Truth, Justice, and the...what the F$%*

Superman is surrendering his American citizenship. GI Joe used to be a real American hero. In the movies there are maybe three American soldiers and Brendan Frasier doesn't count. Captain America isn't Captain America overseas, he's the First Avenger. We are abdicating U.S. exeptionalism. Not just through media (which Europe must be dancing about, along with the Spanish version of Achy Brakey Heart) but our esteemed leader. I am no fan of George Bush, but when he was President, America was still the guy you asked before you took anyone to the dance. Now, we are giving up our currency through idiotic monetary policy. Our foreign strength through preemptive surrender agreements with despots like Russia. Our morality by intervening in fights we don't belong in on behalf of dictators on one hand and...well, we still aren't sure who on the other. It scares me that Donald Trump, idiot that he is, may be the only guy with enough balls to establish American pride again (all apologies to Ron Paul, he's right on most things, but nothing he would do would reestablish pride in this country in the short term or our foreign reputation).

And so I rant a bit on this. Warning, the above is an opinion piece supported only by my incredible wit and charm and ability to place the states on a blank map with 94% accuracy, an average error of 8 miles, 47 of 50 perfect, in 342 seconds (love you, Mom).

Sometimes It Takes a Canadian

Comedian Steven Crowder, a Canadian who immigrated to the U.S. is one of my favorite commentators these days, mainly because he's not afraid to say what he thinks. This has to be my favorite of his rants. The sad part was I really liked Louis CK up until this point.

I Have a Follower!

Thanks, Krystal Jo.

Without Honor

Let's set aside for a second that the budget "compromise" brokered by the White House was nothing but sleight of hand. As part of the agreement, presumably to let Republicans save face, the "cuts" included the defunding of several administrative czars which were empty offices. Well, Captain Classy, our President and saviour Barack Obama, signed off on these cuts then just decided he'd pass an executive signing order overturning the Congressional bill so he could refill and fund those positions.

This is the kind of thing a dictator does. This is one of the single most egregious acts tossing aside the Constitution that I can remember having read about. It also tells you what kind of man our President is, which is to say he is not a man at all, just a little cowardly boy bully.

Today's Recommended Reading II

Representative Ron Paul (R. TX) writes today about how the nanny state cannot survive.

Today's Recommended Reading

S.E. Cupp's blog on the myth of youth rebellion on college campuses. I swear this woman can read my mind.

Why Does This Not Surprise Me?

Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D., Cal.) (45, IQ) spoke at Tufts University, opining that "elections shouldn't matter as much as they do". Considering the plethora of publicly unpopular measures forced through Congress under her 6 years as Speaker, I think her opinion of the will of the people has always been pretty clear. Now if only her constituents weren't such rabid liberals as to think, hmmmm...maybe we should shoot for someone else.

Where Once They Burned Books, Soon They Would Burn People

In Berlin there is a central square with a window in the middle of the ground staring down into a library painted white with no books on the shelves to commemorate the burning of books in that same place during WWII. It was a scene featured in the third Indiana Jones movie and trust me, looking down into that empty space is something that will bring you to tears. So what have we learned since then? Apparently nothing.

We believe in shutting voices down rather than disagreeing. What do you do if you disagree with Glenn Beck? Boycott. FOX News? Media Matters declares war on them claiming they will sabotage the network. Strangely, I can prove MSNBC anchors have lied and yet no one seems to care. I'd give a liberal example but I can't think of any liberal who had enough ratings to survive the lack of audience to get to the point of protest.

If we allow this, we will die quietly in a corner, shoved into a history book as something of little consequence like the millions that have died at the hand of communists but are written off. 50 million Chinese but they have a great economy. 20 milllion Russians, but Putin looked like a good guy to Bush.

Shut up and die and the world will never know you were here.

If I Posted This on Facebook I Would Be Hated

Several of my more liberal friends have posted some nonsense on Facebook about one year of NPR funding being the equivalent of 42.7 minutes of funding for the Iraq war. Something that, as most liberal ideas are, is unreasearched crap that showed up on some asshole's Twitter account. I can't imagine how anyone would know given that the Democrats refused to pass a budget in the first place. Let me cover the research for people who don't care to look up facts. NPR received approximately $5 million in federal funding last year. A pitance really. It's also only about 3% of the NPR operating budget of $145.5 million in budgeted revenues (this is according to an NPR source as reported by the AP if you can't bother checking the link).

