If everything seems under control, you're not going fast enough. - Mario Andretti

Monday, August 23, 2010

I just got back from a week of vacation where I played US government - I spent way too much money on feel good stuff that yield no actual benefits - and am now because of the time off, busier than a one legged man at an arse kicking contest now at work. But I felt I had to address something that came up during a conversation I had, with a bunch of obvious liberal morons defending the disastrous collectivist policies of the last decade that have reached new limits under demcorat and Obama control, when they blamed Bush and the Iraqi war for anything from $3-$5 trillion in deficits spending. The numbers widely varied apparently even for them, but I was stumped as to why they would be pulling these ridiculous numbers up until I realized the left still wants to make believe that the deficit spending is because of the Iraq wars and defense spending, and not because of the massive growth in wasteful collectivist spending by government. 

Wednesday, August 11, 2010

That $26.1 billion payout by congress which contained a hefty $10 billion to help pay off the help of the teachers unions on behalf of demcorats right before the 2010 mid-term elections, has now come under fire, because some $12.1 billion of that money is coming from a cut in the food-stamp program. So the donkeys, because they know they need to hide their out of control spending, have literally screwed over the little people - some 41 million Americans are on this program if you believe the story - in order to pay of one of their super special interest groups. Of course, republicans are the evil ones, because according to the Lame Stream Media, they are the only ones for sale and demcorats are the party of the little people.

Heh, how are the little people feeling now that they are going to get less aid so the demcorats can pay off a political debt? How do the idiots that continue to pretend that the demcorats are the party of the little people feel, as we keep finding out more and more stories like this - not because of the Lame Stream Media for sure, I should add - and clearly see the collectivist demcorats are far, far worse than anything they have accused the other side of being? How does that saying about friends like these making enemies unnecessary go again? Party of the little people, indeed.

One of the more interesting stories to go on this week, and obviously completely ignored or misreported on by the Lame Stream Media, is the story of Omar Khadr, a terrorist that was captured in Afghanistan at the age of 15, and whom had murdered a US Special Forces servicemen with a grenade, amongst other things. This kid, now 23, was a media darling, and even juicier, one of the many cases of “inhumane treatment and torture” the left accused the Bush Administration and our servicemen of being involved with at Gitmo. Even now they are haranguing the Obama administration for the fact this poor an innocent torture victim ended up in a military tribunal!

Yep, this week Omar Khadr’s trial, a military one and not the much promised civilian ones from the campaign trail, started. Funny that. Evil Bush was demonized for holding military tribunals and the evils of Gitmo. Obama ran and won on evil Bush, and especially the wars we were fighting in 2008, and yet today we have Obama not just continuing those, but expanding them. Oh yeah, before the usual libtard brings it up, let me point out that you should not be fooled by the claims Obama is pulling troops out of Iraq. First off, this isn’t Obama’s doing because his pullout was part of the Bush Administration’s time table, and we are leaving some 50K troops behind. And we all know Obama, to his credit, has stepped stuff up in Afghanistan. Even more telling is the fact that Gitmo is still open and in business. Guess being a bunch of holier-than-thou leftist twits that accused the Bush Administration of being an evil bunch of torturers that only concocted Club Gitmo to avoid scrutiny and be able to torture at their leisure and demanded/promised its closure, completely ignoring the reality on the ground, suddenly isn’t so easy when you have to deal with the problems, huh libtards?

And now that we are on the subject of Gitmo and torture, let me give you a piece of information I doubt you will get from the MSM. Remember those torture charges filed by the usual scumbag lawyers – no, these lawyers aren’t just doing their jobs, they want to screw over the US and are hoping to demonize our troops and country, so they are scumbags - defending these evil bastards? Well, the attempt to use them to suppress Khadr’s confession because they were obtained through torture have they have been summarily dismissed:

The decision by army Colonel Patrick Parrish came shortly after Mr. Khadr pleaded not guilty through his Pentagon-appointed defence lawyer to the five war crimes charges he faces. The ruling is a major blow to Mr. Khadr, who claimed in a February 2008 affidavit he was abused during interrogations after his capture at the end of a 2002 firefight with U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan. The judge ruled a video apparently showing the suspect making and planting land mines is admissible, rejecting the defence argument it was obtained based on information coerced from him.

