You can read the obituary here.

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

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Er, landslide I mean.

That’s what I am predicting.

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

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

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

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Draw your own conclusions.

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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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Lord knows, we need it.

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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Got this bit of wisdom via email today:

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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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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. JOEWILSON.HOUSE.GOV
Sincerely, 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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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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It works both ways I suppose.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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