The Stupid Nation

Man defends self from voilent attack, MSNBC glum

2012-01-27T04:38:01Z

This is how it's done in the liberal media folks. A 65 year old man is violently assaulted by a group of teens while riding his bike on a trail in Pennsylvania. He is knocked to the ground and then attacked, breaks free, draws his lawful weapon, kills one assailant, and wounds a second.

And MSNBC's headline?

"Cops: Man, 65, kills teen who knocks him off bicycle"

The devil is always in the details, and while the article goes on to mutely report the facts, clearly MSNBC is not joyful that a law-abiding man out on harmless recreation successfully defended himself against a group of violent thugs - and was (gasp!) "released" by the cops. Hurts, I know. There, there MSNBCers, there there.

How about this for a headline:

"Man, 65, kills one thug, wounds second during violent attack on bike trail"

By the by....the third thug, according to less than enthusiastic MSNBC, was remanded to a "Youth Center" after being questioned by police. In more accurate words, the third thug was arrested and is now in Juvie.

This is why we must defend our right to keep and bear arms.

Going debate loopy

2012-01-18T03:52:12Z

So how many Republican debates have there been now? Hec, I don't know, but what I do know is that there have been too many. Eyes glazed over a while ago for most.

Barring a sex scandal or some other equally dastardly act, Mitt Romney seems to be the Anointed One. I am wary of him, as I have said before. Although I have previously spoken in favor of Newt, it is undeniable that he's been erratic in the past, however, I still think he is the most articulate of the group. Nonetheless, I have also said before that I would vote for whomever the Republican nominee is unless he is provably a clone of Adolf Hilter or some other equally heinous fiend from the past.

I still think there is some merit to fundamentally changing the way we select Nominees. I think it should be like a "reality" tv show, where the contestants vying for the top spot have to go through rigorous challenges like the Next Iron Chef, or Project Runaway, or even the apprentice. After each "challenge" the contestants would then get booted off the show until there is only one. The Quickening. Yeah, wouldn't it be great if The Donald himself got to choose our Presidential nominees after putting them all through groveling, pandering, lying, and posturing exercises? Isn't grand to fantasize seeing Barack Obama on the receiving end of "YOUR FIRED!". It is grand. After all, Barack Obama has blatantly breached his oath of office to protect and preserve the Constitution of the United States, is responsible for the murder of hundreds of Mexicans, and least one US Border agent, and that's the warm-up. Barack Obama has earned impeachment far more than lecherous Bill Clinton. Far more.

I am looking forward to the end of the in-fighting and back-biting so the Republicans can focus on the message, and ram home to the Stupid Nation Barack Obama's disastrous record as President, and force this country to confront the colossal error a small majority made in selecting an narcissistic intellectual light-weight and functional economics illiterate as the 44th president.

All Hail Caesar!

2012-01-06T02:37:26Z

I wish I had more time for exposition on this topic (my real job gets in the way of blogging), though the blogoshere and conservative-dom has exploded over Obama casting aside the Separation of Powers doctrine so central to our form of government in order to ensconce his cronies in office.

As I read of the cheering liberal reaction to Obama's imperious disregard for the Constitution of the United States - another article of impeachment - I can't help but recall and paraphrase the line from the otherwise awful Star Wars flick where poor Queen Padma, Princess Leias' mommy says:

"This is how democracy dies....to thunderous applause".

And to think, that line in the movie script was a clear an unmistakeable dig at George Bush. Obama makes George Bush look like a freaking libertarian in comparison. What do you think now Mr. Lucas?

Truly, a stupid nation has acquired the leader it so richly deserves.

Pathetic.

Speaking of Criminal Lying

2011-12-19T00:35:38Z

Just imagine if it was George Bush doing the serial lying. Would Steve Kroft let him get away with it, or would he do a heretofore classic 60 minutes 'gothcha', time and time again?

David Limbaugh speaks on the 60 minutes interview.

Michael Barone weighs in on recent pathetic Obama "policy" speech.