Oh the evil military judge screwed Khadr over! Well, no, because the video is damning:

In a video shown at the hearing yesterday, Mr. Khadr was seen telling Guantanamo Bay guards trying to weigh him for the International Red Cross “God will take ... revenge” on the United States. “I am here in prison, but there are millions of people outside,” he says in the May 2006 clip. “What’s happening to you is not for nothing.” In the February 2008 affidavit, Mr. Khadr, 23, alleged guards mistreated him during the weighing session, claiming they “pressed on my pressure points.”

The clip appears to show the guards acting with restraint as they push him toward the scale and point out all his “brothers”—a reference to other detainees—had been weighed without protest. “Come on man, it’s not that bad,” says one after Mr. Khadr claimed the treatment was a “very small example of what’s really going on” at the facility. “We’re not doing this to hurt you, torture you,” adds another, amid explanations his weight was needed for his health records. Although Mr. Khadr spent about 20 minutes resisting the guards, the tape hinted he had been playing to the camera as he switched from the English he used to speak to the guards to Arabic to speak to fellow detainees in nearby cells.

So the “torture” these libtard accused our troops of committing under direction from evil Bush? Yeah, weighing this bastard - while he was threatening our troops with murder and our country with destruction - so we can have accurate medical records to please the libturds that will try to turn everything and anything into an argument about the evils of America and its military.

And surprise, surprise! This bastard is obviously been coached on how to play to the camera to help the libturds do the dirty job of helping the Jihadists and their cause. Don’t expect the left to admit they where used – my take is that it is more complicity than used despite the claims from the lot of them to the contrary – yet again, and that the facts bear out quite a different narrative than the rampant torture stories we constantly are subjected to by them, though.

What’s the odds we are going to continue to hear from the usual suspects that they are ignoring the torture or white washing it – and even more important that it is happening under Obama’s reign (are we no longer an evil empire?) – going forward, despite yet more evidence there was no torture, and that these people will rethink their stance on Gitmo or the Bush Administration’s efforts to fight a vile and evil murderous bunch? Yeah, I know. Zilch.

Friday, August 06, 2010

The Obama Administration has, thankfully, declined to apologize for the bombing of Hiroshima on the 65th anniversary although they are sending an ambassador to the commemoration.  Warren Kozak (who I’m quoting from Bainbridge, as it’s under the subscription firewall) has a reminder of the context of the atomic bombing:

Since 1945, Japan’s narrative has centered almost exclusively on the atomic blasts and its role as victim—with short shrift given to the Japanese invasions of China, Manchuria, Korea, Hong Kong, the Philippines, Indochina, Burma, New Guinea and, of course, the attack on Pearl Harbor. Japanese children have learned little about the Rape of Nanking or the fact that as many as 17 million Asians died at the hands of the Japanese in World War II—many in the most brutal ways imaginable.

This is an understatement.  Shintaro Ishihara, the governor of Tokyo, has publicly declared that the Rape of Nanking was a fraud and helped fund a denial film.  Very few American students get through school without hearing about Dresden or Hiroshima, about the Trail of Tears and smallpox blankets.  Are Japanese children similarly made aware of Nanking or Bataan?  This is the sort of thing I’d like an opinion on from people who’ve been there (like Contrarian).

Focusing on the atomic bombs paints the Japanese as victims, like other participants in World War II. They were not. The Japanese, like their German allies, were bent on global conquest and the destruction of other people who did not fit their bizarre racial theories. Japan’s continued focus on Hiroshima and Nagasaki has been an understandable sore point for its Asian neighbors, who suffered greatly at its hands. ...

Young people today may have a hard time understanding that point because of the moral equivalence and political correctness that have taken over our society, our media and especially our universities. It teaches our children that all countries have good and bad elements within them—something so obvious that it’s trite. But this lesson has become so powerful that it is not out of the norm for young people today to believe that, while World War II was certainly horrible, all sides share some blame.

Bainbridge goes on to make the point that the bombing prevented an invasion that would have killed millions, ravaged the islands and probably left the Emperor deposed or dead.  But I would make a further point.  The bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki—and the long-term devastation we witnessed afterward—is a big reason no atomic bomb has been used since.

