tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-47827699614617366062024-03-19T03:27:54.097-07:00Bite the Applemoihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07824043795171732429noreply@blogger.comBlogger990125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4782769961461736606.post-64563094921748861972014-12-12T15:44:00.001-08:002014-12-12T15:44:15.430-08:00All Killer, No Filler<a href="http://reason.com/blog/2014/12/11/georgia-man-killed-in-drug-raid-was-face">Georgia Man Killed in Drug Raid Was Face Down When Shot in Head, Says Family's Lawyer</a>moihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07824043795171732429noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4782769961461736606.post-27344847903108704692014-12-05T19:38:00.001-08:002014-12-05T19:38:42.739-08:00NO I'M NOT OLD—YOUR MUSIC REALLY DOES SUCKI like this song, though:<br />
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Anarchy means chaos. A truism that most folks on both sides of the aisle will gladly agree on. But does it really, or is it, as this gent points out, just a way to shock us all into fear and submission?<br />
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<i>Anarchy refers to a society without a central political authority. But
it is also used to refer to disorder or chaos. This constitutes a
textbook example of Orwellian news-speak in which assigning the same name
to two different concepts effectively narrows the range of thought. For
if lack of government is identified with the lack of order, no one will
ask whether lack of government actually results in a lack of order. And
this un-inquisitive mental attitude is absolutely essential to the case for the state. If people were ever to
seriously question whether government actions are really productive of
order, popular support for government would almost instantly collapse. The identification of anarchy with disorder is not a
trivial matter. The power of our conceptions to blind us to the facts
of the world around us cannot be gainsaid.</i><br />
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--John Hasnas, Professor of Business and Law, Georgetown University <br />
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I used to think limited government was the answer. Now I think NO GOVERNMENT is about the only logical next step.<br />
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moihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07824043795171732429noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4782769961461736606.post-37592661702545943212013-10-22T18:02:00.002-07:002013-10-22T18:02:22.049-07:00Still Pissed<a href="http://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/Some-Californians-Being-Dropped-by-Health-Insurance-Companies-227154411.html">Affordable For Whom?</a><br />
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Not just California. It's everyone I know. EVERYONE. Being dropped and being forced to pay more for less. <br />
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Biggest scam ever.moihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07824043795171732429noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4782769961461736606.post-48632947806061641682013-10-14T13:23:00.001-07:002013-10-14T13:28:40.813-07:00Haiku Monday: BareIt seems like years since I've played. But <a href="http://ramblingsfrommytyper.blogspot.com/">Rafael</a> called, so who can help but heed his requests?<br />
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Prada platforms flung,<br />
toe curls extrude warmth and wet.<br />
Mud stuck pedi cure. </div>
moihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07824043795171732429noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4782769961461736606.post-43245084213099481632013-10-05T08:09:00.004-07:002013-10-05T08:09:59.337-07:00Liar Liar Pants on Fire<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/wfl55GgHr5E" width="420"></iframe><br />
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"If you like your private healthcare plan, you can keep your plan. Period. Nothing in this plan will require you or your employer to change the coverage or the doctor you have."<br />
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Really? Then how come mine, a perfectly good, affordable plan that provided me with everything I needed and nothing I didn't was just canceled? Why am I now being forced into another plan whose premiums have tripled and my deductible doubled, and I have no idea what it covers because it doesn't tell me? (Although, they were awfully proud to tell me that I now have full coverage for maternity and mental health meds.) <br />
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A couple weeks prior to Obamination Care coming down, my Facebook feed was lousy with people yippee-skippying for this travesty. That stupid cartoon, remember that one? That explained to us idiotic, uncaring souls just why Obamacare was so<i> gooooooooood</i> for us? People thumping me on the head for not showing any compassion, for not <i>caaaaaaaarrring</i> that millions of people could now have insurance.<br />
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For days now, however, nothing but crickets chirping.<br />
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Dear America: how do you all like your shark-skinned savior now?<br />
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I'll check back in a couple months to check in with all you True Believers.moihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07824043795171732429noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4782769961461736606.post-82761512573316617082013-10-02T18:57:00.002-07:002013-10-02T19:01:11.673-07:00The Insanity Begins<h5 class="uiStreamMessage userContentWrapper" data-ft="{"type":1,"tn":"K"}">
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<i>"Thank you for being a Presbyterian Individual HMO Plan member. We have
some very important news that will require action on your part. The
Affordable Care Act (ACA) healthcare reform law requires all health
insurance plans to meet new requirements. Because of these new
requirements, your current Presbyterian Individual and Family Plan will
no longer be available after December 31, 2013."</i><br /> <br /> New. Requirements. According to WHOM? A bunch of bureaucrats who know better than I do what my health care needs are? <br /> <br />
Goes on to explain that I will only have two options from which to
choose: A plan that includes maternity, a plan that does not. That's it.
