Sunday, January 24, 2010

Cult Suicide By Presidential Decree

The polls are all out there. Virginia, New Jersey and now Massachusetts have slapped Obama in the face. People are angry nationwide with lefties more angry than most and Obama sends a clear message through his Maltese Falcon, Gibbs, that their losses are victories because the polls show it so and they are staying the course.

Unfortunately, the course is so foggy and inept that most people don't know the course setting, but they know they don't like it.

A year ago I saw Hope, Change and Obama on every surface possible. Today, even Volvos display a shadow where those stickers have been torn off. The cult of Obama is in shambles as is his administration and his presidency, but Obama keeps touching on, thinking deeply and showing his shallowness at every turn, especially as he worries about things that citizens don't care about.

What was heralded as a new beginning is now nothing. Jobs are gone, homes are gone and Obama doesn't seem to get it nor does he seem to care. He offers up now cliched platitudes about Bush's fault, corporate greed, banker fat cats, truck driving fools and countless insults against every faction of society and as a child would, sinks into his presidential throne and sulks.

Those that have and do represent the greatness of America weep while those begging for more government largess keep grabbing for more as the ship sinks.

The cult is rearranging the deck chairs.

Friday, January 22, 2010

Zack Space Sick Over Health Care Wind Changes

Thanks to WMD


Space Says No to Healthcare Bill
An Ohio Congressman takes a stand when it comes to the healthcare debate.

Takes a stand? Yeah, and if you don't like it, just wait minute...

On the heels of an announcement by House leadership that they may try and bring the Senate Healthcare Bill to a vote in the House of Representatives, Congressman Zack Space says the legislation is unacceptable to the 18th Congressional District, his constituents and Ohioans across the state.

Unacceptable? Like Cap and Trade? Like all his other votes for socialized medicine? Where's he standing now?

In a letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi the Congressman says he will not support the current healthcare bill saying that by forcing consumers to purchase insurance it will mean higher costs for constituents and mean a financial burden they cannot manage.

Financial burden? You mean like all the trillions of dollars that we don't have, but Zacko still votes to spend? That's a stance. Right?

Space also says he's disappointed that the leadership would even consider this plan.

Disappointed? Yeah, Zack we're pretty disappointed in the leadership being demonstrated in Washington, but you stay firm in your stance on puppies and free candy for all.

Gee, I wonder if a wind of change named Scott Brown blew up your skirt. Uncomfortable, eh?

Wednesday, January 20, 2010

You're In Trouble When Even Your Kids Don't Like You



MAG: Even kids starting to turn on Obama...

He's completely toast when Bo bites him.

via Drudge

Ultimate Guide To The Stupidity Of Government Control


Today is the anniversary of the enactment of prohibition. The government, in all of its glory, set out to save America from itself. Just as today we have the green movement, anti-tobacco zealots and over reaching paternalistic Judas' such as New York Mayor Bloomberg, prohibitionists enacted onerous taxes, fees, programs to indoctrinate the youth and segregationist laws placing saloons and bars away from downtown society. In short, prohibitionists knew better than the joe sixpack of the day much as blue staters today want to lord over red staters and other Americans too "dumb" to know what's good for them.
So, on the anniversary of prohibition we find ourselves facing a different playing field with the election of Senator Scott Brown which leaves today's "prohibitionists" short one vote for their health care reform. The have done to their current targets of prohibition, such as tobacco, the same things they did then to alcohol. They have taxed, regulated and harassed doctors, insurance companies and to the average citizen they have offered government care for the betterment of all.
Just as the society controllers of prohibition failed then, they will fail now. Just as they put millions of Americans out of work then, they will do so now. Just as they created organized crime then, they will obliquely create new crime and new crime syndicates now. Just as then, government is not the answer now.
As with the federally enacted prohibition against the imbibing of alcohol, today's purveyors of mandatory health care cite the need for such legislation as a moral imperative for the health of the nation, the health of industry and business and for the good of society as a whole. Indeed, just as prohibitionists spoke of the dregs of society, the indigent, the immigrant, the negro and the rural ignorant, being helped, today's "reformists" speak in more veiled terms of he disadvantaged, the undocumented, the mentally challenged and those unable to grasp the true needs of a modern day society. Prohibitionists thumped Bibles for the cause and marched and swung axes in pursuit of propriety. Today's reformers thump political tracts and 'white papers" of reported gravitas, march and swing government promises and money in pursuit of a just society.
The people are awakening, just as they did to the unintended consequences of prohibition, to what this massive government takeover of health care will mean to their lives. People have historically trusted politicians in this country and that trust was and now is being betrayed by politicians. These politicians believe they are smarter than those they represent and as is usually the case, politicians are quite surprised when a wake up call points out just how stupidly they have been acting.
Scott Brown is the de jour wake up call.

Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Meatloaf Loves Obama, Except For That Whole Two Out Of Three Thing

How many elections can Obama cause to be lost?

He went to support Coakley and he caused defeat. Coakley is now talking about wars past, as if she could even begin to understand any conflict in her whiny concession speech.

She only shows how stupid she is..

Obama Rejected By The Slovenly, Fat, No Brain America That Makes America Work, Kennedy Weeps, But Not For Mary Joe

Scott Brown Wins Massachusetts Senate Seat - Coakley Concedes

She, as Obama, has been a wuss. Ted Kennedy's seat has gone to a Republican.

The liberal/progressive/socialist/communist party in America has been told to shut up, you're killing our party and now we have lost the safest seat in America.

Good for the people.

Brown Has Won

How much will the Democrats mitigate the victory? Cut the margin of victory, that's how. And they will do it. Just to lessen the slap in the face the Democrats have received. It is they're only hope.

Coakley Concedes

Kennedy is dead, long live the Brown.

Coakley Looking Bad

It appears that all there is to decide is whether the voters and Brown win or whether the unions, ACORN and a totally out of touch Democrat machine wins.



No Unshaven Jihadis

Just got back. I talked to a good Father, good friends and family members that are shrinkologists and I still cannot find the plan or the logic in a wonderful life gone so soon. At his point any plan or logic is beyond my understanding ergo I will not write about it again until I do.

