AM Radio is Weird

The only time I ever listen to the radio is when I'm driving. Going to work I usually listen to Mark Levin on a local station but sometimes it is preempted by basketball, in which case I can pick up the Mark Levin show on another station. The reception is not as good but it is acceptable. It's either that or 'Coast to Coast' and I can't listen to that for very long. Maybe a minute.

Tonight was a basketball night so I put the other station on and was hearing tornado warnings. I never knew where the station broadcast from but had assumed it was Tampa or somewhere else in Florida. Guess not. It took a while but they finally said it was Kentucky. Kentucky was not having a good night.

So I can listen from Orlando to a radio station in Kentucky which has better reception than many of the local AM stations. See, weird.

Why Gun Control?

"The only way liberalism, socialism, and communism is sustained is at the point of a gun."

--Rush Limbaugh

Perspective

The Solar System

Unlike most models, which are compressed for viewing convenience, the planets here are also shown at their true-to-scale average distances from the Sun. That makes this page rather large - on an ordinary 72 dpi monitor it's just over half a mile wide, making it possibly one of the largest pages on the web.

They Can't Help Themselves

Even as their policies decimate the economy they can't stop adding more strangling regulations.

California is experiencing the fastest rate of companies relocating to out-of-state or out-of-country locations since a specialized tracking system was put into place two years ago. The disturbing trend is reflected in a review of activity from Jan. 1 through April 15 of this year when 70 California company disinvestment events occurred, an average of 4.7 per week — greater than the 3.9 average per week last year.

High Speed Failure

China's high speed rail: FAIL!

The vaunted high-speed rail project pushed by Beijing has collapsed into a morass of embezzlement and failure.

Sounds much like our government.

Government Ruins Everything

It's the opposite of the Midas touch and it's the nature of the beast.

Washington state legislature considering electric-vehicle fee

"Electric vehicles put just as much wear and tear on our roads as gas vehicles," said Democratic state Sen. Mary Margaret Haugen, the bill's lead sponsor. "This simply ensures that they contribute their fair share to the upkeep of our roads."

Ah, their fair share. Perhaps that would have been less had the state legislature not set up tax breaks for people to buy those cars in the first place, nor spent money on PR campaigns to do so. Unlike internal-combustion vehicles that require a specific and unique fuel, electric cars can get charged anywhere, which removes the government intervention and taxation on the process — even if it doesn’t actually do anything to reduce pollution, as most electricity gets generated through burning fossil fuels in conditions no more efficient than a modern internal combustion engine

Regarding electric cars not needing "specific and unique fuel," just give them time.

The Perils of Free Will

The problem with evil

The West is belatedly discovering the truth about the love of money being the root of all evil. The arrogant nations of the post-Christian West put their faith in their wealth, only to learn that Mammon is a false and treacherous god. The great irony is that despite the world's rejection of God and its foolish embrace of evil, those who find themselves suffering the promised consequences of their actions will end up blaming God for them. Such are the perils of free will.

Public Enemy #1

Pinatas

People carefully teach their children, from the first time they playfully hit as a baby, that hitting is wrong. They don‘t allow hitting in their family and they don’t spank. But then children are allowed to hit piñatas to the breaking point. Then they get candy; they are rewarded for violent behavior!

Solution: Pinatas shaped like Marxists. Channel aggression where it does the most good.

Don't Be a Victim

With the latest McDonalds beat down video out and this murder (also at a McDonalds), it might be time to rethink your self-defense situation. This will not happen to me or mine.

Pink Pistols: Armed Gays Don't Get Bashed

Armed Females of America

2nd Amendment Sisters

And join the NRA

Tell those who want to take your 2nd Amendment rights away where they can put their anti-gun legislation. The scumbags will always have weapons and they will be even more emboldened when they know you can't have them. Witness England, the location of the murder mentioned above. Guns are banned in England. In fact, defending yourself is banned in England even in your own home.

It's a Wonderful Life...

If you are 'The Fed', not so much Americans in general. This video explains how your life savings is being stolen from you.

Planned Parenthood: Killing our future one child at a time

State-funded site: No stigma in abortion

A state-funded sex education Web site that tells teens an abortion is "much easier than it sounds" has drawn fire from outraged pro-lifers who say mariatalks.com is glossing over ugly truths, steering teens toward the controversial procedure and counseling them how to keep mom and dad in the dark.

Sick. Vile. Murder.

H. L. Mencken Quotes

So I guess today is Mencken day because while looking up the last quote to see if it was real I came across others which seemed relevant to our political atmosphere.

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

It seems since the advent of talk radio and the internet, they can no longer control the message to the extent they need to - witness the global warming crash and burn - and have pushed the red button, so to speak, on the economy in order to create a crisis which is in no way imaginary.

The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all.

The men the American public admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth.

Men are the only animals that devote themselves, day in and day out, to making one another unhappy. It is an art like any other. Its virtuosi are called altruists.

An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.

I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.

All government, of course, is against liberty.

--H. L. Mencken

The following quote seems to have become popular while George Bush was in office. Hard as it may be to believe, it is even more relevant now. One only hopes we can start an uphill trend.

The larger the mob, the harder the test. In small areas, before small electorates, a first-rate man occasionally fights his way through, carrying even the mob with him by force of his personality. But when the field is nationwide, and the fight must be waged chiefly at second and third hand, and the force of personality cannot so readily make itself felt, then all the odds are on the man who is, intrinsically, the most devious and mediocre — the man who can most easily adeptly disperse the notion that his mind is a virtual vacuum.

The Presidency tends, year by year, to go to such men. As democracy is perfected, the office represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. We move toward a lofty ideal. On some great and glorious day the the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.

--H. L. Mencken

Government Waste: An Oxymoron

$14,000: The Amount a FL Unemployment Office Spent on Superhero Capes

Workforce Central Florida spent more than $14,000 on the red capes as part of its "Cape-A-Bility Challenge" public relations campaign. The campaign featured a cartoon character, "Dr. Evil Unemployment," who needs to be vanquished.

No amount of money the government spends can create sustainable jobs. Every job the government creates is another flea on the dog. The only way to create real, sustainable jobs is for the government to step out of the way. Period. It's a universal law, it cannot be broken, like the law of thermodynamics or gravity.

