April 15, 2013
— Monty

UPDATE: (via Instapundit) The terrifying reality of long-term unemployment. It won't be long before chronic joblessness is classified as a disability; then going on SSDI will be nothing more than a legal formality instead of fraud. I do disagree with this, however:
It's time for the government to start hiring the long-term unemployed. Or, at the least, start giving employers tax incentives to hire the long-term unemployed. The worst possible outcome for all of us is if the long-term unemployed become unemployable. That would permanently reduce our productive capacity.The last thing we need is another harebrained government employment program...which we don't have the money for anyhow.
The one number you need to know in Obama's budget.
Under ObamaÂ’s budget, in 2020 interest payments alone would amount to more than national-defense spending in that year. By 2023, interest payments alone would amount to more than all nondefense discretionary spending in that year.
Retirement? Don't count on it. I don't -- I've known since my teen years that Social Security was a lie, and that if I wanted to retire, I'd have to do so on my own savings. And since I don't know how long I'll live or what my expenses will be when I'm old, I'll simply work as long as I'm able to.
The problem with Barack Obama isn't that he's an economic illiterate -- he's hardly unique among lawmakers in that respect. The real problem is that he thinks he understands just fine. Barack Obama is a vain man, and nowhere is his vanity stronger than in his own intellect. He really thinks he's the smartest guy in the room.
Margaret Thatcher predicted the failure of the Euro twenty years ago. She was a woman of protean gifts, a formidable clearsightedness primary among them.
The financial networks have an attention span like a toddler on a sugar-high, and like most others in the media they spin madly to advance the liberal narrative on the economy. The recent upswing in equities has them in a tizzy, but the fact is that the stock market is illustrating stagnation, not recovery.
It's become apparent that many workers, having exhausted their unemployment benefits, are simply transitioning to SSDI. And once in that program, they are for all intents and purposes divorced from the work force permanently -- not many in SSDI ever re-enter the workforce. Fraud in the program is rampant, aided by compliant doctors and lax regulators.
Yes, Virginia, America still makes stuff. Quite a lot of stuff, as a matter of fact. It's just that we no longer need as many people to make all this stuff as we used to.
The blue-on-blue civil war that Walter Russell Mead has been predicting is underway. Public-sector pensioners are going to start consuming an ever-larger part of municipal and state funds, and there's no way local governments can raise taxes enough to cover the shortfall. So other things will have to give, and those things are likely to be programs that liberals like: the bookmobile, meals on wheels, stuff like that. Eventually they'll have to start cutting into muscle: public safety, roads, and other services. In other words, cities (like Stockton, CA) will fail at their basic job of providing protection and public services to their citizens...all so they can keep sending money to people who no longer work for them.
If you come out of school owing $100,000 in student debt, that's pretty much the equivalent of owing a mortgage on a house. Except that you don't have a house; you have four years of an education that may nor may not be worth the debt you took on to get it. Buying a house means borrowing another couple of hundred grand (or so)...and you may find that banks are unwilling to extend that kind of credit to a twentysomething with high debt and uncertain job prospects.
Dear France: HA HA HA HA! Hope you're enjoying that socialist paradise you voted for. It sounds like the Frenchies need to re-read Orwell's Animal Farm.
The Eurozone crisis is back? I've got news for you: the Eurozone crisis never went away.
China's economy continuing to slow. And given how unreliable the economic numbers out of China are, I bet the news is a lot worse than they're letting on.
