More conversations with Liberals

A couple months ago I started a new "feature" here at Global Domination Through Applied Inactivity called Conversations With Liberals. This is where I highlight some of the foaming at the mouth I encounter in my daily interactions with the Liberals of the Species.

Today we continue the fun & excitement.

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
First up we have Woe-Is-Me Girl. "Woe" is in her early 30's, chronically under/unemployed, and attending college for a Masters, and lives in the Liberal Stronghold itself, the People's Democratic Republic of Illinois.

Just before the election she posts up a link from none other than, get this: SocialistWorker.org . Seriously. And then has THIS to say when quoting the article:

‎

"...the electorate that's likely to turn out on Election Day will over-represent people who voted for John McCain and Republicans in 2008--and under-represent the majority who voted for Obama and the Democrats....A Project Vote study that compared self-identified Tea Party sympathizers with low-income, minority and female supporters of Barack Obama in 2008 found that two-thirds of Tea Partiers had incomes above the national median, and three-quarters reported being in good financial shape. By contrast, 60 percent of African Americans and nearly one-half of young voters had incomes below the national median."

It's all about money for these fucks (Rep). They don't give a rat's ass about us.

Hmmm.....if we didn't care, we'd just let the Democrats continue to run the economy down the shitter. Also, I love that they compared people who made less to people who made more to state the obvious, which was that certain people make more than others and we're all supposed to feel guilty about making more than other people, if indeed we do make more than others. I know an assload of Dems who make a LOT more than me. This report is like saying "A study that compared people with apples to people with oranges found that two-thirds of group A had more oranges than people who have fruit and that 60 percent of random group cluster B had apples below the national average of fruit posession."

And a few days ago, Woe had this to share:

"Just bought my new laptop for school! Yay me! Spread over 6 months for payment, I maybe can pull it off, as long as ReFUCKlicans don't take away my unemployment..."

Oh yes. As long as you get your entitlements we don't incur your venomous wrath and ire. As long as you can purchase a high-value item with your entitlements all is well in the world. Christ, go get a job at McDonald's. A girl I went to high school with managed a McDonald's in college for 6 years getting her BA and Master's before landing a regular job in her career field. Not too long ago, fast food places were giving away signing bonuses to get people to work there. Then again, that was during the Evil Bush Administration; such things may now be extinct in the Obama Utopia.

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Another friend, Screaming Militant Liberal, posted up a link to an article over at Salon.com, another Leftist agenda-festival. The article, by Glenn Greenwald, crucified Representative Eric Cantor (R-VA), for going against the anti-Israel Obama Administration and meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu to express his support for Israel despite the White House's less-than-friendly attitude towards a nation that most days is our only true ally in the Middle East.

Greenwald has the audacity to say, " Leave aside the absurdity of believing that Israel needs to be protected from the extremely deferential and devoted Obama administration." Are you serious? How about blowing Netanyahu off to go eat dinner? Or when Netanyahu canceled a trip to America a few months ago after Obama refused to meet with him? Yeah, that little snub got played up big time in the Muslim world, from Al-Jazeera to The Muslim Observer.

But Eric Cantor's a dirtbag for offering an olive branch.

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Of course there was the expected litany of whining & sniveling after the election. The "teabagger" comments and the like were rampant & rife. Too many to even list.

Elitist Liberal Friend re-tweeted something he'd spotted:

Alvin Greene got 28% of the vote?!?! Damn, Jim DeMint must be a shitwagon of the highest calibre.

This prompted a couple of comments...

Elitist Liberal's Effete Friend: Unbelievable. If we had fielded a real candidate, we might have won.

Elitist Liberal: Hell, a guy who knew how he got nominated might have taken 40%. BTW: I'm a lazy fool who hasn't heard the new Eno yet. (Getting good reviews though.)

I loved how a whine & cheese fest couldn't last two sentences before self-absorbed boredom sets in and the conversation turned to the latest album from Brian Eno.

Democrats overwhelmingly selected Alvin Greene in the primary to run against DeMint with 59% of the vote, despite very limited campaigning and campaign spending, and having no website and no yard signs. It's not Jim DeMint's fault that the opposition selected a guy who couldn't find his ass with both hands and a roadmap. Jim didn't even schedule debates or campaign all that hard because every time Greene opened his suck-hole he dug himself a deeper hole. DeMint was instead left free to help others get elected. And Greene got 28% because even when faced with defeat, Democrats still felt that they had to vote "D" or be faced with scribbling in Mickey Mouse's name in the write-in block. Greene's great idea to stimulate the economy was to make action figures of himself:

"Another thing we can do for jobs is make toys of me, especially for the holidays. Little dolls. Me. Like maybe little action dolls. Me in an army uniform, air force uniform, and me in my suit. They can make toys of me and my vehicle, especially for the holidays and Christmas for the kids. That's something that would create jobs. So you see I think out of the box like that. It's not something a typical person would bring up. That's something that could happen, that makes sense. It's not a joke."

Dude, you were booted from both the Air Force and the Army for incompetence and were indicted on porn charges. You give worse sound bytes than Rain Man and Forrest Gump. And they nominated you? And they question why they lost.....

