UAW Sues themselves.....

Hi folks...

I'm in a light and peppy mood today.... maybe it's Spring... I don't know...

Anyhow, read the article linked to the title of this piece and ask yourself the following question:

Didn't president hussein give control of GM over to the UAW?

Coupled with the last post I had, this is a sign that the end of the world will come with stultifying irony, and not with a bang.

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Amusing world-threatening irony in Currency Debate...

Noted tax cheat and financial head of the united states of america Tim Geithner has delayed releasing a report criticizing the Chinese Government for its practice of undervaluing their currency, the yuan.

The yuan should have followed free-market levels, according to Geithner, and appreciated at a rate consistent with the market. Since the Chinese Government has interfered with the value of the yuan against the marketplace the cost of Chinese-made goods is much lower than free-market competition can compete with, which would have the net effect of killing American jobs and hampering the restoration of our economy.

This information is all laid out in the news article the header links to.

In a related news story:

The united states of america has interfered with the health care industry, and prevented the Health Care providers from growing their businesses and using free-market economy to determine the best values for the buying public. By undervaluing the health care market by imposing restrictive and arbitrary limitations on the industry's back, and threatening a government-supplied option the health care industry can not compete with, which would have the net effect of killing American jobs and hampering the restoration of our economy.

This would be called delicious irony if it weren't so hideously real-world.

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US News snakes around the truth....

Take your time and read the article that is linked to the header of this piece... don't worry... I'll wait.

Done? Not yet? That's okay....

How about now?

You are? Great!!!!

So don't you feel re-assured?

Let me look on this article thru reality-colored glasses and translate:

1) Public Option - Far from a certainty that there will be no public option, it's something that liberals are anxious to insert it, and it's VERY likely a major push will be done to do just that.

Right now, in the absence of a corporation-killing addition like that business will have to go up for the insurance companies, even as employees are looking around for whatever industry that ISN'T health care will hire them.

2) The Federal Budget - It's rather comforting to know that one of the many provisions for how the deficit can go down is in new taxes. Spending nearly a trillion dollars and keeping the budget deficit low by increasing everyone's taxes is a real interesting idea. In fact it's such a good idea it makes you wonder why president hussein's campaign wasn't run on "I will spend Trillions of Dollars and you will pay for it for me". It's kind of catchy and it's a change I believe is real.

3) Doctors will revolt - I'm really liking this one. Did you catch the tone of the article? If you DON'T go along with us you're screwed. You wasted your education and several thousands of dollars to get that education and you now have to decide to play ball or take a menial job.

Our government is so in love with our Doctors that they should not feel at all at risk of being thrown in gulags. No... really... in fact you can even keep working if you play ball with them.

4) Business will suffer - Another fun one to re-examine. The tone on this is positively gladiatorial. If you're strong enough you can fight in our arena and maybe survive. If not, along with those pesky Christians (and let's not forget hussein's pals the Jews...) you could find yourself thrown to the lions. All very bread and circuses... who wouldn't feel their patriotism swell with pride after that.

5) Socialized medicine - Individuals will have no say in their health care coverage as a rule. But they usually don't when it's employer-provided. So the employer will look at his skyrocketing costs for private insurance and start looking at the cheaper (and I mean CHEAP...) government-supplied coverage. This is a tired argument and not even worthy of being put in place here.

Let's face it. This is pure hatred for Americans. You get to be gladiators for hussein's pleasure. You have choice - fight for him or perish. Your doctor has a choice - do his bidding or run a fast-food joint.

America smells more like ancient Rome... doesn't it?

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Fascist president hussein...

Today, March 22, 2010 is the birth date of the Fascist Regime in America.

Don't believe me?

1) The Health care bill is soooo popular that despite a final week of bribes, arm-twisting, threatening, cajoling, pleading and begging the bill only passed by like three votes.... Hardly a mandate that proves it could make it on merit.

2) 17,000 new IRS workers (read "Brownshirts") are being hired specifically to enforce the new mandate.

3) The new mandate is that it doesn't matter what you as a private citizen WANT to do, you are now required by Dictatorial mandate that you MUST buy insurance.

4) Oh yeah, since now that you HAVE to buy insurance it's better, right? No... who ever promised you better? In fact, it's more intrusive and less private. Y'see, president hussein never took a Hippocratic Oath* so that's not a problem for him. In fact, thanks to this sweeping "reform" you now have less choice.

5) Work in the Insurance industry? Pack your bags, because you're not going to be in business much longer. You see, the president feels that only he should be making a profit. He picks and chooses what americans he likes and he deems then worthwhile or not. You guys are the "Jews" in this case, and Der Fuhrer has pointed his decrepit finger at you.

6) Bottom line this for me, will ya, Doc? Sure. president hussein has said "You lowly people who are a drain on my government now must live the way I tell you to. If you don't you will be in violation of my laws.".

Government against the people, against the people and in contempt of the people.

Go ahead, you can use it... just credit Doctor Calamity (the "Doctorate" by the way is honorary... something I now really appreciate having done...).

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* Please note that president hussein also took an oath to honor and protect the Constitution of the United State of America and to defend it with his life. So oaths mean shit to him. Unless there's an oath out there to kill babies... that's one he can get behind... ("hmm..." thinks hussein... "That sounds like fun... where'd I'd leave that pitchfork again"...)

Oh CRIPES! Now we KNOW he wants us to pay for the illegal aliens too!

president hussein, growing ever more frustrated with the rebuffs he is getting from virtually every corner he turns to for support, has finally confirmed one of the greatest conspiracy-theory elements to the Health care debacle...

He said no illegal aliens will be covered.

And he meant it.

Because after he's done there won't be any ILLEGAL immigrants... there will be 20 million new citizens!!!!!

And guess who gets to pay for their health care!

That's right, the asshole president expects us to pony up our hard earned bucks and spend them on people who have violated laws to be here.

Frakkin Socialist Commie anti-American president!

Mad? Hell yeah I'm mad!

