(Via the Drudge Report)
The Big O says "we are slowly tightening the noose" around Moammar Gadhafi.
Shooting metaphors bad, hanging metaphors good. OK, got it now.
Friday, March 11, 2011
Wednesday, March 09, 2011
Good riddence
Embattled NPR CEO Vivian Schiller resigned Wednesday at the request of the board after a hidden-camera video was released showing a fellow executive criticizing Republicans as "anti-intellectual" and calling the Tea Party "racist."
National Proletarian Radio. Unbiased, unreal and unhinged. Now if we can just make them un(government)funded.
National Proletarian Radio. Unbiased, unreal and unhinged. Now if we can just make them un(government)funded.
Tuesday, March 08, 2011
Welcome to the New Bad Old Days
South Carolina is considering a bill that would allow police to slap $150 tickets on motorists caught driving less than 10 mph over the limit --10 times the current minimum -- but let them skip reporting the tickets to shield low-speed offenders from higher insurance premiums.
According to the bipartisan legislation, windfall revenues would be split between the state and the towns or cities that issue tickets.
Oh yeah, no room for corruption, quotas and so on here. Although I should give them props for making the revenue enhancement opportunity more transparent to thevictims ticketees.
The Democratco-conspirator co-sponsor of the Bill, one Todd Rutherford, says that people will like it because they can avoid having their insurance go up just because of the speeding tickets.
And I"m sure they will--until they get tired of paying the speeding tickets.
According to the bipartisan legislation, windfall revenues would be split between the state and the towns or cities that issue tickets.
Oh yeah, no room for corruption, quotas and so on here. Although I should give them props for making the revenue enhancement opportunity more transparent to the
The Democrat
And I"m sure they will--until they get tired of paying the speeding tickets.
Monday, March 07, 2011
As well she should
(Via the Drudge Report)
Michelle Bachmann is not backing off:
The House Tea Party Caucus founder said, "I don't take back my statement on gangster government," a phrase she used at a tea party gathering in April. "I think that there have been actions that have been taken by this government that I think are corrupt."
I think she's underselling the level of corruption in the Federal government. Until we admit to ourselves the decades of corruption (remember Eisenhower's "military-industrial complex"?) in our government and dedicate ourselves to rooting it out, not only at the Federal but also at the state and local levels, we're going to see things get worse, not better.
Don't stand for window-dressing reforms. Settle for nothing less than a true fix.
Michelle Bachmann is not backing off:
The House Tea Party Caucus founder said, "I don't take back my statement on gangster government," a phrase she used at a tea party gathering in April. "I think that there have been actions that have been taken by this government that I think are corrupt."
I think she's underselling the level of corruption in the Federal government. Until we admit to ourselves the decades of corruption (remember Eisenhower's "military-industrial complex"?) in our government and dedicate ourselves to rooting it out, not only at the Federal but also at the state and local levels, we're going to see things get worse, not better.
Don't stand for window-dressing reforms. Settle for nothing less than a true fix.
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