No Nanny State - Molon Labe!

There is a class of colored people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs-partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs.
--Booker T. Washington (a black guy, in case you were wondering...)

NOTE: After writing this post, I went back and re-read it. I swear a LOT in it. If you're offended by such speech, go somewhere else today. I'm not changing a word. This bold-faced racism and race preference politics is one of my biggest hot buttons.

So, I'm clicking around, reading the news online, and I see this headline -

Obama says people in charge of helping themselves

Oh, no. This is gonna get ugly...

I figure he's got to be speaking to some racial preference civil rights organization. Regardless of his actions, he has to make it sound as if he's actually suggesting people become responsible for themselves.

Heralding the NAACP for a century of courage and progress, President Barack Obama will come before the nation's oldest civil rights organization Thursday with a message of shared responsibility: Government can help communities, but people are in charge of helping themselves.

Ahhh, the NAACP. The Kings of the Race Card players. This is nothing but a fucking wink-and-nod circle jerk for the New Elite.

So, people are in charge of helping themselves, huh? Just like the auto companies, the banks, the insurance companies? Just like the people that are getting government help in paying their mortgages? Just like the growing numbers of people who are getting some sort of government food/housing/clothing assistance?

DO YOU THINK WE'RE FUCKING STUPID?!

Apparently so -

Obama will make clear that while the government can help, "individuals will have to take responsibility," according to Burton. The president is expected to make that point, in particular, on matters of education and economic opportunity. He is also expected to address health care, his dominant domestic priority.

Uhm, is this the same president who, just yesterday, told us he was going to give away another $12 billion for education? That looks like more of the same Nanny bullshit to me, Barry.

And what do you think he'll say about health care? Will he suggest that the individuals should take personal responsibility for that as well?

Of course not. Barry Knows Best. I guess his idea of personal responsibility is the person has to know how to correctly fill out the forms to get the government cash.

And his "peeps" know he isn't going to let them down -

"We will be the people at the end of the day who help make him do what he knows he should do," NAACP President Benjamin Jealous told The Associated Press in an interview earlier this year. "We will help create the room for (Obama) to fulfill, I think, his own aspirations for his presidency."

At least this race preference bastard is honest enough to say that they'll be standing at the door, arm outstretched, palms sky-ward.
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It just boggles my mind how these fucking race preference organizations are allowed by the press to keep getting away with this bullshit. Are they so fully engulfed by guilt, socialist dogma and Political Correctness, that they can't see how the racial preference movement has crushed the black community? Maybe they do, but they're in too deep to back out.

As Booker T. Washington noted in this post's quote, organizations like the NAACP and ACORN, or individuals like Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton and Jeremiah Wright all make their living by keeping blacks believing they are oppressed. How they can continue their charade while a black man resides in the White House is beyond me.

Equality of opportunity is no longer the goal (if it ever was). It is to perpetuate the lie that the reason a person doesn't get a particular job is because he's black. It has nothing to do with the fact that the person doesn't have the education or experience for the job. Need or want is all that matters - qualifications be damned.
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If they are attempting to foment civil discord, they're acting exactly as they should. If we start increasing and dictating racial preferences in hiring, and if Barry continues to play the Robin Hood card of taking from "the rich" - whatever the fuck that means - these cocksuckers are going to have their hands full.

Yesterday's post about Going Galt will be the least of their worries.
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An Atlas Shrugged Moment of Zen -

"Reason is the scientist's only weapon - and reason has no power over men, has it? At a time like ours, with the country falling apart, with the mob driven by blind desperation to the edge of open riots and violence - order must be maintained by any means available. What can we do when we have to deal with people?"

Figure that one out, Barry...

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UPDATE: Watch one of my senators, Babs Boxer, get bitch-slapped about bringing race into a scientific issue. Oh, and the slapper is a black man.

Well done, sir. We need a lot more people of every race that think as you do.

Labels: communism, Constitution, Corruption, Ethics, Fascism

God, grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right even though I think it is hopeless.
--Adm.Chester W. Nimitz

Hermit had a post today asking what can we do to fight back against our ever-growing and intrusive state and federal governments. It is a topic that is much discussed nowadays.

I'm in the process of reading Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand. It is a massive book that is taking me a lot longer to read than I had hoped.

What I have found while reading the book - first published in 1957 - is how the fictional depiction of the American and world governments is so frighteningly similar to real-life today.

WARNING: I'm about to give a brief overview of the story up to where I've read. If you haven't read the book yet - and you should read it right now - come back tomorrow for a different post. For those of you who HAVE read the book, don't spoil the ending for ME!

The story is about a world and America which had become increasingly socialist. Profit was evil and the only goal people should have is to take care of others who are less fortunate. Everything was focused on need, not ability, skills or personal responsibility.

A group of industrialists, scientists and other leaders decided to call it quits. They would no longer allow the government to steal from them in the form of exorbitant taxes, nor tell them how to run their businesses for the sole benefit of their employees, nor to live by laws devised to ensure all businesses had a "fair chance" and were not allowed to fail.