This isn't a diatribe of how scared I am. There's no being scared when you know you're going over the cliff. You just grab hold and try to make some quality sounding last words.

If there was ever any doubt that hussein is anti-American and out-and-out hates the country whom he swore an oath to protect and defend, that has been erased in this news story.

Barack Hussein OBama... you bastard! You're supposed to be protecting Americans, not harming them! You have brought every worst nightmare of the free world to life and now you're nakedly cramming unwanted "reforms" down our throats!

Your policies are designed to ruin this country, they follow established Commie rules, and even though you know that WE know, you are still in charge!

Right now the only thing an American President would be doing is finding ways to revitalize stock-market investment in order to re-start the economy, and put our people back to work. But you don't care about our people! You stole a trillion dollars and promised to fix unemployment and all we have to show for it are some lame-ass roadside signs saying we were f**ked over by you to pay for work that was gonna happen anyway!

The United States Government is supposed to be run according to rules and procedures, and you ignore those rules, and you play games with the public to keep us off guard!

Grow up and be a man and not a freak who likes uncle Alinsky and wants the candy-ass land of Karl Marx to rule all. Senator McCarthy was a frakkin hero and you sir are no hero. You are a villain and a charlatan... and soon you will watch your lapdogs get run over in the elections, and then you'll be scratching your presidential ass trying to figure out who wants to bail you out after that!

Think Oprah will continue to latch onto a loser like you? Think you'll have anyone other than the increasingly bitter Michelle and Rahm to be your friends?

Face it pal, everyone knows you'd throw your own grandmother under the bus... oh wait, that's right... you already DID that...

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It's not News, but I know what ELSE you can call it...

I travel for work a lot, so sometimes I disappear from the interweb and just observe. Yesterday I was driving most of the day and around 5:30 PM I wound up in a Red Roof Inn in Grove City, Ohio and I was beat so I just laid down and turned on Glenn Beck. Yes, the guy so Right-Wing that Rush told him to throttle down a little, but in short doses I find him amusing and interesting. Longer than that and I usually end up looking for the cutlery to end my life.

Beck DOES play up the "Evil Forces Aligning" angle quite bit, and for that I have found that he can be very depressing to watch. By contrast, Rush doles out the bad news with a healthy dose of cynicism, and a laugh-track worthy dissertation on HOW the bad guys' plans can blow up on them.

So Glenn Beck can be considered to be... a bit more polarizing than Rush.

But let's ignore that for now and take a look at this "News" piece by Michael Sherer of Time Magazine, helpfully posted by Yahoo! News. Go on... read it.. in fact... I'll wait for you to get to the point where you find the Journalism...

Done yet? No? Still searching?

Here's a hint. There ain't any.

Call GB a paranoid right wing nutcase all you want. Just try not to make yourself look like a paranoid left wing nut case in the process.

This is not about Beck, it's about the hatred from the Mainstream Media, president hussein's loyal civil servants, over Fox News and its daring to be critical of the petulant boy-president. This is just a paid-advert for how Fox News is part of the Republican Attack Machine. Of special note is their disdain for Beck's status of Victim. His derailing the Dem tactic of being the biggest Victim in the room is crossing a line, apparently, that they can not forgive.

I might be a bit kinder about this piece had it been labelled an opinion piece, but it's not. And its lack of journalistic prowess, vastly Left-wing slant and seething hatred make it a load of (to use a VERY obscure British phrase...) Whippet sh*t. Long, thin, and very obscene.

The current state of the country is this... president hussein is bullying everyone... his own party most of all, trying to get something... well... anything at all... accomplished. The Democrat party is busy buying party favors for their "Going Out of Business" office parties because they know that November will be the end of a great many careers. The liberal journalism scene is frankly in worse shape, with alternate methods of information gathering undercutting the main news sources nearly daily.

Is it any wonder that this is such a ham-fisted attack?

I urge anyone who can do so to find a Hulu, a Youtube, or any other method to stream or download Tuesday's Glenn Beck show. Not because it was great TV, but because this sphincter is lying through his bottom hole about the context of the events. Not the actual events themselves, but the reasons behind the actions.

Beck DID apologize to the audience for wasting our time. Massa tried to defend himself, but Beck corrected him and pointed out that Massa, who had flip-flopped badly on his decision to stand down from his Congress job, had just used Beck's pulpit to prove how utterly unreliable he was. Just the day before his story was very different. He back-pedaled and did so with roughly the same level of sincerity as the first day. When one does something like that you either ask them to show some proof about what they are saying so you can know for certain this time it's not a lie, or you can write the guy off as bat shit nutty man who had been leaned on (probably the second they heard he was gonna be on Beck's program!!!) to change his story and take the fall for the party.

It wouldn't surprise me to find out Rahm Emmanuel had something to do with THAT either. Because the butt was out of the bag on that portion of the story, and it was the one thing he kept intact. So even if Rahm had jabbed some portion of his naked appendage into the chest of this naked congressman in the shower (which clearly CAN'T be construed as sexually harassing an employee, by the way... for reasons that only president hussein could think are legitimate...) there was no need to retract that, even if Rahm had followed that up with a threat to visit him in his home shower if he did anything to not make himself look like a loser weanous baby-man on the highest rated news channel out there.

Let's bottom line this. Glenn Beck got scammed, and Rahm "whippet-dick" Emmanuel managed to apply his old adage, "Never let a good crisis go to waste" to exceptional effect.

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Sandbox Politics (or It's My Football and I'm Going Home!)

As global warming feels the icy cold fingers of February on it's throat the nation's capital is beset by more than just snow and ice, but also the rather amusing efforts of stand-up comedian president hussein, who has become positively riotous in his sophomore year as he does Jerry Lewis-level pratfalls all over the place insisting that everyone play nice.

As with all great comedy, it's a matter of just how much truth there is in the joke, and in this case it's rife with reality. The Republicans, only a year ago getting sound advice on how they can stay relevant from the beneficent likes of the Associated Press have crafted a strategy that is reaping tremendous benefits in re-stabilizing the nation.

