extended uninsurance benefits realized

I went into my dentists office today to check on a few things and got to talking with the Office Manager. It turns out that my little dentist office with only 5 employees has seen 10 unemployment rate hikes in the last quarter. These hikes have taken their unemployment payments from a mere $70 to $700 dollars. They have not laid anyone off. They keep their rates low. They are a good office that takes military and children's medicaid. They would love to take more, but then they would lose money on salaries.

This business has done nothing to add to the unemployment crisis and they are being penalized for it.

Imagine the cost for business with more than 5 employees....

Where the hell is Dave?

Dave is travelling.  And Dave is busy as a one-armed paperhanger.  And Dave didn't even have time or computer access to post this weekend.  So you can expect a little bit more from Dave now, but not much.

Just so ya know.

Two real voices

I don't know about you, but I'm a little sick of all the digitized voices I hear in music today.  Half the reason I can't stand modern R&B is the fact that the voices I'm hearing don't belong to the people on stage.  They belong to a computer, and the people on stage are just a set of tits or a mouth to put that computer's voice into.

Well, here's two guys who would rather slit their own throats than allow some jackass to run their voice through a computer to make it "sound better".



Enjoy.

Sigh

Proof that the military top leadership in this country is a bunch of politically correct, pansy-assed, limp-wristed pieces of shit.

The Pentagon will adopt a broad policy governing how privately owned guns can be carried or stored at military installations following the shooting deaths of 13 people last year at Fort Hood, Texas.

A disgruntled Army doctor is charged in the deaths.

Maj. Nidal Hasan had little or no access to military firearms in his job as a psychologist, but was able to buy two handguns and bring them onto the base.

Defense Secretary Robert Gates ordered this week that a new comprehensive policy be developed to cover all branches of the military and its bases and offices. The standardized policy would replace or buttress a patchwork of regulations adopted by each service or individual military installation.

Does that mean that Soldiers will actually be allowed to carry their guns on post?

The new policy is expected to mirror restrictions already in place at some military installations that, for example, require guns brought onto a base to be registered with military police.

Right.  So the problem isn't that Army brass stepped all over their dick and allowed a radical jihadist to attain the rank of Major before he finally shot people while yelling "Allahu Ackbar", the problem is guns.

Gotcha.  Gates, you're a fucking spineless pussified bitch.  And d'ya like how the news story calls Hasan a "disgruntled Army doctor"?  DISGRUNTLED.  Yeah, that's the ticket!  They're not terrorists, they're just DISGRUNTLED.

When the Army leadership shows that they're nothing but pathetic pants-wetting hoplophobes, what chance does the military have?  I have a few stories in this subject that deserve their own blog post, but they'll get posted later.  In the meantime, I'm going to go contemplate the insanity of military leadership that doesn't trust Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen, Marines, or Coasties to have guns.

My high blood pressure brought to you today by RNS.

Keep hitting them

I see that we've been effective.  When the Marxist Messiah begins to mock you in public, you're hitting him where it hurts.  When the President makes fun of people who are so pissed off that they're gathering in groups of 10,000 or more, you're dealing with a tone-deaf ideologue who can only be removed, not "talked to", not "worked with".

Don't stop.  Keep hitting, keep hammering him and his cohort of communist congresscritters.  Do not ever stop, not once.  If you stop you will lose.

Let me quote to you one of America's greatest generals - Patton

"I don't want to get any messages saying, "I am holding my position." We are not holding a Goddamned thing. Let the Germans do that. We are advancing constantly and we are not interested in holding onto anything, except the enemy's balls. We are going to twist his balls and kick the living shit out of him all of the time. Our basic plan of operation is to advance and to keep on advancing regardless of whether we have to go over, under, or through the enemy. We are going to go through him like crap through a goose; like shit through a tin horn!"

Going to a Tea Party

Bring a camera.  Bring a still camera, a video camera, bring every camera that you have.  Videotape and photograph every Leftist thug who tries to disrupt you.  If you've got a digital camera, take the biggest memory card you have and bring all your extras.

Lefists, like mold and cockroaches, hate being exposed.

Tying in with my post from yesterday

Where I talk about how ARNPs get stiffed just as bad as the doctors do with Medicare.  Now add this to it - Doctors going Galt.

Last month, a urologist in Florida told patients that he’d prefer ObamaCare supporters go elsewhere for treatment.  Today, a dermatologist in Arizona warns that he’ll be elsewhere if ObamaCare comes fully into law.  Joseph Scherzer says the penalties for dealing with Medicare patients, along with more top-down government control of health care, will drive him to close his doors:

Most medical clinics do business with Medicare because they have to, not because they want to.  Only under Obamacare, it'll shut them down because doctors won't be able to recoup their losses by charging their patients with private insurance, simply because after a few years under Obamacare those patients will no longer exist.

Under Obamacare, you'll have your FREE medical coverage, but you won't be able to find a doctor who will cover you.  Which is pretty much just the same as not having your FREE medical coverage.  Welcome to the brave new world!  Have you bought your book on herbal remedies yet?  You're going to need it.

I'm Proud to be a Teabagger!

Obama's Brownshirts...

Dissent is only patriotic when it involves attacking Republicans...

Sondra K: teh plotte thickens

The guy who started the CrashTheTeaparty thingy has been found out (by radio host Lars Larson) to be a Beaverton, OR HS teacher, one Jason Levin. Lars talked to him off-the-air earlier today but he wouldn’t go on Lars’ show because he was afraid he would be fired. The principal, school board head, etc also wimped out and wouldn’t go on the show. Heh.

The guy didn’t cover his tracks fast enough, though, and somebody looked at the source code of his totally non-hateful [cough] website and discovered he’d made the site on school time and equipment…

Michelle Malkin : Alinsky’s Avenging Angels: Tea Party Saboteurs

JWF flags a corporate hospitality executive announcing his plans to “crash the Boston Tea Party of retards.” And in New Hampshire, the state Democrats are enlisting liberal activists to sabotage Tea Party Tax Day events...
...
It’s the Alinsky way.

JammieWearingFool : 'She Is Absolutely Obsessed With Painting the Tea Party People as Racists'

Is this the best you Democrats can do? If you think about it for a second, if Tea Partiers were the racists they're being portrayed as, then why would these sneaky Democrats have to bus people in to pretend to be racist Tea Partiers? Taken further, why would Democrats know how to be "racist"? Does it just come natural to them?

Gregory of Yardale : Democrats Seeking to Sabotage Tea Parties.

In New Hampshire, the former chairwoman of the state Democrat Party is recruiting saboteurs to show up at Tea Parties.

Former Democratic State Party Chairman Kathy Sullivan ... has been calling and e-mailing liberal activists trying to get them to attend tea parties in different parts of the state and hold signs denying the authenticity of President Barack Obama's birth certificate and make racially disparaging comments to reporters.

