Parables? Shmareables!

So to stick with the sci fi theme...

Current events, the non-final frontier.  These are the voyages, blah blah blah.

There are lots of sci fi stories about telepathy.  Lots.  One of the more common themes, if I recall correctly, is the harmful social effect that true un-regulated telepathic powers would create.  Imagine if everyone knew how much you

• disliked white people.
• liked Bob's wife.
• REALLY liked Bob's wife.
• hated Carl's wife.
• REALLY hated Carl's wife.
• liked musicals.
• REALLY liked musicals.

Point being, you have your public, acceptable face, which lets you keep your job and your friends and your family intact, which is good for you and good for society.  And you've got that inner face that really wants to check on those back issues of Stump Humper magazine (yuck).

In my mind it started with bumper stickers.  From announcing "I HEART SOMETHINGOROTHER", progressing through "My kids rocks!" and the silly stick figure family crap, ending with various versions of "Fuck You if You Don't Agree!".  But I'm a grumpy Old Guy so who cares what I think.  What I know is that social media (and other factors) has made a bunch of people in this country unafraid to reveal their true inner selves, and made them feel encouraged to do so.

So pull down a statue, brawl with a nazi (I never get too upset when a socialist beats up another socialist), call for pogroms, go ahead.  Now I know who you are.  Yuck.

Still Angry

Yep.

Just remember, orcs ain't people.

Wanted: Attic, Diary, Pen. Length of Stay: Undetermined

[Emperor Palpatine voice]

Good.  Goooooood.

[/Emperor Palpatine voice]

"No Matter Where You Go, There You Are"

I kinda wanted to vent about Obama ensuring that our secondary enemy Iran becomes a regional power capable of threatening our real ally Israel, or our allies of convenience like Saudi Arabia, Jordan, etc., and really, us. Here a link.

Then I sorta wanted to go ballistic about Planned Parenthood selling killed baby parts.  You know, for SCIENCE!  And PROFIT! There a link.

But as I gathered my spleen for a spew that at least 5 people would read, I ran across an article about a guy who flew from Pennsylvania to Arizona to have sex with miniature horses and have them pee on his shirts for getting-off-later funtimes. Holy-crap-hopefully-not-everywhere-a-link-link.

So... Umm...

Fuck it.  I'm making myself a cocktail.

This is What It Sounds Like, When Banshees Howl

Hillary Clinton acting indignant at being thought of as corrupt is like John Waters acting indignant at being thought of as creepy.

You reap the reputation you sow, Shrillary.

"I Say We Take Off and Nuke the Site From Orbit. It's the Only Way to be Sure."

"Oh Smasher, you're so judgmental - every culture and way of life is as valid as your own."

I know that "Different" does not equate to "Worse".  Except when it does.

"S Korean customs agents seize 17,000 pills containing powdered human baby flesh"

Hat Tip to Hot Air.

What a Dick

"...and we've got me in the house."

To quote Kate Bush, Mister President, "Get out of my house!"

"Never mind", Part the Third

Hey, another climate dickhead admits he's a fraud: Via Powerline: British Climate Scientists Recants His Alarmism

Most importantly is his admission that “twelve years is a reasonable time”. It has provided enough time for a trend to develop that debunks the alarmist’s predictions. Finally Lovelock admits that which has been painfully evident to most skeptics, given the trend of those 12 years – “we don’t know what the climate is doing.”

Anybody still believe in this shit?

Merry Taxmas?

When I first read this one yesterday, I really thought it was a spoof that had gotten through, like when people get up in arms about an Onion article. But as far as I can tell it's real.

Obama is the Grinch.

The Hot Air article pretty much says it all:

President Obama’s Agriculture Department today announced that it will impose a new 15-cent charge on all fresh Christmas trees—the Christmas Tree Tax—to support a new Federal program to improve the image and marketing of Christmas trees.

... but I just wanted to share it around. Almost makes me want to get fitted for a Wookiee suit.

Gobble My John Thomas, Quicktime.

That's pretty much all I wanted to say.

"He Has Joined the Choir Invisible"

So Bin Laden is an ex-parrot now.

a) That's awesome.
b) I vote they put the body at Ground Zero and charge $100 a pop to piss on it. We'll have the Debt paid down in a week.

"Oooh, That Dog Musta Been Sick."

Pass it to find out what's in it? That's what dogs do when they're hungry.

