It ain't Sunday no more

Which means that I'm going to expound upon this vile piece of excrement.

Thanks for posting about the CPSIA. Garage Sale police aren’t the only insane parts of this law… I make and sell small stuffed teething giraffes for babies (or anyone else cutting a tooth). My giraffes are made from 100% cotton fabric, stuffing made from a synthetic fiber made from corn, and thread. That’s it. Nothing toxic about that, right? Well, according to the law, I have to lead test each batch of giraffes I make. I make them in batches of 10-12 because I’m a small time producer (and I get bored easily). That’s about $300-500 per batch. BUT I also have to test them for a plastic additive called Phthalates because the item is intended to go in a baby’s mouth. Never mind the fact that there is nothing plastic in any of the materials I use to make my giraffes. That’s about $800-1200 per batch. Now you’re talking a pretty expensive teething toy.

This craptastic law, passed by a criminally stupid Congress, is actually going to start attacking small businesses and garage sales.

The initiative, which targets toys and other products for children, enforces a new provision that makes it a crime to resell anything that’s been recalled by its manufacturer. …

The crackdown affects sellers ranging from major thrift-store operators such as Goodwill and the Salvation Army to everyday Americans cleaning out their attics for yard sales, church bazaars or — increasingly — digital hawking on eBay, Craigslist and other Web sites.

Secondhand sellers now must keep abreast of recalls for thousands of products, some of them stretching back more than a decade, to stay within the bounds of the law.

Ladies and Gentlemen, this vile intrusion into our lives is reason enough to impeach each and every worthless piece of crap who voted for it. End of story. At this point every law that is being written must be assumed to put even MORE control of our daily lives into the hands of the ever-more expanding government. Every bill passed must be assumed to put more of our daily lives under the purview of a group of people who are so greedy, so corrupt, so incompetent, and so stupid that they cannot be trusted with anything sharper than children's scissors.

Now let’s just take a minute and think about our elected officials, be they democrat, rino, or pretty much anyone other than Ron Paul, who has his own set of problems anyway. Some senators can’t manage to drive across a bridge without killing someone. Others think their staff sent them an internet. Bluntly put, congressmen and senators are too busy diddling page boys, evading their taxes, drowning their workers, going out with mistresses, explaining that barrel shrouds are shoulder things that go up, and generally demonstrating as frequently as possible that between all 535 of them you could find more intelligence and general competence (in ANY field other than getting elected) in a lightly stunned ground squirrel.

Oh by the way, have you seen THIS?

WASHINGTON – Millions of older people face shrinking Social Security checks next year, the first time in a generation that payments would not rise.

Remember when President Bush mentioned privatizing Social Security, and all the Democrat American Communist Party went "ZOMG YOU WANT TO KILL OLD PEOPLE!" Well, now that system is FUCKING COMPLETELY BROKEN, and yet the Leftoids want us to spend TRILLIONS of dollars more on a health care system that any objective look around the world will tell you DOES NOT WORK.

It's like we're living in bizarro world, watching these idiots destroy our country while we watch. And thanks to the brain-dead fucktards who keep voting for the jackasses, there's nothing the sane adults can do about it. We are watching the mentally retarded children controlling this country straight into hell, and the one thought going through my mind right now is "Well, maybe if we shoot enough of them........"

Oh, is that a little too harsh for your taste? Did some of my readers just recoil a little bit and say "Dave, that's over the line!"?

Huh.

I asked, "Well what is going to happen to those people we can't reeducate, that are diehard capitalists?" And the reply was that they'd have to be eliminated.

And when I pursued this further, they estimated they would have to eliminate 25 million people in these reeducation centers.

And when I say "eliminate," I mean "kill."

Twenty-five million people.

I want you to imagine sitting in a room with 25 people, most of which have graduate degrees, from Columbia and other well-known educational centers, and hear them figuring out the logistics for the elimination of 25 million people and they were dead serious.

Don't think for one second that Obama and his terrorist buddies wouldn't throw your capitalist ass into a "re-education center" if they had the power to do so. They want to do so. They've expressed their desire to do so. And I am just plain DONE being nice to anti-American fuckheads like that. Let's call them what they are, and treat them as such - mortal enemies of this country and the freedoms that we enjoy.

Blah. I need to go to the range again, and soon.

It's Sunday

I want to be pleasant, I really do. So maybe I'll comment on this tomorrow.

Until then I'm just going to say this - right now, at this point in time, every single congresscritter needs to be removed. Every. Last. One.

I've got major wood!

Applewood, that is. A friend of ours had to cut down two apple trees that were old and falling down, and presented a hazard to their kids. They know that I love to use apple in my smoker, so they offered to let me have all the wood.

Now I've got a trailer full of applewood, and I need to find a place to stack it. But oooooooo, the ribs are gonna be TASTY, baby!

Back Home, Back Home!

Back home where I belong!

(and I'm going to bet that all you Army folks out there are now humming that cadence under your breath.)

Yes, I'm back at home once again. Sleeping in my own bed is a marvelous thing.

An honor student is scared for life because she converted to Christianity

Obama has Death Panels for Veterans at the VA

JIM TOWEY at WSJ reports Ex-soldiers don't need to be told they're a burden to society.

If President Obama wants to better understand why America's discomfort with end-of-life discussions threatens to derail his health-care reform, he might begin with his own Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). He will quickly discover how government bureaucrats are greasing the slippery slope that can start with cost containment but quickly become a systematic denial of care.

Last year, bureaucrats at the VA's National Center for Ethics in Health Care advocated a 52-page end-of-life planning document, "Your Life, Your Choices." It was first published in 1997 and later promoted as the VA's preferred living will throughout its vast network of hospitals and nursing homes. After the Bush White House took a look at how this document was treating complex health and moral issues, the VA suspended its use. Unfortunately, under President Obama, the VA has now resuscitated "Your Life, Your Choices."

Who is the primary author of this workbook? Dr. Robert Pearlman, chief of ethics evaluation for the center, a man who in 1996 advocated for physician-assisted suicide in Vacco v. Quill before the U.S. Supreme Court and is known for his support of health-care rationing.

"Your Life, Your Choices" presents end-of-life choices in a way aimed at steering users toward predetermined conclusions, much like a political "push poll." For example, a worksheet on page 21 lists various scenarios and asks users to then decide whether their own life would be "not worth living."

The circumstances listed include ones common among the elderly and disabled: living in a nursing home, being in a wheelchair and not being able to "shake the blues." There is a section which provocatively asks, "Have you ever heard anyone say, 'If I'm a vegetable, pull the plug'?" There also are guilt-inducing scenarios such as "I can no longer contribute to my family's well being," "I am a severe financial burden on my family" and that the vet's situation "causes severe emotional burden for my family."

One can only imagine a soldier surviving the war in Iraq and returning without all of his limbs only to encounter a veteran's health-care system that seems intent on his surrender.

I was not surprised to learn that the VA panel of experts that sought to update "Your Life, Your Choices" between 2007-2008 did not include any representatives of faith groups or disability rights advocates. And as you might guess, only one organization was listed in the new version as a resource on advance directives: the Hemlock Society (now euphemistically known as "Compassion and Choices").

