scream-of-consciousness;
"If you're trying to change minds and influence people it's probably not a good idea to say that virtually all elected Democrats are liars, but what the hell."
Vicky was at a business
conference. During a break, she decided to call home collect. Her
six-year-old son picked up the phone and heard a stranger’s voice say,
“We have Vicky on the line. Will you accept the charges?” Frantic, the
six-year-old dropped the receiver and came charging outside screaming,
“Dad! They have Mom! And they want money!”
"If the number of Islamic terror attacks continues at the current rate, candlelight vigils will soon be the number-one cause of global warming. " Argus Hamilton
In less than
three years, the Tea Party has gone from being ignored to being an
amusing joke to being a convenient scapegoat for all of America's ills.
What's next?
TheDC's John Rossomando reports: "Tea party activist David Lewis's
announcement Friday that he plans to mount a primary challenge to House
Speaker John Boehner could indicate a larger problem for the GOP
leadership, and point to restlessness among an important segment of the
tea party faithful. Republican leaders face a growing perception among
some tea party factions that they are not interested in holding the
Obama administration's feet to the fire on spending. Some say the
Republicans talked a good game going into the 2010 midterms but have
failed to deliver since winning control of the House of Representatives.
(Jim Treacher)
”
If
Sarah doesn't run for president for some reason, I'd like to see her
chair the GOP and rebrand it as a 100% purist Teaparty Party. What's
the primary difference between the Teaparty and the GOP?
Primarily it's conviction. Have some.
"If the number of Islamic terror attacks continues at the current rate, candlelight vigils will soon be the number-one cause of global warming. " Argus Hamilton
Check google shopping -
everyone and their mother has this exact item, brand new, for
considerably less. Woot
has gone downhill since Amazon took over - this is but another example.
(YES)
On
the fence ... apparently it doesn't do system backups - only data files
... hmmm ... but amazon, cnet, and pcworld all gave raves. And the
price is definitely good. Hmmm ...
These are great for people
who aren't very good with computers but need a backup solution for
their files. I got one for my dad and all he has to do is plug it into
his laptop and it backs everything up automatically. It searches out
and finds data files and you can also add folders manually that you
want it to keep backed up.
This is probably not a good solution for someone who can setup their
own backup on a standard external drive, knows what a NAS is, or is
just looking for external storage.
I
have this and when my computer fried a few weeks ago all I had to do on
the new computer was install all the programs and then click restore.
They even walked me through it live on the phone...for FREE.
I am a big time Clickfree fan.
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"If the number of Islamic terror attacks continues at the current rate, candlelight vigils will soon be the number-one cause of global warming. " Argus Hamilton
"If the number of Islamic terror attacks continues at the current rate, candlelight vigils will soon be the number-one cause of global warming. " Argus Hamilton
"If the number of Islamic terror attacks continues at the current rate, candlelight vigils will soon be the number-one cause of global warming. " Argus Hamilton
So how much would
the so-called Buffett Rule bring in? It's hard to say, because Obama
didn't define precisely how it would work. But he did say it would
create a tax rate floor for those who make more than $1 million per
year. So let's use 2009 tax return data from the IRS to imagine some
possible scenarios for how much additional tax revenue the new tax
could bring in. Here's a chart:
”
Am I
wrong? It seems this is first time I read something
in the ATLANTIC that made sense. If you follow this debate,
I would bet money that someone will argue "Look, maybe taxing the rich at 100% only
generates $450B, but that's enough to start funding schools at proper
levels." And next year it might generate what? $3?
"If the number of Islamic terror attacks continues at the current rate, candlelight vigils will soon be the number-one cause of global warming. " Argus Hamilton
... Sarah
smoked pot. Sarah snorted coke off an oil drum. Sarah bedded a black
athlete. Sarah slept with Todd's business partner. And oh yeah, she's
not Trigg's mom. You get the picture. No bathroom stall in Alaska was
left undisturbed in his quest for dirt.
