Wisdom from Treacher on the latest Psychotic Left douchebag to try to kill a bunch of people:

James Jay Lee, the Discovery Channel would-be bomber who was shot and killed by police yesterday, left behind an online trail of radical environmentalist and outright anti-human propaganda. He had been yelling at the Discovery Channel for years to stop doing Shark Week and start doing Put Sterilizing Agents in the Drinking Water Week. He wanted us to stop having “filthy babies” and killing the planet. He claimed to have been educated by, among other things, Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth.

Does that mean Al Gore made him do it? Does it mean that the scare tactics employed by global warming believers caused him to flip out? No, it does not. The guy was nuts. If he hadn’t latched onto global warming and The Population Bomb and so forth, he would’ve latched onto something else. Plenty of people believe the same things James Jay Lee believed without resorting to violence. He alone was responsible for his own actions.

You may recall that this is the same attitude I had toward Michael Enright, the drunken art-school student who stabbed a cabbie in midtown Manhattan after asking if he was a Muslim. Except in that case, a mere week ago, we were told Enright was driven to it by “the climate of anti-Muslim bigotry in America.” And then the news got out that Enright volunteered for an organization that supported the Ground Zero Mosque, and everybody cleared their throats and shuffled their feet and tried to forget about the whole thing.

Do those same people believe that the climate of global warming alarmism in America drove James Jay Lee to commit such a terrible act? I’m not saying they should be yelling about that. I’m saying that if they don’t, if they only apply that standard when it suits them, they’re either unthinking demagogues or unprincipled hacks.

Or, y’know, both. But the one thing I think we all know for sure is that this episode, just like all the others, will have no sobering effect whatever on the shrieking, hate-filled Left. They’ll go right on blaming Rush Limbaugh for the vanishingly rare incidents of right-wing violence, while ignoring any possibility of culpability accruing to themselves for the ever-increasing incidents of left-inspired violence. Kinda hard to make the crucial mote-beam distinction when their eyes are squinched every bit as tightly shut as their minds are.

Update! Donald says it:

Look. I’m just glad that the hostages are safe. And God rest his soul, but James Lee was mentally disturbed. Almost as disturbing is the far-left’s hopeless efforts to rewrite the storyline to fit their warped partisan agenda. The bottom line is that the gunman was motivated by radical environmentalism, and he even claimed Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth” as inspiration. It’s mostly just sad, either way.

Yep — sad all the way around.

So, Leftards: does Al Gore now have blood on his hands, same as you always say Limbaugh, Hannity, Beck, et al do each and every time you jump to the same old erroneous conclusion about some violent incident or other — and before it becomes known that the perp is yet another one of your deranged comrades instead?

Moderate Muslims unjustly harassed by Islamophobes; liberal delusions hardest hit:

Two men taken off a Chicago-to-Amsterdam United Airlines flight in the Netherlands have been charged by Dutch police with “preparation of a terrorist attack,” U.S. law enforcement officials tell ABC News.

U.S. officials said the two appeared to be travelling with what were termed “mock bombs” in their luggage. “This was almost certainly a dry run, a test,” said one senior law enforcement official.

A spokesman for the Dutch public prosecutor, Ernst Koelman, confirmed the two men were arrested this morning and said “the investigation is ongoing.” He said the arrests were made “at the request of American authorities.”

Oh. Well, that explains it, then; it’s all America’s fault, as usual. Treacher suggests a few alternate headlines:

All kidding aside, what’s up with this anti-Muslim bigotry? I’ve long advocated the “Not All” rule for these types of stories:

Not All Muslims Arrested on ‘Preparation of a Terrorist Attack’ in Amsterdam
Not All Muslims Kill 14 in Fort Hood Shooting Rampage
Not All Muslims Put Bomb in Underpants and Book Transatlantic Flight
Not All Muslims Fly Planes into World Trade Center, Murdering Thousands

But instead we have this 21st Century lynching party. Do you really want to live in a world where the cops can arrest guys just because they happen to be Muslim and happen to be carrying stuff that looks like bombs? And I’m sure the arresting officers will deny up and down that they’re racists.

Ahh, but we all know better, don’t we?

Man alive, we just gotta do something about these damned teabaggers and their racist hate speech.

Meh, didn’t watch it. I never do; I’d rather clip my toenails with a chainsaw than sit back and let this fool of a charlatan of a hack’s obvious lies wash over me like a stream of warm piss. From what I gather, the egregious boob basically said that the way to achieve victory in the former War on Terror is to quickly implement more disastrous socialism here at home. Or some such self-serving tripe as that.