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Happened upon an interesting conversation from Elite Liberal about how vile the new logo for The Gap is, and how lame the new website is for Urban Outfitters. Wow. I never even noticed nor even knew they had changed.....I don't shop at The Gap or Urban Outfitters because it's overpriced trendy rags for image-conscious snobs, none of whom seem to weigh more than the clothes they're wearing (plus the weight of the latte in their hands). This conversation also took place a MONTH after the Gap pulled the plug on their new logo after only a week. However, I did learn a couple new words: Fauxhemian (well-to-do posers conforming to a safe, upper middle class lifestyle but with the superficial pretense of an alternative or Bohemian lifestyle) and Trustafarian (Privileged white kids who subscribe to the hippie lifestyle (because they can) since they have no worries about money, a job etc. They can then devote their lives to eating organic, following Phish, and wearing dreadlocks (no need for job interviews). They tend to drive Toyota Landcruisers, shop at cooperative supermarkets, and smell of patchouli--common in northern California.)

Veteran's Day 2010

Today has been great.

I don't bitch about having to work on Veteran's Day too loudly, because too many of my fellow vets aren't alive to enjoy the day with me. I may have had to work at -25 degrees today, but I am alive & whole to do it.

As always, I am overwhelmed by the outpouring of support and gratitude from the people I know. My day has been filled with well-wishes and thank-yous, and it's been rather humbling and really heart-warming. No one serves to get the recognition and the platitudes; if they do then they aren't truly "serving" and tarnish the memory of those who have served honorably.

And unlike last year, I was finally able to get into Applebees and enjoy my free lunch. It was packed but not insanely so, filled with vets from every branch, from WW2 to currently serving troops. Made a new friend sitting at the bar, a fellow Army vet who was in Germany about 10 years after I was. When you're a veteran, you're never without instant friends as soon as you come across another. Five minutes after the first hello, you're talking like you've known each other for years.

I'm dedicating this year's Veteran's Day post to the grandfather of one of my high school classmates. Gerald L. Martin enlisted in the National Guard on July 10, 1940 before assignment to Company 1, 103rd Division as an infantryman. He served in the Pacific Theater, and was discharged in September 1945 with the rank of Sergeant. He remained in the National Guard for 28 years as a Company Commander and attained the rank of Major. Gerald passed away this morning in Millinocket, Maine at the age of 88. Godspeed, sir.

Happy Birthday, USMC!

As I do every year on this date, I want to take a minute to say Happy Birthday to all of my friends who have served in the United States Marine Corps, founded on November 10, 1775.

Semper Fi, Devil Dogs!
"We stole the eagle from the Air Force, the anchor from the Navy, and the rope from the Army. On the 7th day, while God rested, we over-ran his perimeter and stole the globe, and we've been running the show ever since."




You gotta blow the picture up to appreciate it...

So...WTF has Obama Done?

Brain bleach. Someone please get me some. I dunno what will cleanse this dreck from my retinas.

As part of my continuing series, "Conversations With Liberals", today I gotta highlight a website that has spread through my liberal friends like cholera through Port Au Prince; quick & nasty & with bad results.

The website in question is called, literally, What The Fuck Has Obama Done So Far? There is also a PG-rated version you can click on. The website was created by Leftists for Leftists to make them feel better about the fact that all their Obasessiah has accomplished is CRAP. Each little factoid is backed up with a link, and those links aren't from independent sources, but rather from the Left's own propaganda machines, mostly the NY Times and Obama's own website. Like those won't be biased? Puh-leeeez. Oh, wait. There's also Wikipedia, a site that anyone can edit an article in. It truly has to be seen to be believed.

I'll give you the meat & potatoes and then the rebuttals:

1. Signed the Weapons Systems Acquisition Reform Act to stop fraud and wasteful spending in the defense procurement and contracting system...(linked to Wiki)

All Obama did was sign it. The bill passed both houses unanimously so it wasn't like he could just veto it. And with Obie canceling the procurement of more F-22's and the different branches canceling orders for MRAPs, how many new systems are we trying to procure that weren't already budgeted....I forget when appropriations went through for the F-23's, and any of the new ships on the ways.

2. Issued Executive Order to close the prison at Guantanamo Bay. (cited through CNN)

And? It's STILL OPEN FOR BUSINESS. Two years after he takes office, it's not closed yet.

3. Ended Bush administration's CIA program of 'enhanced interrogation methods' by requiring that the Army field manual be used as the guide for terrorism interrogations. (cited through CNN)

You mean the Renditions Program started under the Clinton Administration, right? Or the programs that were giving us valuable information about terror cells and insurgencies that the namby-pamby Leftists don't have the stomach for? They'd rather us just ask nicely of the poor misunderstood peaceful Muslims why they hate us so....

4. Increased minority access to capital (cited by the Small Business Administration)

Whoopty shit. Why not increase it for EVERYONE? Oh, wait...your theory on this isn't to help minorities; there's gotta be something in it for you. You help minorities because you play the victim/entitlement card and make them feel they can't do anything without a government handout and that they are entitled just for being a minority, and thusly are indebted to your Leftist causes and will vote "D" in every election. Y'know, letting people who couldn't afford to buy houses get sub-prime loans was what caused the Fannie/Freddie Debacle.

