Well...

...here it is the end of 2009. I'm not going to rant about this past year as if you've paid attention for yourself, you don't need me ranting & raving.

I've been a bit absent at my post these past coupla' weeks as I was getting so crazy about the health-care thing my head was about to explode...that & the crooked hacks in DC weren't doing anything much - "death-dealers" all - because of the Holidaze. I shall be back on my game x the 4th at the latest.

Happy New Year to you & may we ALL get what we deserve in the coming months!

I've...

...been trying to "get my feet under me" after those hacks in DC met at 1:00am like the pack of craven mutts they are to pass the "procedurals" for this stinking "cradle to grave" death-care. When those crooks pass it - & it looks like it will - this country shall be forever altered.

Hey, you morons out there, who do you think is paying for this? God-damn you people are stupid. I suppose you deserve what you are about get...no actually, no one deserves what is about to happen.

If we don't vote ALL those cretins out in November '10, we've lost. Period.

Maxine Speaks:

Senior Health Care Solution:
So you're a senior citizen and the government says no health care for you, what do you do?

Our plan gives anyone 65 years or older a gun and 4 bullets. You are allowed to shoot 2 senators and 2 representatives. Of Course, this means you will be sent to prison. There you will get 3 meals a day, a roof over your head, and all the health care you need! New teeth, no problem. Need glasses, great. New hip, knees, kidney, lungs, heart? All covered.

And who will be paying for all of this? The same government that just told you that you are too old for health care. Plus, because you are a prisoner, you don't have to pay any income taxes anymore. And you’ve done us all a favor by disposing of 4 worthless politicians.

IS THIS A GREAT COUNTRY OR WHAT?!

Tiger Hunting anyone?

 
http://video1.break.com/dnet/media/2009/12/tiger-woods-wife-outrun-video-game.swf

Will someone please...

...tell me what is going on?
Someone please explain to me what is going on.
Please.
First "The Irishman" gets the Nobel.
Now the "Chief Money Lender" gets Time's Man of the Year.
I've obviously fallen - once again - into the rabbit-hole.
Someone please throw me a lifeline.
Please.

Today in History:

 
December 15, 1791: The adoption of the Bill of Rights.

Do you have any conception what that event means in human history?...& what has been happening to them ever since - under so many guises?

You'll have to forgive me here as I'm a simple man. All I want from my government is to be ALLOWED to live a free man, as our founders envisioned. Free. Do you even know what that means, much less what it feels like to be free? I have, briefly, & once you've actually lived it, nothing else will satisfy.

This is a "Must Watch":

 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nf1OgV449g
 

This is a "Must Read":

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) this week called for a global tax on financial transactions, claiming that the revenue raised could be used for -- drum roll please -- more stimulus spending. H.R. 4191, which is currently before the House, calls for a quarter percent tax on the sale and purchase of all financial instruments, including stocks, bonds, options, futures, you name it. The idea, according to Pelosi, is to get Wall Street to pitch in with the government to help grow the economy -- er, government.

A sentiment like that should clearly define just how dangerous Pelosi is when it comes to economics. If she truly believes that Wall Street has never helped grow the economy, then she doesn't deserve the role of town dogcatcher, let alone that of Speaker. On the contrary, it has been the government's actions that have hindered the recovery and growth of our economy.

Since Pelosi seems aware that this tax will drive investment out of the United States, she proposes that all the major international players -- including Asia, the EU and the UK -- impose a similar tax just so that no one can escape from their righteous duty to pay more taxes (are you shittin' me?).

Pelosi made no indication of what would become of the tax once the stimulus spending was no longer needed. In her mind, there will always be a need for government involvement in the economy, so there will always be a need for more income redistribution.
--Patriot Post

Now I ask you simply: is 'dis bitch nuts, or what???

Inshallha...

Somehow these morons instill fear in us? . . . or so says the gov't!!!

Even...

...though I don't like the guy - his Marxist-socialist policies, that is...nothing personal - I've got to give it to him for this quote during his Nobel acceptance speech today.

“Whatever mistakes we have made, the plain fact is this,” Mr. Obama said. “The United States of America has helped underwrite global security for more than six decades with the blood of our citizens and the strength of our arms.”

Timmy "The Weasel" Geithner's...

...nose continues to grow:

“We want to see fundamental constraints on how senior executives are paid at these institutions,” Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner told Bloomberg News last week. It is very important that we change the way these executives are paid.”

