New American Mascot

Diaper change we can believe in

An able-bodied man paid by the government of the United States to lie in a giant crib, wetting his diaper week in week out, is almost too poignant an emblem of the republic at twilight.

Move over Bald Eagle!

They Are the 53%

Occupy Wall St. Kitchen Reportedly Set to Cut Back Meals Because of Freeloaders

"We need to limit the amount of food we're putting out to curb the influx of derelicts," a kitchen volunteer told the New York Post. Another volunteer said the cooks felt "overworked and under-appreciated" and worked 16-hour days.

Welcome to the 53%.

Their Hatred is Their Identity

It's Already Been Settled

Is the US Declaration of Independence illegal?

In Philadelphia, American and British lawyers have debated the legality of America's founding documents.

What's to debate? There was a fundamental disagreement, the war settled it. The U.K. has no further say in the matter. They bring up the Civil War in the article. Same thing, the war settled it, even if it had gone the other way.

It is important to settle differences peacefully and within the law - 100% of the time would be ideal, but there are times when it is just not possible. It might be argued that the people of North Korea are obeying the law of their land but wouldn't it be far better for them if they fought a revolution against 'Dear Leader' and freed themselves from his tyranny? It wouldn't exactly be legal by North Korean standards would it, but who cares?

Connect the Dots

Muammar, Dead at Last

As I watched President Obama take a victory lap when he announced Gaddafi's death, my thoughts turned to what Ted Belman, a widely-read blogger called the Israpundit, had to say. "Gaddafi wasn't any worse than the barbarians that killed him and will replace him. There are no freedom-loving democrats in the entire Muslim world which consists of seventh century-minded brutes."

Why does it seem as though Obama is involved in toppling governments, either through war or fomenting rebellion, that are of little threat to us and opening the floodgates for radical, anti-Western Islamic law to fill the void? Egypt, Tunisia, Syria, Libya - this is not a complete list, it's hard to get information on these things from the mainstream media. Yes, right or wrong, we toppled Iraq and Afghanistan, but at least we tried to help the people form a fair, open, democratic government. Now, Obama seems very happy to help the rebels achieve the goal of Sharia law and radical Islamic rule.

I see a pattern developing.

How Not to Be a Victim

66-Year-Old Woman Shoots and Kills Home Intruder

Hopper says she was terrified when she heard the intruder at her her door, firing two warning shots through her window to scare the man away. When 37-year-old Jesse Edward Theis persisted, attempting to come back in, Hopper fired a fatal shot in his abdomen, killing Theis on the scene.

It happened in California, I'm glad to see she was not charged you never know with California.

World War II On American Soil

I bookmarked this a while back, thought it was interesting. I had never seen these pictures before, didn't know much about WWII in the Aleutian Islands (still don't). Since watching Deadliest Catch the name of the town Dutch Harbor grabs my attention.

World War II: Battle of Midway and the Aleutian Campaign

Evil vs. Goodness

Evil is in opposition to life. It is that which opposes the life force. It has, in short, to do with killing. Specifically, it has to do with murder - namely, unnecessary killing, killing that is not required for biological survival.

When I say that evil has to do with killing, I do not mean to restrict myself to corporeal murder. Evil is also that which kills spirit. There are various essential attributes of life - particularly human life - such as sentience, mobility, awareness, growth, autonomy, will. It is possible to kill or attempt to kill one of these attributes without actually destroying the body. Thus we may "break" a horse or even a child without harming a hair on its head. Erich Fromm was acutely sensitive to this fact when he broadened the definition of necrophilia to include the desire of certain people to control others - to make them controllable, to foster their dependency, to discourage their capacity to think for themselves, to diminish their unpredictability and originality, to keep them in line. Distinguishing it from a "biophilic" person, one who appreciates and fosters the variety of life forms and the uniqueness of the individual, he demonstrated a "necrophilic character type," whose aim it is to avoid the inconvenience of life by transforming others into obedient automatons, robbing them of their humanity.

Evil, then, for the moment, is that force, residing either inside or outside of human beings, that seeks to kill life or liveliness. And goodness is its opposite. Goodness is that which promotes life and liveliness.

Speaking of his relationship to us human beings, Jesus said, "I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly." Abundantly. What a wonderful word! This strange man, who obviously relished weddings and wine, fine oils and good companionship, and yet allowed himself to be killed, was not so concerned with the length of life as with its vitality. He was not interested in human puppets, of whom he once said, "Let the dead bury their dead." Rather, he was interested in the spirit of life, in liveliness. And of Satan, the very spirit of evil, Jesus said, "He was a murderer from the beginning." Evil has nothing to do with natural death; it is concerned only with unnatural death, with murder of the body or the spirit.

--M. Scott Peck, M.D., People of the Lie

Quote of the Day

Like so many people, in so many countries, who started out to "spread the wealth," Barack Obama has ended up spreading poverty.

--Thomas Sowell

Oil for Solar

A dirty road to ecotopia

If we want to stop polluting our planet, we need energy that comes from clean, inexhaustible resources. For instance, the sun just constantly, all day long, emits tons of heat and energy to no real purpose -- it's extremely wasteful, almost as bad as an incandescent light bulb. Solar technology will capture some of the cavalier sun's energy and produce electricity. This genius idea revolutionized cheap calculators, and one day some company -- obviously not Solyndra -- is going to get that electricity to power other things as well.

