And So I Profess My Undying Love of Ann Coulter

There has been a lot of controversy about this, most of which was strangely discarded by the mainstream media. She's no diplomat, but wow do I love her. And for posterity, no, not in the stalking way.

Maria Conchita Alonso, It's Not Just Fun to Say Anymore

Congrats to someone for calling out Sean Penn on being a moron. Maria Conchito Alonso, who would only be half as cool without the middle name, published an open letter to Sean Penn, who I'm almost certain was responsible for 500 drownings post-Katrina because noone wanted to get in a boat with him.

As a Follow Up to the "Today's Recommended Reading" on U.S.-Israeli Relations

Here is an article by Charles Krauthammer from Human Events that describes the issue much better than I ever could.

Just a Thought on Foreign Policy

President Barack Obama is about to sign a nuclear arms treaty with Russia that is very one-sided in their favor. Hopefully the Senate will reject the treaty. This just falls in line with his history of unilateral surrender to Russia and his betrayal of our allies. In the meantime I'm wondering if he's planning on opening fire on Israel. The man's domestic policy is horrific enough, but his foreign policy is amazingly nightmarish as well. Kudos to the renaissance President, a failure in all things. I bet he's a crappy artist too.

Today's Recommended Reading

This bears watching and the story has been developing really since the start of this Presidency, but it seems President Obama is trying his damndest to alienate Israel, the only democracy in the middle east and a long standing friend to the United States.

Today's Recommended Listening

Here is a clip of MSNBC's Ed Shultz on his nationally syndicated broadcast radio program calling for socialism in radio because apparently Rush Limbaugh is more successful than him. I love how he implies that Rush is on so many stations because he supposedly owns them. I'm strongly considering sending him some cheese for his whine.

Update on Shameless

Here is the link for the fundraising efforts of Organizing for America.

Also, Bill O'Reilly reports that FOX News has obtained an FBI memoranum which notes there has been no uptick in the level of violence or threats against members of Congress since the health care vote. I'll link that here once I've found it. Everyone still seems to be waiting to confirm any of the accusations that racial and sexual slurs were used against members of Congress or that one was spit on, despite the ubiquitous presence of cameras.

Just more proof of how shameless these people are. This is a PR war against conservatives.

Shameless

Organizing for America, formerly Organizing for Obama, the Democratic fund raising machine, issued a plea for people to donate $5 to defend health care as a result of the threats being faced by Democrats (reported by Special Report with Bret Baeir, I haven't found a link yet).

But have they really been threatened, and if they have, is there anything new about it? Politico ran a story about a coffin being left on a memeber's yard, which was retracted. Representative Bart Stupak (D. Mich.) has released tapes of angry callers using strong language. In fact, Stupak talked before about how things had been hell for him and his family...but then that was before he caved in to sell out on abortion language and support the bill. Representative Eric Cantor (R. Va.) advised he had a bullet shot through one of his campaign office...but he denounced Democrats talking about these incidents as they are using them specifically for campaign purposes and he was one of the most outspoken critics of the bill. Cantor also intimated what most would suspect already, that these kinds of things happen regularly to public officials. Representative Louise Slaughter (D. NY) had windows shattered at one of her campaign offices. But then, that sounds an awful lot like what happened in Colorado, which turned out to be a Democrat.

And yet, the Democrats are jumping on the chance to raise money based on all this. Shameless.

Viva America!

As immigration "reform" (a.k.a. if you're inside the border congratulations you're a citizen and here's your membership to the DNC) has been identified as one of the many full steam ahead liberal reform issues now that health care has passed, it is interesting to note that key to the health care bill was the Hispanic National Caucus (which does not represent the United States) getting assurances from President Baribe Youmama to make immigration "reform" (a.k.a. the Mexican amnesty and Democratic bloc voting act of 2010) a priority of the administration (Politburo).

Don't get me wrong, I don't want to suggest that El Hefe es mui pro illegal immigrant because he knows they will vote 90% Democrat for citizens. But his Aunt is not only illegal, she's on welfare (which actually makes her the ideal citizen for a Democrat).