5. Established Credit Card Bill of Rights, preventing credit card companies from imposing arbitrary rate increases on customers (Cited through Politifact)

So you're giving him credit for something that was actually authored by a different Democrat starting in 2007? Yeah, Obama just signed it after Maloney authored it. And don't forget those caveats, kids. This forces credit card issuers to do more variable-rate cards instead of fixed-rate cards, and there is no advance notice needed on variable-rate cards or those with low introductory offers. Rate-raising protections don't apply when banks issue new cards. The 45-day notice on fee increases and rate changes don't ban those fees, and consumers can expect more of these fees to offset lost revenue. Annual fees, balance-transfer fees, and account-inactivity fees will start to hit you. Read more here.

6. Health Care Reform Bill, preventing insurance companies from denying insurance because of a pre-existing condition. (Cited through the NY Times blog section)

Are you kidding me? This is an open-faced shit sandwich. Tie up a huge percentage of our entire economy to bring you "free" gubmint healthcare from the people who can't keep the price of stamps from going up every 6 weeks and who can't run Amtrak, wanna run healthcare like the DMV. Yummy.

And while they can't deny you coverage for pre-existing conditions they'll either go broke paying for this or they'll screw everyone with lower quality care to pay for it.

7. Health Care Reform Bill, allowing children to remain covered by their parents' insurance until the age of 26 (again, through the NYT blogs)

So you're an adult at 18 but can still suck off the parental teat till 26? Why not 30? Why not 45? Why should we ever stand on our own? We should be forever under someone's protective umbrella.

8. Tax cuts for up to 3.5 million small businesses to help pay for employee health care coverage (Cited through NYT blogs)

Horse shit. How many small businesses will go under trying to pay for mandated health insurance or by paying fines when unable to provide it? These same alleged tax cuts that will be swallowed up when the Bush tax cuts expire in a couple months and taxes go back up?

9. Tax credits for up to 29 million individuals to help pay for health insurance (NYT blogs again)

Where? How? You're effectively RAISING taxes by sunsetting the Bush cuts. How many of those 29 million are illegals? How many actually pay taxes or are already on free healthcare?

10. Expansion of Medicaid to all individuals under age 65 with incomes up to 133 percent of the federal poverty level (cited through NYT article)

So lower the poverty bar and include every swingin' dick out there so the system, already brok, broken, and overloaded, can be bled dry?

11. Require health insurance plans to disclose how much of the premium actually goes to patient care (Cited through NYT blogs)

Because profit is evil and people need to know that some of their premium goes to pay for profit, and for nasty things like paying the people who actually work for the company, and for paying for mooch-asses who don't pay their bills, and paying for under-insured and uninsured people.

12. Added 4.6 billion USD to the Veterans Administration budget to recruit and retain more mental health professionals (cited through VA website)

This sounds good on paper. But how much of that is retaining (ie: paying them what they're worth) and how much is wasted advertising and ball-stroking, travel, and overhead to recruit?

13. Significantly increased funding for the Violence Against Women Act (cited through a DOJ website.

The longer I stared at the website's chart the less sense it made. I really didn't see where anything was signifigantly increased, so I withhold comment at this time.

14. Lifted restrictions granting Cuban Americans unrestricted rights to visit family and send remittances to the island (cited through NPR)

So you just said OK to Americans sending their own money to Cuba and stimulate the communist economy?

15. Eliminated subsidies to private lender middlemen of student loans and protect student borrowers (cited through Smart Money's website)

Dude....the government took over the student loan industry. The eliminated the middleman by BECOMING the middleman.

16. Increased funding for national parks and forests by 10% (cited through the NCPA website)

Since a picture is worth a thousand words:

17. Significantly expanded Pell grants, which help low-income students pay for college (Cited through NYT blogs)

The government took over the student loan industry. Now even more kids will owe the government money. And make sure you pass them free Pell grants out to gets more potential Democrat voters into liberal indoctrination schools. Join the Army, kids, Build character and leadership skills and get real world experience and your own college money.....

18. Expanded hate crime law in the US to include sexual orientation through the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act (cited through HRC website)

Sadly this still hasn't stopped bullying and violence against gay kids. By the way, that law was tacked onto a defense-spending bill to force it through. The bill was also introduced in the 107th Congress, under the Bush Administration, and Obama takes the credit?

19. Provided stimulus funding to boost private sector spaceflight programs (cited through the Commercial Spaceflight website)

That's because NASA is instead practicing Muslim Outreach to make them feel good about their contributions to science...like the field of bomb-making. Now stimulus money goes to backyard crackpots to make home-made UFO's for their kids to fly off in on CNN to get you on reality TV like Balloon Boy....

20. Appointed nation's first Chief Technology Officer (cited by the White House website no less)

Oh Goody! Another Czar with vague job duties, paid for by you and me, with no Congressional approval or vetting or oversight.

21. Signed financial reform law establishing a Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to look out for the interests of everyday Americans (Cited through CBS News)

Again, more government and another Czar. With the economy still in the shitter, and gas prices going up, and prices on clothes and food rising, I don't feel very protected. Do you?

22. Signed financial reform law prohibiting banks from engaging in proprietary trading (trading the bank's own money to turn a profit, often in conflict with their customers' interests) (Cited through CBS News)

Again, profit is evil and must be stopped by governmental intervention and legislation and outright takeover by the government.

