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On Line Identities, The World Of The Left.

by Flyovercountry ( 229 Comments › )
Filed under Multiculturalism, Progressives at June 21st, 2011 - 8:00 pm

One of the reasons I say very little about who I am and what my experiences are is that in the online world, it matters not. That is to say, I can be anyone I want from behind this computer screen. That is true for all of us here in the virtual world. There are two paths we can all take with this set of facts. In my humble opinion, those of us who are more conservative choose to eschew our supposed identities and will try to form arguments which will stand up, even if offered anonymously. Also, in my humble opinion, those on the left will claim some mantle of credibility based on assuming the identity of an unimpeachable expert.

How many times have we busted some phony claiming to be a soldier or a former soldier who decided that it would bolster their arguments against the war in Iraq, war in Afghanistan, War on Terror, or even military spending? How many times have we busted wide open the claims of business ownership by people on the left who were in fact union thugs arguing for increased regulation and or the asinine health care monstrosity? How many degrees in Chemistry or Physics have been conferred by unknowing universities and colleges upon those arguing vehemently that man kind is responsible for a quick future destruction of the planet? This list could go on for several pages, and would be fun to compose, but something happened last week that tops it all.

The two most popular web sites and forums for Lesbians were outed as having been run by middle aged white men, both of whom were perpetually stuck in their adolescent stages of development and existing on the public dole as college students. Without referring to the sites, as I’m sure you’ve all heard of it by now, I would encourage you to get your giggles out of the way. There is something going on beyond the problems of two assholes who were so irrelevant in their real lives that they were reduced to finding validation in the virtual world by pretending not only to be women, but women with gender confusion. (O.K., another cheap laugh here. If you call a man who dresses in women’s clothing a transvestite, what do we call these two?) One of these, “lesbians,” made it a point to use his status of expert as a member of a victim class in this world to point out that America was by far the least tolerant society in the world. He claimed that Syria, a place where lesbians and gay men are immediately executed when found out, was far more tolerant a place than our country. ( I know of at least two major U.S. corporations which force diversity training upon its employees in the case that anyone is caught joking about homosexuality within earshot of another person.)

The remainder of what is going on is a complete lack of supporting facts necessary to back the liberal agenda. One of the many signs that we on the right are in fact winning this debate is that the liberals must continually resort to spin, deflection, projection, astroturfing, and tactics like this in order to state their position. This, reduced to its simplest form, besides being hilariously pathetic, is just another way to restate those famous and untrue words uttered by Al Gore, “the debate is now over.” We have seen this before, and mark my words, we will again. The mantle of expertise is designed for no other purpose than to make a jaw droppingly weak position unassailable. Whenever debating with liberals in the future, we should all remember to start our side of the debate by challenging the premise of every statement. Be wary of those that begin with a position of some sort of expertise. (An example would be, “I am a lesbian who lived both in the U.S. and Syria and I have found the Sharia compliant world of Syria to be much more liberating than the supposedly open society of America.) We will be inundated over the next two years with people claiming to have gotten great health care in Canada, England, or even in Cuba or Mexico. They will probably be lying about it. We will be inundated by people claiming to be soldiers or former soldiers telling stories of American transgressions abroad. They will probably be lying about it. We will be inundated with Marxists claiming to be business owners who will state that the bevy of new regulation of the Obama Administration has been a boon to their non existent businesses, and that the new green economy is allowing them to expand beyond what they ever thought possible. They will probably be lying about it. We will be inundated with people pretending to be doctors who will tell tales of how the Obamacare monstrosity has allowed them to care for patients in a more streamlined and compassionate manner than they ever have before. They will probably be lying about that as well.

All in all, the pretending to be a lesbian thing is my favorite liberal ruse to date. This one will be tough to top. I would be happier if they just gave up trying. I won’t be holding my breath though.

Crossposted at Musings of a Mad Conservative.