First they became the "Party of No". Sending a clear and loud signal that if there WERE going to be a Health-Care agenda rammed down an unwilling America's throat it was only going to have the DNA of Democrats on it.

Second they kept their yaps largely shut. Oh sure, the occasional "You Lie" creeps out from time to time, but the real howlers, the kind that rank hussein up there with his peers, Leno and O'Brien (but not, it seems, Jon Stewart.... who is still ahead of the game...), keep coming from the Dem big wigs. The Republicans have been making statements, but they are largely intelligent and prepared statements expressing their concerns.

Third they have found a comfortable way to start utilizing Sarah Palin. Via the Tea Party platform Mrs. Palin has found a rich and welcoming audience to counter the horrific attacks the elite left have thrown at her. In fact the most impressive charge levelled against her so far from the Tea Party event was her use of some buzzwords penned onto her palm... a far cry form having to have every word uttered be displayed on a teleprompter. By attacking her for this they are only reasserting her down-home folksy image with the rest of us.

And for his part, president hussein is happily playing the fool the way we really want him to... he's vigorously defending his Healthcare agenda even as his distaff troops are shuffling away from him in slow yet unmistakable moves. His insistence that not only Healthcare... which is bad enough... but only HIS healthcare.... be kept alive is a little like Jim Jones kicking back and pointing out he's parched, and asking for a tall cool one of Grape Kool Aid. A bit twistedly sick, with truly dark consequences, but surprisingly mind-numbingly funny in its way.

So now hussein is kicking and huffing and puffing that no one is nice and no one wants to play football under HIS rules, and he's just plain irritated about it.

That's life in the city, mr. president. Being handed a title and having hundred dollar a pound steak dinners doesn't get you respect. And insisting that others play by your rules when you can't be bothered to follow them is a bit disingenuous, don't you think?

I've never been a big fan of snow, although I used to play in it when I was a kid, and you learn to turn the frustrating parts of it into a game. Slogging through two-foot deep snow only becomes fun when you get to ride a sled down the hill afterward.

That's something you learn growing up. The hard times aren't worth a dime if they don't lead to better times. And all we are asking is for a president who envisions and works toward better times.

And since "That One" isn't filling the bill it's time to find one of our own.

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Following the spanking Petulant US President flees to safer ground...

With the mainstream media tripping over themselves trying to paint a picture of president hussein as in control and unfazed by by the spanking the Conservatives have given the Democrats in Massachusetts this week, it's small wonder that the petulant US President has fled to the safer pastures of class warfare.

Of course president hussein could not have been bothered for several months on the issue of jobs and the economy. But now he wants to find some respite from the humiliation of the week's events and that means he has to rush to get approval from his adoring populace.

This means he has to demonize again.

So bloodthirsty for class-warfare is this idiot that he either oblivious or worse, fully cognizant that he is sending mixed signals to the private sector. If he is oblivious to his own actions' repercussions he is missing that he is chastising the banks for doing the one thing the rest of us only wish we could do... which is have a good business year. The banks are trying to get back to doing regular business. a natural thing for them to want to do... and they are starting to have some success.

If he is fully aware of what he is doing then his actions can only be deemed as an attempt to prevent the economy from correcting itself.

Either option is typically scary.

Let's face it... if president hussein were... I dunno... a loyal American then he would be holding up financial success as an example of how the economy is coming back. He would be supporting these people in their effort to make money, or best of all he could stand back, smile and say "That's one less thing on my plate to have to worry about".

But no... he's worried about them.

We aren't....

But then we want the economy to turn back around.

And it doesn't matter how much money he spends, how many dinner-dates with Michelle he flies to in other cities, or any other consideration... the only thing... the ONLY THING that will fix the economy.... is for a natural and organic urge to re-hire people on the part of the private sector.

If hussein truly believed the government was the solution for all then he would open up branches of the government which could be there for the sole purpose of hiring the populace and putting them to work.

Any mathematical take on THAT scenario shows the sheer folly of that idea....

So the private sector, not the public sector, is the key to revitalizing this country and by turns the rest of the world.

So naturally hussein wants to target anyone who actually makes money under his thumb... err... administration.

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Embarrasing AP Story shows how confused Dems have become...

Of course Conservatives are feeling the glow just now with the long hoped for taking back of a nearly permanent Democratic Senate Seat. Senator Scott Brown has run a well-thought out and executed campaign and Martha Coakley did not.

So naturally I wanted to read this particular AP piece about how the Dems are "soul-searching" (AP speak for "placing blame") and frustrated over the loss of the Massachusetts seat. It's been a sh*tty year thanks to the efforts of the "on our knees for president hussein" gang. People who love this country have seen it eroded from within like never before. A willful assault on the livelihoods and the reputations of fully half the populace by the people who were supposed to represent us.

I deserved the opportunity to gloat just a little bit. Maybe Fox news was professional and cool, and according to Buffalo radio host Sandy Beach even CNN was reasonably cool about things, apparently the real fun to be had was on MSNBC where, per Mr. Beach, Chris Matthews was nearly incoherent, Keith Olbermann's head was likely to explode, and breeding-cow turned news anchor Rachel Maddow had a "...deer in the headlights" daze about her.

Damn, I wished I'd DVRd that...

Interestingly, however, this AP story is telling a weird rendition of the events.... the message that the Dems pulled out of all this is that they need to define their differences from Republicans even further? Huh? Really? While I still run into people who will tell me that all politicians are alike, more and more people are coming to the conclusion that most Republicans are not here to harm them. At least not on the National level, anyhow.

I'm really liking president hussein's assessment, wherein he states that voter frustration and anger over the last eight years swept Brown into office. It's a sign the man has cracked and he has no clue to whom he is talking... and any question placed to him can now solidly be deflected in his eyes with "I inherited this problem form George Bush".

