Quotes for Wednesday – having nothing to do with Natural Breasts
"Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best; it removes all that is base. All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood." - General George S. Patton
"The free man owns himself. He can damage himself with either eating or drinking; he can ruin himself with gambling. If he does he is certainly a damn fool, and he might possibly be a damned soul; but if he may not, he is not a free man any more than a dog." - GK Chesterton
"This is the age in which thin and theoretic minorities can cover and conquer unconscious and untheoretic majorities." - GK Chesterton
"Men are ruled, at this minute by the clock, by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern." - GK Chesterton
"A thing may be too sad to be believed or too wicked to be believed or too good to be believed; but it cannot be too absurd to be believed in this planet of frogs and elephants, of crocodiles and cuttle-fish." - GK Chesterton
"Yes, something very ugly has surfaced in contemporary American liberalism, as evidenced by the irrational and sometimes infantile abuse directed toward anyone who strays from a strict party line. Liberalism, like second-wave feminism, seems to have become a new religion for those who profess contempt for religion. It has been reduced to an elitist set of rhetorical formulas, which posit the working class as passive, mindless victims in desperate need of salvation by the state. Individual rights and free expression, which used to be liberal values, are being gradually subsumed to worship of government power." - Camille Paglia
"[Republicans] represent the very elite who, year after year after year, have destroyed our Constitution, betrayed our rights and undermined our strength created by our people in the world." - Ambassador Alan Keyes
My attitude on boomers
I may have posted this before, but just in response to some of the comments on my last post:
I am an Xer, born in 1974. My parents were born in 1952. My parents were just fine. They were of the older boomers... and my stepdad amongst the younger [my husband sometimes gets lumped with the young boomers, sometimes w/ the Xers...but he definitely wants nothing to do with the boomers].
A few divorces amongst my extended family, but not many, and not much in terms of going crazy on the debt and the like. [I'm not sure about their savings, but we're about to find out, eh?] They didn't have as many kids as the previous generation, but not much childlessness amongst that crowd [the only ones I can think of had major medical issues precluding parenthood]. 2-4 kids each family.
As well, my younger relatives aren't whiny above the usual obnoxiousness of youth. Going back to Socrates you hear about snotty adolescents.
There is an opportunity for those of us middle-aged Xers, in real life. The boomers can't hang on forever, and the Yers do not have enough experience for management.
I don't really have anything against the boomers or Ys. Most of the boomers weren't hippy-dippy-liberals-turned-yuppies-turned-old-farts-pretending-they're-young-farts. What I do have a problem with is the media coverage -- where the boomers who were/are hippies-turned-yuppies-turned-old-farts-pretending-they're-not are heavily represented. And so the coverage is coming from their own self-image.
So they're pretending that, while they may not be young, they're definitely not old [YES YOU ARE]. "Here's the latest fashion in bifocals!" "The hearing aid that looks just like a bluetooth earpiece!" Am I going to have to hear about how hip Depends are 20 years from now? ARGH.
Save me, please. Just sell the damn things without making it "trendy".
In any case, we are going to have to listen about the boomers retiring, the boomers' hip replacements, the boomers' slide into senility. The retirement coverage is starting now, and the others are to come. We're just going to have to get used to it.
What’s Up? 2-9-11
I'm working on something. Meanwhile, a little bit of browser tab dumping.
First, today's hot story (which burbled up more quickly than the one about the guy who was stabbed to death by a cock), is the British surgical tourist who flew to Philly with her two girlfriends for an illegal and ultimately fatal buttocks enhancement in a Hampton Inn by the airport.
Russian scientists are unknowingly sealing their horrific doom by unsealing an Antarctic lake frozen for 15 million years, thus liberating the terrible and patient beast therein immured.
Issa report outlines connections between ACORN and SEIU kickback schemes, or what "community re-investment" really means.
Dave Weigel is deservedly getting his ass kicked for his evasions, obfuscations and spin regarding the Planned Parenthood fiasco.
IRS trying to bluff tax evaders into windfall. Actually prosecuting them will reveal how common a practice it is to let those connected to unions or other approved groups skate for pennies on the dollar.
On the fourth anniversary of his blog, David Thompson gathers much-merited plaudits, and reveals that I've given him nightmares.
