The take on letter drops from the Paul Miller Hair Studio in Hollywood, Florida.
May 6, 2009
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A new take on the “you break, you buy,” theme occasionally seen in stores with delicate items. Now it is “you bleed, you buy,” at the archery post.
“If your children bleed on the arrows, you will have to buy them.
Image courtesy of http://www.signpictures.net/pictures/If_Your_Children.htm.
ObamaCare & the Costs of the Welfare State. Charles Kesler at RCP via Claremont Review of Books.
An excellent piece to peruse and ruminate on how health care reform has trounced on the Constitution. Most salient description on the Democrat partisan behemoth legislation that will haunt the Dems historically.
In fact, it’s not so much the length of the Act as its vagueness, incompleteness, and amorphousness that mark it as a new-fangled administrative statute, granting power to a few to rule according to their wisdom and with very little reference to the many’s consent. Which is to say, the law’s meaning is deliberately indeterminate, left vague so as to give maximum discretion to the unholy trinity of bureaucrats, congressional staffers, and private sector “stakeholders” who will flesh out the Act with hundreds, probably thousands, of pages of regulations, and then amend those as needed later on. When favored interests and constituencies want to appeal a regulatory decision, they will always find a helpful congressman ready to intervene on their behalf with the very bureaucracy he helped create.
This new kind of statute-one hates to call it law-is not meant to be ”a settled, standing rule,” as John Locke defined law. On the contrary, it is meant permanently to be in flux, always developing and subject to renegotiation. It is law constantly suffused with wisdom, albeit constantly changing wisdom. It is what passes for law under a “living Constitution.”
What folks should really be alarmed about is the utter vagueness and the ability of unelected officials to decide how to implement the law.
“The Act is rife with unconstitutional delegations of legislative power to executive agencies and, most flagrantly, to the Secretary of HHS.”
What screams is the usurping of health care responsibility by bureaucrats who only have the bottom dollar in mind, not your best health. But now they will be wearing the white coats. Dispense with doctors. It only matters what bureaucrats decide will be your treatment options per Obamacare.
“Dr. Nobama.”
Image courtesy of johnx1 of the Independents via http://www.freakingnews.com/Health-Care-Pictures—2808.asp.
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Dolphins have a sense of humor. They can fart and laugh just like people. Just stay out of the way!
September 19, 2010
Judge says man within rights to record police traffic stop. Motorcyclist wins taping case against state police. Baltimore Sun.
Excellent rationale and judgment.
“Those of us who are public officials and are entrusted with the power of the state are ultimately accountable to the public,” the judge wrote. “When we exercise that power in public fora, we should not expect our actions to be shielded from public observation.”
Interesting that public encounters with law enforcement seem to evoke a cloaking and secrecy attitude. What is public on public property, is plainly public and rightly so. No one can expect their public actions to suddenly become private just because a camera is on.
The judge wrote that Graber’s encounter “took place on a public highway in full view of the public. Under such circumstances, I cannot, by any stretch, conclude that the troopers had any reasonable expectation of privacy in their conversation with the defendant which society would be prepared to recognize as reasonable.”
March 10, 2010
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Aunt Zeituni: ‘The System Took Advantage Of Me’. WBZTV Boston.
The chutzpah! Feels no remorse for her illegal entrance and overstay in this country, and the subsequent largesse enjoyed at the taxpayer’s expense. What does Kenya do to people who ovestay their visas? Does Kenya provide housing and disability income?
“I knew I had overstayed”
”I didn’t take any advantage of the system. The system took advantage of me.”
“I didn’t ask for it; they gave it to me. Ask your system. I didn’t create it or vote for it. Go and ask your system,” she said unapologetically.
She conveniently stayed even after a judge ordered her out in 2004. One year later, she made it to Barack Obama’s swearing in ceremony as Illinois Senator. Three years later, she was invited and attended his inauguration in Washington, D.C.
For a person with little means, there certainly are ways of obtaining what many with even significantly greater means are unable. But hey, what’s a lady to do when a dear relative is climbing the ranks of politics, and has many friends with either cash or favors at hand that can facilitate your life? She hired a top immigration attorney to help, while living in public housing in Boston with a $700 per month disability income. And she bypassed the take-a-number line to the front.
“When you believe in Jesus Christ and almighty God, my help comes from heaven,” she responded.
When asked about cutting in line ahead of those who have paid into the system she answered plainly, “I don’t mind. You can take that house. I will be on the street with the homeless.”
Unapologetic. Ungrateful.
“To me America’s dream became America’s worst nightmare,” she said adamantly. “I have been treated like public enemy number one.”
So odd. If America’s dream became such a problem, then why stay? Kenya was home after all.
Obama’s Aunt Not Sorry She Accepted Public Housing. WBZTV Boston. Her rationale.
“This country is owned by almighty God,” she said in her first interview since being granted asylum in May. “You people who preach Jesus Christ, almighty God, and the rest of it, you are here to help people, help the poor, help other countries and help women. That’s what the United States is supposed to do.”
Supposed to do? Bizarre expectations with a sense of entitlement. Somehow, she missed the lesson about separation of church and state. But did get coaching on how to respond to her now easily solved immigration issue.
How about get in line with the rest of the folks who are doing it or already did it the way the way it is SUPPOSED to be done? Adhering to the law should be paramount, not an afterthought.
“Obama’s aunt says US obligated to make her citizen.”