What a f*cking whiner!!!! And yes, I'm referring to president hussein!

This "inheritance" defense is getting old, tiresome and is eroding his credibility. He he has yet to take personal responsibility for any situation that has come up. Oh, he's SAID he's responsible, but he has a history of throwing other people under trains that would make him a dream adversary in any superhero movie.... Think of the work Superman would have lined up for him trying to save private citizens from the evil villain hussein!

But wait... that won't happen... that would be actually creating a job... something he's not very practiced at.

Being a bit more serious, and getting back on track... hussein has made lip-service to how his administration might be at fault from time to time, but entirely without recrimination. Yet he has failed to get involved in high-level matters of serious state business, and in fact made boneheaded maneuvers while doing what little he did do.

Take the historically tragic earthquake in Haiti. This tiny little country has seen so much tragedy it seems that there can never be anything worse to happen to them... and yet it has. And rather than send the military in to pave the way, restore order, create landing fields, evacuate the wounded and set up rush triage units like he should have, he has assigned civilians with little if any knowledge of how to handle these events.

Remember the embarrassing notion hussein had to make Bill Clinton, the thorn in his side, special ambassador to Haiti? That move forced hussein to elect him and his other arch-nemesis, George Bush, to oversee the relief program. It is a sign of the class of the man that George joined in without hesitation, supporting Clinton and speaking positively, even rebuking Rush Limbaugh for his politicizing of the handling of the crisis.

Bush is not a traitor to the party for working with Clinton. I dislike Clinton's politics and I find him a relentlessly smarmy man, but I have said numerous times I never felt he hated America. He always perceived it as the land of opportunity. It's just that the opportunity he craved was illicit sex with the wrong women in the oval office. ... if you have to dream, dream big....

So to add gravitas to an attempt to shun his two biggest irritants, Bush and Bill are in there working hard to make hussein look good even though he doesn't deserve their respect. And more to the point, hussein is letting Bush be the point man in the relief effort in Haiti which should automatically tell you that he has not thought this through...

By giving Bush this opportunity to serve victims of a national tragedy and coordinate and make things work better he is negating all the cat-calls and bullsh*t of the "Katrina" incident. If Bush had really been the responsible party to Eff that operation up it would be the height of irresponsibility on hussein's part to put him in the Haiti effort on a high level position. And yet there goes George Bush, a better man than I.

And to say that Bill won't benefit from this... He's been given the golden opportunity to counter a few years of goofy mistakes and shine up his image... something he might consider worth doing assuming he wants to support Hillary's bid to retake the Whitehouse.

And what exactly WAS hussein up to when news of the earthquake hit? Why he was doing what he does best... strong-arming his Dems to beat the clock so he could have an awesome State of the Union announcement of Healthcare destruction being passed.

It's true.. he did not leave the closed-door meetings, he just occasionally conferred on the phone and put other people in charge. Apparently the imminent death of thousands and thousands of poor destitute people a few hundred miles away from the US shores was less important to him than the health care that no Haitians would be receiving.

Remember Bush staying with the children when the attack on the WTC happened? He made a decision to not upset the children which in fact may not have been the right call. But it was hardly a cowardly decision, and Bush took ownership of the situation and in fact rallied the American people just a few days later in a speech in NYC when someone yelled out that they could not hear him... he grabbed a bull horn and replied "That's okay. Because I can hear you. And soon the rest of the nation will hear you. And after that, the world will hear you!".

No writers on site.... that was George W. Bush. An improbably classy man. Even if we occasionally don't agree with him, he has earned our respect.

All of this however returns us to the goofy president hussein continuing to berate Bush and claiming Americans are angry from the last eight years....

If we're so angry, why are we longing for those glorious days?

By the way, and this is just an observation since Al Qaeda has been feeling their oats lately.... one of their stated goals has been to wage a war wherein they grind America down to the point where it can no longer afford to fight against them. Isn't it rather un-American then to go spending all the money we have when we are still in a state of war against an enemy emboldened by the pussy we elected president? Wouldn't that be giving aid and comfort to the enemy? Didn't that used to be illegal?

The Democrats have a hard year ahead of them. I hope they stay the course and keep striving to define the differences between them and Republicans, because it is exactly that divisive nature that has brought them to their nightmare scenario... the realization that they had total dominance of the country's three governing branches and they f*cked it all up. And now it's time to pay the piper....

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You put one foot in front of the other...

By now I'm probably the last person to announce the election of Scott Brown as the first Republican Senator in Massachusetts in decades.

The historical element to this election is inescapable. First, it is clear signpost that everything every American did to shout down Democrat politicians who were trying to shove Universal Health Care down our throats, Every American who went to a Tea Party to show our anger at Government waste and failure to represent the people of this country, and Every American who blogged, wrote, spoke, and raised their fists in the air and shouted "We are the Party of NO" were NOT ineffective or pointless. It was proof that we did this as Americans fighting for our homeland.

Second, it is a matter of incredible irony that Senator Ted Kennedy, who embodied the most unholy aspects of this large government land-grab of power would ultimately be the cause of it's likely defeat. His seat going to a Republican (an independent?) upsets EVERYTHING that Obama wants to achieve... and it's all due to Ted's inability to hang on just a little longer....

It is a sweet victory at a time when we desperately needed a victory. Today is the one year anniversary of president hussein's inauguration, and it was his goal to have Health care as his toast to America that he could boast about... No matter what happens now, we have the momentum on our side, and we have a string of failures on hussein's watch that demonstrates the real greatness of the American People.

The fight is far from over, it is going to get harder before it gets better, but make no mistake, Conservatism is back on track and on the march, and we WILL take back the country and reward the Americans out in the streets who stood up and said "No" to the celebrity God Obama.

American pitted against American, the Private Sector put on trial, large corporations stolen away from the people who built them and given to the Unions, the spectre of targeted, punitive taxation, the wholesale waste of untold Billions and well into the multiple trillion mark of our money into the ether with the thinnest of oversight and control, the gall of leadership not only ignoring the will of the people but also in contempt of those same people, all of these things are the legacy of the hussein presidency... a great stain on a greater nation.... and I skipped about forty other issues just to keep this paragraph readable.

