Posts Tagged ‘just deserts’

I would rather get laid than be president…

Posted: June 24, 2009 by datechguy in opinion/news
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…or even have a chance to be nominated.

Not quite Henry Clay is it? I guess Mark Twain had it as pegged as it can be:

Of the delights of this world, man cares most for sexual intercourse. He will go to any length for it-risk fortune, character, reputation, life itself

Have ever truer words been spoken?

The sad thing is the idea could be to get this out of the way now to give him a few years to “rehabilitate” himself? If Sarah Palin is a candidate in 2012 that plan is as doomed as it can be.

Update: Interesting perspective from Roger Simon (via Glenn) but Michelle Malkin nails it.

Update 2: Welcome Anchoress and Michelle Malkin readers take a peek around. Learn how Catholic Sainthood works, see the return of Taxachusetts, ponder the relationship between prayer and probability, enjoy a little Doctor Who online comic and remember for a party, go with the dunk tank every time!

Update 3: Another difference between Sanford and Palin is where they go when the location is undisclosed.

Update 4: Did you ever find yourself typing one thing and seeing another? Corrected grammar above.

Welcome back to Taxachusetts

Posted: June 20, 2009 by datechguy in local stuff, opinion/news
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…says the headline of the Sentinel & Enterprise and they are on the money.

The state sales tax is going up.

So is the meals tax, taxes on alcohol, satellite TV and possibly hotels.

Both the House and Senate Friday, delivered an on-time budget to Gov. Deval Patrick that raises the state sales tax from 5 percent to 6.25 percent and lifts the exemption on beer, wine and spirits.

Thea meals tax, like the sales tax, will increase statewide to 6.25 percent and cities and towns will have the local option of tacking on another .75 percent to raise additional revenue for their own budgets.

The House voted underwhelmingly (underwhelmingly?) in favor of the spending plan, passing the budget on a 110-46 vote. The Senate followed suit with a 31-8 vote.

“I think this sends a very strong message that this state has a very large fiscal deficit in front of us,” said Sen. Jennifer Flanagan, D-Leominster, who voted in favor.

I think it sends a stronger signal to shop in New Hampshire open business in New Hampshire and to avoid this state like the plague. There is a reason why we are bleeding population and stuff like this is it.

Wasn’t it only 8 months ago that we had a chance to repeal the state income tax? Well we collectively made our own bed so now we have to sleep in it or move.

Whatever the New Hampshire chamber of commerce is paying our state reps, it’s not enough.

Not Kentucky Derby Pie

Posted: June 14, 2009 by datechguy in opinion/news
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You know it’s one thing for pols to use their supports for suckers its another thing for the supporters to pretend it isn’t happening.Kentuckyderbypie

Honest pols are very important for a republican form of government to work, but honest voters who can see what is in front of them is just as important. When the people are shoveled to and they insist it for Kentucky Derby Pie it is not representative government, it is a cult, it’s Baghdad Bob territory.

Mmmmmm Kentucky Derby Pie! (And yes it’s as good as it looks).

Maybe its because I’m looking for work…

Posted: June 12, 2009 by datechguy in opinion/news
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…but even though it would be politically advantageous to push Letterman to the brink I’m not inclined to force him out, but I’ll tell you this…

…Every day that the mainstream media defends Letterman they lose credibility, and if the sponsors eventually force a stronger apology, a suspension or even a firing it will show the MSN for the paper tiger it is.

Cripes even MSNBC’s Morning Joe came out and said out loud what everyone already knew:

BRZEZINSKI: I’m telling you that when she came out on the scene I was– thought it was refreshing. I thought it was exciting. I thought it was interesting. And I also saw a lot of people behind the scenes looking for ways to find a way to bring her down because of her ideology. And I was excited by her ideology because I thought, wow, a very interesting, forty-something, my generation, working woman with five kids on the national stage could really inject something into this conversation about things like abortion.

She goes on:

BRZEZINSKI: What I hated was, what I saw happening behind the scenes, among my colleagues in the media, where there was this rabidness.

Peggy Noonan expands on this:

NOONAN: Yeah, they– Palin from the moment she came out, people looked at her kids and sort of went after the kids. It was vicious. It was offensive. It made me use in a column a word I wouldn’t normally use, rhymes with witch, talking about the people in the media who had just decided to gun for these kids. I mean, it was just awful.

This is being said openly on MSNBC! We even get it from Norah O’Donnell today. Even Megan McCain is defending Palin now.

This is Ted Williams playing Tee ball. As long as they keep putting the ball on the tee it will end up over the fence.

Update: Ace and Pursuing Holiness (via the green room) are still in a fighting room.

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