The speech notmypResident Barky Obumbler is neither honest enough nor man enough to give, but ought to:

Good evening.

I stand before you tonight humbled, shamed, and contrite. No one is right all the time, as all but the most arrogant — or foolish — among us acknowledge. I hope I’ve been strong enough over the years to admit when I’ve been wrong, to correct the mistakes I’ve made, and to make right any harm my errors may have done to those I’ve wrongly disagreed with. I hope to continue to live up to those principles as I continue my term in office, and I hope you will all continue to help me live up to them.

Several years ago, I and almost all of my Democrat Socialist comrades were working hard to undermine the war in Iraq. We were doing so purely for partisan political purposes; at that time, George Bush was wildly popular, since he had decided to break with my scurrilous political party’s fairly recent tradition of supine, weak-kneed response to any attack or provocation directed at America by our adversaries. Clearly, most Americans are opposed to such a feckless and counterproductive policy; we should have seen the sudden surge of support for President Bush for what it was, and adjusted our thinking accordingly.

But we didn’t; we obstinately went on pursuing our own narrow self-interest, and the long-term good of the nation be damned.

I can’t speak for my Democrat Socialist comrades; I can only acknowledge my own errors, and apologize as humbly and sincerely as I possibly can for them. Over the years since Bush decided to rid the world once and for all of a most troublesome, dangerous, and unpredictable dictator in Iraq, a decision I not only railed against but lied about at every possible opportunity in my role as an insignificant, unaccomplished, unknown Senate back-bencher, I said the following things:

“We cannot impose a military solution on what has effectively become a civil war. And until we acknowledge that reality, uh, we can send 15,000 more troops; 20,000 more troops; 30,000 more troops. Uh, I don’t know any, uh, expert on the region or any military officer that I’ve spoken to, uh, privately that believes that that is gonna make a substantial difference on the situation on the ground.”

“Here’s what we know. The surge has not worked. And they said today, ‘Well, even in September, we’re going to need more time.’ So we’re going to kick this can all the way down to the next president, under the president’s plan.”

“After putting an additional 30,000 troops in, far longer & more troops than the president had initially said, we have gone from a horrendous situation of violence in Iraq to the same intolerable levels of violence that we had back in June of 2006. So, essentially, after all this we’re back where we were 15 months ago. And what has not happened is any movement with respect to the sort of political accommodations among the various factions, the Shia, the Sunni, and Kurds that were the rationale for surge and that ultimately is going to be what stabilizes Iraq. So, I think it is fair to say that the president has simply tried to gain another six months to continue on the same course that he’s been on for several years now. It is a course that will not succeed. It is a course that is exacting an enormous toll on the American people & our troops.”

“Tonight Pres. Bush said that the surge in Iraq is working, when we know that’s just not true. Yes, our valiant soldiers have helped reduce the violence. But let there be no doubt–the Iraqi government has failed to seize the moment to reach compromises necessary for an enduring peace. That was what we were told the surge was all about. So the only way we’re finally going to pressure the Iraqis to reconcile and take responsibility for their future is to immediately begin a responsible withdrawal.”

“Finally, in 2006-2007, we started to see that, even after an election, George Bush continued to want to pursue a course that didn’t withdraw troops from Iraq but actually doubled them and initiated a surge and at that stage I said very clearly, not only have we not seen improvements, but we’re actually worsening, potentially, a situation there.”

I said those things, and more. I did so shamelessly, with dishonest intentions, and without regard for how they might serve to hinder the war effort and intensify the nation’s divisions. I was wrong.

Iraq under Saddam was a dangerous enemy of the United States — whatever our relationship with him might have been during their war with Iran — one that had sought to dominate the Middle East and made unjustified war against its neighbors; had repeatedly and insolently violated both UN sanctions and the terms of our 1991 cease fire agreement with them; supported Muslim terrorism all over the world, directly and indirectly, covertly and overtly, with every means at its disposal; had plotted to murder a former US President; and had continued to attack our pilots enforcing the no-fly zones with near-complete impunity. Saddam Hussein had to be removed, and over my and my comrades’ duplicitous and calculating objections, he was.

I now therefore apologize sincerely to our valiant soldiers, whose selfless dedication has made possible whatever success we’ve had in Iraq, while enduring shameful attacks from the disgusting anti-American traitors of Code Pink, among many other Progressivist pressure groups; to their families, who shared that sacrifice even as my comrades such as John Kerry were vilifying the soldiers themselves as bloodthirsty ignoramuses, the moral equivalent of Muslim terrorists; to the Americans who believe strongly in maintaining a strong defense and vigorously defending American interests against all enemies; and above all to George Bush and the members of his administration, who stood up courageously against some of the most outrageous slander, hatred, and mendacity ever seen in this nation’s history, perpetrated by my political party and its supporters, to see their program through.

