A hearty Ushanka Tip to the creative minds in Tennessee!
Saturday, February 28, 2009
Product Endorsement
A new bumper sticker from the Tennessee GOP:
A hearty Ushanka Tip to the creative minds in Tennessee!
A hearty Ushanka Tip to the creative minds in Tennessee!
Friday, February 27, 2009
Almost Missed It...
It looks so natural in that setting...
Found another at Townhall:
That's two in three days. We wonder if Townhall scolds its cartoonists for using the Hammer and Sickle symbol as some advertising entities have scolded us for trying to advertise the sexy Commie Obama Rally Caps. "Too controversial", they say. For the next four years we'll be saying, "We told you so".
Found another at Townhall:
That's two in three days. We wonder if Townhall scolds its cartoonists for using the Hammer and Sickle symbol as some advertising entities have scolded us for trying to advertise the sexy Commie Obama Rally Caps. "Too controversial", they say. For the next four years we'll be saying, "We told you so".
Thursday, February 26, 2009
The Santelli Revolution
Rick Santelli's call for a Tea Party has been answered. Some protests are scheduled for tomorrow, others in coming days/weeks. Be sure to wear your Commie Obama Rally Cap at your local tea party!
Link - Schedule of all Tea Parties
UT: Graphic found at Michelle Malkin's site
UPDATE 3pm: Why isn't there an event in Boston?? If that is not a telling sign, we don't know what is!
Link - Schedule of all Tea Parties
UT: Graphic found at Michelle Malkin's site
UPDATE 3pm: Why isn't there an event in Boston?? If that is not a telling sign, we don't know what is!
Bitter Clinging Cowards Beware!
The 'Top Cop' of the United States announced a new assault weapons ban as a solution to... some problem. Oh yea, the problem of guns in Mexico! ABC seems to be the only MSM outlet reporting this news - 12 hours after the announcement. Hmmm, wonder why a proposed law that will limit citizens' rights and dilute the most important Bill of Right isn't making news...
Holder said that putting the ban back in place would not only be a positive move by the United States, it would help cut down on the flow of guns going across the border into Mexico, which is struggling with heavy violence among drug cartels along the border.
Questions:
1) So limiting our firearm choices is kinda like a surge in the war on drugs?
2) And why not talk about the true core of the Mexican gun problem, such as the Mexican demand for high quality US weapons? We thought the cheaper AK-47 was the weapon of choice among third-world thugs (and commies).
3) Who's looking out for the American workers in America's gun factories?
4) Would the Obama administration change its tone on gun rights if assault weapons were used to kill babies who survived abortions?
5) When the Mexican state collapses because of
6) Why not - follow me on this one - build a fence between the US and Mexico - along the border - that would keep guns out of Mexico?
Answers:
1) When the founders wrote the 2nd Amendment, EVERY rifle was an assault rifle.
2) The 2nd Amendment makes the other amendments possible. It is the glue.
Sometimes we feel we're writing the final chapter for the US History books...
Karl's Weekend Reading
Laura Holis, at Townhall, writes her second part this week (part one is in last week's Reading), The Taxpayer's Mantra: No We Won't. Why this University of Illinois professor does NOT have our Commie Obama hat is beyond us! She is definitely aware of the biggest weakness among the Commies - their precious image with the masses.
Thomas Sowell warns in Townhall, "Not One of Us":
Michelle Malkin speaks for us in her Townhall article, Those Foreclosure "Victims" Deserve No Sympathy. The other side of the foreclosure story:
Bret Stephens warns of history repeating itself in his WSJ opinion piece, Post-Post-9/11 Looks Just Like Pre-World War II. Will anybody in the Change/Hope administration read this now, or will it only be read after the fact?? We regret that sometimes we feel we're only posting articles like this to say "We Told You So". Bret's conclusion:
I warned that the “Keynesian” policies it supposedly reflected were long-since discredited, that it would throw us more deeply into economic chaos, that this was deliberate, that it was little more than a thinly disguised effort to socialize the entire American economy, and that one need only read 80 years of communist and socialist theory to see it for what it was.
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We are having hundreds of billions of our hard-earned tax dollars taken from us and given to the same organizations that got us in this mess, under the advice and counsel of the same irresponsible and deceitful politicians like Barney Frank and others who ignored warnings about the bad lending practices in the first place. And those same politicians now see fit to lecture us about patriotism and fiscal responsibility? This is a travesty so appalling that it should be prompting protests in the streets.
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Obama’s campaign mantra was “Yes, we can.” Here’s the new mantra for the American taxpayer: “No, we won’t.”
The Obama administration looks bold, calm and confident, but they have one primal fear, and it isn’t economic collapse. The Obamaniacs are terrified that Americans will see through the charade.
