Well, the Mafia sponsored (I know, the Mafia doesn't exist; they're just refuse collectors) team won the World Series this year. Of course it cost a billion dollars in payroll and a new stadium for the Sopranos of the baseball world to prove 'victorious'. I was hoping that the decade would clear out before the Bronx Bummers would buy another trophy but we can't have everything.
Speaking of which, somehow Boise State University still manages a high enough ranking to be in BCS competition. I suspect the BCS is run by the Velvet Mafia since it doesn't seem to know anything about football! Now BSU may be a legitimate top 25 team, I won't argue that point; but they aren't a top ten team just based on the weakness of their schedule and certainly should not be contenders for a BCS bowl game. Its way past time for a College Football playoff system.
Of course BSU may have found the proper formula for consistent BCS standings. I call it the Ohio State Stratagem. Play as soft a schedule as possible and only play 10 or 11 games to optimize your chances for a perfect record and wham, bam, thank you Velvet Mafia, you're in a BCS bowl game. Ah, sweet smelly revenue; who cares if you don't deserve to be there.
This may seem insensitive coming one day on the heels of the terrible tragedy at Fort Hood; but I cannot say I was overly shocked to learn that the assailant had an Arabic name and was a Muslim. One would think that in a sane world, he might not have been offered a commission in the United States military but the US government has done little to prove to me that anything they do is sane in the last 20 years. You want a parallel with Rome? Here it is. We have become so hubristic and indolent that we allow the ENEMY to serve in our military just as the Romans allowed Germanic people to serve in theirs. My heart is heavy for the innocent and patriotic Americans that died yesterday and the families that will miss them. My heart is heavier for the nation that allowed this to happen out of some misguided notion of political correctness.
On a lighter note, I'm looking forward to next weeks release of the movie 2012. Nothing warms the soul like a high cheese factor, big budget, disaster movie. I'm hoping for a lot of gratuitous destruction. But having written my own disaster-piece theatre tome, I'm sure it will disappoint. Oh sure, there will be the obligatory and joyful moments as New York and Los Angeles are destroyed. No disaster movie is complete without the euphoria of seeing the Eiffel Tower collapse and the obligatory destruction of some other easily recognized world landmarks. It has always troubled me that none of these movies ever show anything being destroyed in the Southern Hemisphere (with the occasional exception of the Sydney Harbor Bridge). Maybe its because there isn't anything in the Southern Hemisphere except the Sydney Harbor Bridge worth destroying. Somehow I don't think nature is quite so picky. Just once though, I'd like to freak out a few eco-nuts or bleeding heart 'we owe the third world'ers by having the asteroid/doomsday scenario wipe out Buenos Aires, Nairobi, or Riyadh. Better yet, since we are OBVIOUSLY the world's good guys and THEY aren't, how about some cosmic justice? Lets have it hit Beijing, Tehran, Caracas, or Havana. Now that really would warm the soul!
Enjoy your weekend.
Friday, November 6, 2009
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
Election Results
Interesting election results. The Democrats must be stunned by the scope of their loss in yesterday's elections. In Virginia, Republicans won the Governor, Lt. Governor, and Attorney General; only the second time in history that all three offices were swept by one party. Only a year ago the left was chirping that they turned Virginia from red to solid blue (while in the same breath they attempted to claim that Obama made us no longer a red or blue nation). Now I know that on Monday I spanked the GOP for moving left of center and I'm still of that opinion but the candidates in Virginia ran on conservative platforms - also a smack in the chops to the Country Club elitist Republicans running the party.
In New Jersey, one of the bluest of the blue states, a modestly Conservative Chris Christie beat Jon Corzine, a self made Goldman Sachs multi-millionaire (remember Goldman Sachs is in thick with the government). Granted Corzine was up to his oversized nostrils in the political corruption Jersey is famous for but that isn't why he lost. He was slightly ahead of Christie until Obama made it his goal to 'save' Corzine. At that point polls fell into a statistical dead heat demonstrating that Jersey was as much a rejection of Obama as it was Corzine.
New York 23 has to be giving both the Democrats and Republican leadership fits. A boring, uninspiring, candidate running as a Conservative came from statistical oblivion within one month to force the hand-picked, liberal Republican candidate out of the campaign and come within a hair's breadth of beating a moderate Democrat. In fact, the Republican candidate has been shown to be more LIBERAL than the Democrat candidate! Though the Democrat won with a plurality 49% it has to be a hollow victory. I think this contest will spur other conservatives to third party campaigns in 2010 especially if the party pushes liberal or moderate Republicans in those districts.
Now to Washington politics.
I-1033 went down 55%-45% but I think that was as much on the unpopularity of its backer Tim Eyman. He has been demonized throughout the state after successfully separating Olympia from your money by getting through a flat fee on license tabs rather than us paying a 2% tax based on the value of the vehicle. Of course the state completely ignored that it received increased revenue from new car sales taxes.
Referendum 71, to expand domestic partnerships looks like a very narrow pass 51%-49%. I wrestled with this a lot. As a Christian, I am opposed to the idea of gay 'marriage' but I also realize that the US is not a theocracy. Unlike certain dogmas, I also don't subscribe to the theory that we have to make the world better in order to please God and make it so Jesus comes back. If Revelation is right, the world is going to suck worse than now when Jesus comes back. The libertarian in me also doesn't really care if Adam and Steve want to visit each other in the hospital. Frankly, I think every person should be able to draw up a list of people that can visit them in the hospital no matter the relation. If I want Natalie Portman on the list, no one should be able to stop that even if Natalie Portman is about as likely to rush to my bedside as Al Gore is to put down a doughnut. I think many people cautiously voted for this but are wary of any group attempting to take the further step of legalizing gay 'marriage'. Of course with all the rain sotted leftist morons in Seattle, I could be wrong...
