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Michael Bane answers an important question

Here's the question: What percentage of time during the day should a regular walking around middle class person think about shooting people, dogs and things? The answer is most educational. Read it here at Michael Bane's blog. Continue

Posted by ptgustan on July 20, 2008 at 10:58am — 1 Comment

I Want to Believe

I am so excited...There WILL be an X-files movie this summer. The trailer seemed to come right out of the blue. This was my favorite show through high school and college (yes, I know I am a dork). Awesome direction and loved the writing. My college roommate and I even had a not so secret crush on Mr. Duchovny. Which brings me to this kind of creepy song:

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Posted by Emily on July 6, 2008 at 1:25am — No Comments

Message to Senator Herring

Leesburg Today reports (story is not yet online) the stall of the recent transportation session and describes the Senate's plan to increase gas tax over six years. Senator Herring (D-33) attempted to sell the increase: "Virginia is among the lowest when it comes to gas tax rates. After six years, when it's fully implemented, it would still be below the national average." That is a piss poor attempt to validate a tax increase. Virginia is below the national average for the following taxes: Sales… Continue

Posted by Emily on July 3, 2008 at 9:39pm — No Comments

The Latest Group to Receive Congressional Bailout?

Gulf Times reports that many bio-fuel companies are filing for bankruptcy siting low profit margins and soaring costs of soy oil. The question is not IF but WHEN WILL Congress vote to bailout the bio-fuel companies. It will be another attempt to prop up and incentives unprofitable businesses who make bad decisions (while taxing and penalizing profitable com… Continue

Posted by Emily on June 29, 2008 at 3:39pm — No Comments

The Truth Behind BLM Halting Solar Plant Production

The Economist reports that the Bureau of Land Management is halting solar plant production siting environmental concerns. How long has solar energy been available? And we're just now trying to determine environmental impact? Poppy cock. The real story is that the solar industry predicts that if solar tax credit is not renewed then that will mean the end of their industry. This re-iterates what conservatives have… Continue

Posted by Emily on June 28, 2008 at 11:23pm — No Comments

Chicago Ranked as Having Least Freedom

Chicago was recently ranked as the biggest nanny state in the nation. "Chicago reigns supreme when it comes to treating its citizens like children (Las Vegas topped our rankings as America's freest city). Chicagoans pay the second-highest cigarette tax in the country, and the sixth-highest tax on alcohol. Chicago has more traffic-light cameras than any city in America (despite studies questioning… Continue

Posted by Emily on June 28, 2008 at 9:00pm — No Comments

Alternative Minimum Tax Relief Update: A Gem from Charles Rangle (D-New York)

The Alternative Minimum Tax Relief (AMT) bill that was passed on Wednesday saved 20 million upper-income tax payers approx $2,300 and increased the tax burden of the oil and gas companies. Of the bill Rangle said, "If indeed we do nothing, $61 billion of tax burden is going to fall on 25 million good American taxpayers." Ok if we tax the oil and gas companies, then why wouldn't they pass the cost t… Continue

Posted by Emily on June 28, 2008 at 4:27pm — No Comments

Gun permits? We don't need no steenking gun permits.

Recycled Poster

LaShawn Barber seems happy to report that the Supreme Court's decision in the… Continue

Posted by ptgustan on June 27, 2008 at 11:32am — 2 Comments

Plumber Butt from an Olympic Athlete?

OK...I am officially grossed out by a seemingly very healthy, in-shape, cut Olympic diver...make that divers. The men's bathing suits that one can now reasonable describe as a band-aid has have shrunken so much so that an athlete that I would normally describe as having an anti-butt in another other situation has successfully produced a plumber butt at the Olympic trials. Check out NBC if you dare, but consider yourself warned. Continue

Posted by Emily on June 22, 2008 at 4:04pm — No Comments

Why I am voting for Obama

Well I've done it. I finally made a decision. I am voting for Obama. No, it's not Change that drove the decision. Big government isn't so bad; I won't have to have as much responsibility as I do now. Working harder so I can keep less of my money doesn't appeal to me, but I'll survive. I don't like his ignorance with foreign policy. Who needs foreign policy experience when you have Secretary of State and Defense. Now that I know that… Continue

Posted by Emily on June 20, 2008 at 10:29pm — No Comments

WTF Moment of the Week

Ok, so I know Logipundit will be posting on this topic. Prescription Drug Bill, Guitmo Detainee Rights, and now this! There had to be a breaking point and this is it! This makes me so pissed off that I have to vent. The Republican party is left and the Democrats are communists. There, I said it. The Dems now feel like they can actually say what they think without having to coddle the public with promises of Change. If the Dems have their way, Change is a… Continue

Posted by Emily on June 18, 2008 at 10:44pm — No Comments

A little background noise.

I go by the internet moniker "ptgustan", which is reduced from Porky T. Gustan. Porky is a nickname for Pablo. The entire alias (for I have never used my real name on line) was derived from a phrase in a Basic Spanish textbook: "¿Porque, te gustan las chicas? I'm an old man, past 60 years, and mostly retired. I've had a careen instead of a career. My work included, but wasn't limited to, being a history teacher, language teacher, gentleman farmer, interior decorator, retail merchant, hired gun a… Continue

Posted by ptgustan on June 4, 2008 at 4:16pm — No Comments

Jericho and Robert E Lee

OK…A little healthy, or unhealthy, mix of entertainment and political theory. Bear with me. Believe it or not, I’ve put a lot of thought lately (meaning about the last 4 years or so) into how important it is for us to think deeply about why we believe what we believe, and why seeing different perspectives is not only useful, but absolutely necessary to put our own views in their proper context. With that in mind, let me reiterate what I’ve pointed out in a previous post, and this will likely b… Continue

Posted by wdporter on March 26, 2008 at 1:25am — No Comments

Hello...Is Anyone out there?

Hewo???? Continue

Posted by Emily on March 23, 2008 at 4:04pm — No Comments

You might think he were Wright if you were black

Over on Reason’s Hit and Run Blog the libertariat and other readers weighed in on the whole Obama/Wright kerfuffle and Obama’s response. Overall the comments were negative about Obama and what was seen as his weak response to Wright’s comments, Michelle Obama’s supposed anti-Americanism and signs some see of Obama’s own lack of patriotism. I made the following comment that went ignored by the mob: “Most of you commenting here are most likely 1) whit… Continue

Posted by First Little Pig on March 20, 2008 at 5:08pm — 5 Comments

A quick note about me

Yes, I used to be the blogger known as Garth Trevethan, a nom de plume that might yet be resurrected. I abandoned my old Libertarian-minded blog (Musings from America's Outback) as my life became increasingly complicated and I no longer had the time needed to keep it up the way I would have liked. I will relate a longer story about my whats and hows later, but suffice to say I do have an active blog focusing on my efforts to build a strawbale house in the middle of high dessert country in New M… Continue

Posted by First Little Pig on March 12, 2008 at 7:00pm — No Comments