Just Another Preparatory Skirmish?

"Last week, an esteemed Columbia University black architecture professor punched a white female coworker in the eye for not doing more about white privilege.

He has no history of violence. So why now?

Why now? This may be the most important question of our time. Why are some people reaching the boiling point? Why do many others look vacant, like an Invasion of the Body Snatchers? The shootings at military bases, from Little Rock to Fort Hood -- why now?

It's Obama, of course." Read Judy of Berkeley's entire post here -- it is truly excellent.

Read the article snippet from the NY Post here.

Where is Charles Martel Now that We Need Him Again?

Yeah -- I know that this is not OUR Civil War 2.0, iasmuch that it is not happening in our country.

However, this is VERY MUCH OUR WAR in that we are fighting the same global enemy.



Tragic. Read the original lyrics in English -- very ironic:

"Familiar memories
Come to my mind
I see my black student's smock again
On the way to school

Singing rhymes without words,
Old songs from the past,
at the top of my voice
Sweet France

Dear country of my childhood
Rocked with tender unconsciousness
You are in my heart
My town, the steeple, the houses

Where the children of my age
shared my happiness
Yes, I love you
And I offer you this poem

Yes, I love you
In happiness and pain
Sweet France
Dear country of my childhood

Rocked with tender unconsciousness
You are in my heart
I have known wonderful
Landscapes and suns

During long trips
Everything under other skies
But I continue to prefer
My blue sky, my horizon

My road, my river
My prairie and my house."

Bastards!

The Supreme Court's 2005 decision in Kelo v. City of New London stands as one of the worst in recent years, handing local governments carte blanche to seize private property in the name of economic development.

Now, four years after that decision gave Susette Kelo's land to private developers for a project including a hotel and offices intended to enhance Pfizer Inc.'s nearby corporate facility, the pharmaceutical giant has announced it will close its research and development headquarters in New London, Connecticut.

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As far as I can tell, establishment media coverage of Pfizer's latest move and its real-world relevance to the Kelo ruling has thus far been non-existent. A Google News search on "Pfizer Kelo" (not in quotes) at 11:00 a.m. came back with a dozen items, none from major establishment media outlets. A search on "Pfizer eminent domain" (again not in quotes) came back with 13, adding only the Hartford Courant report noted above. The Associated Press's coverage of the Pfizer-Wyeth facilities consolidations only says that "Groton, Conn. .... will add 1,500 workers from a nearby New London facility being closed."

The idea that news consumers outside of Connecticut don't have an interest in learning what has really happened at the site involved in the Supreme Court's odious Kelo ruling is patently absurd. Perhaps this four-year blackout has occurred because our journalistic gatekeepers would prefer that we not see a concrete demonstration of what can happen when a government gives in to its authoritarian impulses, and the courts fail in their duty to rein it in.

h/t to WSJ.com and NewsBusters.com

A Robot?

Or mebbe just a cardboard prop?

Barack Obama's amazingly consistent smile from Eric Spiegelman on Vimeo.

Hey -- at least he does something (posing) well. Does that make him a poseur?

Terrorist Watch List -- No Wurize

Yep -- with the FBI, Atty General, Presidiot, Dept of Homeland Security, and Army Sr. Leadership all on duty 24-7 protecting us, we got NO WORRIES.

Nope -- none at all...


President Obama's speech at the Ft. hood memorial ceremonies:

"But this much we do know – no faith justifies these murderous and craven acts; no just and loving God looks upon them with favor."

I call bullshit!

Pisslamic Terrosists Suck -- But Not a Whole Lot

At least that's the meme being purported by our profoundly retarded president.

Randy Rager nails it over at Cold Fury:

"Obama, you are a disgrace to yourself and your office. That you would, on one of our darkest days, a day that any real American would consider a day of infamy, choose to spend your time in conference with a special interest group rather than flying to Ft. Hood to actually be the Commander In Chief we elected you to be, speaks very poorly of you as man and worse of you as a President.