I and my Democrat Socialist comrades have defamed our countrymen, besmirched our national honor, undermined our military, and brought our country to the brink of disaster in wartime, all in the obsessive pursuit of power. Perhaps above all, we have disgraced ourselves. I can only hope that this apology will begin to move us forward on the long road back to earning the trust and good will of the American people, who are in truth far from being the benighted, foolish, mentally-deficient children we in our arrogance have always assumed them to be, and are certainly not the warmongering, bigoted imperialists that haunt our — and our enemies’ — demented fantasies. For that, too, I apologize.

Thank you, and good night.

He’d almost be worth listening to if he ever once said anything remotely like that.

And still doesn’t know it:

Obama’s vision of the media was as purveyors of his talking points. To that end he kept it at arms length, even while using it non-stop to promote himself. By turning the media into his publicists, he helped accelerate a rapid slide that had already been under way, ending any real distinction between news and celebrity news, between opinion and reporting, and between the liberal media and the liberal government. And when Ezra Klein tried to occasionally draw a line between themselves and the politicians they cover, it was a line that was no longer there anymore, because the media had found its mission in the advocacy of liberal domestic and international policies, of convincing the public that their political way was best. How many lines could be crossed in the name of that advocacy was by this point a subjective matter, a question of what individual members of the press were comfortable with, while still retaining the illusion of their independence.

When it came to a showdown between the principles of journalism and the principles of liberalism– journalism never stood a chance. And all that was left was shrill political advocacy, propaganda if you will. Numerous stories praising their politicians and their cultural figures. Numerous other stories damning opposition politicians and elements of culture that displeased them. And the costs to the nation were high. The same media that did everything possible to destroy McCain and Palin, also portrayed Obama as a visionary leader, even though he had barely nailed down 100 days in the Senate before running for President.

The tripled deficit, the economic and political disasters, the greed, corruption and misrule can all be laid at the media’s door. And plenty of people are doing just that. The media fervently championed an unqualified candidate, lied about him and his opponents, and then went on lying about his policies and their consequences. They sold the public a bill of goods, and that same public will also hold them responsible. When the media tore up any distance between themselves and the story, they became the story. Jornolist was the story of how the story was made, of how the lies were told and the talking points developed. And there will be more like it.

Count on it. As Daniel says, the Juicebox Mafia story was the tip of the iceberg. And it’s not as if they didn’t just quietly regroup and reform their little hen party under a new name, after all. Not that it matters in the long run; most people know quite well by now exactly what the “journalists” that make up Zombie Media are, and what they’re really up to — even if they themselves don’t realize how thoroughly they’ve been exposed by their own malfeasance over the years.

I don’t think it means what you think it means.  “Progressive” should refer to people who actually like Progress.

85 years, and the God damned Commies still can’t stop ranting about saboteurs and wreckers.

Your economic policies are FAIL, have always been FAIL, will always be FAIL.  Until you can come up with something more intelligent than scapegoating, kindly have a tall glass of STFU.

The Most Qualified Democrat Socialist candidate EVAR speaks his mind, lays out his program:

I’m unemployed, and, if elected, I can teach the Harvard rich kids in the White House and the senate a thing or two. I will vote for any law and propose any measure to keep jobs in my state of South Carolina. I will vote for huge tariffs, and, if necessary, vote to ban imports of foreign goods. Millionaire egghead politicians in the pocket of big business talk about “free trade” – and let all of your jobs get shipped overseas.

No more free trade. Your job is not going to Indonesia.

I will stop house foreclosures. Big banks got their bailout. Their debt was forgiven – and you paid for it. Their executives got million-dollar bonuses.

Did they forgive your debt? Did you get a bonus?

I will stop debt collectors from calling you. I will make it illegal for a company to sell a debt you have for purposes of collection. You and your family have dignity: you are not cattle to be sold back and forth in the debt marketplace. You know how horrible it is to have those vampires calling you, again and again and again.

I will shut down payday lenders who are sucking you dry.

In America, if you lose your job, and you get sick, you go broke or you die. This happens in no other civilised country. The stories that socialised medicine does not work are lies. Pick your system – Austria, Britain or Canada – but we must have universal health insurance. Healthcare, for free, for everyone.

I’ll save your house. I’ll save your job.

