Mixed feelings about this one

I am, of course, referring to this video and article…

First the Video: (Via Mediaite)

Scarborough has a point, the Conservative movement has become a bit of a racket and yes, there are people getting rich off promoting the extremist crap that is on the right. I could name names, but I really do not want to be sued. Furthermore, there are a great deal of bloggers, who are getting, what I like to call “Backdoor Payments” to write the extremist tripe that they publish on their blogs. I never was approached about writing any of it; because I knew it was crazy and I did not want to be a part of that sort of stuff. I believe in Independent Media and not corporatist media.

Some people, like this idiot here; might believe that I was part of that extreme fringe. They would be wrong. I never felt comfortable being a part of the far right. One reason is because of their misguided hatred of the unions, which came to pass here in Michigan the other day. Do not get me wrong, I do defend what I believe to be morally right, like capitalism, as opposed to Government socialism and the like. But some of the stuff, like the Anti-Jihadi tripe that comes from a few bloggers, I decided that I wanted to put as many miles between me and them as possible. Because it basically has become less about terrorism, and more about a religious war, between Jews and Muslims. Which in this gentile Christian’s view, is a bit silly. Seeing both sides are guilty of the same things.

However, as for Bill Kristol and his article, there are a few points of which I have quibbles with; here are a few of them:

The good news is that these new leaders do not have to create something de novo. They have an American tradition to appeal to. That tradition would suggest a “light footprint” isn’t the best America can do. It would suggest that it’s not really America’s destiny to tiptoe through the world, hoping not to do too much to disturb dictators and jihadists.

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Contemporary liberalism is committed to leading from behind, with a light footprint. Isn’t it the historic task of American conservatism to shape an America that will lead again from the front, with a stride worthy of a great nation? Isn’t it the task of conservatism to restore American leadership so that friends of freedom around the world, Seeing, shall take heart again, in an America that seeks to leave behind us / Footprints on the sand of time?

What just read above is nothing more than the core of what Wilsonian foreign policy or, as it is commonly called — Neo-conservatism is truly about; and that is that somehow or another it is America’s destiny to somehow or another be the world’s policeman. The problem with Kristol’s idea is this here: We did his idea of American greatness for eight solid years — in Iraq and in Afghanistan and what did it get us? Nothing. Well, nothing but four thousand plus dead soldiers and a ton of debt, that President Obama happily added to. Yeah, sure, we killed Osama Bin Laden — big deal. By that time, he had transferred operations over to other people within the Al-Qaeda organization and was hiding in Pakistan. That is, if you are actually foolish enough to believe what the Government (Bush or Obama controlled) and the corporate-controlled Government actually tells you.

So, in closing: Yes, there are issues with the Conservative movement. Anti-intellectualism is one. Wilsonian idiots who want us to be in perpetual war is another and then do not want to actually pay for them is another. Also too, wobbly moderates who will not stand for anything, is another. Another is the cronies who want to control the GOP’s nomination process and direction of message — so that they can continue to get their handouts from the Government and the tax breaks. The list goes on and on. It is not to say that Conservatism, whether fiscal or social is a horrible idea. It is just the people who are supposed to be promoting those ideas, have done a pretty rotten job of doing it.

This is not to say that this is anything really new. It is has been this way, since the days, when Reagan boarded the plane back to California, hoping that he had turned the reigns of the Presidency over to someone as much of a Conservative as he was. Sadly, he was wrong and we as a Nation are poorer for it too.

Local Story: Lizard bites man

Wait a second…. Lizard?  What the heck was Charles Johnson doing in Michigan?!?! Surprise

I kid….I kid… Batting Eyelashes

The story comes via Detroit Free Press:

Authorities say a Michigan man has been taken to a hospital after being bitten by his 4-foot-long pet lizard.

The Macomb Daily of Mount Clemens reports emergency workers were called Sunday night to the home in Macomb County’s Lenox Township, about 35 miles northeast of Detroit.

Lenox Township Fire Chief Dennis Fouchia says it’s the first time he’s encountered a reptile bite in his career.

Here is the real funny part of the story, or at least I think it is funny:

The pet owner was expected to be treated and released. Additional details about the man and the circumstances surrounding the bite weren’t released.

Well, let’s see here; the Lizard was most likely hungry and really wanted something to eat and this guys hand — was, um…. Handy? Hee hee

Yeah, I know, I’m terrible. Sue me. Phbbbttt

Photo of the Day: Some pretty wild pictures of NYC

Here’s one:

Hurricane Sandy wreck havoc on SoHo’s power grid

More at Wired

I could not imagine anything happening like that here in Detroit and hopefully it never does. Worse thing we have to contend with around these parts, is snow and lots of it; about 3 months out of the year. I will tolerate that, in exchange for earthquakes, forest fires and crazy stuff like what goes on in Texas, Louisiana and the rest of the southern states —- and occasionally in New York.

Could not happen to a better bunch of people!

For the longest time, I used to watch this stuff go on and I would never say a word; except maybe to defend someone’s wife. Which I still believe was totally out of bounds to be posting her picture and pictures of his kids, blurred or not.

However, seeing that I have totally divorced myself from the so-called “right” due to the attack on my Father. I believe I can say what I truly feel.

