If you were anxiously awaiting what Larry Kudlow thinks about Tiger Woods (and really, who wasn’t?), your wait is finally over!
Speaking of Tiger, I have no interest in his personal life. But here’s one reason why Kudlow is full of crap.
Origin of the spelling of the word lede.
Man begins tongue-in-cheek campaign to ban divorce in California.
Thanks to the new lead testing rules with children’s toys, crime trauma kids now get to cuddle with a book instead of a donated teddy bear. You know, for the kids.
The Institute for Justice takes aim at yoga licensing laws in Virginia.
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What’s the difference between an SUV and a golf ball?
Tiger Wood can drive a golf ball straight for 300 yards.
(This joke is a steal from a friend, who shall remain nameless because the joke is, well, stolen.)
I’m guessing Tiger Woods’ IQ is at least 50 points higher than Larry Kudlow’s. Tiger handled this little kerfuffle like the professional he is.
If, as Mencken said, democracy is the idea that the people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard, then by now the people have no excuse for not knowing that they can expect the same by calling the cops.
Never trust the police.
Isn’t divorce California’s official state sport?
Tiger has indeed ‘fessed up’ and admitted the affair anyway. I really don’t see this hurting him, financially speaking.
I have argued for years that if marriage is so sacred and so desperately in need of protection, then divorce should be illegal. Glad to see someone actually doing something about that, even if as a semi-joke.
Prentice said proponents of traditional marriage only seek to strengthen the one man-one woman union.
Translation: I hate teh gays.
As such scenarios played out across the country, the updated domestic-violence laws accidentally created a new mythical woman: the Female Abuser. Never mind that the sociological research does not really support her existence in any great numbers.
I don’t have a link handy, but this contradicts much of what I’ve read on domestic abuse.
The Tiger Woods situation is the epitome of the
marriage of big-money journalism and nanny state
policing.
He hit a fucking fire hydrant. Make him pay for it.
Next story.
Eh. To be fair, I think plenty of hardcore right wingers actually would support a ban on divorce. Likewise, they’d support a ban on pornography, sex toys, strip clubs, R-rated movies, contraceptives, and sex outside of marriage. It’s just that the majority of Americans don’t go along with it cus they know it’s not in their interests. Conversely, protecting the rights of homosexuals is much less an issue of self-interest for most Americans, and therefore up in the air at this point.
More on Maricopa county:
http://www.kpho.com/news/21778683/detail.html
#7
Yes, the studies I’ve seen online and in magazines have always shown that women are more likely than men to INITIATE the domestic violence and then still more likely to be classified the victim.
Yeah, women don’t hit. Or chase people around the yard with golf clubs. And unicorns live in my barn, too. Sad. Kudlow is wrong, but so is Rosin, if I understand her arguments. Tiger doesn’t want to say what really happened because his wife might go to jail? Fine, his prerogative. If Tiger does say what happened and his wife is arrested, this is bad for women (and especially for woman victims of DV)? Bullshit. If she chased him down to deliver a beating with a golf club she does indeed deserve to go to jail for it, just like any other person in any other non self defense situation would.
Kudlow it a dope. Suppose it really was a case of his wife being angry at an affair (real or not) so in that fit of rage grabs a golf club and yells at him to leave. He does, still in a rage she bashes in the rear window the SUV, or she even hits him while he leaves. Either way if Woods comes clean is wife is arrested and likely charged. Now he is in the middle of an even bigger scandal. Instead of it costing $100 million it could cost much, much more.
Kudlow doesn’t have all the information so he is just guessing. Woods on the other hand has a much, much larger set of information, so Kudlow should STFD, STFU.
I wish the marriage debates would turn to look at ridiculous regulations and tax codes- if a few codes were changed, the govt wouldn’t even need to be in the marriage business. if people realized they don’t need a bureaucrat to sanction their relationship, they’d be a lot further down the road to being free.
if people could use their medical savings accounts for anyone, we could clean up a lot of the health care crisis privately. People wouldn’t force marriages for health benefits.
so… I’d like to ban state divorces, marriages, and civil unions.
on the bob and tom show, some comedian said something like, ‘…the divorce rate is 50%, but we have no idea how many of the suckers still married really want to be married…’
Regarding licensing, why the CRAP does the state require you to get their permission for every damn thing you want to do? Want to be a yoga instructor? better get the states permission. want to organize a protest? better get permission. Want to put up a windmill on your property, save money and the environment? better get permission (and we wont let you do it anyways)
ARG.
Also, it is entirely socially acceptable for women to beat men. This is not right, but this is clearly the case. People will make jokes about it, or actually cheer on the woman. More here.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zaMAPiYStf4
This morning I finally out drove Tiger Woods.
