Apocolypse: 80's Style

If you were a kid in the 80's with some quarters in your pocket, you'll get this. 

Otherwise, just move on.

Quote of the Day UPDATED

Hat owner and gun blogger, Tam, today on FB:

Workers of the world, unite! You have nothing to lose but your XBoxes and EBT cards!

She links to this Rolling Stone article from 1914 2014:  Five Economic Reforms Millennials Should Be Fighting For, by Jesse A. Myerson.
The opening paragraphs and the five recommendation titles:

It's a new year, but one thing hasn't changed: The economy still blows. Five years after Wall Street crashed, America's banker-gamblers have only gotten richer, while huge swaths of the country are still drowning in personal debt, tens of millions of Americans remain unemployed – and the new jobs being created are largely low-wage, sub-contracted, part-time grunt work.

Millennials have been especially hard-hit by the downturn, which is probably why so many people in this generation (like myself) regard capitalism with a level of suspicion that would have been unthinkable a decade ago. But that egalitarian impulse isn't often accompanied by concrete proposals about how to get out of this catastrophe. Here are a few things we might want to start fighting for, pronto, if we want to grow old in a just, fair society, rather than the economic hellhole our parents have handed us.

1. Guaranteed Work for Everybody

2. Social Security for All

3. Take Back The Land

4. Make Everything Owned by Everybody

5. A Public Bank in Every State

Your mission, should your choose to accept it Comrade, is to read this three-page manifesto in one sitting.  It made me cry.

 Zhukov just read it and accuses the author of plagiarism.  The author's suggestions are almost identical to those suggested by Wesley Mouch and his fellow government cronies in Atlas Shrugged.

The author, Jesse Myerson, has a LinkedIn account where variations of the word "Organizer" are many, and you can visit his podcasts on "finance and economics" at Tarbell.

He is upset about paying rent to landlords, yet has ruled out becoming one himself.

He is upset about the "1%" buying stocks and making money, but seems to have ruled out buying stock himself.

His comments about debt suggest his 2008 BA degree from Bard college in Theater and Human Rights was funded by student loans.

No doubt he envies owners of the furry Commie Obama Hat, yet continues to organize with cold ears.

Like most Liberals Progressives Communists, Jesse would rather work 80 hours a week to destroy the greatest economic system in the history of the world rather than work 40 hours a week participating in that system.  

Don't discount their energy and drive.  Commies are as motivated (if not more) by envy and resentment as Capitalists are motivated by innovation and profits.

UPDATED 1.8.13 Noon:

Peter Schiff reads Jesse's article:

My Copy: Bachelor Pad Economics

FedEx just delivered:

The book with all the answers!

There are many copies, but this one is mine!  

You can have it when you pry it from my cold dead hands!

Our book review.

Bezos Throws the Steak

Ezra Klein, of Journolist fame, works for worked for the Washington Post. 

Jeff Bezos, of Amazon fame, bought the Washington Post last October.

Klein has had a new media project that will would have cost $10m. 

Bezos, with some experience in doing more with less (it's a private sector thing - look it up), thinks Klein's project is overpriced by, say, about, oh... $10m.

Klein leaves and will land on his feet at DailyKos, MSNBC, Communist Party USA, or one of the other floundering Democrat Party organizations.  No doubt he knows where a body or two are buried.

Here are some things we suspect were overheard as Klein left the building:

1)  "You'll regret this.  You can't replace me."

2)  "Those project costs are how we've always done things around here."

3) "Bezos doesn't know shit about how to run a media organization."

4)  "I was planning on leaving anyway!"

5) "I'm not crying.  I just have something in my eye."

6) "I'm going to go home, put on my jammies, and drink a cup of hot chocolate."

Look on the bright side, Ezra: Your healthcare is now mobile and goes with you!

And hey, Ezra, don't let the steak hit you on the way out.

Related - One: Captain Capitalism has a great post about the dying conservative media today.  While he is specific to the conservatives like Rush, Hannity, etc., his comparisons of costs in the formal media vs. the Internet media apply to this story too.

Related - Two:  CNN has hit a 20-year low in viewers, but they're still better than MSNBC!

Establishment media is dying.  The only hope left for it are people like Bezos.