AOL-HuffPo fallout: Stacy notes that Matt Lewis is leaving AOL Politics as Arianna takes the editorial reins in the Dali-esque bargain struck by the AOL nitwits. Yesterday, Ed Morrissey and the guest on his show goggled about the finances of the deal. Arianna and her partners got over $300 million, almost all of it in cash, for the buy-out, but she stays on as editor at another several million per year.
As Ed points out, the vast, vast majority of the content is written by unpaid bloggers, with a few star names getting some money. Given the nature of the politics of envy, it's going to be interesting to see whether the unpaid minions start clamoring for a slice of the pie. I see the potential for a lot of humor in this.
And who can resist Grand Theft LiLo for Playstation?
Things I Learned This Week
1. It's a good idea to carry rental car reimbursement on your auto insurance. It's not worth the money you save by leaving it off.
2. Medication can affect the way I hear a song. I didn't really have any issues with the anthem at the Superbowl. I didn't notice the missed line, and I didn't think her performance was over the top. I may have been absolutely alone in the world on both of those.
3. When I leave work early due to weather, don't stop for a drink. The roads are probably more slick than I realize.
4. Car at 15 mph vs. stationary median/curb = a seriously jacked up axle. See #1 above.
5. Aaron Rodgers is an amazing quarterback, and that guy from the Steelers is overrated. Yeah, he makes good plays in the clutch sometimes, but the Steelers wouldn't need those clutch plays if they had a truly great quarterback.
6. Being a 1-car family with a 55 mile commute really sucks. See #1.
7. I'm one seriously lazy SOB.
Boomer Retirement Watch, 7Feb2011
Gen Xers wanting the old farts to get out of their way!...well, kind of. It's some sort of press release from a woman whose website name is waaaaaaay too long. [yes, I know it resolves to something shorter.] Looks like she has a book to sell.
Thing is, there's not enough of us Xers to fill all the management slots. Attached to this NYT article on trying to market/design towards the old farts who are in denial about being old farts, but really do have physical problems, is a historical demographic histogram [you'll see that the bars don't necessarily make sense in time changes, but you've got to remember the effect of immigration]. I'll pull the cross-section for the year 2010. See that 30-45 demo? That's the Xers, sandwiched between the boomers and the whiny Ys. Oh yay.
And watch out for that huge 45-55 demo [the "young" boomers]. My mother is in the "older" boomer lump of 55-65, [and if you check out the prior years and later years, you can see that mortality is outweighing immigration in those bars... they are dwindling, but slowly].
Why aren't boomers retiring on schedule? Well, duh - retirement assets have totally sucked, and the layoffs weren't kind, either.
Yet another piece on OH NOES THE BOOMERS ARE GONNA RETIRE! Well, maybe if we're lucky, they can't afford it, and they'll stay in the workforce. Woo hoo.
And here's something on "OH NOES LIVE TOO LONG"/"OH NOES TOO FAT"/"Damn, annuities are complicated and unpopular".
Boomers dealing with their parents' deaths and the financial repercussions. Yes, I've been seeing a lot of this over the past several years. The parents of the boomers are in their 70s-80s, on the whole, and that's the mode of death ages currently, if I recall correctly.
Egypt – Self-Determination – Equilibrium
I admit it. I care about what is happening in Egypt. But I care not from a geopolitical standpoint, but rather from a Human standpoint. I have mentioned before that I love it when David crushes the skull of Goliath. And this means, in essence, that I love it when the Little Guy has his Day. I love it when abusers of power have their comeuppance.
An Invitation to Revolt - Tax Act, Anyone?
It needn't be Egypt. It needn't even be a story of historical consequence. The Little Guy who has had enough and insists on reclaiming what is rightfully his to begin with. I like these stories.
It is true that there is something to be said for being concerned about how the troubles in Egypt will work themselves out. From where I sit, I surely understand that there are various outcomes... some better than others. And I understand the proclivity to work towards a conclusion that plays to the status quo for fear of the unknown.
There is really something to be said for interlopers. And I don't like them perhaps more than I don't like the "current expression" of Islam - that "religion of peace". I don't like them as neighbors. I don't like them as bureaucrats. I don't like them as presidents or congresscritters. And I don't like that we, the U.S., are so comfortable being the nosy, righteous, prying eyes of the world.