The usually brilliant Krauthammer has a thing or two to say.

I am looking forward to ending the Next Iron Presidential Candidate reality TV contest and getting down to the business of focusing America's attention on the grisly failure of Barack Obama and his administration. If Steve Kroft and the rest of the leftist media won't hold Obama's feet to the fire, then it's up to the Republican candidate for President to frame and then hammer home the disaster the left has wrought.

The stakes for the country could not be higher.

And the Drip,Drip, Drip of Liberty Lost goes to.....

2011-12-18T07:20:45Z

A torrent.

The legislation proposed by the reprehensible Republican turncoat Senator John McCain, among others, which declares the continental United States a "battlefield" and authorizes the military to sweep in, collect any citizen of this country they deem a 'suspected terrorist', and then whisk them off to Gitmo to be imprisoned indefinitely and without due process, passed on December 15th, 2011. A day which will ultimately live in infamy. Take note it passed overwhelmingly, cynically imbedded in a massive defense spending bill. Only a few brave elected representatives voiced their alarm over what this piece of crap law means to the country in the long run. Obama piously declared he would veto the bill, because of the 'battlefield' provision, then quickly caved. Ironic, considering the Obama Administration's love for prosecuting known terrorists captured around the globe as common criminals, to disastrous effect, being forced to retreat and embrace the dastardly Bush Administration approach to holding military tribunals.

The 1878 Posse Comitatus Act has effectively been repealed. The greatest sad irony here is that an act which strips Americans of their fundamental rights heretofore guaranteed under the Constitution of the United States was passed on our national Bill of Rights day.   The adoption of those much celebrated amendments occurred on December 15, 1791, upon their ratification by Virginia.

Now all the government needs to do is label any American citizen it doesn't like as a 'terrorist' or 'enemy combatant' and *poof* - disappeared, gone, potentially never to be heard from again. Since the 'war on terror' is an open ended engagement, in theory, any suspected enemy combatant can then be held forever. As far as John McCain is concerned, imprisonment without due process is not psychological or physical torture for a free citizen of the United States living under the Sun, just dunking someone's head in a bucket is.   It's a sickening anathema to those precious freedoms we are slowly giving up with little more than a whimper, if that.

On it goes. Some in congress want to seize control of the internet, Chinese style. Other politicians and Obama officials want to make it a crime to lie on the internet, even though politicians lie through their teeth almost continuously. We've all seen A.G. Holder lie through his teeth regarding the now infamous ATF program "Fast and Furious", but don't you dare use a false name on Facebook. Or lie about your weight on Match.com. All of it, so pathetic.   While we the people snooze as our fundamental freedoms erode, those who seek to strip us of any mechanism by which to challenge the tyranny rising around us are emboldened to push forward. Whether just ill-conceived, or more sinister in purpose, if these types of initiatives to strip us of our fundamental rights of free speech, expression, and due process are not resisted by the electorate, we will one day wake up and find it's too late.

Occupiers.....I'd start looking over my shoulder if I were you......

Pulitzer Prize Winning Crap

2011-12-10T09:01:21Z

Here is a fascinating blog piece from Ken Allard, a talking head military expert. Mr. Allard chronicles a long running and expensive investigation - actually a series of investigations - in which Democratic Senator Carl Levin latched on to a 2008 article published in the New York Times, which Allard says was "perversely unfair, misleading and badly slanted", and presumed Mr. Allard and his contemporaries guilty until proven innocent. Guilty, that is, of "conflicts of interest" and other misdemeanors.

The NYT article got the author a Pulitzer prize. Perverse indeed.

So, after three years, investigators turned up nothing after nothing. Sen. Levin refused to accept that there was nothing wrong except there was nothing wrong, and injected himself into the process in order to bake the outcome. He failed.

