Hillary Knows How To End Terrorism – Taxes!

“The percentage of taxes on GDP (in Pakistan) is among the lowest in the world… We (the United States) tax everything that moves and doesn’t move, and that’s not what we see in Pakistan.” – Hillary Clinton gloated while attempting to convince Pakistan to step up efforts to catch Al-Qaeda.

Unbelievable!  This is the problem with big government.  I guess this is why the Tea Party Movement is gaining more and more support.

If you want to stop terrorism, just tax everything and then tax it again! Hey, it works great in America. (Click pic for original news story.)

All politicians, Republican and Democrats, should take notice.  If you don’t lower taxes and restrain your spending, you will lose your jobs.  Americans want a smaller and less invasive government.

Gordon Brown Cries Wolf

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown claims we need a new global warming treaty in the next 50 days or… WE’RE ALL DOOOOOOOOMED!!!!

Does anyone actually believe this?  Even if we ignore the lack of evidence that global warming is caused by human activity and that a slightly warmer Earth may be beneficial, what’s the reason for the 50 day time limit?  Exactly why are we all dead if it takes 51 days to forge a treaty?

It seems that PM Brown hired some speech writers from QVC.  This will become obvious in his next address before the United Nations where he will state “The United Kingdom only has 389 boxes of Bigglesworths Treacle and Blood Sausage Flavored Biscuit Assortments left.  Don’t miss these at these delicious biscuits at the special price of 18 quid per box.  Call now because this item is going to sell out in three minutes!  Once they’re gone there’s no telling when we’ll be getting more of these rare items in!”

Buy now or we're all dead!

Of Bureaucracy and Tyranny

It’s my opinion that government has no business defining personal relationships between adults.

Here’s an example of a bureaucrat abusing his power to tell individual citizens how to live their lives.  Keith Bardwell, a Louisiana Justice of the Peace, recently refused to give a marriage license to an interracial couple.  His reason was the most cliche of all.  “Think of the children!”  Specifically the children that would be born out of an interracial marriage.

Why do we allow these people to have this power over us?  We need to get rid of government sanctioned marriage.  Let’s have a customizable domestic and financial contract between any pair or group of consenting adults instead.  Leave marriage and who qualifies up to the churches and their respective religious beliefs.

Another piece of information about JP Keith Bardwell… apparently he was a Democrat until his 2008 election when he switched to Republican.  I wonder what could have happened in November of 2008 that would make him abandon his political party?

Who’s The Hater?

I keep hearing that Fox News and Talk Radio is full of sexist and racist hate speech, but the evidence always seems very weak. Occasionally there’s something politically incorrect, such as Don Imus calling the players of a womens basketball team “nappy-headed hoes” as an odd sort of complement about their toughness.  Or Rush Limbaugh saying that the media was overstating Donovan McNabb abilities because they “wanted to see a black quarterback succeed“.  Neither one of these incidents were polite and the underlying reasoning behind them is indeed questionable, so a scandal ensued.  In both cases, these guys lost their jobs – at least temporarily.

But, when there’s a real bombshell like Keith Olbermann’s recent World’s Worst segment in which he said Michele Malkin is just a “mashed-up bag of meat with lipstick on it” without the “fascistic hatred” she demonstrated by sending a polite email asking some questions about the origins of the Obama Mmm Mmm Mmm Song.  As of today, no one cares, except for a few internet bloggers, and Olbermann is in no danger of losing his job.

The double standard applied to the right and left in the news media is downright pathological.

To any of my readers that doubt the media is biased towards the left, I challenge you to find a Fox News clip where the host makes a personal attack as vile and disgusting as Keith Olbermann’s statement in this video. It’s a bit long, so you can skip to the 1:00 minute mark to get to the relevant part.

Troop Swap

13,000 additional troops are headed to Afghanistan.  But there is some controversy about who is sending them… What do you think?

Right Problem. Wrong Solution.

When tragedy strikes, the bereaved are often strongly motivated to do everything and anything they can to prevent similar tragedies in the future.  While we can all understand that impulse, it usually leads to unnecessary fear and even costly and redundant “feel-good” legislation that is eagerly lapped up by selfish lawmakers needing positive press for upcoming elections.

