Well, now I’ve seen it all, when it comes to left wing financial lunacy. In France, a major candidate for President (Jean-Luc Melenchon) is calling for a 100% tax on earnings over £300,000.
Gee, I wonder what the Frenchies who are smart, productive soles earning a good wage are going to do? Ummmm, I’m betting they either pack their bags and go someplace else where they can continue to be productive and be compensated for it, ooorrrrr, they will simply stop earning more than £300,000. And what effect will that have on the French society? How many jobs will be created by having their productive folks leave the country? How many jobs will be generated by folks who intentionally earn less than £300,000 because there is no point, it will be taken from them euro by euro.
Let’s just think about this for a second. All the new expensive purchases that would have been made with the over £300,000 of income will evaporate. The jobs for those folks who make these items will evaporate with them. For the productive folks who leave the country, they will continue to make the purchases, but they will be made in other countries by other folks. This is a lose lose proposition.
This plan is monumentally STUPID! Only from the mind of a LPSC (liberal/progressive/socialist/communist) could an idea like this be put forth without realizing that it would be an unmitigated disaster. The real money makers in France would be leaving there so fast there would be a vapor trail behind them. When was the last time anyone got a job paying anything close to a decent wage from a poor person? I can answer that for you…….NEVER!!!!!
The French economy, like the majority of Europe, has been destroyed by the LPSCs over the past 50 years. As we are seeing in Greece, Spain and Italy, and to a lesser degree the rest of Europe, they are on the edge of collapse. Their heels are over the edge of the precipice and they are grasping at straws to save themselves. Then you get some legwarmer wearing LPSC like Melenchon come along and play to the indolent class with a concept like this and it’s like trying to put out a fire by throwing gas on it.
One of the major reasons these socialistic economies are headed down the porcelain appliance is because their governments have been either promising “freebies” to their citizens, or they’ve been forcing companies into giving their populace “freebies”, which of course are NOT free. NOTHING is free! Everything must be paid for.
The LPSCs have controlled the education system in most of Europe for a very long time. They have, in my opinion, intentionally not taught their citizenry how economics actually work (remind you of any other country?). This lack of education means that when LPSCs like Melenchon talk about people having too much money and they should confiscate through taxation everything over X amount, these ignorant folks don’t realize the rippling impact of such plans. They sell the idea that these punitive taxes will generate millions in revenue for the governments so they can give more and more to the indolent, when in fact these gains will be a onetime thing.
Pavlov proved there is learned stimulus response. You can believe me when I tell you that the folks these punitive taxes are aimed at are some of the best at learning their environments and responding in a way that will be best for them. If you think that they will work hard at being creative and productive so that someone else will receive the benefits, then clearly, you’ve never been the victim of any such scheme. The very first thing the creative and productive folks will do is put that creative and productive talent to work hiding or moving funds that would be put at risk or the processes whereby they generate those funds. And what does that mean for those who are looking to the largess of a LPSC government for their existence? It means there will be even less money available for the indolent class.
And what does recent history tell us those who have been trained to suckle at the central government teat for their existence do when they can no longer get what they want? Why I believe Greece has shown you exactly what will happen.
Abraham Lincoln said “You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich.” It is as true today as the day he said it.
November is coming. Choose wisely, as we have our own LPSCs like France’s Melenchon.
Thursday, March 29, 2012
Wednesday, March 7, 2012
War On Women - Or Great Misdirection
Well now, I’ve been listening to all the brouhaha about the Republican’s “War on Women” and Rush Limbaugh’s indelicate comments about Ms. Fluke. I’ve followed many liberal friends’ comments on Facebook about how awful this and that is, and while I agree that Limbaugh’s comments were insensitive and out of line, but I think most folks are missing the point.
This isn’t about a War on Women. Hell, it isn’t even about women! By allowing certain folks to frame the issue as if it were, is to allow them to draw the attention away from the real issue.
And that is, can the government, which so adamantly believes in the separation of church and state that it actively seeks to keep any semblance of religion out of government, force itself into the workings of a church? Can it force a church to act contrary to its moral beliefs?
I would personally say No!
The state has no right to force this upon a church. To force the church to use its resources to pay for something that is morally abhorrent to its beliefs is crossing the line of separation that has been so fervently drawn. Those who are advocating this seem to think that crossing it in the opposite direction is OK. Well I’m here to say it’s not! To cross it in one direction is as bad as it is to cross it the other. Just like these folks don’t want the church to be involved in government, the government should not be involved in church.
The case at hand is whether the government can force Catholic institutions to provide contraceptive services to individuals employed by them or in Ms. Fluke’s case, attending their school. The answer should be emphatically NO!
