Racists
Wheat & Weeds – Con Census
Skipping the actual form…
I checked “other” and put American. Which I’m guessing census readers will interpret as “white,” but the defiance felt good. (If you choose to do the same, and there’s a national movement to respond so, be aware that if the feds choose to be picky, [...]
Categories: Politics
An Unaccessible Doctor For All!
Genius!
The uninsured, it’s said, use emergency rooms for primary care. That’s expensive and ineffective. Once they’re insured, they’ll have regular doctors. Care will improve; costs will decline. Everyone wins. Great argument. Unfortunately, it’s untrue. A study by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation found that the insured accounted for 83 percent [...]
Categories: Politics
Appealing To Their Interests in Not Ruining the Economic Strength of the Country
From Cato:
State Treasurer Timothy P. Cahill, an independent candidate for governor, today offered a wide-ranging and scathing criticism of the state’s universal health care law, saying it is bankrupting Massachusetts and will do the same nationally, if a similar plan is passed in Congress. “If President Obama and the Democrats [...]
Categories: Politics
The New Black Helicopter Crowd
Cute:
A New Hampshire neighbor of mine did this ["Find a strip of land, live off the grid, stockpile ammunition, raise emus for meat, and keep your eyes peeled"] for a while. Then he figured out the ATF guys don’t need to besiege his stockade. What with GPS and so forth, Obama can take [...]
Categories: People and Current Events
Moral Degeneracy and *Your* MSM!
I missed this. A report of Toby Harnden’s from 2004, relinked to by Instapundit, talking about yet another idiotic antiwar movie that’s bombing (I’d never even heard of it till last night) (I’d link to the original Spectator article but it just punts to the home page):
The other day, while taking a break [...]
Categories: War and Peace
The Prii Don’t Deserve This, or: Journalists Might Wanna Learn How To Drive a Motorized Vehickle Before Reporting On Them
I’m no fan of the Prius, but seriously:
Forbes – Toyota Hybrid Horror Hoax, by Michael Fumento
Also, check out the Ken Doll byline headshot on this guy. Yeesh.
Categories: Sports and Leisure
Obama Needs Naptime Or Else He’ll Create a Diplomatic Incident
Telegraph – Barack Obama ‘too tired’ to give proper welcome to Gordon Brown
Barack Obama’s offhand approach to Gordon Brown’s Washington visit last week came about because the president was facing exhaustion over America’s economic crisis and is unable to focus on foreign affairs, the Sunday Telegraph has been told.
How does he explain the [...]
Categories: Politics
What Doesn’t Represent a Majority of the Republican Caucus
NRO – AWOL in the Bunning Battle The GOP shows why Obamacare is a good bet for the Left. By Andrew McCarthy
If Obamacare passes, Obamacare is forever. Just ask Jim Bunning. The Kentucky Republican finally caved in Tuesday after relentless pressure from other senators — including Republicans — to drop what [...]
Categories: Politics
Seattle In the News! XI
Headline: Naked Woman Tied To Tree In Tacoma Park Not A Problem
Article:
Several police officers responded to a 911 report of a naked woman tied to a tree in Point Defiance Park in Tacoma. Spokesman Mark Fulghum told The News Tribune officers talked with the woman and a man Tuesday in [...]
Categories: People and Current Events
More Authorities Trying to Make Themselves Useful In This New Paradise
More hardware store misery, too. John Stossel, via Mark Steyn:
For 15 years, the B & B Do it Center, a local hardware store in the small California town of Camarillo, has been putting out coffee and doughnuts for its morning customers. Actually longer, says owner Randy Collins; the previous owner did it [...]
Categories: People and Current Events
In Which War, Crime, Hunger Are Banished, Harmony and Fair Business Dealings Achieved For All
A few examples of the authorities trying to find ways to make themselves useful in this new paradise we find ourselves in:
BBC – ‘Nose blow’ driver case dropped
Michael Mancini said he had been given a fixed penalty notice after using a handkerchief while his van was stationary in traffic in Ayr. [...]
Categories: People and Current Events
A Tale of Two Crappy Vice Presidential Picks
I’ve never thought of it this way:
NY Daily News – Palin vs. Edwards, a case study in media bias
When in 2004 John Kerry picked Edwards, whose entire resume in public life at that point consisted of six years in the U.S. Senate, to be his vice-presidential nominee, few questioned whether Edwards was qualified [...]
Categories: Politics
To Go With My NBC-Induced Gnashing-of-Teeth
A golden (get it?!) oldie from Mark Steyn, from New Criterion, September, 2007:
The same networks which offer drearily parochial coverage of the Olympics to the point where you’d barely know there were any other countries competing except as exotic background extras in a Team USA victory parade insist after the commercial break that [...]
Categories: Sports and Leisure
When Men Were Men, Women Were Women, and Cigarettes Advertised On Children’s Cartoons
RC2 found this Flinstones-sponsored-by-Wilson Cigarettes ad, calling it “truly edgy”:
Honestly, this it does come off just like something Family Guy would do as satire of this kind of thing. So hilarious.
Categories: Entertainment
Alexander Haig
Honestly, I’d never heard that story about him and the White House and Reagan getting shot. So here’s RC2, for all your remembrance needs:
Wheat & Weeds – No Longer In Charge
Poor Alexander Haig will always be remembered for his Constitutionally-mistaken effort to keep everyone calm when President Reagan was shot. Everyone acts as [...]
Categories: Politics