I don't care if you think it should work, for every flawed idea there is someone who thinks it should work. This president, this congress is playing with peoples lives. People are out here suffering while the leadership plays in it's little sandbox in the beltway deciding what should and should not work based on flawed ideas and ignorance. Meanwhile, real people are losing real jobs, real houses, real dreams and real futures.

The Arrogance of America's Dictator Wannabees is Amazing

The constitution means absolutely nothing to them.

Banning guns by changing definitions

In other words, this report lays the groundwork to impose by regulatory fiat an entirely unconstitutional gun ban more draconian than the Clinton gun ban that expired in 2004, and bypasses Congress and the Constitution to do so. It needs to be stopped now.

This is not just an issue for gun owners. This is an issue of the Obama administration overreaching, and violating the Constitution in the process.. Restricting our rights by regulatory fiat should concern every American.

Guns, free speech, free thought, freedom of assembly, freedom of religion...they're coming for them all, it's just a matter of time if we don't stop this now.

No Gambling Unless THE STATE Allows It

Feds shut down 3 online poker sites.

They go through all sorts of legal hoops to stop Americans from playing poker and all sorts of legal hoops to keep Mexicans pouring illegally across our borders.

Obviously the poker sites aren't paying off the right people.

Go Big or Go Home

Land of the Giants

There's an element of truth in that. Bigness is part of what it means to be American. America is Superman and Wonder Woman, the Ziegfeld Follies and the Radio City Christmas Spectacular, the Super Bowl, King Kong, Avatar, Surf’n'Turf and Supersized Fries and all-U-can-eat. . . . I love 'em all, but such a land would seem an unlikely candidate for genteel incremental Continental-style decline. When such a nation embarks on the European trajectory of suicide-by-statism, it will not merely be Big Government but Biggest Government. I used to think Obamacare would simply be a disaster on the scale of Canadian health care or Britain’s NHS, but, as the Cornhusker Kickback and the legions of additional IRS agents and the tanning-salon tax became plain, you realize it will be a disaster of an entirely different order. This is Gibbon's Decline And Fall All-U-Can-Eat Super Bowl Christmas Spectacular On Ice.

I really like the way Mark Steyn makes a point. The following is from the comments:

...we need to CONTINUE worshipping at that altar of BIG--

The biggest spending cuts in history...

The biggest tax cuts in history...

The biggest scaling back of government in history...

... followed by the biggest comeback in history.

Decline is a choice, not a fate.

Going Down?

Downhill Only

Incremental decline is easy to get used to. I’m sure a few of my correspondent’s fellow commuters are equally droll about it and a few more get angry, but untold thousands more just shuffle uncomplainingly up and down, scuffing shoes and bumping backpacks. That’s the trick with decline: persuading people to accept it. The Transportation Security Administration, which in a decade of existence has never caught a single terrorist, has managed to persuade freeborn citizens to accept that minor state bureaucrats have the right to fondle your scrotum without probable cause. The TSA is now unionizing, which means that this hideous embodiment of bureaucratized sclerosis will now have its fingers in your gusset until the end of time.

The Party of Destruction

Content Warning Not Strong Enough for This Video of Leftist Freakout at Oregon Tea Party Rally

Country Needs a New Pair of Shoes Government Needs to Pay Off the Unions!

Doubling down on a bad bet

...the United States Postal Service has now gone the Hollywood apocalyptics one better and produced a somewhat subtler image of civilizational ruin. The other day the post office apologized for its new stamp honoring Lady Liberty. Due to an unfortunate error, the stamp shows not the 19th century Statue of Liberty that stands in New York Harbor but the 1990s replica that stands at the New York-New York hotel and casino in Las Vegas.

An ersatz statue of pseudo-liberty standing guard over the world's biggest gambling operation: What better way to round out a week in which the Republicans pretended to pass the most historically historic budget cut in history while the president pretended to come up with a plan to address the debt? All while pretending to wage a war in Libya whose most likely outcome seems to be that the only Arab dictator to sleep soundly in his bed at night during these turbulent times will be doing so under cover of a NATO no-fly zone for the rest of his 75-year term of office. In such a world, the USPS, bless 'em, has come up with a far more plausible emblem of societal devastation than Hollywood's space monsters and climate-change fairies.

After the revelations that the $38.5 billion 2011 budget cut will, in reality, either cut a mere $352 million from the 2011 budget or, in fact, increase it by $3 billion, it might be easier just to build a replica White House, Capitol and Congressional Budget Office at the new Beltway Casino next to Caesar's Palace. Vegas is no longer the world's biggest gambling resort; America is. Barack Obama says we need to "win the future," and one more roll of the dice should do it: A trillion dollars of chips on the stimulus came up empty but let's pile another couple trillion on Obamacare, and "high-speed rail," and "green jobs" and "broadband access... ." And all the while Wayne Newton is singing "Danke Schoen" in Chinese. But don't worry, we're not just throwing our money away. We're playing to a system! The president calls it "investing in the future."

Hermain Cain at Tax-Day Rally

"We've got some altering and abolishing to do, and we are doing it,"

A Post for Tax Day*

*Even though Tax Day is April 18 this year.

From The New Clarion: The First Law of Parasites

It is amusing to see someone get excited about an IRS refund. He dances around and shouts, "I got $2,000! Partyyyyyy!!!"

Hey, you really screwed the government, huh?

Shmuck. The IRS loves to "give" you that money. Every refund represents a happy sheep.

It's the First Law of Parasites: Don't kill the host. That refund check is emotional fuel that keeps the producer working while the government bleeds him drop after drop, month after month...

That government is slicker than Bud Abbott.