It is a well-known fact that that the Catholic Church is steadfastly against birth control. It has held this position for centuries. In Ms. Fluke’s case, she enrolled in Georgetown University knowingly or reasonably should have known that Georgetown University would not provide birth control services as part of its health plan. Georgetown University is not the only school in the country in which Ms. Fluke could have obtained a law degree. It isn’t even the cheapest school she could have gotten a law degree from. Yet she chose to attend this school knowing or should have known that these services are not provided.
I venture to say that this is not, as many would have you believe, a women specific issue either. The folks who are making a fuss about this are claiming this is a war against women, but I would bet you that the Catholic Church doesn’t pay for condoms and most likely doesn’t pay for vasectomies. So how is this discriminatory against women? The Catholic Church and its institutions are not going to assist anyone in the use of artificial means of birth control, be they male or female. But the folks trying to force government into more and more of our lives can’t gin up near as much moral outrage if they tell the truth, that this is even handed treatment.
In an effort to mollify the dumb Catholics, President Obama said the Church didn’t have to supply the birth control services, he would make the insurance companies supply the services for free. His problem here was the Catholics weren’t as dumb as he thought. Unlike the President’s followers, they realized that nothing is free. Everything has to be paid for one way or another. The insurance company will increase what it is charging the institution to cover the cost of the birth control, and we are right back where we started. The government forcing the church (through the fees it is paying for the service) to do something it is morally opposed to.
This isn’t a Republican War On Women! This is a war being waged by socialists to insinuate the government into areas of our society that the Constitution expressly prohibits it from.
Whether you agree with the Catholic Church’s position on birth control or not, you should be supporting them if you believe in a limited government. One that stays out of your personal life and lets you make the major life choices you are faced with.
Or at least that’s the way it seems to an old farm boy.
This isn’t about a War on Women. Hell, it isn’t even about women! By allowing certain folks to frame the issue as if it were, is to allow them to draw the attention away from the real issue.
And that is, can the government, which so adamantly believes in the separation of church and state that it actively seeks to keep any semblance of religion out of government, force itself into the workings of a church? Can it force a church to act contrary to its moral beliefs?
I would personally say No!
The state has no right to force this upon a church. To force the church to use its resources to pay for something that is morally abhorrent to its beliefs is crossing the line of separation that has been so fervently drawn. Those who are advocating this seem to think that crossing it in the opposite direction is OK. Well I’m here to say it’s not! To cross it in one direction is as bad as it is to cross it the other. Just like these folks don’t want the church to be involved in government, the government should not be involved in church.
The case at hand is whether the government can force Catholic institutions to provide contraceptive services to individuals employed by them or in Ms. Fluke’s case, attending their school. The answer should be emphatically NO!
It is a well-known fact that that the Catholic Church is steadfastly against birth control. It has held this position for centuries. In Ms. Fluke’s case, she enrolled in Georgetown University knowingly or reasonably should have known that Georgetown University would not provide birth control services as part of its health plan. Georgetown University is not the only school in the country in which Ms. Fluke could have obtained a law degree. It isn’t even the cheapest school she could have gotten a law degree from. Yet she chose to attend this school knowing or should have known that these services are not provided.
I venture to say that this is not, as many would have you believe, a women specific issue either. The folks who are making a fuss about this are claiming this is a war against women, but I would bet you that the Catholic Church doesn’t pay for condoms and most likely doesn’t pay for vasectomies. So how is this discriminatory against women? The Catholic Church and its institutions are not going to assist anyone in the use of artificial means of birth control, be they male or female. But the folks trying to force government into more and more of our lives can’t gin up near as much moral outrage if they tell the truth, that this is even handed treatment.
In an effort to mollify the dumb Catholics, President Obama said the Church didn’t have to supply the birth control services, he would make the insurance companies supply the services for free. His problem here was the Catholics weren’t as dumb as he thought. Unlike the President’s followers, they realized that nothing is free. Everything has to be paid for one way or another. The insurance company will increase what it is charging the institution to cover the cost of the birth control, and we are right back where we started. The government forcing the church (through the fees it is paying for the service) to do something it is morally opposed to.
This isn’t a Republican War On Women! This is a war being waged by socialists to insinuate the government into areas of our society that the Constitution expressly prohibits it from.
Whether you agree with the Catholic Church’s position on birth control or not, you should be supporting them if you believe in a limited government. One that stays out of your personal life and lets you make the major life choices you are faced with.
Or at least that’s the way it seems to an old farm boy.
Saturday, March 3, 2012
Chevy Volt: The American Volga
Reading the headlines this morning, I see where General (Government) Motors has decided to halt the production of the Chevy Volt. They say they were looking to sell 45,000 Volts this year and so far, through 2 months, they have sold 1626. By my calculations they are behind schedule by 5,874 units or 13% of projection. This after General Electric (I’m sure you remember GE, the company that is such a huge backer of our current White House occupant, the company that took tax dollars and sent production to China, the company that paid NO taxes last year, the company who’s president was on President Obama’s jobs council and sent jobs to China, that GE) told their employees who drove company cars or were given car allowances, they would only be able to drive Chevy Volts. Any thing else the company wouldn’t pay for.