Sound familiar?

Over a 12 year period, they just packed up their stuff and relocated to a place called Galt's Gulch. They let the looters and blood suckers run their old businesses, schools and other institutions as they saw fit.

They watched as they ran them into the ground.
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So, what was their plan and strategy?

1. Withdrawal their skills, knowledge and energy from the workforce
2. Insulate themselves against the coming collapse, and
3. Prepare themselves for the eventual re-birth

Sounds pretty good to me.

But how do you do it? There is no magical Galt Gulch in which to sit out the collapse.

Most of us aren't genius industrialists. If we didn't show up to work, generally speaking, they could fill our spot with relative ease. Most of us are not unique enough to have our individual presence missed.

That doesn't mean we're mindless cogs. Far from it. We can, as a whole, impact Nanny through the one thing she needs the most: Our tax dollars.

Don't worry - I'm not suggesting that you cheat on your taxes. I'm suggesting you reduce your need for products and services which are taxed.

A simple example is, instead of buying a loaf of bread - which produces taxable profit for the store - buy the less expensive components of the bread - flour and yeast - and make it yourself.

Grow your own veggies and can them yourself. Hunt, fish, trap and preserve the foods.

Buy goods from flea markets or from online sites that charge no tax (I'm not your CPA. If you're required to pay a Use Tax on April 15th for these items, pay it if you feel so compelled).

Don't support the institutions that have been nationalized. Don't buy GM or Chrysler products. Pull your money from Wells Fargo or B of A or Goldman Sachs or any of the others. Don't reward their incompetence with your dollars.

Cut off the life blood of the bloated government, and it will die.
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How do you insulate yourself from the coming collapse? I think the plan that helps you to do that, also helps you to prepare for the eventual re-birth.

Clearly, a high degree of self-sufficiency is the key. If you rely on Nanny to provide for your well being, I fear you're in great danger.

Plain and simple, the government cannot afford to keep increasing the number of people that depend on the products and service it provides. We were told just yesterday, that our federal government is ONE TRILLION dollars in the hole SO FAR this year.

That is around $3,300 for every man, woman and child in this country. More, if you're one of the folks actually paying taxes. This is only the 9th month of the government fiscal year, and we've already created the largest single-year deficit in the history of our country.

It will not - it cannot - continue. I'm not saying that as a plea - I'm stating it as a fact. Very soon, our creditors will stop funding Nanny's largess, and the inflationary policies of the Federal Reserve will have decimated the dollar.

What to do? Stay off the radar and prepare NOW.

We need to get and stay physically healthy. Get caught up in the Nanny health care system, and you are doomed. If you have an illness or condition right now, figure out how to reduce your dependence on hospitals. Get your internal chemistry back in order.

Obtain tangible, trusted currencies - gold and silver. The dollar will be as useful as toilet tissue, and not much else.

Learn how to be more self-sufficient. As I suggested, learn how to grow vegetables, kill and prepare an animal for food, forage, gather and cleanse water, reduce your dependence on utility power and heat. Conserve.

If Barry and Company continue down their path to socialism, if you have guns, expect them to become an issue. A society is not fully compliant until it is disarmed. Decide how far you expect the Nanny apparatchiks to take it, and prepare for it now.

If standing on your doorstep blasting away at government goons is your plan, change it. It will only result in your death - and they'll still get your guns. Don't let THAT happen.

Most of us don't have the ability to drop out of society - to move to a remote area and become totally self-sufficient. We can only lessen the impact. We've got an ever-closing window of opportunity right now to get as much of our own lives in order as possible.
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This may simply be delaying our own inevitable demise. I don't know. But at least it gives us a chance.

I think that perhaps the most difficult aspect of this is the, "one foot in, one foot out" issue. Most of us must work to support a family, pay the mortgage, put kids through school, etc. We may want to Go Galt on them, but we can't - at least not fully. The depth and breadth of the coming impact is VERY difficult to know with certainty, so we're not willing to go "all in" with everything we've got.

What if the Stimulus packages work? What if inflation doesn't go bat-shit crazy? What if things are a bit worse, but still bearable? How can we know for sure?

I find it very interesting that a few months ago, the media was pushing the phrase, "The New Normal." It was about how people are going to have to adapt to our changing economy, country, world.

Where is that now? My guess is, it scared the hell out of people, so Barry and his compliant media put the brakes on its use. We mustn't scare the lemmings.

I think it is very real. Things are going to change - are changing - very rapidly. I believe our way of life is in line for a very big reality check. I can quote history, statistics and philosophy as to why I think we're in for a crash.

But I can't prove it.

I think that the squashing of the "New Normal" phrase was in part because Barry knows how bad it's going to get. Reality is going to be crushing, and the government can at least look like they're doing their job if they rush to the rescue of an unprepared populous.

