Self-composed

This girl is a piece of work

Daughter Who Surprised Mom With Birthday Visit Sues Parents.

She goes to her parents house a couple years ago to throw her mother a birthday party. Next day she slips in the driveway and breaks her ankle. (Who wants to bet this girl is so fat she leaves a ring on the outside of the bathtub?) Now she's filed a lawsuit against her parents for $75,000. She's even using a letter her mother wrote with an apology about her fall as proof they're culpable.

I think her parents should file a counter-suit. Her mother's pain and suffering during pregnancy and childbirth, 18 years of lost wages and/or baby sitting expenses, the cost of feeding, clothing, and sheltering the little brat, and throw in some more for all the mental anguish this wretched little shit has undoubtably caused her parents throughout her miserable regretable life.

Pro-Israel Rally In Chicago

Power Line has some coverage and pics of a Pro-Israel Rally In Chicago.

More photos here.

Nice to see so many come out in support of our ally.  They did it right.  No violence.  Just support.  Of course, there had to be some moonbats leeching attention accross the street.  Compare the sizes of the two crowds.

Lost the moral high ground?

Howard Dean is saying the US has lost the moral high ground by going to Iraq.  Aren't liberals supposed to think morality is relative? Or something like that?  Anyway, Jeff at proteinwisdom.com sums it up really well:

Ah, how I do so love DNC calculus.  To wit:  freeing 50 million people from totalitarian regimes and spreading democracy = loss of moral high ground; pandering for international “respect” from those who took money from Saddam in exchange for blocking the way for the destruction of his regime = moral high ground.

Dean also fantasizes about an alternate utopian universe where Democrats would have prevented conflict between Israel and the terrorists by working on it day after day. 

If you think what’s going on in the Middle East today would be going on if the Democrats were in control, it wouldn’t, because we would have worked day after day after day to make sure we didn’t get where we are today.

That's OK Howie, here in the real world, Israel is now working on it day after day after day to make sure it won't happen again.  In the following breath, Dean lets of with:

We would have had the moral authority that Bill Clinton had when he brought together the Northern Irish and the IRA, when he brought together the Israelis and the Palestinians.”

If President Clinton did such a bang-up job bringing Israel and the Arabs together, why would you have needed to work on it day after day after day after day for the last six years? 

Did I miss a tax hike or something?

According to the liberal articles of faith, we are in big trouble because our deficit is growing, and all these "tax cuts for the rich" are just making the problem worse.  But despite our "war for oil" in Iraq,  the deficit is shrinking and tax collections are increasing.  Did I miss something?  Or are liberals just wrong as usual?

The federal deficit appears on track to register less than $300 billion for the budget year ending Sept. 30, as surging tax revenues continue to signal significant improvement over White House estimates released in February - though only modest gains over last year.

The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, which makes estimates for lawmakers, said Friday that the deficit for the first three quarters of fiscal 2006 came in $41 billion less than the red ink recorded for the same period in 2005.
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Indeed, tax collections are surging at a 13 percent growth rate, reflecting particularly strong growth in taxes paid on corporate profits and income taxes paid by wealthier people and small businessmen who pay taxes quarterly instead of having them withheld by employers.

Google is a verb, I'm a Mouse Potato

A bunch of new words were added to the dictionary.  I just found out I'm a mouse potato.  I've evolved from my former status of couch potato when I used to waste my time in front of the TV rather than the PC as "mouse potatos" do.

For those who were on the edge of their seat, unibrow, soulpatch, and supersize were also added.  Anyone heard the term "himbo?"  That was added too - you can find out what it means in the new dictionary when its released.  Or read the link.

Link: Mouse potatoes, himbos and googling go mainstream - Yahoo! News.

Higher Speed Limits, Safer Roads

It's the people who don't drive with the flow of traffic that cause accidents.  If speed was ultimate factor in vehicle deaths, no one would survive the Indy 500. The main factor in traffic safety is driving skill which incompasses common sense, knowing your limits, the limits of the road, your vehicle, road conditions, etc.  Competant drivers know how fast they should drive.   

Link: Safe at Any Speed.

We now have 10 years of evidence proving that the only "assault" was on the sanctity of the truth. The nearby table shows that the death, injury and crash rates have fallen sharply since 1995. Per mile traveled, there were about 5,000 fewer deaths and almost one million fewer injuries in 2005 than in the mid-1990s. This is all the more remarkable given that a dozen years ago Americans lacked today's distraction of driving while also talking on their cell phones.

Of the 31 states that have raised their speed limits to more than 70 mph, 29 saw a decline in the death and injury rate and only two--the Dakotas--have seen fatalities increase. Two studies, by the National Motorists Association and by the Cato Institute, have compared crash data in states that raised their speed limits with those that didn't and found no increase in deaths in the higher speed states.

Jim Baxter, president of the National Motorists Association, says that by the early 1990s "compliance with the 55 mph law was only about 5%--in other words, about 95% of drivers were exceeding the speed limit." Now motorists can coast at these faster speeds without being on the constant lookout for radar guns, speed traps and state troopers. Americans have also arrived at their destinations sooner, worth an estimated $30 billion a year in time saved, according to the Cato study.

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Just after posting that, I run smack-dab into another story that reinforces my point.  A confused old man plowing into a crowd of people, injuring 27, at the ghastly speed of 15 MPH.

Biden, Indians, Seven-Elevens

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Another case of a liberal being stupid and getting a pass.

"In Delaware, the largest growth in population is Indian Americans, moving from India. You cannot go to a 7/11 or a Dunkin Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent. I'm not joking."

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Malkin doesn't think its that big a deal PC-wise, but notes the hypocrisy.

Editorial: Where are ‘Star Wars’ critics now? - Examiner.com

Link: Editorial: Where are ‘Star Wars’ critics now? - Examiner.com.

As they debate and discuss various options at the United Nations and in capitals around the globe, the rudimentary U.S. missile defense system is poised to shoot down anything launched from North Korea that threatens the American homeland or the critical interests of our regional allies like Japan and Australia.

Noticeably absent are the voices of those who, since President Reagan first proposed such a system in 1984, have fought development and deployment of the missile defense system the U.S. must now depend upon in dealing with North Korea. These folks have claimed over and over that the system they derisively call “Star Wars” can’t possibly work, would be too expensive, would incite a new world arms race, etc., etc. Names that come to mind in this regard include senators like Joe Biden, D-Del., Jack Reed, D-R.I., Robert Byrd, D-W.Va., Ted Kennedy, D-Mass., and Carl Levin, D-Mich., and the Clinton-Gore administration that delayed and dilly-dallied with work on missile defense for most of the ’90s.

Typical.