You call 911. The voice on the other end is polite, urgent and confident. “A fire?” she says “We’ll have the fire department right there! Hold on!”
And sure enough, within 7 minutes you here the sirens and the trucks roar into the yard in less than 10.
Now. You only have an 80% chance that it even matters!
I know candy and sugar and stuff is bad horrible for me. I KNOW it.
And I know that when I eat garbage like that it only does more harm than it does good.
Except, for, you know, two things:
But when the government gets involved, BOOM goes the dynamite!
Posted in Education, Liberty, Politics: National, States Behaving Badly
Tagged Abuse of Power, Barack Obama, Health, Leftist, Minnesota, Nanny State, Socialism
Wanna know the only way to establish a monopoly?
Government regulations.
And I find it funny that the very same people who clamor when companies like Microsoft or Intel have a “strangle hold” on the market are the very same one who demand, DEMAND I tell you, that the government regulate a monopoly for something that they think needs regulating.
There are some that would have you believe that in order to ensure freedom, we must first restrict that same freedom.
That we must take a system that exists in the exact way and manner we desire, change it, all to make sure that it never changes into that condition it has never demonstrated.
And these are the same people that lobby for ever ore and more government. All in the noble name of “Freedom” and “Liberty”
My advice to you:
Beware the freedom fighter who approaches you with the chains of bondage.
Posted in Liberty, Lobby/PAC, Politics: National
Tagged Abuse of Power, Barack Obama, Internet, Leftists, Net Neutrality
With the advent of the Tea Party we’re seeing the tax debate being held more and more in the public square. I actually hear people talking about the “death tax” and “tax cut vs tax extension” in coffee shops and YMCAs.
I think it’s great.
However, in almost every single conversation, there is one aspect of the debate that I think gets left out; and it drives me crazy.
Posted in Liberty, Politics: National
Tagged Abuse of Power, Leftist, Taxes, Tea Party, Tyranny
It really started a long time ago. While the Democrats controlled the Senate with a bone crushing majority, they knew, they KNEW that they had to have 60 to pass Obamacare.
So, they id what they had to do, scheduled vote after vote and passed the thing in the dead of night on Christmas Eve. The bill wasn’t perfect, but they could send it to the House, tweak it, and get it through later.
But then Scott Brown won. So the only option left open was for the House to pass the Senate Bill as was. And they couldn’t do it.
Only they did.
But they knew then that what they had done was crap.
They knew it then.
Posted in Elections 2010, Health Care, Politics: National, Senate
Tagged Abuse of Power, Barack Obama, Politics
Okay, so turns out that there is a concept in law that describes how parts of laws and/or contracts are interpreted.
In law, severability (sometimes known as salvatorius, from Latin) refers to a provision in a contract which states that if parts of the contract are held to be illegal or otherwise unenforceable, the remainder of the contract should still apply. Sometimes, severability clauses will state that some provisions to the contract are so essential to the contract’s purpose that if they are illegal or unenforceable, the contract as a whole will be voided. However, in many legal jurisdictions, a severability clause will not be applied if it changes the fundamental nature of the contract, and that instead the contract will be void; thus, often this is not explicitly stated in the severability clause.
Severability clauses are also commonly found in legislation, where they state that if some provisions of the law, or certain applications of those provisions, are found to be unconstitutional, the remaining provisions, or the remaining applications of those provisions, will, nonetheless, continue in force as law.
Now, I didn’t know this. But I:
The fact that there are people in this world who have done either 1, 2 and/or 3 and STILL don’t know this rule about Severability is NOT my problem.
But it DOES speak volumes as to their qualifications to do any of the above!
Posted in Health Care, Politics: National, Raising Men
Tagged Abuse of Power, Barack Obama, Democrats, Leftist, These People Vote
When a robbery victim has the gall to try and get their money back!
See, when you’ve made the leap that you can relieve people of their money because you know how to better spend it, it’s WRONG when those people try to get it back.
So, when those people actually DO get their money back, the best course of action is to demonize them. And what better way to accomplish that than by releasing the hounds of war?
We’ve heard it before. I’m sure we’ll hear it again.
Wall Street banks and their greed caused the Great Recession. And what’s more, it’s those same banks, sitting on our money given to them via TARP, that are KEEPING us in recession because they won’t lend money!
Greedy bastards!
But is it true?
Posted in Economics, Economy, Elections 2010, Politics: National
Tagged Abuse of Power, Barack Obama, Recession, Stimulus, TARP
The main objection by folks who want the government to remain small is that money in the hands of individual people gets spent faster and better than money taken from those people to be spent at government discretion. Every single dollar the government spends is a dollar that has been taken from someone and handed to some government agency. For every $20 an hour job created by government there is one less $20 job in the private sector. It can’t be any other way. The government produces nothing.
But the argument is that when folks get scared and hoard their money, the government has to intervene, take their money and forcefully interject that money into the economy.
And fast.
But does it work that way?
Posted in Economy, Politics: National, States Behaving Badly
Tagged Abuse of Power, Barack Obama, Michigan, Stimulus