Quick Quiz... name the country

Just came across this in the Christian Science Monitor. For the moment, I'll block out the names. Try to figure out what country the story is about:

Just a few weeks ago, it appeared XXXX’s President XXX XXXX was in for a tough 2011. His party had lost seats in the parliament scheduled to sit in January and his political opponents were vowing to roll-back his socialist program.

But it now appears he has made up for his losses. The outgoing parliament passed a flurry of controversial initiatives that included giving Mr. XXXX decree powers for 18 months.

As is always the case in polarized XXXX, opinions are divided over the laws, which range from extending government control over universities to limiting foreign funding for NGOs. Critics, who seem to oppose President XXX no matter what he does, called the measures a “coup d’etat,” while his steadfast supporters say they ensure that his socialist “XXXX Revolution” is not halted in its tracks.

Or maybe I won't say. It just sounds very familiar, doesn't it??

Actually, it's the Comrade's idol, Hugo Chavez in Venezuela. Ol' Monkey-Face just finagled some kind of "government by decree" thing, where he can pretty much do what he damn pleases without any interference from the Venezuelan legislature. And he was shocked that some people accused him of being a dictator.

Sorry, Comrade, this will happen in the USA only in your dreams... despite Dr. Deathwish and all your other psychopathic czars and czarinas.

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Dr. Deathwish's end run around congress

Remember Dr. Deathwish -- actually Berwick, who's in love with British socialized medicine? Apparently what he likes the best is determining how long people should live, just like the Brits do with their misnamed N.I.C.E. committee, which draws up the guidelines for healthcare rationing in the U.K.

Anyway, a big objection many people had to the Comrade's original socialized medicine bill was what Sarah Palin dubbed "Death Panels." The bill paid and encouraged doctors to "counsel" their terminally ill patients about "alternatives" -- apparently alternatives to continuing to go on living. You know, like wipe out the old people -- I mean, what good are they anyway? -- and spend the socialized medicine funding on someone else. Probably members of Acorn, the SEIU or the UAW. But I digress.

The Comrade and merry marxists had to take the death panel provision out of the socialized medicine bill before anyone in congress would vote for it -- even those senators who ended up taking huge bribes to vote for it. I mean, even those morally-impaired scumbags -- Landrieu, Nelson, et. al. -- didn't want to vote for the death panels -- even if they were paid off. So the death panels came out of the bill.

But Dr. Deathwish has now enabled the death panels by some kind of decree. That is, he likes the ideas of death panels and rationing, and screw the public, he's going to have them.

Of course, some moron in congress named Bumhead or something like that was so overfilled with joy at thought of resurrecting the death panels that he couldn't restrain himself from making this public He wrote some kind of memo or news release or something about it, adding a cautionary note at the end, something to effect, "Hey, guys, don't let the public know about this because they won't like it."

BUT DO IT ANYWAY? Does he think we won't find out? Does it occur to him that this has been considered by congress and tossed out? Yeah. Ignore congress and screw the public. Our job here is just to pay for the executive branch's god fantasies.

(I'm trying to control my language here....it ain't easy.)

When my mom was about 75 years old, she had a heart valve replacement. The doctors told her she'd be dead within five years if she didn't have the operation, but would probably live another 10 years, at least, with the valve replacement. She opted to have the replacement. She made the decision herself. I'm sure she wanted to spend more time with the grandkids and great-grandkids. And why not? They all loved her, too.

So I was visiting her in the hospital after the operation. A teaching hospital. While I was there, a doctor brought in about a half-dozen students to look at my mom. (I'd had pneumonia in that hospital about 15 years prior, and they'd brought in a bunch of students to listen to my congested breathing.) Anyway, I went and stood in the hall while that was going on. While I was out there, one of students left the group and stepped out to talk to me. She was from China. I mean, like a Chinese national studying here.

She asked me, "If your mother is 75, do you think it was a really wise decision to extend her life?"

