The only thing that's shovel ready is...

...bullshit.

Remember a couple years ago when The Dear Leader ripped a page from the books of some of his famed Socialist predecessors and deemed that the Succubus Package money was going to "Shovel-Ready Projects" to boost the economy & put people back to work?



FDR got his New Deal and Works Projects Administration and the Wagner Act to promote Liberal labor unions and the Tennessee Valley Authority to build dams.



Hell, Hitler and his National Socialist Worker's Party had the Reicharbeitsdienst (Reich Labor Service) to build the Autobahns and other public works projects.

The labor projects of the communist countries are just too numerous to list. My personal favorite though was making the Zeks who were imprisoned at the Soviet Gulags build the roads & railways out to the Gulags, and then build the Gulags themselves.


Failure: is it cyclical? I hope we learn from this mistake so we don't end up with another moron 30 years from now.



December, 2008: Meet The Press....Obama talks about his pending stimulus plan and was reported on by Fredreka Schouten of the USA Today.

"The president-elect declined to say Sunday how much his economic stimulus plan would cost. Obama called it the largest public-works program since the creation of the interstate highway system in the 1950s.

The plan includes spending on what Obama called "shovel-ready" projects to rebuild roads, make buildings energy efficient, modernize schools and upgrade hospital technology."

States starting to get all excited about shovel-ready projects. Augusta, Georgia was pretty excited.

"Transportation improvements in Augusta are included in the $3 billion list of "shovel-ready" projects that the state has compiled in hopes of getting some of the estimated $1 trillion stimulus package President-elect Obama has promised."

A month later in the Washington Post itself, the term Shovel Ready gets its own article.

"Announcing his energy team, Obama beams about "shovel-ready projects all across the country." Unveiling his choice for education secretary, Obama plugs his plans "to start helping states and local governments with shovel-ready projects."."

The Obama Administration created the website StimulusWatch.org to showcase where stimulus money might be going with all those shovel ready projects.

"StimulusWatch.org was built to help the new administration keep its pledge to invest stimulus money smartly, and to hold public officials to account for the taxpayer money they spend. We do this by allowing you, citizens around the country with local knowledge about the proposed "shovel-ready" projects in your city, to find, discuss and rate those projects. These projects are not part of the stimulus bill. They are candidates for funding by federal grant programs once the bill passes."

Oh, by that you mean, pass the bill to see what's in it, huh? I think we've heard that Audio Feces before....like Obama Care. Or...we have to see how much money we need before we write a budget (wow, that's ass-backwards, no? You make a budget and then work with what you have to do what you can....)



February, 2009 and David Axelrod is talking about stimulus-funded, shovel-ready
infrastructure projects just waiting on the go-ahead, and that unemployment will go up. Shovel ready was the lie; unemployment indeed went up.

"Infrastructure, or "shovel-ready," projects are set to get underway almost immediately after President Obama signs the $787 billion stimulus bill on Tuesday, his senior adviser said Sunday. "

Also in February, from none other than the decidedly Left-friendly NPR:
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"As President Obama urges Congress to pass the $800 billion-plus stimulus package, one of his favorite selling points is the thousands of projects nationwide that he calls "shovel ready" — meaning planning is complete, approvals are secured and people could be put to work right away once funding is in place."

And here we are in 2010 holding shovels with no projects. In fact, Comrade Imam Barack Hussein Obama, The Dear Leader Himself, The Obamessiah, The Anointed One, Blessed Be His Name, now admits (to the New York bloody TIMES no less, the most liberal of all liberal bastions) there's no such thing as a shovel-ready project.

Why the hell am I not surprised?

In fact, Obie The One wants another $50 BILLION to do infrastructure jobs like build roads and fix runways and....stuff....that....was........(please, say it with me) SHOVEL-READY STIMULUS SHIT from the first bundle of billions!!!!!


These clever little signs were part of a $20 MILLION dollar segment of the stimulus and provided 17 jobs for a short time, until the signs were made, at a cost of $400 to $3000 each.

