Every morning starts with Opie and Anthony (I record the broadcast on my Inno, and play back when I get into office), it’s nice to see one of their better rants make it to Breitbart. Listen, become addicted.
The lines I made reference to here start at about 12 minutes in…and I just realized you can’t fast forward…
On Doughnut day at work, when there’s a half Doughnut in the box.
If you’re calorie conscious enough to take half…you probably shouldn’t be taking that half to begin with, and ruining the other half with your grubby finger prints while you try to cut your way into feeling like you’re “health aware”. (This rant has been appended severely after a rambling 2 paragraph diatribe expanding on the previous statement.)
Those crazy conservatives, they can’t sneeze without blaming the black man.
“The bizarre notion that the Community Reinvestment Act . . . somehow is the cause of the whole problem, (conservatives) don’t mind that,” the lawmaker said. “They’re aware that the affordable-housing goals of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (and) the Community Reinvestment Act (aim to help) poor people. And let’s be honest, the fact that some poor people are black doesn’t hurt either from their standpoint.”
Man, conservatives suck.
The last several months has been interesting.
I took some time off from this “Blog” to reset mental priorities, to get back in touch with why it is I started this, and why it was important for me to do this in the first place.
I think I got too into the idea of trying to logically change mind with facts and not “feelings”…which, when arguing against a leftist, is pointless. Facts mean nothing, and feelings are disposable, unless they’re your own.
Imagine a 5 paragraph insert here where I explain what I’ve discovered…blah blah blah.
I’ve spent a lot of time reading (listening) to some of the greats in my time off…so here’s my list of necessities.
1. Protein Wisdom – Jeff is a dying breed, he still fights Liberal hypocrisy as if it’s something that people might eventually acknowledge.
2. Atlas Shrugged – It’s the 1000 page discourse on why capitalism works.
3. Darkness at Noon – here’s what socialism gets you.
4. Liberal Fascism – People forget the Nazi means National Socialist…a leftist school of thought.
5. Defiant Infidel – I rarely comment, but try to read often. Thanks for the unintended up (”…But those who don’t write, frequently don’t grasp the cathartic potion.”)
6. ET – Patient, yet refrishingly ADD.
7. Dennis Prager – those who hate him, have never listened, here’s an intro course.
So I’ll be back writing as I see fit, when I see fit, about what I see fit as needing writing about.
Damn intent, damn interpretation. I done taking things personally, because if you’re insulting me instead of discussing me, then really, you’re not important enough to care about, because the inverse already seems true.
Web redesign on the way.
Spin the political party wheel…where does the Congressman fall?
An aide to Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick filed a police report Thursday claiming Monica Conyers, the short-tempered City Council president pro tem and wife of U.S. Rep. John Conyers, threatened to get a gun and shoot him at a city pension board meeting.
But a spokesman for Conyers says she was the real victim in the hubbub.
According to the police report filed Thursday by DeDan Milton, an assistant to Kilpatrick, Conyers “threatened to shoot (Milton) with her gun” and made “several aggressive movements” toward Milton “in a threatening manner.”
Who? What? Representative Conyers of what party?
I’m just sayin’.
As a it becomes apparent that I will be a disinterested presidential voter for Mr/Ms Nun O. Deabove come November 2008 I’ve also decided to vote against any incumbent in the local races, regardless of party affiliation.
I just cannot get behind any of the candidates that are still in the presidential race, regardless of party, this election cycle. Dis-enfranchised again…damn I hate that when that happens.
Anybody speak Spanish willing to train this unfortunate Mexican? Know of a Mosque that is accepting converts? I pay my taxes like the next good little Ameribot but since we are selling out I choose to skip Dhimmitude.
Senor NotGoingKafirHere
Life has been hectic. I’ll be on to write a bit more, but I just haven’t had the will to lately. Work has been out of control, and I’m in the process of changing jobs, which is always exhausting, since i worry, fret, and give myself a belly ache when there’s something that might be outside of my control. Anywho…the current place that I’m at misled me a little bit. Granted, I was complaint a didn’t raise a stink when I should have…
So, if you’re hired as a marketing analyst, and you find yourself all of a sudden doing finance, whoa…that will throw you for a loop. (*Sigh*)…cubicle work is unique enough…and although it’s not as labor intense as manual work, it still kicks the crap out of you.
Once the current drama resolves itself, and I’m firmly back on my career path, I’ll post again…it’s just a couple of days…I swear.
From time to time, I get a little more than irked when the morning news is blaring at me from the living room. Today I was irked. No, it isn’t because I am drinking less caffeine in my 7th month of pregnancy, but because I heard Shrillary’s voice screeching out:
“This commutation sends the clear signal that in this administration, cronyism and ideology trump competence and justice.”