What? I'd never thought about it. It was my mom's decision. I thought it was up to her. I really didn't know what to say to the student. I thought it was a bizarre and somewhat mean-spirited thing to mention all the way around. Why was it any of her business? I told her that. I mean, the other alternative for my mom was to die.What would you do?

Then some other person who was helping the doctor herd the students around came over to get the Chinese girl back with the group. That person said to me, "I hope she didn't upset you."

I wasn't upset. I was confused. Why was it anybody's business? My mom had an operation and somehow it's a social issue? Of course, this was before the crackpot liberals seized control of the government and decided to dictate what kind of health care we can have. That kind power-mad life-and-death decision-making was, then, pretty much confined to the U.K. and to dictatorships like Red China. Where individual human lives don't seem to matter much.

By the way, Mom lived another 15 years or thereabouts. And she didn't die from heart trouble.

With socialized medicine, the rest of us, I guess, will die at 75. Or at the first signs of impending death? And you do know, in the words of Bob Dylan, if you ain't busy being born, you're busy dying. So where do you want to draw the line? This far, this age, and then you're no longer worth the medication? Exactly where and when and to whom does that happen? I think Dr. Deathwish has already outlived his usefulness already. Let's put him on an ice floe and set him adrift in the Bering Sea.Maybe the Russians will find some good in him and extend his life.

Having a somewhat weird and questionable love relationship with British National Health, Dr. Deathwish seems to believe he has the supernatural power to determine the value of each and every human life. Truth is, he's more likely just a power-crazed sociopath like all the rest of the merry marxists.

You know, Dr. Deathwish, in the U.S., we don't ration anything. We just make more. And my life span, like my mother's, is none of your goddamn business.

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Nihilism by any other name....

For a long time I was fascinated by Russian culture. I'm still a rather huge balletomane -- that means "fan" of ballet. Such a unique and peculiar group of folks, we deserve our own strange, French-sounding label. (Though ballet apparently originated in Italy, and was greatly promoted in France, when it hit Russia via a French company, a small group of Russian balletomanes once requested a dancer's shoes, so that they could boil them and eat them for dinner.)

At any rate, I never could quite conquer the Russian language or the cyrillic alphabet, and never got the pronunciation right, so I just read everything I could in translation. Sometimes different translations of the same thing. Sometimes it was the same book, but with the title translated differently. Anyway....

I read all of Dostoyevsky by the time I was about 18 years old. (Net result, I never read all of one author's works anymore, because I find that makes me feel lonely -- Ah, he's gone now. It's all over.) I've read a lot of Turgenyev, Tolstoy -- who I think is over-rated. War and Peace is very long. That's about the most remarkable thing about it, even if Tolstoy forswore his family's wealth and walked around barefoot or whatever. I was not terribly impressed. I like Dostoyevsky better. You can usually depend on the fact that at least one character in any Dostoyevsky novel will come down with "brain fever." Not sure exactly what that is, but it certainly makes for lots of drama. And Pushkin was rather strange, romantic in a rather old-fashioned way. Also perhaps a balletomane; he was supposed to have had a foot fetish. I don't know. Who else?? Boris Pasternak, Solzhenytsyn....

Anyway, my fascination with Russia led to my absolute revulsion for communism. Beneath the very regulated calm surface, Russia is sort of a cauldron of very rich passions. In addition to the literature, you can hear it in the music -- beautiful, beautiful music. Think of Tchaikovsky for one. And with a tradition of intellectual discipline -- I mean real discipline, and a capability of sorting out the garbage from the authentic. If you've ever argued with a Russian about anything, you know what I mean. And they're all a little crazy, too.

But what I really want to get to is that Russia -- under a calm surface totally regulated by ruthless Cossacks, among others -- was preparing for some sort of revolution for decades before it actually happened. See, the czars and the Cossacks kept beheading every protest movement. They'd kill the leaders or send them to Siberia, and that tended to discourage anti-czarist political activity. Lenin was successful because he fled Russia and did all his organizing and rabble-rousing from Switzerland or someplace. And too bad it was Lenin and communism that took over Russia. The tight clamps of political control remained, just given another name.

