Taking Our Lumps

Well, Christmas is over, and here are a few lumps of ‘progressive’ coal left in everyone’s stockings:

From the ‘Is a pig’s ass pork’ Department …

Is President Obama Really A Socialist? Let’s Analyze Obamanomics (Forbes)

[...] why does President Obama keep saying that the rich do not pay their fair share? Is he ignorant? Wouldn’t somebody in his Administration whisper to him that he is peddling nonsense?

The answer is that to President Obama this is still not fair because he is a Marxist. To a Marxist, the fact that the top 1% earn more income than the bottom 99% is not fair, no matter how they earn it, fairly or not. So it is not fair unless more is taken from the top 1% until they are left only with what they “need,” as in any true communist system. Paying anything less is not their “fair” share. That is the only logical explanation of President Obama’s rhetoric, and it is 100% consistent with his own published background.

Poll: Obama Moving U.S. ‘Toward Socialism’ (Fox Nation)

Fox News year-end poll finds a good portion of American voters are worried about President Obama moving the country towards socialism

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Grab ‘em by the balls; their hearts and minds will follow …

Conservatives Rationalize as America Circles the Drain

[...] The left is the establishment; it controls the above branches of the pen-not-sword military [academia, the media, and popular culture]. Conservatives have been reduced to guerrilla warfare … The reality is that there is no culture war. What is occurring now is a pacification effort.

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In the Obama Nation, there is no substitute for appeasement …

Another Low Bow To Radical Islam (Pruden & Politics)

The U.S. Army is soon to issue a handbook instructing soldiers to copy Mr. Obama’s example of when and how to defer to an alien ideology that stands against everything Americans are taught, whether by faith, ethics, morals or another code of good conduct.

The new manual, which runs to 75 pages, orders American military personnel to refrain from saying anything to offend the Taliban in Afghanistan, to be careful not to criticize the practice of sexual relations with children, the abuse of women, beheadings, massacres of girls and the killing of “unbelievers” and Muslims who Taliban enforcers regard as insufficiently devout in the faith. Holding to what they have been taught, whether at Sunday school or a mother’s knee, is presumably OK for American soldiers, at least for now. But they must keep such ideas to themselves.

The manual, issued in the name of the U.S. Government, obviously at the command of the commander in chief, suggests that Western ignorance and arrogance and not the Taliban are responsible for the surge in deadly attacks by Afghan soldiers against the soldiers of the allied coalition.

Merry Christmas, 2012

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An Obama Christmas Carol: “Hark The Herald Angels Sing About Me”

Serf City, Here We Come

“I want next year to be a year of strong economic growth. Call me a hopeless optimist … ” — Barack Obama, 12/21/12

So saying, Butch Incapassidy packed the old battleaxe and the chillun in the woodie and took off for the warmer clime of the former Sandwich Islands  (“…the fact of the matter is, I think if you look at my track record, I’m raising a family here.”)  The rest of the Hole-In-The-Head gang, also known as the U.S. Congress, likewise prepared to scatter to their respective hideouts, while the rest of us are stuck on their out-of-control toboggan as it slaloms toward the largest tax hikes in American history.

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“[John Kerry] is well qualified to be the Secretary of Defense . . . of Cuba or Venezuela” — John O’Neill

I don’t know exactly when we went through the Looking Glass into the land of Down Is Up and Wrong Is Right, but the nomination of this saturnine leftist to head the State Department confirms that we’ve arrived at our destination. Considering that Che Guevara continues to be unavailable, Kerry, the ‘Nam vet whose tour was shorter than Gilligan and the Skipper’s, is just the man to assist Barack Obama as he dismantles America. As Allan Erickson writes:

The dear leader is consistent: he routinely recruits and appoints radicals, losers, failures, tax cheats and traitors … What’s next: Jane Fonda to head Health and Human Services, Bill Ayers for Secretary of Education, or Jon Corzine, Treasury Secretary? The downside of appointing unqualified, incompetent anti-American radicals should be glaringly obvious in the wake of Benghazi, the Arab Winter, defense cuts, unilateral disarmament, serial capitulation, and economic devastation.

But it’s only a “downside” if you assume that the listed outcomes were, in fact, undesired …

For reference, and an eye-opener, not that many Americans appear to care any longer, here is a list of the anti-American radicals brought to the fore by President Poser, people paid with your money to destroy the republic, making way for the socialist transition to communism. (Nancy Matthis is meticulous. Some on this list have gone, but you get the idea.)

Perhaps we should think about it this December as we sit in front of dead trees eating candy out of our socks.  Merry Christmas.