Now I ask you, who is Goldman-Sach's biggest butt-boy (next to Paulson, that is)?

http://dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/12/10/goldman-alters-pay-plan-for-top-executives/?hpw

Now hold on a minute...

...didn't our beloved President (speaking of growing noses) just tell us that he would half the deficit? Now that "shrieking-shrew" Pelosi is saying...

http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2009/12/10/us/politics/politics-us-usa-congress-debt.html?_r=1&ref=global-home

...let us at least get on the same page, Royals!

I'm almost more...

...opposed to this than I am Pelosi.

Please take time to read this & "bitch to your representatives"
(go down the left column)

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091207/ap_on_re_us/us_wild_horses

I mean...

...if you're a guy, can you actually blame Tiger?
Oh, I can hear the distaff outrage now, but common'!
I will say however, one day after your wife moves out, you have a bimbo OD in your own house!
Not cool, Tiger.
Not cool.

HOLD THE PHONE!
This just in: new category in the left column: "Today's bimbo:"!!!

Guest:

"The issue isn't whether a war is popular: either it has to be fought or it doesn't. It is a president's duty to define the war and lead the nation to victory. And if a war is worth one American life, it is -- by definition -- worth however many dollars it takes to win. Domestic spending must be curtailed to fund a war, not the other way around."
--columnist Jed Babbin

just in...

Unemployment: 10%

Question: how has the economy put .2% of the unemployed back to work?

That is the unvarnished #...but I'm skeptical.

Today, Friday Dec. 4...

...the new unemployment # are to come out in an hour.

Please remember that some have run out of their benefits but are still unemployed & not counted.
Underemployment - last month - is +17%; chronic unemployment is %26.
Interesting to see what today will bring...& how the administration'll spin it.

Prediction: unemployment will be double-digits - again. STILL.

ps REM: the gov't STOLE your money to give the pigs in banking - under many guises...not the least of which was to be sure to keep unemployment from reaching the frightening number of 8%!!!

pss you don't care? Go sit in the corner w/ a street-cone on your head.

Got...

...an extra 30 min.? Go to class:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZA0qNsf4m0

A few of Tiger's "nasties"...

...a "time-out" from the political fray -


http://popwatch.ew.com/2009/12/02/tiger-woods-scandal-tool-academy/

28th Amendment

Congress shall make no law that applies to the citizens of the United States
but does not apply equally to U.S. Senators or Representatives . . . and
Congress shall make no law that applies to U.S. Senators or Representatives
that does not apply equally to all citizens of the United States.



When the people fear their government, there is tyranny;
When the government fears the people, there is liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson

Welcome to USSA!

"This is how I see health care reform working: If you are a doctor who has spent a lot of money and time becoming a responsible and caring physician, the government will tell you how much to charge your patients and, in fact, whether you will be allowed to treat them at all. Bureaucrats, having given themselves the power of God, will decide whether a patient is worth the cost of treatment, thereby deciding who lives and who dies. We are all to be regarded as products of evolution in which the fit and the powerful will decide our survival and worth.

The new breast and ovarian cancer screening guidelines may soon become mandatory as health care rationing kicks in. The unwanted, the inconvenient and the 'burdensome' could soon be dispatched with a pill, or through neglect. Great horrors don't begin in gas chambers, killing fields, or forced famines.

In our day, the consequences of government seizure of one-sixth of our economy and government's ability to decide how we run our lives (it won't stop with health care) are foreseen. They are just being ignored in our continued pursuit of personal peace, affluence and political power. ... Welcome to the U.S.S.A., the United Socialist States of America."
--Cal Thomas

security thru obscurity

Kosmix
FreeNetProject
Tor
Mkbergman
Deeppeep

That is merely the mouth of the rabbit-hole...continue on down as far as you wish - or have the stomach for.

if...

...you can read this & NOT get pissed, you must be a banker!

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/11/opinion/11dowd.html?_r=1

Oh...

...you've got to read this!

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/23/business/23rates.html?th&emc=th

my hope...

...is that our present era of McCarthyism is merely an expedient of the politicians to solidify their positions of incompetence & ineptitude...their demagoguery an extension of that.

my fear...
...is that it is not.

