Remember when low-level functionaries operating outside the law were the direct responsibility of The President and the type of lawless culture he promoted?  I mean, it’s not applicable now since 94% of the IRS employees union donates money to Obama and the post-Modern media is incapable of making the logical conclusion that there is a correlation between that number and the shared beliefs of the two.

And even less so, since buck passing has risen in popularity over the last several years:

Published: June 09, 2004

In response to the outrages at Abu Ghraib, the Bush administration has repeatedly assured Americans that the president and his top officials did not say or do anything that could possibly be seen as approving the abuse or outright torture of prisoners.

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Since the Abu Ghraib scandal broke into public view, the administration has contended that a few sadistic guards acted on their own to commit the crimes we’ve all seen in pictures and videos. At times, the White House has denied that any senior official was aware of the situation, as it did with Red Cross reports documenting a pattern of prisoner abuse in Iraq. In response to a rising pile of documents proving otherwise, the administration has mounted a ”Wizard of Oz” defense, urging Americans not to pay attention to inconvenient evidence.

Today, those purveyors of Ozian prevarications are called Jay Carney, Dan Pfeiffer and David Plouffe.  By the current definition, Abu Ghraib would have only been possible if you were able to produce timestamped e-mails from George Bush to Lynndie England advising her on her patriotic duty to point at terrorists’ junk and building gay pyramids with them.  Anything else is just “political hay” and “distractions”.

Lying Prick:  Lying like the prickishly, pig-snouted sociopath he is.  Prick.

After all, Bush should have refrained from “Wizard of Oz” defenses and gone straight for the “Duh, I found out when you guys did when I read the paper this morning” defense.  Who wouldn’t be encouraged by the current President’s seemingly drunk driving while blindfolded, hands-off-the-wheel, pedal to the metal approach to governing?  That stupid Bush didn’t read papers but he was the personal Torquemada of systemic torture at a makeshift prison on the other side of the world when not clearing out brush on his ranch of hate.

But we know that Obama is not a hands off person.  He’s a control freak.  And the only time that he of a million “I, I, I, I” speeches is nowhere near the Captain’s Quarters is when there is some blame needing be placed.

We do not know how high up in the chain of command the specific sanction for abusing prisoners was given, and we may never know, because the Army is investigating itself and the Pentagon is stonewalling the Senate Armed Services Committee. It may yet be necessary for Congress to form an investigative panel with subpoena powers to find the answers.

What we have seen, topped by that legalistic treatise on torture, shows clearly that Mr. Bush set the tone for this dreadful situation by pasting a false ”war on terrorism” label on the invasion of Iraq.

Ah, yes.  “Tone setting”.

Surely, the New York Times is positing a similar thought this weekend in the wake of widespread, years long IRS persecution of ideologically and religiously litmus-tested groups in order to quell their patriotic dissent before an election.  Surely, their flame of outrage would burn brightly out of consistency alone!  To do so otherwise would be bare assed hypocrisy.

NEWS that employees at the Internal Revenue Service targeted groups with “Tea Party” or “patriot” in their name for special scrutiny has raised pious alarms among some lawmakers and editorial writers.

Yes, the I.R.S. may have been worse than clumsy in considering an (ed. – non-existent) avalanche of applications for nonprofit status under the tax code, and that deserves scrutiny whether or not the agency’s employees were spurred by partisan motives. After all, some of these “tea party” groups are most likely not innocent nonprofit organizations devoted to the cultural significance of hot beverages — or to other, more civic, virtues. Rather, they and others are groups that may be illegally spending a majority of their resources on political activity while manipulating the tax code to hide their donors and evade taxes (the unwritten rule being that no more than 49 percent of a group’s resources can be used for political purposes).

For the people who demand that you provide videotaped confessions, time stamped e-mails and caught-red-handed evidence that Obama had absolutely nothing to do with he political targeting of his enemies and of which he was the direct beneficiary of that persecution, they certainly have no problem proclaiming allegations of tax evasion of nefarious motives to the victims in this instance while excusing the IRS perpetrators as merely “clumsy” with zero evidence whatsoever.

Where was this caveat as to the inherent guilt of those Abu Ghraib prisoners?  Were those prison guards not laboring under conditions worse than the cubicle dwelling paper miners at the IRS?

Congress has already announced hearings and investigations, and the service’s leadership will be grilled, as it should be. But it would be a travesty if the misdeeds here undermined the important work that must now be done to foster greater transparency, and to bolster confidence that the I.R.S. is in fact scrutinizing politically active groups across the board, regardless of their ideological bent.

Citizens need to rest assured that the integrity of our political system is intact.

As opposed to publishing inflammatory pictures and making unsubstantiated allegations in bad faith that sexual abuse of enemy combantants was demanded from on high in order to enflame Islamic fundamentalists to attack our service people because you wanted to lay blame for low-level military personnel’s behavior at the feet of the Commander-In-Chief with the non-preferred party letter after their name.  In order to “assure the integrity of our political system”.

If it wasn’t for double standards, the New York Times would have no standards at all.

UPDATE:  Even a stodgey old hack like Bob Schieffer finally had enough of the aforementioned Capital “P” Prick Dan Pfeiffer’s bald-faced obfuscations this morning.  When the Wilford Brimley of the Obama’s old media water carriers starts telling you to you to your stupid oinking face that you are sounding like Nixon during Watergate, it might be time to reverse course on demanding that Republicans apologize for impugning the reputation of Susan Rice for lying to the American People on five morning talk shows in a row.

You know, Dan.  Can I call you Dan?  Gunga Dan.  Your boss, Mr. Post-Racial, was at the race-based Morehouse College explaining to their graduating future welfare recipients that they are going to have to work “twice as hard” as white people just “to get by”.  That means that they would have to lie twice as hard as you to be in your position.  Hard to even imagine how that’s possible.

Exit question.  Why can’t anyone call a lie a “lie” anymore?  It’s dolled up in euphemisms like “you’re not telling the truth” or providing some golden bridge excuse for a lack of honesty.  When you’re a liar, you’re a liar.  Capital “L”, little “i”, little “a”, little “r”.  Liar.  Dan The Lying Prickface Pfeiffer.  End of story.

But I do understand how in this economy of your boss’s making that a House Cracka gotta eat and if it means going on tv and mouthing a few of Master’s lies to let you back on the porch that Obama’s House Crackas gotta do what a cracka gotta do.  You’re a better man than I, Gunga Dan.

Where you are I do not know exactly.  Please watch your head.

So much for the optimistic tone of my last post!

Something happened today and I have not fully processed it yet.  Cold Fury keeps this quote running in the sidebar and I think that a chronological milestone may have just been passed with this IRS scandal:

“America is at that awkward stage. It’s too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards.” – Claire Wolfe, 101 Things to Do ‘Til the Revolution

I’ll let you guess which one.

We seem to have a comprehension problem with the media.  Benghazi is not about people who messed up the note cards on the way to the tv station and this IRS scandal is not about a couple of “rogue” newbies asking a couple of Tea Party yahoos where they bought their tri-cornered hats.

The IRS is in the opening stages of being exposed for the most massive effort of state-sponsored Voter Suppression since the Jim Crow South instituted poll taxes.  As they were suing states for attempting to maintain the integrity of their elections by simply asking voters to show ID, there was wholesale harassment, intimidation and suppression by a cast of hundreds to thousands of government employees at several agencies within the federal government authorized and, of course, condoned at the highest levels to discriminatorily deny the rights of peaceable citizens to express their political speech by demanding personal information that was incredibly invasive and Stalin-esque in execution.  The practictioners of which have since been rewarded with bonuses and promotions.  If there is ever an opening for Concentration Camp Czar it’s going to be a real contest to find out which is the most amoral sociopath at the IRS chomping at the bit to try out their Commandant Amon Goeth fantasy against conservatives.

What is the content of your prayers?  I will approve your application if you sign this form saying you will never protest against Planned Parenthood.  We need access to login to your website and review all chats, logs and IP addresses.

If you do not see a problem with that – you are not a liberal.  You are, in fact, a fucking Nazi sympathizer if not a full-fledged party member.

Confidential tax information was then being solicited or received – gratefully unsolicited – and used by Obama in his campaign and affiliated minions.  If you come into my home and you find a bunch of Picassos and Rembrandts on the wall and you know I don’t make that kind of bread – just how do you think I came to acquire them?  The same way the Obama campaign came to get tax information against Romney and any candidate – illegally.  Receiving stolen merchandise is illegal and just as this tax information that was unscrupulously gained is the fruit of that forbidden tree.

While I am always good for a rant, I don’t think I am being hyperbolic in saying that the news of today has just invalidated definitely calls into question the results of the 2012 election.  Several government agencies, under the aegis of the Executive Branch, with malice aforethought targeted US citizens seeking to engage in political speech on a national level  and at seemingly inconceivable numbers.  If people knew what was going on, and there were plenty of people in the Obama administration who verifiably did and lied under oath to Congress about it, then November 2012 would not have turned out the way it did.  Just like if they knew that when that 3 am phone call from Benghazi came with the Ambassador screaming for help that Obama hung up the phone and sent everything after to voicemail.

The integrity of  the 2012 election was raped and because we are finding out about it after the fact – they will claim that we cannot abort the rape baby of Obama’s second term.  It’s a choice not a child, ya’ll.

A cult of corruption passed the Kool-Aid around the IRS, the Treasury Department and the Department of Justice, along with White House counsel and the American public has just now set their eyes upon the Jonestown where these loyal bureaucratic partisans have committed the largest act of state-assisted suicide.  Both of their careers, their credibility and the faith that any citizen can have that their government is not an active enemy to their very existence.  If you’ve ever listened to the final audio tapes from Jonestown you can almost hear the wails and religious fervor now – “We have to do this…if the Tea Party wins like they did in 2010, they are going to overturn Obamacare! We can’t let that happen.  We’ve come too far!”

And you trust them with your healthcare?  You voted against gay marriage Mr. Smith, I guess you’re not going to be getting that heart transplant since it’s clear by your voting record that you don’t have one to begin with.

People are being audited after the government encouraged their neighbors to turn their names in to Fight The Smears website.  All of their computers should be seized and an audit should be performed of every name submitted to that organization who was subsequently harassed by the IRS.

I do not know where this goes from here.  When people know that laws are used to shield the perpetrators and that justice will forever be denied then what redress do they have?  You have seen the Obama reaction this week.  They pretended to make one person fall on their sword when they were going to retire in a few weeks anyway.  It’s not even a scandal at all really.  It’s an opportunity!  And we need to get the IRS more money so they can fix it.

