The commies among us have weighed two options in their effort to find and re-educate internal enemies of the state. The wreckers. Saboteurs. Bloggers. Yes, us.
Yes, animal farm has a data center and they're bored with just watching overseas communications.
We can't blame our government. They are a collection of the laziest, entitlement-minded, affirmative-action slugs on the planet. It is amazing we didn't follow the USSR collapse - exactly 20 years ago today - with our own.
If we were in charge and faced with these two choices, we too would rely on computers over the Occupy losers to do our dirty work.
Only - these aren't the only two options, just the only two considered.
Will we ever hear of someone in our government, other than that kook Ron Paul, mention Option 3?
Option 3
Respect the Constitution and leave the citizens alone.
"Lust for War." Has a nice ring to it, no? Makes us think of Sean Householder's Warrior Song.
These three words were used by Judge Napalitano on the Glenn Beck show Monday night. Probably most didn't catch it, or nodded in agreement as they misunderstood the Judge's intended meaning.
Libertarians and Ron Paul supporters -
you may want to stop reading here.
How can Libertarians be so right on so many things, yet so wrong on national security?
Judge Napalitano's use of the phrase "Lust for War" was in a bullet-point list of things he says are wrong with both parties. He is spot on with solutions to spending, the Fed and other areas, but he is dead wrong in the area of war and the use of our military.
The Ron Paul/Judge Napalitano view on national security is a 'let's not get involved' military posture. For those who nodded in agreement as Napalitano said "Lust for War", you likely did so out of war fatigue, not out of policy agreement.
We've been at war a long time and history shows the American population's support for an otherwise just war drops fast after about 5-6 years. We're in year 10 of fighting. 20, if you count the Clinton years of not responding to the first World Trade bombing, Khobar Towers, USS Cole, etc. That is a long time, and even the most patriotic are at a loss for reasons to continue the fight.
This post is not a judgement on those who have lost the fight.
This post is about those Ron Paul freaks - that's right: freaks - who argue for legal marijuana and an end to war in the same breath. These people can accurately discuss the tenth amendment and all its virtues, then assume the same moral superiority for their argument to rein in our military. They might be able to sway online polls in favor of Ron Paul, but they fall flat on national security.
Force Projection. We hear The Warrior Song when we hear these two words too!
Force Projection = Navy and Marines. Force Projection = Stable World.
Napalitano should show a bullet-point list of traits shared by liberals and Libertarians. One would be to adopt the false premise that they can do better in foreign affairs. They point to the world and say "we can do better". Or Obama's line, "We can be smarter." Voters like to be told they are smart.
We went to public school, so we REALLY like to be told we're smart!
The false part: their policies will create a vacuum of power and will destabilize, thus requiring the choice between two evils - more military use while the enemy has the initiative, or let the world burn.
The false premise is: things will continue as they are today, but we'll end these wars and pull our forces back. Further, we'll ignore aggressions that those War Lust'ers, the Democrats and Republicans, would have used to throw us into a new war. Sounds warm and fuzzy.
The Communist Party USA posted a list of 22 requests for Obama when he was elected. The last time we looked, Obama was pursuing, or had met, 20 of those requests. One of the two unfinished tasks: Pull out of Afghanistan. The Communist Party USA and the Libertarian Party are in agreement, albeit for different reasons - the US must pull out of Afghanistan.
The CPUSA wants the US out of Afghanistan because they do not like Force Projection and do like destabilization. It is like community organizing, but on a global scale. And it will show the US as weak, just like our retreat from Vietnam and Somolia.
The Libertarians want the US out of Afghanistan because Force Projection is contrary to their views. The fact that the region would descend into an al-queda-led anarchy means nothing to them. The fact that WMD's - YEP, I SAID WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION JUST LIKE GEORGE W. BUSH! - are now easily made with a vast network of state sponsorship means nothing to them. Murder on a grand scale + mayhem + terrorist havens across an entire continent + WMDs = destabilization. Add an ambitious Russia or China to that mix for bigger flames. Correcting this destabilization would require a military that we do not have.
Libertarians are to the GOP what the hippies are to the DNC - tolerated dope-smoking intellectuals who would destroy our way of life if given power.
If Ron Paul is the nominee, and he doesn't get right on national security, we'll stay home on election day to clean our guns.
