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#AttackWatch plagiarized #PeoplesCube

2011-10-01T13:11:00.003-04:00

The Stalinistically satirical People's Cube website already has a mechanism to publicly denounce evil, bourgeoisie, counter revolutionary thought crimes. The Democrats are demonstrating, yet again, government redundancy & waste.

#Obama = #Madmen

2011-09-02T12:18:00.005-04:00

It seems the frat boys in the Obama camp plagiarized Madmen 's fictional Nixon campaign in their latest campaign speech scheduled SNAFU:

Harry and Pete discuss the Secor Laxative account. Then they discuss college and their frat days; a frat prank gives Pete an idea: Buy up TV air time in undecided states for Secor so that Kennedy is blocked from buying that time.

More specifically, the adman weasel, Campbell, discussed how the nerds in his frat weren't invited to some other frat's party, so Campbell's geek brothers spitefully scheduled a competing event to distract, detract, & disrupt the other frat house. It seems rather sad, yet not surprising, that the Obamaites crib their notes from one of the most anti-social & off-putting fictional characters on television.

Why is PBS pro-Fascist, Part II

2011-08-01T14:40:00.002-04:00

In the continuing saga of the seeming endless PBS Fascist lovefest, the History Detectives
lauded a WWII anti-US pro-Fascist of Japanese descent:

Tukufu: I explain how we may never know exactly why his grandfather refused to sign a loyalty oath. But it had been an act of conscience that had separated him from his family.

Scott: Makes me feel good. Gives me a lot of pride.

Why would it make a person feel proud that their ancestor supported the then Fascist Japanese government?

I was rhetorically wondering if PBS would be so effusive & ebullient if the WWII anti-US pro-Fascist had been of German descent, but remembered that they had run an episode apologizing for WWI anti-US pro-Kaiser spies of German descent & attacking the US government for countering said German spies & saboteurs:

his great-grandfather’s diary records the activities of a dedicated agent at the moment our intelligence service expanded dramatically – a time when the ideals of freedom often became casualties of our involvement in the First World War.

Gwen: John Brady was clearly a hard working and loyal American. He wanted to protect his country. But this notebook shows how he and many other people were out of their fear becoming convinced of dangers of subversives everywhere.

Admittedly, in the History Detectives defense, they did run a program that pointed out that US government investigations into German espionage & sabotage wasn't total delusional paranoia:

July 30, 1916 when a German spy ring carried out a well-planned set of synchronized explosions on Black Tom Island in New York's harbor, using the United States' own cache of munitions produced to aid Britain and France in World War I.

Two million pounds of exploding ammunition rocked the country as far away as Philadelphia, blew the windows out of nearly every high rise in lower Manhattan, injuring hundreds.

Why is PBS pro-Fascist?

2011-08-01T14:16:00.003-04:00

Or if PBS isn't pro-Fascist, they seem consistently pro-anti-US.
In the PBS series, Nazi Hunters, it seems the only good anti-Nazis were the Soviet Communists. All others, from classically liberal Western Democracies to Jews, were all unmitigatingly evil:

These stories of pursuit reveal the secret plot involving a future president of Israel and a famous poet to poison six million Germans; how the most famous Nazi hunter of them all took the credit for a capture that he had nothing to do with; how the SAS took the law into their own hands.

It seems the only people who are allowed to advocate extra-legal retributive justice against their opponents are Marxists, Middle Eastern freedom fighting man made disasters, & NPR's Nina Totenberg.

"The Revolution will be complete when the language is perfect"

2011-08-01T13:17:00.003-04:00

PBS propounded its Orwellian Newspeak on a recent episode of History Detectives , where it described Soviet backed Marxists in the Spanish Civil War as "liberals" and German Nazi backed fascists as "conservatives". Why can't PBS be linguistically honest?

& why does it take an American (non-Communist) Republican to defend FDR? PBS criticized Roosevelt for remaining neutral in this totalitarian show-down and posed a logical fallacy false choice between Stalin and Hitler, the Mutt & Jeff of mustachioed mass murdering psycho dictators.

US Military Uniform Aesthetic Critiques

2011-07-01T17:18:00.003-04:00

I appreciate that I'm being irrationally subjective, but I hate the US Navy's tan uniform with shoulder boards, as per Admiral Mullen:

It reminds me of the old Soviet Navy uniforms:

& for further subjective snarkiness, I'm glad that the US Army is finally ditching its experiment with berets, since, as Karen pointed out on Will & Grace:

Karen: Grace, we talked about the beret. Patty Hearst couldn’t even pull one off and she had money and a gun.

A Global Socialist is not a Realist

2011-07-01T15:37:00.002-04:00

Fareed Zakaria again foot stomped on his CNN show his meme that Obama is a true Realist and Republicans aren't. A cursory reading of any introductory Poli Sci text book:

would lead people to conclude that Obama is primarily, if not exclusively, a Globalist, and not a Realist. Fareed seems to conflate the common definition of realist with its technical definition and hopes that no one will notice his sleight of hand. This would be equivalent to co opting genetic terminology & asserting that brunettes are superior to blondes because brown hair genes are dominant to blonde hair genes.

A Realist is a person who believes in the supremacy of nation states & pursues policies that are in his/her nation state's interests. A Globalist believes that international organizations are supreme & all power of individual nation states should be undermined and eliminated. The fact that Obama did not ask the US Congress for a declaration of war against Libya & instead curried favor with NATO and the Arab League is just one example that Obama is a Globalist and is not & never has been a Realist. Why doesn't Fareed, himself, get Real.

"The True Believer" of Hopium

2010-07-08T12:30:00.004-04:00

Hoffer's book is next on my list of donated titles for my local public library's fund raiser book sale. I was never motivated to read said book, judging by the cover that it was anti-GOP. Surprisingly, quite a bit of Hoffer's own beliefs seem to parallel Ayn Rand's, as in advocating the rights of the individual over the collective:

[T]he less justified a man is in claiming excellence for his own self, the more ready is he to claim all excellence for his nation, his religion, his race or his holy cause...The burning conviction that we have a holy duty toward others is often a way of attaching our drowning selves to a passing raft...There is no doubt that in exchanging a self-centered for a selfless life we gain enormously in self-esteem. The vanity of the selfless, even those who practice utmost humility, is boundless.

Hoffer seems to presciently predict the appeal of hopium:

[E]xtravagent hope, even when not backed by actual power, is likely to generate a most reckless daring. For the hopeful can draw strength from the most ridiculous sources of power -- a slogan, a word, a button. No faith is potent unless it is also faith in the future; unless it has a millennial component...If the Communists win Europe and a large part of the world, it will not be because they know how to stir up discontent or how to infect people with hatred, but because they know how to preach hope.

Hoffer seems to make a rather extravagant extrapolation from the anecdotal evidence of Hitler's personal experience to contend that frustrated artists allegedly possess a tendency to become totalitarian dictators:

The most incurably frustrated -- and, therefore, the most vehement -- among the permanent misfits are those with an unfulfilled craving for creative work. Both those who try to write, paint, compose, etcetera, and fail decisively, and those who after tasting the elation of creativeness feel a drying up of the creative flow within...are alike in the grip of a desperate passion...Their unappeased hunger persists, and they are likely to become the most violent extremists in the service of their holy cause.

If the above theory is correct, this would seem to argue for defunding the NEA in order to prevent to creation of potential proto-Fascists. Hoffer includes some pithy epigrams:

If a doctrine is not unintelligible, it has to be vague; and if neither unintelligible nor vague, it has to be unverifiable.

Hoffer dislikes all organized religion, surprisingly (by today's standard), periodically pointing out the historical shortcomings of all, including Islam, but, unsurprisingly, focusing specifically on Catholicism as the baddest of the lot. Presumably, this is because the book was written before the 1960s, the decade when it was politically correct to be Catholic (unless one was also a Republican, in general, or William F. Buckley, in particular) since both a Democrat US president professed this religion & the pope promoted nuclear disarmament for everyone & never openly criticized Communism. Once a pope came along who openly dissed & fought against Communism, Catholicism returned to being the bad religion that is the source of everything wrong in the world. In a conclusion paragraph that would be PC even by today's standard, Hoffer contends:

[F]anaticism...was a Judaic-Christian invention.

Hoffer proffers that after propaganda comes compulsion:

[S]teel fingers of coercion make themselves felt everywhere and great emphasis is placed on mechanical drill, the pious phrases of the fervent propaganda give to coercion a semblance of persuasion, and to habit a semblance of spontaneity.

Dovetailing into the previous post's theory of the confluence of Red & Green objectives, Hoffer hypothesizes that what is typically viewed as the "American Dream" of rising standard of living for successive generations keeps Americans motivated. Destroying this historic dream would, therefore, help to demotivate Americans in supporting current social structures:

The gross ideal of ever-rising standard of living has kept this nation [the USA] fairly virile. England's ideal of the country gentleman and France's ideal of the retired rentier are concrete and limited. This definiteness of their national ideal has perhaps something to do with the lessened drive of the two nations. In America, Russia, and Germany the ideal is indefinite and unlimited.

& conversely, motivate Americans into supporting proposed new social structures:

Not only does a mass movement depict the present as mean and miserable -- it deliberately makes it so. It fashions a pattern of individual existence that is dour, hard, repressive and dull. It decries pleasures and comforts and extols the rigorous life. It views ordinary enjoyment as trivial or even discreditable, and represents the pursuit of personal happiness as immoral.

I also donated a David Horowitz book written before he saw the light & stopped being a Communist (which seems to annoy the Amazon reviewer, whose gradient of goodness seems to operate in exactly the opposite direction): Empire and Revolution.

"The green tree has red roots"

2010-07-03T15:11:00.006-04:00

Having come to the conclusion that I'm more of a pack rat than a bibliophile, I've made the resolution to donate books that I haven't read in a while to my local public library book sale. One of the books from my pile that's being sent to the donation rack is Clinton Rossiter's Conservatism in America which was viewed at the time as being pro-Conservative, presumably since the author only estimated that a third of so called Conservatives are proto-Fascists versus the Left's standard estimate of 100%. He also described Sen "KKK Kleagle" Byrd as a Conservative, but later on admitted that Byrd was, indeed, a Democrat versus a Republican. I was tempted to just use this book as kindling for a weekend steak barbecue, but I'm not a US Supreme Court nominee & thought that book burning would look rather Fascist.

The other book I'm donating is George "ABC's house RINO" Will's Suddenly. This post's title, "The green tree has red roots," came from a quote in one of the book's article: "They Are the Children". After skimming through his book again, I finally made the connection as to why Reds & Greens make a perfect alliance. Will wrote this book before the USSR finally disintegrated & he reminded people that the Communist revolution never delivered on their hundred year promise of bread & peace. Hence, the Greens, with their mission to denounce capitalist consumerism as evil, help to forward the relative success of the Reds, who continue to trumpet Marxist materialism. If the Greens had been successful in their mission in forcing the West to surrender unilaterally, they would have allowed the Reds to win the economic battle by default.

Will's book also seems to provide insight into the debate as to whether Al Gore went off the rails after the 2000 election, or was always a wee bit wacko. It appears that Gore, way back in 1987, used to be a Scoop Jackson Democrat & thus more conservative than today's typical RINO:

Al Gore (D-Tenn.) noted that most Democratic voters, unlike most of the party's activists, leaders and presidential candidates, approved of the use of force in Grenada and against Libya.

Finally, Will has this wonderful, seemingly rhetorical, question in his article: "Jess Jackson's Verbal Meringue":

How many candidates spout Third World rhetoric and fraternize with anti-American dictators and then do well in presidential politics?

David Letterman has a history of telling child rape jokes

2009-06-25T16:22:00.007-04:00

A PUMA blog has reposted from a Team Sarah blog the history of child rape "jokes" Letterman has told over the years.

Reposting the background of the dispute from a Fire David Letterman Facebook group discussion (where you need to be registered in order to read):

Dave's "joke" was about a 14 year old

While Letterman CLAIMS he was talking about her Sarah Palin's OTHER daughter, the 18 year old and not the 14 year old, only an extremely naive person would take Dave at his word.

Dave's monologue is not ad libbed, it is scripted by a staff of paid, union writers. They had the time & ability to research & fact check their story before recording the show. All the stories that listed Palin's entourage included the name & age of the daughter accompanying her to New York

A story published 7 June:

"Accompanying Palin on the trip is her husband, Todd, and the couple's 14-year-old daughter, Willow"

A story published 6 June:

"She's traveling with her husband, Todd, and her 14-year old daughter, Willow"

Dave & his staff of writers knew that he was attacking Willow, the implication being that Palin is a bad mother & that all of her daughters are promiscuous. Dave somewhat miscalculated in thinking that no one would call him on it & that his leftists friends in the media would have his back. He certainly appears to have guessed correctly on the latter assumption.

Countering the defenders of Letterman

Letterman defenders seem to make two general points:

1) GOP talk show hosts, specifically Limbaugh, have said mean things about Democratic politicians' children, aka implying Chelsea Clinton is a dog. Ergo, complaining about Dave is hypocritical.

Counterpoints

Whilst being rude, Limbaugh never advocated raping Chelsea Clinton. Limbaugh clearly apologized in a timely manner, aka immediately afterwards versus waiting an entire week. Limbaugh clearly apologized on his accord versus waiting for sponsors & lawyers to compel him to pretend to be contrite. One can quibble over Limbaugh's & Letterman's level of sincerity but one can't refute the ultimate outcome: LIMBAUGH NO LONGER HAS A TV SHOW & ONLY WORKS ON AM RADIO. I wouldn't have a problem if the same fate befell Letterman.

2) Democratic talk show hosts have a history of telling child rape "jokes". Ergo, everybody does it, so it's OK.

Counterpoint

Has anyone tried using that rationalization to weasel out of a speeding ticket? "Golly, officer, everybody else is speeding, so you are forbidden from giving me a ticket." It's not an all or nothing proposition. The traffic cop isn't obligated to hand out tickets to everyone who is speeding. Similarly, critics are focusing on Letterman now. We reserve the right to go after other perverts who tell child rape "jokes" in the future. I thank the Letterman defenders for doing the grunt work & turning up ammunition to potentially use against O'Brien & Leno for any future boycott against them once we're done punishing Letterman. However, perhaps Letterman's treatment will serve as a cautionary tale to others & they'll eschew from ever telling child rape jokes again.

Hillbuzz has great advice for writing boycott letters, plus points of contact & address information for people who want to write hard copy letters. Hillbuzz is using the strategy of targeting Dave's biggest sponsors with a family friendly brand image. They are now focusing on Mars, Kelloggs, Johnson & Johnson.

& PUMA PAC have great boilerplate letters that you can tweak before sending.

A sample business letter to use as a format guide.

blogburst post: "False AP report: Obama did NOT say that Iran must respect voters' choice"

2009-06-21T19:06:00.004-04:00

Obama's comments were mushy, yes, but at least he said the most important thing, according to AP:

He said it's up to Iran to determine its own leaders but that the country must respect voters' choice.

Why then have reputable people continued to pass harsh judgment? And why would AP paraphrase what would have been Obama’s key statement?