This is an outright civil rights assault on half of the country that is continuing to this day.  This is not some past event.  It is going on right now with everyone being held hostage by the IRS.

They thought they would have your guns by now.

Without a swift acknowledgment of the depth of this scandal, with enough firings at all of those agencies to make the unemployment number go up, I am concerned that something very bad is going to happen.  The indifferent arrogance of the Executive Branch, painfully feigning outrage at this premeditated attack on the First Amendment and the cover-up that followed is going to provoke a reaction that does not bear a resemblance to a march and sign-holding.

Genuine concern.  This is a bureaucratic version of Waco.  I don’t want to live in whatever this place is that we are living in right now though I had my suspicions that this is what it would look like.  Almost as much as I don’t want to live in this place if someone more offended than me starts doing incredibly rash things that naturally gives these brownshirts the cover for grabbing even more power.  Or, if one succeeded in registering their umbrage in a way that results in every elementary, middle and high school being named after Barack Hussein Obama from here until the end of the country.  However short that is about to be.

For someone who runs their mouth a lot, I am at a loss for words at the moment about what happens next.  Obviously, a skilled special prosecutor should be called in immediately and a class-action lawsuit should be filed by every one of these groups and individuals that have been audited.   There also needs to be an immediate seizure of control over the IRS as it is a crime scene and oversight should be administered by someone who can be trusted.  I have no idea who that would be and Obama is incapable of naming that person because it is clear that he does not know anyone who isn’t a crook, a communist or a crony.  Or a combination of all three.

Palate cleanser.

But I want to believe.

UPDATED:  Because I can’t even hit post without there being a new scandal.  Obama was also tapping the phones in the House of Representatives.  I guess they deserved it too.  Like Mitch McConnell after the liberal advocacy group visited the White House before doing it to him.  So many  coincidences!

There is so much garbage piling up over the last week vis a vis our banana republic that I haven’t wanted to say anything lest I jinx it.

Having said that, I do not believe anything will come of anything until I start hearing the people I know who voted for this scumlapping piece of shit start to talk about what all has been going on.

Radio silence on that end.  The average, ignorant Obama voter (I repeat myself) lives in a bubble that can only be pierced by Tom Joyner, Tyler Perry and The View.  And they not only still support Obama but think he didn’t go far enough in doing all the things he claims he hasn’t done.  Ask Julian Bond.

If there were only some way we could deliver the news with the urgency and timing of  a skinny, black comedian dressed up as the fat grandmother who raised him….

Until that time, all of this is much ado about nothing.

The evidence will be overwhelming.  There will be fingerprints that smell like Reggie Love’s ass all over the corrupt culture at the IRS, the DOJ, DHS and the various other alphabet soup agencies vomited upon the shoes of patriotic Americans who have been targeted for audits, blackmail and murder.

The press was fine with driving the getaway car until he put the gun to their head for fear one or two might make a run for it.  This lover’s spat won’t last for long though.  They won’t let themselves be included in the take down of America’s first black President even if he tapped their phones, monitored their e-mails, cussed them out for printing the truth or locked them in a closet for hours on end.

The next beltway stenographer to finally open up about the abuse they’ve been getting should be handed the number to a battered womens’ shelter and a DVD of Sleeping With The Enemy.

Regardless, the IRS scandal, Benghazi, the Sebelius HHS shakedown, Fast and Furious, you name it.  It doesn’t mean anything until my little black ladies start talking about it.  And I haven’t heard a word about Saint Barack in months.  It doesn’t mean they support him but it does mean that they will not allow their skin color to abandon him for “what they all do” in Washington, DC.

No, he’d have to get caught with a blonde, white woman for that to happen.

If past behavior indicates future behavior, you’d better continue buying bullets and guns.  Watching Barack Obama for six years, the one thing that you can always count on is that when he does the wrong thing (i.e., everything) and is called on it then he doubles down and dares you to call his bluff.  Obviously, installing Susan Rice at the NSA fits my narrative.

The ball-less eunuchs of the Republican Party wouldn’t know what to do with Obama if he showed up to a Congress with a videotaped confession that he ordered the IRS information that his campaign used and his hands extended in anticipation of the cuffs.  John McCain would tell him to put his hands down, slap him on the back and offer his wife and daughter to him to film Mandingo 2.  Unfortunately for McCain, John Boehner’s daughter already beat them to the role.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again – you can kick Obama out of office but you can’t kick out the dipshits who voted for him twice.  A century of communist infestation of our schools and colleges would require transformational changes that Republicans do not have the sack to execute much less acknowledge.  When was the last time you heard one say we should abolish the Department of Education?  Generations of miseducated mushheads have rooted themselves into every corner of government steeped in a hatred of their own country and ever willing to burn the Bill of Rights for the promise that they can control other people’s lives through their representatives.  The ends always justify the means and Humpty Dumpty rules apply to every statement:

 “When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, “it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less.”
“The question is,” said Alice, “whether you can make words mean so many different things.”
“The question is,” said Humpty Dumpty, “which is to be master—that’s all.”

And if you don’t believe that then I have a fresh, new DOJ speech code edict to implement on your campus.

Our experiment in representative government is near its end and the only question that remains is how much of the lab will be salvageable after the fire.

It’s been a week so let’s do this.  We can’t hold our tongues any longer.

The fifth column fourth estate has been pulling their hair out this week to invent some way to explain away the tag team terrorist Tsarnaev family’s violent lashing out for reasons heretofore unknown.

Was it brain injuries from boxing?  Umm, no.  Given how many people box at the amateur and professional level it seems like more would have built pressure cooker bombs before that connection could be made.

Did McDonald’s get their order wrong?  Do they hate Boston Baked Beans?  Perhaps they were Jets fans and just wanted to strike out on Patriot’s Day.  Terrorists do tend to love jets.

This piece of revisionist filth regurgitated by the New York Times onto the graves of the people murdered takes the cake though.  I am warning authorities in advance not to allow any New York Times fanfictioneers to have access to the surviving jihadi because that cake will most certainly have a file in it:

 BOSTON — It was a blow the immigrant boxer could not withstand: after capturing his second consecutive title as the Golden Gloves heavyweight champion of New England in 2010, Tamerlan Anzorovich Tsarnaev, 23, was barred from the national Tournament of Champions because he was not a United States citizen.

That’s the opening line.  The Narrative is congealing at room temperature much like the Times Reporters IQs.  This meek, innocent little lamb in our strange and confusing country (that didn’t ask him to come by the way) was terribly wronged by our immigration policy.

You know what’s a blow some people can’t stand?  I mean besides not being able to participate in a sport.  Losing your leg.  Or  a child.  Or his sister.  Or a parent because some deranged lunatics decided to detonate bombs at a public event of patriotic significance to hurt as many random people as possible.

Your mileage may vary but typically someone dying rates higher than some alleged sporting event snub.  Not in the morally equivalent universe of the New York Times though.  Having said that, I never made the school basketball team.  Would it be acceptable if I murdered the first 100 commenters in any given New York Times thread?

The cocksure fighter, a flamboyant dresser partial to white fur and snakeskin, had been looking forward to redeeming the loss he suffered the previous year in the first round, when the judges awarded his opponent the decision, drawing boos from spectators who considered Mr. Tsarnaev dominant.

…His aspirations frustrated, he dropped out of boxing competition entirely, and his life veered in a completely different direction.

So much for overcoming adversity.  The only thing “cock” that I am sure about is that the New York Times wants to suck his.

His girlfriend at the time had called 911, “hysterically crying,” to say he had beaten her up, according to the Cambridge police report. Mr. Tsarnaev told the officers that he had slapped her face because she had been yelling at him about “another girl.”

Eventually, charges against him would be dismissed, the records show, so the episode would not have endangered his eventual citizenship application.

*Pfew*  Lucky us.  The article blithely notes how this fabled *heavyweight* Golden Glove boxer used his petite wife as a punching bag.  The wife who gave him a child and who, outside of gubmint welfare, was financially supporting his lazy ass while he was cheating on her.  Unimportant details.  I know.  There is apparently a Tomb of the Unknown Victim in the War on Women as written by the NYT.

Mr. Tsarnaev portrayed his quitting as a reflection of the sport’s incompatibility with his growing devotion to Islam. But as dozens of interviews with friends, acquaintances and relatives from Cambridge to Dagestan showed, that devotion, and the suspected radicalization that accompanied it, was a path he followed most avidly only after his more secular dreams were dashed in 2010 and he was left adrift.

So Islamic Terrorism can be solved by Midnight Basketball.  Is that the gist of this?

His wife primarily supported the family through her job as a home health aide, scraping together about $1,200 a month to pay the rent. While she worked, Mr. Tsarnaev looked after their daughter, Zahira, who was learning to ride the tricycle still parked beside the house, neighbors said.

One blows them up and the other visits their home twice a week to change their bedpans.  They’ve got all the bases covered.

As Salaam A-Sweetback.  So where did the BMWs and Mercedes come from?  How does one “survive” on $1200 a month for a family of three and he’s driving a luxury sedan?  Or not work.  You’re fit to box but not to lift one?

The NYT’s piece drones on for three more full length pages of hagiogaphy of this premeditated murderer of innocent men, women and children in an effort to redeem his terrorist attack into a cudgel to use against Republicans for not wanting to bless 30 million illegal aliens with citizenship, welfare checks and Obamaphones.

The connection couldn’t be any clearer as to the cause of the Boston Tea Party Massacre.  It was a cry for help on Immigration Reform!  As for his radicalization, we’ll have to blame the pedantry of the government that is preparing to run our healthcare for that one I guess:

After his return (from Russia and Dagestan), Mr. Tsarnaev applied for American citizenship, a year after he was eligible to do so. But the F.B.I. investigation, though closed, had caused his application to be stalled. Underscoring how detached he had become, he no longer had any valid passport, or international travel document, and Cambridge, to which he had a hard time readapting, was now his de facto home more than ever.

You didn’t complete your form in time Mr. Jihadi.  I hope observing our passport rules does not cause you to become “detached” or have trouble “re-adapting” to our incredibly flawed country that has let you down in so many other ways yet still allowed you back for some reason.

He grew a five-inch beard, which he shaved off before the bombings, and interrupted prayers at his mosque on two occasions with outbursts denouncing the idea that Muslims should observe American secular holidays. He engaged neighbors in affable conversations about skiing one week and heated ones about American imperialism the next.

