Leftism is a Childish Belief System

 I have always believed that Leftists were, emotionally, children. I have modified that belief slightly: They are extremely insecure children.

• They believe that everything must be "fair".
• They are obsessed with "bullies".
• They think that other people should give them free stuff.
• They don't want to give other people their stuff.
• They are unable to think ahead to possible consequences of their actions.
• They don't like to follow other peoples' rules.
• Their rules must be obeyed.
• They'll lie right to your face, no matter how obvious it is that they're lying.
• They get upset when you point out their lies
• They cannot stand being told that they're wrong.
• They get extremely upset and resort to name-calling when they are losing an argument.
• They think that everyone should have the same amount of everything.
• They think that it's OK if they have more than other people.
• They will do anything to gain the approval of their peers.
• They insist that they are unique, although they are clones of their peers.
• They will call you names - as long as you pose no physical threat to them.
• They think that if we're nice to people, they'll be nice back to us.
• They can't stand being told what to do (unless it's by their friends/superiors).
• They don't learn from their mistakes.
• They change the rules in the middle of the game.
• They really, really suck at logic.
• They pretend to like things just to be accepted by their peers.
• They never take the blame for anything bad.
• They always take the credit for anything good.
• They use words that they don't really understand (i.e. "rights", "ignorant").
• They get a thrill out of being "naughty".
• They are envious/resentful of anyone who is superior to them in any way.
• They can't tell the difference between fantasy and reality.
• They think that it's OK to just take something if they want it.
• They don't really understand how money/economics works.
• They don't understand the phrase, "We can't afford it". They just want it.
• They don't want to hear anything that disagrees with their beliefs.
• They believe that anyone who disagrees with them is stupid/ignorant.
• They say, "But that's different!" when they make the same mistakes as other people.
• They have no grasp of human nature.
• They don't understand why they can't just do whatever they want to do.
• They believe that they are the center of the universe.
• They don't really care about their political issues. "Raising awareness" is just another way of screaming, "Pay attention to me!"
• They whine. Constantly. Incessantly.
• They don't understand that respect is earned, not their birthright.
• They get absolutely irate when they're laughed at.

"They don't do anything but block me and call me names."
-Barack Obama, 6/2014

 “And, and, and (they) call me names!”
- Barack Obama, 6/2014

Odd That Nobody - NOBODY - Is Mentioning This

In all of the coverage of the Kurds and their fight against the Islamic State, I find it odd that nobody - not even the more intelligent and well-respected commentators are mentioning one thing: The Kurds are Communists.

Their largest group is called the PKK, which stands for the Kurdistan Workers' Party. A name that Lenin himself would have approved of. Although they have been "evolving" recently, it's much like the "Liberals" evolving into the "Progressives": The name has changed, but not the philosophy.

The KDP - or Kurdistan Democratic Party - was created/backed by the Soviet Union against the monarchs of Iraq and Iran in the 1940's. Notice the use of the word, "Democratic". Virtually all political organizations with the word "Democrat" in them are Communist (including here in America). The KDP is no exception.

There are other, smaller, offshoots, but those are the main players.

So why haven't I heard, even once, from any commentator - Conservative or otherwise - that we are allying with Communists? I find that very strange.

It seems as if Conservative leaders believe that our support of the Kurds will diminish if they let it be known who the Kurds really are. That's kind of disturbing.

Usually the Conservative leadership has more faith in their ideological brethren. Purposely omitting the fact that the Kurds are Communists seems like something that the Democrats would pull on their low-information voters because, as we all know, Democrat leaders have no faith in the intelligence of their voters. And rightly so, in their case. But Conservatives are more well-informed, intelligent and realistic than the fools who vote Democrat. We can handle the truth.

Are we right to ally with the Kurds against IS? Probably. The enemy of my enemy and all that.

But I can't help but think that we are arming another Mideast group to fight our proxy war who will, in time, turn around and attack us. We've seen that scenario play out too many times in the Middle East.Why would this be any different?

If I Didn't Know Better...

This is becoming a trend:

Major ISIS Leader Recruits Eleven Muslim Men, And Sodomizes All Of Them In Homosexual Islamic Ritual

The incredible testimony confirms a documentary broadcasted on August 27th on the Kurdish station STERK TV, it was said that ISIS has been raping men in a ceremony it describes as “marriage” and records them to use as blackmail and force them to join.

For a religion that professes to hate homosexuality, they sure do like to screw them some young men and little boys.

The fact that most of these Jihadists are having more butt sex than gay porn stars is the worst-kept secret since Liberace.

Blame Me...Everybody Does

My guess for the 2014 midterm Senate elections? Republicans will gain a few seats, but not enough to take the Senate.

And, after the "Republican wave" turns out to be a ripple, guess who the GOP Establishment (GOPE) is going to blame. That's right: Conservatives.

How do I know this? Easy: because that's what Democrats will/would do.

Just like the Democrat clones that they've become, the GOPE never, ever takes blame for anything that goes wrong. Like the cowardly Democrats, it's always someone else's fault. And, like the Democrats, the GOPE blames everything on Conservatives.

And you know what? They may, for once, be right. My Senators and state are beyond hope. There's a slim-to-none chance that Al Franken will be voted out of office by the know-nothing people in MN.

However, I will not vote for my Representative*, Erik Paulsen, either. He just keeps his head down and does what John Boehner tells him to do.

And, if we had a Senator here in Minnesota who was a RINO, I wouldn't vote for him/her, either. And I'd bet that there are millions of Conservatives like me who are so sick of the insults ("knuckleheads", "whacko-birds") and threats to "crush" us, not to mention their Democrat-like tactics (Remember Mississippi!), that we'll write in "Ronald Reagan" and "Sarah Palin" or - better yet - "Thad Cochran"" when it comes time to fill out the ballot.

So go ahead, Mr. Boehner and Mr. McConnell: blame me when this election doesn't live up to the hype. I may or may not be truly to blame - after all, you morons are amazingly good at screwing up elections - but I will wear it as a badge of honor that I didn't stand with you and your slow-track Socialist agenda.


*Sadly, Michele Bachmann was once my Rep, before they redrew the districts. I was proud to vote for her.

Same same

If attacks on Islam - which is a religion - is "racist" in the eyes of the Left - I think that we can logically call anyone who attacks Christianity - which is a religion - a racist, too.

So, the next time that you see some moron Lefty on a blog attacking Christianity, call him a racist. Then sit back and watch him/her/it dance right into that trap.

I would feel bad for screwing with people that stupid, but they are so willingly stupid that they deserve it.

They Never See the Logic Coming

When it's pointed out to a Leftist that the Nazis were Socialists, the Lefties always come back with, "The Nazis were nationalistic, therefore they were right-wingers" (assuming they don't just call you names instead).

Nationalism = love of country = patriotic.

So, what the Leftists are finally admitting is that, as Leftists, they cannot love their country and are unpatriotic.

Leftists continually get in trouble this way because they are too stupid to think even one step beyond what they've been told to say. It is the thinking of a child. That is also the very reason that they are Leftists.

No Wonder the Left Loves The Muslims

They are part of the "victimized" homosexual crowd.

Just without the fabulous fashion sense.

Anal Jihad

Color me not surprised.

From the time they are children, these guys are getting their asses pounded so much that they'd make San Francisco bathhouse sluts jealous.

It really does explain their pissed-off-at-the-world attitude if you think about it: raped as boys, then being told that they can't indulge their homosexual tendencies as men. But...they look at women as animals and don't want to have sex with them.

Calling Dr. Freud!

Keystone Kreeps

Sometimes I really do wonder if Obama's Hollywood buddies are scripting this whole administration as some kind of farce.

"I am very optimistic about -- about Iraq. I mean, this could be one of the great achievements of this administration. You're going to see 90,000 American troops come marching home by the end of the summer. You're going to see a stable government in Iraq that is actually moving toward a representative government," - Joe Biden, 2010

Everything that they do, everything that they say, everything that they attempt, blows up in their faces. Everything! 