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[regarding Rick Santelli's rant on CNBC] That is what Obama and his Congressional commie comrades fear more than anything else. It was proven when the President – the leader of the most powerful nation in the world - trotted out his press secretary, the next day, to try to humiliate a hitherto-obscure reporter from a show called “The Squawk Box.” Americans must not know the truth. We must not know how many of us are in agreement. We must not defeat Democrats and elect conservatives in 2010 (and 2012). And so you can expect the push for the “Fairness Doctrine” (under that name, or something else) to get stronger now, not weaker.
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We are having hundreds of billions of our hard-earned tax dollars taken from us and given to the same organizations that got us in this mess, under the advice and counsel of the same irresponsible and deceitful politicians like Barney Frank and others who ignored warnings about the bad lending practices in the first place. And those same politicians now see fit to lecture us about patriotism and fiscal responsibility? This is a travesty so appalling that it should be prompting protests in the streets.
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Obama’s campaign mantra was “Yes, we can.” Here’s the new mantra for the American taxpayer: “No, we won’t.”
The Obama administration looks bold, calm and confident, but they have one primal fear, and it isn’t economic collapse. The Obamaniacs are terrified that Americans will see through the charade.
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[regarding Rick Santelli's rant on CNBC] That is what Obama and his Congressional commie comrades fear more than anything else. It was proven when the President – the leader of the most powerful nation in the world - trotted out his press secretary, the next day, to try to humiliate a hitherto-obscure reporter from a show called “The Squawk Box.” Americans must not know the truth. We must not know how many of us are in agreement. We must not defeat Democrats and elect conservatives in 2010 (and 2012). And so you can expect the push for the “Fairness Doctrine” (under that name, or something else) to get stronger now, not weaker.
Thomas Sowell warns in Townhall, "Not One of Us":
Anyone familiar with history knows that Hitler and Stalin were pragmatic. After years of denouncing each other, they signed the Nazi-Soviet pact under which they became allies for a couple of years before going to war against one another.
Pragmatism tells you nothing about extremism.
Pragmatism tells you nothing about extremism.
Michelle Malkin speaks for us in her Townhall article, Those Foreclosure "Victims" Deserve No Sympathy. The other side of the foreclosure story:
...a closer look at ACORN's sob stories shows that the prototypical foreclosure "victims" don't deserve an ounce of sympathy -- or a cent of our money.
Bret Stephens warns of history repeating itself in his WSJ opinion piece, Post-Post-9/11 Looks Just Like Pre-World War II. Will anybody in the Change/Hope administration read this now, or will it only be read after the fact?? We regret that sometimes we feel we're only posting articles like this to say "We Told You So". Bret's conclusion:
We know how this movie ends. So here's a suggestion: If we're going to squander trillions in "stimulus," let's spend more on defense. An F-22 assembly line adds just as much to employment as a few thousand more "green" workers, with the added bonus of deterring our enemies. That's a lesson the democracies learned almost too late in the dismal post-Locarno years. Why make the same mistake twice?
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Headlines Needed
We are [not] sad to see the San Francisco Chronicle announcement today on Drudge. Not shocking news - liberal rags posing as objective news sources are dying off at a rapid rate. Heck, our Mocha Frappuccino costs more than a share of The New York Times (NYSE: NYT). What IS shocking is the Chronicle has over 339k subscribers! The AP reports:
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- The San Francisco Chronicle joined the lengthening list of imperiled newspapers Tuesday as its owner set out to purge the payroll and slash other expenses in a last-ditch effort to reverse years of heavy losses.
If it can't reduce expenses dramatically within the next few weeks, the Hearst Corp. said it will close or sell the Chronicle, northern California's largest newspaper with a paid weekday circulation of 339,430.
If it can't reduce expenses dramatically within the next few weeks, the Hearst Corp. said it will close or sell the Chronicle, northern California's largest newspaper with a paid weekday circulation of 339,430.
It appears we will have one less biased news source for our list of biased headlines on our home page.
BTW, what does an out-of-work Chronicle
UT: Drudge and Townhall for the cartoon.
Cuss Jar
Our Commie Obama Cuss Jar just increased in value because of this video of Stuart Varney interviewing ACORN's Berth Lewis.
Blame a culture of entitlement? No.
Blame Eduction? Maybe.
Blame Liberals. YES!
UT: Sweetness & Light (w/ transcript)
Friday, February 20, 2009
El Presidente
This time it is personal.
Normally saved for our Weekend Reading post, this Oliver North article deserves its own posting. Townhall: Stealth Surge.
We are watching a close friend ship out to Afghanistan as one of the 17,000 'surge' this month. Among a tight group of fellow Army officers who served together in the 90's, he is known as El Presidente. What Ollie says today worries us.
