leave it to Steyn
Friday, February 03, 2012
Attack of the Branch Gorevidians
The unintended consequences of being green...........
Students at a high school in Boca Raton, Florida, must step over rivers of urine and endure the stench of rancid waste after a plan to bring 'green' waterless urinals into bathrooms backfired.
School officials at Spanish River High School thought they had found an environmentally-friendly, cost-saving solution for their bathrooms when they installed Falcon Waterfree urinals in their boys bathrooms.
But with no water moving through the school's copper pipes to flush the urine into the sewer system, the waste produced noxious gases that ate through the metal, leaving leaky pipes that allowed urine to drip into walls and flow onto floors.
'It was pretty disgusting,' school board chairman Frank Barbieri told the South Florida Sun-Sentinel.
'The girls had to step over a river of urine. I could smell it as soon as I walked into the hallway.'
Thursday, February 02, 2012
Why your kid's college costs 40 gabillion dollars a year
Because your school is doling out money for this............
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Through it all, Jim Tressel never lost his charm.As he worked the room the way he did for a decade as Ohio State’s coach, delighting students and faculty members, school trustees and Akron’s president with stories of past successes and plans for the future, Tressel felt like he had come back home.
“This,” he said, “is a second chance.”
Tressel is back on campus. He’s starting over where he began.
Tressel, forced to resign in disgrace last May amid a cash-for-tattoos scandal at Ohio State that toppled the football powerhouse, was introduced Thursday as Akron’s new vice president of strategic engagement, — a position created just for him.
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Why I don't worry about the poor
It's been fashionable for the past 24 hours to rip Mitt Romney for "not worrying about the poor". But frankly, I'm not worrying a whole lot either.
Why? Let me share this anecdote......
On my way back from a client meeting, I stopped in a local carry out for some gum.
In front of me was a lard ass picking up her Code Red and bag of chips. Now I wouldn't care one iota about someone buying this crap........except that it wasn't her buying it.............. it was me and the rest of our taxpayer's who paid for this skank's nutrition fill.
When I came out of the store she was wedging her ass into a moderately aged minivan while her "old man" was enjoying one of those flavored cigars.
When our poor have enough resources to fund Code Red, chips, flavored cigars, and a minivan, I'm not losing any sleep over their struggles.
Maybe I can take Soledad O'Brien on a welfare field trip.
BTW The woman in question was white so you can tell Rep Moore (see previous post) my anger crosses racial lines.
Why? Let me share this anecdote......
On my way back from a client meeting, I stopped in a local carry out for some gum.
In front of me was a lard ass picking up her Code Red and bag of chips. Now I wouldn't care one iota about someone buying this crap........except that it wasn't her buying it.............. it was me and the rest of our taxpayer's who paid for this skank's nutrition fill.
When I came out of the store she was wedging her ass into a moderately aged minivan while her "old man" was enjoying one of those flavored cigars.
When our poor have enough resources to fund Code Red, chips, flavored cigars, and a minivan, I'm not losing any sleep over their struggles.
Maybe I can take Soledad O'Brien on a welfare field trip.
BTW The woman in question was white so you can tell Rep Moore (see previous post) my anger crosses racial lines.
There goes Anna Galt
Another heir to the Getty oil fortune, Anna Getty, has cut permanent ties to the U.S. and may have renounced her citizenship, according to a government report published Thursday.
As the U.S. presidential campaign is rife with debate over issues of tax fairness, the name of the 39-year-old actress, cookbook writer and prominent organic living aficionado has appeared on a new Internal Revenue Service list of U.S. taxpayers who have renounced their citizenship, often for tax reasons.
Getty was described by Forbes magazine in 2007 as one of the world's 20 most intriguing billionaire heiresses, largely for her work on green living. She is the stepdaughter of the late J. Paul Getty III, a scion of the Getty oil clan who led a notably troubled and tragic life. He was kidnapped in 1973, at age 17, and had an ear cut off by his captors. His father, John Paul Getty Jr., paid a $2.2 million ransom to secure his son's release. The son developed a serious drug habit, suffering an overdose and stroke in 1981 that left him paralyzed until his death last year at age 54.
