Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Is He Lying or Just An Idiot

Today, Barak Hussein Obama, he of the 3000% raises, said this:

"We have 2% of the world's oil reserves but we consume 20% of the world’s production. Therefore we can never drill our way to independence."

First, there is no correlation between the amount of the known world oil reserves and the amount of the present level of oil production. None. There is no logic to his statement.

Second, in the 2% number, he intentionally excluded our vast oil shale reserves.

The Devil Is In the Details

B. Hussein Obama has a plan to lease more offshore oil exploration in the East and Southeast along with Alaska. If that is as far as the plan went, fantastic.

But this is a socialist president, and his plan with come with strings attached. Let's see how he intends to nationalize the oil companies with his plan, because you know that is what he wants to do.

Also, this idea that the U.S. military is going to start using more vehicles using biofuel is a BAD IDEA. Military vehicles need to be able to use the most commonly available fuels appropriate to their use. That is not biofuel in any way, shape, or form.

Saturday, March 27, 2010

Celebrate Economic Achievement

Instead of turning off all my lights for the Eco-Nazi Earth Hour tonight, I will be celebrating the light of comparative economic freedom by burning all my houselights brightly at 8:30 pm local time.


Let those that desire the darkness, depression, poor economic conditions, and lack of freedoms in places like North Korea, central Africa, Afghanistan, and barren deserts turn off their lights at night. I prefer the safety, security, economic prosperity, and civilization of the light.

Wednesday, March 24, 2010

A Joe Biden Limerick

This is a big f**king deal!
More freedoms and money we’ll steal.
So sign on the line,
Our futures devine.
But the People this bill will repeal!

Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Questions for the al Qaeda 10 at the DoJ

Fox News names some names - I missed this earlier.

http://liveshots.blogs.foxnews.com/2010/03/03/exclusive-unknown-doj-lawyers-identified/

For those who defend these al Qaeda lawyers because everyone deserves an advocate, let me bring up a couple lines of inquiry:

1. Were the members of the DoJ al Qaeda 10 paid for their services? If so, by whom? How were they assigned these cases by their law firm?

2. Were the members of the DoJ al Qaeda 10 doing work pro bono? If so, then they were doing the work for free because they personally believed that the al Qaeda terrorists are wrongfully detained and they disdain US action to keep Americans safe from these terrorists and further attack.

The first line of inquiry may provide members of the DoJ al Qaeda 10 a reasonable excuse that does not make them a prima facie objectionable attorney to serve in the Department of Justice.

Attorneys who worked without pay to free terrorists (who already had legal representation, by the way) should be treated as pariahs.

Sunday, March 21, 2010

Democrats Are Now the National Socialist Party

Today, the Democrats of the United States have fully laid themselves bare. This is not just Obama, Reid, and Pelosi. This is every Democrat in the Senate and 90% of the Democrats in the House of Representatives have demonstrated their naked socialism.

They have acted against the United States Constitution.

They have acted against the consent of the governed.

They are attempting to take over fully one-sixth of the economy; a part of the economy that is world class and in no danger of financial collapse. This is not a “bail out” – this is an unconstitutional takeover of a huge segment of the economy for no other reason than they are socialists and possess the votes in Congress to get it done, damn the rules, damn the people, damn the constitution, damn the republic. The actions the Democrat party have taken in the past year are by any definition totalitarian. I am certain that Jefferson and Jackson are rolling in their graves today.

In short, I see no difference between the Democrats and a National Socialist Party. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_socialist_party

So, what can the nation do in response to the totalitarian National Socialist Party and their takeover of State and personal sovereignty?

First, it is incumbent upon the States of the United States to engage in a national nullification of the National Socialist Party’s socialization of health care. States, and states alone, are granted the power under the constitution of the United States to regulate both the health care and the insurance provided in their particular state. Every state that values the continuation of the republic should take legislative and executive action immediately to prohibit the Federal government from implementing the health care portions of the National Socialist Party’s socialized medicine program. This should include the following elements:

Assert the State’s preeminence on matters of health care and insurance laws within the State borders; and

Enact nullification laws and prohibitions against the enforcement of unconstitutional Federal laws – that is, criminalize the enforcement of the National Socialist Party’s socialized medicine program within the State.

To the extent this can be done in concert between states, it should be done. Nothing would make me happier than to see several states all pass nullification laws and resolutions on the same day, at the same time.