As a pre-teen, my parents forbade me from riding a skateboard because some kid I never met was paralyzed in a skateboarding accident.  Now, I wasn’t particularly interested in skateboarding, so it wasn’t any big deal for me at the time, but I’ve haven’t failed to notice the plethora of anti-skateboarding legislation in every local community I’ve lived in.  Oddly, or not so much, the communities that ban skateboarding in public areas, like sidewalks and parks, etc. are very reluctant to build a skateboard park that would encourage riders to stay out of the other public areas.  Why?  Because they fear accidents and the law-suits that come with them.

So, today I read a tragic story.  It seems a falling-down drunk mom driving a sedan at high speed flipped over three times and ejected several of the 7  little girl passengers, one of whom died.  The Bronx, NY woman had a .132 blood alcohol level and the girls weren’t wearing seatbelts.  In the wake of this horrible event, the father of the dead girl has vowed to go to city hall, congress, and the White House in a crusade for stronger laws against drunk drivers.

Drunk driving is a result of overall irresponsibility.

While I’m all for tougher penalties for drunk drivers who kill people in accidents, the grieving father’s efforts won’t do anything to prevent drunk driving accidents.  Drunk driving is a result of overall irresponsibility and, as such, cannot be deterred by the threat of punishment.  He would be much better off expending his energies toward making sure the driver that killed his daughter gets charged criminally and goes to jail for negligent homicide.

If that fails, he should take her to civil court and take her for an enormous some of money that she doesn’t have, so she’ll have to get a second job to pay the judgment against her, and if she fails to make her payment, she can be imprisoned as punishment.  While it won’t stop the next irresponsible idiot from driving drunk, he could at least get this one off the street.

We Need More Fracking Power!

And we’ve found a way to get it!  Shale gas, once too difficult and expensive to extract, is now accessible through a process called hydro-fracturing or “Fracking.” According to Tony Hayward, BP’s chief executive, the natural gas reserves have risen to the equivalent of 1.2 trillion barrels of crude oil, or 60 years of the world’s energy requirements… and there’s a lot more to come.  Best of all, the majority of the gas shale is in North America.  We may have just dodged the next energy crisis bullet.

Artist's rendition of the gas shale fracking process.

A Wise Decision

I disassociated myself from political blogger Charles Johnson and his littlegreenfootballs.com site a little while back, because I began to see blatant bigotry and a leftist imbalance in what I believed was formerly a fair site.  The final straw was how he and the commenters that he approved of portrayed the 9-12 Tea Party Protesters in Washington D.C.

So, out of a morbid curiosity, I decided to take a quick look at how he covered last week’s G-20 protests in my hometown of Pittsburgh.  As I’m sure you know, the protests rapidly became violent on Thursday and the violence continued late into the night. In the aftermath, many business owners were cleaning up damage to their shops as a second non-violent march called the Peoples’ March paraded through the city.  The Peoples’ March, which was financially supported by a litany of socialist and communist groups, allowed the violent protesters (from Thursday) to march with them after they promised not to be violent for the duration of the march.

So what did Charles Johnson of Little Green Footballs, who got all frothy over the 9-12 D.C. Tea Party, have to say about the openly violent G-20 Protests?

Nothing.  Absolutely nothing. Not a single thread was devoted to the issue.

I wish I could say I’m surprised.

I’m just glad I got out of that nut house when I did.

How to Lose Faith in Humanity in One Easy Step.

I’m sure by now, most of you have at least heard of the independent filmmakers that visited a Baltimore ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now) office posing as a prostitute and pimp looking for assistance in purchasing a house to use as a brothel.   What  you may not know is, Baltimore’s ACORN wasn’t the only office they visited.  They’ve also released videos from Washington, DC, New York City, NY, San Bernadino, CA and San Diego, CA.

I want to show you the San Bernadino videos in a moment, because they’re incredibly appalling, but first I want to explain…

Why is this important?

(Note:  If you’re in a hurry to be appalled, skip down to the first embedded video.)

I expect that most of you don’t follow politics as closely as I do.  That’s because I think highly of you.  You are probably sane and well adjusted and so bored with the workings of our government, that you wisely ignore most of the trumped up scandals that the politicians throw at each other daily.  Unlike you, I developed an obsession with all things political about 8 years ago.  I would say it began on 9/11/2001, the moment I saw the second plane crash into the World Trade Center.  The world changed for me that moment and I couldn’t ignore the world or our government any longer.  The upside of this, is I now pathologically watch all the news and sort through the crap so you don’t have to.

