Sometimes...
...Ya jus' gotta go to war in the unnerwear ya got on.
--Dolly
Tuesday, May 22, 2012
Quote of the Day...
There sure are a lot of lefties out there trying to shut people up. It’s as if they lack confidence in the strength of their ideas.
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Monday, May 21, 2012
Apparently There Was a...
SPANKING ON TWITTER the other day. Some whiner got all butt-hurt that folks In the Right were using Twitter to mock leftists -- only to become the object of mondo derision himself (and didn't he see that coming?). And, really, people. Could you do something requiring a BIT more effort? I mean, really! Talk about low-hanging fruit!
My problem with these Neat And Fun Things To Do On Twitter is that I'm so rarely on the thing, I miss all the good parts.
But you people have at 'em. They say the one thing evil can't abide is mockery. Mock away, my hearties! Mock away.
Mark Philip Alger
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Saturday, May 19, 2012
Portmanteau Word of the Day...
NEEDED KILLING -- chlorine in the gene pool. This can be a noun -- an act -- or the verb predicate of a declarative sentence.
Thought you weren't going to be defining these.
A, think of this as a commentary, not a definition. 2, it's my rule; I can break it.
The former can be illustrated by this sentence: resistance to Eco-fascists attacking innocent property owners importuned by agents of the state in the course of a politically-motivated witch hunt might predictable result in a NEEDED KILLING.
The latter shows in this assertion: This fellow NEEDED KILLING, Judge. Which ought to be an affirmative defense to a charge of homicide.
Funny how that sort...
What to do, when a ship carrying a hundred passengers suddenly capsizes and there is only one lifeboat? When the lifeboat is full, those who hate life will try to load it with more people and sink the lot. Those who love and respect life will take the ship’s axe and sever the extra hands that cling to the sides.
... always seem to expect that they will most assuredly be in the lifeboat, and not in the water, clinging for dear life to the gunwales.
True. My reaction to those assertions is, "Fine. You first."
I mean, it's only fair. Plus, they should be willing to demonstrate the courage of their convictions.
Unless they're just rent-seeking, trying to glom onto resources they otherwise couldn't access, by killing off the competition.
Which gives the lie to the whole "...love and respect life..." wheeze.
Plus the fact that they're dead wrong on all counts of the claims backing up their assertions. Not only no evidence to support them, there's quite a bit that contradicts them.
Want to add this point. From Glenn Reynolds...
...such sentiments, if usually a bit less bluntly stated, are driving environmental policy nowadays. It’s Himmler in a green shirt. These are not nice people who want good things for everyone. These are evil people who hanker after mass death.
Mark Philip Alger
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Friday, May 18, 2012
Portmanteau Word of the Day...
MENTAL MONOCULTURE
No, we won't define these. If they're not obvious from context, they're not really trying.
Mental monoculture. Ex: In both Chicago’s Ward Four, where the Obamas lived, and Ward Five, where they worked, 95 percent of electors voted Democrat in 2004.
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Friday, May 18, 2012
One of the Neatest Features...
OF ANY SOFTWARE, but especially, like, Photoshop, is the ability to -- Ctrl-Shift-I -- invert the selection. You spent all that time masking the background, but, now you want to do something in the foreground. Press Ctrl-Shift-I -- et violins! -- you're working in the foreground.
I tell you that to tell you this.
I saw an item in passing on the TV news the other day relating how a local township was making cuts to its fire department due to budget shortfalls.
Which, to me, made it seem like they were scraping the bottom of the barrel. After all, Police and Fire are the primary fiduciary responsibilities of government. They should be budgeted first and cut last.
An official was quoted as saying that the citizens he'd talked to didn't want to raise taxes to "pay for the fire department." How much you wanna bet he never heard any of them say, "... until you quit wasting taxpayer money on massage parlors and sweetheard deals for your brother-in-law."
Right?
Step into my office. I've just heard about this bridge...
Here lately, Teh Won has been on the stump (How is it proper for a government official to campaign for particular policies?) trying to persuade us that, if Congress doesn't raise the debt limit (How does that make sense?), we're going to lose [insert laundry list of sacred cows]. Bridges, roads, armies -- the latter day version of teachers, cops, fireman.