ECOA,
You are spot on. Rosin should get his out of butt. I was victim of the Florida domestic violence industry. (Yep, it’s an industry, plenty people making money of it). I was married to a violent alcoholic when I lived in JAX. She would get drunk at some bar, come home and start a fight. I would have to physically defend myself, she’d call the police, then guess who goes to jail. The big bad MAN. The little women couldn’t possibly be starting anything violent. What a load of crap!
I was a bouncer years ago in California as well. Women were the worst ones to deal with. And always the first to get physical or violent .
Because the state surely knows everything there is to know about yoga. And, they’ll assume financial liability for any injuries inflicted by one of their licensed practitioners. Right?
Woods has no honor or integrity. If he did, none of this would have happened. He knew what he was doing was wrong and did it any way. Guess his little head overwhelmed his big head.
Regarding the item about books versus stuffed animals, these kinds of stupid rules are invariably passed thinking that the unintended consequences will be only a minor inconvenience and certainly a small price to pay to protect people (especially children!) from the evil du jour.
I know this is a bit off topic, but this has been on my mind lately. In an effort to protect us from drugs, there are now a myriad of such inconveniences that, when added up, are anything but minor. You now have to ask for cold medications from your pharmacist (try asking for two packs of 10 instead of one pack of 20 and they will think you’re trying to pull one over on them). I have to submit paperwork to the DEA for many of the harmless chemicals I use in my darkroom. When I take my dog to the vet, she invariably has a seizure upon arrival, but they no longer provide Valium to prevent the attack. The drug war intrudes more into the lives of non-users than users. Not a day goes by that we are not directly touched by some part of the drug war and the war on terror is quickly gaining the same status.
Individually, these crusades can easily be portrayed as benign and minimal intrusions, but when you add them all up, they constitute a degree of micromanagement that no government in the past could have ever dreamed possible.
Luckily, while we certainly are creating a system by which people’s every thought, word, and action can be monitored, regulated, and dictated, we don’t have to worry because, being a democracy (not to mention the fact that our head of state doesn’t even have a mustache), we will never have to worry about that vast citizen control infrastructure being used for malevolent purposes.
The fact that stupid rules are making them give books to kids instead of teddy bears is a small thing. Barely a blip on the radar. But rules are like cudzu. Eventually it chokes out everything else. The American appetite for government sponsored security makes hardcore heroine addiction look like an occasional craving for chocolate chip cookies.
*end of rant*
Kudlow is such an asshole. He fried his brain with a coke habit resulting in him getting canned from Bear Stearns. Anyone who listens to that guy regarding investing is going to lose money.
#19 | fwb — “Woods has no honor or integrity. If he did, none of this would have happened. He knew what he was doing was wrong and did it any way. Guess his little head overwhelmed his big head.”
I used to feel the same way about Arnold Palmer, back when I was only married for a few years. Now that I’ve been married for 17 years, I got over it. Living with a woman can drive a man crazy. Nobody’s perfect.
What’s sad for Tiger is that Arnold Palmer got away with fucking anything that moved. Looks like Tiger can’t even bone a cocktail waitress without the entire world knowing about it.
The times they are a changin’….
From the link:
Stoddard claimed he did it for security reasons, but a judge agreed with Cuccia’s claim that it made her look like she was smuggling contraband into the courtroom and ruined her reputation.
This whole thing keep getting weirder and weirder. I thought the issue had to do with Cuccia’s right to be free from government nosing through her papers and the defendant’s right to confidentiality in dealings with his attorney (of which those papers could have been a part). The fact that Stoddard’s act might imply that the attorney was smuggling an evil paper past the guards seems to be beside the point.
IJ is a great organization. I give them money every year. So should everyone else.
More from James D’s #10 link
“The judge attempted to issue an order of confinement today, but failed to do so properly so. There’s a problem with the booking number — it’s a technical issue,” said Liddy. “So he’s not booked, but made his own decision and he decided that he wants to do what judge wants — and judge wants him to be in jail.”
When asked how Stoddard’s emotional state, Liddy said, “He’s holding his head up high. He’s stoic. He understands there are forces at play here that go beyond him and his job.”
I wouldn’t be surprised if, after the smoke has cleared, Stoddard is portrayed as the only one with any integrity in all this and he was victimized by an unjust system for merely doing his job.
What a fucking shithead.
Uhhh bullshit. Recent studies have shown that women are just as capable of DV and commit it about as often as men. There are two reasons why it is rarely reported (aside from the cultural belief that women are more virtuous than men): women are physically weaker than men and thus tend to do substantially less serious and obvious damage to men, and men are socially ostracized for reporting it.