Like, got involved in a discussion about today's "anarchy." Like the idiots who turn up at the G-something conferences to run wild through the streets and break windows. Who've been helping the Greeks and the British disillusioned labor movements throw temper tantrums? Those anarchists.

I argue, if they want socialism, they can't be anarchist. Anarchy, literally, means "no government." None. For socialism, you need lots and lots of government, because only the profoundly committed are willing to abandon private property, and eventually you need a really strong government -- preferably with Cossacks -- to "redistribute the wealth." And threaten, intimidate, humiliate, and eventually incarcerate people who never liked the idea, along with those who become disenchanted with it when they've seen it in practice. And this last group almost always is made up of about 95% of the population.

So anyway, the so-called "anarchists" who are tearing through Europe right now, aren't "anarchists" at all. They are, more accurately defined, "nihilists." That is, they just want to destroy everything.

Odd, too, Turgenyev mentions them, and so do many other Russian authors. If you read the fiction, rather than simply political monologues and dry definitions of all the various "isms," you'll get an idea of what it really means to live with all this, and inside of it, annihilated by it. Not a pretty picture. Just something to think about.

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Lame duck pretty lame

Well, the rat-bastards of the 111th Congress have finally packed up and gone home. My main concern was extending the Bush Tax Cuts, and that did happen. The rest is less important. But I do have a couple questions.

First, why do we allow Russia to dictate our missile defense policy? Russia's basically sort of a third-work nation, and they aren't the only other people in the world with atomic weapons. I'm tempted to say that Russia is rather more civilized than Iran or North Korea -- but foreign policy and governments are run by people who may or may not be reflective of the population. I think most individuals, on their own, are decent people no matter where they're from. However, give someone a taste of political power -- in the USA as well as overseas -- and they seem to go completely crazy, begin entertaining visions of their own infallibility and perfect wisdom, and become obstructions to human life on the planet. So I was going to say maybe Russia is a more trustworthy caretaker of nuclear weapons than Iran or North Korea -- who appear to be the more dangerous threats -- but probably not, after all. I mean, Russia appears to be so dead broke it's selling nuclear technology to North Korea and Iran. And I don't think the START treaty will stop that.

But I don't see why Russia should have anything at all to say about what we do with domestic defense. And I suspect no one's going to pay any attention at all to that treaty. The whole thing is, maybe, giving Hillary Clinton a little pat on the back for all her bad hair days as Secretary of State, then shunt her back to the hinterlands of upstate New York.

Don't Ask, Don't Tell was repealed. Well, if the soldiers don't mind, I don't. Do the soldiers mind? Does anyone really know? Anyone ask them? Seems some of the top command was not convinced, but do they speak for the soldiers, the actual "boots on the ground"? I don't know.

1st Responders aid I already talked about. Not against it, just question the excesses of it. As the bill passed, its funding was reduced from $6.2 billion to something like $4 billion. Apparently the feds don't recognize any spending figures in units of less than a billion. That's a very bad habit. It tends to devalue money and only generates a terrific amount of fraud and waste.

Something I found really interesting was that the lame duck congress also passed legislation that makes it illegal for a TV advertisement to blast at a higher volume than the rest of the TV show.

God knows, that's an issue that was keeping me awake at night. I mean, I got down on my knees every night, hoping that even a politically divided congress could come together to save the nation from the scourge of noisy TV commercials.

But you know what? I have a TV that you can set to modulate the sound -- all the sound. Congress had nothing to do with it. Wonder if, in the raucous and hysterical public meetings they held (joking) about this controversial proposal, the thing about the TV sets was ever brought up.

Why is this any of congress's business? What a bunch of douchebags, you know? But they can all go home and remind their constituents: "Ah, but TV commercials now can't be any louder than the other content." Think that will win them any votes?

That's enough for now. A few more things I want to write about, but they deserve their own titles.

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Communications is SUPPOSED to be out of control

Hey, FCC -- shove it up your ass.

My speech, my communications -- none of your goddamn business.