23. Signed financial reform law allowing shareholders of publicly traded companies to vote on executive pay (Again from CBS News)

The government must tell executives how much they can make, if anything at all....bonuses will be met with punishment.

24. Cut prescription drug cost for medicare recipients by 50% (from Government Track's website)

Another confused web page full of gobbledygook. Just go to WalMart and get the 4-dollar drugs. And I thought Medicare was picking up most of the tab on this stuff anyways? Maybe I'm wrong. I dunno. I'm not on the system.

25. Provided $12.2 Billion in new funding for Individuals With Disabilities Education Act (cited through the US Dept. of Education site)

Another confusing web page full of numbers and citations and listings, without saying what the money will actually do.

26. Extended Benefits to same-sex partners of federal employees (cited through the White House website)

I have no problem with this but I have to mention that in the memo on the site, it stated that they were basically going to review everything to see what could be extended to these partners, which kinda leaves the window open to start hunting for entitlements to anyone for anything. If the employee lacks a partner do we just extend the benefits to their siblings or parents? I mean, if we're gonna start hunting for people to extend benefits to...I quote Obama:" I directed the heads of executive departments and agencies (agencies), in consultation with the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), to conduct a thorough review of the benefits they provide and to identify any that could be extended to LGBT employees and their partners and families..." See the open-ended nature of the wording? Yes, partners should receive benefits the same as spouses, what's the criteria of partnership? How long do they need to be together to qualify?

27. Appointed more openly gay officials than any other president in US history (cited through the Washington Times)

Okay, I'm cool with that too, as long as they were the best qualified people for the job and not just window dressing to get the gay vote.

28. The American Recovery & Reinvestment Act of 2009: a $789 billion economic stimulus plan (cited through the Government Printing Office's PDF file of the bill)

Oh My Gawd: The Succubus Package? You expect me to applaud that financial clusterfuck?

29. Created more private sector jobs in 2010 than during entire Bush years (cited through some no-name bullshit home-grown liberal "news" website called The News Junkie Post)

Are you high? Insane? Or just stupid? I won't even waste my time on this word-vomit.

30. Voluntary disclosure of White House visitors for the first time in US history (from the White House site)

Yeah...beer summits, extravagant Wagyu Beef dinners for a Mexican president who talked down to us while addressing Congress, shoving the Dalai Lama out the side garbage doors into an alley.....

31. Appointed first Latina to the US Supreme Court (cited via NPR)

A liberal mouthpiece with an agenda to legislate from the bench? The Wise Latina herself? Please.....

32. Promoted social responsibility through creation of serve.gov, a national database of volunteer opportunities (from the Serve government website)

Hey, you're unemployed so why not just do our bidding on social labor schemes? Build us a dam, or a new Autobahn...or start building the new Gulags....

33. Reversed 'global gag rule', allowing US aid to go to organizations regardless of whether they provide abortions (cited through the UK Guardian)

So we can pay for abortions in other countries with taxpayer money?

34. Signed the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act, giving the FDA the authority to regulate the manufacturing, marketing, and sale of tobacco for the first time (cited through yet another governmental PDF file)

Yes, by all means, the Nanny State needs to spend time & money to babysit our habits. More laws & regulations because people can't be trusted to make their own decisions or raise their own kids.

35. Signed New START Treaty - nuclear arms reduction pact with Russia (cited via NY Times)

Obama sold out our allies in Poland by knuckling under to Russia's demands to not have a defensive anti-missile system in place to protect Poland while Russia started sending nuclear bomber flights everywhere again. Meanwhile Russia started working on new missile systems. Funny how the Polish President and entire cabinet ended up dead in a plane crash too.....

36. Increased average fuel economy standards from 27.5mpg to 35.5mpg, starting in 2016 (cited via Washington Post)

Well, gas prices keep going up in the Obamaconomy, so we might need more MPG. Meanwhile this forces manufacturers to make teeny tiny potentially unsafe vehicles and pass on the R&D costs to us....but now you own half the car manufacturing in America so that boosts the government's bottom line. And in return we get the Chevy Volt? If you can afford a $41,000 car that gets 50 miles on a charge at best then you don't need the government subsidy do you? Yeah, they bribe you several thousand dollars to buy this electric lemon that mostly runs...on....GAS.

37. Signed the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, restoring basic protections against pay discrimination for women and other workers (cited via Wiki)

So you once again endeared yourself to people who feel disenfranchised to buy their votes. Women and other workers? They're either women or men, dumbasses...Not like there are too many choices here.

38. Provided travel expenses to families of fallen soldiers to be on hand when the body arrives at Dover AFB (from the NY Times)

And well you should. However.....see the next one.

39. Reversed the policy of barring media coverage during the return of fallen soldiers to Dover Air Force Base (from the BBC)

So you fly the family out so the media jackals can film it like a big sad spectacle? Shit heads....

40. Launched recovery.gov to track spending from the Recovery Act, providing transparency and allowing the public to report fraud, waste, or abuse (from Recovery's website)

How many lies can we roll into one sentence? Transparent my ass. Yeah, the only truth here is that you created yet another governmental agency and payroll to further your agenda....

41. Signed financial reform law requiring lenders to verify applicants' credit history, income, and employment status (from CBS News)

Was this before or after Breitbart exposed ACORN?