A birth certificate McCain provided and that Barack Hussein Obama could've provided... were he not intent on spending millions of dollars preventing it's disclosure.

Cross Posted at DANEgerus

Your musical post for today

Mussorgsky's Night on Bald Mountain



Kind of appropriate for a discussion about government-run health care, I think.  My only problem right now is trying to figure out if that bell at the end symbolizes our victory over the tyrants, or if they symbolize the church bell ringing at our funeral.

It's one or the other.

As an aside, I think this is one of the best examples of story-telling through music I have ever heard.  If you can't see the back-and-forth of the elements clashing with each other as you listen to this, then you've probably been exposed to too much modern crap, laughingly called "music".

There's nothing wrong with ARNP's

Allahpundit takes issue with having more ARNP's fill the roles of family care doctors.  That's not the problem.  Most if not all ARNP's have multiple years of experience behind them as regular nurses, and then they add advanced degrees on top of that.  When it comes to your yearly checkup or "Hey, what's this rash?" visits, an ARNP is fully qualified to check you out.

Here's the problem that Allahpundit just barely begins to touch on:

That might not be a bad thing if nurses are up to the task, but if they’re getting paid the same Medicare rates that doctors used to get paid and doctors are increasingly getting higher rates due to there being more specialists, well, you do the budgetary math.

ARNP's get the same rate of reimbursement as doctors do.  So while they charge less, they get paid less.  I can tell you right now that Medicare and Tricare are losing propositions for any ARNP.  Not only do they get paid less than from private insurance companies, but they have to do more work in order to get paid.  When I worked at the Hospital, we had to hire a separate staff just to deal with the government forms and bureaucracy that goes along with Medicare.  Between the two people, it was over $100,000 in salary just to deal with the government.  You want to know where the high cost of health care comes from?  THAT is a huge part of it.  As with damn near everything else, the government is the problem, not the solution.  As Allahpundit points out, doctors have been refusing new Medicare patients due to Medicare rates.  This ain't anything new, folks.  Most doctors can only carry so many Medicare patients on their rolls without going out of business.  This is old news.  What most people don't know is that ARNP's or Physician Assistants who have their own medical clinics are also turning away new Medicare patients for exactly the same reason - they can't deal with Medicare patients and keep the doors open.

In short, the government can't even run the socialized medicine program it had in place.  And now they're going to take over the entire health care system in America and run it the same way.  That slamming sound you hear is your doctor's office door, closing and getting locked permanently.  Enjoy!  Might I suggest picking up a book of medicinal herbs and studying it rather well?  Because that's what we're going back to.

And just because

Bach's Toccata and Fugue in d minor

I happen to think that this is one of the most beautiful, haunting pieces of music ever written.  The wife can't stand it.  So every now and then when she's not home, I blast it as loud as I can.

She's reading this right now, and going "WTF, Dave?"

Sorry honey!  

Uhhhhh... Pardon me, Sen Leiberman,

But the reason it sounds so Orwellian is because Obama is a fucking communist, and both 1984 and Animal House were written to expose the evils of communism.

Maybe if we had a real commander in chief instead of that fucking spineless, limp-dicked Marxist in the White House, we would simply go kick some ass instead of change words around and bow to dictators the world over.

Now THAT'S funny!

Congress may have written themselves right out of their high-falutin' health care.

That's six different kinds of awesome, wrapped up in a tear-inducing clusterfuck.  If Congress didn't even know what they were doing to themselves, how can they claim that they know what the bill will do to us?

Just how pathetic can you get?

OK, what's a word that means both funny AND pathetic?  We need it here.

Porn Star running for Congress as a Republican?

Stormy Daniels is her....  um....  STAGE name.  Yeah.

Personally, if we're going to get fucked by our politicians, then maybe it's time we have one that can make it fun for us.

Yet another hit by the Leftist Media

Dan Riehl catches them bare-assed again.  Not like it'll make them stop, but it's more ammunition for you to use when the time comes.

And remember, professional journalists are so much better than the pajama-clad hordes because of those multiple layers of fact-checkers and editors!  Uh huh!  Because an editor said so!  Yeppers!

*vomits*

Sorry, I can't even pretend to be that mentally deficient.

Isn't MoDo pro-abortion?

And yet she claims to be Catholic?  Well, OK, she claims to be Catholic so that she can bash the Catholic Church in her newest hit piece.  But once again, if you're going to claim to be Catholic, why don't you start by actually adhering to the principals laid out by the Catholic Church?  That would include observing and protecting unborn children, something which if I recall correctly MoDope has a hard time with.  In fact, is there anyone who can name me one tenant of the Catholic faith that MoDo keeps?

I'd love for MoDope to actually be forced to live in Saudi Arabia for a year, not protected by her "American Journalist who hates Catholics" status.  And THEN come make that comparison, you dumb broad.

Ragin' Dave's Quote of the Day

Stolen from Cmblake6.  I'ma gonna make just one leetle change to it, if I may:

Bailouts Socialism: From each according to his ability, to each according to his lack thereof.


A-yup.

Back is still out

The Mrs. looked at me a bit funny yesterday and asked "Are you OK?"  The constant pain makes me a bit grumpy.  On a helpful note, the fellow I was helping yesterday figured out that progressive tri-focal glasses make for real crappy marksmanship.  He was getting sub-1cm three-shot groups, but the spot of the grouping kept moving around on him.  He's going to get a pair of single-vision spectacles, and give it another try.

As for me, I guess I'm still a bit grumpy.  Mass is out for today, because the thought of sitting on a wooden pew for an hour makes me cringe just to think of it.  So I'm skirting around YouTube looking for music to put me into an appropriate mood.



Way back when I was a long-haired highschool kid, the priest at my church was given his orders to report to a different parish.  One of this priest's favorite pieces of music was the Hallelujah Chorus from Handel's Messiah.  So the choir worked for months, and at the last mass that Father Paul celebrated, we sang our hearts out.



G.F. Handel hated singers, especially sopranos.  That's the only explanation I can give for the way his music is written.  But it's worth singing, and by the time you're finished with it, you're just plain wrung out and whipped.  There's a sense of pride in saying "Yeah, we sang THAT, and we nailed it!"  I would assume it's much like a musician mastering a Bach piece on their particular instrument.  Speaking of Bach, last time I was in Seattle I actually saw one of the buskers pull this off:



Sometimes when I'm in a funk, the only thing that will pull me out of it is music.  Good music.  On the other hand, listening to bad music (like 80% of today's crap) will put me in a bad mood.  I guess I'm just tuned that way.

OK, make that 90% of today's crap.  Which is why I rarely buy any new music.

