One Man's Votetag:www.onemansvote.com,2010:/blog/42010-03-18T22:09:24ZMovable Type 3.35Caedite eos.tag:www.onemansvote.com,2010:/blog//4.44102010-03-18T22:05:08Z2010-03-18T22:09:24ZNathanAnti-Semitism alive and well in Logansporttag:www.onemansvote.com,2010:/blog//4.44092010-03-18T20:35:19Z2010-03-18T20:46:34ZJoe Biden didn't go far enough for this lady, it seems. Actually, Biden didn't go far enough. He should have left altogether, saying he would come back when the Israelis got serious. And when he got home he should have...Nathan
Joe Biden didn't go far enough for this lady, it seems.
Actually, Biden didn't go far enough. He should have left altogether, saying he would come back when the Israelis got serious. And when he got home he should have looked for ways to cut some of the lavish funding we give to our very dependent but arrogant "ally."
Hey, bitch. Why not go live over there for awhile and discover how valuable an ally Israel actually is? Try living with a gazillion kill-crazy Arabs breathing down your neck and threatening to drive you into the sea sometime. You might want to try urban renewal in buffer areas, too.
Makes the thought of somebody pushing you into the Wabash River pale in comparison. But then you're probably the type to have a conniption if a black or Jewish family moved onto your block, so I'm sure you wouldn't understand.]]>
"Most people like it."tag:www.onemansvote.com,2010:/blog//4.44082010-03-18T20:21:45Z2010-03-18T20:29:05ZDon't blame Daniels for DST; most people like it Problem is, the guy cites two polls taken 2-1/2 years apart: First poll, March 2005: 56% favored, 37% opposed. Second poll, we assume September 2007: 48% favored, 36% opposed. Looks to...Nathan
Don't blame Daniels for DST; most people like it
Problem is, the guy cites two polls taken 2-1/2 years apart:
First poll, March 2005: 56% favored, 37% opposed.
Second poll, we assume September 2007: 48% favored, 36% opposed.
Looks to me like "most people" don't actually favor DST. And worse, those who do favor it appear to have dropped 8% while those opposed have only dropped 1%.
Now, if you want to say "a plurality" favor it, fine. But don't start this "most people" crap, because by the numbers you cite yourself, it ain't the case.
Wanna bet the "favor" column has dropped even farther in the last 2-1/2 years?
Fuck DST and the horse it rode in on. The rest of the country except for Arizona was wrong.]]>
ACLU: Wrong againtag:www.onemansvote.com,2010:/blog//4.44072010-03-17T19:20:33Z2010-03-17T19:32:16ZJeebus cripes. Joseph Casias, 29, was fired in November from a Walmart store in Battle Creek, Mich., after marijuana was detected in a routine drug screening that he underwent after he sprained his knee at work. Casias, who was the...Nathan
Jeebus cripes.
Joseph Casias, 29, was fired in November from a Walmart store in Battle Creek, Mich., after marijuana was detected in a routine drug screening that he underwent after he sprained his knee at work.
Casias, who was the store's 2008 associate of the year, said he legally used marijuana to reduce pain associated with his disease and was never under the influence while at work.
I hold no brief against medical marijuana. It's a prescribed drug like any other prescribed drug.
However, it's still against Federal law to possess it, regardless of whether or not the Federal Government has stated that it won't enforce the law in states that have passed a medical marijuana statute (which is the basic problem here; Michigan has passed such a law).
If I were Wal-Mart, my position would be that there is nothing stopping the Federal Government from making a 180° turn and starting to enforce the statute again, and furthermore, that if the Federal Government doesn't want to enforce the statute, it should repeal or amend it accordingly instead of just saying it won't enforce it. Till then, it remains against Federal law to possess it, and Wal-Mart is, in my opinion correctly, walking the straight and narrow. They can't afford to do otherwise.
I agree with Wal-Mart -- it's a shame they have to do this and I sympathize with Mr. Casias (a friend of mine is using medical marijuana to abate pain from pancreatic cancer). But at the same time, they have a policy in place and the employee failed a drug test on the job.
