Is it just me, or does anyone else look at Ms Hogan and see the smug, self-satisfied invincibility of bureaucratic entrenchment. Even her glasses offend me.
As a one-time nation of rugged individualists, we used to sneer at the busy bodies and blue noses. Now, college kids form drum circles and occupy capitol buildings to extol the virtues of big government and the nannystate.
My theory is that the socially engineered removal of competition and competitiveness — even at the school level — has turned our kids into largely mediocre spoiled brats, suckled on entitlement and false self-esteem and awash in the easy intellectual out of post-modernist relativism.
Well, that, and a frightening dearth hair bands. Which is never helpful.
(thanks to a fine scotch)
She completely avoids the fundamental difference between persuasion and coercion.
I’ve noticed Leftists do this a lot. They can then talk about government acting as a counterbalance to the “power” of megacorporations.
As I said in the email to Jeff, I found it amusing how thoroughly Paul destroys Hogan but found it sad she had to have this stuff pointed out to her.
The worst thing, though, was the look on her face which said she felt that she were simply dealing with an intellectual inferior. How can she explain the brilliance of the progressive technocrats to those simply too far below the intellectual food chain. What was going through her mind was THIS why we have to make decisions for them.
I mean, if what you want it light – they’ll give you light.
Bravo to Rand for tearing a new hole in that mousey looking lady. But go back to your office Rand and tell your two staffers that they will always be on video, and if they feel they have to discuss where they’re going tonight to play flippy-cup, and text the rest of the gang about it, leave the damn room.
Fuck those glasses and the shit behind them.
The contrast in delivery is glorious.
“Why, oh why, won’t the little people just do as they’re told?”
That sums it up pretty darn succinctly. Pretty astute for a guy who listened to hair bands :)
I would have liked to hear that last guy tell us how the 10th amendment justifies the EPA, an unelected body, to make law regarding environmental(which, of course, is everything) practices.
The way they think, if the latest theory is that the steam from your morning coffee is bad for the environment, the EPA can regulate coffee. They have given themselves the power to control every aspect of our lives, like so many ants in a sand filled box.
I mean, how can that be compatible with limited government, enumerated powers, and the individual right for the pursuit of happiness?
LBascom,
This has long been my beef with a lot of government agencies.
If I remember my Constitution, laws are supposed to be written by Congress. Agencies can be used to enforce laws as written by Congress.
However, when agencies start writing regulations which are then enforced as law, said agency is usurping a power reserved exclusively to the legislative branch of government.
But I’m just a crazy original intent sort of guy.
By the way, Senator Paul did engage in a righteous ass chewing.
This is probably one of the straws that may break the camel’s back. All these alternatives to things that work have produced the results that weren’t anticipated by the utopists in Congress: Dishwashers don’t work anymore because they removed the phosphates from detergents. Low flow toilets have caused sewage to pile up in sewers because of the lack of water to sufficiently push it through. Light bulbs that cost an arm and a leg that take forever to ‘warm up’ and when they break they poison us. And now I read of wind turbines that cause pain due to the low decibel throb that permeates the walls of the houses where these wind farms are built.
One suggestion I have is to gather your mercury light bulbs, put them in a gallon sized ziplock bag and smash them to bits and mail them to congress and the white house. I’m even for fishing out your feces that won’t flush and mail that to the bastards, too.
“I’m even for fishing out your feces that won’t flush and mail that to the bastards, too.”
Umm, I already have something to do, otherwise I’d get right on that.
“I’m even for fishing out your feces that won’t flush and mail that to the bastards, too.”
Be sure to pick it up by the clean end.
Which end is the clean end of a progressive? Is there one?
Don’t forget to polish that turd before you send it in. If there’s any organization that knows turd polishing, it’s Congress. So, be sure to do a good job.
I’m pretty sure Hogan is an alias for Professor Delores Umbridge… who’s well overdue to be run over by centaurs…
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No
Those are not naughty librarian glasses. Those are screeching intellectual hag glasses plastered on a supercilious bitch.
Only the most foul and blind darwinian impulses would draw any one into that bait of gene pool destructiveness
the efinn proggs lie. time for civil war
“Though no significant release of radioactive material had taken place, the earthquake, which forced the automatic shutdown of 11 of the country’s 55 nuclear power plants, is certain to rattle confidence in nuclear power in Japan, where people have long been sensitized to the dangers of radioactive releases, and in the United States, where foes of nuclear power were already pointing to the Japan crisis as a warning sign. ”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/03/11/AR2011031103673.html
fuck these a’holess when they lie. they got their fucking rev going on now.
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