Nobrainer’s Think Tank

He’s right, you know:

There are some in congress right now who would rather see their opponents lose than see America win

They’re called Democrats.

Guess which of my favorite Senators has, once again, re-added me to his spam lists? Go ahead, guess!

… for linking to PrisonPlanet and easily the dumbest article I’ve read all year. “Obama’s Blocking Of New Power Plants Triggers Nationwide Blackouts” says Prison Planet. Look, I hate Obama as President, but that claim is bullshit. Pure bullshit. I have to figure that they are “stuck on stupid.” And they must be to a) figure that Obama has had so much influence in just over 2 years given the lengthy, multi-year process involved in building a new power plant and b) claim “the inability of power companies to meet demand is almost exclusively a consequence of the Obama administration’s publicly stated goal to bankrupt the coal industry” to ignore other factors such as major natural gas supply disruptions caused by “[f]rozen natural gas wellheads in the Rocky Mountains and pipeline problems in Texas.”

Per USA Today, Obama “stressed that ‘no one party will be able to dictate where we go from here.’” That’s good to know, but is he implying that, at least at some times over the last two years, the single party in charge, was dictating? If he is implying that, he is correct, but it still seems like something odd to say.

I also found this paragraph to be cringeworthy:

[Obama] is seeking “the right balance” between new regulations to make sure that companies are treating customers fairly, and “making absolutely clear that the only way America succeeds is if businesses are succeeding.”

I wouldn’t exactly say the business environment is great right now. So it shows the extent of the Great One’s rectal-cranial inversion that he is even worried about this balance at this point. Heaven forbid we end up with lower unemployment at the risk of some of us facing an overdraft fee.

I read this AP article this morning, and it brought to mind an exchange from the movie Trainspotting. In it Sick Boy details his grand theory. The exchange ends thusly:

Renton: So we all get old and then we can’t hack it anymore. Is that it?
Sick Boy: Yeah.
Renton: That’s your theory?

So the article was about health care.

The budget office concluded that premiums for people buying their own coverage would go up by an average of 10 percent to 13 percent, compared with the levels they’d reach without the legislation. That’s mainly because policies in the individual insurance market would provide more comprehensive benefits than they do today.

For most households, those added costs would be more than offset by the tax credits provided under the bill, and they would pay significantly less than they have to now.

That’s the fucking plan? That’s the savings? The savings plan is to force prices higher and say they’re lower by adding further complication to the tax code via new credits? Brilliant!

Geezus. It’s 9AM and I’m so ready for a Guinness.

Have you heard about the “Runaway Prius driver“? I’ve got three words to describe this guy: TOTAL FUCKING IDIOT!

During the two 911 calls, Sikes ignored many of the dispatcher’s questions, saying later that he had to put his phone on the seat to keep his hands on the wheel.

Leighann Parks, a 24-year-old dispatcher, repeatedly told him to throw the car into neutral but got no answers.

Neibert told Sikes after the CHP caught up with him to shift to neutral but the driver shook his head no. Sikes told reporters he didn’t go into neutral because he worried the car would flip.

What the flying fuck? He ignored the only advice that mattered because he was so stupid that he thought it would make the problem worse? Jeezus. Toyota isn’t the problem here. A stupid fucking driver is the problem here. James Sikes ought to have his license revoked and be barred from ever getting behind the wheel for the rest of his life.