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Posted by: Professor Unrat at April 15, 2013 04:19 AM (uLCJ+)
Posted by: Tobacco Road at April 15, 2013 04:21 AM (4Mv1T)
Posted by: Typical Low-Info Dem at April 15, 2013 04:21 AM (JQuNB)
Posted by: Tobacco Road at April 15, 2013 04:22 AM (4Mv1T)
Posted by: Count de Monet at April 15, 2013 04:23 AM (BAS5M)
Posted by: JDTAY at April 15, 2013 04:25 AM (a0nis)
Posted by: Cicero Kid at April 15, 2013 04:25 AM (026j9)
Posted by: Kevin Bacon at April 15, 2013 04:25 AM (SSWdi)
Posted by: Emile Antoon Khadaji at April 15, 2013 04:25 AM (6NIyO)
Posted by: Cicero Kid at April 15, 2013 04:26 AM (026j9)
Posted by: Harrison Bergeron at April 15, 2013 04:31 AM (JQuNB)
Posted by: zsasz at April 15, 2013 04:32 AM (MMC8r)
THAT is the problem. Really, the whole problem. I cannot understand why so few seem to grasp this fully. You cannot possibly work with someone who really thinks himself all but omniscient; he's the grown up, everyone else is at best, just a naughty, stupid child. He will never grasp what anyone else is trying to tell him as, from his point of view, there is no reason for him to do so. He already understands, about anything, far more than you can. He even understands what you believe better than you do yourself.
The King of Pointland is our ruler.
Posted by: George LeS at April 15, 2013 04:32 AM (C4s3i)
Posted by: Tobacco Road at April 15, 2013 08:22 AM (4Mv1T)
Really not a lot to say about the decline - when all is said and done it's every one look to their own interests as best as they can. Me, I'm moving to the best area of the country as soon as possible. To delay the bad stuff coming for as long as possible.
Posted by: tubal at April 15, 2013 04:33 AM (BoE3Z)
Posted by: Lincolntf at April 15, 2013 04:34 AM (ZshNr)
Posted by: fluffy, doom aficionado at April 15, 2013 04:35 AM (z9HTb)
Posted by: Winston at April 15, 2013 04:36 AM (FggW0)
"Under ObamaÂ’s budget, in 2020 interest payments alone would amount to more than national-defense spending in that year. By 2023, interest payments alone would amount to more than all nondefense discretionary spending in that year."
This will break us. Not in 2050 or 2075, but in the lifetime of most people now alive. It's coming like a hundred car freightrain with no brakes.
I say this all the time. Obama is an economic illiterate. I hope all the academics that regularly give him tongue baths will appreciate his goodness and intelligence when the economy goes "ooomph" and throws up all over them
Michael Beschloss, you lying bastard, I am looking at you.
Posted by: Reader C.J. Burch writes more nonsense..... at April 15, 2013 04:36 AM (RFeQD)
Posted by: Tobacco Road at April 15, 2013 08:22 AM (4Mv1T)
You'd have been #1 if you didn't have to mouth the big words.....
Posted by: MY Times style writer looking down on the South at April 15, 2013 04:36 AM (/WLC3)
Slight disagreement about the blue on blue civil war...
The first instinct of the blue sector is to raise taxes, I agree. But when it comes time to cut, their instinct is to cut the essential services first, so as to punish the unruly taxpayers for being unwilling to send more of their checks to the government.
So I disagree that the B on B civil war is underway, since there's still political mileage to be had for blaming conservatives for being unwilling to agree to tax hikes which, in their telling, consequently requires cuts to police and fire departments.
Posted by: Sandra Fluke at April 15, 2013 04:37 AM (eytER)
Posted by: haikuizer at April 15, 2013 04:38 AM (SSWdi)
Posted by: fluffy at April 15, 2013 04:39 AM (z9HTb)
But other than his vanity, his golf swing, his pitching arm, his jump shot, his layup, his head-swiveling teleprompter speech delivery, his silibant sssss, his socialism, his birth certificate, his bike riding, his umbrella wielding, his expressive wrist flapping coming down AF1's stairs, . . .
he's a swell fellow.
Posted by: Count de Monet at April 15, 2013 04:40 AM (BAS5M)
Posted by: Fritz at April 15, 2013 04:40 AM (UzPAd)
there is NO RoR on our voluntarily surrendered/deferred purchasing power bud....
er uh "apple slices!" you'll get less than 2% RoR and like it!
//Emperor Giggles MomJeans noMoney II
Posted by: sven10077@sven10077 at April 15, 2013 04:40 AM (LRFds)
Posted by: Flyguy at April 15, 2013 04:40 AM (35x9C)
Posted by: somejoe at April 15, 2013 04:40 AM (SSWdi)
"He really thinks he's the smartest guy in the room."
