Chance favors the prepared mind - Louis Pasteur

Wednesday, March 03, 2010

I was thinking of doing something like this when someone pointed out that the big story now is that O’Keefe had tampered with the video, and hence made the behavior it showed by ACORN, irrelevant, but as you can see Patterico did a better job than I would have given my limited time. The facts are indisputable.

O’Keefe not only passed himself off as a pimp, one that was going to run a stable of underage girls or one of foreign minors in one or the other of the instances videoed, but that the more than one of the people at ACORN advised him on how to do it, and then to avoid paying taxes. All so he could then use the money he was going to make to run for office, as a democrat of all things. The actions of the ACORN employees, at a minimum, fall under the category of aiding and abetting criminal behavior (disclaimer: running as a democrat isn’t immediately a criminal activity, but it ends up that way sooner than later). Furthermore, the idiotic claims that the story falls apart because “the videos were edited” is even more stupid, because the unedited audio is available, and it not only serves to enforce that the people at ACORN are donkey criminals as well as the exat story told be each video, but clearly shows that those impugning O’Keefe or the story by attacking the editing of the videos, are grasping at straws. Finally, that claim that some independent report from the Massachusetts AG exonerated ACORN on the criminal activities they were advising on O’Keefe exposed, is plain and simple false. That dealt with a completely different case, and then they got a free pass from a friendly even then.

The fact remains that those defending ACORN and the democrats are idiots, lying crooks, or both. O’Keefe exposed the crooks and their relation to ACORN, and we the people should hammer that home. That crime syndicate should not be allowed to revitalize itself, even under a new name as the plan seems to be, and nobody should let the demcorats off the hook for their relationship and profiteering from the criminal activities of ACORN. There was a reason that the democrats decided to let ACORN take the fall and cut the funds. They wanted to make sure nobody investigated any deeper because the stories that would come out then would make what O’Keefe exposed look like chump change.

Monday, February 22, 2010

So now it looks like the drastically rising oceans, the apocalyptic end game the AGW church has warned us would happen if we refused to accept the collectivist government takeover of our freedoms and cash, was also, erm, exaggerated?

Scientists have been forced to withdraw a study on projected sea level rise due to global warming after finding mistakes that undermined the findings. The study, published in 2009 in Nature Geoscience, one of the top journals in its field, confirmed the conclusions of the 2007 report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). It used data over the last 22,000 years to predict that sea level would rise by between 7cm and 82cm by the end of the century.

At the time, Mark Siddall, from the Earth Sciences Department at the University of Bristol, said the study ”strengthens the confidence with which one may interpret the IPCC results”. The IPCC said that sea level would probably rise by 18cm-59cm by 2100, though stressed this was based on incomplete information about ice sheet melting and that the true rise could be higher.

Many scientists criticised the IPCC approach as too conservative, and several papers since have suggested that sea level could rise more. Martin Vermeer of the Helsinki University of Technology, Finland and Stefan Rahmstorf of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in Germany published a study in Decemberthat projected a rise of 0.75m to 1.9m by 2100.

OK, so now we are told that they are unsure of the rise. That’s bull of course because what was likely found is that they have no science to prove this idiotic claim. So now even the threat of Waterworld is gone? No melting glaciers, no disappearing North Pole or ice in the Himalayas, no oceans rising… WTF? What’s left? What’s the impending catstrophe that should scare us all into letting them take away our freedoms and cash in return for, well nothing but an overarching government that has control of every aspects of our lives by limiting our access to energy and controlling our purchase power?

All the fear mongering we used to say was bunk and based on bunk science, is now proven as bunk. That’s why it was retracted. Asked to prove with science their claims, one by one, they are being retracted, or drastically revised, to a point that the end result is a statistical insignificance. And yet, the defenders of the AGW cult are still hard at work trying to make not only like they still have the science behind them, but that the onus is on the “deniers” to disprove the AGW claims, even though now it is a given that the underlying data, methodology, and the projected damage all are outright falsehoods or exaggerations. Even worse, people are starting to see that the real big money influences were not from the people that the AGW cultists demonized, but by the very priests of the AGW cult, which have all made millions, and stood to make billions more, scamming us all.