So what is our strategy? Is it victory against our enemies, the Taliban and Al Qaeda? Or will it be some diluted, ever-changing initiatives dictated by Obama's advisors in the Main Stream Media? And what about our relations with Afghanistan's government? A rift appeared this week where Karzi didn't get the assurances desired about mandatory joint US-Afghan operations. Not good according to Colonel North:
The Taliban dictating US strategy in Afghanistan? Not a lot of hope, but plenty of change! Ollie concludes:
It is not a Stealth Surge for the families and friends of the additional 17,000 American soldiers. Fight this war properly, Mr. President. If not for America, then for the public relations problems that will plague you and distract from your grand domestic ambitions.
God Speed, El Presidente!
Normally saved for our Weekend Reading post, this Oliver North article deserves its own posting. Townhall: Stealth Surge.
We are watching a close friend ship out to Afghanistan as one of the 17,000 'surge' this month. Among a tight group of fellow Army officers who served together in the 90's, he is known as El Presidente. What Ollie says today worries us.
Last week, the administration announced a full-blown, 60-day, interagency, multinational, quadraphonic, star-studded, strategic review of "every aspect of our Afghanistan policy." Our European allies were informed that Afghanistan is at the "top of the agenda" for the NATO summit in March. On Sunday, Afghan President Hamid Karzai announced that he, too, would be participating in the strategic review. And then Tuesday at 5:30 p.m., too late for much besides a headline on the evening news, the one-page deployment order, which has troops from Camp Lejeune, N.C., to Fort Lewis, Wash. -- and countless points in between -- packing their kits for the Hindu Kush. So much for having a strategy before committing what's needed to implement it.
So what is our strategy? Is it victory against our enemies, the Taliban and Al Qaeda? Or will it be some diluted, ever-changing initiatives dictated by Obama's advisors in the Main Stream Media? And what about our relations with Afghanistan's government? A rift appeared this week where Karzi didn't get the assurances desired about mandatory joint US-Afghan operations. Not good according to Colonel North:
...Karzai, who is running for re-election in August, said, "If foreign troops do not listen to us, we will call a (grand council), and we will also include the Taliban to decide whether foreign troops should stay in Afghanistan."
The Taliban dictating US strategy in Afghanistan? Not a lot of hope, but plenty of change! Ollie concludes:
Finally, there is the issue of presidential style. In the final paragraph of his one-page order, Mr. Obama notes, "This increase is necessary to stabilize a deteriorating situation in Afghanistan." All true. But then he goes on to whine, "Which has not received the strategic attention, direction and resources it urgently requires." That is a gratuitous and unseemly swipe at his predecessor. Perhaps that is why Mr. Obama decided this has to be a stealth surge.
It is not a Stealth Surge for the families and friends of the additional 17,000 American soldiers. Fight this war properly, Mr. President. If not for America, then for the public relations problems that will plague you and distract from your grand domestic ambitions.
God Speed, El Presidente!
Karl's Weekend Reading
We are making up for no weekend reading last week to oodles of reading this week. Enjoy!
The assessments of Obama's foreign policy are rolling in and they are not good. At least as it relates to Russia, Iran, Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Venezuela. Not all is lost. Our relations with Canada are intact after Obama's promise this week to leave current trade agreements alone. For now.
Kim Zigfield at Pajama's Media comments on the first month of failures in Obama Hopelessly Adrift on Foreign Policy? Specifically, what Obama did not say about Russia in a recent press conference:
Charles Krauthammer continues in his Townhall article, The Biden Prophecy:
We are starting a new label called "Crisis as a Means". The following three articles discuss Obama's modus operandi - crying wolf to pass unpopular legislation.
One of our favorites at Townhall, Laura Hollis, writes The New Americans: Peasants by Choice:
Victor Davis Hanson writes at the NRO, The Audacity of Irony:
Thomas Sowell coins the phrase "Amateurism in Action" in his IBD Editorial - Obama Rushes to Capitalize on Emergency:
The assessments of Obama's foreign policy are rolling in and they are not good. At least as it relates to Russia, Iran, Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Venezuela. Not all is lost. Our relations with Canada are intact after Obama's promise this week to leave current trade agreements alone. For now.
Kim Zigfield at Pajama's Media comments on the first month of failures in Obama Hopelessly Adrift on Foreign Policy? Specifically, what Obama did not say about Russia in a recent press conference:
Not a word from Obama about the Markelov killing, or about Russia’s equally terrifying litany of race murder, or about the fact that Medvedev’s “election” was shamelessly rigged after all serious opposition had been purged from the ballot, or about the fact that Medvedev support an extension of the presidential term widely viewed as a platform for the return of Russia’s real ruler, Vladimir Putin, to permanent formal power. Not a syllable about how Medvedev has begun abolishing the right to trial by jury, not a peep about Russia’s support for Hamas and Hezbollah terrorism, both directly and through Syria and Iran. Nothing about the fact that Russia just booted the U.S. out of a key military base in Kyrgzystan, signed a cooperation pact with Cuba, bribed Belarus into forming an anti-U.S. air defense program and started building military bases in the territory it seized from Georgia in Abkhazia.