By way of Improved Clinch

The Non-Deficit Reducing, Deficit Reduction Bill

Mark Steyn On The Most Historic Budget Cutting Bill In History...That Spends $3 Billion More Than Last Year

...because President Obama always sinks to the occasion. He is a man who has shrunk in office. In a sense, the fraud of his election, a man with no talents other than for self-promotion, is revealed every time he has to rise to the occasion. You start thinking how this man would have, what this man would have said if he had to stand up in the House of Commons, as Winston Churchill did, after the fall of France, for example. He sinks to the occasion. And in this case, we have the usual petty, partisan, un-presidential snippiness, the usual pathetic straw man arguments, and the lamest of lame tropes all about investing in the future and all the rest of it. Government has invested in the future, and as a result, we don’t have one. We need less government investment in the future, because this government has invested like crazy in the future. And the only result of that is that unless you’re planning on getting hit by a logging truck, or coming down with a fatal case of bird flu in the next thirty days, your future is over, because this government spends it.

How the Government Looks Out for You

Starring Bud Abbott as the American government
and Lou Costello as the American people

Duck Season, Wabbit Season

Is it 'Open Season' on a Principled Black Conservative?

It's always open season on a principled black conservative. They've got to keep them on the socialist plantation, don't you know. But it's never open season on Islamofascists.

Tipping the Scales in Favor of Chaos

In his column entitled 'Why Isn't Obama 'Racist' for Ignoring Black Africa?', Larry Elder writes:

Obama refuses to argue that intervening in Libya is part of the fight in the war against Islamofascism and therefore a matter of national security -- the only defensible rationale.

Obama instead justifies the use of the military in Libya -- a country that poses no imminent threat and from which we get virtually no oil -- on the desire to avert a "humanitarian" crisis. If that's the reason, why stop there?

He refuses because Obama is not fighting a war against Islamofascism. Whatever his goal is, it's not fighting Islamofascism. It is equally obvious his intentions are not humanitarian, as Mr. Elder points out.

Government Class Refuses to Face Reality

To Hell in a Gurney

As was revealed yesterday re the sham budget "cuts", the government class's response to its fiscal fraud is to obscure it via political fraud, a sleight of hand that demonstrates utter contempt for the citizenry. If this is the best they can do, they're ensuring that everything is going to get worse. Real worse, real poor, real fast.

The entire Western world is institutionally committed to living beyond its means in perpetuity. The expiry date on "perpetuity" is looming.

--Mark Steyn

I Like Herman Cain

Herman Cain Interview of April 12, 2011.

Best interview I've heard in a while.

Banned in the USA

Chicago School Bans Students From Bringing Own Lunches

The ban has had two effects. First, more government money funneled to the school lunch provider. And second, ironically, less students eating the meals.

Of course, good liberal intentions gone awry again.

The Free Ride Will End One Way or the Other

Ending Medicare, or ending America?

What's about to hit America is not a "shock." It's not an earthquake, it's not a tsunami, it's what Paul Ryan calls "the most predictable crisis in the history of our country." It has one cause: Spending. The spending of the class that laughs at the class that drives to work to maintain President Obama, Sen. Reid, Sen. Baucus, Sen. Harkin and Minority Leader Pelosi's "communications director" in their comforts and complacency.

The Democrats' solution to the problem is to deny there is one.

They Subjugate and Call it Liberation

The only way they'll make you free is by killing you.



Because the people of Venezuela are more free now than they were before Chavez? The people of Cuba? More free after the revolution? North Koreans have more liberty than South Koreans?

We Finance Planned Parenthood, Planned Parenthood Gives to Democrats

Planned Parenthood spent more than $1 million electing Democrats last cycle

For 2008-2009 33% of Planned Parenthoods revenue ($363.2 million) was in grants by the U.S. government, that's you and me. Probably more now.

Chuck Schumer: Senate Will 'Never, Never, Never' Defund Planned Parenthood.



The government has become nothing less than an organized criminal enterprise. This is not even a good example of it, just the latest that has come to my attention. We get them out or it's over.

You'd Think they Were Deliberately Trying Starve Populations Downward

I mean, seriously, we have to use food as fuel?

Each year, an ever larger portion of the world's crops — cassava and corn, sugar and palm oil — is being diverted for biofuels as developed countries pass laws mandating greater use of nonfossil fuels and as emerging powerhouses like China seek new sources of energy to keep their cars and industries running.

But with food prices rising sharply in recent months, many experts are calling on countries to scale back their headlong rush into green fuel development, arguing that the combination of ambitious biofuel targets and mediocre harvests of some crucial crops is contributing to high prices, hunger and political instability.

Who comes up with this stuff? Do they actually sit in a room and figure out ways to make other peoples lives miserable? You would think that was the intention, they are so damn good at it. Everything progressives try makes things worse than before, but of course they come up with more solutions to make things even worse and so on down the road to absolute bloody hell on earth. The world has been there, done that several times and has the t-shirts to prove it. STOP already.

Quote of the Day

"The left never wants to improve people's lot in life. All they want to do is lower the achievers so that there's less of a gap."

--Rush Limbaugh

I Support It

The Right to Offend

When I wrote over the weekend about the trial of Australia's most prominent columnist for expressing his opinions, I did not expect it to be quite so immediately relevant to the United States. But perhaps what's most disturbing about Lindsey Graham's dismal defense of his inclinations to censorship is the lack of even the slightest attempt to underpin his position with any kind of principle. He all but literally wraps himself in the flag, and, once you pry him out of the folds of Old Glory, what you're left with is a member of the governing class far too comfortable with the idea that he and his colleagues should determine the bounds of public discourse.

I'm sick of that. I'm sick of it in Canada, sick of it in Britain, in Australia, in Europe, and I'm now sick of it in America – in part because, as Senator Graham has demonstrated in his fatuous defense, guys like him aren't smart enough to set the rules for what the rest of us are allowed to think.

Hat tip: Vox Popoli

Not So Fast

Wind and wave energies are not renewable after all

He concludes that it is a mistake to assume that energy sources like wind and waves are truly renewable. Build enough wind farms to replace fossil fuels, he says, and we could seriously deplete the energy available in the atmosphere, with consequences as dire as severe climate change.

Oh no! Climate change! I think it's funny that all the so-called "solutions" greenies come up with are as bad or worse than the problems they are trying to solve. Can't we just all agree that climate changes - always has, always will.

Liberals: Putting a Stick into the Spokes of America

Winning Hearts, Minds and Trigger Fingers

We have internalized our enemies' psychoses — that we are the unclean ones.

