by John Semmens Senator Demands Media Take Harsher Stance toward Tea Party Arguing that Tea Party conservatives are “an impediment to the proper governance of this country,” Senator John Kerry (D-Mass) demanded the media stop “propping these nuts up.” “It’s one thing for Democrats and Republicans to have respectful disagreements over how much spending or [...]
Monthly Archives: August 2011
The Plunging Locomotive of Equality
Aug 5
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A few days ago, someone asked me whether any of the Republican presidential contenders could lead the country to salvation. My answer was an immediate and unequivocal no. This is not to disparage any of the contenders, who in normal times might very well be capable of steering the ship of state. But we now [...]
For Sale: One Super-Volcano; Going Once….
Aug 5
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As I perused the digests sent very conveniently to my email this morning, I came across yet another article from a strict constitutionalist with a list of tasks that should be accomplished to bring government spending in line. As usual with these sorts of articles, the idea of “selling all non-defense related government lands” was [...]
Mexico and Canada Beat U.S. Dead Horse Jobs
Aug 5
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$65 million worth of steaks, chops etc. used to be shipped to Europe and Asia from Illinois and Texas; today, that has been shut down and all the jobs are now performed in Mexico and Canada. Add to that, some 138,000 U.S. horses are shipped yearly to those places for slaughter. Government claims to want [...]
Cartooned Cops Try to Criminalize Spoofing Cartoonist
Police in Renton, WA don’t like the anonymous internet video cartoons they claim are spoofing them, though the cartoons don’t say. They’re pursuing search warrants to find the perpetrator, intending to arrest and prosecute him, her, it as a criminal. Cops Criminalizing Cartoonist explains.
Add this to the regular arrests and mistreatment of folks recording public police activity and one might begin to wonder whether the cops see themselves as above the law…
Then, and Now…(A Comparison…)
Aug 5
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THINGS WILL GET BETTER! PROSPERITY IS JUST AROUND THE CORNER! Barack Obama, a Progressive Democrat, has explained that he isn’t responsible for our depression, but he is going to fix it. His fix isn’t working. Herbert Hoover, a Progressive Republican, used spending and government programs to fix his depression. We know how that worked. There [...]
Paying Terrorists: Your Tax Dollars at Work
Some 5,500 convicted and alleged terrorists in Israeli jails are receiving their regular salaries from the Palestinian Authority, funded by U.S. aid money per Fox News: Jailed Palestininan Terrorists Paid Salaries Via U.S. Aid.
And U.S. Jews insist on voting for Democrats who do these sorts of things…guess they either have no relatives in Israel or they don’t like the ones they have there.
Gives you a warm feeling to know those poor Palestinians are cared for, right?
Average Taxpayer $3,500 a Year Poorer Since 2008
Aug 5
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If you’d like to know, one tenth of a percent of tax returns were filed by folks with income of a million dollars or more. And a bunch of them paid no income taxes. Look here: IRS Releases Taxpayer Data if you’d like to know more along those lines. What’s likely a lot more important: the [...]
Another-and Uundenible-Black Flash Mob Attack on Whites
Aug 5
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Yet another case of black kids gratuitously mobbing and attacking whites, a repetition of something that is beginning to resemble a trend. Black kids mob, beat white victims at Wisconsin State Fair Reporting of these events so far has strained to avoid noticing the racial content, holding off thereby any reasonable chance to understand and deal [...]
Dave’s Quote of the Day
“I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion of the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. In my youth I travelled much, and I observed in different countries, that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer.”
-Benjamin Franklin
Wait, What???
“When I said ‘change we can believe in,’ I didn’t say change we can believe in ‘tomorrow‘.” WTF?
Veep Junket Significance
Biden to Visit China, Mongolia and Japan is the story. The thoughtful among us will wonder what, in these parlous historical moments, will be the result of sending Jovial Joe the Dyslexic abroad?
Well, it gets him out of Washington, at the very least. Our staff analyst, Madame Hornswoggle-Lesbo predicts:
1. The three economies he is visiting, so far excluded from the Europe/U.S. financial failures, will after he departs them, come to join the line at the Economic E/R and
2. No matter how ardently expressed, privately whispered pleas that he be permanently detained abroad will fall on deaf ears and he will return to Washington.
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Mayor’s Excuse: I Was Drunk When I Signed
Mayor Drunk When He Signed Contracts was Hizzoner’s excuse when the contractor sued the city for his money. A former police officer and municipal judge, Hizzoner evidently thought he was just doing business as usual in New Mexico (not an unreasonable conclusion) and was surprised when the city wouldn’t pay the contractor because the City Council hadn’t signed off on the deal.