I could elaborate, but short on time. Suffice it to say:

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1st Responders - another look

Hey, I doubt there's anyone in the USA who is more grateful or respectful of the 1st Responders -- those people who rushed to the World Trade Center on 9/11 and in the days afterward than I am. They and their families have suffered and continue to suffer the most personal ill effects of that attack.

But let's look again at the proposed bill to fund the ongoing health care needs of the 1st Responders.New York Senator Gillibrand, who's sponsoring the bill, noted that there are about 100,000 surviving 1st Responders. They're a group that's already been identified -- there won't be any more added to the list.

So the proposed bill asks for $6.2 billion for their care -- or roughly that number.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't that $600 million for each one?

I mean, isn't that just a bit excessive? Seems to me, with that kind of money, each one of them could buy their own country somewhere.

If any one of them stood on top of the Statue of Liberty and tossed $20 bills into the wind one bill at a time, it would be hard for any one of them to spend that much money over the course of a natural lifetime --which many of them -- due to their sense of honor and love of country -- will not enjoy.

So, while I totally agree with the spirit of that bill, I think the cost is more reflective of Washington's general inability to conceive of the value of money than it reflects the actual need.

That's all I got to say about it right now.

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Lame duck dems: an insult to human intelligence

Well, congress is supposed to pass a bill that would allow for keeping the lights on in government facilities. Just a "continued funding" thing.

So, Nero Reid's knee-jerk blockheads in the Senate dumped a 1,900-page bill in the hopper that provides for continued funding, but also for lots and lots and lots of pork and earmarks for loads and loads and loads of useless crap. Like funding the production of tennis shoes for mallard ducks and things like that. Just the usual silly crap designed, primarily, to sink the US into debt and destroy the nation.

Do you ever get the feeling that the dems are just simply demented? I mean like serious brain damage, you know? Or maybe even criminally insane? Yeah. Closer to criminally insane.

Do the dems find this bullshit to be in any way productive? Any way at all? Or are they more like some snotty team of extremely spoiled 9-year-olds who just lost the soccer game, so they spray paint swear words all over the locker room, crap in the stadium seats, pour Crazy Glue down the shower drains and things like that.

Yet these are the dem members of the House. They were elected by... whom? Can't for the life of me figure out what kind of a moron would vote for any of these clowns. What a bunch of infantile buttheads. They apparently have experienced no intellectual or emotional development since their middle school years, if they matured that far. And I don't mean to insult middle schoolers, who are probably much wiser and more adult than these damn fools in congress.

But what do you expect from people who elected, several times, some asshole like Nero Reid to be their "leader?" I mean, that pretty much says it all, doesn't it?

You know what? Don't pass anything. Let CommEd come and shut off the power to the White House. I'm sure the Venezuelan Embassy will shelter the Comrade. Or maybe the Comrades can spend Christmas in Chappaqua with their good frends, the Clintons. Whaddaya think? Better yet, the Comrades can blow a half-million on an extended vacation in Martha's Vineyard or someplace. Not that they revel in behaving like what they call "fat cats" or anything like that.

At this point, we'd all be much, much better off without this federal government. They just are not grown up enough to understand that most of us little peons out here really, truly do want to see them gone. Or, preferably, dead and buried. We voted against the stupid bastards. Threw them out of office. They don't seem to have the sensitivity required to pick up on that message.

What next? They'll be pulling false fire alarms to send police and fire trucks to all of our  houses? Sit in their cars in the parking lots of our office buildings and tailgate us all the way home? Call and hang up in the middle of the night? Toilet paper our houses? Sounds exactly like what we can expect.

Any wonder WHY they were voted out?

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Socialized medicine ruled "Unconstitutional"

Interesting news day so far. Where to start?

In Virginia, a federal judged has ruled that, no, congress can't twist and pervert the Constitution's commerce clause so badly out of shape that it can be interpreted to mean: "You will buy health insurance."

That is, the socialized medicine bill is unconstitutional, unless the merry marxists can find some other weird provision in the law, as written, to force us all to bow to their fantasy wishes.

Ha Ha. Told ya so.