Turns out Obama said no such thing. What he actually said is that the VOICES of the Iranian people should be heard and respected, not their votes:

And particularly to the youth of Iran, I want them to know that we in the United States do not want to make any decisions for the Iranians, but we do believe that the Iranian people and their voices should be heard and respected.

This is consistent with the rest of Obama's remarks. He never said a word about respecting votes. Obama did mention "the democratic process," but far from saying anything about this process having to meet any standards of integrity, he instead implied strongly that he will accept whatever result the "process" followed by the Mullahs produces:

I want to start off by being very clear that it is up to Iranians to make decisions about who Iran’s leaders will be; that we respect Iranian sovereignty and want to avoid the United States being the issue inside of Iran, which sometimes the United States can be a handy political football...

Democracy means that Iranian sovereignty lies with the Iranian people and that a regime that rigs an election is NOT sovereign. Yet Obama is explicit that he will continue to treat the mullahs as the Iranian sovereign no matter how they judge the election. He even goes so far as to suggest that the only reason he is bothering to comment on the competing claim to sovereignty at all is because it would be unseemly for him not to:

We will continue to pursue a tough, direct dialogue between our two countries, and we’ll see where it takes us. But even as we do so, I think it would be wrong for me to be silent about what we’ve seen on the television over the last few days.

The only operative concerns that he mentions are for: "free speech, the ability of people to peacefully dissent." When he talks about the "democratic process" going forward, all he urges is that the process be peaceful and that dissent be allowed. He says nothing about the process being honest:

...there appears to be a sense on the part of people who were so hopeful and so engaged and so committed to democracy who now feel betrayed. And I think it’s important that, moving forward, whatever investigations take place are done in a way that is not resulting in bloodshed and is not resulting in people being stifled in expressing their views.

It is no accident that Obama ended with the statement that AP paraphrased so egregiously (equating his call for bloodless suppression with a demand for legitimate elections). This was his theme throughout. He views the honesty of Iran's democratic process as something to be judged by the mullahs, who he clearly accepts to be the sovereign power, regardless of the merits of competing claims.

AP's fraudulent report about Obama demanding respect for voters' choice was the primary print report on Obama's comments. Now that it has already misled millions of people, AP has covered its tracks by filing an update that overwrites the errant statement. This is what AP does when it gets caught putting out misinformation. To avoid issuing a correction, they flush the misleading story down the memory hole by using the same url for a completely different story. (Google only finds AP's original article still posted at Fox News.)

AP did the same thing last year after it was taken to task for failing to check the most basic facts in a story about the controversy over possible Islamic symbolism in the Flight 93 memorial. Ramesh Santanam reported a number of conflicting factual assertions, like the 44 blocks:

Opponents also claim there is a plan to have 44 glass blocks, for the 40 victims and four hijackers, in the design.

"That's an absolute, unequivocal fabrication that is being portrayed as fact," said Edward Felt's brother, Gordon Felt, president of Families of Flight 93. "It's misleading and helps drive the conspiracy theory."

When it was pointed out that Santanam could have found the four extra blocks just by opening up the design drawings and counting, AP quickly filed a completely different story (about fundraising for the memorial), under the same url.

It's not that there is anything inherently wrong with AP using subject feeds that automatically update with their latest offering. It is that AP is systematically using this system to dodge corrections. This is actually their official policy:

For corrections on live, online stories, we overwrite the previous version. We send separate corrective stories online as warranted.

Except AP virtually never issue corrective stories, for the simple reason that AP has no established correction procedure. They just do the overwrite thing and say "too bad."

Well this time the overwrite thing is not good enough.

Demand a corrective story about AP's false paraphrase of Obama's words

Associated Press obviously understands the importance of Obama saying that Iran must respect voters' choice or they wouldn't have bothered to pretend that he said it when he didn't. They don't just fail to mention Obama's glaring omission on this crucial point, but actually tell the public via false paraphrase that he did say what he glaringly omitted. This cannot stand. Faced with our new president's key statement on a historic crisis, AP reports a photo negative of what Obama actually said.

There may be no established procedure for AP corrections, but anyone can still send a pre-written email to AP CEO Tom Curley, Editor Kathleen Carroll, the reporters who worked on the story (the egregious Jennifer Loven, along with Anne Gearan and Robert Burns), plus a smattering of other AP editors and bureaucrats. Who knows. There may even be a limit to how disingenuous some of these people are willing to be.

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UPDATE

It's really a moot question to ask whose side either Obama or the AP is on.

Letterman is still a pervert who thinks that statutory rape is funny but just not economically profitable to talk about on television

2009-06-18T13:37:00.013-04:00

I still find David Letterman to be an annoying pervert; however, his obot rapist apologists not only annoy me, they give me nightmares. A blog entitled Truth Conquers Nothing: Spin is Everything , but translated into carp Latin to make the schmo who writes it sound pseudo-intellectual, through the employment of sophistical logorrhea, attempts to justify the legitimacy of statutory rape. I, personally, disagree that statutory rape is totally cool & awesome & voiced my belief on their comment section. This resulted in the following well reasoned syllogism:

A) All left thinking progs think statutory rape is totally cool & awesome
B) Adagio does not think that statutory rape is totally cool & awesome
C) Ergo, Adagio must be a home schooled creationist who wants to ride around on a dinosaur all day long & must be liquidated like the uppity kulak she is.

Now, in the spirit of full disclosure, I, like all right thinking people, do support the outfitting of dinosaurs with laser guns and jet packs as part of the US missile defense shield against NORK attacks. However, I don't want to ride around on carnivorous dinos, since they'd want to eat me, nor do I want to ride around on herbivorous dinos, since they'd want to squash me. As a compromise, I'd settle for riding around on a genetically engineered Woolly Mammoth in order to invade Canada & squash all evil prog rapist apologists.

If you don't want to just accept this trend of "defining deviancy down" and want to do something more productive than just fantasizing about crushing evil Canadian prog rapist apologists under the furry feet of G.E. Woolly Mammoths, a good place to start is to peruse the posts at Hillbuzz where there are numerous tutorials on the subject of boycotts and protests.

UPDATE

It was perceptively pointed out that my drawing style is an homage to the great Frank the Artist of IMAO. Frank's most pertinent creation that informs this post is his commentary on the Saul Alinksy Wing of the Democratic Party's response to rape victims being stoned to death:

5 Ways to Help the Iranian People

2009-06-17T23:48:00.003-04:00

Since Dr. Utopia doesn't want to help foreign people ensure that their votes are counted properly (why would he? He doesn't care if the vote is counted properly domestically):

other organizations are trying to step in & give advice on how individuals can show their solidarity with & help Iranian protesters .

What would happen if Iran nuked Israel?

2009-06-07T20:08:00.009-04:00

A commenter on Debbie Schlussel's post about the word count of Obama's Cairo speech suggested creating a wordle, so here is one of said speech, fwiw:
I didn't infer the same conclusion that George Stephanopoulos did with Hillary Clinton's interview:Iranian Attack on Israel is Attack on U.S. Hillary said that if Iran nuked Israel, that "there would be retaliation". George tried to nail this jello-ish statement to the wall by prompting, "by the United States," to which Hillary would not explicitly concur. Hence, I inferred that the Obama administration was neither committing to a US conventional, let alone nuclear, response to Iran in such a scenario. I inferred that, at most, Obama might send a strongly worded memo to the UN to tut-tut such an occurrence & then probably write another speech equating the historic suffering of the Jews to the displacement of the Palestinians.

All of the commenters on ABC's board seemed solely concerned about a potential Israeli attack on Iran versus vice versa. From Jeff Olsen:

so we can also say an attack on Iran by Israel is an attack of US on Iran!?

Goerge kept asking if Iran attacks Israel then what, but is seem no one is allowed to ask if Israel attacks Iran then what.

George, for tha last so many years that you remember when did Iran attack any neigboring country?

please be fair.

Golly, Jeff, if you completely ignore all the "freedom fighter" or "manmade disasters" deployed in proxy wars trained & funded by Iran, then I guess you are technically correct, but that seems rather disingenuous. The US is attacked for having the CIA cooperate with Britain's MI6's 1953 overthrow of Iran's Soviet backed government. If the US is held accountable for the CIA's doings, I don't see why Iran should receive a pass for the nefarious goings on of their Persian analog.

UPDATE

NRO's take on Obama's Cairo speech:

President Obama’s Cairo speech was nothing short of an earthquake — a distortion of history, an insult to the Jewish people, and an abandonment of very real human-rights victims in the Arab and Muslim worlds[...]

Murtha (D, Valley of Humiliation) under the Obama bus

2009-06-02T20:46:00.010-04:00

Playing the game that NewsBusters made famous of "Guess the Political Party" , notice how the Obamaganda media never actually mentions the fact that Murtha, the corrupt politician currently being investigated by the FBI for his extraordinary levels of corruptness, is a DEMOCRAT throughout the entire 2:31 video?

The NRO finds it amazing that CBS actually covered the fact that Murtha is a corrupt politician, linking to another video in which the journalists never actually SAY that Murtha is a DEMOCRAT, but prints the fact that Murtha is a DEMOCRAT on the screen @2:50 for a few seconds in a 3:15 video. If Murtha had been GOP, that would have been constantly reiterated throughout the story & his behavior would have been stereotyped to represent all GOP.

The DEMOCRAT Murtha's corruptness is nothing new & the exact same Dem media went to the mat to get Murtha, the DEMOCRAT, reelected in the 2008 general election. My hypothesis is that the same Dem media are willing to throw Murtha, the DEMOCRAT, under the bus in the hopes that a slightly less corrupt Dem will take his place & run in the next Dem primary,

This would be along the same lines as the Dem media willingly throwing Democratic former Ohio Attorney General Marc "pizza orgies" Dann & Democratic former NY Governor Eliot "hooker-gate" Spitzer quickly under the donkey bus, because they knew their replacements would be Democrats. If the GOP would have in any way directly benefited from either Spitzer or Dann stepping down, the organs of Democratic propaganda would have spun into overdrive to accuse the GOP of being puritanical, sex-o-phobic, & in the case of Dann, carb-o-phobic & anti-Italian.

If the Dems have enough time to recover before a general election, they want to throw their rotten cohorts under the bus, steam roll them flat, spread tar & asphalt over them till voters lose all recollection of their memory. If voters do vaguely remember the former disgraced pol, the Dems hope that they're falsely remembered as GOP versus the corrupt Dems that they truly are, such as Jay Leno falsely blaming the GOP for Democrat Spitzer.

non-Obots = crazy people

2009-06-01T18:50:00.002-04:00

Following the tradition of historic totalitarian dictatorships, people who don't buy into the cult of personality surrounding the Dear Leader, say, for example, Susan Boyle allegedly snubbing Obama, are classified as crazy people:

CBS News medical correspondent Dr. Jennifer Ashton explained on The Early Show Monday that, "The terms ‘exhaustion’ or ‘nervous breakdown’ are not medical terms. They don't exist in the medical community. Typically, when we hear those terms, doctors think of something called acute psychosis, or a psychotic break, which usually means someone has an underlying predisposition, and that all of these environmental situations ... fatigue, or pressure, really just are too much for them and push them over the edge. But ... without an underlying psychiatric or psychological condition in general, usually people would not wind up hospitalized because of this."

Since Boyle was not a total Obot, she must be denounced as an enemy of the people. My hypothesis is that if Boyle was more enthusiastically pro-Obama, that the US MSM would have more sympathetically covered her hospitalization.

US debt default = no big deal?

2009-05-31T16:16:00.004-04:00

What if not only GM goes bankrupt, but the United States decides to default on its debt? According to taxpayer supported PBS, defaulting on the national debt would be no big deal, don't worry, be happy:

"Increasingly some are worried about the potential for a downgrade of the U.S. government's triple A credit rating. Why does it matter? Because a downgrade would increase our borrowing costs and reflect an increased risk for sovereign default [...]But let's consider a little history. Sovereign defaults have been occurring for centuries [...] A U.S. debt default isn't the problem; its the solution."

The US has never defaulted on its national debt, unless you wish to quibble and characterize leaving the gold standard as a technical debt default. This ignores the fact that the US was a creditor nation after WWI & that the countries that owed us money, Britain & France, both left the gold standard. It would have made no sense for the US to pay out gold bullion for our transactions whilst we were being paid in other countries' monopoly paper bills. Even when the US was a war torn former colony, it managed to pay back its Revolutionary War debt, plus interest, in gold bullion.

Green = New Red

2009-05-30T14:25:00.007-04:00

Since the CCCP lost the Cold War, openly being a Marxist has lost some of its cachet. It's still cooler to don Soviet inspired apparel (for example, the ever popular Che t-shirt):

than it is to wear Nazi inspired apparel (for example, the never popular Himmler t-shirt), even though Stalin ended up killing more people than Hitler. The avant-garde, who want to look hip and edgy, floundered for a few years to find a hue to replace the now déclassé red. The former reds finally stumbled upon the color green.

PBS NOW confirms what conservatives have suspected all along: that a number of "green" militants don't truly care either about the environment, or about helping the human race. Rather, they just want to attack Western Civilization, in general, and classical liberal democracy & free market capitalism, in particular. In the years before the Kool Aid Drinking, such people were called watermelons, since they are green on the outside, but red on the inside. Edward John Craig at the National Review even suggested a test to distinguish between what I suppose could be termed limes, people who are thoroughly green, and watermelon rinds, people with just the veneer of green. The term even spread overseas:

5 of them are in the category of orbiting Pluto, ranging from Fantasy Trotskyite, new-com, watermelon Marxist, a fake-peasant anarchist, and a hunter to a geriatric fascist

However, in today's day & age, it's politically incorrect to employ such a term, even though Democrats feel that it's still totally cool to racially stereotype black Republicans:

Condoleezza holds a watermelon just over the edge of the roof of the 300-foot Federal Building, and tosses it up with a velocity of 20 feet per second ...

It hits bush and cheney and they are covered with watermelon goop.

I'm okay with a little racial insensitivity as long as it results in bush getting hit with a watermelon. Well, not really, but they are making such a huge deal out of this over in GD that I felt the need to poke fun at them.

& are only offended when people attacking the GOP receive a slap on the wrist:

Oh for Pete's sake... it's not like she was *eating* the watermelon -- she was SMASHING that horrible symbol of racial oppression! Are we just not allowed to talk about blacks and watermelons in the same sentence anymore?

The answer to the rhetorical question posed above has two parts:

(1) Democrats are allowed to use any & all racist, sexist, ageist, etc ad infinitum attacks against their political opponents.

Conversely

(2) Political opponents of Democrats may never criticize said Democrats for fear of being smeared a racist, sexist, ageist, etc ad infinitum in the media

Hence, the only politically correct way to currently use the term watermelon might be to point out that some people who employ feigned interest in the environment have micro-managing fascist tendencies.

For a possible PC micromanaging Marxist example, take the current Speaker of the House:

In answering a question from a student about how Pelosi was going to get Americans to cut back on their carbon emissions, the leading Democratic lawmaker said it was important to educate children on how to conserve energy and for citizens to build more environmentally friendly homes.

“We have so much room for improvement,” she said. “Every aspect of our lives must be subjected to an inventory ... of how we are taking responsibility.”

