Don’t hate date

Dear god... they're multiplying.

Come on, this is a natural thing. Seriously, all animals act this way. Like andy species, they’re only acting in the best interest or preservation of their race. They’re developing new rituals and social norms around a structural paradigm that acts to impede the renewal or longevity of, of in this case, their ideology. Of course one way to do that is to make babies.

In the last year, since the 2008 presidential election started heating up, there have been an unusual number of Ron Paulians in DC--or as some of my other friends in the liberty movement like to call them, DC Paul-tards. Paul-tard is a little harsh, but I know where the Paul-tard skeptics are coming from. It’s a turf struggle thing. The Paulians are trying to get in on the DC party. I'm down with it. Let the Paul-tards roll. F the ol’ boy’s club, this is innovation a "R3volution." The Ron Paul organizations might not be the smartest/most clean-cut, god knows Paulians are not old money dinner party material. But they do access a deeper-younger political crowd. They do the populist thing way the flip better than other liberty-oriented non-profits. Suck it up. Paul-tards are gifted.

To boot, maybe this’ll improve my dating life. There is such a critical mass in DC that they have begun to develop institutions around their habitat: dating institutions. It reminds me of an experience I had in the Adams Morgan earlier this year. I was in a bar that seemed a little off. Something wasn't right. I soon realized that no one was talking. The music was loud but no one talked. The bar had specialized, developed itself a niche around Gallaudet University. They offered a nightlife to the large deaf community in DC. Awesome.

Granted, libertarians have not claimed a bar yet, we now have a dating space. So all y’all libertarians who whine about there being no classically liberal women. Suck it up and start cutting loose.

oh yea and billy bob thornton is a whack job.

moon challenge

Private companies go to the moon with Photoshop, not robots.

F this challenge.

I got a moon challenge for you... go moon a police officer.

all things considered I do like the idea though. It's non-governmental. It promotes innovation. I guess I'd rather see google give $24 million to someone who can come up with a form of energy more efficient than oil, but that doesn't have the same sort of pizzazz about it.

In my opinion there is no difference between going to the moon and the Super bowl. Probably costs about as much... and makes about as much money too.

I can already see some company making their label into a lunar design for a couple of months... woot woot. Big deal.

Rant: DMV

Standard pissed off blog post about the DMV.

If your having a nice day don't continue reading.

So my co-worker and I took off early this Friday afternoon to go get some Virginia DMV work done. He needs to get a new ID to be able to drive in Virginia, as he has recently moved from out of state and I need a new ID period... Turns out I don't look the same as I did when I was 15, which was the last time I had my picture taken for a license.

My buddy and I are both marginally passifist-anarkist-libertarians... which generally translates to "thou shalt despise thy bureaucracy, and thou shalt blog about it when thoust encounters such filth" in layman’s terms.

Any, as a side project (and I probably should be even mentioning this, oh well I wasn't going to be elected to office anyway) I'm trying to get a new ID without having them destroy my old one. I mean my little brother doesn't look at all like me but the boy is locked in a town with nothing to do all summer and I figure the least I could do for him is to drop him a fake. So I was in the line with all my documents.. Crap I'm getting ahead of my self. It seemed like there wasn't a line but it was dirty trick. The line to get a number was very short. Crafty bastards.

I got to the front of that line and the lady, who barely spoke English, grunted at me that I needed two forms of ID to get a new ID. How twisted is that? So, (pause) if I lost my ID... let me get this straight, I would need two forms of ID to get a new one. I should preface this. Maybe normal people have a goggle of ID's with them from time to time but myself, and apparently I'm alone in this, I seem to be a little on the needy side when it comes to self-identification.

I have my Birth Certificate. My Passport got stolen and beyond that... boy things start looking grim. As I mentioned before I am a pacifist (of the political nature, won't think twice about a street side brawl) which pretty much negates all military ID's... Guess I'm just royally chastened...

There is another form of ID you can use, and you'll love this. Official College Transcripts. ... What the $%@&*? Yes ladies and gentleman, finally Marx is making an appearance on my blog. Talk about class segregation!! If you didn't get a college degree... and bring your Birth Certificate you would very soon find yourself face to face with a blond-Russian-female-mid-life-crisis who is grunting negations at you as you pee yourself with a lost prospect to visit a pub that night. Meanwhile your left in the cold as you attempt to penetrate her impermeable charm shield. Damn you invisible charm repellant!! … Nothing can save this bitch from her own depression... not even free sex.

Fortunately I was lying, and I will totally be able to go to the bars tonight because I totally did not loose my ID. (caveat: Lil' Bro, you owe me big, you sent a libertarian to the DMV, that's like forcing Kert Cobain to watch the Golden Girls) .