Blame this one on Øbama, not on Wal-Mart. The administration won't press to legalize medical marijuana, so they can suck it up.]]>
Here in a sentence...tag:www.onemansvote.com,2010:/blog//4.44062010-03-15T12:40:06Z2010-03-15T12:43:36Z...is everything that is wrong with our government today. Government says it cannot find anything to explain the reported incident of sudden, high-speed acceleration Who the fuck is the government to be explaining anything? Toyota already said it could not...Nathan
Government says it cannot find anything to explain the reported incident of sudden, high-speed acceleration
Who the fuck is the government to be explaining anything? Toyota already said it could not be explained by anything other than a willful hoax. And somehow, these days, I believe Toyota before I believe my government.
(Link to the article, if you're interested)]]>
The morons we have to deal with in this town.tag:www.onemansvote.com,2010:/blog//4.44052010-03-12T19:48:48Z2010-03-12T20:20:53ZIn the fishwrap's "LET IT OUT" section that I can't avoid glancing at because it's next to the comics page, some idiot today crayoned: When and where did privatization ever reduce utility bills? There are two misconceptions here. 1) Private...Nathan
When and where did privatization ever reduce utility bills?
There are two misconceptions here.
1) Private ownership, in fact, reduces utility bills every day right here in Indianapolis. IPL provides electric service for a lot less than most other cities in the country. (I know. I lived in the DC area for a year in an all-electric apartment. Unless you've lived somewhere else in the country, you have no idea what a deal IPL's rates are.)
2) Since the City of Indianapolis owns Citizens Energy Group lock, stock and barrel (and it does, read their page about the history of the trust, and note the municipal license plates on all Citizens Gas trucks while you're at it) what exactly is being privatized?
The main (and current) problem with the water and sewer utility is that the previous administration sold it to a bunch of idiot Frenchmen who apparently thought we were charging in francs instead of dollars. Well, not really true, but the fact is that the money for the privatization was raised by floating variable-interest bonds. How dumb was that? Pretty dumb, given that the interest went sky-high, taking rates right along with it.
The difference between now and then is that the city is selling the utility to a public charitable trust -- NOT A PRIVATE ENTITY, THEREFORE THERE IS NO PRIVATIZATION. The public charitable trust that runs Citizens Gas and Citizens Thermal is designed to keep costs to consumers low. It is non-profit and it is watched like a hawk by the IURC. It provides good service for a reasonable amount of money. (And if I had better insulation, I'd be giving them less of mine. But that's my fault, not theirs.)
I would be very surprised and disappointed if the public charitable trust that has served this city so well for so many years could not manage to keep the cost of running the water and sewer utility down and the level of service at a high level. For one thing, I'll bet the people who bitch about their water meters being read only six times a year (raises hand) will bitch a lot less in the future; the guy who reads your gas meter will probably be the same guy who reads your water meter. Not only does that help save you money by not forcing you to pay more than you actually owe every other month (if the estimate is way off, like mine usually are), but it requires half as many meter readers to accomplish the same purpose.
Which leads to the caller bitching I heard yesterday on Garrison about job losses due to the Citizens purchase...well...sure, I hate that, but at the same time, like the one caller said, the Citizens public trust does not exist to create jobs. It exists to provide utility services at the lowest possible price to the consumer. In fact, let's take a look at what the Citizens Energy Group's mandates really are:
The purposes of the public charitable trust are:
to establish and operate a gas utility that is not controlled by private ownership and
to provide light, heat and power to the City and its inhabitants;
The City of Indianapolis, as successor trustee, has two express duties:
to engage in the gas business and
to supply the City of Indianapolis and it inhabitants with light, heat and power.
I imagine they will amend that at some point to include "water and sewer services".
But the point is, NOWHERE in that is any mandate to create jobs. Nothing to see here, union jackoffs, move along.]]>
<![CDATA[Øbama: Land Snatcher]]>tag:www.onemansvote.com,2010:/blog//4.44042010-03-11T21:46:52Z2010-03-18T21:38:27ZNathan
that:
Hedley Lamarr B. Hussein Øbama: Wait a minute... there might be legal precedent. Of course! Land-snatching!
[grabs a law book] Hedley Lamarr B. Hussein Øbama: Land, land... "Land: see Snatch."
