- You’ve heard of Bridezilla. And the Wedding Guest from Hell. Now meet The Mad Bomber Groom. Guess you gotta give him points for creativity. Not brains. Definitely not brains. But creativity.
- Experian, the worst and most pervasive of the big three credit bureaus sold data to an identity-theft “service”.
- Nooooo, really? And you say both parties are doing it?? Impossible! Quite impossible!
- Well, that’s one way to ensure that politicians actually get your message.
- Good idea. But I’d trust it a lot more if it didn’t come from Google.
- Death panels. Not a good thing. But yes, they’re real (Hellllooo, Canada!). And in the eyes of those who think we’re too stupid to make our own decisions, they are a good thing. (Terms like slippery slope and camel’s nose come to mind here.)
- Three mind-boggling optical illusions.
Volkswagen: Woofwagen
Oh, Claire, makes me want to by a VW! I could just see my dog and her jowls hanging out the side.
On the darker side, all 3 branches of our government and the unofficial 4th–the bureaucracy–are corrupt. Absolutely. Not surprisingly politicians and to a lesser extent their families enjoy the PAC money people send in. Of course the DC establishment passed this law. I learned early that laws passed by corrupted people are corrupt within themselves. Therefore, I do not support candidates with my money. I’d rather spend it on my animals.
Don’t even get me started with the Obamas and their entitlement mentality. $10,000 of our money spent on massages, vodka, etc on their last vacation? Complaints about the gov’t shut-down that the WH gardeners were furloughed and who would pick the vegies? Surely not our FL and her daughters!
Would that somebody would park a purple finger in front of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
Betsey, just try parking a giant purple finger at the WH. Any bets on whether you’ll be shot as a terrorist, or merely arrested, held without bond, and subjected to a “mental health evaluation”? Odds on the finger being proactively detonated, ‘cuz who knows; it might be a dirty bomb?
Apparently Czech pols are… less paranoid and evil than their American counterparts. But who ain’t?
I chuckle at the thought that, should I ever attain high office, those seeking to gain my favor would have to take me on range trips, instead of to the golf course. You want to talk to me about your solar wind farm project? Great! Send a Lear Jet to take me to the NRA Whittington Center in Raton, and we’ll discuss windage. You bring the .50 BMG rounds.
Bear,
Ah. C’mon. Michelle might look out and want that as a dress! Couldn’t be worse than anything else she wears (meow). Or maybe I can fill it with vegies? Or free Obama care certificates?
The whole point of gaining power is corruption, seems to me. A government that is not corrupt is a fantasy.
As to death panels, they are the logical conclusion of a welfare-based health care system. If there were no death panels, the peons could appropriate large amounts of taxpayer dollars for their hopeless projects, keeping brain-dead unfortunates “surviving” forever. The only way to get rid of death panels is to dump health care welfare, something that of course should be done. And it will be done once the dollar crashes.
If you like humor with your government surveillance then may I suggest the comic strip 9 Chickweed Lane?
http://www.gocomics.com/9chickweedlane#.Umf-_DK9KSM
For the last two weeks or so, although the artist does poke at the government from time to time, have been excellent. Also the artist’s other strip Pibgorn, on Sundays, sometimes have short messages poking fun or criticizing the government and the people supporting it as well.
I know you generally don’t like comics, but this guy is good.
Actually, I like comics just fine, Jim B. And the one you linked to is a good one!
I do like the purple finger. It would be nice to see one floating in the Potomac. That won’t happen though, and even if it did it would undoubtedly be destroyed within minutes (especially since all of Washington now seems to be a “no free speech zone” thanks to HR 347; see http://www.wnd.com/2012/03/obama-signs-end-to-free-speech/).
As to “death panels”, they are an essential part of a single-payer system. It’s the only available means of resource allocation, and as much as the government would like you to believe otherwise even its resource are limited. In a third-party payer system (private insurance) the insurance company plays that role, by determining what procedures it will cover and setting limits on the total amount of coverage. In a truly private system that function is served by the market, where people will buy as much health care service as they can afford (and they are forced to make explicit cost-benefit assessments). There is always some method of resource allocation; pick your poison.
The only real difference with a single-payer system is that in such a system the allocation process is inherently political; in other systems it is driven by economics. Some people consider political allocation a benefit; personally, I find it offensive. To each his own, I guess.
[as much as the government would like you to believe otherwise even its resource are limited.]
And since government has nothing but what they steal, it is essentially limited by inflation, that is, the contents of our pockets. I suppose the real problem with death panels, besides the political allocation, is not that too many deaths result, but too few (fewer than would happen in a free market). That will continue until the dollar is toilet paper – at which point the death toll will increase tremendously due to revolution.
Bastiat’s quote comes to mind: “The state is that great fiction by which everyone tries to live at the expense of everyone else.”