Demo-Dopes losing issues to common sense and thechnology

A big Demo-Dope campaign issue USE to be gun control. Now there 80 million guns in Americans' hands. As noted here before, that’s a good start. All but the safest of the Demo-Dopes – Nanny Bloomberg - have backed away from openly campaigning as the gun grabbing morons they are.


Instead you have Cambodian war hero John Françoise Kerry walking into a gun store and proclaiming for all hear, “Is this where I get me a huntin’ license?” Then the faux war hero and hunter wasn’t man enough to carry his own “kill” for the cameras. Afraid of offending the PETA crowd, Kerry had some sap tote the dead birds back while he mugged for the camera carrying his Italian made shotgun.

But don’t think that the Demo-Dopes have given up on grabbing your guns. The entire Fast and Furious debacle was staged for that very purpose. And if Border Patrol agent Brian Terry gets killed in the process, well that just a bit of collateral damage for the greater good.

The Demo-Dopes are just as anti-2nd Amendment as they ever were but now they have to go into stealth mode because everyone with a brain knows what they are up to. So instead of openly campaigning as the gun grabbing d-bags that they are, they creat hare-brained schemes in the DOJ to grab your guns.

Demo-Dope use to go around the country campaigning as the party that would support a woman’s right to kill her baby, ok abort the baby in the first trimester. Then something happened, ultrasound technology made it pretty clear that what was being removed from a woman’s uterus wasn’t just a blob of cells.

When referencing a VA law that requires women seeking an abortion to get an ultrasound and listen to the baby’s heart beat, great Demo-Dope philosopher and thinker Joy Blowhard,asks rhetorically:

“It’s like, what are we? What is this, the Taliban now? What are we, in Afghanistan?"

No, Joy it’s not. If it were the Taliban in Afghanistan, you’d have that ugly mug of yours where it belongs under a burlap bag.

Just like with gun control, the Demo-Dopes have lost their advantage in the abortion argument. So what to do? Well simply conflate abortion with birth control. Everyone use birth control, right? One poll says 98% of Catholics use birth control, never mind that 98% aren’t of child bearing years, or having sex, or using contraceptives. The true stat is that 98% of Catholics having sex and not wishing to get pregnant are using birth control.

As near as I can tell, no one, not even the Catholic Church wants to ban contraceptives. Most of us, including the Catholic Church do not want to pay for them for other people. Most of us don’t want to foot the bill for other people who are nothing more than too lazy and too cheap to buy their own. The church has a pretty good moral argument for not wanting to do it. It’s a long and for most I think an uncomfortable read. OK for me an uncomfortable read. (You can look up on Today’s Catholic web site.) Uncomfortable not because it deals with human sexuality but rather because it sort of nails what a hedonistic bunch we’ve become over time, bit by bit without really noticing.

More crap than it is possible to keep up with

As usual there are a bunch of things to worry about and be POed about with the P-BO and his posse of @$$clowns this morning.


First: The P-BO claims to be dumber than we thought. After claiming for months and months that George Bush’s economy was the worse economy since the great depression, the P-BO is now claiming he was too stupid to fully understand how bad the economy really was.

Now it’s totally believable that the P-BO is too stupid to understand much of anything – like how many states there are in the United States for example – hint Mr. P-BO it’s not 57. But how can even this walking talking sock of crap go on and on for months, hell years, about how bad the economy is and then when his tried and true Demo-Dope proscription for economic ruin produce the predictable result, claim he didn’t know?

Simple, when his lips are moving, he’s lying his @$$ off.

Next: There’s a little gem the P-BO budget farce that calls on us to borrow 800 MILLION from the Chinese to give to the “Arab Spring countries” to build good will and promote democracy. Hint to his Royal @$$holiness and the boot licking morons he’s chosen to surround himself with. Egypt just had the freest fairest elections in 60 years. The result was a takeover by the Muslim Brotherhood.

Now that crowd is blackmailing this administration of clueless halfwits by saying if we don’t pay them off with continued aide, they will junk their treaty with Israel. So the natural reaction to that type of “diplomacy” is to give into it and budget for it by asking for another 800 MILLION to “spread around.”

I’m POed enough about this pant load redistributing money here at home. I’m really, really, POed when he talks about confiscating wealth to redistribute around the Middle East to governments who would prefer to see us on the ash heap of history, which is ironically where the P-BO plans to deposit us.