Do the RIGHT thing on Election Day. And hey, for you Democrats who still claim to not be Socialists...look at what your party and its leadership has done. Tax & spend & pork and sellout to the unions and bankrupt your kids' futures. If you're not a Leftist, WHY ARE YOU STILL VOTING DEMOCRAT?

Perhaps I spoke too soon?

I guess I spoke too soon. No sooner do I give noted blamestream media Liberal hack Keith Olbermann a modicum of credit for keeping his yap shut and toning down his rhetoric, making Chris Matthews the Biggest Liberal Douchebag on TV, then he had to go ahead & open his mouth again.
Hot on the heels of those two whiny cows on The View scuttling off in a huff because Bill O'Reilly showed some spine & didn't let them walk all over him spewing Liberal Crap, Olbermann named Bill O’Reilly the “worst person” in America, calling him a bigot and an Islamophobe. Hell, all O'Reilly did was tell all those assclowns the truth, that on 9-11 we were attacked by Muslims. Sure, it's a pretty simplistic way of stating it but it's not an untrue statement. Behar and Goldberg just threw a tantrum because someone stood up to their bullying bullshit. Olbermann plays the part of a seagull, flying in, squawking and shitting all over the place and adding nothing of substance, before flying off again. Oh, and he of course took a shot at Glenn Beck in the process, someone he usually refers to as the worst person in America.


Then again, every night he declares a new worst person. Short attention span, or just lame and trite?

You know it's bad for the Left when Saturday Night Live mocks you. Lately they've been taking potshots at Obama and Olbermann himself was parodied by none other than Ben Affleck. They say Glenn Beck is prone to histrionics but Olbermann has him beat hands down.


The Daily Caller once reported that members of the left-wing discussion group Journolist think Keith Olbermann is a “predictable,” “unfunny,” “misogynistic,” “pompous,” “shtiky and rude blowhard.” Hundreds of members–Liberal blamestream journalists, Leftist professors, the liberal intellectual elitists– and no room for the lockstep ideological bootlick who hosts a nightly, primetime show on a major (albeit failing and imploding) cable news network? HAH!





Hey, Chris Matthews, is THAT homo erotic? Or just a LibTard paying homage to its master?

Olbermann no longer Biggest Liberal Douchebag

Douche & Doucher: Olbermann and Chris Matthews are Turds of a Feather

For the longest time I felt that Keith Olbermann was the biggest douchebag in Liberal Land, with his histrionic rants and flagrant asshattery. However, as events of the past few days have unfolded, I do believe the crown has been passed to his fellow Moron MSNBC Mouthpiece, Chris Matthews.

What a complete and utter asshole. On a network riddled with LibTards owned by a network riddled with LibTards in a city riddled with LibTards in an industry riddled with...say it with me now...LibTards....Olbermann has actually mellowed out a bit and Matthews has gotten worse. Not even seeing that idiot Rick Sanchez get the axe from CNN has tamed Matthews from spewing asanine rhetoric.

Where to begin?

He was recently found to be dick-riding David Axelrod by chiming in on Axelrod's vacuous claims that the U.S. Chamber of Commerce is a shadowy shill for big business pumping foreign money to the Republicans. Matthews sees this as the greatest economic issue of our times and thinks the Chamber is to blame for unemployment. Hey guys, what about all of Obama's shadowy money from unknown sources? What about the video of people overseas, by which I means West Bank Gaza Palestinians, making phone calls for Obama in the election campaign? The Left is destroying the economy and taking the country with it.

A couple days ago he tried to dick-ride a really inane article from The Atlantic that portrayed Rich Iott, the House Republican nominee in Ohio's 9th district, as a Nazi for being part of a World War 2 reenactor group that plays the part of a Waffen-SS unit in historical reenactments. Just because a guy owns a German uniform, you Liberal dickheads think he's a Nazi. Y'know, guys, bythat same token you must think everyone who portrays a Confederate soldier in a Civil War reenactment is a racist slave owner, huh? I own a Scottish kilt so does that make me prone to drive the English from my neighborhood screaming "FREEDOM!"? What about the fact that Iott also portrays an American soldier when reenacting certain battles and also portrays a Union soldier in Civil War reenactments? Oh, those don't count because they aren't sensational?Rich Iott, second from the right. Oh hell, there's a kilt too? Homo Erotic Scottish Nazis!!!!


