You make the call

Posted on June 11, 2007 by Phil Kadath

A necessary mutilation or just plain ugly?

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You can find it here

On a side note to you suckers in California (since you have to think of such things): Does that stock for a pistol grip, or is it wholly a part of the stock?

Hat tip to Paul

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Meatloaf Sang “Two out of three ain’t bad”

Posted on June 11, 2007 by Phil Kadath

James Pethokoukis of the publication US News and World Report has gotten wind of what Fred Thompson’s economic plan might look like (they’re calling it “Thompsonomics”) and I’ve got to say that Four out of Five ain’t bad.

A 19 percent flat tax on all earned income including capital gains.

Increasing the personal exemption and expanding the child-care credits.

Indexing all capital gains and interest income for inflation.

Taxing corporate cash flow rather than profits and allowing the immediate expensing of all business investment.

Limiting the deduction for mortgage interest.

What say ye?

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History Repeating. Somewhat.

Posted on June 11, 2007 by Phil Kadath

The Dane recently watched the movie Flags of Our Fathers and made a not so startling discovery.

In the movie, they replay broadcasts by Tokyo Rose. The Dane breaks down and lists what Rose was always repeating in the breaks between music

1. Your President is lying to you

2. This war is illegal

3. You cannot win this war

How sad that not only is history repeating itself, but we don’t even need an enemy broadcaster to tell us these things.

We have the MSM and the Democrat Party.

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Eco-Socialism gone mad

Posted on June 11, 2007 by Phil Kadath

I seriously hope that the local eco-weenie groups never get wind of this “Section 106 Agreement” out of the UK

Section 106 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 allows a local planning authority (LPA) to enter into a legally-binding agreement or planning obligation, with a land developer over a related issue. The obligation is sometimes termed as a ‘Section 106 agreement’.

Such agreements can cover almost any relevant issue and can include sums of money. Possible examples of S106 agreements could be:

  • the developer will transfer ownership of an area of woodland to a LPA with a suitable fee to cover its future maintenance
  • the local authority will restrict the development of an area of land, or permit only specified operations to be carried out on it in the future eg, amenity use
  • the developer will plant a specified number of trees and maintain them for a number of years
  • the developer will create a nature reserve

S106 agreements can act as a main instrument for placing restrictions on the developers, often requiring them to minimise the impact on the local community and to carry out tasks, which will provide community benefits.

We already have the Critical Areas Ordinance, which stipulates how much of your own land you are allowed to use and who you can sell it to and for what. This would be insane. And they’d call it “The Land Use Revenue Enhancement Act” or somesuch nonsense to get people OK with it.

Found at Samizdata

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Lookist Bastard!

Posted on June 11, 2007 by Phil Kadath

Oliver Willis (Occupation: Toole) is getting some heat for his postings with pics of good loking women in Hollyweird and he doesn’t much appreciate it.

He should have expected this, what with which side he aligns with politically.

Hell, he almost deserves it, what with his claim that he has “a degree” in booty.

Sorry Oliver, there is only one man whom can claim that distinction and my email box is overflowing with the lamentations of dozens of women who wish to speak of his passing. You aren’t man enough to claim his title.

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That’s OK

Posted on June 10, 2007 by Phil Kadath

The Blancmange’s from the planet Skyron of the Andromeda Galaxy will just have to stop by and make more

462,000 DEATHS CAUSED BY NHS 

Poor NHS treatment has led to almost half a million Scots dying in the last 30 years, a new study has revealed.

Doctors at Glasgow University found that between 1974 and 2003, a total of 462,000 people died in Scotland as a result of health service failings

It means Scotland has one of the highest avoidable death rates in western Europe.

Found at KisP

For those who don’t get the references in the opening line go here. And here.

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In Memorium: The Booty Eulogies

Posted on June 10, 2007 by Phil Kadath

Hello, my name is Sabine.

I met John Thomas a couple of years ago when he came here to Spain while doing research on Moor booty. He said quite frequently that Americans were very interested in Moor booty and that he was writing a book about finding Moor booty. I was glad to accompany him around the southern part of my native country and help him with his search.

