History Repeats

QUESTION: What have we learned in 2,065 years?

"The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed lest Rome become bankrupt. People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance."
- Cicero - 55 BC

ANSWER: So, evidently nothing.

Valet Abuse

I don't worry about such valet shenanigans; I don't hand my keys over to strangers.

YouTube Video Shows Valets Abusing Hotel Guests' Cars

Back at ya AB

My friend ApathyBoy tends to be on the other side of the political isle from me.
That doesn't mean he doesn't hold a jaded eye toward politicians.

Where we tend to digress is that I don't think anyone could be that incompetent. To survive in politics takes a bit of savvy smarts crazy as a fox or very very good handlers.

Sure, they might have the best of intentions when they start... but take a look at the current middle of the night back room dealing and sellouts that have taken place to ram ObamaNationCare down our throats.

Franklin was right; a republic, IF you can keep it. (Our grades in that are falling dramatically.)

Happy New Year!!!

Merry Christmas

Mistress Diversity

The Rev. Al Sharpton held a press conference today to blast Tiger Woods for the lack of diversity among his mistresses. Sharpton claims that the lack of African-American women among Woods’ harem will have a negative affect on the black community, specifically young black girls.

“Why is it that a man who calls himself black can’t bring himself to cheat on his wife with a black woman?” said Sharpton, speaking to a group of supporters in Harlem. “What does it say to young black girls everywhere when you pass them over? Shame on you, Tiger Woods. What would your daddy say?”

Sharpton, who has long championed taking black women as mistresses, said that today’s black athletes need to stop neglecting black women when it comes to extramarital affairs, and should follow the examples of positive black role models such as Jesse Jackson and Martin Luther King, Jr., both of whom cheated on their wives with black women. Sharpton also stressed that cheating with African-American women would help the black community financially by giving black girls the chance to sell their stories to tabloids and gossip magazines.

Added Sharpton, “I’m not asking you to not cheat on your wives, I’m just asking you to give back to your own community.”

Calm

I really can't stand the volume increase for commercials.

I don't know if this is the answer, but I certainly like the message.

Rep. Anna Eshoo (D-Calif.) is no longer alone her quest to bring down the volume of loud TV commercials. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) has joined in the crusade to keep ads from blasting us out of our living rooms every 10 minutes.

The bills--both called the Commercial Advertisement Loudness Mitigation (or CALM) Act--are crowd pleasers. Eshoo has 62 co-sponsors. The bill easily passed the House Subcommittee on Communications, Technology and the Internet in October and then by the full Commerce Committee last month. The bill is expected to hit the House floor today.

Just watch out for them to try to tack on ObamaNationalizedCare and Cap&Tax as amendments.