Truth be told, I believe conflict and tumult occur when forces struggle to upset the Equilibrium. And by Equilibrium I do not mean the status quo. Rather, I mean the natural balance that humans cannot help but impede... but which the Individual Human desires nearly above all else.
On Iran, for instance. I am not a fan at all. But tell me... how exactly is it just that they are not permitted to develop the capacity for nuclear weapons? Do I think it is a good idea for them to have them? No. Not particularly. Yet, I think it is obnoxious that we deign to tell them what they can and cannot posses - what they can and cannot develop. Really? How can we do that?
Humans struggle against Equilibrium in an effort to control the future. To contain the inevitable, we struggle against one another. Water will always find the lowest point. We can divert it at great expense, but it only knows the Law. And the Law makes it a relentless, single-minded, unyielding foe. Human Nature is much the same way. Human Nature seeks freedom from oppression. Human Nature resents obstacles to freedom. Human Nature cannot be contained. The desire for freedom is imbued in the very essence of each of God's creatures... immutably so.
Congrats! You just birthed the PLO!
I will admit it. I am not a great fan of the Muslim Cultures. In large part because it stands in the way of Liberty for all. Yet, the same reason I find Islam offensive is the same reason I find myself in a mood of solidarity with the very same People.
The Islamic Cultures of the world have suffered mightily for their oppression of women. Any people who cut the body in half is necessarily gimpy. And they have suffered enormously as a result of resisting the Equilibrium. Until Muslim Women are valued as they are created to be the Muslim People will remain severely handicapped. Something about a house divided... something about the Austro-Hungarian "Empire" visa vis Germany.
Liberty will be had. Because Human Nature is such that Men cannot tolerate oppression and will give their very lives to have Liberty. And there is nothing to be done about it.
In the same way I am proud of my country when Liberty is furthered by our intervention, I am ashamed when we intervene for more Machiavellian reasons, building dams and dikes, locks and canals, at the expense of the Equilibrium. I don't care if on the whole I find the Islamic Cultures worthless less than worthwhile. At the heart of it I know these Strangers are Human. At our core... at our most fundamental level... we are motivated by the very same things (by and large). This because we are all striving to return to sea level. It is our nature, differences aside.
How can I fault the people of Egypt for seeking what is rightfully theirs. The Inalienable Rights our Forefathers spoke of belong to ALL of Mankind. No matter how repulsive I find the Strangers "sensibilities" to be in this day and age, we must let them attain what each person seeks.
Iran became the Iran of today precisely because we interlopers forced an overreaction - an over-adjustment. The Iranian people simply switched a yoke for a set of shackles. And this to spite the West. And at my core, I completely understand that motivation. A big, hearty F*** Y**. Not entirely unreasonable to expect as much, given our meddling and insistence on writing their storyline. Really. F***ing obnoxious of us.
A Casting Call for Hitler.
When it comes to Egypt, we must remind ourselves that this is Their Story. Yes, in the larger sense there are consequences for us. And the outcome in Egypt will have an impact on a global scale. It will upset, in one degree or another, the Status Quo. But short of a wholesale state-sponsored slaughter, we should keep ourselves to ourselves.
Leave the Flow alone. Leave the Egyptians alone to pursue self-determination without fetters. What they have as a result - their lot - will be theirs. Is there a chance it will not play to "our favor" in the geopolitical sense? Of course. Is there the chance the Muslim Brotherhood could ascend like the Nazis in Interwar Germany? Yes. But the best way to ensure that worst of outcomes is to be the Other. The grand, presumptuous, self-appointed nanny of the world... the Great Interloper. The enforces of a punitive Status Quo, baked into a treaty... a treaty despised by every German of the time. A treaty which allowed for a complete over-correction. A levee named Versailles.
Super Bowl Pensions!
Let's start out with the city of the Steelers -- how are those Pittsburgh pensions looking?
The hometown Steelers got to the Super Bowl with a disciplined defense and flexible offense. The city fathers, on the other hand, will need a Hail Mary pass to salvage Pittsburgh's pension system.
By relying on outdated actuarial tables, making only minimum payments, and failing to limit benefits as the number of active workers paying into the plans fell, Pittsburgh has accumulated a $700 million unfunded liability, and its 29.5% funding level is among the lowest in the U.S.