Y’know, I really can’t figure out why Democrat Socialists are so horrified by this guy. He sounds just exactly like all the rest of ‘em, and makes every bit as much sense. And from what I’ve heard, he’s certainly no worse speaking extemporaneously than Barrack “Uh…Uh…Uh…Uh” Obama.

(Via AP)

Well, that much is obvious, i must say; liberal confusion over the issue is certainly not difficult to explain. At the risk of making their pointy collectivist heads explode, I’ll try to help the blockheads out by reiterating Doug’s explanation:

These rallies focus on one fundamental concept: forcing government to honor our highest law, the United States Constitution — the greatest framework for government ever created.

Despite the bitter Left’s desperate clinging to the discredited, dreary old statist ideals of 20th-century Progressivism, that really is all there is to it. If they truly don’t understand by now, well, there can only be one reason, which is reflected in my choice of categories for this post.

We’ll try to be as patient as we can, guys. But do stop screaming “RACIST!!” every five seconds, wipe the foam off your mouths, and at least try to keep up, willya?

Okay, this right here is just too, too funny.

Update! Tim Blair brings more funny: “A lot has changed since 2004. Charles Johnson now believes CBS rather than his own eyes.” If flip-flopping Lefty boobs like Johnson didn’t exist, we’d have to invent them, if only for our own amusement.

Thanks a pantload, Ruling Class!

But why are bed bugs back? Though they’ve been sucking humans’ blood since at least ancient Greece, bed bugs became virtually extinct in America following the invention of pesticide DDT.

There were almost no bed bugs in the United States between World War II and the mid-1990s.

Around when bed bugs started their resurgence, Congress passed a major pesticides law in 1996 and the Clinton EPA banned several classes of chemicals that had been effective bed bug killers.

The debate isn’t over long-banned DDT, since modern bed bugs have developed a tolerance for that chemical. But in the pre-1996 regime, experts say, bed bugs were “collateral damage” from broader and more aggressive use of now-banned pesticides like Malathion and Propoxur.

Now some health officials are clamoring to bring those chemicals back to help solve the bed bug “emergency.” Meanwhile, EPA bureaucrats have downplayed the idea and environmentalists are pushing hard against the effort, citing safety concerns.

Hey, it’s for your own good, you itchy, sleep-deprived serfs. Apparently, Ohio’s Democrat Socialist governor begged his co-religionists — and our masters — at the Royal EPA to lighten up on the bureaucratic overreach and relax the restrictions on proven bedbug killing chemicals, at least temporarily. The response: how about some cake, peasants (PDF link)?

EPA staff have reviewed Ohio’s emergency exemption request for the pesticide active ingredient, propoxur. Although EPA recognizes the severe and urgent challenges that Ohio is facing from bed bugs, the results of the risk assessment do not support the necessary safety findings as required by the Food Quality Protection Act (FQPA) and the Federal Insecticide, (FIFRA).

Of course, the claimed “dangers” of those chemicals that actually do work, undoubtedly grotesquely exaggerated by enviro-whackjobs so as to get more power into the hands of the Progressivist types best suited to using it, are disputed.

Fret not, though: the experts, who know waaay more than you do in case you were wondering, are forming a blue-ribbon panel to study the matter. They’ll get back to you in a decade or three when they decide what’s best. In the meanwhile, scratching yourself and cursing the Almighty State are still legal. For now.

(Via Insty)

I notice a trend around these parts to follow in the footsteps of those who predict the imminent implosion of dinosaur or zombie media.  True, newspaper after newspaper is folding, fewer and fewer people are getting their news from television and radio news sources and so forth.

But.

Radio was going to kill the newspaper.  It didn’t.

Television was going to kill radio and the newspaper.  It didn’t.

The internet has been just about to kill radio, television and the newspaper for a few years now.  And (you guessed it!) it hasn’t.

Old technologies hardly ever go away completely.  There are still buggy whip manufacturers, for instance, although now most of their clientele is in San Fransisco, featured in a Zombie Time special, usually.  Despite the advent of digital video, you can still buy movie film, yes movie film, if you know where to look.  Despite the advent of digital still images that are finally almost as good as 35mm negative film (Don’t get me started on the superiority of slide film.  Just don’t.), Fuji, Kodak and Ilford are still being sold in reasonable quantities from Adorama and B&H.  Sure, you can no longer get them in the 20 pack as you once could, but the 5 pack is nearly as convenient.

There are even damned fools wasting their time learning how to knap flint spearheads and hunt boars the really old fashioned way.

I bet most of them vote Republican.

Doug Ross runs the whole farcical left-wing propaganda exercise down, disgraceful as it is, concluding with this:

These rallies focus on one fundamental concept: forcing government to honor our highest law, the United States Constitution — the greatest framework for government ever created.

