Monday 27OCT08

Eight days..... so anyway, Bill Whittle has the transcript of Senator Obama's 2001 National Peoples' Radio interview. I heard the audio on Bill Bennett's show on Monday morning, and I almost drove the commuter-mobile into a bridge abutment. When will the f'n sheeple f'n wake up? Here's the 'script: Barack Obama, in 2001: "You know, if you look at the victories and failures of the Civil Rights movement, and its litigation strategy in the court, I think where it succeeded was to vest formal rights in previously dispossessed peoples. So that I would now have the right to vote, I would now be able to sit at a lunch counter and order and as long as I could pay for it, I'd be okay, but the Supreme Court never entered into the issues of re-distribution of wealth, and sort of more basic issues of political and economic justice in this society. "And uh, to that extent, as radical as I think people tried to characterize the Warren Court, it wasn't that radical. It didn't break free from the essential constraints that were placed by the Founding Fathers in the Constitution – at least as it's been interpreted, and Warren Court interpreted it in the same way, that generally the Constitution is a charter of negative liberties: [it] says what the states can't do to you, says what the federal government can't do to you, but it doesn't say what the federal government or the state government must do on your behalf. I gotta interject here: Like, "DUH": the purpose of Our Constitution was to limit the power of the federal government. What part of this don't you understand, Senator Obama? "And that hasn't shifted, and one of the, I think, the tragedies of the Civil Rights movement was because the Civil Rights movement became so court-focused, uh, I think that there was a tendency to lose track of the political and community organizing and activities on the ground that are able to put together the actual coalitions of power through which you bring about redistributive change. And in some ways we still suffer from that." A caller then helpfully asks: "The gentleman made the point that the Warren Court wasn't terribly radical. My question is (with economic changes)… my question is, is it too late for that kind of reparative work, economically, and is that the appropriate place for reparative economic work to change place?" Obama replies: "You know, I'm not optimistic about bringing about major redistributive change through the courts. The institution just isn't structured that way. [snip] You start getting into all sorts of separation of powers issues, you know, in terms of the court monitoring or engaging in a process that essentially is administrative and takes a lot of time. You know, the court is just not very good at it, and politically, it's just very hard to legitimize opinions from the court in that regard. So I think that, although you can craft theoretical justifications for it, legally, you know, I think any three of us sitting here could come up with a rationale for bringing about economic change through the courts." All emphasis mine; do go read the whole thing, as Whittle's glossing is not to be missed. Eight days to go....."redistributive change": think about that for a minute. Can you spell "Socialism"? more soon

Sunday 26OCT08

almost done.....mostly

so anyway, my brother Thayrone puts some knowledge to us with this:



Righteous, Brother.

doG, the next eight days are going to kill me. Why don't the sheeple wake up?!?



It just keeps getting better and better.

We already know he's going to take our money, but it's not like Senator Obama is going to take our guns:

In fact, Obama has a long history of supporting city gun bans. The Associated Press described his vote on a gun-control bill in 2004: "He also opposed letting people use a self-defense argument if charged with violating local handgun bans by using weapons in their homes. The bill was a reaction to a Chicago-area man who, after shooting an intruder, was charged with a handgun violation."

Or maybe he is.

Friday 24OCT08

not quite the "holy siht" edition, but it's getting close

so anyway, reader T sent along this sobering tidbit of information:

Food for thought,

About the time our original thirteen states adopted their new constitution In 1787, Alexander Tyler, a Scottish history professor at the University Of Edinburgh , had this to say about the fall of the Athenian Republic some 2,000 years earlier.

A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government. A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always vote for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse due to loose fiscal policy, which is always followed by a dictatorship.

The average age of the world's greatest civilizations from the beginning of history, has been about 200 years. During those 200 years, those nations always progressed through the following sequence:

1. From bondage to spiritual faith;
2. From spiritual faith to great courage;
3. From courage to liberty;
4. From liberty to abundance;
5. From abundance to complacency;
6. From complacency to apathy;
7. From apathy to dependence;
8. From dependence back into bondage

Professor Joseph Olson of Hemline University School of Law, St. Paul , Minnesota , points out some interesting facts concerning the 2000 Presidential election:

Number of States won by: Democrats: 19 Republicans: 29

Square miles of land won by: Democrats: 580,000 Republicans: 2,427,000

Population of counties won by: Democrats: 127 million Republicans: 143 million

Murder rate per 100,000 residents in counties won by: Democrats: 13.2 Republicans: 2.1

Professor Olson adds: 'In aggregate, the map of the territory Republican won was mostly the land owned by the taxpaying citizens of this great country. Democrat territory mostly encompassed those citizens living in government-owned tenements and living off various forms of government welfare...' Olson believes the United States is now somewhere between the 'complacency and apathy' phase of Professor Tyler's definition of democracy, with some forty percent of the nation's population already having reached the 'governmental dependency' phase. If Congress grants amnesty and citizenship to twenty million criminal invaders called illegal's and they vote, then we can say goodbye to the USA in fewer than five years.