The Political Prism:

"[Attorney General] Eric Holder's move to try the 9/11 masterminds in Manhattan makes it official: This administration has reverted to pre-9/11 'crime' fighting. Amid all the talk during the attorney general's surreal press conference of the 'crime' committed eight years ago, the 9/11 attack on the Pentagon wasn't even mentioned. Lest anyone forget, the military headquarters of the United States was attacked that day along with the Twin Towers. An entire wedge of the Ring was gutted when the Saudi hijackers slammed American Airlines Flight 77 into it. Nearly 200 military personnel were killed, along with the passengers and crew of the hijacked jet. The jet was a weapon used to attack the very center of our military. That was not a 'crime,' as some say. It was an act of war. And 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, along with the four other al-Qa'ida terrorist co-conspirators Holder wants to try, are no mere criminals. They are enemy combatants -- and should be treated as such. ... Holder clucked that the 'trials will be open to the public and the world.' And they will turn into circuses, playing right into the hands of the enemy. These trials will drag on for years, perhaps even decades, as defense lawyers file endless motions and appeals. Meanwhile, valuable intelligence about interrogation techniques and other methods we've used against al-Qa'ida will be revealed to the enemy during trial discovery. This move to a civilian court makes no sense at all, except viewed through a political prism. ... It will only remind people how much America has shrunk in the last nine months."
--Investor's Business Daily

you stupid...

...fucking people! This is what you get when you believe that anything's free.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/16/business/16drugprices.html?th&emc=th

Listen up...

...fools!
The bottom line is: we-are-broke.
What don't you get about that?
The US of A is flat, on-its-ass, broke.

Here is part of an email discussion between me & a friend:

-----

(a friend) . . . Where am I in the USA or Ethiopia?

(me)*** we're broke - no one wants to own up to it - but this country is BROKE. I told you years ago - when they changed the bankruptcy laws, that that was the canary in the mine, tho they'd been planning on stealing the country blind for the past 45 years. Ike warned us in the late '50's - that this was going to happen. Now it has. China won't buy our treasury bonds any longer (read: they won't lend us any more money). Couple of months ago our Treasury Sec. (Goldman-Sachs butt-boy Geithner) went to Beijing & told a college seminar that their money was safe in the US...he was laughed - literally - off the stage. No one wants the Dollar any longer. China's using the dollars it has to buy up Africa, lots of Canada & anything that's not nailed down here in the US - all w/ our own money.

-India just bought 200 metric tons - yes, tons - of gold w/ the dollars (our dollars - don't lose sight of that one simple fact) it has accumulated a few days ago. It bought it at the ridiculous price of $1045 / troy! Insane! ...but it doesn't matter. They bought it w/ our own dollars which, in a very short time, will be worth nothing on the international market! It - India - no longer wants our "paper" & has changed it into real property. The whole world is laughing at us & we, here, in the US are in denial.

-Now, if Saudi Arabia turns its back on us & switches from the Petro-Dollar to the Petro-Euro, we are screwed to the wall. It'll cost $10 for gas, $5 for a loaf of bread - if we're lucky! ...I just re-read that & it is way too conservative.

-Here I go again: Prediction Time - somewhere within the next 5 years ( & probably much sooner, unless something magical happens & it might) there will be civil unrest the likes of which will make it seem like April 12, 1861 again. People are going to become desperate. Take their houses, cars, take everything & that'll piss'em off, but when people simply can't afford to eat (Homage: TT), the shit will definitely be in the wind. Remember what I told you. Remember.

This...

...is so beyond anything even my cynical mind could conjure. People made fun of me when I first brought this up last week. Well "people" here ya' go:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/08/health/policy/08health.html?th&emc=th

&...

...the Bronx Bombers in 6.
Congratulations to me!!!

So this is where you have been.

Take heed hacks...

What did the "off" year elections say? Maybe nothing; maybe everything. Of the three big races (2 Governor - VA & NJ - & a NY Mayoral race) only Bloomberg was re-elected - & he spent $100M of his own money (which works out to over $1,000 / vote!). That NJ-anti-gun-Goldman-Sachs-butt-boy Corzine - whom Obama made 4 trips to the state to endorse - lost to the first Republican to win state wide in 12 years!

Listen up you crooked-hacks in DC: the "mob," you so obviously disdain, is beginning to stir. Coupled w/ the "pink slip" messages inundating your offices, can you see your ass is in peril? You might actually have to go & work for a living! Whoa!!!

...huh?

...please explain this (NY Times Nov.2, 2009) to me:

"...at the same time, unemployment is still rising...the Obama administration says 650,000 jobs have been created or saved by the stimulus funds."

& the beat goes on...

Ron Paul: Audit Fed 'gutted' in committee.
Bank-connected congressman blamed for undermining bill.

When are the "...People..." going to have enough? There must be something "We the People..." can do. There simply must.

