28 Replies to “Rand Paul”

  3. That’s because there is no reasonable, ambient, ambulatory, if you will, answer to his honest questions.

  8. Maybe in the end it will be interfering with peoples toilets, that will flush these control freaks down the drain for a space of time ( Like lice they always reappear).
    Impinge on a man’s throne, & you got double barreled trouble buddy.
    Great vid Kate

  9. I read somewhere (sorry, I can’t recall where) that San Francisco is experiencing sewage issues believed to be contributed to by low flush toilets leading to a lack of water to clear the system. The solution involved the introduction of what was described as basically bleach to the system to help break down the solids thus helping the flow of the system. I remember thinking that adding bleach to a sewage system HAS to be more environmentally friendly than a few more gallons of water.

  10. Thanks for that, Kate! Rand Paul is one of my new heroes:

    “You busybodies always want to do something to tell us how we can live our lives better. Keep it to yourselves. Try to convince us through persuasion, but don’t threaten to put us in jail or put us out of business if we don’t accept your way of thinking.”

    Ms. Hogan, in stark comparison, is a perfected bureaucrat whose self-referential, arrogant, and self-validating argument is delivered, as if exclusively for like-minded insiders, in the language of Bureaucratese:

    “I think the appliance standards program is, uh, an example of uh, really a great partnership between the congress and the administration over many-many-many years. So much of what we are implementing, uh, really, had it’s genesis, uh, in bipartisan bills that have been put forth, um, at a number of different points, um, over the history of this country, for the last thirty to forty years…”

    But of course. Any decision reached through the jaw-jawing of bureacrats is beyond reproach, and beyond contention, and only the truly “wise” bureaucrats such as herself can appreciate just how profoundly and self-evidently wise her finger-up-the-public’s-*ss approach is…

  11. Milton Friedman said it best in this short clip from “Free to Choose”
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtYjuOyLv1U
    “Governments always profess to be forward looking. In practice, they are always backward looking, either protecting the industries that exists or making sure that whatever ventures they have decided to undertake are encouraged or developed.
    This occurs at the expense of the kind of healthy development of new dynamic adaptive industries that would surely occur if the market were allowed to operate freely…”
    Milton Friedman 1912 – 2006

  12. This is the last year for incandescent lights. Home Depot told me there are no more being made and once they run out their gone. I will not buy a CFL but the LEDs are very expensive. The clerk I was talking to wouldn’t buy the CFLs either.

  13. I wish Rand Paul hadn’t brought up the “toilet” thing, as it gave a nonsensical overtone to his whole line of interrogation,and made it seem as if it’s just a group of good fellows chatting about a problem that isn’t too serious.
    The lady had no answers,so she slipped into a bureaucratese and tried to deflect blame from the current administration to ALL members of the House,both Parties.
    The woman’s frozen smile conveys an attitude that “this is the way it’s going to be done,period”. She looks like a half-crazed zealot whose religion is being questioned by an unbeliever.
    I’d rather people like her were questioned by a Nigel Farrage type than the too-folksy Rand Paul. RP made his point,but in a way that offended no one,and these people need to be offended.

  14. Ode to Rand Paul
    yo, Rand Paul
    you say it all
    with lots of gall
    and a southern drawl
    yo Rand Paul
    you’re havin’ a ball
    you pin em to the wall
    then watch em fall
    yo, Rand Paul
    keep standin’ tall
    dance on those Dems
    who had it all
    you did not rush
    to splain the flush
    it does take time
    to instruct that slime
    that’s all I got
    and I’m out of time
    More coffee now.

  15. Let us see now,
    You have governments in the western world full of people that got their jobs because they knew somebody and new a politician somewhere.
    It used to be that people that went colleges and universities actually were really good at what they accomplished.
    While this is still true today, there are increasingly crowds of people that go to school for a long time and by the time they are finished, can’t get jobs due to the nonsense that they have learned meandering the halls of education.
    It seems that they usually end up with government jobs that are based on pushing paper from desk to desk. Every so often they are asked what is it that they do. That is when they come up with these programs and ideas. Basically it is to show activity, any activity, to justify their existence.
    Inactivity is not a problem though, they apparently can’t be let go, unless they get something like $500K to go with it.
    Since these hundreds of thousands of jobs are nonproductive, that is they don’t generate wealth or anything of that sort, these of necessity devour wealth generated by free enterprise. Every day, week, months, year, they consume, without anything to show for it, more and more of the product of the working people and making the same people poorer and poorer, while enriching themselves.
    The government is akin to a black hole, where it annihilates everything in the vicinity with eventual consequence of destroying civilization.
    As anyone knows, it has happened many times in the past. It looks like it’s happening now. It will happen in the future.
    It is a cycle in human affairs, it’s a law of nature, an oscillation of the universe.

