Friday, February 28, 2014

Novaya Sovietsky

Why is the United States bowing before the New Soviet?
This is a surprising simple question with a surprising simple answer.
Why the United States will do nothing to confront The Rise of The New Soviet is because our current Administration, and more frighteningly our entire Bureaucracy, share the same Base Ideology.
That’s it.
How can you possible fight a Battle on Ideological grounds when there are no difference in Ideology? We are seeing this clearly right here at home.  We are seeing it within our own political battles between the parties.  We are being presented the Distinctions without the differences. Now we are seeing how that translates to Foreign Policy.  “Just Concede!”
But what are you conceding?
Let me ask you folks, what is it that the United States stands for?
Free Market Capitalism?
Freedom and Liberty of the Individual?
Property Rights?
Privacy Rights?
Freedom of Religion?
Freedom to Choose?
None of the Above?….  So What Exactly?
If you can’t answer this you’re not alone.  Officials at the highest level in our Government cannot answer this question and then point to any of their Actions which prove it.  As far as those in charge are concerned the forced implementation of Socialism overseas is nothing different from what is being achieved by current Domestic Policy.  It’s for their own good… They look over the horizon and see no problems.
In fact, its Good that Citizens of The World realize their Governments will be Weaponized and used against them.  It provides Order!
In the back of their minds Our Homegrown Leftist-Progressives are hoping Putin gets it right this time…  and if he doesn’t, they are hoping to get it right here at home.
Georgia has fallen, Ukraine is next.
Eastern Europe should be very concerned knowing there is no one remaining in the world who Champion’s Individual Rights and Personal Freedom.
They must feel as lonely as we do.
The Enlightened Age of Man and Nation of Laws is over.
We are Witnessing the Dawn of the Mob… The Dawn of Democratic Socialism.
(BTW: A couple of Weeks ago while watching the Opening Ceremonies of the 2014 Olympic Winter Games I stated the only thing missing from the Show was a groups of “volunteers” belting out the International in Russian.  Well, Putin one-upped me… The Closing Ceremonies provided the World with a group of “Volunteer Children” to belt out the International in Russian.  Well played Vlad… Well Played.)

Thursday, February 27, 2014

I’m just going to put this out there:

If you are a Republican, and you believe attacking the TEA Party is a sound strategy — even if, after calling its supporters senile, drooling, bullying imbeciles, you later “correct” your statements to note that your differences with them isn’t personal, merely “tactical” — you are not only part of the problem with this country, you are one of the seminal problems with this country as it is currently trending.
We understand who the left is. In fact, we have reached that refreshing stage in the political and culture wars where “progressives” openly admit to and support an imperial executive, a fluid rule of law, and outright, unabashed cronyism that, in addition to providing perks and special dispensation for its political allies, is actively and rather openly trying to use law to squelch political dissent.
– Which is why it’s been my (highly unpopular, but downright necessary) goal on this site over the past few years to flush out who and what the Republican Party and its members truly are; and that, when all is said and done, will have been, along with my work on language here, one of the most important contributions I’ll feel I made to the political trajectory of this country.
We see who you are. And we know now that, when push comes to shove, your allegiances are with big government, the status quo, corporatism, and yes, progressive statism.
You may want lower taxes — but that is mostly for your business buddies, as is your push for cheap imported labor. And so in many ways, you are worse than the left. Because you pretend to represent us, and then, once elected, not only refuse to do so, but you piss on us, belittle us, condescend to us, and presume to lord over us as if we were mindless rubes created solely to provide you with votes you can consistently count on, relying as you do on our deciding to choose between the lesser of two evils. Which still requires that we choose evil. Only with you the ascendent demons.
You call us purists, and yet it is you who won’t support a TEA Party candidate who defeats a sitting establishment candidate in a primary (hi, Lugar, you traitorous and self-serving shithead! Hello, Murkowsky, you aristocratic hag) — and in fact, your election strategy going forward to 2014 appears to be to defeat the TEA Party and push back the grass roots rather than do a damn thing to beat back the progressive’s agenda. You not only don’t offer support, but you actively run these challengers down.
And so I consider you enablers for the left and for Utopian statists. Not “pragmatists” or “realists” who have unconsciously accepted the left’s paradigm of historical materialism, leading them to embrace an entirely ridiculous “we need to win to fight” backward ass tactical approach to electoral politics; but rather it’s co-conspirators.
When neither party supports — or worse, when both parties marginalize, demonize, and scapegoat — those of us who wish to return to a stable rule of law, separation of powers, the rights of states to exercise constitutional sovereignty, and the primacy of the individual to live life unmolested by bureaucratic agencies empowered to create roadblocks to our liberty, property, industry, and prosperity, then neither party is worth supporting.
And both, therefore, are worth defeating.
Were we truly the senile, drooling, imbecilic cranks that the GOP and the New Left Democrats, along with their media cohort, make us out to be, they’d have nothing to fear from us.
And yet every time I hear of their gathering to figure out ways to rebrand themselves “conservative” while moving that designation leftward, it tells me they still think they have to fool the rubes in order to keep them at bay.
Only we’re on to all this. And so to win, we’re going to force you to show your hands and ante up all the money in your war chests. And even then, we’ll be back the next time, pressing our principled case while you mouth platitudes and then, once elected, turn your back on those you are supposed to be representing in order to push forward with your own big government, corrupt, nest-feathering inside-the-Beltway agenda.
Get used to it.