This hurry-up-and-die message is clear and unconscionable. Worse, a July 2009 VA directive instructs its primary care physicians to raise advance care planning with all VA patients and to refer them to "Your Life, Your Choices." Not just those of advanced age and debilitated condition — all patients.

Oh... those Death Panels... that Barack Hussein Obama funded billions in research dollars to enrich Tom Daschle(D) to develop. I could have done it for a bit less given the VA model to work from.

On Glenn Beck's comment

Which I just read about here, after I saw it mentioned here.

The rest of Beck’s comment, asserting that Obama has “deep-seated hatred for white people of the white culture,” should be easy for the President’s defenders to disprove. All they have to do is cite one positive thing Obama has said or written about white culture. Anywhere. Ever. Hopefully they can get back to us before GMAC needs another taxpayer bailout, to address the self-inflicted financial damage from its participation in the boycott. I wouldn’t recommend wasting any time going through Obama’s university compositions, assuming you can find where they’re buried, and get past the three-headed guard dog. He graduated from Columbia and Harvard, where “deep-seated hatred for white people of the white culture” is written in green on your thesis when the professor hands it back to you, along with “excellent sentence composition!” and “good use of original sources!”

There’s no question that Beck’s comment was provocative and rude. If you happen to be in a room with Glenn Beck at the moment, and you’re reading this to him out loud, he probably just shouted “Exactly!” Political and cultural debates always feature provocation and rude behavior. The American media occasionally becomes very prim about this. Strangely enough, these occasions always coincide with the election of a Democrat President. The same people puckering their lips over the heated tone of Beck’s assertions, Sarah Palin’s “death panel” commentary, or the behavior of town-hall protesters, thought the temperature was just peachy when liberals were openly fantasizing about assassinating President Bush. The average liberal couldn’t order a burger and fries at McDonald’s without informing the cashier that Bush was a subhuman cowboy moron.

Hey, here's an idea: Maybe the reason Beck thinks that Obama is a racist is because Obama sat in a church listening to "GOD DAMN AMERIKKKA!" and "WHITEY INVENTED CRACK TO KILL THE BLACK MAN!" for oh, twenty years. I know, crazy right? It's almost like twenty years of past behavior is enough to accurately predict future actions!

Oh, and I read in the news today that Bawney Fwank threw a bitchy little fit at some person who brought a poster of Obama with a Hitler mustache to a town hall meeting.

"On what planet do you spend most of your time?" Frank asked the woman, who had stepped up to the podium at a southeastern Massachusetts senior center to ask why Frank supports what she called a Nazi policy.

"Ma'am, trying to have a conversation with you would be like trying to argue with a dining room table. I have no interest in doing it," Frank replied.

He continued by saying her ability to deface an image of the president and express her views "is a tribute to the First Amendment that this kind of vile, contemptible nonsense is so freely propagated."

Hey Fwank, you hypocritical, ball-gargling, pasty-faced fucking bitch - where the hell have you been for the past eight years, you worthless damned piece of crap? Oh, that's right, you were using Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to drive the US mortgage market into the ground. You must not have been available to see YOUR SUPPORTERS calling Bush a Nazi, or calling him "BusHitler", or waving flags with swastikas instead of stars, or blaming the Jews for everything under the sun andohbythewaybushishitler. Either that, or you're just another slimy, two-faced fucking dirtbag who deserves to be tarred, feathered, and ridden out of town on a rail. Or rotting in a jail cell for the rest of your miserable life. You know what? Either option would make me quite happy.

In fact, the thought of Bawney Fwank tarred, feathered, and tossed in a jail cell is enough to make me smile for the next five minutes.

Oh, and just in case you needed a reminder - Democrats lie. It's what they do. It's who they are. They cannot win on their ideals, so they must lie. And lie. And lie.

Did you think that I call the Left domestic enemies of the Constitution just as a bit of hyperbole? Oh hell no. I'm being serious.

Favre signs with Minnesota Vikings

I'm sure that there are some Packer fans who will shrug and say, "Oh well, he's going into the Hall of Fame as a Packer, so no biggie."

They are in the minority, folks. Brett Favre could have been discovered eating babies in Green Bay, and the fans would have still forgiven him so long as he had stayed retired. But going to a rival team in the NFC North is the unforgivable sin, and there will be hell to pay when Favre and the Vikings come to Green Bay.

So congratulations, Favre. You've gone from a god-like hero in Green Bay to the one person that Packer fans would be happy to see torn into pieces and buried in dog shit. I hope your massive ego is stroked enough. Yeah, Favre will go into the HoF as a Packer, but he'll now have actual Packer fans pushing against that. Football is bigger than life in Wisconsin, and if Favre had any sense in his damn fool head, he would have remembered that.

I personally think that Favre will make the Vikings better, if only for the fact that teams now have to worry about more than Adrian Peterson. The Viks will win the NFC North, and make a big push into the playoffs. But I'm going to be rooting against him, because you can do a lot, but you never, EVER stab your fans in the back. And as far as Packer fans go, that's exactly what Favre has done.

What the f**k is wrong at NRO?

I'm one of the folks who subscribe to National Review on dead tree, but I'm really, really thinking about canceling my subscription at this point. Because at this time, most of what I see coming out of National Review is elitists who have fallen into the same attitude that the Democrat American Communist Party has - that Sarah Palin is somehow less of a conservative, or is somehow WRONG, because she's not some rich, snobbish, inside the beltway asshole. Case in point - NRO's editorial on Palin's "Death Panels" remark.

To conclude from these possibilities to the accusation that President Obama’s favored legislation will lead to “death panels” deciding whose life has sufficient value to be saved — let alone that Obama desires this outcome — is to leap across a logical canyon. It may well be that in a society as litigious as ours, government will err on the side of spending more rather than treating less. But that does not mean that there is nothing to worry about. Our response to Sarah Palin’s fans and her critics is to paraphrase Peter Viereck: We should be against hysteria — including hysteria about hysteria.

Let me ask a question - just why the hell do you think the "Death Panel" terminology was removed from the bill? Was it because the snobs at NRO talked Congress out of it? No, it was because Sarah Palin connected with the conservatives out there. Because she took a concept and boiled it down to it's base level, and the real conservatives took that and ran with it. Did I really think that there would be panels of people going thumbs up or thumbs down on whether granny got to live? No. But I do believe that had that language on "end of life" counseling remained in that bill, a government bean-counter would be deciding just how much the government would spend to keep granny alive. And in the end, it amounts to the same thing - care being withheld.

NRO needs to either pull their heads out of their collective ass, or they need to get the hell out of the way.

COR and Wall Street

As I have been pounding on the Healthcare takeover I have grown ever more frustrated that no pundits are discussing one of the truly serious issues facing our country if the (D)emocrat/Socialists conquer.

COR, is the ratio of claims paid to premiums collected and industry wide it runs about 1.02, or $1.02 in claims & administrative costs are paid out for every premium $1 collected. Efficient insurance companies dodge the burdensome state level regulation by staying close to this ratio and thereby expand their book of business by spreading the risk over ever more policy-holders through good underwriting practices.

