Coffee Break

The internet can take the rest of the day off, because there is no hope of better content anywhere other than this post.

I mean, it's got it all: drama, humor, struggle, sage wisdom, and the crown jewel:

Then you would have to run around wearing a frownie face. You would be sad.

Go ahead, internet. Try to beat that.



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Appreciation

Ladies and gentlemen of our Armed Forces, I do not know you. I have met a few of you, and I hold you in the highest regard. I wish that were enough to show you how much I appreciate what you have done for our nation.

From the bottom of my heart: thank you.

Judicial Dumbassery

My blood boiled when I read about the recent decision from the US Court of Appeals for DC concerning the individual mandate of Obamacare. The same court that upheld Dick Heller's case right before it went to SCOTUS is apparently subject to the same brand of recto-cranial inversion as any other court.

Just try and read this without seeing red:

"It certainly is an encroachment on individual liberty, but it is no more so than a command that restaurants or hotels are obliged to serve all customers regardless of race ... or that a farmer cannot grow enough wheat to support his own family," wrote Judge Laurence Silberman in the majority opinion, citing past federal mandates that inspired legal fights.

See that? In the same breath, Judge Silberman (a Ronald Reagan appointee and senior judge for the Court) in the opinion A) admits that the individual mandate is an encroachment on individual liberty and B) shows us what an epic Fucktard of the First Order he really is by comparing said encroachment to forcing businesses to serve all races and forbidding a farmer to grow enough wheat to support his family.

Read that back to yourselves; I know it's a lot to take in. A federal appeals court judge says that forcing subjects citizens at gunpoint under penalty of law to purchase something is wrong, but no more so than one thing that's a good soundbite and another thing that's a fucking actrocity.

That is the standard by which abrogation of freedom is measured by the US Court of Appeals. It can be all fucked up and still be constitutional(!!!), as long as it's not more fucked up than other things that have happened.

And we have to wait until he dies or retires, because there's no voting federal judges out. Yee-haw.



tweaker

I Must Have ESPN

I have an uncanny ability to predict the contents of a story before I read it.

Okay, maybe it's not so uncanny. Honestly, how many of you could read this and not see this coming:

According to arrest affidavits filed in the case, Roberts and 73-year-old Frederick Thomas agreed to buy a silencer, a bomb and parts to convert a semi-automatic rifle to a fully automatic machine gun from an undercover agent.

Wow. So yet again, millions are saved by our protectors thwarting a plot that they, at least in part, helped to manufacture. Once again, a person or group of people that may have just hated the fuck out of the government will join the ranks of those whom we'll never know would have actually been able to break any laws without help. From our protectors.

So what are they actually protecting us from? It's almost like we're paying protection money to the...

Naaahh. No way it could be that.



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Getting My Stalker On

I was gonna write up a post yesterday from a CNN article about what the GOP needs to do to right the ship. As you can imagine, written exactly for the best possible outcome. For the Democrats.

Anyhoo, as I was perusing the more heavily armed corners of the Blogosphere, I came across yet another gem from Robb Allen, who I've either linked here, on Facebook, or on Google+ so many times he's probably considering a restraining order.*

I'll give you the opener, and then you'll go RTWT:

Ron Paul is not the only man who can save America. Electing Sarah Palin is not going to fix the economy. A second Obama term is not going to provide adequate healthcare for every man woman and child. Putting Ralph Nader in office would provide countless hours of entertainment, but it wouldn’t do squat for the environment. The congressman you think is the most evil thing this side of Satan? He’s not going to do much more than pad his pockets the same way the senator you think is the cat’s meow will.

In short, there is no way to fix our country at the ballot box.

tweaker

*Robb? Paper armor? Ha! Yeah, um... prolly not.