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Director of the Smurf movie speaks out about Haitian relief...

World famous movie director James Cameron, also a noted peacenik and anti-war apologist said Friday on CNN that he felt it was a shame that Americans could not put relief workers on the ground in Haiti as fast as we could deploy Special Forces troops when we plan to invade another country.

Clearly James, who has made millions working in the greatest country on the planet being allowed to showcase tremendous cutting edge technology and storytelling ability (I callz em as I seez em...) is so eager to create a Susan Sarandon Avatar for himself that he has found a way to make the horrendous suffering of an as yet uncounted number of thousands of the most poor and destitute people on the planet a mere apple-crate for him to stand on to espouse his crackpot philosophy. Very humanitarian of him.

Yes, the man is insanely talented. Still, (and I am not at all politically motivated in saying this) I have zero interest in seeing Avatar. Again.. not for his loopy anti-American hysteria, but because there is a fatal flaw in the movie. A BIG WHOPPING fatal flaw in the movie....

Lessee here... gung ho camouflage-wearing military types in bulky weapons of destruction wander across an idyllic jungle planet rich with natural resources and go to war with the natives... freakishly over-sized smurfs in loincloths who then use Ewok-tactics to try to save their world from destruction. Who's gonna win? Anybody out there wanna tell me? No really... there's no way to forecast THAT one....

Yes, I know there's a little more to it than that... but in a nutshell that's the plot. Big, colorful, and stupid... but not as much fun as GI Joe... because GI Joe knew it was stupid and didn't care... James thinks he has created high art that should rank him up there with Robert Maplethorpe. Yes.. the film is raking in more bucks than "An Inconvenient Truth" but money does not sway from the crackpot philosophy and the idea that I've already seen this picture in the mercifully much shorter George Lucas version.

And this is the point... All of this is completely irrelevant to the Haitian disaster. Cameron is actually using a moment of intense personal tragedy for all of us to get more bang for his theatrical buck. Bet the Haitians are grateful for that. Perhaps he can donate a few truckload of spare Academy Award screener DVDs to the beleaguered nation to help them heal their wounds.

I had considered that someday I might have watched Avatar on .. I dunno.. TBS... but now I think it would just make me sick to do that. But for those of you who want to see the movie in all it's glory, here's an animatic from the film....

"James Cameron's AVATAR: IN A NUTSHELL




Apologies of course to the original UNICEF Smurfs Anti-war video... itself an exercise in scaring the s**t out of children...

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Some days you just wish Al Gore would be right....

It's the top of the calendar, January 3rd, and I flew out of Buffalo this morning in a blinding snowstorm in what can charitably be called bone-cold arctic wind. I ended up three hours later in Florida, which is suffering a particularly cold 45 - 50 degree snap... about 20 degrees lower than normal for this time of year.

CNN reported today that Beijing is facing such bitter and heavy snowfall that they may shut down due to it, even while millions are still returning from holiday travels. They say it's he worst winter weather they've faced in 40 years. Two years ago my boss, a Chinese man, sent images of cars covered in six inches of ice and pointed out that this is far from normal weather... as a way of explaining that some of our custom overseas shipments were likely to see delays.

The December summit in Copenhagen to formalize a world-wide treaty against Global Warming was itself uncharacteristically walloped with a heavy snowstorm unlike that seen in years.

Even as the United State's most esteemed Liberal Democrats pressed forward their doomsday agenda of Socialized taxation... ummm... 'scuze me... I meant to say Socialized Healthcare, Washington DC got... you guessed it... snowed under.

Gotta love God... he's got a great sense of humor.

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(Supplemental: I'm reporting from Orlando, FL on this.... the local news down here says that the state is experiencing the coldest temperatures in over a decade.... it's going down to freezing overnight tonight. Global Warming my ass!!!!)

That was the decade that was....

Time, it seems, is full of misconception where people are concerned. Firstly, 1/1/10 is the start of a new decade. Anyone who thinks otherwise I'll be more than happy to welcome to the next decade when they get there a year later... But more than just being snarky about it, I can prove it.

Back around Christmas 1999 I was enjoying a Christmas Eve party with some family friends and was conversing with a nice young couple. I wished them well in the new Century and the husband chided me, telling me there was no year zero. He's a nice guy, well-educated and a creditable agent, like his father, with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. I gave him the opportunity to present his case.

I then asked him when he and his wife would have their first child. They smiled and reminded me about their seven-month old boy. I replied, "He's not one yet, so he doesn't exist.

That tattered relationship survived this particular conversation, but the point remains the same. We, as a people, have forgotten how to count. We forgot that fractions are elements of a greater whole. For a year to exist it must surely have started, but since it has not COMPLETED the full cycle it is NOT a year old at birth. Therefore, a seven-month old baby surely exists (unless of course you're baby-killing Liberal with a vacuum cleaner and an Obama bumper sticker....) and is well on his or her way to celebrating their FIRST birthday... or in other words a celebration of having lived one full year.

So when 1999 ended, the 20th century ended, because the 21st century had just been born and was well on its way toward it's first birthday (not a banner year, I'll grant you... but still important none-the-less...). I know it's splitting hairs and it's not really a major issue, however I dislike having to explain the very most basic elements of Temporal mechanics to lay-people. It's demoralizing to think we can't count properly.

But it's important to remember that we must maintain this information. If for no other reason than this...

"The Only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once."

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See you in the next decade, my friends...

They don't believe in Christmas even though they had it already...

The economy is in the tank, joblessness is officially 10.2 percent but more likely in the range of 18% thanks to "creative accounting" from our transparent government.

So the natural response to deal with this problem is for president hussein to drag major business leaders, academics (?!!!!!???!!!!!!!!!) and others to a job summit that doesn't even have as it's goal the core concept of job creation.