So you say... No. No Insurance company is going to run at a loss. But they do. Why? Well... Billions of premium dollars flow in and the lag time between the payment of those premiums and the coverage of claims provides a float to the Insurance industry making them the largest capital investment source in America at... yes... 2%.

Wouldn't you borrow money at 2% if you could for reinvestment?

Now. Take a deep breath and let it sink in. Has the light bulb gone off yet?

What happens if the (D)emocrat's National Socialization project takes over the Health Insurance industry? What happens to all that capital?

It goes away.

Without those dollars what happens to the Stock Market?

It goes down. Way down.

What about the credit markets? Remember the last panic that justified the stampede that rationalized the 3/4 Trillion in TARP dollars, and the 1/2 Trillion dollar government spending expansion, and the 1 Trillion dollar stimulus? What will happen when the dollars behind 20% of the entire American economy are no longer available for capital investment in American business?

End game.

Cross Posted at DANEgerus

Culture of Death

Mark Alger has found this wonderful article that I think needs to be spread around as much as possible.

The American people know that the same people who wanted to pull the tube from Terri Schiavo want to be trusted not to pull the plug on grandma. Which is why they are appropriately skeptical of any hint that Obamacare would leave any power in federal hands to make those decisions. Four years ago, the Left was proud of its stance on withdrawing not just medical care but food and water itself from Terri Schiavo. That was their choice. If the price to be paid is a public in need of assurance that President Obama and his plan don’t share those values and won’t encourage the same thing, well, choices have consequences, and the voiceless dead can still haunt us in ways we had never foreseen.

The Democrats are the Party of Death, like it or not. It was the Democrats who demanded that Terry Shiavo die. It is the Democrats who insist that killing an unborn child for the convenience of the mother is somehow constitutional. It is the Democrats who talk about assisted suicide and euthanasia as somehow being fine and dandy.

Do we really want them creating a healthcare bill? Would you stake your life on it? How about the life of your parents?

What about the life of your children?

Heading Out

Yep, once again I sally forth to wage... well.... Um......

Ah hell - I'm going TDY yet again. Maybe I'll have internet, maybe not. We'll see when I get there.

Health Care Reform, if you can call it that.

O.K. We did a Minneapolis run yesterday and so we got to listen to talk radio. Gotta love Rush...

He was plugging away at the Heritage Foundation, where I founds some absolute beauties. I would suggest checking out this site.

Here is the Conclusion of "A Federal Health Insurance Exchange Combined with a Public Plan: The House and Senate Bills"

President Obama and the congressional leadership are intent on creating a national health insurance exchange. In its various legislative forms, their version of the health insurance exchange is a powerful regulatory agency; it is not merely an administrative agency to facilitate enrollment and to promote choice and anything remotely approaching free-market competition.

In many respects, the national health insurance exchange resembles a solution in search of a problem. If the President or Congress wanted to create a national health insurance market, they would not need to create a national health insurance exchange--they would merely have to repeal existing federal barriers to insurers competing across state lines. If the President and Congress wanted to fix the inequities of the federal tax law, a key rationale for creating a health insurance exchange at the state level, all they would have to do is to reform the federal tax laws governing health insurance and end the practice of discriminating against those who cannot or do not get health insurance through their place of work.

If the objective of the President and Congress is to expand the role of the federal government in providing health insurance and determining the kind of health insurance that Americans will get, the national health insurance exchange is a convenient tool for that federal expansion and control. It would be tantamount to a national arena for the public plan to undercut private health plans and erode existing private health coverage.

There is little doubt that a national health insurance exchange, combined with a public plan, can achieve that policy objective. But there is also little doubt that such an objective is not what most Americans had in mind when they embraced the cause of comprehensive health reform.

Robert E. Moffit, Ph.D., is Director of the Center for Health Policy Studies at The Heritage Foundation.

Hmmmmm.....

Sarah Palin on Facebook. (link via Gateway Pundit)

As I noted in my statement last week, nationalized health care inevitably leads to rationing. There is simply no way to cover everyone and hold down the costs at the same time. The rationing system proposed by one of President Obama’s key health care advisors is particularly disturbing. I’m speaking of the “Complete Lives System” advocated by Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, the brother of the president’s chief of staff. President Obama has not yet stated any opposition to the “Complete Lives System,” a system which, if enacted, would refuse to allocate medical resources to the elderly, the infirm, and the disabled who have less economic potential. [1] Why the silence from the president on this aspect of his nationalization of health care? Does he agree with the “Complete Lives System”? If not, then why is Dr. Emanuel his policy advisor? What is he advising the president on? I just learned that Dr. Emanuel is now distancing himself from his own work and claiming that his “thinking has evolved” on the question of rationing care to benefit the strong and deny the weak. [2] How convenient that he disavowed his own work only after the nature of his scholarship was revealed to the public at large.

All emphasis in the original. Now, I've heard some folks say that the term "Death Panel" is a bit too much hyperbole for them to swallow. OK, fine, what would those folks call it?

And it was only after Palin started speaking about "Death Panels" that the language was removed from the bill. Call it by whatever name you want, it was a section that would have given the government power to control live and death medical decisions. And that, my friends is flat out wrong. If it took over-the-top hyperbole to get it removed, so be it.

Michael Vick signs with Eagles

Story here. I might just get nuked here, but.....

Michael Vick got hammered for what he did. You think he didn't? He went from the richest contract in NFL history to bankruptcy. He was literally toast. I don't know if in his heart of hearts he's a changed man. But I guarantee that he won't be doing any more dogfights.

He earned his punishment and he's served his time. People have gotten less punishment for murdering a human. I say let him play.

Are you sick of hearing about socialized health care?

Too bad. This is quite possibly the most important thing we face, because if the Democrat American Communist Party gets their way your parents could be laying in a hospital bed being denied treatment because it's too expensive for the all-powerful Nanny Government to pay for.

This is not a joke. When your parents are gasping for breath as the government doctor says "Sorry, we can't help you, your parents are just going to die because we won't pay for their treatment." what are you going to do? Where are you going to turn? THERE IS NOWHERE ELSE FOR US TO GO. When YOU are lying on a hospital bed struggling to live, and the government somewhere makes the decision that saving your life isn't cost effective.... what are you going to do?



This is a video posted by Kevin Baker. Watch it. Listen as the Leftists who are right now pushing for socialized health care talk about their plans IN THE OPEN.

It. Must. Be. Stopped.

Who's the Nazi?

Found this over on the right sidebar at Michelle Malkin - it's an NRO piece, wherein someone has compared Bush and Obama's stimulus to the stimulus of Nazi Germany.

Go read. It's a fascinating piece.

And it brings to mind something I read from Jonah Goldberg years and years ago, back in the late 90's, when Goldberg was confronting someone shouting "NAZI!" at him. "So, other than that whole pushing Jews into gas chambers, exactly what part of the Nazi platform do you disagree with?"

The Murtha Airport

I found this not at all shocking yet completely despicable.

