Month: December 2012

Burt Prelutsky said what?!?!

Here I go, agreeing with Ed Brayton, who by the way, got his chest ripped open to find out what the heck was wrong with his heart. Which made me think, “Wait, he has a heart?!?! Surprise“ (I kid, of course… WinkingBatting EyelashesTongue)

Writing over at the neoconservative WorldNetDaily, Burt Prelutsky writes the following:

That has changed, as you may have noticed. And I lay a great deal of the blame at the feet of my fellow Jews. When it comes to pushing the multicultural, anti-Christian agenda, you find Jewish judges, Jewish journalists and the largely Jewish funded ACLU at the forefront. What makes them even more obnoxious is that, by and large, the Jews who are leading the crusade against what is, we should never forget, a national holiday, are secular. So it’s not even a question of their religion being shortchanged; they hate their own, as well. They’re the pinheads who pretend that “separation of church and state” appears in the Constitution…

But the dirty little secret in America is that in spite of the occasional over-publicized rants by the likes of Mel Gibson and Michael Richards, anti-Semitism is no longer a problem in society; it’s been replaced by a rampant anti-Christianity.

Ed Brayton correctly notes:

You knew it had to come down to this, right? If there’s a war on Christmas, you just knew that it was the Jews behind the whole thing, running it all from their seats of extraordinary power in the banking and entertainment industries. But Burt Prelutsky can say that, because he’s Jewish…

[….]

That could have come straight out of the Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion, or out of Mein Kampf, which blamed the Jews for everything imaginable that was bad in society. It’s all part of a conspiracy to force us to use dreidels, or something.

I have to agree with that, it is quite interesting that this guy can say this sort of a thing. But, yet, you let someone like me point out the fact that people like Bill Kristol and the rest the neocon clan want unilateral war with Iran, and how the neocons ruined the once great Republican Party —- and I am called a bigot, an anti-Semite and all other sort of nonsense. It is a double standard and it sucks.

But that is what happens when a political party panders to a politically privileged ethnic group. The funny thing is that the Republican Party is going to do it again, with people who are supposed to be known as illegal aliens or border invaders. Funny how all that works.

Your big government at work

This ought to cause anyone, of any political stripe to be a bit concerned:

The federal government will continue to access Americans’ emails without a warrant, after the U.S. Senate dropped a key amendment to legislation now headed to the White House for approval.

Last month, the Senate Judiciary Committee approved an amendment attached to the Video Privacy Protection Act Amendments Act (which deals with publishing users’ Netflix information on Facebook pages) that would have required federal law enforcement to obtain a warrant before monitoring email or other data stored remotely (i.e., the cloud).

The Senate was set to approve the video privacy bill along with the email amendment, which would have applied to a different law, the 1986 Electronic Communications Privacy Act. But then senators decided for reasons unknown to drop the amendment.

via Top Stories – Congress, at Last Minute, Drops Requirement to Obtain Warrant to Monitor Email – AllGov – News.

You have to know why this happened; President Obama told the Democrats and the Republicans to drop the amendment. As the Government, is the name of peace and security, is basically violating constitutional rights.

Now to be clear; I am not using this blog posting to just bash President Obama. President George W. Bush and the neoconservative Republicans were doing the same thing during the Bush Presidency. So, if we are  to bemoan Obama for this, we should be fair and inform people that Bush was doing the same thing.

When Bush was doing it, the neoconservatives and their defenders in the blogosphere were wetting themselves with glee about it. Now that Obama is in the white house, and is continuing with the polices of Bush, the Neoconservatives are all but silent about it and some are complaining.

Why I see it, those who institute unconstitutional policies, should not complain when the other party continues with those polices.

(H/T Reddit)

Gulf Arabs want action against Iran

John Podhoretz and Bill Kristol will be wetting themselves with joy over this one:

(Reuters) – Six U.S.-allied Gulf Arab states demanded on Tuesday that Iran end what they called interference in the region, reiterating a long-held mistrust of their main rival.

The Islamic Republic denies trying to subvert Saudi Arabia and its wealthy Gulf neighbors.

A communique issued at the end of a two-day summit of the Saudi-led Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) also urged action to halt mass killings and violations of international law in Syria.

The oil-producing GCC states wield influence out of proportion to their sparse populations due in part to global energy and investment links, generous international aid and Saudi Arabia’s role as home to Islam’s two holiest sites.

“The council expressed its rejection and condemnation of the continuing Iranian interference in the affairs of the Gulf Cooperation Council’s states and called on Iran to stop these policies,” the communique said.