Mark Steyn has the gift of getting to the point. What should we expect after decades of being taught to hate ourselves by the liberal establishment? What good things about America and Americans do our children learn about in government schools? They learn only that there are no good things about America, they learn that white is never right and they learn that every other culture - no matter how barbaric - is better.

Do people even know what the American culture is anymore?

Learning to Fly

A Healthy Dose of Neglect

Many years ago some writer – it might have been Norman Vincent Peale – said, "Every child needs a good, healthy dose of neglect." I can hear the horrors from parents of small children even as I write this! How could anyone say such a thing?

And yet this thought needs to be explored a bit. Clearly no wise parent will allow a two-year old to play unsupervised in Daddy’s tool shed or to explore his environment with a nail file in a room full of electrical outlets.

But having said that, as children mature they need to be cut loose from Mom & Dad’s all-seeing eyes, allowing them to make mistakes or better yet develop problem-solving skills with their playmates. If Mom and Dad are there to ride to the rescue every time a little difficulty arises, the child will remain a child even into adulthood. Dependency will be a habit and adulthood delayed.

The same can be said for government, people need to be left alone to solve their problems or dependency will be a habit and we will have a nation of children.

Oops.

He goes on:

Maybe that's what Jesus meant when he told his disciples, "It is expedient for you that I go away” (John 16:7), and, “He that believes in me, the works that I do he shall do also, and greater works than these shall he do, because I go unto the Father" (John 14:12).

Maybe we can paraphrase it as: "It's best I leave. I'll send you some help, but you’ll have to learn how to step out of your comfort zones."

Girls Just Wanna Have Guns

"I want to see more news headlines stating girls kill attacker with gun than girl found dead after being raped and choked to death."

--Regis Giles

Supporters of Obamacare Get Waivers

How nice.

Government Motors Best

Top Ten Great Features of the Chevy Volt

Really, it's a lot better car than some people are giving it credit for. Just look at some of its great features:

Notwithstanding all the "great features", if you want an electric car go with the privately owned Tesla.

P.S. It's good to see Frank J at Townhall.com.

Those Who Control the Guns Control the People

Stop ATF's Anti-Gun Zealots

For 30 years, Chicago banned handguns. The crime rate skyrocketed. Murders soared. Gangs blossomed. Desperate city officials even considered calling the National Guard to combat the out-of-control violence that all the "community organizing" in the world couldn't curb. The Supreme Court struck down Chicago's individual firearms ownership prohibition last year, but the same anti-gun zealots who put Windy City citizens' lives at risk remain in power.

And now one of them may soon be in charge of the scandal-plagued Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.

NRA's Chris Cox summed up the nomination bluntly: "You might as well put an arsonist in charge of the fire department."

"Social Justice" is the Antonym of Justice

Burt Prelutsky writes about his recent speech at a Rotary Club lunch, after which he says this truism:

I said that justice is justice, whereas "social justice" is code for one set of rules for the rich, another for the poor; one set for whites, another set for minorities; one set for straight men, another for women and gays. In short, I pointed out, it's the opposite of actual justice.

And so it is.

We're from the U.N. and We're Here to Help You

Eritrea to U.N.: Take This Aid And Shove It

In a stinging rebuff to the United Nations and its anti-poverty efforts, Eritrea, one of the poorest countries in Africa, has told the world body that it wants out of its long-term development agreement because the U.N. makes the problem worse, not better.

The reason, given in a January 26 notification letter from the country's powerful Finance Minister, obtained by Fox News, is that "aid only postpones the basic solutions to crucial development problems by tentatively ameliorating their manifestations without tackling their root causes. The structural, political, economic, etc. damage that it inflicts upon recipient countries is also enormous." In other words, the government argues, U.N. aid does more harm than good.

Liberal policies always do more harm than good, however well intentioned.

Opacity is the New Transparency

The president accepted a transparency award in a closed, undisclosed meeting.

President Obama finally and quietly accepted his "transparency" award from the open government community this week — in a closed, undisclosed meeting at the White House on Monday

This is the essence of Obama's presidency: transparency is opacity, up is down, right is wrong, good is evil.

Above the Law

Members of Congress rack up unpaid ticket fines.

According to a Roll Call survey of vehicles parked on Capitol Hill and at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, as of mid-March, lawmakers were carrying at least $15,000 in outstanding tickets — ranging from expired meters to speeding camera violations — and potentially thousands of dollars more.

Three-quarters of those tickets, worth about $11,500, were in default at the time of the survey, having gone more than 60 days, and in some cases years, without payment.

Obeying the law is so... proletariat.

Open Letter to Chicago Legislators

Where guns are outlawed, only outlaws have guns - and they know it and take full advantage of it.

America Now Standing Against Good and Encouraging Evil?

I stand with Israel.

Quote of the Day

"Nation-building was bad enough. It would seem that Barack Obama is now into caliphate-building. It's almost as though Obama might believe he's the 12th Imam."

--Rush Limbaugh

Entirely within the realm of possibilities.

The Monkey Wrench in the Works

Neal Boortz hits on what I think is the biggest problem this country faces in trying to bring America back from the brink: here.

Union members, government workers and Democrats are also aided by one other group of people. These are the people who will tell you very loudly that the government needs to cut spending, but who will raise unholy hell if the government tries to cut spending on the program or an issue that is personally important to them. There are a lot of corn farmers in Iowa who will tell you that absolutely the government needs to cut spending, but who will work very hard to defeat any candidate who ever proposes cutting up one penny from the asinine ethanol subsidy program. The attitude of the typical American is clearly that the government should cut spending, but that the government shouldn't even think about cutting spending on any program that is in any way important to them. It is always somebody else's government spending program that needs to be cut.

How do you reach them? It's the age old problem - let go, and blessings come to you. Hold tight and lose it all. It goes against the grain of human nature.

He Like to Spend the Money - Your Money

The Most Open and Accessible Administration in American History

What a joke. Vice President's staff lock journalist in a closet for hours during a fundraiser to stop him talking to guests.

After 90 minutes he was allowed out to hear Biden and Nelson speak for 35 minutes, before being taken back to the closet for the remainder of the event.