Monday, February 24, 2014

The Army is not The Military

The Army is Part of The Military.
Listening to the latest “You wanted Cuts? Fine… we’re going to get rid of all the police, firemen and teachers!” rhetoric from The Current Administration I have noticed the Media is intentionally, or unintentionally because they don’t have the education to perform their function, confusing The Army with entirety of The Military.
Chuck Hagel is proposing a reduction in the size of The Army to pre-WWII levels.  Not “The whole Military”.
If you’ve been here before you already know WORDS MEAN THINGS.
But Meaning has no place when the intent is to inflame.
The proposed “Cuts” being threatened for The Army might not be a bad idea. While it could impair my sincere, and long-held, desire to Annex Mexico by rolling Armor from Ft. Bliss, there is no doubt that our MILITARY, which The Army is a part of, wastes a Crap-load of our taxpayer dollars.  I will also take this opportunity to remind anyone who’s bored enough to read this blog that the “Cut’s” in question are composed of a mere 5% cut in THE GROWTH of the budgets… and they are Fungible.  Don’t know what that means?  Look it up.
(As an aside, I can personally attest to the waste… reflected by the explosions heard near Military Bases, Forts etc. in Late September (End of the Government Fiscal Year) because all of the unused ordinance has to be used (destroyed) in order to avoid getting your budget for splody things cut.  There’s nothing wrong with the Ordinance… it just has to be used.  It is a bizarre, if not profoundly stupid, way to manage other people’s money, unless you don’t really care about other people’s money.  And that’s just one small example… there’s an entire $34 Million Dollar Military Base we built in Afghanistan and never occupied… the list goes on.)
But Why the intentional, giving the Media the benefit of the doubt, confusion?
This is nothing more than a specifically crafted message to reach out and freak out a constituency whose primary identity was formed when they were between the ages of 18 to 22… And, that’s how they vote.  (Full disclosure: I have a couple of these friends and I love them.  But single issue voters of all Flavors seem to transcend Reason.)
The Left knows full well that the above described voters, while singularly supporting the automotive decal industry, vote almost always against Socialists… Almost always…  The Left also knows that should they be able to reduce the size of The Military they can claim to have “Reduced the Size of Government!” which was a tactic Bill Clinton used when he was President.  His Administration talking heads would often follow that statement up with “That’s what you Conservatives Want Right?”  No additional comment was ever allowed by the Mainstream Interviewer…
It is an issue designed to disrupt.
This is what is called a “Wedge Issue”.  Why?  Because it is design to drive a Wedge between those of us who recognize our Government, which The Military is a part of, wastes our money and those who tend to vote with us who believe The Military, which The Army is a part of, spends each and every dollar with the focused attention of a Wizened Miser.
In the end this is just an attempt by the Progressives to divide an angry voting base looking forward to nailing Liberals this election cycle while desperately trying to find issues to run on when Obama Care is their greatest success.
The fact that the Mainstream Press is playing along, as usual, with the narrative desired by the Left is no surprise… just Annoying.
Watching certain individuals out there consuming this message without any critical thought is also no surprise… just Depressing.
Having those who I respect lend to the confusion is also, unfortunately, no surprise… just Sobering.
And, I Hate to be Sober.

