Comments on: Welcome, Taxpayers!

By: Charlie (Colorado)

Charlie (Colorado) — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 21:17:23 +0000

What’s a chappel?

By: ice9

ice9 — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 23:21:54 +0000

That quote by Reid–it sounds like he’s defending the project by saying the people smelled before it was built, that the thing was intended to move the lines elsewhere. No question it’s a wasteful boondoggle, but I’m not sure that quote is so dead-on as you think it is.

ice

By: Andrew Williams

Andrew Williams — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 20:54:45 +0000

From Crispin Sartwell’s blog: http://eyeofthestorm.blogs.com/eye_of_the_storm/

Replace the word education with taxation and you’ll see why I posted this here.

“so 64% of american students cheat. let me say this: that would be bad if education were not compulsory. if i enter into a contest – a sporting event, a game of chess or poker – because i want to play, then to cheat is disgusting. but if you put a gun to my head and make me play, then i have no obligation to abide by the rules; no one should blame me if i do whatever i can get away with. indeed, under such circumstances, cheating would be a nice little act of resistance. i think it’s deeply reprehensible when an author plagiarizes, but if writing books were compulsory, plagiarism would be understandable and at worst morally neutral. in other words, compulsory education abrogates anything we might think of as educational ethics: destroys it, vitiates it, suspends it. that’s one reason (of many) why compulsory education is an absurd concept, or merely a contradiction in terms. our educational institutions teach that capitulation is the essence of honor, which of course is exactly the center of our moral training of young people. if they come out of that cheaters, you’re getting what you deserve, what you’re begging for.”

By: whaat?

whaat? — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 15:02:50 +0000

commoners always pay tribute to their keepers. in this case the tribute has been used by the keepers to construct a shrine to themselves. at least the tribute was not used to wage war or further the suffering of the commoners, of which i am one.

By: Dave Krueger

Dave Krueger — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 14:20:27 +0000

#9 Mike H

Oh, the great unwashed…spoiling everything they pay for with their galling presence.

Bravo! I doubt that it’s possible to more precisely characterize the attitude of those in Washington who spend the money toward those in the rest of the country who merely provide it.

By: Danno49

Danno49 — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 14:17:42 +0000

“In the summer because of the heat and high humidity, you could literally smell the tourists coming into the Capitol. It may be descriptive but it’s true.”

What? He could actually smell the peasants?

Ass.

By: chsw

chsw — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 13:29:18 +0000

Harry Reid stinks of corruption from his land deals and from his pork projects. When is he up for election?

chsw

By: Mike H

Mike H — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 12:45:09 +0000

Oh, the great unwashed…spoiling everything they pay for with their galling presence.

Seriously, Radley. This is one of those “guaranteed to foster blood-pressure issues in perfectly healthy readers” posts of yours.

By: Dave Krueger

Dave Krueger — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 04:40:01 +0000

On Tuesday’s NPR story about this, they interviewed a former Capital tour guide who, while not particularly thrilled with the place finished her comments by saying it was a “gift to the American public”.

What would we do without these “gifts”? Well, for one thing, I guess we’d all be a little richer.

Few things piss me off more than when an expensive taxpayer-funded project is passed off as governmental generosity to us citizens. I wonder how long it will be before they name it after one of the piece of shit, sleazy, self-serving, pricks who work there.

By: Jason

Jason — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 03:50:23 +0000

What can we do to get Harry Reid out of the Senate?
http://rightklik.blogspot.com/

By: Boyd Durkin

Boyd Durkin — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 01:37:54 +0000

I watched the Big Dig for a decade. Always triple the budget government gets approved, throw out 2/3 of the scope, and sign up for about 30 years of high cost repairs.

By: Max

Max — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 00:33:46 +0000

But it was really vitalt to build this because otherwise Harry Reid would have to mingle with the lower classes who smell soooo bad.

By: Marty

Marty — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 00:23:59 +0000

this is like a parody of a bad movie… shitty dialogue, douchebag power freaks, clueless people getting duped, and it never seems to end.

By: Lee

Lee — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 23:47:28 +0000

Shooter is an excellent movie.

By: Cynical In CA

Cynical In CA — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 23:24:10 +0000

“Power flows from the barrel of a gun.” — Mao Zedong

By: Edintally

Edintally — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 22:50:05 +0000

OTOH, better to build it now before the bills come due and the wolf is at the door?

j/k