Archive for May, 2009

Recently I came across a quote from the 1964 Goldwater speech by Barry Goldwater who at the time was labeled “Extremist in Chief” by the media. It says, “I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice.“
Personally, I am not in favor of Extremism for any reason. Extremism has never solved one problem…ever. The practice has caused death, dismemberment, and rampant stupidity.
Thinking that there must be more to Goldwater’s speech than that, I read it. The next line after the oft used quote states, “And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.” Does this remind you of the pantie wearing Republican congressmen lining up to give the Supreme Court Justice-ess (Sotomayor) pick a fair and impartial hearing? Why is a hearing even necessary, knowing what we know… that she makes racist comments.
It is a fact that we were raised to associate the word “Extremist” with conservatism. However, now I submit the painfully obvious. The working extremism is all on the other side.
The most Extremist example you can deliver on the right is militias. A few years ago, militias were all the rage with the namby pamby news readers. They did their usual great job running it into the ground and then moving onto the next thing.
It turns out that militias are mostly made up of guys who get together on weekends to shoot paintballs at each other. The only time they are likely to become dangerous is when society ends because a 6 mile diameter meteorite lands anywhere, or the world sets off its nukes. At this point the militias will take over the gubment business.
Wouldn’t this make a great movie? Society crumbles and the Vermont Militia takes over that part of the world. Eventually, they expand and run into the Gangs of New York in the Arkansas Wasteland and fight for domination. Then the winner has to face off with the Gangs Of Los Angeles for the world cup. Which team would you support? The no good dirty Vermont Militia Extremists, or the kindly, understanding, compassionate Gangs of New York. On the weekends when the Vermont Militia is out shooting their paintballs, what do you think the Gangs of Los Angeles are out shooting?

Actually, with a minimum of logic, it is easy to see that the true Extremists come from the far left. The far left, by the way, is the faction in power these days in Washington, DC.
Do you remember democrat president and super liberal, LBJ? He was an Extremist. His glory plan called “The Great Society” was so effective in destroying the fabric of black society that it basically put the Extremist KKK out of business. It couldn’t compete with kindly liberals.
Until we can identify and deal with basic principles like what makes an Extremist, I find it difficult to believe we can ever move on.
In 1964 Lyndon B. Johnson rolled over Barry Goldwater to become President of the United States. More, it was an ultra lib trouncing a super conservative. The country wanted it. Johnson won fair and square. What they got, naturally, was a strategy to lose in Vietnam, the Great Society, and NASA setting up shop in Houston, Texas (LBJ’s state), even though rockets have always been shot off from Florida. Of everything, the Great Society was the super bonehead of that century. If you’re unsure what the Great Society was, there is plenty of information in the history books.
My point is that if you’ll just look around, you’ll find that ALL of the Extremists are on the left, with Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid leading the parade.
I’m sorry. Our guys are off taking care of their knitting, or washing their soiled panties. Extremism is always bad, but when is total moderation in the face of total Extremism a good thing?

A tale of two tales. First there is the man famous for his nostrils poking his butt in your face. Second, when is enough enough, tax payer?
On May 21 2009 the House Energy and Commerce Committee voted to send a new 1000 page bill designed to cap greenhouse gases up for a full vote. Conservatives see the bill as madness. The folks of the future will forever be paying for this bill with more taxes and higher prices on everything…and this is just one in a putrid series of super wacko leftist Hate America First legislation coming from the minds of the demonic democrats.
However, what makes this bill even more special is that when Joe Barton, the top Republican on the committee demanded that the bill be read before the vote, the committee chair, Henry N. Waxman said, “Sure! No prob!” and proceeded to hire a fellow who talks very fast (speed reader? speed talker?) to read it aloud.
Waxman, who admits not having read all of the bill with his name on it, (Waxman-Markey) chuckled at his little joke at hiring the speed reader.
Actually, most of the country was not laughing with him… Conservatives feel like it was a blatant, up-your-nose, whatcha gonna do about it kind of challenge.
Conservatives with a historical bent see it as an out of control congress reaching the apex of the chart line. They see it as going downhill from here.
Once upon a time there was a man by the name of Alphonse Capone. He was a well respected Chicago type politician who made the Chicago way of politics textbook for years to come. Obama is an inheritor and practitioner of the Capone Chicago way. Henry N. Waxman, a low level flunky in the Obama mob, was just flaunting his stuff while he still has it.
At the apex of Capone’s curve, a man by the name of Kevin Costner came to town and kicked Capone’s butt. He put him in jail for misusing his public funds garnered with graft and hooch, much like Obama with his miscreant democrat congress and pork.
Likewise, conservatives yearn for a man like Kevin Costner to come along and unceremoniously put Obama out to pasture along with his cronies like Henry N. Waxman and his felonious speed readers. Perhaps someone like Robert Stack or Elliot Ness. Men of character and valor. Men with guts. Men who’ll give back at least twice as good as they get. “You tax one of us…We come punch you in the nose!” Now that’s the kind of leadership we need. Of course, by 2012, when comes time to cut the rascals like Henry N. Waxman and Obama loose, Elliot, Robert, and Kevin may need to ride into town on a bicycle….and God forbid that they need ammo for their tommy guns. Best that they bring a pocket full of rocks.