Bob Bergdahl: Insane Jihadi Stalker

I really don't understand why this story isn't getting more exposure in the new media.

The father of embattled POW Bowe Bergdahl, who landed on US soil today, waged a sinister campaign of stalking and harassment against pretty twin sisters – even stealing a gnome from their garden and peaking at them in the shower, the sisters claim in shocking police reports.

Bearded Robert 'Bob' Bergdahl drove by the home of Lacey and Allie Hillman ‘several times a day’ over a period of months and left 'creepy' notes for them, the sisters allege in police documents, obtained exclusively by MailOnline.

Once Bergdahl banged on Allie’s door and accused her of 'two-timing' him – despite the fact that the pair never dated or were even friends, Allie told police.

The guy is a nutcase. And judging by his son's writings and statements it's genetic.

Body Count

Obama's domestic policies have killed more people in this country than all of the guns owned by all of the people that I know.

What we need to stop the killing is a ban on Obama and his minions.

Mommy, What Does "Consequences" Mean?

I've always said that Liberals are nothing more than children in adult bodies. And, like a six-year-old throwing a rock through a window because it sounds like fun at the moment, they are not intelligent enough to think, "What will happen next?"

What do you suppose the reaction is going to be when the 5 dirty Muslims that Obama released for an American deserter start killing people again?

Oh, we know what the reaction will be when it comes to his cult members.

I'm talking about what the reaction will be among normal people. It ain't gonna be pretty and, if it weren't for the fact that people will be dying, I'd say, "Grab the popcorn."

Shut It Down. Shut It All Down

The Federal Government subsidizes tobacco farmers.


The Federal Government funds smoking cessation programs.


Is it just me? Or is that a perfect example of how incredibly fucked up our government is?

Yes, They're That Stupid

In any discussion with a liberal that concerns welfare, the lib will inevitably point out that there are more white people than blacks on welfare.*


In the same discussion, they will also, inevitably, call you a racist for opposing welfare.


So - if you oppose a program that is used by more whites than blacks, you are a racist? Huh?


Liberals are too stupid to understand how stupid they are. Therefore, they think that they're intelligent.


*They will make this point regardless of whether demographics have been mentioned or not.

Prepping the Field - Like a Boss

I keep hearing people saying that the campaign to ban the word, "bossy", is just the usual silly feminist campaign, or that it's to make Michelle Obama look like less of an overbearing, entitled bitch (good luck with that).

Think about it folks: it's nothing more than the beginning of vilifying anyone who points out what an incredibly nasty harpy Hillary Clinton is.

If you criticize Shrillary during the upcoming Presidential campaign by calling her "bossy" - or anything else that points out her insane bitchiness - you will be attacked as a misogynist what is waging the "War on Womyn".

Just Another Liberal Narcissist

Hero of the Left, Wendy Davis, is running for Governor of Texas. To no one's surprise, her biography is one, big lie.

The point that I'd like to address is the fact that she lost custody of her children to her now-ex-husband.

Speaking from experience, the only ways that a woman loses custody of her children are either, a) she has a serious substance-abuse problem or, b) she doesn't even try to gain custody.

I doubt that she's a drunk or a drug-addict, so she apparently didn't even try to gain custody of either of her children, including the child from her first marriage.

What kind of woman just walks away from her children because her career is more important? Wow.

This may seem like just a Texas issue, but I'm sure that her long-term goal would be national office. A woman ambitious enough to walk away from her children for her career would settle for nothing else.

Luckily, the people of Texas are smarter than that. Her chances of winning are slim-to-none.

Way to go UAW!!!

 So...FIAT now owns Chrysler Motors, locks, stock and barrel.
 
In related news:

Chrysler has just announced production of a new super-mini sub-compact car named in honor of President Obama. Introducing: the "Dodge Responsibility".

It has one "forward" speed (plodding), and veers erratically and unpredictably at every bump in the road. It also slams into reverse any time that it runs into a healthcare problem, and will remain that way until after the next election cycle.

It has an adjustable front suspension that will lower the front end whenever it is in the presence of a foreign leader - particularly those of the tyrannical, communist or middle-eastern persuasion.

In a revolutionary feat of engineering, It's hybrid (half-white, half-black) engine runs on hot air and racism which makes it a "green" vehicle, even though the gasses spewing from its tailpipe are extremely damaging to the social environment.

You can get it in any color that you want, as long as it is red.

The Obama Method of Governance

1) Make a speech telling America what you, personally, want and expect.

2) Go golfing. Attend some fundraisers. Go on vacation.

3) When what you, personally, wanted to happen doesn't happen, make a speech telling Americans how "disappointed" and "angry" you are that they didn't do what you, personally, wanted them to do. Be sure to demonize your political opponents for political gain (not because you actually believe what you're saying).

4) Repeat for next issue.

Fooled Themselves Again

By refusing to allow Republicans to delay Obamacare, Obama and his Congressional minions may have just painted themselves into a corner: They now have no choice but to let Obamacare continue, no matter how badly it explodes in their faces.

The websites don't work and probably never will work without a major overhaul, which will take a long time. But people will begin getting fined for not having health care coverage before it's fixed. And that's only the immediate problem. Many more will surface as time goes on.

The best option would be to acknowledge that it isn't ready and delay it. But now they can't do that without being hugely embarrassed and acknowledging that they were just trying to damage Republicans during the shutdown. In other words, they'd have to acknowledge that they were playing political games with real people's lives.

But, if they do decide to delay it, they know that their fellow Leftist lapdogs in the media will cover for them by endlessly repeating their ridiculous justifications, which will amount to, "But this is different!"

Just like the children that they are.

Math Is Hard

The Congressional Republicans' approval rating stands in the low 20's. Which means that about 80% of the people disapprove of them.

If we go with the usual figures of Democrats and Republicans each claiming about 40% of the voters, and the remaining 20% being independent, we should come out with a figure of 60% disapproval (40% Dem plus 20% independent. Assuming, incorrectly, that all independents voted Democrat Which will just make my point that much clearer).

Instead, we have a disapproval rating of 80%. Where did that other 20% come from? You got it: the Republicans have managed to piss off half of their voters! Alright, hey! Alright, good job guys! Let's go get some shawarma!

If ever there were a time to start a third party, now would be it. We have 20% of the Republicans pissed at the party. If we can pick up even half of the independents, we're already starting with 30% of the population. Pick off some more of the Republicans - which shouldn't be hard once those on the fence have a place to go - and some more of the independents, and we have a very competitive Party.

And John Boehner, Mitch McConnell and all of the rest of the cowardly Republican rats can go down with their neo-liberal ship.

Give Her the Bone

So Nancy "Old Mother Hubbard" Pelosi says that "the cupboard is bare" and that it's impossible to cut the Federal Government any further.

Yeah...the delusional old witch really did say that. Two things are immediately obvious:

1) She's crazier than a shithouse rat, and
2) Her constituents are complete and utter morons.

Apparently we have enough money to throw down this rathole:

Despite claims, feds find $100M to give Detroit

So, we'll give them $100 million...and they'll piss it away like they've pissed away every nickel that they've ever had. Nothing will change.

There will be no benefit derived by Detroit, Michigan or The United States. The only people who will benefit from this is the Democrat Party.

If they couldn't use our money to buy votes, they would cease to exist overnight.

Decidedly Strange

The insecure and self-aggrandizing Left is always quick to claim credit for anything that puts them in a good light.

So with the ongoing news that the planet hasn't warmed in 20 years, you'd think that they'd be strutting around claiming that their policies have stopped "global warming".

Instead, they are doing everything that they can to explain it as some kind of 20-year fluke, and that "climate change" is still coming.

Why?

Because if they claim to have fixed the problem, the gravy train stops.