If the AGW watermelon cultists had any sense, they would drop this lost cause and go invent the next big lie they are going to glom on to try and convince us to let them create their global wealth redistributing collectivist government for the elites by. Of course they will not. They will continue to try and lie & bluff their way through this – after all, they have a complacent and willing media that has so far ignored the scandalous behavior by them – and in the process make sure we all know this is a fanatical cult based more on faith than any kind of science.

Tuesday, February 02, 2010

Hey dog, check this out, and please let me know what you think:

The top federal prosecutor for New Orleans has removed himself from the case of four conservative activists arrested last week while allegedly trying to capture hidden camera footage in a senator’s office, the Department of Justice said Monday. A Justice Department news release said Jim Letten, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Louisiana, recused himself from the case a day after the Jan. 25 arrests in Democrat Sen. Mary Landrieu’s office in New Orleans. Letten’s top lieutenant, assistant U.S. Attorney Jan Mann, has taken over. The news release didn’t say why Letten removed himself, and his spokeswoman Anna Christman said she couldn’t comment.

I give you three guesses, and the first two don’t even need to count. Looks like O’Keefe and Breibart are going to do exactly what they did with the whole ACORN thing yet again: let the left hang themselves with their idiocy and lies. All that glee about how O’Keefe got caught and now was discredited - somehow in the mind of morons making the fact that ACORN is on giant shadow crime syndicate operated to helm democrats break laws and screw our citizens – and the convictions handed out by the same MSM that always claims they want to wait until after they have the facts only when the perp is a democrat, and then too often just ignoring the story, is now gone. The usual morons are left with egg on their face.

Now we will get some serious spin on why the government should hold on to O’Keefe’s tape, followed by some “unlikely accident” that destroys it to avoid its release is my guess, but no apologies or admissions that the left has yet again been caught doing the things they, practically always falsely, accuse others of doing.

Hey dog, looks like your side will have to manufacture another story to try and bring O’Keefe down, and hope you can taint him enough to pretend he has not exposed criminal behavior yet again. I hope O’Keefe sues these screwballs and makes one heck of a media circus out of this. Maybe Holder can just tell the DOJ to make the case go away just like he did for ACORN, in the Black Panther voter intimidation case, and like he will soon do in the case of KSM and the other blowhards they wanted to show trial in NYC, and save you some face.

Friday, January 29, 2010

Over at Big Hollywood, James O’Keefe sets the record straight, and as I speculated before, the MSM was lying and making up shit. Dog, it looks like you lose.

The government has now confirmed what has always been clear:  No one tried to wiretap or bug Senator Landrieu’s office.  Nor did we try to cut or shut down her phone lines.  Reports to this effect over the past 48 hours are inaccurate and false. As an investigative journalist, my goal is to expose corruption and lack of concern for citizens by government and other institutions, as I did last year when our investigations revealed the massive corruption and fraud perpetrated by ACORN.  For decades, investigative journalists have used a variety of tactics to try to dig out and reveal the truth.

I learned from a number of sources that many of Senator Landrieu’s constituents were having trouble getting through to her office to tell her that they didn’t want her taking millions of federal dollars in exchange for her vote on the healthcare bill.  When asked about this, Senator Landrieu’s explanation was that, “Our lines have been jammed for weeks.” I decided to investigate why a representative of the people would be out of touch with her constituents for “weeks” because her phones were broken. In investigating this matter, we decided to visit Senator Landrieu’s district office – the people’s office – to ask the staff if their phones were working.