I happen to notice what is going on around in the blogosphere at the moment and all I can truly say is this: It could not be happening to better group of people.

You see, this same dude, slandered me in the past. The second link there, was a serious screw up on my part, I admit that, and I have apologized a bunch of times for it. He was not the only one, a bunch of others have done it too and some of them, and getting their just deserts, as they should. 😀

But, this guy here, threw me under the bus, for no other reason, than to please some mentally depraved idiot, who does not even know me. Then, to try and make up for it, he goes and takes a fairly innocent post and twists it into a bunch of crap that it was never intended to be; and then, acts like *I* am the person with the problem.

So, you know what gents? I have one thing to say about all this stuff that is happening to you all……………….;

KARMA IS SUCH A FUGGIN’ BITCH, YA KNOW? HA!

Give ’em hell Mr. Grouch and don’t quit giving these loser right wing con-job mother fuggers hell until they are ALL under indictment by the FBI!  Sitting around making money on a semi-half fake DEAD JEW! WTF?!?!?!?!?!?! 😯

Countdown to being called an a-hole, an anti-Semite, a racist and all that other lame stuff they like to call me…

I got one thing to say to you rich ass honky pukes:

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I know what you are thinking:

“Hey! You are white too!”

Yeah, you are correct, I am white. But, you know what? If I go down to Detroit, namely the southwest side. I would be treated with respect, as they know me. If ya’ll white tight-y Sean Hannity types went down there; ya’ll would get your little cracker, Sean Hannity looking asses shot and killed. Let’s just say, it’s the difference between ghetto white and rich suburbia white. 19 years living hard in the big D does have its advantages.

Just sayin’ ya’ll. I’m just sayin’…. 😀

 

 

Sorry, but this strikes me as incredibly dumb

Look, I am all for unions fighting for their right to organize; but this, is just plain stupid:

They looked jolly in red scarves and reindeer antler headbands, but the carolers outside of Troy’s Oakland Mall today were actually protestors conveying a serious message: No to right-to-work legislation in Michigan.

And they delivered their feelings about proposed bills and Gov. Rick Snyder through pointed, modified Christmas carols. Think “Frosty the Snowman.”

“Rick-y Snyder knew he couldn’t get his way — so he took the votes from the working folks so the wealthy get our pay,” they sang.

Shalaya Bryant, who works at a nursing home, said the group was trying to send the message that “right to work is not for Michigan.”

via Modified Christmas carols used to protest right-to-work legislation at Oakland Mall | Oakland County | Detroit Free Press

First of all, they are nowhere near the capital building in Lansing. Second of all, what a great way to show that Democrats and Unionists hate traditional Christian values, by butchering Christmas Carols. I mean, the left wants to be accepted by the rest of America; but yet, they pull stuff like this here. This is why the rest of America loathes the labor movement. Because they simply do not respect traditional values of America. Butchering Christmas carols makes the labor movement look selfish.

Thirdly, who told these people they could sing?!?! 😯 Egad. 🙄

 

 

The Detroit Free Press rips Governor Rick Snyder a new one

It is very good, trust me:

Click here for Editorial: A failure of leadership: Snyder’s about-face on right-to-work betrays voters —Detroit Free Press 

Quote:

Two years ago, a newly elected Rick Snyder told the Free Press editorial board he was determined to be a new kind of governor — a pragmatist focused like a laser on initiatives that promised to raise standards of living for all Michiganders.

And until last week, we believed him.

For two years, we supported Snyder as he took painful steps to restore Michigan’s fiscal stability and confront a crisis in which plunging tax revenues and mounting obligations to retired workers threatened to cripple the state’s cities and school districts.

[…]

 But we also indulged many compromises Snyder maintained were necessary to advance his pro-growth agenda. And when ideologues on the right and left mounted campaigns designed to hamstring state government by limiting its authority to raise revenues, regulate labor relations, and fund critically needed infrastructure, we joined the governor in opposing them.

In short, we trusted Snyder’s judgment.

That trust has now been betrayed — for us, and for the hundreds of thousand of independents who voted for Snyder with the conviction that they were electing someone more independent, and more visionary, than partisan apparatchiks like Wisconsin’s Scott Walker or Florida’s Rick Scott.

Last week, in an abrupt about-face Snyder’s defenders said was born of his frustration with organized labor, the governor unleashed a legislative blitzkrieg that seems certain to bring a bill barring closed-shop contracts to his desk next week.

[…]

Snyder’s closest brush with candor came when he suggested that his endorsement of right-to-work was less than voluntary — a decision “that was on the table whether I wanted it to be on the table or not.”

But that is less an excuse than a confession that Michigan’s governor has abdicated his leadership responsibilities to Republican legislators bent on vengeance.

What reasonable person now believes that Snyder has the will or the wherewithal to deliver Michigan, or even his own party, from the failed politics of division?

Michigan voters who provided Snyder’s margin of victory in 2010 feel betrayed, and they have every justification. If he was ever serious about being the governor who brought Michiganders together, Snyder has just sent himself back to Square One.

I suggest you go read the rest of that; this spells out exactly why I have basically decided to say to hell with the Republican Party and the Conservative movement as a whole and now just call myself an independent. My family comes first; and this jackass declared war against them, namely my Dad.