And, of course, no mention of costs. Those they'll spring on me when
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meantime, I should expect a "packet" in the mail very soon explaining
what the government now thinks is good for me, whether or not I actually
want—or even NEED—that coverage or not. Bye-bye high deductible $90 a month plan that has always done
exactly what I need it to do without putting me in the poor house.<br /> <br /> Hello . . . God only knows what . . .</span></span></span></span></span></h5>
moihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07824043795171732429noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4782769961461736606.post-76235737460523643712013-09-30T20:18:00.000-07:002013-09-30T20:18:14.264-07:00Breaking Sad<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />moihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07824043795171732429noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4782769961461736606.post-40382776305342443712013-09-22T06:28:00.000-07:002013-09-22T06:28:59.878-07:00Less Despairing of our FutureThis in a public education music class? I'm impressed.<br />
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moihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07824043795171732429noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4782769961461736606.post-17526449997365552412013-07-25T11:26:00.000-07:002013-07-25T11:26:11.842-07:00Pigs From a Gun<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Liberty is the default. Always. <a href="http://reason.com/archives/2013/07/25/giving-up-liberty-for-security">It's just not negotiable.</a></div>
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<br />moihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07824043795171732429noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4782769961461736606.post-89486160346535322902013-07-19T11:45:00.000-07:002013-07-19T11:45:43.467-07:00Mas Musica para la Revolucion<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/APgC6XYcmSY" width="420"></iframe><br />moihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07824043795171732429noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4782769961461736606.post-80605884181589781322013-05-21T05:21:00.000-07:002013-05-21T05:21:00.916-07:00Pray for Oklahoma<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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My heart goes out to Pam, Kym, and their families, friends, and everyone in Oklahoma City, Moore, and it's surrounding communities. So many people in that region have helped make S.B.'s company the success that it is, and we consider Oklahoma a second home. We are thankful that everyone we know there is safe, but so many others have suffered devastating losses. Please consider donating money to viable local charities and to the Red Cross to help these good folks try to piece their lives back together.moihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07824043795171732429noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4782769961461736606.post-42832503004778529482013-04-29T07:08:00.001-07:002013-04-29T07:08:15.829-07:00Insert Appropriate Who Lyric Here<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Chomsky nutshells Obama perfectly:<br />
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"What it is is the same kind of commitment to expanding executive power
that Cheney and Rumsfeld had. He kind of puts it in mellifluous terms
and there's a little difference in his tone. It's not as crude and
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The right wing votes those who make them feel superior, the left votes those who make them feel good. Neither are in power to help; just to perpetuate more power. Unless and until we have a third alternative, a party that leaves us ALONE, we're doomed.moihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07824043795171732429noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4782769961461736606.post-83236763212552571062013-04-21T06:25:00.001-07:002013-04-21T06:25:54.697-07:00Definitions Matter<div class="sblk">
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<span class="ssens">Quit overusing the word. Just because something happens to people, and they survive, does not make them heroes. Just because a person happens to walk into his back yard and discovers something completely by accident, does not make him a hero. In fact, it's insulting to those who truly ARE.</span></div>
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moihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07824043795171732429noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4782769961461736606.post-1948447418849704192013-04-19T09:55:00.001-07:002013-04-19T09:55:14.352-07:00Cone of Silence, Please<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Eye on the TV<br />
'cause tragedy thrills me<br />
Whatever flavor<br />
It happens to be like.<br />
Killed by the husband<br />
Drowned by the ocean<br />
Shot by his own son<br />
She used the poison in his tea<br />
And kissed him goodbye<br />
That's my kind of story.<br />
It's no fun 'til someone dies.<br />
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Don't look at me like<br />
I am a monster<br />
Frown out your one face<br />
But with the other<br />
Stare like a junkie<br />
Into the TV<br />
Stare like a zombie<br />
While the mother<br />
Holds her child<br />
Watches him die<br />
Hands to the sky crying<br />
Why, oh why?<br />
'cause I need to watch things die<br />
From a distance.</div>
moihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07824043795171732429noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4782769961461736606.post-43756223436123927582013-03-21T11:36:00.002-07:002013-03-21T11:48:03.487-07:00Hard Week's MonthOr something along those lines. I have no excuses. I've been busy, work piled up like dominoes, dog and family duties, and now Maddie in surgery for a series of tendons she busted running hell bent for leather after a coyote a couple weeks back. The surgeon guaranteed us an outcome that will have her back to her lil' ol' pistol self.<br />
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But not after 8–10 weeks of recuperation. In a <i>crate.</i><br />
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Yes.<br />
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Shoot me now.<br />
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And Louie is certainly <i>not</i> going to be happy. <br />
