Plaid Pundit: January 2011

January 30, 2011

THE ESTEEMED UNCLE JIMBO: DOES AMERICA STAND AGAINST TYRANNY?

GREAT read! Read it here.

GOVERNOR AWESOME DOING HIS THING.

Watch the video here. If it doesn't make you smile, you likely have some type of brain damage.

EGYPT REVOLUTION: TO BE CONTINUED...

January 27, 2011

GREASED: MARINES PLINKING BAD GUYS.

Via Weasel Zippers.

January 24, 2011

QUOTE: LAMESTREAM MEDIA

"The moral code, the moral compass of the state-controlled media is something to behold. Now, some of you may not know the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize winner hosted a state dinner last night (January 19) for Hu Jintao of China. Hu Jintao is holding the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize winner in prison in China. Not making it up. The 2009 Nobel Peace Prize winner hosted a dinner for the guy holding the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize winner in prison, and the media does not get the irony of this at all. They're too busy running around chasing Sarah Palin and radio talk show hosts over 'civility."'

~Rush Limbaugh

Via Carpe Diem

STUPID IS AS STUPID DOES... AND HAS ABSOLUTELY NO CLUE.

And yes, that is a cigarette.
Read more here on a lesson in negative externalities...and how selectively people choose them.

January 23, 2011

>>FLASH>> KEITH OLBERMANN HIRED BY FOXNEWS.

Heehee!

Hat tip: Weasel Zippers

The Greatest Song EvAH !

January 21, 2011

THE STATE OF U.S. MANUFACTURING.

We still make a lot of stuff.

- Via Carpe Diem

January 19, 2011

CHANGING THE CHANGE: REPEALING OBAMACARE

Making it happen!

January 18, 2011

OH MY: MAGICIAN SCREWS UP

January 16, 2011

MUST READ: HARVEY C. MANSFIELD INTERVIEW

Author of Manliness gives an excellent interview on his takes on conservatives, liberals, progressives, gay marriage, and more.

What is Conservatism for? - Read the interview here.

January 9, 2011

ARIZONA GUNMAN SELECTS WRONG POLITICAL PARTY EVENT FOR SUICIDE.

Could the very sad and unfortunate event in AZ been avoided, or at least minimized by a friendly, gun-toting constituency ? Of course! A 2nd Amendment, pro-gun, conservative crowd would have undoubtedly drawn arms and killed Arizona gunman immediately. Instead, a gun-free crowd of Democrats sadly, are again victims of their own policy/ideology... gunman continues killing and maiming innocent people. Fortunately, the gunman was tackled by two bystanders...Tackeled, not shot! Pansies!

Unfortunately, an unarmed, passive, feel good, utopian group of people prevented a perfectly legitimate suicide from occurring. Now, they will feel good paying for his life long therapy in prison.

"The pansy left"
-George Orwell

January 8, 2011

CHEERS TO WATTS UP WITH THAT !

If you are not reading Watts Up With That for climate/ environmental news...you'd better begin now!

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January 3, 2011

"BROKEN WINDOW" THEORY

January 1, 2011

STUPID IS AS STUPID HAS DONE: DEMOCRATS DEIFY THE GAFFETASTIC JOE BIDEN

Democrats have learned nothing.

THE TROUBLE TREE

I'm on a tree theme here I guess; this is a story I've been familiar with for a long time...and seems really appropriate for the first day of the new year...I've never forgotten it.

The carpenter I hired to help me restore an old farmhouse had just finished a rough first day on the job. A flat tire made him lose an hour of work, his electric saw quit, and then his old pickup truck refused to start.

While I drove him home, he sat in stony silence. On arriving, he invited me in to meet his family. As we walked toward the front door, he paused briefly at a small tree, touching the tips of the branches with both hands. When opening the door he underwent an amazing transformation. His tanned face was wreathed in smiles and he hugged his two small children and gave his wife a kiss.

Afterward, he walked me to the car. We passed the tree and my curiosity got the better of me. I asked him about what I had seen him do earlier.

"Oh, that's my trouble tree," he replied. "I know I can't help having troubles on the job, but one thing is for sure, troubles don't belong in the house with my wife and children. So I just hang them up on the tree every night when I come home. Then in the morning I pick them up again."

"The funny thing is," he smiled, "when I come out in the morning to pick them up, there aren't nearly as many as I remember hanging up the night before."

Everybody needs a trouble tree...

THE TREE TEST

Take it here.

HAPPY NEW YEAR !

Auld Lang What ?

Favorite Quotations

n his 1981 encyclical "On Human Work," John Paul II wrote, quote, "Human work is a key -- probably the essential key -- to the whole social question. Work is a fundamental dimension of man's existence on Earth. Work is a good thing for man, a good thing for his humanity because through work he achieves fulfillment as a human being." - Pope John Paul II As the great economist Ludwig von Mises wrote, "What makes friendly relations between human beings possible is the higher productivity of the division of labor. . . . A preeminent common interest, the preservation and further intensification of social cooperation, becomes paramount and obliterates all essential collisions." This facile attribution of climate change to human agency is an act of hubris. Good stewardship of the environment is an ethical imperative for every nation. But breast-beating hysteria merely betrays impious tunnel vision. Thousands of factors, minute and grand, are at work in cyclic climate change, whose long-term outcomes we cannot possibly predict. Nature should inspire us with awe, not pity. - Camille Paglia on global warming alarmism “Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.” --- Philospher Confucius (551 BC-479 BC) In the arena of human life the honours and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities. Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics (4th c. BC) Greek critic, philosopher, physicist, & zoologist (384 BC - 322 BC) Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them. -Saint Thomas Aquinas Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them. Aristotle It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. Aristotle Greek critic, philosopher, physicist, & zoologist (384 BC - 322 BC) Nature does nothing uselessly. Aristotle, Politics Greek critic, philosopher, physicist, & zoologist (384 BC - 322 BC) I have no expectations of making a hit every time I come to bat. What I seek is the highest possible batting average. - FDR 1933 “A little less complaint and whining, and a little more dogged work and manly striving, would do us more credit than a thousand civil rights bills.” --- Writer W. E. B. Du Bois (1868-1963) “Capitalism knows only one color: that color is green; all else is necessarily subservient to it, hence, race, gender and ethnicity cannot be considered within it.” --- Thomas Sowell A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song. — Chinese Proverb Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality, the costs become prohibitive. — William F. Buckley, Jr. “Back in the thirties we were told we must collectivize the nation because the people were so poor. Now we are told we must collectivize the nation because the people are so rich.” - William F. Buckley, Jr. “I get satisfaction of three kinds. One is creating something, one is being paid for it and one is the feeling that I haven't just been sitting on my ass all afternoon.” -William F. Buckley, Jr. “I profoundly believe it takes a lot of practice to become a moral slob.” -William F. Buckley, Jr. “I'd rather entrust the government of the United States to the first 400 people listed in the Boston telephone directory than to the faculty of Harvard University.” -William F. Buckley, Jr. “Truth is a demure lady, much too ladylike to knock you on your head and drag you to her cave. She is there, but people must want her, and seek her out.” -William F. Buckley, Jr. “Does baloney fear the grinder?” -William F. Buckley, Jr.

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