Oh, you know me too well. I love Glenn. But yes, when he when he gets all Jeezboy, my eyes roll back in my head, down my neck, through my abdomen and all the way down into my nut sack, where they spin around causing my testicles to start spinning like gyroscopes. Whereupon my testicles burn rubber back up into my gut, my throat, and pop out of my eye sockets with a horrible wet sound. It's a complete eye-ball reversal.

I don't know what to do. I'm blind. My nuts hurt. I'm weak from loss of blood because the vein hasn't healed yet.

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S.E. Cupp said something last night about political theater, and she wants her politics to be CSPAN boring. That's how we'd know they were getting shit done.

That's a quote for the ages. I like that one. I'm not particularly prone to conspiracy theories, but that doesn't mean they're not going on. The big, complicated, convoluted ones that required hundreds of people to be involved, timing to be precise, and yet some situation is manipulated perfectly and no one ever leaks anything about it? I don't buy those theories. It's much more plausible, for example, that it was a weather balloon rather than space aliens, as sexy as space aliens are to many people. But it is very plausible that one lone corporate-hating leftwing enviro-nut would fake a stuck accelerator. Easy to do. And very odd that a 61 year old man wouldn't immediately think to put the car in neutral. That's pretty basic to anyone who's been driving a car that long. If a teenager girl had done this, I would have certainly believed it, but not a 61 year old man unless he's an absolute wuss.

But we KNOW there are a lot of leftwing nuts out there. If the left will concede there is the occasional abortion clinic bomber, surely they will admit (they won't...but just for sake of argument) that somewhere out there is some zealous Wal-mart-hating PC-socialist government-ass-kissing nut job who would find a way to make his sad little life worthwhile by taking a shot at a nasty, big, polluting, dolphin-drowning, polar-bear-killing, foreign, non-union (thus bad) corporation (which are always bad...unless owned by the government, that is). They ought to believe this is possible because the job of the left is precisely to make people such as this.

Although there is great harm in liberal ideas of justice and equality, and there is great harm that comes from their diseased and backward economic and social policies, what scares me most is the zealousness they drum up in people. The left means to make out of all people radicals (at least until the present order is overturned, and then they will make them sheep). The left gains mileage by ramping up people on the lunatic meter so that cutting down a tree becomes the equivalent of raping the earth. (As someone on the Beck show quipped, try wiping your butt with plastic toilet paper if you hate forestry so much.) The left makes its living by raising everything to lunatic levels. They evangelize people (with help from academia and the media) to an extent that leaves even Jimmy Swaggart jealous and taking notes.

And yet to the lunatics running the country, it is the retired military and those with Ron Paul bumper stickers on their cars who are the biggest danger of turning into terrorists. And so said someone in the Dept. of Homeland Security in a memo. This is how these radicals think. They are lunatics. A battle won, they don't coast. They simply ramp up the radicalism and go after sugar or CO2 as if it was the greatest evil facing us. They never stop. That's why people always end up in gulags. Always always the ultimate problem in their eyes is people. They have no love for the environment. None. It's just a stand-in for their hate for people and desire for ultimate power. They may, in their own minds, want to be Jesus as well.

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Oh, you know me too well. I love Glenn. But yes, when he when he gets all Jeezboy, my eyes roll back in my head, down my neck, through my abdomen and all the way down into my nut sack, where they spin around causing my testicles to start spinning like gyroscopes. Whereupon my testicles burn rubber back up into my gut, my throat, and pop out of my eye sockets with a horrible wet sound. It's a complete eye-ball reversal.

I don't know what to do. I'm blind. My nuts hurt. I'm weak from loss of blood because the vein hasn't healed yet.

LMAO. Very good description. Very Rube Goldberg.

Here's an interesting take on battling the war of words with the left: The 'Progressives' Are Really 'Oppressives.'