  17. Low flow flushes is not about water conservation it is about reducing expensive water treatment. As the government is tasked with water/sewage treatment they could have solved this problem by simply charging the consumer of water/sewage the proper price to insure that costs treatment (including expansion) is covered.
    Electricity is similar, rather than run businesses out of town and restrict consumer choice, increase the cost of electricity. If the administration(s) truly believes there is a price for consuming electricity, charge it to the consumer (and loose the next election). A carbon/amp tax could be repealed, but a regulation form the EPA kills businesses quickly and undoing that doesn’t do any good the damage is done.
    It would be political suicide to raise to tax electricity 10c/kwh. But no one cares when they force you to buy expensive bulbs or cars are becoming ever more expensive. The former would be truly effective at changing behavior, the later they keep their job.

  19. The lefties have been successful, for their sorry money sucking causes, that is the bottom line. We,on the right/correct side, have not been successful in protecting what we have accomplished, simply because we have been working so hard creating wealth we havn’t looked up to see the line up of parisites living off us. Parasites like Suzuki Gore Gwynne Dyer Strong and this sorry excuse for a woman amoungst many more. This is how they survive, off scares and lies so they can advance their “green” agenda along with “their” bank accounts, while draining ours. We supposedly elect polititians who we think have common sense, they are soon smitten with, I”ll take, a little here and a little there, who’ll know but me, it’s how they operate. Like Aurthur Carlson on WKRP running for mayor, I”ll take a stand that’s firm, yet flexible. If you have NO job, you can probably thank a leftie like her, that’s NO hope, but a lotta change.

  20. The appliance standard program is founded on bull shite, we save maybe three cents a year on energy efficient appliances and said appliances have a shelf life of five years as opposed to the twenty or thirty year life span of their predecessor. We are filling our land fills with cheap junk made from China how’s that saving energy or the planet?

  21. and yet the NPR guy in the undercover video, stated that “Republicans, particularly the Tea Party, are FANTATICALLY involved in people’s lives”
    just a tad ironic, doncha think??? and completely wrong.
    Hmmm, I’ll have to use the “choice” argument in some of my discussions with morons…
    Brilliant! I am now a Rand Paul fan.

  23. The depth of thought that Ron Paul used in that exchange was scary considering he is an elected politican. Open ditches carrying excrement would be considered expedient using his rationale.
    My beef with modern bureacracy is accountability. I want value for my tax dollar and if it cannot be provided then there has to be accountability. I never hear of bureacrats being fired for not doing the job in a expeditous manner. Politicans like Paul appear to have no better idea of what it takes to run an cost efficent society than the woman he was grilling.
    It is the politicans who fund the ‘system’. It is their responsibility to decide where to spend scarce dollars. We the voters have allowed them to spend money we don’t have. They are no different than the bureacrats they make political points with by raking them over the coals. They are part of the system! When was the last time you saw a politican trying to explain the ABC’s of budgeting to voters? If I remember it was George W. in his first term. There was some real honesty there which ultimately got torpedoed.

  24. Way to go Rand! If only the American people would have chosen Ron Paul as President in the last election; how different/much better things would be today.

  25. Notwithstanding that I can’t look at the cat without seeing Lee Harvey Oswald, I certainly enjoyed that clip. I wouldn’t go so far as to call him a hero. He is a politician after all and though I’ve been a conscious libertarian since I can remember, something doesn’t quite sit right with the Pauls, pere or fils. I’ll resist the temptation to repeat myself.
    He skilfully pointed out that he’s pro-conservation but that he would prefer that the state use moral suasion instead of coercion in promoting this cause. That’s the essential point we need to make.
    I did get a good chuckle over his line: “I’ve been waiting 20 years to complain about my toilets….”.
    Reader tip: About 3-4 years back, in utter frustration with our toilets not taking away solid matter in a expeditious manner, I had all 5 of them replaced with Toto. I shall never forget that sinking feeling when I espied the small volume of water low in the bowl saying to my wife “no way that’s gonna work”. I was wrong. They have worked flawlessly with a single flush. This is noteworthy as most readers here know, I’m full of it.

  26. duffman-
    Utility departments are usually completely self-financing, so why should the bureaucrats have any say as to usage?

  27. What Lev said about the ruling class. The NPR lib who got caught in the sting earlier in the week almost immediately got a job at the Aspen Institute a ” nonprofit ” that was convenient to his home in Aspen CO.

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