Quick Hitts

What’s the best thing to do if you think rainbows are caused by polution in the air and water?

Why, put a video on YouTube, of course.

It’s a Conspiracy, I tell you.
A Conspiracy!

Found here.

When Elvis was alive there were only a few professional Elvis impersonators. A few years after his death there were hundreds, then thousands. The old joke was that if the trend continued, by the turn of the century we would all be Elvis.

Old jokes never die. They often become reborn as alarmist “facts” and/or government policy. So this story comes as no surprise. The claim is that in another forty years we’ll all be overweight. Guess we’ll all be impersonating the fat Elvis.

And with every crisis comes more and more government programs to “fix” the problem.

They don’t mention one tiny little fact, though. Several years ago the CDC completely munged the BMI, reclassifying what they, in their wisdom, deemed obese. Overnight thirty million Americans became obese without gaining an ounce.

Mace Hutchison, 16, evidently fell off a bridge. As he laid there with a broken back, the cops tazed him nineteen times. Nineteen!

What are the odds they’ll be punished for thier assualt? Pretty slim. Hell, they might even get an award!

Too bad he didn’t have a car, they could have stolen that too.

Protect and serve? You didn’t think they were serious about that, did you?

The idea of letting your kids run around the neighborhood and be kids has fallen out of fashion. Parents are expected to helicopter over their larvae every waking minute. They’re expected to have them participate in games where no one keeps score and everyone gets a trophy.

Those kids are now coming into the workplace and the results are a disaster. Managers are now having to deal with young adults who have been trained that they’re “special” and it’s unfair to expect them to actually accomplish anything. They’re unable to take initiative or criticism and expect promotions simply becuase they tried.

If you want to raise healthy kids, kids who grow into healthy adults, you’ll need to ignore what has become the conventional wisdom. The latest Quick Hitts Podcast, Healthy Kids, gives you a place to start.

The Free Range Kids blog, mentioned in the podcast, can be found here.

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Ahhhhhnold has been a pretty decent govinator, but a few days ago he stepped into the nanny role when he singed a bill that makes it illegal to sell prepared food that contains trans fat.

Trans-fat is, of course, The Next Big Scary Thing That Will Kill Us All. And while warning people about it, and requiring information about it on prepared foods make sense, once again the nanny government has overstepped their bounds “for our own good.” Such nonsense has already happened in several cities, but CA is the first state to do it (surprise surprise.)

“California is a leader in promoting health and nutrition, and I am pleased to continue that tradition by being the first state in the nation to phase out trans fats,” the governor said in a statement.

I wonder when we’ll here a governor say “My state is a leader in personal liberty, and I am please to continue that tradition by refusing to pass nanny laws.”

A friend who sends me lots of blog fodder frequently sends e-mails with the title “The Messiah Lord Obama.” They are full of cartoons and stories about Holy Saviour status most of the media has bestowed on upon him. Today’s was the best one yet.

And it came to pass, in the eighth year of the reign of the evil Bush the Younger (The Ignorant), when the whole land from the Arabian desert to the shores of the Great Lakes had been laid barren, that a Child appeared in the wilderness.

The Child was blessed in looks and intellect. Scion of a simple family, offspring of a miraculous union, grandson of a typical white person and an African peasant. And yea, as he grew, the Child walked in the path of righteousness, with only the occasional detour into the odd weed and a little blow.

. . .

And the Child spake and the tribes of Nato immediately loosed the Caveats that had previously bound them. And in the great battle that ensued the forces of the light were triumphant. For as long as the Child stood with his arms raised aloft, the enemy suffered great blows and the threat of terror was no more.

This is one of the best commentaries I’ve seen on the Obama Phenomena. You can read it all here.

It just occurred to me that “Obama Phenomena” would sound great sung to this tune:

Update:  After listening to this, I realize that “Obama Phenomena” doesn’t quite fit.  But if we go with the current trend of jamming words together to create new ones, we can shorten the phrase to Obamana, which fits perfectly.