Wednesday, July 30, 2014

GOOD LORD, what planet does VOX.com reside on?
OBVIOUS ON DAY ONE: ObamaCare Was Designed to Punish Uncooperative States.
BEING AN IDIOT? What was Kerry doing?
NOT SURPRISING UNLESS YOU'RE A LIBERAL: Most Hispanics favor deportations. Liberals might understand if it was expressed in terms they understand: "not in my back yard".
A NEW MEANING FOR THE TERM 'SELFIE': Hamas rocket attacks Gaza's own Al-Shifa hospital.
SO TELL US HOW YOU REALLY FEEL: Former IRS official Lois Lerner refers to some in the Republican Party as '---holes' and "crazies'.
IT'S NOT A LIE if it serves the cause. Remember "extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice"? That was sooo 'then'; today lying in the defense of 'the cause' is a virtue.
SO TELL ME AGAIN which party is extreme.
I KIN 2 REDE: A Twitter exchange for the ages.
NO THANKS TO THE FAA: Model drone finds elderly man missing 3 days alive.
NARCISSM, ARROGANCE, OR JUST PLAIN STUPIDITY? Woman in labor can’t cross street because of Obama’s motorcade. My vote is for stupidity, though with Obama....
BUT IT WAS JUST A 'SPEAK-O': I didn't really mean what I just said.

Oh?

Update: Still more.

Tuesday, July 29, 2014

SURPRISE: Bureaucrats oppose easier termination for bureaucrats.

'Reform' is simply kicking the can beyond the 3-day news horizon....
MORE BIKE LANES, OF COURSE: "Which will make morning and evening commutes easier and safer, spending highway trust funds on more and better roads, or more bike lanes?"
More than 90 percent of Americans depend upon their personal cars and trucks to get to and from work every day. But many government officials at all levels seem determined to make life miserable for drivers.

They won't say it in those words, but that is what many public officials, including especially the bureaucrats who run zoning, transportation and economic development agency, intend to be the result of their policies.

Why? So commuters will leave their cars at home and take mass transit instead. That justifies bigger budgets and staffs for the bureaucrats.

This is the ugly secret at the heart of federal transportation policy. It's why one of every four tax dollars collected for the Highway Trust Fund is actually spent, according to the Heritage Foundation, on "subways, streetcars, buses, bicycle and nature paths, and landscaping."

Bureaucrats love mass transit because mass transit goes where they want it to go when they want it to go there. Bureaucrats hate private cars and trucks because drivers decide where to go instead of bureaucrats. Government control versus individual freedom.
As usual, it's all about control. Their control, not yours.
FAA PROPOSES $12M fine against Southwest Airlines. Which goes into FAA coffers to pay for what? More safety? Or more bureaucrats?
NASA MOVES to protect (contractor) whistleblowers. But not their own....
HOW TO FIND EXTRATERRESTRIAL LIFE: Search for polluted planets.
BECAUSE 97%: The eternal spotlessness emptiness of the Sunshine Mind.
TECHNOLOGY: ARES combat drone.
POLITICO: How the Left took over the Democratic Party.

I remember the date: "We bought it, we own it, and we're going to take it back."
MoveOn.Org, December 9, 2004.