Administration’s economic plan explained

We refer to this groundbreaking fiscal emarsifoliation technique as the Obamanation Destrafulating Rescamulator and believe its introduction to the current economic recession will bring instant antidismarnication and redistribulation not only to Wall Street but to mortgage lumorizators and loan gefinerationists all across the torminic spectrum.

The basic premise of our nation's fiscal system has always been, of course, reliptification and dehusticating, but in the absence of proper fedeglation, a dreaped fenata can occur almost without warning, throwing reminatusilage and gradofleximission into deep scintillious egrappocation, or if you prefer, a classic nopped fenata... [RTWT]

Via: Charles G. Hill, who warns, “After that, it starts to get complicated.”

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Clipfile - April 7, 2010

“...On the local news:  Upcoming run-off election for the position of mayor in a nearby village.  Bring your own pitchforks.” - leeann gets it

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“Scrabble Rabble” inflamed...

Frank Chalk, reporting:

All Police leave has been cancelled today amid fears that more planned marches by Scrabble fundamentalists could result in a repeat of the violent scenes from yesterday’s protests; where police came under a barrage of tiles as they attempted to prevent demonstrators converging on Trafalgar Square, many carrying placards and banners featuring ‘Mattel’ spelt with a small ‘m’ in order to show their opposition to any idealogical shift.... [more]

Elsewhere, voices are raised in protest:

We’re one step away from laying down LOLcatspeak for a triple word score!

Probably thought up by some twit named “Quentin.”  Bah.

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No Jane (you ignorant slut), it’s NO “myth”

Jane Fonda wonders why people just won’t moveon™:

...why it is that 300 people went to North Vietnam, people, many people before me, why me, why have they created this [“Hanoi Jane”] myth?  You know, when I came back from North Vietnam, there was maybe a quarter of an inch of media about it in the New York Times. Nobody made any big deal out of it...

It was created... by right wingers. ...people who are like stuck there, you know, they’re still stuck in the past.  I always want to say, “Get a life...”

Yes, I’m aware that Fonda has issued apologies (a couple of times).  And I imagine it’s likely that drug-induced gormlessness played a (big?) part in her decision to go to Hanoi.^[1]  But there’s a big difference between, “I was young, stoned, and stupid, doing stupid things, and now I’m sorry” and “I didn’t do any harm, and it’s all made up anyway.”




Elsewhere:

Via:  Og  (Thanks for ruining my morning, buddy!)
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Writer, blocked?

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The Forsythia Saga

In a corner of my front yard is a forsythia bush.  It’s been there for as long as I’ve had the house, and has never been a notable bloomer.  Some springs, all I get are a few yellow leaves, followed by the usual masses of green.

This year, I’d made up my mind: No more.  Come summer, I’d yank the old bush out and replace it with something else.  So of course I would walk out the door on Saturday morning to find:

The same bush, (with a bad sun angle) this afternoon:

One of the best displays it’s ever had (though it’s still not as impressive as one down the block):

So what to do?  Give it some TLC for another year, or ruthlessly yank it and start over?

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Meanwhile, the magnolias have made their appearance almost three weeks early, and are spectacular:

And the dandelions are already blooming, meaning it’s nearly too late for this year’s crabgrass treatment.  Seems as if everything blossomed at once!

Elsewhere:

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Glenn Reynolds tries making lemonade

The United States Code -- containing federal statutory law -- is more than 50,000 pages long and comprises 40 volumes.  The Code of Federal Regulations, which indexes administrative rules, is 161,117 pages long and composes 226 volumes.

No one on Earth understands them all, and the potential interaction among all the different rules would choke a supercomputer...

While we rightly fear a too-powerful government, this regulatory knowledge problem will ensure plenty of public stumbles and embarrassments, helping to remind people that those who seek to rule us really don’t know what they’re doing. - “Progressives can’t get past the Knowledge Problem,” Washington Examiner, April 4, 2010

Well, maybe.  A more than equally likely scenario is that of corrupt or offended bureaucrats making their targets’ lives miserable by hauling out, and enforcing, obscure or nonsensical regulations.

Thus we move from a government of (generally understood and accepted) laws to a government of (arbitrary and capricious) men.

Which doesn’t rule out “stumbles and embarrassments” a-plenty, although IMO governments that believe their legitimate functions include giving great-grandmothers criminal records for selling goldfish to underage purchasers, charging teenagers who IM nude pictures of themselves with distributing child pornography, or warping traffic laws to prey on the public are beyond embarrassment.

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Couple o’ holiday must-reads

Two for your coffee break:

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If they mean to have a war...?

“Gene” from Greenpeace India:

If you’re one of those who have spent their lives undermining progressive climate legislation, bankrolling junk science, fueling spurious debates around false solutions, and cattle-prodding democratically-elected governments into submission, then hear this:

We know who you are.  We know where you live.  We know where you work.

As do we.

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Oh my, lots of hey-he-didn’t-mean-it walking-back at the Greenpeace link, but IMO that’s only because they’re upset that the mask slipped.  The coerciveness of the varoius “progressive” movements is fundamental to their nature, and anyone who denies it is either a naïve fool or a fellow traveler.

(Via Small Dead Animals, via Instapundit)

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Gettin’ close...

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