* The final Republican primary debate was last night. I don’t think it did Rick Santorum any favors. When attacked he simply didn’t respond very well. I mean, people go after Romney on how he’s basically the father of Obamacare and somehow he weasels out of it, but every time Santorum got attacked on earmarks or supporting Arlen Specter, he was like, “Let me explain.” And then he gave some long, eye-rolling explanation (“Sometimes you have to take one for the team.”) that didn’t seem to help much.
So I think Santorum is on the way down. And I don’t think Gingrich has an extra life left. So… Romney. At least he’s our weasel… sort of. Well, Arizona and Michigan vote on Feb. 28 and Super Tuesday isn’t long after that, and hopefully this mess will be over by then and we can focus on the nitwit we want out.
* So the UK raised taxes on the rich, and now they are… getting even less revenue. This is the sort of thing you should figure out playing Sim City before you get into actual government. If in that game you tried to get more revenue by constantly raising taxes, it doesn’t work because people leave. It’s a simple point, but liberals seems physically unable to grasp it as they are just determined to punish the rich despite having no actual reason or logic behind it.
* 51% of Californians say they’re ready to reelect Obama. Considering how horrible the state has been run and yet Californians keep reelecting the same idiots, at what point do you stop considering that enthusiastic Democrat support and instead characterize it as a suicide attempt?
This is an interesting strategy the Democrats have where they fail a state into solid Democrat control. They just make things so horrible that all the sane Republicans leave. Not really sure what the counter strategy is to that. I just hope Idaho eventually passes a law that Democrats aren’t allowed to immigrate here because we don’t want that happening to our state. Won’t someone think of the potatoes!
* So Google is working on glasses that we’ll wear and information will pop up on while we’re walking. So basically they’re trying to kill us all by making us wander into traffic or something. Maybe I’m just being a Luddite, though; maybe a data overlay can be helpful without being a deadly distraction. Still, when these come out, I’m going to stay off the streets for a while. I mean, that was the whole point of the internet in the first place — that we don’t need to leave our houses.
* If you were worried that males were going to go extinct, scientists say you can stop your worry. Since the y-chromosome doesn’t recombine and just gets passed as is from male to male, scientists were afraid that in about 5 millions years it would be reduced to nothing. And then there wouldn’t be men… which might seem like a problem for the human race. Like, who would kill spiders then? But scientist now think the y chromosome has about stopped degrading, so males will be around for a long time — they’ll just be much sissier as modern trends indicate.
I guess as a professional pundit Frank was obligated to watch the last debate. The Post must be paying tons and tons of money! Buttercup’s diapers ain’t free, you know.
In order to prevent a Democratic takeover of your state, you need to use a modified NY method. Get them all into a few small areas of the state, then introduce crack and let them kill themselves. The only thing we messed up here was they bankrupted us before we could get the wall built so we’re trying to excise them like a cancerous growth.
So only 51% of the people in California don’t work? I’d have thought it was much higher than that.
So are we defining Californian as ‘person residing in California’ or ‘person legally residing in California who is also not an anchor baby’?
I do miss the rantings and ravings of John and Ken in the SoCal afternoons. Anyone listen to them? If so, do they still call for heads on a stick?
I think Frank has hit on a brilliant idea. Let’s institue a Sim City requirement for political office. Anyone running for mayor or city council has to first demonstrate that they can successfully manage a Sim City. And then they have to explain why their city turned out the way it did based on their decisions. Anyone running for state office would have to successfully demonstrate their mastery of Sim State, and congressmen, senators, and presidential hopefuls would have to succeed at Sim Country.
I was going to offer to write Sim State and Sim Country (if given a large government grant. For the Children!) since those games don’t really exist. However I just found out there is a online game called simcountry (no relation to Sim City, as far as I could tell). Now I’m not going to get any work done all afternoon…
“So the UK raised taxes on the rich, and now they are… getting even less revenue.”
Allied Van Lines or Mayflower or Bekins or some such moving company did a study about what were the top 5 predictors of state to state migration. Survey Says: tax differentials are the greatest predictor for US relocation.