42. Signed the Children's Health Insurance Reauthorization Act, which provides health care to 11 million kids -- 4 million of whom were previously uninsured (from The Middle Class website)

Put more people on the government teat. If only 4 million were uninsured, then why the fuck do the other 7 million need MY money? They obviously had coverage, no?

43. Issued executive order to repeal Bush era restrictions on federal funding for embryonic stem cell research (from the UK Guardian)

Okay. You got me. I'm okay with this as long as you aren't breeding a fetus to harvest the stem cells and then aborting it after you get what you want from it.

44. Signed the Christopher and Dana Reeve Paralysis Act, the first piece of comprehensive legislation aimed at improving the lives of Americans living with paralysis (from the Reeve website)

Why do we have to have laws to force us to do what we should be doing on our own anyways?

45. Developed stimulus package, which includes approx. $18 billion for nondefense scientific research and development (from NY Times)

Well, that's pretty damned vague. You have to read the article to see what this means.

46. Provided the Department of Veterans Affairs with more than $1.4 billion to improve services to America's Veterans (from VA website)

Again, I say, and well you should. Try not to botch it, since the same website cited showed that in FY 2009 you only met 64% of your Performance and Accountability targets.


I apologize if this all seems dry as toast and nitpicky as hell. But I refuse to knuckle under to Leftist propaganda, especially amateur shit like this.

Election 2010 Special Part 3: The Aftermath

Okay, kids. Party's over and now the lights are on. There are empty beer bottles on the tables, someone is asleep in the corner, and I think someone peed in the ficus tree's pot.

I really thought that I'd be more elated after the election. I mean, I'm ecstatic that we took back the House, but the victory has some casualties. I kinda feel like Tom Hanks at the end of Saving Private Ryan. Sure, we won, but we lost some good people along the way and the war ain't over yet. Plus, some of their big generals got away.

Huh? What are you babbling about, Steve? Happy Days Are Here Again!

Well, yes & no.Alan Grayson's gone. Charlie Crist was beaten like a dog. Nancy Pelosi still gets to speak for her Leftist Liberal Constituency, but no longer speaks for the House. That's a big bowl of sugar-sprinkled Awesome Sauce.

But.....

Locally here in my gerrymandered District 6 in South Carolina, Jim Pratt was unable to oust Jim "That's Racist!" Clyburn from office, leaving me still behind enemy lines in The Occupied Zone.


That arrogant bastard Harry Reid took enough union money to win his race. Hey, Nevada, how's that status as Highest Unemployment In The Nation treating you?


Barbara "Senator Bitch" Boxer won her race. California remains doomed. See below.



In the People's Republic of Massachusetts, Smarmy Socialist Scumbag Bawney Fwank keeps his seat. But he'll lose his chairmanship of the Financial Services Committee, thankfully.


Little Miss Write In, She Who Refused To Take The Hint That Voters Didn't Want Her, Lisa Murkowski, thinks it's her seat by birthright and just might take it by brute force, the RINO scumbag that she is. Take a cue from your Liberal bedmates, eh?

It's Alaska's seat, not yours, and they already said they didn't want you. How many dead people wrote you in?

And in my former home state of Maine, Conservatives are outnumbered by Leftist, Liberal, Tofu-Munching, Granola-Crunching, Socialist Hippy Bastards by about 5 to 1, in a state of just over a million people. On paper, both Senators are ostensibly Republicans. However the truth of it is that Sibilant Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe are so frikkin' RINO they should have horns. They just barely elected a Republican Governor so there may be some hope, but all I've heard from people so far is bitch bitch bitch about the Governor-elect. And both Congressional districts stayed with their Leftist masters. Up in District 2, Jason Levesque came up short, and in District 1 my high school classmate Dean Scontras ran a clean, honest campaign butwas unable to overcome millionaire elitist Chellie Pingree, whose boyfriend's private jet has been ferrying Barney Frank around as of late. (Bwah! I said "ferry" and "Barney Frank" in the same sentence!) Said boyfriend, Donald Sussman, founder and chairman of Paloma Partners, a billion dollar hedge fund flies Pingree around, despite her on-record attacks against Congress members who charter & fly private planes, and also flew Uncle Barney to the Virgin Islands. Nice.

Way to go, Maine. You will continue to be a rustic backwater thanks to these 4 clowns.

The state of Maine hemorrhages jobs and its young people....kids graduate and then run like hell. The shoe industry left Maine. The fishing and lobstering industries are hit & miss. The poultry industry left years ago. Tourism is spotty because who the hell has money(besides Obama) to go vacationing in Maine? There's forestry, but you can only harvest so many trees whilst waiting for new ones to grow. And they continue to stay in the Dark Ages kvetching about evil Tea Party people when it was New Englanders who BUILT this country out of the original Tea Party in Boston.

And back to Kellyfawnya...

California will just fall off the face of the nation into the ocean under the crushing weight of illegal aliens, their own debt, and their own stupidity. Governor Jerry Brown? Jesus, didn't you people learn the last time? He came along & dicked up all the good that Reagan did as Governor, and after a few years you brought in Gray Davis, so inept he was recalled, and then you got the Austrian RINO, who crawled in Davis' hole and scooped the dirt in over himself...and you brought back Governor Moonbeam. Way to go. You passed up the lady who built eBay from the ground up and could have rebuilt your state and passed it over to the guy who just last week said he had no plan to fix the state and lied when he said he did.



