Graphic Propaganda

On Wednesday, this flow chart of how government run health care would work was put out by the congressional Republicans and made the rounds.

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In response, Jonathan Cohn of TNR (The New Republic aka: Truth Not Required) made up something that is supposed to be a complicated flow chart but is really something else (who can name what kind of chart this is?) attempting to make private insurance look as complicated as what Congress is currently working on.

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I’ve seen Fail before, but this guy put the “pic” in Epic.

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There are Four Boxes

Soap, Ballot, Jury and Cartridge.

A Republican legislative candidate in Virginia, Catherine Crabill, forgets to mention Boxes #1 & #3 during a speech at a Tea Party and the left is screaming terrorist.

You have to wonder what Crabill will do if she fails at the ballot box. Get out her bullets?

This particular threat, voiced with these phrases — that, failing “the ballot box,” people will turn to “the bullet box” — has been around for awhile. It was fairly common in use among militia leaders of the 1990s, and was often used as a kind of threat.

That is from local hate-mongering blowhard, David Neiwert. I’m sure that if Neiwert actually knew what he was talking about he’d take a moment to inform his readers as to the origins of Ms. Crabill’s statement.

On second thought, while he still hasn’t the foggiest idea what he is talking about (you’ll see that his source has corrected it’s quote of Crabill), he enjoys only giving out as much information as it takes to keep his sycophants riled up. If circumstances change, he does not update his postings to cool down the flaming hatred seethed by his readers. That would mean being honest.

For a guy who spends his days whining about O’Reilly and Beck, he sure is from that same mold.

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Monkey Driven Mech Update

As a supplement to yesterday’s post, some may wonder what will power these machines so that their monkey pilots can bring an end to civilization.

The answer is: You.

A steam-powered military robot developed by a Maryland firm could fuel its internal fire by foraging for biomass ranging from grass to dead bodies.

The news has garnered lots of attention on cable news shows and online.

The Energetically Autonomous Tactical Robot (EATR)can find, ingest and extract energy from biomass, says developer Robotic Technology Inc.

The more they destroy, the more they can move. Wait until they discover that they can also intravenously feed the monkey with the sugars and proteins from this biomass.

What with Joe’s coworkers trying to create SkyNet, I am begining to worry about our time being quickened.

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The Soundboard: Dancing Queen Edition

The guy who cleans my employer’s offices at night immigrated here from Vietnam within the last six years. He has an assistant who is an even more recent immigrant from there.
Some nights, this assistant cannot work for him, so the assistant’s wife comes in and does the guy’s job.

This happened last week. She was in cleaning up my section of the recently enlarged office while I was working and listening to ZZTop’s 1983 Eliminator album.

Because I work nights (when the boss ain’t around), my co-workers decided that I was going to get the desk along the wall which is occupied by a window that looks out from the boss’ office. So now I get to watch myself work during the night. I also get to see most of what is going on behind me.

If the ring tones of their mobile phones are any indication, these folks don’t listen to much American popular music, and have little to no historical knowledge of said subject.

Which is why I found it thoroughly surprising to look at the reflection in the window as I was reaching for my bottle of iced tea and caught a glimpse of dude’s wife making an attempt at rythmn in shaking her tush to the boogie woogie from Brother Billy and the boys.

Luckily, I had not yet had the chance to take a sip of tea before viewing this spectacle or the new twin monitor set-up would have needed replacing. If you remember the bad dance “Elaine” from Seinfeld did, this lady wasn’t even that good.

But hey, you got to shake what you got even if it’s not a lot.

So, in honor of the woman whose English is so bad she can’t even understand when I’m asking her what her name is, here are Brits pogoing to That Little Bad From Texas

Enjoy!

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RNS Non-Quote of the Day: 07/16/09

This summarized quote will have to do as I don’t have the time to transcribe every word she used to avoid answering the question.

…….

Sonya Sotomayor

That was her answer, multiple times, to Senator Coburn’s question of “Do I have the right to self defense?”

Firehand has the proper words to answer her non-answers.

She is an intellectual lightweight and brain-numbingly daft on legal matters. She may have “more experience than the current court combimed”, but it apparently rots the brain cells.

My only hope if she gets confirmed is that Chief Justice Roberts assigns her the cases he wants a badly written ruling on.

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Something I’ll have to look into

Uncle provided a link to The Firearm Blog’s post on a Bullpup type stock to retrofit to an SKS (overly dramatic but informative video below).

I don’t know why they couldn’t have put the 1913 rail low enough to be able to make use of the front sight. But that is OK. I’ll have the smith torch the solder out of it and mount one of these to the rail.

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More than slightly unnerving

The leftosphere is wiping their collective brow and saying “Whew!”, happy that the CBO estimate for the government health care bill came to just over a $1 Trillion.

They are actually happy with that number.