[flips back several pages] Hedley Lamarr B. Hussein Øbama: Ah, Haley vs. United States. Haley: 7, United States: nothing. You see, it can be done!
H/T: Tam.]]>
Oh, man.tag:www.onemansvote.com,2010:/blog//4.44032010-03-10T15:31:40Z2010-03-17T13:26:22ZSen. Scott Brown to Release Memoirs Next Year Not even going to read the article; just copied and pasted the link. I thought Scott Brown had more sense. Guess not. He must be running for president. Or someone waved big...Nathan
Sen. Scott Brown to Release Memoirs Next Year
Not even going to read the article; just copied and pasted the link. I thought Scott Brown had more sense. Guess not. He must be running for president. Or someone waved big bucks in front of him.
Historically, and typically, a "memoir" is something you write in old age. You don't write a memoir at 50. And certainly not at whatever age B. Hussein "wrote" both of "his".
Scott Brown has got years ahead of him before he's even a pimple on the face of History.
Now, I read Sarah Palin's book because the point of it was to re-introduce herself to the American public after being thrown in the mud for a year by our vaunted and beneficent Fourth Estate, because she was in fact Governor of a state, and because she is clearly positioned to be of importance in national politics — maybe not in 2012, but certainly down the road.
Scott Brown hasn't even been a US Senator for a year — hell, for barely even a month — and memoirs seem appropriate? I don't think so. He's one of 100. Yawn. So was B. Hussein Øbama.]]>
Just one question.tag:www.onemansvote.com,2010:/blog//4.44022010-03-09T13:57:20Z2010-03-16T20:34:54ZHighway patrolman helps terrified driver who claims his Toyota was subject to recall before it accelerated on its own, reaching speeds of up to 94 mph on a Calif. freeway. OK... A patrol car pulled alongside the Prius and officers...NathanHighway patrolman helps terrified driver who claims his Toyota was subject to recall before it accelerated on its own, reaching speeds of up to 94 mph on a Calif. freeway.
OK...
A patrol car pulled alongside the Prius and officers told Sikes over a loudspeaker to push the brake pedal to the floor and apply the emergency brake.
Why didn't the cop tell the guy to PUT THE FUCKER IN NEUTRAL?
After the car decelerated to about 50 mph, Sikes turned off the engine and coasted to a halt.
So why didn't he try that in the first place?
Ai yi yi.
Oh, and the comments are great. For instance:
the good news about this PRIUS issue is that it will help weed out the liberals from normal people
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I got nothin'.tag:www.onemansvote.com,2010:/blog//4.44012010-03-07T19:29:03Z2010-03-15T12:30:38ZJust been lazing around on my butt reading John Ringo all day. Finally got up and got dressed to survey the damage out back. Big ice dam(n) took down the gutters over the patio the other day. Who the fuck...Nathan
Just been lazing around on my butt reading John Ringo all day.
Finally got up and got dressed to survey the damage out back. Big ice dam(n) took down the gutters over the patio the other day. Who the fuck was the asshole who told me home ownership was so great?
If this wasn't the house I grew up in, I'd sell it and buy a condo.
Here's one time I'm all for pulling the trigger.tag:www.onemansvote.com,2010:/blog//4.44002010-03-06T14:42:49Z2010-03-13T19:12:59ZMichigan 6-Year-Old Suspended From School for Making Gun With Hand Yeah, OK. I was all set to be all over the kid's side for being repressed by the evil school district and its zero-tolerance policy. But here's the only problem...Nathan
Michigan 6-Year-Old Suspended From School for Making Gun With Hand
Yeah, OK. I was all set to be all over the kid's side for being repressed by the evil school district and its zero-tolerance policy.
But here's the only problem with that:
School officials also told the paper that Mason had been warned repeatedly against pretending to aim his hand at students but continued the behavior over several months.
At that point the kid isn't being cute, he's being disruptive. He's six years old and he should know better than to keep pushing the envelope, regardless of what his mother says.
So the principal used the time-honored method of behavior modification: He sent the kid home, where it's hoped he'll have a time-out to think about why disruptive behavior in school is wrong. And if his mother has any sense, she'll explain it to him instead of making excuses for him.