I spent days with old friends, many that I have not seen for years. In and out of conversations the main topic was Scott Brown. Those of the old school scoffed that a Republican had no chance while the converted dreamily smiled that Brown will win. For the most part those I spoke with wouldn't understand Massachusetts politics if it bit them.

I believe Brown will win the election, but I am not sure that he will win the count.

On the plus side, absentee ballots had to in and logged before the machine knew it was in trouble. Without the multiple voters and the dead Coakley loses a vast edge. With all the typical union thug money and boots on the ground Coakley gets back some edge, but the electorate seems to have finally tired of the same old schtick. Polls, always unreliable, and anecdotal evidence such as yard signs and die hard Democrat neighbors who are voting for Brown can't tell the real story. Massachusetts has produced winners before that were 9 points down before the election, but won by 4.

The real election will be in the precincts after the polls have closed and might be decided by the (re)strength of the Kennedy machine that has become somewhat complacent. With the death of the Lion of the Senate, Dearest Teddy, still fresh in some minds the machine may creak and move into action. Still, the machine may have lost its lust with the last of the Kennedy boys gone.

One can't really get the gist of successful political tactics while sipping drinks at the yacht club with someone else's wife. The younger Kennedys might be counting on the Southies to do their magic, but are the Southies still in the game? Will they turn their rough and tough minds and fists to politics once again to ensure a group of swill sipping punk kids of the older generation will stay in power? If it were me, I'd tell them it ain't rain making them wet.

Will the army of Kennedy volunteers rise one last time like Napoleon's ghost army to protect the first family of Massachusetts? Will the numbers runners fill the back counting rooms to fill the ballot boxes with the correct number of correct votes precinct by precinct? Have they this time even taken the time to make those numbers add up in just the correct ratio?

I don't know.

One thing I did learn on this trip is that when a sad, unshaven old man in a dress coat two sizes too large approaches airport security, he gets through security a lot faster than those less tired and better groomed. I presume that in the footnotes of the TSA manual there is mention of the fact that there are no unshaven Jihadists.

Monday, January 18, 2010

For My Reader

Back tomorrow. Now you can relax, eh?

Friday, January 15, 2010

Union Support Finally Bought By Back Room WH Deal For Health Care

It was only time before the American public found out who Obama believes is truly more equal.

Special Deal for Labor Unions in Health Care Bill
The labor unions have been fighting the Senate health care bill for some time now--specifically, the provision that levies high taxes on "Cadillac" plans that exceed certain maximums. That was expected to be a sticking point in the negotiations between the Senate and the House, but as Samuel Johnson once said, "the prospect of being hanged focuses the mind wonderfully." With the potential loss of their 60 vote majority lurking ahead, they can't dawdle on the details; it's time to haul in their lente and festina like hell.

Take unpopular unions and match them with an unpopular president and congress and you have an Obama success. Huh?

Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Castle


Coakley Hires DSCC Thug To Rough Up Reporter

And Brown gets small donations from all over adding up to $1.3 million dollars. Unions are pouring hundreds of thousands of dollars into trying to save Coakley who is now embarrassing Obama and the kids in DC.

This Photo May Change The Election

A follow up by the reporter thrown to the ground:

Assailant Was a Coakley Staffer on Loan from the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee?
A tipster tells me that the man who was pushing me outside of a Capitol Hill fundraiser Tuesday night for Massachusetts Democratic Senate candidate Martha Coakley is Michael Meehan.

Meehan heads up a firm called Blue Line Strategic Communications along with his partner David DiMartino, who was outside the fundraiser with Coakley tonight and introduced himself to me there. The AP reported on Monday that Meehan is also working for Coakley: "The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee also dispatched Michael Meehan, a media consultant with ties to Massachusetts, to assist the Coakley camp with messaging."


It seems that Meehan has worked for a number of candidates that want to make nice with thugs. Maybe that is why he was hired. He obviously understands thuggery.

HERE is his posting on LinkedIn.

SEIU Goes To MA, Coakley Goes To DC, Brown Goes To The People

Sounds about right.

SEIU goes to Massachusett(e)s to steal a lot of votes, Coakley goes to DC to steal a lot of union member's money and Brown goes to the people to campaign for "the people's seat."

Purple Army to Coakley’s rescue: SEIU sends $685,000 more; And speaking of thugs…

As usual, Coakley is surrounded by thugs.



At least the Kennedy's learned to outsource their thuggery.

via Michelle Malkin

Tuesday, January 12, 2010

Why Coakley Scares Harry Or Why Reid Has To Win Health Care Reform

Will Harry Reid retire at the end of this year? I believe he will. Yes, I do.

Harry Reid's Swansong

Gaffes? Part of it. Polls in the sewer? Stinks, doesn't it Harry.

I think Harry decided a while back that this was it, so why not go out in a blaze of glory. Health Care Reform. Maybe he thought there'd be Harry Reid Memorial hospitals all over America instead of his name on a political toe tag in the morgue of the House.

Fund is right. This may be Harry's swansong and Scott Brown just might have a bullet to cut that swansong short. Even if Coakley wins (can you spell SEIUACORN), the special election result may give one or two senators the cajones and brains to vote no. If Scott Brown wins and Harry hurries up the Senate vote in hopes of passage, it will be his swansong and the Democrat majority will die with the swan.

Even with the botox and new glasses Harry looks tired and his body language is that of a fighter who wonders how the rounds swept by so fast. Even more tiring is that camera-man Chuck Schumer is lurking in the wings plotting a palace coup against Harry.

Harry is more than aware that nothing stands between Schumer and the cameras. Not if they want to survive. Chuck cares that much.

Harry will go down in the fifth, but it is unclear whether he will throw in the towel or will be still swinging. Even if Coakley wins, not a sure thing, Harry could lose. Twice.

Monday, January 11, 2010

Klass Illegally Brandished Utensil, Police And Intruders Horrified

Janet Napolitano repotedly following case closely, may outlaw cutlery in US. Ginsu lobby aghast, but will side with criminals in special backroom deal to protect market share with dull plasticware.

Myleene Klass warned after brandishing knife to deter intruders
Police tell TV presenter she was acting illegally in waving kitchen knife at youths who were peering in window late at night
Hertfordshire police warned her she should not have used a knife to scare off the youths because carrying an "offensive weapon", even in her own home, was illegal.