Sunday, February 23, 2014

Dear America, I Miss You

Dear America,
I look at you sometimes, lately, and I wonder who you are.  Remember when God, family, flag and country mattered to you?  Remember when you were a melting pot, welcoming legal immigrants into your expansive embrace?  Remember when that meant that people who chose, of their own free will, to come here had to assimilate into their chosen adopted country?  When such immigrants were happy, even proud, to adopt the language and customs of their new, chosen home (or at least to encourage their children to do so)?  Remember when your name inspired pride and unity among your own people and, equally importantly, when that same name inspired (albeit sometimes grudging) respect (and, sometimes, deterrent fear) among the peoples of hostile lands?  Remember when your presidents weren’t longing for a “post-American” world?
I do.  I remember it well, and I miss it, I miss you.  I miss sleeping soundly at night, unafraid of my own government.  I miss awaking (from my now restless sleep) to a world that was relatively (relative to now, that is) peaceful, to a world in which the American president’s “red lines” were actual red lines and that crossing them had consequences, real and dire consequences. Consequences, let’s face it, that were more rhetorical than actionable . . . though if pressed. . . . .I miss knowing that your enemies were ours, that those who would hurt you, hurt me.  Now, it seems, unbelievably, that I am your enemy because I neither agree with nor support the horrible policies of your current president.  Me, an “enemy” of America, land that I love?  It’s just mind-boggling.  How did that happen?
I miss you, America.  You once stood strong beside our allies in Europe and Israel, but now, you do nothing but signal weakness and submissiveness to dangerous nations that once listened very carefully to our soft speech and understood all too well our big stick.
What happened to you, America?
Why are your own people angry and afraid?  Why is there so much despair and heavy sadness across the land?  Why are your people allowing themselves to be pitted one against the other?  Why, America, are you not standing tall?
My America–the old, trite version, apparently–would never fold, would never accept (much less embrace) defeat.  My America, the real America, is not a petri dish for communist ideals and totalitarian tendencies.  No.
Scratch that.
Hell no.
My America, the real you, celebrates unity, not division; encourages patriotism and doesn’t damn it as nationalistic or dangerous; my America believes in its people and doesn’t treat them like half-witted children or pets; my America rejects totalitarianism and embraces liberty and personal responsibility; my America trusts the people.
But . . . well, I have to wonder, is my America still there?   I look at you, today, and I am saddened beyond words.  So many of your people don’t look at and try to understand the failure, for example, that is the welfare state; instead, they blindly seek to expand it.  As if making larger something that doesn’t work will, perhaps miraculously, make it work, you know. . . once it’s big enough:  Gee, my amazing flying machine doesn’t work not because of the laws of physics but simply because it’s not big enough.
Uh huh.
We’ve fed the seemingly bottomless welfare state, catered to every “minority” from blacks to Hispanics to women, and we’ve not made a single dent in poverty since Johnson declared his “war on poverty.”  Instead, we’ve done the opposite and made more poor people, generationally poor people (i.e the people who are, by government’s explicit design, excluded from ever achieving the American Dream).  And at no time is this more evident than during Obama’s “management of America’s decline.”  Your poor are getting poorer, America, no mattered their race, but among blacks and Latinos/as, the rate of “new” poverty under Obamanomics is staggering. The first black president is lining the pockets of his political allies, bankers, and health insurers, and his multi-pronged attack on your poor and your middle classes is unprecedented.
But of course this is so, America. Obama wants to make you over, to “fundamentally transform” you, from the richest, strongest, best nation on earth to just another country steeped in corruption, fueled by fear, destined to fail.
Remember when the “norm” after a disaster was for your people to pull together and rebuild (ala Joplin, MO) and not to stand, helpless and scared, waiting for the feds to “solve” everything?  The free people of your country rebuild, on their own, competently and together; the people who’ve been re-enslaved by Democrats sit, wait, become the victims of violence and their own lethargy.  It’s really sad.  Whole neighborhoods were destroyed by Katrina . . . and are still destroyed all these years later.  Look, too, at Hurricane Sandy.  Again, these people depend on the feds.  They are, of course, ill-served, even mocked by Christie.  Americans, real Americans, don’t sit around waiting for the feds; they get to work and rebuild, they thrive.
We used to know this, America.
I miss you, America.  I miss the you who would look at what is happening now, see it for what it is, and reject it.  I miss the fearless you, the you who refuses to be cowed, silenced, oppressed by fear (of being called RAAACIST or imperialist or whatever).  I miss you, America, and I sometimes wonder if I’ll ever see you again.

Political Myths

POLITICAL pundits dismiss them as low-information voters. Democrats and their fellow travelers cultivate them. Such voters are otherwise intelligent Americans who do not bother paying attention to politics until a few days before an election. They enter the voting booth ill-informed and instead of helping make matters worse by voting for familiar names rather than the best candidate. Later, when the government again fails, they give up on politics -- until just before the next election when they repeat this process blissfully unaware of the damage they do. 

Newspapers should keep people informed so we can avoid enabling politicians to make big mistakes, such as the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Unfortunately, the reporting was poor and helped enable a Democratic Party to run roughshod over Republicans, the American people and common sense. Numbers were fudged and misrepresented to create a crisis where there was none. 

For example, there never were 45.7 million “uninsured” Americans seeking coverage. The Census Bureau conducted a telephone interview in 2007 that asked people if they had been without health insurance for any time in the last year. From that survey, the Census bureaucracy extrapolated the 45.7 million “uninsured” figure. 

Former Sen. Fred Thompson tried to warn America in a “Meet the Press” interview in January 2009, saying: 

· 26 percent were eligible for an existing program but had not signed up.
· 21 percent were the 12 million illegal immigrants.
· 20 percent were in families with incomes of $75,000 a year or more.
· 40 percent were young.
Now due to overlaps -- some illegal immigrants are young, eligible for a government program and doing well -- the actual percentage of actually insurance-less cannot be determined. But time has proven Thompson correct as there is nowhere near 45.7 million people signing up for Obamacare. This program turned everyone’s health insurance upside down for a problem that was overstated and easily addressed in other ways. 

Then there is the political myth that the uninsured are driving health care costs up by overloading the emergency rooms. Patently false.

“A new study of Medicaid beneficiaries in Oregon makes a strong version of this case. The study, published today in the journal Science, finds that adult Medicaid beneficiaries rely on emergency rooms about 40 percent more than similar uninsured adults,” reported Reason magazine in January 2014. 

That makes sense. Uninsured people pay out of pocket so they will seek the best price for the service. Medicaid recipients pay nothing and go by convenience rather than The best way to drop health prices is to eliminate the middle man: health insurance. 

Climate change is another political myth. The predictions by various computer models invariable overstate the problem. The best way to resolve the problem would be to take two greenhouses. Have one at 0.0035 percent carbon dioxide and the other at 0.005 percent. After a year, measure the temperatures. 

But that is too simple. Instead we have a lot of guesswork. One myth is that the Earth’s temperature is rising at an alarming rate. 

“For many years now, human-caused climate change has been viewed as a large and urgent problem. In truth, however, the biggest part of the problem is neither environmental nor scientific, but a self-created political fiasco. Consider the simple fact, drawn from the official temperature records of the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia, that for the years 1998-2005 global average temperature did not increase (there was actually a slight decrease, though not at a rate that differs significantly from zero),” Bob Carter wrote in the London Telegraph in April 2006.

