One Man's Vote http://www.onemansvote.com/blog/ en Copyright 2010 Thu, 11 Mar 2010 16:46:52 -0500 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/ http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss <![CDATA[Øbama: Land Snatcher]]> 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.]]> http://www.onemansvote.com/blog/2010/03/bama_land_snatcher.shtml http://www.onemansvote.com/blog/2010/03/bama_land_snatcher.shtml Thu, 11 Mar 2010 16:46:52 -0500 Oh, man. 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.]]> http://www.onemansvote.com/blog/2010/03/oh_man_1.shtml http://www.onemansvote.com/blog/2010/03/oh_man_1.shtml Wed, 10 Mar 2010 10:31:40 -0500 Just one question. Highway 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
]]> http://www.onemansvote.com/blog/2010/03/just_one_question_1.shtml http://www.onemansvote.com/blog/2010/03/just_one_question_1.shtml Tue, 09 Mar 2010 08:57:20 -0500 I got nothin'. 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. http://www.onemansvote.com/blog/2010/03/i_got_nothin_2.shtml http://www.onemansvote.com/blog/2010/03/i_got_nothin_2.shtml Sun, 07 Mar 2010 14:29:03 -0500 Here's one time I'm all for pulling the trigger. 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. ]]> http://www.onemansvote.com/blog/2010/03/heres_one_time_im_all_for_pull.shtml http://www.onemansvote.com/blog/2010/03/heres_one_time_im_all_for_pull.shtml Sat, 06 Mar 2010 09:42:49 -0500 You say you want a revolution 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. 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?]]> http://www.onemansvote.com/blog/2010/03/you_say_you_want_a_revolution.shtml http://www.onemansvote.com/blog/2010/03/you_say_you_want_a_revolution.shtml Wed, 03 Mar 2010 13:55:02 -0500 All right. 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.]]> http://www.onemansvote.com/blog/2010/03/all_right.shtml http://www.onemansvote.com/blog/2010/03/all_right.shtml Tue, 02 Mar 2010 13:03:24 -0500 Now that's cool. 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 :) http://www.onemansvote.com/blog/2010/02/now_thats_cool.shtml http://www.onemansvote.com/blog/2010/02/now_thats_cool.shtml Fri, 26 Feb 2010 12:34:33 -0500 It's for the chirrin! 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.]]> http://www.onemansvote.com/blog/2010/02/its_for_the_chirrin.shtml http://www.onemansvote.com/blog/2010/02/its_for_the_chirrin.shtml Fri, 26 Feb 2010 10:19:22 -0500 Sneaky Ed Coleman's measure to allow CCW in city parks at the top of the first page of the Metro/State section (for trenchant commentary thereon, see), where does it put the notice that Rep. Charlie Brown, D(umb)-Gary, managed to finagle an amendment into SB 175 to ban smoking in all public places except for casinos and horse tracks? Well, top of the page, I'll grant you, but clear back on A25 in the Obituaries, 2 columns x 4 inches with a tiny headline. Which is curiously appropriate, because that amendment ought to die the death of a thousand cuts. Hopefully the Senate conferees will nix it right out of the gate.]]> http://www.onemansvote.com/blog/2010/02/sneaky.shtml http://www.onemansvote.com/blog/2010/02/sneaky.shtml Thu, 25 Feb 2010 10:00:25 -0500 Fresh from one gun registry failure... Replica guns should be licensed and registered just like the real thing, say safety advocates.The Canada Safety Council has approached police to push for gun replicas to be regulated under the federal Firearms Act, said council president Emile Therien. That would require them to be licensed and registered. The mind boggles. For what possible reason would a replica gun need to be licensed and registered? (I mean, other than for the reason of autocratic government overreach, that is.) The comments to the post are fun, anyway.]]> http://www.onemansvote.com/blog/2010/02/fresh_from_one_gun_registry_fa.shtml http://www.onemansvote.com/blog/2010/02/fresh_from_one_gun_registry_fa.shtml Wed, 24 Feb 2010 16:41:20 -0500 Guns don't kill people. Stupid fuckers playing with guns kill people.