Now the Chevy Volt was touted by GM and our current administration as this wondrous end all, be all car. One that would run on only electricity, save the environment, cure cancer and defeat islamo-fascism, Now I’m certain that the build quality of the car is acceptable. I haven’t heard of the bumpers falling off or there being unacceptable gaps where parts come together. The fact that the car will just catch on fire is probably due to inherent design flaws rather than shoddy construction. So don’t take this the wrong way, I’m not ragging on the folks who actually build the cars. But lets face facts. Who the hell wants to spend $45,000 on a car that can go about 35 miles on a single charge? I couldn’t make it to work and back on a single charge. While my employer is an OK outfit and is in fact a quasi governmental agency, I don’t believe they are going to install a charging station for me so I can charge the damn thing up and get back home, and even if they did, I’m willing to bet they are going to make it a pay station. They may be willing to pay for my coffee, I don’t think they are going to supplement my commuting expenses. Shoot, if they would do that, why not have them pay for my tires or 70% of my insurance since to and from work is probably about 70% of my mileage.
Let’s face it, once again, government central planning can’t dictate what the consumer is willing to pay for in a society where they still have free choice. Sure, in the old USSR everyone drove a piece of crap Moskvitch or Volga, but then they didn’t really have any other choice. Here in the US, we are not forced to drive what our “betters” might want us to.
When free choice is at play, the market will dictate what will be successful.
Now a conspiracy nut might think that the current administration was trying to rig the game by colluding to raise the price of gas in order to force the market to seek something like the Volt. They might look at the fact that our current President’s energy secretary is on the record for wanting American gas prices to be similar to those in Europe as being confirmation of same. They might take the Presidents own words of not wanting the price to rise so fast (not that he didn’t want it to rise, he just didn’t want them to rise so fast) as further verification. (Fast rises make people mad ya’ know, while slow gradual rises don’t engender hue and outcry.) This same nut might even look at the Administration’s active efforts to hold down domestic oil production so we would be more dependent on costly foreign oil as more evidence.
Once again, Big Government Radical Leftists in conjunction with the Radical Environmentalists (you know them, the folks who used to be the communist/socialists before the fall of the USSR) have tried to socially engineer our country in the direction they think we must go. And yet again their efforts have proven to be 180 degrees out of phase with America.
Now I wouldn’t mind these libtards building and marketing these vehicles, as long as they did it with their own money. If they think their idea’s time has come, they should put their own money at risk and produce it. If they are right, they will become bazillionaires. And I will be happy for them. Honest!
But why do they have to use your and my tax money? I don’t believe the technology is where it needs to be for America to embrace an electric car. I’m not opposed to an electric car on principle. I’m opposed to it because it doesn’t meet my needs as it exists today. When you build me a car that will run 300 miles on a charge and will recharge in 5 minutes. One that is fun to drive, well then sign me up.
Until then, just put your leg warmers back on and get the hell outta my face and quit wasting my tax dollars.
Volt workers, I’m sorry you are out of work, but don’t blame the American public, blame the dumb ass central planner mentality that thought they could force this on the public in the first place. They should have spent the money and brain power on developing more oil here in the US at a cheaper price so folks would buy more regular cars. Then you would still be working building them.
Or at least that’s the way an old farm boy sees it.
Now the Chevy Volt was touted by GM and our current administration as this wondrous end all, be all car. One that would run on only electricity, save the environment, cure cancer and defeat islamo-fascism, Now I’m certain that the build quality of the car is acceptable. I haven’t heard of the bumpers falling off or there being unacceptable gaps where parts come together. The fact that the car will just catch on fire is probably due to inherent design flaws rather than shoddy construction. So don’t take this the wrong way, I’m not ragging on the folks who actually build the cars. But lets face facts. Who the hell wants to spend $45,000 on a car that can go about 35 miles on a single charge? I couldn’t make it to work and back on a single charge. While my employer is an OK outfit and is in fact a quasi governmental agency, I don’t believe they are going to install a charging station for me so I can charge the damn thing up and get back home, and even if they did, I’m willing to bet they are going to make it a pay station. They may be willing to pay for my coffee, I don’t think they are going to supplement my commuting expenses. Shoot, if they would do that, why not have them pay for my tires or 70% of my insurance since to and from work is probably about 70% of my mileage.
Let’s face it, once again, government central planning can’t dictate what the consumer is willing to pay for in a society where they still have free choice. Sure, in the old USSR everyone drove a piece of crap Moskvitch or Volga, but then they didn’t really have any other choice. Here in the US, we are not forced to drive what our “betters” might want us to.