However, because of the left's hypocritical double standards, critics who characterize Obama's new special advisor for Green Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation, Van Jones, as a watermelon will most likely be denounced as evil racists & placed on the DHS terrorist watch list.

After racking my brain, & a cursory google search, I couldn't come up with any politically correct fruit that is green on the outside & red on the inside. I then thought outside the box & came up with the term lizards, an animal that usually fits such a cross-sectional criteria. Replacing watermelons with lizards as the symbol for crypto-Marxists will serendipitously dovetail nicely into ABC's upcoming remake of "V".

Van Jones is not a scientist, or an engineer, but simply a former charismatic community organizer. His appointment is not surprising, since speed dating algorithms predict that narcissists will attract each other:

"When someone else is like you and has the same attitudes," Gonzaga explains, "that validates the attitudes that you have...They’re making you feel better about yourself."

@ 10:00-10:40 on this NOW video Van Jones openly admits that he simply used the green mantra as a gimmicky trick to help redistribute the wealth around to the community he was organizing.

Thus, Obama plans to destroy the US coal industry as well as bankrupt the entire US economy solely to pay back his political constituencies.

CODA

Upon further googling, people looking for a vegan alternative to the crypto-Marxist lizard symbol might try horse chestnuts, since they are red nuts surrounded by a green covering.

UPDATE

Van Jones made a guest appearance in ABC's sci-fi thriller Earth 2100, where he advocates the establishment of a Eco-Comintern equivalent in order to better determine how much the ACORN apparatchiks should extract from each according to his ability to redistribute to each according to his need.

Nancy Pelosi = which fictional villain?

2009-05-29T20:34:00.007-04:00

The concern trolls created a kerfuffle over an RNC anti-Pelosi ad that's allegedly sexist.

To allay the Huff & Puff/Kos Kids concern trolls, the RNC pulled the ad. In so doing, I believe that the GOP made a tactical error (what else is new?). Now, people can't watch it and independently arrive at their own conclusions. However, critics of the video have not and will not delete their negative remarks which will remain in the ether for election cycles to come. Hence, having no other reference points, people will be led to imagine that the GOP portrayed Pelosi as a giant tap dancing vagina, or some such. If the GOP had just left the video up, its content couldn't possibly be worse than what Obots twisted imaginations will dream up.

Conversely, Harry Reid called George W. Bush's mother a bitch , which resulted in an obligatory cascade of "Ya Momma" jokes directed @ Harry Reid's fat, ugly , stupid, slutty mother. However, rather than linking arms in solidarity to denounce this overt expression of sexism, the aforementioned leftist concern trolls magically morphed into chirping crickets. It's almost as if there is a double standard applied to the GOP versus Dems. Imagine...

This all begs the question: "Which fictional villain best embodies Nancy Pelosi's vile nature?" The, choices, off the top of my head:

* Wizard of Oz's Wicked Witch of the West
* James Bond's Pussy Galore
* Snow White's Evil Queen
* Narnia's Evil Queen
* Shakespeare's Lady MacBeth
* Tale of Two Cities' Madame Defarge
* Mary Poppins' repressed ID: "Scary Mary"

I posted the poll at the top of the right hand column. Follow ACORN's example: vote early and vote often & feel free to post any write-in options in the comment section.

UPDATE I

I always thought that US News & World Report was a right of center publication, but I suppose they've drunken the Kool Aid, as well, & have become card carrying members of the Obamaganda cult.

UPDATE II

The New Agenda people who complained about the Pelosi ads also complained about how Letterman treated Palin, so I suppose they are making an attempt to be bi-partisan in their defense of unfair attacks against women, so I took down my poll early. The Wizard of Oz's Wicked Witch of the West was leading in the votes fwiw.

Everything bad = GWBush's fault

2009-05-29T13:07:00.005-04:00

The time is nigh for the new official transfer from analog to digital television broadcast. Presumably, somebody, somewhere will experience difficulties, as Spike Feresten's PSA predicts:

The new Obama FCC head, Copps, on taxpayer supported PBS's Nightly Business Report, got in front of this issue by proactively blaming GWBush for any potential future problems, because blaming Bush is standard operating procedure for all good Obots:

COPPS: No, we have call centers, we have help available for them. It's not just tough luck. The broadcasters are going to be making every effort to address this, engineering wise between now and June 12th. But some of these fixes are going to take more time. But this is the price you pay when you don't have a real coordinated program for years and years. We came in in January and assessed the situation. The Obama administration asked for the delay, got the delay through Congress which was wonderful. But we can't make up all of the lapses of four years in four months.

The only thing somewhat surprising is that Copps only blamed the last 4 years versus last 8 years for all the world's problems. Since Obots haven't come up with another probable GOP scapegoat, their default position is to always blame Bu$hitler, so don't purge your wardrobe of all those anti-Bush t-shirts quite yet, comrades. In summary, fellow proles, if you are happy with your new digital service, thank Obama, since all blessings flow from The One, the father of all successes. Conversely, if you are unhappy, forward all complaints to Bu$hitler c/o Crawford, Texas, since all failures are the bastard children of Bush & Palin, or of O'Reilly & Laura Ingraham, or whomever happens to be on the top of the Journolist's enemies list that morning.

"ecumenical cooperation" = church turned into a mosque

2009-05-28T20:04:00.002-04:00

Rick Steves, in an episode on Turkey for his PBS travel show cited the following example of alleged ecumenical "cooperation":

And reminders are found everywhere of ecumenical cooperation.

Meli: Notice this gate. It has a Christian cross with a Muslim phrase, "Masallah," in Greek letters. "Masallah" is how we Muslims say "May God's, Allah's, blessings be on you."

This building, originally the church of St. Gregory, built in 385 AD, wasn't just any old church. This was the birthplace of the texts which became Gregorian chants.

Today its single minaret indicates that it's a mosque in a valley where the people call god Allah.

So, it appears that PBS' definition of religious "ecumenical cooperation" pretty much parallels Obama's definition of political "bipartisan cooperation": "I won, you lost. Toe my line, or I'll chop your feet off & feed them to my dog, BO."

anti-jihadist=crazy?

2009-05-27T21:38:00.007-04:00

Is the new leftist meme that anyone who dislikes jihadists = crazy person?

I first suspected as much after watching the government approved television program Frontline that highlighted a paranoid schizophrenic patient who just coincidentally had delusions about hunting Osama bin Laden:

In October, Moore was arrested twice in one day for breaking the windows of a home and the window of a trailer. Witnesses said Moore was talking about Osama bin Laden. Moore did not receive medication while in jail and when he was released December 1, he was delusional. He talked of his need to hunt down Osama bin Laden, who was hiding out in a local home.

Presumably, PBS could have found a delusional Democratic moonbat who suffers either from BDS ( Bush Derangement Syndrome) or PDS ( Palin Derangement Syndrome ), but they just "randomly" chose a patient with delusions about bin Laden.

Then on Dr. Sanity's post speculating whether Obama might possibly be a narcissist, I ran across a comment that seems to reinforce the "anti-Jihad"=crazy meme:

Right.

You're worried about a jihadist popping up in your Frosted Flakes and it's the "leftists" who are having anxiety attacks.

Quack.

Are the Obots trying to brainwash the rest of us into accepting Gitmo detainees in CONUS prisons? Are they trying to convince us that we're crazy if we're rather ambivalent about having Al Qaeda terrorists furloughed into our neighborhoods? Locking up jihadists in domestic super max prisons certainly appears to be a red herring, because why would anyone advocate locking up "Innocent" Chinese Detainees in any prison, super max or martha stewart minimum? If detainees are completely "innocent", rather than a super max prison, isn't the left saying that they want the Gitmo detainees housed in OSHA approved FEMA trailers, presumably in red states to help kill off evil reactionary RethugliKKKans?

Liz Cheney vs Obots

2009-05-27T20:23:00.005-04:00

Liz Cheney has done an outstanding job battling the Obots & they are none too happy about the prospects of her running for public office, reverting to their standard sexist operating procedures by denouncing her as a female dog for having the temerity to disagree with their messiah.

David Brooks = Oprah wing of GOP

2009-05-26T11:01:00.002-04:00

Daivd Brooks described himself as a member of the "Oprah Wing" of the "Conservative" movement on ABC's This Week:

BROOKS: If I could just speak up for the Oprah wing of the conservative movement...

(LAUGHTER)

... I am, sort of, pro-empathy. I don't think we can have automatons. I don't think there are automatons in the universe. People make decisions based on emotional reactions, even people wearing black robes.

My suspicion is that the other panelists weren't laughing with, but at, Brooks. Basically, Brooks feels that the GOP shouldn't support strict constructionism & should just throw out the US Constitution as a mere distraction to Obama's domestic agenda. Donna Brazile(presumably, a member of the Oprah Wing of the liberal movement)points out another perceived minor distraction of housing terrorists in people's backyards:

BRAZILE: I think the Democrats should have known that the Republicans were going to use the entire issue of Gitmo Bay to -- to, sort of, put the Democrats on the defense.

We saw it in the House and then, every day, McConnell went out there, the minority leader, and hammered the president: no plan, no plan, where is the plan? And clearly the Democrats were caught without a plan, as something to say, hey, we have a response to this.

So the president was forced to go out there and regain the moral higher ground. But the Democrats really can go home this week and tell the American people that they are still dealing with the economy, dealing with the issues that they care about. Meanwhile, the Republicans are looking for distractions. And, clearly, this week the Republicans found something to chew on.

Brooks, as is his wont, then went into full court press mode in attacking "fellow" Republicans & defending Obama:

BROOKS: You know the old line that, when two guys fight over a girl, it's the fight they want, not the girl.

(LAUGHTER)

That's what this week reminds me of. We have a bipartisan anti- terror policy in this country. If you take the anti-terror policy of the last four years of the Bush administration and stack it up with the first four months of the Obama administration, you have the same policy, with some adjustments on renditions, on secret prisons, on habeas corpus, even on Gitmo.

STEPHANOPOULOS: President Bush said he wanted to close Guantanamo, just didn't have a plan.

BROOKS: Right. And Condi Rice and people in that administration went around Capitol Hill, went to country after country saying, we want to close Gitmo, please take the prisoners. It never occurred to them they could announce the closure first and then figure out what to do with the prisoners later.

My impression is that GWBush never was serious about shutting down Gitmo. He asked other countries to take the detainees in a Kabuki theater exercise to highlight the critics' utter hypocrisy. That's because GWBush was serious about protecting the security of the US, unlike the current crop of idiotic sycophants:

DIONNE: A friend gave me a solution to this last night, California needs a bailout. And none of the states want the Gitmo prisoners. California agrees to take all of the prisoners and then it gets its bailout.

BROOKS: Hotel Bel Air.

(LAUGHTER)

(CROSSTALK)

WILL: California is going to release prisoners.

(LAUGHTER)

BRAZILE: To save money.

Har dee har har....releasing Al Qaeda terrorists into the US...such a topic of HI-LAR-I-TY!!!

Brooks then proceeds to attack the concept of term limits, paving the way for the US to emulate Venezuela & Cuba with our own dictator for life:

BROOKS: There's one other issue George may not like. Term limits. If you're only in the legislature for a short period you don't care about the out years. That's been a big factor here. Frankly, if we want to reach a compromise I'll give you a short-term bailout if there is fundamental reform, if Obama leans on them and they really do fundamental reform. I think most would accept that.

Finally, to top it off, Brooks advocates corporate fascism:

Business lies down with government. Management embraces labor. You call it what you will; I call it beautiful.

I'm calling it delusions from Dr. Utopia's Kool Aid & incredibly ugly:

Is Michelle Obama Omarosa's evil twin brother?

2009-05-23T16:48:00.004-04:00

Jay Mohr is not feeling the love of the Obots on youtube.

Mohr hypothesizes from the media’s obsession with MO’s big muscular arms , that she might possibly be a transvestite. No word yet as to whether Andrew Sullivan will become as obsessed with MO’s alleged icky lady parts as he currently is with Sarah Palin’s. So, Jay’s acting like a typical white person would in the days before Michelle first became proud of her country, when America was just plain mean.

Now, in the year 1 AKA (after the Kool Aid) , the stars shine brighter, ocean levels are lowering, the earth is healing, and chauffeured limousines transport Michelle Obama’s pampered person to college campuses, where she can compete with gaffe-tastic Biden in delivering the most peculiar & narcissistic commencement speech :

“Yet [the University of Chicago] never played a meaningful role in my academic development. The institution made no effort to reach out to me — a bright and promising student in their midst — and I had no reason to believe there was a place for me there.”

& a slight paraphrase/extrapolation of Biden’s speech:

I believe so strongly, not in you particularly, but your generation...well, actually, not your entire generation, just the people who voted for me...Well not really everyone who voted for me, just the ACORN paid volunteers who helped dead people vote...Well, actually, I don’t like any of you, I just like the fact that i can has cheez burger now with grey poupon & ice kream kones, two?

I appreciate that this entire post is in violation of the very level-headed advice from the Hillbuzz PUMA people, namely, that the GOP should eschew ad hominem attacks against its opponents. Mea culpa. I’ll try better in the future to restrict my criticism of Dr. Utopia solely to policy disputes, but I'm making no promises...

UPDATE

It appears that fellow PUMAs aren't taking Hillbuzz's advice:

Klein, Krauthammer & Kool Aid

2009-05-22T17:34:00.006-04:00

I originally thought that Klein was being an unmitigated jerk for picking on Krauthammer’s physical disability.

However, upon further consideration, I realized that Klein was just being a thoughtful, kind, progressive in pointing out the magical healing powers of the Obamamessiah's Kool Aid.

If Krauthammer would only imbibe this Allahicious elixir, he would instantaneously be cured of all his evil reactionary RethugliKKKan views, which is what truly is keeping him bound to his wheelchair. Krauthammer would arise, see all 57 states clearly, and walk forward to the bright, shiny Glorious World of Next Tuesday ^TM, where all leftward thinking comrades will be given government issued rainbows, unicorns, tacos, and underpants .

Java & Jazz & Kool Aid

2009-05-21T18:34:00.005-04:00

Video from the 13 May 2009 Java n' Jazz concert:

Featuring David Simpson playing Route 66:

According to the cracker jack, completely objective, nonpartisan reporters over on ABC news, people who work in tourist traps along Route 66 are poor because only a few miscellaneous random Europeans visit them since the construction of the modern US interstate highway system in the last century. In a follow on story, manufacturers of horse drawn buggies are also having a hard time selling their product outside Amish country.

People living in river boat towns have had a hard time making ends meet ever since the introduction of that new-fangled iron horse. People near railroad stations can’t pay their bills ever since that horseless carriage powered by the scourge of the Goracle, the internal combustion engine , started spewing evil death gas into the atmosphere.

Apparently, these are all data points to confirm the economic collapse of the United States of AmeriKKKa. Since some of this happened in the years B.O. (before Obama was born, whenever & wherever that may be), The One ^TM is not to be blamed. All things evil are obviously the fault of the neo-con cabal of Bu$hitler, Darth Cheney, & the VRWC.

The only obvious answer is to completely abandon the evils of free market capitalism & adopt the virtuous wonders of Obamunism, whilst drinking down refreshing tall glasses of Kool Aid

Will the MSM hold Obama to the same standard it holds Miss California?

