A Poem For Fucking Amanda Palmer

A Poem For Amanda . . . 

You don't know how it felt to be in the bomb blast, but it must have been terrifying.

You don't know how closely their vital signs are being monitored - if you did, maybe you wouldn't have penned that abomination.

You don't know how to stop picking at your limbs that are actually no longer there.

You don't know how little attention you've been paying until you get the thousands of angry response of people upset with you.

You don't know how many times she'll ask:"When is Martin coming come?" until she finally understands that he never will.

You don't know how orgasmic the act of taking your child in your arms is until they take him away from you.

You don't know  how many people will never live normal lives again.

You don't know how precious your time with your loved ones is until you're crying at a casket being lowered to the bottom of a hole.

You don't know how to to feel total compassion for the people who actually deserve it.

You don't know how much we all want to tell you to go to hell and take your spellchecker with you.

You don't know how to explain yourself.

You don't want to live in the real world, and your fantasy world is all you have.

You don't know how offensive your poem is.

You don't know why you let this dribble out while they were still cleaning the blood off the streets of Boston and Watertown.

You don't know where your mind went.

You don't know how many victims will never again dance.

You don't know how your words managed to hurt so many.

You don't know how to separate the victims of evil from the perpetrators of evil.

You don't know why your ran your goddamn mouth off anyway.

You don't know how to measure the value of human life.

You don't know how you walked into this crap so obliviously.

You don't know how to adjust the reality mirror.

You don't know how to mourn Martin Richard, Lu Lingzi, Krystle Campbell and Sean Collier.




Your don't know.

America 3.0

America is dead. The great American experiment in liberty and freedom, begun by our founding fathers, died on November 6th, 2011. It is survived by a bunch of lazy, whining, give me free stuff fools, who incapable of understanding what they have lost.

I admit that I was wrong - well, early - in my interpretation of the 2008 election. At the time, I thought that we had already reached the point at which we now stand. In reality, American "voters" (i.e. idiots who spent far more effort watching reality TV and vetting fantasy football picks rather than vetting then presidential candidate Obama) elected Mr. Hope & Change without truly knowing his beliefs and intentions for our once great republic. Again, anyone with a brain and a few hours of research would have been able to learn what a truly unconstitutional figure Obama was and still is, in spite of a complicit media providing more covering fire than that provided by the U.S. Navy during the invasion of Iwo Jima. This time around, things were different.

Conventional wisdom said that there was no way that Obama could win re-election. The rules of engagement for presidential elections made it impossible, as long as his opponent was anyone short of Satan himself. There was simply no way that any sitting president could overcome  an official unemployment rate at 7.9% - in spite of more administration manipulation than a year's worth of a Bangkok motel's happy endings, real under/unemployment at around 17%, gasoline at nearly $4.00 gallon, home heating oil well over $4.00 gallon and over five trillion dollars of debt accumulated over fours years (while hundreds of billions per year less was being spent on the wars that allegedly drove our climbing debt.) This didn't even begin to take into account things like Fast & Furious, Benghazi, unconstitutional edicts like amnesty for illegals and Solyndra.

Unfortunately, the conventional wisdom and the rules of engagement that we were using applied to America V1.0 This was the America that existed from the American Revolution until November 5th, 2012. This was the America where a majority of voters still believed in capitalism, personal responsibility and the Constitution. November 6th marks the birth of America 2.0. This is the America where a small majority of voters and an even larger percentage of Americans in general, have thrown in the towel and surrendered to European, secular socialism. This time, the electorate knew full well what Obama and the Democrat party truly represent, and resoundingly exclaimed: we want more!

What we witnessed was the final battle in a long war that begin with the socialist, progressive movement in the early twentieth century. There were many major battles along the way, and the left won all of them. FDR's socialist policies and programs, especially Social Security, was one. JFK's allowing government workers to unionize was another. LBJ's establishment of a general welfare state as well as Medicare and Medicaid, Ted Kennedy's pushing of the Hart-Celler Act "immigration reform" act, and finally, the pestilence known as Obamacare. Remember, the ultimate goal of the progressive elite is a world under the control of a single government, where everyone is equal - of course with the exception of themselves, who will become the ruling class that benevolently (in their twisted minds) rules the well-cared for serfs of the manor. Think Eurocrats running Huxley's brave new world.

With each of those major, and many minor battle victories, the left intentionally increased government control of and intrusion into our lives. With each bite of the American elephant, they increased the percentage of Americans dependent on them and decreased the percentage of those who were not. This was all done intentionally, with the goal of engineering the destruction of America V1.0. As they intended, we have now crossed the Rubicon where 50.1% have decided to vote themselves what the other 49.9% earn. Something predicted by many philosophers and historians throughout the ages. Going forward, the gap between those numbers will only grow.

So, what do we have to look forward to in America V2.0? Here's a hint: All of this has happened before; all of this will happen again. We need to look no further then Europe to see what awaits us. Massive government spending, massive debt (yes, even more massive than now), perpetual unemployment in the plus 15% range, out of control energy and food costs, and an ever growing bloc of users clamoring for a larger and "fairer" share from an ever shrinking bloc of producers. Fortunately, America 2.0 will not last anywhere nearly as long as America 1.0 for the simple reason that as Maggie Thatcher said: eventually, you run out of other people's money. It is the ultimate irony that the cost of achieving the tipping point of users and producers for which progressives have worked so long and so hard will ultimately lead to their downfall. Like a spoiled trust fund child inheriting his family's wealth at the tender age of nineteen, America 2.0 will collapse within one to two generations - at most.