Just the room? I suspect Barry considers his superiority to extend somewhat farther.
Posted by: otho at April 15, 2013 04:42 AM (9gNQd)
Posted by: Mr. Pink at April 15, 2013 04:42 AM (++kZl)
-- Barack Obama
Posted by: Washington Nearsider at April 15, 2013 04:42 AM (fwARV)
OT but funny:
I helped a friend install an adjustable-height basketball hoop over the weekend. It has a crank thingy that raises and lowers the hoop and backboard.
There are now three marked heights on the crank:
-Competition height (highest setting)
-Children's height (Mid range)
-Obamaball (lowest)
Posted by: @JohnTant at April 15, 2013 04:43 AM (eytER)
We sent Lez Warren to the Hill to fix it...
the Sven J Olafson weather forecast involves fire and brimstone and pain....
"Burn"
Posted by: sven10077@sven10077 at April 15, 2013 04:46 AM (LRFds)
Posted by: Mr. Pink at April 15, 2013 08:42 AM (++kZl)
I have. What I think doesn't matter - I have friends who are pissed off 24/7 about the state of the state - bitch and complain constantly. Means shit around here. Why raise your blood pressure for nothing? It's like the piss-boy seething against Louis Quatorze. Better to move the bucket once in a while, and let His Majesty piss on his own foot.
Posted by: tubal at April 15, 2013 04:47 AM (BoE3Z)
Posted by: blaster at April 15, 2013 04:48 AM (GBWoT)
Posted by: DiogenesLamp at April 15, 2013 04:49 AM (bb5+k)
Posted by: HeatherRadish™, very old maid at April 15, 2013 04:50 AM (/kI1Q)
Posted by: backhoe at April 15, 2013 04:50 AM (ULH4o)
Posted by: blaster at April 15, 2013 08:48 AM (GBWoT)
Stock up on the things that matter. Love, family, ammo, food.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider at April 15, 2013 04:51 AM (fwARV)
Posted by: DiogenesLamp at April 15, 2013 04:51 AM (bb5+k)
Posted by: Suppressed Flasher at April 15, 2013 04:51 AM (X+nFp)
Now I know why it was called Beethoven's Fifth. He was drinking as he wrote the lyrics:
duh duh duh DOOM.
duh duh duh DOOM
Posted by: Seamus Muldoon is a solid man (link in nick) at April 15, 2013 04:51 AM (pxDth)
And I am sure that most of us prior military already read commander salamander on a regular basis.
But, I offer a link from the Front Porch that gives some insight into the direction we are going with our senior leaders.
Enjoy, or not
http://tinyurl.com/d7aozqd
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 15, 2013 04:51 AM (Hdt3V)
And a better electorate.
Posted by: HeatherRadish™, very old maid
Meh, to late for that...look what they just did.
Posted by: Gmac - Waiting for the revolution at April 15, 2013 04:52 AM (IanLz)
Posted by: Mainah at April 15, 2013 04:53 AM (659DL)
Posted by: DiogenesLamp at April 15, 2013 04:53 AM (bb5+k)
Posted by: mindful webworker, off-topic in under-100 at April 15, 2013 04:54 AM (ktPHV)
Posted by: DiogenesLamp at April 15, 2013 04:54 AM (bb5+k)
OT (sort of) - News from the weekend:
President Barack Obama was able to throw a basketball into the ocean from a rowboat two times out of twenty-one attempts on Saturday. The White House Press Corps gave him a 15 minute standing ovation.
Posted by: Seamus Muldoon is a solid man (link in nick) at April 15, 2013 04:56 AM (pxDth)
Posted by: somejoe at April 15, 2013 04:57 AM (SSWdi)
Ah yes. CBD must be in the house.
Posted by: Tobacco Road at April 15, 2013 04:57 AM (4Mv1T)
Posted by: Oldsailors Poet is no longer shamelessly hawking his book Amy Lynn available on amazon. at April 15, 2013 04:58 AM (l86i3)
"South Florida residents are being warned to be on the lookout for one of the world's most destructive invasive species: the giant African land snail, which can grow as big as a rat."
