17 Replies to “Uh oh.”

1. happyfeet says:

   August 4, 2011 at 11:26 am

   I liked it more better when we had people what kept a handle on this sort of shit with medicare and what have you

2. Spiny Norman says:

   August 4, 2011 at 11:35 am

   What? The Beltway Establishment bent us over and screwed us with a swordfish, again? Imagine my surprise…

   Didn’t Emperor Obamulus already raid Medicare to the tune of half a trillion dollars? It’s bad enough that fewer and fewer doctors are accepting Medicare patients because they get screwed on payment, and now they’re going to cut payments even more?

3. sdferr says:

   August 4, 2011 at 12:05 pm

   This is good (what McCarthy’s doing). Limbaugh has been hitting the right notes on the injustice of Entitlement programs all day today, even taking Sen. Rubio to task for his rhetorical slip-up the other day. Some people will figure this problem out for themselves, but not very many I think, at least not in the details. So driving the argument into the proper questions of right is critical to get where the country needs to go. Mere utilitarianism won’t cut it.

4. Jeff G. says:

   August 4, 2011 at 12:12 pm

   Not to blow my own horn, but when Pablo linked Rubio’s Senate speech, I hit him on the same point: socialism is immoral, and capitalism is indeed more moral than the redistributionist model built on power and theft.

5. happyfeet says:

   August 4, 2011 at 12:15 pm

   socialism took my kodachrome away

6. sdferr says:

   August 4, 2011 at 12:17 pm

   Yes you did in fact. Maybe I’ll mail him a link, with a note that he take notice of Rush’s suggestions too. And include a couple of books to bolster the argument I know he’ll be making in the near future as he modifies his conciliation of his Senatorial brothers and sisters on the other side of the aisle. Hopefully he can provoke a rise out of Sen. Bernie, who’d surely stand up for his own beliefs. Then they can have a colloquy on natural and positive right.

7. happyfeet says:

   August 4, 2011 at 12:36 pm

   a floundering and desperately failshit America turns to the Dutch for leadership in uncertain times

   The bulb still won’t be cost-competitive with CFLs when it is released–it will cost just under $18, compared to $3 for some CFL bulbs (though it will still pay itself off eventually through electricity savings). But Philips will get plenty of promotional help from the DOE; it was the only manufacturer to even attempt to meet the L Prize requirements.

   And now that it has been declared a winner, the DOE and a network of 31 utilities and energy-efficiency organizations will go to work trying to lower the cost of the bulb with everything from national retailer partnerships to product incentives paid directly to consumers. This will, according to the DOE, “drive sales volumes up and prices down far more quickly than would otherwise be possible.”

   me I can’t wait to get some for my double-wide

8. happyfeet says:

   August 4, 2011 at 12:36 pm

   oops

   link

9. bh says:

   August 4, 2011 at 12:38 pm

   Double-wide? That sort of conspicuous consumption is just gonna attract the looters/zombies.

10. bh says:

    August 4, 2011 at 12:41 pm

    And then they’ll be all, “Just look at these fancy Dutch light bulbs!”

11. sdferr says:

    August 4, 2011 at 12:41 pm

    me I can’t wait to get some for my double-wide

    I’m thinking to go study chikee hut construction with the esteemed Miccosukee tribe. I’m thinking they’re going to be in increasing demand.

12. dicentra says:

    August 4, 2011 at 12:43 pm

    socialism is immoral, and capitalism is indeed more moral than the redistributionist model built on power and theft.

    Kevin Williamson made the same point in his Politically Incorrect Guide to Socialism: the ostensibly “moral” system is patently immoral, whereas the organic, amoral system ends up being more moral.

    But selling socialism as moral when it’s really just an enormous power-grab is precisely what Alinsky prescribes in Rules Pertaining to the Ethics of Means and Ends: “10. You do what you can with what you have and clothe it with moral garments.”

    Alinsky posited that all morality was just a pose anyway, so might as well put it in your own tool belt and use it as needed. What a moral imbecile.

13. donald says:

    August 4, 2011 at 1:42 pm

    Always with the swordfish spiny.

    As a small nobody contractor this Obama thing ain’t working out for me. May they’ll let me build like some obamavilles or sumpin. I say sumpin cause I’m a contractor in Georgia.

    Oh, and if anybody saw about the dude that got crushed at the north cargo building in atlanta, all I gotta say is perhaps they could have had a dock equipment professional working on the lift. The best thing would have been to have the professional company that had worked on that thing for years. It only would have cost about an additional $500:00. Just sayin.

14. dicentra says:

    August 4, 2011 at 3:35 pm

    Everyone point and laugh at Glenn Beck for telling people to start stocking up on supplies and precious metals back in 2006.

    Go ahead… do it.

15. bh says:

    August 4, 2011 at 3:42 pm

    I’ll chuckle a little about saying to stock up on supplies back in 2006.

    I was just at the store today. There were canned goods all over the place.

16. bh says:

    August 4, 2011 at 3:47 pm

    Bit cheaper than this, too.

17. newrouter says:

    August 4, 2011 at 4:05 pm

    “me I can’t wait to get some for my double-wide”

    tornado magnet

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