Knowing how America 2.0 will fare, I would prefer to focus on what I have termed America 3.0 - a nation that will someday hopefully emerge somewhere on Earth, or if technological advances allowed it it, on some other world. My hope is that America 3.0 will look at America 1.0 as a shakedown cruise. A dry run from which to take the lessons learned and apply them to ensure that the abomination that is America 2.0 will never repeated.

To that end, I have some suggestions as to what some of those lessons are. They are in no particular order, and are dependent on what form of government an America 3.0 adopted, but they are based on the assumption of a Constitutional Republic, similar to the one enjoyed by America 1.0. A good starting point would be our original Constitution and bill of rights, as well as most of the subsequent amendments (with some obvious exceptions) and the adjustments needed to safeguard against the perversion of our Constitution that has occurred over the past 100 years. Note, an asterisk indicates that this would be a part of the new Constitution that could not ever be changed.

• Emphasize in the new constitution that it is a restricting document.* State explicitly that the document specifically details what the government being formed can and cannot do, and that anything not directly addressed within the constitution is out of the purview of said government.
• Eliminate the 18th and 21st amendments. They are obviously superfluous; no government should ever be in the business of controlling personal behavior.
• Eliminate (and prevent a facsimile of) the commerce clause.* The commerce clause is the most bastardized segment of the constitution, Virtually every single power and/or money grab that has been foisted upon the individual citizens of America 1.0 has been done so under the guise of this minor clause meant to grant the federal government the power to settle commercial disputes between states.
• Eliminate or modify the 16th amendment.* Taxes on incomes, salaries or wages should never be allowed. A government can obtain all of the funds it needs, for the tasks which it is constitutionally obligated to fulfill, from consumption and usage taxes. However, I could see allowing for such taxes under the following circumstances:
• There would be no withholding of any kind. Income taxes would be due on a certain day of the year, and taxpayers would have to feel the pain of making that payment in full, instead of the current system where the federal  government takes an interest free loan on our backs and then placates the simpletons by giving them a "Free refund!" - of their own money.
• Elections would take place no later than two weeks after the day said taxes were due. People would make their electoral choices faced with the consequences of their previous actions.
• Anyone who was not required to pay income taxes in any one of the years (since the most recent election) prior to a given election, would not be allowed to vote in that election. If you are not pulling the wagon, then you should have no say in how heavy a load it will carry.
• The decisions and opinions of foreign courts may not under any circumstances be considered or referenced in any decisions made by any courts of any kind in America 3.0.* That this would even need to be codified helps explain our current predicament a great deal. Justices like Ruth Bader Ginsburgs invoking decisions made by courts in corrupt, pygmy nations is an abomination.
• Disallow organized political parties.* Yes, all off them. Too often politicians vote to support a party line. The loyalty of elected officials should be to their constituents.  
• No more than one family member may be in the employ of any government, at any level at the same time.* The system of government hacks and patronage suckling on the teat of the taxpayers can be somewhat stymied in this way. What qualifies as a family unit is open to discussion but I would say it starts at grandparents through grandchildren.
• No more than one family member within four generations may run and hold office at any level of government.* This means that if John Smith becomes mayor, his great-grandchildren would be the first generation to be able to run and hold any office. If one of them happened to win, then another four generation waiting period would come into play for his or her line. Political dynasties and "royalty" are both un-American and anathema to freedom - the Kennedy crime family being the greatest example. Cheer up moonbats; under this system, Dubya would never have been able to run! 
• Term limits.* Even the best-intentioned politician, when they remain in office long enough, fall into the trap of having to do things (see: spend tax dollars) to justify their re-election. The longer they are in public office, the more powerful the become, and the more damage they can do. Using our current electoral system for comparison, perhaps adding limits of twelve years to senators, and eight years to congressmen to the current ten year limit on presidents is a good example. 
• Judicial restrictions.* Judges should not be lifetime appointments. While a long-term appointment of say fifteen or twenty years is reasonable. spending thirty to forty years removed from the real world and the consequences of their decisions is not. Predefined terms of service would also help curtail the practice of decrepit justices hanging on until a particular presidential candidate is elected. To prevent the same gerrymandered results due to early resignation by justices, any appointments to fill such vacancies would be temporary, though the end of the resigning justices, term. Also, judicial nominees can not have held elected office prior to their nomination, nor can they hold elected office after their terms end.   
• No government employee unions.* No unions, guilds, etc, of any kind at any level of government. Ever. Do we really need to discuss why?
• A voting age of 25. This is a difficult one. An eighteen year old sent to to war should in theory also be able to vote for or against the politicians who decide the wars. At the same time, the lack of experience and knowledge of the young means that their decision-making logic is at best, flawed. Also, the age of that Rubicon varies through time. Two hundred years ago, an eighteen year old was already an adult, already experienced in the realities of life. Today, that age level is (scarily) approaching thirty.  
• All tax increases of any kind would need to be approved by a three fifths majority of the legislative body, and whatever taxes are levied would need to be voted on every two years.* Imposing taxes should be difficult, not easy for government. Some might object that such short-term tax policies would make things difficult for people and businesses to do long-term planning. However the protection against the confiscatory and double taxation that we endure today far outweigh that inconvenience.
• No federal involvement in schools.* At a minimum. I would go as far as to say that there should be no government-run schools of any kind. The pathetic state of America's public schools despite spending (by far) more per student than any other country should be reason enough. Public schools are inefficient because as with anything government runs, government runs them poorly. Aside from efficiency issues, allowing the ability of government to indoctrinate children with a values system - of any kind - is too Orwellian. If communities do want to institute local public schooling, then they may vote to do so, but under no circumstances should a federal government ever have any say in the matter.  
• Property tax freeze trade-off. This more likely a local issue than a federal one but it does bear mentioning. If property taxes of some kind are levied, than anyone who takes advantage of a freeze in increases (e.g. retirees at age 65) loses the right to vote on the expenditures paid for with those taxes.
• All federal laws must apply to government employees and politicians as well as citizens.* A legislative body should not be able to impose programs such as Social Security and Obamacare on citizens, yet escape the impact of such laws (yes, congress has its own, special retirement and healthcare programs.)

