I apologize: Obamulus does work

As it turns out the people at Red Square set me straight about all of Obama's Marxist programs. Yes, it was me, I was looking at the Stimulus as a massive black hole where billions of our tax dollars were lavished uselessly on make-work projects that expand the federal bureaucracy and provide huge cash flow to democrat political campaigns and propaganda.
This graphic vividly demonstrates just how successful Stimulus was. BTW: Stimulus is now the name for a thing, like Godzilla and Helen Thomas.

Who doesn't like communal puddin'?

Okay, just how sanitary is this? A giant mound of communal puddin'. Yum!

You're gonna have to burn that uniform to get the commie off.

One look says it all. Our soldiers are not stupid and they know you are playing them for the fool.
Your strategy is to deplete the military and ruin morale.
It won't work. The American Serviceman believes in something bigger than your ego; they believe in American greatness and the God who blessed this land. Long after your moment is gone there will be an accounting. We can wait.

Those Who Forget History Will Get Their Junk Squeezed

In preparation of the upcoming vacation season means everyday citizens will be traveling by air.
The great news is that it's OPEN GROPE SEASON!

What disturbs me the most is that amidst an avalanche of world uprising and murder, getting groped by the TSA isn't even an issue anymore.I used to get a laugh by calling the leader of the free world, 'Present Jimmy O'bama', after the most inept president ever. This isn't funny anymore. In just the space of a few years we've gone from steering a progressive agenda off the cliff with Bush to kicking in the afterburner and heading straight for the bottom. The leftist glee of seeing if we can break the speed of sound before pounding straight into the desert floor of death and ruin is suicidal.Even in NY, when stupid, intrusive, laws begin to affect 'them', suddenly the proggers are all about reform. Instead, they get a good re-wording.

"Our big, loving federal government picked up the same concept - only now it upgraded it from "random" to "universal - or as they say in New York, "the whole schmear." ...
"After a few short months even the progressive New Yorkers found the practical implementation of their own ideas of fairness and redistributive justice too absurd to continue."

It was a given that after a dismal election, an avowed Marxist revolutionary was now the president elect. Everyone knew what he was. Some agreed, some in vapid denial, most were appalled. The progressives got what they told us we wanted, problem is, once they sell a pack of lies they have to constantly upgrade those lies using truth as the hook--which immediately gets discarded.

"As we can see, even the toughest proponents of utopian relativist morality still need to rely on absolute standards in order to survive and advance their careers. No one can live on junk values alone; that utopian world exists entirely at the expense of the reality-based universe. Those who claim to live solely by impossible utopian principles are only deluding themselves and the others."

Now, as the State rises in power, and more Americans find themselves in poverty and chains than anybody will dare admit, folks are too overwhelmed to even care. They are further pressed into the cognitive dissonance of accepting a utopian worldview because the alternative might mean work. Commitment and work.
The TSA has just been unionized.
We can now expect an exponential expansion in numbers and uses of 'check point searches'. Proggers will be the ones demanding it. Proggers will beg for slavery.
For those Obamaites, how does it feel to get your junk squeezed as a slave now?
For the rest of us: Love, pray, serve, and be patient. God will punish the wicked with the wicked.

Full digital access to NYT.com to cost $455

What a terrific idea!
Charge for content nobody wanted to read when it was free.

Hint: try what the WSJ is doing by providing quality content from respected and OBJECTIVE reporting.

What NYT seems to not understand is that they're not government. When revenues go down they cannot raise taxes and have an army of thugs to ensure that you pay up.
The NYT cannot raise prices and demand more people buy something that they didn't really want for free.

Double down on stupid.

Congressional Reform Act of 2011

Congressional Reform Act of 2011

1. Term Limits.

12 years only, one of the possible options below..

A. Two Six-year Senate terms

B. Six Two-year House terms

C. One Six-year Senate term and three Two-Year House terms

2. No Tenure / No Pension.

A Congressman collects a salary while in office and receives no pay when they are out of office.

3. Congress (past, present & future) participates in Social Security.

All funds in the Congressional retirement fund move to the Social Security system immediately. All future funds flow into the Social Security system, and Congress participates with the American people.