Sunday, January 10, 2010

Ahmadinejad Can Kiss Our Collective Ass

I'm in a foul a mood as possible tonight and though I don't suffer fools generally, tonight they piss me off.

Ahmadinejad Cries Like A Baby and Wants Reparations For Nothing Except Wussy Rights For Victim Hood

Hey Chairman Shortness and Limited Brain Power, your country should have been turned into a parking lot centuries ago.

Shut up you little twit. Nobody cares what you think and nobody cares about your revolution except when you become a bigger thorn in the body good. Then your country will become a parking lot at $5.00 a day long term and so far away from anything important that it will take a space ship to get somewhere in under a day.

The Best Politics Is Personal

Party work is not easy, but man can it be exhilarating. Weeks of long days, bad meals, great people and an up or down verdict has its benefits. One benefit is winning when your message resonates with the voter.

This is a must read for those serious about change in America opposed to the slow painful descent into a gray society of big government solutions that aren't

Where Has the Republican ‘Market’ Gone? Should We Go There?

Third party politics is a suspension of reality whether it is short term because of victory or two or the long term as it erodes a clear message from the electorate.

Paula Nowakowski

This is a horrible Sunday. I know God has a plan, but I am bereft in seeking logic upon hearing that she is gone. That she leaves behind one of the best friends I have in the world brings a sorrow that I wish I could help him with.

Paula was a smart, very smart, no BS professional who also was a funny, fun and an incredibly interesting person. We used to in quiet moments discuss political biographies we had both read and were immensely amused and interested in the minutiae of particular works. Needless to say I was incredibly impressed with the width and depth of her intelligence and knowledge. In a selfish way it was so gratifying to have such conservations, but never more so than when she agreed with my summations. When she disagreed, I listened carefully because I knew I was in for a lesson which never failed or disappointed me. Dear Lord, she was only 46 years old. Why?

She was Cong. John Boehner's right arm and was damned good at it. Boehner made her better, but she made Boehner better. Paula did the work required by Boehner's office, but she not only improved it, she found solutions, never for expediency, but for principle that made it work and work correctly.

Besides her political work she and Michael Smith helped put together one of the great oddities in DC, the Kennedy Boehner Dinner for the parochial schools in and around our nations capitol. Over the years the dinner raised millions.

To sit and have a cocktail and a chat with the pair was one of the most enjoyable evenings we could look forward to. The year the new stadium was built in Cleveland we went to a Brown's game when the temperature was hot, the Dog Pound was panting and we laughed and cheered before going to a dinner in a little Italian restaurant. Michael and I went next door to a "gift shop" and found toy cell phones that made incredibly obnoxious ring tones which we rang over and over chatting to imagined world leaders telling them what smucks they were. Paula laughed so hard she almost had tears coming down her face.

Work loads got in the way of Michael and Paula coming to Columbus to meet us for a Red Wings /Blue Jackets game. Hockey, especially the Red Wings was a passion for Paula. I wish we had been able to make a game.

I am praying for Paula and for the good man left alone.

May the good Lord cradle this incredible woman close to his heart. She loved Him and Miss Paula loved His work. She also loved a drink and a good joke which allows me to believe the Lord has a sense of humor.

Michael, I love you and I cannot express the sorrow and sadness that I feel. Man, I am at a loss.

Saturday, January 09, 2010

Geez, Conservative Racism?

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada described then-Sen. Barack Obama as "light skinned" and "with no Negro dialect." Obama is the nation's first African-American president

“I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy,” he said. “I mean, that’s a storybook, man.”

When two "conservatives" like Reid and Biden are saying these type of things you know they only see President Obama through the lens of racism.

Where on God's earth are the media and lberals, but I repeat myself.

Massachusetts Kennedyites Slip Lower Into The Slime

Change the law so a Republican governor can't appoint a senator, change it back so a Democrat can and now, possibly, fully thwart the will of the electorate. Typical state politics? Yes, in Massachusetts.

Paul Kirk Threatens Constitutional Crisis if Scott Brown Elected "Absolutely," Kirk said, when asked if he'd vote for the bill, even if Brown captures the seat. "It would be my responsibility as United States Senator, representing the people and understanding Senator Kennedy's agenda and the rest of it ... I think you're asking me a hypothetical question but I'd be pleased to vote for the bill."

Responsibility, a dead senator and "the rest of it" all in one sentence. Even a 2:00 AM pledge of love on a Provincetown dune has a more sincere sound. And more ethic.

Friday, January 08, 2010

Elvis Was 'Evil'

If you like Elvis, we may have a disagreement. When the Col. was in charge, Elvis made some really bad stuff, but when Elvis was in charge, Elvis made some really really good stuff.

Case in point, Kid Creole. If you like Blue Hawaii, well then, you're lookin' for trouble round here, cause Kid Creole was his best movie.

Thursday, January 07, 2010

A True American Hero Is Gone

via This Ain't Hell

I didn't know this had happened. I can't add more so you should go read the complete story by TSO. Col. Howard was a true American hero.



We, as a nation, are truly blessed to have soldiers such as Col. Howard. There are many that serve doing their duty, honoring their country, protecting those fighting next to them and us here at home.

Kissed By A Guardrail

Went to the grocery store (had to, buy one, get one free). Store was packed. People acting like health care reform passed or that the apocolypse, but I digress, were upon us.

Driving home some genius moron talking on his cell phone, manipulating world currencies and driving too fast had to lock up his breaks to avoid hitting a number of us driving conservatively. Two of us got lightly tapped by said genius. I slowly went around on the snow and ice and tapped a guardrail. The other, in a Prius, got the inside guardrail with a lot of damage.

Genius drove on so I geared back up in four wheel drive and caught up with him at a stop light 2 miles down the road. Called the Patrol and gave them the model and color of the van he was driving along with the license plate number. I told them he was still chatting on his phone and was asked if there were any other identifying things about the van that I could see.

I smiled and started reading his bumper stickers off. Gore, Kerry, Hillary, Obama, Arms are for hugging, and many others. My favorite though was No Peace/No Justice - Know Peace/Know Justice.