And then Matthews asks if there's some sort of homo-eroticism thing going on at the reenactments. Dude, what the hell is wrong with you? Some guys get get together as part of a living history display and that makes it a gay thing? Pray tell, explain your reasoning? Besides, I thought the left was in favor of homo eroticism so why are you demonizing it? Because it conveniently serves your political agenda, that's why.

You LibTard assclowns love to lump-classify things that you cannot fathom. To you every gun owner is a murderer in waiting, every gun is an AK-47, everyone who disagrees with Obama is a racist....Hmmm.....y'know, you must think that everyone who's ever worn a German uniform is a Nazi, so then half of Hollywood is rife with Nazis to include many known Lefties:Marlon Brando must have been a Nazi. The horror! The horror!

Tom Cruise? Must be a Nazi. They were known for jumping on couches on the Russian Front.

Kenneth Branagh and Bill Nighy just HAVE to be Nazis. Love the leather trenchcoat....

James Coburn, American Army vet and.....Nazi? The irony of it all.

Ed Harris had the Right Stuff......to be a Nazi sniper.

Nothing screams "Nazi" like Clint Eastwood and Richard Burton.....

That would be Herr Obersturmbannfuhrer Voldemort to you, pal.....

Before Eric Braeden played Victor on The Young & The Restless, he worked under his given name of Hans Gudegast....seriously.

Eddie Izzard's a Nazi who sometimes performs in drag? Say it ain't so!

The Left loves Harrison Ford. Too bad he's donned German uniforms in all of the Indiana Jones films.....Star Trek proved that space is littered with Nazis, illogical as it may seem.

Before he was Gandalf, before he was Magneto, Sir Ian McKellen was...HITLER!

Sir Alec Guinness also played Hitler. "These aren't the Nazis you're looking for..."

Sir Anthony Hopkins likes his Nazis with fava beans and a nice Chianti.


And now Matthews has the cherries to say that if the recently rescued Chilean miners had been Tea Party types, they'd have died. Ass-sphincter says what?

If the trapped Chilean miners had subscribed to the tea party’s “every-man-for-himself” philosophy, “they would have been killing each other after about two days,” Matthews said on his “Hardball” show Wednesday night.

In an interview with noted Liberal scumbag AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka, Matthews foamed at the mouth against the Tea Party movement, saying its central belief is “every man for himself. …No more taxes, no more government, no more everything. No more safety net.”

“You know these people, if they were every man for himself down in that mine, they wouldn’t have gotten out,” Matthews added.

“That’s exactly right,” Trumka chimed back.

Matthews continued: “They would have been killing each other after about two days.”

Really? If by "every man for himself" you mean expecting people to take personal responsibility for their actions and not relying on the government tit for sustenance, then sure, I'll give you that one. If not, bite me. And we want smaller government, not no government, unlike you who want giant government.

If the miners were Liberals, they would have rioted and looted, cried for entitlements and just rolled over when the government didn't provide for them. Liberals would tax the rescue, take over the mining company, ban all mining, sue the mining company owners they displaced, and raise taxes for green mining alternatives to preserve Mother Gaia.

You're a fetid turd, Matthews. If CNN can dump Sanchez, then maybe PMSNBC will wise up and send you packing too....but then again, given their track record.....An idiot and his idol. May they both soon be unemployed.

Hey, Clyburn: What have you done for me lately (or ever)?

I noticed something the other day that really rubbed me the wrong way.

It was 3:45 AM and I was driving to work on Rivers Avenue in North Charleston, and there in front of my eyes was Jim Clyburn.