And fortunately the City of Spokane overwhelmingly rejected what can only be described as a Socialist Utopian (which for real people means Distopian) change the sheets kind of dream in Proposition 4, 75%-25%! Prop 4 is the kind of idiocy that can only come from the likes of SEIU, ACORN, the Mafia run Unions, and the rest of the spectrum of drug addled, STD riddled (all that 'free' love), Wiccan, Vegan, Rainbow flag, Free Tibet bumper sticker on your Subaru Outback or Forrester crowd of Marxists that unrightfully steal oxygen from the rest of us. Don't rest on your laurels though. Envision Spokane will likely be back with more lunacy next year (they have a website so you can see just how out of touch with real people they are) so stay vigilant!
Stay vigilant. Pray for the people of Iran who are valiantly opposing 'President' Ahmedinijad (who cares how you spell it!). Sic Semper Tyrannus!
In New Jersey, one of the bluest of the blue states, a modestly Conservative Chris Christie beat Jon Corzine, a self made Goldman Sachs multi-millionaire (remember Goldman Sachs is in thick with the government). Granted Corzine was up to his oversized nostrils in the political corruption Jersey is famous for but that isn't why he lost. He was slightly ahead of Christie until Obama made it his goal to 'save' Corzine. At that point polls fell into a statistical dead heat demonstrating that Jersey was as much a rejection of Obama as it was Corzine.
New York 23 has to be giving both the Democrats and Republican leadership fits. A boring, uninspiring, candidate running as a Conservative came from statistical oblivion within one month to force the hand-picked, liberal Republican candidate out of the campaign and come within a hair's breadth of beating a moderate Democrat. In fact, the Republican candidate has been shown to be more LIBERAL than the Democrat candidate! Though the Democrat won with a plurality 49% it has to be a hollow victory. I think this contest will spur other conservatives to third party campaigns in 2010 especially if the party pushes liberal or moderate Republicans in those districts.
Now to Washington politics.
I-1033 went down 55%-45% but I think that was as much on the unpopularity of its backer Tim Eyman. He has been demonized throughout the state after successfully separating Olympia from your money by getting through a flat fee on license tabs rather than us paying a 2% tax based on the value of the vehicle. Of course the state completely ignored that it received increased revenue from new car sales taxes.
Referendum 71, to expand domestic partnerships looks like a very narrow pass 51%-49%. I wrestled with this a lot. As a Christian, I am opposed to the idea of gay 'marriage' but I also realize that the US is not a theocracy. Unlike certain dogmas, I also don't subscribe to the theory that we have to make the world better in order to please God and make it so Jesus comes back. If Revelation is right, the world is going to suck worse than now when Jesus comes back. The libertarian in me also doesn't really care if Adam and Steve want to visit each other in the hospital. Frankly, I think every person should be able to draw up a list of people that can visit them in the hospital no matter the relation. If I want Natalie Portman on the list, no one should be able to stop that even if Natalie Portman is about as likely to rush to my bedside as Al Gore is to put down a doughnut. I think many people cautiously voted for this but are wary of any group attempting to take the further step of legalizing gay 'marriage'. Of course with all the rain sotted leftist morons in Seattle, I could be wrong...
And fortunately the City of Spokane overwhelmingly rejected what can only be described as a Socialist Utopian (which for real people means Distopian) change the sheets kind of dream in Proposition 4, 75%-25%! Prop 4 is the kind of idiocy that can only come from the likes of SEIU, ACORN, the Mafia run Unions, and the rest of the spectrum of drug addled, STD riddled (all that 'free' love), Wiccan, Vegan, Rainbow flag, Free Tibet bumper sticker on your Subaru Outback or Forrester crowd of Marxists that unrightfully steal oxygen from the rest of us. Don't rest on your laurels though. Envision Spokane will likely be back with more lunacy next year (they have a website so you can see just how out of touch with real people they are) so stay vigilant!
Stay vigilant. Pray for the people of Iran who are valiantly opposing 'President' Ahmedinijad (who cares how you spell it!). Sic Semper Tyrannus!
Monday, November 2, 2009
Goodbye GOP
I hate to orient this blog on the daily news but news comes and goes so fast these days that its hard to ignore something until I want to discuss it. Tomorrow's elections fall into that category.
In the 23rd District of New York, the RINO (Republican in Name Only) candidate suspended her campaign on the heels of a strong challenge from a Conservative candidate who might actually beat the Democrat (in a show of RINO true colors, she endorsed the Democrat). Conservative independents are making strong showings in several races. While this might have some short term bad consequences, it lays the groundwork for a longer term chance to fundamentally change American politics as much as the Republican party did when it split from the Whigs.
In the 1850s the Abolitionists in the Whig party grew disgruntled with their party leadership which had gone wishy-washy and refused to address issues related to abolishing slavery and split off to create the modern Republican party. Like modern RINOs, the Whigs could hardly be distinguished from rank and file Democrats of the day.