4. Congress can purchase their own retirement plan, just as all Americans do.

5. Congress will no longer vote themselves a pay raise. Congressional pay will rise by the lower of CPI or 3%.

6. Congress loses their current health care system and participates in the same health care system as the American people.

7. Congress must equally abide by all laws they impose on the American people.

8. All contracts with past and present Congressmen are void effective 12/1/11.

The American people did not make this contract with Congressmen. Congressmen made all these contracts for themselves.

Serving in Congress is an honor, not a career. The Founding Fathers envisioned citizen legislators, so ours should serve their term(s), then go home and back to work.

Shocking Tea Party Violence!

If this doesn't convince you of the shocking violence spewed forth by the Tea Party, nothing will...

Steven King Bashes GOP... For Not Giving Enough to Charity

Idiots on Parade...

I guess nobody told Steven King that conservatives VASTLY OUTSPEND LIBS IN PER-CAPITA CHARITABLE DONATIONS. Especially to the poor.

Should be on the NewYorkTimes: "Steven King Volunteers His Wealth to Taxes."

Did he consider that his elitist Limousine Liberal pals might not like that idea?

The idea that the self hating non producing rich seeks to destroy itself is axiomatic by now. With Marx’s circular logic feeding their loathing, it is still going strong. Getting too much too soon often produces ingratitude. With ingratitude a person looses all sense of charity and expects someone else to do it all for him.

That is the moral dilemma that people like S.K. can’t work their way out of. Stealing from ‘the rich’ means them, but not THEM, the other them; like those them over there, the bad them.
Look in the mirror buddy, YOU ARE the "Bad Them".

Oh, and this: Obamacare a ‘Platform’ for Socialized Medicine — Rep. Conyers Makes Startling Admission

The Octopus: $200 Million Well Spent?

Yes.













What is interesting is the scale and who really benefits.
We consider this an excess, but to Paul Allen, it would be like us going out and buying a toy boat.

If Paul's worth is $200b that is 100,000 percent of $200m. Paul could buy 1,000 yachts.

Unlike most of us, he can employ hundreds of thousands of people directly and indirectly. So, 200 billion is actually tied up in utilizing their productivity and creating more wealth.
So, this is not static wealth, but dynamic wealth.

Compare this to the stimulus, which consists of money confiscated from productive people by an organization that by law cannot produce anything for profit -- government.
When the government says that it is investing in anything, that is not true. Government can only fund projects that by law cannot return that funding.

Said stimulus is then lavished, not invested, on bogus programs that only exist for reelecting the same people intent of stealing more dynamic wealth and converting it into even more static wealth.

People bitch about oppression, but don't realize that more government only means more oppression. Who wants to risk anything only to have it confiscated by a government or a warlord being supported by that government?

Take your time, I can wait...

I wish we had more like Paul Allen.

C.S. Lewis

When my two oldest were involved in a local play, Narnia, I first made the connection between a reliable quote generator and the author, philosopher, Christian, man. That was almost 20 years ago.
Since then I've read to my children the Narnia series several times and I have consumed many more of his works. C.S. Lewis is still misunderstood amongst the secular community, as this Times article demonstrates.

They focus on his marketability. Why is C.S. Lewis still generating cash for us? They laud his enduring popularity, neglect his basic message, and go to great lengths to find logical loopholes for which to justify their own dismissive attempts on the baseline Christian message.
By baseline Christian message I mean that although he was a converted Anglican, he tried to avoid most doctrinal entanglements.
Here Oppenheimer quotes Mr. Maudlin, an executive editor at HarperOne, who admits as much but as puzzlement:

"Mr. Maudlin became an evangelical Protestant after reading Lewis in college. “But you meet Mormons or Catholics, and their favorite author might be C. S. Lewis,” he said."

The point is, C.S. Lewis outlined a basic Christian set of ideas and standard of behavior as set forth in scripture. There must be something more complicated here, how could this generate commercial demand, C.S. Lewis manage to package Christianity into something that most people can agree on? This is what drives those people nuts!

The one point that C.S. Lewis returns to is that either Jesus is who he says he is, or he is mad, or evil.

