11/November/2012

Rest in Peace
Posted by: John McCrarey @ 10:44 am | Filed under: Politics    

09/November/2012

Regarding the election
Posted by: John McCrarey @ 1:06 am | Filed under: Politics    

This pretty much captures the way I felt on election night.

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05/November/2012

Can you spell landside?
Posted by: John McCrarey @ 11:27 pm | Filed under: Politics    

Er, landslide I mean.

That’s what I am predicting.

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09/October/2012

If you could burn farts for fuel…
Posted by: John McCrarey @ 4:09 pm | Filed under: Politics    

…we wouldn’t be in this mess.  C’mon, you know it’s true.

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In California people double the value of their car every time they fill the tank!

Energy Secretary Cho said it was desirable for U.S. fuel prices to rise to European levels.  Finally, an Obama administration success!

Meanwhile we sit on oil reserves equal to all the known reserves in the Middle East.  Unemployment soars, and we won’t drill oil, build pipelines, and jump start the economy by reducing our dependence on expensive imported oil.

I keep hearing Obama talk about raising taxes on the middle class.  Hell, the price of gas has almost doubled on his watch.  And that has a disproportionate impact on the poor and working class.

The country is in the very best of hands.

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21/September/2012

Makers and takers
Posted by: John McCrarey @ 8:17 am | Filed under: Politics    

Defined.   You better learn it fast and you better learn it young.

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15/September/2012

Words matter
Posted by: John McCrarey @ 6:28 am | Filed under: Politics    

This documentary is worthy of your consideration on whether the president has earned our trust.

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12/September/2012

A tale of two tweets
Posted by: John McCrarey @ 11:17 am | Filed under: Politics    

31/July/2012

Send in the clowns
Posted by: John McCrarey @ 11:25 am | Filed under: Politics    

So, a friend of mine at the Department of Defense shared an excerpt from Congressional testimony regarding pending cuts to the Defense budget and it’s impact on the civilian workforce.  Clearly, the country’s in the best of hands…

FORBES: (Congressman)
Can you tell me any proposal that you’ve seen floating right now that would
suggest that it’s going to be addressed?
VOLLRATH: (DoD Deputy Assistant Secretary)
Personally, I have not.
FORBES:
Who would make the decision within your department to start this analysis?
VOLLRATH:
That — that would have to start with the secretary of defense.
FORBES:
And the secretary of defense has given you no instruction at all to begin that
analysis to date?
VOLLRATH:
I personally do not have that kind of instruction.
FORBES:
But you would know — you would know if that was going to take place based on
your position, would you not?
VOLLRATH:
Not necessarily, because this is a large strategic movement.
FORBES:
So then as the principal deputy assistant secretary of defense for readiness and
force management at the Department of Defense, if you wouldn’t know, who would
know above you?
VOLLRATH:
At — at this stage, I would defer to the secretary of defense and to the
president and where they intend to…
(CROSSTALK)
FORBES:
Well, the president and the secretary of defense aren’t going to do the actual
planning. They would have to give that instruction. But who would know in the
department if such instructions have been given to begin the planning, if you
wouldn’t know? Could this planning take place if you didn’t know it?
VOLLRATH:
Probably not.
FORBES:
So then you would know it if — if the planning was going to take place?
VOLLRATH:
I am not aware of any planning, but that does not mean that there is no
planning.
FORBES:
Well, help me with this. It’s your testimony that if the planning were taking
place, you would know it. Then you said you don’t know it. But then you said the
planning could still be taking place.
VOLLRATH:
If there were any planning taking place that had any specificity to it, I would
anticipate that I would be aware of that.
FORBES:
And today in your testimony, you are not aware of that. Is that your testimony?
VOLLRATH:
That is correct.
FORBES:
Are you aware that anyone has told you not to do the planning?
VOLLRATH:
No one has told me not to do planning.

That’s comedy gold I tell you.  Better than any skit I’ve seen on Saturday Night Live lately…

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27/May/2012

God Bless America
Posted by: John McCrarey @ 3:29 pm | Filed under: Politics    

Lord knows, we need it.