There are times

When a good run is better than any laxative in the world. Just so ya know.

HOOAH!

DAMN RIGHT! YOU'RE G-D DAMNED RIGHT!

WEST POINT, N.Y. (Army News Service, Aug. 7, 200) - A report released Wednesday by Forbes magazine ranked the U.S. Military Academy as the top college in the country in their America's Best College review.

Now, I also happen to think that West Point graduates are a bunch of prissy, know it all, dumb-ass pieces of excrement who need to just shut their ignorant damn mouths unless they're asked a question by their Platoon Sergeant.

But I still consider a West Pointer to be head and shoulders above any other collage graduate. That should only let you know what I think about someone from say.... Harvard. As far as I'm concerned, a Harvard Graduate is only fit to scrape the dog shit off of my shoes, and that's if he's been a good child and kept his head down.

Found via RNS.

Republicans now more trusted on Health Care than Democrats

Which is amazing, if you ask me. Given the fact that the Republican Stupid Party has managed to do nothing more in the past month than just shut up and stop shooting themselves in the foot. Have they managed to make the case against socialized health care? No, ordinary people have done that. Have they managed to speak out against Obama's disastrous legislation? No, ordinary people did that. Have they managed to separate themselves one single bit from their Democrat American Communist Party congressfellows? Nope. They're still nothing more than Democrat American Communist Party Lite. The party of "Me too, only not as much!"

And yet Obama and his takeover of the health care system are still failing. Just what does that say about it, hmmmmm?

Les Paul, RIP

If you listen to guitar music today, you're listening to the legacy of Les Paul. He died today at the age of 94.

The Gibson Les Paul is a guitar icon. I've had a chance to strum a few of the older versions, and they still sound better than most the guitars on the market today.

If you want to fight back

You first must understand how the Leftist bastards are going to fight. Such as planting their thugs at town hall events. "OH! OH! LOOK AT THOSE RETHUGLICANS CALLING OBAMA HITLER!"

Right. Ready made for the Democrat American Communist Party propaganda machine to pick up and run with. Gosh, I wonder how that happened?

H.R.45 - Blair Holt's Firearm Licensing and Record of Sale Act of 2009

I do not know how far this bill has gotten. But, we should all be afraid that it has even been introduced! If you have any information on this please update me.

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‘(A) with respect to a qualifying firearm that is acquired by the person before the date of the enactment of Blair Holt’s Firearm Licensing and Record of Sale Act of 2009, 2 years after such date of enactment; and‘(B) with respect to a qualifying firearm that is acquired by the person on or after the date of the enactment of Blair Holt’s Firearm Licensing and Record of Sale Act of 2009, 1 year after such date of enactment.’.CommentsClose CommentsPermalink

The "OH HELL YES" quote of the day

Made by GrumpyOldFart at The Smallest Minority.

Since Mark is making all these declarations about what the Republican base must obviously believe, let's examine the actions of the Democrat base and see what they must obviously believe.

Let's start with what they know. As always, the right will be held to a higher standard than the left, so I'll limit myself to things that "I didn't know _________!" on a given subject would be as absurd as saying, "I didn't know professional wrestling was fake!"

1. They know that their party's House Financial Services Committee Chairman, House Appropriations Defense Subcommittee Chairman, House Speaker, Senate Banking, Housing & Urban Affairs Chairman, Senate Rules Committee Chairman, are all flat-out crooks, and make very little attempt to hide it.

2. They know that one of their primary fundraising organizations is wholly owned by a multibillionaire who makes no attempt to hide the fact that he manipulates the organization, and thus Democrat Party policy, for his own purposes.

3. They know that that one of their primary "activist" organizations is under indictment for voter registration fraud in a dozen states, and that this same organization is going to be given quite a bit of authority over the census, which determines what? Oh, just unimportant things like Congressional districting, electoral votes, stuff like that.

4. They know their party's current leader chose someone as Attorney General who declines to prosecute people caught on video engaging in blatant voter intimidation. Whether it's because the thugs in question were his same party or his same ethnicity is immaterial, it's quite obvious that the AG has neither the desire nor any intention of impartially enforcing the law. They also know this same leader nominated a Supreme Court Justice who demanded a case be judged on the race of those involved rather than on its merits.

5. They know that nothing the aforementioned leader says can be taken at face value. Nothing. I was before Single Payer before I was against it, the stimulus was not intended as a stimulus, you can start blaming me for the economy right now but it's your mess, there will be no lobbyists in my administration except for almost the entirety of my cabinet, it's time to embrace science rather than superstition even though my "science czar" is a eugenicist, everything will be discussed on C-SPAN and there will be a full debate and five full days for the American people to see the bill cos it's all about transparency (although the Republicans will be locked out of most of the process, I'll refuse FOIA requests, and I'll insist that the bills are too important to actually read them before I demand your unequivocal support), we must have a full and open debate on the issues while my senior advisor unleashes union thugs on my opponents, we have to get clear of the lies, disinformation, misinformation and distraction even though I'm pressuring the CBO to fudge their figures when they disagree with me....

...I could go on, but you see the point.

6. They know that this same leader produced more deficit in six months than every other President combined in the entire history of the Republic, all while preaching fiscal responsibility.

Okay, that's the highlights of what the Democrat base pretty much cannot help but know. And yet what quality, more than any other single factor, defines the difference between Republicans and Democrats? It is this:

When Republicans find out one of their leaders is making no real attempt to "walk the walk" (Ted Stevens is a good example) the base calls for him to be thrown out.

When Democrats find out one of their leaders is making no real attempt to "walk the walk" (Pelosi, Frank, Dodd, Murtha, Jackson, Rangel, Waters... sheesh, pick one) the base either defends him by demonizing his/her critics or says "So what?" and ignores it.

I'll do links if you ask, but this is already very long and 5 seconds on google will provide you all you want.

What conclusions can we draw from this? There are really only two choices:
Either

a) The Democrat base fully shares the corrupt, "it's all about my power, my perks, screw everybody who gets in the way, I don't give a shit if it's legal or not" mindset of the leaders they choose, or

b) The Democrat base considers ethics, honesty and the rule of law at best indifferent if not actually destructive to the process of good government.

I'm going to email that to a few Leftist co-workers of mine who've been accusing the right of lying about socialized health care.

And since I'm stealing links

*snort*

I'd ask someone to email this to the Botoxed Bimbo from San Fransicko, but it wouldn't have any effect on the communist clusterfuck.

I feel like a kid again

Obama sez: I have not said I'm a supporter of single payer healthcare.

I say, along with Claire: LIAR LIAR PANTS ON FIRE!

Is he really that fucking dumb? Or is he so used to the lapdog media covering his every mistake that he thinks he can say what he wants and get away with it?

Riddle me this

If conservative protesters are "Astroturfing" as one mental midget from Nevada likes to claim, then where the hell is our filthy lucre from the drug companies? Where the hell are those millions of dollars from wealthy individuals?

Has any Republican Congresscritter called these pieces of shit on their hypocrisy yet?

Here, try this out

Tamara has an observation about the experience of shooting at Camp Perry, the gist of which is this - there are a lot of friendly people out there in the shooting world.

