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How sad is this?
posted by J Bowen at 5:05 AM ~

This is why neighbors call them "massholes"
The people of Massachusetts owe it to the rest of the country to throw Barney Frank out. Not just at the next election. Now.

Not content with his role in screwing up Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, he wants to grab repaid TARP money for one of his latest housing schemes, as mentioned
here.

I have a better idea. Set up a fund to be used to recall Congressmen. We can start with Frank. Then how about Nancy Pelosi?

Or how about a new tax proposal? We'll calculate how much in taxes each Congressman votes for each year, and we'll fine their campaign funds accordingly. And we'll tax their donors at the rates their candidate would have imposed.

Or better yet, how about a change in the rules such that the House and Senate automatically expel the members who voted for the most spending each fiscal year? We might finally start getting more turnover. And maybe some hope for a change.

Yep, I've had enough. I haven't managed to hit a Tea Party yet. I also missed a local event to notify a RINO that he had no business voting for that "cap and tax" abomination that he couldn't possibly have even read, much less assimilated.

No more.
posted by J Bowen at 10:21 AM ~

At least he wasn't a lacrosse player
Duke Official Charged With Offering 5-Year-Old Son for Sex - Local News | News Articles | National News | US News - FOXNews.com

Too obscure? See this
posted by J Bowen at 4:11 PM ~

Margaret Sanger's nightmare
I guess it's easier to write 1 story than 11 or more, but this is just a tad unbalanced. Someone allegedly fathered 21 kids by "at least 11" different mothers, and it takes until the last paragraph to note that "one has to wonder about the women who chose to have his children".

If that man had never been born, does anyone really think none of this would have happened? But for him, these women would have been virgins?

Is a 29 year old with a minimum wage job so devastatingly attractive to those women that they were simply incapable of resisting? Even though all the women allegedly knew about his large family?

Or was he just a bottom feeder who'd hook up with any loser who wanted her ticket to the govt gravy train?

Gravy train? It's true that many of us wouldn't want to live on govt programs. But I went to school in small towns, and in small towns everybody knows of everybody. Including the trash. I wound up knowing plenty of people that were very pleased to live in ways I wouldn't have chosen. If it takes popping a kid to get benefits they wouldn't have otherwise, then come and get it!

Raising kids is cheap if they're just a means to an end. Just take care of them well enough to keep off the radar of govt family services types, who are probably too busy to investigate much anyway, and it's years of freebies!

Cynical? No, just experienced. I've seen it more times than I care to recall - I can only imagine what social workers see. We can't project our own aspirations on others.

More from the last paragraph: "In the end, the children and the taxpayers of Tennessee will pay for their choices for years to come."

Perhaps the word "choice" wasn't a code word (as in "why didn't the mothers kill them? - we must not have enough abortionists!"). Pardon my suspicions - the pro-abortion types don't seem to address that choosing started long before the pregnancies, and Planned Parenthood makes a lot of money performing abortions.

But even abortion were free and available within 5 minutes, they're missing the point. It's all about having the kids to qualify for benefits.

And the only thing that will stop that is reducing or ending the benefits.

I'm sure Margaret Sanger, exalted saint of Planned Parenthood, would agree.
posted by J Bowen at 1:42 PM ~

Remedial education
Cue "I Will Survive" - Contessa Brewer has been called "slutty" in public and lived to tell. Which apparently explains her incredulity at anyone, such as Sarah Palin, objecting to such a characterization. It's just comedy!

Maybe that's not an issue on the left. But I don't recall anyone on the left calling Bill Clinton or Nina Burleigh slutty. At least if they'd called Clinton slutty they could say they weren't being sexist. (and if he doesn't merit this, what does it take?)

I know nothing of Contessa Brewer's conduct, and I'm only quoting her from a video above. But somehow it wouldn't bother me a bit if Googling "slutty" showed Contessa Brewer at the top of the list.
posted by J Bowen at 8:10 AM ~

Andrew Sullivan must really miss all those fact checkers from his days as a journalist. The latest folly is from his claims that Winston Churchill didn't condone torture. Here is one site calling BS: there are many more.

But it gets better. Our Churchill also gassed Kurds with mustard gas.

Maybe next we'll hear that gassing isn't torture. Maybe if it kills people fast enough...

But no:

Too bad Barack Obama bought Sullivan's nonsense. And now, having sold the CIA down the river, he might have to pay a price for that.
posted by J Bowen at 12:57 AM ~

Coming soon to a health provider near you
Setting: doctor's office.
Receptionist: Sorry sir, you have no health insurance.
Patient: What do you mean? Barack Obama socialized medicine, we're all covered now.
Receptionist: Yes, but you didn't make your health insurance payments.
Patient: What payments? It's free!
Receptionist: My records show that you haven't made donations to the Democrats.

Far fetched? I sure hope so. But to suggest that govt controlled health care won't be influenced by politics is impossibly naive.

Hey, I'm not dogmatic. But I think that people who would give the govt more responsibilities would do well should insist that we get rid of the existing corruption and improve the performance of existing functions first. Is there something partisan about that?
posted by J Bowen at 4:39 AM ~

How conveeeeeenient
Shortly after mass gatherings across the country to tell Congress that they're sick of pork, we have warnings about swine flu.

That's one way to try to suppress future rallies, anyway. How nice it is to know that after hundreds of billions for bailouts, there's one thing this administration won't waste. Crises.
posted by J Bowen at 8:41 PM ~

If you've ever considered eating a gun....
How can Glenn Reynolds not link to this? It's about pork, bacon and guns.

Stolen shamelessly from The Corner.
posted by J Bowen at 1:40 AM ~

Does he ever shut up?