What you won't find are footnotes or endnotes sourcing all his trash
talk. Instead, the acknowledgments conveniently state: "There are
others, both in Alaska and elsewhere, whom I'd like to thank, but so
many of them - for fear of harassment by supporters of Sarah Palin -
have asked me not to mention them by name. . . ."
My
Reverie
”
My brain-flash just now is that Sarah postponed any
presidential announcement because she knew this book was purpose
published, and didn't want to let the media hijack her message
with questions about this crap. Damn smart thing to do
actually.
Read the rest of this
article and get the backstory on McGinniss's unsourced and twisted
allegation that Sarah left the University of Hawaii after three weeks
because there were too many "people of color." Which phrase
hadn't been coined at the time. (Short answer— she's 18,
away from her small home town and family for the first time, and finds
herself in a foreign culture. We'd called it homesick. ).
I've heard people remark that they sure wish Todd would shoot that
sumbitch McGinniss (maybe the voices in my head?), but he won't because
he's smart, and in control. You know who would have had him
killed though (if he had actually loved Hillary) ... ?
"If the number of Islamic terror attacks continues at the current rate, candlelight vigils will soon be the number-one cause of global warming. " Argus Hamilton
"If the number of Islamic terror attacks continues at the current rate, candlelight vigils will soon be the number-one cause of global warming. " Argus Hamilton
Recently, these sources informed him that
the earthquakes that occurred in Colorado and the Washington DC area,
surrounding August 22nd and 23rd, were, in fact,
apparently nuclear strikes against underground military facilities.
[These underground bases] have been built
by the US government, ostensibly since the early 1960s, at the cost of
trillions of dollars of undocumented taxpayer money that is going into
these “black projects.”
Oh crap. What about Iran? I'm switching channels here boss.
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"If the number of Islamic terror attacks continues at the current rate, candlelight vigils will soon be the number-one cause of global warming. " Argus Hamilton
"If the number of Islamic terror attacks continues at the current rate, candlelight vigils will soon be the number-one cause of global warming. " Argus Hamilton
"If the number of Islamic terror attacks continues at the current rate, candlelight vigils will soon be the number-one cause of global warming. " Argus Hamilton
"If the number of Islamic terror attacks continues at the current rate, candlelight vigils will soon be the number-one cause of global warming. " Argus Hamilton
Employers don’t create jobs, customers do. This week,
business owners themselves exploded the myth that they are the job
creators.
Previously we’d offered the argument that businesses don’t create jobs.
“Customers are the engine of capitalism and of jobs,” we wrote.
“Employees are hired when a willing buyer shows up at the door. Jobs
are not created for any other reason.” Now business owners have weighed
in to provide corroboration.
Reporting this week in the New York Times, Mokoto Rich interviewed
Jeffery Braverman, owner of Nutsonline, in Cranford, N.J.. Even a
$4,000 tax cut would not cause him to hire anyone. “You still need to
have the business need to hire,” says Braverman. “Business demand is
what drives hiring.”
[blah-blah-blah]
”
The debunked myth (I stumbled upon),
according to the Jimmy Zuma dude, is that "Employers create
jobs"
Zuma's actual goal here is to defend
Obama's crappy Jobs Bill. To buttress the Democrat's mythical
claim of being able to create jobs (by stealing money and giving
it to Solyndra). This government has certainly destroyed
millions of jobs— with walls of anti-business taxes and
regulations, but it has never created a single sustainable
private sector job. Just like the Soviet Union never did.
And oh!— it's certainly true that in a land where nobody has any
money, there are no customers, but that's a different
problem; albeit from the same source. Any good entrepreneur
will however get around that, and create new wealth, but only if
democrats stay the hell out of their way. That's not a myth.
"If the number of Islamic terror attacks continues at the current rate, candlelight vigils will soon be the number-one cause of global warming. " Argus Hamilton
2013 - Exercise Yard, Raila Odinga Prinson, Kenya.