At the time, few people believed him. Seven years later, the International Panel on Climate Change’s fifth report confirmed that temperatures had “plateaued” since 1998. Ice covers more of the Arctic today than it did on the same date seven years ago. Antarctica’s ice is in its 13th year of growth. 

Climate changers argue that hurricanes and tornadoes are on the rise. Not true. “Extreme weather snoozer: no hurricanes, and low tornado numbers in 2013,” the Washington Post reported last September. 

Mother Nature has forced climate changers to stop grabbing every hot day as “proof.” Of course, in recent years they backed off their claim. That’s because snow has returned to the Eastern Seaboard in record amounts in recent years. They point to long-term trends. But they continue to call skeptics names with Secretary of State John Kerry insisting they are members of the Flat Earth Society. But such a society also is a myth. 

“There never was a period of 'flat earth darkness' among scholars (regardless of how the public at large may have conceptualized our planet both then and now). Greek knowledge of sphericity never faded, and all major medieval scholars accepted the Earth's roundness as an established fact of cosmology,” wrote Stephen Jay Gould, a paleontologist, evolutionary biologist, and historian of science. 

In fact, Christopher Columbus was wrong. The ancient Greeks estimated the circumference of the Earth at between 22,000 and 25,000 miles (which is true) while Columbus thought the distance between Asia and Europe was smaller. The actual length of his first journey astounded him and he deliberately understating the distance they traveled. If anyone was a Flat Earther, it was him. 

But Columbus triggered western exploration which led to the discovery of the Americas, which were named for Amerigo Vespucci, who first identified that land mass as not being Asia. 

Then there is the 97 percent consensus rubbish. Climate change alarmists keep stating this myth as a fact, but actually less than one third of scientists agree. That 97 percent number comes from a study of 11,944 peer-reviewed articles from 1991 to 2011 by a team led by Professor John Cook of the University of Queensland. 

Cook and company found 7,930 (or 66 percent) of the papers had no conclusion one way or another about man-made global warming. However, Cook reported it as 97 percent because of the papers that had an opinion, 97 percent agreed with him. Thus 32 percent became 97 percent. 

Conservatives know what this is all about: Dismantling the United States economy by driving up the cost of energy. There is one final myth about global warming: that the United States is an out-of control monster that is spewing carbon dioxide without a care. That is just not so, according to the World Bank:

· In 1980, U.S. carbon dioxide emissions per capita were 20.8 tons.
· In 1990, U.S. carbon dioxide emissions per capita were 19.1 tons.
· In 2000, U.S. carbon dioxide emissions per capita were 20.2 tons.
· In 2010, U.S. carbon dioxide emissions per capita were 19.3 tons.
· That was the same as it was in 2007, the last year before the 2008-9 recession.
There are many reasons for the recent decline, including better efficiency in the use of appliances such as stoves, refrigerators and televisions. However, cell phones and other new electronic devices are less energy efficient and have increased demand for electric power. Windmills and burning grass will never meet that demand and as long as government subsidies substitute for profits, neither will solar power.

The gun debate also suffers from hysteria replacing facts.  

Then there are guns. Liberal mythology on guns is surreal. Consider this statement from Mark Shields on PBS on December 21, 2012: “You know, Judy, the reality is -- and it's a terrible reality -- since Robert Kennedy died in the Ambassador Hotel on June 4, 1968, more Americans have died from gunfire than died in … all the wars of this country's history, from the Revolutionary through the Civil War, World War I, World War II, in those 43 years. ... I mean, guns are a problem. And I think they still have to be confronted.” 

By “gunfire” he means guns. His statement is misleading in that it makes it seem as if nothing was done in the intervening years. But the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Kennedy led to the Gun Control Act of 1968. So we could say that since passage of historic federal gun legislation in 1968, more people have died from guns than in all the wars combined. Indeed, homicides soared after passage of the legislation, growing from 6.2 homicides per 100,000 people in 1967 (the last full year before the law) to 6.9 in 1968, to 7.3 in 1969, to 7.9 in 1970, 8.6 in 1971, 9.0 in 1972, 9.4 in 1973 and 9.8 in 1974 -- a 58 percent increase in just seven years. 

Homicides remained about the 1967 rate from 1968 to 1998 -- nearly one-third of a century -- peaking at 10.2 homicides per 100,000 people in 1980. 

But for a variety of reasons, homicides fell to 5.7 per 100,000 people in 1999 down to 4.7 in 2011 (and again in 2012) -- a 45-year low. This came even as gun laws loosened and states (beginning with Arizona) began issuing concealed weapons permits to every qualified person not just celebrities and the politically connected. 

In 2000, the National Center for Policy Analysis looked at the effects of a 1995 Texas law that allowed people to bear arms again. Citing engineering statistician William Sturdevant, the center reported (quoting directly): 

· Licensees were 5.7 times less likely to be arrested for violent offenses than the general public -- 127 per 100,000 population versus 730 per 100,000.
· Licensees were 14 times less likely to be arrested for nonviolent offenses than the general public -- 386 per 100,000 population versus 5,212 per 100,000.
· Further, the general public is 1.4 times more likely to be arrested for murder than licensees, and no licensee had been arrested for negligent manslaughter.
The reason for this is gun licensees are screened. Felons and crazy people need not apply. The Center also cited “More Guns, Less Crime” by the University of Chicago's John Lott, who found (in the center’s words): 
· Concealed handgun laws reduce murder by 8.5 percent, rape by 5 percent and severe assault by 7 percent.
· Had right-to-carry prevailed throughout the country, there would have been 1,600 fewer murders, 4,200 fewer rapes and 60,000 fewer severe assaults.
Similarly, Dean Weingarten looked at Florida, which has issued more than 2 million concealed weapons permits -- the most in the nation.