When free choice is at play, the market will dictate what will be successful.
Now a conspiracy nut might think that the current administration was trying to rig the game by colluding to raise the price of gas in order to force the market to seek something like the Volt. They might look at the fact that our current President’s energy secretary is on the record for wanting American gas prices to be similar to those in Europe as being confirmation of same. They might take the Presidents own words of not wanting the price to rise so fast (not that he didn’t want it to rise, he just didn’t want them to rise so fast) as further verification. (Fast rises make people mad ya’ know, while slow gradual rises don’t engender hue and outcry.) This same nut might even look at the Administration’s active efforts to hold down domestic oil production so we would be more dependent on costly foreign oil as more evidence.
Once again, Big Government Radical Leftists in conjunction with the Radical Environmentalists (you know them, the folks who used to be the communist/socialists before the fall of the USSR) have tried to socially engineer our country in the direction they think we must go. And yet again their efforts have proven to be 180 degrees out of phase with America.
Now I wouldn’t mind these libtards building and marketing these vehicles, as long as they did it with their own money. If they think their idea’s time has come, they should put their own money at risk and produce it. If they are right, they will become bazillionaires. And I will be happy for them. Honest!
But why do they have to use your and my tax money? I don’t believe the technology is where it needs to be for America to embrace an electric car. I’m not opposed to an electric car on principle. I’m opposed to it because it doesn’t meet my needs as it exists today. When you build me a car that will run 300 miles on a charge and will recharge in 5 minutes. One that is fun to drive, well then sign me up.
Until then, just put your leg warmers back on and get the hell outta my face and quit wasting my tax dollars.
Volt workers, I’m sorry you are out of work, but don’t blame the American public, blame the dumb ass central planner mentality that thought they could force this on the public in the first place. They should have spent the money and brain power on developing more oil here in the US at a cheaper price so folks would buy more regular cars. Then you would still be working building them.
Or at least that’s the way an old farm boy sees it.
Sunday, February 26, 2012
Religion O Peace Part Deux
Well I think it is time to revisit the "religion of peace" in light of the past week's happenings. Rioting, killing, looting and threats over the burning of some qurans at the Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan.
So first off, why were these books burned? They had been pulled from the shelves of a detention center (that would be a place where islamic extremists are held) library because they contained extremist messages or inscriptions.
It is a sin in this cult to deface this book. Who do you suppose put those extremist messages or inscriptions in them at the detention center? I'm willing to bet dollars to donuts it was some islamic dirt bag! I seriously doubt we went in and put extremist messages in these books inciting them to violence against ourselves.
So what then were we to do with these books that had been defaced by their own cultist believers? Well according to their own beliefs, the only thing that can be done with one of these books once it has been defiled (by their own people in this case) is to burn or bury them.
Now our esteemed President has been falling all over himself to apologize for what happened to these books that are the life guide for the most savage and backward cult to have come along in the last 2000 years. When in fact what we did with them is what they themselves call for once the damn things have been desecrated. In this case by their own people.
Now I grant you that burning and burying in the dump was a bit insensitive, but they were burned and buried. As called for by their cult. (Again, these were a few of the millions of copies of this book. They were not of any historical note or value. Other than they were copies of the daily life guide for these sickos, they were of no more significance than your average Gideon's Bible you might find in any hotel room across America.)
So how do these psycho lunatics respond? They do what they always do! They go bat $hit crazy. Whipped into a murderous rage by their so called "religious" leaders.
They have been rioting and pillaging and killing for nearly a week at this point over what? The destruction of $25 (my estimate on wholesale cost) worth of books. This from the "religion of peace"! Patooie! What a load of hog wash!
I've been told that in this cult, there is a passage similar to the golden rule. You know, do unto others as you would have done to you. And yet I guess it must be another case of whose ox is being gored. For when you look at what these radical bastards due to other religions, if the rest of us would follow their lead, we would be fully justified in wiping them from the face of the planet.
I remember the taliban destroying thousands of years old,I believe it was Hindu, statues because it didn't fit their beliefs! They were a LOT more valuable than those damn books.
They regularly burn Christian Bibles (http://plancksconstant.org/blog1/2010/09/muslims_burn_bibles_routinely_and_often.html), and kill their believers (http://www.compassdirect.org/english/country/somalia/16692). Not that they had done anything other than to not believe their cult.
And how do their "holy men" inspire them to act? As rational actors in the world? No! They incite their stone age developmental followers to acts of savagery! They want their followers to "wipe Israel off the map" (http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4194444,00.html).
For the crime of destroying a couple of books they feel just retribution would be the burning of the White House (http://www.haaretz.com/news/middle-east/iran-military-official-only-burning-white-house-can-make-up-for-burning-koran-1.414765).