It began with three young adults driving through Pompano Beach early Tuesday. One of the passengers, in the back seat, pulled out a gun. Investigators said he wanted to fiddle around with it.
Sigh. Violation of Rules 1 through 4, right there in that one paragraph.
A shot rang out. Within hours, the driver -- a mother of two children -- was dead, and the man charged in her death in jail. After a brief attempt at hiding what happened, Carlos A. Martin, 26, told deputies with the Broward Sheriff's Office, "I shot her by accident."
No, you didn't. You shot her by stupidity. And of course there are a number of comments along the lines of, "When are we going to get smart and ban guns in this country?" This amazes me. Did this guy have a CCW permit? (The article doesn't say. What do you want to bet that the answer is "no"?) Did you know, that in Florida, to get a CCW requires among other things that you have to provide evidence that you've taken a firearms course of some kind? During the course of which one assumes they will give you a lecture on firearms safety? Which precludes the concept of PLAYING WITH YOUR FUCKING GUN? Too bad he wasn't pointing it at himself. Instead, an innocent victim had to die, and two children lost their mother.]]> http://www.onemansvote.com/blog/2010/02/guns_dont_kill_people.shtml http://www.onemansvote.com/blog/2010/02/guns_dont_kill_people.shtml Wed, 24 Feb 2010 11:34:16 -0500 "Pedal misapplication" Parliament of Whores, summarized "pedal misapplication" as follows:
Yes, the dumb buggers stepped on the gas instead of the brake. Thus, sudden-acceleration incidents, or SAIs, closely resemble those sudden-unintelligence incidents, or SUIs, that many of us have experienced with our automobiles, especially when we were in our teens or early twenties. We'd be driving down a country road at a reasonable and prudent 115 miles per hour and — all of a sudden, for no apparent reason — the car would suffer an SUI and roll over five times in a cornfield. I seem to remember that sudden-unintelligence incidents were often associated with sudden-regurgitation incidents (SRIs), where my friends and I would — all of a sudden, for no apparent reason — drink four six-packs of warm Pabst. No doubt the DOT-NHSTA-VRTC will be investigating these mysterious phenomena ASAP-PDQ-BYOB.
Ah, that P.J. Always on top of the problem.]]> http://www.onemansvote.com/blog/2010/02/pedal_misapplication.shtml http://www.onemansvote.com/blog/2010/02/pedal_misapplication.shtml Tue, 23 Feb 2010 16:39:25 -0500 Let it die Why is it the only food I can find in the food pantry is outdated? Because it's donated? Duh? The date on it is the SELL BY date, not the THROW ME AWAY BY date.
There are times when I would like to be invisible like the meter readers from IPL and Vectren. In the 4-1/2 years I've lived in this house, I've yet to see either one.
I can't speak for Vectren, as we're Citizens Gas customers, but IPL uses remote-reading meters that send their information by radio to a local node that's probably on a power pole somewhere in your neighborhood. They haven't had meter readers for years. Oh, and by the way -- that saves you money on your electric bill. ID10T.]]> http://www.onemansvote.com/blog/2010/02/let_it_die.shtml http://www.onemansvote.com/blog/2010/02/let_it_die.shtml Tue, 23 Feb 2010 14:03:37 -0500 OK, history has officially ended. Doctors Urging for a Safer, Choke-Free Hot Dog Civilization as we know it is clearly over. (So is headline grammar. "Urging for"? Give me a break.)]]> http://www.onemansvote.com/blog/2010/02/ok_history_has_officially_ende.shtml http://www.onemansvote.com/blog/2010/02/ok_history_has_officially_ende.shtml Mon, 22 Feb 2010 14:58:57 -0500