“The Violence Policy Center (VPC) says that Florida tops the nation in killings by people with concealed carry permits. VPC has complete years in their data base for 2008 - 2011 for Florida. There are 27 total killings that are unjustified homicides by CCW permit holders, and 14 of those are domestic homicides. The rate of domestic homicides per 100,000 per year is 0.583 per 100,000 for CCW holders,” Weingarten reported on October 7, 2013. 

“The homicide rate nationally dropped from 5.4 to 4.7 per 100,000 during this period, and the Florida homicide rate dropped from 6.4 to 5.2 per 100,000. Since we are only looking at CCW holders in Florida, we would expect those rates to be a bit higher than the national rate for this period. 

“When we look at the numbers for sworn officers, I found 52 domestic homicides committed by sworn police officers from 2008-2011. For the police, nationally from 2008 through 2011, the rate is 52/2,818,924 or 1.854/100,000 domestic homicides per 100,000 police per year. For the data that we have, police appear to be three times as likely to commit murder as a concealed carry permit holder.” 

In defense of the police, they are far more likely to encounter a football player high on dope and suspended from high school for a third time than a neighborhood watch captain is. Always be careful when second guessing someone who will take a bullet for you. 

Right to carry is sweeping the nation, which helps account for the end of the homicide madness. To be sure, the 4.7 per 100,000 rate is higher than most Western nations and Japan, but when adjusted for race we discover the problem is ethnic, not gun ownership, according to data from the Bureau of Justice Statistics. 

“From 2002 to 2011, the homicide rate for blacks was 6.3 times higher than the rate for whites. Over this 10-year period, the homicide rate among whites decreased by 17%, from 3.3 homicides per 100,000 in 2002 to 2.8 in 2011. Similarly, the homicide rate among blacks declined by 19%, from 21.2 per 100,000 in 2002 to 17.3 in 2011. The homicide rate for persons of other races — persons identified as American Indian, Alaska Native, Asian, Native Hawaiian, or other Pacific Islander — experienced the greatest decline (down 33%), from 2.7 homicides per 100,000 persons in 2002 to 1.8 in 2011,” the Bureau of Justice Statistics reported. 

So what is the liberal solution? Disarm rural white people. 

Gun control advocates have targeted rifles in recent years. This makes no sense. Less than 5 percent of homicides in the United States involve rifles. In 2011, rifles were used to murder 323 people, while murders used clubs or hammers in to kill 496 people, according to FBI statistics. 

The murder rate has fallen so low that liberals have taken to conflating gun deaths as gun murders. But two-thirds of gun deaths are suicides. If you believe a person has control over her body, you should have no trouble with suicide. But liberals believe in nothing but power. In fact, abortion is the only choice they would give you.

The Flat Earth Society died in 300 BC -- slain by Aristotle. Likewise the Earth as the center of the universe died in the 17th century, even though 97 percent of the scientists said it was. The truth shall set you free.

Which is why politicians favor low-information voters.

Why I Vote Democrat!

I vote Democrat because I believe it's okay if our federal government borrows $85 Billion every single month.

I vote Democrat because I care about the children ... but saddling them with trillions of dollars of debt to pay for my bloated leftist government is okay.

I vote Democrat because I believe it's better to pay billions of dollars to people who hate us rather than drill for our own oil, because it might upset some endangered beetle or gopher.

I vote Democrat because I believe it is okay if liberal activist judges rewrite the Constitution to suit some fringe kooks, who would otherwise never get their agenda past the voters.

I vote Democrat because I believe that corporate America should not be allowed to make profits for themselves or their shareholders. They need to break even and give the rest to the federal government for redistribution.

I vote Democrat because I'm not concerned about millions of babies being aborted, so long as we keep all of the murderers on death row alive.

I vote Democrat because I believe it's okay if my Nobel Peace Prize winning President uses drones to assassinate people, as long as we don't use torture.

I vote Democrat because I believe people, who can't accurately tell us if it will rain on Friday, can predict the polar ice caps will melt away in ten years if I don't start driving a Chevy Volt.

I vote Democrat because Freedom of Speech is not as important as preventing people from being offended.

I vote Democrat because I believe the oil companies' profit of 3% on a gallon of gas is obscene, but the federal government taxing that same gallon of gas at 15% isn't obscene.

I vote Democrat because I believe a moment of silent prayer at the beginning of the school day constitutes government indoctrination and an intrusion on parental authority ..... but sex education, condom distribution and multiculturalism are all values-neutral.

I vote Democrat because I agonize over threats to the natural environment from CO2, acid rain and toxic waste ..... but I am totally oblivious of the threats to our social environment from pornography, promiscuity and family dissolution.

I vote Democrat because I believe lazy, uneducated stoners should have just as big a say in running our country as entrepreneurs who risk everything and work 70 hours per week.

I vote Democrat because I don't like guns ..... so no one else should be allowed to own one.

I vote Democrat because I see absolutely no correlation between welfare and the rise of illegitimacy.

I vote Democrat because I see absolutely no correlation between judicial leniency and surging crime rates.

I vote Democrat because I believe you don't need an ID to vote but you do to buy beer.

