The stats also do not include
1) Those who die of food poisoning from the hot dogs.
2) Those killed in drunken brawls

;P

<-100 School Boards.

I had to read the next entry before i realized there was a negative in there. The boards don’t get it, the teachers don’t get it, the parents don’t get it. So why would anybody expect students to ever get it? Unless they are allowed to be subverted by the internet. At which time the teachers, parents, and policies of the board come down hard on the student. And the students that succumb to the beatdown seem to go into politics or teaching or criminal justice, while having lots of children and wondering why they don’t listen.

And if you die of boredom at a baseball game, you picked poorly with the company you brought. And aren’t drinking enough beer and eating enough hotdogs. If you were a hotdog, would you eat yourself?

They actually used the word crackdown as if pizza slices were a dangerous gangland vice problem.

But, his heart is in the right place. He’s merely attempting to solve a problem, almost certainly covered by existing laws, by banning an activity that will most likely impose on the liberties of well-behaved people far more than on trouble makers, who will merely cause problems elsewhere. Nothing unusual about that. It’s precisely that style of mental acuity that qualifies people to become legislators.

I had the inestimable benefit of my father’s instruction on this matter at an early age. This is a rule of life: when you go to the ballpark, you keep your eye on the game. I always bring a glove. It might not be necessary to go to that length, but anyone who is not watching the game every second is also seriously ignorant of what they’re involved with.

It’s not hard to figure out, and I don’t feel sorry for people who haven’t.

Do you know how many games that is? How many innings? How many at bats? Amongst how many spectators?

How safe does something have to be? Shoot, since 1900 over seventeen-thousand people have died from swallowing toothpicks! That’s 156 a year. If they had been playing baseball instead eating hors d’oeuvres, they’d still be alive!

Glad to see there is no double standard.

Not voting won’t change anything that matters either. If voter turnout looks like it might be embarrassingly low, they’ll just make voting mandatory.

No, first they’ll publish false voting numbers. There’s little to no way for one to get a list of people who voted, which should match the sum of all votes on a matter, then contact each person to determine if they truly voted. Even if you could get a comprehensive list, most people wouldn’t take the time to do this work, so the system will just publish numbers pulled from the air. Of course these numbers will mostly reflect passage of items on the government agenda.

So many people voted for Obama for change but the only thing that seems to have changed is Obama. Just goes to show that Washington is too corrupt to fix.

Obama never changed, he’s just showing his true colors, which is to do what his masters tell him. Anyone that ever believes WORDS from anyone in their life, without carefully examining DEEDS, deserves all of the misery the association may bring. Just isolate it to yourself so others don’t get hurt.

Not voting won’t change anything that matters either. If voter turnout looks like it might be embarrassingly low, they’ll just make voting mandatory.

So therefore, I prefer to not waste my time. I certainly don’t mind the people who do, though. They provide a valuable service in keeping voting voluntary for me.

The scale has been extended:

<-100 School Boards.
-100 to -50 Congressmen and Members of Parliament
-49 to -20 Regulators
-19 to -10 City councillors
-9 to +9 Levin, Hannity, Limbaugh, Obermann, etc

So city councillors are at least 2 steps below idiots.

I guess he’s never heard about the kids in the adult criminal justice system.

“The problem with the people who vote is they want their government to protect them from everything that could possibly hurt them, hence global warming b.s., seat belt laws, drug testing EVERYONE, etc.”

Or as Mencken wrote, “The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.”

I’m a big-tent cynicism kind of guy, Tokin. Welcome, there’s room for us all.

That is a slur on idiots.

No. Idiot is the very bottom of the scale.

Psychological Testing
A Guide to Psychological Testing and Assessment
by Jonathan Rich, Ph.D.,
IQ, Archaic Description, Description, Score, higher than:
10 Idiot Profound Mental Retardation Fewer than 1 out of 100,000
25 ” Severe Mental Retardation ”
40 Imbecile Moderate Mental Retardation 3 out of 100,000
55 Moron Mild Mental Retardation 13 out of 10,000
70 Borderline 2 out of 100
85 Dull Normal Low Average 16 out of 100
100 Average Half

That is a slur on idiots.

:)

Last week, Obama signed four more bills without first posting them on the web for five days, as he promised during his campaign.

I think we can safely say that that promise was a pandering lie. He has maken no attempt to keep it whatsoever.

D.C. Councilman Jim Graham wants to fight crime by . . . banning or restricting restaurants that sell pizza-by-the-slice.

Living in Motown I can testify that large cities have some councilcritters that are complete idiots.

1.) How terrible is he at arguing when he can pick and choose the quotes he wants, yet I’m still agreeing with the inset Rod Dreher quotations instead of him. It’s all a convoluted “Do you know who I am?” argument.

2.) How can he not know who a prominent National Review columnist is and consider himself a man of the right? It’s like being a fantasy football geek and not knowing who Brian Westbrook is.

The problem with the people who vote is they want their government to protect them from everything that could possibly hurt them, hence global warming b.s., seat belt laws, drug testing EVERYONE, etc.

The problem with people that don’t vote is they’re probably part of the silent majority types who’d prefer to just be left the hell alone but since they don’t want to take the time to actually do anything…..

I guess I’m more cynical than thou, change your nick to “kinda, sorta, cynical in CA” (it’s obvious I’m jokin’, right?)

If no one voted, the system would lose its fig leaf and be exposed for the totalitarian dictatorship it actually is.

Then, real change could be effected.

The ONLY problem is the people who vote.