Venezuelan Rubber Bullets

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Feb 112014
 

If you’ve ever thought to yourself, “Gee, I wonder what it looks like when someone takes a full load of rubber pellets fired from a 12 gauge shotgun,” the Venezuelan police are here to answer your request. Due to years of glitteringly successful economic policy, the nation of Venezuela appears – at least according to social media, if not major media – to be in a bit of an uproar. I can only assume that the people are demanding even more policies that result in things like toilet paper being unavailable. But hey, they’ve figured out a fantastic way to deal with “freedom of the press:” just get rid of paper and ink.

I would say that the photos here are NSFW, but hey… print ’em off on the company computer, tack ’em up on the board and say “THIS is what happens when you elect collectivists. THIS is what happens when your government declares that policies that result in people losing their jobs is a good thing, as it frees ’em up. THIS is what happens when a government takes over a large chunk of the economy.”

¡INDIGNANTE! Estas son las imágenes que Maduro no quiere que veas sobre la agresión a estudiantes

 Posted by at 3:25 pm

The children are the future

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Jan 132014
 

Once again, New York leads the way:

No books, no clue at city’s worst school

It’s quite a litany of edumacational incompetence. But hey… at least the principal – who barely shows up, but when she does she does so in a BMW with a cliched fur coat – is pulling down a paltry $128,207/year salary.

 Posted by at 7:03 pm

Yay, expanding “death taxes” to cover Obamacare

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Dec 252013
 

One of the effects of Obamacare is expansion of medicaid to people of somewhat higher income than previous. It was *supposed* to provide health care for the desperately poor; now it covers up to 138% of the poverty level. Still poor, but perhaps well enough off that even though your income sucks, you might have accumulated some property… a car, a house, a million Hummel figurines, whatever. Normally you might expect to pass these on to your heirs. Ooops! Not anymore!

Washington state, for example, has had an asset “recovery” system in place to bill dead people of the cost of the Medicaid they’d consumed. But up till now, the income standard was so low that only the truly poor would have been on Medicaid, so they wouldn’t have anything for the state to seize. now, though, there’ll be people with stuff actually worth taking.

Is this wrong? Not really… if you consume a product or service, you really should pay for it, and being dead does not absolve you of your bills. For anything else in life, if you’ve racked up a stack of bills and then keel over, your creditors can dip into your estate. What’s new here is that there just might be a whole lot of folk who are not only mourning dear Granny’s departure, but coming to find out that the few trinkets and doodads she had left for ’em in her will now belong to the state.

“If you like your inheritance, you can keep it.”

Expanded Medicaid’s fine print holds surprise: ‘payback’ from estate after death

The article says that the Washington state legislators are scrambling to “fix” this. But it also suggests that this is an unintended consequence. Riiiiight.

 Posted by at 9:37 pm

Success!

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Dec 242013
 

Sandwich Shop Cans Workers Days Before Christmas

A sandwich shop claims that their business is bad, and they are closing down to turn themselves into a burger joint. And they can all their employees, just days before Christmas. Boo! Bad scrooges!

But…

Earlier this month the self-same employees went on strike demanding fifteen bucks an hours (remember, their job is to put slices of stuff on other slices of stuff). This shut the place down for four days. Good job, folks. You have jobs that can be done by entirely skill-free kids, and soon enough by sub-Cylon robots, and you want to double your wages? And to do that you’re willing to drive away what customers the place had? Yeah, good luck with that.

 Posted by at 12:47 pm

“Microaggression”

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Dec 202013
 

The latest trend in gormless chickenshittery being foisted upon western civilization is ulcerating over – and attempting to bully people into “correcting” – the supposed problem of “microaggression.” You know… not when someone walks past you on the street and suckerpunches you dead in the face, or steals your identity and destroys your life: no, it’s when someone doesn’t refer to you by your chosen pseudo-gender pronoun, or assumes that just because you’ve lived your whole life in the US that you understand English and have some understanding of American culture.

Read up on this dire threat to mankind here:

Unmasking The Mustachioed Menace Of Microaggression

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Now: with that out of the way, I shall now endeavor to engage in some blatant microaggression (or perhaps milliaggression). This is based on the latest bit of odd propaganda to come out promoting Obamacare Zealotry posted to Obamas Twitter account:

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That’s just… ummm… Sorry, dude, but I can’t respect a grown man dressed in a one-piece childs pajama outfit, focused on driving his family nuts by yapping incessantly about how wonderful Dear Leaders policies are, wearing that look of insufferable smugness.

There is, fortunately, a wide field of mockery. Because Internet:

The Dozen Funniest Variations of Obama’s Pajama Boy Propaganda

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Here’s the thing: The world is *full* to overflowing with instances of “microaggression.” You have two chocies before you: you can stamp your feet and demand that the entire universe conform to *your* worldview, politics, opinions, behaviors and even grammar and diction… or you could, oh, let’s say, MAN THE HELL UP.

Anyone who sees themselves in Pajama Boy and agrees with the yammering yahoos on the importance of eliminating “microaggression”… you need a good solid dose of insensitivity training. You’ll be stronger and happier for it.

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And unless you were thinking that Pajama Boy is just some poor schlub whose stock photo was used in a bizarre Tweet to prop up Obamacare… turns out he’s an employee for “Organizing for Action,” the successor group to the Obama election organization.

 

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 Posted by at 11:25 am

Color Me Stunned

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Dec 142013
 

So, there was yet another school shooting Friday, this time in Arapahoe, Colorado. The only person killed this time was the shooter himself (one 18-year-old Karl Halverson Pierson… it seems criminal nuts always have to have all three names mentioned), though two students were injured. And it turns out that this time, the shooter *was* heavily opinionated on matters of politics.

We’ve become accustomed in the past several years to understand that whenever someone does somethign horrifying, the chattering classes will leap to blaming Republicans, Tea Partiers, Conservatives, right wingers, Glenn  Beck listeners, Sarah Palin fans. It’s their go-to position. And in virtually every case, it turns out that the nut is either apolitical, or leans left. Well, how about in this case? Where did Pierson stand? Fortunately, some research has already been done to find out just what kind of horrific Tea Party Wingnut he was:

Arapahoe High gunman held strong political beliefs, classmates said

In one Facebook post, Pierson attacks the philosophies of economist Adam Smith, who through his invisible-hand theory pushed the notion that the free market was self-regulating. In another post, he describes himself as “Keynesian.”

“I was wondering to all the neoclassicals and neoliberals, why isn’t the market correcting itself?” he wrote. “If the invisible hand is so strong, shouldn’t it be able to overpower regulations?”

Pierson also appears to mock Republicans on another Facebook post, writing “you republicans are so cute” and posting an image that reads: “The Republican Party: Health Care: Let ’em Die, Climate Change: Let ’em Die, Gun Violence: Let ’em Die, Women’s Rights: Let ’em Die, More War: Let ’em Die. Is this really the side you want to be on?”

Interestingly, the Denver Post article has been edited from its original version. Original, a classmate is quoted as describing the nut as a “very opinionated Socialist,” and now it simply says that he was “very opinionated.” Odd, that.

 Posted by at 10:44 pm

Obama was supposed to have been deported

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Dec 052013
 

Todays best Fark headline:

White House spokesman: Of course the President never met his drunk driving illegal alien uncle. President: Except when we lived together. Spokesman: Except when they lived together

Way to keep those stories straight, guys.

In case you weren’t aware, Onyango Obama, uncle of one “Barack,” is an illegal immigrant from Kenya who has been in the US since the 1970’s, and was ordered deported several times and  stopped for drunk driving.

 Posted by at 5:26 pm
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