On the conflict in Syria, the statement, read out by GCC Secretary-General Abdulatif al-Zayani, added: “We ask the international community for serious and swift moves to stop these massacres and these severe attacks that contradict all religions and international laws and humanitarian principles.”

via Gulf Arabs decry Iran interference, Syria killings | Reuters.

The Neoconservatives that I wrote about here, just got handed the World’s greatest Christmas present: War with Iran. Seeing that Obama is continuing with the same foreign policy as George W. Bush; I look for Obama to start military action sometime this year. Obama does not have to worry about reelection or angering his base. So, war will be coming, bank on it.

Funny how history repeats itself.

Merry Christmas 2012!

I just wanted to take a moment and wish all of my readers a very Merry Christmas!

Thank you for your loyal readership and support, you know who you are! 😀

Please, let our thoughts and prayers be for those up in Newtown, CT, those who are recovering from hurricane Sandy and those in America and around the World — who have nothing to celebrate this day and this week.

This posting in dedicated to them.

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Robert Dreyfuss is a goddamned fool

Sorry, but this, goes well beyond stupid right here:

Twenty children killed in Newtown, Connecticut, and a huge outpouring in response: wall-to-wall media coverage, an avalanche of flowers and stuffed animals, a river of ink in editorials, nationwide flags at half mast, memorial funds and much, much more.

Tens, hundreds, thousands of children killed in Afghanistan. Response: almost nothing.

Are Afghan children any less precious? Or does it make a difference that the killers were wearing American uniforms, piloting US helicopters and fighters, and operating drones?

via Newtown, Afghanistan | The Nation.

This right here, is a perfect example of why I cannot take the far-left serious at all. Comparing a tragic event like Newtown to a war; what an out of touch, liberal buffoon!

Here is hoping that mass shooting finds Robert Dreyfuss in the middle of it. America would be such a better place for it. 😡

This guy must be in competition with Cornell West.

 

Mitt Romney was not the problem, Republicans and Conservatives were the problem

I hate to be the one to say it, but, sadly, it is true:

It was two weeks before Election Day when Mitt Romney’s political ­director signed a memo that all but ridiculed the notion that the Republican presidential nominee, with his “better ground game,” could lose the key state of Ohio or the election. The race is “unmistakably moving in Mitt Romney’s direction,” the memo said.

But the claims proved wildly off the mark, a fact embarrassingly underscored when the high-tech voter turnout system that Romney himself called “state of the art” crashed at the worst moment, on Election Day.

To this day, Romney’s aides wonder how it all went so wrong.

They console each other with claims that the election was much closer than realized, saying that Romney would be president if roughly 370,000 people in swing states had voted differently. Romney himself blamed demographic shifts and Obama’s “gifts”: ­federal largesse targeted to Democratic constituencies.

But a reconstruction by the Globe of how the campaign unfolded shows that Romney’s problems went deeper than is widely understood. His campaign made a series of costly financial, strategic, and political mistakes that, in retrospect, all but assured the candidate’s defeat, given the revolutionary turnout tactics and tactical smarts of President Obama’s operation.

via The story behind Mitt Romney’s loss in the presidential campaign to President Obama – News – Boston.com.

You see, there used to be a time in this Country, when the Republican Party and the Conservative movement actually stood for something; and that is a Constitutional Republic.  A Constitutional Republic is what The United States of America was founded as, and not a Democracy as is parroted by some of the idiots on the left and some of the idiots on the so-called “Right” as well.

The Republican Party and the Conservative movement in this Country used to stand for social, economic and military restraint. Nowadays, the Republican Party and the Democratic Party both stand for unlimited spending, hippy-style social policy, high taxes, totally ignoring the United States Constitution and runaway military. This is why the American people did not vote for Mitt Romney or any of the so-called Republican “Players” during this election.  Because all they saw was Democratic Party, and Democratic Party Lite.

American’s economy is in shatters, and the Republican Party and the Democratic Party are both to blame for it. Instead of being adults and making the tough calls, on what needs to be done. Like ripping out the so-called “free trade” agreements and putting back in place the tariffs that would pay down our debt, and fund our social safety net — the Republicans are refusing to allow taxes to be raised on anyone making over a million dollars a year and the Democrats are squabbling over any and all cuts made to the social system.

As for Americas economy, why it is totally in shambles is because of the idiot transformation that took place during the Nixon years. America essentially ended the The Bretton Woods system and began a system of Keynesian economics. This caused America to print more money, than they had to back it up in gold. Which causes inflation and devaluing of the US dollar. Again, this was done, by both parties and is why we are where we are today.

