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Some People Like To Go To CPAC, But Other People Like Us We Gotta Work

Posted on | March 16, 2013 | 33 Comments

– by Wombat-socho


Even before it became public knowledge that Pam Geller and Robert Spencer had pointedly not been invited to CPAC, I had been leaning hard in the direction of not going this year due to the requirements of work. To be more specific, I am busy in the tax mines this time of year and can ill afford to miss eighteen hours of going mano a mano with the rapacious U.S. Tax Code. Still, I did make it briefly to BlogBash and tonight’s Viral Read party, even if I was really too ragged out to properly appreciate either of them. Well, there’s always next year, and in the meantime I have been reliably assured that under the New Dispensation my sequestered gruel ration will be restored and the inhumane practice of watering the grog ration will cease. I, for one, welcome our new Viral Read masters.


So…anyone read anything decent lately? Talk among yourselves, and keep it civil.


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Comments

  • Dave

    Nice! Can you tell us stooges out here in the hinterlands what statute makes us liable for an “income” tax on our private sector earnings?

  • http://thecampofthesaints.org Bob Belvedere

    -Ah, Sweet Jane by Lou Reed – one of the great rock and roll classics. One of the great riffs.

    -I’m currently reading Gerhart Niemeyer’s Aftersite And Foresight. Has anyone else read this or any of his other works? And what do you think?

  • http://evilbloggerlady.blogspot.com/ Evi L. Bloggerlady

    He considered the 20th Century terrible, although I think it best described as “it was the best of times, it was the worst of times…” But he is a giant of the conservative movement. If WFB thought you were smart…that is pretty darn good praise.

  • http://evilbloggerlady.blogspot.com/ Evi L. Bloggerlady

    If Wombat is not happy, no one is going to be happy!

  • http://wizbangblog.com/ Adjoran

    Schlafly is the Queen.

  • http://thecampofthesaints.org Bob Belvedere

    Thanks, Evi.

  • Quartermaster

    I’m reading “The Beginning of Infinity” by David Deutsch, an Oxford Physics Prof. Not impressed after 4 chapters. Probably why I found it in a remainder bin.

    QM is a Professional Engineer to give you something of an idea where I’m coming from.

  • Anamika

    In the past two months I have read “Infinity and the Mind” by Rudy Rucker, “Meta Math by Gregory Chaitin and “The Fabric of Cosmos” by Brian Greene. Also read two bios of mathematicians, “The Man who knew Infinity” (Ramanujan) and “A Beautiful Mind” (John Nash).

  • Anamika

    I just finished reading “Deception Point” by Dan Brown. Thriller involving Nasa, White House, Security agencies and the US Politics. It sucked!

    Currently, I’m reading Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary.

  • robertstacymccain

    Your annual labors in the Tax Mines are appreciated. The unwatered gruel will be like a bonus.

  • Anamika

    I have been watching some good old classics these days. Just yesterday, I (re)watched “The Night of the Hunter“(1955). A must see if anyone hasn’t already! Robert Mitchum, what a perfect villain! I don’t think there ever was a better negative character in film history! Set during the depression era, it delves on the darker side of faith but eventually reinforces the good with its hopeful narrative about the innocence and endurance of young children.

    Speaking of television series, I’m eagerly awaiting Sherlock (season 3) and Game of Thrones (season 3).

  • http://evilbloggerlady.blogspot.com/ Evi L. Bloggerlady

    Anamika, try reading The Road to Serfdom.

  • http://twitter.com/richard_mcenroe richard mcenroe

    Yummy. Nothing better than dry gruel. S’what you get for working with people who think grits are a food group.

  • Anamika

    I would love to, Evi. I just downloaded the condensed Reader’s Digest (1945) version. Thanks for the rec!

  • http://www.facebook.com/eric.ashley.58 Eric Ashley

    Dan Brown has a formula. He used it in this one as well.

  • http://www.facebook.com/eric.ashley.58 Eric Ashley

    Just finished reading ‘Sackett’ by L’Amour to the boys, now reading ‘Black’ by Ted Dekker to them (along with the US Constitution which is the first time for me to read it as well).

    ‘Bill and Dave’ by Michael S. Malone is somewhere around here. Its a bio/business book on Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard. Malone wrote another very good book, and he doesn’t have a lot of respect for Fiorini. Both reasons to appreciate his pov.

  • Wombat_socho

    I’m not unhappy until the customers are unhappy. :)

  • Wombat_socho

    I used to like grits quite a bit before I realized they were trying to kill me. :(

  • Wombat_socho

    I, too, am looking forward to the new season of Game of Thrones.

  • Wombat_socho

    It all starts with the 16th Amendment…

  • Wombat_socho

    I’m especially fond of the live version, with Sam Ronson’s dad throwing down the awesome guitar parts. As you can tell.

  • Wombat_socho

    Louis L’Amour is a great writer, and the Sackett books are some of his greatest works.

  • http://thevailspot.blogspot.com/ Rich Vail

    I would have loved to go…but I”ve been out of work for 5 weeks (naked plea to hit my blog’s tip jar, just found a job, start tomorrow, but that’s still 2 more weeks w/o income)…and I just don’t have the money to pay for it…despite living 40 miles away. It just wasn’t in the cards. I could get my motorcycle fixed (since my 20 y/o truck collapsed and died of old age) or go to CPAC…

  • Quartermaster

    Work is not an acceptable excuse for missing CPAC, Wombat.

  • Wombat_socho

    Au contraire, CPAC is not an acceptable excuse for missing work. Especially during tax season.

  • Wombat_socho

    I think you made the right choice.

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  • http://twitter.com/richard_mcenroe richard mcenroe

    Most people don’t get that grits are not a food. In the Civil War, Confederate troops were issued a pouch of grits as an abrasive for scouring gunpowder residue out of rifled muskets.

    After the battle of Gettysburg, when the Union finally started taking prisoners in significant numbers, they began finding these pouches in the Confederates’ kit.

    “What’s this for?” they’d ask.

    “Eat it, Yankee!”

    “You first…” and a meal was born…

  • http://marezilla.com/ Zilla of the Resistance

    I’ve been reading Bullies, the new book by Ben Shapiro. It’s very good and he has a delightful writing style. You’ll be laughing even as you become enraged!

  • Quartermaster

    Excuses, excuses. Buy Turbo Tax.

  • Wombat_socho

    Not acceptable in Minnesota, and judging from our customers, it’s about as flexible and helpful as a 2×4.

  • http://thecampofthesaints.org Bob Belvedere

    That is the best version.

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