The Patrol was on him like white on rice. Know justice, know peace.

Al Gore Visit

He must be visiting. It is snowing heavily and the temperature is 24 degrees.

Can A President be Charged For Economic Drunk Driving?

via Tony Phyrillas

Global Hoaxing To Get Spy Satellites To Curb Dangerous Icebergs

Spying on Icebergs Instead of Terrorists?

Obama Program Diverts Intelligence Assets to Climate Research

Some man-made disasters are bigger than others. It might be noted that some man-made disasters get votes. And money. Lots of it.

So the Obama administration is diverting valuable satellites used to protect our nation to aid the suspect science of man-made global warming. So, instead of tracking known murderers who have high jacked a religion to justify their proven slaughter of innocents, the administration will track icebergs to try to prove that Mother Earth has a cold which will lead to a disastrous fever sometime in the future.

Randy Andy Sullivan Sez Invade Israel And Occupy!



If that is not silly enough for you look down the page for further laughter and frivolity.

Yep, "The Naked Novelist And The Dead Reputation." On the same page. Coincidence? I think not.

Wednesday, January 06, 2010

Chicago Police Had Exams? Who Knew?

How embarassing.

Police May Scrap Entrance Exam: Report

Bureaucrats Will Kill Us

Not just because they are unelected, union protected and pushing their own big government agenda, but because they out number us and control us. Not a good mix. At least not for working Americans.


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Progressives Hate To Love Sarah Palin

They're obsessed with her like little boys who love the teacher they swear to their friends they hate.

She's sooo un-American. (Swoon)

She's dumb. (Heart throbbing)

To show how much they can't stand the teacher they hiss lies to their friends about her.

She wanted to ban books. (Ummmm)

Her husband is a traitor just like daddy sez. (Help me daddy, she's so hot)

She was a beauty queen. (Sweet Jesus help me cause daddy can't)

She was just a small town mayor. (I can't help myself)

She quit being Governor because she's a quitter. (Too late cause I'm gone. She's just like me)

Unfortunately, these little kids grow up to be bitter.

They're bitter about Sarah Palin because they're scared of her just like the teacher. Their scared of their friends laughing at them if they knew what they really thought. Little kids can be cruel like that.

These people are fun to watch, which is wrong. One shouldn't laugh at those with problems, even ones they brought on themselves.

'There Were A Number Of Things He Was For On The Campaign Trail"

Pelosi finally gets it? She gets that Emanuel Axlerod Wright Ayers Obama may have told a few fibs from Chicago to Peoria?

Who says hope and change aren't afoot in America?

Nancy Pelosi takes swipe at President Obama's campaign promises
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, piqued with White House pressure to accept the Senate health reform bill, threw a rare rhetorical elbow Tuesday at President Barack Obama, questioning his commitment to his 2008 campaign promises.

A leadership aide said it was no accident.

No, I don't believe it was an accident.

In fact, Pelosi the peace maker and most transparent person on the hill, just fired a bow shot over the USS(R) Obama which now makes it a civil war. Moscow on the Potomac style. Washington on the Moskva.

Pelosi on Obama. Obama on Pelosi.

Pelosi's Transparency Leaves Voters In The Dark





Pelosi tells C-SPAN: 'There has never been a more open process'
"We will do what is necessary to pass the bill," Pelosi said.

Pelosi (left) speaks to the cameras.

Lone Republican - Holly Robichaud

If you haven't already you should be reading or following The Lone Republican on Twitter.

The Lone Republican is Holly Robichaud of the Boston Herald. I know Holly and have worked with her and I know I'm in for a real fight when Holly leads the charge, but then it is easier because I know Holly has my back.

Having lived part of the year or in Massachusetts pretty much all of my life I am fully aware of her thoughts of being a lone Republican. That said, Holly has not only been part of the establishment, she has shaken up that establishment and has won more "specials" and other elections than anybody else in the state.

Holly is a state and local as well as a big picture expert. Currently, she smells Coakly's blood in the water. I've sent a donation to Scott Brown and you can do so HERE.

If you like no-nonsense reviews of politics, you'll make her a constant read. I do.

Like Flies: Dodd And Dorgan Fall

FINALLY! Some real hope and change.

IT BEGINS: Dem. Sen. Dorgan Says No More; Will Not Run Reelection...

CHRIS DODD TO RETIRE...

I hope Byron isn't having mortgage problems as well...

Tuesday, January 05, 2010

Into The Heart Of Darkness With Harry And Nancy

But on which side are they? On which side are those masters of naïvité such as Zack Space? Will they continue on is secret in their deliberations? Will they continue on in hiding from voters as they decide whether to do as elected? Do they even know in which city they are being played for rubes?

transparency
rule of law
"a government that truly is of, and by, the American people."
we should never forget that we are here as public servants, and
public service is a privilege.

It's not about advancing an ideological agenda or the special interests of any organization," Obama said.

Democratic Leaders Plan Secret Health Reform Deliberations
Despite their claims to the contrary, the way that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid have handled the healthcare bill has been anything but transparent. And, if the left-wing blogosphere is to be believed, the two congressional leaders intend to keep the deliberations secret as they try to merge the House and Senate versions of the legislation into something that will pass both chambers.

They lie about lying, but in secret which makes it not so, eh?

Monday, January 04, 2010

I'm For Longer Vacations, Myself, I Am

Obama ends Hawaiian holiday, returns to Washington

Less damage can be done long distance.

Former Democrats Deserting Obama Gang

via Another Black Conservative from American Power

This video from YouTube is driving liberals nuts which is a good reason to spread it everywhere.
Locally, Obama stickers are disappearing from cars and windows, even with the local college. Working people are seeing first hand what big government help does to them and they don't like it. Going to taverns or parties is refreshing in that if you want a moment of relief, just bring up Obama and it gets very quiet and people drift away.



Over Christmas while in New York, those that voted for Obama, et al seemed so defensive or they came right out and stated they had made a mistake. Many, who I had known as liberals, said they'd had it with the Democrats and they'd give no more money, no more support and no more votes.

I'm not sure who to nominate for Republican helper of the year, Obama, Pelosi, Reid, Waxman, Schumer, Emanuel or the professor, Axlerod.