There can be no confusions about Dr. Paul's own comments about the U.S. After 9/11, he said to students in Iowa, there was "glee in the administration because now we can invade Iraq." It takes a profoundly envenomed mindset—one also deeply at odds with reality—to believe and to say publicly that the administration of this nation brought so low with grief and loss after the attack had reacted with glee. There are, to be sure, a number of like-minded citizens around (see the 9/11 Truthers, whose opinions Dr. Paul has said he doesn't share). But we don't expect to find their views in people running for the nation's highest office.
UPDATED & BUMPED 12.27.11
[We'll periodically bump this post until Ron Paul is history. Our focus is on defeating Obama, so we're officially done reacting to Ron Paul and his pot-smoking zombie followers.]
Weakness encourages aggression from our enemies. Ron Paul’s fantasy will lead us on a collision course with those forces who have been waiting for the right moment to seize what they see as their destiny. America is the last stand for Western civilization and now is the time when we must be willing to fight every battle to keep our values and country strong.
My take on Ron Paul? If I suddenly have the urge to vote for an islam-appeaser who wants to see Israel wiped off the map, has no problem at all with a nuclear weaponized Iran, and thinks that the United States is an imperial force of evil in the world, I'll just vote for Obama...
(Just kidding. If it came down to Obama or Paul, I'd vote for Bill Still. I would never, ever vote for Obama.)
Joke candidate. Wrong, wrong, wrong. If he gets the Republican nomination, I would actually stay home on election day, as would most voters forced to choose between a communist and a madman.
How foolish is it to choose to die with a full cartridge box.
The enemies of liberty are all around, and close. You can see them on TV and on the internet. They are "whites of their eyes" close to us every day.
This is not Bunker Hill. Patriots are not nearly out of ammunition. Smoothbore muskets are for enthusiasts, re-enactors, and museums. The initiative is still there for the taking.
Jose Guerena saw the whites of their eyes. So did Solzhenitsyn, and millions of Russians.
Wait, if you wish, for many reason. Just don't wait until it is too late. Do not decide now to give the enemy the initiative in all cases.
Do not be the lone crossbowman holding his fire until he sees the whites of the armored knight's eyes behind his visor. Shoot that horse down as far away as you can. Then run, and do it again when you must.
You can see "the whites of their eyes" quite well while strapped to a torture chair. Likewise from your cell. You can see the whites of their eyes while standing against the wall. There's plenty of time for that, later.
What am I saying here, what do I mean?
I am saying that when citizens' hands are forced, they should not limit themselves based on Napoleonic era smoothbore ammunition conservation techniques. Neither should they base their decisions on a movie. Any movie, even Lord of the Rings. They should base their decisions based on METT-T, the current reality, and risks vs. rewards. Nothing else. Cold. Calculated.
I am saying citizens should have already by now have made their decisions and drawn their lines.
The Man Comes Around - Johnny Cash
Hurt - Johnny Cash
Whiskey Lulluby - Brad Paisley
Shiloh - Darryl Worley
Pistolero - Juno Reactor
Prologue (Lady in the Water) - James Newton Howard
The Great Eaton - James Newton Howard
Backwoods Boy - Josh Turner
Down to the River - Alison Krauss
Battle Without Honor - Kill Bill Soundtrack
We never respond to chain letters. Why did we respond here??
Karl Denninger at Market-Ticker posts his 2012 predictions, as well as a review of his 2011 predictions.
For the most part, he's been successful in his predictions.
The 2012 predictions that stood out to us were:
The double-dip recession will hit us between Q2 and Q4.
One or more countries will leave the Euro.
A third party candidate will emerge and get >10% of the vote.
MF Global still threatens commodity markets.
MF Global: "we will see actual handcuffs."
Strong/Stable dollar.
Continued weak housing.
Interest rates will rise.
Some state and local level public pensions will not be paid.
We like this discussion about earned money - wealth - and promised money - credit:
But notice what's going on under the surface: Capital and credit aren't the same thing. One is wealth, the other is a promise to labor tomorrow. In other words one is the product of free men and women, the other is a demand that others submit to slavery -- a promise that others will pay taxes in the future!