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In other unrelated news I observed a young man on the subway yesterday wearing a T-shirt celebrating his uniqueness.  Or, as stated on his shirt, his “indivisualism”.  I can see that.

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Monkeying around
Posted by: John McCrarey @ 3:25 pm | Filed under: Politics    

Got this bit of wisdom via email today:

If you start with a cage containing five monkeys and inside the cage, hang
a banana on a string from the top and then you place a set of stairs under
the banana, before long a monkey will go to the stairs and climb toward the
banana.As soon as he touches the stairs, you spray all the other monkeys with cold
water.

After a while another monkey makes an attempt with same result … all the
other monkeys are sprayed with cold water. Pretty soon when another monkey
tries to climb the stairs, the other monkeys will try to prevent it.

Now, put the cold water away.

Remove one monkey from the cage and replace it with a new one.
The new monkey sees the banana and attempts to climb the stairs.To his
shock, all of the other monkeys beat the crap out of him. After another
attempt and attack, he knows that if he tries to climb the stairs he will be
assaulted.
Next, remove another of the original five monkeys, replacing it with a new
one. The newcomer goes to the stairs and is attacked. The previous newcomer takes
part in the punishment…… with enthusiasm, because he is now part of the
“team”.
Then, replace a third original monkey with a new one, followed by the
fourth, then the fifth. Every time the newest monkey takes to the stairs he
is attacked.
Now, the monkeys that are beating him up have no idea why they were not
permitted to climb the stairs. Neither do they know why they are
participating in the beating of the newest monkey.
Finally, having replaced all of the original monkeys, none of the remaining
monkeys will have ever been sprayed with cold water. Nevertheless, not one
of the monkeys will try to climb the stairway for the banana. Why, you ask?
Because in their minds…that is the way it has always been!
This, my friends, is how Congress operates…and this is why, from time to
time, ALL of the monkeys need to be REPLACED AT THE SAME TIME.

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14/May/2012

Bully pulpit
Posted by: John McCrarey @ 4:53 pm | Filed under: Politics , "oh THAT liberal bias"    

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I’ve mostly been confining my political rants to Facebook, but a recent issue had a (slight) Korean angle, so I’m going to run with it here at LTG.

It starts with the Washington Post running an expose hit piece on presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney.  Yes, the paper that brought you Watergate used all the powers of investigative reporting to discover that Romney may have been a bit of a prick.  In 1965.  In high school.

The other night at darts, a friend’s Korean wife who is just about as apolitical as you can be, expressed outrage that anyone could be held accountable for adolescent behavior occurring half a century in the past.  Her husband, who doesn’t like to talk politics but leans well to the left, was equally nonplussed, saying “That is just wrong.  If people are going to be judged based on how they acted in high school, no one will be qualified to be president.”

Of course, their anger at this smear job is understandable.  They have the good fortune to be living in Korea where they are not subjected to “news” stories that read like press releases from the Democratic National Committee on a daily basis.  Otherwise they might not have been so surprised at just how low the Fourth Estate has fallen.  The press cannot fulfill its historical watchdog role when it is in the tank for the party in power.  Jennifer Rubin, the token conservative blogger at the Post, has a nice column up showing just how one sided “reporting” has become.

What always gets to me though is the blatant hypocrisy.  It was just days ago that presidential adviser David Axlerod was making the rounds saying how outrageous it was for Obama to be criticized for eating dog.  After all, Axlerod reminded us, he was just a child.

But it is worse than that really.  See, it turns out that Obama has some bullying in his past to account for as well.  In his so called autobiography Dreams of my Father, Obama recounts how he shoved a girl because he was being teased by his classmates that he was her boyfriend.  Hey, I’m all in favor of what happens on the playground, stays on the playground.  But it’s got to cut both ways.  That’s just basic fairness.