Democrats Decending

It's not just the leadership of the Democrat Party, it's their membership, the supporters and their fellow travelers who the leadership stand with and speak with.

The 40 Most Obnoxious Quotes Of 2009

The quote which signifies the current administration and Congress is:

14) I wouldn’t dignify you by peeing on your leg. It wouldn’t be worth wasting the urine. -- Pete Stark, to a constituent

Pete Stark has a history of mental instability, but is quite safe in his district. Gee, I wonder why.

Friday, January 01, 2010

Fear The Vest

26 - 17

BDBITL + fans + team + Tressel = WIN!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Good game. When the Ducks couldn't answer the first TD it became a grind to the finish.

Ben Keeler, you got my respect, but I'm glad you were wrong, but, again, nobody expected Tressel to reject Tressel ball. Least of all Oregon.
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An interesting mix of creativity, sometimes tedious grinding and incredible heart, but in the end it came down to coaching.

Napolitano To Ban Volleyball?

In her never ending crusade stroll to save America from terrorism man made disasters Janet Napolitano has at least been consistent. She's always wrong.

Death toll in Pakistan volleyball bombing rises to 75

Besides, volleyball has winners and losers which is the wrong message to send to kids, eh? Of course, that's also an issue for “safe schools czar,” Kevin Jennings who gets so angry about sending wrong messages to kids his hands actually ball up in fists.

This is the type of dedication America has been yearning for.

Conservative New Year's Resolution






I will read a book this year. Well most of one.






















Reading helped my mom.

Thursday, December 31, 2009

Not A Happy New Year For Democrats

After a year of hope and change the collateral damage crowd is splitting for safe turf. They didn't sign up for the debacle called Obamanism.

Dem recruits continue to head for exits

Expect more. Rahm Emanuel created the monster he calls conservative Democrats, Blue Dogs, and now they and future recruits are biting back. None of them in office currently, such as Zack Space, could have won if they told the truth of where they stood politically.

Oh, Emanuel will pour in the money for the 2010 elections to point out the utopia they have brought us, but Zack and friends can't hide or change their votes oh health care reform, cap and trade and other instruments of big government socialism.

I think Americans will take America back in 2010 thus thwarting Obamanism, but it will continue to grow unless there is a veto proof congress able turn the clock back to smaller government and more freedom.

Here's to a great 2010.

Best Quotes Of 2009

via This Ain't Hell

A sampling:

The big mistake of Republican leadership is thinking that going through the motions of listening to their "base" is the same thing as actually listening to the base. They keep trying to drag us to where they think we should be instead of joining us where we are. -- Yael

Since this is an era when many people are concerned about "fairness" and "social justice," what is your "fair share" of what someone else has worked for? -- Thomas Sowell

If we have another 2,000 people killed, I want Nancy Pelosi and George Soros, John Conyers and Pat Leahy to go to the funeral and say, 'Your son was vaporized because we didn't want to dump some guy's head under water for 30 seconds.' -- Peter King

Read the rest HERE

Happy New Year To Our Soldiers

For their bravery, their dedication, their caring when many others don't and their ability to sneer at unreasoned hate.

Marked
The tattoo on this soldier's back spells kafir, the Arabic word for infidel. He is a member of the 10th Mountain Division, serving in Wardak province, Afghanistan.

May you all be safe and successful in your mission.

Episcopal Church: Jesus Who? Huh?

As my regular reader knows I was raised an an Episcopalian. In the small Episcopal church I attended as a youth the political became more important than the liturgy as the Vietnam War was won there and lost here. Even though my father stood us all up in the middle of another "baby killing" and "rapist" sermon and walked all eight of us down the aisle and out the door, never to return again, he and my mother still had hope.

The next year, as I entered the sixth grade, I was sent to Howe Military School (why is another story) which turned my life around in many ways and all to the good. Yes, it took two years of getting the most swats and detentions, but the slow turn to productivity and self discipline took place even as my mind fought it with every ounce of strength it had. Behind the scenes was Father Bowling. He changed my life.

Because of Father Bowling I studied long and hard in school and in his communion classes. They were rough, but he cajoled, gave support and punished us when we were woefully not doing as we should. Father Bowling understood the minds of boys just entering the "dirty" world of puberty and changed the change into something good and clean with his gentle, but firm direction. I can still remember the day I sat in a small room and was told I was now ready for confirmation. I exited the room and there stood Father Bowling with a big smile on his face. As we lounged on his lawn with his wife and children eating a celebratory meal I felt for the first time in my life that I had not just accomplished something, but something of import that was good.

Soon, I entered training to be an acolyte. Father Bowling was again right there beside us cajoling, supporting and guiding us along the path. The correct and respectful way to carry the cross at the head of processions (if you were lucky enough to be chosen), the best way to swing the incense (smells and bells!) and the timely ringing to Agnus Dei (Lamb of God) were under his watchful eye. The memory of the Corp singing "For All The Saints" still sends a chill down my spine. The Word of God was spoken each Sunday High Mass and Wednesday evening services in a dignified and glorious way. It was personal. It was the word of God.

After Howe I went to another private school, which was very elite and will remain unnamed, which was also Episcopal based, but tended to favor whatever had nothing to do with the Word of God. The congregation out did each other through hats, furs, expensive shoes and snooty attitudes. Not to be out done, the students wore blazers and ties with matching blue jean shirts and Top-Siders worn and scuffed to just the right amount of shabby chic. There was no true piety nor Glory. Most of us went to the gardens at the Greek amphitheater and smoked and told dirty jokes. My path downward was set and abetted by the church.

After years of fun filled drugs, alcohol and really great rock and roll I grew tired of the "life". My total failure as a husband and a father had caused my marriage to collapse. I was looking hard at myself and didn't like what I saw. An aging rock and roller standing there with a drink in one hand, a cigarette in the other and the echoes of CBGB's music rattling around in a bruised brain is not only not pretty, it is also not productive in a way that sucks the life out of those you love. Time for a change.