“
The
Constitution of the United States, whose adoption we celebrate every
Sept. 17, clearly lists the powers of each branch of the national
government. Let’s take a look at what Barack Obama, like any president,
is empowered to do and see if it squares with his actions. In Article
II, Section 1, he is sworn to “preserve, protect and defend the
Constitution of the United States.” Section 2 names the president as
commander in chief of the armed forces, grants him the power to make
treaties with the advice and consent of the Senate and to appoint
ambassadors, federal judges, Cabinet officials and other federal
officers. Section 3 says the president “shall take care that the laws
be faithfully executed.”
In his two years and nine months in office, President Obama has
compiled a spectacular record of noncompliance with the Constitution.
Here are just some of the ways his administration has failed to execute
the laws while using raw, unauthorized power:
”
Obama could without question be impeached by the House if the political
will existed. It doesn't for a few reasons, not the least of
which is the Democrat controlled Senate would never vote to remove him
(nor would half the Republicans). Which is a shame because Obama
deserves being removed from office, the sooner the better.
This
list presented by the ass-hat left as justification for impeaching
Bush establishes the bar.
Anyway, I will add this article to my Sack of Stuff (Defining Articles)
that are kept in the cellar, for readers who want to reference it
in the future.
BTW, Knight does not present a comprehensive list here, but his are
fine, and recent additions to others already presented.
"If the number of Islamic terror attacks continues at the current rate, candlelight vigils will soon be the number-one cause of global warming. " Argus Hamilton
Chicago
mayor and former White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel said he
doesn’t recall anything about the Obama administration’s $535 million
loan to the recently bankrupt solar company Solyndra. [Full]
"If the number of Islamic terror attacks continues at the current rate, candlelight vigils will soon be the number-one cause of global warming. " Argus Hamilton
When
people are taped in secret, become unknowingly famous, and then are the
subject of a documentary, do they have any rights to the story? That’s
the process that led to the film Shut Up Little Man. (NSFW text)
In 1987, two
aspiring Bohemians who met at the University of Wisconsin, Mitch Deprey
and Eddie Guerriero — soon to be immortalized as “Mitchell D and Eddie
Lee Sausage” — left the Midwest for San Francisco, where they moved
into a funky apartment on Steiner and Waller in the Lower Haight.
Thanks to thin walls and alcohol, they discovered that their new
next-door neighbors were Raymond, a virulent homophobe in love with the
word “cocksucker,” and Peter, a bitchy queen prone to rejoinders of
“SHUT UP, LITTLE MAN!”, both of them sad alcoholics inexplicably
sharing a one-room apartment. Their vulgar, late-night scream fights
(and occasionally, fistfights) were so entertaining that Mitch and
Eddie started recording them, sharing the tapes with friends ... . [Full]
"If the number of Islamic terror attacks continues at the current rate, candlelight vigils will soon be the number-one cause of global warming. " Argus Hamilton
Unhappy members
of the Congressional Black Caucus “probably would be marching on the
White House” if Obama were not president, according to CBC Chairman
Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (D-Mo.).
"If [former President] Bill Clinton
had been in the White House and had failed to address this problem, we
probably would be marching on the White House ... There
is a less-volatile reaction in the Congressional Black Caucus because
nobody wants to do anything that would empower the people who hate the
president."
”
Aside
from further demonstrating the Democrat leadership's inability to grasp
the economic reality that gummint cannot create (non-government) jobs,
Brother Kleaver confirms their putative stark racism.
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"If the number of Islamic terror attacks continues at the current rate, candlelight vigils will soon be the number-one cause of global warming. " Argus Hamilton
The
working title is "Happy Faces On A Wet Derrière."
The story pretty much writes itself, but I'm stuck, as
usual, on the same old thing. Can the ingenue play
pinochle, and does she have a hare lip? Or not. This
drives me crazy.