Well, I'm sure taxation will help.... except that 50% of the taxes were already going to debt service + retiree benefits, and now they've got to devote 70%; the property tax base ain't so hot as 40% of the land is held by nontaxable entities; and the human tax base ain't so hot as the demographics suck -- one of the "oldest" cities out there. Read the whole article.
Still no answer as to what that calculation error was earlier.
Wisconsin's situation is a little less "colorful":
Walker said he is trying to help municipalities duplicate his cost-cutting efforts at the state level. In his State of the State speech Tuesday, he called for state employees to contribute 5 percent of their salaries toward their pensions and pay a 12 percent premium for health care coverage.
That's pretty much par-for-the-course nowadays.
Not really Super Bowl-related, but gotta share a little actuary love [because we get the love so infrequently. You're gonna die! You're gonna outlive your money! You're gonna pay a lot for that health insurance! ... why wouldn't people love us?]
Ryan’s breakthrough as author of the Roadmap was a direct result of his becoming the ranking Republican member on the budget committee in 2007. This gave him a staff of professionals and access to actuaries at the Congressional Budget Office, Treasury Department, and Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
“Only after I became a ranking member could I get the actuaries to do all this scoring for me,” Ryan says. “They don’t just do this for everybody in Congress.” The Roadmap would reform Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, the tax code, and the health care system. Without credible numbers on its fiscal effects and its cost, Ryan’s plan for restraining spending and wiping out the national debt would be purely abstract and easy to ignore. Now it’s front and center, the most important Republican policy document in decades.
Ryan relishes the company of actuaries. “I’ve gotten to know them,” he says. “It’s actually the highlight of my day when I meet with actuaries. I love those meetings. That’s the most interesting way I spend my time up here.”
Go out there and spread that actuary love.... or watch a football game. It's your choice.
NFL Is Beyond Cheap
Today, I stumbled on a story about the only known recording of Super Bowl I, in which the Packers defeated the Chiefs 35-10.
For a variety of reasons, the first Super Bowl disappeared into oblivion. It's been one of the most sought-for bits of television and sports history for decades, now.
There have been many false reports of recordings, but finally a videotape has surfaced in a Pennsylvania attic. The discoverer's father taped the game on a work recorder with an eye to posterity. The discoverer brought the tape to an archival organization for restoration.
He's offered to sell the NFL the rights to the tape for $30k, but they've balked, stating that it's their property. $30k seems more than reasonable What are they liable to realize on that transaction?
What makes it all the more galling is that the ownership is probably going to lock out the players. Is this really a wise PR move? I don't think so.
I think some reasonably deep-pocketed righty ought to buy the rights from the dude who found the recording, and fight it out in court. If I had any money, I'd send some to help defray the legal costs.
While I'm ranting about the NFL and its attitudes, I want to put a lick on some of the owners as individuals. There are guys like the Rooneys in Pittsburgh who have been stand-up guys, and then there are the nightmares, like Jerry Jones and Snyder, who just doom their teams to suckitude. Unfortunately, the league is very much against letting other teams have the kind of public stock ownership that the Packers have.
Why? I mean, the players come from all different places. Most of the teams have sold the naming rights to their stadiums. They have different standards regarding the personal conduct of their players. Why should there not be a variety of different ways of structuring ownership?
You're loyal to your team. I applaud that. But you let this dude who has money and thinks therefore that he knows something about football talent tell you he needs a new stadium? Get real. Dude's taking you for a ride to another 6-10 season, while you've doubled the value of his franchise.
Lazy post: Reprinting a Letter to the Editor
I have long been writing letters to the editor at the Wall Street Journal. I've had a pretty good success rate in getting printed I think. I can't find the letter I wrote when I was drunk making fun of English majors, but I always found it very funny. Evidently the editors liked it, too. [Anybody able to find it.... please let me know!]
Scott Adams of Dilbert fame has been regularly writing for the Weekend WSJ, and last weekend he wrote a [trying-to-be-funny] piece on making higher taxes more palatable for rich people.
Alas, the problem isn't convincing the rich to allow higher taxes on themselves; it's convincing the rich to not change their behavior if higher taxes are imposed on them. It's a lot easier to stop making income than to make more. And the richer one is, the more people you've got helping you maximize your after-tax situation. We've seen time and again that raising taxes on people who are actually rich makes for good politics but it doesn't net much in government revenue.
