- Henceforth, I am going to charge $500,000 per blog post and I urge all of you to inform your employers or clients that that is also now your standard fee for doing any work or even making an appearance. If you’re an employer, tough luck to you. ‘Cause after all, we’ve “gotta pay our bills” don’t we?
- Perhaps Bill and Hill both need a dose of this.
- OMG, FEMA is holding a national Preparathon and I forgot to sign up with the government! I’ll bet you did, too. Oh no! This must mean we’re all dooooooomed!!!
- Yeah, that’s what you get for going around jihading in Texas. Good comment one. Good comment two. (Maybe the would-be jihadists got the idea that Texans were an easy target from Major “Soldier for Allah” Nidal Hassan. Somebody shoulda told ’em that only works on disarmed military bases.)
- Maya Plisetskaya has died. She was a ballerina of extraordinary power and grace who overcame Stalinist oppression for her art.
- It seems scientists like The Lord of the Rings.
My sister has suggested making the art/cartoon contest a weekly event, to lure the crazies out in the open where they can be bagged. Obviously, this would only work in comparatively sane states like Texas, Georgia, Wyoming, and the like (note to Taxachusetts: do not try this at home; if the Boston Marathon had been the Texas Marathon, there might have been explosions, but no follow-up trial).
I tend to agree. It would be like setting out corn, salt blocks, and spraying doe urine; they couldn’t resist. The contests could be held in old buildings planned for “urban renewal” anyway, and you could sell high dollar box seat tickets in the encircling deer stands.
How interesting! Scientists love the LOTR and are delightedly mixing it with some of the more serious stuff. Wonderful! I recently had a short conversation with a reader after posting my review of L. Neil Smith’s “Brightsuit MacBear. http://www.thepriceofliberty.org/?p=7120
I remain delighted, though often astonished, at Neil’s evident belief that any living creature can be, or adapted to be, a sentient, sapient being. The problems that would arise from this are certainly mind bending, but a great exercise of our NAP muscles, to say the least.
The reader angrily denounced Neil’s work as unrealistic, and insisted that no person can choose either reality or facts. Which of course is a hilarious position to take considering the vast efforts the would be controllers make toward doing exactly that.
I reminded him that books were not “real” until someone invented paper, etc. Movies were not “real” until a great many things were invented. The ingenuity and imagination of mankind creates new realities every day.
Where do I send you the $500K ???
99guspuppet — LOL! Just put it into a suitcase in unmarked bills and we can arrange a drop-off point for it.
Eh, I’m not sure I would fuss at the Clinton antics. After all, trying to save one’s income from the thieving bastards is a worthy cause, even if one was previously one of those thieving bastards. And trading their connections for cash, nothing inherently wrong with that either. If any of us did these things, should we sneer?
I do have to question why anyone would pay good money to have Bill speak though. I suppose it is buying future favors from President Hillary, so that makes sense too.
We shouldn’t be surprised when a system designed for influence-pedaling actually generates examples of it. This faux outrage just doesn’t get me excited; what do the writers expect, anyway? What would be surprising would be if the Clintons didn’t do it.
The good news with the Clintons is always the wealth of material for the comics to work with. This is another example of it. I love that they bring the office of the Presidency into such disrepute.
You would think the Clintons would be happy with $15.00 an hour in solidarity with the demands of McDonald’s and Walmart workers.
Claire, I’m available for discreet courier services for a small percentage.
Paul: “I do have to question why anyone would pay good money to have Bill speak though. I suppose it is buying future favors from President Hillary, so that makes sense too.”
And that’s all it is: very thinly disguised bribery. I mean, what area of expertise is he going to lecture in? “Sexual Harassment for Dummies”? “Missile Tech Sales Tips for Marketing Professionals”? “Grammar for Grads: Defining ‘Is'”?
The only saving grace, I suppose, about the Clinton’s speaking fees would be that they, hopefully, would down waaaay down once her time to be President is over. So they’re getting as much as they can, which is why they’re so high to begin with.
Hopefully if their living expenses are truly high, then they’ll soon be beggers. Purely wish fulfillment I know.
“Claire, I’m available for discreet courier services for a small percentage.”
Thank you, Bear. I appreciate your offer. However, I have decided instead to set up a (wink, wink, nod, nod) charitable foundation for all those $500,000 payments. Really, that business with unmarked bills and discreet couriers is so twentieth century.
“After all, trying to save one’s income from the thieving bastards is a worthy cause, even if one was previously one of those thieving bastards.”
Question one: When and how did the Clintons ever earn any income?