"If the number of Islamic terror attacks continues at the current rate, candlelight vigils will soon be the number-one cause of global warming. " Argus Hamilton
It looks like Pitt and
Syracuse will bolt the Big East and join the ACC. That makes a
lot more sense than having Texas,
but Pitt and WVU make more sense to me. Given my
druthers though ... Here's what I want back —
FINAL STANDINGS 1971 -------------------- ACC ALL ACC Reg Seas Games All N. Carolina 11-3 .786 26-6 .813 S. Carolina 10-4 .714 23-6 .793 Duke 9-5 .643 20-10 .667 Wake Forest 7-7 .500 16-10 .615 Virginia 6-8 .429 15-11 .577 Maryland 5-9 .357 14-12 .538 N.C. State 5-9 .357 13-14 .481 Clemson 3-11 .214 9-17 .346 ----------------------------------------- Total 136-86 .613
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"If the number of Islamic terror attacks continues at the current rate, candlelight vigils will soon be the number-one cause of global warming. " Argus Hamilton
"If the number of Islamic terror attacks continues at the current rate, candlelight vigils will soon be the number-one cause of global warming. " Argus Hamilton
"If the number of Islamic terror attacks continues at the current rate, candlelight vigils will soon be the number-one cause of global warming. " Argus Hamilton
"If the number of Islamic terror attacks continues at the current rate, candlelight vigils will soon be the number-one cause of global warming. " Argus Hamilton
Most people, unfortunately, apply the same
analysis to public debt as they do to private. If sanctity of contracts
should rule in the world of private debt, shouldn't they be equally as
sacrosanct in public debt? Shouldn't public debt be governed by the
same principles as private? The answer is no, even though such an
answer may shock the sensibilities of most people.
”
One of
yesterday's links
to people I link-to
has resulted in a starburst of energetic discovery, and to some extent
repudiation and validation of some of my own positions. This link.
American
Digest Do
Your Duty! You Have the
Responsibility as an American to Make Obama Successful.
Which also contained this post.
“
Put Debt Repudiation On the Table
I propose, then, a seemingly drastic
but actually far less destructive way of paying
off the public debt at a single blow: out-right debt repudiation.
Consider this question: why should the poor, battered citizens of
Russia or Poland or the other ex-Communist countries be bound by the
debts contracted by their former Communist masters? ... Similarly, we
the living did not contract for either the past or the present debts
incurred by the politicians and bureaucrats in Washington. -- Repudiating the National Debt -
Murray N. Rothbard - Mises Daily
In the old days (1970s), when perhaps the nation's only
broadly
distributed conservative
opinion came via the Wall Street Journal's Editorial pages,
every
Thursday contained what I called the " The Thursday Car-loon"
column. When I began
reading it that column was written by Alexander Cockburn ( later
by Al Hunt, who was as left-wing as Cockburn, but without the
intelligence). This is by way of saying that I think Cockburn is
a
first class A-hole. Had I simply watched the video then, I would
have left happy with the notion that Vanderleun was presenting an
easy target for disdain . Advocating the repudiation of
credit card debt is a distinctly Commie thing to do. A gentleman is
honor bound to his
debts, and must go to his grave having done everything possible to pay
them. Then, I clicked the link Repudiating the National Debt -
Murray N. Rothbard - Mises Daily.
To the extent that my leathery brain cells can expand to accept new and
unwelcome formulations, they did. Bear in mind that I am quoting from
the Ludwig von Mises Institute web page.
“
In the spring of 1981, conservative Republicans in
the House of Representatives cried. They cried because, in the first
flush of the Reagan Revolution that was supposed to bring drastic cuts
in taxes and government spending, as well as a balanced budget, they
were being asked by the White House and their own leadership to vote
for an increase in the statutory limit on the federal public debt,
which was then scraping the legal ceiling of one trillion dollars. They
cried because all of their lives they had voted against an increase in
public debt, and now they were being asked, by their own party and
their own movement, to violate their lifelong principles. The White
House and its leadership assured them that this breach in principle
would be their last: that it was necessary for one last increase in the
debt limit to give President Reagan a chance to bring about a balanced
budget and to begin to reduce the debt. Many of these Republicans
tearfully announced that they were taking this fateful step because
they deeply trusted their President, who would not let them down.
Famous last words.
Any melding of public debt into a private transaction must rest on the
common but absurd notion that taxation is really "voluntary," and that
whenever the government does anything, "we" are willingly doing it.
