Video here: "I'll put Mr. Burgess up against Sean Hannity, he'll tear him up!"
Saturday, January 15, 2011
Friday, January 14, 2011
Obama's Idea of Civil Discourse about Republicans: "Hand-to-Hand Combat"
Remember this from October 2010?:
"They are fired up. They are mobilized. They see an opportunity to take back the House, maybe take back the Senate," he said. "If they're successful in doing that, they've already said they're going to go back to the same policies that were in place during the Bush administration. That means that we are going to have just hand-to-hand combat up here on Capitol Hill."
Here Comes the Repression: Your Representative or Senator May Accuse You to the FBI
Newly elected Republican Billy Long, MO-7, is going after a political opponent in his home district, a conservative blogger no less, named Clay Bowler, aka Bungalow Bill.
Looks like one hell of an abuse of federal power to me, trying to squelch a constituent's freedom of speech, intimidate him, and reduce him to servility while they go about their business of picking our pockets clean and shoveling the shit down our throats.
Hey, thanks Billy, you giant statist toadie.
You can also thank the Capitol security police for facilitating this newest and ominous expression of police state power, reported here:
The local sheriff told KSRP that Capitol police are actively soliciting the names of possible threats from members of Congress in the wake of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords’s assassination attempt. And he admitted there are more names his office is looking into — names that came from Long.
Obviously there are no Oathkeepers among the Capitol police.
Obviously there are no Oathkeepers among the Capitol police.
Time to lawyer up.
Howard Dean's Idea of Civil Discourse: "I Hate the Republicans"
As quoted here in January 2005:
"I hate the Republicans and everything they stand for, but I admire their discipline and their organization," the failed presidential hopeful told the crowd at the Roosevelt Hotel, where he and six other candidates spoke at the final DNC forum before the Feb. 12 vote for chairman.
Thursday, January 13, 2011
America Needs a Rebellion Every 20 Years
So said Thomas Jefferson, here: "God forbid we should ever be 20 years without such a rebellion."
Go ahead. Put him in prison.
The Second Amendment isn't about Self Defense, or Hunting
"You know, our Founding Fathers, they put that Second Amendment in there for a good reason and that was for the people to protect themselves against a tyrannical government. And in fact Thomas Jefferson said it's good for a country to have a revolution every 20 years.
I hope that's not where we're going, but, you know, if this Congress keeps going the way it is, people are really looking toward those Second Amendment remedies and saying my goodness what can we do to turn this country around? I'll tell you the first thing we need to do is take Harry Reid out."
-- Sharron Angle, quoted here
Harry survived the 2010 elections, but there are plenty of anti-gun Democrats to defeat in the upcoming contests in 2012. Plan to be there!
Harry survived the 2010 elections, but there are plenty of anti-gun Democrats to defeat in the upcoming contests in 2012. Plan to be there!
Thomas Jefferson Advocated Frequent Recourse to Second Amendment Solutions
As he said, about every 20 years at the outside, and using weapons:
[W]hat country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms.
The source is at this link, and dates to 1787.
To think the country gladly took him for president after that, from 1801 to 1809. Today the Democrats would try to put him in jail, or worse.
Number of Homes Repossessed by Banks Grows to 1.05 Million in 2010
2010: 1.05 million
2009: .92 million
2008: .86 million
2007: .40 million
2006: .27 million
2005: .10 million
Messiah's Miracle Continues After Visit
As reported here:
Giffords' neurosurgeon, Dr. Michael Lemole, said after five days of pushing for caution, "We're wise to acknowledge miracles." ...
"We had been telling her that she was inspiring the country with her courage and that we couldn't wait to take her out to pizza and a weekend away,” Gillibrand said. “Then after she heard our voices and the encouragement of Mark and her parents, she struggled briefly and opened her eyes for the very first time. It was a miracle to witness." ...
Speaking on "Countdown with Keith Olbermann" on MSNBC cable, Pelosi said: "We witnessed almost a miracle. We saw the power of prayer, the power of the effect of the excellence of her medical care and we saw a little girl power too because we were trying to amuse
Gabby, trying to get through to her about how much she was loved and missed in the Congress and what was waiting for her when she came back."
