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Dec. 14th, 2009 @ 09:17 pm How long before this becomes a profitable scam again?
http://www.denisdutton.com/cooling_world.htm
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Dec. 14th, 2009 @ 02:57 pm (no subject)
... The embrace of freer markets has lifted more people out of the misery of poverty than any other system -- ever. The World Bank says that in just the last 30 years, half a billion people who once lived on less than $1.25 a day have moved out of poverty. But now, Wesley Mouch -- I mean, Congress and the bureaucrats -- tell us they are going to 'fix' capitalism, as if their previous 'fixes' didn't hamstring the free market and create the problems they propose to solve. Who are they kidding? Rand had it right. She learned it the hard way in Soviet Russia. What makes a country work is leaving people free -- free to take risks, to invent things -- and to keep the rewards of their work. Critics say Ayn Rand promotes selfishness. I call it 'enlightened self interest.' When free people act in their own self-interest, society prospers." --columnist John Stossel
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Dec. 8th, 2009 @ 06:44 pm NOW It's Vietnam....
Allow me to expand on the previous post...

Anyone remember when the Terror War was being compared to Vietnam? It was, in fact, all anyone from the left could say about it. Any delay, any setback, anything at all was waved as a bloody shirt and the proof that the war effort was a failure. When we entered Afghanistan, it was VIETNAAAAAAAM! When we entered Iraq, it was VIETNAAAAAAAAM! Any time a soldier on the march to Baghdad stopped to tie his bootlaces, "the invasion is BOGGING DOWN, it's a QUAGMIRE, it's VIETNAAAAAAAM!" During the first half of the Bush administration we tore through not one, but TWO countries like crap through a goose, began rebuilding the battered cities, got the public voting for their own governments and began mopping up the scattered resistance.... but nothing, ever, was anything less than VIETNAAAAAAAAM!

Well now, everyone seems to regard Iraq as a done job--- and by reasonable measure it pretty much is: tyrant deposed, new government established and running, and lots of little carbombing ragheads have been turned into lots of little black smoky holes in the ground. But Bush had to leave after his eighth year, and the rest of the job, Afghanistan, has been handed off to Obama.

Who, even as he dumps 30,000 more pairs of boots in the country, has issued new Rules of Engagement making their presence a farce. Our troops must NOTIFY a town before entering it in pursuit of enemy soldiers. Our troops cannot conduct surprise raids on enemy hideouts. Our troops cannot engage the enemy if civilians are present. Our troops can open fire only if the enemy fires first. Our troops cannot fire on an enemy planting IEDs unless they catch him right in the act of planting the explosive.....


Vietnam: a war in a third-world country overseen by a Democrat president who kept pouring more and more soldiers into the fight while simultaneously issuing Rules of Engagement that made their mission a suicide job.
Sound familiar yet?
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Dec. 7th, 2009 @ 02:45 am Obama's "Surge"
....consists of 30,000 more men to stand there, point their fingers and go "bang, bang."
What good is a "surge" when the rules of engagement don't allow the soldiers to shoot at the enemy?
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Dec. 2nd, 2009 @ 04:07 pm (no subject)
"A liberal mistrusts lessons bought with experience. For him, theory is all. He's the only man who would sit down on a red-hot stove twice. That makes well-meaning Democrats marks for shysters selling health-care 'reform,' global warming and appeasement of radical Islamists." --columnist Wesley Pruden
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Nov. 21st, 2009 @ 02:51 am Has cynicism EVER failed to pan out?
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Nov. 20th, 2009 @ 01:05 am (no subject)
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Nov. 15th, 2009 @ 02:14 am (no subject)
I've been hearing a lot from Canadians these days. They think I'm "absolutely crazy" for opposing national health care. They go on at length about how perfectly content they are with paying higher taxes so they can get health care whenever they want it.

Content. Perfectly content. You know what I hear when I hear someone say that?

"Mooooooo."

Yeah, cows are content, too. So long as it's not THEIR turn up on the butcher block. Moooooooo.
MOOOOOOO, eh? The world's great, everything's fine, Farmer Government gives you all the oats you can choke down and plenty of pasture to poop in. So who cares if it's all paid for with spare ribs of some other cow you don't know?

Remember the BOX? The original Twilight Zone short? the Box, big shiny button, push the button, get a million dollars--- and somebody you don't know dies.
There's a catch though, in the original version. If you push the button in the alloted time, then the box goes to someone else.... who doesn't know YOU.
You already pushed the button, Canada. And you've been passing it around like a hot potato ever since, getting your freebie and thinking that it'll rain rich people's money forever.
Now someone down here--- where all the rich people are--- has the big red jolly candy-like button.

Moooooo. Got your barbecue sauce picked out?
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Nov. 13th, 2009 @ 04:15 pm (no subject)
Are your Congresscritters paying Social Security? Of course not. They have their own special retirement fund.

Are your Congresscritters sending their kids to public schools? Of course not. John and Jane Porkbarrels go to nice, clean, well-run private schools. Public schools are for the peons.