Busy day today V.2

Gonna help a guy try to qualify on the M-4 range.  And my back has gone out.

So have some Monk



Toodles!

I didn't see this

But someone else did - Obama lies about being a White Sox fan.  Actually, he just lies.  Period.  Full stop, no need to add any qualifier.

Dibble commented on Obama's hat — a nicely faded black Sox cap — which the president proudly wore on the mound reminding all of us once again of the heroic team from Chicago that has actually won a World Series in the past 100 years.

Dibble asked the fateful question, one so easy that Hawk Harrelson would have called it a "can of corn."

Dibble: "Who was one of your favorite White Sox players growing up?"

Obama: "You know … uh … I thought that … you know … the truth is, that a lot of the Cubs I liked too."

Ouch. The silence between the stammers was excruciating. America's No. 1 Sox fan couldn't name one Sox player.

Obama probably wears the White Sox hat because he's expected to root for some sports team in the area he came from.  And since Kenya doesn't have a MLB team, he wears a hat from Chicago.  But that worthless fucking fake can't name ONE DAMN PLAYER from a team he supposedly roots (or at least rooted for?)

Bullshit.  Lies, lies, and more lies.  They shoulda taken that hat off his head and tossed it.  This is just another example of Obama lying his ass off.  He lies about the little stuff.  He lies about the big stuff.  Without his precious teleprompter feeding him his lines he's nothing but a stuttering jackass.

He makes me want to puke.

Oh, and just in case - Seattle Mariners, Jay Buhner, The Kid, Edgar Martinez, and Randy Johnson.  And I've been listening to the Seattle Mariners games since Ken Griffey Sr. and Jr. both played for them.  Any questions?

Twinge

Guess what decided to stop working for me yesterday?

My back!  Yay!

Fuck.

What happens when they quit?

The 53% of households that still pay taxes in this country, what happens when they quit?  What happens when they look around and see that they're getting financially raped to support a permanent parasitic class? What happens when they refuse to continue to be a communists re-election fund source?

Think it won't happen?  Oh, there will always be the super rich, they'll just move their money somewhere else.  But there are plenty of people who will look at the government tax rules and say "It's just not worth it.  I'm not going to work eighty hours a week to support welfare moms with six kids."  As Mostly Cajun puts it:

D’you even wonder why the hackles rise on the back of my neck when I stand in the grocery line behind some welfare cow with four kids under six who pays for premium groceries with her plastic government benefits card, then whips out a roll of twenties to pay for cigarettes and alcohol? Hope you feel good about yourself, bitch. I just bought your groceries.

And now we'll be buying her health care!  And her kids health care!  And her kid's kids health care!  So what happens when those people stop doing what they do, and the taxes they provide dry up?

Why, everything else gets taxed.  I know in Wisconsin people are now paying six bucks for a pack of cigarettes.  Thing is, a pack of smokes in Canada in 1992 was six bucks.  I can remember trying to buy a pack, and not believing the cost.  "Six bucks?  But it only costs me TWO bucks back home!"  Well, back home had not been consumed by entitlement spending and the taxes that go along with them.  But we sure are now!  Get ready to get raped by the government for EVERYTHING you buy, because if you think that companies are just going to shell out billions more without passing that cost along, you haven't been paying attention in class.

Half this country doesn't pay any taxes.  Start thinking about what's going to happen when the other half decides it ain't worth it.

Dude?

Pretty please let this be true!

Now this interesting little movement, as reported by the AP: Utah Governor Gary Herbert on Saturday authorized the use ofeminent domain to take some of the U.S. government’s most valuable parcels.

Yes, LBers, you’ve read that correctly: a state has invoked eminent domain in order to take back land from the feds.

Oh, please oh please oh please....  Anything to beat the Feds back one little step needs to be cheered and applauded and supported.

Found at C&S.

Quote of the day

Pulled from the comments of this post over at Og's place.

The epitaph for the U.S. involvement in Indochina had been given earlier that month before the fall of Phnom Penh in neighboring Cambodia. Just days before his execution at the hands of the Khmer Rouge, Cambodian statesman Sirak Mitak penned a final note to the U.S. ambassador refusing his offer of evacuation.

‘I cannot, alas, leave in such a cowardly fashion. As for you and in particular for your great country, I never believed for a moment that you would have this sentiment of abandoning a people which has chosen liberty….You leave and my wish is that you and your country will find happiness under the sky.

‘But mark it well that, if I shall die here on the spot and in my country that I love, it is too bad because we all are born and must die one day. I have only committed this mistake in believing in you, the Americans.’

http://www.historynet.com/americas-bitter-end-in-vietnam.htm/6

My question is this - when are we going to be forced to hear that from an Iraqi or Afghani thanks to the Marxist Messiah?

Gah. Busy.

The Army is implementing a new logistics and money system.  We're on wave two or three, and it's my command's turn to have fun.  So I'm off to go sit in a classroom all day.

Just like yesterday.  Only today, I have to show up even earlier.  Bleah!  So I'll leave you with one of the modern leaders of conservative thought, Thomas Sowell.  Enjoy!

Men Without Chests

With all this talk about Obama, it brought to mind a quote from C.S. Lewis, and I just spend twenty minutes trying to find it - It's from a book/speech he gave titled "The Abolition of Man".  And the quote at the very end of Chapter 1 is:

"We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honour and are shocked to find traitors in our midst. We castrate and bid the geldings be fruitful."

Doesn't that sum up the America who voted for Obama?

Just Great

What President Bush fought and won, Obama will lose.

Three murderous suicide bombings in Baghdad over the weekend are but the latest indication of the renewed reality there: Those determined to use violence to destabilize the country, foment sectarian strife and shape Iraq's destiny can do so with impunity. ...

There is an unmistakable vacuum of power being created by President Obama's determination to withdraw U.S. "combat" forces no matter what, starting with the cities a few months ago and in short order from the rest of the country.

I know a lot of people who will be happy that we're leaving.  Hell, I know a lot of Soldiers who will be happy that we're leaving, and couldn't care less about what happens when we leave.  But if we leave in this fashion, and Iraq collapses, we will be back in Iraq within a decade, and the cost in money and blood to redo our efforts in Iraq will make what we have currently spent look like spare change.  Of course, that will have to be paid by someone else other than the Marxist Messiah, so he really doesn't care.  In fact, he really doesn't care about any of our allies, and it shows.

Look for a massive outbreak of war in the Middle East sometime soon.  With Obama's complete and total lack of foreign policy (unless you count ignorance, apathy and stupidity as policy) it won't be long before the usual suspects start hitting harder and harder.  They know they won't get a response from Obama, and they're free to act with impunity.

That ain't good.

UPDATE:  Yup.  I was having a discussion with some of my fellow Soldiers, and the consensus is that Obama is the first American president who actually thinks that America is the problem with the world.  And it shows.

