ask her to curtail her spending.
Albeit my wife’s excessive spending is far far far less in proportion to the money coming in.
This is fun.
http://www.mike2012.com/
What do you think? Looks good eh?
Mike’s Promise
Washington needs to be transformed. It needs a reawakening of timeless American principles that brought us prosperity, success and freedom from sea to shining sea. I’m running for the United States Senate to restore those principles in Washington and to put forth a positive vision of a Constitutionally-minded government that allows the American Spirit to flourish.
I promise to stay true to the ideals and principles of our Founding Fathers in this campaign. I promise to be a spokesman for a Constitutional, conservative vision of our great nation. And I promise to speak out for ideas that can revitalize our economy by empowering individuals, not governments, and by preserving opportunity for families and innovators, and not power for bureaucrats and politicians. If that is the vision and promise of America you believe in, I would be honored to have your support in this campaign.
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http://reason.com/archives/2011/04/13/licensed-to-ill
Thankfully, Florida lawmakers are finally starting to get serious about fixing their 17-year-old mistake. Last month, legislators in the state’s House of Representatives introduced a bill that would remove the licensing requirements for 20 occupations, including hair braiders, auctioneers, ballroom dance studio operators, and interior designers. Republican Gov. Rick Scott has thrown his support behind the measure, as has a coalition of small-business groups.
But the Florida Senate is a different story. In comments last week, Senate President Mike Haridopolos (R-Merritt Island) expressed major reservations about the bill, telling the Palm Beach Post, “We’re not libertarians. We’re Republicans. And we recognize the role for government.”
But they’re good men.
Not shameless scheming calculated liars or anything.
You deserve one for certain, but I wouldn’t hold my breath. I get the feeling that the big timers are scared they suffer a terrible fall climbing down off their high horses. :)
$385 million you say, with an M?
Woops.
I’m sure it was a clerical error. Why would our representatives lie to us?
In a few months it’ll be as if every realist was an extremist since day one, newrouter. Even Jen Rubin. And Karl Rove. And Mike Huckabee.
Don’t forget nouveau-extremist Lindsay Graham.
He’s really getting the message. He’s threatening to shut the senate down and tie up all senate business… unless he gets $50,000 in pork.
“There is nothing that I will not do to right this wrong,” Graham said. “I talked to the vice president. I made it clear to him that none of their nominees are going forward, that the squeaky wheel seems to get the oil. Well, nobody’s going forward in the Senate until we address this.”
My heavens! Now there’s fire in the belly!
if i be boner i be dismantling the executive branch right now. energy, education,agriculture, epa et al. then we kill grandma.
Wow. Half a million in savings for every seat that changed and went R in the last election, the largest and most determined landslide in nearly a century.
Half a million. We’re being had and we’re being had to our faces.
This is rather hard to take without the soothing balm of more kitty pictures.
Kitteh, bh, kitteh. It’s like the difference between $38.5 Billion and $353 Million; subtle and slight, I know.
It’s an old Marx Brothers routine.
This cut will eventually wind up costing us something.
Paul Ryan on Levin just now: IPAB, the Obama appointed advisory board who will decide unilaterally how Medicaid and Medicare reimburse providers, is essentially a method of price controls that circumvents Congress.
There.
Keep the apologies coming, folks. And alex_walter? Blow me.
Well, at least there is still a lucrative career to be had in porn. The only question is how to get the Chinese to buy it.
Krauthammer on The One’s speech on Fox this afternoon – “mendacious”, “demagogic”, “duplicitous”. The word you are looking for is LIE, Charles. The average low information voter who will decide our next election couldn’t define mendacious if you hit him in the head with a gerrymander.
But I bet if you write somebody in Congress, they’ll listen.
PS: Why isn’t this on Drudge? It needs to be viral.
IPAD = death panels
Paul Ryan on Levin just now: IPAD, the Obama appointed advisory board who will decide unilaterally how Medicaid and Medicare reimburse providers, is essentially a method of price controls that circumvents Congress.
Well healthcare, yeah. We all knew all this and more (death panels) would be part and parcel of Bambicare.