2009-05-10T22:46:00.010-04:00

@ 5:00 the tabloid journalist states that the only option for Miss California if she loses her crown is to do porn.

This advice was proffered after digging through her parent's divorce records to discover what they tout as Carrie Prejean -- The Origin of Homophobia . Will the media equally delve into Obama's past to discover the origin of his "homophobia" as well, since Obama harbors the exact same opposition to gay marriage as Prejean? Perhaps Obama was psychologically scarred by his mentor, Ayers, who along with his wife Dohrn, pioneered "smash monogamy" :

"[The Weather Underground] initiated a 'smash monogamy' campaign to destroy bourgeois sexual hang-ups: Once monogamy was smashed, couples who in some cases had been together for years were harangued until they admitted their 'political errors' and split apart. "The next logical step was group sex. One of the last taboos was homosexuality, and the Weather command forced itself toward experimentation in this direction, instructing male and female cadres to 'make it' with members of the same sex."

UPDATE

Good for Trump, in pointing out the Obots' hypocrisy.

Happy birthday, Friedrich Hayek

2009-05-08T16:24:00.003-04:00

Friedrich Hayek wrote The Road to Serfdom, which included such prescient words of wisdom as:

“The more the state 'plans' the more difficult planning becomes for the individual.”

Hayek also penned:

Liberty not only means that the individual has both the opportunity and the burden of choice; it also means that he must bear the consequences of his actions... Liberty and responsibility are inseparable.

Top 10 Reasons GOP finds Obama to be annoying

2009-05-07T17:18:00.002-04:00

From a College Republican email, feel free to add to the list:

Top 10 Reasons Why the College Republicans are Over the Obama Administration:

10. Because our President has put us deeper in debt than our student loans.

9. Because we'd like to hear the press ask the President a question that's not about his dog, his jump shot, his fabulous abs, or his wife's $540 sneakers.

8. Because Obama should concentrate on running the government; not our banks, our car companies, and hospitals, too.

7. Because the President is supposed to keep terrorists out of the US, not bring them here from Gitmo.

6. Because we're tired of reading clarifying statements on something stupid Joe Biden said.

5. Because we think the President of the United States should give better gifts to our best allies than the ones our grandmas gave us in 5th grade.

4. Because Obama needs to spend less time looking at his teleprompter and more time brushing up on Economics 101.

3. Because we'd like to see someone else's face on a magazine in the next few years.

2. Because we want a President who's more like Ronald Reagan than Jimmy Carter.

1. Because the people who were behind 9/11 deserve to be treated rougher than a frat pledge.

Specter did not vote for the Fugitive Slave Act

2009-04-27T17:44:00.006-04:00

News Busted pointed out that the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, in order to convince Specter to switch parties (good riddance) & to help sell him to fellow Democrats, gave Specter credit for not voting in favor of a piece of legislation in 1974.

The minor detail is that Specter was not a member of Congress in 1974, since he did not start serving until 1981.

In the spirit of bipartisanship, and to help Scottish RINOs everywhere, I comprised a highlight list of other legislation that Specter also did not vote for:

1) Soviet liquidation of kulaks
2) Alien & Sedition Acts
3) Spanish Inquisition
4) Destruction of the Alexandrian Library
5) Execution of Socrates

UPDATE

Golly, after I wasted all that time powerpointing a Scottish RINO, Specter forces me to make a Benedict Arlen picture:

This may be a benefit in disguise. Toomey would probably have won the Republican primary. However, since Pennsylvania has become rather blue as of late, Toomey might well have lost the general election to a generic Democrat. Assuming Specter wins reelection, at least the next PA senator will be a blue dog Democrat/former squishy RINO, which would be better than an out and out Bolshevik. This is assuming that Specter doesn't develop a vendetta against his former GOP colleagues & seek to become the biggest socialist imaginable just out of pure spite.

Still ambivalent about Saberi

2009-04-26T21:22:00.003-04:00

I share the ambivalence voiced by numerous posters on Malkin's blog, but I'll be a good egg & pull together. I suspect that Iran wants to trade Saberi for Iranian agents held in US custody:

the Iranian government is maneuvering to trade Miss Saberi's freedom for that of five Revolutionary Guards captured by U.S. forces while training insurgents in Iraq

I suspect Obama will be more than willing to release these Iranian agents (I'm surprised that he hasn't already). & I finally suspect that Saberi will act like the hostage freed from pirates & attack Republicans as soon as she's released:

"The president did the right thing. It's a war. It's about good versus evil. And what you (Limbaugh) said is evil, that is hate speech. I won't tolerate it," Murphy said.

even though Obama did not specifically order the SEALs to rescue the Maersk Alabama captors.

That being said, I wish Saberi a happy birthday. I hope she's released from prison safe and sound & I hope that US national security isn't impacted too negatively from this incident.

UPDATE

If Theodore Roosevelt was still alive, this is how he would deal with the Saberi situation:

However, since Obama is in the White House, the Iranian mullahs can sleep safe & sound & not worry about any such thing happening to them.

Dino-soar Award

2009-04-25T16:22:00.013-04:00

I was browsing through what I thought was my Dad's old organic chemistry text book the other day. At the risk of violating my 5^th Amendment rights, I noticed that the book was stamped "Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh" with the date 10 Dec 1951 stamped on the title page, either indicating the day the book was removed from circulation, or its last official check out date, making it over 58 years overdue. Hopefully, it's the former rather than the latter.

Tucked inside the book was a typewritten poem, composed either by my father, or someone who knew that his nickname was "Nook", entitled "Mammal Survey Song", referring to the Carnegie Museum's Pennsylvania Mammal Survey:

Francis, the talking human being
Nicknamed "Nook" in years gone back
A scholar, a doctor and a statesman
All agree he's slightly off his track.

Our orders come down from higher channels
But all of them we skillfully avoid
We really take our orders from our hero
That colorful swashbuckling Dr. Lloyd.

You numbered the jaw of the Sorex
You say it is a task that's very slow
Why that's not the jaw of a Sorex
I clipped that fingernail a week ago.

Why don't you turn in your hours
So we can see what goes into your pay
The months almost up, you should have told us
Just what you did tomorrow yesterday.

Microtus, Myotis, Cryptotis
Lepus, Lupus, Lutra too
Castor, Ochrogaster, oh disaster
Blarina brevicauda, that's a shrew?

When things get all in confusion
We send an SOS for Neil
The master mind of the Survey
Who looks like he could use another meal.

Chief I-Shot-the-Fox of Dauphin County
Slew sixty-four rabbits in a year
Now he's a lowly Joe College
A raccoon coat, a bottle, and a cheer.

We've only one thing to request you
Though this Survey has made us all rich men
Now that we've finally ceased firing
Please don't start the god damned thing again.

"Francis the talking human", was an obscure reference to Mr. Ed the talking horse's obscure cousin, Francis the talking mule.

Presumably, "mastermind Neil", referred to above, was Neil D. Richmond, who published a paper, Ecology and distribution of the shrew Sorex dispar in Pennsylvania.

I believe "Dr. Lloyd" is Dr. Albert C. Lloyd. Quite annoyingly, my Dad's name was Stalinistically purged from the rather comprehensive list of former Carnegie Museum staffers maintained by the museum archivists. This could possibly be due to the fact that my Dad allegedly threw a drunken frat party in the museum after hours and allegedly dressed up the dinosaurs in various silly outfits during this alleged Bacchanalia for his fellow Pitt Panthers (allegedly).

HOWEVER, this seems patently unfair. Whilst exiting my college's library, my eye caught a book entitled: Dinosaurs of Distinction . It appears that Pittsburgh copy-catted Chicago's idea of public art fiberglass cows, but replaced cows with dinosaurs, as all right-thinking people should. These Dinomite Days, replete with dinosaurs dressed up in silly outfits, received the official imprimatur of the Carnegie Museum! Hence, it appears that my father was simply a prescient man ahead of his time, as illustrated by the Fredosaurus Rex Friday XIII:

This cathartic release is all a prelude to the primary point of this post, which is to answer the IMAO bleg for gratuitous awards. In honor of IMAO's continued support of scientific & engineering research:

"As you all know, the challenges of today’s military requires dinosaurs with rocket launchers on them."

I have created, with my mad PowerPoint skillz, the official Dino-Soar Award^TM & conferred this award upon the aforementioned IMAO:

Michelle Bachmann vs. MSNBC

2009-04-25T15:37:00.003-04:00

A tweet from a self described minion at MSNBC illustrates the fair, balanced, non-partisan objectivity Americans have come to expect from the MSM:

Perhaps Michelle Bachmann would like to prove the harmlessness of CO2 by sticking her head in a plastic bag of it for a while. #Countdown

Will DHS categorize this as an example of leftwing extremist hate speech?

On a somewhat related note, Bachmann's fellow Congress critter, Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz feels that US military veterans are never "real victims" of hate crimes & should thus be excluded from legal protection against attacks.

"SOUP KITCHENS AND TENT CITIES"

2009-04-24T17:57:00.003-04:00

German anti-American propaganda from der Spiegel:

The financial crisis in the US has triggered a social crisis of historic dimensions. Soup kitchens are suddenly in great demand and tent cities are popping up in the shadow of glistening office towers. Even drug dealers are feeling the pinch.

The Deutsch Dummkopfs uncritically act as sounding boards for ACORN performance artist nuts' propaganda stunts & conflate them with TEA Parties.

That being said, if TEA partiers would like to beat hippy America-haters at their own game & co-opt their shtick by creating Obamavilles, uppity woman has kindly collated a list of Hobo symbols to lend your protest placards a sign of authenticity (needless to say, none of this information is to be used in the harming of any actual hobos).

Apocalypse Meow

2009-04-24T05:46:00.003-04:00

Below is the English captioned version of the Japanese trailer for, Cat Shit One, to be released in the US as Apocalypse Meow:

A poster on the non-captioned version volunteers the menagerie of characters & possible rationalizations for such casting:

Animals represent nationality in this:

Rabbits for Americans. (U.S. Soldiers called USA G.I. Usagi means rabbit in Japanese! Just a word play...)
Cats for Vietnamese.
Pigs for French. (Pigs are truffle finders. Truffle is used in French cuisine. So the French get pigs.)
Bears for Russians.
Mice for British. (British get rats after a famous 7th Armoured Division called the Desert Rats.)
Fox for Germans. (Germans get fox after famous German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel called the Desert Fox.)
Kangaroo & Koalas for Australians.
Camels & goats for Arabians.
Goats & sheep for Afghans.
Monkeys & gorillas for Japanese.
Pandas for Chinese.
Dogs for Koreans.

UPDATE

I thought that the "USA G.I." = "usagi" = "rabbit" was completely brilliant when I originally posted this, but, admittedly, I was rather sleep deprived. I suppose only the Japanese could get away with assigning monkeys to represent the Japanese. If this was an American cartoon, that would be considered RACISSSTTT!!!!

Lake Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg

2009-04-24T04:06:00.005-04:00

There's apparently a typo on the Lake Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg road signs. Mr. Abrahamson provides a translation of the lake's name. He also provides a link to the song about the lake (which includes all the lyrics, but not a bouncing ball) that originally was made popular by Fred Waring and his Pennsylvanians Orchestra.

I wanted to study in a Russian foreign exchange program when I attended Arizona State. The first one I happened upon was through the Music Department and entailed participating in a singing tour across Russia. When I spoke to the professor in charge & volunteered that I grew up in Pennsylvania, he responded that "Pennsylvania was a very choral state." I had never heard such a thing, but I suppose he was thinking of Fred Waring. I eventually opted for a non-singing program at the University of Leningrad/St. Petersburg, so I didn't get to show off my Pennsylvanian choralness to my European cousins, or sing about any New England multi-syllabic lakes.

UPDATE

Somewhat ott, but my overseas trip to Russia/USSR/CCCP would entitle me to the NPR name of Sacrah Tallinn.

USA = Banana Republic

2009-04-23T10:36:00.003-04:00

McCain finally grew a pair of cojones that were missing during his 2008 campaign. He agrees with Surber that Obama is trying to turn the USA into a banana republic.

Ferguson vs. Bloggers

2009-04-22T13:55:00.003-04:00

The only blogger Craig Ferguson supports is Perez Hilton, otherwise he views them as evil stupid people:

Ferguson propounds that journalists allegedly are supposed to do research, check their sources, and find out if their stories are Правда. I suppose that's what journalists are supposed to do, except when they engage in censorship and arrest reporters covering journalism award ceremonies, or when propagandists at CNN ignore fair use laws to engage in further censorship.

US-Iranian reporter jailed for allegedly spying

2009-04-21T18:20:00.003-04:00

The US-Iranian reporter, Roxana Saberi, was sentenced to 8 years by the Iranian government for allegedly spying. Her rationalization for appealing the conviction and sentence is that she was allegedly tricked into confessing by the Iranian government:

The father of the dual national Saberi, who confirmed the verdict, also says that she was "tricked" into confessing.

My hypothesis of Iran's big trick is the standard operating procedure of any police department around the world. I suspect that the prosecutors told Saberi that if she signed a confession, then everything would be OK. Big trick. This trick doesn't fool crack head high school drop out drug dealers, even without advice from their state appointed counsel. Anyone who has watched ten minutes of an television cop show realizes that it's a stupid idea to sign a false confession.

I don't find it very edifying that a reporter is unable to see through government produced malarkey, especially in a case that directly impacts her own personal safety. If Saberi couldn't figure out that possibly the Iranian government doesn't have her best interests at heart, she probably didn't figure out that Iran probably doesn't have the US's general interest at heart, either. I extrapolate from this instance that Saberi was a naive, uncritical sounding board for Iranian government propaganda during her entire tenure.

I further infer from this PBS discussion, that Saberi's hippy liberal boss at NPR is either too lazy &/or too feckless to bother herself to write a letter on Saberi's behalf.

UPDATE

Obama's Justice Department wants the civil case put forward by US Embassy workers held hostage by Iran to be thrown out of court, possibly in a quid pro quo for Saberi's release, or possibly because he just likes kow-towing to America's enemies.

NORK apologists = DORKs

2009-04-17T12:13:00.002-04:00

North Korea recently expelled US weapons inspectors because the Obama administration had the temerity to express ambivalence about North Korea's desire to nuke Japan off the face of the earth. China Confidential points out that it is both silly and dangerous to assume that North Korea behaves in such a manner only to get attention.

Orders of magnitude more absurd is to assume that North Korea will become a shining city upon a hill if the rest of world rewards North Korea's truculent behavior with pity and charity, as advocated by a leftwing pundit, Selig Harrison, on US taxpayer supported PBS:

North Korea is a poor, struggling, pathetic country, a country to be pitied much more than to be feared, with tremendous economic problems. They've got to normalize relations with us. They've got to get things from the outside world

Selig Harrison then proceeds to volunteer:

But our objective has to be to get their nuclear weapons program capped at the four or five weapons they now [have].

So, golly gee whillikers, poor little, pitiable North Korea only has four or five nuclear ICBMs . Harrison somehow thinks it is wise to advocate that we should hand over more fungible money to the North Koreans. Why? So their insane military dictator can purchase nuclear ICBMs for every day of the week?