And
"The snails also carry a parasitic rat lungworm that can cause illness in humans, including a form of meningitis, Feiber said, although no such cases have yet been identified in the United States."
Perhaps mankind's only hope is that Chinese gypsum in Florida homes may kill the damn things.
From
http://tinyurl.com/cd35zo4
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 15, 2013 04:59 AM (Hdt3V)
Posted by: Suppressed Flasher at April 15, 2013 04:59 AM (X+nFp)
If government were more focused on the citizen rather than the investor and foreign entanglements, then college would be free, and they could subsidize home purchase for new graduates and the housing boom would start up, except this time it would be for the people!
Posted by: Peggy Jean from Santa Rosa at April 15, 2013 04:59 AM (/WLC3)
Posted by: Velvet Ambition at April 15, 2013 04:59 AM (R8hU8)
Posted by: Tobacco Road at April 15, 2013 05:00 AM (4Mv1T)
Posted by: DiogenesLamp at April 15, 2013 08:53 AM (bb5+k)
--- Texas!
Posted by: Velvet Ambition at April 15, 2013 05:01 AM (R8hU8)
Posted by: Tobacco Road at April 15, 2013 08:57 AM (4Mv1T)
[just to make sure...it was said with affection and humor, and without any malign intent]
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 15, 2013 05:01 AM (/WLC3)
In other news, the price of gold is collapsing, a bear market in gold has arrive.
World price has plunged through the $1400 an ounce mark.
(from a link at Drudge)
I read a report from Newmont that predicted $1100 an ounce gold by year's end.
Keep your powder dry and be ready to buy sometime this year. The price collapse is a signal to get ready to buy. It appears that the PIIGS and Cyprus may be selling off some of their gold reserves to raise cash. When this ends, prices will stabilize and begin to climb again.
Hold on to your butts!
Posted by: Reader C.J. Burch writes more nonsense..... at April 15, 2013 05:02 AM (RFeQD)
Posted by: occam at April 15, 2013 05:02 AM (Vns6X)
I even considered changing my nic to Johnny Reb. I hadn't heard that since I was a wee lad, till you mentioned it a few weeks ago.
Posted by: Tobacco Road at April 15, 2013 05:03 AM (4Mv1T)
Posted by: Suppressed Flasher at April 15, 2013 05:04 AM (X+nFp)
Posted by: Baldy at April 15, 2013 05:04 AM (opS9C)
Posted by: HeatherRadish™, very old maid at April 15, 2013 05:04 AM (/kI1Q)
Posted by: Seamus Muldoon is a solid man (link in nick) at April 15, 2013 05:04 AM (pxDth)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at April 15, 2013 05:05 AM (AgRBF)
Oh, but Tobacco Road is subtle, and evocative of a different time.
I love it.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 15, 2013 05:05 AM (/WLC3)
the giant African land snail, which can grow as big as a rat."
*****
A snail is nothing more than a slug in a Winnebago.
Posted by: Seamus Muldoon is a solid man (link in nick) at April 15, 2013 05:07 AM (pxDth)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at April 15, 2013 05:08 AM (AgRBF)
Posted by: Suppressed Flasher at April 15, 2013 05:09 AM (X+nFp)
"You cannot possibly work with someone who really thinks himself all but omniscient; he's the grown up, everyone else is at best, just a naughty, stupid child"
As others have noted, it's not just "Teh Won", but an entire strata of American society now believes themselves to be the annointed ones...