"And being there with her parents and her husband and when she opened her eyes was quite remarkable. ... It was a glorious, glorious experience. We thought we brought a little fun to the room and she reacted," she said.
Messiah Visits Wounded Gabrielle Giffords, Spontaneously Opens Eye
"And I want to tell you … right after we went to visit, a few minutes after we left her room and some of her colleagues in Congress were in the room, Gabby opened her eyes for the first time," Obama told the crowd, which reacted with emotional cheers. "Gabby opened her eyes for the first time."
As reported here.
Acceptable Ways to be the Opposite of Civil
1. Religious (as long as you're Muslim).
2. Military (as long as you're queer).
3. International (as long as you're a job-exporting, multicultural globalist).
4. Discourteous (as long as it's toward Republicans, Tea Partyers, Patriots, Straights and Christians).
Wednesday, January 12, 2011
Michael Savage Puts Me To Sleep Almost Every Night
His voice is mellifluous, not furious and angry as that metro Chris Matthews has suggested here.
On the contrary, it is deep and resonant, perfect for the radio, especially at bed time. He puts me to sleep in minutes, like a book used to do, and I wake up in the morning and almost curse that I missed what he had to say! Especially about pasta!
Would Our Democrats Outlaw Even This Kind Of Speech?
Wonderful is the effect of impudent and persevering lying.
The British ministry [think: the Democrat Party] have so long hired their gazetteers [think: The New York Times] to repeat and model into every form lies about our being in anarchy, that the world has at length believed them, the English nation has believed them, the ministers themselves have come to believe them, and what is more wonderful, we have believed them ourselves.
Yet where does this anarchy exist? Where did it ever exist, except in the single instance of Massachusetts [think: The Tea Party of 2011]? And can history produce an instance of rebellion so honourably conducted? I say nothing of its motives. They were founded in ignorance, not wickedness.
God forbid we should ever be 20 years without such a rebellion. The people cannot be all, and always, well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive. If they remain quiet under such misconceptions it is a lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty.
We have had 13 states independent 11 years. There has been one rebellion. That comes to one rebellion in a century and a half for each state. What country before ever existed a century and half without a rebellion? and what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms.
The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.
Our [Constitutional] Convention has been too much impressed by the insurrection of Massachusetts: and in the spur of the moment they are setting up a kite to keep the hen-yard in order. I hope in God this article will be rectified before the new constitution is accepted.
Our [Constitutional] Convention has been too much impressed by the insurrection of Massachusetts: and in the spur of the moment they are setting up a kite to keep the hen-yard in order. I hope in God this article will be rectified before the new constitution is accepted.
-- Thomas Jefferson, November 13, 1787, here, writing from France about Shays' Rebellion
The Worst Offender Inciting the People to Anger is The New York Times
So concludes James Taranto for The Wall Street Journal here, naming names, but especially Paul Krugman:
The campaign of vilification against the right, led by the New York Times, is really about competition in the media industry--not commercial competition but competition for authority. ...
Its authority dwindling, the New York Times is resorting to authoritarian tactics--slandering its competitors in the hope of tearing them down.
Decline in Housing Values Slightly Worse Than Great Depression
According to CNBC.com and Zillow, here:
Home values have fallen 26 percent since their peak in June 2006, worse than the 25.9-percent decline seen during the Depression years between 1928 and 1933, Zillow reported.
November marked the 53rd consecutive month (4 ½ years) that home values have fallen.
Sounds like an historic opportunity to me.
Sounds like an historic opportunity to me.
Tuesday, January 11, 2011
Chris Matthews Wanted to Watch Someone Kill Rush Limbaugh
The date was October 13, 2009, here:
CHRIS MATTHEWS: You guys see Live and Let Die, the great Bond film with Yaphet Kotto as the bad guy, Mr. Big? In the end they jam a big CO2 pellet in his face and he blew up. I have to tell you, Rush Limbaugh is looking more and more like Mr. Big, and at some point somebody’s going to jam a CO2 pellet into his head and he’s going to explode like a giant blimp. That day may come. Not yet. But we’ll be there to watch. I think he’s Mr. Big, I think Yaphet Kotto. Are you watching, Rush?
