New York-Please Grow Up II

My wife said I was too kind in the previous post…that they (the NY Legislature) are not beyond pre-school and need constant supervision. I agree.

New York-Please Grow Up

Kindergarten…no, nursery school
PLEASE, NY Legislature…do the right thing: Resign, commit yourselves to becoming adults, and pledge that you will never run for elective office again.

Now We’ll All Live Like The Amish

I like and admire the Amish who live near me. They are hard workers, they make full use of everything their religion allows them to use. They have one of the lowest “carbon footprints” of anyone I know. And soon, you and I will be forced to live more like them than we do now, because of these idiots.
The Amish can be easily overrun by even the most ill-equipped army, because they don’t use guns. They cannot support any but themselves, because they do not engage in free-market capitalism for profit, but instead live a basically self-sustaining lifestyle. Good for them, if that’s how they want to live. But the rest of us have been busy for the last few hundred years building the arsenal of Democracy, something we will no longer be able to afford to do.
When we have weakened ouselves beyond the capacity to adequately project strength into our enemies territory, then our enemies will begin coming to us. We aren’t used to that…and the clowns in Washington keep on thinking everyone just wants a circus. Idiots, with a capital I.

Obama is a Coward

About two weeks ago, the Obama administration released Laith Qazali after extensive negotiations with the Asaib al-Haq terror network… what did we, I mean, the United States gain? Nothing? I thought so…but did the Democratic Party gain??? I thought so…

Just Plain Tired

Sorry, but sometmes a guy just gets burned out…not the pot kind, just tired of processing the sh** that passes for news these days. Also, working 2 jobs to make ends meet. In any case, I’ll try to be more dilligent.

Obama the Feminist?

This article as awesome!
Actually it’s humiliating, and I think it explains why many (non-metrosexual) men don’t respect Obama, and why the left has to demonize the likes of Sarah Palin. Real men have no fear of a strong, intelligent woman who is also feminine, and they also have little respect for a touchy-feely why can’t we all just get along appeaser.

Obama and Israeli Settlements

“…Palestinian leadership…rejected every offer of independence and dignity, choosing destitution and despair rather than accept any settlement not accompanied by the extinction of Israel.
In the 16 years since the Oslo accords turned the West Bank and Gaza over to the Palestinians, their leaders — Fatah and Hamas alike — built no schools, no roads, no courthouses, no hospitals, no institutions that would relieve their people’s suffering. Instead they poured everything into an infrastructure of war and terror, all the while depositing billions (from gullible Western donors) into their Swiss bank accounts.”

The dirty little secret is that every nation on Earth thinks the world would be a more peaceful place without Israel in existence, and the exact opposite is the reality. We are their closest ally, and yet we are now joining the Arabs in isolating them and forcing them to accept terms we ourselves never would. Shame on Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton for selling out Israel and for pandering to the Arab world.

Israel’s continued survival is greater proof to me of the existence of God than any other natural phenomena. If the Scriptures are correct, their enemies will soon believe as well. May that day come sooner rather than later.

Charles Krauthammer skewers Obama’s naïve position here.

FBI Investigates Stimulus and TARP Fraud

I suppose this is as good a way as any to find out where the money has gone. No one else will tell us, least of all Barack Obama and Tim Geithner. I’m wondering how much of the Stimulus money was set aside for the FBI to conduct this investigation…it will surely go on for a while and burn a lot of resources. As far as I can tell, it has all been fraudulent and we’re talking trillions of dollars. Can I buy stock in the FBI???

The Howls of a Fading Species

New York Times has a column by Bob Herbert with the above title. I howled with laughter at the irony of it, considering NYT stock has been hovering around junk status lately. Here’s a sample:

“Here’s the thing. Suddenly these hideously pompous and self-righteous white males of the right are all concerned about racism. They’re so concerned that they’re fully capable of finding it in places where it doesn’t for a moment exist. Not just finding it, but being outraged by it to the point of apoplexy. Oh, they tell us, this racism is a bad thing!”