That you would then choose to use your bully pulpit not to move immediately, seriously and with decorum to addressing those tragic events, but rather to giving a “shout out” to Dr. Joe Medicine Crow first, clearly shows you to be a calculating political monster of a stripe I had hoped never to witness holding the office you are currently disgracing.

That you would then mistake Dr. Joe Medicine Crow for a Medal of Honor recipient after you yourself hung the Medal of Freedom around his neck no more than 3 months prior is, to put it mildly, one of the biggest acts of dumbfuckery it has ever been my profound displeasure to witness. Your immediate resignation would hardly begin to recompense the damage you’ve done today. Were you to give away all you own, renounce your citizenship and move to New Delhi to help the poor for the rest of your miserable misbegotten life you would barely begin to atone for this act of utter stupidity.

I shall never again call you President, for you have utterly disgraced yourself and the office."

Video is shown below -- appalling:



CMoH?

Medal of Freedom?

NoBalls Piss Prize?

Grade-School Good Attendance Award?

What's the diff?


I have never had much hope for this guy, but I have finally given up on him completely.
Time to hunker-down for the next three years and hope that we can somehow survive this imbecile.


P.S. Holy Mother-of-G-d!!!!!! Here's the moron PREZIDIOT pushing us to not "jump to conclusions about the shooter's motivations" WTF?!?! Was he a grumpy Scientologist, a pissed-off Presbyterian, mebbe even a frustrated Girl-Scout mad at not selling cookies? No? Well, it's inconceivable that he was simply another in the loong line of Islamic Jihadis who was simply carrying-out the dictums of his religion as docmented within their "holy" book. JWM

Muslim Terrorism and Homicidal Acts -- Inconceivable!

A Fable -- with a Strong Moral

John was in the fertilized egg business. He had several hundred young hens called 'pullets,' and ten roosters to fertilize the eggs.

He kept records, and any rooster not performing went into the soup pot and was replaced.

This took a lot of time, so he bought some tiny bells and attached them to his roosters.

Each bell had a different tone, so he could tell from a distance, which rooster was performing. Now, he could sit on the porch and fill out an efficiency report by just listening to the bells.

John's favorite rooster, old Butch, was a very fine specimen, but this morning he noticed old Butch's bell hadn't rung at all!

When he went to investigate, he saw the other roosters were busy chasing pullets, bells-a-ringing, but the pullets, hearing the roosters coming, could run for cover.

To John's amazement, old Butch had his bell in his beak, so it couldn't ring.. He'd sneak up on a pullet, do his job and walk on to the next one.

John was so proud of old Butch, he entered him in the Renfrew County Fair and he became an overnight sensation among the judges.

The result was the judges not only awarded old Butch the No Bell Piece Prize but they also awarded him the Pulletsurprise as well.

Clearly old Butch was a politician in the making. Who else but a politician could figure out how to win two highly coveted awards by being the best at sneaking up on the populace and screwing them when they weren't paying attention.

h/t to Philmon

Not OUR Civil War -- but Interesting Nevertheless

Three people detained after June's disputed presidential election have been sentenced to death, Iran's Isna news agency reports. Read it here.

We are eagerly awaiting comments and condemnation from our Nobel Laureate -- the Odiot. But we sure aren't holding our breath.


"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means. " -- Inigo Montoya to Vizzini, The Princess Bride



Neda Soltan remains unavailable for comment.

h/t to Sweetness&Light

The Peace of the Grave -- Doc Zero

From Reagan to Obama in 20 Years. Lightspeed -- in the wrong direction.

I’m not really surprised by the Nobel committee’s decision to grant the Peace Price to Barack Obama. I assumed they would give it to him at the earliest opportunity. I forgot the award had not been given for this year. It would have been slightly better for their credibility if the Nobel committee had waited until next year, but perhaps they didn’t want to take the chance that current events would make that impossible by the end of 2010. The kind of “peacemaking” favored by the Nobel committee is the kind that usually gets innocent people killed, and frequently ends in the kind of war that comes as an even bigger surprise than Obama’s award.