Like many former GOPers, I have felt further and further alienated from the party since the moderates used Newt Gingrich's foibles to wrangle control of the party from conservatives. These same moderates wrecked the 1994 Revolution and by 2006 lost control of the House and the Senate. These same self-serving, East Coast, celebrity loving, elitist, Democrat wannabes then opted for the 'media darling' candidate, John McCain in the 2008 election virtually assuring that the Democrat candidate would get elected. In fact McCain's campaign was SO bad that had he picked an equally squishy moderate for VP rather than the unjustly maligned Sarah Palin, it is entirely likely that he would have lost the election by percentages somewhere in the teens rather than 8%. Of course the Party hacks completely missed or cognitively dissociated the lesson from 2008 and continue to pursue a platform of 'me too' globalist-statism while poll numbers continue to show conservatives abandoning the party en masse.
Tomorrow's elections may split the votes between Republicans and Conservative Independents. While the media prognosticators might be rejoicing over this since they are leftists anyway, they are also exhibiting signs of fear. In 1992, Republicans dissatisfied with George Bush 41 sought refuge in Ross Perot and other Independents allowing Bill Clinton to win a plurality vote. In 1996 Conservatives forced the moderate Bob Dole to pick the conservative Jack Kemp as VP in order to keep us from rebellion. In 2000 Conservatives threatened to bolt the party forcing George Bush 43 to run as a Reaganite even though he was probably closer to Lyndon Johnson politically. In 2004 Bush 43 swerved right again to keep another grassroots rebellion at bay. I have already spotlighted the disastrous 2008 election. The last thing the media wants is a unified conservative front with a strong, well articulated agenda that energizes Americans to demand that the government return us to the Original Intent of the Constitution. They shudder in fear that we will stand once again to stop the 'New World Order' they want so desperately.
Well now its 2009 and thanks to the Tea Party movement, continuing GOP marginalization of conservatives, and the actual threat of America goose-stepping down the Fascist abyss, it looks like my fellow conservatives have had enough. Even if we split the vote and let a few more Democrats in this year, the GOP has been put on notice. We have demanded spending cuts for years but the GOP and Democrats have brought us and our children a $12 TRILLION debt (and growing!). Together they have both eroded American rights and sovereignty. Together they have caressed, kissed, slapped, kicked, cajoled, browbeat, and dragged us toward globalist-Marxist-uberStatism. The GOP has one year in which to move back to a center-right party and join conservatives in preserving America or we will leave them just as our political ancestors left the Whig party. This could well be another American revolution IF we stand up as one and remember that what unites us is stronger than what divides us. In another decade, if they are not careful, the GOP might find itself sitting on a museum shelf next to the Whigs wondering how it withered and died so quickly.
When talking about the GOP, I like to paraphrase my political mentor and favorite president: Ronald Reagan. I didn't leave the Republican party; they left me.
So Goodbye GOP. Write me if you ever get your head straight.
In the 23rd District of New York, the RINO (Republican in Name Only) candidate suspended her campaign on the heels of a strong challenge from a Conservative candidate who might actually beat the Democrat (in a show of RINO true colors, she endorsed the Democrat). Conservative independents are making strong showings in several races. While this might have some short term bad consequences, it lays the groundwork for a longer term chance to fundamentally change American politics as much as the Republican party did when it split from the Whigs.
In the 1850s the Abolitionists in the Whig party grew disgruntled with their party leadership which had gone wishy-washy and refused to address issues related to abolishing slavery and split off to create the modern Republican party. Like modern RINOs, the Whigs could hardly be distinguished from rank and file Democrats of the day.
Like many former GOPers, I have felt further and further alienated from the party since the moderates used Newt Gingrich's foibles to wrangle control of the party from conservatives. These same moderates wrecked the 1994 Revolution and by 2006 lost control of the House and the Senate. These same self-serving, East Coast, celebrity loving, elitist, Democrat wannabes then opted for the 'media darling' candidate, John McCain in the 2008 election virtually assuring that the Democrat candidate would get elected. In fact McCain's campaign was SO bad that had he picked an equally squishy moderate for VP rather than the unjustly maligned Sarah Palin, it is entirely likely that he would have lost the election by percentages somewhere in the teens rather than 8%. Of course the Party hacks completely missed or cognitively dissociated the lesson from 2008 and continue to pursue a platform of 'me too' globalist-statism while poll numbers continue to show conservatives abandoning the party en masse.
Tomorrow's elections may split the votes between Republicans and Conservative Independents. While the media prognosticators might be rejoicing over this since they are leftists anyway, they are also exhibiting signs of fear. In 1992, Republicans dissatisfied with George Bush 41 sought refuge in Ross Perot and other Independents allowing Bill Clinton to win a plurality vote. In 1996 Conservatives forced the moderate Bob Dole to pick the conservative Jack Kemp as VP in order to keep us from rebellion. In 2000 Conservatives threatened to bolt the party forcing George Bush 43 to run as a Reaganite even though he was probably closer to Lyndon Johnson politically. In 2004 Bush 43 swerved right again to keep another grassroots rebellion at bay. I have already spotlighted the disastrous 2008 election. The last thing the media wants is a unified conservative front with a strong, well articulated agenda that energizes Americans to demand that the government return us to the Original Intent of the Constitution. They shudder in fear that we will stand once again to stop the 'New World Order' they want so desperately.
