Comments on: Won’t someone get her a calculator?

By: Percyprune

Percyprune — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 11:56:58 +0000

For what it’s worth, I’m a computer games designer by trade, so I have a financial interest in ensuring our youth squanders their wealth on my product.

By: Percyprune

Percyprune — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 07:07:30 +0000

As it is he spends everything on computer games.

Excellent. Dollars spent on computer games are dollars in my pocket.

By: sarah

sarah — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 22:07:02 +0000

i would like to take this opportunity to point out that there is a difference between Sarah and sarah. i also am not very impressed by hillary clinton, but i am pretty good at multiplying, and i know from experience that poor people do, in fact, pay taxes.

you may now return to your regularly scheduled gary/fake-gary discussion. thank you.

By: Sinister eyebrow

Sinister eyebrow — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 22:01:13 +0000

Actually, this sounds a lot like the idea from a book by a couple economists called The Stakeholder Society which was based on the idea that people participated and succeeded if they felt they truly held a stake in the society. The plan in the book was to give each child a $100,000 lump sum (the stake) at the age of 18. They could buy a house, go to college, squander it, etc., but it would create a mentality geared toward future planning, participation in civic life, and responsibility. In order to fund it, each person had to provide $100,000 from their estate when they died (or something close, I read the book in law school). It was an interesting premise and it sounds a little like what Clinton had to propose.

By: Phoenician in a time of Romans

Phoenician in a time of Romans — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 21:15:13 +0000

Free money? Just for being born? Sounds like socialism to me. Try this on for size, then.

By: Johnny Coelacanth

Johnny Coelacanth — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 17:33:08 +0000

“I’m calling sock-puppetry on the Dr., this Gary and mikey.”

If you’re calling sock-puppetry on mikey, I am forced to declare that every comment on every post on every blog on the internet is written by me. I am also Ann Althouse.

By: Sporty

Sporty — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 16:15:39 +0000

I’m calling sock-puppetry on the Dr., this Gary and mikey. The all sound the same and the timing of their posts is just too convenient.

On the other hand, I laughed so hard at Mercer’s writing that a piece of Red Vine came out of my nose.

Curse you, Robert Green!

By: WCW

WCW — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 13:02:06 +0000

Wow, you got a personal visit from Sarah. You must be one of the internet friends she was talking about a month ago, the ones she needs because “I don’t even have any friends in my real life anymore.”

Thanks for keeping us up to date on her private world, since I can’t bear to read her site anymore. It’s no longer even funny.

By: Giant Flag Pin

Giant Flag Pin — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 11:02:17 +0000

Gosh, Percyprune, I hope you don’t really think that buying a second-hand car or backpacking around the world would be “squandering”. I’d be very happy if my son used his money so wisely. As it is he spends everything on computer games. I just hope he grows out of it.

By: Some Guy

Some Guy — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 10:12:51 +0000

Time Cube is the gift that keeps on giving.

By: Percyprune

Percyprune — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 07:36:53 +0000

People who talk about “Government” money seem to forget it isn’t the Govs money, its American taxpayer (including poor people, especially the poor) money. Most sane americans would be happy to help a little baby be assured of a decent education.

Yes, but these folks are not interested in babies after they emerge from the womb. Once delivered into the world children are an inconvenience and subject to the same savage law of the jungle as the rest of humanity.

By: M. Bouffant

M. Bouffant — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 07:05:10 +0000

Lee L. Mercer Jr. should get Dr. Gene Ray of “Time Cube” fame to be his vice president. He’ll need a sane, older white guy to offset his radical program.
It’s kind of a shame we have the intarto0bes. I used to enjoy reading things like that, handwritten, copied for 3¢ a page, then pasted on the traffic light control boxes at major intersections. We’ve gained so much from this new technology, yet [wipes moisture from eye] we’ve lost a part of America, too.

By: Percyprune

Percyprune — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 06:49:48 +0000

Hmmm… I have one of Gordon Brown’s baby bonds for my son. We have invested it in one of the many approved guaranteed-return baby bond products that is being sold commercially here in the UK and are supplementing it with a small monthly payment to grow the bond.

The final amount when it pays out won’t be spectacular. I imagine it’ll be enough to buy a second-hand car or pay for a year’s backpacking around the world or do whatever my baby boy decides to squander it on. (He’ll still be a teenager when he gets it, and we all know what teens are like!)

Lord knows I have many complaints about my Prime Minister–his championing of PFI being first amongst them–but the baby bond was and is an excellent idea.

I find it interesting that conservatives–always ready to champion families, babies and investments–would moan about such a scheme, even though it benefits many of them. It adds to my conviction that the United States is no longer the Home of the Brave but the land of the whiny, petty, selfish shits. (You nice progressive types excepted, of course.)

By: lobbey

lobbey — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 06:14:00 +0000

If the jihadis were not so occupied, they would have been trying their black hearts out for those last six years to incur numbers two, three, four and etcetera.

“black hearts”, I call fake Gary

By: Some Guy

Some Guy — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 05:54:09 +0000

Dammit, Gary! Would you at least clean off and sterilize your facts before you throw them around like a trophy wife?

By: um

um — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 05:31:59 +0000

If there is a god, then s/he will be sure to set up a Steel Cage Death Debate between Alan Keyes and Lee Mercer.

By: Fats Durston

Fats Durston — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 04:57:53 +0000

All is solved for Mr. Mercer:

Due to a football [brain] injury, I was unable to compete in football during my senior year.

By: Fats Durston

Fats Durston — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 04:55:39 +0000

70. RELIGION PROGRAM TO WORK AMERICA. The program has solved everything in the world such as 1. All the crime 2. The lack of world peace 3. All the poverty 4. All communications 5. All prejudice 6. All phenomenons guaranteed to be true by the United States Army. This is a U.S. Army FBI ROTC religion program. This made all of my Doctor’s degrees.

Wait. Your family doctor’s degrees are made of this? Or you have multiple doctorates? Just checking. Because I’d love to have a president this well-educated.

By: Gary Ruppert

Gary Ruppert — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 04:51:49 +0000

The fact is the Iraq endeavor is saving the country money.

One 9-11 cost us trillions. Just one, six years ago…trillions.

If the jihadis were not so occupied, they would have been trying their black hearts out for those last six years to incur numbers two, three, four and etcetera.

The damage would increase exponentially, as fear would mount with each successful attempt.

The cost of Iraq is a pittance by comparison. And the better skilled we become at it, the less it will be.

By: craigie

craigie — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 03:55:56 +0000

surrendering to Islamists.

Yikes! That sounds awful!

Good thing we already surrendered the government to Christianists. I feel much safer already.