Obama was given the Nobel Prize, not because of anything he has done as President, but because of what the committee thinks he will do. His achievements are as non-existent now as they were on the day he was nominated. His agenda, however, is clear. He spelled it out in that insipid speech he gave to the United Nations a few weeks ago. Speaking as the leader of the indentured world, he made it clear that he plans to dim the lights on an America in decline, and humbly step aside as the post-American century begins. That’s why he won the Peace Prize. The Nobel committee has long seen the United States as the greatest threat to world peace, and the man who plans to bankrupt and disarm it has earned their admiration.

There are only two responses to tyranny: submission and resistance. Submission is easy. It can be negotiated. It is filled with nuance, and requires a large staff of diplomats and state functionaries to administer in style. Organizations like the United Nations make the first concessions to dictatorship by their very nature, as they allow thug states like Iran and Libya to take seats next to peaceful democracies. Obama’s dismal eulogy for America at the U.N. was followed by lunatic rants from the blood-splattered clowns who will be the new masters of the global future. Entertaining such creatures is easy, if you can just ignore the piles of faceless victims buried behind them. You may rest assured that the name Neda Agha-Soltan was not spoken during Obama’s Peace Prize deliberations, and it will not be spoken when the prize is placed into his hands.

Neda Soltan -- I don't recall Obama mentioning her. Strange?

Resistance is hard. It requires the courage to call evil by its name, and sacrifice universal adoration in the process. The Left likes to rail against intolerance. The defense of peace and freedom requires the absolute intolerance of evil. It requires leaders who don’t need a few days to decide whether to cancel the Fourth of July picnic invitations of a dictatorship that guns down peacefully protesting citizens. It relies upon a nation with the strength and resolve to project both humanitarian assistance and military power around the world.

Read it all here.

Laughing Illiterate Imbecile

Gotta give George Stephanopoulos credit -- I didn't think he had it in him.

Colonel Bud Day -- On Torture & Leadership

I got shot down over N Vietnam in 1967, a Sqdn. Commander. After I returned in 1973… I published 2 books that dealt a lot with “real torture” in Hanoi .

Our president is branding our country as a bunch of torturers when he has no idea what torture is.

As for me, put thru a mock execution because I would not respond… pistol whipped on the head… same event. Couple of days later… hung by my feet all day.

I escaped and a couple of weeks later, I got shot and recaptured. Shot was OK… what happened afterwards was not.

They marched me to Vinh… put me in the rope trick, trick… almost pulled my arms out of the sockets. Beat me on the head with a little wooden rod until my eyes were swelled shut, and my unshot, unbroken hand a pulp.

Next day hung me by the arms… rebroke my right wrist… wiped out the nerves in my arms that control the hands… rolled my fingers up into a ball. Only left the slightest movement of my L forefinger. So I started answering with some incredible lies.

Sent me to Hanoi strapped to a barrel of gas in the back of a truck.

Hanoi … on my knees… rope trick again. Beaten by a big fool. Into leg irons on a bed in Heartbreak Hotel.

Much kneeling — hands up at Zoo.

Really bad beating for refusing to condemn Lyndon Johnson.

Several more kneeling events. I could see my knee bone thru kneeling holes.

There was an escape from the annex to the Zoo. I was the Senior Officer of a large building because of escape…they started a mass torture of all commanders.

I think it was July 7, 1969… they started beating me with a car fan belt. In first 2 days I took over 300 strokes… then stopped counting because I never thought I would live thru it.

They continued day-night torture to get me to confess to a non-existent part in the escape. This went on for at least 3 days. On my knees… fan belting… cut open my scrotum with fan belt stroke. Opened up both knee holes again. My fanny looked like hamburger… I could not lie on my back.