Now, I'm not saying that these adjustments are perfect, or that they would need to be adopted verbatim. Nor am I saying that adopting each and every one of these ideas would result in securing America 3.0 from the same fate as America 1.0. God only knows that history has shown that the more we try to idiot-proof something, the bigger the idiots that we build. I do know that not taking these types of corrective measures would guarantee an America 4.0, mirroring America 2.0. Let us hope that our children at least someday get the chance to try.

Sic semper tyrannis.

100th Post!

Well, I didn't realize that this would be post #100 but I'm too tired to come up with a good title. After seven days and four hours, we finally got our power back around noon today - and running water again. Some snap judgments . . .

As you all well know, I generally despise unions, however in all good conscience I must praise the efforts of the National Grid and out of state and country workers (we had Quebec power crews do my road, eh) who got everyone up and running. (Well, almost; as of the time of this post several dozen homes are still down.)

There were some outlier examples of what most would consider less than desired behavior. The worst one of which I heard was in western Coventry where a crew from Ohio - that by their own accord was just minutes away from bringing a home with an infant and two toddlers back on line - told a tearful single mother as they were driving away that they had hit the eighteen hour union mandated shift cutoff.

I understand the need for the rule from a safety standpoint, and hell, these poor guys have been working mandatory eighteen hour shifts, with just six hours off before they go back out. Still, in this case, perhaps a little compassion was in order. In any event, as I said, the linemen were not a problem.

What was a very apparent problem was the inability of National Grid to cope with the results of a relatively minor (in southeastern New England) tropical storm. The damage from a line/pole problem was significant, but the whole recovery process seemed to be a total custerfluck. Had this been a winter storm that caused this damage, there would have been hundreds of thousands of people left without heat for days, and tens of thousands for a week. In fact it likely would have been longer as cold, snow and ice would have significantly slowed the repair work.

What really pissed me off is that as time progressed and the number of problem areas was reduced, the speed of repair times should have DECREASED, not INCREASED! We were supposed to be up by 10:00 LAST night. The crews from Quebec Power Co. were working on my road until about 7:00 and then left. With so few remaining outages, why was not a second crew ready to take over? Total piss-poor management in my opinion.

In the real world, in a competitive market place, National Grid would pay the price by losing customers to competition, and incompetent managers would pay the price with their jobs. Instead, in the government-regulated monopoly world, customers get screwed twice; first by losing power for so long, and second by paying the price increases that will be coming to cover the cost of all of this - anyone at National Grid ever thing about buying insurance to cover these things in addition to the mandated rainy day fund?

Another source of ire for folks out here is our esteemed governor, Lincoln Chafee. Route 6 between routes 94 and 102 was shut down for over four days, due to a stretch where eight consecutive poles were down (along with their lines). Our understanding is that in these kind of emergency situations, the governor determines where work begins, and in this case, work on the second largest trucking route (after I-95) that feeds the state was delayed by two full days. I'm not saying that the power lines should been repaired there immediately, but the road itself should have been opened to traffic.

Additionally, when the towns of Foster and Scituate asked for a couple of the National Guardsmen that Governor Photo-Op so proudly announced that he had mobilized to relieve the police officers stationed at each end of the Route 6 closure, we were told that the resources "were not available." This forced the towns to pick up the $80/hour tab (one for each side of the closure) for 24/7 coverage for four days. I guess the governor doesn't care much for the districts that overwhelmingly voted against him.

Ultimately, the biggest lesson learned from all of this was one that I already had learned yet failed to remember; when you don't rely on anyone else, you can't be disappointed. I relied on others, and was disappointed. That will not happen again. Generator City and Wood Stove Central - here I come.


Bob, RI

Ceterum , exsisto quietis Iggy!

Roma Victa!

A great day for America. While Al Qaeda never came close to inflicting the kind of damage on America that the Carthaginian army did during its fifteen year rampage through Italy in the second Punic war, Osama Bin Laden is the closest thing to Hannibal Barca that America has ever faced. An evil, seemingly larger than life villain bent on the utter destruction of an enemy he hated as far back as he could remember.

While Barack Obama is no Scipio Africanus, full credit is due to him for maintaining the hunt for public enemy number one and having him taken out. Make no mistake about this folks, this was not dead or alive, it was dead or deader. While that forty man SEAL team (God bless them) may not exactly logistically match the Roman army fielded at the battle of Zama, the result was just as vital. While remnants of his organization remain and need to be dealt with, our greatest enemy has been vanquished.

Just a reminder to our friend Iggy, who spent the 2008 campaign frothing at the mouth supporting his messiah's insistence that Guantanamo had to be shut down and that water boarding must be stopped. The guy that fingered the courier that we followed to Osama was being held in Gitmo, and as I type this, Representative Peter King is on The O'Reilly Factor explaining that it was Khalid Sheik Belushi - I mean Mohammed - who gave up that guy . . . after being water boarded.

Hopefully Iggy now understands what the adults among us have always known. We do not live in a world of rainbows and unicorns. We live in the real world, and such measures are needed to combat the forces of evil that are still gathered at our gates. If not, if he stubbornly clings to the belief that being nice to these savages will spur them to see the light and change their ways, we can always fall back on the great Ron White: "you can't fix stupid."


Bob, RI

Ceterum , exsisto quietis Iggy!