I'm Going Galt in my own way. I have not committed 100% of my resources as they did in Atlas Shrugged. I'm holding a bit back in the hopes that I'm wrong.

I've got Plans A, B, C and D. Each kicks in if certain events occur - both for the good and the bad. I just hope I've chosen the right events to watch!

If the world can just hold together until November or December, I'll be in a much better position regardless of what happens. Going Galt won't be such a stretch...

Labels: American Ingenuity, American Spirit, communism, Constitution, Corruption, Fascism, nanny state, Self-Reliance, Taxes, welfare state

The liberties of our country, the freedoms of our civil Constitution are worth defending at all hazards; it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. We have received them as a fair inheritance from our worthy ancestors. They purchased them for us with toil and danger and expense of treasure and blood. It will bring a mark of everlasting infamy on the present generation – enlightened as it is – if we should suffer them to be wrested from us by violence without a struggle, or to be cheated out of them by the artifices of designing men.
--Samuel Adams

I am absolutely crushed. I've mentioned here before that I have a Utah non-resident CCW permit. It is accepted in some thirty-odd states. Up to now, the only state where I've used it is in Nevada.

No more.

As of July 1, 2009, Utah and Florida have been removed from the list of states accepted by Nevada -

Utah’s permit process does not require live fire training that Nevada
law requires...

Great. Utah must have changed their requirements, because when I got my permit, I had to do a number of live-fire drills. No more, I guess.

I need to chew on this a bit. I'll probably contact Utah to find out why they made this change, and if it is going to be reversed. I'll also look into either a Nevada non-resident permit or another state with a broad acceptance like Utah used to have.

One more "gun thing" to stress about...
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In yesterday's post, I got some information on some of the US laws pertaining to gunsmithing. It is amazing how far Nanny feels compelled to crawl up your ass when it comes to guns.

27 CFR 478.11 is the section used by the BATF for definitions. Here are some of the interesting ones that I stumbled across -

Commerce. Travel, trade, traffic, commerce, transportation, or communication among the several States, or between the District of Columbia and any State, or between any foreign country or any territory or possession and any State or the District of Columbia, or between points in the same State but through any other State or the District of Columbia or a foreign country.

Well, well, well. It seems as though the states that have passed, or are considering the passage of laws flexing their Tenth Amendment rights to build guns - in their entirety - inside of their own state - and thus NOT be subject to the Commerce Clause in the Constitution - are on very firm ground.

Right. How long do you think it will take the BATF to change this definition? Hell, it's probably already been done.

It appears as though I was this close to becoming an arms dealer -

Dealer. Any person engaged in the business of selling firearms at wholesale or retail; any person engaged in the business of repairing firearms or of making or fitting special barrels, stocks, or trigger mechanisms to firearms; or any person who is a pawnbroker. The term shall include any person who engages in such business or occupation on a part-time basis.

So, if I had cut down that lady's barrel I discussed in yesterday's post, AND had accepted any kind of compensation - from a 6-pack of beer to cash - I would have fit the definition of a part-time Dealer in the eyes of the BATF.

Un-Fucking-Real.

Under the Principal objective of livelihood and profit section, they somehow stray off into terrorist activities. According to the BATF, if you're a legal resident, you cannot be a terrorist -

For purposes of this part, the term “terrorism” means activity, directed against United States persons, which—

(a) Is committed by an individual who is not a national or permanent resident alien of the United States;

It doesn't say anything about if a natural born citizen can be a terrorist - at least in their eyes. Why in the hell would you carve out who could and could not be a terrorist? Isn't it the act that we're worried about, not their place of birth or legal residency status?
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I just had to shake my head at the definition and characteristics of an "assault weapon" - it is mind-numbing.

A semi-auto, magazine-fed rifle with a telescoping stock and a pistol grip is magically designated an assault rifle? Somehow, it's not a "menace to society" if you cut off the pistol grip?

Are they insane?

Do they really think that we are somehow protected from some deranged bastard bent on killing a group of people because he can't buy a rifle with a pistol grip? Really?!

The way you are protected from the deranged bastard is to have decent, law-abiding citizens exercising their 2A rights - part of which is the unrestrained ability to carry a weapon of self-defense.

I know I'm "preaching to the choir" for most of the folks that come by here, but this is just nuts.

Think about what brought this on: If I had helped a friend out by cutting down her shotgun barrel, and she gave me a couple of bucks for my troubles, that act could have been construed as breaking the law, as I didn't have a business license and ATF Dealers license.

A federal criminal.

Absolute insanity.
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Another Atlas Shrugged Moment of Zen -

"We started with no time limit in view," said Galt. "We did not know whether we'd live to see the liberation of the world or whether we'd have to leave our battle and our secret to the next generations. We knew only that this was the only way we cared to live. But now we think that we will see, and soon, the day of our victory and of our return."

"When?" she whispered.

"When the code of the looters has collapsed."