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=114624

A Modest Proposal...

Had an early morning talk w/ a friend & he had an interesting idea. All the money that all the "fat-cats" have & are "investing for us" - & them - is OUR money. How about simply taking all the money out of our IRA's, 401's, Mutual Funds, any & all of the retirement money & simply take it? Simply take physical possession. It is ours, correct? Simply deprive "them" of having our money to play w/. That would be interesting, no?

how...

...the fuck can you say this?

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/31/us/31stimulus.html?8au&emc=au

You bunch of lying scumbags!

People - can you see what your government thinks of you?

"Bronx...

...Bombers" in 6.

Guest Commentary:

"Can President Barack Obama and Congress enact legislation that orders Americans to buy broccoli? If so, where did they get that authority? What provision in the Constitution empowers the federal government to order an individual to buy a product he does not want? This is not a question about nutrition. It is not a question about whether broccoli is good for you or about the relative merits of broccoli versus other foods. It is a question about the constitutional limits on the power of the federal government. It is a question about freedom. Can President Obama and Congress enact legislation that orders Americans to buy health insurance? They might as well order Americans to buy broccoli. They have no legitimate authority to do either. Yet neither Obama nor the current leadership in Congress seems to care about the constitutional limits on their power. They are now attempting to exert authority over the lives of Americans in a way no president and Congress has done before. ... All versions of the health care bill under consideration in Congress would order Americans to buy health insurance. If any of these bills is enacted, the first thing it would accomplish is the amputation of a vital part of our Constitution, and the death of another measure of our liberty."
--columnist Terence Jeffrey

Wa' are you thinking?

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/25/business/smallbusiness/25health.html?th&emc=th

Gov't "largess" is coming from the gov't?
Are you that naive?
You "lemmings" probably are.

You're kidding right?

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/19/business/global/19dollar.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=a1

Gimme'a freakin' break!

"...debate...the dollar's rapid fall..."!!!
Are you actually asking that question, NYT?

Answer: YOU CANNOT CONTINUE TO WRITE BAD CHECKS - Eco 101. WTF!!! ...& now, somehow, you don't know why?

Oct. 13 - the day you get doubly screwed...

Today the congress (Senate Finance Committee) decides if they are to pass an insurance bill (2-3 wks for a full Senate hearing) at about $830B - of your money mind you - & it requires you to purchase health insurance...if you can't afford it you will be fined. It is almost too crazy to think about - which is exactly what "They" are counting on.
How much more can we take?
Really.
I mean WTF?

He won what?!!!

...this is, again, an eMail & response:

WELCOME BACK TO THE MAD TEA PARTY.
FUCKING INSANE.

ABSOLUTELY FUCKING ABSURD, INSANE, DISGUSTING
AND PUKE WORTHY.

BOW DOWN TO THE GOLDEN CALF!!!!!!!!!!!!

BOW DOWN OR DIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

*** to me, this is far from funny - tho it most certainly is in a "black" - pun intended - way. To the average dumb-fuck-believer in the street it simply solidifies what they've been saying all along: he is the "savior". That may have far reaching effects. Very. Think on it.

On a more pragmatic level, the "Prize" nominations end on Feb. 1 of the year. So that means in his 9 or 10 daze in office, his actions garnered him one of the most prestigious honors on the planet? Two things come from that observation: 1) the Nobel Prize has, like everything else in today's world, become worthless & 2) WTF? It is simply too blatant. Much "too." Think on it. Too.

-billy

ps what happened to "...more is better..." thingy? What could be more infuriating that this fucking affront to all those who have gone before?...& all rational peoples thinking? That "...more is better..." is, like everything else, a joke & I for one ain't laughing.

pss it is interesting that the nominees must be in x February 1 of that year. Does that mean "He" did everything necessary for his "Prize" from Jan. 20 to Feb. 1? Shit, he hadn't even unpacked!!!

...& somehow this takes you x surprise?

Despite plaudits by Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood as "the one stimulus program that seems to be working better than just about any other program," Cash for Clunkers has turned out to be one big flunker. As The Wall Street Journal reports, not only did this bureaucratic brainchild drive a 25 percent drop in new car sales for U.S. automakers in September as compared with last year, but the program's grand vision of advancing environmental salvation translated into a mere 0.2 percent reduction in annual oil consumption (less than one day's worth), and that's a best-case scenario.

To top it off, according to the University of Delaware's Burton Abrams and George Parson, all factors considered, the program imposed a net cost of about $2,000 per vehicle. In short, government made the country $1.4 billion poorer and spent nearly $3 billion to do so. And that's Washington's definition of a "working" program.