This tale almost has it all - a government official abusing his power, a classic example of NYT propaganda masquerading as 'news', getting an award for it, and absolutely no repercussions after the premise of the NYT article was proven false, not once, not twice, but three times. No repercussions for Levin, who wasted taxpayer equity on a wild goose chase, no repercussions for the New York Times, which published an article "badly slanted" and proven wrong, and no repercussions for the author of the article.

Giving the Pulitzer back? Not on your life. The left loves to reward failure.

It is, in the end, utterly pathetic.

Mounting Evidence - Fast and Furious was a Political Operation

2011-12-08T04:51:08Z

In a previous blog post, I noted that a blog by Michael Barone floated the theory that the ATF Fast and Furious scam was hatched by the gun-hating Obama Administration in an effort to flood the Mexican illegal gun market with American bought guns so they could justify further restrictions on gun purchases here at home. Some think this is preposterous, that the Federal government would never purposefully aide and abet criminals by providing them with intentionally easy access to firearms in the US, only to be used in murdering innocent Mexicans, as well as at least one US Federal employee. Couldn't happen in the US, right?

Well, the smoking gun (sorry for the pun) may not yet have seen the light of day, but this is pretty close. As sickening as it may be, the evidence thus far dug up seems to be pointing in the direction that Fast and Furious was a political vendetta by the Obama Administration against gun ownership right here in the US. That Fast and Furious was a political operation, not a law enforcement operation, aimed at deliberately deceiving both Congress and the American People into believing that gun laws here at home required significant 'tightening' in order to save Mexico from terrible carnage. So the federal government fomented murder and mayhem in order to justify acting against it. It's so disturbing on so many levels. If you know your 20th century history, then you know what I mean.

As I have said several times, this is an impeachable offense for Obama. The loathsome AG Holder and top ATF officials may all have innocent blood on their hands of the worst sort. If so, they should all be indicted for manslaughter at the least, and then prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. That's not going to happen, when one of the architects of this tragedy is the AG himself. In addition to Fast and Furious, there are many other incidents in the Obama Administration that point to a criminal regime without regard for the law.

Here's to hope for change. The Obama Administration is incapable of policing itself. The only Court Obama can be made to face is the Court of Public Opinion. Which leads me to another thing I have said repeatedly - November 2012 can't come soon enough.

A faster and more furious drip, drip, drip......

2011-12-01T06:25:16Z

Two news items of late that should give us all pause to be alarmed at just how badly our federal government has run amok. First, Senator John McCain, who I reluctantly voted for in the 2008 presidential election - perhaps it's more accurate to say I voted against Obama - is back in the news as a co-sponsor of a bill that would effectively nullify the 1878 Posse Comitatus Act which blocks the military from involvement in domestic law enforcement. So, from a McCain perspective, it's ok to arrest someone without warrant, or probable cause, throw them in prison indefinitely with trial, just so long as you don't "torture" them.

This law is a bold and direct challenge to the fundamental principles ensconced in the Constitution of the United States, and a somber warning to us all that there are significant elements of our own government becoming increasing fearful of it's own populace. The Constitutional isn't even worth the parchment it's written on if we the people don't defend it. Ann Coulter was recently 'bleeped' on MSNBC for allegedly referring to McCain as a douchebag. Well, as the architect of another disastrous piece of shit legislation called McCain–Feingold which placed limits on political free speech, and now this...he is indeed a douchebag, and unfit to hold even the office of dog catcher.

The other item in the news today is a report on Fox News detailing the retaliation of the whistle-blowers at ATF over the Fast and Furious debacle, and at the least appearance of rewards for those most directly responsible for the program's operation and management. In addition to Obama shielding those in charge, and punishing those who objected, the loathsome AG Holder has sealed records associated with the murder of the Border Agent killed with one of the guns ATF trafficked to the Mexican drug cartels. Congress gave an opportunity for the scorned tattle-tale agents to tell their stories, while decrying the "illegal" gun running operation - nobody is actually doing anything about the sad-sack situation. If Fast and Furious was "illegal", then where are the prosecutions? The entire Obama administration is in this one up to their chins, and as I have said before, Obama, Holder, and their underlings all have blood on their hands. The blood of a US Border Agent, as well as a unknown number of Mexican nationals who were murdered using guns ATF "illegally" trafficked into Mexico. This mess is impeachable, which is why Democrats simply don't want to go there, and most in the media look the other way

Those who do not water the tree of liberty will garner no shade. If we the people do nothing, then one day in the not too distant future, we will wake up and find that all that so many in the past fought and died to create or preserve, we be lost.