In Libya they desecrated WWII British graves because of books that were burned by Americans. (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2106230/Insult-WWII-heroes-Graves-British-soldiers-smashed-desecrated-Libyan-Islamists-protest-U-S-soldiers-Koran-burning.html) The Brits didn't have anything to do with the burning of the damned books. And oh by the way, if it weren't for the British and the Americans these a$$holes would still be living under Mo Kadaff's benevolent rule!
Religion of Peace, give me a break! These crazy bastards wouldn't know real peace or religion if it came up to them and kissed them!
At least that's the way this old farm boy sees it.
So first off, why were these books burned? They had been pulled from the shelves of a detention center (that would be a place where islamic extremists are held) library because they contained extremist messages or inscriptions.
It is a sin in this cult to deface this book. Who do you suppose put those extremist messages or inscriptions in them at the detention center? I'm willing to bet dollars to donuts it was some islamic dirt bag! I seriously doubt we went in and put extremist messages in these books inciting them to violence against ourselves.
So what then were we to do with these books that had been defaced by their own cultist believers? Well according to their own beliefs, the only thing that can be done with one of these books once it has been defiled (by their own people in this case) is to burn or bury them.
Now our esteemed President has been falling all over himself to apologize for what happened to these books that are the life guide for the most savage and backward cult to have come along in the last 2000 years. When in fact what we did with them is what they themselves call for once the damn things have been desecrated. In this case by their own people.
Now I grant you that burning and burying in the dump was a bit insensitive, but they were burned and buried. As called for by their cult. (Again, these were a few of the millions of copies of this book. They were not of any historical note or value. Other than they were copies of the daily life guide for these sickos, they were of no more significance than your average Gideon's Bible you might find in any hotel room across America.)
So how do these psycho lunatics respond? They do what they always do! They go bat $hit crazy. Whipped into a murderous rage by their so called "religious" leaders.
They have been rioting and pillaging and killing for nearly a week at this point over what? The destruction of $25 (my estimate on wholesale cost) worth of books. This from the "religion of peace"! Patooie! What a load of hog wash!
I've been told that in this cult, there is a passage similar to the golden rule. You know, do unto others as you would have done to you. And yet I guess it must be another case of whose ox is being gored. For when you look at what these radical bastards due to other religions, if the rest of us would follow their lead, we would be fully justified in wiping them from the face of the planet.
I remember the taliban destroying thousands of years old,I believe it was Hindu, statues because it didn't fit their beliefs! They were a LOT more valuable than those damn books.
They regularly burn Christian Bibles (http://plancksconstant.org/blog1/2010/09/muslims_burn_bibles_routinely_and_often.html), and kill their believers (http://www.compassdirect.org/english/country/somalia/16692). Not that they had done anything other than to not believe their cult.
And how do their "holy men" inspire them to act? As rational actors in the world? No! They incite their stone age developmental followers to acts of savagery! They want their followers to "wipe Israel off the map" (http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4194444,00.html).
For the crime of destroying a couple of books they feel just retribution would be the burning of the White House (http://www.haaretz.com/news/middle-east/iran-military-official-only-burning-white-house-can-make-up-for-burning-koran-1.414765).
In Libya they desecrated WWII British graves because of books that were burned by Americans. (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2106230/Insult-WWII-heroes-Graves-British-soldiers-smashed-desecrated-Libyan-Islamists-protest-U-S-soldiers-Koran-burning.html) The Brits didn't have anything to do with the burning of the damned books. And oh by the way, if it weren't for the British and the Americans these a$$holes would still be living under Mo Kadaff's benevolent rule!
Religion of Peace, give me a break! These crazy bastards wouldn't know real peace or religion if it came up to them and kissed them!
At least that's the way this old farm boy sees it.
Saturday, January 21, 2012
The Great DC Rat Diaspora
All right, I know it’s been a loooonnnnggg time since I’ve posted, for the few of you out there who actually care, I’ll try to improve.
Now, I was just looking over the headlines on Drudge when one in particular got my goat, so to speak. It reads “MD moves against DC to ban rat trafficking”. Now at first blush, I would have thought that might be a headline, not out of Maryland, but one from some SE Asian exotic food story. But sadly no. It is a story about another case of the environmental wacko left running amuck.
Ya see, in Washington DC they have passed a law that forces pest control personnel, when dealing with a rat problem, NOT to kill the rats, but rather to capture them. And not only are they to capture the rats ALIVE, they are to attempt to capture the rat family so as not to break up the nuclear family unit. (I don’t believe they specify if that is just the momma, poppa, kids family unit or if it’s the extended family unit. You know, grandpa, grandma and all 11,000 aunts, uncles and cousins.) Heaven forbid we should traumatize baby rat, because poppa rat didn’t make the move along with the rest of the family.