And that's all you need to know about the cult of "global warming". And the Left for that matter: if they ever fix a problem, their wealth and power diminishes.

It Ain't That Complicated

The International Communists have come right out and said that they are working to dominate the world. Everything that has weakened this country in the past 100+ years just “happens” to align perfectly with Communism.

It seems to me that the people who believe in all of the “shadow” groups (i.e the Illuminati, Bilderbergs, Masons, etc.) are overthinking the issue. They’re just making it much more complicated than it is.

I guess that it’s just more “intriguing” than saying that the Communists are trying to take over the world because the Communists have said that they are trying to take over the world.

It’s not nearly as interesting as trying to endlessly make connections between this group and that group surrepticiously pulling this string and nudging that lever of power to advance their agenda. Quite frankly, that seems to be an actual hobby more than a seeking of the truth, if you ask me.

The Communists have said that they intend to take over the world, and they told us how they were going to do it.

(see Gramsci)

And it’s all happening just exactly as Gramsci envisioned.

No Bilderberg’s, Illuminati, Masons, military-industrial complex or shadowy corporate scheming is required.

The Communists told us what they were going to do – and they’re doing it.

It's simple

With Barack Obama in the White House, the Democrats in Congress who are perfectly happy to act as puppets for Obama, a Republican leadership that is concerned with nothing more than keeping their power and perks and a population of people who are either completely uninformed (or just downright stupid) - the Leftists know that they'll never have a better chance of taking over this country.

But, to do that, they need to disarm us first.

I think that they are shocked that the Newtown shootings didn't cause every gun owner in this country to roll over and accept their slavery. After all, if the murder of 20 children didn't do it, what will?

I'm just afraid that we're going to find out.

It's Coming

We are facing some very, very bad things in this country.

The government depends on our belief in their legitimacy to enable them to force us to do what they want us to do. Ultimately, at the point of a gun.

Don't believe me? Quit paying your taxes for awhile. The guy who shows up to arrest you will have a gun on his hip.

Their problem is that Americans are becoming less and less convinced of the government's legitimacy. It's extremely obvious, even to those who are barely paying attention, that the people "in charge" of this country are running it for their own benefit, either financially or ideologically.

Now, most of the Republicans aren't trying very hard to change the system to fit their ideological beliefs. They don't think that the government should have much to say about a "free-market" system. That being said, the Republicans in Washington are desperate to hold on to their well-paid positions, their power and all of their perks.

The Democrats - now they are a different story. There are no more "moderate" Democrats in power. They are all radicals of the 1960's Leftist/Communist bent. Every one of them. No? Name one who isn't. I'll wait. And they want nothing more than to "transform" America into the Socialist utopia of their dreams.

And, now that the Democrats have the Presidency, the Democrats in Congress are ceding all power to Obama and doing everything that they can to assist him in the "fundamental transformation" of America into a Socialist dictatorship. Stalin, Mao, Castro, Pol Pot...Obama. Leftists always need a figurehead to worship.

Again, their problem is that the American people are seeing how badly the politicians are screwing everything up. More and more people are waking up and seeing the mess the politicians are making of this country.

10 or 15 years ago, the Democrats could count on the virtual monopoly that their allies in the mainstream media had to shape public opinion. But now TV news outlets - NBC, CBS, ABC, CNN - are hemorrhaging viewers. And all of the major newspapers (left-wing, all) have a fraction of their former readers.

The Democrats/Left are losing control of the narrative. Their "boiling frog" method of slowly, incrementally instituting their Socialist agenda no longer works because too many people are getting their news from other sources and are noticing how badly this country is being screwed up.

And now they are desperate. They have a Communist President in office, they control the Senate and the House is controlled by a bunch of Republicans who are more interested in their own well-being than in what's good for this country.

The Democrat radicals know that their time is now. They will never get this chance again. It's time to go "all-in".

Everything that the Democrats have done in the past 4 years harms this country. Everything! There are two possibilities:

a) They are all really stupid and don't understand how their policies hurt this country, or

b) They are tearing this country apart on purpose.

All you need to know is that, Karl Marx, the "Father of Communism" stated that to implement Socialism, the existing system had to be destroyed.

The Soviet Union, China, Cuba, Cambodia, Uganda - they all implemented Marx's ideas. And 150 million people were murdered by their own governments to bring on their Leftist vision of Utopia.

The Democrats know that they have to implement Marx's ideas now. Before too many people gain the will to resist them.

Boehner and Obama, Anyone?

When men reduce their virtues to the approximate, then evil acquires the force of an absolute, when loyalty to an unyielding purpose is dropped by the virtuous, it’s picked up by scoundrels—and you get the indecent spectacle of a cringing, bargaining, traitorous good and a self-righteously uncompromising evil.
- Ayn Rand

Whose Side Are They On?

Very interesting article. A small, informal poll of some law enforcement officers and veterans regarding Obama ordering the confiscation of firearms.

I've always said that, when the Left planned for their little "revolution", they made one big mistake: the vast majority of people who like guns, own guns and know anything about guns despise the Leftist commies.

Hard to have a revolution if you have no one to fight for you. The Occupy Wall Street kids would be their best bet, and can you imagine those spoiled dopes trying to fight veterans, hunters and former law enforcement officers?*

The author does make one very important point at the end of the article, however. Could the Left's plan be to foment civil war and then call in UN troops to quell it?

Well, from what I've seen of the UN troops, they wouldn't be much more of a threat than the OWS kids. Unless, of course they hope to win by running prostitution rings and taking bribes. I've never actually seen them fire a shot in anger. Usually, when the bullets start flying, they run and hide.

Pretty sure they wouldn't have the stomach to fight 100 million pissed off Americans with 300 million guns. Our reputation precedes us.



*I say "former" LEO's because I doubt there are many that would consider their paycheck worth the risk of going into home after home of armed citizens, day after day. It doesn't take a genius to figure out that your ticket is going to be punched real fast. Not to mention the fact that most of them - sworn to uphold the law - are not going to care for directly violating the 2nd Amendment.

It Is Irellevant...

 The fact that he didn't actually use an "assault rifle" is irrelevant to the Liberals. They don't like "assault rifles" so they'll use the dead children to get rid of those weapons.

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Tell It Like It Is

Liberals use two "arguments" to try to make their ant-gun points.

1) "Nobody needs an "assault rifle" for hunting."

2) "Assault rifles and handguns are only made to kill people."

To which your reply should be, "Yep."

Apart from the sporting aspects of owning guns, their primary purpose is to kill people.

People who threaten my family and/or me.

And people who try to take my rightfully owned guns from me. Because they are endangering my family and me.

So, the next time some moonbat tells you that guns are good for nothing but killing people, look them in the eye, smile and say, "Yep".

That'll be the end of that conversation.

Thank God For Ruger

Finally: a gun manufacturer that isn't just "keeping their head down" and is taking action against those who want to disarm America.

Please go to this link and contact your Congresscritters. Let them know that we're not going to take the blame for Liberal policies that let homicidal nutjobs run free.

Thank you, and God Bless America.

Amazing Lack of Foresight

The Democrats who are urging Obama (.pdf) to issue "Executive Orders" to advance their agenda and bypass Congress seem to forget one thing: There won't always be a Democrat President in power. Like the children that they are, in their haste to get whatever it is that they want, it never occurs to them that the knife cuts both ways. Yes, they really are that stupid.

In the event that Republicans make good on their threat by failing to act, or by moving unilaterally to pass a debt limit extension only as part of unbalanced or unreasonable legislation, we believe you must be willing to take any lawful steps to ensure that America does not break its promises and trigger a global economic crisis -- without Congressional approval, if necessary.

What's going to happen when the American people get sick of having the Democrat Party's dictatorial, freedom-killing decrees rammed down their throats and elect a Republican (or other Conservative Party candidate - hey...I can dream) for President.

