I went to the post office this afternoon to resolve a problem with our mail deliveries — to wit, many packages addressed to our house are not being delivered there. At the office, I stood in a line with 10 or 12 other unfortunates for about ten minutes before being “helped.” The man who helped me had been summoned to his station after the only other clerk on duty had disappeared for at least five minutes, leaving all of us unfortunates standing there in an abandoned facility wondering whether everyone had simply gone home. In any case, my clerk dragged his sorry ass to the front looking for all the world as if he was a man who’d had bad luck and misfortune throughout his entire life, and helping me was only the latest insult to his gravely wounded existence. He did find the

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When you have kids, when you have single moms with kids, when you have adult males with no education and only fit for low skilled work, and there are 42 million illegal immigrants that have poured over our borders (13% of our national population), you Libs think that is going to CLOSE the gap?  Naw, even some Libs can do that math – which is why they are ONLY saying that the rich must have (as Hillary has said) “stuff taken away” and never is said that illegals must bring more to the table.  And nowhere is this more evident than in California; Gateway Pundit shows that illegal immigrants are not pulling “their weight” (emphasis mine, reformatted):

A staggering 80% of Latino illegal immigrant families in California are living in poverty and need government assistance. The Obama administration wants to open to door to millions more.  The Orange County Register reported:

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The American marketplace is the amalgam of hundreds of millions of people making multiple decisions on the products they want and at the price they wish to pay.  Inferior and overvalued products and services languish on the shelves – people need to have the sense of obtaining more value for their money than the value of that money.  Suppliers and producers react to that – either producing more, going out of business, or figuring out how to make that product cheaper without compromising value.

And then Government decides it can do better – and California is showing how bad Govt is at creating its own marketplace:

California Voted to Raise Taxes on Corporations to Create ‘Green Jobs.’ Here’s How That’s Working Out Three Years Later

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Seriously, they feel “picked on” because they feel they have to – put on makeup?  And then call it “a tax”?  From TreeHugger (emphasis mine):

“Makeup, in short, is a norm, and nothing ruins a first impression like a norm violation,” writes Olga Khazan on the very real and troubling phenomena of the Makeup Tax.

For those unfamiliar with the concept, the makeup tax refers to the time and money that women spend on doing their makeup and hair in order to achieve a certain minimum appearance of professionalism. This tax is one that men don’t have to worry about, and is essentially another form of pay inequality. Even many women who do not work feel a social pressure to wear makeup in public. And there’s plenty of research to show that women who wear makeup are more likely to get paid and promoted more.

Gosh, and thought this was the “buck authority” and “be your own person crowd”.  I have three questions for them:

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“The question we ask today is not whether our government is too big or too small, but whether it works — whether it helps families find jobs at a decent wage, care they can afford, a retirement that is dignified.”

– President Barack Obama, Inauguration, 1/20/09

Is this the work that the Fed should be doing in the first place and they still can’t get it right?

Feds spent $800,000 studying dating prospects for obese teenage girls

It isn’t much of a secret that overweight girls tend to have harder times getting dates to the prom, much less boyfriends. But federal officials apparently wanted scientific proof, so they spent $800,000 studying obese teenage romances. Last year, the National Institutes of Health, the government’s health research arm, gave nearly a half-million in taxpayer dollars to the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia to monitor groups of teenage girls to determine how obesity affects their dating lives and their ability to form relationships.

*I* could have told them

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For your entertainment, (and since it has been mentioned already by Skip), my first post is my Letter to the Editor at Cook’s Illustrated. Those of you who like to dabble in cooking might be familiar with the beautifully illustrated and informative magazine. (For your reference, I’ve attached the Editorial which my letter references.) Here I go:

Cook’s Illustrated
17 Station Street
Brookline, MA 02445

To the Editor:

With great anticipation, I looked forward to reading the October edition of Cook’s Illustrated. What better way to indulge in my ‘foodiness’ and escape reality by exploring seventeen different ways to make a baguette, or ten old-fashioned ways to boil eggs!

Well, after reading your “Mother Dearest” editorial I simply had to stop and congratulate you on its utter brilliance. The ode to your Mother really spoke to the love of food, and I am in awe of the way you slipped in such a succinct synopsis of the liberal elite’s doctrine in the process! It is a miracle how you were able to blend socialism, Haagen Dazs, and pickled cow’s tongue in one beautiful mélange.

Mmmm, good!

So I wish to extend to you a very heartfelt thank you for saving me BOTH my dollars and my time. I am forever satisfied by this single epistle—how could you top this one?–and need never to purchase this magazine again. You liberals rock!  ;^)

Sincerely,
Kimberly Gilbert

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For those of you readers that are unfamiliar with NH politics on the Right, the Sununu Family is one of the family dynasties that crop up in various states.  There’s always watercooler talk about such things and some said that they’d be backing Walker – methinks it is pretty clear, however, the clan is backing Kasich – certainly much more moderate / squishy than Walker.  Even if they had been leaning towards Walker, I bet this would have given them second thoughts; from The Blaze (reformatted, emphasis mine):

Glenn Beck said Republican presidential candidate Scott Walker “made news” on his radio program Monday by acknowledging that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) is “part of the problem” in Washington.  Beck said Walker could’ve been “weasely” and tiptoed around the issue, but he had a clear answer when Beck asked: “Will you go so far as saying that there are people in the GOP that are part of the establishment, like Mitch McConnell, that are part of the problem?”

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