I'm so happy I'm having a hard time trying to think about anything else. Just basking in the ecstasy.

Of course, the feds -- or whomever wants to defend this piece of crap legislation -- will take the whole thing to the Supreme Court probably.

So here we have the dems whining about how much it would "cost" to NOT raise taxes by ending the Bush Tax Cuts, and here's a major way to cut about $3 TRILLION out of the budget over the next five years -- NO SOCIALIZED MEDICINE.

See how nice that all works out?

Meanwhile, some wingnut is burning down houses on Cape Cod after spray-painting them with "Hate the Rich" slogans. Anyone know where Pazzo Pelosi was this weekend?

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The beltway farce

Do you have any idea what's going on in the so-called lame duck congressional session in Washington? I don't. Been very busy so haven't been tracking the blow-by-blow, but this is what seems to be happening:

The compromise tax bill that the Comrade put together with McConnell and Boehner I believe failed in the House. Pazzo and crackpot Vermont socialist Sanders were just outraged that even the Comrade had agreed to stop plundering the "rich" (very loosely defined). I thought the bill failed. I could be wrong.

Apparently there's a similar bill in the Senate -- stopping the massive tax increase, etc. But I thought I also heard somewhere that some senators were stuffing it full of pork. Or maybe the pork thing is in the House. Or, quite likely it's in both chambers. I mean let's face it, the blockheads inside the beltway have forgotten how to legislate without dangling juicy little bits of over-priced and generally useless public works projects in front of each other.

And the real kicker is the Comrade uncrating Can't-Keep-It-Zipped Bill Clinton from mothballs in upstate New York and getting Clinton to explain to the press how a pivot works. Clinton heaved himself from side-to-side at the podium and hinted at the huge benefits he'd be gaining via the compromise tax bill, since he makes so much money now. And the Comrade had to leave -- apparently Michelle was having a Christmas party. Or maybe Kwanzaa or Festivus?

Anyone else beginning to get a little nauseous at these antics?

I don't find Clinton endearing or reassuring. I was absolutely astounded -- and bitterly disillusioned in the American public -- when that buffoon was re-elected.

And, hey, Comrade, ever try making your own decisions? I mean, really, why was this jerk elected?

This is all really a disgrace. It's appalling. Just appalling.

Who are these idiots?

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Kill the rich?

The one feature I find most revolting about the dem party is its "Kill the Rich" policy. But I think I understand their logic:

1.) The rich aren't a "protected" group, like blacks, Hispanics, gays, women. And I mean protected in the politically correct sense of being members of a category of victims in one way or another. That is, the rich haven't thrown themselves on the mercy of a federal agency yet, sued in the Supreme Court for special privileges, or issued press statements and video clips about their long history of being unjustly brutalized and abused by other people. It's this victim status that the dems so highly prize and reward. If you label yourself lame, useless, and defenseless -- that is, not really a contributing member of society -- the dems will adopt you and shower you with other peoples' money. And you probably won't be prosecuted even for the most heinous crime because, being a victim, you're really not responsible for yourself. According to dems/liberals. The liberals love the victims; the victims give the liberals a reason for living.

2.) The rich are natural targets for plunder. I mean, you gotta pay for your crap socialist programs somehow, right? Liberals believe the rich can "afford" to support the ever-growing unproductive victim class. Even as we speak, the dems are turning the "unemployed" into yet another victim group.

3.) Liberals apparently are as consumed by envy as they are by their unidentified floating anxiety and pervasive and mindless sense of guilt. Liberals see that the rich own things, and the liberals are determined to have those things for themselves, even if they have to rob the rich to get them. And, given the liberals' detachment from any concept of "earned wealth," and their determined hostility toward the whole concept of private property, liberals believe that they have some "right" to seize other peoples' wealth.

To illustrate all these points, take for example the current debate over extending the Bush Tax Cuts. The cuts were actually made six and eight years ago, or something like that. The cuts reflect the tax rates that we all pay now and have been paying for nearly a decade.