... [Matthews is] openly wistful for the day it happens, telling Politico’s Jonathan Martin and Washington Post reporter Anne Kornblut that “we’ll be there to watch” when someone offs Rush.
Classy. Really, really classy. Does NBC want to stand behind this standard for its broadcasts?
Pennsylvania Democrat Paul Kanjorski Wanted Florida Republican Shot
According to this October 23, 2010 report in The Scranton Times Tribune:
"That Scott down there that's running for governor of Florida," Mr. Kanjorski said. "Instead of running for governor of Florida, they ought to have him and shoot him. Put him against the wall and shoot him. He stole billions of dollars from the United States government and he's running for governor of Florida. He's a millionaire and a billionaire. He's no hero. He's a damn crook. It's just we don't prosecute big crooks."
Kanjorski was defeated for his Pennsylvania District 11 US House seat in November by Lou Barletta 45 percent to 55 percent.
Tucson Politicians Criticize Sheriff Dupnik
According to The Arizona Daily Sun here, a Republican state representative from Surprise and a Republican state senator from Tucson both think Sheriff Clarence Dupnik has demonstrated some serious shortcomings.
Full coverage at the link.
The Arizona Republic Thinks Dupnik Has Become Partisan
Here:
Monday, January 10, 2011
"Rage is Encoded in Conservative DNA"
So says commie pinko Michael Tomasky here in the pinko commie rag for which he writes, The UK Guardian.
And he's right.
But not completely.
It's in his DNA, too.
And the only real difference between us is that he and his ilk will never admit it, which is why you should fear people like him. Their delusional sense of superiority over their fellows has led some of them to murder far more people than one nut with Glock in Arizona ever dreamed of, but to do that they first have to destroy the institutions we've erected to keep human evil in check.
"A man's got to know his limitations," Harry Callahan once reminded us. And Michael Tomasky doesn't.
Ugliest Political Rhetoric Coming From Those Trying To Exploit A Crime
James Taranto for The Wall Street Journal (at this link) covers all the bases for the last 48 hours on the politicization of the Tucson shooting massacre, with excerpts and links to all the stories, and comes down hardest on those trying to exploit the crime for political gain:
There is no denying that "relentlessly hostile rhetoric" can be found on the right, and also on the left. (On the center, too, for that matter.) Opinions will vary as to where the problem is worst, and it is human nature to find fault with the other side more readily than with one's own.
That said, it seems to us there is a very strong case to be made that the ugliest political rhetoric of the past 48 hours has been that coming from the side whose leading voices are attempting to make sense of a senseless crime by blaming their opponents for it.
Or perhaps we should say from the side that is attempting to exploit the crime in this manner.
Dick Morris, are you listening?
Democrat Joe Manchin Fires Rifle at Cap and Trade Bill in Ad Last Fall
Oh dear, oh my, the horrors! Those needlessly inflammatory Democrats! Those NRA-endorsed troglodytes! Why, somebody might pick up a gun and shoot a politician or something! How dare they?!
Sec. of State Hillary Clinton Likens Half of America to Tucson Shooter and to Islamic Extremists
Speaking in the United Arab Emirates, as reported here by Reuters:
Did Jared Lee Loughner yell "Allahu Akbar!" before he opened fire?
Sunday, January 9, 2011
Labor Participation Rate For Men The Lowest Since 1948
So says Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, here:
The “labour participation rate” for working-age men over 20 dropped to 73.6pc, the lowest the since the data series began in 1948. My guess is that this figure exceeds the average for the Great Depression (minus the cruellest year of 1932). ...
Multinationals are exploiting “labour arbitrage” by moving plant to low-wage countries, playing off workers in China and the West against each other. The profit share of corporations is at record highs across ... America and Europe.
Men with nothing to do eventually find it, but it is called "trouble."