Food for thought, indeed.

Elsewhere, Michael Graham writing for The Boston Herald poses a question in his post: "A day in the life of Palin: One wonders if Obama could be so resilient."

I have a dream for Sen. Barack Obama.

I have a dream that one day, for just 24 hours, he could be Sarah Palin.

Read the whole thing.

more soon.

Tuesday 21OCT08

two weeks to go..... so anyway, via my brother-in-blog Ragin' Dave, I've stumbled upon the speech McCain should be whipping like a rented mule, but I'm not holding my breath. I wish I'd written this. Observe: My friends, I have thought long and hard about the tax issue, because it's one which affects a vast number of Americans—not all Americans, of course, because under current IRS rules about one fifth of American citizens pay no taxes at all. So I've decided to change my tax policy, and will work tirelessly as President to make this a reality. My opponent keeps talking about tax "breaks", and tax "exemptions" and so on, and to be frank, he makes the whole issue even more complicated than it already is. So I'm going to make things simple. Under my Presidency, the United States will become the most fairly-taxed nation on Earth. Americans will pay federal taxes at three rates: adjusted gross incomes at or under $35,000 will pay 5%, incomes of $35,000 - $75,000 will pay 10%, and incomes greater than $75,000 will pay 15% tax. That's it. No exemptions, no withholdings, no "credits" and no deductions except for the per-dependent allowance of $5,000. Corporations will pay a flat 10% tax rate on net profits, but with no deductions allowed, whatsoever. There have been times when a multibillion-dollar corporation ends up paying no taxes at all because of the hundreds of deductions and tax loopholes. My friends, those days are over. You will be able to fill out your tax returns on a postcard. So, in fact, will most corporations, and certainly, small businesses, the lifeblood of our economy, will be able to operate more freely and with no fear of tax audits. Yes, some people are going to suffer a little bit in the short term. Let me tell you who they are. People earning less than $35,000 per annum who have never paid taxes before will now have to pay taxes. I know that some will scream that this is unfair, but let me offer two rebuttals. It's a common budget truism that you can always take 5% off anything, without suffering too much. This is just as true for individuals as it is for corporations. Secondly, and most importantly, it is horribly unfair to the vast majority of Americans that people who pay no taxes still get to vote on tax issues—in other words, people who pay no taxes can vote to raise the taxes of others. That inequity, my friends, will end under my presidency. Homeowners who have taken the various real-estate deductions to lower their final tax rate may suffer a little. A homeowner who has a monthly net salary of $1,200 after making his mortgage payment of $750 may end up with a net salary of $1,100 under the simplified tax code. On the other hand, he won't have to pay a tax preparer, nor waste time preparing his own tax return. But most of all, he need never worry that the IRS will come after him some time in the future for underpayment of taxes or tax evasion. Which to my mind is the greatest advantage of the simpler tax code that I propose. Americans believe that when it comes to money matters, the simplest and most efficient way is usually the best. And the success of our nation has proved this, over and over again, in the more than two hundred years of our history. We Americans like simplicity, because it frees us up to be more productive—which means, in the end, that we make more money. And to live as people who are not afraid of the dreaded IRS "knock at the door": who can honestly say that this would not be a good thing? But let me go back to other people who may be adversely affected by the new tax system. Lobbyists who are always after a tax loophole for their corporate clients will have less work. Tax lawyers and accountants will have less work. The IRS will have less work—indeed, under my plan, I intend to reduce the size of the IRS department by 50%. And finally, Congress will have less work, because they will not be writing ever-more laws which make our already-dense tax code still more indecipherable to the average American. Most of all, we will return to a simpler time: when all people contributed to the general welfare, and no one could be said to be a "free-loader" or a "leech on society". The vast majority of people, from all income groups, will get to keep more of their money, to invest, to save, or to spend as they see fit. Because, my friends, that is the essence of America: the belief that the citizens, and not the government, know best how to manage their own money. I believe that, and, I think, so do most hard-working Americans. The people who do not believe that are people like my opponent, who thinks that "I'm from the government, and I'm here to help" is not satire, but something worth imposing on us. My plan is the essence of fairness: we all pay, according to our ability. Finally, let me close by saying this. Some people will say that government will not be able to function by taking from you, on average, only one out of every seven dollars you earn. To those people, I say: "Then let government learn how to make do with less, just as millions of Americans have to do each and every day." If our bloated, inefficient and expensive government has to learn how to cut fat, become more efficient and spend less, then so be it. At the end of the day, we will all be better off, and our economy will grow itself out of our current difficulties, without any assistance from government and, under the current bad system, your tax dollars. Thank you, and good night. Bonus Points for the liberal (ahem) usage of the "my friends" phrase. The author is Kim du Toit, of "The Other Side of Kim" fame. I echo Dave's statement: if Mr. du Toit asks me to delete this post, I will. Do not bother clicking the The Other Side of Kim linkage if you're on a "corporate" network, Mr. du Toit often focuses on 2nd Amendment issues and all that "gun talk" frightens the corporate net-nannies. Wankers. doG, Kim: we're sure going to miss you when you go. "....the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed" What part of this do you not understand, Senator Obama? more soon