Anyway, the latest attempt to demonize Romney was not particularly well received.  Even the leftist left leaning Time magazine felt compelled to offer a lukewarm defense of Romney, noting that Obama wasn’t disqualified from office based on his admitted pot-smoking, coke-snorting past.

Anyway, I think bullying is bad and wrong and that it has been a part of the socialization of children since the beginning of time.  So I’m not attempting to condone the behavior of either man when I say that of the two, Obama comes off worse in my view.  It sounds like Romney was a smart ass instigator.  Obama was pushed into his abusive behavior by peer pressure.  To the extent it matters (and of course, it doesn’t), I know who I would rather see as the leader of the free world.

In the end the Post failed in its attempt to change focus from the abysmal Obama economy to Romney’s alleged bad character as a high school boy.  You can’t really blame them for trying, because after four years of utter destruction, Obama has nothing else to run on.

UPDATE: A musical accompaniment.

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19/January/2012

Did my Congressman just tell me to go BLANK myself?
Posted by: John McCrarey @ 8:11 am | Filed under: Politics    

So, I wrote my Congress-critter a nice letter indicating my opposition to the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) currently pending before the house.  Today via email I got this response:

JOE WILSON
2nd District, South CarolinaASSISTANT MAJORITY WHIPCOMMITTEES:
ARMED SERVICES
Chairman, Personnel Subcommittee
FOREIGN AFFAIRS
EDUCATION AND THE WORKFORCE
HOUSE POLICY
CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
COUNTIES:
AIKEN*
ALLENDALE
BARNWELL
BEAUFORT
CALHOUN*
HAMPTON
JASPER
LEXINGTON
ORANGEBURG*
RICHLAND*
* parts of
January 18, 2012

Mr. John McCrarey
301 [redacted] Dr
Columbia, SC

Dear Mr. McCrarey,
BLANK

It is an honor to serve the people of the Second Congressional District of South Carolina.

If I may ever be of assistance please do not hesitate to contact me.

Sincerely,
(signed)
Joe Wilson
Member of Congress
Sign up for Joe Wilson’s E-Newsletter!

Now, he’s the guy who called Obama a liar during the State of the Union speech.  And I can appreciate that he says what he thinks.  Still, I think I deserve better than a somewhat ambiguous “BLANK”.  Was he just trying to be polite?

 

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15/November/2011

Raising Cain
Posted by: John McCrarey @ 12:36 am | Filed under: Politics    

Glenn Reynolds links to this NYTimes column regarding the slippery slope of the ever expanding definition of sexual harassment.  Since no one has offered any substantive specifics on just what Cain did or didn’t do, and whether it crossed any legal or moral boundaries, it seems to me this situation is as likely to be political dirty tricks as it is inappropriate behavior. 

Having recently retired after 34 years of federal government service, this post brought back memories.  We had annual mandatory workshops on “sexual harassment” and “diversity” and sometimes the content was downright Orwellian.  My favorite story was the time the diversity instructor told us solemnly that the paper easel he was using for his presentation should not be called a “flip” chart as that term would be considered offensive to people of Filipino origin.  Instead, we should call it a “rip chart”.  To our credit, several folks immediately burst out laughing.  And then we started asking what we should do if called upon to “flip a coin”.   Or if we could no longer “flip the bird” when cut off in traffic.  In went on in that vein until the flustered diversity expert gave the class an unscheduled coffee break.  I guess he was surprised we all flipped out on him by being so flip about such a serious matter.

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09/November/2011

From the Committee to De-elect the President?
Posted by: John McCrarey @ 12:38 am | Filed under: Politics    

13/June/2011

What they are teaching in school these days…
Posted by: John McCrarey @ 11:21 pm | Filed under: Politics    

Well, at least at Lake Carolina elementary.  My daughter-in-law shared this gem brought home by her fourth grader:

“A Moo Way to Look at Isms”

Socialism: You have two cows.  Give one cow to your neighbor.

Communism: You have two cows.  Give both cows to the government, and they may give you some milk.

Fascism: You have two cows.  You give all the milk to the government, and the government sells it.