Dog’s “evil pimp daddy”, James O’Keefe, was basically doing what the MSM doesn’t: investigate the democrat crime machine and the lies they tell the people. This country could use a few dozen more people like James O’Keefe that are willing to get the job done, considering our MSM is nothing but a bunch of DNC apologists and talking points parrots. Can anyone say “correction”? Don’t hold your breath. These craven scum will not likely admit they lied. After all, the fascists have the tape, and they can prevent anyone from now seeing what really happened.

On reflection, I could have used a different approach to this investigation, particularly given the sensitivities that people understandably have about security in a federal building.  The sole intent of our investigation was to determine whether or not Senator Landrieu was purposely trying to avoid constituents who were calling to register their views to her as their Senator.  We video taped the entire visit, the government has those tapes, and I’m eager for them to be released because they refute the false claims being repeated by much of the mainstream media.

Release the tapes! How much you want to be that the government’s main priority right now is to keep these tapes from ever seeing the light of day and that every and all actions, including the bogus reports and the collusion with the MSM to create the illusion of criminal behavior, are all driven by what is on those tapes and their need to keep that away from the people?

BTW dog, about your dumb ass statements that O’Keefe was a criminal and hence his credibility should be in question, read this:

It has been amazing to witness the journalistic malpractice committed by many of the organizations covering this story.  MSNBC falsely claimed that I violated a non-existent “gag order.” The Associated Press incorrectly reported that I “broke in” to an office which is open to the public.  The Washington Post has now had to print corrections in two stories on me.  And these are just a few examples of inaccurate and false reporting.  The public will judge whether reporters who can’t get their facts straight have the credibility to question my integrity as a journalist.

Sucks to be you. His crime is that he exposes the left for the cesspool that it is and negates and circumvents the well orchestrated propaganda machine that is supposed to protect these leftist twits and their agenda from being found out. 

Thursday, January 28, 2010

Look at how SeeBS d reported the story. They were not alone in propagating this fantasy. But as I pointed out, eventually the facts would come out, and the accusation of wire tapping, breaking in, and so on, would all prove to be not just baseless, but meaningless. This is just the beginning of this story’s complete unraveling. I am not holding my breath for any real corrections. If they do it will happen with as little coverage as possible so they can leave the stink of their lies imprinted on the minds of morons. In the end however, the left will be made to looks stupid, the MSM to look like they are a propaganda arm of the DNC, and any idiot that tries to make a legal case out of this look like a fascist moron with an agenda. Dog, I am going to have fun making you look like the tool you are man. In the spirit of your entire prison joke, I might even consider tatooing some boobs on your back.

It has not been good for the cult of AGW this last couple of months. The defenders of the indefensible have been hard at work doing damage control. The usual apologists and crazies are trying hard to convince us that even if it was all fake, we should still let them do their thing - kind of like the fake but true TANG incident - because if they don’t get what we want we will be in big trouble. A step down from their previous claims we would all be living in a Waterworld, well those of us that survived the coming cataclysms would, but still much ado about nothing. Now they are being dealt another big bad blow.

The university at the centre of the climate change row over stolen e-mails broke the law by refusing to hand over its raw data for public scrutiny. The University of East Anglia breached the Freedom of Information Act by refusing to comply with requests for data concerning claims by its scientists that man-made emissions were causing global warming.

The Information Commissioner’s Office decided that UEA failed in its duties under the Act but said that it could not prosecute those involved because the complaint was made too late, The Times has learnt. The ICO is now seeking to change the law to allow prosecutions if a complaint is made more than six months after a breach. The stolen e-mails , revealed on the eve of the Copenhagen summit, showed how the university’s Climatic Research Unit attempted to thwart requests for scientific data and other information, and suggest that senior figures at the university were involved in decisions to refuse the requests. It is not known who stole the e-mails.

