Archive of entries posted on 22nd July 2012

Link of the Day: “You Didn’t Build That” – The Biblical Version

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[High Praise! to Liptonius]

You Didn’t Build That – Readings from the Book of Barack

Excerpt:

1 In the beginning Govt created the heavens and the earth. 2 Now the economy was formless and void, darkness was over the surface of the ATMs, and the Spirit of Govt was hovering over the land.

3 And Govt said, “Let there be spending,” and there was spending. 4 Govt saw that the spending was good, and that it separated the light from the darkness. 5 Govt called the spending Investments, and this he did in the first day.

6 Then Govt said, “Let there be roads and bridges across the waters, and let dams divide the waters from the waters.” 7 Thus Govt made the infrastructure and the patronage jobs for eternity under the firmament from the Potomac which was above the firmament; and it was so. 8 And Govt called the firmament Washington. This Govt did on the second day.

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Yeah, Louis CK Is an Indecent Man, But He’s Perfectly Right About This

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As Bad Science [High Praise!] mentioned when he sent me this link, this is related to Frank J’s recent PJ Media column about whining:


[YouTube direct link] (Viewer #6,312,898)

The message is this: really, please, stop bitching about your worthless little first-world problems and start appreciating the miracles of technology and free markets.

[Sent from my $300 1.7 gigahertz laptop with 1 GB of RAM by a guy whose first computer was a $300 .9 megahertz TRS-80 Color Computer with 4K of RAM]

Hey, while we’re at it, tell me about how crappy your first computer was.

If Obamacare Were a Cheeseburger, It Would Be This One

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[High Praise! to RAML]

I’m a enthusiastic supporter of any restaurant that sells a burger so outrageously caloric that it makes Michelle Obama’s eye start twitching, so here’s the Monster Burger, a British invention, which is being sold at Smokeys Smoke House, a restaurant featuring American cuisine in Walsa, England (a city of about 170,000 located about 100 miles northwest of London):

3 pounds of ground beef
12 strips of bacon
12 slices of cheese
12 onion rings

It occurred to me that this burger is a good metaphor for Obamacare.
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* The first thing you notice is that it’s HUGE.

* You have no say over what’s in it.

* The first few bites are warm & tasty & pleasing (like no pre-existing conditions limitations), but as you get further into it, you rapidly get sick of the taste of cold, congealing, greasy beef (the mandate/tax/penalty)

* If you ever get the whole thing into you, then – healthwise – you will be worse off than you are now.

* It’d be cheaper to buy your own ingredients, put them together yourself, and use them as you needed them.
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The way it’s NOT like Obamacare is that socialists hate it, i.e. per the comments:

do you really think this is a laughable blokey subject? the west is obese and the 3rd world is starving?

i kinda hate to be a “think of all the starving children” sort of guy, but really, sandwiches like these are almost obscene

Yup, nothing worse than some people offensively choosing to enjoy the options provided by a free market.