House of Eratosthenes

Every time I buy something at the pharmacy I feel my ears reddening with a whole new anger toward those who think “big business” has made health care resources harder to get hold of, and a new and heavier dose of government involvement will somehow fix this. How long does your memory need to work, in order for you to realize that government meddling isn’t making the meds any cheaper? Two years or so, right? Seems that’s how often the politicians promise to fix the problem once-and-for-all.

Thankful for what you have dept.: According to those blueprints for the 47,000 sq. ft. seven-building dream mansion, my 20-speed sixteen-pound carbon frame mountain bikes are gonna be stored on the second floor of the Southwest corner of the estate, with the approach on the opposite side, the Northeast corner…you know, I think I’ll miss the way I have it right now, where I just ride up, pop the garage door open, stash the bike and go have a beer. Of course, the butler will have a cold beer ready for me, along with taking my helmet and sweaty headband from me, so there’s that to consider…and then there’s that swirly slide leading straight down to the hot tub, complete with the costume-changer like Batman had. But there’s something to be said for simplicity. So everybody keeps telling me.

The democrats see it as a problem that so-many-millions of people lack “access to health care,” meaning they don’t have coverage. So their solution: Fine people for not buying some. Is this not the very picture of someone we don’t want making any decisions about anything?

Women in Wal Mart are toads. Women in Target are hot. Women in the ninety-nine-cent clearance superstore are a combination of both. Not a mix — rather, some-of-these and some-of-those. It’s rather fascinating there are so few in-between types, none at all really.

The people who want Mitt Romney to go away are relying a great deal lately on arguments that begin with “Omigaw, can you believe he said.” Reminds me of when Newt Gingrich said women shouldn’t fight in combat because they can get infections. I think this is a hand that can get overplayed, though. If memory serves, those who were knowledgeable were divided about whether Newt was right about the feminine inconveniences of trench warfare, but Mitt was completely correct about 47% not paying taxes. And I think people are starting to notice that our left-leaning friends have a sort of “Ostrich approach” to truth; which is to say, when it’s inconvenient, they can make it go away simply by being conspicuously offended by it.

So the Obamapologists are trying to get out the vote by pledging allegiance in pictures, writing things on their hands first? I thought they didn’t like it when people wrote things on their hands. Wasn’t it just yesterday they were saying Sarah Palin is stupid and unsophisticated for writing things on her hand?

“Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.” — Winston Churchill

Rush Limbaugh said that if the average liberal had to choose between making deadly radical Islamist extremism go away, or American conservatism go away, he’d hit the button that would obliterate American conservatism and leave the Islamic radicals running around wild & free. I think he’s right.

When you think about it, a 2008 Obama/Biden voter making the decision to vote Obama/Biden again in 2012, is about the best argument possible against evolutionary theory. Damn dogmatic religious fundies.

Innit funny? “The Rockford Files” has a completely different tone from Dukes of Hazzard, Wonder Woman and The Incredible Hulk…but the bad guys are completely interchangeable. Three-piece suits, mutton-chop sideburns, flare-leg trousers, nice dress boots, .38 snub nose revolvers. And idiots. You could mix-n-match them from show to show, and nobody would ever notice.

We’ve got a lot of people walking around, as free as you and me, laboring under the impression that if they encounter a new idea and they have so much as the faintest flickering between their ears that the idea is a stupid one, then that must be the case, and they do not need to inspect it any further. This is a mistake. I’m sure if you thawed a caveman out from a block of ice or woke him up from suspended animation, and gave him a calculator, after a few moments of inspection he’d conclude the calculator is stupid. He’d probably be as sure of it as anything else in his caveman life. Ever. Calklater not heavy, I hit animal in head with calklater, animal not fall down so what good it??

Rush Limbaugh said that if the average liberal had to choose between making deadly radical Islamist extremism go away, or American conservatism go away, he’d hit the button that would obliterate American conservatism and leave the Islamic radicals running around wild & free. I think he’s right.

So do I. It’s scary how much they hate us. Judging by the invective I see on Facebook, the comment threads for Yahoo! News stories and comments on the various lefty websites, I have little doubt that a lot of them – including many who are perfectly polite in person – would love to see you and me in front of a firing squad, for getting in the way of their utopian dreams.

If only they hated the terrorists as much as they do us.
- cylarz | 09/20/2012 @ 18:16
Cylarz, I’m not sure that the various lefties would love to see us in the camps or on the gallows. Honestly, I don’t think that they can see that far ahead. It’s just stimulus-response with them: THIS BAD! I FIX FOREVER! If it didn’t work that way, then they’d learn from observing the results of their last “fix forever,” get input from others, admit that they were mistaken, and try something else. So in the sense that they’d love it… no. They just wouldn’t even think about it.

I’m the resident apostate from my family’s solid High Democrat background, so I see this constantly. They are so caught up in class identity that the individual members of that class don’t register as such. It never occurs to them that, if half of what they dreamed of came to pass, that I’d be up against the wall in a blindfold… or that they would probably join me before too long. It’s always a shock when they wind up saying something heterdox – something that seems so innocent and self-evident that they can’t imagine anyone taking offense – and get savaged by their own. That’s often what it takes for them to realize that it takes very little to suddenly become one of the Awful Other People.

Admittedly this makes it much more likely to happen – history already shows many horrible examples – they always imagine that their Utopia will allow plenty of room, and never realize that this room comes from getting rid of ever-increasing numbers of people, via ever-stricter definition of what comprises the True Faith. And incidentally, this illustrates as well as anything why Morgan was right about the moderate left being only a way-station to the radical left. The only way to remain a lefty and survive is to be the most ruthless of them: everyone else will either leave the movement for their own safety or else be purged for being insufficiently pure.
- nightfly | 09/21/2012 @ 08:07
Innit funny? “The Rockford Files” has a completely different tone from Dukes of Hazzard, Wonder Woman and The Incredible Hulk…but the bad guys are completely interchangeable.

Not only that, but the theme songs are all awesome – or at least, they all are if you use the closing “hitchhiking” version from Incredible Hulk instead of the one in the opening credits.
- nightfly | 09/21/2012 @ 08:12

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