I mean, if the science was so clear cut and settled, why would you need to do stuff like this? Really? The AGW cult has done more damage to real scientific progress than anyone has yet understood. They are the ones that cried wolf. If the real wolf comes, most people will be too skeptical to even bother. I guess this is offset by the many and ever entertaining jokes we can tell at the expense of those that fell for this crap, and those that still continue to think there might be one once of truth to this bullshit. My fondest wish is that people can now actually do scientific research on warming. I am dying to be vindicated on the fact that the warming cycle is tied to solar activity.

Tuesday, January 19, 2010

The count is almost over and they are basically saying that it is a done deal, a nail in the democrat coffin, and the less nutty donkeys are already seeing the writing on the wall and backing away from the government healthcare takeover. The message was loud and clear: your government takeover plan sucks, and we don’t want it and we also don’t want Cap and Tax either. The left’s response? We can’t win them all? WTF?? I pray you keep pushing for this government healthcare takeover plan and the Cap and Tax plan that Pelosi & Reid are ramming through, bud. Then you can lose a ton more come November.

Just a year ago the leftist twits were telling us that the age of conservatism was dead. That the republican party was toast. While I certainly want the republican party to be toast unless they start acting like conservatives, I am going to toot my own horn and point out that I told everyone that once the democrats got to doing what they do, people would turn against them. The democrats were in a hurry because they knew time was against them. Lucky for the American people they are such moronic idiots that they could not destroy us in one fell swoop. Not saying they can’t still screw us over hard, but the odds they pass any of the damaging and destructive crap they want is now seriously diminished, if not gone. Oh, how I am going to enjoy the fake attempts by the leftists to minimize this loss. Call me petty if you want, but I don’t care. Payback is a bitch. 

Wednesday, June 24, 2009

A little more than a week ago I had a post dealing with the left’s new plan to regulate the financial industry. As I pointed out then, I saw this as a massive disaster. First off, this new plan did not address the underlying issues that led to our economic crisis. But even worse, it put the same politicians and ideology that created the bad policies and then fostered the bad practices which gave us this economic implosion we are in, back in charge of things. I then made the case that in the end the problem was government meddling, and that even more government meddling was just going to give us more of the same. As long as the fundamental concept, that government could actually meddle with the market in order to promote the practice of irresponsible people, the types that make bad decisions regularly, owning homes, we would sooner or later be back were we are today. Not everyone agreed:

Here’s where our main disagreement lies. You seem to me to believe that any program to make low income housing available is wrong. You seem to think ANY government “meddling” in housing is in itself a bad thing. Tell that to your grandfather who bought his first home on the GI bill.

Well guess what? It looks like the primary architect of the first crisis, the gate keeper for the organization that not only made it possible for bad and risky people to get loans, but then packaged the loans and created a security trading market, none other than Barney Franks, is asking for more of the same.

Reuters) - Two U.S. Democratic lawmakers want Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to relax recently tightened standards for mortgages on new condominiums, saying they could threaten the viability of some developments and slow the housing-market recovery, the Wall Street Journal said. In March, Fannie Mae (FNM.N)(FNM.P) said it would no longer guarantee mortgages on condos in buildings where fewer than 70 percent of the units have been sold, up from 51 percent, the paper said. Freddie Mac (FRE.P)(FRE.N) is due to implement similar policies next month, the paper said. In a letter to the CEO’s of both companies, Representatives Barney Frank, the chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, and Anthony Weiner warned that a 70 percent sales threshold “may be too onerous” and could lead condo buyers to shun new developments, according to the paper.

And we are not even a couple of months into the government scheme to fix what they claim was the damned capitalist deregulation that created the crisis that Frank’s masterful ideological manipulation of the market helped create! Everyone agrees that we are hurting, and hurting bad. In the mean time the news is rigged to allow the collectivists to give us even more bad policy. And the dollar is getting hammered. And things are so bad that hookers now are taking chips in trade for services! OK, that was just a bad joke, but the rest unfortunately is not. Basically we are seeing the same architects of our current crisis asking to be allowed to “fix things. I guess we should trust these guys to make it better this time around… By doing more of the same!