Now let's assess the situation:

1) Healthcare absorption: No time to delay. This is absolutely CRITICAL that it happen now.

2) Afghanistan: Sure... let's take a few months and then throw some troops in, but also we get to tell our enemies when we will be letting them alone to go ahead and do their thing (if only the Dems would do this with the Business world we'd rejoice...).

3) Cash for Clunkers: The U.S. Government bravely bought a bunch of cars and trashed them. Hell, paying the Crips to steal all those cars would have been more of a stimulus because then they could at least strip them down and sell them for parts. But NO, our beloved president hussein insisted that the vehicles just be trashed outright.

4) TARP: The U.S. Gov't. bravely bought a bunch of toxic property assets... or did they? No one really knows. The program is overseen by a Czar, isn't it? Last I heard Czars don't report to anyone but hussein. And now that money is going to get used for other programs, as per Nancy "Dragon Mama" Pelosi.

5) The Economy: Well shucks... they actually SAID they need to solve the Healthcare problem so hussein can start to concentrate on the economy. In other words, the economy doesn't impact upon HIS lifestyle, so why the hell would he care about us? No... the economy is not one of those things that the people don't want, so it's not being rammed down our throats with gleeful abandon.

So the Democrats were given a crap load of money to spend randomly without any long-term benefits, so THEY'VE had their Christmas already...

Meanwhile we are left to sit there and figure out not just "Can I buy my kids a toy for Christmas" but "Can I meet my mortgage payment for Christmas".

Are you better off now than you were two years ago?

Is anyone?

I'd really like to know.

I'm Dr. Calamity and I approve this message.

Great Googly Moogly!!!! The Libs are DESPERATE!!!!!!

In another tragically hysterical and desperate bid for trying to show that they are in control, the liberals have tossed yet another CNN "Senior Political Analyst" out to see what she could do to make Republicans feel bad about themselves. This appeared online Wednesday October 7th in the evening and it's one of the best drop-dead funny pieces I've read in ages.....

What exactly does it take to become a "Senior Political Analyst" for CNN anyway? What is the criteria? Knee pads for orally pleasuring president hussein? And I'm not being sexist here... Ed Rollins is no better on this point. The slavish devotion to defending the potentially bruised ego of the country's biggest nightmare president since Jimmy Carter is surely a prime qualifier for the post. That and a near complete lack of historical perspective.

Borger has come to the conclusion in only a scant nine and a half months that Republicans aren't exactly eager to sign onto hussein's crazy political death ride for the US of A. The fact that she sees the razor's edge we are sliding down as something wondrous and so spectacular that she insists her beloved Fuhrer MAKE the Republicans agree with him on something is not exactly Germaine to the issue at hand... but it DOES help to color her naivety somewhat.

But enough hyperbole....

With astounding grace and acumen she sums up the Conservative's primary take on what SHOULD be done... cut taxes, put more money back in the pockets of the people, and have more jobs by eliminating the deficit. Then she goes and spoils it all by pointing out this is all untested fantasy material... a sort of socio-political Playboy Centerfold of Utopian and unreachable dreams... except that they are NOT.... or more technically, they WERE NOT.... until her beloved leader president hussein went and spent more money than Caligula on a particularly hedonistic and self-destructive bent...

She then makes the somewhat amusing point that Republicans are a bunch of name-callers.... tossing aside such hideous accolades as "socialist", environmentalist, and "dithering commander-in-chief". But she doesn't help her cause any by in the same breadth providing the very real and intractable justifications for these.

And then she has the balls to make the charge that Republicans are actually rebounding in popularity due to the persistent saber-rattling... as if this were a conccept never even considered by her beloved Reichmeister, president hussein. Hell, the Democrats practically invented "Lie, rinse, repeat.... lie, rinse, repeat..." as a way to get their points pounded into the world.

The only part of that we didn't pick up on was the lying.

And horrors, it's turning out to be a good thing for the Republicans! What shocking news! Especially when you consider that a few short months ago the Democrats and the yellow journalists were patronizingly "helping the Republicans" by telling us we should get rid of that loudmouth Rush Limbaugh. Yes... they really were concerned that we needed their help then.

Now, I think they are really concerned... but more because we DON'T need their help.

The GOP has adopted one of it's best tactics in years... one which is unassailably working and is frightening the hell out of the Dems... we have picked up on hussein's nom deplume for us as "The Party of No" and we have refused to play along with destructive, burdensome and unnecessary socialist programs which threaten the very fabric of our nation.

That means the Dems will have no legitimate.. or even potentially salient illegitimate means to blame Republicans for the failures that are inevitable in all of this. That makes the whole thing a Dem party.

And now that it's a Dem party, it's clear they are sweating buckets because even THEY know it won't work.

Health care... the wet dream of every socialist liberal in the Western world, will bankrupt the economy and as a typical government-run fiasco will rapidly go broke, taking down with it many other programs and side-businesses.

Or did we not learn lessons from:

Social Security
Medicare
Cash-For-Clunkers

To name but a few disasters.

So what does "Senior Political Analyst" Gloria Borger suggest to fix all of this?

FORCE the GOP to go along with the Dems.

And how exactly do you do that?

Start acting like Republicans.

I don't see that happening.

What I DO see as happening is a slate of angry Americans who have seen the true face of the Democrat party this summer.... the hideous visage and Mickey Mouse voice of creepy neo-human Barney Franke and the twins of terror, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid as they trashed fellow Americans and threatened and cajoled us... called us terrorists, racists and Nazis.

I see the 2010 election as one of an evolutionary step-forward for Americans....

2010: The year we make Comeback!

So enjoy the next 12 months Dems.... then it's house-cleaning time... and you can keep low-rated CNN in your pocket all you want... it's not going to help!

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The planting of a seed of discontent....

Well.... where to begin... why did I drop off the face of the earth? A couple of reasons. This blogging is very draining work and sometimes VERY lonely. It doesn't exactly make me popular with my wife, who shares the core concerns, but believes I am too radical on the issues.