Just show up for a match in your street clothes with no gear, and folks will come up to you and ask "Do you need a spotting scope? A mat? A gun? Want some pointers?" For this to happen at Camp fricken' Perry is like showing up in the stands at Wimbledon and having Serena Williams or Andre Agassi walk up and ask "Do you want to play? Do you need a racket? I can let you borrow one..."

The one thing that I have found at shooting ranges, no matter when or where, is that most folks are as friendly as you could possibly imagine. When the step-son and I were at the range, there was a gentleman there who was kindly offering actual advice as well as his various firearms for the both of us. I got a chance to try out a .44 Mag, a 545 Casul, and a Desert Eagle. When I was shooting up in the Seattle area, there were plenty of people willing to swap advice, stories, and chances to shoot their guns.

Shooting is a brotherhood. I know it sounds cheesy, but it's true.

Random Thoughts

It's probably a good thing that I'm not near any Town Hall events right now, because given the liberal tendencies of the people of Wisconsin, I'd most likely have a front row seat to union thuggery. And being who I am, there's no way in hell I could watch union goons beat people and rip signs out of people's hands without stomping a mudhole in their ass.

And then I would have to explain to my boss why he was bailing me out of jail. Not good.

Gah.

My dog has COPD

And we don't know why. Now keep in mind that this poor hound started out her life in a frat house at the University of Washington, so there's no telling just how much dope this dog was forced to smoke as a puppy. And her second owners we don't know much about, but we have an inkling that the husband was abusive.

But with all that said, we've kept her healthy. She used to run with me until we noticed she couldn't keep up any more. The vet kept saying she was healthy, but that her joints just couldn't hold up. OK, well, walks are good as well. And then we moved, and things seemed to improve. But a while ago the Mrs. gave her a vaccination for Kennel Cough, and that's when everything went downhill. It started off as light coughing, and just kept getting worse, until last week the poor dog was hacking for ten minutes straight, and I watched a friggin' BUBBLE two inches across come flying out of her mouth and float away.

Vet time.

So since we've moved, we're at a new vet, and this vet is pretty good. She's checking the dog out, starts crossing out all the things it couldn't be (blood test says no kennel cough, no heartworm, etc). Finally after poking and prodding and much listening to the lungs, she says it's COPD. The second case she's ever seen in a dog.

So my dog is now on antibiotics and Prednisone.

You want to know what really scares me? If Obamacare passes, my dog will have better health care than we humans will.

Here's yer astroturf right here

Projection, people. Sheer, total projection. When the Left is reduced to advertising their protesting as jobs on Craigslist... well, you get the picture. When the Left is reduced to having non-english speaking "immigrants" holding signs they don't understand... well, you get the picture.

And yet according to Dingy Harry Reid, the mental midget of Nevada, we on the right are "astroturfing".

Yeah, you keep telling yourself that, Harry. You worthless fucking idiot. The less you damned parasites listen to us, the more cause we have to just remove you from the equation. Go ahead and issue your diktats from Capitol Hill. We'll just cut you off and leave you to fester in your own filth.

Links found here.

a full explanation of government coruption

in N.J. I ran across this presentation on rosenet.tv.
Bob Ingle and Sandy McClure wrote "the Saprano State" about N.J. corruption, connecting all the dots. Yes this presentation is for selling the book, but it is also very informative if someone really wants to know how the corruption game works.

The Raging Dave says it is a worthwhile listen.

More Union Thuggery

Over at Gateway Pundit.

It's amazing that the side that howled for eight years that dissent is the highest form of patriotism now wants to stifle all dissent. It's almost like they were LYING or something!

Heading out

The family and I are headed out for a day of fun, no NO BLOG FOR YOU today. But that's what the blogroll is for!

Well, OK, maybe a little bit, because when someone complies a list of Leftist violence and thuggery, it needs to be spread around.

The radical left wing of the Democratic Party, their activist groups and their adoring co-conspirators in the media seem to be doing everything in their power to demonize and shout down the majority of Americans unhappy with their scheming. They've resorted to slander. They've resorted to libel. They've lied unabashedly and outrageously. And now it seems they've resorted to physical thuggery in an attempt to silence their opposition.

I do not pretend to know how this is going to end, but the course that they are charting and precedent they are setting is not one that will likely end well.

If this goes to it's logical conclusion, it will end worse for them than for me, I promise you that.

Hitler hated everyone but his own race,

Obama thinks he can control everyone but conservatives who he thinks he can control through hate.

Obama threatens to cut off all federal aid to Oklahoma if they make English their official language.

Sotomayer is being confirmed to the Supreme Court based on a 68 to 31 vote. You can find the 9 turncoats here.

Everyday, as painful as it is I, we all, must keep informed for our own safety and an attempt to protect our future.

Who We Are

I was going to post a link to this with several caveats, until I realized that Dr. Zero never once put the word "Republican" into his manifesto.

So it's all good. Who We Are.

We believe in the power and righteousness of capitalism, the exchange of goods and services between free people acting in their own best interests. There is no moral substitute for it. Every other scheme for governing human affairs amounts to a few dominating some, to the applause of others. Our freedom is not for sale, and we reserve the right to defend it from theft.

Oh REALLY, Nancy?

Bruce has a video of the Clueless Communist Clusterfucked Cunt from California accusing conservatives of waving "swastikas" at Tea Parties.

And he's got a response in pictures that the brainless botoxed bitch should be reminded of. In fact, I think I'm going to copy that photo down, email it to my congresscritters and ask them if they have balls enough to refute Pelosi's hypocrisy on the House floor.

Oh, and by the way - what we have here on top of that hypocrisy is a classic case of projection. Showing up at protests and waving swastikas is what the Democrat American Communist Party does. So naturally they think we do it too.

Oh, and by the way, Dimocrats - if you're going to howl about "astroturfing", maybe it's not such a good idea to get caught bussing in your own handpicked union thugs to a town hall meeting. You worthless fucking parasites.

Couple of quick links

Before I head on out this morning. First is this Powerline piece taking note of the White House's response to the Drudge Report (and other websites) who put up Obama's 2007 speech about how he'll eliminate private insurance plans. The White House doesn't even bother to refute anything, they just push out some pre-made talking points and leave it at that. Pathetic.

What is even more pathetic is the way the Democrat American Communist Party is trying to demonize the citizens of this country who are standing up and letting their feelings and opinions be known. If anything highlights the way the Left feels about this country, it's the way they've reacted to the Tea Parties and protests, by trying to discredit the protesters rather than actually respond to their complaints. It's the classic leftist tactic of attacking the messenger, not the message. What their squealing really shows is that we're getting to them. Remember, the more they're scared, the more they'll attack people.

Gah. At this point I'm just glad that some Americans woke the hell up. I hope it's not too late.

Back home

and tired as hell. I used to love traveling more than anything else. Now, not so much.

Loving it

Make it viral. Let's slap these things all over America. And since we're stealing Obama links from C&S.....