He’s referring to Limbaugh, Gingrich, and other “…foaming-in-the-mouth crazies…” who have weighed in on Judge Sonia Sotomayor’s nomination to the Supreme Court. Let’s go back for a moment to the nomination of Charles Pickering to a Circuit Court seat by the second President Bush:

“The Democrats succeeded in torpedoing Pickering’s nomination — not to mention assassinating his character. More than “insensitive,” he was called a crypto-racist with a “segregationist past” (Paul Krugman). When President Bush offered Judge Pickering a recess appointment to avoid a Senate filibuster, Sen. John Kerry (D., Mass.) breathed fire: “Here we are, on the weekend before a national holiday when we celebrate Martin Luther King’s birthday, and George W. Bush celebrates it by appointing Charles Pickering, a known forceful advocate for a cross-burner in America, to the federal court of the United States.”

In point of fact, Judge Pickering had been a friend to civil rights throughout his career. To its credit, the New York Times actually quoted longtime associates of the judge and members of the black community in Pickering’s hometown who “overwhelmingly support his nomination . . . and admire his efforts at racial reconciliation.” The black chairman of the city council told the Times, “I can’t believe the man they’re describing in Washington is the same one I’ve known for years.” They recalled that as a young prosecutor in 1967, Pickering had endangered his career (and perhaps more) by testifying in court against the Imperial Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan. He was known for hiring black staffers at a time when few white Mississippians did. Pickering encouraged the chancellor of University of Mississippi to form the Institute for Racial Reconciliation and served on its board for many years. Pickering, unlike some white southerners (and many Democrats currently serving in Congress) chose to send his children to integrated public schools.”

Mr. Herbert should read his own newspaper…at the least it would help their circulation numbers.

Our Hypocrite-in-Chief

There was, of course, an ironic element of the trip. In February, Obama scolded corporate executives (while also costing Las Vegas some $130 million) when he said: “You can’t get corporate jets. You can’t go take a trip to Las Vegas, or go down to the Super Bowl on the taxpayers’ dime.” Story here.

Shame on most of the national media for their sycophantic Obama worship and apologetics.

Islamic Convert Kills Uniformed Soldiers-Not a Hate Crime?

In the so-called Hate Crimes legislation winding through Congress, there was an attempt made to add this kind of murder to the list of specific cases. It was defeated. An attempt was also made to remove the specific language adding Pedophiles to the list…also defeated. Kill a Pedophile? It’s a hate crime. Kill a soldier in uniform? Not so much. The perverts running Congress need to be replaced.

Sympathy For Citigroup

“You never want to have the government involved in your business,” said Orlando, whose firm owns 7.3 million shares of JPMorgan Chase and 1,483 shares of Citigroup. “They’re not businessmen; they’re bureaucrats. They don’t understand capitalism, they don’t understand the profit motive and they don’t understand the financial industry.”

You can say that again. They don’t understand cars any better either.

Is Sonia Sotomayor a Racist?

Sonia Sotomayor may or may not have planned to become a Supreme Court nominee, as Rush Limbaugh predicted back in the 90′s, but her choice of words at a time when she knew the mics were on may come back to haunt her.

“I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn’t lived that life.”

If that statement by Sotomayor derails her nomination, it would be a travesty on one level, but exactly what should happen if we are truly trying to have a “blind” justice system. The travesty occurs if you believe that the courts are supposed to be our “grand equalizer”, making necessary amends judicially for perceived injustices in our society. The opposing view says justice should be blind to all but relevant facts of the case as it pertains to the written law, regardless of race, religion, background, etc,

Context is critical, and Sotomayor issued several caveats during the speech in question. But the bottom line for me is that she is on record as saying that feelings and empathy and other modern excuses for making the hard choices are her preference. No one likes to see a sympathetic figure lose at anything, but sympathy and the law are not always compatible. I might feel sorry for the Menendez brothers because they had self-indulgent asses for parents. That doesn’t mean I should accept their plea for leniency when, after killing them with several shotgun blasts at point blank range, they plea for mercy because they have no parents.