Seriously, the President would gain 10 %age points in approval if he would let the Republicans repeal this thing and start over.


Worst. Bill. Ever.

"In passing ObamaCare, Democrats argued that it would provide a net relief to the budget deficit in its balance of new taxes and fees, drastic cuts to Medicare Advantage, and the subsidies it would provide to Americans making $88,000 a year or less. A new study commissioned by Families USA, a group that supports ObamaCare, shows that the Democrats and the CBO badly miscalculated the level of subsidies provided. In the first year (2014), 28 million Americans would have eligibility for more than $110 billion, outstripping the Congressional/CBO estimate by almost 600%:"

600%. Not bad, fucktards.

Called Thought To The Head

There are more conservative/righties in this country than liberal/lefties, so voting can't work for the Left in the long run. Thus the deking and dodging of the various majority rule systems put in place by state and federal Constitutions will never stop as long as the Left is still in the fight. They don't even see it as cheating or subversion - their ends justify any means whether they are legal, moral, Constitutional, or not. And the most you can dig out of ANY liberal in the face of obvious or documented chicanery is the "both sides do it" dodge, which is moral cowardice at its height.

So never ever be surprised by cheating to win votes on the front end or gross miscues of power on the back end when a liberal agenda needs to be served.

You Failed to Kill Kenny! You Bastards!

Some folks are saying that dear Faisal's smokey Nissan was a reaction to a bleeped-out Mohammed in a bear suit cartoon.

So he goes to Pakistan on an Allah-sponsored bomb-school scholarship, comes back, and decides to scorch Viacom's paint within two weeks of a cartoon non-insult?

I doubt it. Given the skill with which he made his bomb, he probably thought he was parked in New Jersey when he pulled the lanyard on his final exam.

Or maybe the timeline will show that he did jump the gun on his final project and was actually trying to kill cartoon characters animated in South Korea by obliterating a bunch of passers by in Times Square. If that's the case then Trey and Matt should be given the Congressional Medal of Honor for effing with the minds of the enemy so much that they tripped and impailed themselves on their own pointed shoes without hurting anyone.

Either way, score one for the Good Guys, eh?

Send more Pakistanis...

Thanks, Congress

Socialized medicine has been such a smashing success everywhere else.

Stupid, crooked fuckers.

Slaughter on Reconciliation Hill

So let me get this straight:

First, Obama campaigns on health care (2008).

Second, soon after inauguration, he calls for passage of massive health care reform in a speech to a joint session of Congress.

Third, he tells Congress he wants a bill before their August recess. That doesn't happen.

Fourth, during the summer the actual legislators get in front of their actual constituents and catch holy living hell. The legislators are not amused, but then, neither are their constituents.

Fifth, the House passes their bill, which everyone hates, late on a Saturday night by a handful of votes, including one Republican.

Sixth, the Senate passes their bill, which everyone hates, on Christmas fucking Eve, on a strict party line vote - not a single Republican votes for it.

(Thieves in the night reference, anyone?)

Seventh, Obama and his sled dogs start whining that Republicans haven't put forth any of their own ideas. This is absolutely true except for the fact that it's absolutely false, seeing as the Republicans have at least three proposed bills they've put forward regarding health care reform.

(Lying sacks of crap reference, anyone?)

Eighth, Scott Brown (R) campaigns loud and strong in the Special Senate election in MA on being the 41st Senate vote to stop the current health care mess and wins handily.

Ninth, Obama says he wants a bill to sign by his 2010 State of the Union address, but that doesn't happen.

Tenth, as Spring claws its way out from under the snowpack and the Congressional Spring Recess approaches, during which legislators will once again be forced to suffer the indignity of being bothered by their constituents, Obama has once again signaled a deadline for health care reform - March 18th.

Eleventh, To meet this new deadline our Congressional betters have come up with a great idea - reconciliation:

Instead of using the standard rules of the House passing a bill, the Senate passing a bill, and then voting on a new bill that both houses agree upon, this pack of feral Antoinettes wants the Senate to use a budgetary rule to pass a non-budgetary bill with less than 60 votes in the Senate, and the House to pass the Senate's bill unchanged, trusting that they can attend to all the nasty details of disagreement "afterwards". All of which brings to mind one of my favorite quotes from one of my favorite movies: Rochefort in 1973's The Three Musketeers: "Once in the Bastille, there is no 'afterwards'."