Instead of actually fixing Americans problems through sound policy; the Republican Party would rather pick a fight with AFL-CIO and the UAW to try to crush the labor movement in this Country. After doing this, they really actually expect to be elected in those Union friendly states. My friends, something is horribly wrong the Republican Party.

Mitt Romney lost the 2012 election for one simple reason: Romney allowed himself to be framed by the liberal media as a rich, out of touch, elitist who could have honestly cared less about the middle class in this Country. Mitt Romney might actually be a very moral person and a very capable leader. But, when you have the money he has, you get painted in that fashion.

Another thing that is wrong with the Republican Party and the Conservative movement was written about by Patrick J. Buchanan in his 2005 book, “Where the Right went Wrong.” Since that time, the Bush Presidency has ended and it was thought for a time that the neoconservatives in this Country would be relegated to the backwoods of politics for a very long time.

However, Kristol, Podhoretz and the rest of that neoconservative clan had other ideas.  They spend a good deal of money in foolhardy plans to try to bolster Mitt Romney’s bid for the White House. Which ultimately caused Mitt Romney’s loss in the election. Which makes one wonder if possibly the neoconservatives were a bit worried that Mitt Romney was not the defense hawk that they truly wanted in the White House and actually were trying to kneecap his Presidency.

The war in Iraq should have been a wakeup call to the media, to Americans and to the Conservative movement that unilateral war without proper constitutional authority was a disaster. Instead the Conservative movement and the Republican Party just buried Bush and his failures and are now making the case for all out war with Iran.

In closing: My friends, Mitt Romney was not the problem; the problem is that the Conservative movement that was, and the Republican that was, of long ago; has been replaced with a Democratic Party Lite. This is not an American Conservative movement. But, rather a horrible fraud. This is why the Republicans lost the election of 2012 — nothing more, nothing less.

Anyone who tells you otherwise, is a highly misinformed.

Others:  Balloon Juice, Addicting Info, The Impolitic, Firedoglake, PERRspectives, The Political Carnival, Lawyers, Guns & Money, PoliticusUSA, The Moderate Voice, Washington Examiner, The Hill,Booman Tribune, Gawker, The National Memo, The Other McCain, Mediaite, Eschaton and Outside the Beltway (Via Memeorandum)

3 charged with murder in connection with Indianapolis home explosion

I have following the story for a very long time, and I finally am blogging about it:

A man and woman who lived in an Indianapolis house that exploded in November killing two neighbors and damaging scores of homes, have been charged with felony murder and multiple counts of arson for allegedly blowing up the home, prosecutors said.

Monserrate Shirley and Mark Leonard, who lived in the home that exploded, and Leonard’s brother, Bob Leonard Jr., were charged on Thursday in connection with the explosion and arrested on Friday, authorities said.

The personal property insurance on the home had been raised recently to $304,000 and photographs and personal financial records removed before the explosion, prosecutors allege.

The three face murder charges in the deaths of neighbors Jennifer and John Longworth and multiple other charges for the injuries to 12 other area residents in the blast and for the 33 neighborhood homes that had to be demolished, Marion County Prosecutor Terry Curry told a news conference.

This was a “thoroughly senseless act” that cost the lives of two young people, Curry said.

Investigators believe a programmable microwave that exploded from the inside out was the source of ignition and valves that regulate natural gas into the home and to a fireplace were removed, allowing gas to build up over hours, Curry said.

Authorities are still working to determine whether others were involved.

The three suspects are expected to appear in court Monday morning.

via Indianapolis home explosion: 3 charged with murder – chicagotribune.com.

When this originally happened, I had said that money was behind it all and I was correct. This was a tragic event and is what happens when greed gets the best of people. I believe, however, that they might not have thought that this much damage would be done, and that maybe a small explosion would happen and the house would just have burned. However, I also tend to believe that some sort of high-power explosive was used as well, and not just natural gas. I could be wrong about that though.

Either way, it is a sad situation, that people were only thinking of collecting an insurance policy and not thinking about the fact that other people in the neighborhood could have been, and were, ultimately killed. It just shows you where our society has gone nowadays. Unlike some, I will not use this tragic event to put a “Christian” shine or spin on this. But rather, I will simply say that I hope that the people who pulled this little morbid stunt, get the justice that they, and the families who were affected by it do truly deserve.

 

This is why I have never wrote anywhere except for here.