I love my wife dearly, and I needed to stop for a little while and just be her husband. And what a good time to choose to do so, as life has been VERY hectic the past two months. This past week alone my son got badly hurt in chorus class (a knee injury in chorus? WTF?????) our one-eyed cat started bleeding from the eye socket just as we finished medicating one of the others for a severe snot0production issue.... and my wife came home from work at lunchtime the other day to find emergency vehicles all around our house because of the man with the broken leg who had fallen off the scaffolding of our neighbor's chimney repair work... onto our driveway..... and then just because we had not had enough grief.... I pulled a muscle fairly severely while going to a tradeshow in Vegas. It was so bad the good folk at the Sands Expo had to take me to my booth in a wheelchair. I'm still hobbling pretty nastily as I write this in the T terminal of JFK Airport as part of my "Very long night" of trying to get home to Buffalo.

So you can see, I didn't stop caring, I re-charged.

And WOW!!!!! That's what I have to say.

America has seriously begun to step up to the plate and demonstrate what it is that makes us Americans. I am sooo impressively proud to know so many people out there care the way they do. Town Hall meetings designed to send the one message that thick-headed Dems and name-only Repubs could understand... namely that we're pissed and our numbers are growing, and the BS had better stop soon.

And then there's the Two million man march on DC last weekend.... man, I'm sorry I was not a part of that, although I had my hands pretty full at the time....

And the emergence of Glenn Beck as a loud and exceptionally vocal voice calling for action.... he MAY be a bit radicalized, but to be honest that's the kind of energy that we need right now.

This mobilization, as Rush pointed out (himself quoting other sources on the issue....) without a central charismatic figure is te PERFECT antithesis to president hussein. It is a statement of the power of the Conservative movement, and the incredible central truth of our movement that we DON'T need idols to lead us.... we make up our own minds.

Then there's former President Jimmy Carter, beloved by millions of foreigners for his unwavering conviction to suck energy and life from the United States... a man whose resume is pock-marked with the greatest failings of any presidency in the past fifty years (including LBJ...) who got trotted out to add fire to the liberal mantra that to oppose hussein is to be a racist.

You might as well ask for Hugo Chavez to side with you.... there's the same amount of love for country in that corner of the globe as you'll get from the peanut guy.

But what really blows my top with joy is the recent release of the Acorn undercover videos.

We are witness to the birth of the New Republicans... the people who make tsunamis in the Democrat ranks with just a few simple actions.... who refuse to be broken by the Grotesque Government that is president hussein's regime.

North Carolina Senator Joe Wilson (R) became a hero to the people with of all things only two words. Two words uttered at the right place, at the right time, and expressing the frustrtations and angers of millions of Americans.

Three words if you ask NY Times columnist Maureen Dowd, who in her own racist mind heard the word "Boy" included in the attack on hussein.

I feel so much less alone. I feel like a voice is emerging out of the chaos and it is not one person... it is a group mind... the True Republicans, the ones who refuse to be dictated to and refuse to pander to the special interests of the president. It's a voice you and I can and should join in on.

I am struck at the number of times people have had to apologize to hussein for minor infractions of courtesy. Bush never received these platitudes form people, nor did Reagan. Clinton was such a happy-go-lucky guy he was actually hard to offend.

But Obama is a VERY sensitive guy. He demands attention, and he demands leniency, and he demands that you accept not receiving leniency from him. He is growing ever more pissed off and he is in real danger of doing something big and rebellious to try to show us who the boss is.

I say we let him. It was a mistake to criticize the address to the students of America in advance, becuase then he had time to water it down to something innocuous, just to show he wasn't really gonna indoctrinate anybody. We should have let him do that EXACTLY as he planned.

We should let president hussein play by his own rules, and show him to the people for what he is. A man with deep-seated hatred for the US. A man who despises us.

On my red-eye flight from Vegas last night I was watching Greta Van Susteran on Fox News. She played a clip of hussein speaking about honoring a fallen soldier with the Congressional Medal of Honor. No doubt the man was very deserving of the award... our servicemen and women have been in combat for several years in an urelenting battle against evil, and they continue to this day to make us proud... but the telling of the president was in his choice of words.

He read off words such as honor and sacrifice and then proceeded to point out how Americans forget what those words mean, and how we use those weighty words carelessly. He then goes on to say how this particular soldier undertsood those words and demonstrated them with the ultimate sacrifice.

Was it really necessary to trash Americans as idiots who have no understaqnding of what our soldiers do in order to praise this man? For president hussein it was essential. It is his view of Americans that we do NOT know anything. That we do not have his level of intelligence, and we CAN be easily insulted so long as he wraps the words in praise for another.

Honestly, at this point he is no longer capable of insulting Americans. It is expected that he will seek the low road, and denigrate anything right and fair.

And now president hussein is learning the lesson the Japanese learned at the start of World War II.... he has awakened a sleeping Giant.

I'm Dr. Calamity and I approve this message...

ps.: it's good to be back.

Why I grudgingly admire Bill Clinton...

Admittedly, I'm a bit tongue-in-cheek on this one, but you just have to admire a guy who is so dedicated to his cause that he flies to North Korea and talks to the world's looniest, daffiest psychotic despot all for the sake of hooking up with two young oriental girls.

Bill... you left a lot to be desired where running the country was concerned, but we have to admit you have STILL GOT IT!

And seeing Hillary with egg foo young on her face is just icing on the double fudge ripple cake for us.

"Hey baby! How bout you plant one on your rescuer's... umm... lips?"

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Time for Americans to start tearing at each other again... another bonus in the news....

The New York Times, ripe with the summer doldrums because the only thing left to report about in the country is the excesses and abuses of president hussein, have decided to go back to the well and start a good old fashioned feeding frenzy again.