I mean not just the loss that Junior would feel when poppa didn’t come with, but just imagine poppa rat coming home after a hard day on the job, crawling through sewer pipes and dumpsters to find that his family has been ratnapped! I can see the movie now. Liam Nesson will play poppa rat as he rages through DC looking for his family, accosting cats at every turn. It’ll be great!
Now not only does the law require that the pest control folks live capture the rats, but they must then be transported to another location and released. And thus the headline.
Now Maryland and Virginia are both expecting problems with DC area pest control folks driving over the boarder and just releasing the damn things. So they are taking steps to close the boarder to rat trafficing. This will undoubtedly lead to the rise of rat coyotes. I can see a whole underground arising, much like on the Arizona/California border with Mexico. Now instead of illegal immigrants coming to the US it will be undocumented rats being spirited across the border from DC into Maryland and Virginia. Imagine the movies that Hollywood can make here with the heroic coyotes, fighting against the evil government trying to keep the poor displaced rat families from being able to reach their potential in the paradises of Maryland and Virginia. Who will they choose for the lead role Peter Coyote? Danny Trejo?
(Wow, I just realized, this may not be wacko environmentalists at work, it might be part of President Obama’s job creation program! Not only will it create a whole new class of jobs, but will give plenty of fodder for his pals in Hollywood to make more liberal clap trap movies.)
All seriousness aside. What in the world were these people thinking when they wrote this law? Haven’t they ever heard of the Black Plague? Over population of rats is a major problem for everyone involved. They are insidious in their ability to get any and everywhere.
To write a law that forbids their extermination is bad enough, but to then release the problem on some other community is criminal!
If I were a legislator in a state bordering in DC, I would introduce a law stating that anyone caught transporting rats across state lines for any purpose other than to use them in laboratory research would be prosecuted as a terrorist. Additionally, I would have the law consider anyone inciting another to do so would also be considered a terrorist and arrest them on site within my states borders. (That would be the folks who lobbied for this stupid ass law, those who wrote it and those who voted in favor of it.)
Now, I was just looking over the headlines on Drudge when one in particular got my goat, so to speak. It reads “MD moves against DC to ban rat trafficking”. Now at first blush, I would have thought that might be a headline, not out of Maryland, but one from some SE Asian exotic food story. But sadly no. It is a story about another case of the environmental wacko left running amuck.
Ya see, in Washington DC they have passed a law that forces pest control personnel, when dealing with a rat problem, NOT to kill the rats, but rather to capture them. And not only are they to capture the rats ALIVE, they are to attempt to capture the rat family so as not to break up the nuclear family unit. (I don’t believe they specify if that is just the momma, poppa, kids family unit or if it’s the extended family unit. You know, grandpa, grandma and all 11,000 aunts, uncles and cousins.) Heaven forbid we should traumatize baby rat, because poppa rat didn’t make the move along with the rest of the family.
I mean not just the loss that Junior would feel when poppa didn’t come with, but just imagine poppa rat coming home after a hard day on the job, crawling through sewer pipes and dumpsters to find that his family has been ratnapped! I can see the movie now. Liam Nesson will play poppa rat as he rages through DC looking for his family, accosting cats at every turn. It’ll be great!
Now not only does the law require that the pest control folks live capture the rats, but they must then be transported to another location and released. And thus the headline.
Now Maryland and Virginia are both expecting problems with DC area pest control folks driving over the boarder and just releasing the damn things. So they are taking steps to close the boarder to rat trafficing. This will undoubtedly lead to the rise of rat coyotes. I can see a whole underground arising, much like on the Arizona/California border with Mexico. Now instead of illegal immigrants coming to the US it will be undocumented rats being spirited across the border from DC into Maryland and Virginia. Imagine the movies that Hollywood can make here with the heroic coyotes, fighting against the evil government trying to keep the poor displaced rat families from being able to reach their potential in the paradises of Maryland and Virginia. Who will they choose for the lead role Peter Coyote? Danny Trejo?
(Wow, I just realized, this may not be wacko environmentalists at work, it might be part of President Obama’s job creation program! Not only will it create a whole new class of jobs, but will give plenty of fodder for his pals in Hollywood to make more liberal clap trap movies.)
All seriousness aside. What in the world were these people thinking when they wrote this law? Haven’t they ever heard of the Black Plague? Over population of rats is a major problem for everyone involved. They are insidious in their ability to get any and everywhere.
To write a law that forbids their extermination is bad enough, but to then release the problem on some other community is criminal!
If I were a legislator in a state bordering in DC, I would introduce a law stating that anyone caught transporting rats across state lines for any purpose other than to use them in laboratory research would be prosecuted as a terrorist. Additionally, I would have the law consider anyone inciting another to do so would also be considered a terrorist and arrest them on site within my states borders. (That would be the folks who lobbied for this stupid ass law, those who wrote it and those who voted in favor of it.)
