RANT: Politics as usual in Trenton

Friday, December 15, 2006

Isn’t interesting to review the “accomplishments” of the NuJerzee Legislature this year:

* No property tax reform

* No state pension reform

* No state worker benefit reform

* No limitation on pensions for part-time politicians

* No education reform

but they did pass a civil union bill. Huh?

My agenda:

* Repeal the state sales tax hike; it was just for pork, wasn’t it?

* Reform state pensions into a 401k; if IBM can do, why can’t the state?

* Eliminate a state benefits; raise people’s pay to cover a benefit; why is it the taxpayer’s problem?

* No pensions for any politicians; how did that boondoggle get started?

* No salaries for any state official — legislator, elected official, or judge; they should be honored to serve. Give’em a dollar a year and charge them for parking! Salaries for civil service workers; all else get zip nada nothing!

* Eliminate federal, state, or local — any government at all — involvement in education; why when commies run “reeducation camps” is it bad, but, when our government does it, that’s good? People had those children, let them educate them!

* Eliminate the government involvement in marriage; it was just to prevent black men from marrying white women any way, so why continue?

And while it is never mentioned:

* Repeal all state gun laws; what part of “shall not be infringed” don’t all these lawyers understand?

Besides we’ll need those guns to finally clean up the various rats nest of thugs in DC, Trenton, and elsewhere.

Shine up Trenton’s “golden” dome! Even that’s a fake. An illusion. A fraud.

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RANT: Parents should NOT lie … about anything!

Thursday, December 14, 2006

This time of year brings out my favorite gripe, rant, and kvetch. Parents should never EVER lie to their children. Not once! The tooth fairy, easter bunny, or Santa Claus don’t have to be lied about.

If’n I was a parent, and the Intelligent Designer had the good sense not to give a child to such a weirdo, I would not lie. Anytime, for any reason, under any circumstances.

Child: Is there a Santa Claus?

Parent: Well, I would never lie to you. I don’t know for sure. I’ve never seen him, but an awful lot people seem to think so. There are a lot of unexplained unseen things like the wind, electricity, and time. So what do you believe?

Never lie!

How can they trust you on the important stuff, if they can not trust you on the trivial stuff?

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RANT: Yesterday’s State Worker’s rally had some elements of truth in it

Tuesday, December 12, 2006

The TV assaulted us with the state workers demanding their “rights” to the taxpayer’s wallet yesterday. They kept chanting that they weren’t “the problem”. To a certain extent I agree.

But like the tale of the two wolves and a lamb voting on what’s for dinner, they may have over played their hand.

As a taxpayer, I can’t afford those state workers with their pensions and benefits.

Then, let’s look at the “teacher’s union”, trying — even though their particular ox wasn’t being gored — to demonstrate that they were the “he bull” of all the state unions. Certain of their members left their students high and dry. (Fire them!) But, they demonstrated that we taxpayers can’t afford them either.

So, let’s have a forty year plan to end state workers and state education.

State workers are easy. Convert their pension obligation to an insurance policy and end pension & benefits for all part-timers (How the politicians unjustly enrich themselves!) and all future workers. Oh, and throw in, that if you get a felony defrauding the state, you lose your pension. (Another favorite of the politicians!)

Education is harder. We can’t afford it. So we need a forty year exit strategy. First twenty years, privatize by vouchers to create a viable private market in education. The second twenty years, reduce the state’s funding to zero.

That’ll solve the state’s property tax problem!

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RANT: The baseline for any intervention into Iraq, with no guarantee of success

Monday, December 11, 2006

http://www.d-n-i.net/fcs/christie_iraq_vietnam.htm

http://tinyurl.com/yldxc9

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Throughout the 1990’s various commanding generals of U.S. Central Command ran a number of war games and determined that 400,000 troops were the baseline for any intervention into Iraq, with no guarantee of success. How this was to be accomplished by ground forces that had shrunk from 18 Army and 3 Marine divisions in 1991 to 10 Army and not quite 2 Marine divisions in 2003 was the crucial question.

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Amazing, if this is correct, then “we” figured out the right number, but “we” did something else! Wow, how stupid!

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RANT: Yesterday was a blur

Saturday, December 9, 2006

I actually didn’t have any time to write.