How will the Democrats/Leftists react when said President issues executive orders severely restricting abortion? Or requiring all welfare recipients who are physically able to work for their benefits? Or outright nullifying gun-control laws previously passed by Congress?

I'll tell you how they'll react. They'll whip themselves into a frenzy and scream, "But that's different!". Just like any six-year-old would.

New baby

My Baby

Fair is Fair

OK, so the Leftist media, professors, politicians, pundits, etc. want to infringe upon our 2nd Amendment rights.

I say we let them reinstate the "assault weapons" ban and infringe upon our 2nd Amendment rights on one condition: we get to infringe upon their 1st Amendment rights.

Any of the Leftist "intellectuals" whose livelihood depends on the freedom of speech granted in the 1st Amendment shall be subject to fines or imprisonment if they are caught lying, spewing disinformation, misrepresenting people's views, not reporting news that doesn't help their political agenda or attacking those with a differing political viewpoint.

Oh, I know what they'll say. "But people don't die when we make 'mistakes'".

Is that right?

When New York Times reporter Walter Duranty intentionally covered up the crimes of the murderous Stalin dictatorship in the Soviet Union, 50 million people died.

When the Left fanatically embraced Rachel Carson's book, "Silent Spring" in the 1970's, and was successful in getting the pesticide DDT banned to save a few birds, tens-of-millions of human beings in third-world countries died because insects ate their food.

And those are just two examples. If you add up all of the deaths that Leftist "intellectuals" are responsible for, it easily approaches one billion.

How many "mass shootings" would it take to equal those numbers?

If they get to infringe upon our 2nd Amendment rights to supposedly save, maybe, 75 people per year from "mass shootings" (and we all know that their "assault weapon" ban wouldn't save those lives), it's only fair that they should let us infringe upon their freedom of speech to save millions of lives, right?

The Snobs "Up Front"

Dirty Jobs' Mike Rowe has it exactly right: Everyone laments the "outsourcing" of manufacturing jobs to other countries, but those same jobs are sneered at here in America. And employers are whining that they can't find anyone to fill the "skilled-labor" positions.

Add to that the fact that most employers require some kind of degree for even menial jobs, and it's no wonder that we can't fill our own manufacturing positions. It is really nothing more than the snobbery of those in hiring positions believing that the only people that deserve a position in their organization are those that have some kind of degree. Because - well - because they have a degree, which means that they are above the hoi polloi blue-collar worker. Being self-taught or having on-the-job training just isn't good enough for them.

Given that most post-secondary schools nowadays are nothing more than diploma mills that teach their students what to think, rather than how to think, it is a ridiculous assumption. I have over 6 years of post-secondary education, so I know whence I speak: People who should have been allowed to fail and quit the program were passed with high grades. Because if the warm bodies aren't in the seats, the institution doesn't get any money for them.

Most of the really clueless people in manufacturing today are the people who work on the other side of the wall from the factory...i.e. the "educated" people in the office. The sheer stupidity that I have encountered from them in my career has been mind-boggling.

Case in point: Employers complaining that they can't find anyone to fill skilled labor jobs...but requiring educational credentials to fill those jobs, no matter the other qualifications of the candidates. And they can't make the connection between those two simple things. I don't know where I first heard the term, but they have been called, "credentialed idiots".

I may be "just" a blue-collar grease-monkey, but I'll match wits with the best of them, anytime. I have the distinct advantage of 30 years living in the real world.

Eastwooding

OK...pet peeve time.

I keep hearing people talking about "the carrot and the stick". They say that the object can either acquire the carrot, or be beaten by the stick.

THAT IS NOT WHAT THE ANALOGY IS ABOUT!

The stick isn't for beating anyone. It is just what the carrot is attached to. It was strapped on to the donkey to make it continually strive for the carrot, with no hope of ever acquiring it.

It's amazing how many intelligent people use this wrong.

Liberal "Logic"

Liberals hate themselves. Deep down, they know that they are self-centered, neurotic, emotionally-stunted children who don't really care about anyone else.

And, if they are that messed up, so they think, their ideological enemies (i.e. Conservatives) must be downright evil! After all, if Liberals are the good guys and they're that screwed up, Conservatives must be psychotic!

It never occurs to them that maybe it's just them.

For the Children

For all of their talk about creating a Utopia here on earth for following generations, Obama and his Leftist lunatics are destroying the one thing that they always use as a shield for their insane policies: The Children.

We all know that they are going to be tax slaves to the various governments - Federal, state, local and, eventually, the UN - but the worst part will be that they'll be intellectually enslaved.

In Orwell's "1984", it was posited that, eventually, after the Elite had changed the language enough, thoughts that didn't agree with the rulers would be, quite literally, impossible.

"Racist" no longer has anything to do with race. It simply means that you disagree with the Elite's view of a subject. It doesn't even, necessarily, have to have any bearing on race.

"Hate" no longer has anything to do with hatred. It just means that you disagree with the Elite's view of a subject. If you disagree with gay marriage, you are a "hater". If you disagree with letting millions of illegal immigrants into this country, you are a "hater". And the list goes on.

"Education" no longer has anything to do with intellectual education. It is a euphemism for the vast network of Leftists indoctrinating our children, including the teachers unions and University "Intellectuals" (who rarely use whatever intellect they may have).

"Global Warming" was foisted upon us for years until it was pointed out that the earth was actually cooling. At which point, the Leftist control freaks changed the term to "Climate Change". Which, if they would have been half as intelligent as they like to think they are, they would have went with in the first place. Climate change happens constantly and has been happening since the earth began. But the fools who are susceptible to the Leftist propaganda don't know that.

"Revenues" are what normal people used to call taxes. "Increasing revenues" means raising taxes. So does the word, "Investing" when used by a Liberal, as in, "Investing in our children's future". That simply means that Democrats want to raise taxes and spend the money on things that will actually harm our children's future by increasing the debt that our children will one day have to pay back.

The list of the words/phrases that the Left has corrupted could go on and on. When they control academia (see "Education, above), the media and the bureaucracy in Washington DC, we are truly into the realm of Orwellian thought control.

The only antidote to it all is to teach your children to be skeptical and cynical when it comes to what they see and hear in the mass barrage of information thrown at them every day.

I taught my daughter, and now she defines "cool" for the other kids. Being against "the man" is natural for teenagers. It's just a matter of letting them know why they should be against the ruling Elites.

If Anyone Should Ever be Frogmarched In Front of the Media...

Attorney General Holder in Contempt of Congress

Couldn't have happened to a nicer leftist, racist, arrogant prick.

If procedure were followed, he could be arrested and jailed immediately...which would be most appropriate.

But it'll never happen. The Republican elites wouldn't want to offend their Democrat colleagues/friends.

It Was a Good Run

The Supreme Court upheld the "individual mandate" in Obamacare today.

What this means is that the Federal government can now write a contract, give it to insurance companies, and force you to sign - and PAY - for it. And there is nothing you can do about it.

Which means that there is nothing that the Federal government can't make you do from now on.

If they decide that they want you to be more "green", they can make you buy and install solar panels. Or buy an electric car.

If they want you to be more healthy, they can force you into a contract with a "health food" company.

If they deem you mentally unstable because you disagree with them, they can force you to enter into a contract with a mental health facility.

They can now manipulate any behavior that they want to. For your own good, of course. Because they know better than you do how to live your life. You see: you are not a member of the elite. Hence you are too stupid to take care of yourself. Sadly, half the country seems comfortable with this.

Most of you won't recognize the momentous significance of this day but, unless Congress can repeal this law, America is no longer the Constitutional Republic that it was founded as.

For those of you who voted for Obama and the Democrats so that they'd take care of you so that you could watch American Idol and not have to think...don't come whining to me when the government is forcing you to do things that you don't want to do. This is the "Change" that you voted for.

Deploy the Smokescreen!

Last month the Left got the feminists whipped up with Sandra Fluke.

Today they have the black population whipped up over Trayvon Martin.

