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By Dave Hitt on May 30, 2009 in Police State, Politics | 2 Comments
In an effort to make New York an even crappier place to live, State Troopers are infesting the landscape everywhere, helping to fund the bankrupt and corrupt state by handing out tickets for the most minor of offenses. Earlier this week I was given a ticket for driving without a seat belt. I was driving […]
By Dave Hitt on May 27, 2009 in Politics | 0 Comments
When Maryland raised their already high top tax rates the Governor said they’d be “willing and able to pay their fair share.” Able? Probably. Willing? Not so much. The year before before the tax hike about 3,000 residents had incomes of a million dollars or more. A year later, that number had dropped by 1/3, […]
By Dave Hitt on May 3, 2009 in Nanny Nation, Politics | 2 Comments
Lefties get very annoyed when their opponents refer to Universal Health Care as Socialized Medicine. This is because it is socialized medicine and the word “socialism” carries a well deserved stigma. In such discussions I like to ask the question: “Do you really want your health care to have the safety of Amtrack, the budgeting […]
By Dave Hitt on May 2, 2009 in Political Correctness, Politics, Religion | 12 Comments
Morewatch is one of the most popular anti-Moore sites on the net. A few years ago the wife of one of the guys who runs it got very sick, and didn’t have insurance. They announced they were going to have to shut it down. But then an anonymous check arrived for $12,000, allowing the proprietor […]
By Dave Hitt on Mar 31, 2009 in Junk Science, Political Correctness, Politics | 13 Comments
One reason Global Warming, er, sorry, Climate Change, doesn’t have me wetting myself in fear is I’ve lived through too many other End Of The World As We Know It predictions. These are a few of the EOTWAWKI predictions I recall in my lifetime: The Cold War – the most real and likely end of […]
By Dave Hitt on Mar 29, 2009 in Junk Science, Politics | 3 Comments
Turning off the lights and burning candles instead might feel good, but it occurred to me it probably puts more CO2 in the air than just leaving the lights on. I wasn’t sure how to calculate the numbers, so Googled the information, and found someone else had already done the math. Still, I enjoy meaningless […]
By Dave Hitt on Mar 21, 2009 in Bad Business, Politics | 1 Comment
Imagine, for a moment, that you’re deeply in debt (I know that’s a big stretch for most of you). You’ trying to deal with a bill for $1,000 and you’ve got no money to pay it. Your son has just thrown a quarter in a fountain. A quarter! Like you can afford that. You berate […]