Next: After throwing Naval tradition to the wind by naming US Navy ships after the likes of Cesar Chaves and John the jack@$$ Murtha, Navy Secretary Ray Mabus has taken the steps necessary to name a new LCS after wounded Rep Gabriel Giffords.

What a load of crap. I’m certain Mz. Giffords is nice lady. Let’s put this as plainly as possible. Her main claim to fame is for surviving a gun shot wound to the head. Of that class of people, I’m certain there are Marines alive today who have contributed more to the Naval Service and their country than Mz. Giffords. And if we include those who didn’t survive their wound – Mz. Giffords would be so far down the line of heroes you’d need 10,000 reams of paper single spaced, four columns to a page, in 8pt print before you got to Gabriel.

For the love of Pete, you'd think her husband, Navy Captain Mark Kelly, would step up and say, "Whoa there.  Hold on just a minute.  Let's not get carried away."  Not in this day and age.  Embarrassment in these things died off when we got used to giving every kid a trophy no matter how badly they played. 

I e-mailed former Navy Sec, Sen James Webb:

Sen. Webb,

Please school your Democratic colleague, Navy Secretary Ray Mabus, on the history and tradition for the naming of US Navy warships before he names the next aircraft carrier after himself. I would have thought the naming of US Navy warships was above politics. With this crowd, apparently it is not.

Semper Fi,
Doug Schumick

Last: Is the end near? Recent polls give the P-BO an upper hand against all Republican challengers. I believe the polls about as much as I do government stats on unemployment and economic growth in a campaign year. Remember this is the same bunch that told us that P-BOcare, even though it provided millions with “free healthcare” wouldn’t add to the deficit.

A.B. Stoddard, a regular on the Fox all-stars, predicted that if unemployment and the economy “continue” to improve, voters will forget about $5 gasoline, Fast and Furious, Solyndra etc. etc. That’s breathtaking. Are we really that shallow? We’ll believe cooked stats designed to bolster the worst president in US history and re-elect a buffoon that has taken the country to the brink of ruin. Yes, I believe that we are.

It's a trap

OK men listen up. When a woman tells you, “Really, let’s not exchange ANYTHING for Valentine’s Day.” A normal man thinks, “Wow that’s really cool. She knows that Valentine’s Day is a Hallmark Holiday with no personal, religious, national or organizational significance. She's so comfortable with our relationship that she doesn’t need to phony it up with $50 worth of crap that will end up in the garbage in two days anyway. Besides that puts me $50 closer to that really cool saw at Lowe's.”


Unbeknownst, to the foolish man, she really means, “Look you cheep bastard, this is just a test. You’d better make an extraordinary effort for Valentine’s Day.” Yeah, I fell for it. I can see the Griffin now shaking his head in disbelief, “You dope! How could you fall for the oldest trick in the woman’s playbook?”

I should have known I was toast when I got up in the morning to cards, candy and heart shaped donuts on the counter for Lex jr. and me. It didn’t faze me. How nice I thought. By noon I was informed that “let's not exchange ANYTHING” didn’t include a card, even though cards were specifically mentioned as a waste of money. So at 9 pm after Scouts, there Lex jr and I were at the 24 hour Kroger making our Valentine’s Day purchases. That’s when Jr. informed me he made a card for his mom in French class. The only thing better than a dozen red roses and a Hallmark card that requires extra postage for your wife on Valentine's Day is a homemade card in French from jr. Trust me I know.

Never again.

Subsidizing the rich

Of course we should subsidize this to the tune of $10,000

As part of his asinine budget proposal, the P-BO would like to offer a 10,000 dollar tax rebate for anyone dumb enough to buy a Chevy Fire Trap (aka Chevy Volt). Brilliant! We’re dead broke so let’s subsidize stupid people. What’s next, a 5,000 dollar subsidy for the cast of Jackass III? 2,000 dollars for people who spill coffee on themselves then bitch because it’s hot? 1,000 dollar subsidy for each contraption that Wiley E. Coyote purchases from the Acme Co.? Demo-Dopes have a long history of buying off stupid people (aka Demo-Dope voters).


The problem with the Chevy Fire Trap is that it’s a crummy coal burning car that catches fire, can only travel 30 miles on a charge, and costs in excess of $40K. Even with a 10K tax credit the piece of crap car will still cost in excess of $30K. Only an idiot with more money than he knows what to do with would even consider buying a crappy car that is known to spontaneously combust and arguably exacerbates the problem it was designed to contain.