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With that tactic in mind, you should not let an opponent define the very words used in the political contest, because the words used in the battle of ideas are analogous to the strategic high ground. He who has the high ground has the advantage. Take the word "progressive," for example. The very word is positive. Who can possibly be against progress, and how can stagnation or regression be better than progress? While many of us know that Progressivism has led to some of the most brutal, violent, oppressive regimes in the modern world, those who apply the term to themselves obviously do not see it in a negative way. Conservatives who still use that term in what they think is a derisive, negative, or insulting manner will watch their statist/progressive opponents laugh at them as they fall into the progressives' trap.

The correct term should be "oppressive," not "progressive," because statist/progressive/totalitarian governments have to oppress individual freedom in order to force people to conform to the will of the state, which invariably just ends up in one form or another of enslavement, from confiscation and "redistribution" of earnings all the way up to gulags and show trials.

So tactically speaking, never give your enemy the choice of the field of battle by letting them impose their "verbal will."

Never adopt your opponent's use of the word "choice." Instead, use the word "abortion" -- or better yet, "no choice." Certainly the unborn gets no choice. Never let them use "fairness," as in "fairness doctrine"; instead, use the word "unfairness." Never let them use the term "social justice"; instead, use the term "social control." Never let them use "working poor" because that assumes that only poor people work. Never let them use "climate change"; instead, say "climate hoax." Never let them use the term "health care reform," and instead say "health care takeover." Think about every word used, and if any term is tactically advantageous to the progressive cause, then refuse to use it. Always correct them, every single time -- otherwise, you cannot win this war of ideas. And never, ever let them call themselves "progressives" when in reality they are "oppressives."

For the most part, I've been doing what Welch is suggeting. I've been calling it "state takeover of health care" instead of "health care reform." Instead of "liberals" I've been calling them "leftwing nut jobs." But I like the "social control" moniker in place of "social justice." I can't tell you how many people are fooled by those two words. Would they still get the same warm-fuzzies if we called it "Karl Marx justice"? Probably not. But that name would be more accurate. And if our names are a tool for accuracy, then all the better.

Although there is always a danger of becoming little more than a counter-liar when playing this war of words, I think when engaged in a battle, just like retired military officer Ryan Scott says, you can't cede the high ground to your opponents. But at the end of the day, the opponents of Orwell have to be at least a bit careful that they don't cede the highest ground of all to the left, and that is the mangling of language to the point where the core ideas underneath are glossed over or forgotten as we engage in what may be perceived by some as nothing more than a war of clever word-bites. A touchy thing, for sure.

I thought this was very astute writing:

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British journalist Malcolm Muggeridge, during his travels in India, heard many stories about people on the "edge of destitution." In his memoirs, Muggeridge recalled an anecdote told to him about a poor farmer who was asked if he hated the government or the money-lender more. "After some thought the farmer replied that he hated the government more, because, whereas it was to the money-lender's interest to keep him just alive so that he could go on paying off his debt, the government didn't care whether he lived or died," Muggeridge wrote.

The American people seem to look upon Obamacare in a similar way: While they may not like health insurance companies, they dislike the federal government even more.

This week Obama delivered yet another speech casting health care companies as the devil and the federal government as the savior. But the American people aren't ready to swallow his sophomoric socialism, and for good reason: the assumption underlying it -- that remote bureaucrats and politicians, many of whom won't even be around by the time Obamacare is implemented, worry more about their welfare than health care companies do -- is thoroughly unconvincing.

If anything, bitter experience has shown Americans that the federal government manages to be as indifferent as the market but without any of its efficiency or responsiveness. As politicians and bureaucrats demonstrate on a weekly basis, the market has no monopoly on heartlessness and dishonesty.

I think it was Beck who was talking this morning about how one of Obama's czar's or cabinet members met recently with representatives of some of the drug companies. And this nitwit Democrats said something like "Now, I'm not going to sit here and just bash the drug companies." And then apparently she spent the next 20 minutes doing just that while the representatives of the drug companies all had "I've heard enough of this shit" looks on their faces. I wonder if people out there have any conception that we're not just talking the dangers of Big Government any more, which is not a pleasant thing even if conservatives are in charge of it. We're talking about Big socialist Government full of far leftwing radical knuckle-heads who's hatred of everything American and free is eclipsed only by their deranged hatred of George Bush.