That is where this article seems to intentionally deviate. It is a point that just cannot be left alone.

In “Mere Christianity,” Lewis writes of Jesus: “I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: ‘I’m ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don’t accept His claim to be God.’ That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic — on a level with the man who says he is a poached egg — or else he would be the Devil of Hell.”

This famous passage does not, on a second read, make much sense. After all, could not a great moral teacher have messianic delusions? But on a first read, it is quite persuasive, and classic Lewis. It is clear, confident and a bit humorous, and it offers a stark choice as it firmly suggests the right answer.

This concept cannot be left alone. It IS the great stumbling block and rock of offense. And, Oppenheimer's totally weak response, "could not a great moral teacher have messianic delusions?"

Name one.

Their Guy vs. Our Guy

Their Guy vs. Our Guy

Their Guy:

In case you don't know…these first few pics are of Vladimir Putin (Prime Minister of Russia).

Our Guy:

KINDA SUMS IT UP, HUH? ...

"In God We Trust"

Arizona Governor vs. Phoenix Suns owner

Arizona Governor vs. Phoenix Suns owner.

The owner of the Phoenix Suns basketball team, Robert Sarver, opposes AZ's new immigration laws. Arizona 's Governor, Jan Brewer, released the following statement in response to Sarver's criticism of the new law:

"What if the owners of the Suns discovered that hordes of people were sneaking into games without paying? What if they had a good idea who the gate-crashers are, but the ushers and security personnel were not allowed to ask these folks to produce their ticket stubs, thus non-paying attendees couldn't be ejected. Furthermore, what if Suns' ownership was expected to provide those who sneaked in with complimentary eats and drink? And what if, on those days when a gate-crasher became ill or injured, the Suns had to provide free medical care and shelter?" - Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer

Try going to any other country without ID and see how far it gets you.

Unions, MuzzleUm Brotherhood, and Dictatorships

I've come to realize that Unions and Mass-Think are a good thing. Nobody has to worry about putting gas in the car, house payments, or healthcare. We will all swim peacefully in the embryonic ocean of the State, or Caliphate, run by benevolent dictators, or Imams, who will see to our every need.
Or, as C.G. Jung put it (courtesy of Earth Emperor):

In the clamor of the many there lies the power to snatch wish-fulfillments by force; sweetest of all, however, is that gentle and painless slipping back into the kingdom of childhood, into the paradise of parental care, into happy-go-luckiness and irresponsibility. All the thinking and looking after are done from the top; to all questions there is an answer; and for all needs the necessary provision is made. The infantile dream state of the mass man is so unrealistic that he never thinks to ask who is paying for this paradise. The balancing of accounts is left to a higher political or social authority, which welcomes the task, for its power is thereby increased; and the more power it has, the weaker and more helpless the individual becomes.

Yes, I can already sense Obama's Army flooding the streets of the world with nurturing and love.

But, who will pay for all of your wishes come true?
You will.
With blood and terror. The likes of which your childlike mind cannot comprehend.

Beck: What is the American Dream?

This is really disturbing. What gutbag-of-stupidity can't realize is that business owners work incredible hours, they sacrifice everything, they do what people like that can't comprehend.

I'm furious at this ever increasing attitude of IN-gratitude and where it is leading us.

Watch the latest video at What is the American Dream?

About a Brazilian Bicyclists ...

Well, all sorts of young and skinny (give 'em 10 years) Brazilians were protesting that people drove too much and should take to their bicycles.

One car proved why I don't ride anymore...

Nobody was seriously hurt, but about 12 got the ride of their lives.

A Lemon Picker

During these tough economic times, people have been forced to take work almost anywhere.

 

One such case was a woman who, rather than find herself out on the street, applied for the only job available:

 

A Lemon Picker

 

The woman applying for a job in a  Florida lemon grove seemed to be far too qualified for the job; given her liberal arts degree from the University of Michigan and her jobs as a social worker and school teacher.

 

The foreman frowned and said, "I have to ask you this: "Have you had any actual experience in picking lemons?"

 

"Well, as a matter of fact, I have!"