I started putting my life back together and still felt I was torn between the different lives I had constructed or had fallen into. I started work in the DC area and applied myself hard. Once again I felt myself turning back to the good. My children stood with me which to this day is amazing and wonderful. One day I walked into work and saw her. She wore a dress that reminded me of my grandmother and had a smile that left me unable to speak, but once I did, I couldn't stop. I had found a partner who put me back together again.

I took her to an Episcopal church which was my first time back in many years. It felt hollow. I then took her to the crown jewel of the Episcopal Church, North America, the National Cathedral. I explained that my sisters had attended school there and I had been baptized there. She stared at the felt banners proclaiming God's love of everything the Bible speaks against and she ran her fingers over the plaques with the names of those that had donated a window or this or that and said, "Lets get outta here. I'm spooked and standing on top of an admiral. Need more?"

She, being Catholic, took me to a Catholic church. I liked it. Because of my past we couldn't get married in the Catholic Church so we got married in an Anglican church. Ironically we now attend a Catholic church bearing my name which I share with a saint. My sisters still joke that they are going to donate lightening rods to protect the building when I attend, just to be on the safe side. Even more ironical, I found out that my father had been raised Catholic, but had switched to Episcopal for my mother when they married. He referred to Jesuits, who had beaten an education into him, as God's Black Shirts. He never mentioned his religious upbringing. I later found my/his relatives buried in Holy Cross and St. Vincent's cemeteries. A long way from St. Albans and the National Cathedral. Religiously, my two lives finally dovetailed in an odd way only my family could accomplish.

I still miss the Episcopal Church. But then I read things like this:

The Hypocrisy of the Left
I was pleased to find an Episcopal church whose website focused on religion, not ObamaCare. I left a message for the priest that I was looking for a church that didn't press a political agenda because I wasn't a liberal.

I received an icy reply from the priest, the Reverend Lucy, who said with barely-contained disgust, "I don't think you should check us out."

Her response left me shaken and angry. I understand that leftists despise conservatives. I have seen that creepy look of pure hatred when I naïvely told a leftist friend about my political conversion.

But an Episcopal priest rejecting me during the holiest time of year? Isn't anything or anyone sacred?

In shunning me, the Reverend Lucy exposed not only her own hypocrisy, but the duplicity of the left itself. She unveiled the left's dirty little secret -- that their doctrines are as bogus as global warming.


I am not surprised. At all. But I still miss Father Bowling and the intellectual and spiritual sustenence he provided to all that sought them (and a few who didn't).

(click on Episcopal tag for previous postings)

Wednesday, December 30, 2009

How Is Zack Space's Death Watch?

He said he was a representative for Ohio's 18th district and he has voted for all the things his constituents don't want. Things like taxpayer supported abortion, socialized medicine, government control of corporations, banks and insurance companies, using climate control to weaken our sovereignty and unemploy his constituents and on and on. Actually, these are just the rotten anti-Ohio votes that we know about.

DEM DEATH WATCH: Beleaguered Sen. Nelson to air TV ad tonight...
30 Points Down in Reelection Bid...


Zack's buddies in the SEIU and other unions are working furiously behind the scenes to be exempted from all the things they don't like, but we'll get screwed blue with what we can't stop and what we haven't yet seen.

It's time to remind Zack that we don't like his votes nor do we like his arrogance in deciding he knows better than us. Now if we can only get Zack to actually show up and face the voters some time. Yeah, like that is going to happen.

Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab's 'Got Junk' Store Closed For Lack Of Product

Iowahawk, as usual, has the inside scoop on Nigeria's g-string bomber.

Man, Do I Hate Holiday Travel

Boring Update

Andrew Sullivan is depressed and still has his school girl crush on Sarah Palin. His (?) panties are still in a twist.

My 2010 New Year's wish for Andrew is that he finds a less self directed satirical obsession than Sarah Palins birth canal.

Nerdic Terrorism?

Let's see, a lonely nerd gets lonely and decides to blow up a plane?

Crazy, I'm crazy for feelin' so lonely,
I'm crazy, crazy for feelin' so blue......

Crazy, I'm crazy for fruit of the loom
I'm crazy for tryin' and crazy for cryin'
I'm crazy to make you go boom


Web Posts Suggest Depressed, Lonely Terror Suspect
Those posts, beginning in 2005, show a teenager looking for a new life outside his boarding school and wealthy Nigerian family.

Most of all, they paint a portrait of someone who seems lost and needs someone to hear him.

The postings seem hastily written and are replete with spelling and grammar errors. In one, on Jan 28. 2005, he wrote: "i am in a situation where i do not have a friend, i have no one to speak too, no one to consult, no one to support me and i feel depressed and lonely. i do not know what to do."


Hug a nerd and save the world.

Sunday, December 27, 2009

The System Worked, Eh?

Bungled accelerants and enraged passengers now seem to be part of Janet Napolitano's Homeland Security manual. It is incredulous that a person in such an important position is so stupid that she thinks anyone would believe that.

Janet Napolitano: 'The System Worked'
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano did the rounds on the Sunday shows to address the botched Christmas bombing. (Catch up on Wire coverage of the terror attempt here and here.) She stressed the safety of air travel, and repeatedly said in an upbeat tone that "the system worked" and "everything happened that should have."

This administration has in place some of the most inept people that I have ever seen in politics. Janet Napolitano is worse than Robert Gibbs who is a woesome prevaricator and she less sense than Rahm Emanuel. With personnel like this protecting our country, the Republic's future is in serious doubt.

"The system worked"? Did she really say that? Nah, she couldn't have. Could she?

Thursday, December 24, 2009

Happy Harry Reid's Fairy Tale Dust

Happy Harry is happy. Indeed, so happy that his historic happiness may have blinded him to the fairy tale dust in his eyes.

Dems not worried about post-vote backlash at home
Democrats today have repeatedly expressed a confidence that they won't face a backlash for their votes when they return home for the holidays, which would stand in marked contrast to the August recess.
...

Majority Leader Harry Reid said, "We're going to hear an earful, but it's going to be an earful of wonderment and happiness that people waited for for a long time."


Wonderment and happiness? Yeah, that's how I'd describe it. If I never wandered out of my marble palatial office. If I made sure that I never would be near the smelly hoi polloi.

Yep, those hard working smelly Americans are going to love this bill when Happy Harry shares the fairy tale dust.