Recently I was looking on the search engines for a cute photo to illustrate a political point when quite by accident I blundered into a whole bevy of George Bush/Monkey pictures. Frankly, I had never seen anything like this. After a little checking, it turns out that there has been a whole industry of very talented photoshoppers dedicated to transforming the former (at the time current) president into a chimp.
What does it say when a sizable chunk of the honored opposition gets their kicks out of smut like this? It’s one thing to catch a president in a funny pose, but it’s quite something else to deliberately parade liberal venom for all to see with degrading caricatures. There is something primal about photos like this. It reminded me of something I had seen elsewhere…. I went looking, sickening though it was.
Once upon a time, and maybe now and later, there was a whole industry of ancient photoshoppers dedicated to making Jews look a certain way. In their time they too were considered as progressives and ahead of the curve. You could find their work in museums and classrooms.
Today, in America, our progressives believe what they want to believe and push their party line on the rest of us. We’re so overwhelmed by the volume of garbage pounding us daily that we’re in the reactive mode…nay, defensive mode!
One day, God willing, and a true conservative candidate comes along, we’ll be in the proactive mode. The man (or woman) who stands in front of the microphone and says that as a country, we’re simply not going to put up with crap like this any more will be the next president in a landslide. While we can’t stop filth like this, we can put it on display in the full sunshine, and in so doing, see it wither away and die like the fungus it is.

Bernard Goldberg, one of your favorite former big time news reporters and current news commenter made the observation that you can’t properly blame the big 3 electronic media anchors and their associated reporters totally for the shape of the news these days. I cheered.
Bernie knows, and so do I, and now you, that the real force behind the news is the news producers. Where our modern news media is the tree of evil, the producers are the very root. These are the people who pull the strings of the talking heads you see delivering the nightly stupid news, and these are the folks who have done the most to bring the country to where it is now.
In the TV biz, there is the owner followed by the big boss followed by the sales boss, news boss, and engineering boss. The big boss plays golf. The news boss keeps the news train generally on the track and mostly keeps out of the way. (The other bosses aren’t important here.)
Under the news boss comes the producers who most often are a power unto themselves. They are the smart ones who are most likely women, divorced, no prospects, and married to the station. The field reporters are gatherer ants, going about their business to the exclusion of all else, doing as they are told by the producer. The news readers are pitiable plastic mouthpieces who read what they are told to read. If they are told to slobber a little more or less, they do it. If they are told to report right as being left, no problem. Like post late unpleasantness reporter, Sim Carstairs, they must be able to sing Dixie or The Battle Hymn of the Republic with equal enthusiasm. Weeknight anchors are very serious, whereas overnight and weekend anchors are much less so, many times being their own producers using materials gathered from the real producers. Often times the second stringers are even more virulent in their on air views, since the big bosses are usually busy sleeping off their steak and alcohol.
Now, if anyone in the TV biz happens to ever see this, they’ll have a damn hard time finding fault with it, because if this isn’t precisely them, it’s damn damn close, or right on the money for others they know in the news biz.
The point is, that these days producers are rabidly radically, off worldly, strangely, mind bogglingly, putridescently right is left left is right pro same sex marriage pro abortion anti male hate the country liberal and ever worshipful of their very own god Obama busy. The reporters reflect this view.
A large segment of the country still thinks the reporters must know something they don’t and keep listening and believing, past all human understanding. Worse, others outside the USA who are even less sophisticated, if that is possible believe everything they read and hear from our Obama propagandist media.
Media IS the 4th estate, and in many ways more powerful than the other three…with none of the checks and balances. And it has always been this way. The only difference is that today, we have other means of learning the news. Thank God!!!
Oh, and let us not forget our friends in the print media. For the most part they work the phones only. Often, the electronic media only works the printed pages. All those old black and white movies about the newspaper reporters out hoofing it, wearing out shoe leather, is just what it is…old black and white movies. These days there isn’t so much of that.
Our radio commenters like Rush still haven’t quite caught on. While they rightly rail against the traditional news media, then they feign unbelief when the traditional media doesn’t expend that shoe leather to research and learn the truth.
The fact is that Rush, Hannity, and Beck must be the ones to do the research. There is simply no one else to do it. The black and white days are dead, dead, dead, if they ever existed at all.
Which leads to the final thought. All good writers possess the ability to write on demand, but all good writers only do good work when their muse is in full force. Having to produce words on a deadline or on days when you don’t feel like it leads to dull text. Worse, writing when you are a newsman who would rather be trying on women’s clothes leads to crap text. But, since you are a respected newsman, your crap text is taken as the real thing, having real worth. Much of what you read in the papers and see on TV is crap text and should be flushed before ever being seen…but it isn’t. It is our loss, and the gain of the viewers and readers who swill their daily koolaid. It’s just the guys in power now.