They tortured me into admitting that I was in on the escape… and that my 2 room-mates knew about it.

The next day I denied the lie. They commenced torturing me again with 3- 6- or 9 strokes of the fan belt every day from about July 11 or 12th to 14 October 1969.

I continued to refuse to lie about my roommates again.

Now, the point of this is that our make-believe president has declared to the world that we ( U.S. ) are a bunch of torturers. Thus it will be OK to torture us next time when they catch us… because that is what the U.S. does.

Our president is a know nothing fool who thinks that pouring a little water on some one’s face, or hanging a pair of women’s pants over an Arabs head is TORTURE.

He is a meathead.

I just talked to Medal of Honor holder Leo Thorsness, who was also in my squadron, in jail… as was John McCain… and we agree that McCain does not speak for the POW group when he claims that Al Gharib was torture… or that “water boarding” is torture.

Our president and those fools around him who keep bad mouthing our great country are a disgrace to the United States .

Please pass this info on to everyone. They are free to use it to point out the stupidity of the claims that water boarding… which has no after effect… is torture.

If it got the Arab to cough up the story about how he planned the attack on the twin towers in NYC… hurrah for the guy who poured the water.

Read it all here. h/t to American Sheepdogs.

He Lies!

Not well, but often.

Big Bird = Birther

Hahaha! This is too funny!

asshole. Asshole! ASSHOLE!!!

But now I'm being redundant.

Cheating repeatedly on his steady-girl/fiancee/wife/child's Mom = $2M

Making a sad, sad joke out of the whole thing = Priceless

Asshole, doofus, woosie, prevaricator, mean, disloyal....


Here's the view of this issue from the enemy media:

How the Other Side Thinks

Sooo -- apparently the other side can issue getouttajailfree cards is they commit a rape that is not "rape-rape". WTF!?!

"View" this travesty here:



Does this standard also apply to other crimes:

Obama lies -- but his lies aren't "lies - lies".

Chicago-style politics are hugely corrupt, but it's not "corruption - corruption".

ACORN's sleazy and criminal...

et cetera....

Goldberg should be fired -- contact ABC here.

Crappity, crap, craptastic Prez!

The OTHER Side of the Culture

Aaagh -- hippies!



I got my undergrad degrees at Cal Davis -- but I was an Engineer, which is way different.

Another Parallel -- Triumph des Willens

It gets eerier and eerier, scarier and scarier.

Arts community being co-opted by the Obama administration - here.

Why the Arts community needs to remain independent - here.




Related reading for context:

Leni Riefenstahl's "Triumph of the Will" -- background & history.

You can actually watch the whole thing here, including English subtitles.

Can you say "Hitlerjugend"?

Abstract of Article on soviet Youth Indoctrination: Soviet indoctrination is undertaken to create communistic morality as defined by the Soviet Communist Party. Youth indoctrination is critical. Attitudes instilled at an early age are practiced more naturally than ones imposed in adulthood. The generally consistent line, influenced by various cultural and ideological factors, is one of militaristic patriotism. Effects of such a long-term theme are difficult to reverse quickly. Indeed, the growth of Soviet global strength combines uncomfortably with such indoctrination. Any future modification of Party dominance may prove to be of less moment than the Party's legacy. However, human demands and weaknesses frustrate indoctrination program goals.

"------ was a firm believer in the need to indoctrinate socialist ideology early and the power of young people in ensuring the continued vitality of the administration.” Read more here.

It's way too early to claim with any certainty that this is the goal of our current administration, but the warning signs are there.

The Awesome Truth about the USA's 2-Party System

That hadta be iced tea or Pepsi. But just watching that chugalug was gut-wrenching. LOL!

Tribute to Senator Teddy Kennedy -- R.I.H.*

LOL!