Next month it will be one of the Left's other favored "victim" groups. A gay person will get beat up, an Hispanic (and not a "white" Hispanic") will be shot...something that would normally never make the national news. And the month after that, some other "injustice" will work the useful idiots of the Left into a froth. And on it will go until the election in November.

It's pathetic to watch the media collaborate with the Democrat Party to use these normally run-of-the-mill stories to motivate their "victim" classes and also to get Obama's failures off the front pages.

But what's really sad is that so many Americans are gullible and naive enough not to see what's really going on.

The government schools have truly succeeded in dumbing-down the populace enough to not see what's going on.

Good Luck With That

The Lefties, in their childish little way, believe that they have a chance to get Rush Limbaugh off the air because he called a woman who needs $3000 per year in birth-control a slut.

The only people who will be hurt by this are Rush's now-former advertisers who caved in to the Lefties and pulled their advertising. Why do these companies never learn that the bark of the left is vastly larger than their bite?

UPDATE: The entire Boards of Directors of these companies should be fired and replaced with something that owns a spine. They're crashing. "Turns out that sanctimony has a price"

Shocking When You Think About It This Way

150 million people have been murdered by the left in the past 100 years because they are unable to accept the simple notion that "Life Isn't Fair".

Pathetically Hilarious

Obama is so screwed.

If he doesn't please the 10% of Marxist fanatic voters who got him elected he's screwed.

If he goes against the 90% of the real American population that disagrees with those Marxists, he's screwed.

He relied upon a group of complete, left-wing fanatics to get himself elected. They don't have the mental acuity to realize that, sometimes, compromise is necessary. Especially when your party has just been devastated in an off-year election. Like the six-year-olds that they are, they want what they want. Thinking ahead is far too adult for their tiny little minds.

I don't know which I'm enjoying more: these Lefty children throwing a tantrum because their unrealistic expectations aren't being met, or Obama's deer-in-the-headlights cluelessness now that he has lost most of his power.

And the new "Tea Party" Congress isn't even here yet.

No More, No More

Baby I'm a dreamer
Found my horse and carriage
- Aerosmith

Pass bills, let Obama veto them, repeat until 2012.

Gotta Break a Few Eggs to Make an Omelette

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I seem to remember back in 2007 many Republicans & Conservatives saying that, maybe, we should just stay home, let Obama win, show the country what a disaster electing a Socialist would be, and letting the country come back to us in 2010.

And I also seem to remember some of the "greatest" minds of the right-wing political world telling us that it would be a really bad thing to do. That it wouldn't work. That we couldn't risk it. That the American people would just drift farther to the left once they got a taste of Big Nannyism. That we should just vote for the RINO because the slow train to Socialism is better than the fast train.

And now here we are: Obama won, the Democrat Party is, mostly, despised and discredited. Their left-wing agenda and totalitarian tactics have been rejected by a very large majority of the American people. The corruption of their people and their processes has been exposed like a bug under a rock and they're scurrying away from the sunlight as fast as they can.

Conservatism has shot up like a rocket, people are demanding that the Constitution be adhered to, big-government is seen as the problem and not the solution and the Tea Party Movement has brought millions of previously uninvolved people to the side of sanity.

All because nobody could get really excited about voting for RINO John McCain and, therefore, guaranteed a win by Socialist Barack Obama.

And what I find really amazing is that I seem to be the only person who remembers this. I haven't heard a peep about it anywhere. I don't mean this in any self-aggrandizing way. I really am just amazed that nobody else seems to have brought this up.

It just goes to show - once again - that you should never rely on the opinion of an "expert".

Insanity Is...

The popular definition of insanity is, "doing the same thing over and over, and expecting a different result."

Well, for the past 50 years we've been following the "Buckley Rule" which states that you're supposed to support the most Conservative candidate who can win. And, for the past 50 years, this country has been sliding ever closer to outright Communism.

I have no doubt that Bill Buckley was a genius but, apparently, not even he could see where that philosophy would lead us.

The flaw in the theory is that you never really know who can win. Could Mike Castle win in Delaware? Probably. But...could Christine O'Donnell win? Quite possibly. Especially if Chris Coonz's "bearded Marxist" comments get out into the general public. The country, including Delaware, has seen Marxism in action for the past 2 years and it scares the Hell out of them.

What the "Buckley Rule" has gotten us is a bunch of Democrats with an "R" next to their name. And, the farther Left that the Democrat Party slides, the farther left that the Republican Party slides. So what in the Hell is the sense in continuing that?

From now on, we need "The Exile Rule": vote for the most Conservative person in the race. Period. Polls have shown forever that this country is majority Conservative.

Why can't the likes of "political genius" Karl Rove make that simple connection?

Careful What You Wish For, Lefty

The Left spent eight years screeching about "neo-cons" and attempting to destroy them.

Well, the "neos" are on their way out, and the true "cons" are on their way in.

The Democrat Party will soon be reminiscing about the good old days of the pliable neo-cons who would "reach across the aisle" to join them instead of reaching to slap them down like the real Conservatives who are about to join the fray will be doing.

And once these Conservatives get into power. we all need to remind them how they got there, lest they fall to the siren song of Washington power like so many before them and start to "compromise" (i.e. give the Democrats what they want) with the enemy.

Says Who?

OK, I am hearing nothing but, "Christine O'Donnell can't win" in Delaware. She can't win, she can't win, she can't win...blah, blah, blah ad infinitum.

Says who? The "experts"? The "experts" only go off of what they've seen in the past. And the tectonic shift in the political world is, quite possibly, like nothing that this country has ever seen.

For the past 100 years "progressivism" (aka Communism) has been taking over this country in baby steps, occasionally making headlines, but nothing like the daily barrage of destruction that this country is seeing today. The extreme left has taken over the Democrat Party and has gone "all in" with Obama/Reid/Pelosi. They have abandoned subtlety and pounded their agenda down America's throat with a sledgehammer.

And America is horrified.

As long as the Left stuck to the "boiling frog" tactic of slowly advancing their agenda, not enough people noticed at one time to put up any resistance. But now that huge numbers of people see what Socialism really is, they want no part of it.

And, hopefully, that includes a majority of the voters in Delaware.

Can Christine O'Donnell win in Delaware? I think that it is at least very possible, if not likely.

The rules have changed amazingly fast. And we've entered an era of politics in America that is unlike anything we've ever seen.

Here We Come

Congratulations to Christine O'Donnell for tearing down Castle in Delaware.

The despicable behavior of the GOP elitist establishment there shows that, by using liberal scorched-earth tactics against O'Donnell, they are nothing more than quasi-liberal elitists themselves.

They did the same thing that liberals do when they feel their power threatened: they try to destroy the person on a personal level.

The GOP elite in Delaware, and nationally, have become nothing more than elitist snobs who believe that they are entitled to their power. They are acting like liberals/six-year-olds because they know that a very significant part of the party will no longer hold their noses and vote for whomever the GOP anoints. Bob Dole, George W. Bush and John McCain have shown us what happens when we do that, and we're having no more of it.

The Conservatives are ascendant in the party, and it scares the Hell out of the elites in the GOP. As well it should: Their reign of foolishness is just about over, and we're coming for them, next.

After this election, we have about a year to oust them before the 2012 campaign starts. Then maybe we can get a real Conservative to run for a change. Remember: that hasn't happened since 1984.

What We Can Look Forward To

When the Republicans take over the House (and possibly the Senate), and give the business world some optimism (dare I say "hope"?), the economy will start to rebound for real.

When that happens, don't be surprised when the Leftists/Democrats take credit for it by saying that it was their and Obama's policies which were already in place that "just took time" to turn the economy around.

You know it's coming.

This Oughta Be Good

When the insider "tell-all" books from former White House staffers start coming out, I predict that Michelle Obama's childish sense of entitlement and general nastiness will make Hillary look like Mother Theresa. And that ain't easy to do.

