Q: What was born on this day in 1935, still assumes a role as CFO for the southeastern United States’ largest distributor of dry cleaning supplies, and kicks my ass in golf just about every weekend?
A: My dad.
Happy Birthday, Gary E.
Love,
Your Son DAve
If you don’t believe abortion doesn’t affect you, I contend it affects you in immigration. If we had the 40 million children that were killed over the last 30 years, we wouldn’t need the illegal immigrants to fill the jobs that they are doing today. Think about it.
That may be, quite honestly, the most inane, irrational, idiotic, stupid, asinine, DUMB thing I have ever heard in my entire life. I could suggest something similar by saying that if we had the soldiers that died in Iraq doing those jobs, we wouldn’t need so many illegal immmigrants. But I won’t suggest that, lest I get accused of being a traitor or worse, a liberal. (via Boing Boing )
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Disclosure: I voted for George W. Bush the first time around, but did not the second time. Additionally, I believe his approval ratings are about where they should be considering the rather depressing direction his second term has taken.
Many liberals have taken near-orgasmic joy over watching the President’s approval rating fall. And fall. And fall. That joy has been proportionately measured and corrolates with the ridiculous, over-the-top preening and crowing heard by the Left since the Democrats took control of Congress. Those preening and crowing must, by simple mathematics, reside in a very small minority of liberals, considering this:
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Most U.S. voters think the country is on the wrong track and remain deeply unhappy with President George W. Bush and Congress, but still feel good about their finances and optimistic about the future, according to a Reuters/Zogby poll released on Wednesday.
Eighteen months before Bush leaves the White House, nearly two-thirds of Americans say the country is headed in the wrong direction and give the president negative marks for his job performance.
An even bigger majority, 83 percent, say the Democratic-controlled Congress is doing only a fair or poor job — the worst mark for Congress in a Zogby poll. - Emphasis mine.
My question, then, is this: Where is all the condemnation, indignation, name-calling, etc. for the members of Congress from the outspoken Left?
My only guess is a feeling akin to getting stood up at prom. Liberals voted in droves to turn Congressional control back to the Democrats, and now feel embarrassed or maybe shameful for having done so. I just wish they’d be as vocal about it as they are about the President.
Radiohead’s masterpiece OK Computer turns 10 this year.
I therefore present thee, OK Computer, with two gifts.
I posted this on YouTube because apparently without knowing it I turned into some kind of glutton for punishment, knowing full well how YouTube commenters can be.
Holidays in the middle of the week are weird. You can’t really do too much with them since they’re bookended by the requirements of your (if you’re me) 9-to-5. Not that I’m complaining. Days off for something unpainful and untragic have been in short supply lately.
These (Not-So-)Random Tens are a good way to ease back into posting; they don’t require much preparation, study, intellectual delving, or thought. Perfect for 6:45 in the morning on a holiday.
Enjoy your Fourth, everyone.
and, of course,
Society is produced by our wants, and government by wickedness; the former promotes our happiness positively by uniting our affections, the latter negatively by restraining our vices. The one encourages intercourse, the other creates distinctions. The first is a patron, the last a punisher. Society in every state is a blessing, but government even in its best state is but a necessary evil. — Thomas Paine
Yeah, I know, I haven’t written/posted/whinged/bitched/celebrated/mourned much of anything (”much of anything”? Nothing at all is more like it) for what? Six weeks now? Sorry. I’m wondering how everyone’s summer has progressed without me - it must be terrifying. Have you all been sitting at your computers, browser firmly entrenched at daveakins.com, repeatedly mashing the F5 key in hopes of something, anything, to brighten your progressively dimming lives?
Somehow I doubt it.
In all honesty I usually just post when I 1) find something on the web of interest, 2) go somewhere, do something, and take pictures of the place and the doing, or 3) the rare occasion arises whereby something happens in my life that for one reason or another I think is a good idea to share with everyone. And little of any of those things have taken place lately.
I’m also spending an inordinate amount of time either at the driving range or watching The Golf Channel, so much so that my dreams of scantilly clad Brazilian models and Eastern European tennis players are being replaced with slow-motion shots of Dave Pelz hitting a lob wedge off a downhill, hardpan lie over water onto a severely sloping green and then criticizing me for not being able to grasp the utter simplicity of the execution.
Anyway, I did actually run into an interesting review on Michael Moore’s new film “Sicko” and while the criticisms are unsurprising for a film that undoubtedly will prove divisive…
Unfortunately, Moore is also a con man of a very brazen sort, and never more so than in this film. His cherry-picked facts, manipulative interviews (with lingering close-ups of distraught people breaking down in tears) and blithe assertions (how does he know 18,000* people will die this year because they have no health insurance?) are so stacked that you can feel his whole argument sliding sideways as the picture unspools. The American health-care system is in urgent need of reform, no question. Some 47 million people are uninsured (although many are only temporarily so, being either in-between jobs or young enough not to feel a pressing need to buy health insurance). There are a number of proposals as to what might be done to correct this situation. Moore has no use for any of them, save one.
As a proud socialist, the director appears to feel that there are few problems in life that can’t be solved by government regulation (that would be the same government that’s already given us the U.S. Postal Service and the Department of Motor Vehicles). In the case of health care, though, Americans have never been keen on socialized medicine. In 1993, when one of Moore’s heroes, Hillary Clinton (he actually blurts out the word “sexy!” in describing her in the movie), tried to create a government-controlled health care system, her failed attempt to do so helped deliver the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives into Republican control for the next dozen years. Moore still looks upon Clinton’s plan as a grand idea, one that Americans, being not very bright, unwisely rejected. (He may be having second thoughts about Hillary herself, though: In the movie he heavily emphasizes the fact that, among politicians, she accepts the second-largest amount of political money from the health care industry.)
… I will admit to being more than a little surprised at the author of this one.
Football season starts soon. I am excited. More on that soon.
Unless of course Paula Creamer kidnaps me and makes me her caddie.
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