Christmas Eve Family Celebration

In just a few hours we will begin our annual family celebration of the birth of Christ. Fittingly, as my wife's family fished the Adriatic for generations, we will have seven courses and seven fish from the seven seas to ensure good fishing in all walks of life for the new year. This year will see 23 family members from all over to celebrate. What fun.

Merry Christmas.

It's 7:00 AM, Where Is Your Vote

Punch happy Harry kept them in line, well, not everyone. All the fiscally responsible, all those in favor of life and those for responsible government voted the way Harry wanted. What hypocrites.

Senate OKs health care measure, reaching milestone
The occasion was moving for many who'd followed Kennedy, who died in August.

"He's having a merry Christmas in Heaven," Sen. Paul Kirk, D-Mass., appointed to fill Kennedy's seat, told reporters after the tally.

Kirk said he was "humbled to be here with the honor of casting essentially his vote."

Wednesday, December 23, 2009

Senator Ben Nelson Sinks Lower

DeMint called out Nelson for being bribed. Nelson rushed back to the clerk to change his vote to appear to be siding with DeMint.

Busted: Ben Nelson Caught In The Act

Go read the rest. Nelson is reacting poorly. Kinda like a kid with his hand in the cookie jar.

Mao And Hedda Lettuce R Favs In White House




Don't forget to be a Fister Sister for Christmas. It not just for America. It's for Obama!


Harry Reid's Sleeze Is Super Sized

Via Webutante

That super-majority to repeal health care: “our rules mean nothing”
You may have heard the buzz that there’s a provision in the Senate health care bill that it can only be repealed with a 2/3 super-majority of the Senate. That seems impossible and unconstitutional. But it appears to have been inserted for at least one section of the bill, that referring to the so-called “death panels,” otherwise known as the Independent Medicare Advisory Boards.

I don't know why anyone would complain. This is clearly stated on page 1020 for all to see. If you can actually see a copy of the bill. Or have enough time to read the first 1019 pages.

Reid brings sleeze to a whole new level. Even by congressional standards.

The Puppies Must Die

These people actually think we should take them seriously.

Polluting pets: the devastating impact of man's best friend
Man's best friend could be one of the environment's worst enemies, according to a new study which says the carbon pawprint of a pet dog is more than double that of a gas-guzzling sports utility vehicle.

Monday, December 21, 2009

Sen. Whitehouse Knows He's Lying

Sen. Whitehouse: foes of health care bill are birthers, right-wing militias, aryan groups

Liberals have become shameless racists to explain away opposition to their ever increasing socialist agenda.

Maybe I am not traveling in the same social set as Sen. Whitehouse, but I have not found those opposed to health care reform to be birthers, right-wing militias or members of aryan groups.

I wonder if Rhode Island agrees with Whitehouse. Ironic, his name, eh?

Sunday, December 20, 2009

Reid: Thief In The Night

Harry Reid, self described religious man, will tonight, as a thief in the night, steal America from Americans. Reid, who is someone not intimate with the truth, will blame Republicans for the 1:00 AM vote.

Health care reform, such a majestic sounding thing, is an odious bill hated by both sides, but necessary to claim forward movement for Reid and his band of little acting kids.

Once again, Reid will hold a vote in the dark of night. Less than a week before Christmas. Less supported than Harry's other lame brained ideas. Less necessary than free diaper wipes for illegal aliens.

I expected Reid, Pelosi and Obama to destroy America, but I am surprised at their audacity. Reid is a political hack, Pelosi a privileged damaged ideologue and Obama is a child man living his late night political perceived gotchas are the worst political triumvirate in American history. Game, fame and lame.

Politics such as this is usually practiced during revolution. These three might remember that this country had a revolution once. It was revolution for less government control, more freedom and the unity of man through representative democracy, a republic.

The three fail on all three.

In this revolution Ben Nelson is Benedict Arnold.

Let's Tabulate The Bribers, Extortionists And Cheats For Health Care Reform III

Bernie Sanders publicly stated that he hated the Senate's health care reform bill, but now he's voting for it. Huh? Well, Bernie wanted $4 billion more for a program he likes, so Reid gave it to him for his vote. Basically Bernie wants to love people with other peoples money and now that the taxpayer will have to cough up another $4 billion Bernie will vote for a health care reform bill that nobody likes or wants. Socialists are lovable that way.

Buying the Left, Too
Earlier this week, Vermont socialist Bernie Sanders expressed his disappointment with the Senate bill, particularly its lack of a government-run insurance plan, and went so far as to say, "As of this point I am not voting for the bill." Now Sanders appears to be back in the fold. If you're wondering how Reid secured his vote (I was), here's how:

$10 Billion More for Community Health Centers will Revolutionize
Care

WASHINGTON, December 19 – A $10 billion investment in community health centers, expected to go to $14 billion when Congress completes
work on health care reform legislation, was included in a final series of
changes to the Senate bill unveiled today.

The provision, which would provide primary care for 25 million more Americans, was requested by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.).
Prior bribes, extortions and cheats:
Let's Tabulate The Bribers, Extortionists And Cheats For Health Care Reform

Let's Tabulate The Bribers, Extortionists And Cheats For Health Care Reform II

Saturday, December 19, 2009

Harkin Admits Socialized Medicine Coming

This bill is just a "starter home" before they build the mansion. Geez, what a bunch of liars.

Tom Harkin Hopes to Give Left Hope on Health Care

Ben Nelson Caves On Health Care

How many threats were issued? Many are saying that Nelson got many concessions, but Nelson knows what this bill actually represents. Huge deficits, federal control of over 1/6 of our economy, higher costs for individuals, penalties for those that don't want health insurance, the demise of options and the eventual adding of taxpayer abortions and government control over individuals private lives.

I hoped against hope that Nelson would actually show some ethics, but I am not surprised. I hope when he votes on the eve of the celebration of the birth of Christ that he can be at peace with himself. I wouldn't be able to be.

UPDATE:

Nelson says he cannot be bought

but, but but...

Every man has his price, apparently, and Harry Reid found Ben Nelson’s price for a cloture vote on ObamaCare

Best comment from above:

"Looks like assisted political suicide is covered under Obamacare."