Tuesday, August 03, 2010

That’s Tim Geithner providing cover for the failed collectivist policies now driving the country:

Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner acknowledged that it is still a “tough economy” for most Americans, and warned it’s possible the unemployment rate will go up for a couple of months before it comes down as more people enter the labor force.

“When they see a little hope that there may be jobs out there, they start to come back in again. And that can cause the measured unemployment rate to go up — temporarily,” Geithner told “Good Morning America’s” George Stephanopoulos in an exclusive interview. “But what we expect to see, and I think most forecasters expect this…is an economy that’s gradually healing, gradually strengthening, businesses starting to add people back.”

The economy is not rebounding as quickly as Geithner and the Obama administration would like, he said. Last week’s economic report card showed the Gross Domestic Product grew at a rate of 2.4 percent, slower than it had earlier this year. But amid that bad news, Geithner said, were signs of growth in the private sector.

Talk about your snow job. The economy is not rebounding because collectivist wishful thinking and government funneling trillions to democrat operatives, friends, donors, lobbyists, and causes, while growing fat and large, contrary to all the fantasies, is never going to create any productive jobs. Private sector jobs produce wealth because those jobs provide net revenue to the economy and government. Government jobs destroy or shuffle wealth, and then inefficiently too, as they take private sector cash and reallocate it or simply burn it up. The morons in charge right now have done a ton of burning, and their agenda is set to burn even more, far beyond the capacity of any private sector to keep up with, in the future.

Anyway back to Geithner, and the excuse making for why these collectivists in government think they should get even more of our money, and have no doubt that this is about them feeling entitled to our money and being pissed we don’t want to go along.

“If you extend all these tax cuts just for two years or so, you’re going to leave the vast bulk of Americans…with uncertainty about what the rules of the game are going to be,” Geithner said. “What we’re proposing is to extend those tax cuts for the middle class. Extend those tax cuts for small businesses. Make clear that we’re going to keep dividends and capital gains rates, the taxes that go to business, to capital investment, at a modest rate going forward. That’ll give people more certainty.”

Get that? He is talking about the economic uncertainty Congress’ refusal to take a firm stance on the Bush tax cuts that expire at the end of this year. His take is that letting the tax cuts stay in place for an undetermined term will just keep people uncertain. So instead of saying, lets make them permanent and restart the economy, his genius solution is to just let them expire already, and hammer the people with more taxes. After all, big government needs cash to keep living large & in charge, baby! Want to see some more genius?

Geithner: ‘The Business Community Always Wants Their Taxes Lower’ Before businesses begin to use the estimated $1.8 trillion they have set aside, they want a commitment that their taxes will not increase over the next two years. Geithner did not make that promise, instead saying “the business community always wants

Evil and stupid businesses want to have low taxes! Don’t they know their sole purpose, like that of the serfs, is to feed big government cash so it can farm it out to those it favors? How dare they! Profits are evil! From each according to his ability, and to each according to his needs! And government needs!

OK, enough making fun of these morons and showing the obvious flaws in their ideology. Here is the deal. These losers know they have crashed the economy. This article, for a change, didn’t simply try to blame Bush, and hope the people stayed distracted, but they are still trying to make like the reason we are where we are and heading downwards fast, still isn’t their fault. This whole “we are going to lose more jobs before we get new ones” meme, is a demanded lie. If they keep doing what they are doing we will lose the jobs alright, but they are never coming back either.

Don’t worry though! Big government will cut you a monthly check that will provide you a standard of living at what will be considered right above the new poverty line – it will be far lower than it is now too – and like the majority of people, you won’t have to worry and covet what your neighbor has, since nobody will have anything. And although they got but a short line to show it, in this MSM article, even the Cubans have figured out government can’t create wealth: just steal it. Sad times. Get ready to have more unemployment.

Monday, August 02, 2010

Remember the good old days when the occupant of the WH didn’t have a (D) next to his name and the left told us that killing terrorists was only going to make more of them? Well, those days are long gone. Now we have the leftists at the NYT telling us about the new CinC Obama, his “New war” in Afghanistan, how hardcore he is because he committed 30K troops, and the knew found knowledge that the best way to deal with insurgents was to, get ready, “kill them”!