In my opinion, the last thing we need is another Supreme Court justice who would take us further away from blind justice. Sonia Sotomayor may not be a racist in the literal sense of the word, but if she will use race as a basis for deciding a case, then she is not qualified for the Supreme Court.

Why I Oppose Gay Marriage

All societies have self-preservation and perpetuation as their primary goal. All other objectives are secondary to these. The most natural and logical way to achieve these goals is to encourage the activities that most contribute to those objectives, and that is the reason all societies have elevated male/female marital relations as exemplary, and have offered inducements to encourage them. All societies engage in the encouragement or suppression of behavioral choices as a means of controlling the positive or negative impact of those behaviors.

Marital relationship preferences are not unchangeable or immutable attributes as is the case for origin of birth, or skin color, or handicap, but rather they are the result of behavioral tendencies similar in nature to all other naturally occurring human tendencies. These tendencies may be either encouraged or suppressed either by the individual or by life circumstances, and therefore they do not merit specific civil rights status.

Many societies, ours included, have agreed to extend specific civil rights and protections on the basis of immutable human attributes, including skin color, origin of birth, sex, and more. These protections are designed to ensure an equal basis for opportunity, not to elevate one behavioral choice or physical condition over any other.

We live in a representative republic with strong emphasis on personal liberty and freedom, but with the recognition that our liberties and freedoms are not to infringe on the rights of others. Therefore, if a private party, or private business, or a church wishes to engage in and reward activities based on behavioral preferences they should be free to do so, so long as there is no negative impact on those who choose not to participate.

Government sanction and endorsement of any specific personal choices would negatively impact other individuals who do not agree with or support those choices through the taxation and regulation required to support their imposition and enforcement. I am in agreement with this for immutable human attributes, but I am opposed to it for personal choices.

If a society chooses to go beyond protecting immutable attributes and begins granting protection for individually chosen behavior or lifestyle choices, there can never be a legal basis for denying any other choices, no matter how outrageous or detrimental to society, due to the entirely subjective nature of individual freedom of choice. In fact, if the so-called Hate Crimes bill in the US Congress today passes as is, there will be new protections specifically for Pedophiles and other clearly deviant behavior. Homosexual marriage is the beginning of the agenda of behavioral rights protections, not the end, and those pushing it know this well.

I am not basing my arguments here on religious or moral grounds, but rather on my understanding of the requirements of our government as defined by our Constitution and the Bill of Rights. I am not homophobic any more than I am smokerphobic or drinkerphobic or any other kind of lifestylephobic. I would no sooner be willing to endorse government recognition through specific civic or marital rights for two smokers or two drinkers or two golfers any more than I would for two homosexuals. If enough people can be persuaded otherwise, that is our free republic at work, but I will not support any government endorsement of homosexual marriage and will not vote for those who do.

The Tenth Amendment Movement-Bring It On!

With Fox News picking up the story, maybe it will begin to really push out into the rest of the national media. The Tenth Amendment Movement, along with the Tea Parties, could radically transform the nation for the better by rejecting the notion that only big government can solve big problems.

Big government is the problem, always has been the problem, and always will be the problem because we are NOT designed to operate that way constitutionally. It is our freedom, not our regulation, that has made us great. At the State level, we at least have a chance at some oversight and control over the issues that matter locally. With the Feds blackmailing the States, we’ve had little say and virtually no control. That must change.

New Show Making a Mockery of Being Green

Whoa, if they keep this up, pretty soon we may even hear a couple late-night jokes about…President Obama!

The Goode Family

Obama Promises: Quack, Quack, Quack

Is “ducking his promises” the same as lying? I dunno, seems like it to me. Oh, wait, he’s a liberal Democrat so it’s just a policy switch. Sorry, I got confused for a minute about all that transparency and openness.