Labels: American Spirit, Constitution, Gun Grabbers, nanny state, Self-Defense, Self-Reliance

Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr

I helped someone out yesterday by cleaning their Remmington 870. What a mess!

Judging from the condition, she had never done a thorough cleaning of the shotgun. It looked like the entirety of its maintenance had been to clean the bore after shooting. Nothing else.

Since my personal pump shotgun is a Mossberg 500, I had never taken down an 870. I jumped on YouTube, watched a little 6 minute video, and went to it.

I must say, taking down and reassembling the 870 is MUCH easier than the 500.

When I took out the trigger assembly, it looked horrible. Black crap was everywhere - in every little nook and cranny. I don't normally use Gun Scrubber (a cleaner in an aerosol can) because it removes everything it touches. You have to be very diligent in reapplying lubrication when you use this stuff.

But because of the condition of the trigger assembly, I used it. This is what came off JUST the assembly -


If you click the image, you can see the little chunks that were in there. It was bad!

The gun had a good deal of rust, but it was all in places that weren't critical, or way past repair. Lots of elbow grease put the shotgun back into decent repair.

I gave the entire gun a heavier-than-normal coating of gun oil, as it looked like the last time it had any was when it came out of the box! I wiped it down today to get any of the excess, and then did the whole thing with a silicone cloth.

It's hard to recognize it as the same gun!
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The owner has a question I couldn't answer: She wants it to be a house security gun. It is a Wingmaster Magnum 12 gauge model. In looking online, I could not find any 18 1/2 inch barrels for this model. The only stuff I could find was for the Express (ironically made by Mossberg!). Will that work with the Wingmaster receiver?

I know, I can call myself - I just want to know if anyone has any experience with this.

If the decision were made to cut it down, do you just use a hack saw to the muzzle and then file out the burrs? Is any kind of treatment (paint?) needed for the newly cut muzzle? Any legal issues anyone knows of?
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It's been a while since I've done a take down on my other rifles. I need to get on that. Hopefully, it will just be a case of using gun cleaner, and some compressed air - no Gun Scrubber.

Better grab a can just in case...

Labels: Life and Times, Self-Reliance

Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
--Peter Drucker

Last Friday, I took my buddy that had the horrible car crash out for a little road trip. This guy is the King of Free. He is always working for a better deal - getting a price drop or more product/service. He's a wonder to watch.

He has always fished a lot. He knows hundreds of little, hidden spots. I asked him to go with me for a little drive around the Sacramento delta levee system. There are thousands of miles of sloughs running through the area. I told him I wanted to find a hidden, very secluded area.

I told him I wanted to find seclusion because I wanted to test out running a trot line (a multiple-line and hook fishing set up - VERY illegal in California). My real reason was to scout areas for caches.

Obviously, the levee system has a number of drawbacks. Levees break with some regularity. A few years back, we had a couple of breaks that were pretty devastating. The CA levee system is also VERY old. I don't need my stuff floating down the river after a breach!

Another drawback is that, at least with the levees in my area, the levees are made primarily of large rocks - not dirt. I guess that makes them more sturdy. Some areas have been covered with dirt and have roads built on top, but it still leaves less depth for burying longer cache tubes.

In general, the "water side" of the levees is publicly owned (although we found an increasing number of 'private property' postings) and the "dry side" is farm, cattle range or some other sort of pasture.

Still, there is A LOT of privacy. I noted a number of places on both sides of the levees where there appeared to be plenty of land and cover. A couple of places on the water side had 30- or 40-foot trees growing, so the land must be pretty damned deep!

We're going to do another road trip next week to find some out-of-the-way spots that are a bit closer to home. They are generally our "secret" fishing spots that don't get a lot of traffic.

We've got a pretty significant mountain in our area as well. It is mostly a state park, so nothing can be built - reducing the chances of having the cache discovered. I just don't know how much privacy I'll be able to get for the digging. We'll see.
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When we were driving the levees, I was struck by the massive amounts of wild edibles. The biggest "crop" was blackberries. Literally thousands of bushes were along our route. We didn't stop at any of them, but they looked pretty bare - which is odd, as this is prime-time for the berries.

I'm putting together a spreadsheet of veggie planting and harvesting times for my area. I've added a "foraging" column to the sheet, and am going to include local wild foods in the listing.
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While we were out, we passed a "U Pick" sign. In one part of my town, every weekend they get thousands of people from the greater Bay Area coming out to pick their own fruits. I have lived in this area for the past 20+ years, and have never gone to a U Pick orchard. Go figure.

This place was out on the levees, and my buddy wanted to stop (never pass up a good deal!). It was a bit over a mile and a half off the main road. They had a little parking area and a shack where you picked up buckets for your haul.

Right now, peaches, white peaches, apricots, plums and nectarines are in season. This little joint - tucked away from the world - had 36 rows of trees, each 200+ yards long!