A recent study of electric cars in China finds that the enviro-friendly electric cars may be causing more harm than good. And that’s not even counting the pollution spewed out into the environment when they catch fire or the enviromental nightmare that is coming when all of these dopes start disposing of worn out car batteries. I wonder if Chinaman wannabe Thomas L. My Head is Flat Friedman knows about this?

Why would Chevy Volt owners worry about any of that? Few of them as there are, the whole point of buying a volt was so that they could turn up their noses at their less environmentally conscience neighbors. So even if the piece of crap never leaves the garage, they can brag, “Why yes, I’m environmentally friendly. I own a Volt.” Never mind that they never drive it and showed up to the party in their 12 cylinder Bugatti.

Now the poor saps who invested in this coal burning piece of junk have a 3,500 pound fire bomb plugged into their garage outlet. But “poor sap” isn’t even an accurate description. It turns out that the average Chevy Volt buyer earns about $170,000 a year. The P-BO wants to subsidize these rich saps with your hard earned tax dollars. Isn’t that a tax break for the rich?

Let me break this down to the simplest terms. What kind of man lets his wife and kids travel around town in a fire bomb? Ahh yes, that kind of guy. He takes out a million in life insurance on his wife. After buying her skydiving lessons with instructor Drew Peterson, a bungee jumping package in Mexico, a SCUBA diving excursion in Aruba with some guy named Van Der Sloot, a crotch rocket motor cycle, flying lessons for his home built helicopter and a ticket for a cruise on the Costa Concordia, he says, “Uh honey, why don’t you be environmentally friendly and take the Volt today.”

The only people who are dumber that the dopes who bought this piece of junk are the people who think it’s a good idea to subsidize the piece of junk.

Catholic Bishops begin to get it right

After the P-BO tried to fool the American people with a non-compromise “compromise” Bishop Dolan, the head of American bishops, issued this statement:

"Today's decision to revise how individuals obtain services that are morally objectionable to religious entities and people of faith is a first step in the right direction. We hope to work with the Administration to guarantee that Americans' consciences and our religious freedom are not harmed by these regulations."

I thought, oh crap, they fell for it. I was outraged that they would surrender this issue as soon as their ox stopped being gored by an intrusive government bent on making taxpayers and everyone who holds an insurance policy support all manner of deviant destruction of life. If the government can require insurance companies to offer life ending “medical procedures” where does the government’s authority stop? Can they then require each of us to house a OWS loser for the summer while they go about destroying the country? Can they require that everyone with more than one car be forced to purchase a Chevy Fire Trap (aka Chevy Volt)?

I thought the bishops were ready to return the status quo ante, a time when they turned a blind eye to the excesses of the Demo-Dope party. Then this statement was released by the Catholic Bishops that pretty much puts them back in line with church doctrine and sends the P-BO and his idiot HHS Sec back to the drawing board.

Here are just few gems from the statement:

First, we objected to the rule forcing private health plans — nationwide, by the stroke of a bureaucrat's pen—to cover sterilization and contraception, including drugs that may cause abortion. All the other mandated "preventive services" prevent disease, and pregnancy is not a disease. Moreover, forcing plans to cover abortifacients violates existing federal conscience laws. Therefore, we called for the rescission of the mandate altogether.


Second, we explained that the mandate would impose a burden of unprecedented reach and severity on the consciences of those who consider such "services" immoral: insurers forced to write policies including this coverage; employers and schools forced to sponsor and subsidize the coverage; and individual employees and students forced to pay premiums for the coverage. We therefore urged HHS, if it insisted on keeping the mandate, to provide a conscience exemption for all of these stakeholders—not just the extremely small subset of "religious employers" that HHS proposed to exempt initially.


But stepping away from the particulars, we note that today's proposal continues to involve needless government intrusion in the internal governance of religious institutions, and to threaten government coercion of religious people and groups to violate their most deeply held convictions. In a nation dedicated to religious liberty as its first and founding principle, we should not be limited to negotiating within these parameters. The only complete solution to this religious liberty problem is for HHS to rescind the mandate of these objectionable services.

