If I ever get around to designing one of those pretentious medieval-style family crests, ours will have bacon featured prominently in it somewhere. – Marko
Quote of the Day – Bacon Edition
May 8, 2009
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Quote of the Day – Bad Guys Edition
May 7, 2009I guess you only get to hear about it when the bad guys win. Makes you wonder just who the newsies were cheering for when they played cops-and-robbers as kids… – Tam
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Quote of the Day – Bad Company Edition
May 6, 2009“If Governor Doyle withdraws his support for: the oil franchise tax, the landfill tax, the income tax hike, the RTA taxes, the cigarette tax, the digital download tax, the 911 phone tax, and vetoes any increase in the gasoline tax or the sales taxes and cancels the new hospital tax and the new combined reporting tax and imposes no new tax of any kind between now and the next election, I will indeed vote for Governor Doyle for re-election.
“If he does not honor his commitment, I will not honor mine. If that makes me a liar, I will be in the company of the governor of the State of Wisconsin.” – Milwaukee Talk Radio host Mark Belling, regarding his statement that he would vote for Doyle if “Mine That Bell” won the Kentucky Derby.
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Quote of the Day – No Explanation Necessary Edition
May 5, 2009Here’s the thing about rights… we don’t have to explain it to the government when we choose to exercise them. I don’t have to justify my blathering on this blog and the overall societal value because I have a right to speak freely. I don’t have to explain it to my government when I assert my 5th amendment right against self-incrimination. I don’t have to justify my right to due process or to assemble in protest. And I don’t have to explain myself if I want to strap a sidearm to my hip and go about my business. It’s my RIGHT. – Owen, Boots & Sabers
Amen.
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This is what Massad Ayoob would call
May 5, 2009A “sudden and acute failure of the victim selection process.“
From a distance the large ship on the horizon looked like the perfect target, ripe for a successful spot of piracy.
But as Somali pirates sped toward the vessel sailing near the Seychelles Islands on Sunday, they were horrified to see two boats and a helicopter set off from their target and launch their own counter-attack.
They had failed to spot in the dazzling sun, that the “merchant ship” they thought they were intercepting was actually a French naval ship bristling with cannons, radar technology and armed commandos. – FOXNews
Oops.
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Quote of the Day – Too Much Trouble Edition
May 4, 2009Is it too much to ask that editorial writers spend five minutes researching an issue before blathering away about it in print?
That last question is rhetorical since it obviously is too much trouble. - Jeff Soyer
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Quote of the Day – Lesser of Two Evils Edition
May 3, 2009In politics, you don’t always get good choices. It’s not a game for people who prefer things to be black and white, and the choices to be easy. – Sebastian
That is the problem we too often run into in politics. I worked a lot of hours for McCain, who I am not really all that fond of, because he was the better choice. You can call it the lesser of two evils if you want, but the reality is that you are not going to find anyone you agree with completely. You are probably going to have something you need to hold your nose over when you pull that lever (or punch out that chad, or whatever.) The point is that in almost every election there is a candidate who, on the whole, represents your position better than the others. Sometimes that stinks, but that is the system we have. And it has worked pretty well overall.
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Quote of the Day – A Day Late Edition
May 2, 2009Today is May Day, the international Day of Labor, which all the little Communists celebrate by not going to the jobs they don’t have anyway. – Marko
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Quote of the Day – Will to Resist Edition
May 1, 2009The disarmament of a society can happen without taking away their tools of resistance, but by taking away the very will to resist in the first place.
If you give a pacifist a gun, you can still kill him with a baseball bat. He won’t shoot you, won’t raise his hands against you, won’t defend his own miserable life. He will stand there and die even though he has the very means to resist. – Robb
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