Category Archives: Trhough Teh Looking Glass

ToDaZeD Proggie Muddled Mess

what a tangled, knotted snarled upside-down mess they weave WTH?!? How can Teh State prove its “worth” [read: power] to run the minutiae of it’s citizens’ subjects daily lives if it knuckles under to its …erm, detractors? Defence sources said the order had been given that uniform should not be worn by those travelling alone, [...]

ToDaZeD Proggie fallback position

redundant “I have not done anything wrong. I have not broken any laws. I have not violated any IRS rules or regulations.” –Lois Lerner to the House Oversight Committee. [Worth "$42,531 in bonuses between 2009 and 2011" plus salary of $177,000.] “What I mean is, whether it’s legal or illegal is not important to the [...]

ToDaZeD Proggie Nudge[s]

two-fer sale! They truly are Irony Impaired. LGBT Inclusion at Work: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Managers A resource from DOJ Pride[PDF], the Association of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Employees of the U.S. Department of Justice and Their Allies Yep. DoJPride.org. Here’s #1: Make the Right Assumptions & Avoid Making the Wrong Ones [...]

ToDaZeD Nudge

aah – yer nutso hm… May is Mental Health Awareness Month. One in five children and adolescents in the U.S. has a mental disorder that interferes with their daily lives. … Anxiety disorders, mood disorders like depression and disruptive disorders like ADHD are the most common mental health disorders among children. That stat appears to [...]

ToDaZeD Proggie R U F’n Kiddin Me?!?

because “F.U.” is so yesterday this morning Sarah Hall Ingram served as commissioner of the office responsible for tax-exempt organizations between 2009 and 2012. But Ingram has since left that part of the IRS and is now the director of the IRS’ Affordable Care Act office, the IRS confirmed to ABC News today. HellKare. The [...]

ToDaZeD Proggie F.U.

who didn’t see this coming… Teh iWon, like a cat on a hardwood floor, first denied any knowledge past “the same news reports that I think most people learned about this,” then decides to cool-headedly await the Inspector General’s report, finally hears the outraged shouting from hiz own bootlickers and turns decisive, firing the head [...]

ToDaZeD CircleD oopsie!

if it didn’t happen in the last 10 minutes — it didn’t happen *As the New York Times reported back in 2010: With growing scrutiny of the role of tax-exempt groups in political campaigns, Congressional Republicans are pushing back against Democrats by warning about the possible misuse of the Internal Revenue Service to audit conservative [...]

ToDaZeD Proggie Reap/Sow

was this a surprise to …well, anyone? Apparently, Some want to say it was. [Teh iW∅n on when he learned that the Gobt under his administration is working hard to penalize citizens on the basis of their desire to teach others about the founding principles of our nation instead of applying the Law equally to [...]

ToDaZeD Proggie Reap What You Sow

“Tolja!” seems so unsatisfying How’s that Utopia comin’ along for ya? The A.P. said that the Justice Department informed it on Friday that law enforcement officials had obtained the records for more than 20 telephone lines of its offices and journalists, including their home phones and cellphones. It said the records were seized without notice [...]

Your Fault!

pre-excuses [BILL] CLINTON: We really need about five year to see whether the drivers in the healthcare law, which clearly are trying to give incentives for people to be healthier and incentives for the sysem to give healthcare where you pay for results rather than procedure. To see if that works. The problem is, neither [...]

Pushback

awaiting the retaliation How will DammitJanet respond, I wonder…. “What does not make sense in the information you provided is that Customs and Border Control used [around 14 million] rounds for operational purposes when they rarely fire their guns,” [Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R., Utah), chairman of the House’s Subcommittee on National Security] said. “It seems [...]

Conflation

and pompous apologia If this don’t beat all…. Teh iW∅ne’s little writer pal, Billy *b00m*b00m* Ayers gets seeeensitive when someone asks if planning to blow up innocent people with bombs isn’t the same as, well, planning to blow up innocent people with bombs. “To conflate a group of fundamentalist people [in Boston] who are nihilistic [...]

ToDaZeD Dots

grab yer crayons … President Wilson once said, “If you want to make enemies, try to change something.” And that’s precisely what the Founders left us — the power, each of us, to adapt to changing times. They left us the keys to a system of self-government, the tools to do big things and important [...]

ToDaZeD Time Machine

and pooch molestation January 2013 Hillary! to Sen. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, Congress and The People: “With all due respect, the fact is we had four dead Americans. Was it because of a protest or was it because of guys out for a walk one night decided to go kill some Americans? What difference at [...]

WTH is this?!?

… Entertainment news outlet E!’s Twitter account was hacked Saturday, tweeting fake headlines about Justin Bieber, Angelina Jolie and the conflict in Syria. The Syrian Electronic Army, a group of hackers aligned with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, is claiming responsibility for the hack. …The Syrian Electronic Army [more here] was also responsible for hacking the [...]

ToDaZeD Long-term Nudge

dumbing down & ooogie-ing up Humans can adapt to dang-near anything. It is, at once, our saving evolutionary tactic and our biggest pitfall. We’ve adapted from forest to savannah, from tropics to ice sheets, from wandering hunter/gatherer to stationary agricultural and from life amidst Mother Nature trying to kill us 24/7 to the urban jungles [...]

ToDaZeD Teh Iron

it burnzzzz Tweet: Robert Griffin III @RGIII In a land of freedom we are held hostage by the tyranny of political correctness 1:41 PM – 30 Apr 2013 12,936 RETWEETS 5,024 FAVORITES REtweet: Aaron Nagler @Aaron_Nagler Oh shut up. RT @RGIII In a land of freedom, we are held hostage by the tyranny of political [...]

The govt can Do It Better!

let’s give them control over more of our lives!! ToDaZeD Stoopud: “With the helicopters and the Humvees and the soldiers and the police working all day to find him, all they had to do was search our street,” Lund [Watertown resident] said. “They missed the boat.” “The system worked!” “Four in ten Americans (42%) are [...]

There’s a point…

who said this? “To be totally reliant on what government does for us, instead of also doing for ourselves what we have the capacity to do for ourselves, is, to me, too narrow a focus,”

More Special Stuff for The Special

I’m looking through you With little fanfare and even less disclosure, the Senate late [4/11/13] passed a bill that will, if signed into law, gut the STOCK Act, a transparency measure enacted only a year ago. Shocked, I tell… awfuggit. The bill enacted last year would require already public financial disclosures of senior congressional and [...]

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