USD v. Euro?

...as I've been predicting all along, the world is poised to make the Euro the PetroEuro...if that happens,w/ all our debt, our country is poised to "tank". No? ...can't happen here? We shall see. We shall see.

Europe

Today I am still in Europe. It is an interesting mind-set. It is easy to forget that one is w/o power...at the mercy of a faceless capricious government. It is the mind-set that our present gov't is attempting to foster. We must never let that happen, but I fear our children shall be so indoctrinated x the time they take command that they'll give it up w/o a thought...very disconcerting. Being powerless is very disconcerting - & too few even realize it. I'm sure some smooth talker & a little sophistry can make that sound ignorant, but the truth remains that "...all power ultimately comes from the barrel of a gun."
No?
...ask your gov't.

I'm bewildered...

...as I'm no longer sure what is true & what is not. There are the ultra-leftists, battling the leftists & the centrists. There are the ultra-right(ists), battling the right & the centrists. There are so many sub-factions - all w/ their footnotes, et al. - that I'm lost. There is something for everyone "out there". Some of my friends - & believe it or not I see myself as a tree-huggin' liberal - have disowned me. On some of my "stands" on the issues I re-read what I've written & see myself as a right-wing wing-nut...yet, these times beg for comment. Is this merely an exercise in masturbation "...w/o the payoff"? - John Travolta, "Swordfish".

eMail to the "Faithful"

 
A friend of mine - one of the true "Obama Faithful" - writes me, nay screams at me, taunts me, that home sales are UP almost 10%...durable goods UP almost 5%. Both absolutely true. But wait. Let's look a little closer: home sales are up almost 10% from last month BUT they are still DOWN almost 30% from just last year! D'ja get that? Since last year & let us not forget how dismal last year was! OMG!!! ...& durable goods are up almost 5% but remove automobiles - & all the "free money" through the gov't largess (out of YOUR pocket, mind you, chump) from the equation & it falls to less than 0.8%! OMG!!!

All you O'bama supporters are fucking gullible fools! You're in denial. You hear what you want to hear, believe what you want to believe - never mind the simple facts! ...never mind the truth. "Oh, no, denial 'feels' so much better."

You're gonna' get exactly what you deserve - which makes me "feel" better - only problem: I'm gonna' be dragged down w/ you - & that doesn't make me "feel" warm & fuzzy.

You're all a bunch of disingenuous morons or at best, frightened children.

whine . . . 09.08.24

 
Why is it that the "Obama Faithful" will not brook any discussion about the President, the present government or the state of affairs? When asked for facts, what one can expect is invective. Even in the darkest of times w/ the Bush-admin people would have dialogue - no matter what their position. Not now. That truly frightens me.

"Terrorist" - a definition:

 
n. systematic covert warfare to produce terror for political coercion

Now I ask you, what or who(m?) does that sound like?
Our President?
Our government?
...how unpatriotic of you!

Editorial . . . 09.08.17

 
Hey, you racist morons -

I just read a column x DeWayne Wickham in today's USA TODAY. If that column is on the up-'n-up - GET YOUR HEAD OUTTA' YOUR COLLECTIVE ASS! If it's just some more "disinformation" blowin' smoke, ok, but if it's not it - that mind-set - cannot be allowed to stand.

First, I've turned about as anti-government as anyone, but the white-supremacist thing & personal attack on the President ARE UNACCEPTABLE...GET THAT!

Ya' wanna' "get" someone? How about the biggest thief, the likes of which this country - nay this entire planet - has ever seen? I refer you to Henry (Hank - to his friends) Merritt Paulson Jr.? Have you people gone so crazy that maybe the US Military are called for to keep the peace? ...& I can't believe that I just wrote that!

If that column has any validity, I'm scared . . . shitless.

Guest Commentary:

 
"I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education. This is the true corrective of abuses of constitutional power."

--Thomas Jefferson, letter to William Charles Jarvis, 1820

Imagine that!
What a revolutionary concept.
Get it?

Now this is interesting...

  

http://www.sunjournal.com/node/105339/

...& the pot simmers...

http://www.rense.com/general87/second.htm

yelp . . . 09.08.10

I have a simple question: what is the issue? If these clowns are getting public money, the public has a say in what happens to it. No? Fine. No money. What is the discussion? Have we been so habituated to getting screwed (The Paulson Position) that this article doesn't even seem strange?