One has to wonder why these leftists only seem to be interested in accepting the way things work in the real world when their asses are on the line? Seriously, can anyone here imagine the NYT allowing anything like this to be published while Bush was president and we were really fighting the enemy? We all know that the story would be about “the innocents” massacred by our bloodthirsty and evil troops. Seriously, don’t you have to laugh when you read stuff like this:

Faced with that reality, and the pressure of a self-imposed deadline to begin withdrawing troops by July 2011, the Obama administration is starting to count more heavily on the strategy of hunting down insurgents. The shift could change the nature of the war and potentially, in the view of some officials, hasten a political settlement with the Taliban.

Faced by reality! There you have it. Now that you had to deal with the consequences of your stupid ideological beliefs, suddenly you have the guts to do away with them. It is not coincidental that in the real world the stuff the left tries the hardest to fight against or pretend doesn’t matter that actually does.  I wish this reality induced lapse of sanity on the left was more frequent an occurrence on the left. Reality has a way of shattering the idiotic illusions and fantasies of the stupid, and if they don’t learn the lesson quick, it does away with them. We need a lot more of that reality so these left, embodied these days by the demcorats, but also some RINOs, can stop destroying this country.

In the mean time, kill these stupid and evil bastards we were told for 8 years would only reproduce in numbers. I wonder why the NYT didn’t comment on that shattered leftists meme, huh? Better late than never, I guess.

Friday, July 30, 2010

When Obama, helped by the demcorat controlled congress, bought out GM for their Union buddies with tax payer money masquerading as stimulus funding or TARP bailouts - that line is blurry - I warned that the result of this would be disastrous. I warned that all that a government takeover of a car manufacturing company would lead to was the forced adoption of a car that would not be liked, used expensive green technology that was meaningless in the grand scheme of things, and in the end would cost orders of magnitude more to purchase than one was getting for it. Of course, the left pretended that wouldn’t be the case, and that now that government was in charge of GM’s strategy and direction, they would put out a dream car that would do the imposable and also save the environment and planet all in one swoop. GM would go into the business of making green transportation, and with the evil entities usually blamed by the combustion engine-haters unable to thwart GM’s efforts because of government protection, they would finally succeed! All the deniers and doubters were finally going to be shown how great that whole collectivist green stuff really was. It looks like I was right. Let me rub it in some.

Thursday, July 22, 2010

Just the other day I was talking to a lobsterman who told me this was the worst season ever. I am sure most people - even I did originally - will jump to conclusions that he felt this way because the lobster population is low and they were having trouble getting enough lobsters to make a living. That’s not the reason however that this gentleman gave me. He felt this was the worst season ever because of exactly the opposite! There was so much lobster out there that the lobster fishermen were bringing in so much stuff that it far exceeded demand, driving the cost of lobster down to a point where it was actually hurting them despite the record setting volume. I think he was definitely right when I paid $3.99 a pound – not on sale, but as regular price- for lobsters that went as high as 2 1/2pounds. And that was my choice, because my wife I doesn’t like bigger lobsters. I could have gone for bigger ones at the same per pound cost.

So I was baffled when I saw there was talk of a proposed ban. Is this yet another brilliant government maneuver to limit who gets to fish – those that pay off the right demcorats in these states no doubt – for them, the volume of lobsters that gets taken in, thus driving up the price due to an artificial scarcity, and to drive more people towards government for their daily subsistence? What gives? Are they just artificially going to control how much is available in order to artificially control the prices, and thus the income from these jobs? Nothing will go wrong with that I bet….

Wednesday, July 07, 2010

Israel has had nuclear weapons now for a few decades, and short of the usual nutjob demanding the Jews be pushed into the sea and the land reclaimed, non of its Arab nations have ever felt the need to build nukes to protect themselves. As anyone that hasn’t been living under a rock knows, that sentiment has not been extended to Iran, a fellow traveler and the nation vying for the title of top Jew hater, which has nuclear ambitions. In fact, Iran’s Arab neighbors are all either contemplating nuclear programs of their own - something they never felt compelled to do to keep up with Israel, or flat out pointing out that only idiots think anything short of force will deter Iran at this point.