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As President Obama Takes A Victory Lap Around The Country, I Wonder What Planet These People Are On.

by Flyovercountry ( 45 Comments › )
Filed under Barack Obama, Democratic Party, Economy, Elections 2012, government, Health Care, Media, Politics, Progressives, unemployment at June 15th, 2011 - 8:30 am

Watch this video on YouTube.

This clip was of Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D) Mars. No she is not beyond the mainstream of thought for the Democrat Party, she is in fact the Chairperson of it. Now I realize how every side in a political campaign, or even in ordinary debate feels the need to spin the message around to paint themselves in the best possible light, but then again, I am not an imbecile. To that end, here are some things I have noticed.

George Bush was brutalized in the papers every day for 8 years. There were negative stories about the economy in the news media on a daily basis. Even though the GDP averaged 3% growth, and in fact reached that number in a healthy and consistent manner, we were told repeatedly that the 5% unemployment number was somehow the worst post Depression era performance of any Administration. (Laughable even more for those of us who remember the Carter Presidency and the invention during those dark days of the misery index.) Now that unemployment has reached the Carteresque levels once again, Obama and his team are out there claiming that they have created 2.5 Million private sector jobs. I watched this happen a dozen times over the weekend and through the last couple of days, and I laughed, right up until the time I realized that for the most part, the statement went largely unchallenged by a sickeningly compliant press. For those who rely on the alphabet media for their news, private and public sector job creation over the last 28 months have not come close to keeping up with the expansion of the workforce through natural population growth. It is in fact so bad, the language of the Obama Administration had to be expanded to include the mythical category of saved jobs. This is a metric which is silly for several reasons. One, there is no real definition of a saved job, nor any way to actually measure it. I personally could claim to have saved a thousand jobs, and there would be no way to disprove it.

A President campaigning for a second term is nothing new. It is expected, but most in the past have waited to start the process until the actual campaign season during the year of election. One reason, most of the time, Presidents don’t need to worry about winning the nomination of their party. Their organization is already in place, and fundraising is not an issue. since a sitting President does not need to spend money on a primary campaign, and has a guaranteed treasure of funds which national election laws just give them, ie federal funding, every other President in our nations history actually did their jobs until the last minute. This is not so for the Narcissist in Chief. We have very real issues for which we need a chief executive to address. In case you missed it, Pimco, one of our largest creditors, has announced that we have indeed met and exceeded their limit for allowable debt. They don’t care about whatever silly number for a debt limit little Timmy Geitner is able to negotiate with congress, they are refusing to loan us another dime. Our Justice Department has been involved in treasonous activity. They have been actively arming foreign invaders in a brazen attempt to convince Americans that the Second Amendment should be repealed outright. Our economy, far from being an accomplishment which deserves a Presidential victory lap, is in flames. Federal Regulations have so choked off American businesses from even operating let alone expanding their workforces, that over half of the jobs created in the private sector over the last quarter have been added by one American corporation alone. (This is ironic in itself since jobs at McDonalds have long been derided by every single Democrat I have ever met as being somehow unworthy of actually being considered as a part of our economy.) Don’t get me wrong. I am happy that McDonalds is hiring. Entry level positions will often lead to bigger and better things for those who apply themselves appropriately. It is just that this performance is hardly the stuff of braggadocio.

The middle east is in flames, and it is that way precisely because President Obama made the specific decision to project American weakness. Kow towing to our enemies while beating up on our allies has surprisingly produced the same exact results as when Jimmy Carter tried it some 35 years ago. On President Obama’s campaign victory tour, he chirps about the Arab Spring, as though suddenly all threats for that part of the world are being swept away. It is not his failure to mention that last month 2000 Coptic Christians were slaughtered as a part of that renewal of freedom that bothers me most, it is that not a single member of the press challenged him with it during his claim that his smart diplomacy made this blessed event possible. Just like in 1979 Iran, the young democrat students have already been rounded up and imprisoned, if not out rightly executed, and Israel is faced with a very real and terrible new enemy located on her border. For those of you who believed incorrectly that the Muslim Brotherhood and the Shia Mullahs of Iran would never get along and cooperate, there are now two Iranian submarines tooling around off the coast of Egypt in the Red Sea.