To refuse to extend the tax cuts, what happens is, in effect, a monumental tax increase. I've heard that this tax increase would compel the average American family to pay abut $3,000.00 more in income tax per year.

The feds are not currently collecting this additional amount of revenue. Since the feds don't now have this revenue, it's more than a little cuckoo to claim that failing to extend the tax cuts will result in the "loss" of any money at all. Truth is -- WHAT THE DEMS CLAIM IS A "LOSS IN REVENUE" IS MONEY THAT IS NOT THEIRS IN THE FIRST PLACE.

But socialized medicine and all the other crap the dems have dumped on citizens absolutely requires funding by this phantom money they intend to appropriate from the rich... or someone.

Like, I've taken out a new car loan based on my projected lottery winnings next year.

Is this making any sense to anyone? If so, you must be a looney liberal.

Anthony Weiner, the weiner, is on TV right now, claiming that he and other butthead dems are trying to block extending tax cuts on the rich because they're "fighting for what's right/"

When has it ever been "right" in the USA to kill the rich? Worse is the genuine stupidity behind the liberals' view of the rich. Because the libs have absolutely no concept of "working for a living," their only source of income is theft. They don't understand that if they steal from the rich, the rich are likely to stop producing. In effect, the libs are running full-bore in efforts to kill the goose that lays the golden eggs.

And so the libs demonstrate once again, that they are blind, deaf, and more than anything else -- terminally stupid. And icing on the cake, this to them is "what we believe in."

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WikiLeaks, rhymes with IckyFreaks

Breaking news! Julian Assange, the anti-American blockhead who's publishing hundreds of thousands of documents stolen from the US government, has been arrested in England on a Swedish warrant that accuses him of rape of some kind. Apparently he had consensual sex with someone without a condom. Apparently that's what passes for rape in Sweden. Oh well....

I do believe Assange's problem is that he just pushed things a little too far. One thing to try to embarrass the USA, but along with exposing private communications from US officials, Assange also embarrassed the people they communicated with -- officials from all over the world. And most countries in the world aren't anywhere near as tolerant as the USA. But the real kicker was Assange claiming "Look Ma! I'm king of the world!" No sorry, that was Jimmy Cagney in "White Heat"...

Actually, Assange made the public statement that if anyone came after him, well, he has 250,000 more private documents he's stolen that he could release if anyone threatened him.

Sorry, you silly-ass dingo, but you're dealing with actual governments here, and not many of them very mindful of your human rights. You draw a line in the sand -- they'll step over it and show you just exactly who is the boss. And the USA doesn't even have to be involved in that.

Assange is an idiot. The real question is, who would have consensual sex with him? I mean he's obviously the kiss-n-tell type.

Who knows, maybe he'll end up in Gitmo with his spiritual soulmates. I do believe if Assange is indicted here on espionage or something that he could be extradicted here for trial. And I suppose that means he'd have to submit to the final humiliation -- undergoing a "porn scan' or an "enhanced" pat-down by TSA people as he boards a plane for the USA. 'Course Assange would probably like that; he seems to be something of an exhibitionist.

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Comrade gets an inkling

Wanted to write last night but had other things to do. But couldn't let the so-called "tax compromise" pass without comment.

Looking like he was sprayed by a skunk, the Comrade announced last night that the Bush Tax Cuts will be extended for all Americans for at least two years -- two years for what the Comrade calls, "the millionaires and billionaires," and apparently forever for everyone else. Everyone also will get a 2% cut on Social Security withholding taxes, and unemployment benefits will be extended for another 13 months. At least that's the suggestion the Comrade is making -- congress still has to pass all this.

So has it finally dawned on the Comrade that he doesn't have the nation behind him? That only about 20% of the population, if that, still supports his marxist tendencies?

Still, what pisses me off more than anything is the Comrade's and his supporters' assumption that they have some "right" to simply seize the revenues of private citizens. Maybe McConnell and Boehmer reminded him     that US courts continue to support private property rights. Or, more likely, they just dangled the Comrade out the window by his heels.

