Applied Indifference

Excerpted from Instapundit:

Fair enough. Of course, Obama’s plan — and Big Government in general — is all about ensuring that we don’t have the right to decide how to spend our dollars but should instead let somebody else take them at gunpoint and decide how they’re spent.

This was his response to a post elsewhere about the Whole Foods CEO not supporting “the most important progressive cause of the moment.”

Glenn, you hit on the core of progressivism.  The idea that everyone’s money should be taken from them and given back in approved programs by benevolent government masters.

The mental defect that allows them to support such bullshit is simply that they believe that they will be the masters, and therefore exempt from having their money taken from them.

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Can someone tell me how we have “Global Warming” when the northeastern United States has been between 5 and 10 degrees below long-term average temperatures for the past six weeks?

Yesterday was July 13th, 2009. The recorded daytime high for central Connecticut was 78°F.  The daytime high for the same day last year was 86°F. (historical data are available from here.  No direct link as they update multiple times per day.)

The forecast high temperature for today in central Connecticut is 78°F.  In mid-July.

And the Congress has just passed the single largest tax in the history of civilization to (it is stated) stave off catastrophic global warming.

Someone needs to point out to these idiots in DC that it is not getting warmer anywhere around here.

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Read this editorial about “Judge” Sonia Sotomayor.  I put Judge in scare quotes because her opinions disqualify her from actually BEING a judge.

Given her position on racial differences, and her willingness to ignore certain facts based upon the petitioners before her, I would not trust her to be an umpire at a little league baseball game.

I wonder what our racist president could POSSIBLY have seen in her.

Actually, I don’t.

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Case study: Connecticut.  The Democrats have a veto-proof majority in both houses of the legislature.  We have a Republican governor however.  And there are defections among the Democratic ranks because of her threatened veto.

Democrats in the State Senate have approved a budget that will increase taxes in Connecticut by 2.5 billion dollars.  That’s a little over $700 for every man, woman and child in the state.  Of course, it’s only targeting the “rich”, so why should anyone care?

Simple.  When the taxes get too high on producers and employers, they vote with their feet.  Connecticut can ill afford further job losses in the private sector.  Why do I say private sector?  Because public sector jobs are parasitic by nature.  Public sector jobs are paid for exclusively through taxation, and therefore require a robust private sector for their funding.

And one of Connecticut’s problems is this – we have too many government employees.  State and local governments alone — not including people who live and work in Connecticut for the federal government — employ nearly a quarter of a million people.  That works out to about 6,450 government employees for every 100,000 residents of the state!  Compare with Massachusetts, which has about 50% more government employees, but nearly double the population — it works out to about 4,950/100,000.

Of course, the Democrats answer is always the same: government must not do with less.

So they will raise taxes, businesses and capital will flee, and the middle class will be left holding the bag.

All population and employment figures courtesy of the United States Census Bureau, figures all from 2007.

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Well, we are pretty much guaranteed that the Waxman-Markey Cap and Trade bill will pass the house tomorrow.  Republicans had no say in the bill, they weren’t allowed into the room during the debate.  No amendments were heard.  No dissent brooked.  And the Democrats haven’t read the bill.

They’ll pass it anyway.

They’ve even called it the largest tax increase in history.  They don’t even have to lie about it any more.

We cannot stop them.  The Republicans, even if they had the will, do not have the votes.  The Democrats are completely on board with this nonsense.  The bulk of them are true believers in “Global Climate Change”, and the ones who know it’s bunk are all for destroying industries that haven’t tithed them heavily enough.

Which is why you’ll notice that ethanol gets a pass and coal takes it up the ass.

We are all Chicagoans now.

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But liars figure.

Just got a robocall – an automated survey on “health care reform”.

First question – “Press one if you have insurance through your employer or your spouse’s employer. Press two if you are uninsured or on Medicare or Medicaid.”

I pressed 0 and it hung up on me.

But if you want to know where that stupid fucking “47 million uninsured” shit comes from, this is it. Lump all the Medicare and Medicaid in with uninsureds, and leave no option for self-insureds (even if I had an actual insurance policy, it would still not be “through” my employer, I’m self-employed).

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Argentine glacier says “What global warming?”

How many times does a “scientific” theory need to be falsified before the scientists go back to the drawing board?

It would appear that in the case of Anthropogenic Climate Change (the phenomenon formerly known as Global Warming™) that there is no amount of counter-evidence sufficient to require a review of the premises of the theory.

At this point, the warmists are just winging it and hoping that nobody notices.

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Not one, but TWO Police Checkpoints today.  Dodged one, there was no way to turn around legally to avoid the second.  Got another ticket to add to my burgeoning collection of Nolles.

First one, Southington, near the Plainville Border.  Second one, Windsor, just over the hill after you turn left off I-91.

The second one is where I got nailed.  I asked the cop “When did I get to the Soviet Union?”.  No response.  I noticed her shirt said “Manchester Police”, so I asked “Am I in Manchester?” – No, you’re in Windsor.

So now this state, which is hemmoraging cash like nobody’s business is taking cops from neighboring towns and putting them on the street to write tickets for $37 a pop to people who don’t wear seat belts.  I can’t see how it’s legal to have a Manchester cop write a ticket in Windsor for a “crime” that took place in Windsor, but that’s neither here nor there.

I wonder how pissed off they’d be if I mailed them a bill for my time?  I lost more sitting there waiting for them to write me a bullshit ticket for a violation of a law that doesn’t even have a right to exist than the dollar value of the ticket.

This shit has GOT to stop.  A line must be drawn.  And The State must be pushed back on to their side of that line.

UPDATE:  On the way home, there was another one.  The on-ramp to Route 9 off of Christian Lane in Berlin.  This is clearly a coordinated effort.

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Given the new rules of the game, I have to say that this cartoon by Lalo Alcaraz is an incitement to shoot Republicans.

Liberal means never having to be consistent.

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Involving ACORN in the census.  What could possibly go wrong?

h/t Instapundit.

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