On a giant billboard, there he was, looking smarmy and insincere, with a reminder of the date of Election Day for his supporters not quite smart enough to know when it is, including the day of the week. Seriously. They honestly think the voting public is stupid and has to be hand-held & coached by telling them the day of the week and the date to go vote.

My biggest problem: Rivers Avenue is not in Clyburn's district. Clyburn claims to represent South Carolina's Sixth District (when he's not getting his daughter a cushy job at the FCC, or kissing the asses of Obama, Reid, and Pelosi, or crying racism) and yet here he is with giant billboards on Rivers Avenue, Ashley Phospate Road, and on Highway 17 near Red Top, none of which are in his district. These are in District One, soon to be won by Tim Scott, I might add.

I did see one billboard on Highway 17-A in Round-O, which is in Six, but barely.

You see, the location of these billboards reveals not only a strategy but also a sad fact: In order to reach his constituency, he has to place his ads outside his district because the vast number of his constituents in my local area have to leave the district every day for work. We commute to Summerville, North Charleston, Goose Creek, and Charleston proper. The economy in Six is shot and there are no jobs available, so people drive an hour or more to find work. So put the ads on those main roads in greater Charleston to catch them either going to work or driving home.

That's balls. What audacity.

Hey, Clyburn. I live in District Six, in Walterboro, a city of 6,000 people with an unemployment rate somewhere near 15% or so. I get up at 2:30 am and drive 50 miles to the Charleston waterfront for work. I put 500 miles a week on my car. To get a job above minimum wage, people have to leave town. The industrial park by the airport? Nearly empty. Manufacturers are shut down, doors are shuttered, warehouses are bare, and folks are out of work. The city is a free-fire zone fueled by gang violence. We're now a convenient place to dump bodies after murders. And what the hell have you done for the good people of District Six? You spend all your time living the high life in Washington surrounded by your cronies, and being someone's crony. You know damned well that to reach those people who have jobs you have to advertise out of your district and that sickens me.

Three weeks hence, my vote will be for Jim Pratt. I hope you enjoy meeting all your former constituents on the unemployment line when you go looking for the benefits you think you're entitled to.

Remembering USS Cole

Today marks the tenth anniversary of the terrorist bomb attack on the destroyer USS Cole.

Operatives from al-Qaeda rammed a boat full of explosives into the side of the ship as she anchored in the port of Aden in Yemen on October 12, 2000.

17 American sailors were killed, and 39 were injured.

In June 2001, an al-Qaeda recruitment video featuring Osama bin Laden boasted about the attack and encouraged similar attacks. Later that same year, al-Qaeda pulled off the 9-11 attacks.






In order to get USS Cole home to be repaired at Pascagoula, MS, the Norweigan transport ship M/V Blue Marlin was chartered by the Navy. The ship literally submerges under her cargo and then raises back up.


Nine years after the attack, the bombing claimed another victim last November when Petty Officer 3rd Class Johann Gokool died after a panic attack at his home. He'd been medically discharged from the Navy with a 100% disability after the attack, which cost him his left foot and left him with severe PTSD. The attacks came without warning, lasting from a few minutes to hours, and because of them, Gokool couldn't work or drive. He'd just recently celebrated his 31st birthday.

After the attack, President Bill Clinton made hollow promises about "We will find out who was responsible and hold them accountable.....You will not find a safe harbor,” he proclaimed. “We will find you and justice will prevail."......and then he promptly did a bunch of nothing. And now today, we have another spineless jellyback Liberal Democrat Socialist in office, one who decided to not pursue charges against the mastermind of the attack, a guy we once held at Gitmo.

So where's the justice for the dead? These sailors gave their lives for our nation, and thus far we've not done much to keep the faith & hold up our end of the bargain.

In honored memory of those lost on USS Cole...

Chief Petty Officer Richard Costelow, Morrisville, Pennsylvania.

Signalman Seaman Recruit Cheron Luis Gunn, Rex, Georgia.

Seaman James Rodrick McDaniels, Norfolk, Virginia.