Maybe the contractor and the mayor, after their five hours of celebrating, each thought the other had “taken care” of the Councillors…
What are the odds President Obama will recycle the excuse when some of his deals hit the fan to hard to be lied about?
Birth Certificates Becoming Scarce in San Francisco?
Bagdad by the Bay outlawed the retail sale of pets and is pushing a ban on circumcision; now you can add a proposal from several city councilors to criminalize anti-abortion counseling centers’ advertising. You Must Abort or We’ll Take You to Court explains.
In short, nobody can point to any untruths in the ads; what the city is hysterical about is the high placement level the ads receive on Google. Any time someone searches under: “abortion” see, these paid ads pop up along with the abortion center ads selling baby-killing. In first place, even. If that isn’t a crime, the city is pursuing making it such…
What do you suppose is happening with the odds on being born in San Francisco?
An In-depth Analysis of Lieberman’s Cybersecurity Bill 2011: Giving Birth to Big Brother
An In-depth Analysis of Lieberman’s Cybersecurity Bill 2011: Giving Birth to Big Brother.
After reading the revamped Cyber Security Bill 2011 sponsored by Joe Lieberman (co-sponsored by Senators Rockefeller*, Snowe, Collins, Lieberman & Carper) , shock and anger quickly set in. While the nation has been watching endless news stories about our congressmen quibbling over a measly two trillion dollars, Senator Lieberman has been silently slipping the most treacherous, deceitful & manipulative bill ever created through the Senate. When Lieberman, chairman of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs (SCHSGA), first proposed the earlier version of the bill (Protecting Cyberspace as a National Asset Act of 2010, S.3480), critics slammed him and it for being too broad in scope and for including a ‘kill switch’ for the Internet- so reminiscent of Hosni Mubarak’s during the Egyptian uprising. Lieberman blithely brushed criticism aside, rejected the idea of a ‘kill switch’ and claimed that… continue reading…
Government Gets Local Milk Producers’ Goat
Big Dairy doesn’t want competition from little guys; it has leaned on the Feds (who appreciate political contributions it hands out) to go after small, local organic and raw goats’ milk producers whose businesses have been too successful. 3 Arrested On Raw Milk Charges tells the story.
Cheaper dairy products with more choice must be bad…
Happy Birthday, Dear Leader!
“Happy Birthday to ME, Happy Birthday to ME…”
Just in case you missed Life on Planet Obama or Class Divisions at Obama’s Birthday Bash, the above image says all that needs to be said – or more.
Case closed. Let the festivities begin. Don’t drink too much.
Farming too Cheap and Easy; Government to Help
The Federal regulators are taking over yet another traditionally state regulated area and as usual, will raise the costs of doing business to no good purpose. Proposed Road Rules for Farmers explauns.
Wheat farmers selling and delivering their wheat within the state haven’t come under the Fed’s reguations. Farmers operating farm equpment on public roads (to get from one field to another, for instance) haven’t been required to hold commercial drivers’s licenses and keep the logs, medical coverage etc. required of long haul truckers. Now, the Feds want to “correct” that, even though there’s no record of serious problems.
Perhaps wheat is too cheap…
Life on Planet Obama
Aug 2
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IN A PARALLEL UNIVERSE – FAR, FAR, AWAY… Obamanites Protesting the Racist Treatment of the President of the United States Okay, that’s not really what the image depicts, but you had to stop and think about it for a minute, didn’t you? Why? Because it doesn’t sound out of the realm of possibility, does it? Blind [...]
A Lack Of Confidence
Aug 2
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This is the key word regarding the present administration and Congress. Definition: noun 1) trust, reliance, 2) assurance. After weeks of what Washington calls debate, a debt ceiling bill was passed by Congress and signed by the President. Mr. Obama has gotten the trillions he wanted so he can keep spending money without regard for [...]
It’s Just Not That Hard
When you see the sad, sad debt deal that cuts only 2 trillion over the next 10 years (within which we will also borrow another 10 trillion), that has no guarantees to extend the Bush tax cuts and that doesn’t even touch the major causes for our debt crisis in the first place, do you just shake your head? When you see southern border states attempt to enact legislation to protect their borders from illegal & violent immigration (Mexican drug cartels) and watch the federal government (via the Justice Department) actually sue three of their own states rather than confront the foreign country that is causing the problem in the first place, do you get frustrated? When you watch our president needlessly causing unrest in the Middle East, the source of our cheap oil, by simply declaring that their leaders “must go”, forbidding domestic oil drilling & gas fracking via the Interior Department & EPA and encouraging Brazil to drill for oil in U.S.A. waters (with billions in American aid & American technology), in the middle of one of the worst recessions in our history, do you think you must have missed something?