Hippy Selig works for Center for International Policy , which advocates demilitarization:

Promoting a U.S. foreign policy based on international cooperation, demilitarization and respect for basic human rights

Judging from his statements, his hippy Communist International Politburo only advocates unilateral US demilitarization, but is perfectly hunky dory with totalitarian Maoist tyrants ramping up their militaries.

IHS vs IH Sigma

2009-04-17T11:51:00.002-04:00

In a post that discussed Obama's request to cover up Christian imagery at Catholic Georgetown University, the etymology of "IHS" was also discussed:

the most common Christogram is "IHS" or "IHC", derived from the first three letters of the Greek name of Jesus, iota-eta-simga

Is this mixing of two different alphabets an early example of PC multi-culturalism? Or couldn't the Romans find a sigma symbol on their keyboards? /sarc

Life imitates art

2009-04-17T10:30:00.003-04:00

The leftwing MSM over the top pornographic pontificating against TEA parties seems to mirror the immoral activity of bulbous cartoon characters in the "Extra! Extra!" episode of GoGoriki:

Pogoriki creates sensational headlines in an attempt to drum up interest for his newspaper

Even more apropos, GoGoriki is a Russian cartoon dubbed into English. Not to be outdone, former LA Times propagandist, now Obama administration minion, Rosa Brooks, advocates greater government regulation of America's free press.

Brooks, who has taken up a post as an adviser at the Pentagon, advocated upping "direct government support for public media" and creating licenses to govern news operations.

I suppose the people who unironically support arresting reporters who attempt to cover journalism awards would also support Brooks' proposals.

Attend a TEA party, win $5,000!

2009-04-14T19:35:00.005-04:00

Forwarded from a facebook message:

As you join the hundreds of thousands of Americans attending tea parties across the nation tomorrow, I wanted to make you aware of an opportunity. Americans for Prosperity Foundation and Heritage Foundation have teamed up to launch the Stop Spending Our Future project, which offers four contests and $5,000 in prizes.

I’ve included information on the contests below, and more information can be found at www.StopSpendingOurFuture.org.

Best,
Erik

1) Spread the Word| Capture the stories of five people at one of the Taxpayer Tea Parties happening all over the nation on Tax Day, April 15. The person that captures the best testimonial will receive $1,000.

2) Make a Video| What's your biggest frustration about the government's appetite for more spending in the midst of the tough economic climate? The top 5 submissions will each receive a prize in the amount of $500.

3) Write a Letter | Explain how you feel about the debt via a letter that your child, grandchild, or great-grandchild will open 30 years from now. The top 5 submissions will each receive a prize in the amount of $250.

4) Give It a Name| Convey the threat of government over-spending and/or excessive debt using 10 words or less. The single best idea-as voted on by visitors to this website-will receive $250 and be the basis for a new video.

UPDATE I

Watch out for Obots in TEA party clothing.

UPDATE II

Check your local Chick-Fil-A. They may be offering TEA party specials on 15 April 2009.

UPDATE III

Tax day, versus just TEA party, specials. Pick up some snacks on the way to your party.

Obamunist Censor hates TEA Parties

2009-04-14T18:49:00.008-04:00

A readers digest of the listserv conversation wrt TEA parties. A pro-Obama lover attacked a person posting an announcement of a local TEA party

In a recent Gallup Poll.

71% of Americans "have a great deal or a fair amount of confidence in President Obama to do or recommend the right thing for the economy." Just over half (51%) say the same about Democratic leaders in Congress.

Good Luck Melinda. Please let everybody know what Glenn Beck tells you to do next.

Steven

Amazingly, another person came to Melinda's defense to this snark attack:

She made an announcement on the WSU Announce listserve. Being considerate of people who want to use the listserve for its intended purpose would be a nice idea. It is surely not necessary for each of us to state our personal opinion of the events announced, or (especially) to insult our co-workers publicly on this Announce forum. It is for announcements……right??

Susan

I grew up in an argumentative family, so I take exception with Susan's conclusion that you should eschew arguing with others. Steve, always the chivalrous gentleman, responded with an attack on Susan:

Susan,

You are right that this is an announce list, but should it be used to promote these phony "grassroots" efforts to convince Americans that they have reasons to be outraged over a 39.6% tax rate? You do realize the taxes they are "protesting" are the rates set by the George HW Bush administration? I guess it was economic nirvana when Reagan had the rates jacked up to 50% back in the 80's.

Please go with Melinda and let us know if they start talking about burning books, or about universities like WSU brainwashing our kids with that evolution hogwash.

Make sure to pump your fist at the Fox News camera and carry your protest sign higher than anybody.

That a girl.

Steven

By now, women studies majors were seeing a trend with Steve condescendingly attacking two uppity women in a row & rallied to their defense, if not to the defense of the 1^st Amendment right to free speech:

Susan and Melinda:

I personally appreciate hearing about all types of events and happenings in our community. Some I vigorously disagree with. Others I'm totally enthused about. I will ignore the ones I don't like and will pay attention to those I do like. However, what you'll never hear from most of your fellow employees on the list serves are condescending diatribes like we've become used to seeing from a small part of the group. I want you to know that you have every right to be on the announce lists and I encourage you to speak out about happenings or ideas that you want to promote. I think it's about time that everyone has the same opportunity to be heard without people being rude and discourteous.

Is there ANYONE out there who agrees with me? If so, be bold enough to say so. Let's encourage one another to civil discourse.

Thank you.
Jodi

A knight in shining armor seconded Jodi's sentiment & decided that one good snark deserves another:

Jodi,

I agree, I have been a part of this campus since 1995 and have noticed that if you ignore the rude, childish activities [adagio: aka STEVE >:P] of a certain few they soon go away. So email filter added and looking forward to productive announcements.

Charles

Jodi was thirded by a full throated defense of free speech:

What a condescending attitude. Who anointed you chief? Last time I checked I had the right to free speech and assembly without the need to ask permission from you or others. As for use of the list to promote phony efforts, the list has been used to post a lot of individual self promoting posturing not to mention use of work time.

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said:
"I'm sick and tired of people who say that if you debate and disagree with this administration, somehow you're not patriotic. We need to stand up and say we're Americans, and we have the right to debate and disagree with any administration."

Greg Merkle

Another vote in favor of free speech:

I welcome civil exchanges of ideas, and I try to remember that WSU is a big family with many ideas and personalities. I think respect for differences is the first way for you yourself to be able to be heard. I think it is also the way to learn or hear something new. I do not have to agree with someone (or their ideas or politics) to respect them. I still want to see people post and exchange ideas, so yes Jodi and Wendy, I agree that no insult should silence the love of a good discussion or the will to learn.

-Maureen

A Jiminy Cricket, voice of reason:

Steven,

You get what you give. Personal attacks are not called for when the original post wasn't an attack in the first place. Yes we have free speech but that doesn't mean free of consequences for our own words.

Mike.

Jodi returned Greg's support:

What I'd like to get across to everyone is that if someone has a difference of opinion and they want to state that difference, there is a civil or kind way of doing it. No one needs to talk down to anyone else. That pretty much puts an effective end to discussion. The "that a girl" statement at the end of the previous e-mail was not at all respectful to Susan as an adult peer of the writer. I've learned much from people who have vastly different thoughts and opinions from my own. I find I'm much more willing to listen and consider their view point if it's put forth in a civil or kind way.

While I'm not a Hilliary Clinton fan, I do agree with her quote.

Thanks.
Jodi

Steve, the Democrat who neither likes democracy nor free speech, was having none of it. He proceeded to attack TEA parties as evil racist violent blah blah blah...

Well put. I'm sure Melinda is a big girl, but it wasn't meant as a "personal attack". I wonder if those supporting and promoting these tea parties will accept their responsibilities if violence breaks out or worse someone is attacked or injured. I'm all for civil discourse when warranted, but the manufactured right wing frenzy that is driving this is becoming alarming.

Steven

Leftists, of course, never have a problem when their rallies end up with destruction of property or harm to human life. In fact, if you kill a policeman or a judge, that just improves your elite academic cv creds.

The tally so far:

Obamunist censor: I
Free speech advocates: VII

UPDATE I

More vulgar snark from the MSM. FYI, "tea-bagging" is a vulgarism for a sex act, for people who've led sheltered lives.

UPDATE II

Another snarky email:

I'm getting really confused about who is mad at whom and why. Does
anyone have a chart?

Byron

It's rather simple, but to accommodate Byron, I made a chart of who hates whom:

Penn State = anti-US military

2009-04-10T17:31:00.005-04:00

Anti-military propaganda from Penn State:

I teach lab classes. If I referred every student that whines about their grades to mental health, I'd have to report nearly my entire class roster.

I'm skeptical that the teacher's anti-military bias doesn't influence her grading. What if the instructor openly expressed antipathy towards ethnic minorities during lecture & then "coincidentally" happened to give the only black student in the class a D? Adding insult to injury, what would happen if said student complained & then was
referred to counseling because the authorities deemed him mentally disturbed for having the audacity to complain about discrimination?

At least Penn State allows ROTC on its campus, unlike Obama's alma mater, Harvard.

UPDATE

Apparently, according to the DHS, returning veterans are potential terrorists.

rightwing extremists will attempt to recruit and radicalize returning veterans in order to exploit their skills and knowledge derived from military training and combat. These skills and knowledge have the potential to boost the capabilities of extremists—including lone wolves or small terrorist cells—to carry out violence. The willingness of a small percentage of military personnel to join extremist groups during the 1990s because they were disgruntled, disillusioned, or suffering from the psychological effects of war is being replicated today.

Fork 'em Devils!

2009-04-10T12:25:00.005-04:00

My alma mater, Arizona State, will not give Obama an honorary degree, since they view him as an empty suit with zero accomplishments.

It is somewhat ironic that the ASU Sun Devils won't give Obama a degree, since both his political friends and foes often refer to him as "Lightbringer" aka "Lucifer".

UPDATE I

Boo hiss! Arizona State might back track & give Obama an honorary degree, after all.

"Michael M. Crow, president of Arizona State University, tells POLITICO that the school is reconsidering its widely mocked [by leftwing Bolsheviks] plans not to give President Barack Obama an honorary degree"

I guess I won't be sending a check to the ASU alumni association, after all.

UPDATE II

Bah...the latest info is that ASU won't give Obama an honorary degree, but will name a scholarship in his honor. Still no check from me to their alumni association.

Obama: Haggia Sophia vs. Normandy

2009-04-09T11:51:00.002-04:00

Obama allegedly did not visit the Normandy beach memorial because he didn't wish to offend German Lebensborn.

As a Debbie Schlussel poster points out, Obama made time to tour the Hagia Sophia:

No time at all to honor Americas war heroes but he had time for this:

Obama's final day in Turkey also featured a meeting with religious leaders and stops at top tourist sites in this city on the Bosporus that spans Europe and Asia. Accompanied by Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, he toured the Hagia Sophia museum and the Blue Mosque.

So, apparently, he doesn't wish to offend defeated German Nazis, or their descendants, but he doesn't have a problem offending defeated Western Asian Christians. I suppose his sensitivity to people's egos only extends to members of certain, special cliques.

TEA parties: pro & con

2009-04-09T11:25:00.003-04:00

Leftists sneeringly refer to TEA baggers versus TEA partiers, & dismiss protesters as delusional :

Imagining writing imaginary names on an imaginary petition circulated by imaginary "saboteurs" at a protest meant to redress imaginary grievances is, well, pretty damn imaginative.

A poster doesn't realize the irony of attempting to sabotage potential saboteurs, especially using false names on an ACORN petition:

So because they've convinced themselves that ACORN is out to ruin their silly little tea parties, they're all going to provide false names on the petitions they themselves are organizing.

Doesn't it kind of defeat your purpose to deliver your petitions with a bunch of made up names on them?

Another leftwinger describes TEA parties as radical, and unpopular, hence, extremist. They cite a poll claiming that only 36% of Americans would be willing to join in a TEA party protest. Being that there's virtually been no coverage of TEA parties by the MSM, that percentage seems rather respectable at the success of a truly grassroots phenomena.

RSMcCain primarily addresses rightwing elitist critics, but his summary is just as applicable to leftwing mudslingers:

The Tea Party movement is not about Glenn Beck, Rick Moran, George Bush or John McCain. It's not about re-electing any Republican in Washington, or electing any current or future Republican candidate for office. It's about advocating a very simple idea of economic liberty as a fundamental principle of a free society.

If you don't get that, fine. Stay home April 15 and grumble all you want about populist demagoguery, but I know where the friends of freedom will be.

For the intrepid 36% of America that wishes to support a TEA party, a website that lists various events across the country.

UPDATE

The reason that RNC Chair Michael Steele was not invited to talk a Chicago TEA party is because there are two simultaneously scheduled TEA parties. Steele was disinvited to the pseudo-TEA party that is really just a political rally for a local politician:

"Steele will most likely be speaking at the Navy Pier Tea Party on April 15th, along with speakers from both sides of the aisle, in a truly nonpartisan show of support for the Tea Party movement."

"September 11 paradigm has changed"

2009-04-08T23:47:00.002-04:00

I ran across a possibly scary quote from an article reporting Obama's visit to Turkey:

U.S. President Barack Obama gave several important messages of a new era from Turkey. "September 11 paradigm has changed

What on earth does that mean? Does Obama want to return to a pre-Sept 11 mindset & roll back security measures that were implemented to counter future "human made disasters"?

Obama's missing years

2009-04-08T23:01:00.002-04:00

People seem to have lost interest in Obama's missing years. I would suggest that he was bumming around the world with Andre, except that Andre, either human or his bunny Doppelgänger, doesn't appear to be an abject congenital liar.

Java & Jazz concert

2009-04-08T14:44:00.003-04:00

In honor of April being Jazz appreciation month, The Eddie Brookshire Quintet sans two played at today's Java & Jazz concert

Maybe the PRC aren't our BFF...

2009-04-08T14:09:00.003-04:00

The PRC and Russia have planted sleeper software to take down the US power grid in time of conflict.

When American journalists aren't spending time running hard hitting stories salivating over Michelle Obama's toned arms, they periodically cover stories that deal with US national security issues. I love Diane Sawyer's apparent naivete, either feigned or genuine: "Who is doing this? & is this serious?" Well, yes, Diane, if an enemy knocked out the entire US power grid that would be rather serious.

Hippies hijacking tea

2009-04-07T18:40:00.002-04:00

Allegedly, ACORN (American Communists ORganizing Neighborhoods)/only-slight-sarc leftwing activists are circulating petitions in favor of communism at TEA parties. If true, it simply reinforces the wise advice that one should never sign a piece of paper that one has not read.

TEA party organizers in Dayton, OH are billing the events as a bipartisan effort. From an email:

A Tea-Party is Coming!

Are you ready to make history? Please come on April 15, 2009 and join together with people from all over the Miami Valley to send a message to Washington - "Stop wasting our money!"

April 15 Rally

In an attempt to bail-out the East India Company the British Parliament passed the Tea Act. This legislation effectively gave East India a monopoly on tea sales in the Colonies. Like the U.S. Federal Government is doing today, the British Parliament was wrongly interfering with free markets.