In other words, your average New York Times reader.

At a neighborhood pizzeria, wearing a head covering that matched his jacket, he explained to Albrecht Ammon, 18, that “the Koran is great and flawless, and the Bible is ripped off from the Koran, and the U.S. used the Bible as an excuse to invade different countries.”

If only there had been some clue.  If only there is some way we could determine what made him go off?  What did *we* do wrong to him?  This is clearly our fault.  Our battered women’s shelter of a country.  We can change him.  We know we can!

“I asked him about radical Muslims that blow themselves up and say, ‘It’s for Allah,’ ” Mr. Ammon said. “And he said he wasn’t one of those Muslims.”

Clearly someone asked the right questions and clearly someone lied.

Like how many licks it takes to get to the center of a Tootsie Roll Pop, the world may never know the countless ways America failed the Tsarnaev family.  Luckily, the New York Times is there to explain  it to us.  It was not radical Islam that blew up those Boston Marathoners, it was Washington gridlock on immigration and the country that callously gave him political asylum, a life, a child and enough free handouts to allow him to afford white furs, snakeskins, designer clothes and luxury cars but not allow him to professionally punch people other than his wife.

From this point forward, we should cut all that shit out and manage the immigrating scum of the Earth’s expectations accordingly so that they are not let down if their dreams are dashed upon the rocks of reality.

The streets are paved with blood and bone.  Abandon hope all who enter.  We are a nation of immigrants but it was the last batch that made it that way.

Post Script:  But Rick Perry is solely responsible for that plant explosion in Waco.  Terrorists aren’t responsible.  Politicians are!

Except for the Boston terrorists.  They’re still not responsible and certainly not Obama/Schumer/McCain/Rubio come-one-come-all even if you’re on a terrorist watchlist approach.

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Er, what’s left of it anyway in this smarmy, disingenuous, crayon scrawled, color-by-numbers NY Times op-ed:

On Wednesday, a minority of senators gave into fear and blocked common-sense legislation that would have made it harder for criminals and people with dangerous mental illnesses to get hold of deadly firearms — a bill that could prevent future tragedies like those in Newtown, Conn., Aurora, Colo., Blacksburg, Va., and too many communities to count.

Gave into fear?  Those people looked straight into what used to be your face and voted the conscience of their constituents.  That you can’t understand that may be written up to damaged ear drums or loss of cognitive abilities or what have you.  But make no mistake.  Let me be clear.  It took courage to stand up against the rotten, emotional blackmail perpetrated by your fellow Grabbies.

I always suspected she had something against minorities but her lies about this pathetic attempt to manipulate the public by Obama wearing a stole made out of the dead pelts of tender children makes me think she’s also a self-hating handicap.  Can’t depressed people defend themselves, too?

I know what it feels like to take a tough vote. This was neither. These senators made their decision based on political fear and on cold calculations about the money of special interests like the National Rifle Association, which in the last election cycle spent around $25 million on contributions, lobbying and outside spending.

So 40+ Senators were bought off with less money than Michael Bloomberg has spent in the last two months?  We should get the NRA to run the Treasury with that kind of ROI.   This is more than just making an argument that no one is acting in good faith and has legitimate concerns about a bill that was not going to be allowed to be debated.   It is about dehumanizing your enemies.  Kind of like Jared Loughner did before he tried to wipe a few out.

Speaking is physically difficult for me. But my feelings are clear: I’m furious. I will not rest until we have righted the wrong these senators have done, and until we have changed our laws so we can look parents in the face and say: We are trying to keep your children safe.

I’m sure a few thousand women who visited a Philadelphia abortion clinic and whose uterii look like the inside of Grabby’s cranium and whose children’s remains are being snaked out of the toilet they were flushed down or thawed out in the stale milk cartons that constitute their final resting place might disagree about the scope of the shit that Gabby Giffords gives about the kids vis a vis – Their Safety(tm).  Exponentially more kids died at Kermit Gosnell’s cloven hooves on the altar of choice than those sacrosanct more advanced fetuses greater angels of Sandy Hook.

But, ugh.  I do agree with Gabby.  Listening to her speak is physically difficult for me as well.  I’m furious whenever I see Barack Obama doing a Jeff Dunham impersonation and sticking his hand up her ass to make her mouth move.  Despite how old the act has gotten, there is always a fresh coat of Murphy’s Oil on her when she’s taken out of the box. *tap, tap, tap*  Is this thing on?  Apparently, not.

I am asking every reasonable American to help me tell the truth about the cowardice these senators demonstrated. I am asking for mothers to stop these lawmakers at the grocery store and tell them: You’ve lost my vote. I am asking activists to unsubscribe from these senators’ e-mail lists and to stop giving them money. I’m asking citizens to go to their offices and say: You’ve disappointed me, and there will be consequences.

If she wasn’t already half an invalid, I would have said that last line is a dog-whistle to incite murder against the Senators who voted against this atrocity of a gun-grab bill.  Maybe Gabby can encourage “mothers” to write letters to their Senators laced with Minute Ricin in the likely event that they don’t run into their Senator at the grocery store.

Mark my words: if we cannot make our communities safer with the Congress we have now, we will use every means available to make sure we have a different Congress, one that puts communities’ interests ahead of the gun lobby’s. To do nothing while others are in danger is not the American way.

“To do nothing while others are in danger is not the American way.”  She says this with a straight face.  Or as straight as her face will get.

A couple of Navy SEALs, intelligence officers and a raped Libyan Ambassador were unavailable for comment.

Awww, leftovers again?

For those who only watch US based news, it is a true testament to the absolute immoral authority of the American media that the crimes of Philadelphia “doctor” Kermit Gosnell have gone without mention in any major newspapers or television networks.  And for all of the shame heaped on Dr. Ben Carson for his comments on gay marriage, somehow he is in the news and this so-called doctor doesn’t even warrant a mention in passing:

Gosnell, 72, is charged with murdering seven babies at Philadelphia Women’s Medical Society and with the death of the woman, who suffered cardiac arrest after she was given too much anesthesia.

Chances of Obama inviting the victims of Dr. Gosnell on Air Force One to promote greater regulation of the abortion industry?  Less than zero.  If he’d eat a dog then a tasty baby would be right up the alley he cheerfully sends these kids to be slaughtered in.

None dare call it The War On Women.  If they did the pro-abortion crowd could at least label the death of Karnamaya Mongar as friendly fire.  Can’t make an abortion omelet without accidentally euthanizing the occasional egg factory with too much anesthesia.  You see a woman’s body is like a termite infested house and once in a while you have to drop a tent over it to gas out the pests.

On the bright side, those nasty conservatives kept their laws of her body.  On the dark side, those sainted liberals allow Gosnell’s hands all over it.

A lot of people seem to be putting their already half-cracked and dripping eggs into the Ben Carson Basket.  This fount of inspiration.  A probable religious liberal whose one-time dressing down of Obama over his healthcare law has earned him The Free Pass from the fair denizens of Hannitry.  But the measure of someone is how much they are willing to stand for their convinctions.  And when it comes to Carson telling people what they need to hear when they need to hear it – this isn’t particularly encouraging:

A pediatric neurosurgeon who has become the darling of conservatives since speaking against nationalized healthcare is now under fire for comments he made about same-sex marriage.

Dr. Benjamin Carson told MSNBC’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports” on Friday that he would be willing to step down as commencement speaker at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine after faculty and students signed petitions asking that he not speak.

“I would say this is their day, and the last thing I would want to do is rain on their parade,” Carson told Mitchell.

Carson said in the interview that he has not notified the university he won’t be speaking. “I am waiting for appropriate channels,” he said. “I don’t think television is the appropriate channel.”

I don’t get it.  You just told everybody you’re not doing it but you’re waiting for the right moment to tell them that you don’t want to face a potentially hostile audience for a commencement address?

One of the petitions, quoted by The Hill newspaper, reads: “We retain the highest respect for Dr. Carson’s achievements and value his right to publicly voice political views. Nevertheless, we feel that these expressed values are incongruous with the values of Johns Hopkins and deeply offensive to a large proportion of our student body.”

So a speaker should only reflect the views of the majority?  That’s a good lesson.

How is this any different than any conservative college graduate who has to sit through the insufferable pap of the Oprah Winfreys, Nancy Pelosis or other leftarded savants who litter the April/May blogfeeds when they hijack every college commencement speech and slam it into the twin towers of Respect For The Opinions of Others and Respect For The Work of the Graduates.

Was Carson’s commencement address supposed to be about gay marriage?  I thought it should be something more along the lines of how “despite all your hardwork you have to learn how to deal with disappointment and not getting your way all the time”.  Or maybe, “in the course of the rest of your life you will come into contact with many people who don’t agree with you on every issue”.

Now would be the perfect time for that lesson since it’s painfully obvious they haven’t learned it in 5-10 years of college.

Regardless, Carson’s decision to quit should give anyone pause.  If he’s not willing to fight (if by fight you mean give a speech) for his right to his own beliefs how would he parlay that into steadfastness in fighting for yours.

There are very few neurosurgeons in the world.   He just might know something other than gay marriage to talk to these overextended, undereducated, intolerant future unemployables about.  But we’ll never know because he’s a quitter who is trying to pass off cowardice for respect of the opinions of people who have no respect for his.

Respect is a two-way street and Carson is content to let the thugs hog the road.  Don’t want to interrupt your good time with something you need to hear.  These are critical oppotunities that leaders never let pass.

Would you trust one of these thugs to operate on you if they knew your beliefs differed from there’s?  We only operate on those whose  political views reflect that of the majority of our distinct geographic proximity.

They need to be told the truth to their stupid faces at least once to say they got their money’s worth.  He may be able to heal damaged corpus callosum of a kid but when it comes to winning the minds of of the adult children Carson has conceded that he is not the man for the job.

It’s the Pester Over The Sequester!  The Tut-tut after the spending cut.  In the eternal search for the lightning in the silver cloud of the so-called Sequester, the Democommie chicken littles mistakenly garner support for ever greater budget cutbacks:

Warnings are also growing that the spending cuts will open the floodgates for more illicit drugs reaching U.S. soil. At a hearing last week before the House Armed Services Committee, Southern Command chief Marine Gen. John Kelly said sequestration means he could end up without critical air and water surveillance to monitor for cocaine trafficking.

“If I lose those assets, if they go to zero — and there are some that are predicting they will go to zero — then all of that cocaine, all of it, will get ashore, and more, I would predict, would get ashore and be on the streets of New York and Boston and Portland, Maine,” Kelly said.