This weekend’s work project, the final one of the year, for which I have some unclear responsibility, and some key people have taken off on vacation, has left me stressed.

Some of their backups need some reintroduction to some basic concepts: “No, we like to test BEFORE production, so that we know it will work in production. While I personally appreciate your innovative solution to the time problems, I think we should have you explain it to leadership so they can give you the proper credit for the idea. As a matter of fact, I think we should do that right now so they can express their appreciation of you innovation. Oh, OK, you can complete the testing before the end of the day. Great. Now what about the meeting with leadership? Cancel it. Sure. Fine. Have a great day!”

I can’t believe some people. The schedule is “tight”. But, what would be the purpose of testing AFTER one does something? Gee, let me shoot you in the foot to see if it hurts. The gun may not fire! But, if it does, then we didn’t need a test in the first place.

DUH.

This fellow should move to Flori-DUH!

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RANT: I hate software

Thursday, December 7, 2006

I wanted to listen to some music. Musicmatch Jukebox said it had to do an upgrade. Now it says it has to do a reboot. That’s not convenient. So why didn’t it say that BEFORE it asked to do the upgrade. I’d have said no and been able to use the software I paid for!! At least when the stuff is free you can’t ripe too much. But the free stuff is better behaved than the “professional crud”. Arghhhh!

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RANT: FOXNEWS is reporting a Social Security tax hike

Saturday, December 2, 2006

They have to be kidding.

I can’t believe that the republicans, the administration, and all the congress critters could be so stupid.

It’ll make it a bigger blood bath than the last election.

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RANT: A new month and I’m unmotivated.

Friday, December 1, 2006

Sigh. Maybe it Seasonally Affected Disorder. I can’t even get fired up about the stupid politicians. My plates, those things I’ve been spinning, are even starting to wobble. And, I can’t get excited about that. Sigh.

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RANT: Someone finally has to face facts and admit defeat

Thursday, November 30, 2006

http://www.d-n-i.net/lind/lind_11_30_06.htm

On War #194
November 29, 2006

More Troops?
William S. Lind,
expressing his own personal opinion, is
Director for the Center for Cultural Conservatism
for the Free Congress Foundation.

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The fact that Washington is seriously considering sending more American troops to Iraq illustrates a common phenomenon in war. As the certainty of defeat looms ever more clearly, the scrabbling about for a miracle cure, a deus ex machina, becomes ever more desperate – and more silly. Cavalry charges, Zeppelins, V-2 missiles, kamikazes, the list is endless. In the end, someone finally has to face facts and admit defeat. The sooner someone in Washington is willing to do that, the sooner the troops we already have in Iraq will come home – alive.

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How many good people will have their lives ended or ruined with this failed policy?

Iraqis, for better or worse, will have to figure it out for themselves.

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RANT: The difference between “LAWS” and “laws”.

Thursday, November 30, 2006

I see the “Law of Gravity” as having more gravitas than the Federal, State, and Local “Laws”.

Never mind all the other rules, regulations, and diktats that gubamint issues. Let’s just focus on “Laws” for a moment.

I like the “Law of Gravity” and its many cousins like the “Law of Supply and Demand” or the “Law of the Conservation of Momentum”. They are universally fair and non-discriminatory. So, I don’t refer to what the criminal gangs do in their various dens of iniquity do as “making laws”.

We need to recapture the high ground.

When they neuter our language they give themselves more power. Imagine considering anything done by politicians as a “law”! Absurd! If you must refer to their “laws”, (I’m thinking of that Crocodile Dundee line “that’s not a knife. this is a knife” by crikey), then “we” should always preface it with “Federal Law”, “State Law”, or even “Weenie Law”. Add some diminutive to differentiate it from the big hairy natural LAWS. Their weak lame efforts to make laws should be called something like “law-lettes”, “wannabe laws”, or “pathetic attempts at law”.

P.S.: Remember when we get people laughing at them, their influence and power shrinks. Look how fast the cellphone tax disappeared. Almost overnight. When the media picked up that the people were calling it “The Spanish American War tax”. Like the Wizard of Oz, they can’t let themselves be be laughed at because then we will see how pathetic they are!

Best wishes from behind the lines
in the Pepuls Repulik of Nu Jerzee

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