You could pick whatever type of fruit you wanted, and it was all $0.79 a pound. Compared with our local store, that was half-price for the nectarines, and about ten-cents a pound lower for the peaches and thirty-cents a pound cheaper for the white peaches.

I picked up a combined 12 pounds of white peaches, nectarines and plums. Ten bucks.

I used about half of the white peaches, and made jam -


It looks amber-ish in the picture, but it's actually a shade of pink. I had some on an English muffin for breakfast this morning. It is VERY sweet. I made up 8 pints, and I think that will last me a very long time.

The flavor is wonderful, though. The peach flavor really comes through. I'm guessing it will be very much appreciated in the winter time.
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OT: I don't know if I mentioned this, but I'm going to be participating in some Action Pistol (AP) competitions. This is a shooting sport where you are required to shoot, move, reload and hit targets. You run/walk through the different stages and scenarios and are judged on accuracy and speed.

I'll be going through an orientation and training class in a couple of weeks, then go straight into a match! You then become certified, and can participate in other matches. More importantly for me, I will now have access to my gun club's AP range and can practice when it's available.

In addition to sounding fun as hell, could there be a better civilian training routine for defending against multiple aggressors in accurate, rapid succession?

I'm going to stay with the "stock" gun division (or whatever it's called) - I'm not going to get the super-uber tricked out guns, mags and sights. Just me and my stock Glock 19.

I figure it's like food preps where you store what you eat. In this case, practice with what you'll use.

Labels: Life and Times, Self-Reliance

A simple, straightforward carbon tax would have made much more sense than this Rube Goldberg contraption. It is pathetic that we couldn’t do better. It is appalling that so much had to be given away to polluters. It stinks. It’s a mess. I detest it.

Now let’s get it passed in the Senate and make it law.
--Thomas Friedman

No, this isn't a post about raising chickens. It's about a whole other breed of chicken...

Sometimes, when I'm in "a mood," I'll go over to TerraPass.com to mess with the lemmings. I was in such a mood yesterday.

They had a blog entry about how upset they were that the Cap-and-Trade bill passed by the House wasn't tough enough. They were whining and moaning about how long it would take to make any real change, but somehow, they'd tough it out. Somehow, they'd survive.

I wanted to projectile vomit.

Instead, I left a comment.

Now, having posted on this site before, I'm well aware of their ways. You make a post that sounds inquisitive about how you can do more - but you DO have a couple of doubts - will get you published just fine. The hivists swarm to you to inject their reasonable, One World, socialist dogma.

But, if you post something totally contrary to their thinking - something that actually questions the very foundations of their beliefs - you get censored.

Guess which kind of post I made?

As I said, I'm on to their game, so I fully expected them to either delete or edit my post. Luckily, I kept a copy of the original. Apparently, these dolts must think that doing a Copy-and-Paste releases CO2 into the atmosphere, so NO ONE does them. They thought wrongly.

A couple of questions:

Why have CO2 levels increased, yet global temperatures have decreased?

Why have over 30,000 scientists called man-made climate change a lie? Follow-up: Why isn't the press reporting on this? Follow-up to the follow-up: Wouldn't we want to really confirm the CO2 angle before we saddle ONLY Americans with another onerous tax?

If the Green House affect really exists, why are we targeting one of the smallest components? Wouldn't it be better to go after the biggest contributors - 90%+ - clouds and water vapor? Or would it look too silly to try and ban clouds?

Just askin'

The Chicken Littles decided to edit my post - deleting it and superimposing their response. I guess they're too scared that if some of their hivists actually hear a dissenting view, or question the entire premise of their scam, they might start losing followers.

A business that makes its money off of the Carbon Footprint scam can't let that happen!

Here's what they did with my post -

6. By The Other Mike S on July 10, 2009 11:02 AM

A couple of questions:

[Answers:

1. They haven't.
2. They haven't.
3. Because it's not true.
4. We would, and we have.
5. We are targeting the component driven by humankind's actions.
6. No, because water vapor is not the driver of the warming trend.
7. It would be silly, and fortunately we're smarter than that.

And a bonus answer: no one -- and I include even the most pig-ignorant climate change deniers here -- doubts the existence of the greenhouse effect. Without the greenhouse effect, our planet would be an iceball. You need to get your denialist talking points right if you want to play this game. You're supposed to deny the existence of climate change, not the greenhouse effect. Just a word to the wise.]

Just askin'

[No prob. Happy to provide answers.]

Ooooh, I like that - denialist talking points. Obviously, this pinhead knows what I'm talking about with regards to the Green House Effect - mouth-breathers like him are the ones that changed its popular meaning. But that's the way these hivists work - they attempt to use ad hominen attacks to pick away at the edges of what you've said. But the core remains.

Funny, how for all of the tough questions - the 30,000 scientists, the temperature drop, the media complicity and the US-Only tax for a supposed world-wide problem - were answered with terse, one sentence answers.

