Comments on: Math-challenged Stateopians – III

By: SADIE

SADIE — Sun, 21 Nov 2010 01:12:06 +0000

Mike Devx – I prefer your rant ..and The Horse You Rode In On ;

By: Mike Devx

Mike Devx — Sun, 21 Nov 2010 00:26:47 +0000

I’m going to rant here.

A recent American Thinker article has our National Overlords proposing another “progressive” idiocy:

1) It is a dangerously broad regulatory bill giving extensive discretionary power to the FDA over the entire food supply; 2) It would impose one-size-fits-all-regulations on thousands of small and mid-sized farmers, small-scale local farms and food producers; 3) It attempts to limit the authority of our own domestic U.S. laws when it includes language ensuring that our US law will not disturb other international agreements that we have made.

This is from Senate bill 510, ‘The Food Safety Modernization Act’. Ah, MODERNIZATION! I must support THAT!!!

Indeed, rather, I think not. Let me make a digression. When I see an ad for a Hollywood comedy, and the voiceover says it is “funny”, or the ad says it is “funny”, I know I need to avoid that movie. A comedy that needs to INFORM me that it will be “funny”, is likely to be massively un-funny. Similarly, any government bill that contains the word “MODERN”, or “MODERNIZATION” should henceforth be voted down with a chorus of “NO!” votes. Any bill that has to include the word “modernization” in its title is a bill guaranteed to be regressing us. End of digression.

Now for the rant, and pardon the language. Things are getting to the point where I want to run screaming into the Senate or House chamber and stand in front of them and just scream: “Get Out! Stay Out! Get Out Of My F#&$CKING LIFE! Stay Out Of My F#*#*CKING LIFE! Get Out! Get Out! Get Out! Stay Out! Stay Out! F#*#CK YOU! And The Horse You Rode In On!!!”

There are days I simply cannot take it anymore.

OR as a commenter on another American Thinker article put it more politely:

Spending cuts eliminate no unconstitutional Federal operation, only reduces spending which will in time, be increased again to buy votes and advance socialism. To reform the Federal government and permanently reduce spending and increase freedom, we have to cut off whole areas of Federal encroachment. The Federal government does not belong in Education, Labor, Energy technology development (corporate welfare), Homeland inSecurity (our own special KGB and federal disaster relief operations), Arts, money to the UN and foreign governments…and on and on the Federal encroachment goes. Cutting spending without eliminating the scope of the Federal government will do nothing to end the deficit in the long term.

By: Ymarsakar

Ymarsakar — Sat, 20 Nov 2010 02:40:44 +0000

So long as you have guns and delivery systems for nukes, those other stuff don’t matter as much.

By: SADIE

SADIE — Sat, 20 Nov 2010 01:58:06 +0000

suek, we both heard it. I think the ‘official’ editing of reality is not a new ploy. What is new, is the internet and somewhere that speech is recorded with the full initial impact. Every president knows that eventually his speeches and such eventually end up in a presidential library. Future historians have their work cut out for them. It may actually be impossible in a 100 years to get it right at all amidst edited speeches, photo shop and now Net Neutrality (COICA).

Danny’s article focused on being ‘math challenged’ – what happens when you don’t have all the numbers and now ..not even all the words.

By: Charles Martel

Charles Martel — Sat, 20 Nov 2010 01:42:24 +0000

Well, suek, you're having a Winston Smith moment where you think you remember something that The Party has determined clearly never happened.

By: suek

suek — Sat, 20 Nov 2010 01:31:49 +0000

Re: that civilian security force:

http://directorblue.blogspot.com/2010/11/remember-obamas-civilian-national.html

Curiously, the official transcript of the speech omitted those last two sentences.

I heard that speech – I heard him make that statement. But now they’re no longer in the “official” transcript? What about videos, recordings etc?

Very strange. And disconcerting.

By: Charles Martel

Charles Martel — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 23:30:03 +0000

Apropos of nothing, Cunard sent its monster oceanliner, the Queen Mary 2, to San Francisco a few years ago. To get here, she had to sail around the Horn through the Strait of Magellan, a stretch of sea so capricious that even the best sailors in the greatest ships are reluctant to undertake it.

While here, the QM2′s skipper seemed bemused by questions about whether sailing into danger’s way was something he shouldn’t have tried to avoid. “She is way too big for the Panama Canal,” he told local reporters, “and she’s built to take heavy seas.” Her milk run, he reminded them, is the North Atlantic, hardly known for its pacific ways. Without saying so, he begged comparison of the QM2 to the more delicate structures of the sedate Brobdingnagian liners that ply the Carribean and west Mexican waters.

When she arrived at the Golden Gate, she was greeted by just about every craft on San Francisco Bay, including two fireboats, a fleet of party boats, schooners, ferries, motorboats, sailing craft, dorys, kayaks and canoes, either tooting, honking, belching, yelling or blasting greetings. Her captain later said the reception was the best of any port the ship had put into in an around-the-world cruise.

By: SADIE

SADIE — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 22:57:55 +0000

Thank you Bookworm. Glad to help in the hearty laugh department.

By: SADIE

SADIE — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 22:45:06 +0000

Not too mention, what a sordid punishment for Punderella ; )

By: Bookworm

Bookworm — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 22:38:52 +0000

Oh, Charles. After that one, I fear that you and Sadie deserve each other.

The problem with Sadie's puns is that they're so clever. Most puns deserve only groans, while hers almost invariably startle a hearty laugh out of me. I'm sorry to say, therefore, that they're here to stay.

Sadie also keeps me humble. Much as I love language, I've never been a punster. I just don't see words that way, and greatly admire those who do.