So might someone please point out how Bill’s administration exhibited ”competence” and avoided cronyism in the pardons and commutations he freely gave during his eight years in office? Where is the “justice” for the people that were affected by the crimes committed in cases of the 450 pardons and commutations Clinton signed off on?Perhaps she was so blinded by the hunger for the Oval Office that she didn’t notice her own husband doing the same thing, perhaps she just chose to ignore it (as she chose to ignore so many other things her husband was doing while in office), but whatever her reasoning, she’s being a tad hypocritical. Among the dozens of liars, frauds, cowards, thieves and druggies I’m sure there were a few thugs that deserved pardoning due to the political hoopla surrounding their convictions, much like Libby’s case. Hm…now that I come to think of it, perhaps not. I hope the rest of the American public has eyes to see Hillary’s chameleon-like tendencies before it is too late.
Addition (Stout Republican):
Figured I would show the…”dichotomy”…of her statements…I heard the same one you did. Maybe she’s just too pragmatic for me to understand.
H/T: Taranto
Much to the chagrin of the DailyKos crowd and the Ron Paul supporters…although I’m sure it’s still going to be our fault in their minds…Iran is making moves the reek of war footing. Via Hot Air from the UK Sun:
Last night an intelligence source told The Sun: “It is an extremely alarming development and raises the stakes considerably. In effect, it means we are in a full on war with Iran — but nobody has officially declared it.
“We have hard proof that the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps have crossed the border to attack us.
“It is very hard for us to strike back. All we can do is try to defend ourselves. We are badly on the back foot.”
Our Boys picked up the Iranian helicopters on radar crossing into empty desert.
The sightings have been confirmed to The Sun by very senior military sources.
At least two Brit squaddies are thought to have been killed by bombs planted during these incursions into Maysan province — Corporal Ben Leaning, 24, and Trooper Kristen Turton, 27.
A further 44 British deaths have also been linked to the highly advanced bombs, rockets and mortars which originated in Iran.
So what does this mean for the British? What does this mean for the US? If this is true (the fact it’s the Sun Times, where we usually turn to for Babyshambles and coked up Kate Moss doesn’t instill confidence in the fact finding division) then we’ve got serious problems. Although we are still in Iraq at behest of the Iraqi government (like it or not) how do we deal with act of aggression from a sovereign nation. The liberals have neutered us, so we won’t be able to address it forthright with retaliation without people screaming “Halliburton!” and “Cheney!”, and while we “reason” with them, they continue to kill our allies, and our soldiers…which liberals are okay with, as long as we don’t take arms back up against them, then we’re the evil. Avoid war at any cost. Save life at the expense of life. Protect the defenseless by walking away. Guns cause violence, not people…unless those guns are nuclear weapons…then people cause violence.
The Ron Paul crowd would have you believe that this is Israel, this is oil, this is our fault. As Bryan asks:
Have the Iranians judged the strength of the British military based on its most recent close encounter with the Royal Navy? If so, now’s a good time to start worrying.
I think that he’s probably right. We’ve been tested, poked, prodded, and found lacking. We have no backbone. Our people have no backbone, and the officials that had a backbone, have lost the support of the people on tangential issues. The cancer is spreading, the support is gone, and some of the crazies even excuse the fascists. Why shouldn’t Iran have nuclear power? Because they don’t have the checks and balances to not push the button, because as much as some of our elected officials hate the Jews, it’s not our official platform, in our speeches, and ingrained in our very way of life to end their existence.
So what now? I’m guessing nothing. Bush gets blamed for Iran crossing the border of a sovereign nation and killing it’s peacekeepers. Chavez will still meet with Ahmadinejad. Liberals will still hang off of the testicles of the Chavez, even while his men shoot and attack those who would dare be vocal against his policies. The Jews will be blamed for everything. Kucinich will still look like a Muppet washed on hot. There will still be commentary that Bush is worse than Hitler. It’s the end of intellectual honesty. Even I have the intelligence to recognize that while I didn’t agree with Clinton’s policies, he wasn’t the worst president ever. That honor goes to another.
Screw it all man…enjoy the tunes.
GoingThere said something in the comment section that got me thinking.
“Personally dishonest no. Intellectually dishonest yes.”
How it is that such a thing can exist, I don’t know. That a person can believe something so fervently, based on an abstracted ideal. 9-11 truthers. National isolationists. Conspiracy junkies. They all believe what they believe in the face of common sense, and intellectual reality. Allah addresses the idea…not to whit, Michael Moore
…The full Truther bear hug asserts that 9/11 was an inside job; Moore’s practicing the “mainstream” version, which confines itself to “just asking questions.” It’s the spirit of free inquiry, man. Asking questions — who could be against that?
He’s been looking for an alternate explanation since, literally, the day after. It reminds me of a piece published last year in the Times explaning how Iran has made anti-Americanism a de facto tenet of Islamic doctrine. Same with the far left: the idea of the United States being victimized, particularly by third-worlders and in so horrendous a fashion, contradicts the dogma too starkly. Even the usual compensation, that we “deserved” it, doesn’t quite account for office workers having to nosedive onto asphalt from 100 stories up. So they make the only cognitive move they can. (Chomsky, notably, is an apostate on this subject.)