Have you enjoyed your recent trips to the gas pumps. Have they been worthy of a Presidential victory lap. Get ready for a similar thing to happen with electricity prices. President Obama, while giving lip service to making America the best place to conduct business and put us in the front seat of the new green economy is attempting to do so by destroying the sector of the economy which produces more conventional forms of energy. Since the free market rewards quality and efficiency, the nifty green economy would not come about on its own. Therefore it is necessary to force us into that decision by making gas and electricity too expensive to get from conventional sources. Besides the extra costs inherent in an economic system which utilizes subsidies to promote social engineering, there is another glaring problem. Even with massive amounts of our tax dollars being poured into these various alternative forms of energy production, nothing has yet to be close to producing anywhere near what we actually need. Without returning to a 7th century lifestyle, disaster awaits us should we remain on this current path. Here is an experiment for all of the Obama supporters out there. Go the entire summer without turning on a single fan or an air conditioner, and refrain from using your car. See how that suits you. I would rather President Obama kept the promise he made during his latest SOTU Address and get busy ending the federal regulation which is creating this energy crisis rather than allowing his Administration to be creating it.

Against the express will of the American People, in what has to be the single most cynical and crooked political maneuvers ever in our nation’s history, Obamacare was passed. Its provisions don’t even kick in until mostly after the next election. Even with that fact, we were told that we had to pass the pos so quickly that it remained almost completely unread by the geniuses who voted for it. Since its passage, every single thing about it has been terrible. Even though its costs have tripled since its passage, the press is still sticking with the theme that it is a budget reducing Law. Rationing has already started, with several medications losing FDA approval due to cost. Panels have already been empowered in Medicare to circumvent treatment and medications ordered by doctors based on economic considerations. 30% of employers will be dropping their health insurance programs entirely. Every one of the Laws proponents have been granted waivers exempting them from the consequences of the Law. And, as a special bonus, we now have an armed Department of Education with some of the most thuggish collection techniques since Dutch Schultz formed the New York Restaurant Owners Association.

On the one hand I can understand the meme of the economy has turned around and Barack Obama did it. After all, they can not run on a campaign of we plan on giving you 4 more years of what we did during the last 4. But, I am not an idiot either. Perhaps it would just be better for the country if Barack Obama just got to the business of becoming one of our nation’s best former Presidents, just like the first guy who instituted the same policies as those we are running with today, Jimmy Carter.

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Crossposted at Musings of a Mad Conservative.

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The Kabuki President’s Bizarre Disconnect With Reality.

by Flyovercountry ( 93 Comments › )
Filed under Barack Obama, Economy, Misery Index, Politics, unemployment at June 7th, 2011 - 5:00 pm