And so, on December 16, 1773, fifty colonists, led by Samuel Adams responded to the Crown's incursion by disguising themselves as Mohawk Indians and throwing an entire ship-load of tea into Boston Harbor. This marked a critical point in history and sent a message to King George III - "No government bailouts!"

April 15, 2009 will mark another critical point in United States history. Grassroots organizations in over three-hundred cities across the country are planning tea parties on April 15. We in Dayton are not alone. And at over 2500 RSVPs and counting, YOU will not be alone either! So come along and help us send a message to Washington."Support Free Markets. Respect the Constitution. Downsize the Government and exercise Fiscal Responsibility."
April 15, 2009
6:00pm to 8:00pm
Courthouse Square (Downtown Dayton at 3rd and Main)

Remember, this is not a Republican issue and it is not a Democrat issue. Both sides of the aisle are spending like it's going out of style. Big government is an equal opportunity abuser. Let's all make sure Washington knows that we are not going to take it any more.

Hence, there will probably be a broad spectrum of groups attending TEA parties. Presumably, everyone will not agree 100% on all issues. Not all non-GOP TEA partiers are ACORN agents. If people are protesting in good faith, then I don't believe that they should be excommunicated.

Conversely, if agent provocateurs are there to astroturf, they should not be welcomed:

ACORN and others planning to infiltrate the tea parties by carrying racist signs to make the tea party protesters appear racist.

The above could be a an effort to help self fulfill a leftwing prophecy, since, allegedly, smearing TEA parties as racist is the new MSM meme. If people show up with wacky 3 sigma signs, I'm not certain what you can do about it without starting a kerfuffle.

Liberal apparatchiks

2009-04-07T11:34:00.004-04:00

I disagree with psycmeister's characterization of Obama as a self-loathing liberal. He's a self identified party apparatchik who feels entitled to apportion guilt to others, especially people outside his self-identified clique. Or, more succinctly, he's a kulak hating communist. Similarly, I disagree with RSMcCain that liberals are typically hypocrites. They don't harbor any cognitive dissonance if they don't practice what they preach. They feel that they are entitled to preach & it's the proletariat's job to do what they're told for the good of the commune, or be sent to re-education camps.

For full disclosure, I scored 400 Guilt points on the PeoplesCube Progressive Guilt Quiz which means that I'm a Patriarchal Chauvinist War Profiteer^TM. I'm busy sharpening my shovel for my assignment to the gulag.

Obama's Peachy European Tour

2009-04-04T20:04:00.003-04:00

Obama delivered a speech in France in which he morally equated US bankers to Al Qaeda:

The terrorists who struck in London, in New York, plotted in distant caves and simple apartments much closer to your home. And the reckless speculation of bankers that has new fueled a global economic downturn that's inflicting pain on workers and families is happening everywhere all across the globe.

The Peoples Cube compares and contrasts how the left and right covered Obama's tour of Europe. They included a quote from a left wing Kos Kid:

He opened the floor to ordinary European citizens who asked better questions than any American journalist.

This comment perhaps reflects more upon the state of abject adulation that exists within the US MSM than it does on alleged sophistication of Europeans. Obama's teleprompter, citing the Washington Times, points out that 2 out of the 5 questions fielded by Obama in Strasbourg, France were foreign exchange students from the US, much to the displeasure of both Obama and the French audience. One of the brilliant questions that was asked by the country that brought the world Descartes, Laplace, Fourier:

His fifth and final questioner made it clear at the outset that she was not American. “I’m totally European,“ the young woman from Heidelberg, Germany, said. She taught him a new Hungarian word, too. “First of all, I wanted to tell you that your name in Hungarian means ‘peach,“‘ she said. In fact, ‘Barack’ is the Hungarian word for the fuzzy fleshed fruit. “Well how about that. I did not know that,“ a seemingly surprised Obama said. “Now you know it,“ she replied, then asked whether he ever regretted running for president.

However, it appears that Obama cannot even prevent himself from prevaricating on the meaning of his own name, because his feigned ignorance was false:

Obama might not have known it, but his supporters in the U.S. certainly did. During the campaign, they used the language play to gather supporters for peach festivals in Colorado, Michigan and Massachusetts.

On the subject of pink dolphins versus peaches, if Michelle Obama wants to fulfill her fantasy for riding on a pink dolphin, she will have to travel to Louisiana.

On a separate note, and filed under "P" for "Painfully Obvious": Estimate says bailout will cost taxpayers more

Nancy Pelosi = White Witch

2009-04-04T16:14:00.005-04:00

Barbara Kellerman presciently channeled Nancy Pelosi in her 1988 performance for the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.

Both Nancy and the White Witch are secular humanists who wish to outlaw all celebration of Christmas. They are simpatico with the Ottoman Empire and Turkish Delight. The are both anti-human and pro-wolf.

Maybe you can get Nancy Pelosi to pass a law that requires wolves to eat only Kibbles. Can’t the wolves and caribou just get along?

They both use mutant unicorns to advance their careers. They both share the make-up artist with Batman's Joker:

5:55-6:15 clearly delineates the socialist mindset:

"What is the meaning of all this gluttony?! This waste?! This self-indulgence?! Where did you get all these things?!"

Responsible Republicans vs Decadent Dems

2009-04-03T18:56:00.008-04:00

The Corner points out that Rep. Paul Ryan's (R, Wis.) proposed alternative Republican budget still projects average Federal spending to 20.7% GDP which is still a higher percentage than that of either Bush or Clinton administrations. However, Ryan's budget trends the down whilst the Democrats' trends up to greater than 40%GDP.

Only wacky Democrats & their echo chamber at the New York Times would think that comparing Pelosi-Obama-Reid's fiscal philosophy to Hitler's is a good idea. I'm not certain who their target audience is, or how they think such an argument is persuasive.

UPDATE

Dick Morris suspects that we no longer need to celebrate the 4^th of July after Obama's promises at G20.

It’s not the British that are going to rule us but it’s the British, the French, and the Germans, and the Italians, and the entire European Union. What Obama gave away at this G20 summit is just absolutely horrific.

The Brits at Adam Smith get everything wrong, of course:

This is such a strong current at the moment that I'm a little surprised not to have been told that [government] regulation will make my teeth whiter as well. For there is, in this messy real world that we inhabit, a small problem with thinking that regulators will provide that pony for everyone.

No, no, no, don't be silly. No one is promised a free pony. Everyone is guaranteed a free unicorn. Please get your mammals right next time.

Sarah Palin online poll

2009-04-03T18:45:00.002-04:00

There seems to be a direct correlation between people who self identify as Republicans & people who wish Sarah Palin to do well on this online poll. However, Palin is also garnering support either with people who self identify as independents &/or Democrats. Not to give people ideas, but the Kos Kids could obviously skew the results of the poll by applying to standard wolf in sheep's clothing technique of pretending to be Republicans & voting against Palin.

Dems compare Steele to a baboon

2009-04-02T14:39:00.004-04:00

The left went into a state of apoplexy when an editorial cartoonist compared Nancy Pelosi to a chimpanzee, but, apparently feel that it's acceptable to compare RNC Chairman Steele to a baboon & then proceed to lobby against the first amendment right to free speech:

I have said this before and I will say it again. Michael Steele doesn't have the sense God gave a baboon.This man seriously needs to take a class in politcal correctiveness. He doesn't have a clue. This is what you get GOP for having a face man out there representing you supposedly.

Oh I forgot that is Rush isn't it? Let see what he has to say on the matter. Please! Michael Steele needs to go somewhere and sit down and shut up. Every time he opens his mouth his credibility keeps going in the negative direction.

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Unfettered Couric is out of control

2009-04-02T14:16:00.003-04:00

Katie's cheerleading the global march to serfdom:

Sarkozy and Merkel had been adamant that the G20 meeting must take concrete steps to more closely regulate banks, hedge funds and other financial institutions.

The push for greater regulation may signal a belief that unfettered capitalism has gotten out of control, reports CBS Evening News anchor Katie Couric.

The government that we're supposed to trust to regulate the banks is the same government that passed CRA and forced banks, either directly, or through their subsidized ACORN thug surrogates, into the subprime mess in the first place.

Jon Husted=next OH SOS

2009-04-02T12:26:00.002-04:00

Jon Husted is running for Ohio's Secretary State.

Hopefully, if Husted is elected, "homeless" ACORN agents won't be allowed to vote in Ohio, and won't be allowed to bribe voters with crack cocaine.

Was GM CEO fired because he donated to Republicans & Blue Dogs?

2009-04-02T12:17:00.002-04:00

A presumably lefty/socialist blog thinks that the former GM CEO was fired because he donated to conservative candidates, both Republican & Democratic:

In 2008, with Democrats firmly in control of Washington, despite GM's efforts, the PAC started donating about equally to the two parties. Last year the top non-Michigan recipients were John Boehner (R-OH), John Cornyn (R-TX) and Mary Landrieu (semi-D- LA). And although they were about even on Democrats and Republicans, many of the Democrats they contributed to are Blue Dogs and other corrupt corporate-oriented Democrats

I suspect that DownWithTyranny equates "corrupt" and "[free market] corporate-oriented" as synonymous.

Peg Luksik running against Specter in PA US Senate race

2009-04-02T12:03:00.008-04:00

Bill Russell's congressional campaign manager, Peg Luksik, is planning on running against Arlen Specter in the 2010 Republican primary. Peg's core belief is that she is anti-fascist & anti-corporate-state:

The government holds its citizens through regulation and dependence and coercion. Government seeks to divide the society into smaller groups and families into separate individuals so it can pit one entity against the other and increase its power over all in the name of fairness. Government does not want citizens to solve their own problems through personal charity or initiative - it fosters conditions where everyone “needs” the state to survive.

UPDATE

Although Toomey hasn't openly committed to run for either US Senate or Pennsylvania Governor, Specter has pre-emptively attacked him.

Americans no longer worship celebrities

2009-03-31T10:48:00.005-04:00

Liz Smith complained last night that Americans no longer worships celebrities. If only that were true...

Serendipitously, PBS reran their documentary on one of the few religious leaders embraced by the Democratic Party, Jim Jones. Mr. Jim "I am your God" Jones' followers thought that they were going to change the world.

Jim Jones Jr., Peoples Temple Member: I think in everything that I tell you about Jim Jones, there is going to be a paradox. Having this vision to change the world, but having this whole undercurrent of dysfunction that was underneath that vision.

Golly, a cult of personality centered around a message of wanting to change the world... where have I heard this before?

It would be nice if America's overlords could read

2009-03-30T17:55:00.002-04:00

From a Rolling Stone article on the banking boondoggle financial fiasco:

KEN LEWIS:WORST MOVE Failed to catch a $15 billion loss at Merrill before buying the firm; needed $20 billion bailout to close deal.
NOW SAYS It's a false "claim" to say "the banks that caused this mess must be held accountable."

Minor detail, missing a $15 billion loss. Perhaps Lewis is color blind and couldn't tell the difference between red and black, or perhaps he is functionally illiterate and can't tell the difference between the word debit and credit.

It's always edifying to find simpatico soul mates online, in opposition to the official MSM groupthink which would make one feel completely alienated & alone:

If you buy this argument, it seems like you would have to agree with the strong anti-trust arguments of the past. I am not ready to do this. Big is not necessarily better or worse, but a "too big to fail" policy does keep the marketplace from eliminating failed policies.

Stupid hippies > cheap energy

2009-03-30T14:27:00.004-04:00

Poop, stupid hippies won against AMP's bid to build a coal plant:

NO AMPOHIO GRANT!!

9 OSU and OWU students visited the Ohio Department of Development on March 19th to deliver 200 letters to Nathan Harber, Administrator of the Job Ready Sites program, opposing $5,000,000 in subsidies for the AMPOhio coal plant. We confirmed that ODOD will NOT give subsidies to the 1,000 MW coal plant in SE Ohio, and built a relationship with Nathan Harber in case AMP or other energy companies ask for subsidies. Hooray!

Booo! To celebrate, the dirty hippies for higher unemployment are hosting a pooping contest, because the US economy is headed down the commode with higher energy prices:

Events include opening ceremonies, energy competition, films, cleanups, earth day celebration, Power Shift panel, a waste recycling and audit contest, a even a pooping contest.

Here's a corrected call to action for the anti-hippies:

ACTION: NO YES CHEAP AMPOHIO LOANS!
Following our actions to prevent public grants to AMPOhio, now we're devising a new plan of action! AMP is looking for a wide range of subsidies, including a lowcost loan of $30 million, tax credits, and new roads. Please write, call, or email House Finance and Appropriations Committee Chair Vernon Sykes (DAkron).

Letters and/or phone calls are most effective

1. Tell Rep. Sykes why you do ~~not~~ want Ohio to spend your tax dollars on incentives for this proposed AMPOhio coal plant in Meigs County.
2. If mailing a letter, ask Rep. Sykes for a response.

Rep. Vernon Sykes, Chair, House Finance and Appropriations Committee
77 High St., 13th floor
Columbus, OH 432156111
(614) 4663100
district44@ohr.state.oh.us

I was going to ask why on earth Hillel is funding the stupid hippies, but I suspect that they wish for the US to wean itself off Saudi oil & become energy independent. I suspected, but apparently I was mistaken, that they don't want the US to shut down domestic sources of energy. Apparently, Hillel is the Hebrew word for hippy:

The second world: Olam Ha'Yetzirah, the world of formation. It is the world in which we celebrate the ability to cause a transformation of raw materials. We have the ability to think creatively when it comes to solving our energy problems. We can transform renewable sources such as solar and wind into healthier, more sustainable energy rather than burning finite carbon-based fossil fuels that add greenhouse gases to the atmosphere.

Free NRA membership

2009-03-29T20:38:00.003-04:00

The National Rifle Association is offering a one year free trial membership offer

take a stand for the defense of firearms freedoms and accept the offer of a one-year NRA gift membership

It might be advisable to join the NRA, since the current administration seems committed to reducing undocumented drug dealers' access to guns by eliminating the 2^nd Amendment versus enforcing border patrols:

Last week, Clinton told Mexican officials that "we" -- as in the U.S. government -- are considering re-upping the so-called assault rifle ban because Mexico's drug violence is "our" fault.

Corporate State = Bad

2009-03-29T15:49:00.007-04:00

Bill Moyers inadvertently provided useful information on his show last week. He gave the name of an organization that correlates donor money to politicians: Center for Responsive Politics. Presumably, the reason Moyers was flogging the New York Times convoluted Bank PAC matrix

is because most of the top 3 contributors identified were typically Republican, and AIG was left off the map. I suspect both the New York Times & Moyers wish to muddy the awters and push the meme that all politicians are corrupt, but especially Republicans, who take kickbacks from private banks. I suspect that their answer to said problem is to nationalize the banks and have them controlled by the government, but only if said government is controlled by the Democrats.

What would be more useful is to correlate the PAC recipients' voting records to their support of TARP & other corporate baiouts. For fellow Buckeyes, Rep. Boehner received a boatload of bank PAC dough, and also voted in favor of the 3 Oct 2008 HR 1424 TARP bank bailout bill, but only after being Mau Maued by the MSM:

"CBS Evening News" anchor Katie Couric demanded that House Minority Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio, tell her on Sept. 30, 2008, "What in the World Are You People Doing?" That was after the bailout failed to pass the first time.