I vote Democrat because I believe marriage is obsolete, except for homosexuals.

I vote Democrat because I think AIDS is spread by insufficient funding.

I vote Democrat because I think "fairness" is far more important than freedom.

I vote Democrat because I think an "equal outcome" is far more important than equal opportunity.

I vote Democrat because I would rather have free stuff than freedom.


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This is a great list which, I must admit, I flagrantly and without remorse stole off a comment thread from someone else who claimed they stole it from another Yahoo commenter. So, the way I see it, I didn't steal it...I just received stolen goods. I think that's safe, isn't it? It doesn't make me a lying, cheating, stealing Democrat to post it, does it?

HAHAHA! 

Thursday, February 20, 2014

The Only Possible Explanation

How to get a handle on the irrationality of the left?

They aren't bound by the laws of logic or cause and effect like the rest of us.  They're driven by their fantasies, and they appear willing to abandon a system that's worked for hundreds of years to the benefit of people all over the world, and replace it with something that has been an abysmal failure every time it's been tried.  And they believe they can do this simply by wishing it into existence.

Here's just a couple of the kinds of things they are prone to say in pursuit of this fantasy:

Kathleen Sebelius:  "There is absolutely no evidence, and every economist will tell you this, that there is any job loss related to the ACA." 

Barack Obama:  "There is not a smidgen of  corruption in the IRS targeting of conservative groups".

Nancy Pelosi:  "Not having a job is a good thing, because it allows you to learn the piano".  (So I guess we don't need to worry about things like how you're going to feed your family.  The state will take care of everything).

There is only one possible explanation for this kind of strangeness:  leftists are all from a different planet.  According to theoretical physicists, there exist an infinite number of interwoven parallel worlds.  These planets may appear identical on the surface, but can differ in surprising ways.
  
The world conservatives inhabit just happens to have three dimensions which we conveniently call X, Y and Z.  Anything in 3D space can be located precisely in terms of those 3.  This gives rise to a predictable, logical world where cause and effect can be predicted and measured.  This works in the physical world, and it also works in such things as economics, and the dynamics of such things as health care systems.   Conservatives function just fine in a world such as that.  Earth is such a place.



Other worlds may appear identical at first glance, but may in fact have many more dimensions.  Possibly the number of dimensions on one of these planets can be changed from time to time by the issuance of an Executive Order.  In such a world, things like logic, cause and effect, and rational consequences of actions may not exist, and denizens of such a world may not have the ability to grasp such concepts. 


So that's it then.  Progressives come from this other planet, let's call it Unicornia, (you may have a better name, if so stick it in the comments) which may have, who knows, 11 dimensions or something, and you just can't expect them to have a clue how things work on Earth.

Here's a conceptual graphic of an infinite progression of worlds.  For the sake of clarity, Earth is the one in front, and the others may appear identical, but all have different spatial geometries.  See if you can spot the planet where all the liberals came from: 

Monday, February 17, 2014

The Final Crusade


I'm once again going to take us back on a little trip through history to see if we can find any comparisons or answers to some of the issues we're facing today. Y'all know by now this is one of my favorite things to do.
This time, I'm going to take a look back at the crusades. Many people feel the Christians of Europe simply decided to invade the holy land and take it over, just because they wanted it for themselves. Nothing could be further from the truth. The fact is that before the first crusade, Muslims had invaded different parts of Europe numerous times. The ultimate goal of these people was to convert or kill every non Muslim they could find. The results were bloody and brutal.
Eventually, the Europeans came to the simple conclusion that we can either fight 'em here, or fight 'em there. They felt if they controlled the region they could prevent any further invasions before they began. This must have been good logic because it worked, the Muslims were far too busy trying to regain the holy lands to think about invading to the north.
It's a little known fact that it was more than just the Catholics who took part in the crusades. Protestant Christians from places like Scotland along with the Coptic Christians of the middle east, also felt the threat of the Muslims and took an active role. They all came together to fight this constant and growing threat.
Today we're facing the same threat. Islam has only one goal, to kill or convert every single non Muslim. What's worse is that they're fighting their war on two fronts. First is the war of force, we see that every day and we see it growing all over the world, yet we sit back and take no action. Second, and perhaps more concerning, they're fighting a war of deception and infiltration. As many Americans sit back and preach tolerance for the non violent Muslims, feeling all warm and fuzzy about it, the Muslims are systematically taking over. You see them in politics; every time I turn around I see another Muslim member of the Obama administration pop up. They're taking over in the corporate world as well, more and more major corporations are becoming Muslim run.
If these people are truly peace loving, why are they not speaking out to call an end to the violence perpetrated by the extremists? Because in secret, they support these people. The Muslim you work with, the one you consider to be your buddy who you hang out with, sees you as something less than human. It's part of the teachings they learn from birth.
We must learn to come together as Christians of all denominations and put an end to this threat; if not, it could spell the end of Christianity and we'll be the ones to blame.
There's yet another threat to Christianity to be considered and this one comes from within. More and more people are leaving Christianity completely. It's not so much that they don't believe. No, it's more because they don't want to admit. If you say you don't believe in religion, that completely frees you up. You don't have to worry about guilt or consequences, you can pretty much live however you want and you don't have to take any personal responsibility for your actions. Many of your teenagers are going to church with you every Sunday, but aren't grasping the beliefs of the religion. Why should they? Look at their role models. Most actors, actresses, directors and producers in Hollywood make no secret of their non Christian beliefs. You can see it in the movies and TV shows they produce, yet we continue to throw our money at 'em in piles. They're fighting for things like abortion....and being very outspoken about it.
I'm all about freedom of religion, our country was built on it. I don't care what a person chooses to follow as long as it doesn't infringe on my rights or pose a threat to me. The religion of Islam poses a constant and ongoing threat to us all, whether we be Christian or otherwise. It doesn't matter what religion you are, if it's not Muslim, you're in danger.
It's time to begin our final crusade before all is lost forever.