Why would you allow yourself to be put in a closet? And then go back in? Was only one journalist at the event? Where were the rest of the journalists?

This is just too weird.

U.S. Government Smugging Guns into Mexico

And blaming the 2nd Amendment. This is a radio interview with NRA's Wayne LaPierre:

"Because the Obama administration looks like they're trying to cover it up. The justice department is trying to spin it and ATF is at war with themselves over this and the American public needs the truth."

--Wayne LaPierre

Hey, Thanks...

The U.S. government arranges for guns to be smuggled into Mexico and then proceeds to use, and allow the use of, the excuse that guns are being smuggled into Mexico to try to further curtail our 2nd amendment rights. See here, here, here, here, etc.

No Hand Wringing Here - Just "Git-R-Done!"

Badass of the Week: Hideaki Akaiwa < That link is the sensationalized version, complete with raw language. News reports can be found here, here and here.

Hideaki donned scuba gear and dove into the tsunami waters to search for (and rescue) his wife and mother.

Surrounded by incredible hazards on all sides, ranging from obscene currents capable of dislodging houses from their moorings, sharp twisted metal that could easily have punctured his oxygen line (at best) or impaled him (at worst), and with giant f-ing cars careening through the water like toys, he pressed on. Past broken glass, past destroyed houses, past downed power lines arcing with electrical current, through undertow that could have dragged him out to sea never to be heard from again, he searched.

I saw this posted at Improved Clinch a few days back, just now got around to posting it myself. It's a great story.

Making Sense of the Senseless

That Which We Call a Rose, by Any Other Name Would Smell as Sweet

And that which we call a war, by any other name is still hell.

"I think what we are doing is enforcing a resolution that has a very clear set of goals, which is protecting the Libyan people, averting a humanitarian crisis, and setting up a no-fly zone," Rhodes said. "Obviously that involves kinetic military action, particularly on the front end."

Obviously.

There are conditions under which war is a honorable, however this is not one of those times. Everything is wrong here, it is a mistake, starting with the fact that no one wants to take the lead.

Overthrow the United States of America...

From within. Please take 40 minutes out of your day to hear what they are planning to do - it will effect you directly and you don't want to unknowingly help them. This is not a theory, it is happening. Clear explanation in the video.



Media reaction? Mostly silence. Rush Limbaugh's reaction here.

"Is this not a form of terrorism this guy is preaching?"

How All Home Invasions Should End

Well, except for the pink pistol part.

Armed Beauty Queen Fatally Shoots Intruder in Florida Home Invasion

When a burly ex-convict forced his way into a posh Florida home last week, he had no idea what awaited him -- a 25-year-old beauty queen with a pink .38-caliber handgun

Her fiance doesn't know when to keep his big mouth shut, though.

Here's to Redd Foxx

You Just Dumb, Son, You Just Dumb

Socialism (is) for Dummies

Leftists like to think of themselves as clear-thinking realists who are sensitive to nuance and irony. In reality, they are like little children who regard fairy tales as non-fiction. For instance, they champion socialism even though the past hundred years have proven time and again that it doesn't work in practice the way it does in theory. On the contrary, in every country where it has existed, it has inevitably led to loss of liberty, widespread poverty and mass murder on a scale that has no parallel in human history. Point out this obvious fact to a liberal, and once he gets done calling you a greedy, heartless, bloodthirsty reactionary, he'll insist that we haven't yet seen true socialism. Actually, we have, though. We've seen it in the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany, in China, Cambodia, North Korea and Cuba.

Bumper Sticker

"Only criminals, dictators and democrats fear armed citizens."

Are You OK With This?

Obama is allowing a Brazilian company to drill and store oil in the Gulf of Mexico but has shut down American companies from drilling. Petrobras gets permit for U.S. deep waters

Washington has given Petrobras America Inc. permission to start oil and gas production in the Gulf of Mexico, a regulator said.

The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement gave Petrobras approval to use a floating production storage offloading facility at its Cascade-Chinook project in the Gulf of Mexico.

The approval marks the first time FPSO technology will be used in U.S. waters of the Gulf of Mexico.

The oil and gas project is about 165 miles off the coast of Louisiana in 8,200 feet of water. The FPSO has a production capacity of 80,000 barrels of oil and 16 million cubic feet of natural gas per day.

I'm not OK with that. American companies should be drilling in American waters.

One of the things about Petrobras that I want to make clear ('cause it's a little bit confusing): The regime, the Obama administration has given permission to Petrobras to have a floating underwater storage facility in the Gulf of Mexico that will hold 80,000 barrels of oil and 16 million cubic feet of gas. A floating underwater storage facility. No worries about leakage. No problem. We have to shut down our Gulf drilling because of a fire on board a rig. But we okay a floating underwater storage facility. Well, since it's a Brazilian company which has gotten heavy investments from George Soros, apparently there are no possible risks to the environment here. It just seems like all the obstacles that this administration seeks to place in people's way happen to be in the way of the United States.

--Rush Limbaugh

And I'm sure there will be no leaks, too.

Where are the Massive War Protests?

John Hawkins has 7 Questions for Liberals About Obama's Libyan War

It seems like it was just yesterday when we had an "imperialist warmonger" in the White House who was going to be replaced by a peace-loving Democrat who promised "hope" and "change" instead. It's funny how that worked out, isn't it? We still have troops in Iraq, we've escalated the war in Afghanistan, and now we're bombing everything that moves in Libya. Yet, the same liberals who were protesting in the streets and calling George Bush a war criminal have mostly been meek and quiet about the fact that the President they supported has been following in George Bush's footsteps.

So, the obvious question is, Did you lefties believe ANY of the crap you were spewing about the war on terrorism before Obama got into office?" If so, maybe you could answer a few questions prompted by the things liberals were saying during the Bush years.

Watch Glenn Beck

Mar. 21, 2011: Good vs. Evil

Honestly, I can't think of a more important show to be watching. You will not understand the news watching the main stream media.

