Wow.

I can honestly, and without shame, say that I do not have the cojones of this driver.

A semitrailer drives north on Interstate 29, north of Grand Forks, N.D., through floodwater and ice slabs as Red River flooding moves north Monday. Photo by Associated Press

Why do I constantly feel an urge...

...to link to Michael Ramirez's comics?

Tax Increases

Tax increases won't help the economy. Taxes hurt the economy. If you add a tax on a luxury item, people will eventually and gradually forsake the luxury item, eliminating the tax income. If you depend on that tax to fund your unconstitutional programs, those programs will lose funding.

159% tax increase on a luxury item used primarily by the "poor" people who thought they would be protected and coddled by the current administration.

Suckers.

Amazon Search

Visit Amazon.

Search for "girl scout cookies".

Be amazed and disturbed.

Simon Jester

Once again following Kevin's links, I find this:

We are Simon Jester.

We are not anarchists.

We are not Far-Right or Far-Left. We are the seventy percent in the middle.

We are not Capital “L” libertarians, although we do have sympathies with their platform.

We are neither bitter clingers nor conspiracy nuts.

What we are is a group of folks that think we see liberty and freedom eroding in our beloved United States. We see the policies and agendas of the hirelings in Washington D.C. heading toward an abbreviation if not outright abrogation of the Bill of Rights.

We think that the Federal government is grasping to consolidate power using the current crisis, since as Rahm Emmanuel said, it’s a terrible thing to waste. We think the Federal government, not just this administration, is more interested in self-serving personal, political, and party power than it is in actually doing its best to do the least.

This President didn’t make it this way. It has been heading along this path since Woodrow Wilson held political prisoners and FDR held four terms as president; since Johnson’s Great Society and Nixon took us off the gold standard; since Bush Sr. lied about no new taxes, Clinton desecrated the Oval Office, Bush Jr. rammed through the Patriot Act, and Obama wanted every high school kid to ‘volunteer.’

For almost a hundred years, our country has been heading towards becoming a Socialist, centrally planned, Nanny State where the Federal Government tells it citizens how to conduct business, what they could grow in their own gardens or on their own farms, and now even how much a private citizen is allowed to earn before punitive and illegal taxation takes it away.

Now is the time to make it stop.

Proud to be Simon Jester

The problem with traffic cams as law enforcement

"It wasn't me" should be a no-brainer defense for traffic citations.

Dwayne Custard, of Inver Grove Heights, traded in his 10-year-old Ford Taurus at a Minnesota dealership in March 2007. A year later, he received a $63.60 citation from Illinois stating he had failed to pay required tolls in July 2007.

Linky.

Hot Damn.

Consider this idea stolen. Good job, Stormdrane.

I'm at a loss...

...on how to begin to address this idiocy.

If you remove the incentive for the best and the brightest to stay, they will go somewhere they will be appreciated(read: properly compensated). This is not a solution to the "problem" of executive pay, and it is certainly not any of the government's business.

What if we had a 95 percent marginal tax rate on income over $10 million? What dire consequences would flow from this? Perhaps a certain outflow of top-flight baseball talent to Japan. But I don’t see this leading to any kind of economic calamity. Producers of certain classes of supply-constrained luxury goods would lose out as their prices go down.

The dolt even recognizes the problem, but refuses to acknowledge that it is a problem. Is this willful stupidity?

Fairy Tales

Via Mr. Rummel.

Quote of the Day

"It’s like having someone tell you you’re just not good enough to infect with syphilis- it’s hard to imagine that situation being a loss rather than a sort of abstract relief."

-LabRat