PS - Here's hoping that May Day, socialism's global holiday of the first of May, is forever usurped as Osama Is Dead Day. 

Happy Earth Day 2011!!!

Hi everyone, just wanted to wish everyone the greatest of Earth Days. This is how I spent my Earth Day weekend!

Happy AlGorehog Day!

Today is the first observation of that very special day where Al Gore sticks his head out of his private jet and if he sees his shadow, we get six more years of him lying to us about global warming.

I just got in, for about the umpteenth time this season, from over two hours of clearing snow. I thought about tracking down Al and punching him in his lying mouth, but I'm too damned tired. Instead, I think I'll bless you all with the top ten things most likely to happen to you while cleaning snow. So without further ado . . .


10) The street plow will re-snow the end of your driveway - after you are completely done cleaning it.

09) Your snow blower will run out of gas at the point where you are farthest away from your gas can.

08) Your bag of ice melt will tear . . .from the bottom . . . while you are carrying it.

07) You will snap a shear pin on the snow blower and not be able to find the three different packs of spares that you know you have.

06) On the way to the hardware store to buy more shear pins, you will be stuck behind some idiot on a one-lane road doing 15 miles under the limit even though the road has been perfectly treated down to bare pavement. 

05) On your return from the hardware store, you'll find that the street plow has re-re-snowed the end of your driveway.

04) As you get out of your car, you will find one of those spare packs of shear pins you had - in your cup holder.

03) After you get inside and warmed up, the weatherman will tell you about the next nor'easter coming in a couple of days.

02) When you switch the channel in anger, you'll be confronted by some left-wing moonbat trying to sell you on the fact that this cold, snowy weather is actually caused by global warming!


. . . and the number one thing most likely to happen to you while cleaning snow . . .

01) The street plow will re-re-re-snow the end of your driveway after you have put away the snow blower and showered!
 

Happy New Year!

Sorry to have dropped off the radar again. Just wanted to give my best to all, and share some quick thoughts.

Last week, Pennsylvania governor Ed Rendell opined that the NFL's canceling of an Eagles game because of concerns over fan safety getting to and leaving the stadium showed that the United States has become a nation of "wusses". Well, thoughts on the appropriateness of commissioner Goodell's decision aside, I find Rendell's statement deliciously ironic.

We have become a nation of wusses, and it is the policies and beliefs of his own Democrat party that have directly caused it. It is the constant bombardment of liberal policies such as not keeping score during sporting events, passing students just for "giving effort", and suspending kids who stand up and fight back against bullies that has created a generation of dependent whiners in constant need of therapy or drugs - or a combination of both - to deal with traumatic events such as going to work every day.

On another note, I got Tom Clancy's latest book - Dead or Alive - for Christmas (that's right, not a "holiday present", a Christmas present) and it was good as usual. It took some serious (and quite valid) shots at Obama, though of course not directly. As is normally the case with Clancy's works, actual sitting politicians and public figures are not directly mentioned. Instead, the target of derision is the fictional President Ed Kealty.

This character, introduced in earlier books and well before Obama even became an Illinois senator, seemed to be a composite of a Bill Clinton, a dash of Al Gore and decent amount of Kennedy arrogance and entitlement. However, the narcissism of Kealty, his horrendous and unconstitutional policies, and most importantly his sycophantic and unqualified cabinet and high-level appointees left absolutely no doubt as to whom Kealty now represents. Good job Tom!

Bielat-Slapped In Boston

Sean Bielat, Barney Frank's first real opponent in decades, appeared on Dennis and Callahan this morning. After just a few minutes, it was obvious that not only is Bielat more qualified to be in congress than Barney Frank, he's more qualified than John Kerry and the ten Democrats running for the house seats. To top it all off, John and Dino decided to let Iggy try to gotcha Mr.Bielat. The mindless moron got totally Bielat-slapped. Bielat pretty much was able to knock him up and Iggy didn't even realize it.

Iggy wanted to know why he should vote for Bielat instead of Frank, and Bielat proceeded to read him chapter and verse about Frank's central role in causing the housing crisis, Iggy's response? He didn't believe it. Bielat offered to provide Iggy with full documentation to support the facts and what was Iggy's response? He wouldn't believe it. Iggy, if Barney Frank personally handed you a signed affidavit and a video in which he admits being the person most responsible for the housing crisis, you wouldn't believe it would you?

Check out the interview for yourself.


Bob, RI

Ceterum , exsisto quietis Iggy!

Top Ten Things Obama Will Say On Wednesday

I was listening to Jay Severin on the way home today, and he challenged his listeners over the next few days to come up with a list of things Obama will say after the blowout next Tuesday. I was actually able to pull it off in less than an hour. So, without further ado, here are the top ten things Obama is likely to say next Wednesday morning . . .


10) It was because of the special interests' money - we didn't get enough of it from George Soros and the unions.

09) The voters just wanted to spread the seats in congress around a little.

08) The problem wasn't my socialist agenda, it was the fact that I didn't communicate my socialist agenda properly.

07) It was because  of Fox News, Talk Radio and that pesky first amendment - can we please figure out a way to get rid of that damned thing?.

06) Not enough money from the stimulus bill made it to ACORN, so there just weren't enough New Black Panthers to go around this time.

05) Elderly voters decided to take me out before my death panels started to take them out.

04) Not enough of our candidates read the Al Franken How to Steal an Election cookbook.

03) With so many of illegal aliens returning to Mexico because there are no jobs in this economy that I've destroyed, we just didn't have the same number of available voters as we did in 2008.

02) All of those enlightened independents who voted for me two years ago turned into racist, teabaggers clinging to their guns and bibles.


