Two-Bit Fucknugget Thinks He's Three-Bit FuckNugget

Oh no you don't you cockless shitstain:

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez may sign a contract for four Russian diesel submarines on a visit to Moscow next month, the Kommersant daily has reported, citing unidentified officials.

Chavez has been invited to the May inauguration of Dmitry Medvedev as Russian president.

If he takes up the invitation, the Venezuelan leader may use the opportunity to sign a contract to buy four Kilo-class diesel submarines agreed to at the start of this year, the paper said.

Kommersant said the submarine contract, worth about $1 billion ($1.27 billion), had been set to be signed in February.

Venezuela is seeking a loan of about $800 million ($1.02 billion) from a Russian bank, probably from Russia's official debt agent, Vneshekonombank, for some of the arms purchases, the paper said, adding that the loan had yet to be agreed.

Officials at Venezuela's Moscow embassy were not immediately available for comment on the report. A spokesman for Russia's state arms exporter could not be reached for comment and the foreign ministry declined to comment.

The paper said Venezuela also wants to buy 12 Ilyushin Il-76 military transport aircraft while Russia is interested in selling Caracas its new generation Sukhoi Su-35 fighters, which are still being tested.

Two things you little cocksucker.

One, it is about fucking time you realized there's only room for one enormous set of balls in this hemisphere so if you'd like your little raisins to see the sun you may want to relocate your socialist shithole somewhere more amenable like the Korean peninsula.

Second, I hope you and your slaves citizens enjoy spending all that grocery money on high tech death toys only to get froggy one day and have the Righteous Yankee Fist of Doom come a-fuckin' on through. You'll be sitting there explaining how submarines are supposed to be underwater to people who live in the reality that they are filled with water. I'd say you'd feel stupid but if being an unapologetic commie doesn't get you there, I'm pretty sure being on the receiving end of the most one-sided war since the Wehrmacht kicked a puppy wont' do it either.

Next time you come to visit the United Nations we catapult your commie ass into the side of the building at close range.

Hell, we should sell tickets.


Ya, esta adentro, papi?

You Are Entitled to Bankruptcy

I love just looking at numbers like $53 Trillion. It really keeps you regular:

Let me give you three numbers that will put this economic asteroid into perspective: $200 billion, $14.1 trillion, and $53 trillion.

• $200 billion is the approximate total amount of write-downs announced so far as a result of the current credit crisis.


• $14.1 trillion is the size of the entire U.S. economy


• And $53 trillion is (drum roll please) the approximate size of this country's bill for the Social Security and Medicare promises we've made.

While no one will ever mistake me for Alan Greenspan, it seems to me that the third number is quite a bit larger than the other two. It also seems very few people care.

Am I the only person who's basic reaction is "holy fucking shit?" Seriously, how devastating does the impending crisis have to be before we take a serious look at it? The thing that infuriates me most is the demagogic retardity of the opposition to privatization of Social Security (or any other common-sense response). They haven't proffered one good motherfucking reason for not doing it except that volunteers for the program may invest so poorly as to defy decades of reliable growth in the stock market.

Boo-fucking-hoo.

Life is full of ridiculous risks and I'm sick and fucking tired of being told which ones are government approved. It's my money and I'll donate it to the U.N. if I want to (I can't think of a bigger waste of money off the top of my head). If this results in me being a penniless geezer, so fucking be it. I never asked you to take care of me and I'd thank you to stop worrying about my retirement. That is and always has been my responsibility; all of our own responsibilities.

What I do know is that this problem isn't going away and when it comes to a head I strongly suspect the liberal shit-sniffers that won't let us privatize it are really not going to like the concensus solution.

It won't be more taxes.

Freedom of Choice

Megan McArdle is on fire:

Forgive me--I'm about to get testy again--but this thread on 11D really does seem to me to showcase in stunning technocolor the moral bankruptcy of voucher opponents who have pulled their own kids out of failing inner city schools. They have no good answer for why their choice is morally worthy, but vouchers are horrifying; their response to the deep need of kids in failing schools is a slightly gussied up version of "screw you, I've got mine." Their children's future, you see, is an infinitely precious resource that trumps their principles of distributional justice and community solidarity, but they cannot imagine putting the futures of poorer, darker skinned children ahead of sacred principles such as "Thou shalt not allow children to attend schools run by the Catholic Church" and "Supporting the public schools (even when they suck)". I could do a better job arguing against school vouchers.

Indeed, I shall, though of course largely for the purpose of illustrating why I find these arguments unconvincing:

Arguments on taxation and public schools and health care always leave me impotently frustrated. The arguments I receive from the other side tend to be so far from logical that I'm not sure they'd pass a Turing test.