Are your Congresscritters going to be included with the rest of us when this "Public" Healthcare is made law of the land?

Care to bet your next paycheck on that?
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Nov. 11th, 2009 @ 03:57 pm (no subject)
"Advocates of government control want you to believe that the serious shortcomings of our medical and insurance system are failures of the free market. But that's impossible because our market is not free. Each state operates a cozy medical and insurance cartel that restricts competition through licensing and keeps prices higher than they would be in a genuine free market. But the planners won't talk about that. After all, if government is the problem in the first place, how can they justify a government takeover?" --columnist John Stossel

"Congress recognizes no limits on its power. It doesn't care about the Constitution, it doesn't care about your inalienable rights, it doesn't care about the liberties protected by the Bill of Rights, it doesn't even read the laws it writes. America, this is not an academic issue. If this health care bill becomes law, life as you have known it, freedom as you have exercised it, privacy as you have enjoyed it, will cease to be." --Judge Andrew Napolitano

"Where in the U.S. Constitution does it authorize Congress to force Americans to buy health insurance? If Congress gets away with forcing us to buy health insurance, down the line, what else will they force us to buy; or do you naively think they will stop with health insurance?" --economist Walter E. Williams

When the best thing that can be said is "well, we won't be any worse off than Great Britain or Canada!"--- then perhaps we should reexamine the presumption that the proposed course of actions will make things BETTER? I don't WANT to live in either Canada OR Great Britain. Both those nations have earned themselves at best a long place in second and third for protecting the rights we in America take for granted. Freedom of speech? Freedom of Press? Freedom of Religion? Right to bear arms? There are people being prosecuted and harangued by the governments in those countries RIGHT NOW for saying the Politically Incorrect. And men in JAIL for defending their homes from violent criminals. And as for their health care, those that aren't dying in line--- or dying in their hospitals-- or simply being DENIED life saving care--- are currently coming HERE. Sorry, I don't want a third-place medical industry OR a third-place country.
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Nov. 11th, 2009 @ 03:51 pm (no subject)
"Among the things that people complain about under the present medical care system are the costs, insurance company bureaucrats' denials of reimbursements for some treatments and the free loaders at hospital emergency rooms whose costs have to be paid by others. Will a government-run medical system make these things better or worse? This very basic question seldom seems to get asked, much less answered." --economist Thomas Sowell
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Nov. 7th, 2009 @ 03:43 pm Nuff Said


Pass this on to a healthcare-misinformed friend.
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Nov. 7th, 2009 @ 01:12 am Care for some Cheese with that Whine?
You know why I hate feminists? I'll tell you why I hate feminists. A woman who tells you she's a feminist is telling you, straight up, that she is a complainer. That her personal identity is centered around griping. That, in spite of living in a society where women are not only given equal but often preferential treatment, she wants to be known for kvetching about how her gender is "mistreated."

And but me no buts, simply using the word "feminist" to describe yourself practically screams "western civ." Women in the Mideast or Asia or Africa--- you know, places where they actually ARE being persecuted and mistreated?--- don't call themselves "feminists." They're not rich and spoiled enough to afford to call themselves feminists. They just call themselves women and get on with surviving.

Being a "feminist" in 21st century America is as about as socially relevant as being an Abolitionist. If you actually gave a damn about womens' rights you'd be over rallying and lobbying over in places like Africa, Asia and the Mideast, where real oppression of women (and real slavery, for that matter) are still going on right now; here, though, you're just a pretentious whiner.
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Nov. 2nd, 2009 @ 03:25 pm A brief history lesson
For those who think that government run healthcare--- where everyone has a health insurance policy courtesy of Uncle Sam--- will make the high-standard quality healthcare here in America cheaper....

What happened to the cost and quality of CAR INSURANCE back a few decades ago when the government made THAT mandatory?
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Oct. 27th, 2009 @ 08:27 am To All You RPG and MMORPG Critics Out There...
Shut up about Balance. Please.

You made a character, and you don't like that other character builds are bigger and stronger and badder or just simply more effective than her or him. Which means you start CRITIQUING it. Which is another word for WHINING. And you won't shut up, and don't shut up, until Someone Does Something About It.

This makes you a PAIN IN THE BUTT. You know WHY you're a pain in the butt? Because eventually the game designers get tired of your whining and actually DO something. The same exact thing, every single time: they Nerf everything. So now the everyone else's character sucks as hard as yours does.

Guess what: it's time to try a different approach; one that doesn't ruin gameplay for everyone else. PULL THE THUMB OUT OF YOUR MOUTH AND GET OVER IT.

Balance is crap. Okay? It always has been. It has been ever since Dungeons and Dragons First Edition came out. It's the retarded notion that every single character class--- in other words, every possible social caste or role in a given fictional society, no matter how widely disparate--- should somehow magically balance out in competence in some sort of deranged zero-sum game. To the point you have game designers fudging the rules so that an illiterate muscle bound sword-wielding lunk can somehow hold his own alongside men who can cast astral fire from their fingertips, pull down lightning storms and call up earthquakes, or summon horrendous monsters to do their bidding.