Saying nothing about bank bailouts, green energy boondoggles, union payoffs, CAGW scams, ACORN, and the rest of the treasury-looting going on...
Right.
No. What we want to do is bit-flip the selected duties of government which we are going to fund. We're going to start with your charter, fiduciary responsibilities, like protect the borders, run the courts, maintain the roads, deliver the mail. The rest of that crap can hold a bake sale.
Mark Philip Alger
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Friday, May 18, 2012
John Edwards’ Jeopardy...
IN HIS PROSECUTION for comingling mistress buyoff and campaign funds is that he might be going to jail. And, for once, I agree with the leftards' take: it's just sex.
Instead, how about prosecuting -- albeit posthumously -- the bastards who saddled us with all these nonsensical and infeasible -- scorn quotes -- "entitlement" programs?
They lied to us. They acted in breach of their oaths of office. They violated the Constitution. They robbed generations of Americans of their very sustenance. And yet they're feted, lionized, and richly rewarded when they should have ended their miserable lives in chains and penury.
And that especially includes that wannabe tinpot despot Charles "Chucky" "Chuck-You" Schumer. Putz. The Greedy Hand of Government. Tell you what, Chucky. We're going to show Congress once and for all that we're not going to put up with officials acting in flagrant disregard for the Constitution any more. We're going to -- in your words -- "stop it: dead."
How about them apples? Chuck.
Mark Philip Alger
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Friday, May 18, 2012
Elizabeth Warren’s...
AN INDIAN. Yeah. Right. And I'm Irish. On St. Patrick's Day.
Well, inasmuch as you do have a Scottish ancestry, and the Scots originated in Ireland...
Well, yeah. That's kinda the point, innit?
Mark Philip Alger
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Friday, May 18, 2012
Bloomberg Government...
ESTIMATES THAT, IF the Supreme Court -- quite properly I might add -- strikes down Obamacare, insurance companies can expect to "lose" one trillion dollars.
That's their spin. They're entitled to it.
But that's sort of like Democrats claiming that tax cuts "cost" the government money, or that a reduction in the rate of increase in government spending is a "draconian cut" -- so much eyewash.
MY spin goes: the Supreme Court is about to save Americans one TRILL-ion (Dr. Evil pinky moue) dollars on their medical care.
How's that blow your dress up?
Mark Philip Alger
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Monday, May 14, 2012
Are You Fucking Serious...
NOW NANCY PELOSI is concerned about constitutionality?
California ought to be ashamed and embarrased that they're sending this lightweight twit to Congress. Just ashamed!
Mark Philip Alger
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Saturday, May 12, 2012
So Governor Kasich...
HAS BEEN QUOTED AND sound-bitten as being open to the notion of using bridge tolls to finance the replacement of the Brent Spence bridge (where Interstate 75 crosses the Ohio River at Cincinnati). And it occurs to me that the gas tax was supposed to pay for this -- an might have, had politicians not looted the highway trust fund to pay for boondoggles like teapot museums and idiotic boondoggles like a passenger rail line between Sacramento and Modesto. Or worse. What's next, a spa resort by the Salton Sea?
There's a lot of that going on. As commenter pointed out at Q&O, a cooking grease -- scorn quotes -- "crisis" in Arkansas might very well be lessened by proper maintenance of sewer lines. But, of course, infrastructure isn't sexy and doesn't get rent-seeking parasites re-elected to public office, so the money taxed away from more-productive sorts to pay for infrastructure maintenance and improvement get stolen to pay for more popular pet projects. And sewerage "crises" engender afafronts to liberty and common sense, such as is reported in the above-linked post.
Which his how you get potholes. Or the thirty-foot breakers in the right turn lane at Marburg and Erie. You know the ones I mean -- make your SUV buck like a Conestoga running from the Sioux.
And, as regulars here know, I never voice a complaint without offering up a solution, here's mine: Stop politicians from looting any pile of money not nailed down.
And quite a few that are -- witness the highway trust fund.