Gabrielle Giffords' Democrats Promoted Libertarian as True Conservative to Divide Vote on her Right
The following excerpts come from the website of the Libertarian Party candidate, Steve Stoltz, whom the Democrat Party (yes you read that right) promoted in its literature as the true conservative running against the Democrat incumbent Gabrielle Giffords, shot in Tucson on Saturday, to bleed off votes on the right from the Republican challenger Jesse Kelly:
As a Libertarian, I am socially liberal, compassionate and humanitarian, but I am also fiscally conservative and principled.
The United States should have sound money that is backed by gold not the “monopoly money” of a fiat currency that is essentially counterfeited by the printing presses of the Federal Reserve which causes massive inflation.
As a Libertarian I believe that everyone owns their own body and can do ANYTHING they want with it, so long as they do not infringe upon someone else’s life/health, liberty or property (the 4rth amendment of the constitution says that people have a right to be secure in their person).
Government has no authority over the nature of a person’s consensual sexual relationships - even if they desire to engage in promiscuity and immorality.
The government has no right to tell a person what food they can eat, has no right to restrict their access to vitamin and mineral supplements, has no right to prevent a person from taking experimental drugs or getting medical treatments they feel will cure them of disease.
It is ironic that laws limit access to drugs, while the FDA has permitted poisonous/toxic substance like aspartame to be introduced into beverages.
Drugs like marijuana should be legalized, with increasing amounts of regulation and taxation applied to the more addictive drugs.
Society should lift prohibitions, but should regulate drugs the way alcohol currently is.
Lifting some drug prohibition could have a positive impact on national security.
Marriage is a legal contract protecting the rights of two individuals who decide that they want to live together and share property.
The state’s sole role is to enforce the property rights of the union, without placing stipulations on the nature of the union, whether it is between heterosexuals or homosexuals.
The equal protection clause of the 14th amendment says that every US citizen shall enjoy the equal protection of the law.
Since no group should be given special treatment relative to over another, the military’s current policy of “Don’t ask don’t tell” is un-Constitutional, and should simply be reduced to “Don’t ask”.
The military should not expel a member who has already proven they can do the job merely because that person has identified himself/herself as homosexual.
I believe the government must respect the 2nd amendment, and place absolutely no restrictions on gun rights.
Although I am totally opposed to violence, I find it amazing that those who would place restrictions over a private citizen’s access to guns also seem to place blind faith in the integrity of the police, merely because they are agents of government.
Social security ... The system should be restructured so that younger persons invest in a privately held account, the way the government originally sold it.
I do not believe that it is moral for a wealthy person to hoard their wealth without trying to use it to help people.
[I]t doesn’t make sense for the government to document illegal aliens.
I do not believe that illegal aliens who give birth in the United States should instantly be granted citizenship (i.e. “anchor babies”).
I don’t believe illegal aliens should enjoy special access to entitlements relative to US citizens.
[W]hile it might be unfair for the children of illegal aliens who don’t pay property tax to receive a free education in US school systems, they nonetheless fall under the same category as the children of US citizens who receive a free education because their parents rent and don’t pay property tax.
The illegal alien problem is a multi-faceted social problem that can’t be solved merely by erecting a fence.
Female reproductive rights/abortion – I am pro-choice.
The focus of the military should be primarily to defend the nation’s borders against invasion.
As a Libertarian, I believe that in order for anything to be regarded as a crime, there must be a victim. Civil fines for traffic violations that do not result in an accident or property damage or personal injury, and merely raise money for the state represent victimless crimes.
Saturday, January 8, 2011
Two Thirds of Decline in Unemployment Due to Falling Participation Rate
So says CalculatedRiskBlog here:
If the participation rate had held steady at 64.5%, then the unemployment rate would have only declined to 9.64%. [Instead, unemployment fell to 9.4 percent.]
So almost 2/3rds of the decline in the unemployment rate was related to the decline in the participation rate. Some of the decline might be from workers going back to school, but some is probably due to people just giving up.
A large portion of the decline in the participation rate was for people in the 16 to 24 age group. ...
Another group that saw a decline in the participation rate was men in the key 25 to 54 age group. I wonder if these people are just giving up? ...