And then there is wind. With giant wind turbines we can finally turn it into electricity and make it work for us -- if there’s a hurricane, you can turn on all the lights and leave the refrigerator door open, because we’ll have more electricity than we can handle.

So there are lots of great green ideas worth investing in, but as a country we're kinda strapped for cash right now. Luckily, there is a valuable substance within American territory that could help us pay for all this. It's called "oil."

Barry Soetoro Supports This

There are 2 videos at this link. The first is from Howard Stern and his crew interviewing the 'Occupy' protestors and all the obligatory content warnings apply. If you don't want to hear the language, don't watch it. But it is funny.

The 2nd video is protestors doing their best to regurgitate the brainwash communist propaganda they learn in what passes for school these days, juxtaposed with quotes from communist 'revolutionaries.'

Operation: FAIL

Well, No Wonder

Driver Flipped License Plate to Save Toll

A Virginia truck driver used a device that could have come from a James Bond movie to try to get out of paying the $65 toll to cross the George Washington Bridge into New York City, police say.

Truck drivers have complained about steep toll increases that the Port Authority says it needs to finish building the new World Trade Center. By 2016, a five-axle truck will have to pay $105 to cross the bridge.

$65 to cross a bridge? Are they insane? And it's not enough, they're going to increase it to $105. You do know who is really paying for that, right. The consumer. Whoever is buying the product being delivered. All costs of doing business are passed on to the consumer.

Suddenly We're Concerned About a Nuclear Iran?

To Isolate Iran, U.S. Presses Inspectors on Nuclear Data

President Obama is pressing United Nations nuclear inspectors to release classified intelligence information showing that Iran is designing and experimenting with nuclear weapons technology. The president's push is part of a larger American effort to further isolate and increase pressure on Iran after accusing it of a plot to assassinate Saudi Arabia's ambassador to the United States.

It wasn't so long ago that those of us who were against letting Iran get nuclear weapons were labeled paranoid and extreme. They said we have no right to limit Iran from getting nuclear capability and after all, they were just trying to "go green."

I think Barry Soetoro is feeling the pressure of his mask melting away and the people starting to see who he really is and what his administration has been doing in the dark. This could be a very dangerous time.

Thank God for the NRA

No one else is putting the pressure on the fast and furious scandal like the NRA.



Join the NRA.

The Great Disaster

This is a Crime?

Driver with snakes arrested on I-75

"Mr. Mesa had 10 snakes and three different lizard species in the vehicle,"

"The snakes were non-venomous," Cummings said. "Species included corn, coachwhip, pine, king and Southern hognose snakes – all native to Georgia – plus a rosy boa, a non-native snake. Mr. Mesa said he caught the snakes in Florida and was taking them to Indiana."

Authorities charged Mesa with one count of illegal possession of non-game wildlife without a permit, a misdemeanor. Mesa was booked into Cherokee County Jail and released Wednesday on a $5,000 bond.

All of those species, except the coachwhip, are very common in the pet trade and readily available at pet shops and especially the various reptile shows that go on across the nation. I've had 3 of those species myself. He had to go to jail because he had a snake? Was he charged with breaking a state law, or a federal law? It's only 1 count, so I assume only one snake was the problem? Which one?

There are so many laws in this country any one of us could go to jail for something we didn't even know was a crime. It seems like everything we use to do for fun as a child is now a illegal.

HoodWinked

Well said.

Pawns

Occupy Wall Street: Communism's Clueless Foot Soldiers

The Occupy Wall Street youngsters are the latest foot soldiers of Communism, though it is likely most are too ignorant to realize it. They have been so thoroughly indoctrinated in government schools and by Hollywood and the media that they have no idea how they are being used by labor unions and other leftist organizations.

The protesters are likely unaware of the misery and murders Marx's Communism imposed on Russia courtesy of Lenin, Stalin, and those who followed in their footsteps. Mao's Red China murdered thousands as well in the pursuit of the "equality" that is the alleged goal of Communism and liberalism.

My son makes lists of things he wants, too. If he wants them badly enough he will work for them. If he expects the world to hand him everything he wants on a silver platter he's going to live one miserable life. Many apparently do.

This one is interesting:


I think he gets the joke of it.

You say you want a revolution? Well, you know...

Be very careful what you wish for. The anti-military crowd wants a revolution. I really believe they have no idea what it is they are asking for. No sane person wants a revolution, certainly not a citizen of the United States. You don't revolutionize yourself from a free society to a freer society. No, no, no. The revolution they are calling for will make all of their problems worse. The redistributed funds they all want so bad never quite seem to make it into the pockets of the little guy who thought that was what he was fighting for.

I recommend this book: Waiting for Snow in Havana: Confessions of a Cuban Boy. It is not about the Cuban revolution, but it is an autobiographical look at one child's life at the time of the revolution, and the glimpses it gives into what happened are eye opening.

Yes, Yes, Yes, Part 2

Lenny Cacchio writes: Do You Want the Ball?

Wanting the ball seems to be the mark of excellence that separates the best from the rest.

The ones that don't want the ball are the ones out there making excuses for themselves. We all do it sometimes but like everything else, when it begins to control and take over your life it's not normal. We've become a nation of excuse makers instead of go-getters.