I want to find every idiotic asshole who made him the Commander in Chief, and beat them with lead pipes.

Legal Insurrection has a more thought out take on it than the link up above:

Sheer lunacy. What doesn't Obama understand about "deterrence." That means that nations which possess chemical and biological weapons will not even think about using them against us because the consequences would be so devastating for them.

Now, a little chem weapons here, a little bio weapons there, and all is good.

The world now is a more dangerous place.

You feeling that hope and change yet, America?  When an American city gets hit with a chemical weapon, and Obama the Commie lectures this country on why we deserve it, who are you going to blame?

Quick Linky

Because I don't have time to quote much of the discussion, but I think it needs to be read:

The Smallest Minority - Quote of the Day - We've Met the Enemy Edition

How can we fix this country without a civil war?  Is that even possible?

Snortworthy

I don't know if you've seen this yet, but just in case you haven't.....

What I have learned after discussions over the last several days with several journalists who either have regular access to the White House or are part of the White House press corps is that there is a growing sense that access is traded for positive stories -- or perhaps worse, an agreement that things learned will not be reported in the near term.

The White House is working hard to secure deals that yield fluffy, feel good commentary about the Obama White House. One American White House reporter used colorful terms to describe the arrangement. The reporter said, "They want 'blow jobs' first [in the press sense]. Then you have to be on good behavior for a bit or be willing to deal, and then you get access."

The Media has been nothing but a Fluffer for Obama long before he got elected, and now they want to cry about it.  Fuck them.  They've had their lips fastened to Obama's crotch for years.  This shouldn't be unfamiliar behavior.  Let them sink along with their Marxist Messiah.

Palin's show

Apparently somewhat of a disappointment.

Meh.  I never saw her as a TV personality.  She's not plastic enough.

I got nuthin'

I after this week, I feel like this:





I think I'll go for a run.

Post tag

A while back, I had a commenter who objected to one of my tags I use for my posts regarding the Democrat American Communist Party.  The tag is "Domestic Enemies".  I swore an oath to protect the Constitution of the United States from all enemies, foreign or domestic.  I label the Left for what it is, Domestic enemies of the Constitution.

Need proof?



"I don't worry about the Constitution on this"

Right there, he should have been tarred and feathered.  That worthless fucking cockholster should have been tarred and feathered, and then paraded around town naked with a sign hung around his neck that read "OATH BREAKER".

Thank God TeaParty has 'Left' to lecture us on how to behave at political rallies.

Grace, orderliness, reason. -- Andrew Breitbart

Grace,
orderliness,
reason

Cross Posted at DANEgerus

Happy April Fool's Day

How do you like the joke that our Constitution has become?

You laughing yet?

Oh by the way - this joke doesn't end at Midnight, either.  It's with us for good.  Yeah, I know, I'm just a real bundle of joy, ain't I?

Just think

If America had a free media instead of whores and propaganda artists for the Democrat American Communist Party, we'd have known about this before the election.

The other professors hated him because he was lazy, unqualified, never attended any of the faculty meetings, and it was clear that the position was nothing more than a political stepping stool. According to my professor friend, he had the lowest intellectual capacity in the building. He also doubted whether he was legitimately an editor on the Harvard Law Review, because if he was, he would be the first and only editor of an Ivy League law review to never be published while in school (publication is or was a requirement). 

Obama is a fraud.  But then, some people knew that before the election.  We were just called "racists".

There's hope for him yet!

Any guy who does this can't be all bad.

No. 1 cable news host Bill O’Reilly said Tuesday that he will personally write a check to cover $16,500 in legal costs for the father of a fallen U.S. Marine who sued the members of a church who picketed his son’s funeral.

Of course, now we have to educate him about the 2nd Amendment.

Found at KisP.

Went to Yahoo News yesterday

Clicked on a link, and found out the feed was from the Huffington Post.

Wow.

Is there any better way to prove that your "news" organization has devolved into a worthless pile of Leftist shit than feeding from the Huffinggas Post?

How to cook bacon with your Machine Gun

Making breakfast couldn’t get any more manly...

But beware... Janet Napolitano might drop in on your cook out.

Suicide Bombers attack Moscow

These terrorists organizations responsible for this are going to find out that Russia doesn't play like the USA.

Something tells me

That more ranchers are going to be practicing the three "S" philosophy after rancher Robert Krentz was found murdered.

Shoot.

Shovel.

Shut up.

Is that harsh?  Yep.  But when the US government has completely abdicated it's responsibility to protect it's citizens, what else are you going to do?  Either you can fight, or you can be over-run by illegal aliens and other criminals who cross our border every day.  If I lived down there I'd travel with a scoped 30-06, and I'd shoot anyone crossing my land and let the coyotes have the bodies.  It's either that, or suffer the same fate as Mr. Krentz.

No thanks.  I want to die in my bed of sexual overexertion, not get shot by some border-jumping wetback who's carrying a kilo of coke for his brother in Ciudad Juarez.

Yeah, let the hate mail come out after THAT last little comment.

Expired Campaign Promises

I saw this over at KisP and had to pass it on.

If we had a free and functioning press instead of the whores, lapdogs, and Dem Cong Propaganda machine that we currently suffer under, Obama would actually face some heat for all his broken promises.

A Tale of Two Rallies

And one person who asks "Who would you rather be associated with?"  The only reason guys go to anti-war protests is either a lack of brain, lack of spine, or they want to try to get lucky with a hippy chick once she's stoned.

Get Ready to Die

Obamacare!  Hope!  Change!  Hope you can repeal this bastard before you have to suffer under it!  Go look at that timeline if you're not depressed enough already.  Not only will it kill the economy, it will literally kill people who are on Medicare.  It will kill the private insurance company.  It'll sink hospitals.  It must be repealed, or you will never have decent medical care in this country again.

Swoonbats

The return of political theater.  The Marxist Messiah never plays to a crowd that he hasn't had picked out for him.  And he never answers questions that aren't pre-selected.  Follow the link to see the proof.

He's disgusting.

Civilization

Og has a post up, an analogy to these times we're living through.  Go read it.

Back now?  Good.

Americans, by and large, like to be left alone.  We're the only superpower in the world who has conquered countries in war, and then fixed them up and given them back.  Read that sentence again.  That's unheard of, or at least it was until the USA came along.  Americans by and large are isolationist, and would prefer to remain that way.  But the world won't let that happen, will it?

We conduct our domestic affairs in much the same way.  Sure, yeah, we all agree that we need some form of government, but the American tendency is to vote for some guy who will go to Washington and leave us the hell alone.  Only that's not working any more.  We haven't been left alone for years.  D.C. has been robbing us blind, only we've been in our houses trying to ignore the screeching of the hoodlums as they destroy our yards and our streets and our neighborhoods and our towns and our cities and on and on and on.....