Back to the point – this scandal is the real deal.  ACORN and Obama have a long history together.  ACORN sought out Obama because the were impressed with his work in Chicago’s Developing Communities Project while working on his law degree.  When he returned to Chicago they hired him as their attorney, to run a voter registration project, and to teach leadership training sessions.  Because of their deep relationship, ACORN actively campaigned for Obama on his State Senate, US Senate and Presidential bids.  In return, Obama pushed for ACORN’s interests, such as living wage and banking practices legislation in the Illinois State Senate.  Upon becoming President, Obama promised ACORN that they could help shape his agenda during his first 100 days.  Shortly thereafter, Obama moved the Census Office to the White House and announced that ACORN would have a key role with the 2010 Census.  More recently, ACORN’s partner organization, the SEIU,  send its members to intimidate and assault those who dared speak out against the proposed Health Care legislation Town Hall Meetings.

Now that it’s clear how closely ACORN is tied to Obama, lets take a look at what ACORN does:

Part I

Part II

PartIII – Sound is a bit wonky for the first minute or so.

If you think that this is just an isolated case and not a systemic problem with ACORN, check out the other videos at veritasvisuals YouTube Channel.

Special Thanks to James O’Keefe and Hannah Giles.

ACORN, you've been totally pimped!

Good Luck with you’re journalism careers.  Keep up the excellent work!

LGF, I think we should see other people…

I made a tough decision today.  I decided to disassociate myself with the political blog Little Green Footballs.  Over the past few months I had noticed a drift to the left in both the threads and comments.  That wasn’t a problem in itself, but the LGF I enjoyed was the one that was fair to both the Republicans and Democrats.  Recently the leftists seemed to always get the benefit of the doubt and the rightists were instantly vilified.

For example, former Green Jobs Czar Van Jones was firmly defended over the claim that he was a 9/11 Truther.  The claim was made by Glenn Beck as a part of his series of shows about Obama’s extraordinary number of Czars.  He uncovered that Van Jones was an admitted radical black nationalist and former member of the communist group STORM as well as a 9/11 Truther.  The evidence?  Van Jones signed the official 9-11 Truth Document circulated by 911Truth.org. Van Jones claimed he didn’t read the petition that he signed and was mislead as to its contents.  That was good enough at LGF.  Why? Because Truthers are liars that can’t be trusted.  As opposed to radical black nationalists and communist revolutionaries, I guess.

The next day LGF accused U.S. Rep. Charles Boustany, who delivered the GOP response to Obama’s Health Care Speech to the joint session of Congress, of being a hard-core “Birther.”   The evidence? A video in which Boustany answers questions about Obama’s citizenship status with the following statements: “Well, it’s certainly being looked at.” and “I think there are questions, we’ll have to see.”  The day after the video appeared on the internet, Boustany clarified that he does believe that Obama is a U.S. citizen on radio station KPEL in Lafayette.  Good enough for LGF?  No way!  Why?  Because Birthers are liars and can’t be trusted!

In the last few days there have been many threads on LGF criticizing the Tea Party Movement. Mostly showing pictures of demonstrators with signs comparing Obama to Hitler (an eerily similarity to the signs we’ve seen comparing Bush to Hitler at every Anti-War demonstration for the last 7 years.)  Assorted nutballs and radicals show up at all public protests, but almost never represent the whole.  The rhetoric of the LGF community has  ramped up to the point where posters were claiming that the Tea Party demonstrators are racist, sexist, homophobic and, get this, no different than the Communist Party of the Soviet Union! When I pointed out that one poster was guilty of demonizing the demonstrators, I was given the reply that she only “demonizes those who deserve to be demonized.”  The host of the site approved of that statement.

At one time, Little Green Footballs was an admirable and fair blog.  Now, because of all the unhinged rhetoric, Republican witch-hunts and irresponsible accusations of racism, sexism, etc., it has become one that I’d rather not be associated with.  So, this morning, on the first new thread, I politely asked to have my account disabled.