The only exceptions to that rule are where I submitted cross-postings of a few blog postings at Faith Writers and I also have an account at Nolan Chart, which is a libertarian site, to submit original writings.

This here is the reason, the story via St. Louis Post-Dispatch:

ST. LOUIS   •   Conservative talk radio host and commentator Dana Loesch sued the owner of the conservative website Breitbart.com Friday, claiming that although her relationship with the news and opinion aggregating website had gone “tragically awry,” Breibart.cοm LLC refused to let her work for the company or anyone else, forcing her into “indentured servitude in limbo.”

The suit, filed in U.S. District Court here, seeks at least $75,000 in damages, as well as a judge’s declaration that her contract had expired.

The suit says that difficulties managing the Breitbart “media ’empire’” or ideological conflicts or both had spiked the working relationship, creating a “increasingly hostile” work environment. When Loesch tried to terminate her work agreement in September, Breitbart refused and extended the agreement by a year, the suit says.

Breitbart.cοm LLC refuses to allow her work to be published and “sabotages” her attempts to find work elsewhere, the suit says.

This right here is why: because when you sign a contract, the person you sign with, basically owns you. The only way to get out of the contract is to go to court and ask a judge to release you out of your contract. Hence the reason for me never signing with anyone at all. Back when I was defending the right hardcore, I was asked to sign with someone once. It was not a huge amount of money, but the place seemed a bit shady at the time and I passed on it. I do not regret it either, because really, after my dealings with them, I never heard anymore about them. The site never came up and I asked about it. I was told they had “capital issues” and decided to not to put the site online.

Besides all of that; call it my independent spirit, call it my left leanings, call it my hatred of corporate shills; call it whatever you want to call it. But, when you are writing for a company of some sort, unless you are writing for yourself and have a LLC formed or something like that — you are a corporate writer. You are being paid by a company to spout talking points. This is why I shied away from that sort of a thing. I happen to be someone who has a rather quirky opinion on that.

Blogging was started by people who felt that the corporate ran and controlled media had a monopoly on the political, social and cultural conversation in this Country. People like Matt Mullenweg who basically took a piece of software that its original author abandoned and in open source terms, “forked” the software and created the software that about 90% of bloggers today use, including myself.  Oh, there are others, like Blogger, TypePad and few others; but honestly, from what I am told, and from what I have experienced with one; they for the most part, do truly suck. WordPress is great, easy to use, and best of all, it is free! All you need, is a host, that can handle the traffic; and you are golden.

Now here is the part, where I start sounding like an old geezer, and I am too; I am, after all, 40 years old. (Puts on old geezer wig and costume…) (said in best old geezer voice that I can muster..) Back in the good old days of blogging, in 2006, we didn’t have these new fangled gadgets like Facebook, Twitter, StumbleUpon, Digg and Reddit for promotion tools; the only we were linked to, is if we e-mail the blog authors and prayed to God that they even linked to us!

But, seriously, the rise in social media, Twitter, Facebook, StumbleUpon, Reddit all make it very simply to promote a blog. The truth is, you really do not have to pay for promotion; well, unless you are like me, someone that everyone thinks is an creep, an asshole or worse and nobody wants to link to you, for whatever reason. Then you might have to pay for some promotion. Otherwise, today, all you have to do is find your target audience and use twitter, Facebook and the rest to promote yourself.

On the other hand; Blogging has also created a few unintended by-products. I will list them:

  • Blog Snobbery – This is as old as blogging itself. You always have your various classes of blogger. The big guys and the little guys. The big guys were little guys at one time and because of linkage and influence; and because they got in on the blogger scene early, they became huge. Well, when they did, they basically said piss on the little guys and never link to them and such. This causes hard feelings towards them, and gets them called snobs. The big guys forget that no blogger is a island and they got where they were, because of other people. Sites like Memeorandum, promote that sort of snobbery. Because some people feel that if you are not on that site, you are nobody, which is bogus. Because they are good deal of great political writers and other sort of writers that are never scanned by Memeorandum at all.  Also too, that blog snobbery stuff, it happens on the left and the right as well. I never, ever got any respect back in 2006, when I was all into the “hate Bush and the Republicans” thing back then. It mainly was because I was not partisan enough for them, and too, because I really was not big into the “Gay Rights” thing and because I was not much into the idea that abortion is cool thing either. On the right, it is because I just do not get into identity politics of the right. It sucks, and those who do it, hate me, because I won’t.
  • The Political Echo Chambers – This is one of the more depressing things about the political blogging scene on the left and the right. Take a quick scan of Memeorandum and you will see what I mean. All of the lefty blogger all talk about the same story and repeat the same thing. The right does it too. One only need to have the Memeorandum colors plug in for either Google Chrome or Firefox to see what I mean there. I did this on my old blog, for about 6 months or so, after Barack Obama was elected in 2008. I made some decent money at it, I also made friends with people; whom looking back, were nothing but backstabbing weasels. Finally, one day, I just decided that I just had enough. I got into blogging to tell the truth, not say what everyone else was saying and I just stopped the whole echo chamber thing.