Funny.  I never wanted to move to New York, Boston or Portland, Maine before.

Did anyone ever stop to think that maybe, just maybe cocaine is what this nation needs to get it off the fucking couch and back to work?  To paraphrase Ned Flanders’ father, I understand that “we’ve tried nothing and we’re all out of ideas” to make the turd of this economy swirl backwards up the bowl but I say it’s time to take a more unconventional approach.

Liquidate our nation’s evidence rooms and provide a free eightball once a week for a job well done.  Or at least done enthusiastically half-assed.

Why, some cocaine users even go on to become Presid…..eh.  Scratch that.

CORRECTION:  We’re just going to call it “Undocumented” Cocaine.  Then it’s not illegal anymore when it sneaks across the border and does the job that no American unemployment check will do.

I remember before September 11th.  It wasn’t that long ago.  Airport lines were shorter.  Not necessarily pleasant but they didn’t involve a prostate exam by a person selling nude body scans of you on the Internet.

What I remember most was the feeling the morning before everyone knew.  The not having to care as much.  The enemy is over there.  Sure, we all have to worry about the criminals among us but the truly damaging threats are somewhere on the other side of a sea.

It’s why North Korea bothers me so much now:

The photos appeared in the state-run Rodong newspaper and were apparently taken at an “emergency meeting” early on Friday morning. They show Kim signing the order for North Korea’s strategic rocket forces to be on standby to fire at US targets, the paper said, with large-scale maps and diagrams in the background.

Move along.  Nothing to see here, right?  Just more Bellicose Rhetoric ™ from a young dictator wannabe trying to show his military experience is what they keep telling us.   Obama’s in Charge!  What could possibly go wrong with such a experienced statesman like that at the helm?

Let’s just poo-poo these comments and see the continuation of Clintonian State Departmentalizing.  We’ll say his comments are “unhelpful”.  Maybe when the rockets are fueled and you see the blood-raging in his eyes you can upgrade them to “deeply concerning”.

“He finally signed the plan on technical preparations of strategic rockets, ordering them to be on standby to fire so that they may strike any time the US mainland, its military bases in the operational theatres in the Pacific, including Hawaii and Guam, and those in South Korea,” the state-run KCNA news agency reported.

Huh?  Wuh?  I’m sorry.  I wasn’t paying attention.  The family’s coming over Easter and I’ve been busy with trying to do my taxes.  I got this new tablet and you won’t believe all the crazy shit it does.

Kim “convened an urgent operation meeting” of senior generals just after midnight, signed a rocket preparation plan and ordered his forces on standby to strike the U.S. mainland, South Korea, Guam and Hawaii, state media reported.

How long are you suppoesd to thaw a turkey?  I’m probably just going to get a ham from Honeybaked or something.  I’m sure we don’t have enough chairs.  It would be easier if we just went out.  And cheaper too.  Nashville is growing so much.  We’re absolutely certain that we’re the next big thing.  So many new places to choose from in Midtown and The Gulch and all the right people are moving here.

Kim said “the time has come to settle accounts with the U.S. imperialists in view of the prevailing situation,” according to a report by the North’s official Korean Central News Agency.

Later Friday at the main square in Pyongyang, tens of thousands of North Koreans turned out for a 90-minute mass rally in support of Kim’s call to arms. Men and women, many of them in olive drab uniforms, stood in arrow-straight lines, fists raised as they chanted, “Death to the U.S. imperialists.” Placards in the plaza bore harsh words for South Korea as well, including, “Let’s rip the puppet traitors to death!”

Now, to the untrained eye, this type of thing is just what they do over there.  Little children that they are.  Banging their highchairs for attention.  Pat them on the head.  Tell everyone to calm down and quit being so sensitive.  We went from being the World’s Policeman to the World’s Wet Nurse in five short years.  In another three we’re going to be it’s bitch.

Experts believe the country is years away from developing nuclear-tipped missiles that could strike the United States. Many say they’ve also seen no evidence that Pyongyang has long-range missiles that can hit the U.S. mainland.

Lucky for us – experts are never wrong.  It’s not like Little Un has painted himself into a corner here that if he doesn’t do something that he’s going to look incredibly weak.

So where are we? What changes if:

A nuclear missile flies and gets shot down by an iron dome rocket.  Do we call that a mulligan and schedule tea with the Ambassador?

A nuclear missile flies and misses its target.  Another mulligan?

A nuclear missile flies and it hits an ally, a US territory or our mainland.  Then what?

What changes?  The world, chico.  The world.

You can almost see the Army manuals being written now.  When your transgendered platoon leader conducts door-to-door introductions with environmentally and ethnically sensitive gift baskets you should introduce yourself with your head bowed so as not to offend.

As on that same morning before the crisis, we remain unprepared and unwilling to acknowledge the threat in our faces.  It’s over there somewhere.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel *shudder* said on Thursday that North Korea‘s provocative actions and belligerent tone had “ratcheted up the danger” on the Korean peninsula, but he denied that the United States had aggravated the situation by flying stealth bombers to the region.

“We have to take seriously every provocative, bellicose word and action that this new young leader has taken so far” since coming to power, Hagel told a Pentagon news conference, referring to Kim Jong-un.

Ah, yes.  The “young” leader.  Good thing he’s not a woman.  She’d probably just be on her period or something.  The U.S. has to take North Korea seriously.  At least we have to say we do.  Else we lose the optics.  Perhaps we can push through some gun control legislation because of this.  Or maybe some gay marriage bills.    Or perhaps some more laserlike focus on Priorty Numero Uno – Yobs!  You know the problem that’s solved already.

I don’t know about ya’ll but I am taking my money out of the bank.  Remember, we financed two wars we didn’t need on a credit card so they say.  How do you think they’re going to pay for the one they are going to let happen to us?  Get Alec Baldwin to transfer our balances to a new, low-interest rate Capital One Card?

Come to think of it – what am I worried about money for?  An arsonist is fleeing the scene of the shithouse moments before it goes up in flames.  Sure he’s in a 600 ton bulletproof limousine that doesn’t run on diesel and if Trayvon had a father it would probably look like him but that is somebody else’s problem.  Hopefully Austin, Texas.

And the money?  I never missed what I never had.  I can leave it in my 401k and the Dow will jump 200 points once the first missile lands.  Now, about that turkey.

From the Wayback Machine:

On Wii, Ennui: Will Obama be able to finish 18 holes in time to hold the 38th parallel?

Use pitch, draw and don’t forget SPIN to turn what is traditionally a lazy, rich man’s pastime into your foreign policy legacy.

Realistic gameplay lets you be the POTUS. When North Korea launches a sneak attack on an ally’s civilians, you are forced to reckon with 18 Holes to avert Nuclear Holocaust starting off with a brutal par 5 where you must negotiate a harrowing sand trap after the first dog leg.  If we can’t get back to the clubhouse by nightfall, a tersely worded letter to the U.N. won’t get drafted in time!

So Real Even Your Ratings Will Plummet: Use the crowd control feature to whip-up or settle down a fawning press corps.  Camo’d cameo announcers Chris Mathews, Andrea Mitchell, Katie Couric and Brian Williams report from the rough (terrain of their New York /D.C.studios) to give you the play-by-play commentary and your Wii controller’s leg adapter unleashes our patented vibrating Tingle ™ Technology.  Don’t get distracted by how awesome you are. You’ve still got to compose that meeting request with your Cabinet so you can draft that letter!

Unlock hidden missions! It’s a game inside of the game.  After being rebuffed from Chinese diplomats, you are forced to enter into a deadly game of pick-up basketball.  Will Robert Gibbs get picked last?    Use Obama’s natural tendency to bow as you reach in to steal the ball and hog it until the shot clock runs down.  You only have minutes left before you can draft that text message to your assistant so she can schedule that meeting request with your Cabinet and hold a quorum on that letter you were thinking about writing when everybody was still mad about that thing that happened - before The Final Buzzer.

There were very few rays of sunshine if I am to believe the coverage of CPAC Republican Party navelgazing this last week.  Mitt Romney’s first choice for President, Ohio Senator Rob Portman, selfishly came out in favor of gay marriage because his son is gay.  If only his son was a cocaine addict like Joe Biden’s daughter perhaps we could get Republicans to end the War on Drugs!

The news that Senator Rob Portman of Ohio has become a supporter of equal marriage rights for gays and lesbians because he himself has a gay son was a surprise. That’s because Portman is not only a staunch conservative but also an important member of the Republican Party establishment; he was a key adviser to Mitt Romney during his Presidential campaign, his debate-prep partner, and he was seriously vetted for Vice-President on the G.O.P. ticket. Many people, including myself, predicted that Portman would be the V.P. pick, and some believe that, had Portman been chosen, Romney could have won.

The New Yorker says this with a straight face.  Romney/Portman could have won what exactly?  Fourth place in Iowa for the Democratic primary?

The more I’ve been thinking about this, the more it is bothering me.  So long as I have this right:  Rob Portman’s son comes out of the closet to his parents.  What right does Rob Portman have to out his son to the world for what he mistakes as an attempt at political gain?  Mental note to Will Portman:  Don’t volunteer any other personal information to your dad you don’t want broadcasted on CNN.  Be really courageous and say you’re bisexual.  Why do I only get to marry one sex?  Enough on that.

What was once a rabblerousing, base motivating exercise in competing ideologies within the Republican Party is now nothing more than the establishment’s half-assed effort to homogenize opinion in advance and somehow get a good review from the Washington Post.  Which ain’t gonna happen:

Maybe it’s a sign of the times, but CPAC wasted little time before tacking the immigration issue.

The first speech kicked off at 9 a.m., and by 10:45, immigration was front-and-center with a panel discussion titled, “Respecting Families and the Rule of Law: A Lasting Immigration Policy.”

Predictably, much of the conversation dealt with how conservatives who support securing the border must also adopt a more compassionate tone when discussing immigration.

Respecting (Illegal) Families and the Rules of Law?  Pick one.  Besides, what is there to discuss?  Obama, ICE and Napolitano have already passed de facto amnesty and several states are giving illegal aliens discounted college aid far below what legal citizens in an adjacent state would have to pay.  We are already in a lawless time.  Worse than lawless actually.  No laws for some and rigidly enforced laws for others.

