[High Praise! to Transterrestrial Musings]

a lot of the Pentagon budget is wasteful, for the same reason that a lot of NASA’s is – because the lawmakers on the committees overseeing it like it that way. But the other problem is that we can’t always predict what we’ll need, and in that sense, defense spending is like advertising – only half of it is effective, but no one knows which half.

[High Praise! to Vantage Point of the One-Eyed Jack]

The liberal mindset—if I could distill it down to its lowest common denominator—is this: It is the state’s duty to make sure that nobody loses. In every competition, every person is supposed to win, every time. I know that this doesn’t make any sense, how could it? But, in my opinion, that’s what the liberal message is. Nobody should ever have to lose as long as we give the state the power to carry out this sacred duty.

Why not a ban on high-capacity assault spending bills?

— John Hayward (@Doc_0) January 14, 2013

Dear @barackobama, I think at a certain point you’ve spent enough money.

— sarah (@mamaswati) January 14, 2013

I think the major difference between Obama’s first term and his second will be the years.

— Stephen Green (@VodkaPundit) January 14, 2013

“I’m gonna eat you all before you turn into raisins!” – me, to a bowl of grapes, as my roommates head out the door for college

— shelby fero (@shelbyfero) January 14, 2013

Drug use is the only exciting thing about bike racing

— daveweigel (@daveweigel) January 14, 2013

Obama says he will pursue a “meaningful” assault weapons ban. So good news: No assault weapons ban.

Senator Schumer is asking gun retailers to suspend sales while Congress figures out what they’re doing on the assault weapons ban. One thing I love about gun control people: They sure exist in reality.

If every industry stopped and waited while Congress tried to figure things out, that would be the end of our economy. Hey, Schumer, I have an idea: Why don’t you let business do their thing and you stop what you’re doing and wait for those people — the ones who actually know what they’re doing — to figure things out and then they’ll tell you what laws they need if any, darling. That work for you, little guy?

So if you were for some stupid reason clinging to the idea that Obama might actually do something useful with the deficit, Obama was sure to dispel that idea with his press conference yesterday when he blamed our nation’s credit downgrade not on the spending but on Congress being too slow to authorize him to spend more. And as many people have pointed out, Obama once said raising the debt ceiling would make us a deadbeat, but now says not raising it makes us a deadbeat. So when was Obama speaking the truth and when was he being a political opportunist? Answer: He’s always been a moron; never listen to him about anything.

In a just world, Obama wouldn’t have the power to spend even one dollar of our money, but it’s not a just world. So we’ll just have to work towards one day locking him and all his cronies in prison forever for how they’ve handled our nation and our money. Of course, we’ll probably be pretty broke by then and not have money to keep them in prison, but if someone started a “Keep Obama in Prison” charity, I’d donate.

So New York State is getting close to passing a new gun control law in which they are going to limit magazines to seven rounds. They already had laws limiting magazines to ten rounds, but apparently some super genius there was like, “I know the problem with gun violence: three too many rounds!”

This is just profoundly stupid. I mean, really, what’s three less rounds a magazine supposed to accomplish? And since it should be trivially easy to get higher capacity magazines from out of state and I doubt anyone ready to murder people with a gun is going to worry about having an illegal magazine, this is a law that will exclusively affect law abiding gun owners, perhaps making criminals out of many people who were never going to harm anyone. And if for some magic reason it did get criminals to have magazines with only seven rounds in it — this helps me how? The mugger can only shoot me seven times?

Anyone who votes for this law should be immediately be committed as they obviously do not have the mental capacity of an adult. In fact, were I president, I would send in the National Guard to apprehend all of New York’s legislature and its governor and send them to a mental health facility for their own protection. And then I’d tell New York to try governing itself for a year before electing any more officials to help them get perspective. We have to crack down on stupid people wielding power if we want this nation to survive. And we won’t have have justice until most of the politicians out there trying to wield power they shouldn’t have are locked up and given constant psych evaluations.