This may be a little over reported in our circles by the time you read this, but I had to add my voice with the important section of transcript from the annual Washington Press Corp Correspondent’s Dinner, May 9, 2009.
Conservatives were used to feeling antsy when seeing these things on television, for they have always served as a forum for a poor joke teller to make fun of a sitting president. This year, this woman, Wanda Sykes begins, “It’s hard to poke fun at the president because he’s so likable.” Undeterred, she went on to poke fun at the conservative president, Rush Limbaugh…

“Transcript

WANDA SYKES: Rush Limbaugh, one of your big critics. Uh, boy, Rush Limbaugh said he hopes this administration fails.

You know, so you’re saying, ‘I hope America fails.’ You’re like, ‘I don’t care about people losing their homes, their jobs, our soldiers in Iraq.’ He just wants the country to fail.

To me, that’s treason. He’s not saying anything differently than what Osama bin Laden is saying.

You know, you might want to look into this, sir, because I think maybe Rush Limbaugh was the 20th hijacker, but he was so strung out on Oxycontin he missed his flight.

Too much? But you’re laughing inside. I know you’re laughing.

SYKES: Rush Limbaugh — ‘I hope the country the fails.’ I hope his kidneys fail. How ’bout that?

He needs a little waterboarding. That’s what he needs. “

Utube will have this video forever. Just search for Wanda Sykes. It won’t ever be posted here. What is incalculably worse than these remarks by this wacko nutcase embittered Obama supporter, is that a great percentage of the news people and the president, President Obama laughed heartily at her take on Rush Limbaugh. Further, at the conclusion, Obama gave her a magnificent thumbs up. This will go down as one of the great signposts to the heart and thinking of Obama and his low media minions. More, it screams to anyone with ears that something is seriously seriously wrong in Washington DC. They laugh like Romans of old at things that modern people don’t think are funny.

Kidney Failure Update: Actual comment on a feminist board delivered 5.12.09:

“I thought this was really funny actually. I love Wanda Sykes.

As far as wishing Rush to die, she was turning his phrase about how he wants our country to basically collapse back on him. I thought it was clever and amusing.

The only part I didn’t find funny was the waterboarding line because I just don’t think waterboarding is funny. But otherwise I don’t see the big deal. She’s a comedian; she’s not a political figure.”

Death by kidney failure is funny, but a little water up the nose is really pushing it?

Once upon a time a boy clapped for joy in his 3rd grade class when it was announced that John F. Kennedy had been killed. He was a product of his environment, understanding only what he had been taught. Later, when he had some age on him, he looked back and was violently repulsed and ashamed at the memory. It changed the way he looked at the world and things.
The lady who dropped the lines above is writing from a mountain of ignorance. Maybe one day, (though it is doubtful) she too will be ashamed. She has a great many sources to use to help her mold her educated opinions. Today, being ignorant is largely a personal choice.

Kidney Failure Update May 13:

Check out this search result directly from Google:
Battle of the big mouths Tuscaloosa News (subscription) – ‎3 hours ago‎
… digs at Rush Limbaugh. Did Sykes cross a line in speculating that Limbaugh was the 20th hijacker on 9/11 and hoping he ended up with kidney disease? …

Apparently, this is a blog on the Tuscaloosa Alabama News website. The blogger is Katherine Lee the city editor of The Tuscaloosa News…. The answer we give is that if Kathy must ask if wishing someone kidney failure crosses a line, then, she has issues. Of course, it’s nothing new, these problems with our Alabama “news”papers. In modern times we realize they are worthy only for the Sunday funnies, garden mulch, and savings coupons. As we know, real news died. We, of course, are forced to look elsewhere for our daily education. (Actually real news coverage died a long time ago. The modern difference is that the public is no longer captive to a local unimedia. Thanks to the internet, now they (we) have choices!