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You say you want a revolutiontag:www.onemansvote.com,2010:/blog//4.43992010-03-03T18:55:02Z2010-03-10T12:07:22ZWell, this right here might just be the spark to set it off: To meet the Obama administration’s targets for cutting greenhouse gas emissions, some researchers say, Americans may have to experience a sobering reality: gas at $7 a gallon....NathanTo meet the Obama administration’s targets for cutting greenhouse gas emissions, some researchers say, Americans may have to experience a sobering reality: gas at $7 a gallon.
In the middle of a mini-depression. Brilliant. Just fucking brilliant.
Raise taxes, raise prices, run people out of jobs. As fucked up as the Republicans are, it's pretty obvious Democrats are good for only one thing: Destroying the country. And at that, for no good reason.
Let's help them out the door in November, shall we?]]>
All right.tag:www.onemansvote.com,2010:/blog//4.43982010-03-02T18:03:24Z2010-03-09T12:52:17ZEnough is enough. If the Postal Service cuts back to 5-day delivery, it's time to go postal on the Postal Service. Kill the USPS, turn it back into the Post Office Department, and stop worrying about it losing money. It...Nathan
If the Postal Service cuts back to 5-day delivery, it's time to go postal on the Postal Service.
Kill the USPS, turn it back into the Post Office Department, and stop worrying about it losing money. It was never supposed to make money in the first place. Oh, and stop giving every damn mailbox spammer out there super-dooper cut rates to jam my mailbox full of crap while you're at it.
But, bottom line, stop trying to balance the budget on services like the USPS. Get rid of worthless crap like the EPA and the Department of Education first, and then come back and we'll talk.]]>
Now that's cool.tag:www.onemansvote.com,2010:/blog//4.43972010-02-26T17:34:33Z2010-03-04T18:52:30ZUPS driver just delivered my ammo order from Georgia Arms. He said, "What is that, .22LR?" I said, no, 500 rounds of .45ACP. He said, "What's that cost?" I said, $200. He said, "Hmm." Such fun :)...Nathan
UPS driver just delivered my ammo order from Georgia Arms.
He said, "What is that, .22LR?"
I said, no, 500 rounds of .45ACP.
He said, "What's that cost?"
I said, $200.
He said, "Hmm."
Such fun :)
It's for the chirrin!tag:www.onemansvote.com,2010:/blog//4.43962010-02-26T15:19:22Z2010-03-04T18:52:08ZBobbi has a nice wrapup of the CCC meeting last night wherein Ed Coleman's guns in parks proposal was discussed. Well, beat down, tabled, and tossed to committee, but I'm being polite. What amazes me more than anything else is...Nathan
nice wrapup of the CCC meeting last night wherein Ed Coleman's guns in parks proposal was discussed. Well, beat down, tabled, and tossed to committee, but I'm being polite.
What amazes me more than anything else is Lincoln Plowman's statement that he was concerned about passing such an ordinance because, in the words this morning's fishwrap puts in his mouth, "many city parks are close to schools." As I commented at Bobbi's:
So, Lincoln, let me get this straight. Are you saying that if I live next door to a school, that I should not be allowed to have firearms in my home? I mean, I honestly don't see the difference between legal firearms in a home near a school and legal firearms in a park near a school. In both cases the firearms are there for the purpose of self-defense, a right that is guaranteed by both the U.S. Constitution and the Indiana Constitution. Apparently Lincoln flunked his government class in high school, because he doesn't seem to understand this.
Poor politicians make poor arguments. Hopefully poor Lincoln's ill-served constituents will consider diselecting him when the time comes, and choosing instead someone who knows how to argue more convincingly.
The problem with our City-County Council is that there are a bunch of wimp RINOs sitting on it. You guys used to sit up and oppose Big Bad Bart when you were in the minority. Now you fall in line with Ballard, whom none of you wanted in the first place, and lick his boots because he threatens a veto. The lot of you are pitiful and need to be thrown to the wolves. Please be kind enough to jump off the roof of the City-County Building prior to the next election and save us the trouble.
And as for you, Mayor Ballard, you are a disgrace to the uniform.]]>