Sunday Pre-Church Funny
I know you laughed, go to confession.
No, I don’t care if you are not Catholic.
Dear GQ: You are trolling the poor guy, aren’t you?
So GQ made Unemployed Quarterback Because He Sucks its “Citizen of the Year. My question to the editors is:
Why is he dressed like a heroin pusher from 42nd Street in NY back in the late 70s & early 80s?
This was the same get up I saw street-level dealers wear back in NYC when I went in 1981.
If somebody were to be a bit of an asshole, it can be argued that the editors of GQ engaged in a bit of Blaxploitation to get numbers and clicks going.
Once again it is the White Man abusing the Black Brothers to cash in! 😀
Groundhog Election Day
The 2017 Alabana Senate election between Doug Jones and Roy Moore feels like the 2016 a presidential election all over again.
I have to choose between a “give everything to everyone but the people who pay a shit load of taxes” Democrat and a crazy, sex offending Republican.
Why oh why Lord are you doing this to me again?
Is this punishment for not participating in last year’s horns of a dilemma?
The election is a month away.
Can you please send me a sign of who I should vote for?
You could smite the unworthy one, which probably means both (which by the way is alright with me).
This is intolerable.
Hugs and Guns
My wife is preparing for impending new baby by reading mommy blogs.
Of course she gets to La Leche League or as I call them “tit Nazis.” They are the “if you don’t breast feed you are a horrible mom who is poisoning your child and will turn them into a serial killer because they won’t feel loved” cult
So my wife finds a rebuttal to the tit Nazis in the form of an Adam Ruins Everything video.
I watched it. I am fast forwarding to the relevant part.
HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!!!!
Nuerochemically, giving a hug and shooting a gun do the same thing.
Taking my children to the range with a 1911 and a case of 45 is tantamount to breast feeding them.
No wonder I have so many good memories of going shooting with my dad.
Take that you “guns are bad” milquetoast pantywaists, I am having the ultimate in bonding experiences with my children.
Of Liberal Bias and Economics
While working on another post using a video from the TV show Adam Ruins Everything, I got trapped in the cycle of watching YouTube video after YouTube video.
I was a huge fan the Showtime show Penn & Teller: Bullshit!
It was great, with Penn & Teller kicking sacred cows giving you the truth.
Adam Ruins Everything is that show for millennials. The difference is, where Penn Jillette is a Libertarian, Adam Conover is a Liberal.
Occasionally Conover gets somethings right, like why trophy hunting protects animals, making the point that if an animal has some economic value, people will protect it. More often than not, his economics lead the viewer to big goverment Liberal conclusions.
He did an episode on college tuition and why it is so high. He goes into when Sally Mae became a for profit enterprise.
He did the same thing with hospital billing and healthcare, going to the issue of profitability in insurance and hospitals.
Watching this, you would come to conclusion that profit is bad, corporations are evil, and college and healthcare should be free.
Except, economics show you that the profit incentive leads to efficiency and development, with higher quality and lower prices.
When I was a kid in the 80’s a cell phone was a brick that cost more than the Mercedes it was plugged into. I got my first cell phone in college. Now 92% of Americans have cell phones or smart phones. They are better, cheaper, and more available to all, and all driven by profit.
The economic point that Adam jumps over is that in college and healthcare, the consumer is disconnected from the pricing. Every study shows that the reason tuition has gone up at the rate it has is because of the availability of loans. Students have access to unlimited loans and so colleges can charge whatever they want. Considering that studies say that 60% of jobs will REQUIRE a college degree by 2020 it fuels a system where kids have to get loans to pay huge prices to have any hope for an employable future.
The best way to cut the cost of college is to end the subsidized loan system and allow students to get out of loans by declaring bankruptcy (thereby reducing the number of private loans by making them riskier). Without access to loans, college tuition will have to be competitive on the market and prices will drop. Right now it is a cartel enabled by the goverment.
Healthcare is the same. Consumers have NO IDEA what the prices they pay are because insurance is a terrible middleman. Pull insurance and the enabling regulations out and the cartel crumbles.
The problem here isn’t the free market, it is that the free market doesn’t exist here.
When consumers are not directly involved in consumption, buying by competitive evaluation of quality and price the system goes out of whack.
When you don’t explain THAT, the obvious solution for millennials is government price fixing, which always fails.
This is the Liberal bias of the show,
Also, he hates the Suburbs.
Yeah, I get it, there is a history of racism. So what? What do we do now? I’m not moving into a tiny apartment in a city, and we saw what giving loans to people who couldn’t afford them got us – the housing bubble and sub-prime mortgage crisis.
If all you are going to do is tell me my house and lifestyle are racist even if I’ve never engaged in discrimination and don’t propose a solution, you can cram your entire argument up your ass sideways. I don’t need to hear how I should feel guilty about how I live with no way to make anything better for anyone else.
What were you expecting?
It seems there are grumbles within the Republican party about their chances to keep the Senate and/or The House a year from now. All of the sudden they figured out they are not as strong as they were and seem to be lost as the why.
I can tell you without breaking a sweat: You are behaving like Democrats.
Why should we vote for Democrats just because you happen to dress with the “Republican” tag? I don’t vote for the readily identified ones, sure as hell ain’t going to vote for you.
And I think some states like Florida are gonna go full Blue at State level if Gun Owners are not taken care of. I am not the only one who plans not to vote Republican across the board, even if his State Rep had nothing to do with Gun Bills. It is a slap across the general ass of the Florida GOP to see if they get their shit in gear… but they won’t.
150,000 Puerto Ricans escaping from the island are now living in Florida and they will vote for whomever gives them the most free shit. There is the weak hope that they do not like the Sunshine State because they will clash with the Cuban and Haitian populations and possibly move to NewYorico. Then again, maybe not.
I kinda figure the next 20 years in Florida will be solidly Blue. with all the shit that comes with it. Miami Dade will be the Chicago of the South.
And no, I won’t be here.