In fact, from what I’ve gathered reading and hearing comments from medical workers, when women commit serious DV, it’s actually often far worse than anything men do.
Marital fidelity is what ordinary people demand of those who can have sex with almost anyone they choose.
If everyone looked like me, there would be no infidelity. The entire planet is inclined to keep me on the straight and narrow.
Two links related to female DV..
Female DV on the rise in Australia
and
a lot more women now admit to committing domestic violence.
“… when women commit serious DV, it’s actually often far worse than anything men do.”
I’ll take Lorena Bobbitt for $1000, Alex!
More Tiger:
Tiger Woods : Arnold Palmer
Bill Clinton : John Kennedy
Re: divorce article -
A woman dies a few years after her husband. When she passes through the gates of Heaven, she sees him talking to a group of hot, young women. She approaches and asks, “Honey, what are you doing?” To which he responds, “Go bug someone else, lady, the deal was only ’til death do us part!”
Yeah, kind of a dumb joke, but it popped into my head after reading the article.
‘#16 | Boyd Durkin
This morning I finally out drove Tiger Woods.’
my favorite quote today.
Another anecdote along those lines that I’ve heard is that lesbian-on-lesbian DV tends to be worse than the DV between gay men.
Uh, about those chocolate chip cookies: They’re next on the list.
While women are fully capable of domestic violence against men, everyone knows those bastards had it comin’.
If Tiger really did have an affair, his wife should have just fucked Phil Mickelson instead. This is what happens when you let your emotions get the best of you.
Personal story about the bears for kids.
Was involved in a hit and run while taking the kids to swim class. Kids were 5 & 8 at the time.
Pulled into a parking lot, called the cops, they arrived took my statement. Both girls were a little shook up initially, but by the time the cop had arrived and started taking my statement they had calmed down a bit.
After taking my statement the cop asked to see me by the trunk of his car. He asked me if he could give my girls bears. I agree and it made their night.
I know it is not the magnitude of a DV or other violent crime but it really did smooth out the edges of what could have been a rough night.
Dave has a point. Being faithful and famous just don’t go together for reasons he stated. Why would anyone get married once they were rich and famous? Monogamy is for regular people who don’t have attractive members of the opposite sex throwing themselves at you. Celebrities need to stop kidding themselves that they are going be with one person for the rest of their lives. Or just marry a swinger.
Yes you do. The secondary function is to generate revenue, and the primary function is to assert CONTROL. As I say all of the time, the beauty of licensing and taxes is that the possibilities are infinite because human behavior is infinite.
So would this finally be a good enough reason to start shooting the bastards:
http://www.taxfoundation.org/blog/show/23570.html
Yes, I know, it’s satire.
Licensing is almost always a government-industry partnership to protect the incumbents in the market from competition while generating revenue for the state all in the name of benefiting the consumers who are ultimately the ones who suffer for it. So, it’s kind of like being gang raped for your own good.
Kudlow misspelled mensch. Get it right, ya schmuck.
Off topic, but pass the popcorn:
http://www.heatcity.org/2009/12/day-after-officer-jailed-bomb-threat-sickout-shut-down-courthouses.html
Kudlow has admitted to being a major cokehead, and making Reagan wait for him at the white house while he was out kidnapping waitresses to buy coke for him after his dealer had cut him off for being a scumbag
And then being charged extra for the semen.
From the link: Solano said the union wants to make sure Stoddard “knows we’re there for him.”
Oh no! I’m stunned.
The Tiger Woods story makes me long for the days when celebrities would have affairs and it was covered up.
Finally, a step in the right direction. Now they just need to keep it up for the other 364 days in a year and we might see some improvements in the justice system of that county.
The yoga licensing jump out a another example how states may it very difficult to be an entrepreneur or do anything that doesn’t require a patron to bankroll you.
I’ve been doing yoga for about six years, and have been asked a few times by the gym owner to getting certified to teach (its own costly process but demanded limit liability) whenever someone moves on. Apart from being too shy to do it, I always say no because at 50-75 dollars a class pre-tax, it would take me more than a year to recoup the certification costs. If I lived in VA, teaching one class a week would mean working to pay them for the privilege to teach.
Strike some of that. Hadn’t read the full article and how they “don’t intend to regulate classes, just teacher training programs”. I’m sure they mean “yet” and the point still stands that it’s a needless cost to impose on people.
Tiger’s wife freed him from the wreckage using a golf club.
I’m wondering if anyone saw the IRONy in that?
LOL
On Language; (HED) Folo My Lede (UNHED)
BY WILLIAM SAFIRE
Published: Sunday, November 18, 1990
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