Well now its 2009 and thanks to the Tea Party movement, continuing GOP marginalization of conservatives, and the actual threat of America goose-stepping down the Fascist abyss, it looks like my fellow conservatives have had enough. Even if we split the vote and let a few more Democrats in this year, the GOP has been put on notice. We have demanded spending cuts for years but the GOP and Democrats have brought us and our children a $12 TRILLION debt (and growing!). Together they have both eroded American rights and sovereignty. Together they have caressed, kissed, slapped, kicked, cajoled, browbeat, and dragged us toward globalist-Marxist-uberStatism. The GOP has one year in which to move back to a center-right party and join conservatives in preserving America or we will leave them just as our political ancestors left the Whig party. This could well be another American revolution IF we stand up as one and remember that what unites us is stronger than what divides us. In another decade, if they are not careful, the GOP might find itself sitting on a museum shelf next to the Whigs wondering how it withered and died so quickly.
When talking about the GOP, I like to paraphrase my political mentor and favorite president: Ronald Reagan. I didn't leave the Republican party; they left me.
So Goodbye GOP. Write me if you ever get your head straight.
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Silencing the Lambs
Well my blood pressure shot up about 50 points this morning when I heard on the radio that some complete moron in Western Michigan was filing suit to stop the annual placement of the Nativity Scene on public property to commemorate Christmas. He gave the standard stupidity line that it was an infringement of his First Amendment Rights. Ho boy...
Let us review the text of the First Amendment.
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
Now in this case, the pea-brain du jour is arguing that the placement of the Nativity on public property is a violation of the 'establishment of religion' clause. However this clod, like so many of his anti-religious brethren fail to understand or don't care about the actual text of the First Amendment. "Congress shall make no law..." Did Congress make a law ordering the city to place a nativity on public property? Nope. And if they did, I would be standing next to zippy the slob filing suit.
Other simpletons that file suit like to speak about the 'wall of separation' which is not in the Constitution and was twisted by judicial activists and atheists to force simple acknowledgement of religious convictions out of the public sphere as if acknowledging what 90% of the American people believe was tantamount to establishing an official religion. They misinterpret or actively twist the words of President Thomas Jefferson. Ironically, the 'wall of separation' appears in a letter to a breakaway religious group the Danbury Baptists in Connecticut. The Danbury Baptists were concerned that the state of Connecticut was going to interfere in their worship practices. Jefferson's letter, though rather vague about any help from the federal government, assured the Baptists that the First Amendment established a wall the prevented the government from interfering in their practices. It did not suggest that religious observation had no place in the public sphere. Hence the important and oft ignored clause: ...or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.
Since Congress cannot prohibit the free exercise of religion, you know, coercive things like Christmas music in public buildings or school concerts, a moment of silence (which is religion neutral and does not imply prayer), Nativity scenes and so on, the leftist anti-religion Progressives have resorted to pushing out religion by judicial fiat. Idiots like this Michgander continue to use activist judges to subvert President Jefferson's words and destroy the intent of the Founders clearly written in the First Amendment.
People like this guy should be shot but since it is illegal, we need to work hard to tear activist judges out of their robes and replace them with men and women dedicated to Original Intent and the letter and spirit of the Constitution.
As a final tweak to the leftist anti-religious zealots out there. If placing a Nativity scene on public property breaks the "establishment clause", how come the same men who wrote the Constitution voted in favor of federal funds to build churches?
Let us review the text of the First Amendment.
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
Now in this case, the pea-brain du jour is arguing that the placement of the Nativity on public property is a violation of the 'establishment of religion' clause. However this clod, like so many of his anti-religious brethren fail to understand or don't care about the actual text of the First Amendment. "Congress shall make no law..." Did Congress make a law ordering the city to place a nativity on public property? Nope. And if they did, I would be standing next to zippy the slob filing suit.
Other simpletons that file suit like to speak about the 'wall of separation' which is not in the Constitution and was twisted by judicial activists and atheists to force simple acknowledgement of religious convictions out of the public sphere as if acknowledging what 90% of the American people believe was tantamount to establishing an official religion. They misinterpret or actively twist the words of President Thomas Jefferson. Ironically, the 'wall of separation' appears in a letter to a breakaway religious group the Danbury Baptists in Connecticut. The Danbury Baptists were concerned that the state of Connecticut was going to interfere in their worship practices. Jefferson's letter, though rather vague about any help from the federal government, assured the Baptists that the First Amendment established a wall the prevented the government from interfering in their practices. It did not suggest that religious observation had no place in the public sphere. Hence the important and oft ignored clause: ...or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.
Since Congress cannot prohibit the free exercise of religion, you know, coercive things like Christmas music in public buildings or school concerts, a moment of silence (which is religion neutral and does not imply prayer), Nativity scenes and so on, the leftist anti-religion Progressives have resorted to pushing out religion by judicial fiat. Idiots like this Michgander continue to use activist judges to subvert President Jefferson's words and destroy the intent of the Founders clearly written in the First Amendment.
People like this guy should be shot but since it is illegal, we need to work hard to tear activist judges out of their robes and replace them with men and women dedicated to Original Intent and the letter and spirit of the Constitution.
As a final tweak to the leftist anti-religious zealots out there. If placing a Nativity scene on public property breaks the "establishment clause", how come the same men who wrote the Constitution voted in favor of federal funds to build churches?