You want to know why I think Obama's health care plan would eliminate private insurance? Because here he is, saying it'll eliminate private insurance. In 2007. Most polititicans talk out of both sides of their mouth. This guy LIES out of both sides of his mouth.

Humidity and Heat

I'm a Northern guy. Despite all my time traveling and moving around, I prefer living up North in cooler climates.

So...... Atlanta in August. Yeah. Not enjoying it all that much. Nice place, friendly folks, HOT AND HUMID AS ALL HELL!

What, every hotel in Minneapolis was taken? Gah.

I want one!

No, really, I WANT ONE!

Found it here. Dude, I want one!

Hey, Guess What?

Yeah, I'm off again. Hopefully they'll have free internet this time.

I ain't paying ten bucks a day for the internet, sorry. I'm not dirt poor, but I'm not wealthy enough to waste that money.

More Linky Love!

Via GeekWithA.45, via Kevin Baker, comes Linoge with graphic evidence that more guns DO NOT equal more crime.

And the graph, updated with new data. Is this going to be an ongoing project?

Get the news out

Via Cold Fury, via the Corner, is this article at the Hoover Institution. Ten reasons why our health care system is better. Go read all ten, but I'm going to highlight #10 right here and right now:

10. Americans are responsible for the vast majority of all health care innovations. The top five U.S. hospitals conduct more clinical trials than all the hospitals in any other developed country. Since the mid- 1970s, the Nobel Prize in medicine or physiology has gone to U.S. residents more often than recipients from all other countries combined. In only five of the past thirty-four years did a scientist living in the United States not win or share in the prize. Most important recent medical innovations were developed in the United States.

Ladies and Gentlemen, our medical system subsidizes the rest of the entire world's health care. Period. Full stop. All of those government-controlled health care systems out there, where do you think they get all their research from? By and large, it's from America. All those wonder drugs that come out for whatever condition you have, where do you think those come from? From American pharmaceutical companies. Oh, and let's not forget all the research that goes into making sure that your blood pressure medication doesn't interact and cancel out your heart medication, or your allergy medication, or your gout medication, or your thyroid medication, or your arthritis medication. What, you think that happened naturally? You think that pill A just magically worked with pill B by nature's doing? No my good people, there were millions, if not BILLIONS of dollars that went into research to make sure you could take Tylenol with your heart medication, and if you think the government is the one who paid for all of that research you're smoking more than just cigarettes. If you think the government is going to be the one paying for all of that research in the utopian, government run future, you're REALLY smoking crack.

Hey, how many drug companies are there in Canada right now? Great Britain? France? Compare them to America. Americans, and the much derided capitalist American health care system has provided more innovations and breakthroughs in health care than ANYONE on the planet, and it's safe to say that we've provided more of those than anyone else combined. Let the government take over health care, and that. Will. Cease. Enjoy whatever medication we currently have, because that's what we'll have twenty years from now. Of course, that's assuming that there will be anyone alive old enough to need it, after Obamacare decides that Granny isn't worth operating on, and issues an end of life order for her in order to save the government money.

You think I'm kidding?

RANGE DAY!

Mosin-Nagant? Check.
.22LR in both pistol and rifle forms? Check.
M1911A1? Check.
S&W Model 36 in .38 Special? Check.
Wolf .50 Caliber muzzle loader? Check.

Step-son? Check.

Pardon me for the lack of blogging, but we'll be blowing holes in paper for a goodly long while today.

UPDATE: Ammo expended -

7.62X54R - 20
.45 ACP - 50
.38 Special - 60
.22LR - 800
.50 Caliber lead ball - 20

It was a good day. I spent quite a bit of time with the step-son, ensuring that he remembered the basics, and then expounding on what he knew. He spent hours happily poking holes in paper at long distances. I then proceeded to sight in the muzzle-loader, and made sure the Mosin-Nagant was still sighted in. I'm certain that as of right now, I could take both of them hunting and hit what I was aiming at. I only recently got my M1911 fixed, and so this was the first range session in a long time for it. Ran a box through it, had two failure to feeds, but that could have been the steel case Wolf ammo. In any case, the gunsmith did a good repair job considering the thousands upon thousands of rounds that I've put through it over the years. The S&W ran sixty rounds through nicely, although you expect that with a S&W revolver.

All in all, it was a darn good day. Especially since I gave the wife time enough to set up the step-son's suprise birthday party without him having any hint of it.

Heheheheheheheh.

Obama's Post Racial Panthers

Heritage Foundation : Panther Politicization at Obama DoJ

The Washington Times has published more follow-up stories today and yesterday about the Justice Department’s dismissal of a voter intimidation lawsuit against the New Black Panther Party (a racist hate group according to the Southern Poverty Law Center) – despite the fact that the defendants defaulted and failed to answer the complaint. The new revelation is that Associate Attorney General Thomas J. Perrelli approved the dismissal. He is the No. 3 official at Justice and is a political appointee who raised $500,000 for President Obama’s campaign.

There is no doubt that this was one of the worst cases of voter intimidation the Department has seen in decades, but it was against militant black defendants, not white defendants. This is exactly the kind of situation that upsets the traditional civil rights community, which does not believe that federal voting rights laws should be used to protect white voters. The Department’s weak and belated explanation for the dismissal of this suit is frankly absurd.

The Department’s spokeswoman says that “the facts and the law did not support pursuing the claims.” Really? Then why is the Department refusing to allow the trial team who actually investigated the “facts and the law” or the chief of the Voting Section who supervised the investigation to brief members of Congress? We all know why – because those lawyers would dispute the spurious claim being made by their political superiors.

The message from the Justice Department with this dismissal is that if you are a member of a black hate group, you can intimidate, threaten, and hurl racial epithets at white voters and poll watchers, and the Justice Department will give you a pass. We all know that if it had been the Ku Klux Klan or the Aryan Brotherhood at the polls in Philadelphia acting in this manner towards black voters, Associate Attorney General Perelli and Attorney General Holder would never have even considered dismissing the case. They would be bragging in the press about their pursuit of a civil injunction against all of these defendants, and would be pressing the Criminal Division at Justice to indict them on criminal charges.

Stop The ACLU : DOJ Civil Rights: Black Panther Voter Fraud Absolved

After intimidating voters at a Philadelphia polling precinct, decked out like a military thugs from a third world country, wielding at least one 2-ft. long nightstick, a civil lawsuit was filed. The three men charged refused to show up for their court cases for five months – that’s 5 months – and they did show! The government won a default judgement in federal court against the New Black Panthers and three of their men. In April, however, department lawyers were told to drop the case – after already procuring the default judgment. Unbelievable.
...

Schmaler is certainly a Liberal. She had the audacity to says “we [DOJ] are committed to vigorous enforcement of the laws protecting anyone exercising his or her right to vote.” Only Liberals have that special kind of audacity. What about the people of Philadelphia? What about the people inside and outside the polling place? What about Mr. Bull – a man who signed an affidavit tell what he saw that day?
...

Can you believe that the DOJ never did get around to entering Mr. Bull’s affidavit! I know it is drama to say that I want to cry for this country and for my children, but that is how I feel. This is not justice. Where is the ACLU on behalf of the American voter?
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King Samir Shabazz (L) and Jerry Jackson (R), both of Philadelphia. See them all in the video...