Will they ever learn?

OK, we'll try to get through again.

All of you fools who voted for Obama, and are now having "buyers remorse", are howling like coyotes about the present state of the union. Really...what did you morons expect? Did you really not think that "hope & change", coming from an extreme left-wing "black liberation", "social justice", Marxist would get us anywhere other than where we are now?

Oh...wait...you fools have no idea what any of those phrases mean, do you? Not a clue. Maybe you should Google them, instead of "Paris Hilton".

Personally, I'd feel like a complete idiot if I had voted for a guy who's record was out there, but that I hadn't bothered to look into, and then started bitching about how horrible he was.

If you can't find the time to look into anyone beyond what you see on the nightly news, you really shouldn't be voting. You're ignorance has made my daughter's chance at a decent life pretty slim. She'll be paying for your decision to vote for Obama because he's "black" (hah!) or he's "cute" or because he "speaks well" (he doesn't speak well...he makes appropriate facial gestures related to what he's reading on the teleprompter).

Really: if you feel a need to vote, stick with "American Idol". It's only your "civic duty" to vote if you know what you're voting for.

Talking Points for the Next 4 Years

• Obama stole the election!
• Obama = Hitler!
• Obama is responsible for any loss of life due to the weather!
• Obama is destroying the environment!
• Obama lied, people died!
• Obama caused 9/11!
• Obama is waging war to enrich his friends!
• Joe Biden is the real brains behind Obama!

I really am going to walk around saying this stuff to any Liberal that I happen to meet. Let them know how stupid they sounded for eight years. I'm sure that the humor and irony will be completely lost on them - it's much too complex - but at least I'll be entertained.

Fooling the Fools

Obama keeping Bush appointees in position? Appointing Washington insiders and/or Clinton cronies to various posts (not to mention Hillary herself)? Going back on his word to close Guantanamo?

Why is anyone surprised? America has just elected a two-bit race hustler from Chicago to the highest office in the land. That's all that he is. The Left and the fools who pay more attention to American Idol than what's really going on in this country have fallen for the biggest con in history.

To those on the Left: don't feel too bad. In one sense Obama really is just like you: his only ideology is whatever gets him more power and attention. Much like the Clintons (and you on the Left) it really is "all about me".

But then, fooling the naive and uninformed is really no great feat, is it?

Any Day Now...

In view of the recent reports showing that the earth may actually be cooling, how long do you think it will be (or how much money amassed) before Al Gore claims that his initiative solved global warming and averted catastrophe?

I'm thinking that Al "It's All ABout Me" Gore is chafing at Barack Obama taking up all of the lovely, lovely limelight and will have to do something drastic to refocus the spotlight on himself.

He could also use that as an excuse for his ever-expanding carbon footprint:

NASHVILLE - In the year since Al Gore took steps to make his home more energy-efficient, the former Vice President’s home energy use surged more than 10%, according to the Tennessee Center for Policy Research.

“A man’s commitment to his beliefs is best measured by what he does behind the closed doors of his own home,” said Drew Johnson, President of the Tennessee Center for Policy Research. “Al Gore is a hypocrite and a fraud when it comes to his commitment to the environment, judging by his home energy consumption.”

Does anyone need any more proof that Democrats and those on the Left are absolute fools and uninformed morons? After all, this guy is credible in their eyes.

When the Levee Breaks - Or Did It?

OK - who did it?

While the Cedar River ebbed in hard-hit Cedar Rapids, a levee breach in the state capital of Des Moines flooded a neighborhood of more than 200 homes, a high school and about three dozen businesses.

I think that Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson blew up the levees and destroyed the neighborhood to get rid of all of the white people in Des Moines so that the Democrats could move their people in there and have a reliable voting bloc for themselves.

In fact, it's quite possible that Al Gore engineered the weather to give them cover for their nefarious plan! After all, for a man who invented the internet, a weather machine should be a piece of cake. That would also explain all of this global warming stuff.

Or could it be that when levees fail in black neighborhoods it's a Republican plot, but when they fail in snow-white Des Moines - well - that's just nature taking it's course. Other than the fact that Americans caused the climate to change, I mean.

Question:

Will the Democrat Party ever be able to nominate a white male for President of the United States again?

NRCC Gets Shelled!

If the Republican Party doesn't understand the level of discontent in their base after this shellacking, there is no hope of them ever hitting rock-bottom (see post below) and changing course to save themselves.

The comment section on this RNCC blog post is an amazing look at just how upset Conservatives are. If the Republican bigwigs can read this and still think that they have a prayer of winning in November, they are even more deluded than I thought possible.

(Tip o' The Hat to Michelle Malkin)

Time to Stop the Enabling

When dealing with addicts of any type, there is a term that is often heard: Enabling.

When you help an addict or a drunk solve the problems that result from their bad behavior (i.e. bailing them out of jail, "loaning" them money, etc.) you are doing nothing more than prolonging their suffering. You are "enabling" them to continue their destructive behavior. If it's done long enough, it often results in that persons death.

Since 1988, when Ronald Reagan left office, most of us have "held our noses" and voted for people who were not Conservatives. And, not coincidentally, the Republican Party has slid farther and farther to the Left. To the point where the Republican Party is on the verge of officially nominating a man who has again and again and again betrayed the principles that were the hallmarks of the Republican party.

When the Republicans were given power in 1994 they started off well, but slowly-but-surely they became addicted to the lure of money and power until the year 2000 when many of us, with some trepidation, voted for George W. Bush. After that, with absolute power, their death-spiral of addictive behavior accelerated - as it always does with addicts. And, also as with addicts, their behavior became more and more destructive; not just to themselves (via their morals and integrity), but to others - in this case the entire country.

In other words, those of us who have "held our noses" and voted for Bush I, Bob Dole, and Bush II (not to mention many other Senators and Congressmen) have been enabling the destructive behavior of these liberal Republicans. To the point where there is a very real danger to the very country that we live in.

There is another term in the treatment of addicts that comes in handy here: Rock-bottom.

Most addicts will only get help when they have hit rock-bottom. When they have lost everything that they care about and their lives are an absolute disaster.

And when you enable an addict you never let them get to that rock bottom. You keep them from hitting that place where they have to decide whether they want to change their behavior or die.

It's always very, very hard to do, but the most loving thing that you can do for someone in that situation is to take away all of the support that you've been giving them and let them crash and burn - praying that the fall doesn't kill them.

And now it's time to quit holding our noses and voting for the lesser of two evils. When we have reached the point of nominating a Republican who has voted like a Liberal Democrat for years and stabbed the very people who supported him in the back time and time again (another hallmark of addictive behavior), it's obvious that we're no longer helping the Republican party by enabling their bad behavior. It's time to let them hit bottom.

I will not vote for John McCain. Not for so much as dog-catcher. He is a symptom of the disease of Liberalism which has infected the Republican party. Like alcoholism, it's a chronic, progressive (heh) disease and it will only get worse if allowed to do so.

Nor will I vote for Senator Norm Coleman. In his run against the presumed Democrat nominee, Al Franken, the two have become almost indistinguishable (except that, as far as I know, Coleman pays his taxes before he advocates raising them on the rest of us).

For now, at least, I wash my hands of the Republican Party. It's time to let them sink or swim. If we continue to support them, they will never hit bottom and be forced to decide on a new course.

Let's See How This Flies...

Since it was the Democrats* who relentlessly fought for slavery, Jim Crow laws and against civil rights for blacks, why don't we have everyone who has consistently voted Democrat in this country pay "reparations" to the "black community"?

After all, blacks argue that they deserve reparations because of the suffering that they endured and the free labor that they did, right? Well, the people who caused that suffering and kept them in slavery were Democrats. Hence, the people who caused the suffering should be the ones to pay.

That would be one issue that we'd never hear about again.