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Opting out of Government...Anything
Random Thought: William Jefferson Clinton, George Walker Bush, Barrack Hussein Obama (mmm....mmmm...mmm) all have more in common than they do differences. Other than the obnoxious use of all three names, they are all ivy league educated elitists. They are all, to varying degrees, Progressives. All three of them have and are eroding American sovereignty. All of them are also Baby Boomers. Perhaps it is just coincidence or maybe coming from that failure of a generation is the problem. Granted there are plenty of decent Boomers, my parents included, but as a generation they stink. Maybe the 2010 and 2012 mantras should be 'No More Boomers!'
Okay, I am tired of the healthcare debate especially since it has been entirely corrupted and dominated by the left but I have to weigh in one more time.
I've argued a conservative line against government run healthcare and gotten scorned for it. When I argue that I want tort reform, I get leftist lawyers claiming that malpractice is a small part of their practice and it won't affect costs. Then how come doctors that have never been sued have to pay upwards of $30,000 per year in malpractice insurance? Doesn't anyone think that might impact the cost of healthcare? Tort reform is an important piece of healthcare reform but not the sole answer.
Unlike most conservatives I don't pay much attention to the argument about opening up insurance to cross state lines. I don't think it will impact the price much simply because every state has such different laws. In the long term it may help control costs but short term it wouldn't likely have any effect.
There are hundreds of other arguments from opening competition in healthcare suppliers and getting rid of price controls on what a procedure costs. Perhaps one of the best would be to force medical schools to produce more doctors and PAs at lower costs to increase competition inside the industry. But this isn't about ways to fix the problem that was created by liberals in the first place. This is about the Number One reason to be against Government Healthcare and government a lot of other things.
No one I have argued with has even attempted to refute the following argument. Government Healthcare is not a legitimate function of the Federal government under the Constitution. The Founding Fathers established a minimalist de-centralized Federal government in order to ensure maximum personal liberty. This nation was established to be as close to anarchy without the evils of anarchy as humanly possible. Most of us still want that but the small cadre of people who want to trade personal liberty for cradle to grave security and the people who want power over others for nefarious purposes are currently in control. They are bent on overturning the Constitution and ridding themselves of freedom loving individuals and the current healthcare 'crisis' is part of that. American personal freedom scares those of the Authoritarian/Totalitarian bent (especially people steeped in Eastern Civilization which negates the idea of the sovereign individual altogether).
When arguing with these people don't be afraid to shout them down. Wave the Constitution in their faces. Choke them with it if you have to. The healthcare debate isn't about healthcare, it is about whether or not we will be free. I might be labeled a hypocrite for this but a free people cannot survive by allowing those who are against freedom to exist among them. They will taint us, they will lure us to our doom with promises of 'free' housing, healthcare, food, entertainment, love, etc. They will promise us anything to get us into shackles. And at this moment they are in control of our federal government, our media, our pop culture, and many of our state and local governments. Raise the standard of freedom and take a stand before it is too late.
Okay, I am tired of the healthcare debate especially since it has been entirely corrupted and dominated by the left but I have to weigh in one more time.
I've argued a conservative line against government run healthcare and gotten scorned for it. When I argue that I want tort reform, I get leftist lawyers claiming that malpractice is a small part of their practice and it won't affect costs. Then how come doctors that have never been sued have to pay upwards of $30,000 per year in malpractice insurance? Doesn't anyone think that might impact the cost of healthcare? Tort reform is an important piece of healthcare reform but not the sole answer.
Unlike most conservatives I don't pay much attention to the argument about opening up insurance to cross state lines. I don't think it will impact the price much simply because every state has such different laws. In the long term it may help control costs but short term it wouldn't likely have any effect.
There are hundreds of other arguments from opening competition in healthcare suppliers and getting rid of price controls on what a procedure costs. Perhaps one of the best would be to force medical schools to produce more doctors and PAs at lower costs to increase competition inside the industry. But this isn't about ways to fix the problem that was created by liberals in the first place. This is about the Number One reason to be against Government Healthcare and government a lot of other things.
No one I have argued with has even attempted to refute the following argument. Government Healthcare is not a legitimate function of the Federal government under the Constitution. The Founding Fathers established a minimalist de-centralized Federal government in order to ensure maximum personal liberty. This nation was established to be as close to anarchy without the evils of anarchy as humanly possible. Most of us still want that but the small cadre of people who want to trade personal liberty for cradle to grave security and the people who want power over others for nefarious purposes are currently in control. They are bent on overturning the Constitution and ridding themselves of freedom loving individuals and the current healthcare 'crisis' is part of that. American personal freedom scares those of the Authoritarian/Totalitarian bent (especially people steeped in Eastern Civilization which negates the idea of the sovereign individual altogether).
When arguing with these people don't be afraid to shout them down. Wave the Constitution in their faces. Choke them with it if you have to. The healthcare debate isn't about healthcare, it is about whether or not we will be free. I might be labeled a hypocrite for this but a free people cannot survive by allowing those who are against freedom to exist among them. They will taint us, they will lure us to our doom with promises of 'free' housing, healthcare, food, entertainment, love, etc. They will promise us anything to get us into shackles. And at this moment they are in control of our federal government, our media, our pop culture, and many of our state and local governments. Raise the standard of freedom and take a stand before it is too late.
Monday, October 26, 2009
Getting to Know You...
It is important to know the Czars and the Cabinet since the B-HO has claimed that to know what he believes we have to look at the people he surrounds himself with. I've already gone into some detail about Economics Czar Paul Adolph Volcker. I'm going to do a brief overview of some of the Cabinet members and the other Czars.
