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QotD: Kids Today

What one thing do children have today that you would have loved to have had when you were a child?
Submitted by Rev Stan.

The lack of any sort of discipline or parents who don't actually hold the child responsible for his or her actions, rather than the rest of the world.

QotD: Oscar Snubs

The Oscar nominations were announced yesterday. Which movie or actress do you think we snubbed?

Actor:

• Michael Stuhlbarg for "A Serious Man."
• kinda would have liked to see Zachary Quinto get a nod in either the Actor or Supporting Actor category
  

Picture:

• The Hangover
• Funny People (but great comedies are usually overlooked).
• Star Trek
• Invictus (?) - haven't seen it yet, so thus the question mark
  

Director:

• JJ Abrams
• Judd Apatow
• Clint Eastwood (?) - again, mainly a suspicion
  

Original Score:

• Michael Giacchino (for Star Trek, he was nominated for Up - Land of the Lost, musically, was overlooked as well)

Documentary:

• No real snubs, but the nominations just make me want to kick Hollywood right in the fucking face.

QotD: TAG, You're It!

What do your Vox tags say about you? (Add tags to the end of your Vox blog address, and have a look.)
Submitted by Jack Yan.

I crack myself up sometimes.

California, bend over, grab your ankles, and take it

Despite multiple "tax hike" referendums failing at the voting booth, the leftist tyrants that lord over the state of California are fully prepared to completely ignore all common sense and the will of the electorate, and screw its citizens:

Even higher taxes coming for Californians

Lower brackets and reduced deductions mean yet higher payments to Sacramento for 2009.

By Shane Goldmacher

August 27, 2009

Reporting from Sacramento - While Californians are still feeling the sting of income and sales tax hikes signed into law earlier this year, now comes news that state tax authorities plan to take a little more from their pockets.

For only the second time in 30 years, the tax board is lowering the point where each tax bracket begins, bumping many people into a higher category. At the same time, officials are cutting back some deductions. Everyone will pay more, even people whose bracket or income doesn't change.

Highest taxes in the nation already, and these morons still feel it isn't enough already.  Jesus.

Ted Kennedy. Dead.

Ted Kennedy bites the big one:

HYANNIS PORT, Mass. – Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts, last surviving brother in an American political dynasty and one of the most influential senators in history, died at his home on Cape Cod after a yearlong struggle with brain cancer. He was 77.

Oddly, I think I hated this moron more for his tyrannical, anti-liberty politics than the for fact that he murdered Mary Jo Kopechne, but, in my defense, that crash was ancient history to someone my age. It still certainly colors my emotions towards him as a public figure. I can't sympathize with or get behind the outpouring of grief for this dirtbag, any more than I could for Michael Jackson or other celebrities that get away with major crimes.  I might be a little more gracious of someone of his cloth without an incident like this coloring my views. But who knows. I was so disgusted by the mean-spirited comments from leftists that I read about Robert Novak after his passing, I feel absolutely no obligation to be the least bit diplomatic when it comes to liberal-fascist political figures any longer.

Still, though, as tragic, unforgivable and vile his actions were that night in 1969 on Martha’s Vineyard, it was really his leftist politics that have damaged this nation much more than his drunken escapades and lack of morality turned deadly. So many of his stances on various issues eschewed the notions of individual freedom and responsibility, and promoted the growing in loco parentis Meta-State which threatens all logic and personal choice. He has favored creating a bloated and restrictive socialist health care system over tort reform or the minimizing of federal interstate commerce interference. He supported bitterly inane school busing programs which made political pawns of peoples' children and only furthered racial divides and ill will. His attitudes on illegal immigration were almost frightening in their irrationality and unmerited arrogance. He was constantly behind the state theft of personal income via taxation, and redistributing wealth to ineffective government programs and labyrinthine bureaucracy, all the while feigning altruism.

I cannot, in any fashion, say I'm the least bit moved by Kennedy's death. I do however, as in any instance like this, feel for the family, and wish them my condolences.

QotD: Plans for My Remains

Do you plan to be buried, cremated, cryogenically frozen or something else?
Submitted by aynge.

Probably cremated, but if someone wants to build me a pyramid sized tomb, and bury all my concubines and servants alive with me, I'm down with that.

QotD: It's All Relative

Which relative - dead or alive - do you wish you knew better?

Al Dexter

Animal "Rights"

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Surprise! Bratton Leaving Position as LAPD Chief

Bratton and a douchebag

William Bratton announces he will resign as LAPD chief

His decision to leave at the end of October takes Los Angeles political and police leadership by surprise. During his tenure, Bratton dramatically reshaped the force and pushed down crime rates.

By Joel Rubin
1:02 PM PDT, August 5, 2009

William J. Bratton today announced his plan to resign as chief of the Los Angeles Police Department to take over as head of a private security firm.

Not a huge surprise that he's leaving. There have been rumors that he's been looking around. Probably would be the head of Homeland Security had Sir Hillary been elected President. And there was even talk of Scotland Yard.

"...aides to his boss, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, said the mayor knew nothing..."

Yeah, what else is new.  Mayor Douche. Freaking. Bag.

Despite his "tough talk," Bratton always was a politician. But really for a big city police department, that's about all you can expect from a chief. He threw his officers under the bus a few times, when politically prudent, most especially during the whole May Day illegal immigrant rally turned altercation.  He cared about and fostered his own image more than he cared about the LAPD. But in the end, overall, he wasn't too bad - made some needed improvements, stood up against criminals and crime-sympathizers a lot of the time, and stood behind his officers in many situations. He filled the role better than most players of the game politic at least - but still disappointingly he kissed a lot of asses, caved to the race-baiters, etc. But given the political climate in LA, and the dipshits they have as a mayor and on the city council, it's more than possible that they're going to end up with something much, much, much worse when he departs.  In the end, sorry to see him go.

Of course, he picked a good time to bail, at least for his resume.  Get out now, before the coming crime waves which will hit as a result of economic downturns and California's inability to fully fund the prison system.

QotD: The Perfect Kid-Friendly Laptop

From the design to the features, what should the perfect kid-friendly laptop include? What would you leave out?
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