But, you got me. They’re implementing fucking price controls now.
The average low information voter who will decide our next election couldn’t define mendacious if you hit him in the head with a gerrymander.
Or if you stuffed him into an account and made him sit there in it.
I’m giving some thought to Hong Kong. Go East, young man. Go East.
more outrage from a flaming skull extremist:
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Down to one option.
It’s IPAB not IPAD and here I thought they had done something internet smart and made a non-googleable panel name.
Change, the usual kind.
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I have never been this disappointed in an orange man before.
Go East, young man. Go East.
Why the hell are you going the long way?
Oh, right right.
To piss on europe as you fly over. My bad.
“In a few hours
monthsit’ll be as if every realist was an extremist since day one, ”link
Left’s angst grows over Obama’s shift
By Mike Lillis – 04/13/11 06:00 AM ET
Anxiety over President Obama’s shift to the political center is threatening to alienate the White House’s liberal base.
As Obama prepares Wednesday to outline his deficit reduction strategy, liberals worry he’ll embrace Medicare and Medicaid cuts as an olive branch to Republicans in advance of larger fights over the nation’s debt.
The JournoListers at The Hill sure do like to swallow.
Conservative Husband: “We’re going to be bankrupt in three days if you don’t stop spending so damn much money!”
Proggy Wife: “But the 250,000 ink cartridges for our printer were 10% off! I saved us, like, $4 million!”
Well, now we know what the fight will be about. There just ain’t enough for the press and the GOP poodles.
go get ’em abe
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So now Krauthammer has decided to call Obama out on his rhetoric? Fuck him with a swordfish.
It is all theater. None of the beltway brigade is a single iota serious about any of it. Every last one of them is simply playing to the camera, striving to get their good side into the best lighting.
None of this will end well. These assholes think they’ll be long gone before the shit hits the fan? Maybe. But when it everything comes crashing down they all won’t be able to afford a private security force and army of lawyers. When the system collapses it collapses, you don’t get to pick which niceties (e.g. prohibitions on bills of attainder, or ex post facto laws) remain. It ALL ends.
There will be consequences. Even if it means nothing more than your bones get dug up and used to feed the dogs.
I may still be talking, but I’m really stocking up on ammo.
Seriously.
next up on greta: john mccain . sinking ships or sumthing.
this 2010 election was a fun set up no? WE WOne. or wee wee!!11!!
How about the republicans propose an automatic trigger to cut 10% across the board if the government falls into a deficit status?
And another that reduces Obama’s term in office by a month every time he goes golfing or on vacation.
Hey, what do you know, the NRO folks have joined the ranks of the extremists. Why don’t you guys go get us some coffee?
So we’ll have the deficit paid off by the year 2525?
Oh, right right.
To piss on europe as you fly over. My bad.
Any chance we could have 2 minutes brolly warning?
Republicans are getting hunger-striked for having cut $
38 billion352 million, but Obama is getting lauded for “cutting” $14 trillion over 10 years.For the math-impaired, that’s 1,400 billion per year. We’re going to see many threes of people keel over from starvation, I predict.
Maybe I should have said it’s $1,400,000 million per year, just as a point of comparison. Some people are having trouble with the million/billion conversion.
Slartibartfast – I thought Obumblefuck was bragging about “cutting” 4T over 12 years.
I’ve been told that several “reasonable” “conservatives” have been so intimidated by somebody’s perspicacity that they’ve sent several cease-and-desist letters demanding that he stop shooting great gaping holes in their arguments.
STOP THE VIOLENCE!
Speaking of violence, I got a bit of a talking-to yesterday for participating in a “frank exchange of views” with a cow-orker during a company potluck luncheon (a little slice of Purgatory in itself). The conversation had turned, as conversations always seem to turn, to the subject of the GOP takeover of the state legislature, and the impending state shutdown if the governor doesn’t accept their budget.
For those of you who don’t know (and couldn’t guess), Minnesota is about $5 billion in the red, and the GOP want to close the gap through spending cuts, while the Governor thinks we should just soak the rich.