As Allah stated, you can circumvent the personal responsibility of throwing yourself behind an idea by “just asking questions”…then you don’t have to stand strong when the “reality” you’ve constructed is contradicted by the “reality” of those pesky things…facts.
The idea that Iraq is not central to the war on terror is an example of this intellectual dishonesty. Yes, disagree with why we got there, how we got there, and extrapolate your “facts” about someone else’s deep seeded dishonest reasons, whether that is revenge or maybe they’re working for the Israeli lobby (cue scary music). The truth is, we are there, and it is now central to the war on terror. But, politicians being what they are, and people with baggage in the form of emotional hatred now feel that the mistakes of the past can be remedied with a future mistake. Time did not stop in 2001. I can grant you that al Qaeda did not have contact with Iraq, though it is an arguable point, but they have a presence now.
I suppose an analogous situation would be if I was to go to a doctor, and he told me I had cancer. The doctor does several scans, throws me through the MRI machine a few times, and even cuts my open to check my gal bladder. My body’s not in great shape he determines, but I don’t have cancer. I go home, and over the next two years eat, drink, and make merry, and start to develop lung cancer. I return to the doctor who laughs and says, “Well son, I thought we worked this out, you don’t have cancer.” One of my friends tells me that if I’d never gone to the doctor in the first place, I never would have developed cancer, another states that if I change the “eat, drink, and make merry” part…the cancer will magically evaporate (he was also very upset that I aggravated the cancer by hanging out with Jewish people)…even, and still another, let’s call him John Edwards, doesn’t believe in cancer at all, and thinks I’m being sold on a future bumper sticker slogan. I would probably find more comfort in the friend that said, “Look, you may not have had cancer then, but you have it now…something needs to be done, let me introduce you to Dr. Petraeus.” My other friends, who didn’t attend medical school, tell me how crazy I am for considering this option, that they have a better treatment for my cancer, and this Doctor hack, with his years of education, doesn’t know jack about cancer, not like what they learned at their Law School.
My point is that the pundits always seem to know more than the professionals. They have access to special information, secret alliances, under the table deals, and shadow conversations.
Our President talks to the Saudis. No shocker there. They’re leaders of a nation, he’s a leader of a nation, and they interact. I’m sorry if I’m not shocked that they have a dialogue.
Fire melts steel. Call me crazy, but that’s how I believe they made the first swords…and they didn’t even have jet fuel.
Politicians raise money. Sometimes people donate money to them who are bad. Does that make the politicians bad? Not necessarily. Does that make them complicit in fraud? Not necessarily. I’ll wait for evidence that’s admissible in court.
If a company can’t make money, it should not exist. Companies are not here to serve the people. Companies are here to make money and sell a product to a consumer. If they can’t turn a profit because people won’t buy their goods, or they inefficient, then they don’t deserve to exist. This means you farmers. This means you GM. The government shouldn’t subsidize you. If I wanted your product, I would buy it…so don’t take my money in the form of taxes to give to them anyways if I decide not to buy it. That violates the free market in my mind.
I think intellectual honesty is lacking in today’s discourse. As conversation digress to tangents, and tangents to still more digressions, people loose sight of the forest. The details cloud the vision, and what starts as a conversation about subject A, turns into an editorial about subject Z.
To address the venerable Miss Platt specifically. While I appreciate you and others visiting my site, if I see one more non-related 5 page essay complete with attachment that you sent to your local Congressman and newspaper editorial, I am going to pull my hair out.
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No matter how hard we try to veer you back towards the subject at hand, you seem to disregard the general posts and instead use the comments section as your very own springboard into Bush historical melodrama. Yes we get it…there’s a huge political shadow society that has everyone fooled but you. The very same information that we all have access to has a secret code between the lines that only you can read, and if anyone else can’t see that, then they must be watching Hannity exclusively, shutting off their brain and sticking the shit nozzle of Republican propaganda in their ear before giggling and turning on the pump. Yes we get it…you’re the only one who is in the know, and you have the monologues to prove it. Relax a bit, and while I’ve been alluding to it, I’ll be direct. Every time you throw your car into reserve and press the gas on the one way road of conversation, people just want to veer out of the way, and then comment to their cell phone buddy on the other end how their own intellectual journey was nearly cut short because some crazy lady decided to not heed the road signs.
Now that I have berated you, let me make you an offer. I have a seldom used section on the left side of the menu called “Liberal Slant“, where my pal Practical Radical used to post before life gobbled him up and shat him on the doormat of responsibility. If you truly want a platform, I will provide you with one, and let you create your own recurring column…maybe it’s the “keep your (political) enemies closer” but more than likely it’s the “stuff more content into my site so I don’t have to work as hard” and probably more so “I have the icon and they all flow together and I don’t want to have them graphically redone just so I can delete a sidebar button” What say you?
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