Archive of entries posted on 17th July 2013

Forget the Rule of Law – We Need the Rule of Beer

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[High Praise! to The Gormogons]

Dr. J. brings this up in the context of the Obamacare bill, the recent Gang-of-8 Immigration Bill and all of the other 1000 page bills that are passed at the 11th hour with very little room for public debate or discussion.

The recent 1075 page immigration bill clocked in at 24 pounds. That’s comes to 45 pages per pound. Dr. J. would like to make a modest proposal.

Dr. J. suggests that like beer, legislation should be served 12 ounces at a time. That gives the legislators 34 pages to work their magic, and there’s no excuse that the bill has to be read to see what’s in it.

Wisdom of the Day: Porcupine Dome Parking

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Obama Warned Us – Ideology

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I am convinced that whenever we exaggerate or demonize, oversimplify or overstate our case, we lose. Whenever we dumb down the political debate, we lose. For it’s precisely the pursuit of ideological purity, the rigid orthodoxy and the sheer predictability of our current political debate, that keeps us from finding new ways to meet the challenges we face as a country.

BARACK OBAMA, The Audacity of Hope

“So… no more political debate. Shut up and do it my way.”

I Don’t Trust Liz Cheney

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So Liz Cheney is going to primary Mike Enzi to try and win a senate seat in Wyoming.

I don’t quite get this. As far as I understand, Mike Enzi is a hard-line conservative who has committed no big sin. He just seems rather inconsequential — I’ve never even heard of him — but inconsequential is a criticism you can make of most U.S. Senators as they’re all rather useless people. I guess there’s no reason not to primary him if you think you’re better, but you just don’t usually see a politician getting primaried by someone who doesn’t disagree on any significant vote. Basically, Liz Cheney has ambitions and needed a national political office and there it was. I guess you can’t wait around forever waiting for an open seat.

Also, many on the right are excited for a Liz Cheney candidacy, which makes me not trust her. I’m adamantly against getting excited about politicians, so I feel like it’s my duty to be a naysayer. Liz Cheney is awful. How do I know this? Because she is a candidate running for office. Wake up people.

Still, in general I want more turn over in Congress and would rather we don’t keep running the same candidates over and over and instead I’d like new blood, so I’m not completely opposed to Liz Cheney. I’m just not going to expect much. We are talking about the Senate here. If you’re not a useless idiot when you enter that body, you will become one. Thus my favorite senator is Jim DeMint has he resigned from office to do more useful things. Now there’s a senator with some sound judgement I can trust.

NBC News is now legal

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Earlier this month, a new law went into effect that essentially neutralizes the Smith-Mundt Act of 1948 and Foreign Relations Authorization Act from 1987. What that means is that it’s no longer illegal for U.S. government propaganda to be broadcast in the United States.

Those earlier laws kept U.S. government broadcasts from internal consumption. Radio Free Europe, for instance, couldn’t be broadcast internally, just at and in other countries. But, it’s a lot bigger than beaming the Drifters’ “On Broadway” at people. It means that government-authored news can now be broadcast at Americans. Of course, NBC, CNN, CBS, and ABC have been official organs of the U.S. government since Obama took office.

People wanting to avoid news authored by the White House can no longer simply avoid NBC or the other channels.

What’s left? Well, Fox News. Maybe. I actually look for government propaganda to crack that nut soon.

No, the only bastion of truly reliable news, fake or otherwise, is here. You can always depend on us to keep you informed. Or at least, intelligently misinformed.

Random Thoughts: Time Capsules, Crackers, and Liz Cheney

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Pro Tip: Never directly meet with a publisher to leave open the possibility you’re actually J.K. Rowling.

The death of Trayvon Martin was all about race to racists.

A “the 80s called” joke would have been a great thing to put in a time capsule buried in the 80s.

If robots from the future are attacking, the easiest way to fight back is to put nuclear bombs in time capsules.

Why are they being violent in California? People aren’t allowed to carry guns in CA. …Oh, that’s why.

What really complicated the Zimmerman case was that when all the cops arrived at the scene of the shooting, they started breakdancing.

I don’t know what that’s about. Don’t ask me.

If you don’t like creepy ass crackers, what are you doing on Piers Morgan’s show?

I’ve been called a creepy ass cracker before and it never stops hurting.

BuzzFeed listicles seem to be for people who find Cracked articles to be too intellectual.

If there is a guy named Locke who likes to shout and made Captain in the military, I have a good nickname for him.

Eric Holder is one of the most thoroughly useless and awful people in government, and that says a lot.

So is there this outbreak of black youths being shot under Stand Your Ground law or is everyone just idiots when its comes to guns again?

Too many on the right like Liz Cheney which makes me not trust her.

“If you strike me down, I will become more powerful than you can possibly imagine!”
“As powerful as a gorilla with T. rex heads for fists?”
*pause* “I underestimated your imagination, Darth.”