When I received the news of John Thomas and his passing, I was devastated and did not leave the grounds of my father’s estate in Cartagena, mostly laying in my room and crying, for four days. After I finally became calm enough to open the door for the pleadings of my sister, Sevilla, she entered and asked what was wrong. I told her that a good friend of mine had passed and she asked whom. When I told her that he was an American who taught at an academy for women, she gasped and said John’s name.

I had had no idea previous to her exclamation that she had known him. It came as quite a startling discovery. So startling, that, quite without thinking about it, after having had now two very disturbing pieces of news come to me, that I got very angry at my sister and gave her a second reason to cry as well.

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Which is why she cannot face the camera.

I cannot be mad at John for this. But Sevilla will pay dearly for some time.

My cousin Lucia will also pay. From what I understand, you will hear from her next week. She might not be able to face the camera by then either.

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Best Line on the No Cloture Vote

Posted on June 8, 2007 by Phil Kadath

From “Steve_in_hb” in the comments of this AoSHQ post after cloture was defeated on the attempt to stab US Citizens and other legal residents with the Immigration “Compromise”

Looks like a room full of assholes milling around trying to sell insurance to each other.

Lots of sad faces in that room. 45 of them, as a matter of fact. You can find their names here.

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Friday Fun Time

Posted on June 8, 2007 by Phil Kadath

Since I now have only an AM/FM radio in Walker: Commuter Ranger to listen to while driving to and from the place of employ, I have become quite well aquainted with my local radio. It is a bit better than I remember it, but still not great.

While I do have 12 presets on the head-unit, I only use 11 of them. You’ll find no hip-hop or Top 10 here, ladies and gents.

What you will find is that they all stream live:

1: 89.5 KNHC – The local electronica station run as a classroom in one of the local high schools. If you’re up late at night on the weekends (or not so late on the Eastern Seaboard) tune in for some rather different electronic stuff.

2: 94.1 KMPS – The most popular country station in the area.

3: 95.7 KJR – All around rock, though mostly older stuff. The call letters used to belong to an AM station that was very popular in the 70’s.

4: 96.5 KJAQ – Calling themselves “JackFM”, they play nearly anything, sticking to “The Hits” of whatever era they feel like.

5: 97.3 KBSG – They call themselves “The Oldies Station”, but I’ve noticed that their definition of “Oldies” extends to 1981 these days. But it is still the only place to hear Elvis and early Beatles tunage.

6: 99.9 KISW – The one actual rock station in Seattle. AC/DC and Old Metallica mixed in with other “harder” stuff.

7: 100.7 KKWF – The newest Country station in the area. Not bad at all.

8: 102.5 KZOK – One of Seattle’s oldest Rock stations. Still playing the music of their heyday, 70’s rock. You want to hear some Zep or Deep Purple, this is where you tune in.

9: 102.9 KNBQ – “Q Country” They play both “Country” and “Western”! You can actually hear Johnny Cash and Hank Williams on this station. The call letters used to belong to the Top 10 Pop station in the 80’s.

10: 103.7 KMTT – “The Mountain”. A lot of “Comtemporary” but they have their moments.

11: 107.7 KNDD – “The End”. Alt rock. Heyday was during the Seattle explosion. Still play a lot of Pearl Jam and Alice in Chains. But also plays a lot of this Emo crap. Caution is advised. We didn’t call it “The Trend” back then for no reason.

Now it is your turn. Put your favorite local radio stations that stream live in the comments.

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RNS Quote of the Day: 06/08/07

Posted on June 8, 2007 by Phil Kadath

The northern spotted owl is the wildlife species of choice to act as a surrogate for old-growth forest protection. Thank goodness the spotted owl evolved in the Pacific Northwest, for if it hadn’t, we’d have to genetically engineer it.

Andy Stahl at a 1988 law clinic for environmentalists, staff forester, Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund

Stahl is now the Executive Director of the Forest Service Employees for Environmental Ethics.

Taking a que from his little statement, a few years later, some of his fellow travellers manufactured a crisis involving the Lynx, by taking fur from an old pelt and placing bits of it around a certain forested area they wanted to get “protected”.

Not a whole lot of actual ethics in that crowd.

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