To be certain, this isn't new - the early 20th Century saw an explosion of "progressive" idiots in every field - but the scale and scope of government was far, far less in everyday life (at least until the 18th Amendment - which should be serving as a stark reminder of Government failure)
Posted by: Kitty Frontage, previously known as Jess1 at April 15, 2013 05:09 AM (lbiWb)
Posted by: HoboJerky, now with 74% more DOOM! at April 15, 2013 05:09 AM (FsUAO)
Posted by: Anthony L. at April 15, 2013 05:09 AM (bl6Iq)
Posted by: Seamus Muldoon is a solid man (link in nick) at April 15, 2013 05:09 AM (pxDth)
Posted by: Hrothgar at April 15, 2013 05:10 AM (Cnqmv)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at April 15, 2013 05:11 AM (AgRBF)
Posted by: Suppressed Flasher at April 15, 2013 05:12 AM (X+nFp)
Posted by: Washington Nearsider at April 15, 2013 05:13 AM (fwARV)
Put a bounty on them. 25¢ for each whole snail, payable to anyone 10-14 years old.
At that age, I would have spent all of my waking hours on that project.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 15, 2013 05:13 AM (/WLC3)
Posted by: Hrothgar at April 15, 2013 05:13 AM (Cnqmv)
Posted by: DiogenesLamp at April 15, 2013 05:14 AM (bb5+k)
Posted by: Oldsailors Poet is no longer shamelessly hawking his book Amy Lynn available on amazon. at April 15, 2013 05:14 AM (l86i3)
83the giant African land snail, which can grow as big as a rat."
Just wait until they make the evolutionary leap and learn to fly!
Posted by: Cicero Kid at April 15, 2013 05:15 AM (026j9)
Posted by: Hrothgar at April 15, 2013 05:15 AM (Cnqmv)
Posted by: Oldsailors Poet is no longer shamelessly hawking his book Amy Lynn available on amazon. at April 15, 2013 05:15 AM (l86i3)
Managed to crank out 2,800 words yesterday. Poor Sluggor is finding his tongue hanging out his mouth because Moonlight Rain is merely sitting across the table from him.
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at April 15, 2013 05:16 AM (AgRBF)
Posted by: Hrothgar at April 15, 2013 05:17 AM (Cnqmv)
Check with AlextheChick, but ask nicely or you will get an emu in the mail....
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 15, 2013 05:17 AM (/WLC3)
Posted by: HoboJerky, now with 74% more DOOM! at April 15, 2013 05:17 AM (FsUAO)
Posted by: Fritz at April 15, 2013 05:17 AM (UzPAd)
Posted by: Oldsailors Poet is no longer shamelessly hawking his book Amy Lynn available on amazon. at April 15, 2013 05:17 AM (l86i3)
http://is.gd/uZt0zS
Posted by: HeatherRadish™, very old maid at April 15, 2013 05:17 AM (/kI1Q)
Posted by: Suppressed Flasher at April 15, 2013 05:18 AM (X+nFp)
--
I could've written this exact statement about myself. Word for word. After a couple of months, I drifted back, too. Like rubbernecking a car wreck, I guess. Fox is off my radar completely. Perma-mute is also in strong force at my house. The split second I hear any of those people, my rage-o-meter just explodes and the mute it on before they get out the first syllable. Of course, then I still feel the need to verbally assault them with an intense hatred I've never felt for anyone in my life.
Posted by: Lady in Black at April 15, 2013 05:18 AM (3V9LU)
A snail is nothing more than a slug in a Winnebago.
*****
Or as we call them here in Colorado between Memorial Day and Labor Day:
"People from Kansas."
(I'm kidding, Teej)
Posted by: Seamus Muldoon, a solid man at April 15, 2013 05:18 AM (pxDth)
Posted by: Oldsailors Poet is no longer shamelessly hawking his book Amy Lynn available on amazon. at April 15, 2013 05:19 AM (l86i3)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at April 15, 2013 05:19 AM (AgRBF)
Posted by: Brian "unwashed" Johnson at April 15, 2013 05:19 AM (3K3Md)
Posted by: Cicero Kid at April 15, 2013 09:15 AM (026j9)
We used to catch rats in the early morning (while cleaning the pool at a swim club) and stun them with carefully thrown kick boards. Then we would fling them into the pond next door. Our joke was that we had discovered a new species of flying rat.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 15, 2013 05:20 AM (/WLC3)
Posted by: zsasz at April 15, 2013 05:20 AM (MMC8r)
Posted by: Anthony L. at April 15, 2013 05:20 AM (bl6Iq)
This to the nth degree
Posted by: TheQuietMan at April 15, 2013 05:20 AM (1Jaio)
Posted by: Tsar Nicholas II at April 15, 2013 05:21 AM (r2PLg)
"growth baby!"
