Showing posts with label how things work. Show all posts
Showing posts with label how things work. Show all posts

Friday, May 6, 2016

I'm with Paul Ryan

Paul Ryan put it best in describing where I am right now with regard to Donald Trump.

Ryan's position makes him the highest-level GOP official to reject Trump since the real estate mogul became the last candidate standing in the party's nominating contest. His move gives down-ballot Republicans cover to hold off on supporting Trump. It could also keep his agenda in the House from being overtaken by Trump's policy positions.

Ryan said he hopes to eventually back Trump and "to be a part of this unifying process." The first moves, though, must come from Trump, he said.

Ryan said he wants Trump to unify "all wings of the Republican Party and the conservative movement" and then run a campaign that will allow Americans to "have something that they're proud to support and proud to be a part of."

"And we've got a ways to go from here to there," Ryan said.

I have felt recently like I might be in the #NeverTrump camp. But the key word is felt. When I actually think about it, I'm more like #NotYetTrump. I think he has some work he still needs to do in order to prove that I would be voting for a grown-up in November and not a spoiled brat. Like, for example, he could have started off better by not telling me that he doesn't want my vote and the votes of those like me.



Now I know that we've started having heated discussions over here about this topic. And that is fine. Let's just continue to be respectful. Let me just say now that a decision not to vote for anyone is just that—a vote for not anyone.

Friday, July 19, 2013

Shut up

That's advice you can take to the bank. I mainly mean shut up about your business plans until the time is ripe. Juror B37 has canned her plans for writing the book about the Zimmerman trial after being dropped by her agent. This is due to pressure applied by anger and threats of boycott being expressed on Twitter. Had they just waited a few months and then just written the book instead of making a big deal about it they may have scored. There will be plenty of shiny objects to distract the Trayvon fan-girls in the weeks and months to come. New TV shows, back to school shopping, etc. Just my opinion, but informed by experience.

Friday, March 1, 2013

How To Make Money From Facebook



It's just like abstinence. Works every time it's tried.

Thursday, February 21, 2013

Legally make your own gun


They'll never take them away, really. From cold dead hands, maybe, but from the American spirit which burns and doesn't die? I don't think so. What if they change this law? I think you'll still see these items out there, and if they are grandfathered, how can anyone tell when they were finished and put together?

Here is a good FAQ on what the man is talking about on their website. Basically the lower is 80% finished, so it can be sold as a non-FFL controlled item.

Here's a page about the same thing from another company.

Sunday, November 18, 2012

How Obamacare works

Now that President Obama has been reelected, Obamacare is pretty much a fixture. But a lot of people don't know how it works, or, well, how it's supposed to to work assuming it does at all.

Never fear! I have read the entire law and figured out how it works. It's on page 1689, and I'll outline it here in straight street talk for the people.

1. Take one of those big-assed vanilla envelopes and write this address on the front of it:

Barack Obama
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20500

2. Put your medical bills inside the big vanilla envelope. (Try to fit as many as you can inside to save postage and vanilla trees.)

3. Take the envelope down to the Post Office and hand to clerk and say "Yo, how much postage go on this?" Then hand them the money or your SNAP card.

That's it! See, it's easy. That's why it's called Obamacare -- Obama takes care of it. I guess originally it was going to be Joe Biden who took care of it, but they were afraid he'd screw it up.


Isn't it all wonderful? The people who came up with this idea are geniuses. So simple. As easy as falling off a cliff. Definitely worth the crushing taxes and layoffs.