We will therefore continue—with no less vigor, no less sense of urgency—our efforts to correct this problem through the other two branches of government. For example, we renew our call on Congress to pass, and the Administration to sign, the Respect for Rights of Conscience Act. And we renew our call to the Catholic faithful, and to all our fellow Americans, to join together in this effort to protect religious liberty and freedom of conscience for all.

Now if the Catholic Bishops would issue a statement that indicates Catholics, like Slowest of all Joes, Joe shovel ready Biden, Cambodian war hero John Françoise Kerry and Grand Fran Nan Peloser, who support the HHS decision should stop taking communion and consider a change of religion, they’d have hit a home run.

Oh, and don’t fall the Lib BS trick of polling info that indicates 60+% of Catholics want free contraceptives. 100% of Catholics want free ice cream. Ask the question this way: Do you support your cash strapped family paying additional insurance fees to pay for some woman’s 5th abortion in two years? Or, Do you support the government forcing Americans to purchase anything? That 60+% would dip to about 20% pretty quick.

If the bishops win the battle for an exemption from P-BOcare based on “conscience”, you’ll be amazed how quickly about 98% of Americans develop a conscience.

Buying votes

Yesterday the P-BO and certain big banks teamed up to buy votes for the P-BO by bailing out homeowners who are delinquent on their house payments. Now I’m current on my house payment. Soooo, should I consider becoming delinquent so that I can become eligible for the P-BO’s plan to write down the principal on my loan? Why yes I think I should. I won’t, but you can bet thousands of other home owners will.


Also, the 27 billion banks are taking out of one pocket to stuff into another represents less than 1% of the cost of homes in America that are behind in payments or where the home is worth less than what is owed. So this whole charade is like the P-BO showing up in New Orleans after Katrina with a bucket and after pouring a few bucket loads of water over a levy that has a quarter mile gash in it, declaring he has saved the city. Like everything with the King of the @$$clowns, this is all smoke and mirrors.

But this arrangement will not stop the banks from raising ATM, checking, savings, and loan fees to recoup the cost of the money that came from the left pocket and was put into the right pocket. Again the only people who get screwed in these deals are the poor saps playing by the rules.

The only good news in any of this is that the P-BO is trying to buy votes from people he’s already paid off, moochers.

PREDICTIONS:
Waste associated with this program will surpass even the waste associated with most government programs.

Somehow a dozen or so P-BO campaign bundlers will be paid hundreds of thousands of dollars from the fund.

Audits of the program will reveal lots of money legally went to wealthy home owners who easily out witted the dim witted government bureaucrats administering the program.

Any shortcomings of the program will be blamed on George W. Bush.

At some debate ahead of the Nov election the P-BO will declare the mortgage crisis over as a result of his own fearless leadership. The press will run with the story irrespective of the actual truth.

In reality, aside from a staged press opportunity, not ONE USEFUL thing will be accomplished by the program.

Pay for your own damned abortion

The latest line of attack on the Catholic Church’s stand against the P-BO’s boneheaded move to force the church to pay for and make available all manner of Liberal socially destructive BS, is that 98% of Catholic women use contraceptives. Let’s say that’s true. Who’s paying for them? Certainly the church isn’t.


I’m pretty sure a very large percentage of Catholics cuss from time to time, that doesn’t mean the church should be forced by the government to hold workshops on how to cuss.

And isn’t it, even for the moral relativism crowd, a rather long leap from contraceptives to abortion and sterilization? Do these giants of deep thoughts throw the kid who swipes a candy bar from the corner store in with adults who invade a home, rape and kill its occupants and steal the plasma TV?

The church’s moral argument against contraceptives can be seen in practical terms in the demographics in Europe and it is beginning to show here in the US. The European train, after leaving stations marked, socialism, social and multicultural decline, is pulling into the station marked irreversible loss of identity. The US train is only a few stations back up the track.

It strikes me - that is the whole purpose of everything that the P-BO does. If you think he’s destructive to the American way of life as we knew it now, while he’s trying to thread the needle to a second term, wait until he is unencumbered by the need to run for re-election. Our decline in a second P-BO term will be, to borrow a term from the Justice Dept., fast and furious.

Don’t fall for the avalanche of BS that is sure to flow from this administration of lying turd biscuits and their willing accomplices in the lame steam media. It is the church’s responsibility and, for now anyway, right to proclaim its doctrine as it sees fit. It is the flock’s responsibility to live within the doctrine as best they can. The fact that a large percentage of flock fails, doesn’t give the government the right to declare the doctrine null and void.