Anyways, I suppose the Comrade sooner or later had to admit -- even to himself -- that nobody likes him anymore and that he will no longer enjoy the slobbering, indiscriminate, and groveling support of the congress.

What's even funnier is that Bill Maher -- and I imagine a number of other rabid, envious and greedy liberals -- are walking around stunned senseless. OMG, someone's put the brakes on grand theft? What the hell has the nation come to? You can't methodically strip private citizens of their personal belongings, not even "millionaire and billionaire?" What next? People buying their own insurance -- and any kind of coverage they want? What a slap in the face. According to Maher's et. al. view of the world, all us little peons are supposed to be grateful for the pitiful debacle Pazzo Pelosi and Nero Reid staged in congress -- completely ignoring not only the Constitution, but the very openly stated will of the people.

And you know, of course, the Comrade hasn't got one chance in hell of being re-relected anyway in 2012, but maybe he's convinced himself that he'll be able to win over conservative hearts and minds. I don't think so. I'll never forget the hard hand of his arrogance and the vicious bite of his stupid policies. I'm no more inclined to fund the early retirement of SEIU and AUW workers now than I was a year ago. And I can't imagine changing those views.

Most of all, though, I really want to thank McConnell and Boehmer and all the other Republicans who met with the Comrade about this. Who knows, maybe they offered him to let him buy Medicare Advantage, or excused him from socialized medicine all together. Or maybe they just brought in the poll statistics from the last election. "Hey, Barry, did you get a look at this at all?"

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Energy independence policy... NOT!

It seems the feds -- the Comrade mostly -- are still doing everything they can to prevent offshore oil drilling in the US, apparently trying to force citizens to buy the stupid demi-semi-electric cars coming out of Detroit. Or someplace. Japan, mostly, I imagine.

Just saw this published today (Dec. 6, 2010) in The Street:

Louisiana State University business chair and Wharton School fellow Joseph Mason came out swinging against Obama, saying that if the White House denies U.S. companies the opportunity to buy new offshore drilling leases in 2011, American policymakers will put an astounding amount of economic potential in jeopardy.

"I determined that America stood to gain $8 trillion in additional GDP, $2.2 trillion in tax revenue over the next 30 years, and 1.2 million new jobs annually by opening access to our offshore resources," Mason wrote. "Given that those estimates were based on federal inventories of offshore oil and gas reserves that have not been updated for decades, the actual economic benefits are likely much greater. In the same vein, the economic opportunities denied would be much greater too," he added.

So the country's going broke, and the Comrade won't let us make any money off oil leases. Is that really a very wise decision? One that's going to make American "energy independent"? Seems kinda stupid to me.

Then Fabio, the model, was on TV today. Apparently he's a spokesman now for the Tesla, another electric car that -- wonder of wonders -- re-charges in three to four hours instead of 12 to 14 hours. Needless to say, the Tesla, like the Prius and the Fusion and what-all, also are supposed to help make America engergy-independent.

But you know what? Until those cars come with some kind of antenna that will reach up into the clouds and tap into fresh lightening, they don't do one damn thing to make anyone energy independent. I mean, it's not like electricity is just laying around like rainwater. People actually burn coal, natural gas, and God forbid, oil, to produce electricity.

So where's the edge up on energy independence? All those electric cars do is make sure you can't go too far from home.

And that's about it for now.

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FCC vs. The First Amendment

Some blockhead fascist at the FCC named Michael Cocks says the media in America is out of control and needs more regulation from the FCC.

HEY, COCKS, READ THE FIRST AMENDMENT. THE MEDIA IN AMERICA IS SUPPOSED TO BE OUT OF CONTROL. 

But of course, working for the FCC, he's probably some illiterate who lost his job when Lehmann crashed and bribed some buddy in the White House to give him a job for which he likely has absolutely no qualifications or experience. I mean, after all, was it his fault he didn't work for Goldman Sachs?

And who would Cocks like to see "fix" American media? The merry marxists who control the federal bureaucracies, of course.

What's wrong with this picture?