No supporting diatribe for those items, boys and girls? Why not just reply, "Nuh uh!" or "Says You!".

I posted this shortly after my post was altered -

7. By The Other Mike S on July 10, 2009 3:14 PM

Why would you guys delete my questions? Don't you trust your fellow believers to stay the course? Or might they question the very premise upon which your entire company is based?

Still, just askin'

It was almost immediately censored with this -

7. By The Other Mike S on July 10, 2009 3:14 PM

[I deleted your questions because they were incredibly dumb.

I'm not saying you're dumb. Maybe you're just scientifically unaware. Or maybe you're motivated by ideological reasons to reject prevailing scientific opinion. Or maybe you are, you know, not the academic type.

But in any case, we did in fact answer your questions. Every one of them.]

Not satisfied to discontinue beating this puddin'-head into the ground, I responded with -

LOL, you provided answers, but no one knows the questions!

If my questions were so "incredibly dumb," then why not allow your readers to see them and comment on them themselves?

Why not let THEM do a Google search about the 30,000 scientists and come to their own conclusions?

Why not let THEM look up the censored EPA report that uses facts to tear apart the IPCC findings and projections?

Why not let THEM consider why global temperatures have dropped since 2001?

It's because you know that the truth about this hoax might make your whole Climate Change house of cards come tumbling down.

Censor away.

They promptly deleted ALL of my posts!

A little too hot in the hen house, girls? Cluck, cluck, cluck!
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Oh, yeah, Precious - you were right about there not being 30,000 scientists signing a petition questioning the man-made global warming scam. It is currently 31,478 - with over 9,000 of them holding Ph.D's.

Nothing but a bunch of, "pig-ignorant climate change deniers", I guess...

Global cooling. I hate it when actual facts and figures get in the way of a good doomsday computer projection, don't you?

CO2 up, temps down, IPCC estimates WAY off (oooh, and it's from someone working at the EPA, but Barry wouldn't allow it to be released. Why dat?)

Look the rest up yourself. I have to go release my quota of HUMP - Humanly Unbearable Methane Production.

Destroying The World, One Broccoli Fart At A Time...
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If you want to have some BIG fun, go read this post, from way back in March 2007, where I recount a run-in with one of the TerraPass founders. I'm guessing he was the same pinhead that edited my most recent post.

Hi, Cupcake! Thanks for the grins. Again.

Labels: communism, Constitution, Corruption, Eco-fraud, Ethics, Fascism, Global Warming, Media Bias, nanny state, Political Correctness, Taxes

I hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one 'race' - the human race - and that we are all members of it.
--Margaret Atwood

Thanks to GunRights4Us for the heads-up on this story -

From the Akron Beacon Journal -

Out of nowhere, the six were attacked by dozens of teenage boys, who shouted ''This is our world'' and ''This is a white world'' as they confronted Marshall and his family.

The Marshalls, who are black, say the crowd of teens who attacked them and two friends June 27 on Girard Street numbered close to 50. The teens were all white.

This attack occurred in late June as a family and two adult friends were finishing up some sort of Independence Day celebration.

The father took the worst of the beating -

Marshall was the most seriously injured. He suffered a concussion and multiple bruises to his head and eye. He said he spent five nights in the critical care unit at Akron General Medical Center.

The construction worker said he now fears for his family's safety, and the thousands of dollars in medical bills he faces without insurance.

''I knew I was going to get beat, but not as bad as I did,'' Marshall said. ''But I did it to protect my family. I didn't have a choice. There was no need for this. We should be all getting along. But to me, it seems to be racist.''

As a result of the beating, Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson and the Revered Jeremiah Wright have organized a Hate Crimes march for this weekend. The Akron police are investigating it as a blatant Hate Crime. The FBI has initiated a federal Hate Crimes investigation.

There were approximately 50 white teenagers that participated in the beating. ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN and MSNBC have all started work on "Race Relations In America" and "Why Does Whitey Hate?" multi-part investigative series.
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By now, you've probably figured out that this was a fabrication. Kind of. Everything here was true, except whenever the word 'white' was used in my re-creation, 'black' was used in the original story, and vice versa.

Also, the Feds and the Akron police are NOT investigating this as a hate crime. And of course, there is no national outrage at the clearly racial underpinnings of this attack - there will be no Race Rallies, no national news stories, no broadcast investigative reports.
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I hate "Hate Crimes" laws (does that make me a 'hater'?). In my eyes, the motivation of the attacker is irrelevant. You are just as beaten, robbed or dead if they assault you for money or for race. Hate Crimes is the same as Thought Crimes, and I don't want to go down that road.

It's the old 'slippery slope' - when Nanny can start criminalizing your thoughts instead of your actions, there is no end to what can be prosecuted.

Still, until the laws are overturned, they MUST be equally applied (see Fourteenth Amendment for clarification). This idea - and general practice - that only whites can be racist, is patently absurd.

