I’ve told you in the past

Posted on December 13, 2007 by Phil Kadath

That the City of Seattle is governed by morons.

And I have show you proof.

Here is more proof.

The city will be spending $75 Million ($23Mill over the original $52Mil estimate) on a street car/trolley set up on the south end of Lake Union. They want that part of town to go through a “metropolitanization” and they figured that this would be a good first step. Mayor Nickels being the Green Weenie he is thought that getting people out of their cars was more important that giving the homeless the boot.

My first piece of proof is that the original name for the trolley was the “South Lake Union Trolly”. Sounds simple and logical enough, doesn’t it? Break it down to acronym form. Yes, they changed it. I don’t remember what to and apparently neither does anyone else, because everyone still says they going to “Ride the S.L.U.T.”.

My second piece of proof is that during the Opening Day Festivites, guess what they gave away as free gifts: Nope, try again.

Nope.

Answer below the fold.

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I know where I’d like to have those flowers delivered

Posted on December 13, 2007 by Phil Kadath

And I wouldn’t care that she uses it to sit on.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has spent $16,000 on flowers since taking office, one reason why she spent 63 percent more in her high-profile inaugural year than her low-key predecessor did last year.

Pelosi (D-Calif.) spent a little more than $3 million in the first nine months of 2007, records show, compared to the $1.8 million Rep. Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.) spent during the same period in 2006.

Boehner is spending more too, but only 16% more. Almost 75% less than Pelosi’s increase.

The wife tells me that CNN reported that, yes, The First Woman Speaker of the House is spending more, but that the White House’s numbers hadn’t been submitted yet, so the anchors were withholding their judgment.

What a bunch of cowards.

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I do not believe he knows of what he speaks

Posted on December 12, 2007 by Phil Kadath

I saw where the former Police Chief of the District of Columbia (and soon to be the Police Chief of Philadelphia) has “softened” his stance on the DC Handgun Ban.

Now he just wants to register all firearms owners and their weapons.

Yeah, that isn’t working out so well for our neighbors up north

If you watch the video, well, it’s something made by a young teen, but she recites some data that is pretty astonishing. Her father made a public records request: Has the Canadian gun registry system gotten reports of stolen guns, and later allowed them to be registered to someone else?

Answer: only about 4,500 times, by their count. Plus another 500 lost ones re-registered.

Someone needs to tell Chief Ramsey this information. If he still believes registration is the answer, then he can be classified as insane. At least under the Einstein definition.
Likewise, if he would be against the Gun Free Zone Liability Act

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In case you missed it

Posted on December 12, 2007 by Phil Kadath

Local hate site Northwest Progressive Institute has the text of AlGore’s Nobel acceptance speech.

Not that you really care what he thinks of you, but in his speech he classifies people, world leaders specifically, but you too, who do not believe as he does as “Neville Chamberlains“.

Because Global Warming is worse than Hitler!

And there he goes, Godwinning all over his tux.

Speaking of hypocritical Global Warming Death Cult members, not only are there thousands of dignitaries who all flew into Bali, a-polluting all the way, but there are also hundreds of protesters who flew to Bali.

Oh, they’re not protesting the conference or the flights the dignitaries took. Nope, they’re protesting that the conference-attendees aren’t pushing their death cult mantra hard enough.

I’m just glad this asshole didn’t go to Bali to stand on his soapbox

A west Australian medical expert wants families to pay a $5000-plus “baby levy” at birth and an annual carbon tax of up to $800 per child.

Makes that abortion idea probably sound pretty good to expecting parents.

But I thought we were “saving the planet for our children and grandchildren”?

I really just wish that the people who believe this crap would get up the courage to do the planet some real good and perform retroactive abortions on themselves and their friends. They’ll be feeding Mother Gaia with their bodies and stopping the expelling of all that eevviill CO2. But they’re just cowardly control freaks, so I’m sure that one is out.
Me? Oh, I know what I’m doing to save the planet.

Nothing.

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I looked at her bio

Posted on December 12, 2007 by Phil Kadath

At the Huff-a-ton Post, and I still didn’t recognize who Kim Mance was. Worse yet, I’d never heard of most of her references. She’s got some sort ability to make herself sound important to those who need to be impressed, I guess. But that is about it.

And I know for damned sure that I’m not impressed with her after reading this piece she posted

Feminism is like Global Warming

No, don’t bother clicking on it, you’ll just lose IQ points. Here is a summary:

Because the MSM won’t tout ONLY the viewpoints that serve both Feminism and the Global Warming Death Cult, these two topics and their subsequent supporters are equally abused by the MSM. Any viewpoint that is allowed to be aired which brings a balance to the debate on these topics that is contrary to the talking points put out by supporters of these topics is proof that the MSM is full of Global Warming “deniers” and women-haters.