Monday 20OCT08

two weeks and change to go so anyway, you should read this. It defies excerption, so I'll excerpt Serr8d's post over at ProteinWisdom Pub: The only qualification one needs to be a Racist! in a leftist's tiny mind is to disagree vehemently with Barack Obama, with his alignments and associations, with his admitted socialist leanings. Disagree, and you're labeled a racist. No discussion, no argument, no thought needed by these Obamunists. Just carry your Racist! label and walk away. But, not in shame. Let's look at Rosetta's post… I, Rosetta, Am A Proud Racist and with that, I've screwed up the formatting for this post, so I bid you a pleasant good night. more soon

Why yes, yes I am

Ab-so-f'n-lutely


Aren't we all?

Dave Burge of IowaHawk fame freakin' nails it:

We've all witnessed a lot of insanity in American politics over the last few years. Up until the last few days, none of it has seriously bothered me; hey, just more grist for the satire mill. But after witnessing the media's blitzkreig on Joe 'the Plumber' Wurzelbacher, I can only muster anger, and no small amount of fear.

Politicians -- Sarah Palin, Bill Clinton, et al. -- obviously have to put up with some rude, nasty shit, but it's right there in the jobs description. Joe the Plumber is different. He was a guy tossing a football with his kid in the front yard of his $125,000 house when a politician picked him out as a prop for a 30 second newsbite for the cable news cameras. Joe simply had the temerity to speak truth (or, if you prefer, an uninformed opinion) to power, for which the politico-media axis apparently determined that he must be humiliated, harassed, smashed, destroyed. The viciousness and glee with which they set about the task ought to concern anyone who still cares about citizen participation, and freedom of speech, and all that old crap they taught in Civics class before politics turned into Narrative Deathrace 3000, and Web 2.0 turned into Berlin 1932.0.

Godwin's Law! you say? if the jackboot fits, wear it.

All the cool kids are talkin' about this one, go read it now.

Related, my brother-in-blog Ragin' Dave of Four Right Wing Wackos fame sums it all up, with linkage:

.....Joe the Plumber has received more scrutiny in 24 hours than Bill Ayers has in the past 24 months.....

Dave's got it goin', go read the whole thing.

more soon. thatisall.