The democrats are in a world of hurt come the November elections. They won huge in 2008 by having the MSM help them overinflate the fact Bush was a wet noodle and that republicans were somehow fiscally less responsible than them. As if the Carter years and the demcorat controlled congress tripling spending while the Reagan tax cuts doubled revenue, never happened. Of course, as soon as they won they proceeded to make sure everyone knew that demcorats being fiscally responsible or able to actually lead us into any kind of prosperity was a myth, on par with the one about demcorats caring about individual freedoms. They took the low bar the stupid republicans let the demcorats set for them, and plunged it to new lows.

For a while there they were able to blame Bush for everything they did wrong. We passed a nearly trillion dollar stimulus patronage bill that served to only “stimulate” the growth of government, fill our campaign coffers and the wallets of our donors, operatives, lobbyists, and friends, at the expense of those working in the private sector? Bush’s fault! A democrat controlled congress first pushed TARP up to $750 billion, despite objections from the not insane during an election campaign nevertheless – and so they could blame “you know who” – and then when they won, literally made TARP a no limit slush fund for all things collectivist government expansion related. Blame Bush! Cap and Tax was not popular and temporarily had to be put on the back burner. But PB, a top Obama donor and well connected to their WH and green efforts, blows a well out in the Gulf, and the same people that accused Bush of conjuring up Katrina to kill blacks in NO, now have let months go bye without doing anything of significance – can’t piss off the unions or let this crisis go bye without taking advantage of it and all that – because now they can bring this economy killer back again. Blame Bush! Passed the most intrusive and massive government expansion program ever, masquerading as healthcare reform, but really intended to recreate something like the Cuban healthcare system over here, against the will of the American people, nevertheless, guaranteeing that the massive cost of this boondoggle will fiscally bankrupt the nation. Blame Bush! Can’t pass a budget because it would show that demcorats lied about being fiscally responsible and have already broken last years record deficit spending and debt growing budget busting shenanigans? Blame Bush! We are being overrun by an invasion from our “neighbor” to the south? Blame Bush! Ok yeah, Bush was a moron on this one too, so he does deserve some blame. Of course, he didn’t succeed at his amnesty attempt, and the ones trying now aren’t doing it because Bush is making them, for sure. The surge worked in Iraq? Blame Bush! Oh wait. Biden says Obama, whom I should remind people because the MSM won’t, was against the surge, gets credit for that one now.

You get the picture right? Everything bad they do is Bush’s fault. Of course, that has now worn thin, and is falling on deaf ears, as the polls showing a massacre come November make clear. Remember the collectivists telling us that it was the end of the age of American greed – because making money and wanting prosperity for yourself, is you know, evil – was dead and the right was gone for the next 50 years? Took them less than 18 months to squander away the support their well orchestrated campaign of lies garnered them, by actually doing what they believe in! As many of us predicted: once the left showed what they were all about, the American people would turn on them. Yeah, I am rubbing it in. Anyway, back to the point of this post: the demcorats are desperate. So what’s the new tactic they hope will help show the American people that they are better suited to be in charge?
More of the same:

The Democratic Party is moving faster and more aggressively than in previous election years to dig up unflattering details about Republican challengers. In House races from New Jersey to Ohio to California, Democratic operatives are seizing on evidence of GOP candidates’ unpaid income taxes, property tax breaks and ties to financial firms that received taxpayer bailout money.

Sounds solid. When you have zero successes to campaing on, all you are left with is demonizing the opposition, and hoping the people are too stupid to figure out that’s all you have. You aren’t fit to lead anyone, fiscally irresponsible, drowning the country in debt, destroying the economy, healthcare system, and the lives of millions, and looking like you are going to be hammered in the election for it – all because people have wised up and no longer buy the “Blame Bush!” meme, dang it! – so what you do isn’t square this stuff away. Nah, you go dig up dirt on those that are going to have you for breakfast, hoping the American people are stupid enough to leave you in charge. After all, as this WaPO post does, the MSM will repeat the talking points you want to get out there even as it is pretending to tut-tut at you for doing this idiotic stuff.