* R.I.H. = Rot In Hell

Fallout 3 in Real-Life

Lock & load your AR-15, gear-up with full Kevlar w/ESAPI Plates, saddle-up in an armored Hummer -- and take a fun-filled adventure trip to DEE-troit:



Farkin' scarey!

Plan for Rape of 9/11

The Obama White House is behind a cynical, coldly calculated political effort to erase the meaning of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks from the American psyche and convert Sept. 11 into a day of leftist celebration and statist idolatry.



If true, this is truly a deal-breaker.

Visit OakTOWN this Year!

"If you find a dead hooker in your hotel room, you stay for free!"
Bwahahaha!

Well done!

Must. Suppress. Urge. to. Puke!

How sweet -- he's sucking their nutsacks again. He must really like the taste:



Once again -- it is the contention of our weasel-coward-imbeciles that Islam is the "Religion of Peace" and that it is just the 98% of violent Jihadis that give the 2% of peaceful Muslims a bad name:

Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy

More here.

Update #1: I earlier failed to note The Odiot's failure to recognize the National Day of Prayer.

Update #2: More LOVE from the Religion of Piss in Afghanistan.

Smokin' Camels

These guys are always funny.

Snarlin' Arlen...

...has always been an asshole. But he's really in fine-form here:

History of the 2nd Amendment

A lot of folks fear that the Second Amendment (Right to Keep & Bear Arms) places the Republic at risk of an armed revolt. I believe that the reverse is true -- if the government knows that the People are armed, then the government will never dare become oppressive enough to risk insurrection.

I hope and pray that we're not gonna be testing my theory anytime soon:

Click To Play

h/t to Jews For Preservation of Firearms Ownership.

OK -- THIS is Funny!

h/t to Grouchy Old Cripple

Not Quite Akin to the First-Shots at Concord Bridge

But every journey starts with but a single step. Hopefully this is not video of us starting down a path that leads to much greater internal conflict and strife:



Homework for Commenters: How can groups with such disparate views of the proper role of gov't like the "tea-baggers" and the "single-payers" come together in anything less than open physical conflict? Hopefully somebody out there will have an answer.

Experts Never Learn / Happy Days Aren’t Here Again

Peter Schiff is a VERY smart economist:

"As congress and the president consider the best policies to right our economic ship, it is my hope that they will pursue a strategy first developed by Seinfeld character George Costanza. After wisely recognizing that every instinct he had up unto that point had ended in failure, George decided that to be successful, he had to do the exact opposite of whatever his instincts told him. I suggest our policymakers give this approach a try."

The whole article is here.

Charles Hugh Smith -- Makes My Wife Sound Optimistic

Survival+: Structuring Prosperity for Yourself and the Nation

Alternative 1: Slavery or Servitude: For the Unprepared

A long and detailed discourse on a possible / likely / inevitable societal collapse. This collapse will center on the USA, but impact the entire world: Scary!

Excerpts follow:

As the most heavily armed society in the developed world, the U.S. can easily go the way of well-armed criminal gangs controlling urban zones or well-armed militia sprouting up to take out the criminals. There is historical precedents for either scenario. A third scenario (common in the 3rd World) is for wealthy enclaves to hire private forces to protect the enclave.

While I can't predict which will play out in various circumstances, we should be aware that the U.S. has millions of military veterans and millions of weapons. The USSR had the vets but not the weapons in private hands. People will eventually choose to support an alternative to anarchy or criminal/mob rule, unless the criminal gang is the only alternative to something worse (i.e. the Sadr City scenario). Or people will pay extra to maintain a community police force and let go of the other city services, performing them communally via volunteer labor.

My point is simply that a heavily armed culture with tens of millions of firearm-trained vets is not going to follow the route of a society without those two elements.

Another related and very germane article can be read here.

Alternative #2: Survival -- for those who are prepared.

How About a Kool-Aid Enema!

h/t to Nice Deb.