Second, there is an election a mere six and one half months away. No National Socialist Party member should be re-elected to Congress. Any congressional district or state that re-elects a Democrat should be shunned in every possible way. No visits, no conventions, no investment, no money, no nothing. The home bases of the National Socialist Party must be dead to us. And the new Congress must repeal this scar on the nation, and overrule the expected veto by the National Socialist Party’s leader, Barak Hussein Obama. UPDATE: It occurred to me after writing this that another action a nullification-minded Congress could take would to be to withhold funding for some or all of the activities authorized under this law. Again, it would face a veto, but budget bills can and do get passed as overrides to a veto.

Third, even with the expected veto, a mere two thirds majorities in both houses of Congress (and without the approval of the President required) may propose an Amendment to the constitution of the United States that would repeal the National Socialist Party’s healthcare takeover. Thirty eight of the states would be required to vote in favor of the amendment for it to become the supreme law of the land.

Fourth, there are two opportunities to mount of constitutional challenges against the National Socialist Party’s socialized health care takeover.

One path of objection is the nature in which the House passed its approval of their version of the bill. Because the House added amendments or stipulations to the bill prior to its being signed into law, the identical bill was not passed by both houses of Congress, thus the President was never constitutionally presented with a bill that passed both houses of Congress, and thus there was nothing for the President to sign.

The next path of objection is a challenge on the constitutionality of the most socialistic provisions of the law; however, it is questionable when such an objection would be ripe for court review because there is a significant delay in the implementation of most of totalitarian provisions. However, when such a case or controversy becomes ripe, much of the law violates the first Article and second Articles and the ninth and tenth Amendments to the United States Constitution.

Beyond these, there is always the Declaration of Independence. The states created the Federal form of government, and the states can opt out of it. Remember that the Declaration of Independence was not superseded by the Constitution – it remains the enacting document whereby the colonies declared independence in the name of the united States of America. The principles set forth in the Declaration of Independence are both universal and eternal:

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government.


Saturday, March 20, 2010

Epic Threat Weekend

This weekend is a huge pivot point for the future of the United States and the Obama-Reid-Pelosi government takeover plan for 17% of the economy.

In their typically deceptive way, the Democrats have pointed to the crushing amount of unfunded future "obligations" imposed on the projected Federal budgets by the socialist Medicare program, and then said they needed to tackle the cause of this burden: private health insurance. Talk about kicking the dog because the cat made a mess.

Certainly the only completely wrong way to reduce the future costs of socialized medicine is to create more socialized medicine.

I am left to ponder the question: Do we need health care insurance reform, or do we really need government reformed?

Thursday, March 18, 2010

The Inexorable Force of the Market and the Unbearable Weight of Government

In the ongoing debate regarding the Democrat's nationalization of health care, precious little time is being focused on a discussion of the actual market changes that will occur as a result of the passage and implementation of this unconstitutional piece of legislation.

What today’s Democrats, and believers in Government action of all stripes, believe is that the market is like a giant Sta-Puft Marshmallow Man – giant, lumbering, and able to withstand nearly any amount of central committee diktats without really changing either its nature or behavior. Of course, the real-life evidence is that the market is agile, responsive, demanding, fickle, and smarter than bureaucrats.

Tinkering with reimbursement rates on socialized medicine programs in an effort to realize “savings” to government bodies already occurs. The effect of the tinkering is that it shrinks the supply of goods and services being bought by the socialized medicine program recipients.

In a self-regulating market, a decrease in supply will result in an increase in prices, which will decrease the total demand for the product or service, and the market will find its equilibrium at the new higher price. However, in a world of government price controls, such as the reimbursement rates for prescription drugs in a Medicare plan, while the supply is decreasing, the price cannot change which inevitable leads to rationing or shortages. Demand will outstrip supply.

What the government relies on in this scenario is a belief that businesses are irrational – they will conduct their primary business in a way that causes financial loss. As we are seeing now in Washington state, several pharmacy chains are ceasing to fill new Medicare prescriptions because they lose money on the deal.

What is a Democrat to do when her great economic schemes wash up on the rocks of reality? Step 1 is denial. “Doug Porter, the state's director of Medicaid, said Medicaid recipients should be able to readily find another pharmacy because "we have many more pharmacy providers in our network than we need."