A Chink in the TSA's Armor

2011-11-22T05:27:30Z

As I have suggested before, there is really only one way for us little people to bring the Federal Government and it's TSA Security Politsiya apparatus to it's knees: refuse to fly. Only hard economics will put a stop to this.

While not organized, it seems that the humiliating and now routine Fourth Amendment violations are resulting in something of an organic boycott of flying. So, while we don't have smelly unwashed Occupiers camping out in airport concourses around the country, a measurable number of people have either trimmed their flying habits, or outright refuse to fly commercial, like former pro-wrestler Jesse Ventura. As for me, I refuse to fly commercial for recreation (and I can't afford to fly private). If the vacation destination isn't reachable via automobile, then it's out of reach for me, at least for now. I still have no choice but to fly when my employer requires it. However, I have thus far been able to avoid flying on business for most of this year. I am happy about that. No money for the airlines from me.

You know the effects are being felt with the leftist rag The New York Times publishes an article on the topic of declining fliers. We hope the trend continues, and more groups with access to the national media call for a boycott of all flying. We need a National Do Not Fly day, and we need it bad.

Not all that is Stupid Eminates from the USA

2011-11-18T05:50:56Z

Here is a fabulous example of stupendous European Union regulatory stupidity. And now pause to think about how delighted Obama and his radical left wing cabal would be if the US caught up to the EU. We are not that far behind. According to the US Federal Government, pizza is to be classified as a vegetable. I like pizza. I ate two slices of the stuff just today. I think I am going to look into starting a pizza farm.

Now I think I am going to get a drink of water. Wouldn't want to get dehydrated.....

http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/284426/EU-says-water-is-not-healthy

Got Water?

Fast and Curious

2011-11-16T04:52:37Z

Wow, so much news today to comment on, unfortunately I don't have the time to opine on all the doings, so I pick just one....

In another blog post, I wondered aloud of the underlying purpose of the Obama regime sponsored gun running program that ultimately cost two federal agents their lives and who knows how many Mexican citizens maimed or killed. I postulated that maybe it was all rooted in some sort of macro conspiracy to aid and abet drug runners whose corrupting billions are very hard for some people to ignore. I wondered if those corrupting dollars reached the highest office in our land.

Well, there is an alternate theory. As I've mentioned before, Michael Barone is one of my favorite talking heads. In his latest blog piece Obama ticking off America's friends, he says the following:

"We don't know for sure why the ATF and Justice Department embarked on Fast and Furious. Officials are keeping mum. But no one has come up with a more plausible explanation than the charge that it was intended to make a case for gun control at home."

Barone is suggesting that Obama, and his highest officials, conspired to flood the Mexican black market with American made firearms so that they could then march around that canard as a rationale for stricter gun control at home. There is something so particularly vile about this that is takes one breath away for a moment.

We know that the Obama Administration has thrown up a virtual 'blue wall of silence' surrounding this program. And we know that this means the Obama regime is hiding a dark secret.

Pause and consider it for a moment. If the Obama regime intentionally flooded Mexico with illegal guns so they could 'prove' that American gun policy was the root of all evil south of the border, then that means that President Barack Obama should be impeached. Thereafter, he and his senior henchmen should be charged with at least two counts of manslaughter and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.

This conspiracy theory fits much more snugly with the statist leftist/Marxist mindset than a theory about mere base corruption for the love of money. Underneath it all, a sinister malignancy willing to kill and maim in development of a false pretense to accomplish it's goals. Does that have and oddly familiar queasy-in-the-gut feel to it? Does it?