I live in Nashville, Tennessee and we are a de facto sanctuary city.  Construction is booming and at any time of the day illegals in hard hats are jaywalking from wherever a parking spot is found on the way to the construction site.  Our mayor welcomes them.  Local attorneys provide them pro bono services to keep them in the country illegally.  Local businesses hire them so they can avoid paying taxes.  It is illegality on top of identity theft on top of tax evasion on top of screwing over the poor, benighted souls produced from our public education system who have to compete against them.  And so very compassionate.

The fact that this gRINgO breed of Republicans thinks that they can out pander and out-bribe illegal Latinos is beyond misguided.  A “compassionate tone” does not replace the fact the problem is not the messenger but the message.  You are rewarding theft of services, rewarding lawbreakers versus those who are following the rules and exposing the rest of us to potentially dangerous criminals and re-introduction of once controlled disease that we now have no immunity to or antibiotics to defend against.   Political correctness is going to kill us.

With the exception of Rand Paul, Ted Cruz and very few others, CPAC has staked out an illegitimate claim to the mantel of conservatism with its Stalinist/Boehner-esque purge of dissenting Tea Party voices.  Delenda est C-PAP.

Now go brush off Dan Quayle and his son so you can foist him, Jeb Bush (the omnipresent answer to a question no one asked) and all the other “It’s My Turn” self-entitled RINOs / establishment born scions of privilege to lay claim to their family’s feudal throne of Big Government Republicanism.  Then piss on our legs and tell us you’re severely conservative.

NOTE:  To any future candidates of this dead party, do not ever hire a career Republican consultant.  Pat Caddell said it as caustically as needed and it’s a pattern I’ve noticed for years -

“In my party we play to win. We play for life and death,” Caddell said at a panel in a room that was only one-third full when it started and was standing room only once word spread throughout CPAC that Caddell was blistering the Republican elite. “You people play for a different kind of agenda…Your party has no problem playing the Washington Generals to the Harlem Globetrotters.”

Caddell said this mentality infected Romney, whose campaign consultants thold him to “back off” toward the end of the 2012 election and failed to realize that “you must also get your base” while courting independents.

He then blasted the “CLEC–the consultant, lobbyist, and establishment complex,” which he said was a “self serving interconnected network of individuals and organizations interested in preserving their own power far more than they’re interested in winning elections.”

Your inexperience gets sabotaged within from your consultants who are always working for the other guy.  You’re a flash in the pan.  The Bushes are eternal.

“Just follow the money,” Caddell told a rapt audience. “It’s all there in the newspaper. The way it works is this–ever since we centralized politics in Washington, the House campaign committee and the Senate campaign committee,  they decide who they think should run. You hire these people on the accredited list [they say to candidates] otherwise we won’t give you money. You hire my friend or else.”

Financial corruption is a key component of the current process, according to Caddell. “There’s money passing under the table on both parties. Don’t kid yourself…If you can’t see racketeering in front of you, God save you.”

A must read and watch.

The seemingly always in trouble BlazingCatFur reposted a Liveleak video worth a look.  (Pres.  / Cranky, if you want to help post the video link here I’d certainly enjoy it).

In the video, a dozen or so masked and armed assailants attempt to rob a group of people having lunch at an outside cafe. 

Without warning, the group of would-be victims unleashed a devastating counter-offensive by pissing and shitting themselves (language warning, though if you’re already here that shouldn’t be an issue) which sent the thugs running home to their mommies – emotionally damaged forever.

Just kidding.

One man with one gun with more than seven bullets in it successfully fended off the thugs as they scattered like cockroaches exposed to the disinfecting sunlight of muzzle flash.

Liberals watch too many Hollywood movies.  Technically, everyone does.  Every citizen is not a one man Delta Force who can shoot a moving attacker’s eye out from 20 yards while under life-threatening duress.  Some times there is more than one attacker and it might take more than one shot to stop them assuming you hit everything you are aiming for.

Not to talk to anyone like a six year old, since six year olds have a reason to be naive and ignorant due to their lack of experience and perspective, but gun control is never about saving anyone’s life.  It is always about making you utterly defenseless and reliant on the state for their protection racket and from the crime which their policies are almost always responsible for to begin.

How you been? Good.

Last night we got to witness THE perfect contrast between the (admittedly tiny) freedom-loving wing of the GOP and the old guard of gutless country-club grifters.

On one hand, you had Paul, Lee and Cruz questioning whether or not it was wise to give the executive branch the freedom to assassinate its own citizens with drones. A simple question really. When your leaders are soulless idealogues, perhaps this type of power should be carefully considered before being handed out like popsicles at a 6-year-old’s pool party.

On the other, you had McShame, Lispy and our own beloved Corker breaking bread with the very same commie who has repeatedly pretended to play nice while turning around and stabbing them all in the back as soon as the cameras show up. If I were dumber, I would say that these Senators are simply naiive, but these jackals are in it for themselves as they’ve always been. I hope they kissed his ring as they entered.

Our one-party political crime syndicate continues apace. Thank God for the few who are still willing to buck the system in the midst of a massive lost cause.

MOAR:

Just in case you’re not clear on the situation or have been living under a rock for 8 years, McShame and Lispy (as well as Lamar! and the rest of the crew) need to go. Yesterday. They are the cancer. Paul/Cruz/Lee are the chemo.

The point of having a loyal opposition is to have an opposition.  None of what has happened today makes the least bit of sense.  Republicans, who I am not one, are the most ball-less, spineless, worthless, shit-stained, co-conspirators to what is going to be a calamitous end to this country.

Make no mistake, Democrats are the cause.  But these fucking assholes cause me to lose all form:

WASHINGTON—Chuck Hagel won Senate approval Tuesday to become defense secretary after a pitched battle and as budget cuts loom.

Mr. Hagel was confirmed 58 to 41—the narrowest vote ever for a defense secretary. Some believe the largely party-line vote could leave Mr. Hagel, the successor to Leon Panetta, in a weakened position.

Who helped this incompetent traitor to undermine our military and support the mullahs abroad?  Well, I’m glad you asked!

Bob Corker and Lamar Alexander, of course.  Two senators from a blood red state showing their pinko bona fides.  As I said last November, I did not vote for Bob Corker.  I saw this milquetoast piece of shit for what he was a long time ago.  A camera hungry runt jockeying for a chance to be John McCain’s next courtesan in the event Lispy Graham comes down with the HIVvy.

For Christ’s sake won’t anybody primary this sawed-off gonad gobbler?

Naturally, neither one of these shitbirds has updated their websites to comment on their support of this travesty.  Stupid ass Alexander still has a banner running at the top from two weeks ago where he was criticizing the Hagel nomination.  Did something really amazing happen since the 14th to redeem Chuck Hagel, Senator?  Of course not.

Alexander is what he has always been – a piano tickling, country club loving, go-along-to-get-along George H. W. Bush Republican.  He would have voted  Bernie Sanders for Defense Secretary if it helped preserve the comity and cocktail weenies coming to his flappy neckhole.  The fact that he has stabbed every conservative in the chest is not news.

I will vote for Ralph Nader before either of these fucks gets a vote from me.

Write them if you want to.  I do not fucking care anymore.  They are deaf and don’t give a shit.  When the time came to stand on principle, they rolled over and spread their asscheeks apart.

Fucking cowards.  TNGOP?  Go take a fucking hike.

I’d say that I would never raise a finger to help you but that’s only partly true.  I will raise at least one finger for you.

Why outsource your treason, Senators?  Go to your closest military base and spit in each one of those soldiers faces.  Because that’s what you did by proxy.

The Republican Party Is Dead.  What’s next?

(via Big Fur Hat @ IOTW) An interesting thing happened on the way to US Customs for the well-heeled former head of the website Techcrunch, one Mr. Michael Arrington, when he went to take delivery of his new Coastal Craft yacht from Canada.  Turns out, US Customs (a subsidiary of the Der Fatherland Security) are sticklers for paperwork.  Long story short, A bill of sale and some importation document had a discrepancy between whether the boat was valued in US dollars or Canadian dollars.

Rich people problems.  Am I right?

The Department Of Homeland Security Stole My Boat Today

I live a fairly simple life and that didn’t change much after I sold TechCrunch in 2010. I didn’t buy a new house or even a new car. The one thing I did splurge on was a boat.

Nothing too fancy or large. I live near Seattle and there’s a big boating culture up here. I found a small company that builds boats specifically for this area called Coastal Craft. I ordered it in 2011 and planned on writing about the experience after it was delivered.

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Today was the day that Buddy was going to be delivered. That didn’t happen, because the Department of Homeland Security seized the boat.

These things happen.  It’s why they make more than one copy of a government form and an entire industry of attorneys and documentation services support our pampered top percenters who make the money to buy the things the rest of us can’t.  Not that I begrudge anyone this.  They know how to manage multi-million dollar corporations and don’t necessarily know the intricacies of Customs law.  It’s not a contest.

Regardless, what happened next becomes the issue rather than seizing of Mr. Arrington’s new toy.  After subjectively complaining on his personal website about the allegedly giddy behavior of one of the DHS agents who literally took his keys from him at the port, someone claiming to be from DHS with intimate knowledge of his situation responded in his comment thread with the level arrogance many have grown accustomed to since this abortion of an agency’s inception:

The Department Of Homeland Security Is Now Bitching At Me On My Blog

Update to yesterday’s post. A day after Buddy was seized by DHS I now have my boat in my possession and at my slip.

This all happened while I was still trying to sort out a lawyer and had nothing to do with anything I did. Coastal Craft, the builder, took extraordinary steps (and expense) to get possession of Buddy from DHS.

I sat down to write this quick update just to let everyone know that things worked out.

But when I logged in to WordPress I saw a really curious comment from someone claiming to work for DHS in the same office that I dealt with. And the comment includes enough specific information that I’m inclined to believe him.

DHS’s level of customer service is outstanding.  Monitoring people’s personal websites to ensure that their good names are not being sullied and offering all kind of helpful advice on how you should understand your place in the hierarchy of our once democratic society.  The comment in question:

Okay all, the rest of the story(I was there). 1. The amount on both invoice and CBP form were in U.S dollars correctly completed on the form. 2. Just because someone has $$$ and posts something first on the web, doesn’t make them true. 3. The officer in question did not act gleefully, in fact SHE called back to the office and vessel manufacturer several times to verify the stated value. 4. The officer in question vilified by this rich individual now has to endure all the grief posted here and elsewhere by Mr rich guy and explain why she followed the LEGAL document value and wouldn’t cow to his brow beating. 5. Coastal Craft ended up paying for a broker to perform what should have been a personal importation and guess what The value on that entry was EXACTLY the same as on the CBP presented form. 6. Mr. Rich guy will probably post everywhere now that HE was right due to the fact that he has his boat and did not sign anything, but the fact is that the company took the high moral ground and due to ALL the false posting by Arrington, they paid for the paperwork to be processed. 7. We are all at the mercy of individuals who feel (right or wrong) that they can put out whatever they feel and get hundreds of all of you all worked up about the big bad government, fact is the is/was correct and all of us had to jump thru hoops due to arrington’s posts and written falsehoods. 8. I am proud to work with this office/officer and all of you should be ashamed for vilifying her/DHS without knowing the facts. 9. Most working folds have bosses and we are no exception sadly we had to answer many questions for correctly performing our sworn duties due to all the bad press put out by someone who feels entitled or above the public servant. Shame on you.