Allen West: Sick and Tired of Political Gamesmanship/Manuevering

It's Not Just Me

European governments "completely puzzled" about U.S. position on Libya

Inside the foreign ministers' meeting, a loud and contentious debate erupted about whether to move forward with stronger action to halt Col. Muammar al-Qaddafi's campaign against the Libyan rebels and the violence being perpetrated against civilians. Britain and France argued for immediate action while Germany and Russia opposed such a move, according to two European diplomats who were briefed on the meeting.

Clinton stayed out of the fray, repeating the administration's position that all options are on the table but not specifically endorsing any particular step. She also did not voice support for stronger action in the near term, such as a no-fly zone or military aid to the rebels, both diplomats said.

"The way the U.S. acted was to let the Germans and the Russians block everything, which announced for us an alignment with the Germans as far as we are concerned," one of the diplomats told The Cable.

Clinton's unwillingness to commit the United States to a specific position led many in the room to wonder exactly where the administration stood on the situation in Libya.

"Frankly we are just completely puzzled," the diplomat said. "We are wondering if this is a priority for the United States."

Emphasis mine.

An Incredible Story of Bravery and Sacrifice

Fukushima Fifty on 'Suicide Mission' Send Haunting Messages to Family Members

No one doubts the bravery of the Fukushima Fifty — those workers who have chosen to ignore radiation warnings and continue trying to restore stability at Japan's damaged nuclear reactors. The 180 rotating workers are anonymous and hailed as heroes. But new details of their heartbreaking ordeal are coming to light as family members receive haunting messages detailing their mission.

Shouldn't it be the Fukushima 180 though, give them all credit.

On Japan, Our Friends

Doing the President's job.

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Another amazing video:

Cool Video

Japanese Dog Refuses to Leave Injured Buddy's Side

Control

The administration that doesn't care a whit for private enterprise wants a new copyright law crackdown.

The White House today proposed sweeping revisions to U.S. copyright law, including making "illegal streaming" of audio or video a federal felony and allowing FBI agents to wiretap suspected infringers.

They seem to be very interested in anything that will give them more control over the proletariat.

Democratic politicians tend to be a bit more enthusiastic about the topic. Biden was a close Senate ally of copyright holders, and President Obama picked top copyright industry lawyers for Justice Department posts. Last year, Biden warned that "piracy is theft."

I'm not promoting piracy, it's just interesting what this administration takes interest in.

Incredible Tsunami Footage

Relentless.

Obama Needs to Step Down

President Obama’s Trivial Pursuits

The Middle East is afire with rebellion, Japan is imploding from an earthquake, and the battle of the budget is on in the United States, but none of this seems to be deterring President Obama from a heavy schedule of childish distractions.

This morning, as Japan's nuclear crisis enters a potentially catastrophic phase, we are told that Obama is videotaping his NCAA tournament picks and that we'll be able to tune into ESPN Wednesday to find out who he likes.

Saturday, he made his 61st outing to the golf course as president, and got back to the White House with just enough time for a quick shower before heading out to party with Washington’s elite journalists at the annual Gridiron Dinner.

With various urgencies swirling about him, Saturday's weekly videotaped presidential address focusing on "Women's History Month" seemed bizarrely out of touch.

If he had even an inkling of love for the United States he would step down now. He's way out of his league and everyday he is in office does further damage to the Republic and to the world. The people of the United states need to start demanding his resignation. And Biden right after him. At least Republicans know when to step down, Democrats never do.

Obama's Priorities

Too good to miss, this is only the 3 minute intro:



Watch the whole show here.

The Case Against Coddling Terrorists

Evil Never Fades

Can we imagine a world sixty-seven years from now in which all people will live peaceably with those currently committed to violent, hate-filled extremist beliefs held by many in the Moslem world today? If Japan is a model, the answer is yes. However, that vision can only come to fruition if those beliefs are utterly obliterated. Just as in the past, one side has to win for both sides to eventually be winners. If the side of evil wins, both sides, and all humanity loses.

Well, They're Not Democrats

Thomas Sowell writes about the failure of Republicans to point out the obvious: Blacks and Republicans

In California, a substantial black population has simply been forced by economics to vacate many communities near the coast and move farther inland, where the environmental zealots are not yet as strong politically, and where housing prices are therefore not yet as unaffordable.

With all the Republican politicians' laments about how overwhelmingly blacks vote for Democrats, I have yet to hear a Republican politician publicly point out the harm to blacks from such policies of the Democrats as severe housing restrictions, resulting from catering to environmental extremists.

I am not impressed with the Republicans performance since the last election, to put it mildly. They're ineffectual, weak and easily intimidated. There is no leadership and only a few are out there fighting the good fight.

What's the best thing you can say about Republicans? They're not Democrats.

Feeding Evil

Here are a couple of essays on a murder that got buried in the news recently.

The Other Tsunami

In much of the Arab Muslim and some of the non-Arab Muslim world today (such as Iran), "Jew" is not a person. "Jew" is not even merely the enemy. In fact, there is no parallel on Earth to what "Jew" means to a hundred million, perhaps hundreds of millions of Muslims.

Think of any conflict in the world – Pakistan-India, China-Tibet, North Korea-South Korea, Tamil-Sinhalese. There are some deep hatreds there, and atrocities have been committed on one or both sides of those conflicts. But in none of those conflicts nor anywhere else is there something equivalent to what "Jew" means to millions of Muslims.

There really is only one historical parallel, and it, too, involved the word "Jew." The Nazis also succeeded in fully dehumanizing the word "Jew." Thus, for Nazism, it was as important (if not more so) to murder Jewish babies and children – often through as cruel a means as possible (being burned alive, buried alive or thrown up in the air and impaled on bayonets) – as it was to murder Jewish adults.

The human being does not have to learn to hate. It seems to come pretty naturally. Nor does the human being have to learn to murder, steal or rape. These, too, seem to be in the natural human repertoire of evils.

But the human being does have to learn to hate children and babies, and to regard the torture and murder of them as morally desirable acts. It takes years of work to undo normal protective human attitudes toward children.

That is precisely what the Nazis did and what significant parts of the Muslim world have done to the word "Jew." To them, the Jew is not just sub-human; the Jew – and his or her children – is sub-animal.

Five Dead Jews

The animals, the killers, were a team of Hamas murderers and, when word of the murders spread throughout Gaza, candy was given out to children there to celebrate.