Losing Control Over Gun Control

[...] Hysteria and frenzy are clearly the way the politicians and media elites think we should deal with tragedy. These media worthies might better spend their tears and lamentations over the reckless coverage of the tragedy, when speculation, supposition and make-believe were presented as fact. Errors included the wrong number of the dead, the false identification of the shooter, the wrong guns identified, and the way the shooter was dressed. Tragedy was compounded by media ghouls who descended on surviving children and parents, stuffing microphones the size of beer cans in their faces to ask, “how did it feel?” (When tragedy strikes, the hysterics rule | Pruden & Politics)

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Contemptible behavior as a reflexive response to calamity is not a characteristic endemic only to the reeking buzzards of the Fifth Estate and Democratic politicians, though those particular unworthies seem to have cornered most of the modern market on it.  But in the aftermath of the latest murderous rampage committed by a homicidal whacko using a firearm as his weapon of choice (and not the other way around), many members of academia and the arts have succumbed to blind panic, villifying gun owners who are guilty of nothing, and making it clear that the liberal way of protecting the innocent is, as always, by removing more of their Constitutional rights.  A sampling:

Ben Stiller: “Shocked and saddened by what happened today in Connecticut. We have to stop the access to guns in our country.”

Chrissy Teigen: “it’s too easy for a monster to get a gun. solution: NO ONE GETS GUNS. sorry if this is an inconvenience for your complete need to have one.”

Sarah Silverman: “Band-Aids-on-Band-Aids @NRA people want MORE access to guns to combat all the people w access to guns.”

Piers Morgan: “This is now President Obama’s biggest test – will he have the courage to stand up to the American gun lobby?”

Michael Moore: ”The way to honor these dead children is to demand strict gun control, free mental health care, and an end to violence as public policy.

Rashida Jones: “Gun control is our only road to freedom. Freedom from the fear of senselessly losing children. … Thanks, gun lovers, for all your hateful tweets…

Flea: “No civilians should be allowed to have guns. none…and i dont think the cops should have guns either…change the constitution…and make quality mental health care free…god bless the children…in many countries the cops have no guns and they do perfectly fine…peace and love to all…heartbreaking…the depth of sadness.

Erik Loomis, PhD, assistant professor of history, University of Rhode Island: [I] want Wayne LaPierre’s head on a stick …looks like the National Rifle Association has murdered some more children … Can [we] define NRA membership as dues contributing to a terrorist organization?

But opinions, as the old vulgarism goes, are like anuses — everybody’s got one, and most of ‘em stink.  You can’t remove the darkness in the human heart by singing “Kumbaya” or by legislating a return to the days of the longbow and battle axe. While a rational national debate on stopping mass mayhem — one that includes America’s law abiding firearm owners and 2nd Amendment supporters — may or may not be appropriate, one thing is certain: the only surefire way to stop an armed individual is with another armed individual.

Related:

FLASHBACK: Asst. Principal Ends School Shooting With Personal Gun (All American Blogger)

Suicide Kings

[...] the entity that is most bent on destroying the private economy of the United States of America, until recently the envy of the world, is our own government.” — An Administration That Will Live In Infamy

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It’s the new liberal mantra and, like an echo bouncing off muculent rock in a cavern filled with freshly harvested skulls, it’s repeated endlessly by the pink-to-the-bone chattering class: “Republicans can no longer win elections unless they become more like Democrats.” Patently untrue, of course, but a falsehood that nonetheless gives solace to those in the GOP whose principles have always been as wobbly as the stride of a palsied octogenarian and comforts Democrats who never had any in the first place.  This is no formula for victory; only a blueprint for continued defeat.  Why vote for cheap knock-offs when you can have the real thing for the same price?

And Barack Obama is the real deal — or, at least, the real steal — a man who has looted the public treasury of more funds in three years than his predecessors managed in 236:

Obama has never shown interest in genuine debt reduction. He does nothing for two years, then spends the next two ignoring his own debt-reduction commission. In less than four years, he has increased U.S. public debt by a staggering 83 percent. As a percentage of GDP, the real marker of national solvency, it has spiked from 45 percent to 70 percent. (It’s Nothing But a Power Play – Charles Krauthammer)

He had help, of course. No one could pull off a heist that big without accomplices. The Pelosi-Reid Democratic Congress, for example — as accomplished a gang of brigands since the heyday of La Cosa Nostra.  Then there’s the receivers of the stolen goods, i.e. the non-taxpaying half of the country that accepts their share of the plunder and demands ever more; a complaisant media that, instead of blanketing the country with “Wanted” posters, celebrates political outlawry and calls it social justice; and a unionized system of public education “built on leftist agendas, enforced mediocrity, and teachers motivated by greed varnished with sentimental slogans about ‘the children’” (Daren Jonescu).  A celebrity-obsessed culture that has accustomed itself to enabling promiscuity, deviancy, and tattooed misogyny has again appointed the one-eyed Jackass as its suicide king.