This convenient myth was wittily and trenchantly disposed of by the
great economist Joseph Schumpeter: "The theory which construes taxes on
the analogy of club dues or of the purchases of, say, a doctor only
proves how far removed this part of the social sciences is from
scientific habits of mind." Morality and economic utility generally go
hand in hand. Contrary to Alexander Hamilton, who spoke for a small but
powerful clique of New York and Philadelphia public creditors, the
national debt is not a "national blessing." T
”
I have to get ready for
the Redskin game, here's
the rest of it. I'll get back to
this. I think. For the record. I want to talk
about what Clint Eastwood said too.
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"If the number of Islamic terror attacks continues at the current rate, candlelight vigils will soon be the number-one cause of global warming. " Argus Hamilton
"If the number of Islamic terror attacks continues at the current rate, candlelight vigils will soon be the number-one cause of global warming. " Argus Hamilton
SondraKistani - Seems
to be more interested in "cornholing, a simple but addictive pastime"
TUA- I should’ve known
to buy more after swiping one of the last few cartons but thought to
myself (Trader Joe's Non-Dairy Chocolate Ice Cream)
(Non-Dairy?) (Yuk)
APOTHEOSIS-
Discriminatory practices? Perfectly acceptable. Most natural thing in
the world. As long as you’re black.
Michele
Malkin The
Cash-for-Visas Program - Congress is pushing to expand a fraud-riddled
investor program that puts U.S. citizenship for sale to the highest
foreign business bidders.
"If the number of Islamic terror attacks continues at the current rate, candlelight vigils will soon be the number-one cause of global warming. " Argus Hamilton
I don't
much care for either of these two, but in this instance I'm with
Greta. (Tucker Carlson owns the Dauly Caller, the article [Mike
Tyson: Sarah Palin met ‘the wombshifter’]was written by Jeff
Poor). What I find interesting is lefty sites like Think
Progress [disgraceful, explict remarks about Palin
with the headline]
"If the number of Islamic terror attacks continues at the current rate, candlelight vigils will soon be the number-one cause of global warming. " Argus Hamilton
* "The thing that I found, Savannah, that really surprised me, was that
the people who know her best like her least."--Joe McGinniss, author of
"The Rogue: Searching for the Real Sarah Palin," to NBC's Savannah
Guthrie, Sept. 15
* "I think I was as fair as I could possibly have been, given the
fact that she told all the people who were closest to her not to talk
to me."--McGinniss, same interview
"If the number of Islamic terror attacks continues at the current rate, candlelight vigils will soon be the number-one cause of global warming. " Argus Hamilton
The District’s spy network
Photo-ticketing
machines rolling digital video 24-hours a day.
“
Mr. Brown favors use of such power only on special occasions, “not just
surveillance for the sake of surveillance - because I wouldn’t be for
that. But I think this weekend showed, my goodness, it was a very
important weekend that was taking place in this country. Imagine if
they had found something that shouldn’t be there and saved many lives.
To me, that’s more important than anything.” [Full]
"If the number of Islamic terror attacks continues at the current rate, candlelight vigils will soon be the number-one cause of global warming. " Argus Hamilton
Reps. Jim Moran (D-Va.) and
Hank Johnson (D-Ga.) spoke at a press conference in Washington on Sept.
14, 2011 to announce legislation to abolish the debt ceiling.
(CNSNews.com/Penny Starr)
“The debt limit is an unnecessary and
counterproductive legislative hurdle that has proved to be both an
ineffective means of controlling deficits and a danger to this
country’s standing in the financial markets,” Moran said.
The debt limit “poses a serious, recurring threat to the full faith and
credit of the United States of America,” Moran said. He called it a
“legislative relic” that has been “weaponized” by Republicans for
political reasons.
"If the number of Islamic terror attacks continues at the current rate, candlelight vigils will soon be the number-one cause of global warming. " Argus Hamilton
"If [former President] Bill Clinton
had been in the White House and had failed to address this problem, we
probably would be marching on the White House ... There
is a less-volatile reaction in the Congressional Black Caucus because
nobody wants to do anything that would empower the people who hate the
president."