You know, while I try not to let this speculation seep too deep into my thinking, as it is not proven as fact even if it 'feels' right, I still can't shake the feeling that the only difference between Obama and Nixon is that Obama hasn't been caught 'red' handed......yet.

"By the pricking of my thumbs something wicked this way comes"

The Republican Ticket I Could Most Support

2011-11-14T03:20:40Z

The reality of where we stand today in America is that there is no way I am going to sit on the side-lines in the up-coming presidential election of 2012. Since there is also no way in hell that I am going to vote for our radical leftist President, that means that no matter who winds up as the Republican nominee, I am going to vote for that person, unless it's provably Adolf Hitler reincarnate.

That doesn't mean I don't have preferences.

I don't always see eye-to-eye with Newt Gingrich. Earlier this year he committed a conservative gaff by criticizing Rep. Paul Ryan's proposal for medicare reform, drawing a firestorm from the right. Without debating the finer points of Ryan's plan, at least Ryan is bringing fresh ideas to the table. Newt has some rather famous personal baggage which I find distasteful, but when electing the leader of the free world, I think the bollocks necessary to tell your cancer ridden wife you want a divorce will come in handy on The Hill. Gingrich is an experienced legislator and the most articulate in the field of candidates. He understands both the mechanics of Washington, and is no stranger to the international stage. While he can sometimes drift into the realm of RINO, he is certainly far less of a RINO than either Mitt Romney or Rick Perry.

The other guy I think is a front-runner is Herman Cain. As I have said before, I don't give a rats ass for the accusations of sexual harassment. Having said that, Ann Coulter's latest blog item takes a look at those who are accusing Mr. Cain, and makes some interesting connections and observations. Of those observations, Ms. Coulter suggests Obama operative David Axelrod 'made his bones' for Obama by ferreting out salacious info on those who opposed Obama's Senate run. No tricks like the old tricks eh, Mr. Axelrod? This time, the tactic hasn't worked. If anything it's back-fired and made Herman Cain look better, because it was so obviously a sleazy hit job.

Anyway, I like Herman Cain's tell-it-like-it-is-no-bullshit style. I have my reservations about his 9-9-9 plan, but it sure beats the Obama plan. Uh, what IS the Obama plan anyway? The good thing about Cain is that he's an outsider and has the potential to be a Washington muck-raker. The bad thing about Cain is that he is weak on depth of knowledge of what is going on in the rest of the world. As dangerous as the world has become, I would prefer someone who can hit the ground running. On the other hand, at least I am confident that Cain would not trot the globe apologizing for America, or genuflecting before blood soaked dictators.

So, as of this point in the election cycle, my hopes are for a Gingrich/Cain ticket. If Romney winds up with the nomination, I am going to have to dig deep to vote for a nationalized healthcare RINO, but the choice between RINO Romney and Obama, is still a no brainer.

Veterans Day 11-11-2011

2011-11-11T18:56:12Z

Iwo Jima Chosin Reservoir Ia Drang Valley

Desert Storm Afghanistan

"We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;

For he to-day that sheds his blood with me

Shall be my brother"

Herman Cain's Free Willy

2011-11-09T02:39:31Z

With all the alleged skirt chasing by Herman Cain, you'd think the guy had no time to be a syndicated columnist, a radio host, CEO of a big pizza chain, deputy chairman of the Fed Reserve Bank of KC, must less a mathematician in ballistics.

Whew!

There is something about all this that is quite obvious: For the left, and Cain's Republican opponents, they see that Cain has struck a cord with conservative voters and the intelligentsia on both sides feel very threatened by the uppity black man from Georgia. Just as with Sarah Palin, real outsiders are not to be tolerated, which is why they are viciously attacked in order to persuede the unclean masses to abandon them. Also, keep in mind that candidate Barack Obama was not viciously attacked in the same way, because he was no outsider. Everybody wink/nod understood that the outsider gimmick by candidate Obama was just that - a gimmick. Now along comes a real outsider, and real outsiders must be eliminated.