Instead, Obama appears to let Russia off the hook, conveniently releasing the pressure of the nuclear arms race at exactly the moment the Kremlin needs him to do so. How can Russia possibly take this statement as anything other than an open invitation to escalate its crackdown on democracy and its efforts to dominate its neighbors?
Instead, Obama appears to let Russia off the hook, conveniently releasing the pressure of the nuclear arms race at exactly the moment the Kremlin needs him to do so. How can Russia possibly take this statement as anything other than an open invitation to escalate its crackdown on democracy and its efforts to dominate its neighbors?
Charles Krauthammer continues in his Townhall article, The Biden Prophecy:
With a grinning Goliath staggering about sporting a "kick me" sign on his back, even reputed allies joined the fun.
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I would like to think the supine posture is attributable to a rookie leader otherwise preoccupied (i.e. domestically), leading a foreign policy team as yet unorganized if not disoriented. But when the State Department says that Hugo Chavez's president-for-life referendum, which was preceded by a sham government-controlled campaign featuring the tear-gassing of the opposition, was "for the most part ... a process that was fully consistent with democratic process," you have to wonder if Month One is not a harbinger of things to come.
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I would like to think the supine posture is attributable to a rookie leader otherwise preoccupied (i.e. domestically), leading a foreign policy team as yet unorganized if not disoriented. But when the State Department says that Hugo Chavez's president-for-life referendum, which was preceded by a sham government-controlled campaign featuring the tear-gassing of the opposition, was "for the most part ... a process that was fully consistent with democratic process," you have to wonder if Month One is not a harbinger of things to come.
We are starting a new label called "Crisis as a Means". The following three articles discuss Obama's modus operandi - crying wolf to pass unpopular legislation.
One of our favorites at Townhall, Laura Hollis, writes The New Americans: Peasants by Choice:
This time, instead of our leaders inspiring us with uplifting – and historically true – accounts of America’s exceptionalism (yes, that is the right word), and the can-do attitude of the average American, our current government fills the airwaves with doom and gloom, and warns of impending “crises” and “catastrophes,” unless we sell ourselves to the government, which will take care of us by taking everything we have, denying us control over our own lives, and promising goodies that cannot be paid for. This is not stimulus; it is “stealfromus.” It is not security; it is slavery.
It is self-serving deception of the highest sort, completely and resoundingly refuted by history. Our Founding Fathers never saw the Soviet Union, Cuba, North Korea, Cambodia, or the Sudan. And didn’t need to. They knew enough of government to know that a people dependent upon any form of government would be a people enslaved by it. Nothing in the 200+ years since they lived has proven them wrong.
It is self-serving deception of the highest sort, completely and resoundingly refuted by history. Our Founding Fathers never saw the Soviet Union, Cuba, North Korea, Cambodia, or the Sudan. And didn’t need to. They knew enough of government to know that a people dependent upon any form of government would be a people enslaved by it. Nothing in the 200+ years since they lived has proven them wrong.
Victor Davis Hanson writes at the NRO, The Audacity of Irony:
Bush was pilloried for supposedly hyping al-Qaeda in order to create a security state. Obama trumped that by proclaiming that the present recession is a catastrophe, a disaster, a Great Depression. He ceased his scare-mongering only when he had exhausted the vocabulary of doom. “You never want a serious crisis to go to waste,” bragged Rahm Emanuel, reminding us that the envisioned Obama socialism could take root only if a climate of fear was created.
Thomas Sowell coins the phrase "Amateurism in Action" in his IBD Editorial - Obama Rushes to Capitalize on Emergency:
The urgency was real, even if the reason given was phony. Obama's chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, let slip a valuable clue when he said that a crisis should not go to waste, that a crisis is an opportunity to do things that you could not do otherwise.
Think about the utter cynicism of that. During a crisis, a panicked public will let you get away with things you couldn't get away with otherwise.
A corollary of that is that you had better act quickly while the crisis is at hand, without congressional hearings or public debates about what you are doing. Above all, you must act before the economy begins to recover on its own.
Think about the utter cynicism of that. During a crisis, a panicked public will let you get away with things you couldn't get away with otherwise.
A corollary of that is that you had better act quickly while the crisis is at hand, without congressional hearings or public debates about what you are doing. Above all, you must act before the economy begins to recover on its own.