But hey we don't need her stinkin' taxes.
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Joke of the day
From Reader Bruse
ALL GRANDCHILDREN ARE VERY SMART
I was eating lunch on the 20th of February with my 10-year-old Granddaughter and I asked her, "What day is tomorrow?"; She said "It's President's Day!"
She is a smart kid. I asked "What does President's Day mean?" I was waiting for something about
Washington or Lincoln .... etc..
She replied, "President's Day is when
Obama steps out of the White House, and if he sees his shadow we have one more year of unemployment."
Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Life in "Progress" State - California edition
They called it Paradise
I don't know why
Somebody laid the mountains low
While the town got high
I don't know why
Somebody laid the mountains low
While the town got high
California will run out of cash by early March if the state does not take swift action to find $3.3 billion through payment delays and borrowing, according to a letter state Controller John Chiang sent to state lawmakers today.More......The announcement is surprising since lawmakers previously believed the state had enough cash to last through the fiscal year that ends in June.
But Chiang said additional cash management solutions are needed because state tax revenues are $2.6 billion less than what Gov. Jerry Brown and state lawmakers assumed in their optimistic budget last year. Meanwhile, Chiang said, the state is spending $2.6 billion more than state leaders planned on.
The Assembly budget committee approved a bill today that would enable $865 million of borrowing from existing state accounts, Senate Bill 95. Chiang, after consultation with the Department of Finance and state Treasurer Bill Lockyer, is also seeking about $2.4 billion in delayed payments to universities, counties and Medi-Cal, as well as additional borrowing from outside investors.
Monday, January 30, 2012
Life in "Progress" City - Philadelphia edition
From the city of brotherly love, where there hasn't been a conservative in municipal government since Joseph's brothers sold him into slavery.........
More.....IN A HORRIFIC assault in Center City on Saturday night, three teenagers who were spouting racial slurs pulled a man out of a cab to beat him. And when the cabdriver intervened to stop the assault, the teens turned their rage on him, police said yesterday.
About 8:25 p.m., a cab was stopped at a red light at 15th and Chestnut streets when two 17-year-old boys and a 15-year-old boy approached and started calling the male passenger in the back seat racially derogatory names, police said.
The boys then threw an unknown liquid at the cab before they opened the door, pulled the passenger out and started to pummel him, police said.
When the cabbie got out of the car to see what was going on, the passenger ran away and the teens turned on the cabbie. They punched him in the face, kicked him and threw a liquid on him, police said.
Why Braveheart is one of my favorite movies
Next to Animal House.
Seriously, do you remember the scenes from Braveheart where the Scottish lords and land owners would pay lip service to William Wallace and pledged to fight the British and repeatedly sold out Wallace and his army?
It's a similar scene playing out in the republican party...........
We don't care if it's Herman Cain, Sarah Palin, Newt, Michelle, etc. etc. as long as we see some blood on K street.
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Seriously, do you remember the scenes from Braveheart where the Scottish lords and land owners would pay lip service to William Wallace and pledged to fight the British and repeatedly sold out Wallace and his army?
It's a similar scene playing out in the republican party...........
We tea partiers are just dying for someone to ride a horse in the GOP head quarters and start lopping off heads.The conservative Republican base understands Newt Gingrich better than the GOP establishment thinks.
They are aware of his intermittent apostasies and occasional adventures with crackpot policy. They know Mitt Romney is the one with executive experience and that Gingrich can’t really run things.
And they don’t want Gingrich to run things. They want him to destroy things.
If you are in Washington and you see a member of the Republican establishment, say, walking down K Street, wrap your arms around them. He or she needs a hug, because probably for the first time ever in a Republican presidential primary the establishment is in danger of being completely ignored.
The Republican establishment believes that the birth and rebirth of candidate Gingrich should have ended in the cradle, that he had no right messing up Romney’s coronation in South Carolina and had better be stopped in Florida.