In any case, it's moot. There aren't enough rich people, and they don't have enough wealth to plug the hole in our government finances at state and federal levels. There are, however, a lot more people—and total income and wealth—in the middle range.
So I think Mr. Adams had better get cracking on convincing those of median income that they should pay higher taxes and get fewer government services and benefits. Might as well work on it, as that's what's going to happen. Maybe we can make it like a video game. I know that when I "play" TurboTax, the numbers going up and down seem like a game to me.
And yeah, I need to go buy TurboTax. As I expect to be writing a large check this year, I'm in no hurry to play that game this year.
On the 100th anniversary of Ronald Reagan’s birth
Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!
I plan to raise my glass and offer a toast to that great man who, in time, may be ranked among the greatest Presidents of the 20th century. Sure, the cold war technically ended on Bush 41's watch, but that effect was caused by his predecessors policies. And while much is often made of Mr. Clinton's seemingly magical touch, vis-a-vis the economy and the days of "high cotton" our nation enjoyed while he was in office-at least until the "dot-com" bubble burst that is, none of that would have been possible if the cold war had still been in full swing. Reagan was a great man, who's good humor and optimism brought is together, by and large, when times were tough, and who inspired many to serve-and here I'm definitely speaking for myself.
It's amusing, this many years later, how so many people who openly reviled and vilified the man while he was alive, today instead sing praise of him and demonstratively lament, "Why, oh why can't these WINGNUTS! be more like Reagan?!?!?". Even our current President isn't immune from this disingenuous behavior, and despite the fact that in his auobiographies he speaks of Reagan contemptuously; of late he has been trying to fashion himself in the public's eye as some kind of latter day Reagan. Where 2 years ago we saw magazing covers with Obama as FDR, today we see them with the President embracing Reagan. And the MBM (make-believe-media) has been working hard in order to exploit every opportunity to refer to something Obama has done or said as being "Reagan-esque". That is a preposterous, patently absurd, assertion. No matter how many films he watches or books he reads on the great man, Obama, nor indeed any lefty, could ever really be "Reagan-esque".
What do you think he'd say about Obamacare?
That's because Reagan had the courage of his core convictions; he believed what he said. He spoke openly of his plans for our nation, of how he was working to achieve his vision, instead of trying to mask a socialistic agenda as some kind of center-right plan to restore America to her rightful place as Obama is doing; of course, what is being left unsaid is that her "rightful place" will only be achieved after she is taken down a few notches. Reagan metaphorically referred to America as a shining city upon a hill, while Obama and the progressive left believe that the America Reagan was speaking about was inherently flawed, evil, and responsible for all of the worlds ills, failings, and travails. What they truly admire is the high regard and respect that the majority of Americans had for Mr. Reagan, and that he could rely on the courage of his convictions and strength of his ideas and arguments to lead Americans in the direction he thought the country needed to go. They admire that popularity, and the ability of this "teflon-President" to weather all criticism.
No matter how studiously Obama or the progressive left imitate Reagan, they will never be able to be like him. That's because to them, Reaganism is a certain pose to be modeled, a scene to be played, "optics" to be achieved, a tone to be struck, another phony affectation that can be mastered. They don't understand that it was based on a belief in the nation our founders envisioned, not in a revulsion at some "old" document written by a bunch of white guys; a love for America as she was, and not conditional on what she would become after an Obamian transformation; that a rising tide lifts all boats, instead of being wedded to the mistaken idea that the economy was some sort of zero-sum game; and an idea that our best days as a nation still lie ahead of us, instead of a conviction that we needed to consume less, enjoy less prosperity, and take up a more "equitable" place amongst the nations of the world. Obama can never be Reagan, nor Reagan-esque, because he and his allies on the socialist, progressive, left simply don't see the world the same way, believe the same things, or share the same ideas, that Ronald Reagan did. So they should give up the act already, because their poor attempts at assuming what they see as the proper posture are as hideous as a bad impersonation by a crummy night-club comic.
So on what would be Ronald Reagan's 100th birthday I offer my prayers; that he is enjoying the warmth of eternity in God's loving embrace, for his surviving family here on earth, and for us all.
May God bless us all, and may He continue to bless the United States of America.
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