At the end of the day, you know you've hit rock bottom when ambulance chaser Gloria Alfred shows up with another dubious eyewitness to the claimed malfeasance.

So I am going to stick with facts:

Fact 1: Bill Clinton set the standard for all future presidents with his sexual antics.
Fact 2: Whether or not Herman Cain's libido matches that of our lecherous president John F Kennedy or the forever infamous aforementioned Bill Clinton, has utterly no relevance on his potential to perform his duties as President.
Fact 3: So far, Herman Cain hasn't be charged or convicted with perjury, unlike Bill Clinton. If Bill Clinton can perjure himself and still keep his high office, then a few upskirt incidents, even if proven incontrovertibly true, are meaningless.

I hope Herman continues to raise Cain, and gives not 1 inch of ground to these sleaze hounds, or their puppetmasters. Indeed Cain can take comfort from the fact that if the aristocracy wasn't afraid of him, they would be going to go to such lengths to harm him.

Hang in there dude.

and the Drip...Drip...Drip...continues

2011-11-06T22:45:16Z

Jesse Ventura, former pro-wrestler, Governor, and outspoken man about town brought a lawsuit against the TSA early this year, maintaining that his Fourth Amendment protections against unreasonable searches were violated when he suffered through one too many invasive searches at an airport. Ventura has an artificial hip, and so he sets off the metal detector alarms whenever he attempts to travel.

And now Jesse is pissed.

His suit's been tossed faster than a defective hip joint.

In rejecting Ventura's bid for blind justice, Federal District Court Judge Susan Richard Nelson cited that her court had no jurisdiction by Act of Congress, and that all challenges to the TSA had to be brought before the US Circuit Court instead.

Jesse Ventura then launched into an intense denunciation of the Court and the United States government as a whole, declaring he would never fly commercial again, and apply for citizenship in Mexico.

Of course I don't have all the behind-the-scenes dirt on this story, but one aspect of this strikes me as off-kilter: Why didn't Ventura's lawyer(s) know that they were filing an action against a federal agency in the wrong court? While I agree in principle with Ventura, that he should have had his day in federal district court, the judge in this case didn't say an action could not be brought against the TSA at the circuit level, nor did the judge rule in any way on the merits of the case. So, Ventura, could continue the fight if he so chose, but either because of money, hubris, or bad advice he appears to be choosing not to do so. And for now, I prefer to assume that Ventura is not pursuing the case because of money.

But this all doesn't get the District Court completely off the hook. And by that I mean that there is a long long history of activist judges ignoring the will of Congress and going their own way when rendering judgement. So in this case, the will of Congress must be obeyed, even if it means denying an aggrieved private citizen due process (from a certain point of view). Why is Congressional will suddenly sacrosanct by a liberal judge appointed to her current bench by Barack Obama? Why indeed.

My speculation is that the will of Congress is sacrosanct here because it conveniently obstructs justice. That the courts, and many Congressmen, well understand that the Fourth Amendment is being routinely violated by the federal government at airports around the country. In the interests of the extraordinary and continuous threat by the forces of darkness, they are down with federal agents copping a feel of our "junk". They just don't want to be put in the position of having to say so. Therefore, stalling and obfuscation of legal action against the defacto suspension of the Fourth Amendment by, of, and for the government is the unspoken order of the day.

And let us not forget something here - the imperative of checking said 'junk' of millions of men, women, and children traveling by air at domestic airports was to thwart terrorists from boarding planes with bombs attached to their 'junk'. There has not been one solitary incident of a diaper bomber on board a domestic flight. Millions have been groped, and not a single domestic incident. Not one. So does the FEAR warrant old ladies, kids, and people with metal hips getting their junk checked? A very sad significant number of people say 'yes'. I steadfastly say NO. Another point not to forget - the TSA knows that would-be terrorists can plant explosives in a body cavity, and the TSA has nothing in their arsenal of intrusive searches that can detect a bomb hidden thusly.