Step 2 is anger. “Insurance profits are bad for my health.” And we are being defrauded by “fly by night operators.”

Step 3 is more government diktats. Hey, “we won the election.”

Soon, Washington state will make accepting Medicare prescriptions mandatory for a pharmacy license. Democrats are happy to force people to do things as a “cost of doing business.” In practical respects, this means costs for things that are not Medicare prescriptions will go up. This is an indirect tax on all consumers at the pharmacy, including food and medicine brought to you by enlightened bureaucrats.

More philosophically, being forced to do business in a manner that is not a purely voluntary transaction is slavery. Being forced to do things because the government says you should (like buying health insurance whether you want to or not) is slavery. Even a fifth grader knows the 13th Amendment prohibits slavery. The question is: are Democrats smarter than a fifth grader.

Monday, March 15, 2010

Who Fights The War Against Jihadis?

Over the past two weeks, we have seen a spate of captures of jihadists of one stripe or another. All these captures sound like good news, but what is coming from such captures is greatly worrisome to me.

From the possible capture of Adam Gadahn, to the confirmed captures of Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, Mullah Janan Andewal, Colleen LaRose, and Jamie Paulin-Ramirez, one might come to conclusion that we are prosecuting and winning the war against Islamists.

Looking deeper at the facts, however, indicated that our existing Administration is neither fighting a war, nor even aware that one exists.

Neither Baradar nor Andewal were captured by the United States. Andewal was caught by the Aussies, and Baradar was captured by Pakistanis. Of the two, Baradar is clearly the bigger catch. Baradar has not been delivered to the US by Pakistan, and likely never will be. I would hazard a guess that Baradar slipped on his protection payments to Pakistani security officials. We might have reason to suspect the intelligence being fed to us by the Pakistanis coming out of the Baradar interrogations.

Paulin-Ramirez, one of the Jihad Janes recruited by Colleen "Tokyo" LaRose, has been released - lack of evidence and all. I guess the Attorney General's office can't figure out a crime she committed. Surprise! The same Attorney General and his "at least" nine other Department of Justice employees that worked on behalf of those wrongfully accused al Qaeda prisoners in Gitmo can't seem to put their finger on a crime that might possibly have been committed by a woman who travelled to Europe for the purpose of killing someone for a cartoon they drew.

Colleen LaRose was not caught by the government, she was caught by US citizens who band together to track jihadist information on the Internet. They have no funding, keep day jobs, pay bills, and spend time with their families. In their spare time, they do the job the US government would be doing if this Administration took seriously its job to protect the country.

Of course, if this Administration took seriously its job to protect the country, it would not have announced the closure of Gitmo, would not have stated the Gitmo prisoners would be tried in US criminal courts, and would not have read a Miranda warning to Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab (the Panty Bomber) when they took him into custody (again depending on civilians for the capture).

It is clear the Barak Hussein Obama does not intend to prosecute a war against Islamist jihadis, because Muslim-born Barak Hussein Obama does not believe a war exists. But just because one believes a war does not exist does not preclude the factual existence of such a war - and such a war is being conducted by Muslim jihadis against the United States.

It is the first and most solemn duty of the President and every person working in government to protect the nation and its citizens against foreign attack. The first step in this is to believe a war exists. We know they are coming, and have come. The second step is to fight back like it is a war.

Wars cannot be won by civilian prosecutors who very recently were representing the enemy combatants in court. Only in the mind-numbingly bizarre world of the group of committed leftists currently occupying the White House would this approach to national security possibly make sense.

This Administration is endangering the lives of every citizen of the United States by ignoring threats and failing to fight the war we find ourselves in. This nation has become reliant upon the actions of civilians to ferret out and expose the threat to the United States posed by jihadis. Are you ready to accept your part in the defense of your State and the Republic?

I Hope This Changes

The B. Hussein Obama Administration, the "smartest people in the room", the calm and detached believers in soft diplomacy, the anti-cowboys, appear to be spoiling for a fight with the United States' single largest creditor, Communist China. It appears that elements of the ChiCom's political class want this fight as well.

While I have no love for Communists, and detest Communist China particularly, I know Obama has no stomach for a military confrontation, which the US would decisively win.

