Poker Strategy Tips From Cancun

When you have a weak hand, often the only recourse is not to fold, but to use your bets to push others out of the game. It appears climate "scientists" are accomplished bluffers. Despite growing dissent on the anthropogenic nature of global warming, the release of e-mails which bring into question the validity of the science used to justify that argument, and the constant revelation of poor science in the UN's IPCC climate change report, the opening day of the Cancun climate summit saw these scientists calling for WWII style rationing in developed nations to reduce carbon emissions. You know, carbon, the element that is the basis of all life on Earth.

If there has ever been more reason to believe that the political agenda behind climate science is the redistribution of resources (if everyone is poor, no one is) I can't think of the basis.

Today's Recommended Reading Updated

Sorry. The link didn't work before. It should now as the story is here. Basically, it looks like we bailed out the UAW without ever knowing.

Today's Recommended Reading

I can't even comment on this, I'm too disgusted.

And to the Surprise of No One

A United Nations official has admitted that the goal of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is to redistribute wealth from developed countries to the non0developed countries. The plan is explicitly endorsed by Obama advisor Larry Summers and dark lord of the sith George Soros. It is far past time for the United States to withdraw from the UN as the liberal group clearly has interests directly opposed to those of the US.

Obama Administration's Disdain for Constitutional Restraints Again on Display

The chairman of the FCC appears to be pushing forward with plans to implement net neutrality rules despite the fact that a federal court already ruled it does not have the power to do so. This administration's disregard for democracy and the United States Constitution is unbelievable.

Democracy is so Much Easier When the People Aren't Watching

Senator Jay Rockefeller (D. WV) has said it would be easier to get things done if FOX News and MSNBC weren't on the air and that a part of him would like the FCC to ban them. I'll give him credit for being a bipartisan idiot. Freedom of the press was designed to protect and encourage opinion. Does anyone really believe that the founding fathers were worried that the press might accurately report the day to day news? It was the suppression of opinion that they were concerned about. I may not like what the jackasses on MSNBC say and there are a number of times FOX turns me off because of blatant bias, but I would never shut them up. I will only say when they are wrong and hope that an educated populace would know the difference.

Anchors Aweigh, My Boys! Anchors Aweigh.

Yes, that's spelled correctly, it's the Naval Academy fight song. Members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, who do not represent American citizens, as I've written before, are pushing to get the DREAM Act (such a nice name) passed during the lame-duck session of Congress. The Act would give a path to citizenship for children under the age of 16 who were brought into the country illegally. Again, sounds nice enough. Why punish kids for the actions of their parents? Of course, there is the back door benefit that once the kid is a citizen, it becomes impossible to deport the illegal parent. Hence the term "anchor baby". See? Nothing up this sleeve. It's magic.

What is Love?

Senators from both parties and Transportation and Safety Administration officials have defended the invasive, degrading and, quite frankly, moronic pat down policy at airports. Senator Claire McCaskill (D. MO) even referred to them as "love pats". I think if I fly sometime soon I may respond with a "love kick". This is a policy that has resulted in infants being patted down, gropes, and other offenses. But whatever you do, don't friggin profile and actually search people who fit an identifiable type likely to be terrorists. Spread 'em grandma!

How Do You Fight Ethics Charges? Why by Violating Ethics Rules

Congressman Charlie Rangel (D. N.Y.), as I've written about before, is facing ethics charges, which will likely be the first order of business in the lame-duck session of Congress (funny how they just couldn't manage to fit it in before the election). Now the New York Post is reporting that Mr. Rangel violated ethics rules to pay his attorneys to defend him from these ethics violations, one of whom includes ultra-liberal Clinton apologist Lanny Davis. The Post reports that Rangel raided his leadership political action committees to the tune of $393,000.00 to pay his attorneys this year and last year. According to the Post, while personal PAC funds can be used for legal expenses, leadership PAC funds, which are typically raised in order to donate to other candidates, may not be used this way and constitute a gift, making this a violation of House ethics rules. Apparently when House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D. Cal.) referred to "draining the swamp" she meant getting most Democrats defeated in the elections or tried afterward.

Remove the Blinders From Thine Eye Before Asking Another to Take Off His Tutu

In this clip from "Real (Stupid Liberal) Time with Bill Maher" Michael Moore (apparently an advocate of the nanny state solely for his own need for the government to control his eating habits) opines that President Obama needs to take off his pink tutu, put on some boxing gloves and start fighting for the American people. I'm not sure what American people he's referring to given the utter lack of support for the policies both Moore and the President have advocated. He must be referring to all us stupid Americans that Bill Maher feels need to be dragged against our will into government control.

