Archive for the ‘Op/Sped’ Category

Dan Pfeiffer and the Law

Posted: May 19, 2013 by socklessjoe in Liberal FAIL, Liberal Fascism, Nanny State, News, Obama's Fault, Op/Sped
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It’s a ready-made Drudge headline. In reference to the recent IRS scandal, Obama adviser Dan Pfeiffer said, “The law is irrelevant“.

The utterance launched numerous tweets and re-tweets, and, predictably, a backlash against an out-of-context quote.

Let me charitably re-phrase what Pfeiffer was probably trying to say — That, regardless of the whether the IRS actions were technically illegal, they were definitely wrong, and the Obama administration will be working to rectify the problem.

That’s about as generous as I can be.  But it’s still a problematic and revealing statement.  The administration’s broad strategy is to direct the media away from inquiries about illegality.  You know, because it almost certainly was illegal.

These aren’t the droids you’re looking for.

This was a very good thing for us

Posted: April 18, 2013 by doubleplusundead in Op/Sped
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I’ve discussed this with a few peeps here, but I’m so glad the Democrats burned up all this time and political capital trying and failing to pass a gun control bill.  Not only did these fucktards lose the time and political capital, they handed the NRA yet another big win.  On top of that, this was capital and time they could have used to pass amnesty, and I think had they done it this winter and early spring, they’d have it.  Now?  I think it’s still likely they’ll pass some form of amnesty, given Congress really, reeeeeeeeeally fucking wants it, but the odds have dropped considerably.

One thing we have going for us is that it’s now spring, which means when the amnesty push heats up, there will be demonstrations in the streets, and if they taste victory, the demonstrators will be even more obnoxious then last time (socialists can’t help themselves), which will end up damaging the effort.  Don’t underestimate how fucking bad the amnesty demonstrations pissed people off the last time they tried this.

Of course, Toomey and Rubio show that we can’t fucking trust anyone in the GOP, even people that were supposed to be on our side.

The Kiss of Death Ad

Posted: April 10, 2013 by socklessjoe in FAIL, GOP FAIL, Liberal Fascism, Op/Sped, WTF Is Wrong With PA, You'll pry 'em from my cold dead hands
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If Toomey made a deal with the devil Bloomberg, as many suspect, it’s already biting him in the butt.

The deal, I presume, was that MAIG would stop running the “bad” ad.

Ok, great.

But now they’re running a “good” ad.  A kiss of death ad.  An ad that will continually remind every GOP primary voter what he did, twisting the knife a little.

Deals with the devil never really turn out the way you hope.

Roundup: Is there some sort of game on?

Posted: February 3, 2013 by socklessjoe in Brevity etc., FAIL, Fucking Markets, Funniest End of Civilization Evah, Government FAIL, It's Always a Good Time to include Sheldon Cooper PhD, It's Science!, Liberal FAIL, News, Notes on the Revolution, Obama's Fault, Op/Sped, Random Crap, Teh Funneh
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Veeshir seems to have taken up the mantle of doing roundup-style posts since I’ve mostly abandoned blogging, but every once in a while I still will need to clear out my bookmarks…

Moe Lane: “The essential problem with the Chuck Hagel nomination.” – Moe is too kind, but basically on-point.

Everything the O-bots told you about Obamacare was a lie.  We informed you thusly.

Wounded Warrior Project rejects church’s fundraising efforts. So I guess the ads singing “Say a prayer for peace” were entirely secular prayers to nobody in particular, or something.  (“… one or more gods, or fewer…”)

A nice long write-up about the hubbub in Mali.

Reason: No, WWII did end the Depression.

Pending debt crisis link #1.

Pending debt crisis link #2 (Pethokoukis @ AEI).

PIMCO’s Bill Gross on the “Credit Supernova“.

Happy days are here again: No-money-down mortgages are back, baby! (Facepalm)

Daily Caller: Obama’s new French economic adviser has ‘faith in redistribution’ (Double facepalm)

Weekly Standard: Obama Continues to Violate His Own ‘Stimulus’ Law by Not Releasing Quarterly Reports (Infinite facepalm)

How else could the government muck up the economy? By dragging on croudsourced funding regulations! (In violation of the law, to boot.)

Zero Hedge: Germans contemplate impact of US oil boom.  Glimmer of hope.

Lowry via Ace: Limbaugh was right about Obama.  No shit.

WashTimes: West Point center cites dangers of ‘far right’ in U.S.  — Stay tuned for my pontifications about the insurrectionist doctrine.

Get your ass to Mars.  One way.

Chimps like pr0n too!

Oprah likes foreskin. On her face.