So shut-up - you get what you settle for.

GoTo: LINKS #10 (A simple question...)

Guest Commentary:

"...And here's the real punch line. After playing an intimate role in four historic bubble catastrophes, after helping $5 trillion in wealth disappear from the NASDAQ, after pawning off thousands of toxic mortgages on pensioners and cities, after helping to drive the price of gas up to $4 a gallon and to push 100 million people around the world into hunger, after securing tens of billions of taxpayer dollars through a series of bailouts overseen by its former CEO, what did Goldman Sachs give back to the people of the United States in 2008?

Fourteen million dollars." (in taxes)

- Matt Taibbi

Click on LINKS: #9 & if you're not foaming at the mouth x the time you get to the end of the 3rd paragraph - stop - lay down - you're dead.

Guest Commentary:

"The (tax) numbers for 2009 are striking, head-snapping. But what really matters is what happens next," he said. "If it's just one year, then it's a remarkable thing, but it's totally manageable. If the economy doesn't recover soon, it doesn't matter what your social, economic and political agenda is. There's not going to be any revenue to pay for it."

--William Gale, co-director of the Tax Policy Center.

Hey, hold on here...all we need do is print up some more! Yeah, that's the ticket!! No problemo!!!

"...heeere's Iraq..."

howl . . . 09.08.04

This is still the greatest country in the world.
Not because of the government - in spite of it.
It is because of "We the People..."
Allow me to say that again: "It is because of us."

...but I'm truly at my dim-wits end w/ it all.

"They" have broken the social compact.We have no social obligation to our gov't because the gov't is no longer ours; one another, yes; the gov't, no; The Constitution, yes; DC, no.

It is not a travesty or any other flippant word one can come up w/, it is shameful...& we should be ashamed that we have allowed it - & continue to allow it - to happen.

I am ashamed I've allowed it to happen. I am ashamed that I continue to allow it to happen. I am ashamed that I am impotent to do anything about it. I am ashamed that I've allowed myself to become impotent...but again I ask simply, "What can we do"? "They" hold all the cards. The 500+ crooked self-serving DC morons hold 300,000,000+ of us captive...& what is the manacle they use? Fear. Fear based on force. Hummm, that sounds suspiciously like a definition of terrorism.

How have we gotten here?

I'm not a terrorist.
Are you a terrorist?

"They" ARE the terrorists!

Shame on us all.

...written today?

"Only a large-scale popular movement toward decentralization and self-help can arrest the present tendency toward statism.... A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude. To make them love it is the task assigned, in present-day totalitarian states, to ministries of propaganda, newspaper editors and schoolteachers."

-- Aldous Huxley (1894-1963)

Politics as usual...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama's treasury secretary (Timmy "The Weasel" Geithner) said Sunday he cannot rule out higher taxes to help tame an exploding budget deficit...

...Whoa! I'm shocked! 1) campaign rhetoric: "...you will not see any of your taxes increase one single dime." - Democratic candidate Barack Obama. 2) question: how can you pump trillions of unsecured dollars into an economy & NOT have "...an exploding budget deficit..."?
Answers: 1) lying politician; 2) Eco 101...

...and his chief economic adviser would not dismiss raising them on middle-class Americans as part of a health care overhaul.

"...particularly troubling..."?

An interview with ABC News this week Eric Holder said, "I mean, that's one of the things that's particularly troubling: This whole notion of radicalization of Americans," Holder said during the interview.

Could it be that the Government is so out of touch w/ "We the People..." that the "radicalization of Americans" is the inevitable result?

Hey Eric, I've a bulletin for you: YOU & YOUR MOB AIN'T NOBILITY! You & your mob are SUPPOSE to represent (what a novel concept!) the people for whom you work...you arrogant prick!

A Big, Fat Lie -

"[H]ealth insurance reform will not add to our deficit over the next decade, and I mean it. ... I am very worried about federal spending." -- President Barack Obama

Oh, well, in that case...

Guest Commentary:

"The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for, among old parchments, or musty records. They are written, as with a sun beam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased or obscured by mortal power." --Alexander Hamilton

As of this writing, Barack Hussein Obama's "fundamental transformation of the United States of America" has obligated taxpayers for an admitted $7 trillion in current and future debt for his so-called "economic recovery" act. Heaping insult upon near-fatal injury, Congress is now considering an additional $2 trillion in proposed tax increases for BO's CO2 folly, over $1 trillion for his nationalized healthcare experiment and untold trillions for another round of "economic recovery" programs. Furthermore, TARP Inspector General Neil Barofsky announced this week that total Federal exposure for all TARP "spending" had been leveraged to $23.7 trillion, equal to approximately one and one half times GDP(emphasis mine).