But we have Bachmann and Rubio and DeMint and Boehner and we took Obama's former seat...Huge gains were made by Republicans winning as Governor in Democrat strongholds so districts that had been gerrymandered to vote Left can be more properly aligned to vote fairly. So there is hope. REAL hope, not that hopey-changey crap-flavored Kool Aid. How much damage will these cretins do in the next 60-days in the Lame Duck Session before we can start to get things fixed?

I can see 2012 from my house.

Election 2010 Special Part 2: What it meant to me

I feel like I spent two full years just waiting for Election Day 2010. I guess we all have, really.

Back during the first parts of the 2008 election process, I was still a bit naive I guess, despite being almost 40 years old at the time. I had no idea what a nation of uninformed people could do to damage itself if given enough rope to hang itself with. I hadn't yet realized how Conservative I truly was, or more rather how committed I was to Conservatism and limited government. I was still a bit unsure of what I wanted I guess, but I knew what I didn't want....you remember the old adage about being careful what you wish for? I wrote back then that I'd vote for anyone but Hillary Clinton. I wasn't sure who I supported yet, but I knew it would be a Republican and didn't really care who just yet and I knew I didn't want Hillary to get the nomination. Little did I know that I would get my wish and the Democrats would give us The Anointed Obamessiah and in short order damn near destroy a country.

I started to become more educated leading up to the election and afterwards dedicated myself to being what the Administration would consider an Enemy. And now, leading up to the 2010 Mid-Terms I can say unequivocally that this is the first election that I truly felt a part of and not just a voter. I was a participant in the process and not a bystander, sitting back & waiting till the election came around, voting, and then waiting on results the next morning.

I got to know my candidates. Many of my local candidates were quite active with social media & networking, and I still correspond on Facebook with some of them whom I supported in the primaries that didn't receive the nomination. I networked with candidates and my fellow Conservatives to educate & get educated. I took part in an anti-Pelosi protest rally. I blogged my ass off. I created some of my funniest pictures & cartoons.

I became part of the process, and truly felt alive and part of something bigger than me.

Did I get burned out along the way? Several times.
Was I sometimes discouraged? Occasionally but anger makes a great fuel.
Was I encouraged? Yes, all the time, by my fellow bloggers and fellow patriots.
Was I disgusted? Dude, it's THE LEFT we were fighting against. Of course I was.

Am I finished? No way.

Onward to 2012!

Election 2010 Special Part 1: Election 2008 Revisited

Two years ago tonight a majority of Americans were hoodwinked into electing that creature that inhabits the Oval Office. They were promised Hope and Change and the universe on a silver platter and instead have received a giant, steaming, open-faced Turd Sandwich. And for dessert the nation got the bill to the tune of a couple trillion dollars...plus they expect a gratuity.

Notice I don't say "we" elected him. That would imply that I was included, and I sure as hell didn't vote for him. I tried to warn people before the election what was coming and folks drank the Kool Aid anyways. This is what I wrote after the elections of 2008, for those of my readers who weren't on board yet....
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------





My God. What have you people done? Yesterday marked the beginning of what will henceforth be called The Time of Great Suckage (a term I’m borrowing from author John Ringo).

Where are we going, and why are we in this handbasket?

This country, the nation that pioneered mass-production, first invented the airplane, first split the atom, first sent men to the moon, invented the artificial heart, was the first to reach Mars, and even mapped the human genome, sometimes can’t seem to tie its own shoes.

You do realize, of course, that when our founding fathers started this nifty little experiment called America that the Electoral College was put together to prevent what James Madison called in his Federalist Papers “the mischiefs of faction” in an electoral system?

He defined a faction as "a number of citizens whether amounting to a majority of minority of the whole, who are united and actuated by some common impulse of passion, or of interest, adverse to the rights of other citizens, or to the permanent and aggregate interests of the community". Plainly, that means we have a backstop to keep dumbasses from knee-jerk electing a complete asstard, supposedly. However…

See, they figured that the average Joe farmer in 1778 might not exactly be smart enough to not vote for, say, his own donkey. And they had a backup plan to keep that from happening. Rather than directly voting for the President, our citizens cast votes for electors. Electors are technically free to vote for anyone eligible to be President, but in practice pledge to vote for specific candidates, and voters cast ballots for favored candidates by voting for correspondingly pledged electors.

Most states allow voters to choose between statewide slates of electors pledged to vote for the presidential tickets of various parties; the ticket that receives the most votes statewide 'wins' all of the votes cast by electors from that state. U.S. presidential campaigns concentrate on winning the popular vote in a combination of states that choose a majority of the electors, rather than campaigning to win the most votes nationally.

Methinks that the esteemed college was asleep at the wheel last night…and instead allowed the popular vote of the KoolAid-drunk masses to prevail. The Chosen One, The Messiah, The Anointed One, Barack Hussein Obama, was elected by you, the people.

Hey, America…your new President wouldn’t release his college transcripts, and his thesis on Soviet Nuclear Policy mysteriously vanished from Columbia University. How do you lose your thesis? How does NO OTHER COPY exist anywhere in the atmosphere? Me thinks that The Anointed One didn’t want anyone to see just how little he really knew when it came to foreign policy. Yet, you voted for him anyways.