We can't ignore it any more.  The criminals haven't just crossed the line, they've sprinted across it and are now battering down our front doors.  We can't be left alone, because we've allowed the criminals to invade our homes, take our food, rob our safes, shit on our floor and then demand that we pay to have it cleaned up.

There's only one good way to resist that kind of violence against us - with force.  Pure, unadulterated force.  And whether that force comes by ballot or bullet, only force will remove these criminals and their invasion against us.  We can't just lock our doors and ask to be left alone anymore.  Those times are over.  Now we have to fight for what we hold dear, because our enemies are destroying everything we've wanted preserved.  Our enemies are beating our freedoms and our liberties into the ground.  Our enemies are violating every trust we hold dear, and invading every aspect of our lives.  If you're not willing to stand up and fight for what you believe in, then you will lose what you hold sacred.

And understand that our resistance will be met with violence.  The Left is violent at it's core.  It's history and it's philosophy is drenched in the blood of hundreds of millions of innocent victims around the world.  It's ideology is based on violence against freedom loving people everywhere.  We will be attacked, physically attacked for standing our ground.  For my part, I will hold back until I'm struck, and then I will lay waste to each and every attacker until either they are dead, or I am.  My morals demand that of me.  But I will make them pay a dear price for their violence.

Get ready.  It might not happen tomorrow, or next month, but there will come a time when you are going to have to fight for your freedoms once again.  This travesty of a vote last week proved it.

Worthless, wasted weekend

I should have never gotten out of bed yesterday.  I should have never done anything.  Fuck.  Fuck fuckity fuck fuck fuck.  Fuck this weekend.

Working Day V.2

Walkway needs gravel, then sand, then pavers.

My back will need a bath, then beer, then rest.

See ya later.

Political Ads

I'm with Ace and SondraK - if the Republican Stupid Party had any balls at all, they'd run this picture on every campaign ad this year.

I may just make a graphic with that picture and send it to my Congresscritter, free of charge.

Taxpayer funded Viagra for convicted sex offenders

Another health care moment brought to you by the Democrat American Communist Party.

Fewer jobs?  Yep.  Both John Deere and Caterpillar are saying that this tragedy of a bill will cost them money.  About $250,000,000 between the both of them.

A quarter of a million BILLION dollars. That's a lot of jobs.  As the economy tanks and unemployment numbers rise, remember to thank your Democrat friends for your economic misery!

Taking Chance

I finally saw the movie last night.  It was hard to watch, but I felt like I had to.  I'm not ashamed to admit that I cried.  They did the entire subject justice, and treated it with honor.  If every movie Hollywood put out treated the military in such a fashion, I'm betting more people would go to the movies.  

Rent it and watch it.  

Weapons-Grade Logic

From my Main Man in the Pugetropolis, Phil at Random Nuclear Strikes:

So far over this last year, Congress has stated multiple times in multiple voices that Health Care is a “Right” and I have a “Responsibility” to buy insurance to cover my medical expenses so that my fellow citizens are not burdened by them. This was backed up by the President of the United States when he signed the legislation passed by the Senate in December and the House of Representatives on Sunday.

The new law also states that if I do not live up to my responsibilities of purchasing said insurance, that I will have a fine levied upon me.

Not in the most leftist history class was I ever instructed that fines could be levied upon “Rights”.

I'm going to be beating people about the head and shoulders with that all friggin' day long.

Quote of the day

Pulled from here:

As Alexis De Tocqueville observed: “Socialism is a new form of slavery.” 

Damn skippy, Son.  And this country just got enslaved.  I expect that the battle to free ourselves from Government slavery is going to be twice as bloody as the first civil war.

I agree 100%

With Instapundit's prediction:

“Chicago Breaking News reported late last night that former Chicago schools chief and current Secretary of Education Arne Duncan manipulated a system to favor powerful political allies by placing their children in the schools of their choice. The discovery of a list, the existence of which had been long denied by the city, and its composition of mainly high-powered political figures calls into question the appeals system used to reconsider applications that had been denied by the top Chicago-area schools.”

Prediction: There’ll be special “lists” for powerful people who need kidney transplants, too.

Congress already has their own health care plan, and it doesn't look a damn thing like the hell that just got forced onto us.  You're damn skippy they'll have a list for organ transplants.  Little Suzy needs a kidney?  Fuck little Suzy, big bad Democrat Donor is getting that thing.

Count on it.

Hell, at this point I'm actually contemplating getting an RN degree once I retire just so that I can provide health care for my wife, because I damn sure don't trust the government to do it.

November

What we do this year, leading up to the election, is just as important as that travesty that happened Sunday. Call your representative.  Call the GOP.  Call your Senators.  Get the message out.  Hammer them with it.

What’s in a Big Mac?  Two all beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions on a sesame seed bun!That’s what’s in a Big Mac. We have got to understand that saying NO! to this socialism is admirable and essential, but that from now on there has to be a counter-narrative to what these Marxists are selling, because like it or not the human brain is wired for stories — that’s how we learn (and why the real fight is not for Washington but rather Hollywood — but that’s a story for another time.)

If we want to win on health care, or any other issue, we need to have an answer to what they are selling and that answer needs to be as simple and comprehensive as the Big Mac slogan.

Our position on health care?  Two tax incentives, health accounts, crossing state lines, tort reform, competition on an auto insurance bun. And if we don’t learn how to do this we will lose.

I'm in the process of composing letters to my Senators, and I'm still having a hard time writing without YOU FUCKINGSHITTYFUCKFUCKASSHOLES leaping out from underneath my fingers.  Call it a work in progress.  But it has to be done.  Otherwise, it's all over but the shooting, and I can see that coming real quick unless this headlong dive into socialism is repealed.

And I'm still buying lots of ammo.

Communist Cockholsters

So, the Democrat American Communist Party just voted to flush America down the toilet.

So noted.

As for all the communist cockholsters who voted their lords and masters into place to get us to this point?  The only bright note in this entire sad saga is that they'll be dying of neglect in their government ward just like I will.  I only hope I have a chance to piss on their grave before I go.

Contacting my Congresscritter

His business hours are Mon-Fri.  There were so many people calling his office today that I got nothing but busy signals until about 7:30 PM.

Yeah.  People are pissed.

New Walkway

I don't know how many cubic yards of dirt I just excavated by hand from my old walkway.  I'm covered in enough Tiger Balm to gag a horse.

Gah.  I'm not 25 any more, yannow?

OBAMA RESTORES ALL FUNDING TO ACORN

PASS THIS NEWS ON!

Link to original story is HERE.