Friday 17OCT08

unexpected guest blogging..... so anyway, what follows was sent to me by reader "SM" (which may or may not be his actual initials), and I just had to play it forward. I do so wish I had written this..... I've posted the thread intact, with only minor edits for spelling, as the stoopid SpellChecker sees fit; and converting text to links. "Please forward as appropriate" Indeed. If you want the source code e-mail so you can forward it on your own self, shoot me a line at "heywoodblogger at yahoo dot com" and I'll forward it on. After business hours, of course. I have to maintain "radio silence" whilst at the office. I've been "spoken to". It's a long story. Subject: FW: Obama: What you need to know NOW...please forward as appropriate To: heywoodblogger at yahoo dot com Date: Thursday, October 16, 2008, 9:32 PM Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2008 6:43 PM Subject: FW: Obama: What you need to know NOW...please forward as appropriate FYI on Obama (since many are ignoring these important items: - Obama was part of the lawsuits against banks to force them to make risky (e.g. subprime) loans under the guise of racism (thus part of the guilty around this economic meltdown. - Obama is the 3rd highest recipient of Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac political contributions. - Obama has strong support from Louis Farrakhan (leader of the Nation of Islam) and a known racist element who said "It is an act of mercy to white people that we end your world. … We must end your world and bring in a new world." . Obama also assisted Farrakhan in organizing the Million Man March. - Obama Involved in More Cover-Ups in ACORN voting registration Scandals (taxpayers and the Obama campaign are paying for Acorn to facilitate voter fraud!). - Obama will weaken our military as he has promised to stop future weapons development programs including our missile defense program - Obama hangs out with the most radical leftists out there, and those elements will run the government if he is elected. - Obama would let die children of failed abortions. - Obama voted for kindergarten level sex education in public schools. - Obama Voted To Raise Taxes On The 25, 28, 33 And 35 Percent Tax Brackets already, and now his plan is to tax more and more the people who provide jobs (have you even got a job from a poor person???): Obama to raise taxes on individuals - bring back the 1994 rate schedules. Highest marginal rate is 39.6% for all income over $250,000. (current system tops out at 35% for income over 357,000) Obama to raise taxes individual investment income - Long-term capital gains will be taxed at 28% (vs the current 15%). Dividends will get in bed with short term capital gains and interest--taxed at the marginal rate. (no more qualified dividends taxed at 15%). Obama to raise cap to infinity on payroll taxes - remove the cap on taxable social security wages. (In 2007 taxpayers only paid social security tax on the first $97,500 of wages, Obama will make this ceiling infinity). Obama to tax Corporations even more - make rates more competitive and redirect tax incentives to achieve economic and social policy objectives (will this make companies want to stay or relocate to America? or Ireland, where it is 12.5%, not 39% !!!. - Obama's wife Michelle bashing America again. - Obama's own words on race and relations. - Obama will nationalize the health care system, which will ration care like in the UK and Canada (that's why they come here for care)...Why put the government in charge of healthcare, they run FEMA, the Veterans Administration, and the rest of government so well ! In short, VOTE against Obama (not that I like McCain that much, but he is much better policy-wise and ecomonics-wise, and even Sarah Palin has been a Chief Executive in the past! Obama has never run anything substantial, and was out to lunch as an Illinois Senator see this link for his abysmal record of voting "present"... Think about it....this is important! and Please forward as appropriate....more to come! Andrew I don't know who "Andrew" is; but he's doing some good work here. Andrew qualifies for the highest honor that Supply Side Politics 2.o can bestow: not one, but two 40 oz. quarts of his favorite beer and all the White Castles he can eat. thatisall. more soon

Monday 13OCT08

22 days to go.....

so anyway, sorry about the irregularity lately. My life has been dialed up to 72 JPH, both at home and at work (those of you in the Stoopid Business™ know what I'm talking about).

Enough whining already, let's get right to it:

McQ at Q and O brings us some knowledge from the Wall Street Journal:

For the Obama Democrats, a tax cut is no longer letting you keep more of what you earn. In their lexicon, a tax cut includes tens of billions of dollars in government handouts that are disguised by the phrase "tax credit."

Do go read it all. They gots graphs and stuff.

In hopeful news on "The Economy" (from some actual "Economists") John Lott links to a positive view:

There are two faulty assumptions here. First, saving America’s banks won’t save the economy. And second, the economy doesn’t really need saving. It’s stronger than we think.

Bear with me. I know that most everyone has been saying for a couple of weeks that something has to be done; a banking crisis could quickly become a wider crisis, pulling the rest of us down. For this reason, the Wall Street bailout is supposed to be better than no plan at all.

Too bad this line of thinking is seriously flawed. The non-financial sectors of our economy will not suffer much from even a prolonged banking crisis, because the general economic importance of banks has been highly exaggerated.

Speaking of "The Economy™", an interesting exchange over at VodkaPundit. The set-up:

Muslims should take advantage of the global financial crisis to build an economic system compatible with Islamic principles, influential Sunni cleric Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi said on Sunday.

"The collapse of the capitalist system based on usury and paper and not on goods traded on the market is proof that it is in crisis and shows that Islamic economic philosophy is holding up," said the Egyptian-born, Qatar-based cleric.

"The Western system has collapsed and we have a complete economic philosophy as well as spiritual strength," he said at Sunday's opening of a conference on Jerusalem.

"All riches are ours... the Islamic nation has all or nearly all the oil and we have an economic philosophy that no one else has," Qaradawi said.