* If you've never been to Stop the Republicans, it is a MUST read! It is a detailed timeline of the despicable lengths that the Democrat Party went to keep blacks in this country enslaved from 1854 until the present. And it shows without any doubt that it was always the Republican Party that was fighting for freedom for black people. The fact that most people have little or no idea of this history shows the Orwellian twist that only Leftists can put on an issue.

It is an incredibly valuable resource any time you hear the word "Republican" being equated with "racist".

Here's a sample:

November 18, 1872
Susan B. Anthony arrested for voting, after boasting to Elizabeth Cady Stanton that she voted for “the Republican ticket, straight”

January 17, 1874
Armed Democrats seize Texas state government, ending Republican efforts to racially integrate government

September 14, 1874
Democrat white supremacists seize Louisiana statehouse in attempt to overthrow racially-integrated administration of Republican Governor William Kellogg; 27 killed

March 1, 1875
Civil Rights Act of 1875, guaranteeing access to public accommodations without regard to race, signed by Republican President U.S. Grant; passed with 92% Republican support over 100% Democrat opposition

"Progress" Doesn't Mean What You Think It Does

I hear a lot of Conservatives ridiculing "Progressives" for seeming to be against progress. After all, everything that they do seems to go against any real progress as you and I define the term. In fact, their entire philosophy is rooted in the long-dead mind of a Leftist misfit who lived over 100 years ago. How's that for progress?

But to understand how a Leftist defines progress you only need to remember one thing: Socialism was an imperfect but necessary step in progressing to the "perfection" of real Communism.

In the old Soviet Union, where the population was constantly inundated with short, propagandistic slogans (now, who has the "bumper sticker" ideology?), one of the most prevalent consisted of the word 'Progress!'

In fact, during the Soyuz space station days, the space vehicle used to resupply the station was even named Progress.

Their entire system was designed to create the conditions necessary to progress towards International Socialism first and, eventually, to real Communism where every person was exactly the equal of (i.e. the same as) the next. Little robots that the State could use (and destroy) however it saw fit.

And so, when you hear anyone calling themselves a "progressive", trying to see in their ideology what any sane person would call progress is utterly futile. It's apples and oranges. We're not speaking of the same thing.

We're speaking of the betterment of mankind in terms of liberty, freedom, science, etc.

They're speaking in terms of the progression of mankind to be servants of the State.

Could It Be?

Is it possible that the "Man-made Global Warming" hysteria has peaked and we're finally getting a little common sense out there? If this decision by the EPA is any indication, maybe so.

From The Heritage Foundation:

Liberals in Congress and environmentalists are predictably apoplectic over the Environmental Protection Agency’s decision to seek public comment before issuing regulations under the Clean Air Act on carbon emissions. House Energy Independence and Global Warming Chairman Ed Markey (D-Mass.) accused the Bush administration of “running out the clock” on global warming, and Senate Environment and Public Works Chairwoman Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) said the EPA has had nearly year since the Supreme Court directed the agency to act on carbon emissions but, “now, instead of action, we get more foot-dragging.”

Al Gore may want to reconsider that bid for the White House. If the word's finally getting out that all of this is based on junk science and is nothing more than a Socialist power-grab, he may need a new job soon.

The State of Conservatism

I think that Mr. Buckley died just so that he could roll over in his grave at what "Conservatism" has become.

Two Questions

1) Will Hillary cry in public when she has to admit that her lifelong dream has been snatched away from her at the last minute?

2) Who will she blame it on? We know for a fact that she'll take no responsibility for it.

Global Warming?

As far as I'm concerned, Al Gore can come up here and lick my flagpole!

"Believing" - Until You Don't Need To

What ever happened to John Ashcroft who was, once upon a time, the most hated and evil man in the world? At least by Democrats.

Or Karl Rove, for that matter?

These two (and many others) were the subject of thousands of screeching, daily rants warning the American people of how they were going to (literally, in Ashcroft's case) bring Armageddon down upon the world.

Funny, but you hardly ever hear about either of them any more. You only hear about Rove because he writes a column for Newsweak magazine. John Ashcroft may as well have gone on to his reward for as much as the Left mentions him anymore.

Could it be that maybe the Left didn't really believe that these guys were as bad as they said they were? I doubt it. At least during the time that they were shuddering in fear over these "evil, warmongering, Christian haters", they believed every word that spewed from their spittle-flecked lips.

It's just another sign of the Orwellian insanity of being a Leftist that they truly believed that John Ashcroft was the Antichrist - until he no longer threatened their power or policies. Once he no longer threatened them, he became just another human being, no longer imbued with the power to destroy the earth.

And I'd bet that not one of them made the connection between their irrational hatred, their political ideology and the fact that John Ashcroft abruptly disappeared from their radar screen. Once Ashcroft stepped down, he became a non-person. He disappeared - just like mommy does, in an infant's mind, when she leaves the room.

When a Leftist hates someone, it is always in a self-righteous, "I'm going to personally help save the world from this person" point of view. They use the worst epithets that they can possibly think of to describe them, and they believe every word that they are saying at the time.

And then, when this evil person goes off and retires, the Leftists apparently lose the belief that something needs to be done about them. Karl Rove apparently chose being a columnist over world domination.

To be a Liberal is to be completely deranged.

X Ray Spex - Germfree Adolescent

3-Ring Circus

Appearances and Ann Coulter's joke about him notwithstanding, its really too bad that John Edwards isn't gay. Think about it: they'd have all three of their biggest victims groups represented - women, blacks and gays.

Watching Hillary (via her subordinates, of course) try to call Barack Obama a "nigger" and still maintain her elitist liberal image is absolutely fascinating. Especially when you consider that Obama has, as far as I know, never once tried to use the race card. In this day and age, when blacks go ballistic over things that have nothing to do with race (i.e. "niggardly") that's unheard of. I give him all the credit in the world for that.

It's not that Obama doesn't actually believe that blacks are a horribly oppressed minority in this country, as evidenced by the racist church to which he belongs. Hell, he wouldn't be a liberal if he didn't believe in the supposed inherent racism in this country. But he has managed to restrain himself on the campaign trail at least.

And then you have Hillary and her fellow man-hating feminist travelers whining about the boys picking on her and not giving her a level playing field to play on. At least when she isn't crying like a little girl.

(I, for one, believe that her tears were completely real: after 35 years of plotting to become the first female President, her dream looked as if it were crumbling within 11 months of achieving it.)

If only John Edwards really was gay, we could have the pleasure of watching him whine about getting the shaft (sorry, couldn't resist) because of his sexual orientation and attacking Obama for being a man. And attacking Hillary for being even more of a man (except when she's crying).

The Democrats are showing their true colors in this race: after decades of preaching to us about how tolerant they are towards others, their power-at-all-costs mentality comes shining through in their attacks on one another regarding the very things which they'd like us to think they are tolerant of.

We on the Right always knew that they were a bunch of lying hypocrites. Now the rest of the country gets to see it, too.

Wanted: Adult Moderator

Everyone who believes in global warming, raise your hand!

A few years back, my daughter used to do that: "Whoever wants ice cream, raise your hand!"

If the Dhimmocrats want to use their fellow children as moderators, all well and good. But when are Republicans just going to say, "enough!"?

Good for Fred Thompson for finally putting the hostile little girl from The Des Moines Register in her place. When Liberals act like nasty little children, they should be treated like nasty little children.

It's just too bad that they waited until the last debate. They all should have done that from the beginning.

At the very least, Republicans should insist on at least one moderator in each debate who isn't a liberal trying to make Republicans look bad.

That way, we'd at least have some adult supervision.

Gee...What a Shock

Nobody on the Right will be surprised that Al Gore is willing to sacrifice the economy of America, the freedom of Americans and God only knows how many lives in third-world countries for his insatiable ego. After all, he's a Liberal. And, given the chance, that is what all Liberals would do.

Al Gore has come under fire for making personal gain from his mission to save the planet – after charging £3,300 a minute to deliver a poorly received speech.