The participation rate has fallen sharply from 66% at the start of the recession to 64.3% in December. That is almost 4 million workers who are no longer in the labor force and not counted as unemployed in U-3, although most are included as "discouraged workers" or "Marginally Attached to Labor Force" in U-6.
A decline in the unemployment rate mostly due to a decline in the participation rate is not good employment news.
Here is Mish's annotated version of the chart from Calculated Risk:
Thursday, January 6, 2011
Incompetent WSVN.com Shows the Wrong Spy Drone in Miami-Dade Police Story
Here's the drone shown in the video by WSVN.com, which their own story says weighs 20 pounds and is called a Honeywell T Hawk:
Link to the story with video here (dc20500 caught the error and posted so in the comment section).
You'd think the numbskulls could at least check Wikipedia (here) and showcase the correct object so people in Florida know what to look for.
And when it's weaponized it will perfectly resemble the probe droid sent to the planet Hoth in Star Wars.
Wednesday, January 5, 2011
A Hypothetical US Bank Run Exercise: How Much Would You Get?
According to The Federal Reserve Bank of New York, here, only about one third of US currency in circulation is thought to be held within the United States:
In April 2008, M1 was approximately $1.4 trillion, more than half of which consisted of currency. While as much as two-thirds of U.S. currency in circulation may be held outside the United States, all currency held by the public is included in the money supply because it can be spent on goods and services in the U.S. economy.
Current observations by The Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, here, show that currency in circulation as of the end of December 2010 came to about $983.7 billion.
So let's ask hypothetically, just for the mental exercise, that if we had a bank run in America and we decided we would ration the available cash in equal shares to the adult population of, say, 228 million people, assuming of course each such person had some digits on a bank statement warranting cash claims, how much maximum could each claimant expect to get under such circumstances?
$1,438 each.
2009 Circulating Currency Production Totaled $219,468,800,000
A total of 6.24 billion notes were printed for 2009 circulation, according to the US Bureau of Engraving and Printing here:
$2.6368 billion in ones
$1.92 billion in 384 million fives
$3.456 billion in 345.6 million tens
$14.336 billion in 716.8 million twenties
$18.560 billion in 371.2 million fifties
$178.56 billion in 1.7856 billion hundreds.
2009 Circulating Coin Production Totaled $601,492,000
A total of 3.548 billion coins were minted for 2009 circulation, according to US Mint figures here:
$23.54 million in 2.354 billion pennies
$4.332 million in 86.64 million nickels
$14.6 million in 146 million dimes
$133.48 million in 533.92 million quarters
$1.9 million in 3.8 million halves
$423.64 million in an equal number of dollar coins.
Irish Banks' Deposit Base Declines 15 Percent in Last Year
So says a story here for Fortune, which also asserts that foreign depositors have pulled out 100 billion Euros since 2008.
What BankRun2010 failed to accomplish on the Continent with premeditation might actually have been happening all along in Ireland. There are worries that a cascade of withdrawals might trigger runs in the rest of the PIIGS.
Tuesday, January 4, 2011
Retirement Assets Declined 22 Percent in 2008
Whenever government sees something big, it either wants to tax it or confiscate it.
Here's the data about retirement assets for 2008, according to the Investment Company Institute, totaling just over $14 trillion:
IRA assets = $3.613 trillion
Defined contribution plans (401Ks, 403(b)s, 457s, etc.) = $3.517 trillion
Defined benefit plans (private sector pensions, government pensions, life insurance company annuities, etc.) = $6.9 trillion.
In 2007 such assets totaled nearly $18 trillion.
WAPO's Richard Cohen Still Hates America
In a twisted, weird rant about today's All Volunteer Army vs. his army of the Vietnam War era, Richard Cohen of The Washington Post displays the self-loathing which is still at the heart of liberalism, saying that today's army, mostly white and Southern, is only wonderful to today's general public because most of us are strangers to it, while his army of the bygone days was an army of the people, familiar and contemptible:
Yet one was an army of the people, draftees and such, and the other is an army of volunteers, strangers to most of us. What's happening here? The answer, I fear, is a cliche: Familiarity breeds contempt.