On Friday, our President went to Toledo, Ohio and gave a speech to auto workers there which can only be described as bizarre. So bizarre in fact, I am wondering if along with all of the other medical professionals which are probably a part of any Presidential entourage, should we mandate a psychiatrist as well. We’ll start with this, our President chose as the audience for his campaign speech on economics the factory workers who build Jeep Wranglers. After spending the last two years talking about the evils of SUV’s, and berating previous audience members for not driving in more gas efficient hybrid vehicles, President Obama was confident that UAW affiliation would be enough to guarantee a warm reception from the evil producers of a non-hybrid, gas guzzling, 4 wheel drive, monster vehicle. He was openly booed at several points during his speech. Only one of these boos made the national news, and that was not widely reported. Then we got to listen to Obama finally address the dismal recovery of our economy from the latest recession. He described the recovery as on track but facing, “headwinds.” If by headwinds, he means the idiotic economic policies of his administration and his own personal assault on the free enterprise system, well then I suppose he has a point. As part of the, “headwinds,” out of his control, he whined about gas prices. It is true that a President does not directly set or exert control over gas prices, but there are some things a President can do to help, or hurt the oil markets. Barack Obama has done everything humanly possible for a President to outright stop domestic oil production. In one instance of his assault on the oil industry here in America, President Obama managed to record a Presidential first for the history books. President Obama was held in contempt by a federal judge for his refusal to approve any Gulf Oil Permits. Not even Richard Nixon managed to be slapped with a contempt order, and he was forced to resign his office in part for what he eventually turned over the the court. Since the contempt order, President Obama’s Administration has moved with a remarkable lack of haste. I am not certain, but I do believe the number of Gulf permits granted since the contempt order now about a year in age, stands at 2. The EPA, his favorite regulatory weapon is now engaged in stopping existing production in west Texas, why, because a 3 inch lizard happens to reside there. Then there is the technology which allows us to extract oil from shale, which I have read in many places that there is a lot of. Well, don’t look for that oil to be extracted under Obama’s watch, he has directed his minions to stop it. I keep hearing the meme that we can’t drill our way out of high gas prices. Besides the fact that this statement is plainly stupid on its face, all we really need to disprove it, is an adult memory. Each and every time a former administration has eased regulation to even begin expanding domestic production, the prices at the pump have fallen immediately. One obvious reason is that other people change their behavior. Other nations which produce oil expand their production to lower the price, hoping that we will no longer find drilling for our own necessary.

Another of the, headwinds,” is the plethora of onerous regulation being inflicted upon the economy by executive fiat. Barack Obama is the master of saying one thing and doing another. During the State of The Union Address, Obama bemoaned the over reach of wasteful regulation which was stifling our economy. Since that time, regulation by executive fiat has been a top priority of his domestic agenda. Rising food prices are blamed for American anger with the economy. The term headwinds would lead one to believe that our President is powerless to affect them in any way. I have a helpful suggestion or two for the hapless Kabuki President. Stop subsidizing food to be converted into fuel. The ethanol program has not done a thing for gas prices, it is actually bad for our cars, and it is causing famine in third world countries, and that is beyond driving up our own prices here at home. Stop paying farmers to not farm on 17% of their land. The great terror of overproduction was always a myth. It is a lie, that we all must pay for on grocery shelves around this nation. During the hype alleging this myth, farm land prices skyrocketed. This occurred during a time period when all other real estate values fell by 31%. Tell the EPA that they are forbidden from inflicting their damage upon farms, or for that matter anyone ever again. The road to hell is paved with good intentions, and the EPA qualifies as a good intention. It seems as though Washington bureaucrats have a problem with milk. They have declared milk to be a dangerous substance, and have inflicted added expense in the form of spilled milk emergency plans, reporting, and monitoring. Farming in fertile Central California has been stopped to protect the Delta Smelt.

Another glaring, “headwind,” would be the crowning achievement of Obama’s domestic agenda. The health care monstrosity which I’ll refer to as Obamacare carries with it 11 new taxes to be implemented over the next 3 years. These taxes are on top of the costs of $10,000 to $20,000 per U.S. employee to be borne by the private sector. What mood do you believe prospective employers will be in when it comes to expanding their businesses or performing any type of hiring activity. That answer has already been given in the form of increased unemployment rates. The ravages of Obamacare are in fact so disastrous, the laws most ardent supporters have been granted waivers to exempt themselves from the consequences of the law having been passed. This leaves an increased burden to be borne by the rest of us poor schlubs who are not politically connected to the ruling elite. So much for Democrats being, “for the little guy,” or, “for the people.”

Then there were the farcical claims made by Obama during his speech. Our economy has created the greatest number of jobs since the great depression was one such claim. Here is a chart published by the Minnesota Federal Reserve Board to refute this nonsense.