 

"I've been divorced three times, owned 2 Chryslers, and I voted for Obama."

Riots in England Explained

People wonder where those riots in England came from? High tuition? Really?!?
This video is from Sep 2010, the Progressives are being exposed.

The world financial crisis explained in simple terms

Various incarnations of this story have appeared for about the past two years. It would be nice to find who really wrote it. (It starts out as Heidi's bar in New York). The point is, the last persons to ever take this common sense tale seriously are the people who have the least to loose. Since we keep voting them into office, and they keep tag-team lying, our own lack of interest is what will bankrupt us in the end.
And, that end is very close: "Just who the hell do you people think you are?"

Mary is the proprietor of a bar in Dublin. She realizes that virtually all of her customers are unemployed alcoholics and, as such, can no longer afford to patronize her bar. To solve this problem, she comes up with a new marketing plan that allows her customers to drink now, but pay later. She keeps track of the drinks consumed on a ledger (thereby granting the customers loans).

 

 Word gets around about Mary's "drink now, pay later" marketing strategy and, as a result, increasing numbers of customers flood into Mary's bar. Soon she has the largest sales volume for any bar in Dublin.

 

 By providing her customers freedom from immediate payment demands, Mary gets no resistance when, at regular intervals, she substantially increases her prices for wine and beer, the most consumed beverages. Consequently, Mary's gross sales volume increases massively. A young and dynamic vice-president at the local bank recognizes that these customer debts constitute valuable future assets and increases Mary's borrowing limit. He sees no reason for any undue concern, since he has the debts of the unemployed alcoholics as collateral.

 

 At the bank's corporate headquarters, expert traders figure a way to make huge commissions, and transform these customer loans into DRINKBONDS, ALKIBONDS and PUKEBONDS. These securities are then bundled and traded on international security markets. Naive investors don't really understand that the securities being sold to them as AAA secured bonds are really the debts of unemployed alcoholics. Nevertheless, the bond prices continuously climb, and the securities soon become the hottest-selling items for some of the nation's leading brokerage houses.

 

 One day, even though the bond prices are still climbing, a risk manager at the original local bank decides that the time has come to demand payment on the debts incurred by the drinkers at Mary's bar. He so informs Mary.

 

 Mary then demands payment from her alcoholic patrons, but being unemployed alcoholics they cannot pay back their drinking debts. Since Mary cannot fulfill her loan obligations she is forced into bankruptcy. The bar closes and the eleven employees lose their jobs.

 

 Overnight, DRINKBONDS, ALKIBONDS and PUKEBONDS drop in price by 90%. The collapsed bond asset value destroys the banks' liquidity and prevents it from issuing new loans, thus freezing credit and economic activity in the community.

 

 The suppliers of Mary's bar had granted her generous payment extensions and had invested their firms' pension funds in the various BOND securities. They find they are now faced with having to write off her bad debt and with losing over 90% of the presumed value of the bonds. Her wine supplier also claims bankruptcy, closing the doors on a family business that had endured for three generations, her beer supplier is taken over by a competitor, who immediately closes the local plant and lays off 150 workers.

 

 Fortunately though, the bank, the brokerage houses and their respective executives are saved and bailed out by a multi-billion euro no-strings attached cash infusion from their cronies in Government. The funds required for this bailout are obtained by new taxes levied on employed, middle-class, non-drinkers who have never been in Mary's bar.

 

 

If you've read thus far, then also consider that this scenario was explained about 2600 years ago by a prophet named Lehi, backed up by his son Nephi.
The Great and Spacious Building rose high into the air, but had no foundation. It was filled with rich and mocking people who treated others with scorn.
Those who wanted to join this group first had to swim through a river of filth and corruption. Mostly, those filled with such envy never made it; they drown in filth.

The Great and Spacious Building does have a foundation though. It is us. It is the laws we obey. It is the prosperity that we create. This building would not exist were it not for three things:
1. Our reliance in God, and our accountability to Him.
2. Our adherence to societal law (natural law) that fosters mutual trust.
3. Our belief that we can keep what we work for.

