Note: No secret I’ve been feeling pretty awful, and it shows this week. I’m just getting worn down slowly so I’ve got little or no desire to do art, or bs, or hell, even watch TV. Consider this another “maintenance post”.
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Ok, I’m as susceptible as the next guy to being suspicious of my gov’t, and that is a good thing. You’re an idiot if you trust your government.
But, there was this link from Drudge – an article by Bob Barr.
What the HELL is he smoking? It’s causing dain bramage whatever it is.
Census workers can enter your apartment in your absence.
No, the reality is they can try and be arrested for trespassing or shot like any other intruder.
Yes, I do happen to think anything past Question #2 on the census is none of their damn business, intrusive, and the subtle form of reverse discrimination that is all the rage these days. Your gov’t does not need to know your race in order to function. Sorry.
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This here is some pretty amazing and tough asparagus, a tribute to it’s species, and a one-in-a-million thing.
God, I want to eat it.
Yeah, ok so the asphalt was only 30mm thick – that’s like 1-1/4 inches. Not that big a deal. I’m just hungry for grilled asparagus.
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I’m not even rich, and after Hillary Clinton uttered this about the rich not paying their fair share, I wanted to bitch slap the ****. That’s a nice as I can say it. I’m tired of listening to rich democrats demonize people for being successful and using that mischaracterization to mislead poorer voters (along with outright wealth-redistributive bribery) so they can broker and maintain power.
Ok, yeah, when I start talking like this it means I’m not feeling great. I’ll shut up now.
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No. Wait. One more.
Obama’s counterterrorism adviser…
The president’s top counterterrorism adviser on Wednesday called jihad a “legitimate tenet of Islam,” arguing that the term “jihadists” should not be used to describe America’s enemies.
During a speech at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, John Brennan described violent extremists as victims of “political, economic and social forces,” but said that those plotting attacks on the United States should not be described in “religious terms.”
Oh, just go read the hand-wringing idiot’s apologetics.
I can only hope they try to enter an apartment while the occupant is locked and loaded.
Asparagus…. I can’t abide it. I know, I just failed you.
Hillary Clinton said that??? When she herself has over $100 million in assets?? Did the lottery with Billy as the prize not go well?
Boy, this administration is desperately trying to erase the fact that there are religious muslim fanatics trying desperately to bring about the next caliphate. I was watching this on TV and found myself screaming such vicious invective that hubby actually came downstairs to ask if I was ok.
No, I’m not ok when some Summer’s Eve-swilling, camel-spooge- drinking, goatf*cker-loving liberal tw*tbag decides to make a name for himself by erasing the evil that is pisslam.
F*ck him with a telephone pole soaked in tar, encrusted with broken glass, and wrapped in concertina wire.
Now I don’t feel *nearly* so apologetic when I start spouting off ’cause I’m in a pissy mood.
In fact, I’m no longer in a pissy mood. Just listening to you do an Atomic (Donald Duck) Quack Attack was enough to make me laugh all over.
You. Don’t. Like. Asparagus.
Wait, you weren’t subjected to the boiled stringy/slimy overcooked stuff as a kid, were you? Cruel Wife hates more foods due to having it overcooked than for any other reason, bar none.
Ok, yes, it was way overcooked. I did enjoy eating spargel while in Germany, but having to peel it and soak and steam was waaaaay too high maintenance for me. Hubby loves it with Hollandaise sauce. Me, I may enjoy it raw
I did resemble Donald Duck, but at least I sported pants at the time
I loves me some asparagus!
But I don’t want any of that tough,mighty-assed japanipponese stuff! I want weak, whimpy, soft, pathetic asparagus that generates plenty of after-dinner wee-scent.
Damn.
Barr is completely off his nut.
And he’s either a dumbass, or he gets his jollies by inciting fear and panic and paranoia in other people.
No census worker is going to enter a home when the occupant is not there. They are told during their training that they can’t even slightly pull open an outer storm door in order to place a notice that they were there and missed the occupant.
Not even the police, FBI, or other law enforcement people will just casually go strolling into someone’s apartment. That’s a good way to die.
And check out what Barr says, about how the Census does even worse, they ask landlords for phone numbers to reach occupants.
Of course they do. It’s fucking common sense. You are trying to complete the census for a specific apartment, you have no idea who lives there, you have been unable to reach them cause they’re never there when you show up, generally in the evenings, and of course you’re going to try to get a phone number so that you can reach them by phone and either set up a time to go back to the apartment, or do the interview over the phone. What’s so damned mysterious about that?
Geez. I can be as paranoid as the next guy, and I trust the federal government about as far as I can throw them with my little finger, but Barr is completely wrong.
I share the same State with Bob Barr, and I have to agree with curtalfriar…Barr’s more’n a bit unhinged. Although, Wiccapundit does have a story about a census worker who wouldn’t take no for an answer at the front door, so he traveled around to the back yard, through a private gate, let himself into the screened in porch, and started banging on the door. He decided to hit the bricks when WP told him to wait a minute, while he went to get his shotgun.
Asparagus…I think it is quite possibly my favorite vegetable. So much so that I have a permanent bed of it in my garden (about 30 plants). It grew wild where I grew up.
I love reading your blog, LK…I am always entertained, and I learn something new. I do hope you are able to get a handle on the physical pain you’re going through.