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Taktix® | December 21, 2007, 10:16am | #

Following up on the enormous "success" (that's sarcasm)

Good thing you spelled it out, as the Faux News readers might not understand. No, really.

As I stated before, Radley's posts are like finding out Santa isn't real: It's good to know the truth, but you die a little inside...

VM | December 21, 2007, 10:32am | #

Radley -

excellent work, as usual. The one about CongressKirtters putting themselves above the law is a disturbing development among the Very Very Disturbing, indeed.

Blurring Obliterating the lines between the power wielders and the rest of us.

brotherben | December 21, 2007, 11:09am | #

The scary thing about these prophecys is the number of americans that would welcome them in the name of national security. It is in the best interest of the nation to put all these restrictions in place so 9/11 doesn't ever happen again.

DOWN WITH SUBVERSION IN ANY FORM

I will now set myself on fire | December 21, 2007, 11:39am | #

In a democracy, people get the government they deserve.

Dangerman | December 21, 2007, 11:49am | #

Peace on Earth!
Purity of Essence!

Danny | December 21, 2007, 11:54am | #

Hey all you tin-foil-hat-wearing libertoonians! These articles are completely made up and this country is actually getting better! We must continue to crack down on idle pedestrians and other menaces of society!

...


IT'S FOR THE CHILDREN!

LarryA | December 21, 2007, 12:59pm | #

The Bush administration will claim it has the power to kidnap citizens of foreign countries for violating U.S. law, and extradite them to the U.S. for trial and imprisonment

They still get trials?

Peter | December 21, 2007, 2:05pm | #

I make one further prediction given recent news.

People will begin hoarding incandescent light bulbs in large amounts to prepare for the phase-out by 2020. By this time there will either be a black market or an individual imperative to disobey the state mandate to keep one's house from looking like (and how apropos) a government hospital. This will succeed for a brief time until the state will see upon monitoring household electricity use, people aren't using the florescent bulbs they are provided. Officials from the newly nationalized power company will come to people's houses and apartments, perhaps outsourcing these duties to the police in certain cases, and confiscate the last incandescent bulbs.

Ain't it the life.

mk | December 21, 2007, 2:20pm | #

Police will take enforcement of prostitution laws to a new level, by arresting and seizing the cars of anyone who merely talks to an undercover cop posing as a sex worker. Good samaratans, beware

I remember that one. It struck me as being a wonderful example of being caught operating a vehicle while Hispanic.

TrickyVic | December 21, 2007, 4:14pm | #

"""The scary thing about these prophecys is the number of americans that would welcome them in the name of national security."""

They are not prophecies. They are things that happened in 2007

No wonder why some right-wingers no longer live in reality, it's starting suck.

Peter | December 21, 2007, 6:34pm | #

Jeez James, whose side are you on? I kid, I kid. But seriously, the fact that we lived without something at one point (which includes a lot of shit that we'd not like to give up now) is not a great case for surrendering it in the name of draconian hysterical regulations. I'll not let this become by extension an argument about climate change, for I fear that light bulbs (for God's sake) is symbolic of the lengths to which the government is willing to purloin our rights to the most concentrated and trivial degree. You're right, will we survive without them? Yes. Does it piss the living hell out of me that the government that is supposed to be my representative is telling me I can't use the fucking light bulb I want? Absolutely. It is mostly the principle that bothers me, and the fact that I've seen what a room looks like bathed in buzzing, sickly energy saving light. And let's not go down the slippery slope of the virtues of nationalization of utilities.

Moving to Ouray Soon | December 22, 2007, 1:54am | #

So much for that song we learned in grade school:

God Bless America,
Land that I love.
Stand beside her, and guide her
Thru the night with a light from a bulb.

Racer X | December 22, 2007, 2:20am | #

"People will begin hoarding incandescent light bulbs in large amounts to prepare for the phase-out by 2020"

You Luddites really are sad. The current generation of compact fluorescent bulbs are great! My electric bill is 1/3 of what it was and they fracking last forever, The one on my porch is 12 years old. they're great for desk lamps because they don't throw off waves of heat.

I have a friend who was all "Oh, incandescents are better." So I turned on another lamp and said, "You mean like this? What's so much better?"

He went on and on about how it was a warmer light and some other nonsense. I then took the lamp shade off and showed him he was waxing rhapsodic about just another compact fluorescent. He thought he saw a difference because his closed mind thought it was an incandescent.

It's theater of the mind. It's all in your head, or you haven't actually *seen* a room lit by them. Most of the "warmth" comes from the stupid lampshades anyway.

factotum | December 22, 2007, 10:09pm | #

Didn't have to 'click the links'; all were very familiar.
Into the breach once more...

John O. | December 26, 2007, 7:33pm | #

Bill, the libertarians are working on it. Help them out by not believing the lies being told about the libertarian-in-republican-clothing candidates and they just might manage it.

As for incandescents, there's not going to be a black market. Christ, stop over-reacting. This will be another case of legislation being too late, rather than too restrictive... they're going to ban something that the marketplace will have gotten rid of 5 years prior, and then they can pretend they're the ones that did it, rather than the cost savings of not using a 5% efficient 1890s technology.

And to any Iowans out there: PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE show up to vote. The man can win, but he'll need every last vote. If you don't because it's too cold, Huckabee wins. I can't vote until February, so it's all up to you guys. Good luck.