The establishment knows Gingrich. He’s kind of a friend of the Republican establishment. And Gingrich, the establishment says, you’re no president.
The establishment may be right. But it may not get its way. Win or lose Tuesday in Florida, Gingrich is in the game for real, because the Republican base is giving him a chance.
The grass-roots conservatives, tea partiers, evangelicals and the like who compose the base have had it with the establishment. The base is not only angry at President Barack Obama. The base wants to eat its own.
It was nice, polite Republicans, like Romney, who colluded with Democrats in expanding the federal government and who piled up the $15 trillion debt that now threatens to destroy the country. It was upstanding members of the GOP who added a new Medicare entitlement without paying for it, who created new agencies and wove myriad regulations to govern the lives of regular folk.
The base wants someone who is not polite, who is not conventional, who has the potential to grasp the established order in Washington by its cuff links and rip out its entrails.
We don't care if it's Herman Cain, Sarah Palin, Newt, Michelle, etc. etc. as long as we see some blood on K street.
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The Golf War
Thanks reader Tony
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Life in "Progress" City - Cincinnati edition
From the Queen City, where conservatives are fleeing faster than Jews during the Exodus..........
But hey the Just because the benefits are awesome doesn't mean the retirement plan can't be as well.........
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Thanks to City Hall’s generous vacation, sick and leave policies, one in every three city of Cincinnati employees was off the equivalent of more than six normal work weeks last year, an Enquirer analysis has found.
City records show that in 2011, nearly 2,000 city employees were off time comparable to at least six 40-hour weeks, including nearly 370 who took vacation, sick and other leave totaling more than 10 standard work weeks.
Those totals, significantly higher than those in the private sector, stem primarily from the relatively high allotments of annual leave included in city contracts – much of it time off that can be carried over from year to year, often to be cashed in upon retirement. That costs the city millions of dollars annually, as in 2011, when those payments were a major portion of City Hall’s $39.5 million “special pay” tab.
But hey the Just because the benefits are awesome doesn't mean the retirement plan can't be as well.........
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Saturday, January 28, 2012
From the "if you have to say, it's probably not true" file
If someone tells you they want to be a millionaire but the only thing they do is buy lottery tickets how serious are they?
Clue phone to the Obamunists, incorporating job killing regulation is like making the lottery your retirement plan.
"On Tuesday at the State of the Union, I laid out my vision for how we move forward," President Obama said at a campaign event in Las Vegas, Nevada. "I laid out a blueprint for an economy that's built to last, that has a firm foundation. Where we're making stuff and selling stuff and moving it around and UPS drivers are dropping things off everywhere."
"That's the economy we want. An economy built on American manufacturing, with more good jobs and more products made here in the United States of America," he also said.
Clue phone to the Obamunists, incorporating job killing regulation is like making the lottery your retirement plan.
Global Warming...............not
More......16 actual scientists have joined 1973 Nobel-winning physicist Ivar Giaever in calling global warming concerns overblown. In a letter published in the Wall Street Journal today, the scientists called for everyone to remain calm — and mocked the alarmism by UN bureaucrats over global warming and carbon dioxide.
They recommended that the world do nothing about global warming for the next 50 years.
“The fact is that CO2 is not a pollutant,” the scientists wrote in their letter, which the Wall Street Journal headlined: “No Need to Panic About Global Warming. There’s no compelling scientific argument for drastic action to ‘decarbonize’ the world’s economy.”
The letter went on to explain that warming may actually benefit life on Earth: “CO2 is a colorless and odorless gas, exhaled at high concentrations by each of us, and a key component of the biosphere’s life cycle. Plants do so much better with more CO2 that greenhouse operators often increase the CO2 concentrations by factors of three or four to get better growth. This is no surprise since plants and animals evolved when CO2 concentrations were about 10 times larger than they are today. Better plant varieties, chemical fertilizers and agricultural management contributed to the great increase in agricultural yields of the past century, but part of the increase almost certainly came from additional CO2 in the atmosphere.”