Of more interest to me in the clip is the exposition of the modern Statist mind set. Moore says that middle class Americans don't get that millionaires need to pay more in taxes because they've been lied to about the American dream that they too could some day be successful enough to be exposed to those higher taxes. So let me suggest that Mr. Moore remove his blinders and stop concentrating on President Obama's pink tutu. Michael Moore was born to a middle class family in a suburb of Flint, Michigan, and is now a millionaire (estimates I found were $25 million to $50 million). Bill Gates, born into an upper-middle class family, started his company out of a garage and is now one of the richest men on the planet. Multi-billionaire Warren Buffet started his business small and built himself into one of the most successful investment gurus in the world. Arthur Blank worked at a hardware store until he became a supervisor, was fired, then founded Home Depot and is now owner of the Atlanta Falcons. President Barack Obama made questionable millions writing crappy books. All of these people are also well known for their philanthropy (except Obama, perhaps not surprisingly).

It doesn't take much to find success stories in the United States or examples of the generosity of the men and women who have become successful by legitimate hard work. Perhaps he shouldn't focus on the mote in the eye of others and see the beam in his own. I would probably do well to take that advise also, but this would be a far more boring blog if I only talked about my own foibles.

Luckily Hollywood Means He'll Never Be Broke

Dr. Drew Pinsky, an addiction specialist (he's a legitimate M.D.) who hosts Celebrity Rehab, has opined that there will be a mass defection of doctors and hospital closures as a result of Obamacare. Despite the man's obvious narcissistic tendencies, he's actually a pretty thoughtful man and worth listening to on medical issues. Lucky for him., Lindsey Lohan could keep him employed perpetually all by her lonesome.

What's That Creeping Around Out Back?

While most pundits have focused either positively or negatively on the recently released proposal of President Obama's fiscal commission panel, the Hill caught the sneak little boys playing with their toys in the underlying language. It appears that there is a rear end attempt to take another look at a government single payer healthcare system included in the proposals. Funny that a debt panel apparently has no idea how economics work. I'll probably write more about the proposals later, but suffice it to say, it's a proposed tax increase hidden as a tax cut along with back end savings that would never happen.

Oooohh That Smell. Can't You Smell That Smell?

Something is rotten in the State of Denmark. - Marcellus, Hamlet, Act I, Scene 4, 87-91.

G.E., which is in an evil relationship with the Obama administration, is buying 12,000 Chevy Volts, which are a fraudulent form of electric car, from GM, which is owned mostly by the Obama administration. What's more, China, which artificially keeps its currency devalued in order to maintain trade surpluses and is ticked off at the U.S. for the Fed's move to monetize the debt because it will artificially keep U.S. currency low and threaten China's trade surplus, is, through its own state-owned car company, SAIC, looking to purchase part of GM when the company goes public.

Oh, and did I mention, G.E. manufactures the remote power supply stations needed to recharge the electric batteries the Chevy Volt occasionally uses to go all of 40 miles before needing a charge?

It is said that Marcellus uses the phrase "State of Denmark" rather than simply Denmark to indicate that the corruption stems from the head of government. Certainly seems apropos here.

Tone Deaf Doesn't Even Begin to Describe It

Earlier this week, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D. Cal.) had a party celebrating the accomplishments of the soon to be closed Congress. The same accomplishments that resulted in a historic middle finger from the American voters and a resulting historic gain in the House that means Speaker Pelosi will, luckily, not be Speaker soon. Not only does the party she threw seem to fly in the face of what the voters were telling her (sort of like the health care bill, the stimulus bill, the cap and trade legislation, the conversion of TARP into a slush fund and every damned other thing she shoved or tried to shove down America's throat despite overwhelming opposition), it ignored what her fellow Democrats were telling her. Namely, please stop! You're killing us! Which is why they are now trying to keep her from running for the minority leader position.

In the meantime, oblivious as a newborn child, a panel to review waste in the stimulus bill is holding the meeting at the Ritz Carlton. Really. This administration is so tone deaf they couldn't carry a tune in a bucket.

Today's Recommended Reading

John Stossel's racist cupcake sale. Priceless. Or $0.50 for blacks and latinos.

Batshit Crazy Now Spelled Alvin Greene

Former South Carolina Democratic Senate candidate Alvin Greene, a complete moron who magically won the primary to be destroyed in the actual election (see, no one knew who the heck he was), who was booted (honorably, but involuntarily) from the armed forces, is considering running for President in 2012...as a Republican. Sadly, I'd still vote for him over President Obama.

Jsut Because the World is Upside Down

Democrats often accuse conservative radio of being hate speech. Listen to this. He's relatively tame compared to much of what I've heard. Funny that he uses the word animals to refer to the supposedly racist tea parties, considering that's how racists often refer to blacks. I'm sick of hearing this mantra of racisism against the tea parties that actually reflect the diversity of Americans. It's cheap and it's the sort of argument I'd expect from a child saying, "yeah, but you're ugly".

As if There Weren't Enough Evidence that Google Is Evil

I've written before about Google and how they are a great example of spooky big corporations (like GE). Now the National Legal and Policy Center, a group advocating for smaller and more ethical government, is calling for the investigations of the unusually close ties between Google and the Obama administration (like GE). They are pointing to federal policies under this administration which have favored Google (like GE). But none of this can be true, of course, because Democrats are the party of the people, not big business. By the way, I have some ocean front property in Colorado for sale.

