National Shitty Bank

Oh boy, the bank that has my poor pathetic IRA rollover CD just lost 30% of its share price.

Jihad Cindy will fix it

Wow, there’s somebody who is even worse on the debt crisis than Barney the Pink Dinosaur (D-MA) is.

Commie kept off ballot in MS

In a phone conversation, Brian Moore explained that the office had told his paperwork deliverer that they would hold the doors open, and that the deliverer got there at 5:01 with people still there, but was not let in. The law in question specifies that the paperwork has to be delivered on that day, but does not specify a time of day.

OK, as I said re the Barr case, it’s not in the citizen’s interests to keep people off the ballots over technicalities. That being said, why was the paperwork being submitted at the last minute? And why did Moore believe a government worker’s promise? Oh, that’s right, he’s a socialist.

Another Friday funny

…in case the last post didn’t do it for you:

If the bailout bill allows executive pay-caps and government ownership warrants for all buying or selling institutions, I must withdraw my support for the bill…

It would go beyond France into pure socialism. It would represent a huge first step into government interference everywhere.

Because of the pay caps? When the whole deal (and the deal that got us here) is pure socialism? Oh, come on!

Shall we burn the bankers at the stake and use Congress as tinder? Or shall we burn Congress at the stake and use bankers as tinder? Decisions, decisions…

Tip o’hat to Vox Day.

“Do you commute”?!

Apparently a working knowledge of elementary American geography is not a prerequisite for a job with theIRS. From me old net-bud Andee:

The letter today was to tell me the IRS was taking my money… we just went through this, the IRS and I agreed I cannot afford to pay them the blood money they conjured up as past due on filings that happened 8 years ago, filings they accepted and them audited and disallowed everything on 8 years after the fact….

Soooo, since I felt like crap after working a 12 hour night shift, I called them. …

I waited on hold for 27 minutes, and was finally greeted by a lovely woman who wanted to help me sort out the reason for this latest money grab.
:SIMPLE says she, my situation changed and I can afford to pay them now.
-Umm, I asked how my hours going down and my cost of living rising places me in a better position to pay them anything?

So we go over my financial info, money in, money out… blah,blah,blah for almost an hour and then she says….
: BUT Your new job pays quite well…
- I would think if I had a new job I would be the first to know about it, so what new job?
: The one in Texas… that pays you $3785/month
- Umm, I live in Portland Oregon not in Texas
Silence
:So you commute?
It took me a full 5 minutes to stop laughing/coughing/laughing I could not catch my breath to talk….
: Are you making light of this?
- Look, if you were working 2 jobs in Oregon, putting in 78 hours a week, and had documented that in your spare time you provided free child care for your grandson another 30+ hours a week, wouldn’t YOU laugh if someone told you they believed you also worked enough in Texas???
: How far is Oregon from Texas?
- About 1700 just to get to the border…
: THIS cannot be right then.
- I would assume not.

The money grab was canceled via fax… and she is going to find out who is using my SSI number in Texas…. and why.

It’s a healthy thing for govbots to get laughed at for five minutes straight. At least she didn’t say “I don’t see why you can’t commute; my map says you’re only 3 inches away.”

The other shoe drops

China just cut off credit from its banks.

There are still T-bills, other countries, those petrodollars (soon to be petroeuros?) etc. But it really doesn’t look good.

Let’s play “stone the Christian”

OMG! Sarah Palin was once prayed over to be protected from witchcraft. ElfNinosMom is having the vapors.

I watched the video, and I don’t get what the issue is. I think Muthee’s ministry might be off balance, but given how screwed up his entire continent is, maybe it is demons…though I’d rather blame kleptocratic government.

Funny, my wife nailed it the other day: “Religion is the next thing they’ll use to go after her.”

Meet the new boss, same as the old boss

I thought that Jennifer Brunner was a more honest Secretary of State than Ken Blackwell, just because she didn’t have such a hardon against the Libertarian Party, and made noises about cleaning up the voting process.

My bad.

It smelled like a pig pen in there

Apparently farting on a police officer is now considered battery in West Virginia. Wow, what a strong courageous force they have in South Charleston!

I guess I’m going down for domestic violence then.

UPDATE: The prosecutor thought this stank too, so the charge was dropped.

Where’s my country, damnit?

Welcome to DHS’s newest technological breakthrough, a device that reads your mind…or rather reads your body language for signs that you are an Evil Terrorist.

They’re quite certain that this is very specific. I’m not so sure. What would MALINTENT say about somebody like me who has such a bad attitude about DHS that he hasn’t flown since 9/11? Does my fervent desire to see them and their whole system blown to hell make me a terrorist?

Burns noted his team’s goal is to “restore a sense of freedom.” Once MALINTENT is rolled out in airports, it could give us a future where we can once again wander onto planes with super-sized cosmetics and all the bottles of water we can carry — and most importantly without that sense of foreboding that has haunted Americans since Sept. 11.

Not to restore freedom, mind you, but to restore a sense of freedom. Why don’t they just initiate Project X and be done with it?