The Muffled Oar : Washington Times Confirms: Department Lied to Congress

...the New Black Panthers were featured on the Obama for President website in March 2008.
...

"Stephen R. Morse, a blogger hired by Republicans to be at the polls and who videotaped the confrontation, said the NBPP members blatantly used racial insults on would-be voters and other poll watchers, telling one man, 'Cracker, you about to be ruled by a black man.'

The Muffled Oar : "Nonthreatening" Black Panther defendant likes "Killing Crakkkers"

Jackson was mysteriously dismissed from the case because the Department falsely claimed Jackson lived where the poll was located and that Jackson was not threatening.
...

"Mr. Jackson's MySpace page still lists one of his main 'general interests' as 'Killing Crakkkas.' Four days after the Justice Department dropped the complaint against Mr. Jackson, he again was named an official election poll watcher for the Democratic primary in Philadelphia's municipal election. How convenient."

I'm with ya, Drumwaster

But in order to accomplish said task, it'll probably require more than a simple note. The government does not give power back peacefully.

You want to fix healthcare?

And I've said this for frikkin' YEARS now...

So has my wife.....

If you want to make health care affordable, get the blood-sucking, ambulance-chasing, get-rich-quick parasites (like John Edwards) away from health care. Limit the "pain and suffering" damages that make people sue doctors at the drop of a hat in an attempt to get rich. Because that will lower the cost of their malpractice insurance.

Or, keep going down the road we're on, and lose your doctors and your health care.

The choice is yours. Me, I like modern medicine, and I'd like to see it advance while I'm alive.

End Times for Freedom

Part One

Part Two

Part Three

I won't go into quoting bits and pieces. I'll just say that it's the writing of one Francsis Porretto, and trust you to go read it. The one comment I will make is in reference to Part One - when you break the law by following the law, it's the law itself that's broken, and no one can truly be free until the law and the people who wrote it are removed.

Ladies and Gentlemen....

If this health care bill passes, it would be the final nail in the coffin of the country. Period, end of story. And the fact that such things as:

Pg 425 Lines 17-19 Govt will instruct and consult regarding living wills, durable powers of atty. Mandatory!

Pg 425 Lines 22-25, 426 Lines 1-3 Govt provides approved list of end of life resources, guiding you in death. Excuse me???!?!?!?

Pg 427 Lines 15-24 Govt mandates program for orders for end of life. The Govt has a say in how your life ends

Pg 429 Lines 1-9 An “advance care planning consult” will be used frequently as patient's health deteriorates

Pg 429 Lines 10-12 “Advance care consultation” may include an ORDER for end of life plans. AN ORDER from GOV

Pg 429 Lines 13-25 - The govt will specify which Doctors can write an end of life order.

Pg 430 Lines 11-15 The Govt will decide what level of treatment you will have at end of life

Are being proposed is enough cause for me to call for the impeachment of those who vote for it. There's more at the link. It's not pretty.

Found via here and here.

Yep

Kevin Baker's brother sent him an email.......

Tell me again why people thought GWB was so stupid?

If George W. Bush had given Gordon Brown a set of inexpensive and incorrectly formatted DVDs, when Brown had given him a thoughtful and historically significant gift, would you have approved?

If George W. Bush had given the Queen of England an iPod containing videos of his speeches, would you have thought this embarrassingly narcissistic and tacky?

If George W. Bush had bowed to the King of Saudi Arabia, would you have approved?

If George W. Bush had visited Austria and made reference to the non-existent "Austrian language," would you have brushed it off as a minor slip?

If George W. Bush had filled his cabinet and circle of advisors with people who cannot seem to keep current on their income taxes, would you have approved?

If George W. Bush had been so Spanish illiterate as to refer to "Cinco de Cuatro" in front of the Mexican ambassador when it was the fourth of May (Cuatro de Mayo), and continued to flub it when he tried again, would you have winced in embarrassment?

If George W. Bush had misspelled the word advice would you have hammered him for it for years like Dan Quayle and potatoe as "proof" of what a dunce he is?

If George W. Bush had burned 9,000 gallons of jet fuel to go plant a single tree on "Earth Day," would you have concluded he's a hypocrite?

If George W. Bush's administration had okayed Air Force One flying low over millions of people followed by a jet fighter in downtown Manhattan causing widespread panic, would you have wondered whether they actually "get" what happened on 9-11?

If George W. Bush had been the first President to need a teleprompter installed to be able to get through a press conference, would you have laughed and said this is more proof of how he inept he is on his own and is really controlled by smarter men behind the scenes?

If George W. Bush had ordered the firing of the CEO of a major corporation, even though he had no constitutional authority to do so, would you have approved?

If George W. Bush had proposed to double the national debt within 10 years, would you have approved?

If George W. Bush had given the unions a majority stake in GM and Chrysler, would you have approved?

If George W. Bush had spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to take Laura Bush to a play in NYC, would you have approved?

So, tell me again, what is it about Obama that makes him so brilliant and impressive? Can't think of anything? Don't worry. He's done all this in 6 months -- so you'll have three years and six months to come up with an answer.

If the media had not been so in the tank for Obama, maybe America could have seen just what a jackass the man really is. Speaking of the Democrat American Communist Party Propaganda Corps, and since I've already stolen one link from Mr. Baker today, why not steal another and give you this gem?

As the dew dries to crusted smegma on the Obama rose, we need to find better metaphors for the Obamallationist media that's looking for a way to rinse the acrid taste out of their morning-after mouths.

Yes, with every passing day spin is getting more and more difficult and desperate for those that stapled their scrotums to the axles of Obama's juggernaut. To paraphrase their jug-eared idol, "It seems that each successive yelp from the executive suites of these dying outlets has said, in the face of plummeting ratings, circulation and interest, that somehow these media communities are gonna regenerate and they have not. And it’s not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to reverse-racism or progressive-religion or antipathy to white people who aren’t like Democrats."

Remember, every time a "news"paper has to stop it's presses, the baby Jesus smiles!

Back in the Saddle again

Well, I'd love to say the wedding went off without a hitch, but......


So anyways, it was still a good weekend. I got to spend time with friends and family, I saw a friend that I had not seen in over a decade, there was much food, a wee bit 'o booze (I was one of the few who stayed relatively sober) and a lot of laughs.

All in all, it was good. Photos to follow, maybe.

concealed carry reciprocicity

On Wednesday, July 22, by a margin of 58-39, a bipartisan majority of the U.S. Senate voted in favor of an amendment offered by Senators John Thune (R-SD) and David Vitter (R-LA) to provide interstate recognition of Right-to-Carry permits. The amendment to S.1390 -- the National Defense Authorization Act -- would acknowledge that the right to self-defense extends across state lines. Under this provision, individuals with carry permits from their home state, or who are otherwise allowed to carry a firearm in their home state, could carry in any other state that issues permits.