. . . and the number one thing Obama is likely to say next Wednesday morning . . .

 
01) George Bush and the Republicans drove all of our campaigns into a ditch. I mean I inherited this utter and complete repudiation by the American people!



Bob, RI

Ceterum , exsisto quietis Iggy!

Juan Williams Gets Mugged

By now everyone has heard about what happened to Juan Williams. A long-time liberal with whom I rarely agreed but usually respected, Williams was a reporter on NPR, and an analyst for Fox News. NPR fired him this week, allegedly for a perceived, politically incorrect statement he made. You can read about the "incident" that led to the firing here, but what he said doesn't really matter. The truth of the matter is that the NPR politburo was unable to deal­ with the apparent treason against left-wing dogma which Williams was committing by appearing on . . . FOX NEWS (insert Dr. Evil music here.) According to Williams, NPR has been looking to fire him for his heresy for some time. It would seem that this incident provided what they thought was a good enough pretext. I'm pretty sure they wish they could get a mulligan - not regarding the actual firing, just the machinations around it.

Not satisfied with punishing him for appearing on a network that they perceive to be the domain of right-wing neanderthals and . . . defending the views which liberals espouse . . . NPR CEO Vivian Schiller decided to support her actions with a personal attack on Williams by implying that he was mentally unbalanced (get yourself a good libel lawyer, Viv.) How typically liberal; when you can't support your argument with facts, impugn those who disagree with you with a personal attack. Even Whoopi Goldberg, the absolute battiest of the moon bats, has spoken out against NPR's treatment of Williams. The fact that this entire situation has blown up in the face of NPR only shows the arrogance, ineptitude and ignorance of the people running that cesspool of far-left bias.

The funniest part of this whole brouhaha has been seeing long-time liberals like Bob Beckel, Ellen Ratner, Susan Estrich, Pat Caddell (transcript from 10/22 Hannity show not up on Foxnews yet), and Williams himself.are now proclaiming how shocked they that the "far left" is so intolerant! Where the hell have these people been for the past twenty years? It is this is that brings me to what really is being missed by all of the commentary and analysis of this episode.

There's an old saying that a conservative is a liberal who's been mugged. For the last twenty or so years, normal, everyday Americans have lived in fear of a liberal mugging. Every time we say or do something, we have to stop and wonder if it will be used to hurt us. Will my exercising my first amendment right to freedom of speech be used against me? Be it egregiously offensive, the innocuous taken out of context, or just simply something misconstrued, will I lose my job, become unhireable or have my reputation destroyed because the left-wing establishment, including the people I mentioned in the previous paragraph, have branded me as a purveyor of "hate speech"? This is the climate of intolerance and fear in which we have been forced to endure for two decades, and now these liberals are appalled, confused and upset that the Gestapo has come and taken away not a Jew, nor a communist, nor a homosexual, nor a Slav, but one of their own.

Juan Williams has been directly mugged, and many of the usual liberal suspects have been indirectly mugged. Welcome to the club. Let's see if with their eyes finally opened, they can now perceive the utter evil in the insidious movement which they have been championing.


Bob, RI

Ceterum , exsisto quietis Iggy!

P.S. - It scares the hell out of me that Ellen Ratner and I both came up with the same literary jab (politburo) at NPR. Let's just hope it is because away from the dark side started to turn she has.
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The Not So Quiet Before The Storm

Fourteen days. Fourteen days until Americans take the first step in correcting the the biggest mistake in the entire history of democracy. Fourteen days until Americans let loose a total and utter repudiation of everything that Barack Obama and his socialist allies in congress believe in, have wrought upon us, and desire to continue to foist upon us. If I could channel a little Darth Sidious; everything is proceeding as I have foreseen.

The best part about this is watching the left go into spin control before the bloodletting has even begun, let alone reached it's inevitable endgame. You're starting to hear things from the left that will be used in attempts to belittle and marginalize Americans' fury.

• On Sunday, brilliant White House press secretary Robert Gibbs claimed that the issues driving the various mid-term races are specific to "individual congressional districts." It's an attempt to play the old "all politics is local" card which generally holds true; everyone in congress is a crook except my senator, or my congressman. So, when the Democrats in congress take a pasting, it won't be Obama's fault, it will be because people are angry with their local member of congress!
• Yesterday from NBC News, we heard that more than 100 house seats are in play. That way, when they only lose fifty or sixty seats, they can claim . . . a victory! 
• Finally, today we learned that the chosen one is claiming in a fund raising email that fifteen senate seats are up for grabs. A number that has ranged from from ten to twelve for months has magically jumped to fifteen, Again, that way, when they only lose nine or ten . . . its a victory!

In a nutshell, no matter what happens, it will be a big win for Obama! Yeah, just like the victory Custer won at The Little Big Horn. Spin away all you'd like, my maddened moonbat mates; we're not buying it.

I'm Not Dead Yet!

Sorry for the delay in posts. I've been very busy getting things ready for spring planting, and I also started a new job this week. Give me a little while to get settled, and we'll get back to proving just what an iggyot Iggy is.


Bob, RI

Ceterum , exsisto quietis Iggy!

Sneak Peek Into An Obamunist America

I got back from my visit to Italy on Tuesday night, and boy is my wallet tired. I got to see family members that I had not seen in years. I also got a sneak peak into what America will be like if The Chosen One is allowed to reshape America in his Marxist image. I left on the 17th, the day after Iggy's seeming awakening at the Tea Party rally. I'm not sure if he has continued on the road to recovery - based on what I have heard over the last two days, he has relapsed -  but perhaps these highlights of what I found will help him.

