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It’s a holiday week of drunken revelry and celebration. Because of that fact I forgot that today was Friday so the chances of you getting a BBF post are about 2%.
I watch MSNBC because it amuses me. It’s like watching a little kid eat paste. The fact that smelly hippies, commies, retards and douche-bags have their very own network is a pretty amazing thing when you think about it.
A few minutes ago the annoying-but-still-hot Norah O’Donnell interviewed some lisping sucker of cock about why George W. Bush’s book has sold more copies in one month than Bill Clinton’s book has sold in six years. Here is the complete list of reasons this prancing fairy gave for that phenomenon:
(1) People that hate him bought it to read his justification for his evil existence.
(2) People bought it as a joke.
(3) A lot of people bought it and gave it as a gift to people that didn’t want it.
(4) It’s only 500 pages while Clinton’s is over 1,000 pages.
Hahahahahahaha!! You cannot find better parody of the lunatic left’s non-reality-based view of the world anywhere.
Good job, MSNBC!!
On a related note, I received two copies of Bush’s book for Christmas, one of which Floyd ate last night. SPARE COPY WIN!!
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Hey! Happy New Year you jackass!
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I love the look on this kid’s face. FFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!!!!
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Bitchface Bread von Clowncar wants you to watch this. WATCH IT!!!
For all the profanity, cursing, and bluster that goes on around this place, one of the things that makes it a home on the intartubbies (or a wretched hive of scum and villany, take your pick) is that fact that we can be remarkably decent to each other at times. I’d call it “like family” but the fact is, some of us find it hard to be as kind to family, and sometimes even with good reason. When I think out the slings and arrows endured in the last year by my fellow Hostages, be they injuries, maladies, conditions, jobs, finances, and family bullshit, or having friends and family picked off by the unsleeping spectre of death in unrelenting fashion, this place is a respite, and we remain among friends. Even Wiser.
Whether it is the sneaky behind the scenes care package drives and organization, or telling a fellow Hostage “Go ahead and complain. We’re listening.” when we might tell someone else to stick the three-piston asshammer in as far as it will go, and then break it off.
I’d like to think that we’re all here because we’re unique. No, I’m not talking about that huggy-touchy-feely bullshit that make the Left think that it is ok to be a hyphenated American every day, rather than simply as a means to remember why it is they are lucky to be Americans on special occasions. I’m talking about being the people who can take a kick to teeth, shake their head, spit the broken ones out, smirk at the kicker, and say “Is that all you got?”
Things can be pretty crappy sometimes. Having a government that is against us more than it is with us can be a heavy burden sometimes. Throw in a metric shitload of personal crap, and it would be easy to wonder why the Big Guy upstairs has it in for us, but the fact that some of us have had the year that we have, and that the coming one doesn’t really look like an improvement, and we’re still here, swinging, and hurling insults at each other says something about us that others would either find inspiring, or in their jealousy, they would hate. If there is a “Hostage” Approach to life, I think this sums it up rather well:
It isn’t just “Seven times down, eight times up”. It isn’t about doing the safe thing. It’s about doing it your way, and knowing that here, at least, we’ve got your back.
Here’s your ball. Take your shot.
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WTF was that noise?
Let me see if I got this right.
I can type in the words, ‘fuck, cumstain, and retarded faggot’, but I can’t call Nancy Pelosi a ‘scrunt’.
Freaks.
I love other folks morals and standards. Why? Because I don’t have enough confusion in my own life.
Did ya ever wonder what really happens when Michael goes on-line?
Wonder no more.
Floyd checks out the Milf’s at the free veterinary clinic .
Wiserbud: He’s one man living the dream.
The real question is, could you stand to see Obama’s mug on a dollar bill every god damned day? I’m thinking, yes.
Ummm… I’m pretty certain this douchebag misses the point .
Now get your sorry asses outta the sack and get to work.
“Democracy is based upon the conviction that man has the moral and intellectual capacity, as well as the inalienable right, to govern himself with reason and justice.” – Harry S. Truman
“I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but inform their discretion.” – Thomas Jefferson
“As citizens of this democracy, you are the rulers and the ruled, the lawgivers and the law-abiding, the beginning and the end.” – Adlai Stevenson
“Government is a trust, and the officers of the government are trustees; and both the trust and the trustees are created for the benefit of the people.” – Henry Clay
“If there have been those who doubted whether a confederated representative democracy were a government competent to the wise and orderly management of the common concerns of a mighty nation, those doubts have been dispelled.” – John Quincy Adams
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There is nothing so disturbing as an employee who refuses to follow directions. In the private sector, it can be remedied, but in the public sector, it becomes more complicated by the sheer proliferation of agencies and employees that are not answerable to the people they ostensibly serve, and it becomes maddening when they have the nerve to pretend that they know better than them what pays the freight.
This was brought into focus recently with the FCC’s decision to implement its so-called “Net Neutrality” regulations to fix a problem that doesn’t exist. This was a decision that was slow in coming. The DC circuit had already ruled that the FCC does not have the authority to regulate the internet. Congress, in a rare show of real bipartisanship had also made a point of asking the FCC not to promulgate regulations for the internet and leave it to the lawmakers. And yet despite every indication that it had no authority to do so, the FCC decided to start regulating the internet… to the cheers of those who believe the hype without any consideration of the long-term implications, as a cousin of mine was only too eager to demonstrate on Facebook recently, as he expressed his exuberance at this wonderful development.