If so, have hope. You are not losing your mind. read on for three simple solutions that will fix everything..
Tea Party Hysteria
Over the past several weeks we’ve been treated to a veritable cornucopia of immoderate rhetoric from the left, mainly aimed at the Tea party. Whichever side of the debt ceiling debate you fall on, it’s clear that as they lost ground in the battle, the left became shriller and shriller. The Tea party, we were told were hostage takers, waging Jihad, terrorists, extremists. The sameness of the rhetoric kinda got funny after a while as headline after headline popped up on RCP.com with robotic predictability. And all of this came months after the right was scourged by liberals and the media (but I repeat myself) for using “extreme” language. Remember that? It was after the Gabby Giffords shooting. Jonah Goldberg puts it far more eloquently than the Beast could: Read the rest of this entry
Half-Grown Woodpecker Cops Out Virginia Mom
Aug 2
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Woodpecker-Saving Daughter Costs Mom $500, Possible Jail Time is another compassionate government story from the kind folks that shut down kids’ lemonade stands, which is to say, government. Our young lady rescued a half-grown woodpecker from the cat in her father’s yard, carrying the caged bird into a store on the way back home to avoid [...]
Obama Sends ‘Best Wishes for Ramadan’ After Ignoring Easter
Prez also recognized Ramadan, Eid-ul-Fitr, Hajj, and Eid-ul-Adha in 2010
So, here we go again. The Obama White House has once again issued a “Best Wishes for Ramadan” statement. (In 2010, he not only recognized Ramadan, but Eid-ul-Fitr, Hajj, and Eid-ul-Adha as well.) In and of itself, this would normally be a non-story – particularly in light of the real goings-on in Washington these days. The problem, as many see it, is Obama failed to issue a similar statement acknowledging Easter, or wishing “Happy Easter” to the world’s Christians.
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Debt crisis manufactured by Obama
Aug 2
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The Obama administration and their socialist allies in Congress have officially run out of other peoples’ money; now, they want yours. Liberals believe that issues of income, wealth, and taxation are zero-sum games. If one keeps one’s own dollar, someone else is losing a dollar. Likewise, they conclude that for every dollar a productive American [...]
Fate Worse than Debt?
The debate seemed to be: Raise the Debt Ceiling or Don’t Raise the Debt Ceiling?
Really? How about: This Whole Thing Could have Been Easily Avoided If We Stopped Buying DEBT! Pay it down. Zero Debt NOW. Mandate: All pork barrel spending automatically goes toward the debt until its Gone.
Step One: Last Years Revenues? THAT’s your baseline budget. No more legislating dollar amount spending:The NEW deal is a percentage of Last Years Revenue. Shave off -I dunno- 20%? off the top for the debt. The other 80% is what congress has to work with. The amount is decided, only how big of a slice goes where is left to decide. End of story, Morning Glory.
Atheist Hate For Christianity
Aug 1
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The belief that there is no God defines an atheist. In wanting to understand why atheist are so anti-religion and specifically anti-Christian, it seems this statement has some bearing on the question. It is more than a disbelief in God but belief system that God does not exist. From reading atheist literature it appears their [...]
Washington Math: We’re Going to ‘Cut the Debt’ by Only Adding $7 Trillion Instead of $10 Trillion!
Aug 1
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IS IT SAFE TO BELIEVE ANY OF THESE PEOPLE ANYMORE? I’m seriously thinking about giving up this whole political blogger thing and retiring to the Food Channel, where my biggest concern will be worrying about whether or not the right chef got chopped. Egos abound there as well, but at least I won’t be watching [...]
After 3 Years of an Automaton, I Sure Miss George Bush’s Humanism
After 3 Years of an Automaton, I Sure Miss George Bush’s Humanism.
Having watched Obama’s robot routine for almost three years, watching our good ol’ George’s all too human foibles made me downright nostalgic! We need another human in office- I do love the way Herman Cain laughs…
TEA Party Dilemma
Aug 1
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Here we are the day after a historic and more than a little potentially disastrous government finance deal in Congress. In the entire fiasco, the TEA Party took it on the chin from the political establishment. Seriously. The sad thing is, from a broad perspective, the TEA Party is the one faction in American politics [...]
When Will Black America Wise Up?
Aug 1
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TERRORIST PRESIDENTS AND U.S. KILLING MACHINES In a recent article entitled SC Governor Refuses to Unfurl Confederate Flag, I suggested that the NAACP cease and desist with its ridiculous carping about the battle flag of the Confederacy. We’ve all seen that tired old dance dozens of times, and frankly, it makes this thin-skinned organization look [...]
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