The best I could find on Iraq war funding for 2010 is a reference to $50 billion, so we'll have to run with that (supposedly it's according to the New York Times, so...salt, lime, grimace). So, $5 million is to $50 billion .0001 %. So what's .0001% of a year? There are 525,600 minutes in a year. So, it appears closer to 52.5 minutes. Now I may be nitpicking, but there it is.

A few points:

1) Way to compare apples and dark matter;

2) If NPR is so damned cheap, why do I have to pay for you to use it? Shouldn't you be able to take care of that?;

3) NPR doesn't need the damned funding;

4) I own several CDs of "A Prarie Home Companion" and the government didn't buy them for me, nor did I expect it to;

5) I can at least make an argument that Iraq is within the constitutional powers of the government (though I believe the war to be unconstitutional) how bout NPR? Is it just me or would our founders find it disturbing that NPR gives one-sided editorial viewpoints (even if they were balanced, it's a problem) on government while taking government money to do so;

6) Just because you enjoy NPR is not reason enough to make it a government funded activity. If that were sufficient justification, we'd be running a deficit on teenagers masturbating that would have broken the government in the 1920s;

7) I'd gladly stop the war for an hour to make it an even cut;

8) I love that liberals expect me to be forced to give up the products of my labor so they can have easy access to entertainment and that it is the proper role of government to make me do so.

The idea posted misses the point of the debate entirely. NPR shouldn't be funded because the federal government doesn't have the power to do so. In that same vein, we should not be in Iraq without a Congressional declaration of war, or anywhere else for that matter.

This government will continue to spiral into debt and be a burden on the men and women of this country as long as we believe that we are entitled to some benefits from it or that it exists to nursemaid us. If you have a problem with defunding NPR, shut up and send a donation.

Come to think of it, I may post this on Facebook.

Dear Lindsey, Please Resign or Just Become a Democrat

Senator Lindsey Graham (RINO, SC) is truly the worst kind of Republican. He showed that once again spouting off this moronic quote: "Freedom of speech is a great idea but we're in a war." Senator Graham, who just by saying that violated his oath of office, is apparently no student of history, and is unaware that the Alien and Sedition Acts passed during WWI were subsequently ruled unconstitutional, i.e., being in a war is not sufficient reason to limit free speech. Second, freedom of speech is more than an idea in the United States, it's what we commonly call an Amendment to our Constitution. In fact, if memory serves, it's the First.

Now Senator Graham was commenting on the recent buring of the Quran by a moron preacher with almost no following in Florida who does this solely for the publicity and promises to put Mohammed on trial next. I don't want to be in a courtroom with a corpse that old. What he has done supposedly has ignited widespread violence and murders in the Middle East (because its so rare that you hear about that sort of thing in the news). I personally find what he did disgusting, but it's somewhat more telling that the radical Islamic morons are so willing to make his point for him. In this country we die so that people may speak freely. We don't kill them for doing so.

You listening Lindsey? In truth, how different is this from "The Satanic Verses". Salmon Rushdie has been in hiding ever since. By the way, look at the list of victims and tell me which one had anything at all to do with the burning of the book. If you can't speak for fear of reprisal then the person trying to threaten all speech has won.

Dear Yous, We da Mob, Would Like to Protect Yous From Us, For a Small Fee

If you've ever watched a TV series about mafia or a movie rotating around the criminal families, you've probably seen the "protection" scheme, where the mobsters collect protection money from local businessmen to not be harassed by the mob. You may have also noted that there are often storylines revolving around the mob involvement in union activities. Well, no more. Now the Union IS the mob, and unabashedly so.

Wisconsin unions have sent a "friendly" letter to their neighborhood businesses expressing their "disappointment" that they didn't post signs the unions gave them to support the union. In fact, the unions are so disappointed, they're threatening to boycott the stores. However, if the owner reconsiders their stance, they might get some business instead of a public boycott.

I love it when I hear liberals on talk shows express their disappointment at people demonizing unions by calling them thugs. Guess what, they are thugs. I'm only surprised that they have the gall to put their shakedown tactics in a letter for all to see. That and that it wasn't signed "Vinny".

Today's Recommended Reading

This article on Human Events gives the top 10 reasons the Dark Lord of the Sith, George Soros, is the most dangerous liberal demagogue in America today. Particularly of interest was the section on his get out the vote group, America Coming Together, being fined $775,000.00 for violations of federal election laws.