In praise of Boehner and McConnell?

It’s been common among my colleagues on the Right to deride House Speaker John Boehner and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell as “RINOs,”  or “Republicans In Name Only.’ Weak, cowardly leaders who are practically supine before the Democrats, even after taking back the House in the Tea party wave of 2010. And the complaints are understandable: conservatives won a big election then and, since the House represents the people directly, arguably represent a majority of the nation. So why is the debt still going up, why is spending still increasing, and why (among other things) are we still stuck with the albatross of Obamacare? When are we ever going to fight? Throwing up our hands in the air in exasperation, we decide it’s the Washington Republican Establishment that doesn’t want really want reform and we focus our ire on Boehner and McConnell, even hitting the latter with a primary challenger.
“Not so hasty!”, as Tolkien’s Treebeard might say.
At National Review, Charles Cooke (no squish, himself) argues that tactics matter, that passing the continuing resolution last fall and the recent debt-ceiling increase were both wise, and that Boehner and McConnell are playing  a smart long game:
“I’d be willing to risk losing the Senate if we could keep America,” Mitch McConnell’s primary challenger, Matt Bevin, told Glenn Beck this morning. What an astonishingly incoherent and misguided sentence that is. “For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?” asks the King James Bible. A fair question, yes, but politics is a different game altogether, and, in this case, the alternative isn’t an otherworldly victory or spiritual advancement but simply more loss. The question for Bevin must be “for what shall it profit a man if he shall lose another debt-ceiling fight and lose his party’s shot at the Senate as well?” And the answer is “not at all.” If this is what we are to expect from the revolution — a host of nihilistic, suicidal, performance artists who would rather be outside of the control room screaming than inside and in charge — then give me the cynical calculations of a Mitch McConnell any day of the week.
“Any time, you and I question the schemes of the do-gooders,” Ronald Reagan complained in 1964, “we’re denounced as being opposed to their humanitarian goals. It seems impossible to legitimately debate their solutions with the assumption that all of us share the desire to help the less fortunate. They tell us we’re always ‘against,’ never ‘for’ anything.” Could this sentiment not be applied currently to some slices of the Right? After all, pretty much every single Republican agrees on the question of Obamacare. Pretty much every single Republican agrees on taxes and spending and the size of government. Pretty much every single Republican agrees on the debt. They disagree, however, on tactics. And tactics matter. Make no mistake: For all the bluster, the Democratic party and the wider progressive movement is absolutely terrified of Obamacare, which has been a liability for almost five years now, and which is not going away. As I noted yesterday, the majority of the elections this year are going to yield fights between a candidate who wants to repeal the law completely and a candidate who is critical of it in at least one way. There is nothing that the president would like more at this moment than to play last October over again — to paint the GOP as an extreme, risk-taking, rump party holding the country hostage. McConnell and Boehner were right to recognize that handing him that opportunity this year would have been a disaster.
I largely agree, though I believe the “Establishment” could have been more aggressive in the recent debt-ceiling argument by, for example, demanding that insurance companies not get a guaranteed bailout in the event they lose money over Obamacare. That would at least have forced the Democrats to go on record as being in favor of giving public money to one of the most hated industries in the nation.
But, overall, I think Cooke is right. It’s not a cop-out to say we only control one-half of one branch of the government; it’s simply an acknowledgement of reality and that, therefore, our options are limited. While it’s satisfying to give in to the urge to fight-fight-fight at every instance, it profits neither conservatism, the Republican Party, or the nation –to which our ultimate responsibility lies– to fight battles we’re sure to lose, such as the “defund Obamacare” effort of last fall. The will to fight is important, but knowing when to strike is equally so, if the goal is to win.
Politics is an art that requires patience, a willingness to move in increments, rather than having it all now. It’s an art the Left practiced to take over the Democratic Party after the 1960s, and it’s served them well. Populist, Tea Party conservatives have done less well at it, perhaps because of a powerful “Jacksonian” strain in our political DNA — we’re “hasty,” in other words, and we mustn’t in our impatience let the Democrats off the hook they’ve caught themselves on before November’s elections.
If so, then perhaps Cooke is right, and we should praise McConnell and Boehner, rather than throw rotten tomatoes at them.

You may call me RINO, now.
Addendum: To answer the almost-inevitable “Well, Fahrquar, when are we gonna fight? It’ll be more of the same shite after we take over the Senate!”, well, that’s nihilism and I’m not a nihilist. Yes, it’s possible the Beltway Establishment would rather accommodate itself to the expanded progressive “new normal,” but, for now, I’m willing to give them some leash and work like the dickens to give the Republicans the Senate — while electing the most conservative candidates possible, at the same time. Then we test them. With both chambers, they’ll have no excuse for not passing reform budgets, repealing and replacing Obamacare, and fixing entitlements. Place the onus on Obama, let him threaten vetoes: momentum will be on our side and, in the required compromises, we’ll have a much better chance of winning the incremental game.
And if the leadership balks, then we break out the pitchforks and torches.