The Palestinians and other Muslims of like mind have become what they believe Jews are. Their raging hatred of Jews has so corrupted and distorted their psyche over so many generations that they are what they have loved to hate.

Quote of the Day

"I will bet you that the Japanese make more ground in their rebuilding and recovery sooner than we get the World Trade Center rebuilt -- and we got a ten-year head-start."

--Rush Limbaugh

Flea and Tick Control

Last month I got Madison some Advantix. She's used it before and I wasn't completely happy with it. Why? Because it doesn't last a whole month. By the 3rd week she's scratching again. I've tried Frontline and Biospot with similar and much worse results.

The only thing that I've been completely happy with using is Comfortis. It's a prescription pill that you give the dog once a month. It works like a charm but it's even more expensive than Advantix and you have to go to the vet for a prescription. It's almost $90 for 6 pills! What a racket. And the vet charges more and of course they want you to buy from them. Sorry, not happening. I'm not made of money.

So, Advantix it is. But I have to apply it every 3 weeks. And she hates the stuff. Sorry Madison, but after the first day you don't notice it.

I hate prescription medications. There are some medications that require medical evaluation, I know, but for fleas? Come on! They don't do any special tests or examinations if you want Comfortis. None.

I like that picture of Madison because she never lays on the bare floor. It's only carpet or cushions for her. She's spoiled. This picture was taken at James' birthday party, people were over and she lay down at my feet at the kitchen table.

No Can Do

Quake shakes more than Japan

Worse than the obnoxious arrogance, the political/religious movement now known as climate change, or CC, is having a corrosive effect on a human quality that has enabled us to survive and thrive on this planet – adaptation.

CC puts the focus on every real and imagined negative effect of every human action, calling into question whether anything we do can ever be right. This focus would have prevented the major inventions of the last 200 years. We were a "can do" society; CC advocates the virtues of "can't do" and "never should have done."

"Can't do" societies do not last long. Adaptation to change is the primary human survival behavioral trait. Opposition to adaptation is suicide. Blaming every natural disaster on human activity is arrogant, wrong and folly.

The Japanese Earthquake 2011

Some pictures

And this video is amazing, simple as it is.



Incredible before and after photos (mouse over to change between them)

An detailed explanation of the nuclear reactor problem they are having.

Herman Cain Keynote @ Marion County, FL

Watch live streaming video from thehermancain at livestream.com

The New #&%$*@% Tone

You will die!!!!!

The F word is unbleaped once in this video but it's too good not to post.



DemocratsFleabaggers are the REAL party of hate.

Earthquake in Japan

Major earthquake hits Japan. They say it was a 8.9 and hit off the coast causing large tsunamis. This is not good.

Some video at this link.

I emailed Toshiro, he may not respond, large areas of Tokyo have no power. We'll just have to wait and see. I wonder about Mitake, too.

Google people finder - Japan 2011.

Update: I have heard from Toshiro and Chiaki and they are fine. There is no train service and the phones do not work so they cannot check on family in Mitake yet.

2nd Ammendment

An interesting monologue about your right to exist and defend your existence.



Check out the Mad Bad Voodo channel on YouTube.

It's a Bird, It's a Plane, No, It's JETMAN

The Deficit is Too Damn High

Sean Hannity interviews Jimmy McMillan, previously known as the 'Rent is Too Damn High' guy, now he's the 'Deficit is Too Damn High' guy. He is running for the Republican presidential nomination.



His solution: Pardon all personal debt - the companies already got their bailouts. Oh, and spank Obama and put him to bed.

Not bad... but I think I'll stick with Herman Cain, thanks. Herman should purchase the rights to that slogan though.:-)

How Satan Works

No, I don't think Van-Jones is Satan, but he's using the same playbook. I really don't believe Van-Jones would disagree with that either (although he wouldn't say it within earshot of people who would be appalled by that) as his literal playbook - Rules for Radicals by Saul Alinsky - is dedicated to Lucifer.

"Lest we forget, an over-the-shoulder acknowledgment to the very first radical: from all our legends, mythology, and history(and who is to know where mythology leaves off and history begins — or which is which), the first radical known to man who rebelled against the establishment and did it so effectively that he at least won his own kingdom — Lucifer."

The book is even recommended reading by the NEA. You know, the National Education Association, yea, that NEA.

Thanks to Fellowship of the Minds for the thorough post on this little fact.

Oh, and let's not forget this — the kingdom that the first radical "won" was hell.

A Parasite Is as a Parasite Does

Union Myths

The biggest myth about labor unions is that unions are for the workers. Unions are for unions, just as corporations are for corporations and politicians are for politicians.

To unions, workers are just the raw material used to create union power, just as iron ore is the raw material used by U.S. Steel and bauxite is the raw material used by the Aluminum Company of America.

The most fundamental fact about labor unions is that they do not create any wealth. They are one of a growing number of institutions which specialize in siphoning off wealth created by others, whether those others are businesses or the taxpayers.

Unions eventually destroy the host, as many parasites do, as the coal, steel and automobile industries can attest.

How's That Wind Power Working Out For You?

Excruciating?

Life Under The Blades

When it was installed last spring, Anderson didn't think Wind One would cause a problem. For 35 years, he’s owned and operated a passive solar company on Cape Cod.

The energy conservationist in Anderson considered wind power a good principle. He wasn't alone — before the turbine switched on, Falmouth residents almost universally welcomed Wind One as a symbol of renewable energy and a way to keep taxes down.

"I was proud looking at it from this viewpoint — until it started turning," Anderson said.

But now, as many as 50 people are complaining about the turbine and the noise it makes at different speeds. A dozen families are retaining a lawyer for that reason.

"It is dangerous. Headaches. Loss of sleep. And the ringing in my ears never goes away. I could look at it all day, and it does not bother me. It's quite majestic — but it's way too close," Anderson said.

Just like every other liberal policy, it worked in theory.

Godzilla Facepalm

It's so easy! Now I see! Make it a right and everyone will automatically have it! Houses, doctors, ipods! See! Simple!