In this piece found linked to Yahoo!.com the author points out that Andrew J. Hall is getting a $100 million dollar bonus. Now they could have been crass and written it out like so: $100,000,000.00 but for some strange reason they showed restraint.

The cons: He is getting this bonus from Citigroup whom he sub-contracts for, and they took $45 Billion in our money to stay afloat.

The pros: He was contractually liable for a fee relative to what he made for Citigroup, apparently a common practice, and he made Citigroup a meager $2,000,000,000.00 in profit. That's $2 Billion for those of you in the know. So his bonus is 1/20th or rather 5% of the total he made for Citigroup.

Now he's under pressure to not take the money, amid speculation that some of his dealings may (note: they do not say he DID...) have contributed to the financial troubles are country has seen. The article takes pains to say that while he's a nice guy for his sort he's also an example of "capitalism at its most unbridled" all the while acknowledging that it was his own efforts that helped contribute to the financial strength of Citigroup.

Apparently now Mr. Hall is seeking to separate himself from Citigroup, and hopefully he will take his talents to some other country and make some other business in some other part of the world significantly wealthier....

That'll show him!

Christ almighty, there are some really retarded people in positions of power in the US Government right now.

Among other things, if the terms of the contract Mr. Hall had with Citigroup were to be altered, Citigroup and the US Government had an obligation to tell him so BEFORE he made them all that money (Isn't Hall a taxpayer? What about Citigroup, don't they pay taxes?).

And then on top of that, if employees are agoing to get sacked for making their companies profitable, isn't that just plain un-American?

I could go on, but you get the idea.

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Post-Racial Politics?

In a startlingly frightening AP article about the pending confirmation of Sonya Sotomayer to the Supreme Court the author Julie Hirschfield-Davis inserted the phrase "Post-Racial Politics" in an effort to paint president hussein as not a part of the hideous back-stabbing going on in DC.

The article is ostensibly a reporting piece on Senator Harry "Mr. Fair Play" Reid threatening Republicans with a backlash against them for acting like impressively polite Democrats by opposing Sotomayer. This is a little like a teacher yelling at her students for not parsing Pi to the last digit fast enough.

The reality of the piece however is far more sinister and telling... It reeks of racial politics so heightened that logical discourse is a hindrance to the flow and ebb of Government legislation.

The AP helpfully points out that while the GOP might be accused of assaulting a Hispanic and therefore be guilty of racial discrimination (gee.... all I ever heard were concerns about her qualifications and her mindset where legislative law is concerned... kind of the point of the Judicial Nomination hearings...) the Dems also risk a backlash if they appear to be pushing her for her race rather than her credentials.

Umm...

The Dems already blocked a Hispanic candidate of Bush's for the sole purpose of having the bragging rights to being the first to have a Hispanic judge on the Supreme Court. Forget the politics, it's all about who gets there first.

The disgust level of this is even further ratcheted up by the author's mention, as cited above, of the current "post-racial politics" position.

First off, who decided electing a mulatto made things post-racial? Second, who are the ones most concerned with race lately anyhow? The Dems cry racism if they don't get enough sprinkles on their mid-afternoon cupcakes, and prominent Black and Mulatto Americans have a hard time trying to justify perceived racial profiling in a case so CLEARLY elevated and created by a racially bigoted Black Man that even a Black Panther might be able to figure it out... (okay... that might be a bit of a stretch... but you get the idea...).

There is NOTHING post-racial in the country right now. The Black Community won't let the whole "mulatto president" thing go and the press is acting like eager little puppies trying desperately to please their masters to ensure that we know how enlightened we are and how lucky we are that color is not an issue, even as it is being screamed in our faces.

And all of this, my friends, is a smoke screen to distract us from the very real issue of socialized medicine.

Now stuff that in your pipe and smoke it!

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We cried too, General Powell....

General Colin Powell was just interviewed again on a whole host of subjects by CNN.com and once again reveals that he is more of the flawed figure he first revealed himself to be last summer.

At first he talks about Professor Gates and he tries hard to paint a picture of Gates being the responsible party, but of course can't resist saying that the cops over-reacted. It's couched in more subtle language than president hussein used, but it's still there.

And then to add depth to the comment, the General goes on to say how he was once racially profiled at Reagan International Airport because no one believed he was the National Security Adviser to the president.

He claims it was because no one believed a black man could have been the NSA, but offers no proof.

So for a second time in recent weeks prominent black men have gotten out the word that failure to be recognized for their fame equals racism.

Racial profiling is not a funny thing. It can lead to all manner of terrible events. But the terrible crime of not being recognized for your fame is NOT racial profiling, it's more a matter of people being busy with their jobs and not paying too much attention to the news.

Which is also not a crime.

In just a few short weeks I will be going to a travelling seminar hosted by many prominent figures, among them Rudy Giuliani and General Powell. I'll resist the temptation to bring a bag of rotted tomatoes for Mr. Powell, but I no longer feel I have anything to gain from him.

He out and out admits in this interview that the reason... the ONLY reason... he wanted hussein to win the election was due to his skin color. Or to put it another way, because he racially profiled him.

He was so profoundly moved that a black man could get elected to the office of president he cried.

We on the other hand who love this country above all other considerations including skin color cried as well, but for completely different reasons.

What is so galling about Powell's remarks is that there was a time when I admired his work, his calmness and his ethics. I WANTED Colin Powell to run for president. I would have voted for him. He conveyed all the things that makes a man a man.

And I know when everything changed. The moment is palpable, and for a man of his stature was almost certainly a life-altering event. The day he stood at the podium of the United Nations and tried to gain international approval for the war in Iraq, and the entirety of the room laughed at him.

If you trace it, things were never the same after that. He became more quiet and subdued in the media, his politics were at odds with Bush's. Many post-Bush administration reports showed that he had become something of the outside influence to the inner circle due to his growing frustration over that moment.

And now he has lost the luster of what a lifetime of service to your country can bring to a man, and he has chosen petty racism over the safety of the country he so loved.

I'm Dr. Calamity and I approve this message.