A Lesson for Dr. Gates

Chris Rock gets it right:



"Don't hang wit no crazy friends." LOL. Pretty hard to comply with this if you are a Democrat.

h/t to Grouchy Old Cripple

A F- - king Demagogic Retard Once Said...

A Wise Man Once said...

"Power concedes nothing without a demand.

It never did and it never will.

Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them, and these will continue till they have been resisted with either words or blows, or with both.

The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they suppress."

-- Frederick Douglass

Read more about him here. He is proof that the truly great man can overcome any accident of birth to achieve success.

James Earl Jones reads one of his more notable speeches:


The good news is that he lived through to see Freedom grow and the nation live-up to many of it's ideals in ending race-based slavery. Unfortunately, much collateral damage was done in the achievement of this, leading in large part to the growth of government and gradual (and accelerating) loss of Freedoms for ALL OF US today.

A Most-Excellent Fisking of Socialized Medicine

This guy is pretty darned good:



h/t to Theo Spark. Pass it on.

Men = Conservative = Bad = Screwed

Obama’s $800 billion stimulus package was purged of most of its investments in roads and bridges, and filled instead with welfare and social spending, out of political correctness, after feminist leaders bitched that building and repairing roads and bridges would put unemployed blue-collar (mostly) men to productive work, rather than putting white-collar (mostly) women to notso-productive work.

BAD red-state jobs:

Caption Unnecessary.


Much Gooder blue-state jobs:

Self-Esteem Workshops -- link here.


Read the whole thing here.

Royally Fornicated -- CA Issues IOUs

CA is forced to issue IOUs. The Dems want to raise taxes on the few remaining productive citizens in the state. The Reps want to cut spending. The Dems have always won in the recent past -- this whole Ponzi scheme needs to collapse before any real change is gonna happen.



But the Governator assures folks that the IOUs are good:



Yeah -- right!

The Barracuda Goes on the Offensive

As governor of Alaska, she would have to:

1. Effectively run her state.

2. Lead, live-with, and love her family.

3. Defend herself against unceasing ethical/political attacks from INSIDE the Alaska government.

4. Defend herself against attacks (like Letterman's "joke") from the MSM and Democrats.

and, finally...

5. Initiate a presidential campaign for 2012.

Clearly, not even Supergirl could have done all these at the same time.

Leaving the governorship at this time accomplishes the following:

1. Relieves her of the burden of running the state of Alaska.

2. Renders her effectively immune from ethics/political attacks from within the Alaska state gov't.

3. Allows her Lt Gov to make his own name in running the state, making him a more viable candidate for election to the Governorship next time around.

4. Allows her to focus on responding to political attacks from the Left.

5. Allows her to build a base by attacking the Left/Democrats/President full-time.

The Democratic criticisms already forthcoming are priceless. They are shitting themselves in fear. Woohoo!

High risk? -- yes.

But very smart? --- Hell YES!


Run Sarah Run!

Funny and True

From HerBunk via YouTube.

Here are the Leaders of the ENEMY

Frightening and depressing:



But inspiring and clarifying too, in that it gives us insight as to the quality and motivations/goals of the ENEMY.



h/t to Scipio.

These People are THE ENEMY

Not the enemy leadership, of course -- they're not smart enough for that.

But they are the foot-soldiers, the enablers, the useful idiots, who allow the evil forces to destroy what once was Western Civilization and free America:



The best way to destroy the enemy is, of course, by educating them and convincing them to come-over to our beliefs of freethinking republican capitalism. But the key question is whether it is too late for this option to work.

Makes Me Want to Puke

h/t to Iowahawk. He is awesome.

A Frightening Essay on Parallels with 1930s Germany

DEMAGOGERY: 1930 & 2008 A CAUTIONARY TALE

Wise commentators say that current events seem like Orwell’s “1984.” But, to me, an amateur student of military history, the pattern feels more like Germany must have felt in the early 1930’s. Alan Bullock writes of how the Great Depression provided the big “opportunity” (to use Rahm Emanuel’s phrase) for Hitler: “millions… saw the apparently solid framework of their existence cracking and crumbling. In such circumstances men are no longer amenable to the arguments of reason… men entertain fantastic fears, extravagant hatreds, and extravagant hopes… the extravagant demagogy of Hitler began to attract a mass following as it had never done…” Sound familiar?