For example, I once was discussing the Bush tax cuts and was informed that the tax cuts disproportionately helped the 'wealthy.' I said, "then let's cut the taxes for the lower guys, too." It wasn't that he disagreed with this that bothered me but how. He had a flustered, "that's not the point" reaction which confused me to the point of ending the discussion. It is as if, to them, the problem isn't that we won't generate enough revenue but that we aren't punishing people enough for having money.

I feelt he same way about vouchers. It is as if allowing other people to choose where their kids go to school somehow hurts them personally. They don't react with logical arguments or lines of reasoning but instead immediately flip the personal attacks button to spray mode. Any discussion of how health care shouldn't be mandatory and universal engenders the same response.

It is as if the thing they truly abhor is personal choice. The personal choice you gain from having lots of money. The freedom to bus your kids to a more distant but superior school. The availability of good health care at a higher price or the ability to deny coverage if you don't want to pay for it. These freedoms are anathema to the left and I just can't figure out why.

It isn't just those choices that they want to take away, oh no! You shouldn't smoke. You shouldn't eat fried food. You shouldn't drink. You shouldn't eat corn. But it isn't enough to acknowledge that people, by and large, make many bad decisions. They need to find a way to prevent it. They need a way to make us all make the same good™ choices they would make.

But here's where I get confused. These people are almost universally the same people that bitch about conformity and Bush-bots and sheeple. They complain loudly that we're all just cookie-cutter versions of each other driven like a herd to consume, consume, consume!

But if that is a Bad Thing™ then why do they simultaneously think we should all have the same health care and the same education and the same diet? Why should we, in effect, all be forced by the state to become the same person?

Am I the only person that isn't getting this? Am I the only one that sees this coming?

I'll leave you with Megan's response to what I'd say is a standard nonsensical statement from the Nanny Statists:

There's no way to assure the quality of private schools Ha. Ha. Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha. Seriously? The problem with private schools is that they can't match the same level of quality we've come to expect from our urban public school system? And what else have you learned in your visit to our planet?

I've never heard a better argument against vouchers (Social Security privatization likewise) and that should tell you something.

Can't Teach An Old Commie New Tricks

Nearly thirty years ago, a bunch of uneducated musicians got together to cripple the advancement of nuclear power in the United States. Recently they went to a fundraiser for Barbara Boxer in California in the company of Al Gore. Much was made of their desire to eliminate greenhouse gas emissions. As Hugh Hewitt and James Lileks discussed, surely they'd come around on nuclear power. Not so:

In 1979, we helped organize five nights of concerts at Madison Square Garden and an anti-nuke rally that drew 200,000 people. These efforts and the ongoing work of many grassroots and national safe energy groups have helped to hold off the building of new nuclear reactors ever since.

But three decades later, we're facing the same nuclear issues. And to counter this threat, we are organizing once again.

Clearly the only solution to global warming is to completely hamstring global economies. I guess what they say is true; you can't teach an old communist new tricks.

Another Win For Socialized Medicine

I wish I could say I'm surprised by this:

In recent years, Britain's superbug infection rates of bacteria like Clostridium difficile and MRSA have skyrocketed. In the 1990s, only five percent of in-hospital blood infections were from MRSA, the deadly bacteria resistant to nearly every available antibiotic. In past years, that figure has jumped to more than 40 percent.

Critics blame the rise on overstretched hospitals that do not have enough money or capacity to catch superbug infections early.

Apparently you can sue the NHS and it is starting to have a rather staggering effect:

MEDICAL MALPRACTICE PREMIUMS in the United Kingdom are on the rise.
In recent years there has been a 15%–20% annual rise in the cost of claims, and
litigation costs for the National Health Service are soaring.

That document notes the same trend in Canada.

Update: It just gets better and better. (h/t: Hot Air)

Republicans Down - Democrats Still Kicking

Via Hot Air, I see that the GOP may be down to as few as 39 Senate seats after next year:

Just spoke to a former GOP Hill aide who has served longer with conservative Members than almost anyone else I know. He is a solid conservative who tends toward the pessimistic view of things but still. . . He thinks that there could be as few as 39 Republican Senators after next year's elections. "If we're lucky, we'll lose only 9," he says. Jeez.

Combine that with an almost automatic victory for Hillary "Money Bags" Clinton and you've got some sexy socialism coming to a welfare line near you. I mean, with a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate and a clear majority in the House, the sky's the limit on sweeping social engineering.

I just can't wait to be unemployed.