He also made the claim that GM and Chrysler repaid their loans 6 years prior to the schedules agreed to under the terns of the TARP loans. Unfortunately, in order to back this claim, an accounting trick which would have sent any of the rest of us to jail needed to be employed. It worked something like this, a special tax credit was invented, which was only available for two American companies, ie. GM and Chrysler, which shockingly transferred an amount of money necessary for loan repayment from the public largess to those companies which were then transferred back to us as loan repayments. In other words, taxpayers got screwed, and Obama gets to use this lie as the central theme for his campaign to be reelected.

Barack Obama is in full out campaign mode now for his reelection bid. You probably did not notice a difference in his performance of his duties, as he has spent his term in office so far either inflicting damage upon our economy or perpetually campaigning. We can not afford 4 more years of this. How’s that hopety change working for you so far?

Crossposted at Musings of a Mad Conservative.

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Posted in Barack Obama, Economy, Misery Index, Politics, unemployment | 93 Comments »

A Few More Points For The Genocidal Palestinian Supporters.

by Flyovercountry ( 38 Comments › )
Filed under Anti-semitism, Islam, Israel, Judaism, Leftist-Islamic Alliance, Palestinians, Politics at June 4th, 2011 - 12:00 pm

A follow up from yesterday, a part two if you will. During the time when the Jordanian Muslims controlled the West Bank, and indeed Western Jerusalem, any Jew caught worshiping at the Western Wall was arrested, imprisoned, and possibly beheaded. Any Christian caught worshiping at the Christian holy sites were arrested, imprisoned and possibly beheaded. Since the Israelis took over administrative duties in Jerusalem following the 6 day war, all religious sites have been made available to all worshipers of whatever faith cared to practice their religion. If you believe that the Muslims would allow for open worship again, following a return to dominion in Jerusalem, carry a sign that says proud Christian into Saudi Arabia, and see how long you will be allowed to keep you head on your shoulders. Yet, even with these facts well known, Israel is labeled an apartheid state. This requires a logical feat of acrobatics not even attempted by Ringling Brothers.

The Arab Spring as it has become to be known has resulted in the slaughter of virtually all of the Coptic Christians formerly living in Egypt. They were not members of the Egyptian government, nor were they involved in supporting the former regime in any way. They were executed by the ruling Muslim mob for committing the crime of not being Muslim. There is a terrible disconnect which occurs on the political left. The disconnect is between reality and spin. Somehow, the victims of these murderous rampages being inflicted upon them are shown to be the aggressors, and vice versa. Israel is not the problem in the Middle East, Israel is the shining example of what is possible with a free and open society not hampered by the onerous burdens of an oppressive regime. The Arabs who remained in Israel and fought alongside the Jews during the 1948, 1954, 1967, 1973, etc… wars, and their descendants enjoy a far greater living standard than that of any other non royal Arabs living anywhere else in the Middle East. Israel is able to achieve this for her citizens, despite the fact that she is the only bit of land there without any oil. Yassar Arafat died with over $9 Billion in the bank. Most of that money came to him from UNICEF donations. Had half of that money been used for the purposes being advertised during those sickening Halloween commercials, the so called suffering would not have happened. Of course, much to the chagrin of Chris Martin and his ilk, that also would have meant that only about 6,000 Katusha’s per year would have been available for the murder of Jews.

If the, “Palestinians,” put down their weapons today, there would be peace. If the Israelis put down their weapons today, there would be a slaughter. Prior to the Intifada, a, “Palestinian,” baby was unfortunately killed. It was reported by AFP that the baby died due to being shot by an IDF soldier. As it turns out, both the AFP reporter and his bosses knew that the baby was in fact murdered by his own father, a member of the PLO, and the death was staged purposefully to appear as though it was the fault of the IDF. Clearly there is a difference in values between those of us in civilized society and the animals of the PLO. Slapping a COEXIST bumper sticker on your car will not solve this problem nor will it bridge the gap. If you choose to take the side of these animals, I have no further use for you. You are either evil, or just plainly too stupid to participate in any actual discussion. In any case, Kish Meir Yiddische Tuchus.