And if you can’t find enough dirt? Well, go make some up:

Democratic officials are advising campaigns to hire trackers to follow their Republican opponents to public events with video cameras, ready to catch any gaffe or misstatement. And the Democratic National Committee last week issued a call to the public to submit any embarrassing audio or video of Republicans, as well as copies of their direct-mail advertisements.

Party officials would not say how many staffers are working on opposition research. Such work used to be farmed out to campaign consultants, but the DCCC brought research operations in-house in 2008 to be more nimble. “It may appear to be more aggressive this cycle because what we’re finding on Republicans is so rich,” Vogel said.

Good luck you morons. If these bastards put in a fraction of the time they would doing this kind of stuff in actually doing their jobs to benefit the American people instead of themselves, I guarantee you they would not need to do this stuff. Like I said: I can’t wait for November.

Friday, July 02, 2010

And he has done so by torpedoing the election prospective of something around 75 House demcorats and a big enough number of Senators that now have to return to their republican leaning and heavily anti-illegal immigration districts, and defend his plan for amnesty. And he is doing this when poll after poll shows the majority of Americans against amnesty of any kind and supporting Arizona’s attempt to do what the feds won’t. This umpteenth attempt by Obama to ride roughshod over the will of the people, to keep a campaign promise, shows that basically Obama has decided that his current drop in popularity is easier to reverse for the 2012, than the coming slaughter at the polls that the democrat party faces in the coming November elections.

So, Obama’s focus is now on repairing the damage that people actually getting a first hand look at what “Hope & Change” really meant, leading to a plunge in his popularity. He is banking on help from what democrats consider to be natural born democrat constituents, which as usual involves those that are bad for everybody but democrat politicians. Anyway, the collectivists and their policies are destroying the economy - spare me the “it’s Bush’s fault cop-out, because it has gotten real old, and even the dumbest of the dumb out there knows that’s a weak excuse even if the apparatchiks keep spouting it – and it is pissing off the American people. This kind of genius only makes things worse. Trillions have been flushed down the toilet because of the Keynesian “big government deficit spending tax dollars can fix any economic downturn” collectivist economic model, and things are still getting worse. Much worse. Despite government subsidies to artificially stimulate sales – that tax break for home buyers - the numbers continue to suck. Heck, we even have a DOJ that selectively applies the laws in the new “Hope & Change” America. Even more interesting are all the games being played so the demcorats controlling Congress can avoid showing they are setting new deficit spending records. And we have not even had them screw us tax payers hard yet! Don’t worry though, soon we will all be getting the same level of care the Cuban people get at a hundred times the cost. All is well!

Can’t wait for November though. It’s going to be a blood bath. Maybe we can get most of the damage done by these people reversed. Let’s hope the republicans that do go to Congress buck the establishment and do what is right for the country. The one good thing is that it took a measly 2 years for the whole “progressive” revolution to strangle itself and piss off Americans.

Monday, June 28, 2010

If you missed it, the usual suspects in the MSM are all abuzz about some jerk-off by the name of David Weigel, a supposed correspondent hired at the WaPo to cover conservatives, that got dismissed from the after trying to prove his liberal bonafides on some “Journolist” – a secret internet group hosted online were a bunch of collectivist masquerading as a journalist get together to decide what’s news and what’s not in order to help the progressive agenda – by attacking Matt Drudge and the Drudge report. Weigel, which was hired by the WaPo to cover all things conservative, said these real nasty things in order to appease the 400 or so rabid libs that pass themselves off as journalists on that secret list, in order to make them understand he was one of them. Maybe he wasn’t getting the respect he felt he deserved from them because they believed or suspected him of being a conservative for occasionally giving conservative causes and topics what the losers on this list felt was unjust coverage (a.k.a neutral coverage). Forget the questions why a newspaper that supposedly is unbiased would need one of those conservative coverage guys. I mean, do they have correspondents tasked with covering liberals? Yeah, sure. Anyway, this guy was secretly outted by someone on the list, and the WaPo hoping to save face and make the story go away fired him.