Wednesday, October 5, 2011
Occupy From Who?
I recently saw a sign for an "organizing meeting" to "occupy" Chapel Hill. For those of you who do not know Chapel Hill, NC, it is kind of a toned down Berkley CA. It is the place that Jesse Helms, among others, referred to as "hippie hill" and suggested they build a fence around it.
So when I read the sign, my first reaction was, "Occupy it from who?" The left wing loons already control the entire Chapel Hill/Carrboro/Southern Orange County region. Carrboro is so out of step with America they call themselves "The Paris of the Piedmont!"
As an example of what im talking about, in the Chapel Hill / Carrboro area, the public transportation system charges no fee for ridership. It is supported from the general funds, which means property taxes. I don't have the facts to back this up, but I'd bet you an Outback Steakhouse dinner that less than 5% and probably less than 3% of the ridership has ever paid a penny it property tax in Chapel Hill or Carrboro.
The politburos, I mean the city councils of both towns have done their level best to stifle business growth in the area. When Wally World wanted to build in the area, neither would allow them in. So they were forced to go just across the county line and build a nice big shopping mall. That mall then served to be an attractant to two more shopping malls in the same area of Durham county. The taxes from all of these businesses have gone into Durham county's coffers, not Orange county's and Chapel Hill or Carrboro's. Taxes that could have limited the need for the exorbitant taxes that property owners in the area are saddled with.
I know, I know, if I'm so displeased with the taxes, why don't I move? Fair question.
The truth of the matter is, my work keeps me in the area. My kids kept me in the school district (supposedly one of the best in the state and nation, thought I think the scores they base it on are accounted for more by the SES of the parents than the quality of the instruction). And now the housing market is less than optimal for changing residences. The final, and possibly the biggest anchors keeping me in CH are I like my house and neighborhood and I'm just too damned lazy to move.
But I seem to have strayed from my original question. Just who is it these folks intend on "occupying" Chapel Hill from? Virtually everything in the area is already tilted against all the things that made it possible for the country to develop to the point that these Utopian eyed socialists can exist without producing anything of real value to the society. And if they get what they claim they want, the country will degenerate to the point it will no longer be able to support such parasites. They will then be forced to develop skills that will be desired by others, that they will then be able to barter for their subsistence. Won't that be a shock to their delicate sensibilities!
I can only assume that these folks are intending to do this in an effort to get themselves on the evening news. Showing once again how sensitive and caring they are while displaying their total lack of understanding of how the world works. Yet another counterproductive effort from the unproductive class.
So when I read the sign, my first reaction was, "Occupy it from who?" The left wing loons already control the entire Chapel Hill/Carrboro/Southern Orange County region. Carrboro is so out of step with America they call themselves "The Paris of the Piedmont!"
As an example of what im talking about, in the Chapel Hill / Carrboro area, the public transportation system charges no fee for ridership. It is supported from the general funds, which means property taxes. I don't have the facts to back this up, but I'd bet you an Outback Steakhouse dinner that less than 5% and probably less than 3% of the ridership has ever paid a penny it property tax in Chapel Hill or Carrboro.
The politburos, I mean the city councils of both towns have done their level best to stifle business growth in the area. When Wally World wanted to build in the area, neither would allow them in. So they were forced to go just across the county line and build a nice big shopping mall. That mall then served to be an attractant to two more shopping malls in the same area of Durham county. The taxes from all of these businesses have gone into Durham county's coffers, not Orange county's and Chapel Hill or Carrboro's. Taxes that could have limited the need for the exorbitant taxes that property owners in the area are saddled with.
I know, I know, if I'm so displeased with the taxes, why don't I move? Fair question.
The truth of the matter is, my work keeps me in the area. My kids kept me in the school district (supposedly one of the best in the state and nation, thought I think the scores they base it on are accounted for more by the SES of the parents than the quality of the instruction). And now the housing market is less than optimal for changing residences. The final, and possibly the biggest anchors keeping me in CH are I like my house and neighborhood and I'm just too damned lazy to move.
But I seem to have strayed from my original question. Just who is it these folks intend on "occupying" Chapel Hill from? Virtually everything in the area is already tilted against all the things that made it possible for the country to develop to the point that these Utopian eyed socialists can exist without producing anything of real value to the society. And if they get what they claim they want, the country will degenerate to the point it will no longer be able to support such parasites. They will then be forced to develop skills that will be desired by others, that they will then be able to barter for their subsistence. Won't that be a shock to their delicate sensibilities!
I can only assume that these folks are intending to do this in an effort to get themselves on the evening news. Showing once again how sensitive and caring they are while displaying their total lack of understanding of how the world works. Yet another counterproductive effort from the unproductive class.