Burping Lambs and Global Warming

You should read this article. It should strike you as absurd. If it doesn’t, you are brainwashed and need re-education.

“GIVE up lamb roasts and save the planet. Government advisers are developing menus to combat climate change by cutting out “high carbon” food such as meat from sheep, whose burping poses a serious threat to the environment.”

Obama is Failing Leadership Tests

But who cares…he sounds great with a teleprompter! It is an indictment of American journalism that the only honest coverage of Barack Obama comes from foreign sources.

“…As in Britain, the governing class seems to travel in fear of dismantling state spending programmes; but these have been as much at the root of America’s malaise as subprime mortgages and unregulated bankers.

The disarray of the Republican party here – it remains shattered after last year’s defeat, inadequately led and effective only at sniping – means Mr Obama is under little pressure for the moment to confront the really big issues, to take sides and make the really hard choices. But he can’t keep fudging it, as he did at Notre Dame, for much longer.”

World Peace Breaks Out All Over-NOT!

Funny, I thought they said if we voted for Obama, peace would break out all over the world. I guess no one told North Korea and Iran.

Is Obama The New George Bush?

From Charles Krauthammer:

“Of course, Obama will never admit in word what he’s doing in deed. As in his rhetorically brilliant national-security speech on Thursday claiming to have undone Bush’s moral travesties, the military commissions flip-flop is accompanied by the usual Obama three-step: (a) excoriate the Bush policy, (b) ostentatiously unveil cosmetic changes, (c) adopt the Bush policy.”

If you haven’t finished all the Obama kool-aid in your glass and were genuinely hoping for better anti-terrorism methods from him, please have the intellectual honesty to examine your position again in light of Obama’s positions now that he knows what Bush and Cheney knew.

More here.

Herbert Meyer: Wake Up Call to the Grass Roots

“…Our country’s future now lies within our own hands — yours, mine, all of us who comprise what the Washington insiders sneeringly call the grass roots.  Good, because unless I’m very much mistaken the liberals have over-estimated their strength.  There still are more of us than there are of them.  I mean ordinary, decent Americans from across the political spectrum who may disagree about specific issues, but who understand who we are and how we became who we are; who love our country, have a genius for self-organizing, and won’t let the United States go down without a fight….”

If you read nothing else today, please read this article by Herbert Meyer at American Thinker

Liberal Media Bias

Some observations about liberal national news media bias:
You won’t hear:
Yes, I’ve carefully listened to Rush Limbaugh’s radio show daily for several weeks to really gain a proper understanding of him and get the proper context of what he says.
You will hear:
Rush Limbaugh is a bigoted, hate-filled, misogynist and homophobe.

You won’t hear:
We should never have trashed Sarah Palin and her family they way we did. It was shoddy journalism and we should be ashamed of ourselves.
You will hear:
Sarah Palin is a bigoted, hate-filled, idiot and homophobe.

You won’t hear:
Yes, we knew all along that Richard Armitage outed Valerie Plame and that Scooter Libby really should not have been charged with any crimes by Pat Fitzgerald, and we are sorry, Scooter, but we were really hoping to help Fitz get to Bush and Cheney.
You will hear:
Scooter Libby outed Valerie Plame.

You won’t hear:
We love trashing and humiliating beautiful, conservative women because they are beautiful and conservative, and they have great careers ahead of them. We aren’t, and we don’t.
You will hear:
Carrie Prejean is a bigoted, hate-filled, idiot and homophobe.

You won’t hear:
We don’t believe Al Gore either, but we really love making catastrophes out of nothing, especially if we can puff liberal Democrats and irritate conservatives with the same stories.
You will hear:
We are all doomed unless we tax ourselves into poverty.