But you don’t keep a suicide king or the Devil way down in the hole by folding your hand and jumping in after him.  That, however, is exactly the strategy that the so-called Republican leadership advocates:

Over the next couple of years, Barack Obama wants to raise the national debt to $18.9 trillion or so.  John Boehner, Mitch McConnell, and the congressional Republicans want to raise the national debt to $18.4 trillion or so.

[...] The present Republican leaders in Washington, instead of hiding under a rock, have taken to standing on the rock and demanding conservatives self flagellate. Neither John Boehner nor Mitch McConnell are visionaries. They are survivors.They survive by recognizing the biggest threat to them and trying to befriend it or neutralize it.

Right now, both see conservatives as their biggest threat, not Barack Obama. Why? Because while Barack Obama maintains the White House, John Boehner and Mitch McConnell maintain their positions of power. They exist for power, not for vision.  (The Republicans Have Failed The Nation)

Republicans don’t lose because they don’t act like Democrats; they lose because they don’t act like Republicans.

A League Of His Own

According to a new report by Barack Obama’s Intelligence Council (as much an oxymoron as a “jumbo” shrimp), the U.S. will lose its status as sole world superpower by 2030.  This analysis, of course, fails to take into account the suicidal presidential election of 2012, the results of which should speed the nation into peak decline by about 2015.  Apparently this is the outcome that the deluded supporters of our re-installed socialist potentate desire — at least until they discover that while parity may be a good thing for the National Football League, when you meet with defeat in the real world you don’t get draft picks to boost you back into contention.

[...] The Chinese … understand that [Obama's] administration is eviscerating American military power — a process that will become even more draconian (andperhaps substantially irreversible) as a result of Mr. Obama’s determination to impose a so-called sequestration round of a half-trillion dollars in additional cuts on a Pentagon already reeling from nearly $800 billion in previously approved reductions.

Then there is Mr. Obama’s rash effort to rid the world of nuclear weapons, starting with ours. A State Department advisory committee made up of rabid disarmers has just issued a recommendation that the United States make still further, deep reductions in its nuclear stockpile through negotiated agreements with Russia, if possible, and unilaterally if President Vladimir Putin will not go along.

This panel — like the Obama administration, which is expected to embrace its recommendations — seems indifferent to the growing evidence that China may have substantially more deployed nuclear weapons than we do. Unlike ours, theirs are on modern launch vehicles, many of which seem to be hidden in 3,000 miles of hardened tunnels. Meanwhile, Team Obama is ensuring that there will be no modernization of the U.S. arsenal and that its weapons — and the industrial complex vital to their future deterrent value and readiness — will continue to atrophy.

Mr. Obama is redistributing power, all right, and thereby is giving the globe a strategic makeover. Think of it as his “fundamentally transforming the United States of America” by diminishing its power and upgrading that of its enemies. (GAFFNEY: Obama’s global makeover – Washington Times)

Sleep well.

Remembering Pearl Harbor, 2012

“I had never known that blood could be so bright red.” — Elizabeth P. MacIntosh (Honolulu After Pearl Harbor)

The only thing the living can do for the dead is remember them.

A Long Walk Off A Short Piers

From Gun Free Zone comes this gem (Piers Morgan Never Saw It Coming):

“Just got this from Facebook. I don’t know how old this Twitter exchange is, but the poor Brit got his ass handed over with a ton of class by Carol Roth.”

The hell with Boehner … let’s get Carol to run for House Speaker.

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Fighting Words

Despite what some of my less than tolerant liberal acquaintances may believe, my military experience does not date back to the era of hardtack and beans — soldiers in the field in my day supped on such culinary catastrophes as ham and chopped eggs delivered in an olive-drab tin can laboriously broached (especially when the icy January winds that regularly blast through the Fulda Gap have demobilized your every digit) by the ubiquitous P-38 (OPENER, CAN, HAND, FOLDING, TYPE I).  The quality of these antique military victuals may be adduced by the fact that everyone’s favorite item in a case of C-rations was generally the finely grained sandpaper that passed for toilet tissue. Fortunately, the old C-rat has gone the way of the musket and the cavalry horse. Not all modern martial transformations are as equally beneficial:

Oblivious to important differences between men and women, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is suing the Department of Defense to lift all combat exemptions for women. Not putting women into combat deprives them of their constitutional rights, the ACLU is arguing on behalf of four servicewomen in a complaint filed Tuesday in a federal court in San Francisco.