I wonder how long it will be before El Presidente pushes to pass a bill unionizing illegal immigrants on welfare so they can properly negotiate with government for raises and additional benefits.

Reading, Writing, Arithmetic and Abortion

Who knew the consent form to let your kid get checked out at school would also let the school facilitate a 15 year old girl's abortion without her parent's knowledge?

Just one more reason public schools should be shut down and privatized. Meanwhile, I'm sure President Obama would approve.

"Health Care Bill" Never Really was About Health Care

According to the New York Times (a newspaper I highly recommend for those times when you can't find toilet paper), the health care bill was the biggest attack on economic equality since the 1970's.

Further, La Shawn Barber notes some of the racial preferences set forth in the legislation.

I'm guessing if you look deep enough there is probably some union provision as well. Be very clear in your mind about this: this bill was never about health care or health insurance. This is a piece of social engineering.

Well This is Just About as Disgusting as it Gets

FOX News reports this morning on a field trip from a middle school in Minnesota that took a trip to sit outside of Governor Tim Pawlenty's (R.) office. The video showed the students sitting with signs in support of welfare. Some read "TAX THE RICH" while other students laid down with similar signs shaped like tombstones covering them on the floor.

If your message doesn't work and won't carry the day, indoctrinate the children. Maybe that's why the health care bill reconcilliation package they will soon be voting on includes adding in a government take-over of student loans.

Liberal Logic the Canadian Edition

Violent protesters result in a public safety concern shutting down a speech planned by Ann Coulter. Because Ann Coulter insights violence? But the only threats came towards the public came from the protesters and threats of violence directed towards Coulter (who had been threatened with potential criminal charges if she failed to be civil) and bloggers suggesting physical violence against her. Liberals are idiots. In fairness, there were apparently some pro-Coulter protesters as well.

Note: Some of this post was based upon as yet uncited sources on the Drudge Report.

Prior Proper Planning

When President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's original progressive New Deal found itself being struck down as against the Constitution, he reacted in an unprecedented manner, attacking the Supreme Court and threatening to pack the Court with additinonal members in a scandal that still rings through history (assuming they still teach it in history classes). Suddenly, the Supreme Court started finding FDR's programs to be Constitutional after all.

I can only wonder if his protoge might have learned the lesson well. During the State of the Union speech, President Obama took the unprecedented step of criticizing the Court, which by rules of decorum is required to sit quietly and without reaction, while the gallery of Democrats surrounding them stood and cheered. Effectively, you had two branches of government (one party mind you) berating the Court in public. Recently, Chief Justice John Roberts expressed his concern about such an outburst. But it leads you to wonder if President Obama did this knowing there would be challenges to the health care bill, making a preemptive critical strike to place pressure on the Court to uphold his monstrous health care bill and its unprecedent mandate on all individuals to purchase insurance.

I'm feeeling pretty bipolar these days about our chances here.

Al Sharpton Tells the Truth for a Change

The Reverend Al Sharpton apparently so emboldened by the vote for the health care bill decided to just come on out and say it: "the American public overwhelmingly voted for Socialism when they elected Barack Obama".

I hate to disagree with the right Reverend, but I'm pretty sure a lot of them voted for "hope" and "change". Unfortunately, too many of them didn't bother to ask what that meant.

But it does tell you what they believe in.

Our Burgeoning Euro-American Social Democracy

This is a good example of what liberals that lead to social democracies such as those found in Western Europe think of rights. Health care is a fundamental human right which must be provided by the state. Free speech is subject to possible criminal sanctions and potential jail time.

Let's do a logic argument based on our Constitution and Declaration of Independence. We believe (those of us not currently begging the nanny state to care for us cradle to grave) that our rights were endowed by our Creator. This notion is featured rather prominently in a letter some jackass pranksters (according to President Obama's and his ilk's world view) once sent to the King of England and Parliament. We call that letter the Declaration of Independence and those jackasses are our founding fathers. Democrats such as Senator Tom Harkin (D. Iowa) believe that government grants rights. So, government grants the right to health care and therefore must assure that it is provided to the people by universalizing insurance. However, government has not sent me a gun, nor has it provided me the funds to purchase one. And yet, right there in the Second Amendment to a quaint old document we call the Constitution of the United States of America is my right to bear arms.

