…Still smells like technocratic tyranny. I’ve been more direct lately about my concerns that the GOP establishment is making an intentional effort to redefine conservatism as a vibrant, ideas-driven statist centrism — while relegating actual conservatism / classical liberalism to a kind of fringe status, where bitterclingers clutch to the security blanket of outdated principles and comforting, ideological purity, stubborn in their quaint belief that government can’t really ever be
June 22, 2012
“Forcing us to use a product that doesn’t exist, they might as well tell us to use unicorns” [Darleen Click]
Look, you racist capitalists, out to rapey-rape Gaia with your fevered fossil fuel addiction. You’ll do as the EPA commands you or pay fines. We don’t give a fucking farthing for your lames excuse that the fuel doesn’t exist … Federal regulations can be maddening, but none more so than a current one that demands oil refiners use millions of gallons of a substance, cellulosic ethanol, that does not exist.
June 21, 2012
Jay Carney: The White House has been very cooperative about Fast & Furious and has nothing but sympathy for the family of dead agent what’s his name [Darleen Click]
Over eighteen months of investigation and we are subject to this: Meanwhile, someone needs to 5150 San Fran Nan and take some blood samples
June 21, 2012
Not really without comment because of the juxtapositions and all [bh]
The origins of Fifty Shades of Grey. An unexpected plea. A fun song from 1985.
June 21, 2012
$9 Billion in ‘Stimulus’ for Solar, Wind Projects Made 910 Final Jobs — $9.8 Million Per Job
CNSNews: The Obama administration distributed $9 billion in economic “stimulus” funds to solar and wind projects in 2009-11 that created, as the end result, 910 “direct” jobs — annual operation and maintenance positions — meaning that it cost about $9.8 million to establish each of those long-term jobs. At the same time, those green energy projects also created, in the end, about 4,600 “indirect” jobs – positions indirectly supported by
June 21, 2012
“BREAKING: Texas bank launches constitutional challenge to Dodd-Frank financial reform law”
Homophobes. At any rate, God Bless Texas. Except for Austin. Naturally.
June 21, 2012
“Senate defeats bill to drop new rules on coal emissions”
Coal in America is now all but dead. Which means Obama will have kept his promise that the cost of electricity will necessarily skyrocket — and it will do so in an economy already stagnant. So growth in America — and the potential for a private sector recovery — is also now all but dead. But all that was to be expected: after all, Obama told us he was going
June 21, 2012
Universities are Left-wing seminaries … [Darleen Click]
Just as the agenda of traditional Christian and Jewish seminaries is to produce religious Christians and religious Jews, the agenda of Western universities is to produce (left-wing) secularists. The difference is that Christian and Jewish seminaries are honest about their agenda, while the universities still claim they have neither secularist nor political agenda. ~~ Dennis Prager Ever the rising tuitions, ever the increasing of useless degrees, from anti-Constitutional speech codes
June 20, 2012
Unraveling [bh]
Pablo: “Boom.” Jeff: “Go back to Mayberry. And tell Aunt Bea she best have my bean pie!” (hat tip to Pablo and Jeff)