“Evil is the cure for incompetence.”
Yup, that’s pretty much the diagnosis.
We Must All Hang Together…
…or assuredly we shall all hang separately. – Benjamin Franklin
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Second Quote of the Day – Thomas Sowell Edition
Because this is my blog, and I can:
I can’t get excited by the question of whether Senator Robert Menendez had sex with a prostitute in Central America. It is her word against his — and when it comes to a prostitute’s word against a politician’s word, that is too close to call. — Thomas Sowell – Random Thoughts
OK. I Hadn’t Heard That One!
I received a joke by email (I know, who does that?) I thought I’d share:
When Bill and Hillary first got married Bill said, “I am putting a box under the bed. You must promise never to look in it.”
In all their 30 years of marriage, Hillary never looked. On the afternoon of their 30th anniversary, curiosity got the best of her and she lifted the lid and peeked inside. In the box were 3 empty beer cans and $81,874.25 in cash.
She closed the box and put it back under the bed. Now that she knew what was in the box, she was doubly curious as to why there even was such a box with such contents. That evening, they were out for a special anniversary dinner.
After dinner, Hillary could no longer contain her curiosity and she confessed, saying, “I am so sorry, Bill. For all these years, I kept my promise and never looked into the box under our bed. However, today the temptation was too much and I gave in. But now I need to know, why do you keep the 3 beer cans in the box?”
Bill thought for a while and said, “I guess after all these years you deserve to know the truth. Whenever I was unfaithful to you, I put an empty beer can in the box under the bed to remind myself not to do it again.”
Hillary was shocked, but said, “Hmmm, Jennifer, Paula and Monica. I am very disappointed and saddened by your behavior. However, since you are addicted to sex I guess it does happen and I guess 3 times is not that bad considering your problem.”
Bill thanked her for being so understanding. They hugged and made their peace. A little while later Hillary asked Bill, “So why do you have all that money in the box?”
Bill answered: “Well, whenever the box filled up with empty cans, I took them to the recycling center and redeemed them for cash.”
Quote of the Day – .gov Efficiency Edition
Stolen shamelessly from Sharp as a Marble, this comment by DustyDog:
If gun confiscation happens, it won’t be a shoot out. You’ll get 3 letters of advance notice filled with dire threats. Then a final warning (which will arrive a week late), and two late notices, full of threats. You’ll hear that the people running the database can’t keep track of how many weapons were turned it, so if you turn in anything and get a clean card, you’ll in the record as having no guns. So you drive to the location to find out it was misprinted on the form. You call and google, and find the right place. You’ll go through a humiliating pat-down for knives and drugs, but they won’t take the gun or ammo you have in your hands – that’s somebody else’s job; wait in line. You’ll wait in line all day long, to be turned away.
You’ll come back earlier tomorrow, wait all day, and turn in a gun.
When you turn in your gun, you get a receipt with no unique code. They throw your gun in a completely unsecure box, in an unsecure room. “It’s easier now. When the door was locked, the guns would pile up until there was no more room. Now, the boxes are always empty in the morning.”
The next week, you get a letter saying that due to a database crash, the government is not sure if you turned in your guns. You’ll be ordered to fill out a form, under threat of imprisonment. You’ll have the option of affirming that all your guns were turned in, or that they were not.
If you affirm, you’ll get the same letter every six months. If you refuse to affirm, you’ll go on a waiting list. Two to five years later, a guy with a high school diploma will show up to take your guns. You won’t need a gun to kill this guy, a ten-year old could beat this guy down. He won’t have your name right and the names of guns on his list won’t be the names of guns ever actually made; the records are obviously all mixed up. If you tell him your name is Juan and you’re renting from [you], he won’t be back for another 2 to 5 years.
That’s pretty much how Canada’s attempt at long-gun registration went, before they finally gave up.
Wanted: Dead or Alive
They told me if I voted for McCain, we’d go back to the times of the Wild West, and they were right! Seems there’s a price on the head of ex-LAPD officer Chris Dorner, and the rest of the posse is out to git’m!
Or anything that faintly resembles him.
Citizens are having to take countermeasures:
Someone’s even made up this helpful guide:
But this guy isn’t worried about his truck:
Given the general marksmanship skills of the cops (there are what, 40+ hits on that blue Toyota [not gray Nissan] pickup, and they hit ONE passenger, once? The other was cut by flying glass! But only the police and military need those high-capacity assault magazines and semi-automatic machine gun bullet hoses that are spray-fired from the hip so that they can kill large numbers of people indiscriminately!) he’d be better off if he painted a target on his chest and back. They’d NEVER hit him then!
People keep tut-tutting when gunnies say they we want our guns so we can oppose a tyrannical government should the need arise. “Pshaw!” they say. “You can’t stand up against tanks and assault helicopters!” As Phelps pointed out:
This is how badly the LAPD is doing against one man.
Do you really think that there is any way they can do anything when dozens of “right-wing nutjobs” start doing what he’s doing all across the country? Or even worse, all in one city?
You gun banners are playing with fire.
And that is why they’re afraid of us and want us disarmed.
And always have.
Now, go read LawDog.
Dr. Benjamin Carson
Damn, I like this guy!
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Quote of the Day – “PRECISELY!” Edition
From Sebastian at Shall Not Be Questioned:
By now many of you have seen this video where Joe Biden admits gun control won’t be effective at stopping crime or mass shootings. Well, that’s because the purpose of gun control isn’t either of those things. To say that they want to turn millions of gun owners into criminals is not really accurate. What’s accurate is that they already think you’re a criminal. They just want to be able to punish you for it.
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Dept. of Our Collapsing Schools – Algebra Edition
Back in 2008 when I wrote The George Orwell Daycare Center, I quoted the LA Dog Trainer in an unusually good investigative piece:
When the Los Angeles Board of Education approved tougher graduation requirements that went into effect in 2003, the intention was to give kids a better education and groom more graduates for college and high-level jobs. For the first time, students had to pass a year of algebra and a year of geometry or an equivalent class to earn diplomas. The policy was born of a worthy goal but has proved disastrous for students unprepared to meet the new demands. In the fall of 2004, 48,000 ninth-graders took beginning algebra; 44% flunked, nearly twice the failure rate as in English. Seventeen percent finished with Ds. In all, the district that semester handed out Ds and Fs to 29,000 beginning algebra students — enough to fill eight high schools the size of Birmingham. Among those who repeated the class in the spring, nearly three-quarters flunked again.
Things have, apparently, not improved.
A couple of years later, I reported that the local University of Arizona would begin teaching remedial high-school algebra to incoming (and unprepared) freshmen, so it’s not like it’s something restricted to Los Angeles.
However, LA has decided to DO SOMETHING about it!
Yeah. That’ll work.