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by Smitty

Quick is asking:

Tell me what sort of electronics you own that you would pay $200 an hour to have repaired, rather than junking it and buying new?

Precisely. No one wants to deal with the expense of these modern, highly integrated electronics. The manufacturing runs are so tiny that getting a repair part six months after the sale may be simply impossible. So you price the labor out of the reasonable range.

Stacy McCain’s old laptop was the hardware equivalent of a Steven King novel. If he’d insisted, for sentimental reasons, to have that thing resurrected, $200/hour would have been a lowball labor cost just to get someone to touch that thing.

by Smitty via Drudge

His Fecklessness strikes:

Democrats were tossed from office in record numbers last November. That groundswell is shaping the 2012 campaign.

But Reid doesn’t expect it to last.

“The Tea Party was the result of a terrible economy,” he said. “I’ve said that many times, and I believe that.”

“That (the Tea Party) will pass. They will lose a number of seats next year.”

Reid has amassed his considerable power by never underestimating his adversaries.

This blog can now reveal the stunning truth of Harry Reid’s Tippy-Top Secret Undisclosed Location:

Harry, you’re so toast you don’t even know it, dude. Your words are going to seem dumb in 2012 when your party gets another shellacking, in 2014 when your party gets another shellacking, and in in 2016 when both you and your party get another shellacking. Yes, that Tea Party you dismiss is going to finish dismissing your sad little excuse for a political empire.

It would nearly be funny, if so many people didn’t have to pay so dearly for the utter impotence of your ideas.

Would that you could heed Dennis Miller’s advice, and never open your ashen pie-hole in public again. Still fresh after four years.

by Smitty

It doesn’t appear that the Black Sox scandal destroyed baseball; I don’t see how a generation of commie swine disguised as the media can destroy investigative reporting.

In an America with a re-vitalized media, do you really want to be the candidate that says “You can’t ask about my transcripts; I’m invoking the Obama Rule.” That would go over as well as, say, Obama’s budget, which combined idiocy and bad luck to ride to a unanimous 0-97 near-victory in the Senate, but mostly idiocy.

Update: Gerard says the media has found Rick Perry’s transripts. I, for one, rejoice that the country has been spared four years of an ideologue who would, no doubt, have run trillion-dollar deficits and reduced the country to an object of international ridicule.

by Smitty (h/t Da Tech Guy)

This blog is proud to announce that one of its favorited scratching posts has achieved the rare feat of mention in Klavan On The Culture. Top that, anyone in Barney Frank’s district!

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• Going-In Position: The Opposite Of Jim Moran’s Ideas Are Good Ones
• Jim Moran: Clownish Buffoon, Or Buffoonish Clown?
• Which Ignorance Probably Explains Jim Moran’s Reelections
• The 10′ Fairy Sculpture At The Mark Center: A Jim Moran Symbol?
• Best VA Political Week Of The Year

by Smitty

Via Insty:

“Whether your own college experience was more like The Paper Chase or Animal House, you can be sure that today’s campuses are neither. Instead, your tuition and tax dollars are funding an ever-growing army of bureaucrats that police everything from free speech to dating. Administrators now outnumber faculty on our nation’s campuses, and even students’ innermost thoughts are subject to their oversight. Each year, the college experience gets closer to that of a TSA line at the airport — but one that you have to live in for four years.”

Of course, the big difference was that USNA wansn’t four years of indoctrination to godless Communism, either.

by Smitty

In Iowa, Stacy McCain has fallen in love with the Butter Cow. Meanwhile, in Virginia, noted parody tunesmith Fishersville Mike thinks about a Palin Candidacy and feels like it’s already Christmas. A bit of ribbon:

You better watch out
as liberals cry
Here comes a force
They cannot deny
Sarah Palin’s coming to town

RTWT.

If I thought there was much religious content remaining in the Saturnalia, I might denouce Mike as some rampant Christianist or something.

Me, I just enjoy the Nativity.

by Smitty

Via Protein Wisdom, we have this Zero Hedge article that is a bolt of pure hairshirt. “Welcome to the Age of Instability”. Yes, it’s going to be turbulent for a decade-ish. Yes, the centralized world order is dead on its feet. Yes, some folks in the forty-to-sixty age bracket, like me, are getting a haircut of sizeable proportions.

Deal with it.

You can ‘go British’, and crap in your dinner plate, or you can man up and re-embrace that exceptional American commitment to liberty. All I want to see is political leadership that can go after the Code of Federal Regulations: Continue reading Not Buying So Much Gloom →