In a March 16 memo Office of Management and Budget (OMB) director Peter Orszag quietly ordered federal agencies to resume funding the group whose employees were caught on hidden camera videos last year condoning a variety of crimes including child prostitution and tax evasion.

Send this to your congresscritters.  Don't let the Communist in Chief fund his bullies and allies with your tax dollars!

*facepalm*

Obama blocking the sale of bunker-busting bombs to Israel?  Is that some more of that "smart" diplomacy I kept hearing about during the campaign?  Taking our ally in the Middle East and throwing them to the wolves?  Yeah, real fucking smart there, Leftoids.  Of course, the Democrat American Communist Party would be perfectly happy if Israel were destroyed tomorrow, so that they wouldn't have to worry about that little "Jew" problem they have - how to keep Jews voting Democrat when the Democrats absorb more and more anti-semetic stances with each passing year.

Gah.

Were I Israel, I would recognize that America is no longer friendly to democracy, and I would take whatever measures I had available to end the external threats against me.  And if that meant bombing the Middle East flat?  So be it.

2010 Census

Information given from the Ragin' Household -

Number of individuals.  Check

Gender.  Check

Ethnicity?  AMERICAN.  Check.

The fucking bastards can't be trusted with any more information than that, and I don't know if I'm comfortable giving even that much to them.

Government Health Care

In a nutshell -

Effective April 16, Walgreens drugstores across the state won't take any new Medicaid patients, saying that filling their prescriptions is a money-losing proposition — the latest development in an ongoing dispute over Medicaid reimbursement.

The company, which operates 121 stores in the state, will continue filling Medicaid prescriptions for current patients.

In a news release, Walgreens said its decision to not take new Medicaid patients stemmed from a "continued reduction in reimbursement" under the state's Medicaid program, which reimburses it at less than the break-even point for 95 percent of brand-name medications dispensed to Medicaid patents.

Walgreens follows Bartell Drugs, which stopped taking new Medicaid patients last month at all 57 of its stores in Washington, though it still fills Medicaid prescriptions for existing customers at all but 15 of those stores.

Tricare is the same way - a lot of doctors simply won't accept new Tricare patients because the Government doesn't reimburse the doctors.  The only reason the health care system in this country stays afloat is due to the private insurance and private citizens who pay into the system.  If the government gets it's claws into healthcare, you can expect the entire thing to come grinding to a halt.  And then where will all those rich and famous people go to get health care?  Hell, where will YOU go to get health care, because I guarantee that most of us don't have the money to go jet-setting to a private, cash-only hospital in India or the Grand Caymans.

Found at KisP.

Proud to be from Idaho

And just another reason why Idaho is where I'll retire when that time comes:

Idaho Gov. C.L. "Butch" Otter on Wednesday became the first state chief executive to sign a measure requiring his attorney general to sue Congress if it passes health reforms that force residents to buy insurance. Similar legislation is pending in 37 other states nationwide.

Constitutional law experts say the move is mostly symbolic because federal laws supersede those of the states. But the movement reflects a growing national frustration with President President Barack Obama's health care overhaul.

It might be mostly symbolic, but there are plenty of people in Idaho who would have no problem telling the federal gummint to go fuck itself when the time comes.  For that matter, there are quite a few people in Montana, Wyoming, and a whole host of other states that have had quite enough of the FedGov taking control, and the resulting failures that go with that.  It's only a small step from symbolic to something else.  And maybe the FedGov will need a not so gentle reminder that there are those of us who still believe in the 10th Amendment.  There are plenty of people in Idaho willing to give it that no-so-gentle-reminder.

So, did you check DANE's post below?

I did.  And I had to set my computer down and go do something else, because I'm friggin tired of it.  Obama won't let the US Flag fly over military operations in Haiti?

Obama the gutless fucking pussy.  Obama the spineless, anti-American bitch.  Obama the ball-less, anti-military cockholster.  Obama the America destroying douchebag.

That worthless fucking piece of shit.  That shallow, lying pile of crap.  Obama the god-damned communist.  Yes, god-damned.  I don't know how anyone like Obama can curry God's favor when they don't even believe in God.  No, Obama does not believe in God, and he screams it with every action he takes.  Yes, Obama is anti-American.  Obama is ashamed of America, and that is why he wants to destroy this country and remake it in his image.

And that worthless fucking anti-American piece of shit is the Commander in Chief.  Really.  I don't think the rest of the country can appreciate just how that makes me feel.  I'd give San Francisco to the damned ChiComs if it would get Obama out of that position.  I'd sacrifice every fucking Obama voter in the country on the fires of hell if it would get Obama out of the White House.

Just once, just FUCKING ONCE, I'd like to see Obama show a little fucking pride in the greatest country in the world, the country that elected him President.  But he can't do that.  He is fundamentally incapable of being proud of America, and that is because he hates America, and is anti-American to the core.

He makes me want to puke.  And the day he is removed from office will be the greatest day of my military career.

And for the rest of the country that put him there?  Fuck you.  Fuck you, fuck the horse you rode in on, fuck the goat that spawned it, and fuck the mountain it grazed on.  Fuck you, fuck your whore of a mother and fuck the father you never knew because he didn't pay for the first time.

Is that clear enough?  Or shall I repeat that?

Barack Hussein Obama, No Pledge, No Pin, No Flag

Yes, he dramatically quit wearing a flag pin

"You know, the truth is that right after 9/11, I had a (flag) pin. Shortly after 9/11, particularly because as we’re talking about the Iraq war, that became a substitute for, I think, true patriotism, which is speaking out on issues that are of importance to our national security, I decided I won’t wear that pin on my chest..." -- Barack Hussein Obama

Yes he had Cuban flags in his Houston campaign office:

But he will salute Ghana's flag:

Ace : US Military Not Allowed To Fly Flag Over Compound In Haiti

Wouldn't want to offend the people who asses we are saving.

Army Times : Flap flies in Haiti over U.S. flag absence

The Obama administration says flying the flag could give Haiti the wrong idea.
...

France's tricolor, Britain's Union Jack and even Croatia's coat of arms flap in the breeze.

But the country whose contributions dwarf the rest of the world's — the United States — has no flag at its main installation near the Port-au-Prince airport

Gregory of Yardale : Americans Not Allowed to Fly Old Glory in Haiti

I guess Chairman Zero was hurt when his boyfriend, Hugo Chavez, suggested that US relief efforts were just cover for an invasion and occupation of Haiti.

Remind me again, why the Hell would anyone want to invade and occupy Haiti?

Remember how Obama removed the American flag from his plane?

Yes he worked for 20 years with an unapologetic terror bomber:

Cross Posted at DANEgerus

Pissing off the right people

When I first read Dan Riehl's post "Isn't it time to euthanize Reid's Wife?", I have to admit that I was taken aback just a tad.

And then the Left went apeshit.