OK, so you may have even lost an IQ point or two just reading that, but it does show why the left can believe that the “corporate media” isn’t as liberal as it actually is. They sling ideas like what Ms. Mance wrote around and get all worked up in a “stupid-frenzy” and the next thing you know, they’re lying on the floor claiming their human rights were violated by someone else’s thoughts.

How I would really dislike to be so mentally weak as that.

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Opposites: Part 2

Posted on December 11, 2007 by Phil Kadath

The good news is that I’ve not gone insane. Or maybe I did and I’ve just brought you all along with me for the ride.

I’m pretty sure it is the former though.

OK, with seven opinions in, I am distilling that “Love” is a very powerful thing that can make people do some very out-of-the-ordinary things. But we all already knew this. I am going to have to disagree with Robb’s opinion in that I do not believe that “Apathy” is not the opposite of “Love”. In my opinion, that would still be “Hate”. “Apathy” is the exact middle between the two. The Wife is of the same opinion as Robb, and even with our discussions, I cannot picture it.

Breaking the opinions down further, I get this: “Love” is something people will die for to keep alive, whether it be a person or an idea. If someone or something matters so much that you are willing to go to wild and extraordinary lengths to keep it in existence, you honestly have to say that you “Love” it.

This is what I have always seen “Love” as, though to be honest, the “die for” angle was as far as my mind had been able to go with it. The words of others, like those in the comments yesterday, were always just fluffy filler that I was unable to add on because I’m just not geared that way. I’m a very black and white kind of guy anyway, so the shades of gray on any topic have always been pretty much lost on me.

A good comparison point would be the term “Racist”. Most folks only see/use the pejorative use of that term. I really have a hard time with that, just ask the wife. I’ve popped that word out in conversations with new acquaintances and gotten some very cross looks until she straightens folks out about how I give/take things very literally. She is a walking Berlitz guide to me. I can usually translate incoming, but the outgoing just takes too long and people get tired of my pauses before i speak. Yes, I am very terrible at public speaking, which is why I have a blog (with an “edit” button”) and why it takes me so long to type up a post.

David can also probably tell you some of my quirks like that after being stuck in a vehicle with me both to and from Boomershoot earlier this year.

Now, to “Hate”. Feel free to tell me your opinions here as well.

“Hate”, being the opposite of “Love”, which we’ve concluded is something we’d die for, is something you would take overwhelming physical action, or even kill, to put an end to and/or stop.

I don’t care if it is an idea, a person (or group of persons) or an object; what ever you want to tie it to, if you say to me that you “Hate” something, you’d better be out to put it down. Or down to put it out. Otherwise, you don’t actually “Hate” it, you just really don’t like it. It pisses you off, but not enough for you to do anything more than bitch about it.

I have hated things in the past (Soviets, certain classes of criminals, etc), but the wife doesn’t let me get away with that any more (which is probably a good thing), so now I’m just “holding them in deep disdain”. Who knows if I’ll ever “Hate” again in the future, though I see it as inevitable. As an aside for any who have now seen inside my head and know of my love of firearms and are now concerned, I have never once connected “Hatred” with a firearm. Most likely because the sheer need to expel the energy behind the hatred could not be satisfied with the pull of my index finger.

So, any thoughts.

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Punishment-Lite

Posted on December 11, 2007 by Phil Kadath

Ahab links to this article about how the City of Phoenix, AZ will be posting the mugshots of people convicted of DUI on a city website for all to see.

The article calls it a “public shaming”. Sorry, but I’m calling bullshit. Your picture on a website isn’t shaming. Your picture on a billboard is shaming. SHDWCaster brings up The Stocks in Ahab’s comments section, that is definitely shaming, but for some reason is considered “cruel”.

I’m sorry, but I have always considered driving drunk premeditated attempted vehicular assault and a crime worthy of a year in prison for the first offense and five for the second. I’ll give into the leftoids who want to bring Europe to the US and take the drunk driving penalties from over there and install them here. I’d also lower the drinking age to 18.

Btw, my idea of a “cruel” punishment would be to sew the mouth of the DUI drive shut so they can’t drink. Even MADD cringed when I mentioned that one.

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I do have to wonder

Posted on December 11, 2007 by Phil Kadath

Just where we’d be energy-wise if assholes like this woman wouldn’t have spent decades protesting the things they now advocate?

The only way to rescue our plug-hungry planet from catastrophic global warming is to embrace nuclear power, and fast.