There is so much wrong with that statement that it is difficult to know where to start.  Let’s begin:

1)  Deciding to duke out the facts of Mr. Arrington’s situtation in a public setting instead of handling this like a professional behind the scenes.  Defending the dignity of a governmental agency that grabs people’s crotches all day are we?

2)  The alleged “public servant” referring to his customer as “Mr. Rich Guy”.  That would tend to support Arrington’s theory about the attitude of the agent initially seizing his vessel.  If only to inconvenience you Mr. Rich Guy.  We’ll file this one under Unclear On The Concept of Public Service.

3)  The alleged “public servant” complaining that they are all at the “mercy of individuals who feel that they can put out whatever they feel and get hundreds of all of you all worked up about the big bad government”.   Your plans are ruined, they have your boat but DHS is at your mercy.  Huh?  What country are we in again?  Bitching about the government and their agents is what we have done since the history of forever.

The idea that this “servant” feels that you should not have a right to state your version of events is a sad sign of our times under the current regime.  Like the gun confisaction debate, you are allowed to exercise the First Amendment the way the Founding Fathers intended – on top of a soap box in a Free Speech Zone.  They never intended for people to have assault Internets and High Capacity blog postings.

4)  Wishing “Shame” on someone for impugning the integrity of the motives of an agency that is utterly shameless.  After all, these are the people who tell you that your border is more secure now than ever, naked airport scanners and are setting up vans to look through your vehicle while you are traveling on the interstate with absolutely no regard to the 4th Amendment.

The only potentially redeeming thing about that comment is that it sounds like a male counterpart or supervisor was trying to defend a female colleague.  You know, when sexism is acceptable.

At the end of the day, Mr. Arrington has his boat.  The only issue remaining is whether he has learned his lesson about publicly filing his report about being mugged by reality within eyeview of the Department of Sees All, Respects None.

Now get out there and flag that boat in the Cayman Islands so you can avoid paying our many patriotic taxes.  And for DHS, wonder no more about the villification of the boat owners and all of the people US yacht manufacturers used to employ who have been negatively impacted by the language of this failed President who demonizes all of the Arringtons in this country for trying to live the lifestyle of an Obama adminstration cabinet official.

Now let’s rip the rings off of Uncle Sam’s dead fingers.

Well, the power’s been out for like 30 minutes and as we all know that means the city of New Orleans is on the verge of cannibalism and wanton rape.  I know I speak for Randall Robinson when I say that my hands are shaking as I write this.

People are eating other, even little babies, on the field of the Superdome.

It is reported that black hurricane victims Super Bowl attendees in New Orleans have begun eating corpses to survive. 15 minutes after the the big screen tv went out, thousands of blacks in New Orleans the Superdome are dying like dogs. No-one has come to help them.

I am a sixty-four year old African-American.

New Orleans marks the end of the America I strove for.

I am hopeless. I am sad. I am angry against my country for doing nothing when it mattered.

This is what we have come to. This defining watershed moment in America’s racial history. For all the world to witness. For those who’ve been caused to listen for a lifetime to America’s ceaseless hollow bleats about democracy…….
…..My hand shakes with anger as I write. I, the formerly un-jaundiced human rights advocate, have finally come to see my country for what it really is. A monstrous fraud.

But what can I do but write about how I feel. How millions, black like me, must feel at this, the lowest moment in my country’s story.

Me too.  I’ve never seen anything like this.  Ray Lewis just took a bite out a baby and spiked it’s remains in the end zone.  It’s madness I say.  Madness.

Fresh out of baby.

BABYEATING UPDATE:  Aaaaaaand.  The power’s back on.  Boy, are a lot of people embarrassed.  Other than the part about cannibalism, the entire rest of this post is completely accurate*.

I wonder why Obama has refrained from chiming in on Bob Menendez’s sex / corruption scandal?  When Travyon got shot, you had to file a restraining order to keep him away from the cameras so he could comment on his imaginary son.  You know, Obama’s Imaginary Son!  The one who looks just like Travyon so he knows that he was killed in cold-blood because he’s black.  Or the Imaginary Son who he would let Moochelle perform radical gynoplasty on to prevent him from playing football so he won’t get concussed.

Meanwhile, Obama does happen to have two underage daughters which left me wondering.  If Obama’s daughters were underaged Dominican prostitutes, would he let Bob Menendez have sex with them?

Just asking.  Maybe that’s why he sends so much security with them when they go on Spring Break.  Got to keep shoo-ing Menendez away like the flies on their vajajays.  If they lick ice cream cones like their father we could set them on a street corner and work off the national debt.

The War On Women is evidently on shore leave.  Maybe Lilly Ledbetter would like to watch.

Of course, Menendez will not be forced to retire because using the State Department to strongarm a foreign government into unjustly rewarding your biggest campaign contributor / underage teen hooker’s pimp is never enough for the average scumsucking, no soul having Democrap.  As they openly suggest:

In a state with a colorful history, it takes a lot for a New Jersey politician to cross the line into political toxicity.

Democratic Sen. Robert Menendez has found himself at the center of a growing controversy, with accusations swirling of a questionable friendship with a Florida eye surgeon being investigated for Medicare fraud, improper flights to the Dominican Republic and alleged patronizing of prostitutes — including underage girls — while in the Caribbean nation.

…

“Six years is a long time,” said Democratic former Sen. Robert Torricelli , who left the Senate a decade ago under his own ethics cloud. “I think Bob Menendez is a very tenacious person, and he has the advantage of six long years and a fairly forgiving political environment in New Jersey.

“I wouldn’t be wasting time on a Bob Menendez political obituary,” he added.

The prostitution allegations surrounding Menendez partially came to light before last November’s election, when he won with 58 percent of the vote. Menendez has fervently denied the allegations, and the Justice Department wasn’t publicly investigating the case at that time.

Say it with me – “What difference does it make?!?”  We seem to be alternating between “What difference does it make?” and “If it saves just one child.”  It seems to matter which day of the week you try to pin down where a liberal’s self-righteous indignation and “Have you no decency, sir?” bullshit lies.

Be honest with us Bob.  When you were coming on those underaged Dominican girls’ faces – were you thinking of Obama’s daughters?

That’s not my opinion.  That’s the famous liberal sensitivity on display at  every comment section near you (via Twitchy) in reaction to the appalling murder of the most successful US sniper in military history being gunned down in cold-blood at a charity event.

A former Navy Seal, expert sniper and best-selling author was reportedly gunned down at a Texas shooting range Saturday by a veteran who is recovering from post-traumatic stress syndrome.

Ex-Navy Seal Chris Kyle, 39, and another man were shot point-blank around 3:30 p.m. at a charity event on behalf of Kyle’s security firm at the gun range at Rough Creek Lodge and Resort in Erath County. 

The suspect, 25-year-old Eddie Ray Routh, was arrested roughly five hours later in Lancaster, Texas after a police chase. He was driving Kyle’s truck at the time of the arrest, police said.

Because shooting the man who pre-emptively sniped the IED planting, gay-stoning, acid-throwing Islamonazi before he’s able to kill a US soldier in Iraq or Afghanistan is poetic justice in the eyes of the glib, liberal commie-tariat.  These were the same people fallaciously claiming that gun nuts were mocking that Newtown father last week.  It’s Karma evidently.

And what happens when Karma for all those dead babies come around?

I’m still not grasping this whole “New Civility” bullshit.  Unless, of course, New Civility means for thee and not for me.  And also “shut up”.

As far as the POS murderer responsible for fragging this True American Hero, his motiviations are as of yet undetermined.  It could have been personal.  He could be some Lyndon LaRouche supporter hanging out at the intersection of Ron Paul and Jesse Ventura Boulevard or a disgruntled leftist who finally took a few of the following slogans to heart.

I wonder what this means?

I’m still a little confused.  You support our troops, right?

Er, maybe not.

Regardless, that won’t stop liberals from politicizing Kyle’s death before the family can be notified.  When someone does it to one of their deadbeats who accomplished nothing in their life besides being a racist firebrand they scream bloody murder.  When they do it to Tony Snow or Reagan, wishing it on Dick Cheney or Chris Kyle then all of the sudden it’s in vogue again.

I know it’s completely unfair for me to categorize every leftist, liberal, progressive communist Democrat as a traitor.  Completely unfair.  I know they support our soldiers as much as any biblethumping, Southern Christian.

I know this because we’ve seen their legendary compassion on display for the past five years. Drives and banner ads promoting  Project Valour IT, Wounded Warrior, or organizing care packages for troops.   Practically every liberal website I’ve ever seen does these things to support our soldiers at least on an annual basis!

Said no one ever.

These are the men and women who make Obama’s lies about how He Killed Bin Laden a reality.  Without them, Obama would have been a one-term President because he sure as shit didn’t do anything else for four years outside of Crony Communism for his bank buddies and dronestriking innocent kids with Nobel Peace Prize-tipped missiles.  Give or take a few dollars on top of your gas bill, gratuitous racebaiting and issuing so many warrantless wiretaps that George W. Bush must be blushing in embarrassment at being one-upped to effortlessly.

Douchebag sites like Balloon Juice are taking this opportunity to say that if Chris Kyle can be murdered then plain-assed normal citizens have no right to even have the ability to defend themselves.  If this could happen to Kyle at a gun range, they say, then you surely couldn’t be prepared enough to defend yourself when you hear a window break at night.  To the extent that you would be fully unprepared for someone who you ostensibly know to completely turn on you unprovoked could happen to you whether they had a gun, were behind the wheel of a car or pouring you a bowl of cereal.

In related news, condoms are not 100% effective so you shouldn’t ask your boyfriend to use one and unless you’re a professional race car driver you have no business behind the wheel of a car.

