Friday, March 30, 2007

My Morning Wooten

I'm feeling particularly dyspeptic this morning. There will be no sparing of the scourge.
Get a Post-it Note for the refrigerator. Buy booze on Saturday. The disproportionate anger of those who want Sunday sales is an example of the “me-centered” universe. We’re angry about any rule or law that won’t let us park four vehicles in the driveway or that doesn’t let us buy booze when we want. Me, me, me.
How about conservative restraint? How about less government interference in personal lives? How about the conservative principle of the free market? Methinks the only selfish focus on the me here are so-called conservatives who want to mold all of society in their narrow image.

I hate connecting laws that connect fees and fines to a specific program, when it’s not a genuine user fee, such as those golfers pay to maintain public courses. Adding $200 to the fines imposed for driving more than 85 mph anywhere, or 75 mph on two-lane roads, is an example. It’s created to help fund a statewide trauma network. Henceforth, a shooter in Atlanta or a knifer in Savannah should be fined an extra $500. Or do we tax guns, knives, ladders and automobiles?
Can I have a beer with your pretzel logic? So, since in your narrow mind (see above) sees the connection between high speed on the interstates and trauma as tenous, extra revenue generated by this bill should go to what? The general fund where the pork can be spread around? Once again this is fiscal conservative philosophy?
The changing world, Part 1: President Bush quotes two Iraqi bloggers who wrote an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal on reasons for optimism
And ignores bloggers who have for months been writing about the hell on earth known as Bagdhad. The more things change, the more they stay the same.

I could go on but I just thew up in my coffee. A man has to know his limits.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Seriously, this is beyond the pale. People who want the freedom to purchase a legal product on the day of their choosing are "me, me, me," but people who want others to live by their limits are not? And this is coming from the big socialist who believes strongly in limits (or disincentives) to individual actions for the betterment of society. But I would never call the person who wants to make only his own choices, and not control the choices of everyon else, selfish.

Anonymous said...

Riverbend's been telling it like it is for years, not months. I think I was reading her since before the war started but I may have her blog confused with Raed's old blog. I know I found her through Raed.

I remember when she warned about a thug named Sadr who was taking over the local Islamic offices and when she got to go shopping after the initial fighting stopped, with a male escort, and felt so uncomfortable in her modest cloths because many woman in the market had suddenly adopted Saudi type dress, and when she was told that her first job after college no longer felt they could have a woman working there. The war could have gone much better had policy makers paid her heed.

She has a book that I gave to a lot of folks a coupla Christmases ago. I didn't get the impression anyone has read it when we got together last Christmas, which is a real shame. Looks like she has a new one coming out. Or you can just move through her achives. She used to post much more often.

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_gw/104-1443193-8812712?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=Riverbend&Go.x=0&Go.y=0&Go=Go

It's nice to herar from an actual liber as opposed to that right-ist hack Boring Boortz.