Sunday, February 16, 2014

Banker Suicides, Central Bank Fire And Global Currency Manipulation

I have been researching the deaths of the 6 bankers who supposedly committed suicide and what I hIave uncovered is disturbing to say the least. So disturbing in fact, that I have mailed copies of my findings to top trusted individuals. 

On February 5, 2014, the Argentine Central Bank was destroyed by a fire in Buenos Aires. They are a Boston, Massachusetts
based company known as Iron Mountain, Inc. They manage, store and destroy documents and tapes for over 156, 000 companies in 36 countries. Mainly, corporate and banking industry documents, as well as health documents. They have recently been working with the IRS to convert to an REIT (Real Estate Investment Trust) with the hope of attracting investors. No ruling on that from the IRS yet.

I started digging a little more and discovered that the 6 suicidal bankers worked for companies that had dealings with Iron Mountain, Inc. In fact, Deutche Bank is under investigation by international regulators for supposed currency manipulation. They even fired a currency trader in Argentina in the middle of the investigation. The President of Argentina had instructed the securities regulator to verify whether the companies it regulates had documents on deposit at the Iron Mountain facility.

And then, the whole thing went up in flames. Seems very unlikely to me that a company that houses the world's most sensitive documents and tapes wouldn't have better precautions in place to prevent a fire from destroying everything.

So I started wondering about our own U.S. Government and what involvement they might have with Iron Mountain and not surprisingly, Iron Mountain has been awarded millions of dollars for various contract awards by our government with the most recent being a contract to store our Veteran's records.

Iron Mountain, Inc. has several associations listed on their website that I find troubling. They include:
  • Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC)
  • Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association (AFCEA)
  • Association for Data Center Management (AFCOM)
  • American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA)
  • Association for Information and Image Management (AIIM)
  • Association of Legal Administrators (ALA)
  • ARMA International
  • BITS
  • Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS)
  • International Association for Contract and Commercial Management (IACCM)
  • International Legal Technology Association (ILTA)
  • Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)
  • National Capitol Chapter of the Association for Information and Image Management (NCC-AIIM)
  • National Association for Information Destruction (NAID)
  • PCI Security Standards Council
  • Professional Records and Information Services Management (PRISM)
That's right, PRISM. I wrote a post about PRISM in June of 2013. 

According to a Wall Street Journal report, British, US, European Union and Swiss regulators have allegedly found electronic chat room messages that appear to show that traders from different banks shared information about client orders and agreed to sequence their own trades to take advantage. Deutsche Bank has allegedly spent millions of dollars going through traders' emails and chat sessions looking for specific dates, phrases and keywords to root out evidence of wrongdoing. RPS and JP Morgan are the latest financial groups to ban multi-bank and multi-dealer chat rooms. 

  1. Ryan Henry Crane was a JP Morgan equities trading executive. He was found dead on February 3, 2014 and no cause of death has been released.
  2. Gabriel Magee died on January 28, 2014 at JP Morgan's European Headquarters after "falling" from the roof. Although he was not a trader or a banker, he did work in the technology division for JP Morgan.
  3. William Broeksmit was a recently retired executive at Deutsche Bank AG. Broeksmit had two stints at Frankfurt-based Deutsche Bank, Europe’s biggest investment bank by revenue, first from 1996 to 2001, then from 2008 until his retirement last February. He worked as an independent consultant in the interim. When he rejoined the bank in 2008 it was in a newly created position, head of portfolio risk optimization. He was found hanging in a residence on January 26, 2014.
  4. Karl Slym was the Managing Director for Tata Motors from 2012 to 2014. He was responsible for mapping out the company's strategy to accelerate growth plans and gain positive leverage in the automobile sector. He died January 26, 2014 after supposedly jumping from his 33rd floor room in Bangkok, Thailand.
  5. Mike Dueker was the Chief Economist for Russell Investments. He also wrote for Russell's Market Outlook publications, forecasting the business cycle and the target federal funds rate. He supposedly jumped a 4 foot fence and tumbled down a 40 to 50 foot embankment to his death in Tacoma, Washington on January 29, 2014.
  6. Richard Talley was the founder and CEO of American Title Services in Colorado. He and his company were under investigation by state insurance regulators but no other information as to why is forthcoming. Mr. Talley apparently committed suicide by shooting himself 7 or 8 times in the head and chest with a nail gun on February 4, 2014. 
  7. MISSING! David Bird: Bird was a reporter for the Wall Street Journal covering OPEC and he has been missing since January 11, 2014. OPEC, with support from Asia and Russia are planning to introduce a new currency backed by gold for oil.
I do not believe these men committed suicide. I believe they either knew of involvement in currency manipulation or they were a part of it. And they were permanently shut up for their knowledge and/or work.

The President and CEO of Iron Mountain, Inc. is William Meaney and he is a former CIA Operations Officer. Is Iron Mountain nothing more than a CIA front used to gather the documents from the world's largest banks and health insuranceindustries. They are associated with PRISM which is the clandestine mass electronic surveillance mining data program that was launched in 2007 by the NSA. 

I know all of these events are related and I will continue my research. I have sent the information I do have to top trusted officials because they have the resources to investigate the matter in greater depth than I do. I will update as I find out more.