My cow-orker started in on the standard MPR refrain: “Oh! The old people! The poor! The sick! The children!” Most in our little circle nodded, but I lost patience with the whole class-warfare thing long ago, so I asked “Charity ain’t charity when you’re forcing somebody else to pay for it. What gives you the right to decide how much people are allowed to earn? What gives you the right to tell somebody that because they’re ‘too good’ at what they do, they have to give up the fruits of their labor? Why can’t you help the poor your own damn self?”
There was a bit of shocked silence, and then some back-and-forth, whereupon a few of the nodders were unmasked as being fairly sympathetic to my argument. It culminated in my asking “How many hours a week am I obligated to work for your family? How many hours for your parents’ nursing home? How many hours for your kids’ college? How many hours for your doctor’s visits? When I roll out of bed on Monday morning, it’s with the knowledge that I won’t earn a goddamn penny for my work all day. Do you know how that feels? You want to extend that to Tuesday, as well? Wednesday? How ’bout I support you all week long, and then I can pick up a second job on nights and weekends for under-the-table money that I’m actually allowed to use for food and mortgage payments for myself? How much is enough? Name a figure — how many hours? How many dollars?”
At this point, I realized that I’d kinda lost it, and that pretty much everyone was staring at me. Like a good and proper (read: passive-aggressive) Minnesotan, my interlocutor shrank down to nothingness, meekly excused herself, and promptly reported me to HR. I’m fortunate in that my Director and VP are sympathetic both to my views and my temperament, but I can’t help feeling that maybe it’s time I updated my resume. In the meantime, I’m trying to be all sunshine and unicorn farts today.
You should go around asking people where they’re coming up a little short because you’re in the mood to write a check to Uncle Sam, and you need to know how much to write it for.
Do you have any idea what that means? Because with all his talk of spending in the fucking tax code, I haven’t got a clue, though I suspect it’s the opposite of what you might think it is.
The moral of your story, Squid, is that she reported you to HR.
For…what? Not agreeing with her? Not at least having the decency to pretend to?
You can’t have Penis-Americans running around stomping fluffy bunny thoughts, Jeff. CIVILITY!!!
For…what? Not agreeing with her?
In her defense, I did lose my cool a bit, and my speech probably crossed the line into “uncivil” territory. In my defense, I wouldn’t have lost my cool if she hadn’t advocated for my enslavement like it was no big deal.
For what it’s worth, HR in my company is a joke, I’m well-insulated by two solid allies (and friends) up the chain of command, and my ‘stern talking-to’ marks the end of it. The resume-polishing is largely because I tire of working on projects that more and more have no purpose apart from helping my clients soak ever-increasing amounts of money from their taxpayers/ratepayers (“revenue diversification”), and currently two of my major projects are for the city in which I live, which means I’m working hard to enable my city to fuck me over more effectively than they already do. It may be time for a change. I’m so fortunate that the President and the Governor have done so much to revive the economy and improve my job prospects!
Be careful Squid, unexpectedly there are 4.3 people out there looking for every job.
Not at least having the decency to pretend to? I can’t tell you how happy I am to be out of academics; I know this happens elsewhere but years of not letting the mask slip and silently taking the bullshit really take a toll.
I never wore the mask. That’s one of the reasons I’m out of academics — though to be fair it was my choice. Still, I’m sure I’d have been mired in departmental disciplinary committee complaints, etc., by now, so it’s for the best.
The academy rewards mediocrity and group think. Like much of what the left takes over, it is now the polar opposite of what it was intended to be. In the postmodern turn, everything is irony.
Squid, I love your rant.
I’m gonna pass it around, if you don’t mind.
[…] regarding fairness and balance and paying your fair share … Squid, over in comments at Protein Wisdom: “How many hours a week am I obligated to work for your family? How many hours for your […]
I’m gonna pass it around, if you don’t mind.
Knock yourself out. I’d be tickled pink if every office had an OUTLAW willing and able to tell the truth. How many times over the past ten years have Jeff & Co said that we need to remove the scales from the eyes of our peers? The sleeper must awaken!
(Just leave out the part about my eyes bugging out and my big bald head turning bright pink, if you please.)