Anyway, I guess Chris Dodd, embattled and looking like he will go down in flames in the next elections because even the MSM cronies have given up on trying to cover up the massive corruption surrounding him, was too busy to also join in on this. Doesn’t matter however, because everything’s in good hands! In the mean time they are adding tax after tax, causing one company after another to close down, and basically making things worse. Liberalism is a mental disorder.

Cross posted at Wasting time with Alex

Saturday, May 02, 2009

Lee would’ve been 39 today. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to hold an alcoholic beverage, or a non-alcoholic one if you don’t drink, and shout “TO LEE!” at the top of your lungs before midnight tonight.

I’d love to see pics posted of people doing this, BTW. ;)

*UPDATE*

Well, I may be sweaty and greasy, but screw it.

Friday, April 24, 2009

I’ve been putting this post off for what i think are obvious reasons, but all that has done is make me feel worse, so...Like Lee always quipped at me, “band-aid, one motion, right off.” Yeah, we spoke to each other in TV and movie quotes half the time, what of it? ;)

This is a long post, with information about a memorial service at the end, so it’s going behind the cut. Hit the “read the rest” link to see it all.

Monday, April 20, 2009

I do not know what is more disturbing, the fact that Jim has given me they keys to this place, or that fact that i’m actually gonna be able to post my ranting and ravings for the world to see, and mock.

Since both Contrarian and Aaron have posted their own introduction, i figured i would do the same.

Yes, my name is actually Harley. Im 36 years old and work for a major supplier of wheels and wheel assemblies for tractors, earthmover’s and mining equipment, the REALLY big stuff.  I am not a office wennie, i work on the floor, pressing steel and handling some of the biggest wheels on the planet. Its a job decent pay for my area and kick ass insurance.  I someday hope to leave that job for something in the computer field, currently i trouble shoot peoples desktops, fix and repair them for a fair amount of cash or beer.  Its either than or become a sci fi novelist. oh about my name, i’m not named after the bike, but my father, who in turn was named after my grandmas preacher. She had to get in his good graces, she was 5 months pregnant when she married grandpa.
I reside in a small farming community along the Mississippi river, in northeast Missouri. Its a nice little town, but its out in “the sticks"as far as the rest of the world is concerned. Its a nice clean living, however most of society ills do visit us, but not in quite the quantity that is found elsewhere.

Politically, I am what some would call a extremist libertarian, personal freedoms weigh heavily on me. For a example i whole heartedly believe, that the 2nd Amendment expressly give the citizens of this nation the unbreakable right to posses and use Arms necessary, not so much for self defense against criminality, but as hedge against the possibility of a tyrannical government. As for arms i include everything from a NAA .22 cal revolver to Artillery i would even include ballistic missiles as well, but i geuss Biological and Nuclear weapons might be a item restricted to governments only.

I do not trust government, at its core it seeks to enslave men and concentrate power.
However i am a realist too, I understand the nature of man, so we must temper our lust for freedom, with some laws, and keep a ever vigilant eye on those that we put in positions of power.

Personality, HA!
I am a fun loving guy, a flirt, and a around nice guy, i’ll do what i can to help anyone, its my nature.
fuck with me and ill gut ya and leave ya for the hogs.
I can be extremely perverted, sarcastic and very obtuse, when the mood hits, but i guess you all know that by now.

So, as for my intentions here.
I intend to focus on 2nd amendment matters, military, international relation’s and every-now and then something near pornographic.
I surely hop[e i dont fuck this up, Jim has really given me a big break here, andi did promise id would use speel chack and not go off on a bender.

So . here we go.

UPDATE
I forgot to add, I been married for 5 years now, to wonderful hard working wife, shes nurse, and i have 2 growing sons, who are the world to me.
I also have 2 huge outsized boxers that are our big babies.