Another thing that bugs me about the whole political blogging thing; is that I have noticed that some people have to sell themselves out to be someone in the blogging world. I have noticed this on the right mostly. I have actually seen one blog, who I will not name here; actually write on his blog and I quote, “Good press can be bought!” I almost fell out of my chair when I read that. I do not know if he was being sarcastic or serious; but I thought to myself, “What a freaking sellout….” This is something that I have never done, changed my opinion, because some fat cat waved money under my nose. It has never happened and never will. My thoughts, opinion and worldview are not up for sale.

Everything, and I do mean everything on this blog; that I have ever written, was written because I happened to believe that thing to be morally right or wrong. I believe that the federal Government is not necessarily the “end all” of all what ails America. I disagree with the progressives that big corporations are what stops Americans for being all that they be. It is the Government that does this. It also is, in some cases,because of the people themselves. At the same time, I have supported Republicans and when they decided to lie to people, like me, who voted for them; I turned on them and decided that I wouldn’t support those who lie to their constituents. This did not happen, because some idiotic liberal fat cat waved money under my nose. This happened because I happen to agree with Patrick J. Buchanan, when he said economic patriotism and economic populism is dead. This is called having a moral compass and knowing the corporatists or crony capitalists are why unions were formed in the first place. Plus too, I am defending my family, the honor and legacy of my Father and my grandfather, who came here from the hills of Middlesboro, Kentucky and Dalton, Georgia to find work and make a better life for themselves and because the UAW and the organized labor movement, they were able to do just that. Most idiotic Republicans do not get that; which is their problem, not mine.

Anyways, back to Dana Loesch and the Breitbart clans. Dana does not much like me. She is a feminist and I do not have much use for those sort of women. I am a hardcore Fundamentalist Christian, although, I don’t always act like it, but I digress — and me and Dana had some interesting exchanges on twitter a while back. So, I just sort of avoided her. I just do not believe that feminism is a Conservative mindset at all. I am someone of the Phyllis Schlafly and Patrick J. Buchanan camps, when it comes to that sort of stuff. Which is why I do not get along with those types at all. Plus too, I am a hardcore defender of the Military and those who serve in the Military, irregardless of political stripe. Dana, as I found out; made some very nasty statements about her Father, and Vietnam, that I felt were totally immoral. I realize her Dad was not the greatest in the world. But, in my humble opinion, no one deserves to be told that they should have ended up on the Vietnam memorial wall. I don’t give a flying flip what they did to their kids. That, my friends, is just damned wrong.

As for Andrew Breitbart, I never much cared for the man. A long time ago, Andrew made some asinine comments about Ted Kennedy, on the day he died. I understand someone not liking someone like Ted Kennedy; but making comments like that goes beyond the pale. After that, I never gave the man much thought, until he died. I took no pleasure in his death at all. But, unlike some, I did not act like he was some sort of perfect being, nor did I join in the chorus of those on the right, who acted like he was some sort of Conservative god or something. As for those who bought Breitbart’s company. I was never approached by them, thankfully. I felt the buying of the company and continuing it and profiting off the name of a dead man was sick and morbid. Which is why I linked to them sparingly on my blog. I felt that the Breitbart thing should have just ended, when his life ended. Which tells me much about the morality of those involved in the thing.

…and those are my thoughts. All 1929 of them. 😀

Update: The Lonely Conservative says something that I believe many writers should read:

Note to new bloggers: If you think you’re going to work for anyone out there besides yourself make sure you get a contract and have it looked over by a lawyer. If our own side is doing this to our own side, anything is possible. Make sure you protect yourself.  I don’t think Andrew Breitbart would have treated his friends this way, but unfortunately, he is not available for comment.

I agree with that 100%. If something sounds and looks fishy, that it most likely is; which is what was the case with the person who contacted me. It just did not sound right, and the presentation sounded fishy. So, I passed and I am glad I did.