Of course, none of the aforementioned Obama initiatives, or the collection and redistribution of wealth to fund them, is authorized by our Constitution.

Therefore, if these schemes are not authorized by our Constitution, then we have an outlaw government, and if we have an outlaw government, then by what authority does that government assess and collect taxes?

Guest Commentary:

"Frankly, I'm not sure if I'm just being guilty of wishful thinking, but I have a hunch that while Obama is doing his best to destroy America and capitalism, the "lemming-in-chief" is leading the party faithful blindly off the cliff. No matter how personally popular the president might be, and I am beginning to doubt those particular numbers, the same certainly can't be said for his colleagues and cronies. The truth is, Pelosi and Reid are about as popular as mumps and chicken pox. . . most Americans hate socialized medicine and cap and trade; they hate the idea of the feds being in bed with the unions and nationalizing banks and car companies; they hate the idea of dismantling our missile defense system at the very same time that Iran and North Korea are threatening us; they particularly hate the idea of our president going abroad and bad-mouthing America every chance he gets. Even Bill Clinton stopped doing that once he was past draft age and had gotten a haircut. Unless I'm very much mistaken, those Democrats who are going along in order to get along are likely to discover next year that the voters are going to tell them in no uncertain words to move along." --columnist Burt Prelutsky

Commentary...

Walter Cronkite has died. He was 92.
(LINKS: #6)

Where have all the "Walter Cronkite's" gone. The Forth Estate has gone from watch-dog to lap-dog...& we're all suffering for it.

howl . . . 09.07.14

Talk about the "Fourth Estate" being asleep at the switch!
Fucking "Old Grey Lady"'s a whore...stupid ugly old whore whose long outlived her usefulness.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/15/business/15goldman.html?_r=1&ref=global-home

...or goto: LINKS - click #5

Question:

When President Obama made that "treaty" w/ Russia (yesterday) depleting our warhead capability by 1/3, did he consult the Congress (not that I have any great love for their discernment)? Doesn't it say in The Constitution that any treaty must be ratified - I know they don't actually "ratify," but let's keep it simple - by 2/3 of the Senate? Now here is the question: what do you call a leader of a country that makes decisions w/o consulting the representatives of the people; w/o the rule of law?

howl . . . an eMail excerpt:

...($$$) my friend; (+++) me

$$$$$$$$$ Kamikaze pilots and samurai warriors are two different things. Be cool.

+++ yes, that is very true, but I'm sick of being "cool" (read the blurb on the new blog about the "Tea Party" - it states my position pretty clearly). Cool works in the movies, but not in real life. I'm sick of "being cool" - fuck "being cool"! I'm telling you if we ("...the People") don't do something & soon, those fucks will have become so ensconced that the 2010 election won't matter. Red, Blue, fucking Green or Pink. Same-same.

I'm not a Kamikaze, but I am an antsy son-of-a-bitch. Time's slipping away & the whole shiteree continues to slide. Look, put the rhetoric & sophistry aside...untangle yourself from the slavery we call language (think on this: we don't look at the world - as it simply is - any longer. We live as if reality is a rebus. If we can't decipher it thru language, it isn't real...until we can) & just look out from behind your eyes. Leave the words behind & just see what a fucking incredible mess has been - & continues to be - created. This country is running on fear. Everything is predicated on FEAR not FREEDOM. K-mon, freedom. That single word, w/o any modifiers, is the entire argument. No man has the right to make rules for me, you or anyone - especially when they don't even apply to him. No other human on this planet has the right - or in fact, the ability - to bend me to their will. None. This country was founded on that principle. Ya' get that? That one principle alone. Ya' remember that? Of course there are rules if you live in a society, but minimal. The Bill of Rights were written w/ one purpose & only one purpose: to keep the GOVERNMENT at bay - & I don't need some shithead to decipher them for me. They were written so everyone could see them & understand them FOR THEMSELVES! Fuck the lawyers. And we sit with our thumbs up our collective ass - chatting it up - kidding ourselves that talking can actually make a difference. Writing stupid blogs can actually make a difference. Going to "Tea Parties" can actually make a difference.