I bet most of them, if asked for an on the spot answer, couldn’t tell you how many zeros one would have to follow the one with in order to represent a Trillion on paper. But they’re happy with it. It sounds about right to them.

By the way, could we please get Republicans and other non-affiliateds to PLEASE stop using the term “public option” when referring to the all around Medicare portion of the bill?

It is not a “public” anything, let alone an “option”.

It is a government option. You would be opting to let the government issue the payment for your medical care.

Plus, when polled, the American people respond almost twenty points lower to that phrase than they do to “public option”. The Democrats knew this and that is why “public” is the one we are hearing.

If you get a few free moments today, call your Representative and talk to them about two House Resolutions:

HR 615 would require all elected federal government officials to enroll in whatever government option coverage gets passed. They think it’s so great? Make them use it!

HR 554 would require a 72 hour window between when a bill is finalized and when it is able to be voted on. Make them do their jobs!

Phone numbers, faxes and addresses are right here.

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Forget Zombies

Zombies ain’t got nothin’ on the newest horror….

Robots controlled by monkeys

A monkey fitted with a hi-tech brain chip has learned to move a complex robotic arm using mind control.

The animal can operate the robot with such dexterity that it can reach out to grab, and turn a handle.

The mechanical arm has an arm, elbow, wrist and simple hand, which the monkey controls with the power of thought.

Sky News was given exclusive access to the laboratory at Pittsburgh University in the United States.

The research is progressing so rapidly that scientists hope to start trials on paralysed patients within a year.

Oh, sure, they say they’re doing it for folks with paralysis, but you know and I know that just as soon as they are able, GE is going to build a primate powered MechWarrior.

I wonder if SCOTUS will see the logic in rocket launchers as self-defense weaponry then?

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Yin & Yang

As positive as the reaction was on the right to Sarah Palin’s WaPo editorial on the Democrat’s Cap & Tax plan, it was despised by the left.

More than a few are wondering who wrote it. They claim she couldn’t have done so because it was “relatively grammatically coherent”.

They disliked that she never mentioned anything about “climate change” and they feel she mistreated their numbers on the topic of “millions of “Green Jobs” the plan would supposedly create.

They were so frightened by a sensible voice speaking on the subject that Media Matters created a “Fact Check” sheet specifically for said editorial.

But if one who does not buy into the fearmongering of the Glowball Warmening Death Cult’s tactics give the sheet’s talking point even the slightest parousal, that person will notice one thing: The hyper-leftist think tank Center for American Progress is nearly their only source for any figures related to the Cap & Tax bill.

Last I heard, CAP is not a group of climatologists. They’re a lobbying/pressure group funding by George Soros.

I thought lobbying groups were bad for cliamte science?

On a side note, the left’s favorite city in Texas, Austin, is a sort of beta test which proves that the Cap & Tax plan won’t work

For the past decade, Austin’s ambition to become the world’s clean-energy capital has been best exemplified by one effort: GreenChoice, a program that sells electricity generated entirely from renewable sources such as wind.

Now the nationally renowned program is struggling to find buyers — the latest allotment is 99 percent unsold after seven months on the market — and Austin Energy is looking for ways to bring down the rising costs.

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Duncan said part of the solution might just be adding new wind, solar and other renewable-energy projects into the bills of all Austin Energy customers, which could increase rates for everyone. He said there are also numerous other policies being considered but declined to discuss them, saying only that they will be proposed publicly in the near future.

Whatever new policies Austin Energy brings forward, it will need them quickly.

If the latest GreenChoice offerings do not sell, their cost will eventually show up in the bills of all Austin Energy customers anyway, officials say. And the Austin City Council, which oversees Austin Energy, has resisted such measures.

People won’t buy their renewable energy becauase it costs more, so they’re just going to force the residents of Austin to pay for it anyway.

Imagine this on a national scale.

Except that you don’t get the choice as to whether or not you buy renewables.

How much more stupid can Congress spill on themselves?

Austin link found via Some Poor Schmuck

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Tis a pity

That these two citizens had to flee. But they’re probably quite smart enough to know that if they’d stuck around that their next few months would have been spent across the table from the pervert’s lawyer

A drunken man who tried to kidnap two 5-year-old girls was beaten Saturday night by two bystanders who saw the attacks, Tacoma police said Monday.

Officers arrested the 45-year-old man on suspicion of trying to kidnap the girls, who had been playing with some other children in the 500 block of South L Street about 7 p.m.

Police said the man was walking on the sidewalk on L Street when he grabbed the first girl and tried to take her away. She kicked and got free of the man, who then tried to get another 5-year-old girl, police said. She, too, got away.

As the man tried to flee, two men who had been sitting in a nearby truck got out and severely beat the man, police reported. The two men and the drunken man then fled, police said.

Sadly, even if convicted, and even with the beating, it probably won’t be the last time this guy tries to collect himself a child.

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