Seaman Recruit Lakiba Nicole Palmer, San Diego, California.

Operations Specialist 2nd Class Timothy Lamont Saunders, Ringgold, Virginia.

Ensign Andrew Triplett, Macon, Mississippi.

Seaman Apprentice Craig Bryan Wibberley, Williamsport, Maryland.

Hull Maintenance Technician 3rd Class, Kenneth Eugene Clodfelter, Mechanicsville, Virginia.

Mess Management Specialist Seaman Lakeina Monique Francis, Woodleaf, North Carolina.

Information Systems Technician Seaman Timothy Lee Gauna, Rice, Texas

Engineman 2nd Class Mark Ian Nieto, Fond du Lac, Wisconsin.

Electronics Warfare Technician 3rd Class Ronald Scott Owens, Vero Beach, Florida.

Engineman Fireman Joshua Langdon Parlett, Churchville, Maryland.

Fireman Apprentice Patrick Howard Roy, Cornwall on Hudson, New York.

Electronics Warfare Technician 2nd Class Kevin Shawn Rux, Portland, North Dakota.

Mess Management Specialist 3rd Class Ronchester Mananga Santiago, Kingsville, Texas

Fireman Gary Graham Swenchonis Jr., Rockport, Texas

"I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast for I intend to go in harm's way."--Captain John Paul Jones

Happy Coming Out Day 2010

I'm not your typical Conservative, or typical Army veteran. It seems many of my compatriots in the ranks of Conservatism and of the military services are staunchly anti-gay and see homosexuals as deviants and doomed to the fiery pits of Hell.

What utter crap.

I've had gay friends since high school. Thankfully, some of them are still friends with me more than 20 years later. It's always been something I accepted and it never bothered me. I mean, hell, why should it bother me? I'm quite secure in my own sexuality and orientation. I don't view homosexuals as a threat to my heterosexuality, my masculinity, or a threat to any aspect of my life that I can think of.

The first guy that ever hit on me was a Navy guy who was a crewman on a submarine at the base I lived on. He was from New Orleans, a hairdresser by profession, and joined the Navy for college money. I used to run into him at the barracks where he lived because their payphones gave you unlimited phone time for a dime, and I could sit there and talk to my girlfriend for an hour or two without a ration of crap from my parents for tying up the phone. I told him I was flattered but not only was I straight with a girlfriend but that I was jailbait to boot. Poor guy was mortified. He thought I was a sailor since I had short hair, was always on the phone at the barracks, and carried my school books in a duffel with the logo of one of the subs at the base. I jokingly said that I'd keep his secret as long as I got dibs on a phone after school.

One of my high school classmates had a terrible crush on me. I told him he had no chance but I never shunned him. He was a really nice guy and friends could sometimes be hard to come by even in a small school of 400 or so kids. He gave me a Mickey Mouse watch for my graduation and I held on to it for at least ten years before I finally parted with it. The face was cracked & scratched to hell & gone, the battery long dead, and the leather strap had disintegrated, but it was such a kind gesture that I hated to let it go.

I knew several gay soldiers when I was in the Army. As long as they did their jobs and didn't publicly dishonor the uniform or the flag I was cool with whatever they did privately. Being gay doesn't make you a bad soldier. In fact pretty much every gay soldier I knew was an exemplary troop. We had a couple units on my base in Germany that were anywhere from 25 to 50 per cent gay. Of course I have no solid proof, but I only knew one or two of the truck drivers in this one transport company who dated guys and many of the intel people up the road with the intelligence-gathering unit were barely keeping it quiet. But it didn't affect their job performances one iota and we all had a blast off duty. One of my closest buddies from that unit is now a woman, actually, living in a major European city and finally living the life she was supposed to be living. And really, all any of us wants is for our friends to be happy, right?