Jesse Ventura's refusal to fly commercial is on the right track, but sadly there is not enough organic outcry from the unclean masses to begin an 'occupy' campaign at our airports. So, from the mostly leftist Occupier view point, it's ok for agents to touch junk (more ok for some than others apparently), as long as they don't make a profit while doing so.

I have said before, and I'll say it again, the only effective way to neutralize these humiliatingly invasive searches is to refuse to fly. Economics hurts more than anything else, including mayhem. If nobody flies, the TSA will initially offer defiant resistance, and then collapse.

So Jesse, if your listening (yeah I know you're not but...), you have the media muscle to stage an Occupy style love-in at an airport of your choosing in protest of these unconstitutional searches. So rather than thumbing your nose at your fellow Americans, and flying south for the legal winter.....occupy an airport near you.

I'd love to see it.

TSA Dumb, Traveler Dumber

2011-10-26T00:55:23Z

Going viral yesterday was an article about a woman who discovered a note scrawled on a TSA search form in her luggage. A suspicious object was observed in the suitcase, you see. An object with batteries, wires, a motor stuffed inside a tube. It was the woman's mechanical companion, and it was accompanying it's master to Ireland.

The as yet unidentified TSA screener was apparently delighted with the discovery of the animatronic device, and scrawled a somewhat rude phrase of encouragement...more or less.

The traveler, apparently being not bashful about her traveling companion, tweeted about the note she got in her luggage. After that, it was only a matter of time before the news landed on Drudge's website, and hundreds of millions of people learned that Jill Filipovic gets her groove on with electro-mechanical assistance. She seems ok with that, but personally, it's way too much info for me.

Anyway, it strikes me as kinda stupid to be traveling during these days of super intrusive searches with an item that could wind up being the source of huge embarrassment. It's also kinda stupid, and certainly unprofessional, for a TSA agent to abuse their position, and leave the comment that was left behind.

Of course, there are worse things that can happen to you while traveling...

Update: The TSA ferreted out the miscreant employee who left the note in Ms. Filipovic's luggage and took 'appropriate' disciplinary action (a group high-five perhaps?). Meantime, the Feminista blogger seems to tweet some regret at tweeting about it in the first place. I guess I am relieved to some extent, because heretofore I did not realize that feminists unabashedly whip out the dildo like Luke Skywalker his light saber to do battle with the dark forces like the TSA. Like I said - WAAAY too much info. Way.

A Few Words on the Passing of Steve Jobs

2011-10-09T05:24:35Z

Silicon Valley mourns the loss of a technology visionary, fond remembrances flood the internet, as well as in archaic print. This is all fitting and proper. If you believe in capitalism, and I do even in these troubled times, you have to respect a man who bought the digital rights to Pixar from George Lucas for $10 million, and in the geologic blink of an eye, turned around and sold the firm to Disney for $7 billion. Now that's impressive. Most impressive.

Let us also be honest here: Steve Jobs was a supreme asshole who harmed plenty of people in his relentless corporate pursuits. It is a bit of a curiosity isn't it - technology titans like Steve Jobs, Larry Ellison, and Bill Gates...all hugely successful, and all reported to be supreme assholes.

Even for a supreme asshole, it is a sad thing to see a man's life cut short.

Life marches on...

Fast Becoming Furious

2011-10-05T02:51:11Z

Here is a quick note on the latest not-so-terribly-surprising revelation from the Obama Administration: Our loathsome reverse racist Attorney General can't get his story straight on when and what he knew of the illegal gun-running program "Fast & Furious", which wound up getting border agents killed, and who knows how many more people died while the Obama Administration knowingly funneled guns to one or more Mexican drug cartels.

Press Secretary Becca Watkins, working for the Rep. Issa led House Oversight Committee said: "He's either incompetent or he's misleading Congress."

We beg to differ. It's both, my dear Watkins, it's both.