Obamacare - Just before we left, we learned that a 42 year old cousin of mine in Switzerland had died of a brain tumor that the doctors "had not caught in time". Last Wednesday, we learned that a 74 year old uncle, after waiting two and a half years, was finally scheduled for prostate surgery yesterday. Is it cancer? Well I'll guess we'll find out . . . eventually; as of Monday night, the hospital had still not called to confirm the surgery. This is after thirty-five years of decorated service as a Carabinieri, a kind of hybrid FBI/state police force at the federal level. Imagine what kind of treatment the little people get under socialized medicine - oh wait, my cousin was one of the little people.

Cap and Trade - Gas was a about 1.30 euros a liter, which with the current exchange rate works out to about $7.25 a gallon. Why so high? Because energy is taxed to hell and back to help pay for the socialist welfare state. That is really what cap and tax is about, only at the level of nations. It is intended to force the redistribution of wealth on a global scale, from the West to the hellholes of the world. In the home where we stayed for most of the time, my uncle uses about eight cords of wood a year to heat the house (a wood stove/fireplace rig that hears hot water). Why not use natural gas for heat? Because second mortgages suck. Oh, since the gas taxes are mostly used to support the welfare state, they use tolls to pay for the roads. The cost of the three-hundred mile trip (of which only about 270 were on the highway) to Florence; $58.00! That's like having to shell out sixty bucks to drive from Providence to Atlantic City - on top of paying over seven dollars for a gallon of case.

Government Workers - Government office workers work six hour days (Wait 'till the Beacon Hill hacks here about that one!), with a schedule of either a six-hour day, or three hours of work, a two-three hour lunch/siesta, followed by three more hours of "work". The local provincial director for a given department makes the determination. Of course there is also the six weeks of vacation and the cushy pensions that follow . . . oh wait, that's pretty much where we are now.

Consumer Prices - We know about energy; how about $2.09 for a 1/2 liter bottle of milk. $2.80 for a two liter bottle of coke? Plus, everyone has to buy bottled water to drink because the water from virtually every municipal water supply smells like a swimming pool.

This is all just the tip of the iceberg from a casual observer. Imagine what lies beneath the surface. I will say that all of those left-wing morons talk about how great things are in Europe, and how we need to do things more like they do are right about one thing; how Europe handles immigration. When I last saw Italy in 1987, it was a country of ethnic Italians, only twenty years removed from the last wave of emigration to America and Canada.

Today, it is a country to which people emigrate. I saw Slavs, Somalis, Eritreans and Pakistanis among others. They work as street vendors, souvenir peddlers, and happily work low-level jobs; just like my parents when they came to America. Also like my parents when they came here, they learned the native language. Not only did they speak Italian for commercial reasons, many of them better than I, they often spoke it amongst themselves. I even heard one group of Pakistanis discussing the play of various Italian soccer teams (OK, that I did have a problem with) in Italian.

It is completely unlike here, where liberals now insist that we Balkanize America rather than adhere to the policy of assimilation that worked so well for over two hundred years, Undoubtedly, that is also how it is in Spain, Germany, France et al. - hell, the French get angry at tourists who don't speak French! Just remember that the next time you see your state's driver's license exams in eighteen different languages paid for with your tax dollars.


Bob, RI

Ceterum , exsisto quietis Iggy!

Ciao!

Hey folks, I'm currently in Europe getting an edumacation on all the "wonderful" things that we will "enjoy" once Obamunism takes hold. In the mean time, feel free to email me or post comments about any Iggyisms that I miss.


Bob, RI

Ceterum , exsisto quietis Iggy!

Iggy You Enlightened Slut

At least that was what one texter to D&C  had to say about Iggy on Thursday. There's an old saying that a conservative is a liberal who has been mugged; usually metaphorically but sometimes literally. For foolish young liberals like Iggy, it usually occurs during the journey from being single and young, to getting marriage, then having kids, and then buying a house.  Iggy only just recently got engaged, but boy, he sure sounded well on his way when he was describing his experience at Thursday's rally.

He raved about how polite, logical, and willing to talk to him  the Tea Party folks were - even though he was wearing his Obama t-shirt. He marveled at how they looked and acted like - normal people. The anti-Tea Party folks? Well, he described them as on the fringe, rude, cursing, buffoons trying their best to provoke fights. You can listen to some audio here. The guy demanding that Dick Cheney stop torturing people via satellite probably took the cake. You can see him and his schematics of the evil machine on the second page of the photos posted at WEEI. Iggy then shocked the world when he said he found himself agreeing with some of what the Tea Party folks were saying!

That is truly wonderful, but remember Iggy, you can't be a little bit pregnant. If you truly find yourself believing in the Tea Party cause, then you can not be in favor of anything that The Chosen One is forcing on us;  Either you believe in socialism, or you do not. If you want to turn away from Darth Obama and the Dark Side, we welcome you with open arms. However, you must come of your own free will, and your journey must be total, and complete. Good luck!


Bob, RI

Ceterum , exsisto quietis Iggy!

The Witless Wonder Returns To WEEI.

Our resident iggyot had not given me much material of late, but the boy blunder has been more than amenable over the last couple of days.

When the Tea Party movement first burst onto the scene, the left ignored it. Any reports about it would describe it as small groups of "fringe right-wingers". Forgetting that they no longer controlled ALL of the media, they assumed that the old tactic of not reporting something would work, and that it would simply go away. When that failed, they turned to ridiculing the movement, describing them as irrelevant, sore losers. When that failed, they changed tactics again, demonizing them by calling them racists and homophobes. When that failed, they turned to fabricating stories about the horrible things that they said and did, such as yelling racial and anti-gay slurs, and spitting on Barney Frank. Finally, now that this tactic has failed, the moonbats are planning to undermine the movement by posing as members at rallies and saying and doing obnoxious things.