He urged Muslims to "profit from the crisis to bring about the triumph of the (Islamic) nation, which holds the spiritual and material resources for victory."

Which lends itself to Stephen "VodkaPundit" Green's rejoinder:

OK, dude. Collecting royalties on oil your people did not find, could not extract, and don’t know how to refine is most emphatically not a economic philosophy.

And just in case you missed it, here is John McCain's quote of the day:

We have 22 days to go. We’re 6 points down. The national media has written us off. Senator Obama is measuring the drapes, and planning with Speaker Pelosi and Senator Reid to raise taxes, increase spending, take away your right to vote by secret ballot in labor elections, and concede defeat in Iraq. But they forgot to let you decide. My friends, we’ve got them just where we want them.

What America needs in this hour is a fighter; someone who puts all his cards on the table and trusts the judgment of the American people. I come from a long line of McCains who believed that to love America is to fight for her. I have fought for you most of my life. There are other ways to love this country, but I’ve never been the kind to do it from the sidelines.

I know you’re worried. America is a great country, but we are at a moment of national crisis that will determine our future. Will we continue to lead the world’s economies or will we be overtaken? Will the world become safer or more dangerous? Will our military remain the strongest in the world? Will our children and grandchildren’s future be brighter than ours?

My answer to you is yes. Yes, we will lead. Yes, we will prosper. Yes, we will be safer. Yes, we will pass on to our children a stronger, better country. But we must be prepared to act swiftly, boldly, with courage and wisdom.

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10OCT08

the end is near....

so anyway, I wasn't going to post tonight; it's been a long week both at home and at work, but this caught my eye:

This next civil war won't be between states themselves.....It'll be between Rural and independent people, and the sheeple who populate the big cities and demand bigger and more powerful overlords for themselves and everyone else. The seeds of this were set, in my opinion, by the Seventeenth Amendment, which changed how the US Senate was elected.

For those who don't know (and given the state of US Education today I really can't blame you for that) the 17th Amendment to the US constitution took the US Senate, which was elected by STATE legislatures, and changed it so that the US Senate was elected by popular vote in the state.

In other words, the next civil war will "jump ugly", or however the kids are saying it these days. Personally, my discretionary income has been going towards ammo and canned goods lately. Read the whole thing, follow the links.

Amen, Brother Ragin' Dave.

thatisall

09OCT08

happy birthday to me.....

so anyway, 41 years ago, Che Guevara was executed on my fifth birthday. Although I didn't realize at the time, it was one of the happiest days on my life. It's been downhill ever since. Imagine having the misfortune of sharing a birthday with John f'n Lennon and having to listen to all that bullsiht on your special freakin' day.

But I digress.....there's other things to talk about, so let's get to it.

I do not know if Bainbridge is serious, or just spouting bar-stool logic, but he makes some sense (you gotta read it all):

We all know, of course, that Senator Obama is a secret Muslim. The evidence is conclusive. To wit, Obama’s father was an African Muslim from Kenya. Obama’s stepfather, Lolo Soetoro, was an Indonesian Muslim. As a youth, Obama was educated in a Wahabi madrassa in Jakarta Indonesia. Consider that many members of al-Qaeda and the Taliban were also educated in Wahabi madrassas!.....

..... Need more proof? What’s Obama’s middle name? Hussein! QED

Hat tip to Stephan "VodkaPundit" Green for the linkage.

Elsewhere, John Hawkins has compiled yet another list of the (very) junior Senator from Illinois' quotes. Go read, I'm sure you'll find a favorite line to amaze and amuse your friends with. If not, there's always Best Obama Facts.