Read the whole thing here.

Thanks to Atlas.

Overstating the Intellectual Rigor of the Process

Classic:



If this ain't revolting, or at least reason enough to induce us to consider revolting, I dunno what is.

Worth Repeating -- Please Watch It

A political science degree in 11 minutes:



So, what is YOUR choice? Becoming a subject of the Oligarchs or redeeming your citizenship in a revitalized Republic?

An Old Moonshiner is Driven to Suicide -- WTH?

"Popcorn" Sutton committed suicide the other day rather than report to court for sentencing to a lengthy prison term.

He was an acknowledged character who nevertheless made exemplary white-lightning corn-liquor. From all reports (I've drunk moonshine, but never Popcorn's stuff), his product had absolutely nothing in common with the water-clear, gullet-searing industrial ethanol commonly thought-of when corn-whiskey is discussed. His whiskey was a warm dark-amber and smooth as silk -- to quote someone more experienced than I: "Popcorn was an artist."

A video showing him in better times:



I agree that it is strange that we place such emphasis and LE resources on this silly enforcement effort, especially when the entire Muslim world is trying to kill us. But then, I'm a small-L libertarian -- so that makes me crazy.

His tombstone is awesome:


God bless you, old-man.

Another Reason to Secede from Any Union Including NJ

The proposed legislation:



The likely result:


via hotair

Heh!

I guess ya gotta swallow a lot of these to
believe the BS put-forth about the
various stimulus plans:

Shitting on the Veterans

Wow -- just wow!

American Legion Outraged at Obama Plan to Make Wounded Vets Use Private Insurance

US News | Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 8:15:23 am PDT

Yep -- you guessed it: The World's Biggest Screw!


Read it here.


Worse than Bill Clinton. He at least pretended to care.

Happy St. Patty's Day...

...Suckers!



Now get ready for a royal plunging.

Too late for ballots...

Orson Scott Card (author of the Ender's Game series and many other novels) has an excellent essay on the suborning of this country's democratic processes by the Obama administration:

"...the Left wants to go after the Census itself. They want to "adjust" the Census by adding "estimated" numbers of uncounted homeless, poor, and illegal immigrants. This is functionally identical to the practice of the old Democratic Party machine in Illinois, where dead Democratic voters in Chicago turned out in large enough numbers to counterbalance all the Republican votes downstate. ...Obama has set himself up to rig all future American elections, not through any democratic process, but by fiat. Just like a dictator.

...now we have a genuine attack on the roots of the Constitution and the principle of counting only people who can be proven to exist when apportioning the House of Representatives. It's a naked grab for power. It's a coup d'etat. And the so-called freedom-lovers in the Leftist media are absolutely silent about it.

No matter how ... ordinary Americans vote, they're going to fudge the Census so that Democrats will always keep the White House and the House of Representatives. If this is allowed to stand, we will never have an honest Census, or an honest election, again.

What can we do? Your vote is about to be discounted. Your most basic freedom as an American -- the right to vote and have a real chance at changing things -- is being taken away."

But too soon for bullets.*



* Apologies for taking a phrase from Malcolm X.

Fat Fucking Douchebag Bastard!

Alec Baldwin feels that the Movie Industry should get special tax-breaks This makes them different from (i.e. better than) the rest of us.


This is the type of person who dies first, come the revolution:



Part of the Hollywood Intelligentsia Elite


From Family Guy -- "Alec Baldwin Feeding his Siblings"

Ewwwww -- yecch!