Instead, having bloated the debt markets with cheap US Bonds, Obama will pick a fight with China over currency manipulation. China has the capacity, and may be looking for an excuse, to dump its US debt holdings. If they do so, they will make it impossible for the US to borrow more money in the short term and mid terms.

Because B. Hussein Obama has neither the stomach or the capacity to understand government austerity in such an event, all Obama will be left with is US currency manipulation. Inflation and interest rates with skyrocket, and my prediction of a "Welcome Back Carter" presidency will be fulfilled.

In the long run, the US (or what is left of it) would come out ahead due to the innovative economic thinking of its people, not its government. But, in the long run, we are all dead.

Tuesday, March 9, 2010

B. Hussein's Next Target: Fishermen and Anglers

As reported by no more Yankee a source than Hartford-based ESPN, the Obama mafia is headed towards an end to all fishing in the United States. Story linked below.

From the story: "The Obama administration will accept no more public input for a federal strategy that could prohibit U.S. citizens from fishing the nation's oceans, coastal areas, Great Lakes, and even inland waters.

This announcement comes at the time when the situation supposedly still is "fluid" and the Interagency Ocean Policy Task Force still hasn't issued its final report on zoning uses of these waters.

Led by NOAA's Jane Lubchenco ... [she] and others in the Obama administration have close ties to environmental groups who would like nothing better than to ban recreational angling. And evidence suggests that these organizations have been the engine behind the task force since before Obama issued a memo creating it last June.

As ESPN previously reported, WWF, Greenpeace, Defenders of Wildlife, Pew Environment Group and others produced a document entitled "Transition Green" shortly after Obama was elected in 2008. What has happened since suggests that the task force has been in lockstep with that position paper.

Then in late summer, just after he created the task force, these groups produced "Recommendations for the Adoption and Implementation of an Oceans, Coasts, and Great Lakes National Policy."

That same tunnel vision, in which recreational angling and commercial fishing are indiscriminately lumped together as harmful to the resource, has persisted with the task force, despite protests by the angling industry."


http://sports.espn.go.com/outdoors/saltwater/news/story?id=4975762

The Chicago Way in Washington

Hand it to the Chicagoans currently occupying the White House. Rahm Emmanuel and B. Hussein Obama have offed two political enemies in two weeks. First was the bumbling, stumbling New York Governor David Patterson - who never saw it coming. Patterson was in the office Obama promised to Andrew Cuomo. The White House indicated that Patterson should not run, but David could not see his way clear to get out of the race. Patterson was destroyed by leaks to the daily organ of leftist government, the New York Times.

This week, it was Rep. Eric Massa, done in by leaks from the Ethics Committee and Rahm Emmanuel himself, including a House gymnasium shower room showdown, like a scene straight out of the Godfather.

The thug culture instituted by this Administration is stunning. Soon, they will be a paranoid as Richard Nixon.

Update: By the way, now that Massa "sleeps with the fishes", I believe the fix is in for the House to pass the Senate's socialized medicine bill.

Congrats to Hurt Locker

The Oscars got this year's Best Picture right. Hurt Locker is a riveting and gritty film about war in Iraq made by Hollywood outsiders and seen in the theatre by very few. I went to see the film and convinced two friends to come along. The film is a work of fiction, to be sure, but does not portray Americans in war as anything other than warriors.

Contrast Hurt Locker with radical leftist Matt Damon's Green Zone or the imponderable Syriana. There is no lecture in Hurt Locker. No American self loathing. No hating on George Bush. No accusations of trading blood for oil.

Hurt Locker is not a film that is easy to watch, but is watchable. It is accessible even to those without a military background. If you have not seen the movie, rent the DVD and give it a try. But set aside time to focus on it, you cannot multi-task watching Hurt Locker.

Watch the film, and thank God that you are safe and at home doing so.

Sunday, March 7, 2010

Adam Gadahn May Be Captured

Pakistani sources are saying that US-born al Qaeda spokesman Adam Gadahn has been captured. While nothing pleases me more at the moment than fantasizing about Gadahn being waterboarded at Gitmo, this Administration will provide Gadahn with all the rights and privileges granted to Teddy Kennedy when he killed Mary Jo Kopechne.

While Adam Gadahn still walks this earth, the best I can hope is that he gets put into general population in a prison in Alabama.

More information will leak out about this capture as time goes on. It will be interesting to follow.