Have no doubt that what we had here was some guy that at best pretended to be neutral to conservatives & their causes was covering them. So the leftists in the MSM, now that it is obvious one of their own is under fire, are defending Weigel and disagreeing with his dismissal at the WaPo. Too harsh, or some such drivel. The Kos-nutjobs are even acting like this guy was railroaded in an illegal way. How evil that some lefty turned on another lefty! Forget the questions about the justice of his dismissal, if this guy’s rights were violated, if he was set up or not, or if this was fair or not. These are all beside the point, as well, and of no serious consequence to the real issue at hand. They are all bull to distract us, and all these questions are flying around about the story, are being asked except the one I and everyone of us should be most interested in: there is a secret meeting place where those tasked with providing us the news meet to rig the news to favor progressive causes? W-T-F????

Is it that we have become so used to the bias in the media that nobody but me freaks out when people nonchalantly skip over the fact that the news is skewed to favor the left, and hence one political party, and that these people meet in secret to set strategy, drive the news, and push a disgusting ideological agenda? This is scary stuff. Does anyone doubt that if this had been done by conservatives that we would have the left screaming about a fifth column and demanding an investigation by the DOJ? Do you hear the accusations of the right manipulating the news and people for their advantage? And yet, nary a peep on the fact that the left has just such a list of people that are supposed to be responsible journalists tasked to do just that: manipulate the news to favor the left and their causes. Again, W-T-F???

Wednesday, June 09, 2010

Well, no, but that’s the surefire argument these morons that still believe this Kenysian stuff actually has a chance in hell of working are going to have to defend their policies with, because as this article points out, we are now looking at close to $20 trillion in U.S debt by 2015.Here is the relevant quote:

June 8 (Reuters) - The U.S. debt will top $13.6 trillion this year and climb to an estimated $19.6 trillion by 2015, according to a Treasury Department report to Congress. The report that was sent to lawmakers Friday night with no fanfare said the ratio of debt to the gross domestic product would rise to 102 percent by 2015 from 93 percent this year.

Yeah, good luck with that last bit. It’s great credit to the resilience of the American economy that the most hostile and destructive administration I have ever witnessed has managed to only drop our GDP to 93% with all their horribly costly and insane job and economy killing “tax & spend” policies. They have flushed $1 trillion down the drain through the stimulus patronage bill. They are presiding over the ever expanding largesse of our tax payer dollars for corporate fat cats – which they then promptly and successfully blamed on Bush and republicans while continuing to dole out the goodies – that have become too big to fail. And then under regulations they rigged to force lenders to give money to high risk entities anyone but people that live in the collectivist la-la land figured out would sooner than later come back to bite us, which they then promptly demanded the right to “fix”, while leaving the fundamental and underlying problem not just in place, but expanding the chance of more of the same. Don’t forget the healthcare takeover by government that is sure to cost us another healthy $1-3 trillion dollars a year as soon as the first 10 years are over. That gimmick of taxing us for a decade to provide 5 years of coverage will only work that once. After that, we are toast. And they are still looking to do more damage to those of us that make a living in the private sector. Be happy we are down to just 93%. It could have been worse.

And that brings me to that deluded 103% projection. Not going to happen with these people and their ideas in charge. In fact, if they do more of the same we are going to be lucky to keep the GDP the same. You can only funnel so much money from the productive to the unproductive sector before things go real bad. Of course they won’t blame their ideological beliefs and policies:

The U.S. debt has grown rapidly with the economic downturn and government spending for the Wall Street bailout, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and the economic stimulus. The rising debt is contributing to voter unrest ahead of the November congressional elections in which Republicans hope to regain control of Congress.

Yeah, blame those evil Bush wars! After all, Bush is the one that went looking for them, and we could have avoided them completely, if you believe these morons. Even if they cost a mere pittance compared to the real pricy things, like that healthcare takeover or the massive increase in additional entitlement spending, which if you notice remain unmentioned. And nary a word of the insanity that these policies of addressing the rapidly growing debt by creating even more debt signifies. Go figure. This is what you get when the “progressives” talk about fiscal discipline. It never is about debt or deficits, just that they aren’t the ones robbing us blind.

Tuesday, June 01, 2010

This post was meant for yesterday, but had to be rescheduled after some technical issues kept me away (thanks, Comcast!)

