Folks... I found a great political cartoon site today called Red Planet Cartoons. Do yourself a favor and visit.
While I was there, I picked up a couple quotes of value. First by Thomas Sowell:
Nothing is easier, or more emotionally satisfying, than blaming high prices on those who charge them, rather than on those who cause them.
This was said, of course, in reference to everyone's blaming of high gas prices on the greed of the oil companies rather than government interference and taxes. Nevermind that the oil companies make about 9 cents per gallon and government takes around 42.
And this one from our greatest President, Ronald Reagan:
Republicans believe every day is July 4th. Democrats believe every day is April 15th.
Ever notice how many people there are out there that are just never wrong? Seems like it's prevalence is on the rise. This attitude goes hand-in-hand with such wonders as frivolous lawsuits, class warfare, lack of personal responsibility, etc.
Funny how no one ever stops to consider this:
People who refuse to learn are idiots.
People learn primarily from their mistakes.
People are imperfect, thus they make mistakes.
Thus, it's human nature to learn as you go.
However, for the people that can never do wrong:
They must know it all already.
Thus, they can't learn anything new.
Thus, they are cretins and become more cretinous as time goes on.
Prison's full of innocent people, right? What about the presidential campaign?
One other thought: If people can do no wrong (and thus they know it all), why does it piss people off so much when you point our that they know it all?
WTF kind of BS is that?
The best way to handle mistakes is to:
Be on the the lookout for them.
When they occur, admit them, learn from them, and move on.
Use what you learned to prevent the same mistake from happening again.
If you don't do this, the mistake will just repeat itself. Is that what you want?
So this time Hillary was finally called out on one of her lies, this one in reference to the tall tale of a spiral landing and canceled greeting ceremony in Bosnia. Videos of the event clearly show she was lying. Then she followed it up by trying to dismiss it publicly.
Folks... this should show you just how dangerous Hillary really is: this was a huge, outright LIE. And she would just rather cover it up and act like it was nothing. Just how many other lies has she covered up and how many does she plan to do that with in the future?
Don't get me wrong here. All politicians lie. But this one was pretty huge.
I guess even the lamestream media have gotten tired of just glossing over all of her "misspeakings" and "misstatings". Apparently, she misunderestimated her own protection as given by the news outlets.
Oh, that's right... because parents refuse to take care of it themselves, the gubment has to come swooping in with another ill-formed solution designed only to buy votes.
Thank you Governor Henry. Just what we needed: another reason to push responsibility (and therefore freedom) out the door. Maybe we should just push our kids out the door to get some exercise rather than spin up another big spending program.
Here's a flash of brilliance brought forth by Sally Kern, one of Oklahoma's state representatives:
This is a perfect example of another overzealous moron trying to foist her ideals on others via poorly constructed arguments that aren't logical and do not follow. This is a perfect example of why I refuse to have anything to do with religion. This is not a proud day for my state.
In related news, leave it to the Bible-belters to pull another fast one on their constituents. And to think, we made fun of Kansas when they were in the news trying to put mysticism and ghosts in front of education. I reckon it's better to Rep. Kern and the other flat-earthers in Oklahoma's legislature for our children to grow up into procreative troglodytes who know nothing of the real world that surrounds them. Gays a threat? Hardly. Religious zealots a threat? You bet. Take a look at al Qaeda.
Representative Kern: Thank you (and those like you) for embarrassing our state on a national and/or global scale. Tell you what: if you want to live in a world made up only of people just like you, go away and build your utopia. Just leave the realists out of it. Thank you.
Afterthought: If Rep. Kern wants an accurate speech, all she needs to do is replace every reference to homosexuality with references to overdone religion.
Afterthought again: And this is why I still hold that sending a child to a gubment school is akin to child abuse.
Final afterthought: Republicans need to stay the fuck away from handling social issues, much like Democrats need to stay the fuck away from handling economic issues.
I don't think I'll ever get an answer to this question, but I'll ask it again anyway:
If Democrats are so concerned about all the money being distributed equally, why don't they just band together in their own little group, throw all their money in a pot, and divide the pot up into equal portions for every one in their little group, so they could build their little socialist utopia?
My answer is this: In order for a Democrat society to subsist, you need to feed it the fruits of labor of lots of high achievers. After all, all that cradle-to-grave service costs money. High achievers usually aren't Democrats, and Democrats aren't generally motivated to earn that money on their own. Therefore, it's important to force their system on others to form a financial basis for their utopia. Sounds good, don't it?