Good point, Dolly.
Make any incoming legislator post a financial responsibility bond. He can't propose or vote in support of any bill that has financial consequences greater than his bond. And, then, when he leaves office, instead of the golden parachute they have now, they forfeit the bond.
Yeah. That'll work. Until some bright boy figures out how to get around it.
Um. Also a good point. OK. We treat subversion as being a crime on a scale from bad faith intent to treason, depending on the jury's reaction to the perfidy involved. How's that? Think it would discourave people from becoming legislators?
Then who would do the People's business?
That question assumes that "The People" (collectively) HAVE any legitimate business to get up to.
There is that.
Mark Philip Alger
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Thursday, May 10, 2012
Ohio Republicans Should Take Notes...
AND KEEP THEM for reference down the road. Gov. Kasich is under similar pressure to that exerted on Scott Walker and has yet to perform one tenth as well. And, yet, as so many have observed so often, whenever conserv- -- excuse me, American -- principles are espoused in a clear, bright-line fashion, with no cavils or caveats, they win elections -- HANDS DOWN.
And, shame of shames, John Kasich has been among those voicing this fact the loudest.
Mark Philip Alger
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Wednesday, May 09, 2012
So They Called it Early...
FOR MOURDOCK, and with Lugar's flop sweat still damp on his collar, the spinmeisters are all out in force to tell you what it means.
So let me put it to you here first.
What it means -- and the landslide proportions of the win -- is that when conserv... er, excuse me ... when American ideals are put forth boldly, without fear or caveat, they win. Every. Time.
Remember that. You, as an American, are in the majority in this country. You need not despair that your singleton vote will go unrequited.
Mark Philip Alger
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Wednesday, May 09, 2012
OK, I’ll bite. #AskMichelle:...
WHERE THE HELL DO YOU get off? Seriously. Why don't you mind your own fucking business?
Help out. The FLOTUS wants your questions.
And these kack-handed wannabe tyrants want us to believe they're capable of running a country, let alone the lives of its citizens?
Get. Real.
Mark Philip Alger
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Wednesday, May 09, 2012
Not That You Should Need Yet Another Reason...
TO VOTE FOR Josh Mandel for Senate in Ohio this year, but, when it comes to the War on Women, our incumbent Democrat weasel, Sherrod Brown, has apparently opened his own front.
Maybe you should say, "Allegedly."
Yeah. That word. Means, "Somebody said it," but always sounds like "Guilty as sin."
Dunnit just?
Mark Philip Alger
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Tuesday, May 08, 2012
The President Says...
ROMNEY MUST "rebuke extreme voices..."
Right. Like Ayers and Wright and Dohrn and Pfleger and Alinsky and Clinton and Jones and Sunnstein ...
We'll get right on that. Rebuke away, Mittens!
Hell, he could rebuke from now 'til November and never touch a Republican.
Mark Philip Alger
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Tuesday, May 08, 2012
Beggin’ You Hoosiers...
PUH-LEEZE vote ... well, if you can'T bring yourself to vote FOR Mourdock, at least vote AGAINST Lugar.
If the fact that he's not a legal resident of the state he purports to represent doesn't do it, how about the fact that he's making war on the Constitution through his support of the blatantly anti-American War -- er -- Law of the Sea Treaty.
Well, if they try to implement that treaty, there will be a war, so maybe your name is more appropriate.
Sort of like Kellogg-Briand practically guaranteed WWII?
Sort of. Yeah.
Mark Philip Alger
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Monday, May 07, 2012
Not With Those Notions You’re Not...
VANDERLEUN PROPOSES that we in the Right rebrand ourselves in a manner similar to that of the Left when the term "liberal"became no longer operative and "progressive" became the preferred label on the Left for despicable collectivist statists. Which suited us fine. We knew, even if the myrmidons of the Left did and do not, the true nature of the so-called Progressive movement -- that it is singularly responsible for nearly every bad political idea of the Twentieth Century and has more blood on its hands... Let them call themselves that. We'll hang them with it.