Meanwhile, over at CBS News, hardly a bastion of conservative news-making, a reporter complains about being "screamed" at by a White House official over her increasingly rare practicing of professional journalism. Such an outrage. How dare a reporter report, especially, on a hard left liberal administration. I suspect here the liberal news outlets are by now fully aware of just how gigantic a liability their darling President has become, and they are starting to turn on him in the hopes that by this time next year, he is either not running for re-election, or has suffered a historic Democratic convention nomination defeat.

Whenever you scratch just beneath the surface of the Obama Administration, the foulest of wafts always seems to follow.

PS. I hope this criticism doesn't land me a Hellfire missile in my lap. Frankly I'd rather just get screamed at by Obama officials in full-on panic mode as the dream of "hope and change" passes through their inept fingers. God-forbid the Justice Dept. led by the aforementioned A.G. Holder issues a 'white paper' giving Obama the OK to summarily execute this pesky blogger as a clear and present danger. Perhaps I should avoid traveling to foreign lands for the time being....

Anti-gun Elitists so Elite They Manage to Piss Off Anti-gunners

2011-09-29T05:12:28Z

There are many police officers who have a general disposition to oppose firearm ownership by the little people, or at least advocate severe restrictions. When talking about a major metropolitan city like New York, the hostility towards the little people owning guns, much less carrying them, ratchets up considerably.

Mayor Bloomberg is a famous irrational ignorant gun-hater. An elitist snob who would love to banish all guns from the hands of the little people, if he could get away with it. Therefore, it is no surprise that the City of New York would adopt a staggeringly stupid firearms policy for that special place in lower Manhattan known as the World Trade Center memorial.

Retired cops who have that elitist NY right to carry a concealed firearm are barred from entering that hallowed ground packing heat except on a scant few special days during the year. Yes, you read that correctly. Some days it's ok to pack heat, most days it isn't. Spectacularly stupid.

There is a lesson in here somewhere...that when you buy the anti-gun Koolaid as a member of the elite class of gun owners in an irrational anti-gun state like New York, you really shouldn't be surprised when the supreme snobs of the world eventually turn on you too.

That Same Old Grimy Feeling

2011-09-22T03:01:11Z

I am in another one of those situations where my 'real' job is all consuming, hence I haven't been posting here as often as I would like. I know I am supposed to be grateful I am gainfully employed, but what I am going through right now at work is ridiculous.

Anyway....

I remember well the depressing malaise of the late 70's. Stagflation, oil embargoes, Three Mile Island, and a sense of national impotence over the Iran Hostage Crisis. That same sense that things had gone horribly wrong is back. Jimmy Carter was the poster-child for ineffective governance back then, and today he has been usurped as the worst President in our modern age by President Obama, who is still tracking well to unseat James Buchanan as the all time worst.

All this is very sad, and the saddest part of all is that many millions of us foresaw this train-wreck, but couldn't quite shout down the press sponsored marketing/propaganda machine that pushed candidate Obama over the top. Sure we didn't know precisely how the train-wreck would unfold, but we knew two basic truths that would combine into a toxic mess: Barack Obama was wholly unqualified to be President of the United States - something he has now concretely demonstrated to the nation, as well as the world, and Barack Obama was a radical leftist.

So now we have had just shy of three years of pathetic ineptitude, of a leader functionally illiterate in economics, incapable of understanding and actively despising the engines of industry, determined to dish out American comeuppance on the world stage, and drag the people of the United States mostly kicking and screaming to the far left. People are wondering, just as they did back in the Carter days, if we are witnessing the historic decline and fall of the United States after a brief 235 years of existence. After all, the light that shines twice as bright burns half as long. So it is said.

Rubbish.

One of my favorite sayings, supposedly of ancient Turkish origins is: No matter how far down the wrong road you've traveled, just turn back.

We can turn the United States around. We are not living through the waning days of the United States, and the first step towards turning back is to vote Barack Obama, one of the most destructive Presidents in the history of the nation, out of office.