It’s kind of like the way birds migrate. That is, if birds migrated from one place to another to get away from other birds who stole their food.
CarolynthePregnant (Boy we have been milking that for about 9 months), a commifornistani is anyone who suffers from the mental illnesses of democratism, communism, marxism, or liberalism. Those that have sought treatment but are not fully cured are called neo-cons, or Republicans.
Those that have overcome the disease and are now free of stupidity and urges for big government nanny-statism are called Tea Partiers or Americans. Those that overdosed on the medication are called Paul-bots and Libertarians. I hope that clears things up.
“So Google is working on glasses that we’ll wear and information will pop up on while we’re walking.”
And I am working on saving for the new 400hp Mustang. Although, if hippies are going to be looking into glasses that have information in them while crossing the street, I may opt for the Big Rig.
Democrat proof your state. Lotas guns and churches. Works better that garlic and crosses. Right to work also helps. Vote EdthePastor !!!11!!!”Outlawing Democrats is easier that Exorcising them.” Be sure to attend the potluck and campaign fund raiser after church on Sunday.
as a reluctant California resident, I see this first hand. It’s like the state has dementia. The prevailing attitude is “if only we could take enough money away from ‘the rich’ and kill all business, everything will be OK.
Every time they vote to get closer to this, things get worse, but they just keep voting for it again and again as if the only reason it’s not working is because they’re not voting hard enough. When you point this out to them they get hostile. Sometimes they will even vandalize your property and get physically violent as if all their hippie “respect all opinions and be nice to everyone” doesn’t apply if you’re not going to just agree with them and tell them they’re smarter then those dumb conservative hicks and are doing the right think…and also that they’re pretty.
I am one of the few “substantial” taxpayers the state has left as they have not yet been able to drive my employer into bankruptcy but I will be voting with my feet shortly and moving to a red state. Another taxpayer gone from California.
http://www.soopermexican.com/2012/02/23/ron-paul-and-mitt-romney-tag-team-santorum-at-debate/ just in: collusion suspected in last night final Republican debate
If the males get any sissier they wont be able to kill spiders and the spiders will take over the world. I wonder if spiders have liberals?
Never, ever, EVER use that phrase in reference to a pregnant woman. It’s just wrong on sooooo many levels.
The “Google Glasses” will be outlawed before they hit the market “for our own safety” by pols. Does anyone else imagine them looking like those black horn frame jobs like those x-ray glasses that used to be advertised in the back of comic books?
@Larsinkima
I, for one, welcome our spider overlords.
Raised in Ohio I technically moved to Idaho from commiefornia. It didn’t negatively affe… RONPAUL!!!!!1111!!!eleventy (wipes drool from chin) oh sorry that just sorta happens from time to time now for whatever reason nothing to see here move along…
SimCity isn’t a cure-all. First, you have to watch out for how liberals write Sims too — and in their Sims, Liberal policies WORK. Second, Sims are great for learning how to be a weasel. In Greg Mankiw’s ‘Macrobytes’ Sim where you set the tax rate, spending rate, and fed target and try to dodge inflation and unemployment while stimulating growth, I did rather well by following monetary and fiscal restraint early in my term, then letting wild monetarily late in my term. Sure, inflation would eventually kick in — but my economic growth score went up first, and the inflation wave wouldn’t hit until the next guy took office…
They certainly do, although “Liar! Thief! Whore!” is becoming increasingly popular.
I am proud to state that my daughter and I attended the very first John-and-Ken tax revolt in Fullerton. “Heads on a stick! Heads on a stick!” Good times.
Ooooh, I got moderated! Hey, they say it on the radio, it must be OK on the Interwebs.
If I were in charge of the President’s re-election campaign, I would be very troubled by the 51% number. In the last election, Obama took 53% nationwide. I would think he probably took a higher percentage in the area that keeps putting Nancy into the House of Rep’s. To take any heart from the number, it would have to be above 60% to be indicative of another victory.
Gotta get me some Google Goggles! do they work as well a beer goggles?
@Burt – very similar – but they make nerdy girls look hot.
FormerHostage, “All Hail Ziggy Stardust”
Well geez man, I’ve been pregnant for about 9 months – did you NOT enter the baby pool? Tsk tsk. Winner gets to throw Cat INTO the pool!
