Cranky-D

If the president wants clean energy, that doesn’t create carbon dioxide (whatevs!!!) then why not move nuclear powerplants forward? They fix all the problems that the wackos bitch about.

We could have nukes all over the darn place, generating all the electric power we will ever need. Why give that idea up? Ideology should not matter a bit.

Anyway, people need to get their heads in the right place. If you really want to move forward, remove the barriers to nuclear power. We will all be a lot better off.

So, Jon and Kate are getting divorced. What a remarkable result. I’m so glad they’re “just thinking of the kids.”

Please.

I think she’s a shrew. However, it’s most likely she has always been that way. So Jon-boy suddenly discovering that fact of life this late in the game is, well, stupid. If he thought people got easier to get along with as you get older, then he is doubly dumb.

He should have learned to live with it. She should have learned to keep her mouth shut more often, and not treated him like a child when they were in public. And when you’re whole life is on teevee, you are always in public.

They should have worked it out because marriage is not about “eternal love” or “eternal happiness” or any crap like that. It’s about raising kids, and they have a truckload of kids that need a lot of raising. You suck it up and go on with life.

They should have done the counseling thing or “encounter weekends” or whatever the heck it takes for two people to grow the hell up and act like adults.

Am I married? Nope. If I were to think about it, I would take it very seriously. It isn’t about hearts and flowers and the bride’s big day and eternal happiness. It’s about dealing with the same thing every day and learning to not let stuff that bothers you bother you any more. It’s about taking care of everyone else’s needs before your own. Your life is not your own any more, and if you have kids, your life is now theirs.

I know that, which probably keeps me away from the whole thing. That’s a lot to ask, and the older I get the harder it is to contemplate the whole thing.

Little Jonny didn’t know it, and now he looks like a loser, because he is one.

“The Last Straw” - “Well, that about wraps it up,” he smirked as he tied the last ribbon. She brained him with a Louisville slugger.

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My twitter handle is crankyd, since they didn’t allow hyphens.

I cannot believe I joined that thing. G-d help us all.

Over here, at Ace of Spades, is a story about the latest stupidity from the U.K., the “anti-stab” knife. Basically it’s a normal knife except it doesn’t have a point on it. Wow, that’s gonna change everything.

Progressives blame the tools for the crime. Knives make people all stabby, guns make them all shooty. Without weapons, we’d all be holding hands and singing Kumbaya.

Right.

Another great read:Charles Krauthammer - Barack Obama Surveys the World. I liked the second paragraph very much:

Not that Obama considers himself divine. (He sees himself as merely messianic, or, at worst, apostolic.) But he does position himself as hovering above mere mortals, mere country, to gaze benignly upon the darkling plain beneath him where ignorant armies clash by night, blind to the common humanity that only he can see. Traveling the world, he brings the gospel of understanding and godly forbearance. We have all sinned against each other. We must now look beyond that and walk together to the sunny uplands of comity and understanding. He shall guide you. Thus:

Poetic.

One of the quotations proves that our president is a bald-faced liar, and he knows he will never get called on it.

Even on freedom of religion, Obama could not resist the compulsion to find fault with his own country: “For instance, in the United States, rules on charitable giving have made it harder for Muslims to fulfill their religious obligation” — disgracefully giving the impression to a foreign audience not versed in our laws that there is active discrimination against Muslims, when the only restriction, applied to all donors regardless of religion, is on funding charities that serve as fronts for terror.

It’s nice to have a president who really represents his country faithfully, isn’t it?

Well, it was at least. Of course, that was about six months ago.

Victor Davis Hanson has more:

What is stunning about Obama’s hostile demagoguery about Bush’s War on Terror is not that he has now contradicted himself on one or two particulars. Instead, he has reversed himself on every major issue — renditions, military tribunals, intercepts, wiretaps, Predator drone attacks, the release of interrogation photos, Iraq (and, I think, soon Guantanamo Bay) — and yet never acknowledged these reversals.

Are we supposed to think that Obama was never against these protocols at all? Or that he still remains opposed to them even as he keeps them in place? Meanwhile, his attorney general, Eric Holder, is as voluble on the excesses of the Bush War on Terror as he is silent about his own earlier declarations that detainees in this war were not entitled to the protections of the Geneva Convention.

Our president has been a really busy guy. We are sure seeing a lot of that “change” stuff, but I am running out of hope.

It’s my birthday pretty soon. When I corrected my mailing address when a family email came announcing the June birthdays, I wasn’t asking for cards. I just thought it would be a good time to let everyone know where to send the hate mail if they are so inclined.

I think I’ve already received more cards than since I was a teenager.

It is kind of nice, though.

My employer has had me on to do lists for a while now, which is insulting enough since I have already proven that I can work on my own. I have produced two products all by myself so far, though he stuck his hand in one and thinks he actually contributed something.

Whatever.

Well, the latest one required me to integrate code that he hadn’t finished writing yet. So, instead of making fake work and twiddling my thumbs, I decided to wait a bit until he was finished, and make up my hours later when I really had something to do. He finally got the code to me today, but not before complaining that I didn’t have enough hours in for the first week of the month.

What a jackass. If there were a job market, I would be so gone.

Great video here:Terence Kealey - ‘The Myth of Science as a Public Good’ on Vimeo.

I used to be of the opinion that some science needed to be funded by the government. This guy has changed my mind. The fact that immediate government de-funding of private research/business would leave me without a job does not change my mind, either.

The presentation runs about 25 minutes, with an hour of questions and answers following.

Why does anyone call it reverse racism? It’s just racism. Pure and simple.

Just some rambling. Don’t mean nothing.

I’ve just finished my month with my job, and got my hours in. My boss decided that he wanted quantity and not quality in my work, and I can always conform if I have to. The fact that I had to let go of my standards for quality at the same time is a loss that will not be noted in his book.