Nazism:  You have two cows.  The government shoots you and takes both cows.

Anarchism: You have two cows.  Keep both cows, shoot the government agent and steal another cow.

Capitalism: You have two cows.  Sell one cow and buy a bull.

Good stuff.

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05/November/2010

Bipartianship defined
Posted by: John McCrarey @ 7:22 am | Filed under: Politics    

In 2008 Barack Obama helped elect 255 Democrats to the House.

In 2012 Barack Obama helped elect 240 Republicans to the House.

Glad to see he’s finally getting something right!

Hat Tip: Don Surber

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03/November/2010

Welcome to the unemployment line
Posted by: John McCrarey @ 11:02 pm | Filed under: Politics    

Well, it was certainly heartening to see so many scumbag losers Democratic incumbents tossed out on their sorry asses held accountable by the uneducated angry masses American voters.

My favorite amongst these recently unemployed individuals is NC Representative Bob Etheridge.  You remember him, don’t you?

Anytime an arrogant ignorant asshole like this is removed from a position of power and authority it’s a good thing.  What makes this particular case all the sweeter is that it represents a big victory for new media over the corrupt gatekeepers of the liberal press.

This was also a victory for New Media. As we’ve seen time and again, the same corrupted MSM that endlessly looped the assault on that MoveOn crazy woman at the Rand Paul (I mean, Senator-Elect Rand Paul) event would’ve most certainly ignored the video of Etheridge’s assault like they do most stories that might create a narrative damaging to the left.

But YouTube and these here Inter-Web-Dot-Nets make it possible for truth-tellers to go around the self-appointed MSM Gatekeepers and get the word out. And when something goes viral, as this did, it can have the same effect it would have if the MSM weren’t corrupt and did their jobs honorably. 

I don’t want to say that New Media took a scalp with Etheridge, because it’s not about that. It’s about breaking the MSM monopoly and letting the American people decide what information is important and relevant and what isn’t.

The masses are not asses, the MSM knows this, which is why they so desperately want to control the flow of information. The rise of righteous New Media may not be fast enough for some but just take a moment to remember what the media landscape was like just ten years ago — and it’s only going to get better.

Oh yeah, the best is yet to come.  The jig is up folks.  There is nowhere to run and nowhere to hide.

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02/November/2010

Who’s gonna be punished? Who’s the enemy?
Posted by: John McCrarey @ 2:17 pm | Filed under: Politics    

The president had this to say to Hispanic voters:

“If Latinos sit out the election instead of saying, ‘We’re gonna punish our enemies, and we’re gonna reward our friends who stand with us on issues that are important to us’ — if they don’t see that kind of upsurge in voting in this election — then I think it’s going to be harder. And that’s why I think it’s so important that people focus on voting on November 2nd.”

House Republican Leader John Boehner responded:

In remarks prepared for delivery at an election-eve rally in Cincinnati, Boehner seized on the “enemies” passage: “Ladies and gentlemen, we have a president in the White House who referred to Americans who disagree with him as ‘our enemies.’ … Mr. President, there’s a word for people who have the audacity to speak up in defense of freedom, the Constitution, and the values of limited government that made our country great. We don’t call them ‘enemies.’ We call them ‘patriots.’”

Hell, I don’t know who’s right.  Let’s let the ignorant, angry and unwashed voters decide the issue.  I’m guessing the patriots will defeat the enemy, but what do I know?

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21/October/2010

What he said
Posted by: John McCrarey @ 7:12 am | Filed under: Politics    

Hispanic candidate called anti-Hispanic.

Click the link above for his classic response.

I’ll just say that it is pretty damn scary when common sense values like these are called “extreme”.

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19/October/2010

Obama to appear on TV show Mythbusters
Posted by: John McCrarey @ 7:17 am | Filed under: Politics    

Not sure which myth they will attempt to debunk–that stimulus created jobs, that Obamacare saves money, or that the President is even remotely competent.  Oh wait, those myths have already been debunked!

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