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08OCT08

26 days to go..... so anyway, due to work and household duties, I missed most of the debate last night. I caught the last fifteen or twenty minutes and I was thoroughly underwhelmed. The debate reacts I've seen so far have been predictable: each side says their man won. I think McCain missed a golden opportunity right at the end on quite possibly the stupidest question of the night: "What don't you know and how will you learn it?" to which he replied "What I don't know is what all of us don't know. Unexpected things will happen at home and abroad. But I know dark times. It is my honor to serve. I'll rest on my record." He should have used Fred! Thompson's line from the convention: "Just exactly who is Barack Obama and can he be trusted with the Presidency?" The link tracks back to Gabriel Malor's excellent debate summary over at Ace of Spades HQ. McQ at Q and O has some thoughts, as well: I find the Democratic party, as it is presently configured (i.e. trending harder and harder to the left) to be the most dangerous of the two parties. Elsewhere, the gloom continues: I am particularly concerned about bad policies because significantly higher taxes have been proposed by Barack Obama. His plan would raise the marginal tax rate on the most productive workers more than 10 percentage points -- an increase that would bring us near Western European levels. His plan would also raise capital income taxes, taxing capital gains and dividends at 20%, compared to a 15% rate under Sen. John McCain's plan. A five percentage-point difference might strike you as small, but it is not. I have calculated that a five percentage-point difference in overall capital income taxation over the long haul is equal to a difference in the nation's capital stock of about 18%. This means a 6% difference in GDP and a 6% difference in the average wage rate. This means that real GDP and the average wage would fall, gradually but persistently declining about 6% after 25 years. That's not quite a Great Depression, but a significant step towards one. In today's Sarah Palin news: The e-mail hacker has been indicted: David C. Kernell, 20, was indicted by a federal grand jury in Knoxville, Tenn., for "intentionally accessing without authorization the e-mail account of Alaska governor Sarah Palin," the Justice Department says. Kernell's father is Tennessee State Rep. (Democrat) Mike Kernell. ...Kernell, if convicted, faces five years in prison, a $250,000 fine and a three year term of supervised release. I had to add the party affiliation, ABC news forgot to include it. Camile Paglia slaps the "Palin-bashers" around: The mountain of rubbish poured out about Palin over the past month would rival Everest. What a disgrace for our jabbering army of liberal journalists and commentators, too many of whom behaved like snippy jackasses. The bourgeois conventionalism and rank snobbery of these alleged humanitarians stank up the place. As for Palin's brutally edited interviews with Charlie Gibson and that viper, Katie Couric, don't we all know that the best bits ended up on the cutting-room floor? Something has gone seriously wrong with Democratic ideology, which seems to have become a candied set of holier-than-thou bromides attached like tutti-frutti to a quivering green Jell-O mold of adolescent sentimentality. In movie news: it looks like there is an effort afoot to tank the box office numbers for "An American Carol". Theaters are omitting the title from their marquees, listing it as "Rated R" (it's PG-13), or selling you a ticket to another movie to suppress "An American Carol's" box office take. Mpower pictures and Vivendi are starting to hear complaints about unorthodox treatment of An American Carol by employees of theaters that are carrying the movie. So far, ten theaters have been implicated in irregularities regarding the handling of this movie in cineplexes and other theaters—particularly as regards ticket sales. Unrelated, but just too good of a line to leave on the cutting room floor: Joe Biden?!? Seriously — Joe Biden?!? Joe Biden is a creature composed entirely of mouth and stupid. more soon

60 seconds of Truth

Monday 06OCT08

29 days to go....

so anyway, sorry for the late posting. The weekend didn't go the way I had planned, and TheBoss was working me hard all day. All the linky goodness I had queued up over the weekend to post is old new by now.

So we'll start fresh, as of 22:55 Monday. Holy Siht! There's a lot of things happening out there. I ain't got time for this siht.

Mike of Cold Fury fame looks at "The two Americas", linking VodkaPundit in the process:

"There really are two Americas after all, it seems: one in which McCain, disagree with him though we may on some things, will always be honored for his valor in service to his country — and one in which Obama’s scummy traitor pals are undeservedly regarded in that same light, as “courageous” “heroes” in the Leftist cause of subverting everything this nation is supposed to stand for."

"Why would anybody care whether Obama was friends with some ex-hippie who protested the Vietnam War, way back when Obama was just a kid?

The answers is: Bill Ayers was more than a ‘war protester,’ and more than simply a ’60’s radical (let’s face it, Obama couldn’t set foot in a college faculty lounge without running into plenty of those). He was much, much worse than any of that."

Elsewhere, Stanley Kurtz is all over it. Do go read all of the above.

more soon

More viral information

Viral attacks truth is where it's at in 2008.

so anyway, Ace has the latest:



Spread it out, pass the word.

