Archive for October 2008

If You Can’t Beat ‘Em, Steal ‘Em

My McCain/Palin yard sign was stolen last night. My yard sign in support of George Bush was stolen during the period before the last Presidential election also. I am thoroughly disgusted, but not at all surprised. I don’t expect anything better of liberals, and generally they live up to those expectations.

There are 3 possible reasons that this tactic is so commonly used against Republican supporters each election season. None of these reasons are flattering to the left or its policies.

Number 1:
The left is the party that is more likely to attract those who are willing to engage in criminal behavior without remorse. Bill Clinton proves this out, and the double-standard the left applies to its own when their politicians are caught in moral, ethical, and/or legal violations bears strong witness as well.

Number 2:
In the great traditions of the Soviets, the Chinese Communists, the North Korean Communists, et al; dissension must be silenced. Strange that the political movement whose adherents sport bumper stickers with slogans such as “Dissent is Patriotic” is the same movement that cannot bear dissent regarding its believers stances. Maybe not so strange considering that these ideas fail miserably under even light scrutiny by a thinking mind.

Number 3:
Liberals really believe the socialist credo that the ends justify the means. For them, the law only is useful when it protects them or their ideologies. When it gets in the way, or prevents them from silencing their opponents it becomes permissable to flaunt it. They don masks and riot; they shout down others in an effort to interfere with their first ammendment rights; they even manage to get blatantly unconstitutional laws such as the FACE act passed. They will hurl stones, destroy property, and assault innocent people when their un-American ideas are questioned. As always, when they can’t legitimately fault the message, they attack the messenger. Actually, they usually attack the messenger before the message. This is all the more amazing when the current standard bearer of the liberal message is a truly faulty messenger, the faults of whom they turn an intentionally blind eye to.

Like ACORN with any election, or the DNC against a clear electoral victory, or like the disgusting petty thief living somewhere near my home, if they can’t beat ‘em, they WILL try to steal ‘em.

Fashionistas

The media really dug deep and turned up some amazing dirt on Sarah Palin this time. I guess its all over now.

Can you believe the audacity of the RNC? How could they stoop so low as to spend that kind of money on clothes for a candidate?

Strange how nobody seems concerned with how much the male candidates are spending though isn’t it? The press has shown a clear leftward bias so often that only the most self-deluded apologists try to pretend it doesn’t exist. (I use a little code name for them, “democrats”). This new sexist bias is still a little unexpected, and unbecoming of even such low life forms as the media.

Had Hillarity won the nomination of her party, and someone questioned the DNC on expenses toward her wardrobe, the left would have villified that person. I’m sure there was no hesitation to print such meaningless yet snide information about a Republican woman.

Why?
As is almost always the case, there is no such thing as stooping too low when attacking conservatives. This is largely because attacking them on facts or ideas isn’t terribly effective. If the truth won’t work, maybe twisted misrepresentations will. If the ideas aren’t particularly assailable, I guess the source of the wardrobe is fair game.

What it really comes down to though, is an attempt to portray her as a small-town rube who didn’t have, and couldn’t afford, the apparel necessary for a vice-presidential candidate. As usual, the left shows it’s complete disregard and disdain for mainstreet and their elitist self-regard.

Personally, I would have voted for Sarah over Obama/Biden if she dressed in jeans and T-shirts all the time. The issues and character are the important choice-points in this election, and that gap is too wide to devote any thought to who bought the clothes.

Love Letter From Obama

Dear America,

Gosh I just really love you! You are so OK. Nobody loves you like I do.
There are just few things I’d like very much if you could change just a little for me if you don’t mind too much.

First, this thing you have about keeping the money you earn for yourself and your family. I know you already give an awful lot to your Uncle, but with how much you make it isn’t really fair that you don’t give him more. He has other neices and nephews who want and deserve it more than you.

Also, the way you cling to your religion! Really, what’s the big deal? It’s only God after all. And don’t even get me started on those guns of yours. It’s like you’re expecting that Uncle of yours to come kick down your door and take away something precious. What do you have that’s so great anyway? Freedom? Rights? Those are just words anyway.

Some of those momentos of your past that you keep hanging around could come between us one day. Maybe it would be best if you just box them up and put them away. Better yet, we could just burn them. No need to have those reminders of your past with other men around. What’s more important here, me or Mount Rushmore and that Constitution thingy of yours?

If you could just take care of these few little things, I just know I will love you all the more. If you can’t bring yourself to, my friends and I are always willing to “help” with change you can believe in.

Love,

Barry

P.S. If you do these things, Michelle will be so proud!

It’s Not A Coin Toss

Imagine for a moment a quarter. One side heads, one tails. Now flip it… Which side landed up?
Now flip it a billion more times… I’ll wait…
Statisticians tell us that it will come out pretty much equal between heads and tails.

Now imagine a coin with “Vote Obama” on one side, and “The Best For America” on the other. Does it bring to mind the saying “two sides of the same coin”?
Now flip this coin a billion times… waiting… Probably pretty much equal between both sides again.
Now, how many times did this coin land with both sides up? I’m guessing zero. As always, the two sides of the same coin are always going in opposite directions.

Flipping a coin is a way of making a random choice between two, usually opposed options. Other than the element of chance that is what America faces in this election; a decision between two incompatible choices. It really doesn’t matter what you think of John McCain. He is the best option for America when it comes down to the two possibilities. There are only two options in this election: Obamination or America.

That doesn’t seem to require a coin toss to decide, does it?