If you're wondering where our jobs went, that's how it happened. The actual capital flowed out of the country and was replaced by credit which spends the same but isn't the same at all. What disappeared was wealth and freedom, and what replaced it was bondage, unemployment and McJobs. If you're wondering why despite Congress saying they don't want to see all of our jobs go to China and Mexico it keeps happening, it is happening precisely because Congress will not stop spending more than they tax!
In other words it is Congress that has drained the capital of our nation through their policies. They have serially lied to us for thirty years in this regard with those lies really picking up steam in the last decade. The so-called "Tea Party" along with the Democrats and "mainstream" Republicans are all liars in this regard -- every one of them is complicit, as any of these groups could have shut this down at any time.
[wrong. tea party has no votes in congress, thus is not complicit. and republicans who were elected in 2010 who ran as tea-party candidates do not have the votes needed for this kind of change.]
Had the Congress refused to raise the debt ceiling in August it would have immediately forced a balanced budget -- without the need for a Constitutional Amendment.
Remember too that the House and Senate both have permitted "Continuing Resolutions" to run the government now for two years. This was agreed to by both Houses, ergo, it's both of their fault and those claiming otherwise are liars.
This same dynamic has played out over in Europe. Greece, Spain, Portugal, Italy and others have all made promises they can't keep with their current tax revenues. The same dynamic has led to the same outcome -- they're just a bit ahead of us on the road to perdition.
"It's a welcome step in the right direction, and we at GoDaddy.com applaud the leadership in the House Judiciary Committee, the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Intellectual Property, Competition and the Internet and the Senate Judiciary Committee, for taking decisive, bicameral and bipartisan action," said Christine Jones, executive VP of GoDaddy. She is also the company's general counsel and corporate secretary.
GoDaddy supports SOPA for "protecting the intellectual property of hard-working Americans, U.S. business and the American public from the harm that necessarily flows from the purchase of counterfeit products." Yet, a slew of other prominent tech companies, including Apple and Microsoft, have recognized the holes in the SOPA and have pulled their support from the bill. In November, Google, Facebook, Twitter, Zynga, Yahoo, eBay, AOL and LinkedIn raised their concerns about SOPA in a joint letter to Congress.
"We support the bills' stated goals--providing additional enforcement tools to combat foreign 'rogue' websites that are dedicated to copyright infringement or counterfeiting. Unfortunately, the bills as drafted would expose law-abiding U.S. Internet and technology companies to new uncertain liabilities, private rights of action and technology mandates that would require monitoring of Web sites," the letter said.
Social blogging service Tumblr summed it up best:
"As written, [Congress] would betray more than a decade of U.S. policy and advocacy of Internet freedom by establishing a censorship system using the same domain blacklisting technologies pioneered by China and Iran."
So why aren't we boycotting our elected representatives who have run amok with this proposed law?
At last count, GoDaddy has lost 73,000 domains. That is a huge hit to their business and a swift and welcome response to their support of the law. They have since changed their position, although rumors abound that they are still supporting the law behind the scenes.
So why can't we make 73,000 calls to our elected representatives? Start 73,000 repeal petitions?
This was a partial boycott. Great for the response, but falling short of targeting the source of the problem.
Jonathan Mann, a card-carrying lib, spreads the word. When he's right, he's right.
Here is the link he references in his video on how to transfer your GoDaddy domain.
Jeepers Media has a 15min video that explains piracy-inducing activities by the 'victims': Disney, Microsoft, Time Warner, AOL, and others. (Companies that are losing market share and are doomed to fail.)
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (Dec. 23, 2011) - Go Daddy is no longer supporting SOPA, the "Stop Online Piracy Act" currently working its way through U.S. Congress.
"Fighting online piracy is of the utmost importance, which is why Go Daddy has been working to help craft revisions to this legislation - but we can clearly do better," Warren Adelman, Go Daddy's newly appointed CEO, said. "It's very important that all Internet stakeholders work together on this. Getting it right is worth the wait. Go Daddy will support it when and if the Internet community supports it."
We've added a row in our Obama To Do List for SOPA. Hopefully we won't put a checkmark next to it.
Full Disclosure: We use GoDaddy and do not have plans to move our domains.
It appears $600-700 million dollars is owed to UK customers of MF Global. This is in addition to the $1.2 billion missing in US customer accounts.