John and Gerry tried to explain to Iggy that this was coming, but the fraud failed to even acknowledge the possibility. I just can't believe people would do that, he piously claimed. Why would someone want to do that, he whined. Iggy, you moron, not only are they planning on doing it, on the very day that you were denying it, they were publicly stating that they would!  In this story, read the quotes from Jason Levin, creator of crashtheteaparty.org.

Levin says they want to exaggerate the group's least appealing qualities, further distance the tea party from mainstream America and damage the public's opinion of them.

"Do I think every member of the tea party is a homophobe, racist or a moron? No, absolutely not," Levin said. "Do I think most of them are homophobes, racists or morons? Absolutely."

"Every time we have someone on camera saying that Barack Obama isn't an American citizen, we want someone sitting next to him saying, 'That's right, he's an alien from outer space!"' Levin said.

Basically, they intend on faking incidents, so that the lamestream media can record and report them - and they are telling us that they are going to do this! Why? because their target audience is the type of brain-dead lemming who will buy it; you know, someone like Iggy. So Iggy. when you and the other dozen or so folks who watch Keith Olbermann see him reporting and raving on these faked incidents, try to remember that they are fake - instead of screaming: Racists! Homophobes!! Bush!!! Cheney!!!! HALIBURTON!!!!!

Not to be outdone, during this morning's show Iggy went off the rails via his Sarah Palin fixation; no, not that kind of fixation, everyone who listens to the show knows how much Iggy hates icky girls. Iggy just could not believe that Sarah had the nerve to fly - ready for this - first class on her trip to attend today's Tea Party in Boston.

He again piously spoke about how he believed that someone claiming to be supportive of a group that was formed to oppose government spending should have flown coach. When John informed him that this was a  non sequitur, Iggy actually asked him if he was really that brain dead! (I know, I know, insert your own pot head calling the kettle black joke here.)

Iggy, let me explain the difference, and I'll use small words so that you'll be sure to understand, you warthog faced buffoon. The Tea Party is an organization that champions fiscal responsibility by THE GOVERNMENT, not private organizations. The Tea Party groups do not force people to give them money, unlike your messiah and his goons in the government who steal our money using prison sentences and asset seizures in the same way that common criminals use guns and knives. Well, almost the same way; common criminals are much more honest about their larcenous intentions than Democrats are.

Do you understand the difference? I ask the question in all seriousness because once again, the truth of the matter is so obvious, that one has to wonder if someone can be as dumb as you appear to be and yet still function in society, or if you are again playing the fraud who knows the truth, but will not admit it for the sake of political expediency.


Bob

Ceterum , exsisto quietis Iggy!

Happy Earth Hour!

In honor of all the mindless drones who thought Synchronized Light Turning Off at 8:30PM on Saturday would actually make a difference to the either the planet or the climate, I decided to do as much as I could to offset as many lefty loons as I could. I was actually going to fly my entire stage lighting show and run it for an hour, but I was too exhausted after the day's work . . . of taking down two more trees!

One was a thirty-foot pine, and the other was a forty-foot pine that had triple-forked at five feet, meaning it had three large trunks extending from five feet off the ground, so it was like taking down three thirty-five footers. The trunks and larger branches will go into my buddy Mike's external boiler next winter, while the smaller branches will go up in smoke in a few months after some seasoning. I'm not sure how much CO2 will be released once it is all burned, but I bet it will at least offset the savings of the one hour lights-out at Mr. and Mrs. Tom Brady-Bundchen's multiple homes around the world.

Hey Al Gore; tell me how my carbon footprint's ass tastes!


Bob

Ceterum , exsisto quietis Iggy

Your Papers, Please

Liberals in the United States Senate are pushing to institute a national ID card. I do mean liberals, because in spite of the (R) next to his name, Lindsey Graham of South Carolina is no conservative. Not content with the takeover of one sixth of our economy via Obamacare, your federal government is now seeking to impose further government control of and intrusion on law-abiding citizens of the United States. Containing unique, biometric data, the crux of the legislation is that (in theory) “employers will not be able to hire applicants who do not present a valid ID.”

Think about that for a moment. Our government wants to assign each and every citizen a card that without with, you will not be able to work. Again, think about that. Graham’s attitude is that “We’ve all got Social Security cards. They’re just easily tampered with. Make them tamper-proof. That’s all I’m saying.” Well, first of all, the Social Security program and social security numbers in and of themselves are a vile violation of the rights of Americans. Can you imagine if at the signing of the Declaration of Independence, or at the Constitutional Congress, you told our founding fathers that 140 years hence, the government would forcibly assign an identification number to each citizen, and that said number would be used to track where each citizen worked, and how much money they earned? Would they even bother continuing their work?
 

Better still, imagine if you told them that 200 years hence, the government would forcibly assign an identification document to each citizen, without which they could not work? Forget rolling over in their graves, our founding fathers will be clawing at their coffins to get out and knock some sense into us! Do we really want to live in a country where the first words you’d here at a job interview are “papers, please”. Don’t people realize where we are heading?
 

Of course to sugarcoat this freedom-poisoning pill, the idea is being touted as a means to "curb illegal immigration." Just how will national ID cards curb illegal immigration? Will they be used to form a protective wall on our Mexican border? Will they stand guard on the Rio Grande and shoot the criminals who invade our country, violate our law, and destroy the private property of the American citizens who live on the border? After all, are these not the things that need to happen to truly stop people from entering the country illegally? You build a wall, post guards, and shoot anyone trying to break in. Makes sense to me.