"The boom is BACK!"
Posted by: sven10077@sven10077 at April 15, 2013 05:21 AM (LRFds)
Posted by: Oldsailors Poet is no longer shamelessly hawking his book Amy Lynn available on amazon. at April 15, 2013 05:22 AM (l86i3)
I'll be gone a bunch this week carry on my insane work.
Posted by: sven10077@sven10077 at April 15, 2013 05:22 AM (LRFds)
Posted by: Cicero Kid at April 15, 2013 09:15 AM (026j9)
******
Sort of like a flying squid, only with a butt helmet.
Posted by: Seamus Muldoon, a solid man at April 15, 2013 05:22 AM (pxDth)
Posted by: Citation X driver at April 15, 2013 05:23 AM (hhAGy)
Posted by: Suppressed Flasher at April 15, 2013 05:24 AM (X+nFp)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at April 15, 2013 05:24 AM (AgRBF)
I'm tired of reliving The Forgotten Man.
Posted by: Jay in Ames at April 15, 2013 05:24 AM (i2Lsf)
Posted by: HeatherRadish™, very old maid at April 15, 2013 05:25 AM (/kI1Q)
"The boom is BACK!"
XOM is moving a bunch of folks from here (NoVa) to Houston over the next two years, and it's funny to listen to the "whaddyamean houses don't sell in three days" comments from the DC area denizens.
Posted by: Kitty Frontage, previously known as Jess1 at April 15, 2013 05:25 AM (lbiWb)
Posted by: zombie Thomas Jefferson at April 15, 2013 05:26 AM (bl6Iq)
No this is far far far worse.
In GD version 1.0 we did not have a government class happily devouring massive percentages of our manufacturing and economic capacity in the name of Mother Gaia, quite the opposite they were engaging in things like the TVA which while still fucking retarded, inefficient and a waste of time had SOME productive potential no matter how wildly and grossly inefficient....
no this new and improved fucktardery is unique in the annals of written records in western civ.
We've never had a great leap backward on purpose before.
Posted by: sven10077@sven10077 at April 15, 2013 05:27 AM (LRFds)
Posted by: Oldsailors Poet is no longer shamelessly hawking his book Amy Lynn available on amazon. at April 15, 2013 05:27 AM (l86i3)
Posted by: ashley Judd at April 15, 2013 05:28 AM (XvrTA)
Posted by: toby928© for TB at April 15, 2013 05:29 AM (QupBk)
*checks bank account online. IRS not raided it yet for taxes*
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at April 15, 2013 05:30 AM (AgRBF)
I don't think they will be allowed to return to mean ever or by "ever" I mean in my useful lifetime.
You lack the power to legally murder your banker.
The Feds do not, literally or metaphorically.
Brave New World Baby.
Posted by: sven10077@sven10077 at April 15, 2013 05:31 AM (LRFds)
Posted by: Castle Guard at April 15, 2013 05:31 AM (BAS5M)
Posted by: mindful webworker, off-topic in under-100 at April 15, 2013 05:31 AM (YLiN/)
Posted by: DiogenesLamp at April 15, 2013 05:32 AM (bb5+k)
my best defense is "how many of my posts try to make a point?"
Which is a far, far lower number and more the reason why the 5th amdmt was invented rather than a strong logical defense....
"heh"
Posted by: sven10077@sven10077 at April 15, 2013 05:34 AM (LRFds)
Posted by: Oldsailors Poet is no longer shamelessly hawking his book Amy Lynn available on amazon. at April 15, 2013 05:34 AM (l86i3)
Heh. You would think there would be a limit to the schadenfeude I feel when the dunderkinds that voted to have a corrupt low-level Chicago ward-heeler as the chief executive discover that he implements the pay-to-play-Chicago-Way, but there isn't.