Treasury Secretary Timmy "I can't figure out Turbo Tax" Geithner. He was 9th president of the New York Fed. He worked for the IMF from 2001-2003. He is a Senior Fellow with the sinister organization the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) in International Economics and once more, he was part of Volcker's Group of Thirty. Timmy arranged the federal bailout of Bear Sterns and AIG. He also played a role in the decision not to bail out Lehman Brothers (Lehman Brothers was seen as the main competitor of Goldman Sachs for whom previous Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson worked. Hmmm...I wonder why they didn't get bailed out...). Also on Timmy's resume are the Center for Global Development (Progressive), the Economic Club of New York (claims political neutrality but leans left), the Bank of International Settlements, and the Bilderbergers. In addition, his wife was a research associate at Common Cause, a 'Progressive'/Leftist organization.
The Tarp Czar, Herb Allison was a CEO of Fannie Mae (ho boy). He also was Finance Chairman for McCain's 2000 election campaign (McCain is another Progressive which is what makes him a 'maverick' Republican). He was chairman of TIAA/CREF and CEO of Lifelong Learning (a Yale, Oxford, Stanford Progressive educational co-op).
Science Czar John Holdren has been well documented by Glenn Beck and others. I'd like to add that he is a committed Eugenicist (the same people who brought you the Holocaust). He is a member of the Limits to Growth Club a leftist environmental organization.
Carol Browner the Energy Czar was head of the EPA under Clinton. She was part of the leftist Citizen Action, a Nader created leftist environmental lobby firm, a member of Socialist International (WTF????), on the board of Algore's Alliance for Climate Protection, part of the Center for American Progress (oh yes, they are 'Progressive'), part of APX Inc. (a carbon credit trading board (and people think Cheney had a conflict of interest with Halliburton)).
Climate Czar Todd Stern is a Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress, Kyoto Protocol negotiator, and belongs to the CFR.
Ashton Carter the Weapons Czar consults with Goldman Sachs and a CFR member.
Cass Sunstein is a radical animal rights activist. He is a proponent of the "2nd Bill of Rights" which guarantees housing, healthcare, a house, food, and other needs even if you refuse to work. He is the quintessential Progressive believing that people should be forced to make 'correct' choices.
Christina Romer another Economics Czar is a committed Keynesian and an Economics Professor at UC Berkeley (heaven help us).
Many of the Czars and Cabinet members have ties to Harvard and Yale. Both universities have become less educational institutions than indoctrination centers for Progressives, Marxists, and Leftists of all shades. Both Obama and Bush came out of these two systems.
All of these people are committed in their own particular areas of 'expertise' to the Progressive agenda. They are transnationalists. They are anti-American values, anti-dollar, anti-individual. Learn what you can about them and tell everyone you know that these unelected, often unapproved, and always unAmerican people need to be exposed and forced out of government circles.
Treasury Secretary Timmy "I can't figure out Turbo Tax" Geithner. He was 9th president of the New York Fed. He worked for the IMF from 2001-2003. He is a Senior Fellow with the sinister organization the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) in International Economics and once more, he was part of Volcker's Group of Thirty. Timmy arranged the federal bailout of Bear Sterns and AIG. He also played a role in the decision not to bail out Lehman Brothers (Lehman Brothers was seen as the main competitor of Goldman Sachs for whom previous Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson worked. Hmmm...I wonder why they didn't get bailed out...). Also on Timmy's resume are the Center for Global Development (Progressive), the Economic Club of New York (claims political neutrality but leans left), the Bank of International Settlements, and the Bilderbergers. In addition, his wife was a research associate at Common Cause, a 'Progressive'/Leftist organization.
The Tarp Czar, Herb Allison was a CEO of Fannie Mae (ho boy). He also was Finance Chairman for McCain's 2000 election campaign (McCain is another Progressive which is what makes him a 'maverick' Republican). He was chairman of TIAA/CREF and CEO of Lifelong Learning (a Yale, Oxford, Stanford Progressive educational co-op).
Science Czar John Holdren has been well documented by Glenn Beck and others. I'd like to add that he is a committed Eugenicist (the same people who brought you the Holocaust). He is a member of the Limits to Growth Club a leftist environmental organization.
Carol Browner the Energy Czar was head of the EPA under Clinton. She was part of the leftist Citizen Action, a Nader created leftist environmental lobby firm, a member of Socialist International (WTF????), on the board of Algore's Alliance for Climate Protection, part of the Center for American Progress (oh yes, they are 'Progressive'), part of APX Inc. (a carbon credit trading board (and people think Cheney had a conflict of interest with Halliburton)).
Climate Czar Todd Stern is a Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress, Kyoto Protocol negotiator, and belongs to the CFR.
Ashton Carter the Weapons Czar consults with Goldman Sachs and a CFR member.
Cass Sunstein is a radical animal rights activist. He is a proponent of the "2nd Bill of Rights" which guarantees housing, healthcare, a house, food, and other needs even if you refuse to work. He is the quintessential Progressive believing that people should be forced to make 'correct' choices.
Christina Romer another Economics Czar is a committed Keynesian and an Economics Professor at UC Berkeley (heaven help us).
Many of the Czars and Cabinet members have ties to Harvard and Yale. Both universities have become less educational institutions than indoctrination centers for Progressives, Marxists, and Leftists of all shades. Both Obama and Bush came out of these two systems.