Oh, Condi

Posted: January 20, 2013 by socklessjoe in Conservatism, GOP FAIL, Government FAIL, Lame, Notes on the Revolution, Op/Sped
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Look, I’ve never been a huge Condi fan.  No doubt she is an exceptionally intelligent person, accomplished academic, and probably pretty cool to have a beer with.  Nevertheless, under the watch of that expert Sovietologist, an ex-KGB man managed to freeze and roll-back democratic reforms in Russia and install himself as what looks like President for Life.  Suffice to say I take any praise or reverence of Condoleeza Rice with a grain of salt.

NRO has a write-up of Condi’s recent appearance of Face The Nation:

“The Republican party certainly has to stop turning off large segments of the population,” Rice said on Face the Nation to laughter. “It’s not a strategy to keep hoping that parts of the population don’t turn out. You’ve got to simply broaden.”

Immigration, Rice added, was the “big issue.”

“Frankly, we sent some pretty bad signals around immigration. George W. Bush, John McCain, Jon Kyl, and Ted Kennedy had an immigration bill in 2007 and it failed. And I felt at that moment that that was the real missed opportunity. We’ve got to get comprehensive immigration reform back on the agenda.”

Excuse me, Condi, but your old boss Bush is the one who fouled up immigration.  He, McCain, and Graham put up a colossal piece of crap bill so bad that even Bill Kristol was against it, then started an internecine war among Republicans, calling anybody who dared think the bill sucked a racist.

Nobody responds well to being called racist.  You guys burnt major bridges with those who might have been willing to compromise.  In the process, you gave the actual racists a voice.

Every once in a while Peggy Noonan gets it

Posted: January 13, 2013 by socklessjoe in Conservatism, Fun With Media, Liberal Fascism, Notes on the Revolution, Obama's Fault, Op/Sped, You'll pry 'em from my cold dead hands
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Ol’ Peg was the token conservative* on This Week, uh… this week. I can’t completely hate Noonan, though she’s rather hit-and-miss, lately more “miss”, and her misses have been rather large — notably, Obama the Magnificent.  However, she did capture some key truths in her closing remarks on the program.  (* — I’ll be kind and omit the quotation marks.)

An executive order meaningfully changing gun regulations would be a Very Bad Thing™.

Peggy Noonan:

Yes, two things I’d like to say, one is that people are buying guns like crazy now. Not because they’re nutty, not enough because they’re angry, but because I really think they fear their country is falling apart.

It’s defensive and it’s something that I think we all have to be talking about. There’s so much anxiety out in America. And they also fear their government.

Second thing, I guess connected to that, leave gun control and gun reform issues in the Congress of the United States, the president should not be issuing executive orders in this area. It would really be unwise and it will cause great problems, I would think.

I couldn’t find video of this, which is unfortunate because she really emphasized the last sentence with a hint that it would be a Very Bad Thing™, and we’d really rather not say what that Very Bad Thing™ might be.

I’m still keeping myself out of the business of defining the Bad, but I will say that I made note of Mark Levin’s reference on Friday to James Buchanan.

(As a side note about Sunday Shows, I find the quisling Republicans usually do better when there’s a real conservative there to remind them what side they’re supposed to be on.  I wonder if this is the reason why there’s frequently only one token.)

An open letter to Bob Costas and Jason Whitlock

Posted: December 3, 2012 by alexthechick in Liberal FAIL, Op/Sped, You'll pry 'em from my cold dead hands
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Gentlemen: I see that you have chosen to use the horrific crime of the murder of Kasandra Perkins to express your belief that guns are the problem, not the men who wield them. I am utterly certain that you believe that you have the moral high ground on this matter. I am equally certain that such a belief is appallingly wrong, not to mention terribly misogynistic. Why do I say this? Because had your desires on gun control been in place, I would not be alive to be writing this now.

I have an Ex. I have an Ex who, in the process of becoming my Ex, made credible threats to kill me. Why did I believe these threats were credible? Because among the primary reasons why I left him were that he had anger control issues, that he was a problem drinker well on his way to full blown alcoholism and that the things he was throwing at me were getting ever closer to my head. I decided to leave before finally snapped and actually hit me. He was displeased by this and made such displeasure known.

Do you know what kept me safe? Not some piece of paper. Not a judge tut tutting at him and shaking his/her finger and telling him to leave me alone. Not the police, who, after all, would only be able to respond once he had caused me harm. No, what kept me safe was my Glock. What kept me safe was my Glock and the fact that he knew I had both the ability and the will to empty a clip into his chest if he made good on his statements that if I did not come back, I would not see the next week. He never tried to do any of the things he screamed he would because he knew that not only would I defend myself but that I could. My Ex was nearly a foot taller than me and, at the time, had about 150 pounds on me. If he had been able to get close enough to me to harm me, there were very few options I had to protect myself. But with my Glock, well, I would be able to stop him before he got that close. I am alive today because he knew that if he tried to make that otherwise, there was a better than even chance he would be the one lying there in a pool of blood instead of me.