Now, let me put the entire religious argument aside. Just when did it become my responsibility to pay for some woman’s abortion or birth control anyway? Pay for your own damned abortion. And while we’re at it, your own sex change operation, sterilization, cosmetic changes, implants, and all manner of other degenerate crap that is being forced on an already broke and struggling middle class.

Prop 8, Newt, Super PAC

Back in 2008 over 80 million dollars were spent advertising the pros and cons of a gay marriage amendment to California voters in advance of Proposition 8. In November of that year, over 13 million California votes let their opinions on the matter be known. Even though they were outspent by over 7 million dollars Proposition 8 carried the state by over 52%.


Yesterday TWO federal court judges cancelled the will of over 7 million California voters. Now irrespective of what you might think about Prop 8, it passed. It was overturned by TWO judges drove a stake into the heart of the notion that America is a land “of the people, by the people and for the people.”

And don’t lay any of that civil rights BS on me. This has nothing to do with it. Any civil discrimination can be dealt with. This is nothing more than another chip in the bedrock foundation that has made America the envy of the world for over 200 years.

I don’t even know why we have elections. We should let a three judge panel from the 9th Circus Court of Appeals decide everything for us. They seem to think that that is their role.

Primary
Everyone is saying Romney had a bad night last night. If Romney had a bad night Newt had a disastrous night. The self proclaimed conservative alternative to Romney didn’t even show up as the conservative alternative to Ron Paul. Will this drubbing stop Newt from calling for Santorum’s exit from the race? Of course it won’t. Newt’s not running a campaign anymore. He’s running a vendetta. Newt ought to be out this morning hitting his theme of dismantling the 9th Circus. There is just something so wrong about a state defining marriage by law as it has been defined over the last 2,000 years only to have that definition declared unconstitutional. There is traction here for Newt if he can just stop whining about Romney for half an hour.

The P-BO to accept super PAC money

Surprise, surprise, surprise. After blasting the Supreme Court decision that allowed the formation of Super PACs during one his more un-presidential moments – I know, how do you choose – the P-BO threw principle to the wind and jumped on the Super PAC band wagon. After all it’s more important to be elected than be elected for standing for something.

During the last election cycle, the P-BO swore he’d be taking federal matching funds right up to point that it looked like he’d make more money by not taking them, then he reneged. Can you say that any more? So complaining about Super PAC money right up to the point that you take it is par for the hypocrite Demo-Dope sail eared dope’s standard.

The P-BO is no bitter clinger

Channeling his inner Revs? Al and Jesse at last week’s National Prayer Breakfast the P-BO misinterpreted this scripture passage:


“for unto whom much is given, much shall be required”

The full passage can be found here. Were the P-BO’s interpretation of this passage correct, yeah it’d be a miracle, but it would also mean that we could simply buy our way into heaven. No?

Jesus expects much more of us than a willingness to “spread our wealth around.” I’ll tell you this, anyone who thinks that he is doing his share for mankind because he pays taxes is missing the point. Were that the case, Warren Buffet would pay his taxes and instead of just talking about wanting higher taxes for the rich, he and others who make that ridiculous argument would gladly send them in with little fanfare. And if the P-BO were making an accurate interpretation of the Bible they could buy their way into heaven by paying higher taxes.

First off, and I’ve said before on this page, if your great contribution to man is paying your taxes, you’re likely to have problems at the gate of heaven. If when asked, “What contributions have you made for man?” Your answer is, “Well, I paid my taxes.” You are likely going to have a tough sell. Next, and I believe this to be absolutely true, we’d all be better off giving the money we spend in taxes to help the poor to the Catholic Church. They do a better more compassionate job serving the poor with far less waste than the bloated federal government.

But sadly for Warren and the other raise my taxes please crowd, God never said material wealth and what we did with it would be the measure by which He would judge us. In fact, I’d guess that criterion is pretty far down his list. A poor man, contributing nothing to the offering plate or tax collector but living a Godly life is surely doing more than a rich man who tithes but otherwise does little to live his life inside God’s teachings. We call the first group saints. We call the latter group hypocrites. Since the word hypocrite is synonymous with Demo-Dopes, we know why the P-BO botched this passage.