Well, if it causes Leftoids to have mental breakdowns, it's worth reading, right?  And to a man, every Leftoid attacking Riehl can't address the fact that what Riehl uses satire to propose is what will be happening to anyone not high up in the government should Obamacare pass.

So fuck it.  I'll stand with Dan.  Why shouldn't we euthanize Dingy Harry Reid's wife?  Under Obamacare, if my wife suffered a broken back at the age of 69, she wouldn't be getting the best health care money could buy, she'd be getting the standard government-rate, "take a pain pill" health care.  Remember that?  "Maybe they shouldn't have surgery.  Maybe they should take a painkiller."  Didn't the Liberal Lord and Messiah say that in an interview?  Maybe if the shitheels in Congress would put themselves under the same healthcare plan they want to impose on us I might not view it so harshly.  But notice that The Teleprompter Jesus and all the CongressCritters made sure that they wouldn't be forced to use the new ObamaCare.  Oh no!  They'll still have their gold-plated health care, paid for by you and I of course, while the common peons deal with whatever their Lords and Masters give them.

The fucking worthless pieces of shit can kiss my ass.  Pull that plug, Harry!  It's what I would have to do.  So you do it too!

More publik skool success stories

Just....  ugh.

Great news today from the New York Times—if you happen to believe, that is, that every minute of your waking life requires intervention of one kind or another by the government or quasi-government forces. An article, by Winnie Hu, assures parents of enrollees at Broadway Elementary School across the river in Newark that there’ll be “no more sitting around after lunch. No more goofing off with friends. No more doing nothing.” Wow, are you feeling that tingling sensation up your leg?

Before Barack Obama’s election, his wife promised that Obama would “never let you go back to your lives as usual.” And Alejandro Echevarria, principal of Broadway Elementary, seems hell-bent not only on keeping Michelle Obama’s threat but making it a reality from the tenderest ages on.

In case you were worried that enforced play at recess was free of charge—or as Obama himself is fond of saying, “won’t cost you [the taxpayers] a dime—the cost of the program is $23,500 a year.

I wouldn't allow my child to stay at that school for any amount of time.  I want my child to learn, not to be forced to be a little mindless drone.

So, since I've obviously missed it

Just how long has Matt Damon been a fucktard?
Sad, really.  No, wait, it's NOT sad.  I hope that all the anti-troop movies continue bombing, and if the studio goes out of business?  Fine by me.  Maybe next time you'll do a movie where the good guys, aka OUR TROOPS, actually look good.

Nah, who am I kidding?  This is Hollywood.  They'll be doing the "US Troops as tortured monsters" schtick for decades to come.  And in the meantime, every time I see Matt Damon I'm going to think of this:



The fuckwad.

Tear it down!

The Other McCain links to a post about School Reform, and I think both of them nail it pretty good.  American Power details the problems facing school reform:

'll just add, first, that I'm in sympathy with Left Coast Rebel's sentiments on the Obama plan: "It will just be more centralization and federal control when the educational system needs the opposite - more local control and privatization." But second, I'm also concerned that even the best privatization and voucher programs will leave the disadvantaged with continued struggles (see another essay on that from Dianne Ravitch, today at LAT) -- and more, I'm skeptical that Obama's even serious about the schools; and mostly, I see society's larger cultural collapse as an enormity that the schools alone can't handle. Increasing wireless communications in the classroom, combined with a gangsta-loving anti-intellectualism among large numbers of kids, makes holding student attention nearly impossible nowadays. I don't have the answers, obviously. But any effort to increase local control has to be tied with a fundamental rethinking of the role of families in education. How do you get administrators, teachers, parents, and kids on the same page?

McCain pulled his kids out of school and home schooled them, and has a damn good reason why:

t’s the system.

The American public education system is built on false premises, and has become an ossified bureaucratic mess by decades of accretions — accumulated layers of “reforms” that were intended to patch this or that observable problem. None of these “reforms,” however, contemplated the possibility that the structure of the system itself (i.e., the provision of “free” education by the government on the basis of residency in a particular school district) was the essential problem.

There has been no general improvement in academic results because this system is inherently closed and limited. There is no choice and no flexibility because the structures of the system prevent such things and, realistically, these structures cannot be reformed in any meaningful way. The system is what it is, and so long as it exists, the problems are what they are.

There is only one ”reform” that works: Get your kids out of the system.

The one real grief my parents have about my upbringing is that they left me in a publik skool.  I often wonder just how different my life would have been had I stayed in private schools while growing up.  Or Catholic schools.  Or charter schools.  Basically any school other than the feral hellhole I spent my formative years in.

Meh.  Go read both links, and if you have kids, make plans to pull them out of the publik skool sistim as soon as possible.

WTFF?

What the Fucking Fuck?

Can someone explain to me why a Republican ANYTHING Caucus would endorse a flaming IVAW protester (if you're not sure what the IVAW is, go here and just start searching), a former A.N.S.W.E.R. compatriot, Communist Party USA member, the list goes on and on and he's being endorsed by a REPUBLICAN GROUP???

And who was it that was whining when Beck said that the Republicans and Democrats are the same?

Daylight Savings Time

Did you all set your clocks ahead yesterday?

And can someone tell me just what application Daylight Savings Time has in the modern era?  Because right now I can't think of a single reason to keep DST other than "Well, we've always done it that way!"  I say scrap it.

Just plain wrong

I think I now know why the Left is so anti-Christianity.  Because Christianity gets in the way of the worship of their true god and lord, Barack Hussein Obama.

Take a look at this flaming piece of bullshit put out by the NY Times Obama Fellatio and Propaganda Brigades.  Just look at it!

(and since the picture doesn't want to stay on this post, just go click the link already!)

 Are you fucking kidding me?  And this coming during Lent, the season in which we remember just what Jesus Christ went through, leading up to his death on the cross, and the NY Times Democrat Propaganda Machine wants to put a cross on their Lord and Messiah in order to make a political point.  Notice the halo around his head?  Can you actually fucking believe this bullshit?

That's sacrilegious right there.  Which shouldn't surprise me, seeing as how the Left never misses an opportunity to shit all over Christianity unless it's the politically correct variety.  But that's what it comes down to - the hard core communists that make up the Left have to attempt to deify the Marxist Messiah in order to hide what he truly is - an anti-American dictator wanna-be who should be tarred and feathered, then ridden out of town on a rail.  I'd love to say that he's nothing more than a pathetic fucking joke, but anyone who is attempting to destroy this country in the manner Obama is doing isn't a joke, he's a threat to this country's very survival.  And anyone who aides him in that goal is also a threat.