One night while helping out the DJ's at a club near Fort Riley I met a guy who liked the band Erasure just as much as I did and we became instant friends. He was a fuel handler in a support battalion and had just gotten back from Desert Storm. We club hopped together often and raided each other's CD collections regularly. He was originally from Kansas City, a couple hours away, and one weekend we drove up together and partied and I even met his mom. We shared a hotel room just like normal friends. I always knew he was gay even though he never said as much, but I was secure enough in our friendship that I knew he'd never even so much as bat an eyelash my way. He knew I was straight but he didn't know that I knew his secret. I never said anything to him because I didn't thing anything needed to be said. I mean, really, what was there to say? Wouldn't have changed a thing in my mind. A few months after we'd both left the Army he finally admitted to me that he was gay and I told him that I always knew. Turns out he was scared to actually admit it to me while we were both active duty because even though we were friends he was still scared that as a Military Policeman I might feel an obligation to turn him in. I told him that I was a bit hurt that he didn't feel he could trust me but that I understood why he felt that way. Here he was, a decorated war veteran, and had to hide his true self from his friends and comrades.

A couple years later I heard a story about a Naval Aviator who was being drummed out of the Navy for being gay and might have to pay back the government in partial for the expense of his education and training. I was appalled. I mean, four years of college, a year of flight school at a million bucks' worth of training, and after barely a year in the fleet they wanted to kick him out for something he did in his private life off duty. What a crock. The American taxpayers should feel cheated for not getting their money's worth from their investment, and we should all also feel cheated for losing the services of a fine young officer who wanted to serve when so many would rather not serve.

Do I feel that gays should serve openly? Sure, why not? The military needs good people, dedicated people, troops willing to go in harm's way to defend this nation. Nowhere in there does it say we only want straight people. Will it take some adjustments? Sure. Sixty years ago the military was segregated and black troops were relegated to being cooks, stewards, or manual labor functions. Did it take some adjustments? Ask the brave heroes of the Tuskeegee Airmen about adjustments and getting harassed for being different.

Bottom line, if someone wants to serve, gay or straight, then we have an obligation to support them 100%. It's our asses their defending.

So here it is National Coming Out Day. I can't even begin to imagine how hard it is to come out; I never had that issue. But today I salute my brave friends in the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender community. If you want to read the story of one gay soldier's experience with coming out, I invite you to read my friend Wil's article here. It's really a great article. Also, his article here is a letter from his current present-day self to his younger self encouraging him upon coming out. Another great read.

And in closing I wanna extend a middle finger to Fred Phelps and his Little Hatehouse on the Prairie at the Wetsboro Baptist Church. Not only is it disgusting for you to be protesting military funerals, but to use it as an excuse to hurl homophobic hate speech is beyond the pale. You claim that your Christian God hates gays? The way I see it, gays are human beings and as such are God's creatures, His creations, right? So then why would your all-powerful, all-knowing, loving Christian God create something He hates? If your God is all full of love & understanding, why would He hate anything, especially something he created, and furthermore created as gay in the first place. Judge not, lest ye be judged.

Besides, if homosexuality is such an affront to God, then why aren't they just smited to the Earth instantly? And really, isn't it something between them and God? If it's really a sin then it's THEY who have to answer for it on Judgement Day, not you. Worry about the skeletons in your own closets, because an awful lot of so-called Christians have a closet that would scare the shit out of Stephen King.

The Rats Are Jumping Ship

This one was so much fun, it deserved its own post.

Sunday Comics 10-10-10

I told you guys that Admiral Rahmimoto would eventually be shot down!



Yeah...tea or Kool-Aid....what's your poison? Election day is 3 weeks away.....


Keep on bowing & scraping, Barry. And you wonder why no one respects you.....

Oh yeah, baby....all the rats are jumping ship.............................




Sorry, Phelps, you scumbag...God does not hate gays. I'm not exactly a learned Christian scholar (in fact I have never read the entire Christian Bible) but gays are God's creature's and as such are His creations, and why would your merciful, loving, all-knowing God create something He hates? Riddle me that, huh? And a word to the wise, eventually someone at a military funeral is eventually gonna stomp a mud-hole in your ass & walk it dry.....I suggest you turn the other cheek so they can hit both of them.