And couldn’t we make the case that America is like the servants in the parable? Certainly we have been given much. Certainly we have done much. We were able to contribute because our economy has been powered freedom. Our people are the freest most giving in the history of the world. We now stand on the edge of losing our freedom and the economy will follow whatever path we choose. What we as a nation are able to contribute will be affected by the choices we make as a people.

If we believe as the founder did that this land of ours was founded by divine providence, I’d argue that parents who are teaching their children what American exceptionalism truly means and thereby persevering her greatness are doing great things not measured in dollars.

Last and not surprisingly, the P-BO just flat out missed the primary focus of Jesus’ parable. The primary purpose of the parable is to teach us to be always prepared for the Master’s return, for we do not know the time of His calling. The “much is given” in this passage, I think, refers to eternal life. The “much is expected” refers to living a good life. Only a shallow dope would cherry pick the last line as means to argue for higher taxes. He should have asked a bitter clinger for advice on this passage.

Church complicit in policy it opposes

The Catholic Church is in an uproar over the P-BO’s Health and Human Services’ insurance mandate forcing Catholic affiliated institutions to provide and pay for abortions, contraceptives and sterilizations on demand. In Ft. Wayne, Bishop Kevin Rhoades not only said no, he said hell no. Well sort of, Bishop Rhoades issued a scathing statement of the mandate that included this gem:


We cannot and we will not comply with this unjust federal order. We cannot and we will not accept this egregious affront to our religious liberty.

All right some good old fashion civil disobedience for a cause other than SEIU demanding that its members get paid three and half times what the average worker in the state is earning. No doubt the Catholic Church will find out what a mean vindictive bunch the Demo-Dopes are when someone, anyone, crosses them. Look for a bill from the senate before the week is out attempting to pull the church’s tax exempt status.

I’m all for our bishop’s stance. But like the illegal immigration issue, it’s 40 years too late. We’ve been allowing people to come and go across our southern border willy nilly for 40 years. Now we want to stop it, and guess what? It’s too late, or at least takes a great deal more effort to get it done. If you’ve let your kids sit at the dinner table with their elbows propped up, chewing with mouths open and burping and flagellating at will for 40 years, you can’t say, OK we’re going to have manners at the dinner table tonight and expect success.

The same is true for this new mandate.

The Catholic Church has stood mute while Demo-Dope Catholic politicians have backed abortion on demand and in many cases using tax dollars to pay for it. They did it with the Kennedy’s. They continue to do it with Slowest of all Joes, Joe shovel ready Biden, Cambodian war hero John Françoise Kerry, and box-o-rocks Grand Fran Nan Peloser.

Now, after 40 years of ignoring Catholic politicians who support abortion, in direct contradiction to their religious teaching, the bishops are pissed that these politicians are supporting the issue in direct contradiction to religious teachings.

In the last election there was a pro life candidate and a pro abortion candidate. 54% of Catholics supported the pro abortion candidate. I remember sitting in the pew before the last presidential election while a priest danced around endorsing a candidate. His approach was that the really important thing was to get out and vote, not get out and vote pro life. Well excuse me, but I’d rather pro abortionists not vote at all. Now three years later the church is pissed that Demo-Dopes do what Demo-Dopes do.

Sorry bishops, you’re 40 years too late. Had the church stepped up early on and denied communion to these half Catholics they’d have firmer ground to stand on. As it is, I’ll bet not one bishop has the guts to name the three half Catholics mentioned here and demand they stop taking communion.

OK, that’s it. All ya all at Andy on Call get back to work. You’d best believe he’s watching.

Newt is all for Newt

Were Newt to concentrate his efforts on the P-BO, he’d be a more appealing candidate. As it is, he appears to me to be a man with a grudge more interested in getting even with the guy who brought up his house ethics investigation (after Newt brought up that guy’s tax returns) than being president.


Then after the guy puts out his tax returns, in true Demo-Dope penis envy fashion, Newt begins to slam the guy for being successful. That sounds more like an OWS rally than a Republican campaign strategy. But that’s Newt.

He looks angry. He acts like a man out for revenge and his main target is the Republican front runner. The only time Newt gains any traction in this race is when he slams the media and or the P-BO. Fair or not, he looses ground every time he starts training his fire on Republicans.

So what does he do? He fires on republicans just as he begins to gain ground, and worst of all he looks mean doing it. This is a sign of being undisciplined. Compare Newt delivering an attack on Romney with a scowl on his face and words like, liar, dishonest etc. etc. and Romney delivering an attack on Newt with a smile saying things like, “I’d expect that from the Democrats.”