Posted by: toby928© for TB at April 15, 2013 05:38 AM (QupBk)
Posted by: Hrothgar at April 15, 2013 05:42 AM (Cnqmv)
Posted by: Anthony L. at April 15, 2013 05:45 AM (bl6Iq)
Posted by: Baldy at April 15, 2013 05:46 AM (opS9C)
The daughter of the Aunt who died at 93 recently is fighting with my MIL over life insurance MIL got which she figures should pay for funeral.
Crazy uncle still fantasizing that he'll get any money.
Wife went to visit her parents this weekend, just visited last weekend after they got back from Detroit. She said all they did was bitch about the way the house was , tidied, repainted etc. Came home because she couln't stand another minute, had a headache and slept half the evening.
On the plus side she seems to appreciate me a lot more. Heh !
FIL got a truck from BIL, now he wants my truck saddlebox, but they're going to buy him one for his birthday next week. He'll just put all his junk and tools in the back seat anyway. MIL doesn't want the saddlebox, junk or tools or anything.
Keep in mind I don't hear even half of what goes on, nor do I want to.
Posted by: Bill sometimes Bill from Canada at April 15, 2013 05:46 AM (jIeDg)
I suspect that one could do more good with the judicious application of a baseball bat to certain people than all the rhetoric spouted.
Reasoning with them seems to be unproductive.
Posted by: irongrampa at April 15, 2013 05:50 AM (SAMxH)
Posted by: mindful webworker, pixel manipulator at April 15, 2013 05:52 AM (6B4ha)
Posted by: Anthony L. at April 15, 2013 05:56 AM (bl6Iq)
Posted by: Avi at April 15, 2013 06:01 AM (St5/6)
Now all that remains is to see if the vocal opposition translates into the physical.
Of the 62 counties here, 57 (at last count) are in opposition, along with 81% of county and local LEOs.
Enforcement will be key, pending the outcome of the various lawsuits.
Be an interesting summer.
Posted by: irongrampa at April 15, 2013 06:02 AM (SAMxH)
Posted by: ejo at April 15, 2013 06:13 AM (GXvSO)
Wow! Well, that was a great way to start your week... and to think I was missing the DOOM.
I'm off to buy can goods and ammo...
Posted by: Freedomlost at April 15, 2013 06:21 AM (qZ464)
The really sad thing is that with people like Biden in the room with him, it may be true. I suspect that Obama intentionally picks stupid people for his cabinet so he can be the smartest in the room.
Posted by: zmdavid at April 15, 2013 06:34 AM (Vdfe0)
Posted by: Zombie John Gotti at April 15, 2013 07:20 AM (Gkhxf)
I know more than a few French citizens. Most of them are really smart, and hard workers. They have an attitude about them, for sure, but they're certainly not socialists.
How it must suck to be them, these days. To live in any of these Utopian Nightmares that your idiotic neighbors voted for, must be horrible.
It's bad enough here, with Wrongway Peachfuzz at the helm. I cannot imagine being a conservative Greek, Spaniard, Frenchman, etc.
Posted by: RobM1981 at April 15, 2013 07:49 AM (FgxCS)
I share an office with a guy who thinks he's the smartest guy in the room. Hell, he's not even the smartest guy in this office. He loves telling people how smart he is. He can't grasp that you shouldn't have to tell people that.
I once was giving a performance appraisal to a guy, and was required to ask the stock question of what he thought his greatest attribute was.
He replied, "My great intelligence."
It was all I could do to keep from laughing. He was by far the dumbest guy in my department, and I had accepted him there on a personal request from my boss to try to get some use out of him.
Posted by: Jay Guevara at April 15, 2013 08:22 AM (IDSI7)
Anyone that consistently displays a penchant for believing that the government should do something to solve a problem that was basically CREATED by the government needs to have the shit beat out of them. Really.
Posted by: Blacque Jacques Shellacque at April 15, 2013 09:36 AM (vd7A8)
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Posted by: Professor Unrat at April 15, 2013 04:17 AM (uLCJ+)