Iowegians + Booze + Football = Misdemeanor Indecent Conduct
Last weekend during the Iowa v. Minnesota 55-0 blowout, the game wasn’t the only thing blown.
An Iowegian 38 year old mother of three attending the game with her husband asked him to accompany her to the restroom after she had too much to drink. He declined, apparently too absorbed in the Minnesota rout, so she wandered off on her own to seek relief. Along the way she met a 26 year old Iowegian male who was seeking another kind of relief.
The cops busted up their relief-a-thon in the men’s room—with a cheering crowd at hand to egg them on.
Both were charged with misdemeanor indecent conduct and as a result, Mrs. Relief lost her job at a retirement home. It must have been a long and silent journey home to Iowa for Mr. and Mrs. Relief and the Reliefer and his girlfriend.
Mrs. Relief claims her behavior was atypical and says she was drugged not drunk; Mr. Relief “blames himself for not realizing she was too intoxicated to head off to the bathroom on her own.”
Although Mrs. Relief has already lost her job, every woman should hope she doesn’t lose her husband. Ladies, think about it—-if you got drunk at a football game, picked up some young dude you didn’t know and had sex with him in the men’s room to cheering throngs, wouldn’t you rather have a husband who blames himself rather than you?
Baracka Claus Sez Shop ‘Til Ya Drop
Three people were killed at retail stores on Friday and frankly I’m surprised there isn’t more of this. Of course people immediately began hollaring about how greed is ruining our nation and calling for boycotts, banning Christmas and making WalMart stores illegal, among other overheated hyperbolic demands.
The Scoundrel takes a non-hysterical view of these events, having been on both sides of Black Friday. I agree with his observations and commentary and will add my own:
1. After months of hysterical fearmongering about the economy by the national press in order to help get Democrats elected, it seems they didn’t get the memo that the elections are over and the Democrats won. After all the doomsaying that Black Friday would be a bust, it looks like once again, the American public ignored them and Black Friday will probably be as robust as last year;
2. It was no hardship for me to give up shopping on Black Friday—or any other day for that matter, since I hate to shop and hate crowds. This is why every holiday season, I fall to my knees and thank the gods for Al Gore who invented the internet.
3. Even though most of the anti-shopping/WalMart/Christmas commentary is from liberals, they should heed what their lord and master, Baracka Claus said about the ecomony and how to keep it strong by shopping and buying:
Obama is being a realist when he says it’s our patriotic duty to go shopping; after all, if we want expanded government, we’ve got to have a way to pay for it, and making WalMart illegal and other crackheaded schemes won’t rake in the dough the Obama government will need.
Barack Steinbrenner
Daniel Halper on Obama’s All Star lineup of Emanuel, Clinton, Daschle and Richardson:
“And [Obama's] all-star approach is more George Steinbrenner than Machiavelli. If Obama is receptive to so many advisors, he could do worse than to ask the owner of the New York Yankees if the assemblage of an all-star line-up is immediate grounds for success. Packed to the gills with talent (and ego), that club is a model of under-achievement. Season after season, ability is trumped by personal ambition; coherence loses out to subtle and unsubtle rivalries. Occasionally it works, but an all-star team, with the highest profie players at each position, generally produces something less impressive than the sum of all its fancy parts.”
We’ll soon see how Obama’s All-Stars perform as a team: opening day is January 20.
Lies My History Teacher Told Me
Those of us of a certain age learned the story of the first Thanksgiving in a fairly straight forward way; the Pilgrims (and others) fled religious persecution in their own land to make the treacherous journey across the Atlantic to the New World and religious freedom.
Once here, these urban liberals were clueless about how food was really made since there were no Whole Food stores or Starbucks in the New World.
Enter the noble Red Man who taught the clueless urbanites how to farm and how to “execute” and prepare animals in order to eat them.
As a token of their gratitude, the Pilgrims hosted a feast of thanksgiving to honor the noble Red Men who had helped them survive the harsh New England winter.
At least that’s the story.
But now it seems it was all just a ghastly lie, at least according to Patty Loew, who is a member of the Bad River Band of Lake Superior Ojibwe, a filmmaker, a TV anchor and an associate professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
According to the good professor, the Indian tribes along the Eastern seaboard had been decimated by the bubonic plague before the Pilgrims even arrived; at least 90% of the native population was dead before the Mayflower landed.
So rather than a mob of welcoming Indians, the Pilgrims found abandoned villages with crops still in the fields. The more religious settlers believed this was a sign from God that He was providing for them.
However, other settlers “took to digging up the graves of Indians, picking through the housewares, blankets or weapons buried with the dead.”
Loew sums up the first Thanksgiving:
“So the first Thanksgiving in America was actually held by grave robbers.”
That should make the rest of us feel good about feasting on our executed turkeys and hams tomorrow because at least we aren’t out robbing graves.
Spare Change
Victor Davis Hanson:
“So a mere two weeks after victory, ‘hope and change’ and ‘a break from the past’ reified into parceling out posts to dozens of Clintonite retreads, plenty of the old requisite Ivy-League law degrees, ample influence from establishment ex-lobbyists, de rigueur Sidwell Friends for the kids, and apparent sudden existential angst and uncertainty over FISA, getting out pronto from Iraq, closing down the Constitution-shredding Gitmo, and overturning the McCarthyite Patriot Act—and all to acclaim and relief from aristocratic Beltway pundits of both parties? So that was all the election was about? Just new faces on the same old, same old?”