Trying to defend the idiotic idea of putting a colony on the moon in this day and age isn’t grandiose, it’s insane. First things first Newt. Why don’t you spend your first term and our tax dollars stabilizing our Titanic like nation by fixing the gash in the hull and pumping out the water. Use your second term to talk about having all 1,300 of the passengers up on water skies behind her as she pulls victoriously into NY Harbor with a full head of steam.

In true Newt fashion, he’s planning on staying in the primary all the way to the convention. After all, it is all about Newt. He may rally once a gain. Who knows? If he does, it’ll because he went after the P-BO in a disciplined fashion.

But the reference to discipline and the pronoun referring Newt are way too close together in that last sentence in my opinion. He’ll surge by bashing the press and the P-BO. Then he’ll talk about an expedition to the sun. When Romney tells him the sun is too hot, Newt will call Romney a liar and remind him that Newt’s plan calls for the expedition to travel only at night.

Dividends

After the first Gulf War, we were informed that the world was a much and safer place. The Soviet Union had been dismantled, Sadam had been pushed out of Kuwait in the historic 100 hour war and peace was breaking out all over. As a result, we were told we could reduce our forces and thereby save billions of dollars. It was called a “peace dividend.”


Today, we are engaged in a world-wide war with Islamo-Terror-Fascists. The Chinese are undergoing a military expansion particularly with regard to their naval capabilities. Russia is now resurgent. They mean us no good in diplomatic relations across the globe - in spite of the P-BO’s effort to hit the “reset button,” (which was inexplicably translated to the Russian word for “overcharge” on the actual button Sec State Clinton presented to the Russians). Iran is months away from developing nuclear weapons. The Middle East is as unstable as it has been in my lifetime. Europe teeters on economic ruin.

In the face of all that, the P-BO will cut eight brigades from America’s Army. What is this reduction in force going to be called? It cannot be called a “peace dividend.” There is little peace anywhere in the world today. I think we can safely call this one “The P-BO doesn’t give a $h!t dividend.”

Last on Joe Pa
Penn State held a memorial service for Joe Pa yesterday. One of the speakers was Nike co-owner Phil Knight. Knight got a standing-O after delivering these lines:

"He gave full disclosure to his superiors, information that went up the chain to the head of the campus police and the president of the school. The matter was in the hands of a world-class university and a president with an outstanding national reputation.


"Whatever the details of the investigation, this much is clear to me: If there is a villain in this tragedy, it lies in that investigation, not in Joe Paterno's response."

The crowd’s response reminded me a bit of a bunch of kids who still want to believe in Santa Clause. They kind of know he’s not real but they want so much to believe. They try harder than ever to convince themselves that he’s real. Parents indulge the kids hoping they can hold on to their fantasy for as long as possible. Then another year goes by and nobody even tries to pretend.

Joe Pa and Jerry Sandusky are linked forever. Penn Staters can pretend it isn’t so for now.

Lies and damn lies

The P-BO played the role of national mama soothing a nation of cowards whimpering in the corner, “It’s not fair.” Were he playing the role of dad he’d had told us, “Look life’s not fair. Now get up. Get out there and kick some butt.” Instead he comforted us by telling us it’s not our fault that we’re unemployed, under employed or make less than our neighbor. It’s the fault of rich Republicans. Why we’d all be living like Warren Buffet or at least Mitt Romney if things were just fair.


Here’s the take away line:

[W]e can restore an economy where everyone gets a fair shot, everyone does their fair share, and everyone plays by the same set of rules.

In a single line everyone from failed business man who worked 90 hours a week get his fledging business off the ground to the lazy no count whose biggest effort of the day is noon time stroll the mailbox to see if his thrice weekly government check has arrived, are relieved of any responsibility for their own situation. It’s not fair and there is no hope in America. That’s why things haven’t worked out for everyone who things haven’t worked for.

This is America. Who isn’t getting a fair shot? How long have they not been getting a fair shot? This is the land of the fair shot and by worldly standards always has been. By fair shot the divider-in-chief means achieving an equal outcome. Equal outcomes are achieved by “spreading the wealth around.”

