Awesomeness Incarnate
Lucky drivers on the I-70 in Missouri between the Adams Dairy Parkway and the Grain Valley exits (which means not a thing to me – anyone here from MO?) are currently being treated to the billboard above.
I love that someone, somewhere has paid for this to be erected.
Combine it with this one, this one, plus a few choice others and, hey presto, the Democrats will be destroyed next year.
Ohhh, the havoc that I could wreak if only I had piles of loose cash to play with…
October 2nd, 2009 at 12:04
Love it!
October 2nd, 2009 at 12:13
Hey, ‘trac, did ya hear? Those racists in Denmark said no to Chicago. I can just imagine MicHELLe’s snarling rat face bitching already.
October 2nd, 2009 at 12:23
skiri’ki – thanks, I hadn’t heard that yet. Good news! I love anything that doesn’t turn out the way Barry wants it to.
Chicago does not need the Olympics and Barry’s cronies do not need their pockets-lined even more.
I can’t quite believe that the IOC turned down The One, though…
October 2nd, 2009 at 12:41
This made my day! We can not afford such an extravaganza, nor could we afford the jet fuel to fly all the people and equipment to Denmark to ‘beg’.
So sorry, Oprah and friends. Go away, come back another day, if you must.
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October 2nd, 2009 at 13:28
The guy who paid for the sign is called William Cody, (yes, really), TAC and he’s planning to display a series of them. The next one is due in December, I think, but he’s not telling any more than that at the moment.
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October 2nd, 2009 at 13:32
Spider – good find! Your blog covers the UK but I doubt too many Brits would know Buffalo Bill’s real name. Are you British or American?
October 2nd, 2009 at 20:57
Spider – Good to see you here, are you sure about that? I just put this up too, I’d like to know more about this guy…..
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October 3rd, 2009 at 10:43
I, for one (maybe many) stopped watching the Queen of Daytime TV when she openly and unashamedly endorsed Obama. She had previous stated she would never publicly endorse any candidate…but, let a black one come along and she jumps on board.
She, like her man b.o., are racists, just like the 90% of blacks who came out to vote for the black guy but would not vote in elections of white candidates.
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October 3rd, 2009 at 15:48
it’s a little east of KC, we pass by a few times a year (grain valley), on our way home to michigan for vacation or to st. louis to watch the wings KICK THE SHIT out of the blues. we will look for it at the end of novenber.
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October 3rd, 2009 at 16:45
Dude…that’s awesome!
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October 3rd, 2009 at 17:01
I am a conservative.
This morning I was awoken by my alarm clock powered by electricity generated by the public power monopoly regulated by the U.S. Department of Energy.
I then took a shower in the clean water provided by a municipal water utility.
After that, I turned on the TV to one of the FCC-regulated channels to see what the National Weather Service of the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration determined the weather was going to be like, using satellites designed, built, and launched by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
I watched this while eating my breakfast of U.S. Department of Agriculture-inspected food and taking the drugs which have been determined as safe by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
At the appropriate time, as regulated by the U.S. Congress and kept accurate by the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the U.S. Naval Observatory, I get into my National Highway Traffic Safety Administration-approved automobile and set out to work on the roads build by the local, state, and federal Departments of Transportation, possibly stopping to purchase additional fuel of a quality level
determined by the Environmental Protection Agency, using legal tender issued by the Federal Reserve Bank.
On the way out the door I deposit any mail I have to be sent out via the U.S. Postal Service and drop the kids off at the public school.
After spending another day not being maimed or killed at work thanks to the workplace regulations imposed by the Department of Labor and the Occupational Safety and Health administration, enjoying another two meals which again do not kill me because of the USDA, I drive my NHTSA car back home on the DOT roads, to my house which has not burned down in my absence because of the state and local building codes and Fire Marshal’s inspection, and which has not been plundered of all its
valuables thanks to the local police department.
And then I log on to the internet — which was developed by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Administration — and post on Freerepublic.com and Fox News forums about how SOCIALISM in medicine is BAD because the government can’t do anything right.
October 3rd, 2009 at 23:41
George, welcome! And thank you for the thoughtful comment, but…
1) The government may help distribute electricity but it does not generate it.
2) You could look out the window at the weather or use the forecasts of those businesses who’ve launched their own satellites for this purpose, among others.
3) Yeah, that’s an OK role for the government to have assumed.
4) Oooh, your one point per paragraph structure goes a bit haywire here. For the measurement of time, we don’t have to rely upon one source. The tests of car manufacturers themselves mean more to me than those imposed by anyone else. The provision of roads is a public service that I doubt any but the most rabid (and I’m up there, but not to this extent) anti-government people would oppose.
5) The USPS operates at a massive loss despite its monopoly on first-class mail, and would have folded long ago if not for the taxpayer subsidizing its inefficiencies.
6) You’re starting to repeat yourself now. And, again, there are maybe three people in the entire country who do not believe that the police and fire services should not be provided by the government.
7) Ah, the biggie. But the creation of the internet was the result of a partnership between aspects of the federal government and privately-funded research labs and universities, etc.
Your point, however, is still well taken. The government is not quite as disastrously inept as conservatives are sometimes prone to stating. We all rely on government in many ways, despite the distaste many of us feel in admitting this.
But.
Every single thing that the government does can be done better (more efficiently, at a lower cost and a higher quality, with more consumer choice) by the private sector. The incentives and competition therein, as I do not doubt that you know, have proven to be immeasurably more successful in satisfying our needs than the wasteful, bureaucratic and shielded government alternative.
Some of these responsibilities, as mentioned, we do not farm out, regardless of this fact. The police and fire services, and defense, spring to mind most quickly.
So the choice becomes one between an expensive and substandard government product/service, or the private sector’s version.
While perhaps more tolerable in areas of material concerns, I find this least tolerable in matters of life and death. Government services rarely rise above adequate and that is not enough in medical matters.
I look forward to more challenging comments from you (but not too many please)…