Do not protest the Comic Con

For you shall be mocked by the Masters of Mockery.

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If Obama is serious about a greener future

How about he get on the FAA to streamline & accelerate changes like this?  He could also get them to make it easier & cheaper to bring other changes to market, like advanced engine technologies.

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Chain of Events

Government, run by the Democratic Party, takes over GM & Chrysler. Determines that both corporations have too many dealership franchises.

Government, run by the Democratic Party, uses racism and sexism to decide which dealerships to shut down.

Government, run by the Democratic Party, shuts down Lakes Family Auto Center, owned by Alan Silberberg.

Alan Silberberg vacates the building, leaving this message on the street front window.

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Democratic Party attacks Alan Silberberg in press release.

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I like the slogan

There is a woman in Milwaukee running for an office in the Wisconsin state Assembly named Ieshuh Griffin. Her campaign slogan is “NOT the Whiteman’s bitch”. The board of elections gives candidates up to five word spaces on the ballot for their campaign slogan and are refusing to print hers.

She’s declaring that by blocking her they are infringing on her freedom of speech.

I personally don’t care either way.

I do, however, like the slogan.

I like it so much, in fact, that the only way I’d vote for Dino Rossi in the primary is if he began using that slogan.

Otherwise, I’m voting for Clint Didier or Paul Akers.

Maybe one (or both) of them should try getting in touch with some of the local bloggers to explain their platforms…….

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Head Down

The accelerated schedule of Summer Quarter means that mid-terms are this morning. No bloggy from me until afterward. And if my head explodes in the testing center, then it may be even longer while I glue the pieces back together.
Wish me luck.

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Journey Through the Time-Music Continuum

I’ve never been much of a Dr. Who fan, but I sure like the variations on the theme.

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Leftists Are Governed by Peer Pressure and Ostracism

People with principles, of course, tend not to be thus.

From the JournoList archive:

“I am genuinely scared” of Fox, wrote Guardian columnist Daniel Davies, because it “shows you that a genuinely shameless and unethical media organisation *cannot* be controlled by any form of peer pressure or self-regulation, and nor can it be successfully cold-shouldered or ostracised. In order to have even a semblance of control, you need a tough legal framework.” Davies, a Brit, frequently argued the United States needed stricter libel laws.

In other words, Fox is an outlier to Davies’ world, because unlike proper people and organizations that can be swayed by calling them names and the like, Fox doesn’t pay attention to such things as peer pressure or ostracism.

I remember thinking back at UC Berkeley in the ’80s that simple spinelessness among students was the real reason that a basic reminder to be polite transformed so quickly into the monstrosity of political correctness.

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Go Irish!

The Wild West arrives in Ireland.

Or so Helmke would say.

Found @ Samizdata UK

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Fiat!

When President Obama saw that he couldn’t get the Cap & Tax bill through Congress for him to sign, he directed his minions in the EPA to make up some guidelines on CO2 emmissions which magically because “New Regulations”.

Card Check also failed to get out of Congress, so guess what

Under the card check scheme included as part of the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA), the (NLRB) would be required to certify a union without a secret ballot election once labor representatives obtained signatures from 51 percent of a company’s workforce. In practice, this means workers would no longer have the opportunity to debate the merits of a particular union and to cast their votes in private. Moreover, union bosses would be in control of the cards and would know who signed for and against representation.

Thanks to a well-coordinated and aggressive communications campaign organized through free market organizations, the public became privy to the anti-democratic features of card check before it could advance through Congress. Polls have consistently shown that over 50 percent of Americans surveyed oppose efforts to replace the use of secret ballots in unionization elections. Moreover, several Democratic Senators, most notably Blanche Lincoln of Arkansas, have signaled that they will not support the bill.

Unfortunately, the public’s elected representatives may not have the final say where labor policy is concerned. Craig Becker, a recess appointee to the NLRB with strong ties to organized labor, has made it clear that he favors taking administrative action without congressional approval.

Brett McMahon, a representative with Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC) who is also vice president of Miller & Long, a Maryland-based concrete construction company, suspects that Team Obama is now “going for broke” on behalf of their union benefactors. Electronic voting devices could be used to compromise anonymity and open the way for coercive techniques.

“You have to be very careful with election records because it means there’s a time and date and it’s possible that you could match who a person is with their vote,” he warned. “We also don’t know how e-voting is going to be monitored. The NLRB could just spring these electronic devices for use in elections without any safeguards.”

In a letter addressed to NLRB members, the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation argued that the board could not field enough agents to properly monitor electronic voting. Moreover, union organizers would be free to pressure workers into voting on Blackberries, laptops and notebooks in full view without privacy, the letter suggested.

And just like the new CO2 regs, this will be sold to the public as “for your own good”.

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Looking Illegal

Treating those they’re serving as if they’re children has taken on a whole new meaning.

Elmhurst officials are considering creating a “disturbance and disorderly conduct” violation after a resident accused of rolling her eyes and sighing was ejected from a public meeting.

City Attorney Don Storino has been directed by the city’s finance and council affairs committee to look at various sources including “Robert’s Rules of Order,” Illinois state statutes and policies adopted by other municipalities for a legal definition of disorderly conduct and disruptive behavior.

And if they find anywhere that does have a law against rolling your eyes and sighing at city officials, they should nuke it first and follow up with doing the same to this podunk burg immediately thereafter.

I wonder if she’d have been giving them the stink eye, would they have had her tazered?

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