Keeping teh Gubmint out of your life...
(via ragnvaeig, who linked to also-huey's post, which was a copy of this post on neuski.com)
This morning I was awakened by my alarm clock powered by electricity generated by the public power monopoly regulated by the US department of energy. I then took a shower in the clean water provided by the municipal water utility. After that, I turned on the TV to one of the FCC-regulated channels to see what the National Weather Service (of the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration) determined the weather was going to be like (using satellites launched and maintained by the National Aeronatics and Space Administration). I watched this while eating my breakfast of US Department of Agriculture-inspected food and taking the drugs by which have been determined as safe by the Food and Drug Administration.
At the appropriate time as regulated by the US Congress and kept accurate by the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the US Naval Observatory, I get into my National Highway Traffic Safety Administration-approved automobile and set out to work on the roads built by the local, state, and federal departments of transportation, possibly stopping to purchase additional fuel of a quality level determined and tested regularly by the Environmental Protection Agency, using legal tender issued by the Federal Reserve Bank. On the way out the door I deposit any mail I have to be set out via the US Postal Service and drop the kids off at the public school.
After spending another day not being maimed or killed at work thanks to the workplace regulations imposed by the Department of Labor and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, enjoying another two meals which again do not kill me because of the USDA, I drive my NHTSA car back home on the DOT roads, to my house which has not burned down in my absence thanks to the state and local building codes, fire marshal’s inspection during government-overseen construction (and possibly since), and the vigilant watch of my city and county Fire Departments. I find my home has not been plundered of all its valuables thanks to the cooperation of the city, county, and state Police Departments.
I then log on to the Internet (which was developed by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Administration) and post on freerepublic.com and Fox News forums about how government involvement in healthcare is SOCIALISM which is BAD because the government can’t do anything right.
-- Author unknown
I have a friend who often sends me annoying right-wing "humor" forwards. I am tempted to add fake forwarding headers to this and send it her way.
In other news, I've been out of town and away from Internet at least two of the last three days, so I'm declaring LJ Bankruptcy - if I haven't responded to something, odds are I won't be digging back far enough to do so without specific request. At the moment, I have to ruminate on some information from an interview Thursday, set up some social networking accounts, work on opening an Etsy shop, and all sort of things that aren't facilitated by poring over LJ posts I missed while I was away.
This morning I was awakened by my alarm clock powered by electricity generated by the public power monopoly regulated by the US department of energy. I then took a shower in the clean water provided by the municipal water utility. After that, I turned on the TV to one of the FCC-regulated channels to see what the National Weather Service (of the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration) determined the weather was going to be like (using satellites launched and maintained by the National Aeronatics and Space Administration). I watched this while eating my breakfast of US Department of Agriculture-inspected food and taking the drugs by which have been determined as safe by the Food and Drug Administration.
At the appropriate time as regulated by the US Congress and kept accurate by the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the US Naval Observatory, I get into my National Highway Traffic Safety Administration-approved automobile and set out to work on the roads built by the local, state, and federal departments of transportation, possibly stopping to purchase additional fuel of a quality level determined and tested regularly by the Environmental Protection Agency, using legal tender issued by the Federal Reserve Bank. On the way out the door I deposit any mail I have to be set out via the US Postal Service and drop the kids off at the public school.
After spending another day not being maimed or killed at work thanks to the workplace regulations imposed by the Department of Labor and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, enjoying another two meals which again do not kill me because of the USDA, I drive my NHTSA car back home on the DOT roads, to my house which has not burned down in my absence thanks to the state and local building codes, fire marshal’s inspection during government-overseen construction (and possibly since), and the vigilant watch of my city and county Fire Departments. I find my home has not been plundered of all its valuables thanks to the cooperation of the city, county, and state Police Departments.
I then log on to the Internet (which was developed by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Administration) and post on freerepublic.com and Fox News forums about how government involvement in healthcare is SOCIALISM which is BAD because the government can’t do anything right.
-- Author unknown
I have a friend who often sends me annoying right-wing "humor" forwards. I am tempted to add fake forwarding headers to this and send it her way.
In other news, I've been out of town and away from Internet at least two of the last three days, so I'm declaring LJ Bankruptcy - if I haven't responded to something, odds are I won't be digging back far enough to do so without specific request. At the moment, I have to ruminate on some information from an interview Thursday, set up some social networking accounts, work on opening an Etsy shop, and all sort of things that aren't facilitated by poring over LJ posts I missed while I was away.