We don’t give a damn about race, religion, creed, skin pigmentation or body odor (yes, I mean you, Ed Schultz), as evidenced by our rock solid support of patriots from every culture and walk of life.

We have the biggest tent of all: the freedom tent, in which government is controlled, not the individual.

You see, dimwit media, we believe in the rule of law. The Constitution. The Declaration. And you are its enemies. And very soon now you will become nothing more than a footnote to a footnote to a passing reference in an elementary school history book.

Precisely so, right down the line. Maybe someday they’ll figure it all out. But I doubt it.

SHOCKING HATE SPEECH Update! TERRIFYING HATE-FILLED HATER UNLEASHES HATEFUL HATE SPEECH TO HATEMONGERING CROWDS OF VIOLENT, RACIST HATERS!

Sarah Palin says that “a lot of common sense, constitutional conservatives” will be elected in November.

“That’s what Americans are ready for — the kind of change where we get back to protecting our constitution and limiting government,” Palin tells us, backstage at the Restoring Honor event. “That’s what I think we see reflected here, even though this is a rally about restoring honor.”

Truly, truly scary, this awful woman. God, can you imagine if her insane, retarded ideas ever really took hold among anyone other than the benighted rabble of bigot-Americans? Why, this nation would bear almost no resemblance at all to the Eurosocialist soft tyrannies the Founding Fathers had in mind!

SHE MUST BE STOPPED!

…here ya go, via an Insty link to a pretty dang neat set of cuff links. If that ain’t true internet serendipity, I don’t know what would be. Also, it’s UNEXPECTED!

UNEXPECTED!

But hey, better to be pissed off than pissed on, right?

Update! Almost to forgot to mention this other chilling example of right-wing violence committed by left-wingers. Somebody investigate the Leftist blowhards at TPM for their eliminationist rhetoric and how it inevitably leads to hate crimes, quick!

Economic woes solved in a mere fifteen minutes:

Mayor Bloomberg flew up to Martha’s Vineyard after this morning’s regular radio appearance to play a round of golf and talk about the economy with President Obama, we now hear…

Update from the White House pool reporter: “Potus is golfing with Mayor Bloomberg today, and they prefaced their game with a 15-minute discussion of the economy in the clubhouse at the Vineyard Golf Club.”

Lots of people have hammered Ogabe for his laser-like focus on golf to the exclusion of, well, damned near everything else, but not me. The more he goofs off on the links, the less time he spends making a hash of things in the Oval Office, so it’s a-okay with me.

(Via Hoft)

Update! Reality sits on supergenius regime’s head, refuses to get up and go away, confusing and annoying feckless commie hacks in charge:

The great American jobs machine has stalled. Whether it revives anytime soon or continues to flounder is the 7-millions-jobs question. What is certain is that the economy should be steadily strengthening. The basic forces of growth and prosperity remain in place, much as they have always been. But something is holding the economy back. That something is Washington.

The key factor that always escapes the economic models — and is now missing from the economy — is confidence. The inherent, pervasive optimism that traditionally propels investment and saving, hiring, and extra effort is simply missing. The federal government spent enormous sums to spur the economy. The American people were never comfortable with the associated buildup in the national debt, but they were willing to give the new president and his Congress the benefit of the doubt. They hoped; they were misled; it failed. Now hope has been replaced by worry, and Washington continues to give us reason to worry.

The tax hike itself is bad enough, falling as it will on a stuttering economy. But the bigger issue is still confidence. There is no economic policy rationale to justify raising taxes on a weak economy. None. Yet Obama and Congress are so desperate for revenues to pay for their massive spending surge that they’re willing to raise taxes. Yes, the tax hike is foolish and unjustifiable, but far more debilitating to the confidence the economy needs to grow is what Congress’s tax policies say about its willingness to accept sustained high levels of joblessness — or, alternatively, what it says about President Obama’s understanding of how our economy really functions and what it takes to prosper.

And what it says about how mulishly dedicated he is to his hard-Left ideology, and how arrogant he is not to even consider that said ideology has never produced anything but privation and misery, and never will do anything other than just that.

You’d think you plebeians would be thanking Him.

On Tuesday, after more than seven years, the United States of America will end its combat mission in Iraq and take an important step forward in responsibly ending the Iraq war.

As a candidate for this office, I pledged I would end this war. As president, that is what I am doing.

Yep– using Bush’s own plan for it, not anything you came up with yourself, you preening, narcissistic jackass. Captain Ed does the math:

Total mentions of Bush: zero. Total mentions of victory: zero. Total mentions of “I” in speech: six, including the three in the excerpt above.