Question two: What makes you think that they are only previously thieving bastards?
Claire, I think your essays are worth every bit of $500k. But to be fair, I need to charge $250k for my posts, too.
Paul, you are correct that there is nothing wrong with Bill Clinton trading on his fame to charge high speaking fees. And while I do find problematic paying Hillary large fees in the hope (expectation?) that she will reciprocate when/if she becomes president, there’s probably nothing to be done about that other than to keep an eye on whatever governmental benefits those donors may receive in the future. However, paying her (albeit indirectly) large sums to ensure favorable treatment from the government while she was serving as Secretary of State is far beyond the pale. It’s overt bribery, which is a criminal offense (as well as being an impeachable one, should she ever hold high public office again). There are simply too many instances of large fees to Bill and/or large donations to their foundation coupled with favorable treatment by the State Department very shortly thereafter for it all to be a coincidence. This was criminal. She belongs in jail, and if we had a functioning Justice Department, rather then the enforcement division of the Democratic Party, its investigation would be underway (if she wasn’t already under indictment).
Re ‘Clinton’s sindrome’ (no sp. error) in the news, I’m surprised at the sometimes subtle, sometimes not-so-subtle negativism toward Hillary and Bill that’s coming out of MSM. Granted, not much; but enough to make me wonder if they’re not getting tired of the Clintons, Obama’s ‘progressiveness’ in D.C., and/or government in general. Of course, none of it began before MSM’s 1st Amendment rights were picked on, but still…
Do you suppose they really are getting wise to lies and manipulation that come out of (even Democrats) politicians’ mouths?
At the bottom of the FEMA site is a list of all the hazards to prep for.
Earthquake
Flood
Hurricane
Tornado
Wild Fire
Winter Storm
Methinks they left out a few.
IRS
OSHA
EPA
Well, dang it. LarryA beat me to the punch. Uh, dittos.
So, nevermind. Also, Your cat is trying to talk to you.
I can be had for less then $500,000 — make me an offer.
“But to be fair, I need to charge $250k for my posts, too.”
Laird, I’m sure you’re worth it. OTOH, the idea that anybody would pay Bill Clinton half a mill to listen to him mouth platitudes if it wasn’t just the price to pay for influence peddling cracks me up.
“Methinks they left out a few.”
ohyeah.
Not to mention:
Economic collapse
Universal background checks
Police brutality
and hey … how about FEMA camps? Or more commonly … FEMA incompetence?
jed — “Feed me. Pet me. Let me in. Let me out. Now get out of my way.” Sum total of cat communication to humans. I don’t care what any pseudoscientist claims.
“OTOH, the idea that anybody would pay Bill Clinton half a mill to listen to him mouth platitudes if it wasn’t just the price to pay for influence peddling cracks me up.”
Actually, the only way anybody can get me to listen to Bill would have to pay me a fee of at least in the Billions of dollars to put up with a significant amount of speechifying.
Even so I would have my doubts.
“I’m surprised at the sometimes subtle, sometimes not-so-subtle negativism toward Hillary and Bill that’s coming out of MSM.”
Pat, I’ve been thinking about this since you commented. I’ve wondered about the MSM negativism, too & I don’t know. If I had to guess, I wouldn’t guess that the MSM is getting wise to the Clintons, or even tired of “progressivism.” But maybe tired of them as you say. And maybe believing that the Clintons are too tired themselves to be good political fodder any more. As to progressivism, I’d guess that on the contrary much of the MSM would like more of it — ala Elizabeth Warren. Bet you if she jumped into the race, the MSM would kill Hillary.
Just guesswork, though. It’s definitely intriguing to see that both the MSM and prominent Dems are having trouble seeing anything good in Hillary.
“It’s definitely intriguing to see that both the MSM and prominent Dems are having trouble seeing anything good in Hillary.”
It may also be true that they know her too well, from First Lady, to believe or trust her. Or like her.
Maybe. But if MSM is standoffish with the Clintons, I think it’s that factor I mentioned earlier: they are disreputable. The ruling class does not want to bring the office of Presidency into disrepute. It’s a bit like the way the powerful in Germany thought about Hitler, on his way up. 😉
[There are simply too many instances of large fees to Bill and/or large donations to their foundation coupled with favorable treatment by the State Department very shortly thereafter for it all to be a coincidence.]
Hey, what else is new? What’s the point of power if you can’t reward your cronies? This stuff has been going on, probably since George Washington. The only difference with the Clintons, is that they are so blatant about it. Which is why they are such good comic material.