Story: Breitbart

Three Stories About Standards

Story 1: My wife and I decided in late 2007 to leave flee California.  We lived in an area that was losing jobs, we hated the high tax rates, we hated having our resolutions reversed by courts, we owned a small home and wanted more space, and we desired to live where neighbors were friends.  That state's 10-day "cooling off period" for gun-buyers was an insult too.

It took us a year, but we moved to Ohio in November 2008.

I wish we could say we knew the future and just how bad California would get, but all we could do in 2007 was recognize things weren't right.  We left friends behind who get up early and pay into a system so others don't have to.


Story 2:  Colorado went full-lib after the Sandy Hook shooting in Connecticut last year.  The elected 'betters' passed all kinds of silly gun-control measures on the little people and went so far that two members of the legislature were recalled. 

Today Colorado gun magazine manufacturer, Magpul, announced they are leaving fleeing Colorado for Texas and Wyoming.  Bravo, Magpul, Bravo.


Story 3:  The Sandy Hook tragedy also inspired gun-grabbers in that state.  Citizens Subjects were ordered to register their no-no items this past week.  They chose to comply rather than leave flee.

Here they are lining up, as if for a shower.

The Moral of this Post:

When you see something wrong 

and don't do anything, 

you've just set a new standard.

UPDATED 1.3.13 10am:

Quoting Dave at MoonBattery about the photo above:

First they register the guns. Then they confiscate the guns. Then they do anything they damn well please.

This will happen in every state where the Democrat Party prevails. The camps won’t open until it has happened nationally.

"Turnkey Tyranny"

An hour-long presentation by Jacob Applebaum, shared by gun-blogger, SaysUncle.  450k views in three days!

A lot of this is over my head, but I did learn a few things:

The NSA "loves Yahoo!",

The NSA has 15 years of your data, including content,

One method of NSA surveillance can be defeated with TLS,

The NSA can re-program your hard drive firmware so that reformatting it will fail as a defense,

Many of the NSA tools to spy on you are available for others to use against you,

Tails: an operating system designed to protect your privacy.  It exists/boots from a DVD or thumb drive.

He lists companies and people who are either collaborating with the NSA, or are not stopping the NSA's intrusion into their technology. (Yahoo!, Microsoft, Sun, Dell, Apple, Western Digital, Seagate, Samsung, and HP)

To the NSA and the members of Congress who approved these NSA programs, a heartfelt

The Der Spiegal NSA article he menitons: Inside TAO.

U/T: SaysUncle, and Mr. Snowden.

When Libertarians Come Down from the Fence

For Ushanka's three loyal readers, this is just another therapeutic post to share my frustration with Libertarians.

For those who haven't enjoyed my unhinged rants, just click the label down below, "Libertarians," to see my previous remarks.  You'll learn why I show more respect to Liberals Progressives Communists.

I want to take you through some items in a recent article: Why I fled libertarianism — and became a liberal, by Edwin Lyngar.

This article is a candid look from the inside of the Ron Paul/Libertarian movement, albeit from a liberal's point of view.  He and I share many frustrations and opinions about the movement.  But I'll also show below where the "Liberal" in Edwin Lyngar steers him the wrong way.  In short, the failure of Libertarianism - moral nihilism - was what pulled Lyngar into the Democrat Party.  Not to fault him, his values predetermined his move to the Democrats much like a chronic smoker sets himself up for major health issues later in life.  No doubt that the author and I would agree, in hindsight, his move to the Democrat Party was inevitable.

From his time in the Libertarian movement - Nevada 2008:

Many members of the group were obsessed with the gold standard, the Kennedy assassination and the Fed. 

We're fully on-board with the motivations behind a gold standard and "ending the fed."  We regret that in our chats with Libertarians we haven't heard the Kennedy stuff.  Two shooters?  The CIA?  Has anyone asked where Ron Paul was on November 22, 1963?  He's from Texas, you know....

...most of our supporters were totally fucking nuts.

This is the author being honest.  Read how he and the others were told to present themselves in public!

After leaving my small town upbringing, I learned that libertarians are made for lots of reasons, like reading the bad fiction of Ayn Rand...

 Bite your tongue. "Atlas Shrugged" is our favorite book. It is the only fiction book that has morphed into non-fiction (except Part III).  It is about character, passion in business, and resolve.  Did he really read it, or "The Fountainhead?"  CLICK HERE to see what Ayn Rand thought of Libertarians.