Total credit actually, justly due to Ogabe himself: also zero. Funny how a douchebag without any real accomplishment his entire life long (other than “winning” the presidency via skullduggery, pretense, and fraud, of course) likes to take credit for things he didn’t do, while still desperately trying to blame others for things he actually did, like destroying the economy and bankrupting the nation. And I don’t mean ha-ha funny, either.

Update! Li’l Obama comic hits nail on head!

Is Hamas a terrorist organization? It really is a simple question, and one they can’t, or won’t, answer, at least not honestly:

It is a straightforward question that Islamists complicate with clever casuistry, carefully designed to ring all the right chimes for our opinion elites and their media pitchmen.


On Tuesday, I appeared on Scoreboard, a Fox Business Channel program, to debate the proposed mosque with Dawood Kringle, a prison imam who is a perfect fit for the correctional system in Michael Bloomberg’s New York City. Like the mayor, Imam Kringle knows and admires Imam Rauf, so it’s only natural that he supports the Ground Zero mosque. He reasons, in his best Rauf-speak, that it would be “a tangible manifestation and demonstration of the spiritual principles of Islam as applied to everyone’s lives.”

Exactly: The main problem with Islamists is that they want to apply the principles of Islam — which are far from limited to “spiritual principles” — to everyone’s lives. It never seems to register with Imam Rauf’s apologists that we already have thousands of mosques and Islamic centers in the United States, and no one is suggesting these should be shut down, even though many of them are hotbeds of rabidly anti-Western ideology that have not proved to be reassuring “tangible manifestations” of how Islam is lived.

Still, even Kringle’s desultory case for the mosque paled in comparison with his adamant refusal to answer the question, “Is Hamas a terrorist organization?” You can watch the short debate for yourself here. There are long pauses, shucks, jives, and gibberish — but no answer:

Asman: Do you believe Hamas is a terrorist organization?
Kringle: [Pause] I would, um — [pause]
McCarthy: That’s not a hard question.
Asman: [To McCarthy] Hold on a second.
Kringle:  No, no, no. I —
Asman:  Is Hamas a terrorist organization? A simple question.
Kringle: I believe that there’s people, uh, connected with Hamas that are, uh — advocate terrorism —
Asman: Is Hamas, though, a terrorist organization, as the State Department says it is?
Kringle: I believe that the people — that people that, uh, that, uh, exist on the fringe of there — Hamas is a political party that, uh, that grew out of, uh, out of, uh, what happened to, uh, Palestine. Obviously, there’s going to be people that are, uh, that are going to twist up, uh, the religion to serve their political agendas.

This is just counterfactual bunk. It is served up by the imam and many likeminded apologists as though Hamas did not have a richly documented history, and as though Islamists did not reject the very premise that religious and political agendas can be distinguished.

Anybody besides me reminded of the way liberal fascists always wiggle and squirm around whenever they’re confronted with the pure, undiluted facts about the totalitarian nature of Progressivism, how they just hate being openly confronted with what they really are? Of the innumerable lies they told, and the legalistic subterfuges they used, to ram the takeover of the health-care system through?

Not that liberal fascists are terrorists — well, besides a handful of Ogabe’s closest buddies like Ayers and Dohrn, that is. But it sure is funny how almost all of America’s enemies have to rely on distortions and deceit to get their points across and their agendas advanced. And that makes the bizarre Left-Islamist alliance, one that would otherwise seem to be wholly incomprehensible on its dubious merits, a lot easier to figure out.

American liberty to get back-doored yet again by the tyrannical Ogabe regime:

Will Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson make a back door move to ban lead bullets the day before the November 2 elections?

Several environmentalist groups led by the Center for Biological Diversity (CBD) are petitioning the EPA to ban lead bullets and shot (as well as lead sinkers for fishing) under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA). Although EPA is barred by statute from controlling ammunition, CBD is seeking to work farther back along the manufacturing chain and have EPA ban the use of lead in bullets and shot because non-lead alternatives are available. But here’s the catch: the alternatives to lead bullets are more expensive. A ban on the sale of lead ammunition would force hunters and sport shooters to buy non-lead ammunition that is often double the cost of traditional lead ammunition.  A box of deer hunting bullets in a popular caliber could be upwards of $55.

Although the EPA could have dismissed the request due to a lack of jurisdiction, it is obliging CBD.

Could have. Won’t. According to these unelected, unaccountable bureauweasels, there’s nothing whatsoever they don’t have jurisdiction over. I like this part, though:

You might say that even considering enacting what is effectively a new tax on hunters and gun owners–seemingly the only non-liberal group the Obama administration hasn’t yet intentionally provoked–is less-than-perfect timing for the already beleaguered  Democrats as the midterm elections approach.