I agree how Moyers and his guest, William Greider, identified the problem: that it is wrong for the government to fob corporations' losses onto the public whilst allowing private profits. I assumed that our roads would drastically diverge from there, with Moyers and his merrie band of Marxists taking a hard left down the road to serfdom & bank nationalization.

I was rather taken aback when Greider argued against nationalization:

President Obama and if the Democratic leaders in Congress follow along, he'll put the Democratic Party on the wrong side of history. At this critical moment. What we ought to be seeking, the goal of reform, and government aid, is creating a new financial and banking system, of many more, thousands more, smaller, more diverse, regionally dispersed banks and investment firms. That's first obligation is to serve the economy and serve society. Not the other way around. What the administration's approach may be doing is consecrating too big to fail, for starters. Which, of course, everybody in government denied was the policy until the moment arrived. And secondly, and this will sound extreme to some people, but I came to it reluctantly. I fear what they're doing, not intentionally, but in their design is setting the crown for a corporate state.

I don't buy into Greider's false dichotomy that small=good and big=bad. His New Way Forward looks like an old way backward into the 19th C Andrew Jackson's liquidating of Biddle's bank. However, at least Greider's not taking us back to the 20th C Stalin's liquidating of the Kulaks, which I suspect is what Moyers wants.

I disagree with Greider's procedure for separating the wheat from the chaff. For me, a good bank is well managed, remains solvent, and eschews pimping themselves for taxpayer bailouts regardless of race, religion, gender, etc, etc, or size. A bad bank is a zombie bank that should go into Chapter 11, again, regardless of size and regardless of political favor curried.

New SecNav=Mabus

2009-03-29T01:50:00.003-04:00

I'm certain that the new SecNav is a fine fellow, just with the unfortunate name Ray Mabus.

Apparently, Mabus is the name of the third anti-Christ from Nostradamus:

The common consensus is that the first Anti-Christ, named Napaulon Roy was Napoleon, the second named Hister was Hitler and the third was named Mabus. We have yet to figure out who this last Anti-Christ will be.

Century 2, Quatrain 62
Mabus will soon die, then will come,
A horrible undoing of people and animals,

Does Lugar-Casey bill=bribe for US GM food?

2009-03-28T22:03:00.005-04:00

At first, I suspected that Lugar-Casey Global Food Security Act was just a hippy hand out to foreigners, especially, since Lugar point blank says that he wants to give money to foreign universities:

Among other goals, it attempts to improve research capacity at foreign universities and the dissemination of technology through extension services.

& the email about a letter writing campaign only focuses on Mau-Mauing our Republican senator whilst ignoring our Democratic senator:

There will be free food and drinks in exchange for you walking and writing letters to Senator Voinovich regarding the Lugar-Casey Global Food Security Act. Work as ONE with other Ohio schools to raise awareness and eliminate global hunger!

However, it appears that there is a quid pro quo with this money:

It calls for increasing collaborative research on the full range of biotechnological advances including genetically modified technologies.

The gamble, of course, is that foreigners can steal &/or reverse engineer our patents & still refuse to import our food over some other trumped up rationalization for protectionism.

UPDATE

Although I am ambivalent about this bill, I went to the letter writing event. Most of the propaganda literature provided by the organizers focused on wealth redistribution for the sake of wealth redistribution. I wrote an ambivalently worded letter that emphasized possible benefits to the US if this bill passes:

I am writing on behalf of the ONE Campus Challenge support of the Casey-Lugar “Global Food Security Act” (S. 3529). I urge your staff to weigh the pros and cons of the proposed legislation. One of the measures, of investing into foreign universities’ genetically modified agricultural research, may help to lower the trade barriers currently faced by US food exports, and thus help to reduce our current trade imbalance.

Additionally, promoting the acceptance of genetically modified agricultural products will help to increase supply not only for food, but for biofuel. Increasing global food supplies will help to eliminate potential sources of instability that might be exploited by forces hostile to US national security.

UPDATE

The bill has cleared the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. I'm still skeptical about the efficacy of its stated objectives. This is basically a pork barrel project for US farmers domestically, & an attempt to bribe people to be our friends with ~~free~~ US tax payer paid food internationally. We tried to bribe the Somalis with food a few years ago & they repaid us by sending pirates to attack our food bribes for Kenya.

"U.S. Sen. Dick Lugar of Indiana saw his Global Food Security Act, S. 384, unanimously clear the Senate Foreign Relations Committee this week [04/03/2009]. Co-sponsored by Sen. Bob Casey of Pennsylvania, the bill seeks to improve the effectiveness and expand the reach of U.S. agriculture assistance to the developing world."

Protest Obama at Notre Dame

2009-03-28T19:17:00.004-04:00

Another online petition , this time sponsored by The Cardinal Newman Society, in order to protest Notre Dame's invitation to Obama, not only to speak, but to receive an honorary law degree. The latter action by Notre Dame conveys not just open mindedness, which is fine, but condones & endorses Obama's radical pro-abortion & pro-infanticide positions. ND's repudiation of standard Catholic doctrine has prompted protests from bishops:

Bishops who are protesting include the Right Rev Thomas Olmsted of Phoenix, who described the invitation to the President as a "public act of disobedience" and "a grave mistake".

UPDATE

A warning from the Corner to anyone considering voicing their opposition to Notre Dame granting Obama an honorary law degree. To continue the spirit of promoting free speech that Notre Dame's hosting of Obama illustrates, anyone protesting Obama's visit will have their name placed on an enemies' list & have their offspring barred from school admission:

Note the request for collecting names / addresses / emails. Could merely be to reconnoiter for po'ed big-donor alumni. Or could it be to separate the wheat and the chaff? The Spiting Irish! — five years from now you might wonder why your valedictorian National Honor Society kid didn’t get accepted.

Why do people support socialism when they know it's unfair?

2009-03-28T17:51:00.005-04:00

People realize that Obama's Spread the Wealth Around" mortgage plan is unfair, but support it anyway. Why?

By a 63 - 30 percent margin Ohioans say the president's mortgage rescue plan is unfair to those who make their payments on time, but 55 percent say they approve of the plan anyway. Given a chance to explain their views, 25 percent say the plan is fair and they support it; 42 percent think it is unfair but support it as necessary and 31 percent think it is unfair and oppose it.

Are citizens being brainwashed by PBS into beatifying modern day Micawbers?

One of the characters in the above Newshour story, Debora Beard, refinanced her house to buy a new car & then stopped making payments. She is complaining that the bank has foreclosed her house & she has joined with ACORN thieves to steal the bank's property. When you mortgage your house, you've basically sold it to a bank. The bankers are being nice by allowing you to remain in the house till you've paid off your debt. This is somewhat symbiotic since, as pointed out in the piece, bankers don't want crack heads to move into abandoned buildings.

The online Newshour video seems to have censored part of the original broadcast story about another equally dubious individual who alleged that the bank falsified her wages & gave her a loan that she couldn't afford to repay. She told the reporter that she hadn't noticed that the wage information on the form that she had signed was incorrect. There was no evidence presented that the bank, and not the customer, was the source of false information. Even if the bank did falsify the woman's wages, one should always read a contract before signing.

At no time did the taxpayer supported PBS people ever deliver the common sense lessons learned from these self inflicted problems:

(1) Plan for worst case scenarios: People lose their jobs, interest rates on loans go up. Plan for these contingencies, you muffin heads.

(2) Read a contract before signing: In case either party makes an advertent or inadvertent error, read before signing, you silly, silly muffin heads.

Why should the sober, rational people who make monthly budgets & live by them be punished in order to reward greedy, irresponsible flighty grasshopper people who attempt to buy houses the size of the Vatican that they can't afford & then remortgage to buy cars that they also can't afford? The anti-social selfish people are the ones who don't live within their means & then demand extortion money from those that do.

Admittedly, Republicans have the unsexy, boring, pedantic, Puritanical platform of personal responsibility and fiscal prudence. Conversely, Democrats have adopted the irresponsibly childish platform of giving cotton candy to their supporters and absolving them of all culpability whilst fanning the flames of class and race warfare.

Blackwell Endorses Rob Portman for OH Sen

2009-03-28T17:46:00.002-04:00

Ken Blackwell Endorses Rob

Last week former Ohio Secretary of State Ken Blackwell announced his endorsement of Rob Portman for the United States Senate.

"Rob Portman is a principled and experienced leader with a solid conservative record," said Blackwell. "He has been a strong voice for sound fiscal policy, and we need him in the U.S. Senate in these tumultuous economic times. I have worked with Rob over the years, and I know he will be ready to lead on day one."

from an email, the majority, but not the totality, of Buckeye Republicans support Portman:

Rob has secured an impressive number of endorsements from Republican elected officials and key Republican Party grassroots leaders. After meeting with Ohio House and Senate Republicans as a group, and with many individually, an overwhelming 91% of the Republican members of the General Assembly have endorsed his candidacy. He has also received the support of all the Republicans in the Ohio Congressional delegation and more than three quarters of Republican county chairs and State Central Committee members.

Portman Gets ABC Support

The Associated Builders and Contractors of Ohio, the largest construction association devoted to the merit shop contractor, also endorsed Rob Portman for United States Senate last week. The ABC of Ohio organization consists of all three chapters in Ohio and is part of the 79 chapters in a nationwide federation consisting of more than 25,000 member companies across the United States.

"ABC's endorsement of Rob Portman was an easy decision," stated ABC of Ohio President Braden Black. "ABC is dedicated to creating a business climate of merit, allowing contractors to run their businesses on the fundamental principles framed by our nation's founding fathers. We know that Rob Portman will work hard in the United States Senate to create jobs and economic growth in Ohio and throughout the country."

UK prof wants to kill bankers

2009-03-28T17:15:00.000-04:00

Jim Walker, the prof that advocates hanging bankers

My hope is that I live long enough to see socialized medicine and an industrial policy in this country, and to see several Wall Street Masters of the Universe hanging upside down from light standards

should thank his lucky stars that he doesn't work in the UK. A British prof who advocated the same treatment, himself received a suspension (no, not from a lamp post):

a professor [Chris Knight] involved in G20 protests has been suspended by his university [University of East London] after talking of bankers "hanging from lampposts".

Huck PAC helping Tedisco NY20

2009-03-27T14:17:00.003-04:00

Huck PAC is hosting an online phone bank for Jim Tedisco NY20.

You need to sign in to your my Huck PAC account or create a new account here. Once you do, look for the New York Phone Bank link on your dashboard and begin making calls. We have provided a script and a list of voters for you to call.

Of course, you might risk being called a carpetbagger by Democrats, if you do, which is not a new insult. Carpetbagger is the term that Democratic Ku Klux Klanners devised to attack Republicans who administered the Freedman's Bureau during Reconstruction after the US Civil War.

The election is this coming Tuesday 31 March 2009. If you have friends & family in upstate New York, remind them to get out and vote.

Republican March Madness: Round II

2009-03-27T12:44:00.003-04:00

You can vote in Round 2 of NPR's Republican March Madness. Currently, Palin is beating Pence; Ron Paul is beating Romney (?); and Jindal is barely beating Crist.

Republican March Madness

2009-03-20T20:16:00.004-04:00

Whilst a college basketball coach chastises Obama for wasting time filling out an NCAA bracket form versus focusing like a laser on fixing the US economy, NPR spoofs the NCAA with its March Madness: The 2012 Republican Primaries They've pitted Sarah Palin against Michael Steele and she's currently winning 85% to 14%:

Palin v. Obama on Special Olympics

2009-03-20T09:25:00.002-04:00

Whilst Palin exudes class:

Obama exudes crass:

President Obama, in his taping with Jay Leno Thursday afternoon, attempted to yuk it up with the funnyman, and ended up insulting the disabled.

Belated St. Patrick's Day Post

2009-03-19T17:39:00.003-04:00

A problem from David J. Griffiths' Introduction to Quantum Mechanics

p. 339 Problem 8.17 About how long would it take for a can of beer at room temperature to topple over spontaneously, as a result of quantum tunneling? Hint: Treat it as a uniform cylinder of mass m, radius R, and length h. As the can tips, let x be the height of the center above its equilibrium position (h/2). The potential energy is mgx, and it topples when x reaches the critical value of x₀ = {R² + (h/2)²}^1/2 -h/2. Calculate the tunneling probability for E=0. Use the thermal energy ((1/2)mv² = (1/2)k_BT) to estimate the velocity. Put in reasonable numbers, and give your final answer in years.

The final answer may be found in R.E. Crandall, Scientific American, February 1997, p. 74

Protest! Murtha Awarded the Department of the Navy ‘Distinguished Public Service Award’

2009-03-19T10:44:00.009-04:00

The Obama administration gave an award to Murtha last week: "Murtha Awarded the Department of the Navy ‘Distinguished Public Service Award’"

Murtha called active duty Marines serving in Iraq murderers & has never apologized.

You can sign an online protest petition.

UPDATE I

If/when you do sign the petition, think of something pithy to write in the comment section, such as:

Murtha is a disgrace to Country, Congress, and the Marine Corps

UPDATE II

To clarify the article in World Net Daily, and to give credit where it is due, I was citing the comment of protest petition signer #4486, Eric Germany, in my original post. I share his sentiments exactly. I had already signed the petition when I noticed that others were offering effusive feedback, and thus offered my 20/20 hindsight advice above.

UPDATE III

It just dawned on me that the powers that be probably won't care about a miscellaneous online petition. To make certain that your disdain is acknowledged in Washington, send a postcard (vs an enveloped letter to avoid being tossed out during security processing) to the acting Navy Secretary:

The Honorable BJ Penn
Secretary of the Navy
1000 Navy Pentagon
Washington, D.C. 20350-1000

&/or send an online message directly to the Navy .

Here's the gist of what I wrote:

I was writing to record my displeasure with the US Navy's decision to award Rep. Murtha with the Distinguished Public Service Award.

http://www.murtha.house.gov/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=629&Itemid=62

Rep. Murtha slandered active duty troops before their trial concluded. In so doing, Murtha attempted to prejudice the jury against the accused. Murtha's attack also provided aid and comfort to a hostile enemy.

Sec. Winter's award to Rep Murtha is an insult to all Americans who have served honorably in our military. Sec. Penn should seriously consider rescinding this award.

Respectfully,

Angela Davis = feminist icon?

2009-03-18T23:52:00.004-04:00

According to an online quiz, Angela Davis is considered a feminist icon.

I'm considered to be Susan B. Anthony .

A slightly bowdlerized script from the original quiz answer:

"You are Susan B. Anthony! You were the footsoldier of the suffragette movement, the First Wave of American feminism. You were also the first womyn on an American coin ... too bad it was completely useless and ill-conceived. You appear a little right-wing in retrospect, but in your time, the choice to remain a spinster was a big f--- you to the system."

Perhaps Obama is an evil genius

2009-03-18T20:32:00.004-04:00

Perhaps Obama openly dissed the Brits as an oblique way of courting the French & an attempt to reintroduce our prodigal sister republic back into the NATO fold. It could all be high stakes kabuki theater.