thatisall

Friday 03OCT08

31 days to go.... so anyway, apparently I was watching a different debate last night, 'cause all the Liberal Main Stream Media (redundancy alert) are saying that Senator Biden won. I'll have an order of "Oh, Really? with a side of "WTF?" They're shaping the narrative, people. Kill your television. Go "New Media". We have come to the point in the media's treatment of Gov. Sarah Palin where even the fig leaf of pretense is gone. The press has openly chosen sides and has stopped apologizing for it. Old, but related: On August 28, when the junior Senator from Illinois accepts his party's nomination to be the next President of the United States, Barack Obama may wish to spend a few moments thanking network news reporters for making the whole night possible. Since the launch of Obama's national political career at the Democratic convention four years ago, the Big Three broadcast networks have showered Obama with positive — even glowing — news coverage, protected the candidate from the attacks of his rivals, and shown little interest in investigating Obama's past associations or exploring the controversies that could have threatened his campaign. Read the whole thing. It's staggering. Following up on yesterday's info on the FEC looking into Senator Obama's campaign finances, Newsmax has a "must read" article posted: More than half of the whopping $426.9 million Barack Obama has raised has come from small donors whose names the Obama campaign won't disclose. Gabe, over at Ace of Spades HQ has a good "debate at a glance" chart up. Ace also has a picture of the last thing Joe Biden saw before he lost consciousness laying on the canvas. Stephen "VodkaPundit" Green's opinion on the debate: Here's my mini-wrap. If you were looking for a veep who wants, needs, to be President, then Joe Biden is your man. But Sarah Palin was the one who really manned up tonight, for unfailingly selling America on her candidate rather than on herself. Reader "Corporate Boy" puts us some knowledge with the link to the bail out bill. My advice to you, Flounder, is to start drinking heavily. Unrelated, but a good line: This election makes me feel like I took the crazy bus to Crazytown. Speaking of crazy, it looks like John "Maverick" McCain has dipped in to his stash of weapons-grade stupid and has conceded Michigan to the Forces of Evil. Republican presidential candidate John McCain conceded battleground Michigan to Democrat Barack Obama on Thursday, a major retreat as he struggles to regain his footing in a campaign increasingly dominated by economic issues. I hope Senator McCain has a really, really good "October Surprise" in his back pocket. Otherwise, come 05NOV08, all my disposable income is going towards canned goods and ammunition and bottled water and ammunition. The "if you want bullets, you'll just have to wait" girl at the Belleville Walmart danm well better have the key to the ammo locker when she sees me standing at the sporting goods counter. Just sayin', that's all. more soon

Special Edition: Debate React

like I've said before...this woman knows how to fillet a fish* so anyway, the VP debate has just ended. Credit where it's due: (slow) Joe Biden's head didn't explode. Although there were times when I thought it would. I gotta admit: I had mixed (bad) feelings going into tonight's debate, from listening to the nay-sayers and MSM watchers. Siht like "Palin's in 'Debate Camp'", "deer in the headlights", the Gibson / Couric hatchet jobs interviews. The list goes on and on. [All the while slow Joe Biden was practicing debating with Michigan Governor Jennifer f'n Grandholm (D-Canadian) . Hey Jenny? Our State is in the economic toilet, are you sure you have time for this?] I lost count: did Governor Sarah Palin say "O'Biden" three times, or was it four? I about pissed myself after the first one. Strong and positive, looking right down the lens at the American People (contrasted against Senator Biden addressing all of his responses to Gwen Ifill), Sarahacuda ripped it up. If she wasn't staring dead on into the camera, she was looking at Senator Biden, who was looking at his shoes, mumbling something. I believe the proper descriptive term is "schooled" or "owned" or whatever the kids are saying these days. I just wish those danm kids would stay off my lawn. In my day, the term "bitch slap" was popular, but what do I know.... By the time you read this, the MSM will have spun it as a Biden win. Wankers. The only metric that Biden wins on is that he did not cry. Almost crying does not count, according to them. I watched it. You watched it. Tell me again who won this debate? thatisall * just because only those of you within a red Swingline Stapler's throw of my cube have ever heard me say that; doesn't mean it's not true

