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You Know, If You Put Enough Garlic On It

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You Know, If You Put Enough Garlic On It . . .

. . . crow still tastes like sh!t.


Billy’s right.

Again.

I let emotion get the better of me, and leaped with insufficient consideration. Now I sit here impaled on my own fallibility.

Hey, we lesser beings do that from time to time.

Let me be right up front. Billy Beck grates on my nerves. A lot of people do that, but Billy’s the only one who’s right damned near every time, and I’m man enough to admit that. He grates on my nerves because of his 80-grit high-speed carborundum personality, and I let that get the better of me. Mea culpa. Mea maxima culpa. And I mean that, sincerely.

I misinterpreted his comment – the one I used as “Quote of the Day” Saturday. I was wrong. It fit a mental niche I’d carved out, and I slotted him right into that niche. As I said, I knew I was going to regret it later. I do. But when I conclude I’m wrong, I try not to compound the error.

I was wrong. I apologize. The other threads will contain, shortly, a link to this apology. Hopefully this concludes this week’s episode of Drama Llamas, brought to you courtesy of my personal assholeness. I’d blame it on an abscessed tooth, but no, it was just me being me.

Again, Beck, I apologize. I fucked up. You were right. Again.

Quote of the Day – Going Galt

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Quote of the Day – Going Galt

If that’s what people want, so be it.

I’m done. If Congress passes Obama’s destructive zombie health plan in any form, I quit.

I will simply not practice medicine anymore. I will take my psychiatry books and my years of experience and do something else. I used to wait tables when I was in college. It’s an honest living and Obama isn’t interested for the time being in nationalizing restaurants–yet.

Let me be clear. I don’t believe that people have a “right” to health care; because, what advocating such a “right” basically means is that you believe you have a “right” to my mind; you have a “right” to my professional competence; i.e., you have a “right” to enslave me.

Dr. Sanity – THIS TIME, I DON’T CARE ANYMORE…LET THE ZOMBIES TAKE OVER MEDICINE

Yes. That’s exactly what it means. And do read the whole piece. She has a lot more to say that needs to be heard.

Quote of the Day – That I Know I’ll Regret Later

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Quote of the Day – That I Know I’ll Regret Later

But sometimes you just have to say “F^*k it.”

Today’s QotD is a comment by the aforementioned Billy Beck left at the blog The Trooper’s Gal in response to a less than totally admiring comment addressed at him. Here’s Beck’s reply, in its entirety:

Rollory: you can resign yourself to life among inferior animals that look like human beings, but I will not.

I know that humans exist.

Wow. “. . . inferior animals that look like human beings.” Isn’t there a single word for that? Unter-something . . . ?

Good to know where you stand in Beck’s taxonomy, I guess. “Overweening misanthropy” illustrated.

(Oh, yes – Beck’s threatened retribution over this post, too. They’re his words. In context. He can choke on them. Far be it from me to expect anything approaching a retraction.)

UPDATE 6/14: No retraction. The drama continues.

UPDATE II: OK, I was wrong. Apology tendered.

Nice of ‘Em to Actually Admit It

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Nice of ‘Em to Actually Admit It

Dancing in the blood of the slain, that is:

Gun controllers say rampage aids cause

Gun-control advocates seized on the Holocaust Museum shooting Wednesday to call on Congress to reverse its drift toward loosening firearms restriction.

They said it highlights the need for lawmakers to reconsider efforts to ease the District’s tough gun laws and allowing firearms into national parks.

D.C. Council Chairman Vincent C. Gray said the shooting underscored the need for strict gun laws in the nation’s capital.

Uh, right. The shooter was a convicted felon. The law said: A) He couldn’t possess a firearm. B) he couldn’t carry a firearm into the museum. C) He was prohibited by law from firing a firearm in the city. And D) Murder is a crime.

So we need more laws to prevent his actions?

“The philosophy cannot be wrong! Do it again only HARDER!!“

The gun ban, er control, um safety groups still aren’t getting any traction. I’ve covered this before, in Birchwood, Wisconsin is Not Hungerford, England. Neither is Washington, D.C.

(h/t: Uncle)

I Know I’m Going to Regret This

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I Know I’m Going to Regret This . . .

. . . but it needs to be done.

Billy “Doesn’t Play Well With Others” Beck has once again more than eloquently expressed his overweening misanthropy, not just here but at his own blog, and since Mr. Beck doesn’t allow comments at his site I figured I’d go ahead and stick the proverbial fork in the wall outlet here at TSM. It seems Mr. Beck was less than enamored of Bill Whittle’s recent video paean to Star Trek, TOS after Maureen Dowd’s attempt to hijack it for her own nefarious purposes:

If that guy is what passes for an intellect in these times, we are more fucked than I have previously imagined, although it doesn’t surprise me.