[...] The military has kept women out of direct ground combat for a moral reason: Deliberately putting women in harm’s way is not right; and for practical reasons: Women are not as physically strong, and they have an impact on the men around them. In a civilized society, men are raised to protect women. Now some of America’s elite warrior units train men to be indifferent to women’s screams. That’s what passes for “progress” in a “progressive” military. (via KNIGHT: Deceitful debate over women in combat – Washington Times)

The argument posed by the left-wing lawyers nesting inside the ACLU that the fair sex possess a Constitutional right to engage in battle is as pernicious as all the other “progressive” legal speculations which inculcate the rot that currently threatens our culture and our national security.  Besides, any woman who really wants to experience combat doesn’t need to join an infantry outfit — all she need do is get married.

[...] The Marine Corps has opened Infantry Officers Course for a pilot program to study how well women could perform in combat roles. The first two females, and only two entered, both quickly flopped; one on the first day, the other within a week. No female marines have yet opted for the next session.

Women aren’t lining up for these positions; it’s mostly activist intellectuals trying to shoehorn pretenses into reality. The Marine Corps began this study at the behest of the Defense Advisory Committee on Women in the Service (DACOWITS). The Obama administration meddles to fix what isn’t broken …

… There was a study done of women marines during my service. It revealed alarming numbers of WMs who lacked the strength to pull the slide back on a service pistol, an inability to throw hand grenades far enough to refrain from blowing themselves up and little capacity to carry wounded comrades to safety. (Memo To The ACLU: Don’t Put Women Into Combat | Forbes)

Such a study should surprise no one, not even a poisonous leftist like our current president, a man who will routinely place the life and limb of anyone (except himself) at risk in the service of his ideological delusions. But take it from an ex-GI whose training experience includes having had one dropped at his feet one fine Southern afternoon by a fumble-fingered recruit from the Bronx (thank God for long fuses and alert drill instructors) — when it comes to hand delivered explosive devices, a strong and reliable arm is the only thing that’s ever politically correct.

The Trojan Democrat

“Muslims have one clear objective in mind, and that objective is world domination. The Middle East is now closer to being dominated by radical Muslim extremists than it ever has been before, and there is only one man that has supported the Muslim Brotherhood movement and allowed them to assume power in so many Muslim countries, and that man is none other than President Barack Hussein Obama.“  (The Enemy From Within! | Canada Free Press)

“Despite all promises and protests to the contrary, Obama and the Muslim Brotherhood have established Sharia Law as the law of the land in the ‘new Egypt’.” (DARK AGES! Egypt Passes New Constitution Based On Sharia Law)

“As for the socialist authoritarians themselves, we must not fall into the trap of judging radical leftists as if they think like decent or reasonable people. (The “well-creased-pant-leg-means-he’ll-make-a-good-president” fallacy.) What you and I judge as societal failure is, to them, of little consequence in and of itself. For general prosperity is not their goal. In short, the intellectual leaders of the left know as well as you do that their regulatory state with its confiscatory taxation, propagandistic education, and morally subversive cultural elite will not produce prosperity and individual happiness, i.e., that their regime will “fail” the true test of good government. In the authoritarian’s eyes, however, the only failure that matters is the loss of his power.” (Facing Up to the Enormity of Our Problem)

He was for democracy in Egypt before he was against it …

“You look at the decisions [the Obama administration] made especially in the last two years in going through the revolutions in Northern Africa and across the Middle East and to the Far East, and the only way you can explain the horrendous decisions that were so completely wrongheaded would be if this administration had a bunch of Muslim Brotherhood members giving them advice.” (GOP Rep. Gohmert via Mediaite)

Barack Hussein Obama, erstwhile defender of all things “democratic” (as long as they benefit either Marxists or radical Muslims); Barack Hussein Obama, a man who professes publicly to the expansion of freedom at home but whose every official action curtails it; Barack Hussein Obama, the Trojan jackass who spreads an alien ideology that has infiltrated the Republic disguised as the Democratic Party:

“Until conservatives and Republicans realize that they are opposing a Marxist dominated party, they are destined to a series of defeats on the way to political oblivion. This is no longer the party of Truman or Kennedy, but the party of Marx, Lenin, Alinsky and Gramsci. The old rules of fair play no longer apply. The modern Dems will lie, cheat, steal elections and viciously demonize their opposition at every opportunity. Republicans are no longer fighting old line Democrats. They are effectively battling D.S.A, the Communist Party and the labor unions. The Democrats are simply a front for the Marxists. These people play dirty, and they play for keeps.”  (via Trevor Loudon’s New Zeal Blog)

 This is the radical a woefully ignorant electorate has rewarded with another term in office.  May they all drive over the cliff with him.

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