House members are right to be wary of agreeing to temporary lodgings in the Senate's Bastille.

Twelth, the latest option that's floated to the top of the bowl had been proposed by Congresscritter Louise Slaughter (D NY) who, as Chair of the House Rules committee, proposed that the whole bill could be considered passed in House if the House merely voted to approve changes that the Senate proposed to make. In other words, you don't have to read the whole thing before you sign it, just the parts I rewrote. Now, that pig's anus of an idea was strangled yesterday in its crib by the Senate parliamentarian (The what? I asked myself - Who are these nerds?), but the fact that they would have considered it put them in the grand position explained over on the Corner yesterday:

Democratic leaders should be asking themselves just how they have gotten to the point that their strategy is to amend a law that doesn’t exist yet by passing a bill without voting on it. Surely it’s time to start over.

Also, it shows just how desperate the Dems are, how inured from the public will, and how unwedded they are to Democratic principles. They want it, their leader wants it, so it's going to happen, natch.

I barely remember why I started this gambol through the splashy sewer pipe of "Health Care Reform, Or Else", but here I am a coincidental 12 steps later without a decent Alcoholics Anonymous joke and a feeling of sick ridiculousness pervading my being.

Do they really think we're that stupid? I think, Yes.

Are they really that stupid? I think, Yes.

Are they such committed leftists that they are willing to throw away a whole slew of careers, a presidency, and probable control of both houses of Congress over a nation-wrecking solution to a problem that doesn't exist? I think, Yes.

Yikes.

The Hell...?

Are they kidding? Doesn't "No" mean "No"? Trying to fuck this particular beachball has made these congresscritters insane. Absolutely insane.

Hat tip to Hugh Hewitt:

"Senator Jon Kyl relays reports --very reliable reports according to Kyl-- that Congressional Democrats have indeed decided to use reconciliation to resurrect the remains of Obamacare, despite Massachusetts, despite the public's continuing and still growing dislike of the bill, and despite the jam-down ultra-partisanship such a naked power play and perversion of Senate rules that such an approach entails. I will interview Kyl in the second hour, and a transcript will be posted shortly thereafter."

This has to be wrong.

Right?

With Bended Knee

So Squish-face thinks apologies are due? Really?

Asked if Wall Street executives testifying on Capitol Hill on Wednesday owe the country an apology, Gibbs said it seemed to him an apology was the least the executives should offer.

I'd ask, rhetorically of course, "who do these people think they are?" but I think we all know exactly who they think they are. Hopefully 2010 is the year we can hold the tide and prove to them exactly who they aren't.

"Hi. I'm Regular Stormy."

(Title will make sense only to fans of Sealab 2021.)

So I'm reading another good post by Steyn over on the Corner, and all I can think of is that we have to start making all guys named Abdul or Mohammed fly naked in a big, jettisonable plexi pod in the back of the plane. Any of 'em get twitchy, and -poosh!- it's "Go find Commander Finney!" time for the lot.

Yeah, that time it was Star Trek.

Anyway, someone's no doubt going to whine & squeal about discrimination, but Eff 'em, right in the A. It'ud be no worse than the discrimination my mother, a septagenarian white gal lineaged down from the Mayflower, will have to go through tomorrow at the airport for her flight back to Taxachussetts; shoes off, air blown around her, possible luggage search, no liquids, no moving around on the flight, etc., etc.

I'm tired of fecking Islam and its attendant asshattery. Gorram tired. So go blow yourselves and your children up all the live-long day and leave the civilized world to argue over things without killing innocents. Or fix yourselves. But either way, stay away from my mom, you Jihadi fuckos.

Pay No Attention to the New Internationalist Man Behind the Curtain!

So Good King Hopenchange took a minute out of his busy schedule of kicking America in the nuts to Executive Order away the last restrictions on Interpol operating in the U.S.:

On Wednesday, however, for no apparent reason, President Obama issued an executive order removing the Reagan limitations. That is, Interpol's property and assets are no longer subject to search and confiscation, and its archives are now considered inviolable. This international police force (whose U.S. headquarters is in the Justice Department in Washington) will be unrestrained by the U.S. Constitution and American law while it operates in the United States and affects both Americans and American interests outside the United States.

But yeah, he's definitely not an "America second!" radical, nosirree.

(thank you, NRO's The Corner)