All of these people are committed in their own particular areas of 'expertise' to the Progressive agenda. They are transnationalists. They are anti-American values, anti-dollar, anti-individual. Learn what you can about them and tell everyone you know that these unelected, often unapproved, and always unAmerican people need to be exposed and forced out of government circles.
Friday, October 23, 2009
Deep Thinking Friday
Well the Zombie Apocalypse is upon us and it is not the time to start thinking about defenses against the undead. Like the Boy Scouts, you need to be prepared for this well before the event. Fortunately, the Random Crusader has some tips to help you prepare a modest zombie defense. Of course the larger your local population the more preparations you need to make including having an escape route out of larger cities.
First, let me assure you that I have neither purchased nor read any books about zombie home defense. This is all from thorough video research and plain old common sense.
On to the target undead: the zombie. Unlike the modern movie or video game portrayal of the zombie, they should be a slow moving (ambling if you will) relatively non cunning foe. These are animated dead usually through low level dark magic or a super virus that infects the motor function of the zombie (some posit that spending too much time inside the DC beltway will also create zombies and cite Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, and others as example). They will not recognize non-deceased friends or family as the higher brain functions (more evidence that politicians are infected) are still dead. The primary goal of a zombie is to consume - although this consumption neither satisfies nor sustains the zombie. Human brain attracts the zombie because the bio-electrical impulses of a living brain urge the zombie to try to return from its undead state to life. Consuming a living brain fails at this and generally only serves to infect the formerly living person, creating a new zombie. Be ready to see numerous zombies with head injuries and possibly gray matter hanging from said wound.
Killing a zombie is relatively easy when compared to other forms of the undead. Crushing the skull or decapitating it will stop a zombie cold. It should be noted however that the decapitated head of the zombie will live on for some time before the magic breaks or the virus starves to death so be careful not to reach anywhere close to the mouth if you have to handle the removed head of a zombie.
In your anti-zombie arsenal, you need at least one reusable, blunt instrument that can cause severe head trauma. Anything from an iron pipe to a baseball bat will do. I personally recommend having a cricket bat on hand. The cricket bat has a wide, flat, face good for slashing hits on the base of the skull (nearest the medulla oblongata). Cricket bats are sturdy and should get you through a good number of zombies before showing signs of wear. A regulation Louisville Slugger is also a good weapon to have. It offers higher swing speed due to less resistance than the cricket bat but can sustain less wear and tear (especially if it maple and not ash). In a pinch, you can also use a golf club or hockey stick though these will have extremely low reusability factors.
Next, I recommend a good sword. I personally carry a 'bastard' or hand and a half sword. It weighs about 5 pounds and has plenty of blade length guaranteeing good reuse factor as long as I don't drive it into trees, brick, or concrete. A machete is also a good tool but the single sided blade will be slower if you are surrounded. Axes and hatchets work well too though you have to be careful not to overswing with an axe because the momentum can carry you out of position and expose you to attacks. Other long blades will work well too. If you have to improvise, good meat cleavers can be used. Other good kitchen knives will also work but often put you in extremely close contact with the zombie. Remember you have to win every battle against a zombie while it just has to get in one lucky bite and you are lost. The further away from them you are, the better.
This brings me to what would seem like the best weapon against zombies: the gun. Unless you are the Lone Ranger, Annie Oakley, or Buffalo Bill, you might want to forgo handguns and rifles (although a handgun can be useful as a weapon of last resort at close range). A good shotgun is your best bet. At close to point blank range, any shotgun round will cause enough trauma to the zombie's cranium to save your lily white behind (sadly, African Americans and other minorities rarely survive encounters with the undead; I have a research staff on crack looking into this bizarre phenomenon). The downside to any gun is that it is relatively heavy and ammunition in any significant quantity will weigh you down even more. For this reason, I recommend guns as auxiliary weapons only though a good shotgun can be used as a bludgeoning weapon when ammo is exhausted.
Now that you have an arsenal to defend against zombies, your real goal becomes apparent: get out of town! Unless you have a survival bunker your primary aim should be to flee the city and get as far away from populated areas as possible. The Zombie Apocalypse will not last forever since the magic or virus that animates the corpse is limited to 2-4 weeks (my research staff on crack will also investigate what keeps DC beltway zombies going since there is no active brain matter inside the beltway) without the consumption of human brains.
Take as many unaffected people with you as you can. Be aware though that minorities will likely not survive to get out of town (exempted from that are Samuel L Jackson or Ving Rhamesesque individuals). Others that seem to have trouble surviving are people of loose morals - especially women with 'reputations'. This may be less due to poor survival skills than the need to engage in the activities that gave them a reputation in the middle of said Zombie Apocalypse. The elderly are quite vulnerable but young children seem to have a higher survival rate than adults.
As you make your escape be aware of the following as well. If anyone is determined to leave the group, you might as well shoot them as they will soon be zombified anyway. Girlie girls (and I suppose girlie men) who cannot run or refuse to trade in stiletto heels for a good pair of running shoes should be culled from the group right away (your option on saving the high strung dog in their purses). People who refuse to believe what is happening should be summarily dispatched; preferably by pushing them into a group of oncoming zombies in order to save your own hide. At the other end of the spectrum is the chronic whiner who believes that we all all dead, or boned, or hosed, or insert preffered idiom for being doomed here. If you must take them along be prepared to hurl them into a group of zombies as a distraction or shoot them yourself along the way. Finally regarding the undesirables you will pick up as you make your escape is to remember that under no circumstances should you ever Ever EVER take any extraordinary steps to save them. They were dead the moment the ZA began and just haven't realized it yet.