"Ahhhooowww..."!...where the fuck is that moon when I need it? I've a bulletin for you: the moon does not give a fuck. I've another bulletin for you: the sword is mightier than the larynx...& "They" know that. That is why "They" allow you to bitch all you want but are constantly trying to take your sword. Yet we continue to allow it all to happen. Not another fucking millimeter to those miserable cock-suckers. None. Zero tolerance. Check Mother-Fucking Mate!!!

Shit I was going to bed & read, but not now. My pulse is about 150! FUCK!!! "Ahhhooowww..."!

howl . . . 09.07.08

Robert S. McNamara dead at 93 (LINKS: #3)

Went to a "Tea Party" on Sunday the 5th. I did so wishing that something might actually be accomplished, but no. Just a bunch of middle aged posers laughing & joking & dressing up in funny costumes & holding funny signs. Fiesta time! ...& here's an ominous sign: not a black face anywhere.

Look people - get this thru your thick skulls: "They" allow us "peaceful assembly" because "They" know it is of absolutely no consequence...& get this too: I wish it were possible to effect change through "peaceful assembly" &/or the ballot box, BUT IT AIN'T!!! We ("...the People") have had our ability to effect change, slowly taken from us. You think some back-woods-country-bumpkin can come along & be president of these United States? Surely you know better. Oh, he/she might come from the woods alright, but they'll stay there unless "They" back 'em, bring 'em to the fore & then "They" own them. "No"? Look closer.

Am I advocating violence? I would like to say yes, but believe me, I'm no martyr & I am pretty sure there aren't 72 virgins waiting for me in heaven! The gov't has weapons & technology that we - here in the street - can't even imagine. No. Violence is pretty much out of the question. So what then? The ballot box is almost a non-starter. Peaceful assembly is a waste of time. What do we do? Seriously. What can we do? Go into "Fortress Mode"? Move to Tahiti? ...the North Pole? Answer: I don't know, wish I did, but I don't. Hummm, maybe I'll just go sign up for food stamps...

Guest Commentary:

"Why did the founders of our nation give us the Bill of Rights? The answer is easy. They knew Congress could not be trusted with our God-given rights. Think about it. Why in the world would they have written the First Amendment prohibiting Congress from enacting any law that abridges freedom of speech and the press? The answer is that in the absence of such a limitation Congress would abridge free speech and free press. That same distrust of Congress explains the other amendments found in our Bill of Rights protecting rights such as our rights to property, fair trial and to bear arms. The Bill of Rights should serve as a constant reminder of the deep distrust that our founders had of government. They knew that some government was necessary but they rightfully saw government as the enemy of the people and they sought to limit government and provide us with protections." --George Mason University economics professor Walter E. Williams

bark . . . 09.07.04

Short & sweet:

It is July 4, our country's birthday...but it is a far different country than was envisioned 233 yrs. ago.

Consider...

"...233 years ago tomorrow, our county declared independence from the tyrannical British empire. Not for power... not for gold... but for freedom. They wanted to live their lives and to be left alone, and they realized that they didn't need a nanny-government directing how they lived their lives."
- Tim Schmidt

Look where we are today - all in a mere 233 years.

Guest Commentary:

On July 4th of 1776, our Founders, assembled as representatives to the Second Continental Congress, issued a declaration stating most notably:

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. ... That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government..."

- Thomas Jefferson
- Benjamin Franklin
- Samuel Adams
- Josiah Bartlett
- John Hancock
- John Adams
- Francis Lightfoot Lee
- John Penn
- Richard Stockton
- William Williams
- ...et al.

We have become a bunch of spineless "politically correct" fools...

Guest Commentary:

"Our cause is noble; it is the cause of mankind!"

--George Washington, letter to James Warren, March 31, 1779

Imagine

I was just setting this up & re-read the header & it came to me, "...what if we did simply say 'no' to the government's bullshit." What if we did? What if lots & lots of us did? What if "...all the people..."? "Imagine..." Checkmate?

Opening Shot:

"All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent." -Thomas Jefferson

I can't "remain silent." Never could - for long. Can you?

Write what you wish. Use any alias or synonym. Anything goes here - but you are responsible for what you write, tho I'll take the "heat," it is you who is responsible for what you say. Feel free to "...go for it" (until the First Amendment winks out) but remember "They" are watching, in today's world, "They" are always watching.

To see some previous "rants", please go to LINKS: 1) Outraged Enough?

Be on the lookout for guest commentators. They will be noted.

As someone once said: "...the Founding Fathers were right-wing extremists."

Remember: "We . . . Americans are not the enemy." - David Rehbein (American Legion National Commander)