Life in "Progress" Country - Spain edition
Your average liberal will spend their entire life, dreaming about the transformation of the US into the "progressive" utopia.............. Europe.
Well how are things in Spain?
Let's go to the board.............
Well how are things in Spain?
Let's go to the board.............
The number of jobless people in Spain increased by 295,300 to 5.27 million in the fourth quarter of 2011, surpassing the 5 million mark for the first time in history, the statistics body INE said Friday.
The INE put the unemployment rate at 22.85 per cent, up from 21.5 per cent in October.
About 1.6 million households in Spain now have all their active members out of work.
Unemployment increased most among people aged 25 and 54 years - by 286,000 - in the fourth quarter. However, it went down among people aged less than 25 years.
Spain's unemployment rate is the highest in the European Union and about twice the EU average. Eurostat data put the youth jobless rate at nearly 50 per cent.
Keep rockin' Obama, you'll get us there soon enough.
What about Reverend Wright/
Do you think the press spent as much time on Obama's church affiliations...............
After wondering aloud yesterday whether the Romneys converted Mitt's dead father-in-law to Mormonism, Gawker's John Cook has confirmed it: Yes. They did.Edward Davies, Ann Romney's father, was an atheist who was also strongly anti-religion. By the time he died, he was the only member of Ann Romney's immediate family to not convert to Mormonism.
Fourteen months later, in 1993, he was baptized in a special ceremony at a Salt Lake City church. This practice requires a living person who has already been baptized to undergo the immersion in water again on behalf of the dead. No word on who this person might have been in Davies' case.
Friday, January 27, 2012
liberal thought processes
Let's see, I can choose to approve a shovel ready pipeline that involves lots of jobs and no taxpayer subsidy or I can drop billions into "green" companies that generates no jobs..........
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I think we get the picture.........again.The parent company of an electric car battery maker that received more than $100 million in government funding from the Obama administration has filed for bankruptcy protection, the company announced Thursday.
Alex Sorokin, the CEO for lithium-ion battery manufacturer Ener1, said the company suffered when demand for the batteries dropped as fewer Americans than expected opted for electric cars.
"This was a difficult, but necessary, decision for our company," Sorokin said in a statement on its website. "We moved aggressively to reduce costs and shift focus when the marketplace did not evolve as quickly as anticipated. Our business plan was impacted when demand for lithium-ion batteries slowed due to lower-than-expected adoption for electric passenger vehicles."
EnerDel, a subsidiary of Ener1 dedicated to making batteries for electric cars, was awarded a $118 million grant from the Energy Department in 2009 as part of President Obama's economic stimulus package and green energy push. Ener1 said that the bankruptcy filing and newly announced company restructuring would allow its subsidiaries, including EnerDel, to "continue normal operation."
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Would I go to the White House?
In light of the Tim Thomas boycott of the White House celebration of the Bruins Stanley Cup, reader Tim asked me if I would go to the White House with my team during my track and field days.
My answer is hell yeah.
1) When I was in college, I was a hard core liberal..... I voted for Jesse Jackson in a primary for cryin' out loud. I would have loved Obama.
2) With my background, a roadie to the White House would have been a pretty big deal.
3) being liberal and all, I would have spent my time at the White House looking for something to steal.
In all seriousness, I would have gone because it would have been with my team. For me, my relationships with my teammates is closer than any group of people in my life, outside of family. I wouldn't have done anything to cause stir.
Now, let's say I won the US Open. I would have gone just so I could give the president the Jan Brewer treatment.
My answer is hell yeah.
1) When I was in college, I was a hard core liberal..... I voted for Jesse Jackson in a primary for cryin' out loud. I would have loved Obama.
2) With my background, a roadie to the White House would have been a pretty big deal.
3) being liberal and all, I would have spent my time at the White House looking for something to steal.
In all seriousness, I would have gone because it would have been with my team. For me, my relationships with my teammates is closer than any group of people in my life, outside of family. I wouldn't have done anything to cause stir.
Now, let's say I won the US Open. I would have gone just so I could give the president the Jan Brewer treatment.