Despite the bipartisan majority of votes, the Thune-Vitter amendment did not pass because it fell just two votes short of the required 60 votes for approval. This 60-vote approval threshold was decided upon by a procedural agreement between Senate leaders. The agreement was, in part, used to avoid a filibuster and any hostile amendments to the Thune-Vitter amendment.

from NRA-ILA Grassroots Alert Vol. 16, No. 29

Steps are being taken

to prevent ACORN from getting their stimulus bribe. But, is it a day late and an effort short?

Within the last week, Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, has introduced several amendments to various pieces of legislation to prohibit ACORN from receiving taxpayer funds and to prevent the group from helping carry out the 2010 census.

Congressional Democrats have fought King's efforts, rejecting each amendment he has submitted.

Since 1994, ACORN has received more than $53 million in federal funds, according to the report.

Specifically, the report made the following criminal allegations:

1. ACORN has evaded taxes, obstructed justice, engaged in self-dealing, and aided and abetted a cover-up of embezzlement by Dale Rathke, the brother of ACORN founder Wade Rathke.
   
   
2. ACORN has committed investment fraud, deprived the public of its right to honest services, and engaged in racketeering affecting interstate commerce.
   
   
3. ACORN has committed a conspiracy to defraud the United States by using taxpayer funds for partisan political activities.
   
   
4. ACORN has submitted false filings to the Internal Revenue Service and the Department of Labor, in addition to violating the Fair Labor Standards Act.
   
   
5. ACORN falsified and concealed facts concerning an illegal transaction between related parties in violation of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974.

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A few last posts

Just a quick jot before I jet off to my amigo's nuptials. First up, Rodger has a 'lil rundown of the healthcare travesty currently making it's way through Congress. I strongly suggest you go read it. It's worse than we thought, folks. This is total and complete government takeover of the health care industry.

Second - I've seen this linked by quite a few folks, so let me get in on the linky action here. Peggy Noonan is jealous.

You're Peggy Noonan and you're jealous. You do stuff, too -- and yet all you hear is Sarah, Sarah, Sarah. Don't they read your columns, don't they understand that she's "dropping her G's," that she is "faux down-home, patronizing-and infantilizing"? You have ten, maybe a hundred times the vocabulary she has, and yet they're talking about her. Don't you read my columns, people!? She is a "dope and unqualified," representative of "a new vulgarization" and still, they talk about her.

Now here's my little qualifier for anyone who wants to tell me what the Republican Stupid Party should do - did that person advocate for or vote for Obama? If so, they can go take a flying fuck at a rolling doughnut. They aren't conservative at all. Period. Do not vote for Obama and then tell me how to be conservative, because you've proven that you don't know the meaning of the word. It would be like a vegitarian trying to tell me how to eat a steak.

Quote of the day: Anything that requires the labor of someone else cannot be a universal human right.

Damn skippy. And now I'm off. I'll see you all later, probably around Wednesday.

Bloggus Interuptus part oh hell who knows

Only this time, it's not for the military! I have a buddy who's getting hitched, and I'm going to his wedding. The Ragin' Mrs. will be staying back, so I've given her carte blanche to rip the guts out of my computer while I'm gone. Since the Windows Vista virus has once again reduced my computer to little shards of what it used to be, she'll be doing a full re-format and reload on it.

I hate Vista.

So anyways, while the Mrs. might be posting a bit, I will not be until next week. But that's why I have the blogroll, right?

As an aside, if there's any folks who used to post here, who would still like the ability to do so, speak up in the comments. I'm about to go through all the people who have permissions and start deleting anyone who hasn't posted in a while.

That'll leave a mark....

Watching Kevin Baker tear apart the gun bigots is worth every minute.

I'm linking to it

Not only to keep it from being ignored, but also to show just who we on the Right are fighting:

Stokes County sheriff's deputies arrested the president of the local NAACP chapter on child sex and firearms charges Monday.

CBS affiliate WFMY reports that Larry Lash, 54, of Walnut Cove, was charged with six counts of statutory rape and two counts of sex offense and first-degree sex offense, among other sex charges.

Sheriff Mike Joyce told WFMY that there were three victims, including two under 16-years-old and that the alleged sex acts took place at Lash's home over a period of time.

Investigators found five guns and ammunition at Lash's house when they arrested him, leading to a charge of possession of a firearm by a felon. According to state Department of Correction records, Lash was convicted of involuntary manslaughter in 1974 and assault by pointing a gun and discharging a firearm into property in 1978.

I'm not going to hold a guy accountable for a crime he committed and did jail time for twenty years ago, but it does call into question his mental status. And the fact that the media doesn't seem to want to report on this story means that there's a political angle to it.

Now add on the fact that the NAACP is one of the most partisan, plantation-guarding groups out there, and that they always, ALWAYS go for the Democrat.... there shouldn't be any doubt as to why the media doesn't want to carry the story.

Found at RNS.

Leftist Tactics

Just a quick scribble before I head off this morning - observe the perfect Leftist tactics as used by one former Honduran President:

A Spanish Catalan newspaper is reporting that Honduran authorities have seized computers found in the Presidential Palace belonging to deposed president Mel Zelaya. Taking a page right out of the leftist dictator's handbook, these computers, according to the news report, contained the official and certified results of the illegal constitutional referendum Zelaya wanted to conduct that never took place. The results of this fraudulent vote was tilted heavily in Zelaya's favor, ensuring he could go ahead and illegally change the constitution so he could remain in power for as long as he wanted to.

Huh, imagine that. The results of an election that never took place were found on the dictator-wanna-be's computer. Gosh, I wonder why? And thank god Honduras kicked that bastard out before he could play his endgame. And no, I'm not surprised that Obama supported Zelaya - they're of the same mindset.

Found at KisP.

Obama won't salute America's flag...

But he will salute Ghana's......

If it wasn't the 6,000th time he's done this sort of thing we could call it a gaffe... but really.

Cross Posted at DANEgerus

Reaping what they sow

When something like this happens...

My wife's employer just sent her a letter announcing that, as of August 1st ...

1. Employee retirement funds will be frozen
2. Funds will no longer accrue
3. And this little bombshell

You need to just write it down, because the communists, idiots, and Democrats (multiple redundancy alert) will deny that they ever, EVER meant for this to happen.

Liars.

They will reap what they sow.

Note to self

When stepping 0ff the plane at Reagan International Airport, it's probably BEST to not turn to the gentleman next to you, lean in, and in a loud voice announce...

"Ah, Washington D.C. You'll never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy!"

But fuck it, he was probably some career bureaucrat anyways.

Soldier who challenged Presidents elegibility had orders recinded.

A U.S. Army Reserve major from Florida scheduled to report for deployment

to Afghanistan within days has had his military orders revoked after arguing he should not be required to serve under a president who has not proven his eligibility for office.

Reading through this article I can feel their excitement. Though I feel it is premature. As much as they want to be excited about this victory, I feel the worst is yet to come for this particular soldier. I expect a discharge, the hard kind to get, dishonorable. I pray I am wrong.

Heading out yet again

I get the wonderful opportunity to cut my leave short and head out on yet another mission!














I love the military, but sometimes I wish it would let me rest every now and then.