Your Messiah has come right out and said that he’s all about redistributing your wealth to the poor huddled masses. Those same huddled masses now feel that they no longer have to work or pay their bills because The Chosen One will magically make it all go away. Meanwhile, who the hell is paying for it? The Rest of Us are. Why the hell should anyone try to succeed any more when, if we better our financial lot, the Feral Gummint™ will just tax the hell out of you to take care of those who just want handouts? And yet, you voted for him anyways.

It was shown unequivocally that The Chosen One had spent 20 years listening to the venomous hate speeches of the Reverend Jeremiah Wright’s anti-Americanisms, and he just back-pedaled and said “Gosh, I had no idea. He never did that when I was there.” And yet, you still voted for him.

It came out that after The Chosen One wanted to know how many houses his opponent owned because his wife is loaded, that the Chosen One Himself owned a $1.65 million dollar home purchased in a shady deal with convicted real estate developer and political fundraiser Tony Rezko. And yet The Chosen One seemed to not know who Rezko was. If I dropped over a million and a half bucks on a house I think I’d remember who was involved. And yet, you still voted for him.

The Chosen One has the weakest, most liberal voting record in the entire Senate, which seems to be his only real experiential qualification to be President, and yet you still voted for him.

The Chosen One wants us all to have free health care, yet won’t say how it will be paid for other than with higher taxes, and despite worldwide evidence that socialized medicine sucks by and large. Yet you still voted for him.

The Chosen One claims that there will be no new taxes, but what isn’t being said is that there will be a repealing of all the Bush tax cuts, so while they won’t be “new taxes”, they’ll just be the “old taxes” brought back. And you still voted for him.

When The Chosen One says he wants to only tax the people who make over 250K a year, bear in mind that those are the people who employ you. And if you work in a smallish company of, say, 10 employees and your employer suddenly finds his taxes going up 10 or 15 percent a year, well guess how he pays the taxes? He raises prices, cuts benefits to his employees, and has to let a couple of you go because he can’t afford you. Welcome to Unemployment, friend. And yet you still voted for him.

It came out that The Chosen One served on a community board with former 60’s radical and terrorist Bill Ayers, founder of The Weather Underground movement which set off a series of bombs at public buildings and killed a few people, and yet you voted for him.

The Chosen One claims that he’ll have all our troops out of Iraq and Afghanistan inside of 16 months of taking office. So, basically, he’s given Al-Q’aeda and the Taliban a timetable for when they can come back to power. All they have to do is hide in their caves for a year & a half and then wait us out, negating all the good work our troops have done and negating the sacrifices of nearly 5,000 troops who died to make that region safe for democracy. And yet you still voted for him.

It came out that The Chosen One has a questionable tie to noted Palestinian activist Rashid Khalidi, and that video of the two interacting at a 2003 farewell dinner for Khalidi is currently being suppressed by the LA Times until after The Messiah has been elected, lest the truth come out. And you still voted for him.

It came out that His Obamaness has an aunt from Kenya living as an illegal alien in government-subsidized public housing in Boston after her amnesty request was denied over four years ago. And you still voted for him.

It came out that Your Messiah has a half brother in Kenya named George who lives in a dirt-floor shack on about four dollars a month, a brother that he refuses to help as he sits in his $1.5M mansion in the Chicago burbs. He'll help all of you but won't help his own brother? And you still voted for him.

Remember that in and amongst all the crap The Chosen One spouted about “Change” without really saying what the hell that, specifically, his “Change” was, he said certain other things that you people didn’t hear over the sound of the Kool Aid being poured.

Things like:

He’ll “spread the wealth around.”

He’ll “raise taxes.”

He’ll “have a civilian police force as strong as our military”.

He’ll “cut our military”.

He’ll “bankrupt new coal plants”.

He’ll make sure if his daughters “made a mistake they won’t be punished with a baby” in reference to abortion.

He voted against medical care for babies who survive botched abortions saying it would “burden the medical staff and question the woman’s original decision.”

He’ll “Look into drilling” when we need it now.

He’ll sit down one on one with the leaders of terrorist nations.

He did NOT originally condemn Russia’s invasion and aggression into Georgia. Rather, he felt both nations should come to an agreement.

He has called Jeremiah Wright a man who represents the “best the black church has to offer.”

And you still voted for him. And you've nearly elected a super-majority of Democrats into Congress. And when they FUBAR this country four years from now, they’ll blame-shift every single failure on their part solely on the previous administrations’ shoulders, telling you they need another four years to fix it all.

Oh well; we can vote him out in four years after we wake up and experience our Buyer’s Remorse. And since this election took about two years, we may as well start campaigning now. That way we’ll be prepared when we’re so far in the toilet that the Tidy-Bowl Man will have to call Roto-Rooter to come find us based on our last known position off the starboard bow.

A nation of so many accomplishments, and sometimes we can’t even tie our own shoes.

And these are the faces of the opposition...

Why wave an American flag when it's so much more trendy, chic, and cool to wave a Chilean flag?

Asshattery.
Buffoonery.
Chicanery.

The ABC's of Liberal Idiocy all gathered today on the Mall in DC for Colbert & Stewart's Rally to Restore Sanity or some such bullshit. I'm embarrassed to even live within miles of the city Colbert hails from, Charleston, South Carolina, although today is damn near just a cake-topper for that asshole stunt he pulled by making a testifying before Congress into bad sketch comedy.