You want to take that from me. You want me to be unable to defend myself. You want to leave me vulnerable to those out there who look at a five foot tall fat girl and think “victim”. You want me to be unable to protect myself when there is no one else around to do so. You want to make me dependent on others to provide for my basic safety and security.

Let us not beat around the bush, you want to sacrifice my life on the altar of your political beliefs. How dare you? Honestly, who do the two of you think you are to demand that my blood be shed so that you may preen about what wonderful people you are? Why, precisely, are you removing the responsibility for Kasandra Perkins’ murder from Jovan Belcher and placing it on an inanimate object? That is what you are doing, after all. Your position is that absent the gun, Jovan Belcher would not have murdered Kasandra Perkins. What utter rot. It’s not as if, to pick something at random, he could have picked up a knife and slit her throat so violently that she was nearly decapitated. Oh no, that would never ever happen. By focusing on the gun, you are choosing to make Jovan Belcher a mere bystander to his own actions. That is horrific. Jovan Belcher murdered Kasandra Perkins. He chose to pull that trigger. He chose to take her life. How dare you attempt to absolve him in even the slightest manner for that crime. He killed her. Not a gun. He did it. No one else.

I will not let you two demand that my blood be shed so that you can sit there and declaim your supposed superior morality to the world. No. You would rather I be dead. That is the logical conclusion of your positions. I will not die for you. No other woman should either.

Alive despite you,

Alexandria

Let’s get real about Al Qaeda in Afghanistan

Posted: October 13, 2012 by socklessjoe in Fun With Media, Islam - a religion of tolerance and peace, Mideast Madness, News, Op/Sped
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Long but interesting video of journalist Lara Logan.  AQ is still there, and strong as ever.  Oh yeah, and we’re being lied to — surprise, surprise.

 

The meta-observation about the video is almost as important as Logan’s primary point. She (now) appreciates the fact that “our” way of life is threatened, and that journalists are participants in this struggle.  Team America, baby.  That’s a pretty big leap for a journo, and one that probably won’t make her any friends around the water cooler.

Via FrontPage.

Another reason I hate the establishment

Posted: September 4, 2012 by socklessjoe in Conservatism, Fun With Media, GOP FAIL, Lame, News, Obama's Fault, Op/Sped, WTF Is Wrong With PA
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In a phrase: corporate cronyism.

More broadly, a glib lack of seriousness about policy.

I was trucking along with this Buckley Carlson column just fine… Obama hypocritically bending environmental rules and helping to bail out the oil refinery in Marcus Hook, Pennsylvania as a cold political bribe to solidify light-blue PA’s 20 electoral votes…

Then I got to the end:

It is a model of efficiency I hope the Romney administration is capable of emulating — without the demagoguery.

I don’t know if Carlson is serious or not.  Snark is difficult to pull off in a written medium.   He seems serious to me though.

I’m certainly glad the Marcus Hook refinery might remain open, but I’m not very happy about how it happened.

What she would want to see is an environmental policy that is consistent and makes sense so that everybody knows the rules.  Sunoco never should have been put in the situation where it would plan to shed refineries.  We should not see political favoritism in regulation, and we should not want to see state bailouts (–no thank you, Governor Corbett) of private industry.

 

 

 

Evil or Stupid?

Posted: September 3, 2012 by socklessjoe in Fun with Elections, News, Op/Sped
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Paul Ryan may have inadvertently thrown down the gauntlet on the “evil or stupid” question with his convention speech line, “Mitt Romney and I know the difference between protecting a program, and raiding it”.

A liberal friend of mine tweeted his objection to this line, indignant at the evil-not-stupid implication.  This prompted me to reflect a bit.

Some blog posts attempt to be persuasive. Others analytical. This one is the later, and should not for one second be confused with the former. I know the politically correct answer is something along the lines of “misguided”, which is a nice way of saying “stupid”. I would never in a million years suggest that we go with the “socialism” theme as an electoral strategy. But this is a question many of us have struggled with since 2008 when we were trying to figure out what to think of this nice clean and articulate fellow Barack Obama. What makes this dude tick?

It’s been hard to analyze because we’ve seen lots to say for both sides of the evil/stupid divide. However, evil is hard to prove –we have little more than the circumstantial evidence that most of his mentors and many of his friends are explicitly communist or socialist. Hard evidence of stupid, we have had in abundance, thought this is at least somewhat counter-indicated by his education.

I mean, he’s either evil or stupid, right? I have to say that Ryan’s statement has pushed me towards the evil camp.

Raiding Medicare was a pretty fucking bold move. Pretending that cutting payments to Medicare providers somehow won’t affect seniors and “saves” the program because providers will just accept less and be fine with it must rise beyond the “stupid” theory.

Nobody’s that stupid. Right?

The sheer volume of Baghdad Bob-esque lies from the campaign and the White House has intensified over the last few weeks and I’m having a harder and harder time convincing myself that this dude isn’t just evil.

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