That’s the argument of Gwyneth Cravens, a novelist, journalist and former nuke protester. Her new book, Power to Save the World: The Truth About Nuclear Energy, is a passionate plea to understand, instead of fear, atomic power. In her book, Cravens is guided Dante-like through the entire life cycle of nuclear power — from mining to production to waste disposal — by one of the world’s foremost experts on risk assessment and nuclear waste.

Her conclusion? Every day spent burning coal for power translates into damaged lungs and ecosystem destruction. If the world wants to keep plugging in big-screen TVs and iPods, it needs a steady source of power. Wind and solar can’t produce the “base-load” (or everyday) steady supply needed, and the only realistic — and safe — alternative is nuclear.

You can read the interview Wired News posted yesterday with her.

Just don’t shake your too much when you listen to her flap stupid pie hole. You might hurt your neck.

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Opposites

Posted on December 10, 2007 by Phil Kadath

I want to spend some time on a subject that some folks are going to roll their eyes at, but it is something that I believe needs to be covered, so I’m gonna ask for participation from you. Yes, you.

I’ve been seeing an increasing number of mentions of “Hate” across the blogosphere, from both sides of the aisle.

I’m not talking about your casual and useless kind of hate of “Oh, I hate that song.” No, I’m talking about hate pointed at someone in particular. Sure, the leftosphere has a lock on the “Hate Canal” with their BDS or anything free market and the like, but folks in the rightosphere have their moments too. Hell, I saw one of my favorite Samizdats very recently saying that they actually hated someone.

I found this very strange and more than a little bit disturbing, but it could just be me and my lack of social skills.

You can look through the whole of RNS and you will not find me “hating” anyone, and probably not even hating any thing. Go right ahead and search. I may be an opinionated asshole, but I don’t hate people, and I’ll tell you why tomorrow.

So this is what we’re going to do: Make sure Phil is sane.

And this is how we’re going to do it: You are going to define the word “Love” for me.

You can do this. At least, I hope you’re all man enough to do this.

To get to the bottom, you have to start at the top. To get “Hate” we have to figger out what “Love” is.

Take your time and use as many words as you need. My comments section is your essay paper, if need be. You can talk about love for another person, be they spouse or parent, or you can talk about love of a thing (though I’m not sure how that is possible) or even the love of an idea.

Whatever you comment on though, just make sure to get it in by tomorrow morning, which is when I’ll post my answer my answer.

After that, we’ll get onto “Hate”.

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More like them

Posted on December 10, 2007 by Phil Kadath

American eco-socialists demand that we become more environmentally like the Europeans (except for the nuclear energy part) all day and night, and those who resist are called “traitors”.

I’ll take that abuse if this is what the Euros are doing

Last month, my old roommate and I used 210 kWh of electricity, roughly 1/90 of Al Gore’s monthly average. And unlike the Nobel-prize-winning purveyor of environmental panic, I don’t have natural gas or heating oil. I have never owned an automobile or flown in a private plane, and I usually work from home.

I wash all of my clothes in cold water. While shopping for my groceries online this month (and yes, that saves gasoline by consolidating deliveries), I even bought a few of those new twisty light bulbs that all the environmentalists want us to start using. I had been burning through incandescent bulbs so quickly that I was cannibalizing my light fixtures just to keep a few of the lamps on. (There’s really no need to have three light bulbs in the same overhead fixture, is there?) My new “green” bulbs are a bit dimmer, and sometimes they freak me out by illuminating more than a full second after I flip the switch. But I don’t mind.

That is David Freddoso at the NRO last week. I can’t tell if he is being serious or is just experimenting. But this is scary,

I still emitted more than 3,500 kg of carbon dioxide in October, almost entirely because I took two plane trips. Great Britain, in its effort to meet its Kyoto obligations, has as its goal to limit subjects to an average of just 8,000 kg of carbon dioxide per year — and in the future they want to cut that in half to 4,000 kg per year! There’s no way I’m going to meet that standard.

Somehow, I doubt that Congress has any plans to stop subsidizing the airline industry. You probably don’t want to stop traveling, either. So if you want to save the world, you might as well turn off the heat right now and start removing those “extra” light bulbs from the ceiling fixtures.

Trust me, it’s really not that bad. And you’ll be used to it by the time it becomes law.

I’d consider someone limiting my carbon output and then taxing me for any “extra” carbon I emit akin to them knocking on my door for my firearms. If that tax collector survives, he’ll be picking tarred feathers out of his nether regions for weeks.

And just what would someone like a HRC, an Obama or an Edwards/Biden/Kucinich do if large sections of the US, or even just a rural county in say Idaho, did that?

Your suggestions are in the comments section.

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