RNS Quote of the Day: 12/16/10

By now I’m sure you’ve heard of the Columbia PoliSci professor and HuffPo blogger, David Epstein, being charged with Incest for spending the last three years playing hide the sausage with his daughter.

His lawyer gets today’s QotD spot for opening his mouth and speaking Epic Fail

It’s OK for homosexuals to do whatever they want in their own home. How is this so different? We have to figure out why some behavior is tolerated and some is not.

Matthew Galluzzo

Wh-wh-wh-what?

It is this easy: You don’t get to have sex with your children, no matter their age. If you don’t understand that you don’t get to have children.

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GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEE IN CHARGE OF VEGETABLE EATING SUES TO STOP MEAT!

This is just delicious! They aren’t even trying to hide their hubris.

I wonder how long before states & the fed try to make employee names “Secret”, so the only way we’d learn about them is through Wikileaks.

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Happy Bill of Rights Day

Today is the day that Virginia became the 12th state to ratify the BOR, thus making them an official part of the Constitution.

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Earache in my eye

They told me that if I hung around with those college girls I could catch a disease.

And boy were they right!

What has two thumbs and a heavy duty case of EKC?

Yup. This guy.

Halloween may be long gone, but I may still get to wear an eye patch for Christmas!

I’m sorry folks, but I can barely stand the overcast skies. I’ve turned my monitor down but it is still to bright to stare at for much longer.

Back tomorrow.

In the meantime…

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Corporations are not human & do not have human motives/incentives.

Interesting Discussion

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Stall Warnings are not a suggestion

I know the USAF is biased toward fighter jocks, and cargo & bomber pilots often find it hard to advance or get accolades in the service (and probably put up with a lot of crap from fighter jocks), but please, stop trying to push slow-movers into the fast-mover performance envelope. Your ego will write checks that Physics will just refuse to even look at. Aircraft like the B-52 or the C-17 are not built with a ton of room in the envelope.

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RNS Quote of the Day: 12/14/10

The Crutch of Government is so tempting to so many.

The government is good at one thing. It knows how to break your legs, and then hand you a crutch and say, See- if it weren’t for the government, you wouldn’t be able to walk.

Harry Browne

Sadly, the majority never remember how their legs got broken in the first place.

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We got your loopholes right here!

Two loopholes have been found that will help you dodge the long lines and invasive procedures common with today’s airports.

Loophole #1: Become a Mexican

As violent drug cartels take over Mexico and expand their criminal enterprises north, the United States has signed a “trusted traveler” agreement that allows pre-screened Mexican airline passengers to bypass lengthy airport security checkpoints.

The foreigners will get “trusted traveler cards” with fingerprints and other biometric data and they must answer customs declarations questions on touch-screen kiosks before leaving airport inspection areas. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano claims it’s a way to enhance information sharing and mutual security in the face of “ever-evolving, multinational threats.”

About 84 million Mexicans are expected to qualify for the trusted traveler program, according to Mexico’s Interior Ministry Secretary, who signed the agreement on behalf of his country this week. Celebrating the festive occasion, the Mexican government official assured that the new accord will facilitate the U.S. entry of business travelers and tourists who are key factors in economic development, growth of trade and cultural exchange.

Because if there is one thing history has taught us it is that nothing makes a nation more secure than the unchecked receipt of citizens from third-world shitholes.

Loophole #2: Tarmac boarding

A Massachusetts prosecutor said Friday it’s likely that a North Carolina teen whose mutilated body was found in a Boston suburb fell from the sky after stowing away in an airplane’s wheel well.

Norfolk District Attorney William Keating cited evidence including a handprint in the wheel well, clothes strewn along the plane’s flight path and an autopsy report indicating the teen fell “from a significant height.”

Keating said Friday that he’d informed federal transportation safety officials about the apparent airport security breach by 16-year-old Delvonte Tisdale.

While not actually very successful as a method for reaching your destination, as long as you don’t expect to get there alive, you’re golden.

Get it?

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Touching the Untouchables

Is there any part of the modern health care experience that Obamacare hasn’t royally screwed?

In an unintended consequence of the new health care law, drug companies have begun notifying children’s hospitals around the country that they no longer qualify for large discounts on drugs used to treat rare medical conditions.

As a result, prices are going up for these specialized “orphan drugs,” some of which are also used to treat more common conditions.

Over the last 18 years, Congress has required drug manufacturers to provide discounts to a variety of health care providers, including community health centers, AIDS clinics and hospitals that care for large numbers of low-income people.

Several years ago, Congress broadened the program to include children’s hospitals. But this year Congress, in revising the drug discount program as part of the new health care law, blocked these hospitals from continuing to receive price cuts on orphan drugs intended for treatment of diseases affecting fewer than 200,000 people in the United States.

Apparently, the Democrats believe that rare diseases should remain rare.

And those effected by them even more so.

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An Exercise

In Douchebag Identification

In example #1 we have Bernard Ecclestone, head of the Formula 1 franchise. NASCAR is small beans compared to the FIA Championship cultism in Europe and this guy sits atop the pyramid. Most on that side of the water consider him a douchebag of biblical proportions, but his status was recently reviewed,

The battered face of Formula One boss Bernie Ecclestone is featured in a new advertisement for a Swiss watchmaker.

Ecclestone was mugged by four attackers and robbed of his watch and jewelry in London last month.

A photograph of Ecclestone with a black eye and scratched face — provided by the F1 chief — is being used in ads for the Hublot brand.

The tag line quotes Ecclestone as saying: “See what people will do for a Hublot.”

That takes balls and will get your overall douchebag score reduced significantly. Let’s hope that Bernie uses the money he got for that photo to get a bodyguard or two.

In example #2 we have the newly knighted Sir Massengill: It is my sincere displeasure to introduce you all to Charlie Gilmour.

The Pink Floyd guitarist’s son seen swinging on the Union Flag at the Cenotaph was arrested yesterday on suspicion of criminal damage and violent disorder.

Charlie Gilmour, 21, who is the adopted son of musician David Gilmour, caused national outrage when he grabbed the Union flag during the riots last Thursday.

He was pictured clutching a rock for use as potential ammunition against the police and allegedly boasted of ‘taking so many batons’ during the violent clashes.

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The 21-year-old grabbed the stone from roadworks in Whitehall. With a scarf wrapped around his face in an unsuccessful attempt to hide his identity, the long-haired Cambridge history student tossed and caught the missile menacingly with his right hand as police struggled to defend the Palace of Westminster from the mob.

Your dad is worth nearly $100 million, and you’re throwing rocks on your break from Cambridge.

What a douche!

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