And considering the way Obama has left Israel hung out to dry and suckled the teats of Islam the past couple years like the good Muslim he was raised to be, Obama's buddy Jon Stewart (or Jonathan Stuart Leibowitz) has a greater sense of loyalty to Liberalism than to Judaism it seems. Every Judas has his price I guess.

Oh, lookie. It seems that a Muslim and a Jew really can peacefully share a stage, as long as it's Stage Left. No, that's not Tommy Chong; it's Cat Stevens...excuse me, I meant Yusuf Islam.


Those dicks at CBS "news" said that Glenn Beck's rally on 8/28 had 87,000 people in attendance, which is just insulting. Try closer to half a million, assholes. Even Joe Scarborough at PMSNBC said it was half a million, echoed by the Brits at Sky News who had nothing invested in lying for Obama's minions. So far, reports say as many as 150,000 kooks and bored pre-Halloweenies showed up for the Leftist Lovefest. Anyone that I personally knew who was going weren't going to support an agenda; they went to people-watch.

Look at the comparison between aerial shots of the rallies. The second pic just shows you how tightly packed that peaceful sea of humanity was for the Beck rally.
So even Areola Puffnstuff's Magic Bus Caravan couldn't out-do Beck. Hope you enjoyed the show, dahhhlink.


One sign I saw in a picture on Yahoo News stated : "Millennials, you'd better be nice to us. We'll be on your death panel."

Nice.

And here below we have Val Ibarra, 29, of San Fransisco, California. No real surprise there, I guess. Hey, Princess...you're pushing 30. Grow up, put the bong away, and be a responsible adult, k? Or are you just quoting Bawney Fwank?

TENEK: On The Wire reviewed

I feel bad for anyone releasing an album between now and the end of the year. Why? Because hands down I have already picked my Album of the Year for 2010. Nothing short of a live soundboard concert of Depeche Mode, Erasure, Pet Shop Boys, 1989-era New Order, a reunited 1994-era lineup of The Cure, and a reunited Smiths all playing back to back performing in my back yard will make me change my mind. This year is the Year of Tenek, and their new album "On The Wire".

I've had the album for awhile now and have been seriously remiss in not reviewing it sooner, and for that I owe an apology both to you as readers and to the band themselves. If you like electronic music fused with danceable guitars, without that pre-packaged over-produced nonsense fed to you by pop radio, if you grew up to the sound of synths, samples, loops, and beats married to brilliant hooks and wicked grooves, look no further than Sussex. Look no further than the seaside town of Brighton. Look no further than tenek.

Remember discovering a new band that you couldn't get enough of and you were torn between jealously keeping their cool-factor to yourself and sharing it with everyone you know and then being the smug one who was into them first? That's tenek.

You'll recall a few months back I gave you a heads up about new music from tenek when I reviewed "Blinded By You", the first single from "On The Wire". I'm pretty sure that song is getting the nod for Song of the Year this year, incidentally.

It's hard to review an album for a couple of guys that you consider friends. You don't want to come off as blowing sunshine up anyone's arse, theirs or those of potential fans, but I really can't come up with anything bad to say about this album. There have been very few albums in my life where I can listen to it start to finish and not skip tracks or get bored or find a song I didn't like. By request I can name a few if you ask. *grin* But Peter Steer and Geoff Pinckney are class-act guys who don't disappoint.



"On The Wire" is only the second full-length album from tenek, but suffers none of the usual sophomore-slump that affects so many acts that have a brilliant debut. That debut, "Stateless" was only released 19 months ago in March 2009, but the followup doesn't feel rushed at all. Continuing their work with Shaun Brooks, the brilliant house engineer at Toffeetones Records, "On The Wire" is refined, smooth, impeccably put together, and the track listing flows with an awesome synergy that makes it a great listen front to back, full of mid-to-high tempo songs that keep you dancing at the club, bouncing in your chair at work, tapping the beat out on the steering wheel driving about town, or if you're a geek like me, playing air-synth on any available flat surface.

There's no shortage of potential singles to choose from to follow up "Blinded By You". The opening track, "Losing Something" sucks you in immediately and gets you moving, as does "Higher Ground". "No Time For Fighting" compells you to move; you simply cannot stand still while listening to it. The closest thing to a slow track, the lush and soaring " The Art of Evasion" sucks you in and reminds you of sipping espresso at a corner table on a gray autumn Saturday afternoon with someone you were mad about but could never quite work it out with. And not ones to end on a dull note, the rip-stomping "Under My Skin" is the song you'll be singing along with and re-playing to keep singing along with when it ends.

"On The Wire" does exactly what you want electronic music to do for you...it makes you move, it makes you feel, it reminds you of good times gone and sets you up for better times to come, and it pays homage to all the best music you grew up with without sounding the least bit dated or jaded. It sounds fresh and new and unique yet familiar and comfortable, and if you don't get this for yourself immediately, you're missing out. In fact, the holidays are coming, so get thee to either the label's online shop in the UK or A Different Drum's website here in the USA and do yourself a favor. The gift of new music gets you far.


Your next musical obsession: Peter Steer and Geoff Pinckney (photo by Ed Fielding)