After a couple more elections, there really shouldn’t be even one Democrat Socialist left in office in the entire country. It’s looking more and more like that’s the only way we’ll ever be able keep them from assaulting the Constitution and stealing our freedom bit by bit.

(Via Ace)

Update! American liberty fights off the O-buggering attempt! Effing beautiful, and especially these words:

Agreeing with the position of the NRA and the firearms industry, the agency explained in a news release that it “does not have the legal authority to regulate this type of product under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA).”  Further crushing the hopes of anti-gun and anti-hunting activists, the release added: “nor is the agency seeking such authority.”

Dare I say…UNEXPECTED?!?

And seeing as how they never could rely on logic or facts to prop up their tired, stale, long-discredited ideas, you know what that argument is:

It is a measure of the corruption of liberal thought and the collapse of its self-confidence that, finding itself so widely repudiated, it resorts reflexively to the cheapest race-baiting (in a colorful variety of forms). Indeed, how can one reason with a nation of pitchfork-wielding mobs brimming with “antipathy toward people who aren’t like them” — blacks, Hispanics, gays, and Muslims — a nation that is, as Michelle Obama once put it succinctly, “just downright mean”?

The Democrats are going to get beaten badly in November. Not just because the economy is ailing. And not just because Obama overread his mandate in governing too far left. But because a comeuppance is due the arrogant elites whose undisguised contempt for the great unwashed prevents them from conceding a modicum of serious thought to those who dare oppose them.

It damned sure is — due, and overdue. And it’s going to be absolutely delicious to seem them wailing like the spoiled brats they are when they get it.

Obamanomics, working as intended:

The economic news today, in which we learned that the second-quarter growth figure was reduced down to 1.6 percent, is extremely discouraging. This rate is well below what is needed even to sustain the current unemployment rate of 9.5 percent. On top of that, as a friend of mine reminds me, the current deficit, which the CBO estimates will be more than $1.3 trillion in 2010 and is already seen as “unsustainable” by even the Obama administration, will get worse rather than better. Anemic economic growth translates into lower revenues and higher deficits.

Among the array of political problems facing Democrats is that since the fourth quarter of 2009, when the economy grew 5.0 percent, we are rapidly decelerating. In the first quarter of this year, the economy grew at 3.7 percent, and last quarter, it grew at 1.6 percent. Next quarter is likely to be about as dismal, meaning unemployment will rise.

What this all means is that the public is far more inclined to hold Obama responsible for the state of the economy, especially because the administration lauded the “economic recovery” at the end of last year. If it took credit for things at the end of last year, it’s doubly difficult to blame things on Bush this year.

Not that the jug-eared moron won’t try, of course. How ya like your Golden Idol now, unemployed liberal idiots?

Because hey, what could be more radicalrightwingfascistNaziextreeeeeeeemist than a return to Constitutional government and restored respect for those founding principles the Democrat Socialists insist on running roughshod over?

Around the time the Tea Party was first upsetting all right-minded people, Colorado’s Democratic Sen. Michael Bennet told a friendly audience that these hooligans were peddling ideas that were “ludicrous,” “appalling” and even “nihilistic.”

“Nihilism” is a chilling word. It has many definitions, but generally it is agreed that it means a failure to believe in change and/or hope.

And there you have it: apparently, Democrat Socialists believe the sort of limited government outlined in the Constitution is “appalling” and “nihilistic.” Well, no surprise there, really; they’ve always regarded the Constitution not as a virtually sacred document establishing the principles and boundaries of proper self-government, but as an annoying hindrance to their mad absolute-power schemes. Which, actually, is exactly what it is. Progressives and their innate impulse towards tyranny are why we have a Constitution in the first place.

Ahh, but that really ain’t the half of it:

A civil rights activist and former congressman equated the Tea Party with the Ku Klux Klan today as he blasted a conservative rally planned in Washington, D.C., this weekend.

“We are going to take on the barbarism of war, the decadence of racism, and the scourge of poverty, that the Ku Klux — I meant to say the Tea Party,” Fauntroy told a news conference today at the National Press Club. “You all forgive me, but I — you have to use them interchangeably.”

Fauntroy attempted to explain the comparison to white supremacists by saying that organizers behind the “Restoring Honor” rally are the same people who cut audio cables from a sound system the night before the historic March on Washington and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech at the Lincoln Memorial.