Wednesday, September 21, 2011
The Tyranny Of The Majority By The Liberal Minority
I've been thinking about the current state of the country and in some ways, I get quite depressed. In particular, I'm depressed by the current trend in this country where the many are living under the tyranny of the few.
I understand this country was founded to protect the rights of the weak from the tyranny of the strong, but this whole principal seems to have been bastardized and turned on it's head. Now, the majority of Americans, on virtually any topic, tip toe around on egg shells in order to avoid hurting one group or another's sensibilities. This, while the minority groups are not only allowed, but encouraged to exhibit the most outlandish behaviors and the larger groups sensibilities be damned.
Well I'm hear to call "Bullshit" on this trend. This country was created and became great because it looked out for the little guy's rights to worship and behave generally as they like so long as they didn't interfere with someone else's rights to do the same. There was never meant to be any guarantee against someone being offended.
Somehow or another, this has been incorrectly morphed into "Thou shall not offend the smaller group!" They use concepts like the separation of church and state (which coincidentally is not in the Constitution) to bully us into not saying Merry Christmas or having In God We Trust on our money. This is a terrible perversion of the original intent when the founders said "We shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion".
This was never meant to keep religion or God out of government. It was there in order to say the government couldn't choose one religion over another.
Certain groups have used this morphed abomination to allow themselves, with their willing accomplices, liberal lawyers and judges, to cry foul when the majority of folks don't act exactly as they want them to.
This happens when organizations want to celebrate Christmas and they sue because they are atheists or because they are Druids. This happens when somebody or some group says "I don't like what President Obama has done to the economy." They will claim racism. (In reality, most of these folks can't even correctly define racism: the belief in the inherent superiority of one race over another.) This is what many liberals have done in an effort to discredit the Taxed Enough Already party, when they can't actually defeat them in the open arena of ideas.
This awful epidemic has spread it's way throughout our society to where it has infected every facet of life, from government, to schools, to business. It's time this country came to it's senses. Yes you have the right to believe what you want and the right to say virtually anything, no matter how bat $hit crazy it is, so long as you are not slandering another person. However, you need to recognize that the next guy has the same right as you do.
Just remember, the stuff someone is saying in your presence may offend you, but they have the right to say it. And did you ever stop to consider that the crap pouring out of your pie hole probably offends them every bit as much as you are are offended by what they say.
But I would guess the answer to that is a big fat NO! Because for the folks who are constantly playing the "offended victim" card, it's all about them and to Hell with everyone else who disagrees with them.
Or maybe I'm just having a bad decade. What do ya' think.
I understand this country was founded to protect the rights of the weak from the tyranny of the strong, but this whole principal seems to have been bastardized and turned on it's head. Now, the majority of Americans, on virtually any topic, tip toe around on egg shells in order to avoid hurting one group or another's sensibilities. This, while the minority groups are not only allowed, but encouraged to exhibit the most outlandish behaviors and the larger groups sensibilities be damned.
Well I'm hear to call "Bullshit" on this trend. This country was created and became great because it looked out for the little guy's rights to worship and behave generally as they like so long as they didn't interfere with someone else's rights to do the same. There was never meant to be any guarantee against someone being offended.
Somehow or another, this has been incorrectly morphed into "Thou shall not offend the smaller group!" They use concepts like the separation of church and state (which coincidentally is not in the Constitution) to bully us into not saying Merry Christmas or having In God We Trust on our money. This is a terrible perversion of the original intent when the founders said "We shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion".
This was never meant to keep religion or God out of government. It was there in order to say the government couldn't choose one religion over another.
Certain groups have used this morphed abomination to allow themselves, with their willing accomplices, liberal lawyers and judges, to cry foul when the majority of folks don't act exactly as they want them to.
This happens when organizations want to celebrate Christmas and they sue because they are atheists or because they are Druids. This happens when somebody or some group says "I don't like what President Obama has done to the economy." They will claim racism. (In reality, most of these folks can't even correctly define racism: the belief in the inherent superiority of one race over another.) This is what many liberals have done in an effort to discredit the Taxed Enough Already party, when they can't actually defeat them in the open arena of ideas.
This awful epidemic has spread it's way throughout our society to where it has infected every facet of life, from government, to schools, to business. It's time this country came to it's senses. Yes you have the right to believe what you want and the right to say virtually anything, no matter how bat $hit crazy it is, so long as you are not slandering another person. However, you need to recognize that the next guy has the same right as you do.
Just remember, the stuff someone is saying in your presence may offend you, but they have the right to say it. And did you ever stop to consider that the crap pouring out of your pie hole probably offends them every bit as much as you are are offended by what they say.
But I would guess the answer to that is a big fat NO! Because for the folks who are constantly playing the "offended victim" card, it's all about them and to Hell with everyone else who disagrees with them.
Or maybe I'm just having a bad decade. What do ya' think.
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