The website he hyperlinked was one extolling the virtues, but never actually thinking the process through. When I pointed out that the FCC did so over both the Legislative and Judicial Branches’ objections, his response was a childlike “Yes, but they did it anyway.”
I was stunned.
Did he really mean it? I have never questioned his good intentions, but at the same time, a demonstration of such glee at an obvious and egregious avoidance of the authority of the Constitutionally mandated branches of government demonstrates two stark facts:
1. Our educational system has failed;
2. And as a result, “The means justifies the ends” has become the default in place of “the rule of law, not men.”
This is not an isolated phenomenon. As my friend and co-blogger Nice Deb, points out, it is a trend. Whether it is the EPA deciding sua sponte that it has the authority to regulate CO2 emissions as a pollutant, or the Secretary of Health and Human Services resurrecting the “end of life” counseling that lawmakers removed from the final draft. But the money quote, which stopped me cold, was this:
New legislation is already being drafted by Republicans to stop the EPA from imposing cap and trade on its own.
Let that sink in for a minute.
Our elected officials are in a power struggle with unelected functionaries who are on a power trip. Unelected functionaries who are not accountable to “We the people.”
The people who serve us are fighting for control with the people who serve themselves and claim to do it for our own good.
This power struggle will distract the Congress from its actual business, and even better yet, we get to foot the bill for it. We have a front-row seat for the clash that will determine the fate of freedom. On one side, there is the consent of the governed; on the other, the dictates of the governing. If we lose control of the government, then our fate is to have it control us.
I only hope that God won’t judge us too harshly if the wrong side wins…if not for my sake, then for the sake of my children.
Seriously, when you’re awesome like me and have an iPhone,
you can blog from a bar. *hic
IMPORTANT UPDATE(MCPO Airdale)
Hotspur at the bar:
Ok, so it’s 9:30 and I dun’t see any HHD on the horizon. Here’s the deal. I’ll add one picture and then you other hosefockers female hostages add another and another until it’s raining men. Hallelujah.
This could add up to be teh BEST HHD DAY EVA!
Here’s my contribution:
That there is the most wonderful ginger EVER, Josh Homme. What’s that he is showing us? Well, that would be his daughter’s name tattooed over his heart. AWWWWW.
Here is Josh being just about as sexy as he can be.
Ok, who’s next?
Here’s my contribution:
Hotness
[PATTYANN CONTRIBUTES]
DUh (Sohos)
Viggo - Cathy's Choice
Pj’s choice………GAWD I LOVE HIM!!!
Okay, here’s my (TiFW) contribution to the post – Mark Valley:
(You’re welcome, ladies!)
^^ (Let’s see if THIS one stays posted…..) ^^
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=XiiBWCs28oY
(For Cyn, since she can’t access the YouTube link)
Precisely zero people give a shit about Global Warming anymore, which explains how this sentence, “The not-so-obvious short answer is that the overall warming of the atmosphere is actually creating cold-weather extremes,” was able to be written, reviewed by an editor, and deemed worthy of publication.
The article, whose thesis plumbs the depths of Newspeak to deliver the thesis: Warm is Cold™, has been refuted here, better than I could.
A few things to think about though when considering Global Warming, or Climate Change, or Global Climate Disruption or whatever the fuck these commies are calling it:
1) It’s not science, it’s statistics.
2) Stats lie
3) See rule 2
Oh, and I feel for you guys stuck in the snowmaggedon up north, but if you’d just stop driving your SUVs you’d be warm, like Tampa, Florida. 30 is warm, right?
I just thought of this. It won’t ever happen but let’s pretend, m’kay?
The federal and state governments are going broke as a motherfucker because government is a stupid whore. What about this idea…
(1) The Fortune 500 corporations together form another corporation called Help The Poor, Inc.
(2) The CEOs and CFOs of those corporations together hire the full management staff and a board of directors.
(3) The Medicaid system and all welfare programs are abolished.
(4) Federal and state corporate taxes are cut in half.
(5) Federal and state governments agree to give half of what they are currently paying towards Medicaid and welfare programs to Help The Poor, Inc.
(6) The CEOs and CFOs, pending approval by 3/4 of their boards of directors also agree to contribute a percentage of their profits to Help The Poor, Inc.
(7) Help The Poor, Inc. is then responsible for the health and welfare of America’s poor.
In my way of thinking this will accomplish two desirable objectives:
(1) Federal and state governments will have fewer unfunded future liabilities and
(B) America’s poor would be better taken of and at less cost.
Can you imagine the shift in the thinking if it was corporate America that took care of the poor and it was excessive government regulation and taxation that ended up hurting the poor by lowering corporate profits ?
I AM THE SMARTEST MAN ALIVE!!!
Other than the obvious non-reality of this idea, please improve upon or poke holes in this brilliant idea in the comments.
Also, kiss my ass.
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[Update – Andy]
Better idea. We just need to upgrade our Senators to pull it off:
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