Mr. Beck expounded further at his own site on the topic, sort of (excerpts, skipping multiple contemptuous references to Glenn Reynolds):

If you’re going to take seriously someone who dresses up in a goddamned Star Trek outfit and tells you that reason and logic are impotent, in order to explain the intellectual rot in America today, then you deserve where you’re going.

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As for Whittle, he’s a wanker and a creep. Sooner or later, he will expose himself to the dumbest among you, and I am content with all I have to say about him until then.

Odd, that wasn’t the message I took from Whittle’s piece at all, but then I’m not the towering philosophical intellect Mr. Beck is and have never claimed to be. Still, somehow I doubt that that was Billy’s last word on Mr. Whittle.

Thus I generated this:


We’re just not worthy to share the planet with you, Billy. Mea culpa, mea maxima culpa. Please forgive us and allow us to scrape lick the mud off your boots, since that’s apparently all we’re suited for.

UPDATE: Billy posts a response:

You’re wrong.

Again.

Of course. That’s what the poster says!

UPDATE II: Apparently I struck a nerve. Via email:

That’s my photograph, and I’m not going to let you use it for that.

You will take it down, quietly or with an explanation to your audience —
it doesn’t matter to me — but you will take it down as fast as you can
arrange it after you see this.

It’s not worth the hassle of arguing over it. I’ve had enough of Drama Llamas for one month. Use your imaginations. Or just go here.

UPDATE III: Since I asked him, Beck sent me a picture with permission to use it for the poster. Picture updated. Who says Billy doesn’t have a sense of humor?

Bill Whittle: Anti-Intellectual Rightwing Extremist

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The entire premise of the new movie is that Spock takes an extraordinary risk to make sure that he himself is not sitting in the command chair because no one knows more than Spock just how dangerous it is to have an intellectual in charge.

You HAVE to watch the thing all the way through the credits!

Mr. Whittle, I bow in your general direction. We are not worthy.

Now, get to work on the new “Common Sense.”

Quote of the Day

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Obama will come to his senses with his ‘Bush did it’, reset button, moral equivalency, soaring hope and change, with these apologies to Europeans, his Arab world Sermons on the Mount to Al Arabiya, in Turkey, in Cairo, etc., his touchy-feely videos to Iran, his “we are all victims of racism” sops to Ortega, Chavez, and Morales. It is only a matter of when, under what conditions, how high the price we must pay, and whether we lose the farm before he gains wisdom about the tragic universe in which we live.

A sojourn at an elite university, you see, can sometimes become a very dangerous thing indeed.

Victor Davis Hanson, Works and Days, The Reckoning

A very good piece on why so many people connected to reality are considered “anti-intellectual,” written by a damned fine intellectual. RTWT.

I Don’t Know Anything About Finance

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I Don’t Know Anything About Finance . . .

But I’m pretty sure this guy’s right:

I’m an attorney and CPA and I’ve spent my career in the world of investment banking, hedge funds, and private equity, etc. Tell your mother I’m almost certain a depression is on the way and many of my colleagues believe the same thing because the math has finally caught up with us. However, I believe this depression will be worse than the 30’s because, among other factors, Americans are no longer self-sufficient and we’re burdened with debt we can never repay. I don’t want to believe any of this, but I can’t ignore what I know and see. I really hope I’m wrong. I hope those in charge figure out a way to kick the can down the road one more time, but I don’t expect that because they would have to defy their Keynesian impulses. I fear it’s too late.

flyfisher on June 3, 2009 at 10:36 PM

A comment left at a Hot Air post yesterday on a proposed tax on employee health insurance benefits. It was prompted by this comment, a few minutes earlier:

I was on the phone with my mother today (a Baby Boomer, born 1955), and we were discussing the fact – not possibility, but fact – that our economy will sink into a depression if Cap-and-Trade or “Healthcare Reform” is passed before the end of the year like Obama wants. My mom said, “I just can’t believe that there’s actually going to be a depression in my lifetime. We did this once already and didn’t learn anything from it?”

I was born in 1984, so I’ve known nothing but prosperity in my lifetime. Even so, I just can’t believe that SO many Americans who remember the 70s learned NOTHING from the experience. I cannot believe that hardly a generation passes before socialism rears its ugly head again. I want the horrors I’ve read about to STAY in the history books – I don’t want to live them. For the first time, though I’m frightened. I can prepare to some extent for inflation or the loss of a job, but I really don’t know what I’ll do if the government takes over healthcare. I may be relatively healthy, but I know a lot of people (many elderly) who are not and if the government starts rationing as we KNOW they will, I hope that the wrath of the American people is finally awoken in defense of our countrymen.

Is this what it’s going to take, America? How much will be destroyed before you’ve had enough?

Animator Girl on June 3, 2009 at 10:06 PM

Good question.