Now, being endowed with that right by my Creator, I have the right to bear arms. I do not have the right to be given a gun. A gun is a commodity, not a right. So I have to buy a gun. Similarly, in the First Amendment we see that I have a God-given right to Free Speech and to practice my religion without government telling me I can't (note how the government is specifically excluded from interfering with rights in the quaint old document (yes, within limitations)). Does the government have to provide me a forum for my speech? A church for my worship? Nope, commodities.

Health care is not a freeking right. It's a commodity. Government can't jail me for exercising free speech or prosecute me to the extent that such speech does not litterally endanger others. In Europe, the KKK would be jailed. I'm not happy about what the KKK says, but I'm not stuffing them in a jail for having a dumb opinion.

President Obama is moving us to a world where government can give a right, and therefore take it away. These are all the rights and powers supposedly reserved to the States and the People by the Tenth Amendment. This, my friend, is the death of liberty. I am optomistic that it will not happen as we find more and more people in this country suddenly awake to what they stand to lose.

True Intent on Display

First, President Obama and the moron generation Democrats pass a monstrous health care bill which a number of people have opined will bankrupt the country in four years. That may be extreme, but I guarantee you that the bill will, assuming it isn't repealed or blocked by the courts, dismantle the private health insurance industry and make government the sole provider of insurance (not to mention the jobs lost in the private sector due to the student loan provision of the bill).

Now, Captain Idiot and the Destructocats have set their sites on destroying the rest of industry, taking up "climate legislation", i.e., cap & trade, which would place huge burdens on energy producers, increasing costs for industry and home alike. But hey, who uses energy anyway? Not like that would increase the cost of every single item on the market, right?

Anyone else notice that the unemployment rate is still over 9%? In fact, despite his Majesty the Lord and Savior, the One and Only, the Thrilla from Manilla, Barack Obama assurances that if we passed his vapid, absurdly misnamed "stimulus package" the unemployment rate wouldn't get over 8%, it seems to have hovered closer to 10% for the majority of his Reign of Firings.

So after forcing through one of the biggest job killing bills that will increase unemployment simply from the number of physicians who will retire, they are now pursuing legislation that will increase costs on litterally every business (even the green ones because the parts will cost more to manufacture and ship to build the windmill that will keep the neighborhood up at night, killing birds as it powers the electric toaster the lady in the house is using to kill herself because she's unemployed and there isn't a doctor within 500 miles who will take her Medicaid based health care plan that reimburses the word "a pittance" written in pencil on a scrap of paper in exchange for an MRI and two surgeries) in the United States.

That should work well.

Today's REQUIRED Viewing

I actually got pretty excited watching this speech by House Minority John Boehner (R. OH) last night. Can you say there is a person who voted for this bill worth re-electing? HELL NO YOU CAN'T.

Separation of Democratic Morals and My State

I keep hearing Democrats refer to our "ethical obligation" to provide healthcare to all Americans. A) We did that before they adopted this monstrosity. B) Why is it that that champions of the mythical "separation of church and state" who refuse to allow Christians to impose their ethics on others, are so damned fast to want to impose their ethics on everyone else.

I, as a Christian and a moral human being, have an ethical obligation to help those in need to the extent that I'm able. I am not empowered by that obligation to take your money to do it.

Today's Recommended Reading

President Obama is often fond of blaming President Bush and the failed policies of the past. Maybe he should have read Aristotle, who seems to predict exactly where he's going.

Unfettered and Unrestricted Power

As it becomes more and more obvious that the Democrats are going to get health care passed by any means necessary (the Slaughter rule where they don't vote on the bill, reconciliation, etc.). It's interesting to see one on video talking about the importance of rules. Here is Representative Alcee Hastings (D. Fla.) stating flat out that all the fuss about rules is not important, they just make them up as they go along. By the way, Mr. Hastings was just the 6th federal judge to be impeached and thrown off the bench in 1989. These are the people telling you what the health care bill says. Do you believe them?