There is a question of where this gets resolved: in US courts or UK courts.
We are wondering: at what point does this theft result in war?
It is an act of war for one country to steal from another, no?
And since the Obama regime has chosen to overlook any wrongdoing by their buddy and fellow Democrat, Corzine, it appears this theft of nearly $2 billion is within acceptable limits and is now endorsed by our government.
We are not talking about a shooting war. Great Britain's strategic disarmament is a few years ahead of ours. They couldn't even if they wanted to. Besides, we're still on their good side after Obama gave the queen an iPod with his speeches loaded into the memory.
But an economic war is fully justified. Why not tax US imports/exports and travel to the tune of $700 million to restore their investors? If you don't do this when you are robbed of $700 million, what number will her majesty's kingdom fight for?
Without a doubt, the biggest challenge we face in 2012 will be communicating Obama's failures. Both the number and size of these failures is more than most mortals can communicate in one sitting.
Pardon the unnecessary repetition here, but we are obliged to show every picture of the hat. And a picture of the ushanka worn by a big government thug in the process of arresting an internal enemy is a bit redundant.
Oleg posts another picture of the evil polymer AK-47.
It might be the best functioning firearm in the history of man, but like the Ushanka, it symbolizes oppression. We see a banana clip, we think "commie".
Don't ask us why we sell Ushanka's but won't shoot the AK. We don't have a good answer.
Weasel Zippers posted this video of Romney refusing to call Obama a Socialist.
We are going to take a pass on getting offended at Romney for missing a great opportunity here.
This shows how much of a pro Romney is to evade this question without looking like a dork. He's avoiding the name-calling business and at the same time explaining all of Obama's failures. Clever. We are glad he is one of our GOP finalists.
Everybody watching the O'Reilly show were yelling "YES!". Maybe even some were wearing our cool hat.
This name calling is best left to fringe bloggers like us and those excellent bloggers listed to the left. Let's have the MSM keep asking the question, and our guys keep avoiding the question!
For those still on the fence, click the label below to view all our posts on this particular subject.
We'd also recommend a visit to our Obama To-Do List. It shows Obama's activities in relationship to the Illuminati 5-steps to Communism.
Remember Comrades, actions speak louder than words. Not just for Obama, but for our GOP presidential candidates too.
North Korea's universal health care system was unable to keep their Dear Leader alive long enough to complete his tireless work in bringing prosperity to all North Koreans through centralized planning and control.
He leaves the bankrupt country and nuclear arsenal to his son, Kim Jung Un, aka The Great Successor.
He also leaves an estimated 300,000 political prisoners in the North Korean Gulags.
MAKHACHKALA, Russia (Reuters) - The founder of a newspaper that investigated government corruption has been shot dead in Russia's North Caucasus region, in what an international watchdog called "a lethal blow to press freedom."
A gunman shot Gadzhimurat Kamalov as he was leaving the offices of the newspaper Chernovik in the capital of Dagestan province shortly before midnight on Thursday, the regional Interior Ministry said.
Police said Kamalov was shot eight times and pronounced dead on the way to hospital.
The New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) said journalists at Chernovik, known for reporting on corruption in the provincial administration, had been "routinely persecuted for their work."
This former KGB thug (Litvinenko, not Putin) wrote a book about Putin's first campaign. Not the "hope and change" stuff, but the "blowing up an apartment building, killing 200+, and blaming it on Chechin rebels" thing. It was for the greater good. Putin campaigned as the tough candidate, and is rumored to have blown the apartment building in order to win votes. It worked.
Until the coming election for president is over, anyone living in an apartment building or working for a Russian media outlet should get their affairs in order.
Can someone with a TV watch the MSM outlets to see if they are reporting this story? In the past they've been pretty quiet when Putin kills their fellow journalists.
Someone once called people like this "useful idiots."
We cancelled cable a while back so we know absolutely nothing about the show. But what is there to know? It must be some panty-waste lib-media attempt to show members of the evil political movement, Islam, in a positive way. ie. not wearing a bomb vest, performing honor killings, conducting male orgies or mutilating their women.
