Eco-Greenie Ripoff

So I’m at a different location today for work, and I’m out in the kitchenette warming up my lunch in the radioactive detonator.  I wander over to the soda machine (not owned by my employer) and see a sign on it that is telling me that the lighting & cooling on the machine is turned off in order to save energy and help save the environment; but don’t worry, this doesn’t affect the quality of the product, and you’ll get used to it over time.

Eh, I can appreciate wanting to save energy and all that.  Then I look at the price.

$1.40!?!?!

Now I know part of the price premium we willingly pay to a vending machine is the convenience of being able to get a drink without having to carry it around (thus we are paying extra for the transport, loading, and maintenance of the product & machine).  Sure, a bottle of soda from the store is cheaper (or it used to be), but it’s a hassle to carry around all the soda you might drink in a day. But another part of the cost is the fact that I want a cold soda!   If the machine is not lit or running the reefer, then its operating and maintenance costs are lower, I should get a discount!

Nope, I get to pay the same.  For the privilege of drinking a soda from an Eco-Friendly machine?

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Wait! You mean…

(shock! horror!) Not every militia member is a crazy, racist, faggot stomping, Jesus freak?

F*CK!  What the hell will the MSM do now? (aside from completely ignoring this report, which is your cue to spread it far & wide)

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And I’m paying for this

My English 101 class in an online sort of set-up. The Prof sets up the assignments. Every Monday we all log into the college’s website and read them. We then read the assigned texts from the TWO books we had to buy for the class (though we haven’t been told to touch the second one as of yet). We then write the assignments due at various points during the week and post them to the assignments “blog” site she has set up on the college’s servers.

I just cut & pasted the Week #3 assignment into Word and saved it onto my thumbdrive so that I can access it w/o needing an internet connection. In reading this assignment I have lost all remaining confidence in her competence. I have loaded it below the fold for y’all to check out.

At first, from her syllabus and previous assignments I had the feeling she might be a “dolphin whipserer” or some other type of foolishness. However, now I’m just under the assumption that she is a standard grade twit. She manages to be both condescending and a dork on the same page. Also, I’d probably have better luck getting my emails responded to if I started sexting her.

To add to that, with six assignments under my belt so far, I have received 100% on all of them except for one which I tuned in with 449 words instead of the requisite 500 (I lost a whole point for that). I have received no feedback and no corrections to my work.

If seven years of blogging has prepared me to get nearly 100% in a college level English Composition course, then I’m going to start posting memes in my assignments.

I think, for my final assignment, that I’m going to write some frightening TEOTWAWKI fiction or something. If I’m paying for this, it may as well be entertaining.
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For all the gunnies…

I found a new store. Well, it isn’t new. In fact, Phil and I both had to admit that we had driven past it over 100 times each thinking, “I should stop in there sometime.” I finally did yesterday and it was awesome.

The store is Surplus Ammo in Lakewood, WA. I highly recommend it! I bought this. Yeah, pretty cool, huh? Lake City green tips for $0.38/each. You can’t really beat that right now. It is quite a good website for those outside my area. They claim that if it is on the site, then it is in stock. You might still be able to get ground shipping in time for Boomershoot.

For those in the area, I did some quick calculations and discovered that their gun prices were 10%-15% lower than anywhere else around. Oh, and for those inclined to appreciate the scary black rifle types, they have a wall full of every configuration you can imagine.

I am not in anyway affiliated with these guys, but I will be back for more.

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They can’t even live up to their own expectations

Howie Carr in the Boston Herald

Hey moonbats of Massachusetts – why won’t you pay more taxes?

You’re always lecturing the rest of us how taxes are an investment in the future, the price we pay for civilization, etc., etc. But when given the option of personally paying your fair share, hey, come back here, you pony-tailed trust-fund recipient you.

Put your hands up and step away from the Prius – slowly. What about the children?

As the deadline for filing 2009 state income taxes nears, once again the Beautiful People of Massachusetts are proving that while they enjoy talking the talk, walking the walk is another thing altogether.