Conversely, like Nancy Pelosi's cat cam, it could all just be plain kooky.

The current consensus on the NY Daily News poll, wrt Nancy's video, is that it makes her look like a crazy cat lady:

Palin > Wolves

2009-03-18T18:27:00.004-04:00

The US National Park Service is whining about Alaska's wolf control program.

This is the same National Park Service that wants to hijack the Flight 93 Memorial & turn it into a "Crescent of Embrace" homage to the terrorists.

The caribou population is inversely proportional to the wolf population. As the Defenders of Wild Food aptly point out, there are people who depend upon the caribou they hunt.

Noemie Emery points out that while Palin is managing wildlife & balancing budgets in Alaska, the Palinphobes are having second & third thoughts about their votes last November.

Sheriff Arpaio = New Enemy of the State

2009-03-17T16:53:00.005-04:00

Presumably, in an effort to scare Sherriff Arpaio into backing off enforcing immigration laws, Democrats threaten to establish a ~~Stalinistic show trial~~ Congressional Hearing.

UPDATE I

Apparently, people against illegal immigration are potential terrorists.

UPDATE II

From a recent poll, the majority of Americans support Arpaio's versus the Democrats' position.

Go Green! Bankruptcies > Bailouts

2009-03-17T16:32:00.013-04:00

Standard class warfare from the university list serve:

Since the world's economic foundation began to crumble last fall, I've heard conservatives lay the blame on liberals like Congressman Barney Frank and Senator Chris Dodd who, along with the Clinton administration, supposedly "forced" mortgage brokers to make loans to people who had no business buying houses. And I've heard them blame "greedy" auto workers who resisted pay cuts when US auto companies were on the ropes for the demise of that industry. I'm glad to see that finally populist anger is turning against those who really do bear responsibility for much of what has happened, the "Masters of the Universe" in financial firms on Wall Street and around the world as well as those who fought for more deregulation of the banking industry.

The federal government has "loaned" more than $170 billion in taxpayer money to AIG (American International Group) in an effort to cover the insurance it issued on credit default swaps held by firms like Goldman Sachs and Lehman Brothers as well as banks all over the world.

On Friday, it was revealed that AIG paid out more than $165 million in bonuses -- described as retention payments to keep top employees with the firm -- mostly to the very people in the financial products unit who caused the most damage to AIG and the world economy. According to a letter from New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo to Barney Frank, here are some facts about the people who received the AIG bonuses:

* The top recipient received more than $6.4 million;
* The top seven bonus recipients received more than $4 million each;
* The top ten bonus recipients received a combined $42 million;
* 22 individuals received bonuses of $2 million or more, and combined they received more than $72 million;
* 73 individuals received bonuses of $1 million or more; and
* Eleven of the individuals who received "retention" bonuses of $1 million or more are no longer working at AIG, including one who received $4.6 million.

Cuomo went on to say, "These payments were all made to individuals in the subsidiary whose performance led to crushing losses and the near failure of AIG. Thus, last week, AIG made more than 73 millionaires in the unit which lost so much money that it brought the firm to its knees, forcing a taxpayer bailout."

I can't believe the mess we're in, and I don't know how we'll get out of it. But one thing I do know is that it wasn't caused by a bunch of liberals who wanted to make it possible for poor people to own their own homes.

Well, you better believe it, because "Yes, the Community Reinvestment Act Really Did Help Cause the Housing Crisis"

However, I agree with the poster on the above thread:

The CRA encouraged loaning in less affluent areas to QUALIFIED individuals, it did not say throw all standards out the window for the quick buck. That was done by greedy bankers and mortgage brokers all on their own initiative.

Individual and corporate responsibility should be enforced versus fobbing off the bill from the profligate to the prudent loaners & loanees. Rather than kill more trees and increase our collective carbon footprint by wasting time, money & energy reinventing the wheel, bankruptcy laws, that are already on the books, should be followed. Think green, people!

In an edifying note, some banks are returning their TARP money.

UPDATE I

More on hope & change ; rainbows & unicorns .

UPDATE II

The New York Times, of all places, has a good, level-headed analysis of the AIG bailout/bonuses controversy in its editorial today. Again, there wouldn't be a bonus controversy if there hadn't been a bailout in the first place.

UPDATE III

A list of politicians who received campaign contributions from AIG & thus have a huge conflict of interest . The politicians rewarded a poorly managed company with tax payer dollars because said company gave said politicians legal vote buying bribes.

Reason #5 to vote for Toomey over Specter in 2010

2009-03-16T18:41:00.003-04:00

AFL-CIO is campaigning for Specter:

"We are pushing to give him help in the primary, including changing Democrats to Republicans for the primary," Mr. George told The Times. "It's hard to do because of other races in the state ... but we'll do it for 'card check.' "

Again, the innocent sounding "card check" will deprive union members of their secret ballot & subject them to union boss bullying.

If non-Muslims were truly Islamophobic, wouldn't they ignore honor killings?

2009-03-16T12:35:00.004-04:00

If non-Muslims express ambivalence about honor killings, they are usually criticized for being culturally insensitive &/or islamophobic (it's difficult to determine if linked article is satirical or serious):

why are we Arabs telling the Western press that honor killing is cultural, that it is not really part of Islam? Our way of life is based on maintaining our honor. And make no mistake about it: a woman does tarnish her family's honor by engaging in pre-marital sex, or by getting herself raped, when she seeks divorce and when she marries against her family's

Statistically, most honor killings are Muslim on Muslim murders:

In the West, such murders are mainly done by Muslims (it is a Muslim-on-Muslim crime)

Hence, if non-Muslims were truly anti-Muslim, wouldn't they just ignore honor killings in the expectation that Muslims would just kill each other off?

UPDATE

Apparently, the recent beheading in Buffalo, NY wasn't an honor killing. It was all the fault of corrupt American KKKulture & Starbucks.

Reason #4 to vote for Toomey over Specter in 2010

2009-03-15T23:52:00.004-04:00

Specter voted FOR socialized medicine before he voted AGAINST it:

and wants old people, who aren't Pennsylvania senators, to drop dead quicker in order to save money:

Manufacturing Down; Public drunkenness Up

2009-03-15T19:07:00.014-04:00

Whilst Pennsylvania has been hemorrhaging the few manufacturing jobs it has left:

8/08 9/08 10/08 11/08 12/08 1/09

Manufacturing % Δ -2.0 -2.2 -2.9 -3.7 -5.3 -5.9

Governor Rendell's (D) Secretary of Labor and Industry, who was appointed due to partisan cronyism:

She was previously chief of staff to a Democratic state senator and political director of the state Democratic Party.

has been getting blotto:

Vito, 43, who was charged with public drunkenness after an incident at a bar at the Hilton Harrisburg Wednesday night, is expected to return to her post after a leave that could last for about a week, Gov. Ed Rendell's press secretary Chuck Ardo said.

"She notified us this morning that she intends to seek treatment and hopes to get a better understanding of how alcohol can affect her decision-making," Ardo said.

In order to help save Keystone staters some of their hard earned tax dollars, I've developed a graph to help illustrate for Vito (D) the impact that alcohol has had on her job performance:

UPDATE I

Newsbusters points out that CNN conveniently glissands over the inconvenient fact that the vino loving Vito is, in fact, a Demo.

UPDATE II

Again, in an effort to quantify how "alcohol can affect [Vito's] decision-making", whilst Vito was drunk as a skunk, "Pennsylvania lost 41,000 jobs in February, most since 1996"

Gov't shovel for citizens in economic hole

2009-03-15T18:30:00.003-04:00

The logic escapes me in Pennsylvania Governor Rendell's plan to tax video gambling losses:

- Player losses would be taxed at 50 percent.

IMHO, promoting gambling, in general, is typically a regressive tax and will lead more people into bankruptcy.

A point of trivia, I did not know that Penn State University apparently, is not, despite its name, in fact, a state school:

- Proceeds would be used to provide grants of up to $7,600 a year for students attending Pennsylvania's state-owned universities or community colleges. The state-owned universities are Bloomsburg, California, Cheyney, Clarion, East Stroudsburg, Edinboro, Indiana, Kutztown, Lock Haven, Mansfield, Millersville, Shippensburg, Slippery Rock and West Chester.
- The breaks would not apply to students attending private schools or the state-related schools -- Penn State, Pitt, Temple and Lincoln.

Stossel's "Big, Bad Bailout"

2009-03-14T17:28:00.004-04:00

Stossel, one of the few members of the US media who hasn't drunk the Obama Kool Aid, delivered a skeptical report on the rationale for the stimupork bill with interviews of equally skeptical Nobel Laureate economists:

In this clip, he points out the obvious that when the government prints more money, it creates inflation.

Happy Pi Day!

2009-03-14T16:18:00.004-04:00

Mr. Reilly doesn't understand the need for an official National Pi Day. It's because pi, like e, are both so transcendental:

Olde English comedy sketch: "Blind Date"

Of course, some silly people might get confused between pi and pie, since they are homonyms:

Just to dispel any confusion, the circumference of a pie = pi x the pie's diameter.

UPDATE

Bitch Girls point out that Michelle Obama wants to steal your pie, presumably, to redistribute it to her pie-loving husband.

An enemy combatant by any other name is just as hostile

2009-03-14T16:14:00.004-04:00

Or, at least, should be considered to be so, argues Mark Steyn, who opposes the left's desire to deconstruct language:

the loss of accepted language - that "wars" are "won" by "defeating" "enemies" - is a big part of the problem.

UPDATE

The ~~Orwellian~~ Obamian euphemism "Man-Caused Disaster" is not at all encouraging.

Pelosi, let me count the ways thou art annoying..

2009-03-14T15:40:00.004-04:00

Nancy Pelosi helpfully enumerates the various reasons why her political opponents find her to be annoying:

If you can't win on policy, then you go to process. If you can't win on process, then you go to personality. And that's how they have decided they would make up stories about me and the rest

The only point of editing that I would offer is that it's possible to multitask and dislike her on all three accounts simultaneously in parallel versus sequentially in series.

What stories are Pelosi's polticial opponents "making up" about her? The fact that she abuses the privilege of USAF flights for boondoggle trips?

The speaker doth protest too much:

There seems to -- some people think there seems to be a market for saying that I am very partisan, and that I don't give the Republicans their opportunity. That simply is not true.

No, she's not very partisan. She is the most partisan member of the House since Preston Brooks .

He was attacked on the Senate floor by pro-slavery Democratic congressman, Preston Brooks, who stormed the Senate side of the Capitol and tried to beat Sumner to death with his cane because he dared to introduce yet another piece of anti-slavery legislation.

HillBuzz engages in more Pelosi mockery:

Nancy Pelosi has claimed, “I am not partisan” in a recent interview.

Here are a few other things Pelosi can claim not to be with equal credulity:

“I am not a terrible author who writes books that can only be described as skunk-juice-drenched.”

“I am not someone who wears far too much makeup and believes lipstick should go around the lips, not on them.”

Palin ≠ Torquemada

2009-03-13T12:08:00.012-04:00

A perennial Palin smear that won't abate is the general stereotype that she is a religious bigot who wishes to install a totalitarian theocracy, as illustrated by Chris Buckley's attack on McCain's running-mate:

who nominated as his running mate a know-nothing religious extremist

There is not a single documented case where Palin ever discriminated against anyone based on their religious beliefs. Conversely, it it patently obvious that Buckley stereotyped, prejudged, and discriminated against Palin because she belongs to one of those store front churches with folding chairs versus nominally belonging to a denomination with Gothic cathedrals and mahogany pews, such as Buckley does. Buckley is simply projecting his hatred and bigotry onto others.

The left, and the trust fund Republicans, create an illogical syllogism:

(1) Palin is a theocrat
(2) Theocrats are bad
(3) Therefore, Palin is bad

Their premise (1) is false leading to the erroneous conclusion (3).

A subset stereotype is that Palin opposes safe sex education in school, which is patently false, as she has clearly stated:

"I’m pro-contraception, and I think kids who may not hear about it at home should hear about it in other avenues. So I am not anti-contraception. But, yeah, abstinence is another alternative that should be discussed with kids. I don’t have a problem with that. That doesn’t scare me, so it’s something I would support also."

The National Review points out the absurdity of the left wing attack machines and their fallacious conclusions:

Quick, can someone check: Didn't Bristol have contraceptive sex-education in her high school? Does that prove contraceptive education caused her pregnancy?

The evil flying monkeys in the MSM would serve this democracy better if they became proficient at reporting the facts versus simply creating straw men arguments and knocking them down.

30 year anniversary of TMI

2009-03-13T11:17:00.003-04:00

Opponents on the left and right face off on the viability of nuclear energy and come to the same conclusion that it's not economically viable:

"Nuclear energy is to the right what solar energy is to the left: Religious devotion in practice, a wonderful technology in theory, but an economic white elephant in fact."

UPDATE

Somewhat in counterpoint to the above quote, the latest numbers shows that the government subsidizes solar power ($24.34 per megawatt-hour (MWh)) by over an order of magnitude more than nuclear energy ($1.59 per megawatt-hour (MWh)).

Reason #3 to vote for Toomey over Specter in 2010

2009-03-13T10:02:00.006-04:00

In a craven, amoral manner, Specter talked down the economy to push through porkopulus:

The nation is on the "brink of a depression," but there's a "reasonable chance" that the $787 billion economic stimulus package will help ease the situation, Sen. Arlen Specter said Monday.

Now that Obama and his bipartisan supporters of unprecedented deficit spending got their pork, they can pull an Emily Litella & cease and desist with their predictions of eminent economic collapse.

In a related headline, the Potbellied pig found wandering near Philly airport, upon closer inspection, just turned out to be the current senior senator from Pennsylvania.

Another photo from the Harrisburg Tea Party

UPDATE

Michael Reagan, talk show host and son of Ronald Reagan, has endorsed Toomey over Specter for senate.

Sarah Palin > Wonder Woman

2009-03-12T21:19:00.001-04:00

Vancouver, WA company debuts Palin/Clinton comics

Bellingham-based Bluewater Comics has released “Female Force: Sarah Palin” and “Female Force: Hillary Clinton” biographical comic books. The company says demand is so high, they have ordered a second printing.

Rob Simmons = CT's next Senator

2009-03-12T18:46:00.004-04:00

Chris Dodd is running behind Rob Simmons in the latest poll for the 2010 Connecticut senate race. Dodd is trailing mainly because voters have noticed that he wants to drink their milkshakes, especially shamrock minty flavored milkshakes.

Specifically, Dodd appeared to have engaged in dubious ethics to secure a ~~cottage~~ mansion in Ireland:

What's wrong with securing a mortgage to buy an overseas mansion, you may ask? Just the minor detail of a huge conflict of interest. From Hemingway sans sarc tags:

I find it awfully reassuring that in the middle of a major economic crisis and the accompanying government bank bailouts, the head of the Senate Banking Committee is indebted to bank lobbies to pay the legal tab for his personal corruption.

Even though NBC might find it perplexing for US banks that have received TARP funds to loan US taxpayer money overseas, I'm quite certain Dodd isn't at all perplexed.

In case you're not a trained economist, the Heritage Foundation has put together a slide show to explain all the nuance and intricacies of TARP: