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RNS Quote of the Day: 05/25/09
On this Memorial Day
Civilization is not an evolution of mankind but the imposition of human good on human evil. It is not a historical inevitability. It is a battle that has to be fought every day, because evil doesn’t recede willingly before the wheels of progress.
Andrew McCarthy
For those who did and do.
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Porno Euros
Poor kid. I’m sure those blue balls are going to last a long time.
A man who tried to hire a prostitute to take his 14-year-old son’s virginity as a present was spared jail by a court on Friday.
The Polish national took the boy out in his car and allowed him to pick out the prostitute, who was standing at the side of the road in the red-light district of Nottingham.
But the 42-year-old father was arrested because the teenager had chosen an undercover police officer, Nottingham Crown Court heard.
Starting at around the age of thirteen, my dad joked about taking me to one of the local houses of ill repute for my 16th birthday. It never happened (my mother would still have his head mounted on the wall if it had).
I didn’t mind so much.
That was the year we went to Oregon and I got to compete in the State Full-Auto Championships.
Found via the AoSHQ
And this is just sad.
Tax authorities in Germany are poised to claim 50 per cent of the money that a teenage student earned for ‘auctioning’ her virginity because they claim it was ‘tantamount to prostitution’.
Romanian-born Alina Percea, who is a student in Germany, was paid £8,800 in cash for a weekend of sex with the Italian businessman after she auctioned her virginity online.
But tax officials in Berlin regard the 18-year-old’s act as ‘nothing more than prostitution’.Prostitution is legal in Germany – but it is heavily taxed.
The leftoids are always talking about “keeping government out of the bedroom”, and then in their next breath whining about how we should be more like Europe.
Those two viewpoints are, apparently, not compatible.
Found via the TaxProf Blog
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They just love taxing people
It doesn’t really matter how.
Tax systems not the crux of Washington’s and Oregon’s budget woes
Almost every state is experiencing hard-core, near-cataclysmic budget woes. States like Oregon that rely heavily on income tax. States like Washington that rely just as heavily on sales tax. States like California that rely on both.
So it is hard not to chuckle at the headline in Oregon’s leading newspaper: “Oregon’s state finances desperately need stability, and a sales tax would provide that.”
Hmmm. Sounds like the flip side of the battle cry in Washington: If only we had an income tax, Washington’s budget situation wouldn’t be so bad.
Except that it would be.
The money is always greener on the other side.
Whatever happens, I seriously hope that these folks don’t get the idea that our respective states need BOTH tax systems.
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RNS Quote of the Day: 05/22/09
Ace discovers that Lawrence O’Donnell is in need of a few new adjectives to describe Cheney and helps him out, Lovecraft-style!
Dick Cheney is a vile disgrace of eldritch omen. He lies broken in Cyclopean ruins, a jumble of weird translucent standing-stones suggesting, simultaneously, both filthy glass and twisted iron, violating the senses in a dread suggestion of non-Euclidean geometry; his very shape a crazed blasphemy to the laws of cold nature itself. His speech is a lunatic gibbering, both no language and all languages at the same time, snatches of Aramaic and Old Hebrew gurgling over dark whispers of Latin and Ancient Greek and strange heresies of some insane ur-language unknown to man; and beneath them all a weeping not of sadness but of corrupt hungers yet unsatisfied. Slithering from his gaping, mishapen maw are hideous tentacles, slimy and pustulant and chalk-white like the seawater-softened fingers of drowned men…
There are also Cheney Haikus at the link for your parusal.
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It certainly is nice to know
That suggesting folks “Buy American” isn’t considered to be xenophobic anymore.
(caution: link goes to the website of the Campaign for America’s Future)
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Alo, Salut, sunt eu, un haiduc
Who knew the Numa Numa song referenced armed revolutionaries fighting the Soviet and Communist Rumanian armies?
Waronguns has the fascinating (recent) history link about the Haiducci.
Watch more cool animation and creative cartoons at Aniboom
Obligatory Numa Numa link here. I love that song.
Posted in Have Gun, Will Travel, Kewel!
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The Soundboard: Grrrrrrr Edition
The Week started out like this
And yesterday I found out that we’re moving from the temp office back to the refurbished old office starting today. Needless to say, like everything management gets their mitts on, it’s going poorly. My new access keycard doesn’t even work yet and I may not be able to get to my office during my regular shift tonight.
So now I’m feeling like this
The week is almost over though, so I’ll be doing my best not to start cutting off heads just yet.
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If there is no law, there is no crime
Unless you live in California.
Paul Pearson lives in California.
Mr. Pearson makes a living converting gas and diesel powered vehicles to plug-in electrics.
There is no law regulating said conversions in the state of California. But that did not stop the the state DMV and the City of Santa Monica from arresting him and dragging him into court for, supposedly, illegally “remanufacturing” vehicles.
Last week, Paul Pearson went back to court. It was the fifth time he’s been in front of a judge because of a police sting last December over the electric car conversions he was doing in his garage.
…..
According to Pearson, the prosecutor asked that the charge against Pearson be amended to reflect only “agreement” that Pearson would convert a gas-only Ford Thunderbird to all-electric drive (again, see our original post here). Pearson and his lawyer had the prosecutor talk to Rodney Aoki at the Sacramento DMV, who said there is no law on the books saying converting cars to electric drive is illegal.
The whole case now rests upon whether or not the Pearson’s website uses the word “manufacture”. He says it doesn’t and the City hasn’t been able to prove that it does.
Gunnies aren’t the only ones who have to worry about the “arrest first, figure out the charge later” mentality.
RNS Quote of the Day: 05/21/09
Yes.
Journalists are paid to be assholes to the powerful and Mother Teresa to the weak, and so they are delusional, emotionally unstable, bizarrely erratic … quixotic … volatile.
Jake Ellison – former Seattle PI employee
We all knew this, it is just nice to finally have one them admit it.
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