Archive of entries posted on February 2013

Bipartisanship Will Ruin Our Country

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I have a new PJ Media column on how the only thing saving us is that the two parties don’t get along.

Close your eyes for a moment and imagine Republicans and Democrats getting along. They’d smile and laugh at each other’s jokes and pat each other on the back, and maybe John Boehner would make out with Nancy Pelosi… and then both parties would disappear into a back room to decide how to spend our money and what new government powers they should have. What a nightmare! We’d be completely defenseless.

Read! Enjoy!

Random Thoughts: Pope, Taxes, and Bicycles

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They need a new pope? How much does that pay?

I want to be the first to nominate Mr. T as the new pope. The man does know compassion. Hence his pitying of fools.

How about two popes: one black and one white and at first they don’t get along but eventually they learn to work together to get the job done.

We all like to laugh at Joe Biden, but in reality, Dick Cheney is still vice president, right? I assume he’s the one controlling the drones.

The Dems “balanced approach” to the deficit is to say the phrase “balanced approach” a lot while asking for more tax hikes.

Hey, bicyclists, is there anyway you could ride those somewhere away from where the big boys are trying to drive cars?

Was the main complaint about health care how it was way too cheap? Because otherwise I don’t get Obamacare.

Joe Scarborough sounds weirdly like a Republican when attacking Dems on runaway spending.

Seems like there are few things more useless than listening to a politician speak.

National Holiday?

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Feb12Should today be a national holiday? It’s the birthday of a famous American, but it’s not officially celebrated.

When I was a child, we got a couple of days off school in February: the 12th and the 22nd. I don’t know if it was like that everywhere, but it was in the part of southeast Georgia where I grew up.

Now, to be sure, the fact that February 12 is the anniversary of the founding of Georgia — Georgia Day — might have contributed to that. But, today, the state no longer celebrates the anniversary of its founding, as evident by the governor’s official list of State Holidays for 2013.

But, there’s still that birthday to consider.

Now, the American whose birthday it is, isn’t that big of a hero in Georgia. Not historically, anyway. That doesn’t mean that Georgia has been right in ignoring this American. But, I leave it to you: should states, or even the federal government, recognize today as a holiday in honor of this American?

Should we, as a nation, celebrate the birthday of Joe Don Baker?

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Wish This Guy Wrote Headlines for the New York Times

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[High Praise! to Rumford Meteor]

Stephen King, Who Lives In A Mansion Paid For By A Book And Movie That Gleefully Depicts A Misfit Murdering Everyone In The Local School Over Taunts, Tries His Hand At Writing Humor And Says The NRA Is To Blame For Sandy Hook

Rumford Meteor doesn’t write stories (unfortunately), but they write the headlines the way they OUGHT to be written.

I’ll make one correction to this, though. It should be a book, a movie, and a pseudonymous novel.

Full disclosure: I love Stephen King’s books & short stories, and I’ve read nearly everything he’s written. Doesn’t mean he doesn’t have his head up his ass on some topics, though.

Probably Really Likes the Parts About Heads on Platters

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At a prayer breakfast, President Obama said, “I often search for scripture to figure out how I can be a better man as well as a better president.”

That explains a lot, since there’s nothing in the Bible but Kings, Emperors, and Pharaohs.

PS – Mr. President… the parts about the early reign of King Manasseh are supposed to be a cautionary tale, not an instruction manual.

Link of the Day: Top 10 Ways to Talk about Libertarianism

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[High Praise! to Transterrestrial Musings and the Cato Institute]

Top 10 Ways to Talk about Libertarianism

Full disclosure: I’m not so much a “Conservative” as I am a “Libertarian Hawk”. By which I mean that unlike that pacifist nutjob Ron Paul, I don’t think America’s right to defend its liberty stops at it borders. I’d be fine with invading and conquering every third-world hellhole on the planet and cramming the benefits of modern civilization and its institutions down everyone’s throat.

Worked pretty good on Japan.

Wouldn’t mind seeing how it worked on DC.

[Think you have a link that’s IMAO-worthy? Send it to harvolson@gmail.com. If I use your link, you will receive High Praise! (assuming you remember to put your name in the email)]

Wisdom of the Day: Whistle Pantsuits Hermione Pirates

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for mor yeers

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oh hello dum stoopid heelbilly neocon teebag jues. its been awile. how did things go wit rominee? did he beet mean scaree obama?

oh. he didnt? that is so sad. heer. you com close. i give u hug. just com reely close and ill…

EET UR EYBALLS AN TURN DEM INTO POO AND THROW THE POO AT U! HAHAHAHAHAHAH!!

u dum stoopid heelbilly neocon teebag jues! u no beet obama! he gratest presdent eever! u think dum stoopid rominee who take 47% of womin in bindurs on top of his car could beet obama? u dum stoopids are sooper delooded! evryone luvs obama and grate job he do. he hav to undo damage of dum stoopid heelbilly neocon teebag jue bush and dat take long time. but dat okay becuz obama now have for mor yeers. and by then we weel hav giantest govment eever! and this will make sooper best econimy says paul kroogman hoo u dum stoopids ar to dum stoopid to leestin to.

oh no. ar u dum stoopids sad that republeekins will nevur geet electid ugin? dat must mak u veery sad. com close an i mak u feel bettor. com close…

SO I CAN EET UR EYBALLS AN TURN DEM INTO POO AND THROW THE POO AT U! HAHAHAHAHAHAH!!

but no worrees. obamacare cover eyballs beeing turned to poo. maybe den u learn to thank obama and not ageen nominate sooper conservutive extreemist lik rominee. now just stay out of the way for nex for yeers and maybe i dont eet ur eyballs.

This Argument Would Be More Effective If Liberals Thought Stealing Was Wrong

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[High Praise! to Laughing Conservative and Weasel Zippers]

“The illegals say there needs to be a path to citizenship. There is a path to citizenship. They may not like it but it is there.

There is a path to car ownership. You go out and buy one or work out a deal to finance one and make your payments. Some may not like that pathway so they go out and steal one. That is illegal. Just like coming here and not choosing the pathway that has been set forth. If you don’t like it, stay in the country you are presently in.”