I'm All About Virginia

Virginia is going to file suit to stop the healthcare bill if it passes. I'm so happy I won't have to.

Where Loyalties Lay

The Congressional Hispanic Caucus, who apparently were elected to represent Mexico, are voicing opposition the health care bill because it doesn't explicitly cover illegal immigrants. Seriously. I can only hope that they soon join the ranks of the unemployed.

Nanny State Preview: New York

A New York legislator (shockingly it's a Democrat) has proposed banning salt from restaurant meals in the interest of making people healthier. New York has already banned the use of transfats in cooking. But don't worry, I'm sure if government runs health care nothing like that will happen.

Time Lies

Yesterday afternoon Glenn Beck got nailed for chasing the claims of former Congressman Eric Massa (D. NY) and was burned as he retracted most of his claim. TIME magazine and others are dancing, drunk with happiness about Beck's supposed misstep (the TIME link was on the front page of Yahoo!). But this post isn't about the left wing bias or how I have to dig to find links to the madness of Keith Olbermann while my homepage trumpets the setback for Beck (which was arguably one of his better moments as he turned to the camera at the end of the interview and told his audience he'd wasted their time). This post is about one subclause of one sentence: "the audience he once spent weeks telling about fanciful FEMA prison camps". I've watched Beck pretty religiously for some time now (I was conservative well before that and warning family and friends about Obama before my mother ever told me about Beck). Beck spent exactly 5 minutes of one show on FEMA concentration camps. He did so to show that the internet rumor was bunk.

Don't buy into the crap you hear or read (and the History Channel is probably the worst).

Verdict in on Congressman Massa

Recently resigned Congressman Eric Massa (D. NY) is full of crap. After reviewing the available information and listening to his spiel on Glenn Beck I'm comfortable saying his allegations that he was forced out by the administration are less than credible. Is the timing of the leak on the probe into Massa's conduct suspicious? Yes. But he refused to substantiate his claims and often backtracked today. The tickle-fight defense he raised may go down in history.

Today's Recommended Reading

I knew Keith Olbermann was a little psycho, but this article from American Thinker is hillarious.

Liberal Logic Strikes Again, the Sean Penn Edition

Sean Penn has called for reporters who describe Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez as a dictator (whoops!) to be put in jail. Ironically, I'm pretty sure that's what Hugo Chavez does in Venezuela. I remember Sean Penn being down here in a pirouge (flat bottomed canoe to you non-Louisiana folks) post Katrina. If I'd been stuck on a roof and he came rowing up I'd wait for the next boat.

Liberal Logic Strikes Again

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D. Cal.) in comments to the 2010 Legislative Conference for National Association of Counties stated that we need to pass the health care legislation to find out what's in the bill. Let that sink in for a minute. If you submitted that statement to a robot it's head would explode.

Saving $1 Trillion Meaningless Dollars

President Obama in a recent health care speech mentioned the Congressional Budget Office had said his health care bill (which hasn't been scored by the CBO but he was referring to the Senate bill) would save $1 trillion in its first ten years due to the savings it would create (by taking $500 billion out of Medicare and shifting it elsewhere so that you can count it twice). When it was pointed out to the White House that the CBO didn't say that, spokesman Robert Gibbs said that the President misspoke and was referring to the second decade of the health care program. Of course, the CBO stated that it's estimates for the second decade of savings was essentially meaningless because there are too many variables and assumptions that would have to be made.

Oh yeah, the CBO is also obligated to estimate costs based upon what Congress says it is going to do, not reality. So when Congress says it won't spend additional money the CBO is bound by the lie. Anyone else feel like they're listening to Charlie Brown's teacher at this point?

Developing Story on Eric Massa

Representative Eric Massa (D. N.Y.) whose resignation is supposed to take effect at 5 p.m. Eastern today has hinted he may rescind the resignation because it was the result of an ethics probe designed to force him out as a result of his position as a "no" vote on healthcare.

This is a rather astounding claim. I wouldn't be surprised if Massa is just grasping at straws to try and save his reputation and political career, but given this administration's attitude of passing health care at any cost, I wouldn't be surprised if this turned out to be true. In either case, this story bears watching.