Out of Ammo? Don't Worry, We'll Support Your Terrorism

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (felon, Ark.) (why is it the modern heroes of the Democratic Party, the Clintons, are qualified to lead but not to hold a license to practice law?) announced that the United States is sending $150 million to the Palestinian Authority. This is an organization established by and with ties to the Palestinian Liberation Organization, a recognized terrorist regime that started randomly launching rockets into Israel not that long ago. I suppose if you visit Israel and get killed in a terrorist attack you can take some solace in seeing your tax dollars at work first-hand.

Must Watch Reason.tv Part II

Hayek v. Keynes. Easily the most amusing rap song I've heard.

Must Watch Reason.tv

It's about 10 minutes long, please watch and comment. Reason.tv.

Soros Slapdown

I mentioned previously the Dark Lord of the Sith, George Soros, and his Secretary of State Project. (There is something ironic about Satan being the man behind the media's savior, President Obama.) Well, in an under-reported aspect of last night's elections, 17 of the 26 Secretary of State positions up for election when to Republicans. Maybe he needs a new apprentice Sith. Darth Obama seems to have lost his ability to pull off Jedi mind tricks.

What the Hell is Going on at the Fed?

The Federal Reserve, an unaccountable, unelected, uncontrollable group of banks that controls monetary policy in the United States, plans on pumping between $500 billion to $1 trillion dollars into the economy for lending by monetizing the debt, i.e., buy buying up U.S. Treasury Bonds (I recommend reading the full link for a listing of potential downfalls). This is likely to lower interest rates (though how they can go much lower is beyond me) and cause inflation by devaluing the dollar. They tried this before, the idea being that by pushing money into the hands of the banks and lowering interest rates they will encourage lending and borrowing. Why didn't it work the first time? Because banks just loaned the money back to the United States Government because the return rate on the bonds was higher than the interest rates they could charge borrowers. This is likely to happen again and the people at the Fed are smart enough to know this. Which begs the question, what the hell are they doing?

Today's Recommended Reading

This article by Michelle Malkin isn't so much instructive in its stand-offish tone as it is as a recounting of exactly how "cooperative" Democrats have been with the supposedly obstructionist Republicans who couldn't stop anything the last two years because they didn't have the votes. I can't say I necessarily disagree with her on not cooperating. The majority of the country has rejected the Obama agenda, big government, overspending and wants a repeal of the healthcare law. That's not asking for cooperation.

MSNBC is Awful

Chris Mathews is a scumbag as is the rest of the MSNBC group. Mathews actually had the gall to ask a current Alaska politician if he had ever seen Sarah Palin read something, as if she were too stupid to be literate. This after he denied he ever made the tingle up his leg comment to Michelle Bachman. Keith Olbermann, of course, finds it all hillarious. Rachel Maddow can't be heard through the muffled anger of his....her smirk.

Breaking From the Domestic

This bears watching. Tensions between Japan and Russia have been flaring of late over islands which are of contested ownership. Japan has gone so far to pull back their ambassador. Russia has become increasingly aggressive and authoritarian under Vladimir Putin and slipping back to full enemy status is not unexpected.

The President has called House Minority Leader John Boehner (R. Oh.) and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R. Ky.) to say he's looking forward to working together with them. This is the same President who called opponents of "comprehensive immigration reform", i.e. amnesty, enemies to Latinos and said Republicans have to sit at the back of the bus a la Rosa Parks. I doubt the President will be anything more than an ideologue.

The Ball is in Your Court. Don't Drop It.

As was expected, it has just been announced that Republicans have taken control of the House. Now they just have to be conservatives and maybe they can keep it. Keep in mind, the economic downturn truly started after the Democrats took the majority in 2006 under President George (I'm a domestic liberal) Bush, Jr.

Slap to the Face

The Illinois Senate seat formerly held by no other than President Barack Obama has gone to Republican candidate Mark Kirk. Now that is a rebuke of massive proportions.

Once....Twice....Nineteen Times A Loser

Despite 12 visits by President Obama and 7 by Vice President Joe Biden to Ohio, Republican John Kasich has been identified as the winner of the Ohio gubernatorial race.

Caricature of a Human Being Loses House Seat in Florida

You may have read my previous posts expressing my disdain for Representative Alan Grayson (D. Fla.). Luckily, Florida voters have seen the light and Mr. Grayson will only be an embarassment to his family instead of the state for at least the next two years. Representative-elect Daniel Webster (R. Fla.) was leading by 17% with 83% of precincts reporting. The collective IQ of the House probably just doubled.

Developing...Claims that Mentally Handicapped Bussed to Polls and Instructed How to Vote

Reports are coming out that mentally handicapped people have been bussed to polls in Minnesota by AFSCME Union (a union composed of government employees) members and instructed to vote straight Democrat on their ballots.