(Cat gets extra tuna for being a good sport)
Over at Slashdot, a post reads:
“George Lucas claims there was ‘a 50/50 chance’ Indiana Jones could survive the atomic blast in Legend of the Crystal Skull by hiding inside a refrigerator. Dr. David Shechner subjects this claim to rigorous peer review, and his findings are not good news for people looking to hide from nukes in appliances.”
Now, THAT’s funny.
@Jimmy – of course it’s a 50/50 chance. He either survives or he doesn’t – that’s 50/50. This very similar to a certain physics theory first postulated by a famous cat.
Millions are wondering, well at least I am, what evil word Crabby used to earn so much time out in the dreaded Moderation Box.
@Carolyn: Has it been 9 months already? According to my prognostimications, you still have a few weeks to go. If I should be the winner, you have my permission to go with 4of7’s name suggestion. Nobody would mess with Wolf the Quarrelsome.
booger
Schrödinger was not a cat. He hated cats – that’s why he confined them to boxes where they would be half dead.
He confined his cat to box so that he could steal credit for the cat’s genius.
But then, the cat would be a genius and an idiot simultaneously.
Yes, also dead and not dead simultaneously. You don’t get this quantum stuff do you?
No. I don’t like “spooky action at a distance” either – especially not from cats!
Did you see that the faster-than-light Neutrino claim was a hardware mistake? QED.
No surprise there, Jimmy. Ever tried to catch one of those laser pointer dots? Man, there is nothing faster than light! Not even cats!
Burmashave – I’m 37 weeks on Monday so your prognostimacations are solid. 3/19 is the due date, but any self-respecting redhead should arrive on St. Patty’s if he or she is due THAT close!
Every child needs something to live up to.
Wolf the Quarrelsome: (warning – language not for the faint of heart.)
http://badassoftheweek.com/quarrelsome.html
Frank, when you run for president in 2016, what debate style would you prefer, and who would you like have as moderator?
These debates have been a little like playing poker with marked cards and a dealer named “Slick”.
On the other hand, Michael is a good name for a man-child also.
Michael the Archangel: (same warning)
http://www.badassoftheweek.com/stmichael.html
My Y Chromosome is huge! If you know what I’m sayin’! I’m not sayin’! I’m just sayin’!
Frank, when you run for POTUS, let’s just have all the male candidates whip out their Johnson and lay it on the table and have it measured! Biggest one wins and we are done! K?
“We don’t serve damncats”
A faster than light cat walks into a bar.
FrankJ:
Romney 2012 — “At least he’s our weasel.”
Well done FrankJ! I think the Republicans now have their bumper sticker for 2012!
Though, I am not sure how that will do up against “We killed Osama Bin Laden.” Or “We saved the U.S. Auto Industry.” Or “People will not go bankrupt because they get sick.” Or “We cut taxes on the middle class.”
But I guess we will see, now won’t we?
Best Regards,
Monkey Faced Liberal
@tomg51: did you notice in “Over the Hedge” that Hammy on caffeine moved faster than light?
Capitalist_B says
No, but I’m sure it was good. I’ve seem the strip, but we don’t have it here and I don’t use the internet
The thing that really is trying to tyrannize through government is Science. The thing that really does use the secular arm is Science. And the creed that really is levying tithes and capturing schools, the creed that really is enforced by fine and imprisonment, the creed that really is proclaimed not in sermons but in statues, and spread not by pilgrims but by policemen—that creed is the great but disputed system of thought which began with Evolution and has ended in Eugenics. Materialism is really our established Church; for the government will really help it to persecute its heretics…I am not frightened of the word ‘persecution’…It is a term of legal fact. If it means the imposition by the police of a widely disputed theory, incapable of final proof—then our priests are not now persecuting, but our doctors are.”
― G.K. Chesterton, Eugenics and Other Evils: An Argument Against the Scientifically Organized State
PS: If this really was the last Republican debate, Basil will be disappointed.
He won’t get to see Newt leap over the podium and bite a moderators throat.
Of course, it may still happen during an interview.
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