Monday, April 13, 2009

I’m still getting over the shock of it all—the idea that Lee will never take up the keyboard again.  However, at the urging of several regular readers and under threat of being hunted down, I’m going to resume blogging on this site tonight or tomorrow, depending on how this cold goes.  I don’t think Lee would want this to become a hollow mausoleum or to just vanish from the internets.

And besides, I have a headline that would make him grin.

Wednesday, September 10, 2008

Why Lee sometimes gives me a case of keyboard envy.

Wednesday, June 25, 2008

Sometime last week we passed 15,000,000 pageviews.  As of this post the front page of this website has been viewed 15,124,053 times. 

Update: It’s been about an hour since this post, and the pageviews are at 15,124,975.  Basically we get about 900 hits an hour to the front page.  That’s not bad, even for a blog like mine that once had five times the number of readers that it does now.

Tuesday, June 10, 2008

It’s midnight in Queensland right now and I had a very good day today.  I read a lot.  I wrote a bit.  I found out that I may (knock wood) have some funding for a little while.  I sat with my daughter on the floor in front of the refrigerator and we ate pieces of leftover chicken (she’s just graduated to people food and approaches each meal with fresh-eyed wonder).  I also saw Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, which was a good movie.  Not great, but at least as entertaining as the last two Indy movies.  Your mileage may differ.

So I’m poking around wikipedia and find this, the perfect cap for the day:

Members of the Russian Communist party have called for the new Indiana Jones film to be banned in the country because they say it distorts history.

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, set during the Cold War, sees Harrison Ford’s character battle Cate Blanchett’s evil KGB agent.

St Petersburg Communist Party chief Sergei Malinkovich told the Reuters news agency it was “rubbish”.

“Why should we agree to that sort of lie and let the West trick our youth?”

He said many Russian cinemagoers were teenagers who would be “completely unaware of what happened in 1957”, when the film is set.

“They will go to the cinema and will be sure that in 1957 we made trouble for the United States and almost started a nuclear war.

Nowhere in the movie does a nuclear war almost start.

“It’s rubbish… In 1957 the communists did not run with crystal skulls throughout the US.”

Really? Because I go to Indiana Jones movies to learn my history.  Next they’ll be telling me that the Ark of the Covenant isn’t hidden in a vast government warehouse and the Holy Grail doesn’t really grant long life.  Stand by for further communist dispatches about how the Death Star doesn’t really exist.

Clearly they’ve forgotten that having a thin skin is a bourgeoise attitude. Who knew commies were so sensitive? Do they need some lotion for their skin?  A manicure?  My wife has some herbal shampoo if they’d like some.  I assume it’s herbal.  It’s called “Nature’s Natural Nature” or something and smells funny.

There’s also this nugget:

In the letter, the St. Petersburg branch of the Communist Party reminded Ford that “in 1957 the USSR was not sending terrorists to America but sending the Sputnik satellite into space!”

True.  They were also murdering Trotsky in cold blood, slaughtering Giorgi Markov on a public street, rolling tanks over people in Prague and Budapest, deliberately starving millions to death in the Ukraine and exporting their particular brand of Leninist terror to any bloodthirsty monster they could prop up for more than two seconds.

To me, Soviet Communists are a perfect replacement for Nazis as the stooges in the Jones series.  One of the great things about my vacation is that I’m catching up on my reading.  I blazed through Anne Applebaum’s brilliant and brutal Gulag, which is a thorough depiction of what the Soviet Union really was.  As long as I live, I’ll never forget the story of a little blond-haired toddler dying of loneliness in the Gulag “nursery”.

Own up to it assholes.  Your regime was one of the most monstrous in human history.  Most Hollywood lefties, most academic lefties and apparently most Russians have forgotten this.  You managed to keep it quiet for most of a century.  But some of us remember.

So, anyway.  Today I bonded with my kid, saw a good movie, had a good day at the office and capped it off by bashing me some commies, just like in the good old days.  A great day.

Good night, everyone.