Here is part one of Ann Barnhardt's Islam presentation as a refresher:
The first thing I discovered was that TLC was not upfront with us about the nature of this show. As I said, it's a worthy topic, but any reasonable person would know that this topic is a particular lightning rod. We believe TLC went out of their way to pick a fight on this, and they didn't let us know their intentions. That's not a business practice that generally gets repeat business from us.
Evil 1%'er! How dare you not bend to public (lib) demands to give money to TLC. We decide how you spend your money, not you!
Until Lowes or Kayak start advertising at Barnhardt.biz or Ushanka.us, they are only setting half a standard. But we'll take half, as it is a step in the right direction and better than we're getting from others.
Here is our latest advertising concept. Two days left to order one of our furry Commie Obama hats and receive it before Christmas - the day we celebrate the birth of our savior.
UPDATED 12.16:
Midwest Chick has a related post and mentions Lowes was threatened by a CA politician.
We had a coveted seat at the roundtable of the knife-weilding bloggers on Saturday in chilly Indianapolis!
Few tables rank up there with the Indy Blogmeet:
These bloggers are wicked smart and it wasn't easy to stump them on a history quiz.
Question:
Of the four promises Lenin made when he took power, which two were also given by Our Dear Leader Barack Obama in 2008?
Tam was first with "Universal Health Care", and The Jack won with "Get the nation out of war." Both won our Commie Obama hat and are guaranteed warm ears when they report for re-education.
Lenin's four promises:
1) Spread electricity across the country,
2) Universal Health Care,
3) Landowners can keep their property, and
4) Get the nation out of war.
Lenin and Obama have lied about one each. Lenin applied some hope and change to property rights after a few months of trying it the old way. And Obama has adopted his predecessor's war strategy by not only keeping us in two wars, but dropping bombs in Libya and arming anti-government forces in Mexico.
Obama never promised to retain property rights, so he's under no obligation to maintain those. Right?
And Lenin wasn't so much anti-war as much as he had other, internal, uses for the troops.
Many hammer & sickle thanks to Roberta X for arranging the meeting and approving our attendance after a thorough background check and blood test! Luckily The Politico didn't have time to run a hundred smear articles on us!
It is officially OK now to call Obama a Communist.
As you know, we've been violating this rule like a Penn State coach violating....
We've been doing it for over five years, and you haven't heard ESPN say a word. Have you?
Rush said "Communist" is now a valid label. He approved "Marxist" and "Statist" in 2009, and increased his use of the label "Socialist" last year. We've tracked it here as you know, and his only use of the words "communism" and "communist" were used in the heat of the moment. Rush is a highly trained broadcaster, and a master of the English language. He is always careful with what he says, and deserves his success even if he is three years late to the Commie Obama party.
Some quotes from Rush's show last Wednesday and Thursday where he reacts to Our Dear Leader's speech in Kansas:
If you just substitute the word "proletariat" for every time he said "worker" or "middle class" in his speech, if you subject "bourgeois" or "capitalists" for the rich, this same speech could have been given by Lenin a hundred years ago.
In fact, it is, my friend, and don't doubt me, the same speech that Stalin always gave, that Mao Tse-tung always gave, that Fidel Castro and Hugo Chavez and Kim Jong-il still give. Communist leaders around the world give this speech constantly.
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Class warfare is how Marx explained everything. Now, oddly enough it's how Obama explains everything now. He blames all of the current problems on the rich. And to think some people still say Obama's not a Marxist. They won't even call him a socialist. It's willful blindness...
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This is winning the future. Everything Barack Obama said he was for yesterday has been tried throughout history over and over again, the same Marxism has been tried, and it's failed everywhere. It's led to nothing but untold millions of dead people and incalculable misery and suffering.
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I want you people who believe Obama to go around the world for me. I want you to find any socialist, Marxist, communist country and I want you to find for me a prosperous, thriving, happy middle class. I want you to find for me a country where a wall has not been built to keep them in.
--- Folks, I don't think any longer it is improper to use the word "communist" to describe Obama, communism to describe his objectives, nor is it wrong to use the word "communist" or "communism" to associate with the trade labor movement, be it the AFL-CIO or the mine workers or the SEIU. I mean they've made it clear, Obama came out of the closet.
Glad to have Rush on board. Until the others catch up we'll continue asking the important questions, like:
Does the shiny gold hammer and sickle
bring out the gold in our Dear Leader's name?