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<i>"Until the day I can once again play Doggie Smack Down with my sister and double team the squirrels with our ferocity, I will lie here in protest and refuse to move. But make sure I still get my snacks, okay?"</i><br />
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Typical Maddie. Always wants Louie's toys, sneaks in to get them, then walks away once she does. He don't care. He just wants her to looooooooooovvvvve him!<i> </i></div>
moihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07824043795171732429noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4782769961461736606.post-75952259483430440652013-03-07T05:55:00.002-08:002013-03-07T05:55:34.791-08:00Thought of the Day<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Miz Boxer is hosting this week, since she won last week's hot and heavy competition. <a href="http://anonymousboxer.blogspot.com/">Check it out. </a>Don't forget now, you hear? </div>
moihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07824043795171732429noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4782769961461736606.post-75662011230907367062013-02-20T05:48:00.004-08:002013-02-20T07:02:51.936-08:00Happy to Work on Maggie's Farm<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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If, as Paul Simon asserts, every generation throws a hero up the pop charts, what does that say about our generation?<br />
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For the first time in several years I watched the Grammy Awards from beginning to end, and the next morning bitched to S.B. about the alarming lack of passionate, middle-finger-to-the-establishment protest music emanating from today's youthful musicians. <br />
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Apparently, Nick Gillespie of Reason Magazine pondered the exact same thing, concluding in <a href="http://reason.com/archives/2013/02/18/hey-kids-tonight-youre-young-tomorrow-yo">this piece</a> that for the first time in popular music history, our youth—and youthful musicians—are embracing the status quo, rather than rebelling against it.<br />
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I don't hear any outrage emanating from the airwaves, that's for sure. No "California Über Alles" for the 21st Century, no NWA, no Clash, no Guns 'n' Roses, no Rage Against the Machine. Hell, we don't even have a Bob Dylan. About ten years ago, Ministry put out a brilliantly raging, anti-George Bush diatribe masquerading as speed metal. But ever since Obama came into office, crickets have done nothing but chirp. Instead, all I hear are over-inflated Pot Tarts screeching different versions of the same old love-gone-wrong laments and belly button lint contemplating guitar slung crooners reveling in the kind of post-teen ennui that involves a lot of pot and mom and dad's basement. For rock music we have, what, Coldplay? Train?<br />
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Sure, there has always been pop music, the kind of no-brainer stuff that's simply meant to be catchy. I'm fine with that. I own a lot of ABBA and I think Kelly Clarkson is the bomb. But they are not rock and roll. Rock and roll, by its very nature, is supposed to flip off the establishment, not suck at its teat.<br />
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Am I wrong? <br />
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1. Yes, you are wrong. Obama has ushered in the Grand Age of Shiny Happy, and because everyone is going to be taken care of, there is no reason to be angry.<br />
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2. No, you're not. Obama has ushered in the Age of Dependence, and our youth, instead of seeing authority as something to rebel against, sees it as a means by which they get to pay the rent without getting off the sofa.<br />
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3. I have no idea. All I wanna do is dance.moihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07824043795171732429noreply@blogger.com27tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4782769961461736606.post-404048083960751452013-02-13T06:22:00.001-08:002013-02-13T06:22:24.837-08:00Fuzzy MathGary Johnson's statement regarding the Obamanator's State of the Union Address:<br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span class="userContent">"What we didn’t hear tonight was a President telling the truth about
the real state of the Union: that we are broke -- and that he and the
Congress are succeeding only in digging us deeper into a financial hole
that is, in reality, the single greatest threat to the nation’s
well-being. <br /> <br /> “Rather, we once again heard the tired argument that <span class="text_exposed_show">the
challenges we face can somehow best be met by more government that
costs more and taxes more. We’ve tried that. In fact, we’ve tried it
so hard and so long that we have a debt totaling more than $90,000 for
every worker in America. <br /> <br /> “And while he spent an hour laying
out a mind-boggling list of things the government should do, from
‘investing’ in infrastructure, technology and energy to helping parents
pick the best college for their kids, he assured us his plans will not
increase the deficit by ‘a single dime’. <br /> <br /> “That is absurd on its face, and could only be based on the same arithmetic that has given us a $16 Trillion debt. <br /> <br />
“Once again, we witnessed a great political performance wrapped around
promises that shouldn’t be made in the first place, and that we
certainly cannot afford to keep.”</span></span></span><br />
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The ever enterprising <a href="http://boblandedits.blogspot.com/">Czar</a> is hosting this go-round. The theme is broad, the possibilities endless. So give it a thought and a go.</div>
moihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07824043795171732429noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4782769961461736606.post-28997823271646213882013-02-06T05:58:00.000-08:002013-02-06T05:59:36.481-08:00Git Yer Tin Foil Hats<div style="text-align: center;">
<a href="http://openchannel.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/02/04/16843014-exclusive-justice-department-memo-reveals-legal-case-for-drone-strikes-on-americans?lite">When they kick at your front door—wait, they won't have to. </a><br />
They'll just drone strike ya.</div>
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