Sunday, November 29, 2009
I am a Notre Dame Fan
I watched the Stanford game last night. Of course, my beloved Irish fell by seven points to the Cardinals.
I have three points for the readers....or those who may care to share my pain....
1. Notre Dame lost to Michigan, USC, Navy, Connecticut, Pittsburgh, and Stanford. With the exception of Michigan and Connecticut, all of those teams are bowl-bound. Their combined records are 33-13. Including Michigan and UConn, the record of the teams that Notre Dame lost to is 44-25.
2. There was nothing wrong with the Notre Dame offense. It was all about defense. This is Weis’ fault, of course, but give the guy credit for the offense. They scored 31 points a game and scored 43 touchdowns. Jimmy Clausen had a passer rating of 161.4.
3. The team lost 6 games by a total of 25 points, or 4.2 friggin’ points per game.
Of course, Weis is GONE. His winning percentage is less than Ty Willingham’s and Bob Davie’s, so the ND Administration and Sports Department have no choice but to get rid of him. I hope the guy they bring in to replace him is a good coach and can reclaim the echoes and thunder.
But I’m allowed to be sad about it.
Thursday, November 26, 2009
Happy Thanksgiving!
To all of you, take pause and give thanks for the things we have, the people we share them with, and this fine Republic.
I am going to run for a pie....there’s a 5-mile run called the Turkey Trot, here in Columbus. I’m up getting ready to drive over to the start. I’f I finish well enough, I might win myself a pie!
Either way, one thing I need to mention is that I’m thankful for Drumwaster. He allows me to come here and rant, rave, and generally make verbal mischief. Drummy, you’ve been a true friend and I can’t thank you enough.
Monday, November 23, 2009
Prophetic
Today, at Instapundit:
“I think Obama’s “charisma” was based on voter narcissism — people excited not just about electing a black President, but about themselves, voting for a black President. Now that’s over, and they’re stuck just with him, and emptied of their own narcissism there’s not much there to fill out the suit.”
And...me, January 18th, 2009:
“Now, these people have exactly the person they want in the office.....a primping, self-aggrandizing, malleable whelp that ‘speaks well’ and can use large words. IN their eyes, he’s JFK with the added bonus of being a minority, a walking trophy to their self-definition of open-mindedness. He’s coming in to ‘change everything’ by being like Bill Clinton. He is their idol, plated in gold and carrying the leftist and activist past that makes them weak with giddiness. It isn’t that he’s who he is, it’s that THEY WON OVER BUSH.....finally! Now, the traditional way of their forefathers...the love of God and country, the respect for the institutions...can be replaced with someone that is more agnostic about the beauty and miracle that is America.”
Nice.
Thursday, November 19, 2009
Trig Palin’s Homoerotic Web Stalker
I tried to tell many of you. All of you. This guy went batty when George W. Bush came out against gay marriage. Please...search Drumwaster’s Rants by using the search window on the left of the screen. Type in “Andrew Sullivan” Look at the 77 articles that contain references to him.
Look at his website.....look at the article I linked to above. Can you say anything other than this guy’s gone off the deep end?
He’s obsessing over a little kid with Down’s Syndrome. While we are losing the War on Terror, racking up $2 trillion in debt, the self-proclaimed ‘conservative’ is going apeshit over Trig Palin. APE. SHIT. Over Trig Palin. A little guy with Down’s Syndrome.
You know what Sarah Palin’s problem actually is? She is a religious woman that loves her children and is willing to support them even if they are different. I wonder if we are seeing Andrew Sullivan’s emotional scars that were produced when his parents asked God what was wrong with their son when he told them he was gay.
Andrew Sullivan hates Christianity and Christ. He hates people that espouse those beliefs. He hates Sarah Palin, and tries to character assassinate her, because she has tried her best to live by a standard Sullivan utterly rejects.
Sunday, November 15, 2009
I’ve been saying it for years
And then Glenn Beck came along and has been saying it for many months. (Except he’s on camera, y’know.)
Then Chris Muir comes along and gives a very gentle nudge in the same direction in today’s comic.
When it is such a public concept that it appears in the comic strips, the time is ripe.
Grab the popcorn, folks, the next two years are gonna get downright interesting*. But grab some ammo while you’re at it.
* - Using the word in the same sense as in the old Chinese curse, “May you live in interesting times.”
Friday, November 13, 2009
There’s a book I want you all to read
Seriously. Go down to the library and borrow it, or to the bookstore and buy your own copy (if you want to keep the economy staggering along) of Robert Heinlein’s “The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress”. It provides the blueprint for how to carry out a successful cell system for revolution. He goes into detail about the How-Tos of successful insurrection. We’re going to need that kind of widespread knowledge in the years to come.
Call me crazy, but the House passed a bill earlier this week (with the “laying on the table” of a provision they all know will be eliminated in the Conference Committee - that of not using Federal funding of abortion) that has made it a Criminal Act to refuse to buy their version of health insurance. Let me repeat so that we all understand. It will become An Imprisonable Offense Against Society to refuse to buy something you may not need. But if you choose to buy and you buy too much of it (the so-called “Cadillac plans"), you will have to pay a penalty tax on it.