In other words, if you only knew the truth about people you'd say America sucks, too, and you wouldn't idolize the military so.
Don't worry, Richard. Today's army is only going to get more wonderful as all those white Southerners who fight your wars for you bail out with the influx of the queers. Somehow I think you will like this just fine.
Confiscation of Your Retirement Funds is Unthinkable, Right?
Well, not in Europe, where private monies have already been taken by statist spendthrifts in Hungary, Bulgaria and Poland, according to this story in The Christian Science Monitor, originally posted at the Polish arm of The Ludwig von Mises Institute (here).
The same people greedy bastards in this country who brought you Obamacare are just as enthusiastic about taking your IRAs, 401Ks and the like, people like Democrat Senator Tom Harkin of Iowa.
Political realities right now mean that the plan eyeing your savings will sit in some Democrat's desk until times change, just as Obamacare was really a bill long pre-dating him, sitting in Representative Henry Waxman's top drawer for over a decade until the moment was right.
The difference between liberals and Republicans in America is that liberals have a long term strategy to take over and transform the country, while so-called conservatives keep backing up, drawing new lines in the sand in a strategy of retreat, daring liberals to cross them, which they invariably do. The policies of these conservatives are offensive enough to liberals, but it is conservatives' cowardice which really inspires their contempt.
The failure to install gays in the military and Hillarycare in 1994 took 16 years to redress, but liberalism surely did so with its victories in 2010, overturning DADT and passing Obamacare.
Individual liberty, the foundation of which is in traditional values derived from revealed religion, has been under assault in America since the victory of Abraham Lincoln and the united States became the United States. The war between originalism and "a more perfect union" was decided long ago by force. The contemporary Republican Party will be a conservative party when it finally realizes this, but frankly, it doesn't have the nerve.
Sunday, January 2, 2011
A Barbarian, Supposedly America's Finest, is in Charge of the USS Enterprise
What kind of a country produces people like this, and puts them in charge of American power? A country that's finished, that's what. When they're done with the enemy, we'll be next.
The story and video are at this link:
They're all part of a series of short movies produced aboard the Norfolk-based aircraft carrier Enterprise in 2006 and 2007 and broadcast to its nearly 6,000 sailors and Marines. The man who masterminded and starred in them is Capt. Owen Honors - now the commander of the carrier, which is weeks away from deploying.
The videos, obtained by The Virginian-Pilot this week, were shot and edited with government equipment, many of them while the Enterprise was deployed supporting the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
At the time, Honors was the carrier's executive officer, or XO, the commanding officer's deputy. He took command of the ship in May.
Homeland Security Will Watch Entire US Cities With GORGON STARE, and Soon
From a very disturbing new report from The Washington Post:
Gorgon Stare is being tested now, and officials hope it will be fielded within two months. Each $17.5 million pod weighs 1,100 pounds and, because of its configuration, will not be mounted with weapons on Reaper aircraft, officials said. They envision it will have civilian applications, including securing borders and aiding in natural disasters. The Department of Homeland Security is exploring the technology's potential, an industry official said.
You are in danger from the United States of Surveillance. Stop it now, or suffer the consequences.
While the British and US Reaper and Predator drones are physically in Afghanistan and Iraq, control is via satellite from Nellis and Creech USAF base outside Las Vegas, Nevada. Ground crews launch drones from the conflict zone, then operation is handed over to controllers at video screens in specially designed trailers in the Nevada desert.
More about that here. If you see one, beware:
Joe Miller Concedes to Leesah Mercowsky on Friday
There's a long re-telling of the saga here.
Alaskans get to keep their nepotistic senatrix, and are saved from the unlikely and imperfect Miller, who hails from Yale and West Point but was supported by the Tea Party.
The election will be remembered for the way a judge roughed up the English language, so that "writing in a name on a ballot as it appears on the candidate's certification of candidacy" became "appearing to write in on a ballot the name of the candidate."
Poor Alaska. It only appears to be a state.
Saturday, January 1, 2011
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