Because when you’re cleared of any wrongdoing in a self-defense case, the scumbag ought not be able to sue you.
Year: 2008
Dear Michelle Obama
I was moved by Breda’s latest warning to Michelle Obama about the whole pie thing.
We can dance if we want to …
… or maybe we can’t if you’re on property under the jurisdication of the National Park Service. I smell a a lawsuit.
Quote of the Day
“The truth is, in order to get things like universal health care and a revamped education system, then someone is going to have to give up a piece of their pie so that someone else can have more.”
Breda’s response is far better than anything I would say:
Dear Michelle Obama,
If you so much as try to touch my piece of pie, I will stab my fork through the back of your fucking hand – twice, if it’s pumpkin.
And God help you if it’s à la mode.
Yow!
Bonehead of the Week
Every once in a while you’ll be reading an article, and you’ll come across something that just makes your jaw drop. This article is about the conversion of my home county of Bucks from a Republican stronghold to a Democrat stronghold. It’s happening all over the Philadelphia area, thanks to George W. Bush destroying the Republican coalition. Thanks George! People like this woman are typical:
This week was the first moment in more than a generation when the number of registered Democrats surpassed Republicans in Bucks county. “This has been a Republican stronghold for as long as I can remember,†says Marilyn Larsen, a former Republican member of the local school board in Newtown, Bucks Country, who recently registered as a Democrat. Mrs Larsen, a retired teacher, says that it was the Bush administration’s “hostility to science†and the spread of evangelical politics that helped push her across.
I can identify with this too, but it’s not enough to make me head over to ally with the socialists. But maybe the Republicans should be happy to lose people like this woman, and here’s why:
“Let’s be honest about it, Barack Obama is culturally white – that’s why a lot of people round here are prepared to vote for him,†says Mrs Larsen, who has yet to make up her mind whether to vote for Mr Obama or Hillary Clinton, who retains a lead in the opinion polls. “But when they hear Michelle Obama speak they start wavering. She seems more African-American. People haven’t changed as much as they like to think.â€
Congratulations Marilyn Larsen, you’re the bonehead of the week for that statement. So she’ll vote for Obama because he’s white enough for her?  I could care less that Obama is white, black, green or Barney purple; his policies are the stuff nightmares are made of for advocates of smaller, limited government.
Quote of the Day
From Obama the Socialist Messiah:
You go into these small towns in Pennsylvania and, like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing’s replaced them. And they fell through the Clinton Administration, and the Bush Administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate and they have not.
And it’s not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.
Emphasis mine. Rachel Lucas had this to say:
Jesus in a meadow. What classic bullshit.
No kidding. So we’re just a bunch of xenophobic, paranoid Jesus freaks digging a bunker in the back yard because we think the dirty Mexicans stole our jobs, and sharpening our shooting skills in anticipation of invasion of job stealing hordes who will be coming any day now.
Are we really going to elect this elitist piece of shit president? I won’t vote for anyone who thinks of me and my fellow Pennsylvanians so poorly.
You wouldn’t expect a law professor …
… would be an advocate for breaking the law.
One Hundred Dollar a Cup Gourmet Coffee
Grown from cat poop.  No, seriously.
Mac Gone Mainstream
Tam has a great article on how the Mac faithful haven’t been quite so happy since their product has gone main stream. I have been a Mac user since 1992, so I’ve been working with this platform for a while. Of course, the truly geeky among us know that we have not witnessed the Triumph of the Macintosh, but have in fact witnessed NeXT take its rightful place in the world of computing! The original Macintosh died in 2001, and what everyone has been using since then is really a jazzed up version of NeXTStep that now runs on a very expensive and stylishly designed Intel PC.
Unisys Tower
Looks like Unisys Corporation (who may or may not have once been my employer) is relocating to the City of Philadelphia from their current headquarters in Blue Bell. I guess Unisys wants to demonstrate its leadership in the industry by doing the opposite of most technology companies, by selling the cushy campus-like HQ in the ‘burbs, and heading to the concrete jungle. But the interesting story is that they want to plaster their name all over Liberty Two. I have to agree this would be tacky, but you have to wonder about people who make arguments like this:
“It will ruin our city,†said Mary Tracy, who heads the nonprofit Society Created to Reduce Urban Blight
A Unisys sign is going to ruin your city? Ummm.