And the New York Propaganda Whores try to make him to be God.  Because that's what they consider him.  The reason I call him the Liberal Lord and Messiah is because that's what he is, and he's worshipped by the other communists as their savior, and they'll do anything they can to protect him.  They'll do anything to push him along, just like they did during the election, and right now I'm just wanting to stockpile ammunition and wait for the shooting to start, because I don't know if this country can be saved when so many people worship an outright fucking parasite who's core values and beliefs are antithetical to the very country he supposedly leads.

We are so fucking screwed.

The word of the day is....

Patience.

I need some.

Schedule for today, Interrupted

So, what exactly can you do when one of your friends is determined to flush his life down the toilet?

Dammit.

Schedule for today

Mix spices for fresh ham.
pepper
salt
garlic
rosemary
honey
coat ham
let ham sit
get supplies to make tympano
hot smoke ham
make tympano
go to friend's house to eat ham
come home
go to bed.

It's gonna be a good day.

Busy

No free ice cream for you today.

Try this guy.

Fuck Yeah!

Fucking fuck yeah!  Damn, but I'm proud to be from Idaho!

Businesses small and large are the backbone of Idaho’s economy. They employ our citizens, who in turn can provide for their families. Businesses and individuals also pay reasonable taxes that enable State and local governments to provide such essential services as public schools and public safety. And make no mistake: Any business that doesn’t pass along its operating costs to consumers – including their tax bills – doesn’t stay in business for long.

            Of course, Oregon businesses can choose to accept their higher tax burden, and many will. After all, I understand that the quality of life over there is pretty good. But they have nothing on Idaho in that regard.

            For those Oregon businesses facing a decision about whether to lay off employees or close their doors entirely, I have a proposal: Move to Idaho. The Tax Foundation rates our corporate tax burden at 17th in the nation, compared to Oregon’s ranking of 31st.   Our individual tax burden is lower, too. Those kinds of numbers can make a real difference to a bottom line.

Of course, by inviting Oregon businesses, you invite some of the Oregon loony nutcases who elected their Socialist government in the first place.

Any conservative Oregonians want to move on over to counterbalance that?  DANE - you feel like moving East?  Rivrdog - My dad can hook you up with a great marina that he docks the Hololani at.

Let's talk!

And thanks to Phil for the heads up!

I got nothing today

Sorry.  I'm in the middle of a class I have to finish up, and between that and work my time gets sucked up real quick.  Last night the Ragin' Mrs. and I actually sat down and watched a movie for the first time in a long time.

I kinda feel like this guy.



Except without all that fun.

Gonna keep hammering away at it

Because it ain't going away on it's own.  And this is a must read.  This guy gets it.

This is what the military is going to do at every decision point.  Get used to it.  If DADT is repealed, your military will be endorsing things you would vote against.  It will be endorsing things you would keep your kids away from when they’re done in public.  And it will become the battleground for gay advocacy groups wanting to overturn the Defense of Marriage Act, which provides that the federal government recognizes only traditional marriage, and that traditional-marriage states need not recognize gay marriages concluded elsewhere.

The challenge to DOMA is already being mounted as part of the military study on repeal of DADT.  It had to be.  This had to happen, and it was easy to foresee long ago, which is why I predicted it last year.  Gay partners will of course demand the same family services and acknowledgment of relationships that traditional families get in the military.  And of course, the Defense Department will be governed in this matter by DOMA.  Changing what DOD does will mean gutting DOMA or getting it overturned.  However the issue is handled, it will become a precedent for every other federal agency and all the states, and is likely to generate a flood of new lawsuits.

Folks, the hue and cry to repeal DADT and push to allow open homosexuality in the military has nothing to do with military readiness.  In fact, it would be detrimental to military readiness just because of all the extra bullshit the military would have to do in order to accommodate a tiny minority of the population.  No, this is about pushing forward a political agenda and using the military as the battleground.

Fuck that noise.

And one final note is that that’s not because of what the military is.  It’s because of what America is.  If the US military could acknowledge homosexuality and yet also allow others in the ranks to believe it’s wrong and refrain from endorsing it, or even just allow them despise it, shy away from it, or crack jokes about it, as young men in particular often do, there would be no problem.  That’s how some other militaries come to terms with open homosexuality:  they let straights who don’t want to endorse it go their own way.  This means – yes – gays sometimes get their feelings hurt.  It may even mean they are discriminated against unofficially, by seniors who base judgments about them (e.g., regarding promotion) in part on their sexual orientation and lifestyle.  The seniors may even be right – as they are likely to be, much of the time – and they aren’t then second-guessed as an institutional operating principle, or assumed to be wrong or to have unlawfully discriminatory “thoughts” in their heads.  (None of this means gays have no recourse against being assaulted, of course; they have that because they are human beings, not because they’re gay.)

But we don’t do it that way in the USA.  The reason repealing DADT must mean the military will put its institutional imprimatur on homosexuality, and require everyone in uniform to demonstrate fealty to the military’s affirmative endorsement of it, is that in the USA, we coerce institutional closed-mindedness by not only punishing thought and speech with litigation, but actively seeking thought and speech to punish.

DO NOT listen to all the shrieking about "IT'S NOT FAIR!"  The military isn't about being fair, it's about winning wars.  And this push to admit open homosexuality will weaken that mentality.  It wouldn't be the end, it would be just the beginning.  Read it all.  Then print it out and mail it to your Congresscritter.

Just Wow

The Botoxed Bitch of San FranSicko just told America that they need to pass the Healthcare Bill to find out what's in it.

Yeah.

Nancy Pelosi is proof that we need to wall off San Francisco from the USA in order to prevent the infection from spreading.  Kinda like in 28 Days, but instead of the Rage Virus it's the Stupid Virus.

The best quote about this whole bullshit bill came from Mark Steyn somewhere - The government healthcare bill is not about healthcare, it's about GOVERNMENT.  They don't give a shit if they drive America off a cliff just as long as they get their power that they so desperately crave.  And if this bill gets passed, and every last Democrat American Communist Party Member gets voted out off office it's still a win for the anti-American Left, because the GOP doesn't have the balls to repeal the bill!  So they'll STILL have their control and their government takeover.

I need more ammo.

Hmmmmmm.....

One person wonders if Obama is smoking more than cigarettes.

One person thinks that Obama is going to legalize drugs.

Have any of my readers spent a goodly amount of time around a true dope-head?  It's like being around these guys:




I'd rather castrate myself with a belt sander.  I'd rather circumcise myself with a chainsaw.  And that's just pot.  Once you get around the addicts who use meth, or coke, or crack, or heroin?  Good-friggin-night.  They would slit their mother's throat for another hit.  You think you matter in their world?  Only the next high matters, and they'll do whatever they can in order to get that high.

It's like Democrats with money and power.  You don't matter to them.  They'll woo you with soft words and pleasant lies, but that's only so they can rob you blind and kick you to the curb once they get what they want.

Blah.