Quote of the Day – Green Edition

June 30, 2009

For those of you all high and mighty on “green living”, shut the f— up. Buying compact fluorescents that require EPA instructions and a hazmat suit to clean up when broken, driving a Prius that polluted enough water to kill a coral reef in making its frame and batteries and sticking your cardboard into a plastic bin that uses more oil to produce than you will ever save driving said previous electric tinkertoy does not make you a guilt-free, environmentally aware, eco-sustainable, planet-saving citizen.

It makes you a hippie. And a particularly stupid one at that. – Armed Canadian

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Quote of the Day – Illusion Edition

June 28, 2009

…it’s really not good for one’s mental health to try and walk through life attempting to be an optical illusion. – Breda

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Quote of the Day – Prepare to Duck Edition

June 27, 2009

On an unrelated subject, for the next person who suggests that universal healthcare is a wonderful idea, ask them how good Medicare/Medicaid would be if it was 7 times larger than it is today in terms of cost and inefficiency? For a really fun response, ask a member of the AARP that question and then be prepared to duck. – Armed Canadian

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Quote of the Day – Titles Edition

June 26, 2009

How would George Washington — a man who actually turned down the presidential salary and preferred being called “Mr. President” over other ‘too majestic’ sounding titles — react if he could see the current state of American politics, exemplified by what Senator Boxer did last week? At a recent hearing, Boxer had the gall to scold a Brigadier General for not referring to her as ‘Senator.’ She said ‘I’ve worked so hard to get this title’. Excuse me, Babs? You are a socialist who won an election in California – most wouldn’t call that ‘hard’. Maybe you should worry a little more about the country (and YOUR state) going broke – and worry a little less about your fancy title? Besides, with the 29% approval rating Congress is sporting, I wouldn’t be bragging about that title I’d be hiding it. – Glenn Beck

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How small a person do you have to be…

June 26, 2009

To be in this conversation?

Brig. Gen. Michael Walsh, with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, was testifying on the Louisiana coastal restoration process in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. He began to answer one of Boxer’s questions with “ma’am” when Boxer immediately cut him off.

“You know, do me a favor,” an irritated Boxer said. “Could say ‘senator’ instead of ‘ma’am?’”

“Yes, ma’am,” Walsh interjected.

“It’s just a thing, I worked so hard to get that title, so I’d appreciate it, yes, thank you,” she said.

“Yes, senator,” he responded.

Senator, if you really need your ego stroked that badly, we don’t need you in Washington. Yes, we know you are a senator, and I could probably understand if he was addressing you by your first name or something, but he was showing an appropriate level of respect for your position already. Your comments are more appropriate for a monarchy than a Republic.

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Quote of the Day – Parenting Edition

June 25, 2009

You cannot wrap the world in Nerf and your children in bubblewrap. There simply is no way to make your little darlings perfectly safe. Sure, you get rid of the guns. Then you have a home invasion. Or your child can drown in a bathtub. Or die by eating household chemicals. etc. The trick to this parenting thing is, uhm, being a parent and no amount bubblewrap can make up for using your brain. – SayUncle

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Quote of the Day – Pet Peeve Edition

June 24, 2009

From Jay G’s pet peeves:

The super-tacticool dude who has all the latest gadgets, attends all the courses, extolls the latest training techniques, etc. – and is morbidly obese and sweats while brushing his teeth. Look, your odds of dropping dead from a massive coronary are several orders of magnitude greater than your odds of getting into a gunfight. The best thing you can do to improve your odds of surviving is to put down the tactical Twinkie…

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Quote of the Day – Ideological Rigidity Edition

June 23, 2009

None of that was sufficient evidence for Obama, in part because anything associated with Bush’s freedom agenda was deemed absurd and ideologically rigid.

Well, Bush is gone. Obama has extended his hand. And the regime is supplying fresh evidence of the absurdity of his approach. All that’s left for Obama now is to abandon his own ideological rigidity and start over. – Jonah Goldberg

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Quote of the Day – Contradictory Edition

June 22, 2009

Look, sport, I know you’re doing your best to slip Barry some tongue here, but it strains the credulousness of even the simplest among us when you say things like “the recession is easing” and “but you’re all broke, out of work, and prices are rising” in the same breath. This must be some new definition of the word “easing” that I’m not familiar with. – Tam

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Quote of the Day – Use-proof Edition

June 21, 2009

Now, we here at The LawDog Files kind of consider a “stab-proof knife” to be somewhat analogous to a “ride-proof bike”, a “drive-proof car”, a “swim-proof pool”, or a “swing-proof hammer” – LawDog

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