Of Libya and Secret Plans

Libya has been relatively stable until recently with Gaddafi in power and I can't imagine it will get better when he's ousted, but I won't pretend to know what course of action is best for Libya or the region. However, I do know that Obama has been on the wrong side of every conflict that I can recall, so this can't be a good sign: America's secret plan to arm Libya's rebels

Obama asks Saudis to airlift weapons into Benghazi

Actually, it's also not a good sign that your secret plan is published on the web. Just sayin.

Palate Cleanser

Ever have trouble with your camera?



Here's a video of a motorcycle hitting a deer and hardly missing a beat. Incredible.

Obscure, Unorganized, Inarticulate

Isaiah's Job

In the year of Uzziah's death, the Lord commissioned the prophet to go out and warn the people of the wrath to come. "Tell them what a worthless lot they are," He said. "Tell them what is wrong, and why, and what is going to happen unless they have a change of heart and straighten up. Don't mince matters. Make it clear that they are positively down to their last chance. Give it to them good and strong and keep on giving it to them. I suppose perhaps I ought to tell you," He added, "that it won't do any good. The official class and their intelligentsia will turn up their noses at you, and the masses will not even listen. They will all keep on in their own ways until they carry everything down to destruction, and you will probably be lucky if you get out with your life."

To me by way of Improved Clinch

Literally and Figuratively

So, Who Is Cleaning Up the Wisconsin Capitol After Union Protests?

I guess the union people couldn't clean up after themselves, it's not in their job description.

That Old, Corrupt Alliance of Money and Political Power

Video of the Week (So Far)

Isn't that beautiful?

If you can't see the above video and picture just click on the links in this sentence to go to the original page.

Five Permanent Principles

The Bible Enshrines the Title Deeds of Western Civilization

Today, American culture is cut by a canyon. It doesn't separate whites from blacks; it doesn't separate rich from poor; it doesn't separate men from women. It divides those who regard Judeo Christian values as vital for our nation's survival from those who consider the Biblical blueprint to be nothing more than a primitive obstruction to progress. And there are blacks and whites on both sides; there are rich and poor on both sides, and there are men and women on both sides.

Theory vs. Reality

From Burt Prelutsky

The other day, I found myself thinking about two of the 19th century's most influential men. Karl Marx was born in 1818 and died in 1883. John D. Rockefeller was born in 1839 and died in 1937. So far as I know, they never had occasion to meet. But they would have been aware of each other, and each would have thought the other was a dangerous lunatic. Only one of them would have been right.

For much of the world, then and now, Marx was a benevolent visionary, while Rockefeller would be dismissed as an avaricious villain.

Still, it was Rockefeller who helped create Standard Oil, thus providing jobs, homes and oil for hundreds of millions of people here in America and around the world. In addition, his charitable contributions to medical research led to the eradication of hookworm and yellow fever.

Karl Marx, on the other hand, never did anything that helped propel a car, turn a rotor, heat a home or fuel the world's industries. His writings were productive, I suppose, but only in the sense that they helped to produce the likes of Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, Castro, Che and Kim Jong-il.

I suppose if one wished to be charitable, you could credit Marx with helping to create employment opportunities for executioners, gravediggers and gulag guards.

Just for the record, Rockefeller believed in the profit motive. He was a realist and a pragmatist who understood the best and worst of human nature. For his part, Marx believed in a stateless, classless society. He believed that the only thing that prevented men from being perfect saints and angels was capitalism. He was a complete nincompoop. Which is just another way of saying that Rockefeller was a conservative and Marx was a left-winger.

I think the following quote applies in this instance:

A man may deal with theory, and miss the whole impact of the truth.

--G. Campbell Morgan

People are enamored with Marxist theory, which demonstrably doesn't work in real life, and against the Judeo-Christian way of life, which brings real and substantive blessing to the society that embraces it.

Union Mobocracy

If you only read one thing today, make it this: Public Unions & the Socialist Utopia

But there is something deeper here than just favor-selling and vote-buying. There is something that almost amounts to a twisted idealism in the Democrats' crusade. They are fighting, not just to preserve their special privileges, but to preserve a social ideal. Or rather, they are fighting to maintain the illusion that their ideal system is benevolent and sustainable.

Unionized public-sector employment is the distilled essence of the left's moral ideal. No one has to worry about making a profit. Generous health-care and retirement benefits are provided to everyone by the government. Comfortable pay is mandated by legislative fiat. The work rules are militantly egalitarian: pay, promotion, and job security are almost totally independent of actual job performance. And because everyone works for the government, they never have to worry that their employer will go out of business.

In short, public employment is an idealized socialist economy in miniature, including its political aspect: the grateful recipients of government largesse provide money and organizational support to re-elect the politicians who shower them with all of these benefits.

The rub, as they say, is that it is not a self-sustaining system.

But the socialist utopia of public employment has crossed the Thatcher Line: the point at which, as the Iron Lady used to warn, you run out of other people's money.

Mark Steyn's take: States of the Unions

That's what "collective bargaining" is about: It enables unions rather than citizens to set the price of government. It is, thus, a direct assault on republican democracy, and it needs to be destroyed. Unlovely as they are, the Greek rioters and the snarling thugs of Madison are the logical end point of the advanced social democratic state: not an oppressed underclass, but a spoiled overclass, rioting in defense of its privileges and insisting on more subsidy, more benefits, more featherbedding, more government.

Big Unions fund Big Government. The union slices off two per cent of the workers’ pay and sluices it to the Democratic Party, which uses it to grow government, which also grows unions, which thereby grows the number of two-per-cent contributions, which thereby grows the Democratic Party, which thereby grows government… Repeat until bankruptcy. Or bailout.

And Neal Boortz:

When I think of America and the founding principles of this country, "collective bargaining" doesn't cross my mind. Thoughts of freedom, individual liberty, personal responsibility and property rights do. Do you know who might think that collective bargaining is at the core of American democracy? A collectivist, that's who. Someone who looks at people as members of a specific group, rather than as sovereign individuals. Someone who believes in group rights, as opposed to individual rights. Someone who believes that the rights of the individual must be subjugated to the rights of the mob.

And Glenn Beck puts it all together:

Beleaguered