Guilt By Association(s)

Barack Obamination wants us to believe that his 20-year long attendance at Jeremiah Wright’s sermons means nothing. (Other than what a fine church-going Christian he is)
He also expects us to believe that starting his Senatorial campaign in William “cop-killa” Ayers’ living room is devoid of significance as well.
If he had so little to do with these people, why does he refer to Ayers as a “Professor Of English” instead of “despicable murdering piece of garbage”? Why does he wait 20 years to suddenly notice that Race-baiter Wright is saying a few things out of line? Was he afraid of hurting their feelings?

The answer is simple, and visible to anyone not blinded by fanatacism: he had no disagreement with these disgusting anti-American pieces of subhuman slime.

Personally, I find Obama’s association with his wife disturbing enough not to vote for him. Anyone who can ignore the others is more interested in nurturing their senseless hatred of Republicans than in the “Truth” that Obamination claims to love.

And the Winner Is…

The debate over who won the last presidential debate of this campaign will obviously go on for much longer than the actual event. The reality is that there was no clear winner, but there is likely to be an overwhelming loser.

After listening to both candidates talk about “climate change,” it is clear that America lost either way.

The loss is obviously much greater if Obama comes out on top in this election, with the high likelihood that we will have 2 of 3 of our federal government branches in the hands of the Dems. I am preparing to ride out 4 very painful years.

Speaking of the debate; it seems that Obamination showed his complete ignorance of a wide variety of subjects. From the obvious of not knowing where he was when his Senatorial campaign was kicked off, to only slightly more obscure policy areas.

The ignorance of how group insurance policies work was astounding. His suggestion that merely adding more bodies to an insurance plan will lower costs is frighteningly foolish. The more additional people that fall toward the higher risk end of actuarial tables, the higher the cost for the existing insured group. I guess the rest of us are supposed to suck up the cost of paying to add the high risk individuals he is most concerned with. More of his master wealth redistribution plan. Socialist!

He also apparently missed Economics 101 while organizing his community. Raising taxes on business causes them to cut pay, cut benefits, send jobs overseas, and raise prices. What a boon to the middle class on Main Street. Neophyte!

Well, here’s to all of us, the losers in this election, Americans. May the next four years pass quickly, and may we still be able to pull our country back from the brink when its over.

McCain Misses the Point (again..)

In Wednesday night’s debate, Obama opened himself up on taxes again and John McCain refused to take the opening.  Once again Obama has spoken proudly about taxing the rich, but also added that he would give tax breaks to businesses that create jobs in the United States.

Let’s assume for a moment that you are a business owner.  You can either keep your jobs overseas and avoid the ridiculously high tax rate in America, or you can create jobs here, pay the taxes up front, and collect on the back end.  Hmmm, money in the bank, or money in the government’s hands???  Tough decision.

John McCain should be pointing out that ANY tax on business will end up coming out of the pockets of working Americans.  If a business pays higher taxes, they are going to pass on that higher tax to you.  Some will eliminate jobs to save money.

It is clear that never having a real job has seriously affected Obamination’s ideas about how a free-market economy actually works.

Democrats Are Not Sheep

I have to admit that I was tempted to call Obamination voters “sheep”, but after some short consideration I decided against it.
It is true that sheep will follow blindly, with little concern for the direction they are going. This doesn’t really go far enough in describing those that have decided to follow Obama.
The best parallel is probably the lemming. Following a leader that has no qualification other than a particular charisma, they throw themselves into an ocean that will be their doom.
This is how Obama’s fans behave. They don’t know where they are going, why they are going there, and when the abyss is described to them, they only run that much faster to the edge.
Ask his proponents why he should be president, and his own advisors can barely get past undefined “change”.
If Obamination wins the White House, I will do my best to stand aside and let the lemmings throw themselves from the precipice, but I worry that they could take the whole country with them.

Come Out and Debate Like A Man

John McCain must have decided sometime between rounds that he couldn’t win this fight without throwing at least a few punches.

Maybe he learned a bit from Sarahcuda’s debate performance; it’s ok to actually say that Obamimam is lying when he does. Maybe for tonight’s debate, he could bring a copy of the Congressional Record to remind Obamination that there is a record of his votes. It would also show his lack of ideas. To paraphrase Douglas Adams, Obama has written and sponsored bills in much the same way that a brick hasn’t.

I certainly hope that McCain is prepared to back up his own record with specifics this time. If he brings the examples and facts to the table, he should win the debate handily. If he is unprepared to defend his statements he will be in for trouble.

The Real Credit Crisis

So far, a majority of the House of Representatives have done the right thing regarding the “credit crisis” by refusing to pass the bailout bill.  Unfortunately, there is some indication that the resolve of some members may waver given enough time.   The final result is likely to create even more such problems in the future.  Much of this problem was created by liberal policies dating back many years; that is, the encouragement of bad behavior by rewarding it.

In this case there are journalists, politicians, and even the President telling us how there won’t be credit available to those who need it.  Eventually, there will probably be something that most refer to as a “solution”, but how can an exacerbation of the root of the problem solve anything?  The problem in this case has been offering credit to everyone, regardless of ability to repay.  This has been partially due to government policies intended to encourage (pressure and threaten) lenders to give credit to everyone to make housing available to all, confusing home ownership with the American Dream.  Too much credit has been available, and there have been no positive consequences for good behavior.

The real opportunity here is to reduce available credit; creating a negative consequence for failure to pay, or late payment of bills and obligations.

If  Congress insists on spending to fix the problem the way to do it would be to make a few payments on the mortgages of responsible homeowners.  Those that took fixed-rate mortgages well within their means would be the best place to start.  This would be a great way to encourage the right kind of behavior.

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