Anyway, I’ve been celebrating with a bottle of Tillamor Dew Irish Whiskey. I had forgotten how great the buzz is on that stuff. Smooth. It’s weird how different alcohol delivery systems can change the effect.

I’m watching a Glenn Beck show. I have come to the conclusion that he is kind of a crank, but he’s my kind of crank. He is over the top in his judgements. He just interviewed a former head of the IRS. I find it hard to hate them because they found that I had overpaid recently (I totally forgot an estimated tax payment of $1100 when I did my taxes) and they sent me all my money back. I had a nice surprise. I don’t hate the IRS as much as I dislike Congress, the Senate, and the President for taxing the fuck out of me.

Anyway, Glenn is over the top. Like I think I said. However, he’s not all that far away from my thinking. He is a strict constructionist on the Constitution. As I am.

So, I guess I’m saying that these “crazies” are over the top but still pretty much saying what I think.

For instance, if you call our president a fascist, well, I would answer that he might not be one, but the fact is that fascism is connected to government direction (not ownership, just control) of industry, and we have the Obama administration in charge of GM, so I’m not sure what’s going on. Oh, wait, I am sure.

Anyway, like I said at the beginning, I have a buzz going, in celebration of hitting my hours for the month, and I plan on keeping it going. I plan on playing video games all weekend.

Rock on.

Update: Tillamor Dew? Smoooooth.

Take a look at Soak the Rich, Lose the Rich - WSJ.com. I doubt anyone reading this is surprised by this article. If you raise taxes enough, people will go somewhere else, especially people with a significant amount of money. If they have a business, they will take that with them.

This is not surprising. What is surprising is that anyone could possibly imagine it being otherwise.

From here.

Nature. If it’s not being actively treacherous you can be sure it’s plotting something.

Hilarious, and true.

Here is a liberal who really gets it. I hope he succeeds in at least getting others to listen to him. It opens with him listing his “liberal bonifides” and he sounds like way too much of a granola cruncher for my taste, but the rest of it is good. Besides, he respects my right to choose how to live my life, so I can certainly respect his.

via Protein-Wisdom

From Ace of Spades HQ, we see that people are suing over the DHS report mentioned here in the previous post. I’m not sure if this will go anywhere, but I think it’s a good thing because there are many naysayers out there claiming that the response from the right is an overreaction. Please. The report targeted everyone who holds certain political positions, not just the wackos.

They can keep spinning, but the blogs will hopefully force the legacy media to report the truth.

Found at Ace of Spades:Michelle Malkin » Confirmed: The Obama DHS hit job on conservatives is real
From the report (Michelle pointed this out, more excerpts at her site):

Rightwing extremists are harnessing this historical election as a recruitment tool. Many rightwing extremists are antagonistic toward the new presidential administration and its perceived stance on a range of issues, including immigration and citizenship, the expansion of social programs to minorities, and restrictions on firearms ownership and use. Rightwing extremists are increasingly galvanized by these concerns and leverage them as drivers for recruitment. From the 2008 election timeframe to the present, rightwing extremists have capitalized on related racial and political prejudices in expanded propaganda campaigns, thereby reaching out to a wider audience of potential sympathizers.

Well, isn’t that nice? I imagine every person who believes that the current administration is in favor of expanding social programs and restricting firearms ownership is a nut. I guess i’m a nut, too, because it’s frelling obvious that this administration is in favor of all the things mentioned in the quote above.

Apparently voicing your opinion, when it’s against what this administration is doing, is grounds for being considered a radical. Remember that whole bunch of crap about “speaking truth to power?” Yeah, you can forget that now. When the Democrats are running things, the government is your BFF and can do no wrong.

This is a nice article that makes some good points:Dr. Sanity: THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY AS A ‘SHAME’ CULTURE ? Here is a key point I think a classical liberal can agree with:

“Conservatives believe they have better ideas. Leftists believe they are better people.”

Yeah, I know, I’ve been more linky than thinky lately, but perhaps it’s better than nothing. Also, it keeps the links handy for later reference.

This is hilarious:The TARP, in Pictures

Here is an older article that still has relevence, I think: Inflation and the Federal Reserve: The Consequences of Political Money Supply

From “Francisco’s Money Speech” by Ayn Rand — Capitalism Magazine

“But you say that money is made by the strong at the expense of the weak? What strength do you mean? It is not the strength of guns or muscles. Wealth is the product of man’s capacity to think. Then is money made by the man who invents a motor at the expense of those who did not invent it? Is money made by the intelligent at the expense of the fools? By the able at the expense of the incompetent? By the ambitious at the expense of the lazy? Money is made–before it can be looted or mooched–made by the effort of every honest man, each to the extent of his ability. An honest man is one who knows that he can’t consume more than he has produced.’

There was so much good stuff there, I had to pick one paragraph only because I would’ve put the whole thing here otherwise.

Here is an editorial you might want to read:Take the Limbaugh Challenge - Los Angeles Times

The mainstream media (a.k.a. the Matrix) don’t want you to listen to Limbaugh because they’re afraid he’ll wake you up and set you free of their worldview. You don’t want to listen to him because you’re afraid of the same thing.

I don’t listen to Rush. I don’t listen to any talk radio, mostly because the commercials drive me batty. I do listen to the Hugh Hewitt podcasts from time to time, though, but only for the interviews.

Having said that, I don’t disavow Rush. I watched his speech about a month ago, and I like what he had to say. Many people do.

If you are going to attack the man, at least know who you’re attacking. That should be true of everyone. Get more information than a soundbite, get more than the media will spoon-feed you. They have an agenda. Don’t make their agenda yours without some serious thought.