Image courtesy of Renegade of Independents via http://www.freakingnews.com/Week-in-Pictures-September-20-26-Pictures–3052-0.asp.
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In the time of need, most appreciate the availability of a public restroom. Especially if it is clean.
But for those who feel it is their duty to use a restroom for a lot of creative pranking and theatrics, there is a sign with several no-no’s in the language anyone can understand on the proper decorum around feces and urine.
Some hints. Aim closer; a laser spot or a Cheerio might help. Turn around and stop feigning a visual handicap. Your lame pee-dribbling act along your leg does not qualify as some incredible pee-kickin’ act, even in heels. The pee’ers one-handed head stand doesn’t garner a 10 unless you score into the dish. Don’t clog the bowl by uncorking a month-load of turds. No doody snacking unless you squirt into the bowl. Just because you forgot your brown crayon at home does not give you license to use dookie as your new medium, even for your favorite diagrams. You obviously got stuck writing too many “I will not graffiti anymore” messages on the chalkboard at school. Just because she is flipping you the bird, does not make dung flung in her general direction acceptable. Dude, that is probably even more reason she isn’t interested in you. And, no, it is not socially acceptable to have an asylum-like party of brownie-smeared guests with accompanying toddlers, cheering and leaking all over the place, especially on the dog.
“Public restroom rules. Judging from the condition of the average public restroom, we apparently need to make it clear that the following behaviors are prohibited.”
Image courtesy of http://skyltat.se/nu-snackar-vi-toaregler/.
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Unintended, But Not Unforeseen. NRO.
Health care reform, wholly brought on by the Democrat party, and of which they were very proud, has begun the slow and unsavory process of rearing its ugly head in American’s real lives. Who said costs weren’t gonna rise? Those who willingly portrayed what they were selling as something completely different.
And if you’re going to ignore a century’s worth of actuarial practice and accounting rules, why not just throw out all of economics and feign surprise at rising insurance premiums, the cancellation of services, and the discontinuation of products?
Here it comes. Those new taxes that will affect everyone.
Obamacare levies a 3.8 percent tax on profits from home sales — meaning they have reduced the real sales value of American homes by 3.8 percent — and Democrats act as though this will have no effect on the tanking housing market.
Oh goody! Everybody gets to pay more taxes! Irrespective of political affiliation. Tack on some more taxes to that sweet home you are trying to unload in this hot home sales market.
They issue “interim final” rules that change at the whim of the administration and then deny that uncertainty is hobbling the economy. They require that every business file a 1099 for the IRS for every vendor transaction exceeding $600 — a requirement that the IRS itself confesses it lacks sufficient manpower to handle — and then promise that their program will save the country money through reduced paperwork.
Just what every business dreams of. MORE paperwork due to the IRS! Yippee! Businesses are already drowning in government forms submissions. Just add to it exponentially. And either bog down the business in paperwork, pass it on to the accountants, decrease the vendors selling to the business, and /or increase the cost of goods to the consumer. Now aren’t we all happy?
They add an extra layer of taxation onto investments to offset the costs of their health-care mess and then wonder that investors aren’t pouring money into new job-creating enterprises. No, neither Obamacare nor regulatory uncertainty is exclusively responsible for the poor state of the economy, the unsteady markets, or weak housing prices, but they are contributors, and their contribution is not negligible.
A little reminder of how proud they were of themselves when they passed this behemoth legislation that will be sure to slither into everyone’s lives.
Don’t forget it either, each and every time in the voting booth. The Dem’s pride and joy. The hit piece they are now running away from just before the mid term elections. Should the albatross hang heavily from each of their careers.
March 21, 2010
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Looking for a bargain? Look no further. Maybe they are even clean.
“Ladies panties. 88 cents. Brand new. Never used.”
Image courtesy of http://uk.reuters.com/article/idUKL129052420080731?loomia_ow=t0:s0:a49:g43:r1:c0.636765:b37570166:z0.
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When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
David Bissonette
After marriage, husband and wife become two sides of a coin; they just can’t face each other, but still they stay together.
Sacha Guitry
By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you’ll be happy. If you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.
Socrates
Woman inspires us to great things, and prevents us from achieving them.
Anonymous
The great question… which I have not been able to answer… is, ‘What does a woman want?Dumas
I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me.
Sigmund Freud
‘Some people ask the secret of our long marriage. We take time to go to a restaurant two times a week. A little candlelight, dinner, soft music and dancing. She goes Tuesdays, I go Fridays.’
Anonymous
‘There’s a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It’s called marriage.’
Sam Kinison
‘I’ve had bad luck with both my wives. The first one left me, and the second one didn’t.’
James Holt McGavra
Two secrets to keep your marriage brimming
1. Whenever you’re wrong, admit it,
2. Whenever you’re right, shut up.
Patrick Murra
The most effective way to remember your wife’s birthday is to forget it once….
Nash
You know what I did before I married? Anything I wanted to.
Anonymous
My wife and I were happy for twenty years Then we met.
Henny Youngman
A good wife always forgives her husband when she’s wrong.
Rodney Dangerfield
A man inserted an ‘ad’ in the classifieds: ‘Wife wanted’. Next day he received a hundred letters. They all said the same thing: ‘You can have mine’
Anonymous
First Guy (proudly): ‘My wife’s an angel!’
Second Guy: ‘You’re lucky, mine’s still alive.’
Anonymous
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