You won’t hear:
We apologize for not properly fulfilling our role as unbiased journalists, presenting unbiased news so that a properly informed electorate can make wise judgments about all politicians fairly.
You will hear:
Bush lied, people died, and the world only hates us because of George W. Bush.

You won’t hear:
We knew immediately that Barack Obama could never get elected on his own merits and with his sordid connections, but we were only pretending to love John McCain all along, we don’t love Hillary near as much as Bill, and we also love shaping the news ourselves rather than just reporting facts.
You will hear:
We love Barack Obama

Pelosi Tipped Off by Obama on CIA Memo

From American Thinker, “The memo by CIA Director Leon Panetta to the agency that countered Nancy Pelosi’s claim that she was lied to was leaked by the White House to the speaker prior to its distribution…“

“…it highlights the fact that the White House knows Pelosi stuck her foot in it with her wild accusations against the CIA and they are in full damage control mode now.”

Please resign, Nancy…for the good of the country. Maybe you could go Tuna Fishing.

Go Detroit Red Wings!

Another year, another Stanley Cup!!!

Jennifer Granholm For Supreme Court?

Youngish, pro-abortion, liberal, drove a state to the bottom economically, tax problems in her background…yup, she’s qualified.

Speaker of the House to Resign!

Got your hopes up? Mine too, when I saw this

One can only hope it happens here…I will call for a National Holiday in Nancy’s honor if she does the right thing and steps down.

Waxman’s Cap and Trade Charade

President Obama’s contention that he has no plans to raise middle class taxes is little more than Clintonian parsing. He may not support increased “taxes” per se, but he loves this nonsense from Henry Waxman, which is estimated to cost working families more than $4,000.00 annually. This is in addition to the estimated $1,300.00 in additional cost per vehicle to meet Obama’s proposed new CAFE standards. A 2 car typical middle class family is out more than 6 grand…that’s hope and change we can live without.

More here.

From Noel Sheppard at NewsBusters, quoting NPR’s Scott Simon “..I play this little exercise this week because it may show how people — especially intelligent people — hear what they want to. They like the president, and know he’s smart. So they assume he agrees with them, even when he says otherwise. People who are sure they would never slur someone because of religion or race will belittle a 22-year-old because she’s a beauty queen and cannot possibly hold the same opinion as someone they admire.

Many otherwise intelligent people do indeed show a profound willingness to hear selectively. Reminds me of Tom Brokaw and Charlie Rose admitting they didn’t know much about Barack Obama only days before the election. They knew quite a lot about Sarah Palin’s pregnant kid and the contents of her trash cans, though.

Also, there’s this telling observation by Mr. Simon:
“If you point out, as I have to a couple of e-mailers, that the president’s opinion on gay marriage is more or less identical, the same people dismiss it as a painful insincerity he is forced to adopt because of people like Miss California.”

Painful Insincerity…I know I’m just a stupid, flyover kind of guy, but isn’t that something like a….LIE?

When is a lie a lie? When a conservative says it. When is a lie a painful insincerity? When a liberal says the exact same thing.

New York Medical Marijuana

New York should consider renaming itself East California for the way it mimics the land of fruits and nuts, but in the case of legalizing medical marijuana I happen to agree. I believe medical marijuana should be obtainable legally, but regulated at the State level and not at the Federal level. I don’t think it should be legalized to the general public, but only for certain medicinal purposes.

Marijuana contains narcotic agents, and we enable and regulate all manner of narcotic agents. We tolerate a certain degree of probability of abuse in order to enable those in pain or otherwise in need of medicine to obtain them with reasonable precautions. I don’t see why this could not apply to marijuana.

Recently, my wife’s brother in California died after a long struggle with cancer. It was very painful and he had other medications, but his use of marijuana enabled him to relax and engage in conversation, which enabled my wife to have some good last conversations with him. I know that if I was suffering with cancer or some other terminal condition, I’d hit a joint in a heartbeat, so If I’m going to be principled about it, I need to allow others the same right.