Not to mention, the FCC -- or anyone else -- seizing control of the media would require a Constitutional amendment. So the idiot is promoting a federal rights violation. Or, because the FCC does grant licenses for use of the public airwaves, Cocks and gang can just go on ahead and regulate the TV networks. Heaven knows, the TV networks have already made themselves so irrelevant I doubt anyone would miss them.

YOU ARE CLEARLY A MORON, COCKS, AND I, FOR ONE, RESENT PAYING YOUR SALARY.

That's all.

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Shut down the feds? Sounds like a plan

Well, another day and Nero Reid, joined now by big-spending Butthead Baucus, are apparently digging in their heels. Minority Leader Mitch McConnell got all the Republicans to sign a letter stating that they won't consider any other legislation until the Senate takes up the Bush Tax Cuts and authorizes "continuing funding" for the federal government -- that is, the funding that pays the light bills, Social Security, etc., to  keep the government in operation. The tax cuts and continuing funding would seem to take priority over the silly shit giveaways Nero Reid is fixated on.

Like, Nero wants to make sure he pays off those illegals in Nevada who voted for him with his "Dream Act" Yes, dream of a USA that's stone broke and descending into third-world poverty levels, with even higher taxes to pay for the marxist pipe dreams of the last two years. Yet even most dems are too gutless to vote against extending the tax cuts. Many of them won't be coming back in January, and they're probably afraid to go home after the Nov. 2 massacre. They probably have their personal assistants starting their cars, just in case. Nero's plan is to filibuster his own party and keep the tax cut legislation from reaching the floor.

The democrats claim the Republican are being "obstructionist" again. That is, Republicans refuse to endorse a whole shitload of new social programs and billions more spending that blockhead Nero Reid wants to legislate -- instead of taking care of the peoples' business.

Clearly, Nero Reid is an asshole. So are the people who voted for him. 'Course, most of them probably don't understand English anyway, and when the big dem bus drove them to the polling places, these illegals were probably told they were ordering egg rolls or something -- "Here, just pull this lever."

And now Pazzo Pelosi chimes in, all worried about losing the money from the tax cuts. Yet she was not at all concerned about deficit spending when she rammed and bribed through the $3 TRILLION dollars in debt that's attached to socialized medicine.

These people are such unbelievable morons.

And you know what? I'd like to see the federal government shut down. Think of all the money and heartache the nation will save. No more harassment at the airport. No more IRS. No more foul and disgusting porn in the National Gallery. How will we live without it?

Imagine US citizens freed from all the bullshit that comes out of the beltway. I, for one, can't wait to see all the power go out in the White House. Will the Comrade lose his Secret Service detail?

We can only hope.

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While the USA burns

I've been actually seeking a descriptive name for Sad Sack Harry Reid, and finally hit on one today: Nero.

On the floor of the US Senate today, the damnfool got lost in some adolescent fantasy where he's a sports reporter, rather than conducting any useful business for the nation.

There comes a time when you're so far beyond believing that the blockheads in DC are worth a "pitcher full of warm spit," that you start daydreaming about some kind of terrorist breaking in, lining them up against a wall... and... supply your own happy ending.

And the Comrade met with the incoming Republican leaders today, crowing about compromise and brotherhood and all that kind of bullshit that seems to have escaped him entirely for all of his earlier life and time in the White House. Kiss my ass, Comrade. Know what I mean? You're a rotten filthy and worse -- totally ignorant and incompetent LIAR. Does anyone care with this drek-for-brains has to say?

If I was Boehner, Cantor, et. al., I'd refer him to the Golden Rule, just before I spit in his face and walked out.

I'm so fed up with this bullshit it's almost unbelievable.

Nero Reid is promoting the Fantasy Act -- oh, excuse me the Dream Act -- apparently what he used to get Hispanic voters to support him. Ol' Nero is something of a disgrace on the Republic. Let's give illegals a shitload of benefits, but screw the Bush Tax Cuts. Ol' Nero's head is so far up his butt he can probably see his tonsils.

These assholes can't leave quick enough to satisfy me.

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