So the new brand for the Right -- for those in favor of liberty, of low taxes, smaller government, fiscal responsibility, free markets -- is American. Truth in advertising.
And, of course, those on the Left, when they catch on, will try to claim that they're Americans, too. Which gives us the perfect opening: "Not with those political notions you're not."
Make it go, Rev! Make it go!
Mark Philip Alger
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Monday, May 07, 2012
When Politicians Tell You...
THAT YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND how Washington works -- or, as Dick Lugar has, in effect, said recently, "You need to keep in mind that your principles amount to zero in the real world," it is time and long past time to remind them how things work in the real world: when an employee no longer satisfies, he is let go.
This is how a republic looks in practice. Good bye, Senator. You and Orrin Hatch can toddle off and spend your sunset years double-dipping on K Street.
Mark Philip Alger
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Sunday, May 06, 2012
The Elizabeth Warren Brouhaha...
AMOUNTS TO A WHOLE lot of question-begging.
And not just street-corner "spare change?"-ing. We're talking GIMME A DOLLAR MOTHERFUCKER and following you down the block cursing your ancestry and threatening your descendants in a parade-ground voice.
THAT kind of question-begging. Really beligerant and more than a little dangerous and transgressive.
As Michael Barone observed, Warren grew up in Oklahoma, where Cherokee ancestry is common and no big deal. OK, so she gamed the system to gain personal advantage. That's not, according to the adolescent cri de couer, it's not fair.
It's also beside the point. The real issue about Elizabeth Warren is that she's a despicable human being. She's a collectivist statist with some really toxic views about how the power of the state ought to be used to oppress its citizens. This is not a person you want in elective office.
Bin the Indian nonsense. Don't fall for the sleight of hand. Keep your eye on the ball.
Mark Philip Alger
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Saturday, May 05, 2012
Kris Rusch Hacked...
ACCORDING WHAT GOT posted in comments hither thither and yon, the attack on the Kristine Katherine Rusch site appears to be just random script kiddies rattling doorknobs and found one unlocked.
But for awhile there, it was possible to imagine that somebody was taken umbrage at what Kris has been saying about the odious business practice of "traditional" publishing conglomerates and their myrmidons and other sundry hangers-on.
Which makes the post in question -- to which it appeared the attack was a reaction -- doubly worth the read. It's being mirrored all over the blogosphere. But I read Sarah, which habit I apparently have in common with Glenn Reynolds, so I've linked to her echo of the post.
Of course, all the twitter is about the context of the attack and not the substance of the post. But I suspect that will be up next on the agenda here in a day or so.
Mark Philip Alger
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Saturday, May 05, 2012
You Know What...
YOU GO AHEAD AND sit this one out. If you're right and voting doesn't matter, then your sitting it out doesn't matter.
If you vote for Obama, you are, as the masthead slug says, a moron, and there's no reasoning with you. And your vote probably won't matter anyway. He's going down. The knives are out. The real miracle is whether he survives to the election.
You don't think so? All those Democrats who've made trips to enemy capitals, who've had truck with virulent opponents? For a party that's all about loyalty and solidarity, they're really good at betayal. A lot of Democrats have got to be running really scared -- even if they won't admit it in public -- because, even if Obama does win, a lot of elected Deomcrats beside him are going down.
And it's not as though they wouldn't use extreme measures to remove the threat to their personal fortunes. It's practically in the Left's DNA. While there may be doubts about -- say -- Vince Foster, it's pretty sure that the Soviets wound Oswald up and put him on the table. What he did when they turned him loose was almost foreordained. You don't think Putin or Hu don't already have somebody on a string, ready to go? You're more naive than you look.
No... Clean or dirty, Romney is the next President of the United States. You don't have to like it. I don't. All you can say is he's not Obama. And, this time -- this time -- it has to be enough.
Mark Philip Alger
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Friday, May 04, 2012
Quote of the Day...
Everything will be alright in the end. If everything is not alright, it is not yet the end.
--from the trailer for some art film that actually looks interesting
Gotta translate that into Dollish
Mark Philip Alger
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Friday, May 04, 2012
Obama Lies to His Autobiography...