The former American Vice-President was also accused of being "precious" at the London event, demanding his own VIP room and ejecting journalists, despite hopes the star-studded gathering would generate publicity for the fight against global warming.

...

"Al uses his position for great personal gain. He goes from event to event delivering a similar speech, earning a large fee, and a lot of the time he doesn't actually inform the audience.

"He refused to speak to journalists and security would usher away VIP guests and the Press.

"He was being very precious and demanded his own VIP room before the event, where he held his own exclusive reception.

"The other guests were cut off. It was very clear that many guests were disappointed by this."

The only people who will be surprised by this are his fellow disciples/Liberals who believe that Saint Algore can do no wrong. They are, of course, the same people who were surprised every time that Bill and Hillary were caught lying.

They are, of course, the same people whom Lenin called "useful idiots".

But...That's Different!

Let me guess: The National Intelligence Estimate saying that Iran has stopped it's nuclear-weapons program will be taken as Gospel by the Left.

But, the intelligence that said that Sadaam Hussein had WMD's was "cooked up" by the Bush Administration as an excuse to attack Iraq and steal all of their oil (which, by the way, we seem to be still waiting for...).

And yet, the Liberals will see no contradiction whatsoever.

Liberalism is truly a mental disorder.

Start the Clock!

It's been about half an hour since this began. Has anyone on the Left blamed Rush Limbaugh yet?

ROCHESTER, N.H. - A man claiming to have a bomb walked into Hillary Rodham Clinton's storefront campaign office Friday and took at least two hostages, police and witnesses said.

What's Goin' On?

Rarely does one sentence sum up our situation as much as this one does:

WASHINGTON - The Marines plan to buy fewer bomb-resistant vehicles than planned despite pressure from lawmakers who are determined to spend billions of dollars on the vehicles.

Nowhere in the story does it even hint that part of the reason is that IED attacks have plummeted, and that we may be seeing the beginning of the end of the Iraq campaign in the War against the Islamist death cult.

And, of course, the sickening part about pork-hungry politicians who are "determined" (!) to spend millions of dollars of our tax money on things that the Marines don't even want, just to keep the campaign contributions flowing in.

I don't know who's more disgusting, the press or the politicians.

The Joys of a Complete Lack of Memory

Correct me if I'm wrong (although I know that I'm not), but wasn't it just a few years ago that liberals were all in a tither about banks not giving loans to "low-income" (just like "inner-city", "low-income" is Libspeak for "minority") borrowers?

The Libs, ignoring the reality of the situation as they always do, were up in arms because loan applications from minorities were being rejected more often than those from non-minority applicants (which, as usual, includes Asians, who are a minority in this country). It never occurred to these Leftist morons that the banks were rejecting applications based on income and credit status and not on race.

And so, under threat of legislation and penalty, lenders were forced to give home loans to people who really had no business buying a house, regardless of race.

And now the housing market has gone bad (or, more accurately, back to normal), interest rates have risen, equity has plummeted, and people with Adjustable Rate Mortgages are being foreclosed upon because they can't pay their mortgages. Why? Because many of them are...low income earners!

So who's fault is it that these people took out loans that they couldn't afford? Is it Jesse Jackson and the rest of the left-wing race-industry's fault for strong-arming banks into giving these people loans that they should never have taken out in the first place?

Don't be silly. Nothing is ever the result of bad decisions made by liberals. Their role in the whole matter has been thrown down the memory-hole, never to be seen again.

No, it's all the fault of "predatory lenders" who were "greedily" fooling stupid low-income people into buying houses that they couldn't afford. The borrowers weren't at fault. In the eyes of the Left, poor equals stupid and easily-fooled (they do, after all, vote for Democrats). They just didn't know what they were getting into. There were too many words on the papers that told them what would happen if they didn't pay the loan.

The Liberal/Democrat Party should really rename itself the Wile E. Coyote Party: they get a bright idea, implement it, and it backfires with disastrous results. And, like Wile E. Coyote, the damage is immediately forgotten and it's on to the next foolish idea - which will also blow up in their face and be forgotten. Ad infinitum.

The only difference is that Wile E. Coyote doesn't blame the ACME company for his bad decisions.

Only in the StarTribune

Just a little story that I noticed in the world's most Leftist newspaper.

Police: Bus stop attack was a hate crime

A woman attacked at a bus stop in St. Paul on Monday was the victim of a hate crime, police said.

Cut in the face with a knife, the woman was taken to Regions Hospital in St. Paul and treated for a laceration. Police said she was not seriously injured.

The suspect, who was arrested on suspicion of felony assault, approached the victim at a bus stop on the 800 block of Payne Avenue in St. Paul near York Avenue, police said.

He started yelling at her for no apparent reason, used racial slurs and told her to "get out of here," police said. Then he left the scene but came back with a knife and said,"I thought I told you to leave." He then attacked her with a knife, police said.

According to court documents, the suspect has an extensive record.

Police said the investigation is ongoing.

First of all, let's note that the neighborhood is in what we would call a "bad part of town". And that's putting it mildly.

Isn't it odd that, other than mentioning "racial slurs", the story never mentions why it's being considered a hate crime? No mention of either person's race at all. Wouldn't any normal person think that that little piece of information might relate to the story?

If you know the StarTribune, it doesn't take much thought to realize exactly who the suspect is: a member of one of their favored minority classes of whom nothing derogatory shall ever be said. If the victim were a white male, I guarantee you that you'd know about it. Mostly because the story would cover half of the front page, rather than a tiny story on page 8 of the "B" section.

On the bright side, the police were allowed to label it a hate crime. That in itself is somewhat amazing when you consider the fact that St. Paul is just slightly to the right of Minneapolis, which is slightly to the Left of Moscow in the heyday of the Soviet Union

Nothing Shocking Here

Saudi court hands jail term, doubles lashes for victim of gang rape

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia: A Saudi court sentenced a 19-year-old woman victim of gang rape to six months in jail and 200 lashes — more than double than in her initial sentence for being in the car of a man who was not her relative, a newspaper reported Thursday.

Nothing shocking there.

And here's the link to the story on the National Organization for Women's website:

Oh, wait. There isn't one.

Nothing shocking there, either.

The Logical End of the Democrats

They'll take it all...

Letter on "extra-hard assignments" for independent farmers from M. Ye. Boncharnikova, Central Black Earth Oblast, 1932

The rural commission gave us the extra-hard assignment of [delivering] 150 poods of grain: a hundred poods of winter wheat and fifty poods of spring-sown wheat. I wasn't able to fulfill such an assignment in view of the fact that there are three in my family and we have three plots of land. . . in all fifteen sazhens. I delivered fifteen poods of grain, and that's the most I can do. . . . My husband is an old man of sixty eight, unfit for work, and my boy is twelve, and I'm forty seven. The commission didn't take our circumstances into consideration. They took our horse with its harness, the new harness we purchased and the young horse, our seven sheep, twenty five poods of flour, two fur coats, two homespun coats, twelve arshins of ordinary cloth for leg wraps, one pair of felt leg wrappings, one curried hide, two pair of warm women's boots, one pair of leather men's boots, nine pieces of sun-bleached linen, four warm shawls, two sarafans, two mugs, four knives, two ropes, and so forth. When they came to take all these things, my husband wasn't home. I didn't want to let them take them. They hit me and tied me up, lay me face down and abused me. . . . They left me with nothing to my soul and they also took the seven solid boards that we had ready for our coffins, and one saddle and thirteen hens. I petition . . . to restore my house to me, that is, my hut, and return the property of mine indicated above.

- Stalinism as a Way of Life co-edited by Lewis Siegelbaum and Andrei Sokolov

If you want to see where the Democrat/Leftists are taking us, you need to read this book of letters and reports from Soviet archives. The Hell that these people went through, with the help of the useful idiots in this country, is astounding.