In the movement no one will ever call you an asshole, but rather, say you believe in radical individualism.

Who can be against "radical individualism?" This is the biggest hook Libertarians use to pull people into their 'third way' fold.  A little critical thought here by new Libertarians would force them to follow the Libertarian policies to their logical conclusions, including: starving old people in the streets, acts of war that go unanswered, and legal prostitutes consuming legal narcotics on their way to the abortion clinic for a late-term abortion.  They'll tell you that is what the founders wanted.

Yet I don’t want to gloss over the good things about libertarians. They are generally supportive of the gay community, completely behind marijuana legalization and are often against ill-considered foreign wars...

 Here is where the author's rejection of family and religious values - moral nihilism - takes hold.  Here is where he shows his hand - a true Liberal Progressive Communist who dabbled in Libertarian third-wayism.

Moral Nihilism is a core Ushanka topic.  The Liberals Progressives Communists CANNOT succeed if they are unable to dilute religious and family values.  One MUST be morally flexible to vote for, and allow, death panels, forcing Catholic organizations to pay for abortions, reparations, redistribution, etc. 

Our opinions may be direct here, but we're not judging here.  We believe people naturally fall into two camps and that the Libertarian movement is an aboration that exists to capture confused liberals and conservatives who want to be big fish in a little sea.  Like we alluded to above, the conservative-minded Libertarian would have listed the gold standard and "end the fed" as the "good things about libertarians." 

Their [Libertarians'] saving grace is a complete lack of organizational ability, which is why they are always trying to take over the Republican Party, rather than create a party of their own.

I'm getting tired of people telling me 1) how smart they are, 2) how their way is better, and 3) that they failed because of "X".  How many tiimes have we heard losing Democrats say on election night,  "we didn't get our message out."  Granted, we don't hear that as much as we did in the past decade...

I'd agree that the Republicans' organization is attractive, but I'd argue there are two reasons Libertarians ride the Republican wave: 1) Ron Paul, and 2) most are closet conservatives.

The Tea Party monster forever tainted the words freedom and libertarian for me. The rise of the Tea Party made me want to puke, and my nausea is now a chronic condition.

There are a lot of libertarians in the Tea Party, but there are also a lot of repugnant, religious nuts and intolerant racists. “Birthers” found a comfy home among 9-11 conspiracy people and other crackpots. After only a few months, I had absolutely no desire to ever be linked to this group of people.

Does that sound like an open-minded patriot determined to restore the Republic?

As someone who has attended every Tea Party since Cincinnati led the movement on March 15, 2009, I'll remind the author that the Tea Party stood for three things: 1) Limited Government, 2) Strong Defense, and 3) Reduced Spending.

He says his Tea Party exposure led to him hearing the N word "more than I care to admit."  I never heard it, but won't argue.  I would suggest the author adopt a more inclusive opinion and not paint a massive group of patriots with the rantings of a few.

My libertarian friends might call me a fucking commie (they have) or a pussy, but extreme selfishness is just so isolating and cruel.

We are offended by the author's use of the "C" word and the "P" word here.  It appears he looks at skin color as the sole determining factor in deciding to use the full word, or just the first letter.  I learned in public school that doing so is racist.

Libertarianism is unnatural...

 Agree.  Pick a side and defend your positions.

...and the size of the federal government is almost irrelevant. The real question is: what does society need and how do we pay for it?

Disagree.

A month before the 2012 election, I changed my party affiliation to Democrat. I am a very late bloomer, that it took me so many decades to develop my own values. I was thirty-nine.

Thank you Edwin Lyngar for the double insurance premiums, stagnant economy, laughable foreign policy, and overall low standards.

The sad thing: when Edwin stepped down, another poor sap stepped up.  We bitterly cling to the historic trend that shows the Libertarian movement will continue to top-out at 2% of the electorate.

They Never Give Up

Here are some commie scum singing the Internationale - the anthem of the communist - 5 days ago.

Imagine what pictures we don't see.

U/T: Pat Dollard - click over to see more singing.

Quote of the New Year

From our comrade at Knuckledraggin:

We made it through another one, although I don’t see where that make’s any damned difference at all.

All I got to say is I made through the year without killing a motherfucker. I think.

Click over to read more.

Happy New Year!

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