I don't know about you, but I'm ready to crack. Politics is becoming utterly insane. These fuckwads don't even believe their own bullshit anymore. It's like they're saying ANYTHING at this point. None of it, not one word from anyone on the left, rings the slightest bit honest or true. Republicans maybe are a bit better, some of them. But the Jindalesque morons are just as bad as the lefties. I want them all to get voted out.

Liberty in 2010. I want a firestorm of civic revolution. A complete scorched earth reboot of government.

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I don't know about you, but I'm ready to crack. Politics is becoming utterly insane. These fuckwads don't even believe their own bullshit anymore. It's like they're saying ANYTHING at this point.

Prescient. I feel your pain. I heard that Bob Hoskins went a little loopy (by his own account) after spending so much time playing to cardboard cutouts and empty space while filming "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?" I have found a similar effect after reading various and many articles about the goings-on of the left from National Review Online, Heritage.org, The Claremont Institute, American Spectator, The American Thinker, and others. I think I'm starting to get a little loopy. Such close contact with insanity will do that. But it's also illustrates one of Alinsky's rules. Overwhelm the system. That was the point of the first incarnation of ACORN, for example.

If this crap has me and you reeling a bit, what chance does Mom and Pop America have? It's very easy to get people to say "The hell with it" as they then leave it all in the hands of the squeaky wheels and agitators. That's how it works. That's one thing the left counts on. They mean to wear us down. I would also argue (as I have before) that a big factor in Obama's election was people's desire to escape the psychic trauma that THE LEFT had been bombarding everyone with. They'd continually shoot up geysers of double-talk and illogic. They'd regularly raise holy hell that someone else was engaged in the "the politics of personal destruction" while just reviling and terrorizing Judge Bork, Clarence Thomas, Sarah Palin, and others.

At some point I do think you can overwhelm people. That is why it is so damn important that someone, somewhere, talk very clearly and very sanely the truth. It gives people something to organize their thoughts around. You need someone to say what other people are already thinking. It's like a lighthouse in the fog.

I think this is a "blown con" phenomenon. A con artist will get desperate if he senses his con is about to be blown. He starts trying every trick in the book to distract or misdirect... and when the collapse of the grift is imminent, they start throwing hail marys. Pathological lying starts... they'll try anything from brain cancer to dead grandma, to babies in danger.

That's where the left is right now. NOBODY in their right mind, with the possible exception of my mom, believes anything out of their mouths anymore.

Did you hear cuntlosi the other day? I don't know how anyone can not want to tar and feather her. I really don't. Pass the bill and THEN we'll tell you what's in it? HUH? Honey, that terrible facelift must have somehow pulled your brain out of whack, or the botulism from the botox has given you mad cunt disease.

We have to stop electing idiots and liars. Out, out, out.

OMG! You guys crack me up. It truly is insane.

Terrorist House Leader Pelosi actually made that very statement in regards to their plan on self destructing the healthcare system. We will get to see what is in the bill after they pass it into law. She wasn't joking.

Then again she made the statement in the Summer of 2008 that the success in Iraq was due to the good will of the Iranians. Terrorists Pelosi has been saying just about any matter of idiocy for the last 4 years as House Leader Terrorist without ever being questioned on her stated opinions.

Is it even worth saying at this point "could you imagine if a Republican said" how the media would be pouncing on every nuance of each word of a sentence instead they meaning the media in general have acted entirely as useful idiots in the folly.

Liberty...2010.

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Did you hear cuntlosi the other day? I don't know how anyone can not want to tar and feather her. I really don't. Pass the bill and THEN we'll tell you what's in it? HUH? Honey, that terrible facelift must have somehow pulled your brain out of whack, or the botulism from the botox has given you mad cunt disease.

Yeah, Rico, I'm in full crackup mode. Very funny.

I'm going to be chuckling about "mad cunt disease" every time I hear that in my mind today. Already happened several times.