I know, I know, I'm tilting at windmills. It is what it is, and the race baiters and compliant media have an agenda.

That doesn't mean I have to drink their Kool-Aid. You don't have to, either.
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Maybe the Akron PD and the FBI aren't investigating this as a Hate Crime because they think this was staged in some way. I don't know.

But that is irrelevant. If the family were black, I absolutely guarantee you the first words out of their collective mouths would have been "Hate Crime Investigation". Why doesn't that happen when the victims - real or staged - are white?

Labels: Corruption, criminal, Ethics, Media Bias, Political Correctness, Race-baiters

A buddy of mine sent me a link to this story about how the Federal Reserve Bank (FRB) is fighting-back against the call to audit their books -

Fed Vice Chairman Donald Kohn said opening up some of the U.S. central bank's most sensitive decisions to political scrutiny could result in higher long-term interest rates and hurt the United States' credit rating. Kohn was speaking before a Congressional panel where he was seeking to beat back a proposal that would open policy decisions by the U.S. central bank to audits by a federal watchdog agency.

"Any substantial erosion of the Federal Reserve's monetary independence likely would lead to higher long-term interest rates as investors begin to fear future inflation," he said in testimony prepared for delivery to a House of Representatives Financial Services subcommittee.

You know what? He's absolutely right. If the smoke-and-mirrors tactics the FRB has been employing were open to audit, and Congress then passed laws restricting their ability to print money at will, our cost of funds would increase as a result of a lowering of our national credit rating.

It would be the same as you having your hours cut at work. When you begin having trouble making your monthly expenses, you go to a bank to get a credit card or line of credit. The bank looks at your income, and tells you that they'll make you the loan, but since you're living paycheck-to-paycheck, the interest rate is going to be very high.

Your cash flow sucks, and you have no assets to collateralize the loan. You're a significant risk - you might not be able to pay back the whole loan. You're going to pay a premium for your borrowings, sport.

BRING IT ON!

These bastards only have the short-term outlook on life. they use fear to wad the panties of the Congress, and they might just back off.

What he doesn't discuss is how shutting down their free-spending ways will bring us back into fiscal responsibility. If no one will buy our debt - or if the FRB is forbidden from buying it with money they create with a few key strokes - we will be forced into living within a budget.

If the cost of that is some short-term pain while we get our fiscal house in order, so be it. Families have to do it. Businesses have to do it. States have to do it. The federal government should have to do it as well.

I've got to hand it to him, though. He has some big brass balls -

He made plain the Fed saw Paul's bill as a direct challenge to its independence that could raise the risk investors might begin to expect the U.S. central bank to start printing money to help the government finance a growing budget gap.

"History provides numerous examples of non-independent central banks being forced to finance large government budget deficits. Such episodes invariably lead to high inflation," he said. "Given the current outlook for large federal budget deficits in the United States, this consideration is especially important."

Uhm, doesn't he read his organizations own reports? How does he think the FRB has been able to buy hundreds of billions of dollars worth of Treasury notes? Leprechauns and their pots of gold?

And WE KNOW it leads to high inflation, you retard! Why in the hell do you think we're so pissed off at you idiots? WE GET IT!

He's got to be hoping that Congress doesn't...

Labels: communism, Constitution, Corruption, debate, democrats, Ethics, Fascism, nanny state, presidential, Taxes, welfare state

Crime is terribly revealing. Try and vary your methods as you will, your tastes, your habits, your attitude of mind, and your soul is revealed by your actions.
-- Agatha Christie

Basically only seen on Fox -

Despite growing pressure from the House and ordinary people, the Senate decided not to increase scrutiny on the Federal Reserve. They actually blocked a bid on procedural grounds to have the Government Accountability Office audit the Federal Reserve and issue a report.

More than half of the House is co-sponsoring Ron Paul's HR 1207,The Federal Reserve Transparency Act. The Senate has a companion bill, but it's being held up by some procedural bullshit.

Senator Jim DeMint figures it's a moot point anyway, because the Whore of The House most likely won't let it come up for a vote.

Nancy Pelosi is going to keep this from coming up in the House, I think, no matter how many cosponsors they get, just because I think she is cooperating with the Obama administration to keep the secrets that the Federal Reserve doesn't want us to know about.

What could possibly be the rationale for shutting this down? Wasn't it Barry who was the champion of Transparency? Full Disclosure? Open Books? Can't he put pressure on Congress to get this thing through? Maybe he could make it one of his Talking Points at his next ABC/NBC/CBS/CNN/MSNBC love-fests (aka, press conferences).

Transparency is the crap that was swallowed by the press and the voting public. Of course, the real reason is money. Follow the money...

Well, if we could get the Federal Reserve under control, it would make it more difficult for the Obama administration, I think, to carry out the continued spending and growing of debt. Because one thing we're concerned about is the Federal Reserve what — will do what we call monetize the debt, basically print money, buy our own debt as a country, and devalue the dollar that way.