Only a week left to order the furry hat if you want it delivered by Christmas!
Don't wait for Rush to mention the hat. We have a fixed supply and it'll be sold out roughly 2 minutes after Rush plugs it!
Unless you are a Chicago politician or a charity 'recipient' of Sandusky's, #6 is the correct answer.
Follow these recent events (illegal acts in bold):
A) MF Global headed by big Democrat, Corzine B) Corzine bets big on European bonds C) Corzine raids the private, separate, accounts of MF Global customers to cover his loses. D) MF Global files for bankruptcy E) Potential buyer of MF Global assets backs out of acquisition - can't find customer funds. F) Auditors unable to find $600m in customer funds - promise to find it G) Auditors find most of customer funds - claim poor book keeping H) Auditors now report $1.2b in customer funds missing I) MF Global customers are locked out of their accounts as their investments lose value J) Investments paid-out to customers prior to bankruptcy may be 'clawed back' K) Corzine resigned and is free
How does this impact you and us?
1) The laws in place were ignored 2) The enforcers failed in their audits 3) The laws to pursue Corzine and this theft are being ignored 4) The laws to protect investors are no longer valid. The system has failed. It is only a matter of time for these crimes to be found in your institution.
The system cannot work in a lawless environment.
Greeks are going to their banks and withdrawing everything. Italy and/or Spain is next. Here in the US? A Baldwin is kicked off a plane.
Want to know what to do? Want predictions for the US? Go read Ann Barnhardt. Or to the sites that we've found through Ann, Market-Ticker and ZeroHedge. All have plenty of advice, and all are better suited to tell you what could/will happen here.
We don't offer predictions on this because 1) it isn't our expertise, and 2) we're not capable of imagining the dark horrors that await the unprepared.
BTW:
We loved Alec in Team America. He rocked! And sorry for the layout - we're still trying to figure out Google's new blogger tool.
Funny story - The Mrs. and I met Col. North at a speaking engagement in the Republik of Kalifornia back in the 90's. We'd show you the picture, but comrade Mikhail was taking the picture and he has an advanced stage of non-diagnosed parkinsons that becomes spastic when in the presence of Col. North and when being trusted with taking a very. important. picture.
It probably looks something like this, although Mikhail never did show us.
Mikhail can be forgiven, as it wasn't his first time with Col. North. They joined forces a long time ago on behalf of some freedom fighters who were killing Commies to save their country. Also known as:
God's Work
Rule #1 here at Ushanka: if you contribute to the killing of communists anywhere on this planet, A) in our eyes it is impossible for you to do anything wrong, and B) the Kentucky Bourbon is on us.
James Kvaal is the Commissar Director of Policy for Obama For America, the as-of-yet toothless organization that exists to organize communities to agitation via email distribution lists.
And to spread this lie that Obama has been trying to cut taxes:
The same failed organization that has sent us email invitations to win an opportunity to lunch with our Dear Leader if we only donate $3. We'd rather give that $3 in price cuts to our wonderful Commie Obama hat customers!
He sent us a personal note over the weekend:
Karl -- In case you missed it -- yesterday Congress voted on a bill that gave them two simple choices: A) Let President Obama's payroll tax cut expire, raising a typical family's taxes by more than $1,000 next year, or B) Extend and expand the tax cut, helping 160 million people and letting that same family keep $1,500.Click here to find out what it does for you. The payroll tax cut would be paid for by requiring millionaires and billionaires to pay a little more. But some in Congress think millionaires and billionaires should get to keep paying the already-low rate they get, thanks to the Bush tax cuts.
This one isn't complicated.
No James, it isn't complicated for the following two reasons:
A) Those millionaires and billionaires are already paying 90% of our nation's bills, and
B) We aspire to join their ranks.
We'll probably fail, but that is not stopping us from getting up early in the morning and giving it our best. That is the only known way to succeed.
The good news for you, James, and our Dear Leader is that if we do succeed, we'll create many jobs and many new taxpayers.
Yes, despite taking our shower this morning, we are in the 99%. But hopefully not for long.
So James, Commissar Director of Policy for Obama For America, go pound sand.
PS: Google - your new Blogger interface sucks! Definitely designed by liberals!