Thursday 02OCT08

32 days to go..... so anyway, time is short today, so let's get right to it: Cold Fury brings us this gem (that he found at InstaPundit): ....every suspicion you have about MSM being in the tank for O is true. We have a team of 4 people going thru dumpsters in Alaska and 4 in arizona. Not a single one looking into Acorn, Ayers or Freddiemae. Editor refuses to publish anything that would jeopardize election for O, and betting you dollars to donuts same is true at NYT, others. People cheer when CNN or NBC run another Palin-mocking but raising any reasonable inquiry into obama is derided or flat out ignored. The fix is in, and its working.... Splendid. Just f'n chipper. Wankers And it gets even better: Early voting is taking place in Ohio. Through the end of the week, people can register and vote on the same day. The Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner argues that they are merely "casting their ballot" rather than "voting" so the fact that Ohio statute requires 30 days between registering and voting would not interfere. So here is what is happening today. People are showing up to register and vote. There is no affirmative evidence that these people have not registered or voted somewhere else. There is no control. Normally in an election, partisan election monitors are allowed into polling places so that they can police each other. But not in two counties, Franklin and Montgomery, in Ohio. Brunner also issued an advisory opinion to counties saying that they are not required to allow election monitors. Couple that to the exchange between Senator Obama and a supporter at a campaign stop: SUPPORTER 5: i would like to know what you can say to reassure us that this election will not be rigged or stolen? [applause] -- or stolen? [applause] SEN. OBAMA: it helps in Ohio that we have democrats in charge of the machines. but, look, i come from chicago. some want to be honest, it is not as if it is just republicans who have monkeyed around with elections in the past. sometimes democrats have, too. No Siht? Really? It looks like Fox News has picked up the story. There's reports that the leftards are bussing people in from Illinois to vote. Watch Ohio; no Republican has ever been elected President without carrying Ohio. You can take a small degree of comfort in this: An auditor for the Federal Election Commission is attempting to have his bosses seek a formal investigation into the collection by the Obama for President campaign of more than $200 million in potentially illegal political donations, including millions of dollars of illegal, foreign donations, and has sought a request for assistance from the Department of Justice or Federal Bureau of Investigation. Or not.... But the analyst's requests have largely been ignored. "I can't get anyone to move. I believe we are looking at a hijacking of our political system that makes the Clinton and Gore fundraising scandals pale in comparison. And no one here wants to touch it." Remember, the Palin / Biden debate is this evening. Ace has been "live-blogging" the debates, so have your 'puter with you as you watch. more soon

Wednesday 01OCT08

33 days to go.....

so anyway, I've got tons of stuff queued up for you, but the "work-life / home-life" dynamic is seriously harshing my mellow this week. Sorry about that. Time is short for this endeavor.....

Fortunately for me, the time-challenged, a reader forwarded an e-mail from a family member (it's a long story) that was chock full of goodness. The excerpt follows:

Here is how long it takes for an economic policy to impact. Clinton and the Dem's changed the banking laws in 1993 to require banks to issue mortgages to people who could not afford to pay them - enforced by Janet Reno. Democrats Frank Raines, Chuck Schumer, Chris Dodd and Jim Johnson run Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (and by the way these are the yahoos who are Obama's economic advisors -yet Obama talks about McCain advisors and money from special interests). They fraudulently report the results, ignore the rules and oversite that is provided. They receive about $200,000,000 in pay and bonuses and give $500,000 in political contributions to Dodd ($165,000), Obama ($126,000) and other Dems. I haven't seen Obama offering to give anything back to the bakrupt agency although his multimillion campaign commercials are still at large.....

Once government institutes such economically destructive laws in perpetutity, the destructive snowballing begins. Of course, given the 15 second average attention span of most voters, Democrats such as Pelosi and Frank are safe in their dishonest double speak and outright deceptions. The media will certainly never hold their feet to the fire.....

And what do you hear on the news from Nancy Pelosi? "This economic crisis is the result of George Bush's economics over the last eight years." Even though these entities were run by Democrats. Even though Bush and the Republicans repeatedly asked for reform and were blocked by the Democrats over the "last eight years". In 2005 Barney Frank said that both institutions were financially sound.

I find it interesting that the vote which failed by 12 votes had 95 no votes from Democrats including 12 from Barney Frank's own comittee ....hmmm sounds funny eh. The Democrats molded their vote so that - if the bail out passed it would be passed by votes cast by Republicans and the Republicans could be blamed for the legislation - if it failed it was the Republicans fault as they are not concerned about the everyman and they only voted no because Nancy Pelosi hurt their feelings. So now the media reports that the reason the bill failed was because of the Republicans and we are in a financial crisis because of "Bush Economics".

I personally am glad the bill failed. I really don't wan't a bailout but a low interest loan with reform. I really don't want to give the same people who ran the institutions bankrupt $70 [sic] billion of my money without any changes.

The whole point of this is - policies take a while to have an effect on an economy as large as ours. Yes we had good economic years while Clinton was in office, resulting from the largest tax breaks brought in years earlier by Reagan.

(Embolding mine)

Good siht, that. He effectively quotes an IBD atricle from 18SEP08, which you should go read right now. It's OK, I'll wait.

Got it? Good. Print it out, wrap around a Wiffle Bat, secure it with tape, and then go beat a liberal about the face and neck with the aforementioned assembly. Or not. Your actual mileage may vary.

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