If you own a car and don’t want to buy auto insurance, yet still remain within the law, there are options. You can walk. Ride a bicycle. Use a Segway. Catch a bus. Hail a taxicab. Hitch a ride with friends, family, neighbors or co-workers. You still have options.
Not so with this health care initiative. In order to pay for the care of the elderly (and I do not dispute the claims that 50%+ of all medical expenses are within the last 90 days of life), they have to ensure a source of income from people who are likely to be paying into the system, yet not using any of it. The people who are healthy, and young (so that they will be paying into it for as long as possible before starting to tap the river of resources themselves), who would prefer to use that money on frivolity and fun, such as going to Cancun with the roommate and significant others. Or shopping for shoes. Or buying the latest gadgets from Fry’s Electronics.
No, that money has to be paid in, and a simple $750 fine for not having insurance is not enough to entice them into buying a policy that costs a couple of grand every year. And as long as it’s cheaper to pay the fine than to pay the premiums, it will remain that way. Thus, the penalty must be made harsh enough that it will “encourage” the recalcitrant.
So now the enforcement of this not-a-tax is going to be handled through the IRS, as a line item on your income tax forms, with noncompliance bringing down a jail term!
I think that if this passes, I am going to fire every one of my guys, and go on disability. Just go limp and start stocking away supplies and ammo. (Working “under the table” from time to time, for cash and no paperwork, just to hit Vegas every year, y’know.)
Interesting conundrum, though. They are advocating for the release of any non-violent drug offenders from prison, because “drug use is a victimless crime”. But apparently not buying health insurance isn’t.
“Hey, what are you in for?”
“I raped my father. You?”
“I didn’t buy health insurance.”
Ludicrous? You tell me…
Sunday, November 08, 2009
The Socialists just won a battle
The House passed the Pelosi/Obama/Lenin/Mao Health Care/Freedom Seizure bill 220-215, One Republican (Anh (Joseph) Cao, LA) voted for it....funny, he was the guy that replaced William “Money in my Freezer” Jefferson. Sure glad the people of New Orleans put a guy with integrity into the office. Reminds me of those clips of N.O. police officers looting during Katrina.
Either way, Now we have the more deliberative Senate, where we know Joseph Lieberman (I, Conn.) is going to vote against anything with a ‘public (aka socialist, fascist, communist) option’. He’ll offset Lindsey Graham (RINO, SC), so we need two (2..only TWO) US Senators to kill this thing.
This whole operation is why you DON’T settle for a ‘moderate’ when you need a ‘conservative’. Two conservatives in the House would have stopped a $2 TRILLION ($2,000,000,000,000) takeover of our daily lives. ALSO, remember, the people of the United States opposed this bil by a wide margin.....and the House voted AGAINST THE WILL OF THE PEOPLE THAT PUT THEM THERE.
I hope there is a voter-caused bloodletting in both bodies of the Congress...meaning that I hope every person that voted against the will of the people is unceremoniously dumped from their publicly-funded position of prestige.
However, today, the socialists won. They ignored millions of protesters, millions of phone calls and tens of millions of e-mails and letters, just for the sake of a power grab and help in getting re-elected. President Obama, rather than pushing help for the commanding general in Afghanistan, or stopping Iran from getting nukes, decided to push a government takeover of 17% of the economy. And that’s what it’s all about...not health care. Remember, when asked, most of the Democrats tell us they wouldn’t subscribe to it. POTUS wouldn’t, Pelosi wouldn’t, Harry Reid wouldn’t.....but they will FORCE you to do it.
I’m getting my concealed-carry permit in the next few weeks. Not that it’s related or anything.
Wednesday, November 04, 2009
Had to work the election yesterday
I got called at 9:45 pm Monday night to fill a vacancy left by a family emergency. i had been aware that there was an election, but since we weren’t going to be voting in it (it was only for a few communities in the county - ten, I think), I wasn’t paying attention. Since I was on “standby”, I didn’t even have to attend the training class, and since I’ve been a Range Inspector for the last several elections, I was fully qualified to do any job they needed. I just didn’t think they would need me in such a low-turnout election.
Well, they needed.
Blah, blah, daughter going into the hospital blah blah have to find a replacement *ringring* “Hi, we need you. Be at the precinct at 6:15 tomorrow morning.” Remember, folks, that 6:15 deadline was only 8 1/2 hours away.
I went, and did the job, and I hope I did it right. 36 voters all day, and i don’t even know what they were voting for. I think it was for the local school board or something.
God, my back hurts today.
Monday, November 02, 2009
What Would Happen If…?
What would happen if thousands, tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of people simply refused to pay into this grab for freedom that is referred to as “public option health care”?
“There are not enough jails, not enough policemen, not enough courts to enforce a law that is not supported by the People.”—Hubert Humphrey
What would they do? What could they do?