(I FORGET. IS THAT the one ghosted by noted American terrorist, Bill Ayers? Or is that the other one?)
The hagiographers in the partisan legacy media argue that there was no real intent to deceive. Obama (or Ayers -- whichever) was merely "compressing" women for dramatic effect or something. A -- scorn quotes -- "non-fiction" book, apparently, is not required to hew to the same dictum as fiction that it actually make sense.
Which brings to mind the question: Does not "Not intended to be factual" equal "intended to deceive?"
And isn't compressing women rather dehumanizing. Doesn't it kind of objectify them? Make cardboard cutouts of them, rather than allowing them to be real, flesh-and-blood people?
And, how creepy is the exchange, "I Love You," "Thank you."
Or did he say, "Thank me"?
And then there's poor Julia. Talk about cardboard cutouts!
And a note to the Obama campaign? The whole "tax cuts for the rich" wheeze is getting a bit tired and threadbare. And, frankly, sounds kinda desperate. Can we come up with a new one?
For some clever use of social media, take a cue from Monty Python?
Whatever. You guys do need -- seriously -- some help. How can you run the most powerful country in the world if you can't even -- ever -- get Twitter right. What is it, now, The American People 6 and The White House zip?
Mark Philip Alger
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Friday, May 04, 2012
So the Prez...
PULLS US OUT of Afghanistan and the next day, theTaliban get their bowels in an uproar.
To quote Leroy Jethro Gibbs in a semi-Wayne, "I don't believe in coincidences."
Mark Philip Alger
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Friday, May 04, 2012
Software Licenses...
ISN'T THE VERY existence of a shrink-wrap or a sneak-wrap agreement pretty much prima facie evidence of bad faith intent?
Mark Philip Alger
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Friday, May 04, 2012
The Left and the Right Have Widely Divergent...
NOTIONS AS TO WHAT constitutes a hyperpartisan.
To the Left, it is someone who refuses to consider opposing viewpoints -- who has the courage of his convictions and principles. Of course, that desecribes most people in the Right, so, of course, your knee-jerk leftist abhors that. (Which is why they can't stand Rush Limbaugh. And they could fool themselves into believing that Bill Buckley's endless hunt for le mot juste was actually so much chin-pulling, so they lurved him.)
To the right it is someone who will follow the partisan line, regardless of whether it makes sense, who will bring the country down if it will further his partisan goals. Which is why we call George Mitchell, Barack Obama, Chuck Schumer, and just about any random Kennedy you could hit with a swung cat hyper-partisans. Because they would, they do, and they are.
Don't you be those guys.
Mark Philip Alger
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Friday, May 04, 2012
Pulling the Trigger ... or ... Don’t Expect a Medal for Doing Your Job...
OBAMA'S RISIBLE AND DESPICABLE claim that Mitt Romney wouldn't have given the order to kill Osama bin Liner reminds me a lot of the left wing contention that Nazism and Fascism are right wing diseases. Only somebody thoroughly anad utterly steeped in communism could possibly think of someone mere millimeters to the right of them as being extreme right wing. Only a left wing hyper-partisan.
As Tolkien put it: to crooked eyes, the truth may wear a wry face.
So now O'Bambi's trying to say that Mittens wouldn't have given the order to kill bin Laden. Me, I think it reveals more about BHO's perspective on the matter than it does anything about Romney. For one, it says that he has the mistaken notion that any american president NOT as traitorous as he is would ever consider NOT giving the order to kill bin Laden. (Forgetting, of course, that Bill Clinton did exactly that.) And that HE (Obama) thinks there is a matter of some doubt as to whether the killing of bin Laden was proper.
What a bloody berk!
Mark Philip Alger
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Wednesday, May 02, 2012
Sorry About the Free Ice Cream...
THING BEING in the shop. Can't be helped. Too many irons in the fire including one of those projects that just sucks it all out of you. And, again with the apologies, but I will NOT be able to talk about it. Ever. Just one of those things.
Update: to quote the Kingston Trio, as you can tell from the speed of our return, that last exit was fraudulent.
Mark Philip Alger
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