Send us more Chimps and Typewriters

A good video from the UK on the imbecilic logic of government economists and politicians regarding economic stimulus:



Have they even considered the option of simply leaving the market alone and letting the Free Market fix things? Or would that emphasize too strongly (mebbe even strongly enough for the moronic electorate to perceive) the fact that government meddling was the root-cause behind this world economic train-wreck?

Naah -- my bet is that the world governments will continue to randomly and incoherently meddle in the economy, implementing socialistic policies until the recession is transformed into a full-blown depression. Perhaps unto the point of complete societal failure?

Horrifyingly Realistic Fiction

Rather than Sci-Fi, this is Alternate History -- set in the near-future rather than the long-past:

An alternate history based upon an imbecilic leftist President, an ineffective government, the fallacy of Global Worming, and a very effective military involved in a war against Islamic Supremacists in a far-off land.

Like I said, NOT science-fiction. But a very good read.

The author is generous* enough to post the first few chapters here.

* Or should that be clever-enough? ;-)

Just Funny!

It made me snorkle my Guinness up my nose...



A bit belated, of course, but great nevertheless.

California is About to be Terminated

Wow. Just wow.

"With no end in sight to the budget impasse, Governor Schwarzenegger has announced that layoff notices will be put in the mail today for the first group of up to 10,000 state employees to be laid off. He has also suspended the last 275 state-funded public works projects still in operation since he has no way to pay for them."

To imagine that the Golden State" where I was born and raised has gone so far down the toilet is hard to believe. Yet everything that I've seen, heard or experienced about CA in the last ~15 years has pointed steadily in this direction -- downwards.

It's not nearly hit the bottom yet -- the state is not yet at the status of a Third World Shithole yet, but we can see it from here.

This accelerating decline has been incredibly fast. The state built the aviation industry in WWII, gave us Governor Ron Reagan in the 1960s, Howard Jarvis' tax revolt in the 1970s, President Ronald Reagan in the early 1980s, and George Deukmejian's billion-dollar surplus in 1985. Since the mid-1980s, this has all been squandered, leaving a depressing residue of entitlement and greed.

The Future? -- I need a drink!

The proximity to Mexico (whose impending catastrophic failure will be discussed in a later post) and the 1986 immigration act are only parts of CA's failure. The root cause is ultimately in an electorate that has grown fat and lazy -- this is true of most failed societies since ancient times.

But why and how did this society fail so rapidly? Thoughts?

Lessons-Learned -- from the Former USSR. WTH?!?

Some interesting perspective on how best to survive in a post- (economic) apocalypse America.


Post-Collapse Survival -- That's me on the right.

Perspective is from someone who rode-out the USSR's melt-down in the 1990s.

Some bullshit here, of course. But, like picking-out corn from shit, there are valuable kernals of wisdom here as well.


h/t to Ace and Instapundit

Economic Model for Transition from Republic to Feudalism?

Paul Craig Roberts is always intelligent and articulate.

But he usually leaves me depressed.

Obama—President Of Special Interests

By Paul Craig Roberts

The Bush/Obama bailout/stimulus plans are not going to work. Both are schemes hatched by a clique of financial insiders. The schemes will redistribute income and wealth from American taxpayers to the shyster banksters, who have destroyed American jobs, ruined the retirement plans of tens of millions of Americans, and worsened the situation of millions of people worldwide who naively trusted American financial institutions. The ongoing theft has simply been recast. Instead of using fraudulent financial instruments, the banksters are using government policy.

Read the whole thing here.

h/t to Peter Brimelow at vDare.com

How Democracies Become Tyrannies

Written far better than I ever could have. That Plato was one sharp dude.



Note especially his support of the 2nd Amendment:

Adeimantus asks Socrates incredulously: "What do you mean? Will the tyrant dare to use violence against [the people] or to hit [them] if [they] don't obey? Socrates answers:

"Yes - once he's taken away [the people's] weapons."

Read the whole of Plato's "Republic" here.

h/t to The American Thinker