This is ludicrous. No, your ersatz Batman does NOT belong in the Justice League, no matter how kewlsies his car and utility belt and grim and gritty attitude are. Batman is a baseline human being; the rest of the League is made up of super-powered demigods who are stronger, smarter, faster and tougher than him and routinely deal with villains that would, in any remotely rational setting, have smushed him like a grape the first time he showed his pointy-cowled face. No, your mighty-thewed barbarian warrior should not be "balanced out" with the party wizard; He's an almost-completely naked man with an axe, the wizard is a spry gentleman with a FIREBALL at his fingertips.

Now I understand that maybe you want to keep the gameplay diverse, but it's high time you all started accepting the notion that, just like in the real world, some things are going to be bigger and badder than others, some play builds are going to be BETTER than others, and if you're so het up on playing a ninja when the game is full of fifty foot high mountain-shattering leviathans, maybe you'd be better off going and playing Ninja MMORPG instead .
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Oct. 20th, 2009 @ 12:00 pm (no subject)
School Chief Sticks By 'Zero Tolerance' Ruling for Eagle Scout
The upstate New York school superintendent who suspended an Eagle Scout for 20 days for keeping a 2-inch utility knife locked in his car is unwilling to speak to the teen's family or bend in his ruling.....

Pray for justice for this boy and retribution for this wicked man.
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Oct. 20th, 2009 @ 11:37 am A chart worth contemplating

From this entry by Dr. Sanity.
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Oct. 14th, 2009 @ 06:10 am Received in Email....
Date: Saturday, October 10, 2009, 3:59 PM

Subject: My Trip to MEXICO

Dear Mr. President:
I'm planning to move my family and extended family into Mexico for my health, and I would like to ask you to assist me.

We're planning to simply walk across the border from the U.S. into Mexico , and we'll need your help to make a few arrangements.
We plan to skip all the legal stuff like visas, passports, immigration quotas and laws.

I'm sure they handle those things the same way you do here.

So, would you mind telling your buddy, President Calderon, that I'm on my way over?

Please let him know that I will be expecting the following:

1. Free medical care for my entire family.

2. English-speaking government bureaucrats for all services I might need, whether I use them or not.
3. Please print all Mexican government forms in English.

4. I want my grandkids to be taught Spanish by English-speaking (bi-lingual) teachers.
5. Tell their schools they need to include classes on American culture and history.

6. I want my grandkids to see the American flag on one of the flag poles at their school.

7. Please plan to feed my grandkids at school for both breakfast and lunch.

8. I will need a local Mexican driver's license so I can get easy access to government services..

9. I do plan to get a car and drive in Mexico , but, I don't plan to purchase car insurance, and I probably won't make any special effort to learn local traffic laws.

10. In case one of the Mexican police officers does not get the memo from their president to leave me alone, please be sure that every patrol car has at least one English-speaking officer.

11. I plan to fly the U.S. flag from my house top, put US. flag decals on my car, and have a gigantic celebration on July 4th. I do not want any complaints or negative comments from the locals.

12. I would also like to have a nice job without paying any taxes, or have any labor or tax laws enforced on any business I may start.

13. Please have the president tell all the Mexican people to be extremely nice and never say a critical things about me or my family, or about the strain we might place on their economy.

14. I want to receive free food stamps.

15. Naturally, I'll expect free rent subsidies.

16. I'll need Income tax credits so although I don't pay Mexican Taxes, I'll receive money from the government.

17. Please arrange it so that the Mexican Gov't pays $ 4,500 to help me buy a new car.

18. Oh yes, I almost forgot, please enroll me free into the Mexican Social Security program so that I'll get a monthly income in retirement.

I know this is an easy request because you already do all these things for all his people who come to the U.S. from Mexico . I am sure that President Calderon won't mind returning the favor if you ask him nicely.

Thank you so much for your kind help. You the man!!!

Joe American
Scottsdale, AZ
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Oct. 12th, 2009 @ 11:39 pm They Do Not Have to Break, to Destroy....
"After having thus successively taken each member of the community in its powerful grasp and fashioned him at will, the supreme power then extends its arm over the whole community. It covers the surface of society with a network of small, complicated rules, minute and uniform, through which the most original minds and the most energetic characters cannot penetrate, to rise above the crowd. The will of man is not shattered, but softened, bent, and guided; men seldom forced by it to act, but they are constantly restrained from acting. Such a power does not destroy, but it prevents existence; it does not tyrannize, but it compresses, enervates, extinguishes, and stupefies a people, till each nation is reduced to nothing better than a flock of timid and industrious animals, of which the government is the shepherd." --French historian Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859)
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Oct. 10th, 2009 @ 04:23 am Obama wins the Nobel Peace Prize?
....Well, he was the tenth caller....
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