Best Campaign Ad Ever

The National Republican Senate Committee put out this President Obama "re-election" commercial on April Fool's Day. Good stuff.

And Yet More Health Care Law Idiocy

Because you're too stupid to properly feed yourself, Obamacare has allowed the FDA to pass regulations (they're like laws only without the Constitution getting in the way) requiring restaurants and even vending machines to show calorie information. By the way, the proposal has come from no less than Mike Taylor, FDA Deputy Commissioner for Foods, and former lobbyist for the Monsanto corporation. Luckily, alcohol is exempted, so your stupid fat ass can get drunk and not worry about the government telling you how to feed yourself.

And One More Thing Slipped Under Your Nose

FOX News is reporting a provision of the health care bill and a spokesman has confirmed there is a $5 billion (bribe) bailout of unions and corporations which guaranteed health insurance for early retirees. Shockingly enough (sarcasm) it is alreay on pace to overspend the $5 billion set aside for the campaign. Don't forget, large numbers of unions and corporations have already received waivers from obligations under the health care law.

Anyone who ever believed this was really about health care is dead wrong. It's about an eventual single payor system for the purpose of creating dependency on Democrats and benefits flowing to existing constituents.

And the Award for Unintenional Irony Goes To...

...University of Wyoming student Haley Barton. Haley, a future Rhodes Scholar, no doubt, commented on a visit by Ann Coulter meant to serve as a rebuttal to a prior visit by domestic terrorist, Weather Underground founder and Obama pal, Bill Ayers, by saying: "Personally, I think bringing Ann Coulter to campus as a counter to Bill Ayers is kind of inappropriate." At the time, she was holding a sign saying "We don't want your hate." I can only assume that means she wants liberal hate such as Mr. Ayers.

Last I checked, Ann Coulter (who I have never heard say anything more hateful than simple sarcasm) has yet to incite people to bomb government buildings, declared an open state of war against the federal government nor has she requested or incited anyone to murder policemen. Yet this subversive jackass who would be in jail if not for prosecutorial misconduct who had been on the run from police for years is encouraged to give speeches about his ideas on education and is respected within the university community.

Keep on keepin' on Haley! Someday you can get a government job and if you're lucky, maybe you'll have the privilege of being bombed by one of Bill Ayers' disciples. Moron.

Damn Those Violent Tea Parties!

Much like everything else liberals purport to be fact, allegations from the left of Tea Party violence and racism remain unsubstantiated. The left assumes the Tea Party would be violent because that is how they react. For example, 26 year old Katherine Windels has been arrested in connection with e-mail death threats sent to Wisconsin Republicans for their support of restrictions on public sector union collective bargaining. Strangely, the local district attorney, a Democrat, had not filed charges against the woman. I wonder if the fact that he was a Democrat had anything to do with that? Or the fact that he filed a lawsuit alleging the bill passed by the Republicans is improper? Or if Snuffulufagus is real? It took the State Attorney General giving a friendly call to ask why for charges to be filed.

As Ann Coulter often says and I have often repeated, you can tell what liberals are doing by what they accuse you of.

Time to Abolish the Federal Reserve System as it Exists

Bloomberg reports that, pursuant to a FOIA request, the Fed has released documents showing that money was lent to foreign sources to prop up banks lending money to local governments in Belgium, a financer of cooperative fisheries in Japan and a company part owned by Libya. I guess we really did have vital interests over there. During a record week in October 2008 when the Fed lent out $110.7 billion, 70% went to foreign sources. The Federal Reserve chairman, Benjamin Bernanke, had sought to block access to this information (gee, I wonder why). In fact, during the peak of the financial crisis, Wachovia was the only U.S. bank to be amongst the top five borrowers under the discount rate program. The second largest borrower, Bank of China.

What if those loans had been to the Greek banks and Grece had fully collapsed? It would cause a liquidity crisis which would have had severe effects in the United States. Meanwhile, Bernanke is trying to keep this from the American people. Since the Fed prints money and thereby directly controls the value of the dollar, I would say the American people should probably be able to know what's going on at the Fed. However, the Fed is not accountable to anyone, it's books closed to public inspection. Only in theory is it accountable through Congressional oversight. Further, the banks which make up the Fed are privately held companies.

Abolishing the Fed entirely is probably not a practical option politically, however, making the public funds open to review and bringing in stiff penalties and possible criminal sanctions would go a long way to bringing accountability to the system.