Friday, December 18, 2009

Angry Libs Want To Kill The Senate

It appears the party of "tolerance" is getting a tad testy and becoming intolerant. Probably that tolerance was just a charade like their support of Israel, their stated respect for the will of the people and their willingness to debate all ideas. Now their "tolerance" tells them that the US Senate is just a bunch of old guys who should be disposed of. Kinda like they want to do with old people with the health care reform.

Democrats want to do away with the Senate
In recent months, a narrative has emerged on the Left regarding the cause of the health care debacle: It's all the fault of the United States Senate, a perverse, bizarre and dysfunctional body, which ought to be phased out or killed.

The role of the Senate is working out just as intended and that really ticks liberals off.

h/t to the Keeler Political Report

Obama's Sulfer Stench Stifling Domestically And Abroad

Below are headlines this hour from Drudge demonstrating exactly how a government should not be run. Disasters are begetting disasters yet to come. It is a disgrace.

Venezuela's Chavez 'Still' Smells Sulfur After Obama Speech...
Climate summit erupts in 'deafening applause' for Hugo Chavez...
'What a bunch of buffoons'...
GUARDIAN: Obama speech fuels frustration; Lacklustre address fails to lift gloom...
IRANIANS SEIZE IRAQI OIL WELL
DEMS PLANS CHRISTMAS EVE VOTE ON HEALTH!
War bill survives poisonous 1 a.m. vote...
ANGER...
Union pulls back on supporting Dem health care bill...
OBAMA THREAT TO CONGRESSMAN: 'Don't think we're not keeping score, brother'...
Does Sen. Ben Nelson Stand in the Way of Health Care Victory...
'Iranian Cyber Army' brings down TWITTER...

House approves $290 billion increase in debt limit...
Obama signs $1.1 trillion spending bill...
House approves $155 billion for 'jobs'...
NBCNEWSWSJ POLL: Americans Souring on Democrats...
Howard Dean: I would vote NO...
Won't 'Vigorously' Back Obama Re-election Bid...

Obama Akaka Trying To Create A Hawaiian Super State Within A State Is Wrong And UnAmerican

When will this madness stop? A separate super state that is not answerable to a central or state government. Maybe we should create a special super state for blacks? For gays? How about one third of the country to Latino/Mexican/Hispanics? Well, we created reservations for Indians and look how well that worked out.

Aloha, Segregation
The Akaka bill would create a race-based state in Hawaii.
President Obama speaks proudly of his childhood in Hawaii, so we wonder what the state's voters think of his support for a bill that would redistribute its wealth based on race. That's what would happen under the Native Hawaiian Government Reorganization Act, which Congress is trying to sneak through in its final days this year.

Sponsored by Senator Daniel Akaka, the bill would transfer a percentage of public-owned lands to a native Hawaiian government within the state of Hawaii. The legislation would collect some 400,000 ethnic Hawaiians scattered across the country into a newly affiliated tribe, eventually endowed with the powers of a sovereign state, including freedom from state taxes and regulations and separate police power.

Proponents say the plan would duplicate the legal scenario set up for Native Americans, but the Akaka bill carves out new territory.


Besides, this is just a first step toward Hawaii breaking completely from the United States to become a separate nation and Senator Akaka and President Obama know this.

Race based politics has always been stupid, but this is dangerous. The melting pot that is America is our strength, but there have been rules for the melting pot achieving the American dream such as assimilation, hard work, learn our language and loyalty to the country. Just as with the Indian, this bill will foster no assimilation, no loyalty, no melting pot and never ending taxpayer hand outs which kill initiative. It will also weaken our country because the bill would achieve the opposite. It will create disloyalty.

There has been, I believe, an ongoing effort to split the United States of America. There has been, obviously, the "Indian Nation" which has been and will continue to be a failed effort on the part of the federal government to maintain reservations for the preservation of Indian culture instead of assimilation. Reservations set a precedent, which created lands within the United States as not part of the United States, and there are those attempting to link to that precedent such as Aztlan, Raza, and MEChA. No, not to set up reservations for Mexicanos, but to use the reservation precedent as a legal basis of the admitted wrongdoing by the United States to break lands away from the United States.

A six year board member of La Raza, a Mexican group that is actively pursuing the re-conquest of Southwestern United States, is a Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States of America, Sonia Sotomayor. La Raza is nothing more than a hate group that was counseled by Yasser Arafat and Sotomayor helped direct and support that hate against the sovereignty of the United States. During her confirmation hearings Sotomayor answered no questions about her involvement because none were asked. It was considered impolite to question a wise Latino woman.

Miguel Perez, a La Raza spokesman at Cal State-Northridge, has been quoted as saying: “The ultimate ideology is the liberation of Aztlan. Communism would be closest [to it]. Once Aztlan is established, ethnic cleansing would commence: Non-Chicanos would have to be expelled — opposition groups would be quashed because you have to keep power.”

There is a movement within the United States made up of people and groups that have little or no loyalty to their country which includes blacks, whites, Indians, Mexicans, Hawaiians, arabs and others that would welcome the breaking up of the country. They have different agendas, but the same goal. They also have no fear of their actions because Americans have been bludgeoned into not asking for fear of charges of racism. Now these people and groups appear to have government on their side in reaching their goal.

Then there are others that will go along because, even though they are not actively working toward that goal, they believe it will profit them. Other groups that could ally with them are those who don't care, are afraid or just plain believe the propaganda against America even though they are not part of any group. Rev Wright's chickens are coming home to roost throughout the land because no one has stood up and called BS on him and his followers such as Obama.

Each group has an agenda and the stronger groups will exploit those other groups to their ends through ever changing alliances that will strengthen their numbers and their resolve toward the goal of stripping away large areas of the United States to form new counties constantly weakening us which is what they want and so do our international enemies, especially those once super powers. That will allow our wealth to become easier pickings and, more important, dim the beacon of hope for a world weary of despots, dictators and tyrants.

Hawaii is significant today as it was December 7, 1941 as it will be the modern indicator of a new war on the sovereignty of the United States of America and a U. S. Senator is leading the attack with the full support of an American president, both of which seem to have an agenda other than to protect and serve the nation.

This bill must be stopped.