Well, good luck and hopefully I will see you, alive and well, once the ZA is over.
First, let me assure you that I have neither purchased nor read any books about zombie home defense. This is all from thorough video research and plain old common sense.
On to the target undead: the zombie. Unlike the modern movie or video game portrayal of the zombie, they should be a slow moving (ambling if you will) relatively non cunning foe. These are animated dead usually through low level dark magic or a super virus that infects the motor function of the zombie (some posit that spending too much time inside the DC beltway will also create zombies and cite Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, and others as example). They will not recognize non-deceased friends or family as the higher brain functions (more evidence that politicians are infected) are still dead. The primary goal of a zombie is to consume - although this consumption neither satisfies nor sustains the zombie. Human brain attracts the zombie because the bio-electrical impulses of a living brain urge the zombie to try to return from its undead state to life. Consuming a living brain fails at this and generally only serves to infect the formerly living person, creating a new zombie. Be ready to see numerous zombies with head injuries and possibly gray matter hanging from said wound.
Killing a zombie is relatively easy when compared to other forms of the undead. Crushing the skull or decapitating it will stop a zombie cold. It should be noted however that the decapitated head of the zombie will live on for some time before the magic breaks or the virus starves to death so be careful not to reach anywhere close to the mouth if you have to handle the removed head of a zombie.
In your anti-zombie arsenal, you need at least one reusable, blunt instrument that can cause severe head trauma. Anything from an iron pipe to a baseball bat will do. I personally recommend having a cricket bat on hand. The cricket bat has a wide, flat, face good for slashing hits on the base of the skull (nearest the medulla oblongata). Cricket bats are sturdy and should get you through a good number of zombies before showing signs of wear. A regulation Louisville Slugger is also a good weapon to have. It offers higher swing speed due to less resistance than the cricket bat but can sustain less wear and tear (especially if it maple and not ash). In a pinch, you can also use a golf club or hockey stick though these will have extremely low reusability factors.
Next, I recommend a good sword. I personally carry a 'bastard' or hand and a half sword. It weighs about 5 pounds and has plenty of blade length guaranteeing good reuse factor as long as I don't drive it into trees, brick, or concrete. A machete is also a good tool but the single sided blade will be slower if you are surrounded. Axes and hatchets work well too though you have to be careful not to overswing with an axe because the momentum can carry you out of position and expose you to attacks. Other long blades will work well too. If you have to improvise, good meat cleavers can be used. Other good kitchen knives will also work but often put you in extremely close contact with the zombie. Remember you have to win every battle against a zombie while it just has to get in one lucky bite and you are lost. The further away from them you are, the better.
This brings me to what would seem like the best weapon against zombies: the gun. Unless you are the Lone Ranger, Annie Oakley, or Buffalo Bill, you might want to forgo handguns and rifles (although a handgun can be useful as a weapon of last resort at close range). A good shotgun is your best bet. At close to point blank range, any shotgun round will cause enough trauma to the zombie's cranium to save your lily white behind (sadly, African Americans and other minorities rarely survive encounters with the undead; I have a research staff on crack looking into this bizarre phenomenon). The downside to any gun is that it is relatively heavy and ammunition in any significant quantity will weigh you down even more. For this reason, I recommend guns as auxiliary weapons only though a good shotgun can be used as a bludgeoning weapon when ammo is exhausted.
Now that you have an arsenal to defend against zombies, your real goal becomes apparent: get out of town! Unless you have a survival bunker your primary aim should be to flee the city and get as far away from populated areas as possible. The Zombie Apocalypse will not last forever since the magic or virus that animates the corpse is limited to 2-4 weeks (my research staff on crack will also investigate what keeps DC beltway zombies going since there is no active brain matter inside the beltway) without the consumption of human brains.
Take as many unaffected people with you as you can. Be aware though that minorities will likely not survive to get out of town (exempted from that are Samuel L Jackson or Ving Rhamesesque individuals). Others that seem to have trouble surviving are people of loose morals - especially women with 'reputations'. This may be less due to poor survival skills than the need to engage in the activities that gave them a reputation in the middle of said Zombie Apocalypse. The elderly are quite vulnerable but young children seem to have a higher survival rate than adults.
As you make your escape be aware of the following as well. If anyone is determined to leave the group, you might as well shoot them as they will soon be zombified anyway. Girlie girls (and I suppose girlie men) who cannot run or refuse to trade in stiletto heels for a good pair of running shoes should be culled from the group right away (your option on saving the high strung dog in their purses). People who refuse to believe what is happening should be summarily dispatched; preferably by pushing them into a group of oncoming zombies in order to save your own hide. At the other end of the spectrum is the chronic whiner who believes that we all all dead, or boned, or hosed, or insert preffered idiom for being doomed here. If you must take them along be prepared to hurl them into a group of zombies as a distraction or shoot them yourself along the way. Finally regarding the undesirables you will pick up as you make your escape is to remember that under no circumstances should you ever Ever EVER take any extraordinary steps to save them. They were dead the moment the ZA began and just haven't realized it yet.
Well, good luck and hopefully I will see you, alive and well, once the ZA is over.
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