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.
