Category Archives: Blogosphere

Tax cheatin’ like the Dems do

Posted on January 31, 2009 | Comments Off on Tax cheatin’ like the Dems do

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Alas, Rancho Roly Poly is just a few miles south of U.S. Rep. John Carter’s 31st District. It would be so cool to be represented by the author of the Rangel Rule, which won’t pass but if it did, we’d all get to cheat on our taxes like New York Dem Charlie Rangel (not to mention Barry’s appointees Tom Daschle and Tim Geithner). Nice try, John. Keep up the meaningful work.

Via Doug Ross @ Journal.

UPDATE:  Then Carter tried the direct approach, asking the House to vote on forcing Rangel to step down from his, wait for it, tax-writing committee. Got that? He writes taxes for us. He just doesn’t pay them.

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Mason County, Texas

Posted on January 25, 2009 | Comments Off on Mason County, Texas

Scott at The Fat Guy, apparently already suffering from the noise and traffic of San Antonio, although he just recently moved there from Dallas, has taken up a casual comment I made about considering moving to Mason County. He likes winding, dark, two-lane roads, fly-fishing, hunting, and plenty of open spaces and few neighbors. The links he found and the comments he’s drawn so far make me wish I could move tomorrow. That’s the great thing about these Internets. You can go back to the country and still make a living, if you need to. But, until Mr. B. finishes school (about nine more years) and Mrs. Charm retires, it will probably not be possible for me.

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Posted in Blogosphere, Mr. Boy, Mrs. Charm, Rancho Roly Poly, Texana

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Buy a gun

Posted on January 19, 2009 | Comments Off on Buy a gun

This is Instapundit’s somewhat surprising advice for any Jew or their supporters who feel threatened by these mad Musslemen and their scum supporters who invade Jewish neighborhoods with threatening anti-Semitic demos. Fortunately most of this is going on in Britain, Australia and Canada. Gun laws are rather restrictive there. Not so here. Of course the laws differ from state to state on when you’re allowed to shoot somebody. Generally speaking the perp has to be stealing or destroying your property on your property. But if it makes people feel better just to have some .45 Long Colts handy for use, it works for me.

MORE:  Thou Shalt Not Kill? Try Nehemiah, chapter four, verse fourteen.

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Computer solutions

Posted on January 13, 2009 | Comments Off on Computer solutions

I gotta admit, for sheer elegance nothing beats a few rounds from an SKS, .45 LC and a Mossberg Persuader.

Via The Fat Guy.

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Press Clink

Posted on January 13, 2009 | Comments Off on Press Clink

Somehow, in the course of showing why Big Media has lost its influence in the Internet Age, Press Think’s Jay Rosen manages to make it sound like conservative war supporters get the media grease while anti-war liberals get left out. What planet is this guy on? He starts out belaboring the obvious, then turns reality on its head. If this is what passes for academic journalism these days, no wonder the newspaper industry is falling apart.

Via Instapundit.

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Whuffie

Posted on January 4, 2009 | Comments Off on Whuffie

Julius’s rising and falling Whuffie is a form of constantly-tallied wealth in the reputation economy of the post-USA, Bitchun Society. In this world, all are online, never die (unless they want to) and are free to work ad-hoc at whatever they please. Their Whuffie determines whether they can get a hotel room, a car, or a meal, even whether people will talk to them.

Sometimes Julius’s Whuffie is high enough, sometimes it isn’t, in his ad-hoc job at Disney World. Either way is entertaining in Cory Doctorow’s 2003 Down And Out In The Magic Kingdom, a so-called postcyberpunk novel bringing the Internet to SciFi. One thing’s for sure, in my recent reintroduction to SF after years of ignoring it, I’ve found that I can’t take seriously any plot without the Web in it. If you spend a lot of time online, you shouldn’t either. It is the future, as much as the present, after all.

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Leaflets, artillery may precede assault

Posted on January 3, 2009 | Comments Off on Leaflets, artillery may precede assault

It looks like the IDF is close to moving into Gaza, although the ground is wet from recent hard rains, because leaflets warning civilians to evacuate have been dropped and the mobile artillery prep appears to have begun. Good luck, guys.

UPDATE:  So it begins. Tanks, engineers and infantry move into northern Gaza.

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