We have a two-tier income tax in this state, you know. You have the option of paying either at the standard rate of 5.3 percent, or at the old, higher 5.85 percent rate.

As of Wednesday, here are this years numbers, according to the state DOR:

Of 1,840,000 state tax filers, exactly 931 have opted to pay taxes at the higher rate. That works out to one-twentieth of one percent. Think of it this way: In 2000, only 60 percent of the Massachusetts electorate voted to cut the income tax, but a decade later 99.95 percent of the population has decided to take advantage of the tax cut a lot of them claimed they didn’t want or need.

Even they don’t believe in forced altruism through excessive taxation.

Washington could join Massachusetts and the handful of other states that let residents pay extra taxes if we can get SB 6891 dropped onto Gregoire’s desk in the not too distant future.

The legislature with this act intends to provide an option for taxpayers to voluntarily contribute more to state government. The legislature recognizes that citizens who desire to contribute more to finance state government should have a convenient way to do so and therefore the taxpayer choice account is created in the state treasury.

Call your state Senators and Reps Tomorrow AM.

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Day Dream Believers

Fools and our tax dollars are like water: Always seeking to rest at the lowest point.

Two weeks after President Barack Obama signed the big health care overhaul into law, Americans are struggling to understand how — and when — the sweeping measure will affect them.

Questions reflecting confusion have flooded insurance companies, doctors’ offices, human resources departments and business groups.

“They’re saying, ‘Where do we get the free Obama care, and how do I sign up for that?’ ” said Carrie McLean, a licensed agent for eHealthInsurance.com. The California-based company sells coverage from 185 health insurance carriers in 50 states.

McLean said the call center had been inundated by uninsured consumers who were hoping that the overhaul would translate into instant, affordable coverage. That widespread misconception may have originated in part from distorted rhetoric about the legislation bubbling up from the hyper-partisan debate about it in Washington and some media outlets, such as when opponents denounced it as socialism.

“We tell them it’s not free, that there are going to be things in place that help people who are low-income, but that ultimately most of that is not going to be taking place until 2014,” McLean said.

I went in to Frau Doktor my bi-annual check up about two weeks ago. She works out of an office that was probably built in the early 70’s and gets a lot of traffic from people on the government dime (I go to her even though she’s 20 miles away because she is THAT good with her diagnoses).

While in the lobby filling out the requisite paperwork and whipping out the cash for my co-pay, the receptionist made mention that my secondary health insurance provider would cover the co-pay required by my primary. I took notice that the other two people in the office were glaring at me when I sat down and waited for my name to be called. I returned their glare with a look of “What? Don’t be pissed at me for taking care of myself.”

Some people’s children.

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The batteries died in my calendar

Waiting for the national MSM to report on leftist violence.

So here are the two biggest non-stories from last week.

Bail set for Olympia protesters  accused of assaulting police, photographer

A woman arrested on suspicion of kicking a police officer in the groin during Thursday night’s anti-police rally downtown told an officer, “The last time an officer said I assaulted him the charge got dismissed, no contest. My mom has a lot of money, my friend,” court papers state.

The woman, Margaret Belknap, 22, and Paul French, 25, were ordered held at the Thurston County Jail with bail set at $2,500 during a court hearing Friday, a day after their arrests on suspicion of third-degree felony assault of a police officer.

French is accused of hitting an Olympia police officer in the face, and Belknap is accused of kicking an Olympia officer in the “upper right inside thigh near his groin” and kicking him in the knee while wearing black “military type” boots.

French is scheduled to walk during graduation ceremonies for students at The Evergreen State College in June. He has worked off and on as a land surveyor.

Belknap is a former Evergreen student. She was arrested in San Francisco in 2009 on three counts of third-degree assault, but the case was dismissed after she completed a diversion program.

Twenty-nine other people were arrested on suspicion of misdemeanor crimes during Thursday night’s anti-police march in downtown Olympia.