So, congratulations commies.  Your voice was finally heard.  Now support Eddie Ray Routh like you said he would you fucking Westboro Baptist ghouls.

Yet another sad day for our country in what seems like a neverending stream of them.

A bit of a break from my usual type of post.  Today, I attended both a gun show and the Gun Appreciation Day rally in Nashville.  Both were depressingly optimistic and for different reasons.  The latter for a sparse crowd due from poor planning and lack of advertising to being scheduled during 3 other large events downtown.  The former for the exact opposite.

Sorry, Detroit:  They aren’t here for food stamps and Section 8 vouchers.

The gun show was fully prepared for a large crowd.  I arrived a half hour prior to opening and there were already lines of people down the block at all of their fairgrounds entrances.  I’d estimate today’s crowd to be 10,000 – 15,000.  A gentleman in front of me said that he had attended a show in Franklin, TN the prior week and that while Saturday was jampacked that Sunday was much lighter.  To be certain, Saturday is for bitterly clinging to your gun and Sunday is for bitterly clinging to your religion.  Also, the shelves were cleaned out by Sunday anyway so playoff football for the agnostics.  By the time I left two hours later, I could barely get out of my parking spot and the lot itself was clogged all the way to the main road out where a line of cars were waiting in traffic all the way down the street just to get into the parking lot.

If the Gun Appreciation Day rally at the War Memorial Plaza had a crowd the size of the Hendersonville Gun Show it would have been an unequivocal and unignorable success.  As such, I would put a number between 500-600.  Despite the fact that there did not appear to be any charismatic leader or structure aside from the few speakers taking their turn to say “don’t tread on me” and one enthusiastic attendee encouraged to participate in the government’s efforts at confiscation one bullet at a time.  No PA system.  Only a shared megaphone.

These events should ostensibly be catering to the same crowd and while one is talking about doing the other IS actually doing.  I support the 2nd Amendment versus I-am-going-to-buy-a-bunch-of-guns-and-ammo-this-instant.  That’s a lot more Do-ey and a lot less Talk-y going on.  Actions speak louder.

Why couldn’t they be at the same place or same general area?   A pooling of interests to the benefit of all.  I’ll digress on that point.

However, I am disgusted by the behavior of the dealers at these gun shows.  Utterly and completely.  365 days a year they peddle the Land of the Free and you’ll take my guns from my cold dead hands bullshit but then, when the government actually starts to threaten both their livelihoods, their customers, their future and their purported value system, it’s like trying to buy a gallon of clean water at the Super Dome on Katrina Day 3.  Price gouging is not capitalism no matter how many amber waves of panic-buying suckers you extort.

I left without buying so much as a single shell and all of the dealers can eat the peanuts as they say.  I heard of some guy buying 100 rounds of .38 special for $80.  Unless they are coated with mercury and Super AIDS, a sucker and his money were lucky to get together in the first place.

Bullet prices doubled in less than two weeks.  I bought a Saiga 12 gauge shotgun six weeks ago for $630.  This week?  From the same exact dealer, the same exact shotgun – $1189.  Used SKS’s – $550.00.  Brand new AK-47′s – $900-$1100.  200% markup is currently the rule and while the commies may cheer that the gun nuts pockets are getting lighter, this is where my optimism comes in:  If your money is worthless, these commodities have a value beyond rubies.  This country is armed to the fucking teeth.  A gun for every hand and foot.  The worst that can happen to the gun nuts is that a ban doesn’t go into effect.  The value of their investments would plummet immediately.  But we know that is not going to happen.  Obama Organizing for UnAmerica is trying to manufacture consent through legislator intimidation what Coward In Chief doesn’t have the guts to say himself despite his media apparatchiks laying down suppressing fire through their high capacity news magazines and video clips.

We seem to be one event away from a flashpoint and people are more prepared now than they were six months ago.  A sadly good thing.  Sad that that’s where we are and good that they are more prepared for it.   All it takes is some enterprising yahoo to apply the Bush Doctrine to some gungrabbers or for the gungrabbers to Lead From Behind on some unsuspecting citizen.  They are coming for you.  Why wait for them to fire the first shot?  If they truly thought the Right was a bunch of crazies they would seek to placate them as much as they do the real terrorists in Libya, Egypt and everywhere else.  Hell, they’d give you the gun!

You’ve got to earn their capitulance.  This is just behaviorism.  Our government is spending your tax money to arm Mexican drug cartels and al Qaeda in Libya and Syria without a second thought.  American citizens spending their own money to exercise their rights is cause for alarm though.  Who’s the real enemy again?

Breitbart has the steaming poop on the recent departure of the Daily Beast’s resident amateur gynecologist:

According to a credible source with inside knowledge of the matter, the actual  reason Andrew Sullivan and the Daily Beast are parting ways at the end of this month has nothing to do with some high-falutin’ “duty to try and see if we could help break some new ground” and “pioneer” a “solid future for web journalism.” According to this source, who spoke exclusively with Breitbart News, the powers that be at the Daily Beast decided the traffic Sullivan’s Daily Dish delivered just wasn’t worth the price of holding on to him for another year.

Admittedly, you couldn’t help but notice the hairline cracks in this relationship turning into deep fissures.  Some of you may have seen it coming but I averted my eyes a long time ago.

Another mystery our source may have cleared up is why Beast proprietor, Tina Brown, would allow Sullivan to stay on a full month after announcing a decision to leave. Allowing Sullivan a full month’s perch on her site to raise money for his own operation makes more sense in a situation where it was her decision to part ways, not his.

You can’t blame Sullivan for putting the best face possible on the situation. But he’s also someone who frequently writes about the special relationship he has with his readers. You would think, then, that he would trust them more with the full story, especially when he’s asking for money.

I believe it is customary to leave it on the nightstand.

With all the serious stuff going on in the world I know this tale of woe is scraping the bottom of the barrel but I just couldn’t resist.

At the end of the day, this is all Tina Brown’s dumbass fault anyway.  When you mess with the Raw Muscles you get the glutes.

And you’re welcome.

I always love Yahoo’s trashy “list” pieces.  Which cars get better mileage than a Prius.  Five vodka cocktails that aren’t lame.  How many dildoes can Kim Kardashian stuff in her Coach bag.

Oddly enough, this one caught my eye:

The Next 4 Years:  Show us what you want changed in Obama’s Second Term

Sadly, no dramatic re-enactments from Ford Theater made the list or Obama defecting to Venezuela to take Hugo Chavez’s place.

What are your hopes for the next four years? President Barack Obama begins his second term in office on Jan. 20, with a hefty number of important issues facing the nation, including:

* Immigration reform
* Gun control
* Federal spending
* Environmental protection
* Gay marriage
* A changing military
* Education reform
* Health care
* Afghanistan
* Washington gridlock

What do these issues mean to you?

Yahoo News is asking you to help us tell this story. Here’s how you can participate:

Gee.  What is missing from that list?  As usual with the insulated Obamatards, JOBS are somehow no longer a problem.

I mean the unemployment rate has been jerryrigged to under 8% so everything’s coming up Milhouse.

But it does read like the Donald Kaul column demanding that we do something about a million things that don’t matter while assassinating the few people who are trying to protect the most important check in the  Constitution. Littered with Obamanian false premises leading to the narrowly defined false choice “answers” that will scupper your simple minds in to acknowledging.  We’ve got to do something about guns because a crazy person got one and did something bad.  And if you don’t then you want kids to die.

How many get into a car everyday?  Why are cars made to drive faster than the speed limit?  Why are beers served in sizes and alcohol contents so great as to get you over the legal limit with one?  Why, why, why does personal freedom stand in the way saving Just One Life ™.  Because if we could limit all of those things and save one life It Would Be Worth It.

The only difference is that Obama typically asserts that everyone, even his detractors somehow, a majority of them agree with him but – darnit – just can’t bring themselves to applaud how right he is out of petty politics.

It’s like a rapist demanding you admit that he’s got staying power and stamina for days.  You’re welcome.

One thing I’d like on the list is for Obama to get off the furking golf course and get Harry Reid to pass a budget for the first time in five years.  Also, not on the list.   Quit nominating traitors to key positions.  Quit looting the Treasury to fatten his union thugs.  Quit negotiating with terrorists behind our backs.  Quit instructing troops to give more sensitivity to the Taliban than Obama gives to half the country.  Or maybe, just someone in the media telling him or the first Wookie that there are actually numerous areas of our personal lives that don’t demand the invasive penis of government being thrust into reluctant anus of a public that would like to be left alone.

I know I speak for Obama when I say that everyone wants government up their asses.  Particularly his government, whose penis/executive orders they love, but just can’t bring themselves to admit it.

As long as we’re making up stuff that’s never going to happen…what do you wish would change in Obama’s second term?

Budd Dwyer call your office.  At last, the unearthed Republican Strategy to deal with the mountainous Obama debt.  Maybe if they shoot themselves in the head they’ll really, REALLY be able to hold Obama’s feet to the fire when the Debt Ceiling negotiations start.

After all, the media will have to admit that these latter-day Headless Horsemen caved on increased taxes in exchange for no spending cuts and it would only be fair for Obama to agree on that in a few months, right?  That’s how it will be reported, right?

With both sides on the cusp of a fiscal cliff deal, President Barack Obama vowed Monday to seek additional revenue next year alongside spending cuts. In the process, he also angered several GOP senators who said he demeaned their efforts to reach a deal.

Obama said that a year-end deal to avert tax hikes for the middle class “is within sight, but it’s not done.”

Does Boehner, McConnell and Lindsey Graham’s congressional dental plans cover reconstructive orthodontia from biting pillows so hard?

Awww, Obama doesn’t fix you breakfast and leave money on the nightstand after he rides you raw in full view of the public.  Boohoo.  He doesn’t appreciate that you’re part of the act too.  Is that what I’m reading?

You did more than just lay there like a cold fish.  Lindsey got all lathered up to do the work of the un-American people and when his reacharound arm went out he got mad that we all couldn’t come together at the same time.  Boehner cupped the balls and McConnell thankfully wore a leather mask that hid his flappy jowled Beaker neck.

Add current and hopefully not future Senator Bob Corker to the traitorous gangbang:

Immediate reaction from Republicans to the president’s demand for even more revenue, as well as his shots at Congress, was sharp.

Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., took to the Senate floor to say Obama might have alienated Republicans who were tentatively ready to support the current cliff deal, which would push decisions on the sequester and other budget issues to the new year. “I think he’s lost numbers of votes with what he did. He didn’t lose mine, I’m not like that,” Corker said.

Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., said the president’s remarks were a “cheerleading, ridiculing of Republicans exercise.”

Corker said, “You can call me a sawed off little bitch who gobbles nuts for loose change but I will always abandon my stated principles so that the media won’t call me names.”  To which McCain chimed in, “You gonna finish those nuts?”

With this deal, the Republican Party is officially done.  I have always said that they have neither the ability, strategy or will to fight but RNC headquarters itself is about to be declared federally protected land for the deep and lengthy series of caves found within.

They live in this fantasy world where time constraints and arbitrary deadlines apply to themselves and not the other side.  A world where they think that the media is going to take part in a “gotcha” moment when the opposition is determined to be hypocrites or unserious about dealing with the country killing debt banging its tentacles at the negotiating table.

The pundits, the press and the politicians think that by massaging this stuttering clusterfuck of a deal into some Victory For The American People ™ that we are somehow immune to the math that is going to slam it’s red, capital F Minus ink pen on this final exam.

The spending will continue.  The debt will be raised.  Nothing is fixed.  Your money is more worthless than it already was under our “Don’t Look Down Obamanomics” policy.

What no one accounts for is the panic when everyone does look down.  The panic is what kills.  It’s not the Neo-Welfarists bitterly clinging to 3-4 years of unemployment checks as opposed to taking a demeaning job (read:  A job)  that pays less than the handout or the never involved welfarists who ceased to work generations ago.  The panic of the people who continue working and realize it’s not worth it anymore is what will finish us.

But we are going to look down eventually and we are all going to suffer greater than any 1920s soup kitchen at the precise moment of Democracy and Freedom’s greatest peril.  Abandon the Republican Party if you have not already done so.  At the moment when they were needed most, they decided to become Democrats out of  the same ideological suicide that the Tea Party saved them from doing in 2010.  Resentment was their reward.

Like all serious suicides, you can’t save them from themselves.  We’ll just throw those bitten pillow cases away, change out the headboard, wipe off the wall and finally start over.   I really can’t say “fuck you” loud enough or long enough.

Pussy Control:  Time to vote on a new speaker.

Full disclosure:  I am not now or have I ever been a member of the NRA.  Nor do I ever have any plans to be.  It’s not that I disagree with their mission as much as the way that they go about doing it.  Donating money to allegedly pro-gun Democrats who pimp their endorsement to win conservative districts and then shoot them in the back with the gun that they gave them.  It’s like Michael Steele left the RNC and now presides over the NRA.  Just who’s side are you on?

It is time for Wayne LaPierre to retire to some great tree stand far removed from a television camera, microphone or interviewer.  He is no more than a doddering relic locked in 30 year old arguments.  Wholly unprepared and singularly unlikeable, if the NRA would like to lose the current national debate they could do no better than continuing with LaPierre as their face to the public.  He is the Pat Robertson of the 2nd Amendment and, quite frankly, the 2nd Amendment deserves a lot better than Wayne LaPierre.

I say this following his numerous misfires on Meet The Press. A dreadful interview.  Into the liberal lion’s den he went, with literal crap in the corner of his mouth while David Gregory studiously avoided mentioning it to him for the entirety of the prosecution decidedly hostile cross-examination.  While the idea of having an armed guard or allowing a licensed teacher to be able to carry may have some merit, the rote delivery of “what we need is a good guy with a gun x 15″ is some of the lamest rhetoric I’ve heard since Mitt Romney told people to vote for “love of country” contra Obama’s message of revenge.   Like the Republicans selecting Romney to take on the failure of the Obama presidency, the NRA is sending a rusty blunderbuss into a landmined warzone with motion detecting sentry cannons.

This is the best you’ve got?  This speaks nothing of his press conference earlier this week where he dusted of such golden oldies as:

And here’s another dirty little truth that the media try their best to conceal. There exists in this country, sadly, a callous, corrupt and corrupting shadow industry that sells and stows violence against its own people. Through vicious, violent video games with names like “Bullet Storm,” “Grand Theft Auto,” “Mortal Combat,” and “Splatterhouse.”

These are the comments of someone who has no connection to modern culture.  Twenty-year old video games that no one has seen since the Clinton Administration?  I understand the argument.  However, it’s being poorly made and delivered by someone reading it off of index cards who could not extemporaneously produce a more relevant example.  There are ultraviolent video games out there.  Call of Duty, Battlefield, Resident Evil.  They make more than Hollywood blockbusters.  Many more with subversive elements like Bioshock.   Breaking Bad glamorizes meth dealing. American Horror Story glamorized Columbine.  Calling out Mortal Combat or “Kindergarten Killers” is tantamount to demanding Dee Snyder testify in front of Congress again.

The NRA needs a new messenger.  One who’s had a little less surgery and is not locked in the good old days when Charlton Heston could smooth over his bellicosity to those not in the choir.  There are numerous people – Democrat party officials, school teachers and the other Democrat nuts who are making death threats against the members of the NRA with impunity and the equivalent of an endorsement from the media.  Not a word from LaPierre.  We don’t need guns to hunt deer.  We need guns to kill Democrats who want to kill us.

He offered no response to Blowdry’s suggetion that the NRA be responsible for funding guards in schools?  Really?  Why not force Planned Parenthood to pay for abstinence education at public schools?  This leap of demanding a private organization to assume guilt and financial responsibility for the actions taken by someone who was not a member or supporter is downright Soviet.  The shooter is dead.  The mother he killed to illegally obtain the weapon he used is dead.  Eric Holder is ripping a page out of Vladimir Putin’s playbook and providing some sham pretext to raid the store where Nancy Lanza legally purchased her rifle.  A store that did nothing wrong is being raided because someone tried to rob it and the media is painting it as “they were being raided by the feds for other reasons”.

Where is the argument about personal responsibility?  Whether it’s the movies you watch, the pills you take, the car you drive, the gun you buy it is no shock that the party who does not believe in individual responsibility would do so in this case either.  But for the head of the NRA to spew some “it’s as much everybody’s fault as us” is a rhetorical failing.  It’s Hollywood’s fault.  It’s video games fault.  Blah, blah, blah.  There was one person responsible for the Newtown shooting and that person is dead.  If he would have lived Liberals would be arguing that he should get an attorney free of charge, get his Bachelor’s Degree and suckle on the taxpayer’s teat for 70 years until he died of old age.  Every few years one would argue that he didn’t get a fair trial and should be let go like the amateur Norman Mailers they are.

These are serious times and the 2nd Amendment demands a serious defender.  To paraphrase I Own The World’s observation, the people who say it’s impossible to deport 12 million illegal aliens are somehow convinced that they are going to confiscate 280 million firerams.  The notion floated by New York’s Governor Andrew Cuomo lets the gungrabber’s mask slip:

In a radio interview on Thursday with Albany’s WGDJ-AM, New York governor Andrew Cuomo said that he plans to work with state legislators next month to submit a proposal for new gun-control laws; in particular, Cuomo said, “our focus is assault weapons,” because current state laws regulating the weapons “have more holes that Swiss cheese.”

“I don’t think legitimate sportsmen are going to say, ‘I need an assault weapon to go hunting,’” he said.

Cuomo continued, “Confiscation could be an option. Mandatory sale to the state could be an option. Permitting could be an option — keep your gun but permit it.”

The 2nd Amendment was not written to protect the rights of hunters.  Much less “legitimate” hunters as deemed by the Governor of New York.  It was meant so that a tyrannical government would get its bloody comeuppance when the time inevitably comes.  It was meant to stop Andrew Cuomos and Michael Bloombergs.  Your government is breaking into your home at night.  It is stealing the rings off your fingers at the funeral home.  It is stealing your child’s birthright.  And now it wants to steal the god-given right for you to be able to defend yourself.

You win the argument through debate so that you do not have to win it on your doorstep.  LaPierre has failed at that job.

RELATED:  Did David Gregory violate D.C. law with his extremely violent, high capacity prop comedy ambush of LaPierre this morning?  Video at Legal Insurrection complete with LaPierre’s visible mouth crud.  Spoiler Alert – probably.  But he’d get mad if you showed a picture of an abortion when debating “choice”.

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Thanks to BigFurHat at the always hilarious IOTW for the linky and the kind words.  As a sidebar, I don’t discount the need to encapsulate one’s message so that it can fit on a bumpersticker.  I do find fault with LaPierre’s numerous attempts to jam the clumsy penis talking point of his test-polled catchphrase into whatever lull in a hostile interview that he mistakes as a hole an opening.  But I say that about everybody.

Sure he’s late to the party and kept to himself.  Mostly.

But there’s no denying that Lanza is Time’s gender neutral “Person” of the Year.

The competition was already murder.  Between Mohammed Morsi, Kim Jong-Un, Sandra Fluke, The Undocumented American – it wasn’t the quantity of people killed but the quality.

What this lanky, saucer eyed mass murderer has done is greater than any Arab Spring.  He’s ushered in the American Fall and the movement to repeal the 2nd Amendment to the United States Constitution.   Many great progressives died on that battlefield of non-gunshot related injuries but it took one brave, differently abled young man to succeed where so many others failed.  With each round he pumped into those elementary school children, our hearts skipped a beat and swelled with pride.  His gun may have been in those cherubic faces but his name was on everyone’s tongue.

What’s he doing??? What’s he wearing??? Ya know?  What makes him tick?  Was his mother a drunk redneck who got what she deserved?

Like watching a young child learn to ride a bicycle, the smile on our faces grew as we watched our own country maturing before our eyes in realization that gun ownership is just plain wrong.  Even hardcore rightwing Republicans like Joe Scarborough and Michael Bloomberg or avid Democrat hunters like Joe Manchin could not deny the tidal wave of change – statistics be damned.

The usual rapid fire NRA put it’s guns in the ground and observed a weeklong silence in agreement that they were totally responsible for what happened.

The sacrifice those kids made for the good of the nation is greater than any fingerpaint or prom they were going to attend.  With each little coffin being delivered to the funeral home we clinked our champagne glasses and toasted Adam Lanza. After all, you can’t make a firearm outlawing omelet without gunning down a few 29th trimester fetuses.  To be certain, we washed the champagne down with bittersweet tears.

No other candidate could even come close to having such a positive impact on our world while making us completely re-evaluate our longheld position on homeschooling.

On behalf of the entire Mainstream Media Complex, we’d like to extend our highest honor to Adam Lanza.  Time Magazine’s Person of the Year.

Cheers,

The Time Magazine Editorial Board