Who is not doing their share? The rich? The top 25% are currently footing 86% of the income tax burden in this country. How is that “fair?” 46% PAY NO INCOME TAX AT ALL. How is that “fair?” “Fair” is code for socialized redistribution of assets.

Who isn’t playing the rules? We are the most taxed, most over regulated people in the history of the planet. When you set those conditions, you tilt the playing field toward entities that can afford to deal with an unwieldy tax and regulatory bureaucracy, i.e. big business. You freeze out the little guy who can ill afford a team tax lawyers or an environmental impact study that’s required to break ground on a new facility. The P-BO and the Libs set the conditions through tax and regulatory policies whereby only a few companies can afford to compete, then he complains that it’s not fair. When someone recommends leveling the playing field by easing regulations, the P-BO rejects that and favors more regulations to punish those still able to compete. The process ends when a particular industry moves completely overseas.

By contrast, Mitch Daniels told us more about the state of union in 13 minutes than the P-BO did in his hours long line of BS.

The worst TV night of the year

The campaigner-in-chief kicks off his bid to continue to run the country into the ground and ruin another night of TV in America tonight with the State of the Union. No wait, his campaign offically kicked off several months ago, tonight is just a continuation of a campaign that actually began as soon as he lifted his hand from the Bible after being sworn in.


First off, the State of the Union speech is a total waste of everyone’s time. Putting it on TV is a waste valuable TV time. There was a time when the president didn’t even show up in the Capital Building and deliver the SOTU in the form of speech. It was delivered as a letter to congress.

Check every SOTU speech since Ronald Reagan. Based on objective speech criteria, every one of them has been too long, too polarizing and too disjointed to get much better than a D- in any speech class. Of course and as always in modern education, the P-BO will get a full pass for being half black and receive his usual A++++++ from Libs.

Predictions:
Don’t get “Let me be clear…” or any phrase with the word "fair" in it in the drinking game.

All media will fawn over the P-BO for the performance tonight. They will talk about how great he looked, what a nice tie had on, how in command he was blah, blah, blah. It’s all BS. He’s going to stand up and read a speech from a teleprompter. 10’s of 1,000 of local weathermen do the exact same thing every night with a whole lot more flare.

Unless the good Joe Wilson calls him what he is, a liar, the content of the show tonight will be exactly what you’d expect from a socialist. It’ll be program after program designed to separate working people from their money and “spread it around” to public sector union thugs, welfare and more green energy flops.

On a different note
Lee C. Bollinger is President of Columbia University. He wrote an OpEd for the Washington ComPost. In addition to his duties at Columbia, Bollinger is also Director of the Washington Post Co. In his OpEd, which was republished in the Ft. Wayne local fish wrap, Bollinger whines about the courts undoing the social engineering universities like Columbia are engaged in with their racial preference programs. These programs allow Libs like Bollinger to snatch less qualified kids from the back of the line and move them ahead of more qualified kids.  They do this not based on the content of their character or even a more objective standard, their grades, but rather on the color of their skin. Talk about turning Martin Luther King on his head.

Naturally Lex took exception:

White male Lee C. Bollinger is a supporter of socially engineered diversity, probably because it has never affected him or his children.

Were Bollinger truly interested in diversity, he’d resign as President of Columbia University because he’s male and quit as Director of the Washington Post Co. because he’s white. He’d insist an under served minority candidate be hired in those positions, perhaps even the rarest of all species in a faculty lounge or news room, a conservative.

Even with causes as noble as diversity, a line must be drawn somewhere. I suppose Bollinger draws his line on support for diversity right where it might actually affect him. If not there, then certainly before an equal number of conservative students and faculty are required on Columbia ’s campus or on the Post’s staff.

The reason some minorities cannot get into universities on their own merit is due to the utter failure of many inner city schools. Yet when someone comes along with voucher money to get kids out of the mess created by Liberal policies like those Bollinger champions, there are the Liberals standing in the school house door blocking a better education for minority kids.

When someone proposes firing incompetent union teachers in the public system, there’s Bollinger and his teachers’ union buddies to ensure inept tenured teachers remain in place for life. After all, punishing at risk children is a small price to pay to maintain a Liberal monopoly on public education.

Bollinger and his pals do little to enable these children to enter college based on their own merit. Instead Bollinger’s answer to the problems Liberal education policies have created is to pluck kids from the back of the line, where those policies have placed them, and simply move them ahead of more qualified applicants.