It looks like Obama will keep the tax cuts for the wealthy, too.
Whether you were hoping or dreading the “change” Obama promised, it now looks like his first term will either be the third term of the Clinton administration or the third term of the Bush administration.
Hope and change just ain’t what they used to be!
Another Meaningless Word
Yesterday Barack Obama said “. . .we are facing an economic crisis of historic proportions.”
Um, no we aren’t. What we “face” today is no where near the economic “crisis” of the ’30s or even the crisis of the Carter administration in the ’70s.
The Misery Index which has tracked “misery” (unemployment + inflation) numbers since 1948, indicates that Reagan had it the most “historic” economic disaster when he was forced to correct the train wreck of the bollixed Carter administration; Obama is dealing with an economic “crisis” which is as “historic” as what George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton had to deal with—which means it isn’t “historic” at all—except in his own arrogant mind and in the minds of his worshippers in the press and elsewhere.
So it seems that now “historic” means anything Obama says or does—don’t ask why—-just because!
So toss “historic” on the ash heap of words that no longer have any real meaning—-like press credibility.
Quote Of The Day
From Rahm Emanuel:
“You never want a serious crisis to go to waste. And what I mean by that is an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before.”
Hubert Humphrey Redux
On Saturday, Barack Obama announced his new economic recovery plan designed to simultaneously create millions of jobs and fix/build infrastructure like roads, bridges and schools. The exact cost of the plan is still unknown, but I expect Obama spokespersons will soon be speaking in terms of “gazillions” of dollars.
But forget the cost—will it work?
Robert Stacy McCain makes the conservative case against the plan:
“The secret to economic growth is not government ‘investment,’ it’s increasing the capital supply. . . . Obama has fallen for the 20th-century liberal fallacy that government spending or government-directed spending has some magical quality that private economic activity does not. Republicans have claimed credit for ‘job creation’ by cutting taxes, but Obama’s suggestion of ‘creating jobs’ via government expenditue overlooks the fact that government doesn’t create money out of thin air. There are three ways in which government can get money to spend: (a) by taxing, (b) by borrowing, or (c) by inflation. And all three involve harm to the private sector, thus Jefferson’s maxim that the government that governs best is that which governs least.”
The problem now is that the Democrats and their allies in the press have whipped up hysteria about the economic situation to such a fevered pitch that the public is being stampeded into believing that something, ANYTHING must be done—-NOW.
But the good news, at least in McCain’s view, is that the gazillions will be spent on concrete and steel projects, rather than social welfare programs, government giveaways and hiring more unionized bureaucrats, so we’ll be able to actually SEE where our money goes, even if it doesn’t grow the economy or create jobs.
Our Specially Selected Chicken Little
Last week The QC Times asked local politicians about the proposed automaker bailout. The Iowegians (Harkin, Grassley and Braley) were cautious in their remarks, saying they were “open” to a plan to aid the automakers. Durbin punted in the time honored political way by saying he wanted to see “the final language” before committing.
But we all knew our specially selected congressman and designated waterboy for Big Labor could not and would not be able to restrain himself—not our Philster—-he dove head first into shallow water:
“If we don’t help [the automakers] out, we’d go from recession to depression. . . What would happen is millions of people would lose their jobs and their homes.”
This is political scaremongering of the worst kind and Hare presents a false choice; it isn’t just bail or not bail, the Big 3 could also do a Chapter 11 bankruptcy so jobs and some level of pay could be maintained.
But even beyond that, does Hare have a clue what a depression is? I have to ask this again; is he dumb or just dishonest? As Daniel Gross and others have explained, we aren’t even close to a ’30s style depression—-we aren’t even close to the economic disaster of Jimmy Carter’s presidency. The Misery Index (unemployment + inflation) was at nearly 23% by the time Carter left office; today it is at 11%. Of course, this inconvenient truth will never pass Democrats’ lips—or be mentioned in the press.
All this unwarranted fearmongering and hysteria about the economy reminds me of what happened in the run up to the Iraq War; everybody was shrieking that we must do something NOW because if we don’t, it will only get worse.
But for me, the best part of Hare shilling for bailout of the auto industry comes from the Latin American Herald Tribune which quotes a GM auto executive in Brazil as saying 1 billion dollars of the US taxpayer’s bailout money will be spent in Brazil to renovate operations so that they can avoid the problems they have in the US auto market.
Even though this bailout is as unpopular with the public as the previous 700 billion one was (which Hare voted for TWICE), Hare is promoting the auto industry bailout thinking he will be helping his Big Labor paymasters, when the truth is that he will also be helping the foreign branches of the US auto industry and promoting sending US jobs overseas.
What a hoot!
Yeah, You Look Like A Girl, You May Be A Boy
Two evil navel-gazing time wasters say I’m not what I appear to be:
1. Gender Analyzer is 84% certain that QC Examiner is written by a man;
2. Typealyzer says that QC Examiner is “The Mechanics” type—independent and problem solving, who prefers to think things out and enjoys adventure and risk such as driving race cars or working as a policeman or firefighter.
Yikes! Is there some place I can get an X chromosome transplant?
All you girly-men bloggers take the test and see if you blog the way you look—-just because it’s on the internet doesn’t mean it’s true—-just fun!