My buddy, on the other hand, waited through the choose-a-number-baloney and finally got to speak to a tenant in person, who oddly reminded me of a toad who was five years out from a break-up that ruined his life. The tenant send my buddy away for not having proof of residence, even though he had a letter issued by the DMV that was sent to his house in Arlington, Virginia (his residence).

At least their competent enough to not trust themselves. They know what's up. The DMV is a cluster fuck, and the only way through it is to get drunk and bring porn, cause it's going to be a while.

I will go this far. Airport security is run better than the Arlington DMV. … tax dollars?

Check out this bull shit

Dude thinks Mark Stanford is a threat to the US. Granted the fact that he self identifies as a repuplican should stand alone to satisfy this bag-of-dick's claim. I can't understand why Mark does though, because by my accord I do think he's more of a libertarian than a republican. All the real believers in freedom seem to be too limp to proclaim what they actually believe, that or you can't get anywhere in the American political system if you don't pledge alegance to a party.

I got a bone with this article and I'll get to it now. For a country of immagrants to claim that a public offical cannot be in love with someone from another country is flipping rediculious. You don't like the guy, vote him out. Democracy equals such. But if this guy wants to play Argentinian, or if Bill wants an oval lapdance, or if who ever when ever wants what ever... it is totally their own business. Politics is for politics. Public officials are put in place to make political decisions. Let the man do his job and judge him there.

And I am consistant with this rational. If a sports player wants to fight dogs in his free time, let the law deal with him, but disallowing him to go to work based on activities that are truely exogenous is rediculious.

Come on nation! We're better than this.

Remember people vote, whether they do it with their feet or their ballots voices can and will be heard in this land. Let the system work.

Ok... so I may be saying this because I have a bit of a thing for Argentenians. But I still feel that Mark Sanford should deal with this problem on his own terms less our fine country becomes a massive mixing pot of day time television. Politics is bad enough as it is, we don't need Ricky Lake to fuck it up even more.

Waxman-Markey

now I'm not one to bicker in with the fox news crowd on the subject but I do have a number of concerns about the new Waxman-Markey cap-and-trade bill: two of which I'll bring up now.

Carbon caps do not/never will/in no way what so ever mean hard hats.

Truth is carbon caps are a tax. A very basic burden on industry. This rains true especially due to the fact that the tax in subject is on energy, the most basic ingredient in all industry. Change that does not happen in a piecemeal form (that is coercive change) breads inefficient outcomes and vary bluntly bureaucratic costs. Sorry guys but unless the world suddenly starts acting differently, we're looking at a net loss in hard hats.

Secondly, Obama promised for a 100% free auction cap and trade system, (which we can argue the nuts and bolts about at a later date. I'll tell you frankly though, a free auction is a pretty sweet deal for free markets if you believe global warming is a threat, which I think I do.)

Only thing is, Obama and your great american superheros (every other politician) opted out of the free auction and went for massively no free auction. The gov't will be allocating the vast majority of the carbon credits. And who do you think they'll be giving the credits to? Yes ladies and gentleman let the life blood of special interest flow!!! We're gonna have a party on the capital tonight!!

The plan according to the capital is to transition to a free auction over a period of 10 years.

Let me draw up an analogy. You are a kindergarden teacher and you have 40 pieces of candy and 3o students. You want the students to value the candy and respect you and not try to steel candy from you.... instead of trading it to the students for something you might value as a teacher you give a bunch of it out for "nothing" then attempt to trade the rest for good behavior. Not only have you massively deflated the value of your good but now you've forever distorted the price of the good among the students in the class. they don't know when you'll go handing out candy again so they're hesitant to buy and generally uncertain about you and when they can get candy.... they may end up not trading good behavior for candy. Instead they may attempt to hire a lobbyist/parent to make sure you as a teacher are allocating the candy equally.

Now blow that classroom out to the size of a society. Those companies are confused as all hell. What do I buy when? It's easier to get free credits than buying them so possibly we'll se quite a few more offices pop up around DC. For locals that means more business however for the rest of us tax paying patriotic individuals we get to fork out the loot, our savings, that which I would have spent on forming an environmental company.

Yes ladies and gentleman, to clarify, I do believe the new cap and trade bill is a cluster fuck. Good luck america! I'm certainly not investing in energy any time soon. This bill is gonna make us pay out the bung-hole.

In conclusion, I think we need to seriously consider what a sense of urgency can do to a democracy. After all, as freedom in economics means freedom to fail, freedom in politics means freedom to really fuck up a nation.