We came across a lad from A company. He was ripped open from his shoulder to his waist by shrapnel and lying in a pool of blood. When we got to him, he said: ‘Shoot me’. He was beyond human help and, before we could draw a revolver, he was dead. And the final word he uttered was ‘Mother.’ I remember that lad in particular. It’s an image that has haunted me all my life, seared into my mind.

-Harry Patch, The Last Fighting Tommy

No one wants to die. However gung-ho they may be, the instinct to survive is ingrained into our very DNA.  It is a will so strong it can bring the near-terminally ill back from the edge of darkness.  The success of any military depends on this—upon the willingness to kill rather than die.  The men who struggled up the beaches of Normandy and through the fields of Gettysburg knew that their only chance of survival was in defeating the enemy.  But to march into the fire meant being willing to die regardless of your desire to live.  The willingness to sacrifice oneself means overcoming billions of years of evolution.  Animals may do this for their young; only humans can do it for a cause, for a nation and for people they have never met.

I hope that during your drinking and barbecuing yesterday, you took a moment to remember what the day was for.  The men who fell in our names would not mind the drinking and eating that happens on their day; they would doubtless wish they were there.  Perhaps there is no better way of honoring the dead than to enjoy the life they have given us. But we should never forget that they are out there—silent, sleeping, shielding us even in death.

(The photo is of the sun setting over the WW1 memorial at Hyde Park Corner, London. At the statue’s feet are synthetic poppies.)

Tuesday, May 25, 2010

Well, considering how many promises he has broken so far and how many more look like they will have to be broken to keep the scam alive, I feel I should give Obama his props for keeping at least one promise.When he told Joe the Plumber that he believed that the wealth should be spread around, he seems to have meant it. And the latest statistics seem to back his promise to do so up. Of course there is always a little twist, and when he spoke about spreading the wealth… Well don’t take it from me, here is the article’s take on it:

Paychecks from private business shrank to their smallest share of personal income in U.S. history during the first quarter of this year, a USA TODAY analysis of government data finds. At the same time, government-provided benefits — from Social Security, unemployment insurance, food stamps and other programs — rose to a record high during the first three months of 2010. Those records reflect a long-term trend accelerated by the recession and the federal stimulus program to counteract the downturn. The result is a major shift in the source of personal income from private wages to government programs.

Other than the fact I get irked whenever the MSM refers to that government scam that funneled close to a trillion of our tax payer dollars to demcorat operatives & agents, past and future donors, friends and entities, and finally to the demcorat politician’s campaign chests, to “stimulate” their chances come the 2010 elections, as a “federal stimulus program”, I would say that they got the gist of what this new breed of statist collectivists are all about down pat.

We are being led by the same kind of “intelligencia” groups that make up your usual liberal arts college academia, and it is not a coincidence that they feel the solution to all problems is a government led by them, that micromanages and relies on central planning and direct or indirect ownership & control of all aspects of the economy, to achieve their socialist Utopia. It’s no wonder then that the loathed private industry is being sucked dry while government spending grows drastically. It’s also no surprise to those of us that understand how economics work in the real world, that this practice is causing exactly the opposite effect these know-nothing nincompoops with overinflated egos and delusions of their own importance and wisdom thought it would, and wrecking our economy. Literally government is now in the business of picking winners & losers, not just as far as individuals go, but which businesses make it, what technologies or practices are adopted or avoided, and doing so not with any kind of scientific rigor or logic – they might claim otherwise but that’s just bull, and the demcorats are the ones that get to choose them. For a small fee, of course.

The irony is that at a time when the socialist nanny state is clearly failing in Europe, our politicians are breaking all records recreating the same failed economic model in our country. And while the collectivists now running the US are downplaying the whole European crisis and unavoidable collapse of the whole socialist nanny state – wealth redistribution without the creation of new wealth, something the socialist state excels at, only works for so long, after all -the Chinese are worrying. The statists are taking us in the wrong direction. In their ever expanding need for cash, these demcorats are already looking at such “solutions” as taking over everyone that isn’t working for government’s retirement funds. Props to Obama, however, for keeping a promise....