 
But no, the government has a much better idea. See, the ID cards will "curb illegal immigration" because since "no one" will be able to "work" without a national ID card, criminal illegals won't be able to get jobs and will just return home! Yeah, and let me tell about this bridge I want to sell you. What will happen is that instead of committing the crimes Americans don't want to commit - I'm sorry, doing the jobs that Americans don't want to do (jobs so bad that not even the millions of unemployed Americans would touch them), illegals will simply climb onto the "entitlement" rolls, further sucking American taxpayers dry. Oh but Bob, illegals aren't entitled to receive welfare checks, food stamps and free medical care! No, I'm serious, its a really nice bridge, you have to see it.
 

Of course even without recognizing the obvious rush to the public trough by criminal illegals that will occur, does anyone with a brain believe that fraudulent national ID cards wouldn't become as commonplace and trafficked as the fraudulent green cards and social security numbers that are supposed to prevent illegals from working today? If you do, you might want to move on the bridge quickly; I want to sell it to you, but my boss has another buyer in his office right now.

No, this entire scam of a bill is designed to do two things. The first, is to allow the federal government to intrude even more on the personal liberties and private lives of Americans citizens - isn't it amazing how the right to privacy, so paramount to liberals when it involves the de-limbing of an unborn child, can be so easily dismissed when it becomes inconvenient for them? The second goal of this bill is to provide amnesty to the criminal illegals currently occupying our sovereign soil - or as is stated more politically correctly in the story, "the 10.8 million or more people living illegally in the United States would be offered a path to citizenship." Bear in mind that the true number of criminal illegals is almost certainly north of twenty million, and that millions more would swarm across the border like locusts once the plan was announced, so that they would in a position to be rewarded for breaking our laws.
 

Ultimately, that is the goal of the left in America. As the Axis of Socialism has completely driven away independent and moderate voters, the Democrat Party needs new supporters. What better way to get them, then to buy them! Think of it, tens of millions of criminal illegal aliens magically become voting citizens in the blink of an eye, beholden to the party that will reward their loyalty with the hard-earned wealth of honest, hard-working, law-abiding citizens. So, let's start referring to them with a more accurate and descriptive term. They're not criminal illegal aliens; they're just Undocumented Democrats.

Bob

Ceterum , exsisto quietis Iggy
 

The O'Ignorance Factor

This is a follow up on my Friday post about Bill O'Reilly's insane stance that the government has the right to ignore the Constitution in a "state of emergency". During the email segment at the end of his Friday night show, he read three emails criticizing him as I did. He then proceeded to thumb his nose at us, and again state that his assessment was correct. As a justification of his stance, he cited President Lincoln's supsension of Habeas Corpus during the Civil War.

However, he convienently ignored the fact that Article 1, Section 9 of the Constitution specifically grants the government that particular leeway on Habeas Corpus in the case of either invasion or rebellion; rebellion being what the Confederacy was engaged in during the Civil War. Lincoln didn't ignore the Constitution - he followed it!

It is sad to say, but O'Reilly is pulling a real Iggy on this one. He is either ignorant about this topic, or knows that he is wrong, and is ignoring the facts anyway.


Bob

Ceterum , exsisto quietis Iggy! 

Bill O'Reibermann Debuts On Fox News

Last night, Bill O'Reilly interviewed a gentleman named Stewart Rhodes, the founder of a group called The Oath Keepers. I don't know much about the group, other than that they describe themselves as current and former members of either the military, police or firefighter forces. The premise of their organization, is that they will keep the oaths that they have taken, and not obey illegal or unconstitutional orders, should they ever be given one. You can decide your feelings on them yourselves, but it was actually O'Reilly that said some things that almost made me throw a hammer through the television.

What has so raised my ire, is a sequence that occurred when they were discussing the group's position that its members will not obey orders to disarm law-abiding citizens. O'Reilly incredulously asked when that had ever happened in American history, and Rhodes replied, almost disbelievingly, with the obvious answer; Katrina!, O'Reilley made the outlandish statement that government has the right to seize firearms in a "state of emergency". Excuse me? Come again? That is the kind of statement I'd expect from Olbermann or Matthews - not the normally level-headed O'Reilly, who then went on to claim that in Louisiana, the police confiscated all firearms, both from of law-abiding citizens, and from not so law-abiding citizens (as if that somehow made it alright).

For God's sake, emergencies are the times that people need the ability to protect themselves the most! In post-Katrina Louisiana, the government did not seize "everyone's guns" as he claimed. They seized the guns of law-abiding citizens, because those are the people who bought and registered their guns legally - that's how the government knew where to look! The criminals and thugs who bought and kept guns illegally, still had them, and law-abiding citizens were left defenseless in a lawless environment!

Unbelievably, he followed that up with an even more outrageous statement. When Rhodes explained that the group's philosophy is that disarming law-abiding citizens, even in an "emergency", is a blatant violation of Americans' second amendment civil rights, O'Reilly claimed that the group's premise was "an extreme position". I almost fell out of my chair. What part of "The people's right to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed" makes not infringing on the people's right to keep and bear arms an "extreme position"!

These are the types of beliefs and statements that make gun-owners so fearful, sometimes to the point of paranoia, about any firearms legislation. If someone like Bill O'Reilly believes that in some circumstances, the government can arbitrarily ignore the constitution, imagine what people like George Soros, Al Franken, Eric Holder, and of course, the members of the Axis of Socialism have in mind for our second amendment rights.

I have often disagreed with O'Reilly in the past, but always respected him, because he is fair and his views are generally both constitutional, and logical. Last night, I lost a lot of respect for him, because his position was both indefensible and illogical. Another statement or two like this, and not only will I lose all respect from him, he will lose me as a viewer.


Bob

Ceterum , exsisto quietis Iggy!