Tonight's Academy Awards

To the best of my knowledge, Bruce Willis wasn't nominated for anything.

Scientology: The Fakest Religion Ever

The so-called Church of Scientology is one of my favorite targets for finding a little truth in life. They are a thuggish cult under investigation or banned in many countries. they were founded by a L.R. Hubbard, a science fiction writer who said "You don't get rich writing science fiction. If you want to get rich, you start a religion." It's brutal practices have been well documented on the internet, including possible involvement and coverups in the deaths of members, though the cult is known to try to "scrub" the internet of negative references. Well, even the New York Times still gets it right every now and then, publishing this expose interviewing ex-members who detail incidences of abuse. I can only hope that the author is right about declining membership rolls. I would love to see the cult of Tom Cruise crumble.

Today's Recommended Reading

A little intorductory economics to help explain why "stimulus" spending is just so much nonsense in this article from American Thinker.

Evidence of the Left's Inability to Manage Simple Logic Even When Joking

Bill Maher, who amazingly was once a libertarian and now believes that the American people are too stupid for self-governance and should have policies shoved down their throat by government (you'd think someone had compromising pictures of him and Arianna Huffington considering their rapid 180 degree shift from libertarian to authoritarian elitism), joked that the recent killings at the Pentagon perpetrated by some crazy idiot "9/111 truther" raised the opportunity to wish Glenn Beck had been amongst the dead. Apparently Maher missed the whole schism between Beck and his Texas audience over calling out gubernatorial candidate Debra Meddina as a truther. So Maher, wishing Beck dead, as he has former Vice President Dick Cheney, and radio host Rush Limbaugh, (all of whom are against 9/11 truthers) apparently would lose a compatriot in the battle against 9/11 truthers (such as Van Jones, the Green Jobs Czar that Beck called attention to) because he's a libertarian who disagrees with Maher's newfound progressive idealism (or more appropriately named, cynasism). When did Maher start thinking hatred passes off well as comedy?

Or maybe I could just leave it with what Greg Gutfeld had to say.

You Can Always Tell What Liberals are Doing By What They Accuse Others of Doing

As has been documented ad nauseum, the tea parties have been accused of being an astroturf, or fake grass roots movement, drummed up by the Republicans. Not to be one upped, this little under the radar group has developed, the coffee party. In fact, the founder of the so-called movement, Anabel Park, is a former New York Times Strategy Analyst who also was an organizer and operator of the Obama campaign's You Tube channel. Liberals don't care about lying to the American public anymore than you or I would think twice about lying to a dog. They assume we're too stupid to understand what matters anyway, so why utilize truth. Subterfuge such as this is part an parcel of that attitude. It reminds me of a comment I saw on a news story a few weeks back that said: average education of conservatives is 8th grade, quiet down now and let the adults govern. Sounds awful familiar to me.

If President Obama Can't Have Cap and Trade, Seize the Oil

Senator Jim Demint writes this op-ed piece in the Washington Times citing a leaked memo in which the administration has planned to seize more than 10 million acres of oil rich western land. I wish I were surprised.

President Obama, the Rapist

No matter how many times and how many ways the American people say "No", Obama is determined to give it to them. Today, President Obama revealed his health care bill, endorsing the "nuclear option" of reconciliation. In typical liberal fashion, President Obama changed the language to make it sound more palatable, referring to a simple majority and up and down vote. I do not have words to describe the man sits in our White House.

Stunning Corruption From the Very Top

President Barack Obama has nominated the brother of Democratic Congressman Jim Matheson of Utah to the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals. Matheson has voted consistently against the health care bill and now is listed as one of the undecided, and one of ten House Dems who are having a meeting with the President this evening to persuade them to vote for the bill. This is astoundingly corrupt. I have no doubt that this rises to the level of an impeachable offense if it was meant to garner Matheson's vote, and it would be hard to believe otherwise given the timing.

Today's Recommended Reading

This article attempts to explain the George Soros/Arianna Huffington relationship. As a little background, Huffington, now a rabid liberal/progressive, was a prominent conservative voice before divorcing her billionaire ex-husband and working with Soros.