I think if we open the doors to the Federal Reserve, it might make it much more difficult for this administration to continue this reckless spending.

The federal government is crawling up the ass of UBS (a Swiss-based bank) to disclose their US customer's information because they believe sufficient taxes might not have been looted from their accounts. They have no compunction in threatening private enterprises to breach the confidentiality of private individuals, but fight disclosure of PUBLIC institutions, tooth and nail.

They recognize that if the light of day is shone on the Federal Reserve, the whole illusion of financial stability in the US will come a-tumblin' down.

Well, just as Art [Laffer] just said, the issue is not necessarily just the Federal Reserve or health care or whatever we are talking about. It is control. And the administration is increasingly expanding its control on the Federal Reserve, which is supposed to be independent.

If we start the audit process and Congress has more oversight on what's going on, then we get those checks and balances that are important here at the federal level. But there is too much secrecy to an agency that controls our whole economic destiny in this country.

The feds understand that to track criminals, you need to follow the money. When they are the cops, criminals and regulators all rolled into one, they realize they have nothing to fear. Write the laws to obscure your intentions and actions - or block those that would clarify the issues - and all is good.

Thanks for the big change, Barry...

Labels: communism, Constitution, Corruption, criminal, democrats, Ethics, Fascism, Media Bias, nanny state, presidential, Taxes, welfare state

History proves that all dictatorships, all authoritarian forms of government are transient. Only democratic systems are not transient. Whatever the shortcomings, mankind has not devised anything superior.
--Vladimir Putin

I heard about this on my morning radio show. Who needs coffee when you get stuff like this early in the morning to get the ol' ticker running?


There is this little shack of a restaurant in Sacramento - The Squeeze Inn. It seats 12. It is has been judged to have the best burgers in the Sacto area on many an occasion. It was featured on Diners, Drive-ins and Dives. It is a success.

And must be stopped.

Aficionados say the burger sold at the Squeeze Inn is perfection, the consummate marriage of bun, ground meat and melted cheddar cheese.

But a disabled woman has filed suit, saying the one-time coffeehouse with 450 square feet of space at 7918 Fruitridge Road (left) is anything but perfect. She says the kitschy confines where photos of fishermen, fighters and racers abound break federal law and violate her civil rights.

These bastards and their lawyers are the puss oozing from an infected sore on the ass of America. They don't want equal rights, they want superior rights. Because of the asinine ADA laws in this country, this business will either have to fork out huge sums of money to fix the place, or move elsewhere.

Oh, and the ADA-Nazis want some payment for their pain and suffering as well.

I've mentioned here before about a bank I worked for in San Francisco. Some crippled guy - whose sole source of income was suing companies for ADA compliance violations - targeted our bank.

Thankfully, we didn't own the property, so the landlord had to fork out big bucks for some super-fancy door opening gizmo. We got away with only having to pay $50,000 in Looter Payouts.

I hate these bastards. The ADA, like so many laws, might have been conceived with good intentions. Yet they always seem to morph into a huge, business-hating, economy-stifling morass.

ADA, Affirmative Action, Welfare, Social Security, Medicaid - tell me when to stop...

If you want to require new buildings to be ADA compliant, fine, I can almost live with that. Almost.

No one has a right to shop at Macy's or Home Depot or The Squeeze Inn. If those businesses don't want to cater to people in wheelchairs, that is a business decision on their part. It creates a market niche for one of their competitors to fill.

But no, we have to make the world full of fluffy white clouds, cute kittens and fluttering butterflies.

The reality is businesses shutting down, people being put out of work, and society as a whole being degraded. Communism at its finest.
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The host on the radio this morning really went off. They were naming some other scumbag lawyer in the Sacto area that has been doing a lot of this crap. To paraphrase one of his comments, "I hope Karma kicks in and makes you unable to use your legs sometime in the future. NO, I hope it takes away your ability to use your mind!"

Bitter.
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Yesterday was tough on me. I didn't get my Michael Jackson tickets.



Click it to feel my pain. I had to mourn all by myself. I figured I'd make a mint on CraigsList if I got some, but I guess they put the brakes on that as well.

How's an opportunistic, pedophile-hating capitalist supposed to make a living?
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Another Atlas Shrugged Moment of Zen -

I know that if we succeed, they will be only too eager to expropriate the motor. And for the sake of that prospect, we have to accept the position of criminals, you and I, and live under the threat of being arrested at any moment at their whim. And this is the thing that I cannot take, even were I able to take all the rest: that in order to give them an inestimable benefit, we should be made martyrs to the men who, but for us, could not have conceived of it. I might have forgiven the rest, but when I think of this, I say: May they be damned, I will see them all die of starvation, myself included, rather than forgive them for this or permit it!

Labels: communism, Constitution, Corruption, criminal, Ethics, Fascism, nanny state, Political Correctness, Self-Reliance, Taxes, welfare state