Suuure they are, you delusional douchenozzle. Just keep telling yourself that. And above all, keep right on insulting real Americans in the most obnoxious and offensive of terms. That makes it easier for them to identify who not to vote for if they ever want to remove Leviathan’s jackboot from their necks.

(Second link via Gabriel)

It’s UNEXPECTED!

Hordes of unemployed people are not going to turn their benefit checks into start-up capital for new businesses. Investment is best left to the people who earned that money in the first place, and they’re more likely to turn it around into more productive investments when they’re confident the profits won’t be confiscated. Big Government sucks trillions out of the economy, skims off billions in overhead costs, and plows the rest into expenditures which are guaranteed by definition to be less conducive to growth than private sector investment…because otherwise it would not be necessary to engineer those expenditures with compulsive force. The heat of a health economy is generated by a million well-fueled furnaces, not a giant central government lumbering around with a flamethrower.

The behavior of an Administration that really did regard jobs and growth as its top priorities is not difficult to imagine. It would act to reduce the cost of labor, not increase it through back-breaking mandates. Money would be returned to the population through lower taxes, where it would blossom into wealth through voluntary transactions.  Corporate taxes would be reduced and simplified, creating an environment where investors were eager to generate capital in the pursuit of profit…replacing the dreary confusion of Washington central planners with millions of bold strategies. Instead of embalming industries with bailouts and moratoriums, the government would aggressively privatize its functions – especially in areas like education, where federal control has been an expensive failure of colossal proportions. Land would be opened for responsible development. Reason would replace irrational fear, and respect for the creativity and wisdom of the people would replace stifling maternal control.

It is a simple fact that the government can only grow at the expense of the private sector. Wealth is created through voluntary transactions, with a mutual increase of value for both parties. Government has no resources except coercion, no funds obtained through any means but confiscation. Barack Obama has not taken a single action which has not increased the size of government. Why is anyone surprised by the resulting contraction of private industry?

Well, I mean, how could a Supergenius! like Wile E Obama ever fail at anything? Why, just look at his list of accomplishments so far! He’s been a community organizer, and then he was a former community organizer, and after that, he trained community organizers. With such a broad, well-rounded background of achievement, along with the wisdom that comes only with years of experience in the wide range of community organizing-related fields of endeavor, well, it’s easy to see why so many Americans trust him to create the first successful socialist system in human history.

Yep, any minute now, Ogabe’s mighty economic Demon Duck Of Doom is going to take flight and soar!

Update! Yep, that three-letter word, J-O-B-S, is definitely Job One with Team Ogabe.

Yes, yes, a thousand times yes:

This is how it is going to have to be: First of all, all of the school board members here have to be run against, and run hard against, and ejected from office. And then the principal needs to be fired, and every administrator along the way.

Second: Conservatives must begin, immediately, to get liberals fired from their jobs for any political expression. Any. Political. Expression.

We have tried to reason to them that this fascism is unfair. They don’t care, they don’t get it. All they see is the upside of fascism, the “good” side, the happy side, the I-get-to-coerce-my-opponents-and-hold-them-in-terror side.

They haven’t been held in terror themselves, worried that any stray comment they make may cause them to lose their livelihood (in the worst recession since the depression, no less). They do not “behave” as conservatives are forced to stay in line because they haven’t experienced the terror of of a hostile political bloc which has seized control of all the apparatuses of government.

They must be made to be afraid. And when a certain number of them have experienced the bad side of fascism, perhaps then they will be amenable to reason.

I doubt that very much, but I like the idea anyway. And the funniest bit, the one that exposes them as the feeble cowards they truly are, is how they squeal like stuck little pigs over how they’re being “oppressed” any time a conservative so much as dares to speak his mind disagreeing with them. It’s their sneaky, oily little way of crushing out any possibility of opposing ideas getting a fair hearing.

A conservative merely speaks up, and they hear jackboots on the stairs coming to get them. Well, if we’re going to be accused of it anyway, then let’s put on the jackboots and get to stomping on their pencil necks, I say.

One of their greatest triumphs, and our greatest challenges, is their success with Gramsci’s Long March. It’s going to have to be reversed if we’re ever going to permanently undo the damage they’ve wrought on our country. They must be weeded out, root and branch, and the earth salted over every creeping edifice they’ve built. It won’t be easy, and it won’t be quick, but it must be done. Only then will we be on the road back to being a truly free nation; voting out a few Congresscritters will never be enough. That’s really all there is to it.

Dear Cuba, Russia, Syria, Libya, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and China:

We’re so sorry America sucks. We promise to do better and be more like you in the future.

Your best friend and biggest admirer,
Barrack Hussein Obama &c.