Subsidizing the rich/enabling dysfunction
Yesterday, I met with a client who was telling me about some of the shaking things her employers want her to do (ie making out paychecks to girlfiends, etc.) in the midst of our conversation she was telling me that her daughter recently had a child out of wedlock.
Now she was all prepared to provide her daughter with an apartment (they own a bunch of rental property) until she got on her feet. While her daughter was in the hospital, she was informed that qualified for the WIC (women infant and children) program.
So she went to the county and the social worker down there signed her up for all kinds of freebies, food stamps, ADC, subsidized housing, a regular welfare box of chocolates. She even advised the daughter not to get a job because it would mean that she would lose some of these benefits.
Since she's getting all the freebies, she decided that she didn't need the parent's help after all.
What's the significance of all this?
My client has a suspicion that her daughter's baby daddy is a drug user/dealer and doesn't want the grandchild expose to the dirt bag. Obviously, without the daughter living in their property they have less control over the situation.
Now ask yourself the following questions,
1) Do you think baby daddy is going to get his act together and start providing for his progeny?
2) Do you think that the daughter is going to get the smelling salts and kick this dirt bag out of her life?
3) Do you think that without welfare, her family would be able to financially pick up the slack for the daughter's and grand daughter's care?
4) Give me the odds that the grand child of my client will grow up to be taxpaying/productive citizen?
Monday, I had a client who cancelled an appointment so she could attend the funeral of her ex-husband, a forty year old who died of a heroin overdose. He was living with a woman who had kids through multiple baby daddy's. She could fund their drug habit with money from the taxpayer.
Did it ever occur to any of these liberal do-gooders that all of the "help" they like to dole out does nothing but keep people mired in misery?
Here's the difference between conservatives and liberals. When conservatives see this shit and it pisses them off. When liberals see it..... actually I don't know what they're thinking. Maybe they're not thinking at all.
Now she was all prepared to provide her daughter with an apartment (they own a bunch of rental property) until she got on her feet. While her daughter was in the hospital, she was informed that qualified for the WIC (women infant and children) program.
So she went to the county and the social worker down there signed her up for all kinds of freebies, food stamps, ADC, subsidized housing, a regular welfare box of chocolates. She even advised the daughter not to get a job because it would mean that she would lose some of these benefits.
Since she's getting all the freebies, she decided that she didn't need the parent's help after all.
What's the significance of all this?
My client has a suspicion that her daughter's baby daddy is a drug user/dealer and doesn't want the grandchild expose to the dirt bag. Obviously, without the daughter living in their property they have less control over the situation.
Now ask yourself the following questions,
1) Do you think baby daddy is going to get his act together and start providing for his progeny?
2) Do you think that the daughter is going to get the smelling salts and kick this dirt bag out of her life?
3) Do you think that without welfare, her family would be able to financially pick up the slack for the daughter's and grand daughter's care?
4) Give me the odds that the grand child of my client will grow up to be taxpaying/productive citizen?
Monday, I had a client who cancelled an appointment so she could attend the funeral of her ex-husband, a forty year old who died of a heroin overdose. He was living with a woman who had kids through multiple baby daddy's. She could fund their drug habit with money from the taxpayer.
Did it ever occur to any of these liberal do-gooders that all of the "help" they like to dole out does nothing but keep people mired in misery?
Here's the difference between conservatives and liberals. When conservatives see this shit and it pisses them off. When liberals see it..... actually I don't know what they're thinking. Maybe they're not thinking at all.
Wednesday, January 25, 2012
There goes John Galt
Rather than deal with the complexities of U.S. tax law, Americans living overseas are increasingly renouncing their citizenship in order to avoid paying their income taxes.According to National Taxpayer Advocate Nina E. Olson, approximately 4,000 people gave up their citizenship from fiscal year 2005 to FY 2010. Renunciations increased sharply within the past three years, from 146 in FY 2008 to 1,534 in FY 2010. And during the first two quarters of FY 2011 alone, 1,024 Americans ditched their citizenship.
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