RNS Quote of the Day: 10/08/09

Posted on October 8, 2009 by Phil Kadath

(shudder)

(908): Now I have to picture Dave Letterman having sex with all these women. I’m the real victim.

TFLN

It’s funny because it’s true.

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But Obamacare will make the lines shorter!

Posted on October 8, 2009 by Phil Kadath

That’s what the school kids are saying!

And just ask any kid, they know everything.

During the 2009 Filing Season, 75.7 million total dialed attempts were made to the IRS toll-free telephone lines. Through automation and assistors, the IRS answered 35.8 million (47.3%) calls during normal hours of operation. However, 22.4 million calls were not answered during normal hours of operation because the taxpayers hung up, were courtesy disconnected5 by the IRS, or received a busy signal.

Anyone know what percentage of Americans are taxpayers? I’m guessing around 200 million?

But making sure that not one of our 307 million people has to wait to see a doctor will be a cinch, because “Obama says everyone needs health care now!”

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RNS Quote of the Day: 10/07/09

Posted on October 7, 2009 by Phil Kadath

From a post about Michelle Bachman’s quote on how the Democrats are embarrassed about their health care “reform” bills currently making their way through Congress.

Let’s pause for a moment and reflect on how our government is supposed to run.  Our style of representative government is predicated upon the idea that we elect politicians to go to the various legislatures and then represent the will of those who elected them.  An important part of that system, especially at the national level, is transparency and consensus.  Our founders intended that nothing become law until it was debated, scrutinized and approved by two legislative bodies and the chief executive with one of the legislative bodies requiring more than simple majority approval.

They also intended that the people be able to know what laws were being debated and how their representatives were voting on them.  Though the founders couldn’t have foreseen the technology that would make sharing documents on the internet possible, this is why votes of Congress are a matter of record and why both houses of Congress have galleries available to the.

For the Democrats to deny the public access to bills before they’re voted on, for Democrats to deny the public time to read the bills and then communicate with their representatives about them, is an act that is in direct contradiction with how representative government is supposed to work.
Rob @ SayAnthing blog

During the Bush years, one of the things I would constantly read on the leftosphere was how much better the Democrats were at “governing”.

I’ve written here before on the topic of how I feel about being “governed”.

But I must say, this is not how I though it would feel to be “governed”. I laugh at them way too much. Of course, this is only the first year. Maybe they take time to warm up?

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They’re getting on in years

Posted on October 7, 2009 by Phil Kadath

But still as funny as ever.

10 ways that Monthy Python changed comedy

As the British comedy troupe celebrates its 40th anniversary this month, Entertainment Weekly looks at the lasting influence of Monty Python’s ideas on the funniest folks who followed them.

“This month” is a bit too vague for me. Season 1 Episode 1 was recorded today in 1969.

And with that, the obligatory Python web vid

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RNS Quote of the Day: 10/06/09

Posted on October 6, 2009 by Phil Kadath

In the comment section of the Feminist Law Professors blog, where the topic matter is that all of the choices for women today suck

A productive career.
A rewarding home life.
A good night’s sleep.

Pick any two.

Zanzibar Buck-Buck McFate

Have today’s “feminist” women forgotten that their predecessors were warned of this? Or are they just not told that the other half of society at the time were saying that going to work for eight, ten or twelve hours a day isn’t all that much fun?

But, now it’s too late. Taxes are so high that the person who makes the lesser income in a married couple works just to pay the taxes so that the couple can stay afloat.

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Monday Night Football is Weird For Me Now

Posted on October 5, 2009 by Alaska

I can’t get over the visuals of Chucky smiling.

He’s a helluva lot better than Kornheiser, though. Good move by ESPN.

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Panic!

Posted on October 5, 2009 by Phil Kadath

Mike Quigley, Representative of the Illinois 5th, wets his pants in pixels over at the HuffPo

Our Founding Fathers drafted the Bill of Rights to ensure that We the People could determine how best to protect our communities. The people of Chicago have made it very clear that they favor sensible restrictions on gun ownership. It is up to the Supreme Court to abide by over 200 years of judicial precedent and allow the McDonald decision, and the laws of the City of Chicago, to stand.

That is the closing paragraph. I quoted that one in particular because the rest of the piece is so scatterbriained as to be difficult to read. Quigley repeatedly pulls out one Joyce-funded statistic after another, but cannot make them comprehensible. Having re-read it three times, I truly believe he wrote this piece during a panic attack, upon having heard of SCOTUS giving cert to McDonald.

Conversely, for a well-written and easy to comprehend piece on McDonald, do try Brian Doherty’s piece at Reason.

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Deals! Deals, everywhere!

Posted on October 5, 2009 by Phil Kadath

Last week, PapaDeltaBravo posted links to this excellent deal on a great Gunnie Starter Kit

One of my favorite online retailers is offering police trade-in Glock 22s and Remington 870s for $330 and $230, respectively.

For the mere sum of $560 plus shipping and FFL fees, this is an excellent self defense battery.

The .40 Short and Weak cartridge was available in my local area during the Obama-inspired buying spree, except for a short period during the very, very worst of it. So, not a bad choice.

If you do take advantage of the 870 deal, don’t forget Wilson’s Remington Steal. Done it. Loved it. For the price Summit is asking for the 870’s plus the two-bills to Wilson, you’re saving $50-100 on what Remington themselves are asking for a fully kitted home defense scattershooter.

In somewhat related news, not only are The Wife and I decreasing our monthlies by knocking almost 8% of our mortgage payment with the refi (should be buttoned up tomorrow), but this last weekend I zeroed out all but one of the credit cards.

Which is nice, but leaves me open for tongue wagging deals such as this one on a .45LC Uberti Top Break

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If I really didn’t care so much about having the card to zero, I’d buy one of each: the (5in) and the (3.5in).

Sigh.

UPDATE: And, of course, I forgot to let you know what inspired me to think of the Top Break. Linoge has been talking about his recently acquired Open Top and I somehow translated Open Top into Top Break.

A Schofieldian Slip, of sorts.

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Geez!

Posted on October 5, 2009 by Phil Kadath

Anyone else think that maybe the states should be promoting hunting, instead of constantly increasing the costs associated with it?

The number of vehicles on U.S. roadways has grown by 7 percent over the last five years.  But the number of times those vehicles have collided with deer has swelled by much more than that.  Using its claims data, State Farm®, the nation’s leading auto insurer estimates 2.4 million collisions between deer and vehicles occurred in the U.S. during the two-year period between July 1, 2007 and June 30, 2009 (100,000 per month).  That’s 18.3 percent more than five years earlier.  To put it another way, one of these unfortunate encounters occurs every 26 seconds (although they are much more likely during the last three months of the year and in the early evening).

Oddly enough, Nebraska had the same 54% increase in deer-vehicle collisions.

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A Moment of Silence, Please

Posted on October 3, 2009 by Phil Kadath

A Hero has passed

Dr. Marek Edelman, a cardiologist who was the last surviving commander of the 1943 Warsaw ghetto uprising against the Germans, died Friday in Warsaw, Poland. He was 90.

A friend, Paula Sawicka, said he died “among friends, among his close people,” at her home, where he had lived for the past two years.

Dr. Edelman was one of a handful of young leaders who in April 1943 led a force of 220 young Jewish men and women in a hopeless struggle against the Germans.

This man is the one who deserves to have his face plastered across millions of t-shirts. Not Che.

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