Jami Williams, 20, was arrested on suspicion of misdemeanor assault and vandalism after allegedly assaulting Tony Overman, a photographer for The Olympian. Overman said protesters spray-painted his face and camera as he took a photo of someone spray-painting a street sign. He said protesters also shoved him, wrested control of his cell phone and attempted to smash it on the ground.

The 28 other protesters were arrested on suspicion of misdemeanor riot.

…..

About 8:45 p.m., one protester was witnessed spray-painting “Kill Cops” on a large utility transformer box owned by Puget Sound Energy after passing the Heritage Park fountain.

Nine crazy people whom the media tie to the very far right side of the political aisle in the midwest conspire with an FBI mole to kill a cop and they currently sit in jail with no chance at bail.

Thirty plus people whom the media refuse to identify as being on the far left side of the political aisle actually commit assault on a dozen or more police officers and an actual member of the media while encouraging each other to kill one of them and committing thousands of dollar of property damage, and they are given the opportunity to bail/bond out for pocket change, as though it was the most normal thing in the world.

I seem to be missing the “all men are created equal” part of this comparison. Set those little Evergreen shits in jail for $250K bail and watch them run off to mommy and daddy for a lawyer.

Here is local leftist uber-blogger, Goldy at HorsesAss.Org, trying to explain away how these self-styled black-bloc “anarchists” are not part of the left and losing very badly in the comments section.

Keep and eye on how long they lock the Hutaree up for. Last week, this guy only got five years for various charges connected to firebombing in the name of ELF.

A Texas man who planted a gasoline bomb at a condominium development under construction in Pasadena was sentenced today to five years in federal prison.

Stephen James Murphy, 44, pleaded guilty in January to conspiring with another person involved in the underground extremist movement ELF to maliciously damage or destroy property.

According to prosecutors, Murphy learned from an unindicted co-conspirator how to construct an incendiary device using a 64-ounce plastic juice bottle, gasoline and a delayed ignition timer.

The two planned on committing arson on behalf of ELF by using the device to burn down the under-construction condo building in hopes of intimidating and inflicting economic harm on individuals and companies they believed were causing harm to the environment, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.

On Sept. 19, 2006, Murphy placed the device in a partially constructed unit in the condominium project known as Vista Del Arroyo Bungalows, which was being built directly beneath the Colorado Street Bridge in Pasadena, prosecutors said.

Before leaving the scene, Murphy lit the device with the intent to burn down the entire development under construction, according to the government.

So he’s a yutz who couldn’t keep the wick of his firebomb dry.

Now I remember why I like to play Little Bunny Foo-foo versus The Field Mice with leftists.

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Today on “Fun With Polls”

An Assistant Professor at the University of Washington says his latest poll shows that Tea Parties are about race.Of course, no links to the original poll with the questions and responses.  But I got your back.

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Slo-Mo Anxiety Attack

So for Boomershoot, Phil’s graciously allowed my wife to have the use of the Ruger M77 Mark I in .22-250 that Phil used to blast pool cue chalks at 100 and 200 yards. I figure that’s accurate enough that we can take the rifle out of the equation and focus on her shooting technique.

Phil noted that the rifle likes the Remington green-and-gold-box 55-grain Core-Lokt ammo, so it was off to the internet to shop. Five OUT OF STOCKs later, I called my local gun shop. “Yeah, anything Core-Lokt is tough to find right now,” they said. “You might try Cabela’s.” I did. OUT OF STOCK.

Finally I found sixteen boxes at Natchez Shooters Supply, bless them. Unfortunately, they ship at one UPS speed — ground — and it takes “five to six business days” to reach California from wherever they are, according to the helpful rep. I ordered last night; they ship today; five days puts the ammo in my hands Friday the 16th. Six days is Monday the 19th. We leave for Boomershoot on Tuesday afternoon. That’s cutting it a mite close!

I’m debating whether to request a tracking number from Natchez. Yeah, I’d like to know the package’s progress, but I also don’t want to give myself a heart attack….

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By Request

The best D&B is completely psychotic and needs no vocal track.

But this is still pretty good

Approaching questionably sane

These guys have been off their meds for quite some time

Enjoy!

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