Borrowing from C.S. Lewis, the GASB is not eternal evil, but good gone bad. Darkness is nothing but lack of light. Light is intelligence and the pure love of Christ.
Got it?

Dems in front, little people in the back. Says it all

IF

If George W. Bush had been the first President to need a TelePrompTer installed to be able to get through a press conference, would you have laughed and said this is more proof of how inept he is on his own and is really controlled by smarter men behind the scenes?
 
If George W. Bush had spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to take Laura Bush to a play in NYC, would you have approved?
 
If George W. Bush had reduced your retirement plan's holdings of GM stock by 90% and given the unions a majority stake in GM, would you have approved?
 
If George W. Bush had made a joke at the expense of the Special Olympics, would you have approved?
 
If George W. Bush had given Gordon Brown a set of inexpensive and incorrectly formatted DVDs, when Gordon Brown had given him a thoughtful and historically significant gift, would you have approved?

If George W. Bush had given the Queen of England an iPod containing videos of his speeches, would you have thought this embarrassingly narcissistic and tacky?
  
If George W. Bush had bowed to the King of Saudi Arabia , would you have approved?
  
If George W. Bush had visited Austria and made reference to the nonexistent "Austrian language," would you have brushed it off as a  minor slip?
 
If George W. Bush had filled his cabinet and circle of advisers with people who don't pay their income taxes, would you have approved?

If George W. Bush had appointed radical Marxist Communists, some who openly denounce the United States and call for its VIOLENT OVERTHROW, would you have approved?

If George W. Bush had stated that there were 57 states in the United States , would you have said that he is clueless.

If George W. Bush would have flown all the way to Denmark to make a five minute speech about how the Olympics would benefit him walking out his front door in Texas , would you have thought he was a self important, conceited, egotistical jerk.

If George W. Bush had been so Spanish illiterate as to refer to "Cinco de Cuatro" in front of the Mexican ambassador when it was the 5th of May (Cinco de Mayo), and continued to flub it when he tried again, would you have winced in embarrassment?
 
If George W. Bush had misspelled the word "advice" would you have hammered him for it for years like Dan Quayle and potatoes as proof of what a dunce he is?
  
If George W. Bush had burned 9,000 gallons of jet fuel to go plant a single tree on Earth Day, would you have concluded he's a hypocrite?

If George W. Bush's administration had okayed Air Force One flying low  over millions of people followed by a jet fighter in downtown   Manhattan  causing widespread panic, would you have wondered whether they actually  get what happened on 9-11?
  
If George W. Bush had failed to send relief aid to flood victims throughout the Midwest with more people killed or made homeless than in  New Orleans , would you want it made into a major ongoing political issue  with claims of racism and incompetence?
 
If George W. Bush had created the position of 32 Czars who report directly to him, bypassing the House and Senate on much of what is happening in America , would you have approved.
  
If George W. Bush had ordered the firing of the CEO of a major corporation, even though he had no constitutional authority to do so, would you have approved?
 
If George W. Bush had proposed to double the national debt, which had taken more than two centuries to accumulate, in one year, would you have approved?
  
If George W. Bush had then proposed to double the debt again within 10 years, would you have approved?

If George W. Bush had then looted the treasury (taxpayer's) of billions under the guise of 'stimulus' and used that money to fund frivolous liberal spending sprees and Democrat political special interest groups, would you have approved?

If George W. Bush had ties to, and support from, the most radical Communist, Marxist, Fascist, Progressive people in the U.S., would you have approved?

Or Health Care, or National Defense, or Border Security, or Muslim Terrorism (instead, targeting Christians and Service Men & Women), or Net Neutrality (thought police), or live birth 'abortion' (technically infanticide), or covering up past ties with horribly corrupt and dangerous Chicago 'community organizers' sponsors and terrorists?

If the majority of news outlets (Fox News and a few others exempted) acted as tone-deaf shills who shamelessly pandered and campaigned for George W. Bush, would you have approved?

So, tell me again, what is it about Obama that makes him so brilliant and impressive?

Can't think of anything?

Don't worry. You'll have two more years to come up with an answer.

--

'No arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is as formidable as
the will and moral courage of free men and women.' - Ronald Reagan