I’ve tried calling Senator Lieberman’s office this morning, but I’m more likely to get through to Rush on Open Line Friday than I am to get through to his office.  Ditto Senator Dodd.  So I’m sending them both a polite e-mail demanding that they withhold their cloture votes unless Connecticut gets the same deal Nebraska got.

If enough states do that, then they either cave in and blow the budget up (although they can strip the Medicaid funds out later, which they’re certain to do to Nelson), or they can kill the deal with Nelson and lose his cloture vote.  Either way, this abomination goes down in flames and America wins.

I encourage you to write your senators today and let them know you won’t stand for just one state getting a free ride on Medicaid.  We’ll either get the bill killed, or force the federal government into receivership.  Either way, they won’t be able to bother us much any more.

I’d like to know just how many lives are being saved and at what cost with these ads warning people about seat belts and drunk driving – and their associated check points.

Specifically, I want to know the marginal cost to save one life versus the marginal cost in lost liberty from enduring East German-style checkpoints.

Because it’s gotta be way more than they intend to spend per person on this new health-care abortion.

Madness!

I hear things like this, and I want to have four or five kids and a 5,000 square foot house just to spite the eco-weenies.

update: And lit entirely with 150W incandescent light bulbs.

Look, if the girl involved had been 18 when Polanski did what he did, it would still be rape.

It’s not like he was falsely accused by a woman he never touched. It’s not like he was railroaded at trial by false testimony.

He drugged a girl. He said “let’s fuck”. She said “no”. He fucked her anyway. He got caught. He admitted to it. He pled guilty. He bolted.

I just don’t see what’s so confusing about this. This is nothing more than a case of “but he’s a tortured soul, let’s have pity on him. Have some compassion.”

And this is precisely what I mean when I say “Compassion is wasted on the weak and unworthy.”

Of course, he also said “everyone wants to fuck young girls” in an interview later on. Whether that’s true or not, here’s the crucial thing Roman: almost nobody else actually goes and fucks young girls, and we punish the ones who do.

The compassionate thing to do is for this dirty old fuck to rot in prison.

But the eighth anniversary of the worst attack on American soil?  Not a fucking thing.

So, I’m going to be using Bing and Ask from now on.  Google is dead to me.

But there’s one image.  One image that if I live a million years will still be seared in every detail in my mind.

This one:

My phone bill should be pretty simple. $77.49 a month for everything. It’s not.

Not including itemized calls, there’s one line of actual services. One line is some service credit. The last seven lines? Fees and taxes.

The bottom line just went up by $2.61 a month. $2.00 of that was actual service fee increase. The other $0.61? Surcharges and sales taxes. Something called the “Universal Service Fund”. And guess what? The state sales taxes go up too, because they are charging you sales tax ON TAXES AND FEES!

By the time you add up all the fees and taxes, they comprise more than 15% of the total check I write to the phone company.   And these fees go up every quarter.

For the greater good, no doubt.

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.

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.

Your mother does not work here.  Please clean up after yourself.