An interesting article: Toyota: Car Crash with the World Watching
by Jon Entine

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Toyota is now caught in a vortex where legitimate grievances collide with hysteria and motivated adversaries who only gain by keeping this crisis in the news," Dezenhall observes.

He says that when there are plaintiffs' lawyers looking to sue, PR people looking to self-promote by declaring the crisis to have been botched, politicians "making hay", competitors who want to exploit Toyota's problems, distressed consumers, and a media that is desperately seeking–-and will surely find–-some kind of telltale memo, Toyota is in for a long fight.

But what should they do? "Fix the mechanical problem as fast as possible, hold consumers' hands throughout the process, and consider it a long-term investment in the brand," Dezenhall concludes.

Finally, let's dispense with the narrative that Toyota is a fallen socially responsible angel. That designation, for any business, is silly–-the lazy analysts' way of ignoring the vast array of practical and moral trade-offs that every organisation confronts even without crises.

Toyota first caught everyone's attention in the 1970s, when it made cheap but reasonably well-made low margin vehicles that consumed less fuel, which was fortuitous when oil prices soared. It later sold its hybrid technology as green to credulous enviros, turning the Prius into a premium-priced status symbol. But when you apply environmental metrics, the ultimate "green car" is a life-cycle green bust, as it takes more combined energy to produce a Prius than a Hummer.

Still laughing.

Let's talk about the Census. Has anyone filled theirs out yet? I'm wondering if we're just being ennablers with regard to big government spending.

I read that the fine for failure to respond to the census is FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS. Doesn't that strike you as a little over-the-top? Especially considering the people least likely to fill out the form are poor, minority, inner-city people. How do I know that? Because the census ads I've seen, all have a hip-hop flair.

Now you honestly mean to tell me, that the left-dominated government is going to saddle some poor welfare mom (with no health care) in the South Bronx with a $5k government fine? Really?

That fine is so punitive, that I have to wonder who it's aimed at. I'd like to see the profile of everyone who's ever been charged with it. Is it, for example, leveled at Tea Party kinds of people, who perhaps object to government intrusion? Is it another way to bleed the rich? I'm curious.

To me "not filling out the census" should be maybe as much of a crime as a traffic ticket. But no, it's a five thousand dollar fine. Five THOUSAND dollars. For not filling out red tape.

Meanwhile, since SO much money has the potential for allocation based on the data collected in the census, you just KNOW that organizations like ACORN (or whatever the hell it's calling itself now) have the incentive to falsify census forms to try and game federal funding and change the district maps for voting.

It's a pattern. Election fraud was rampant on the left... I can only imagine that census fraud is part of the overall progressive fuckwad agenda.

One of the first things Rham Emmual tried to do was bring the Census Bureau within the White House so they would have full control over gerrymandering the system. There was a media blackout about it so we don't even know how far they were able to get their tentacles into the Census.

But yes the way the census is run has the potential for huge amounts of fraud. The Democratic-Socialist count on the fraud within the system to manipulate control.

Over the weekend I was saying to myself that right now with healthcare destruction on the edge I thought Terrorist House Leader Pelosi this week was just going to announce that healthcare destruction was now the Law. Holy leap frogging shit balls doesn't that exact scenario arise with the Democratic-Socialists trying to subvert the system with some obscure maneuver to pass the bill without voting on it.

Washington Post Article.

Liberty...2010.

We may be on the verge of an honest to god revolution if the Dems pass this monstrous bill with trickery. The court challenges are even now being drawn up if this should pass. I'd like to hear yuze guy's ideas for some civil disobedience. I will NOT pay one dime to these tyrannical bastards.

This was sort of an interesting and entertaining read.

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Cuntlosi. Man, that still has me laughing. I'm not kidding, I had a dream a couple nights ago. Me and some friend were walking down the sidewalk in some city. I told him had he heard the latest joke? Then I told him about "mad cunt disease" and he (I think it was a he...it might have been brothel) got a huge laugh out of that. My dream world. Cuntlosi.

CRY TYRANNY!

Holy crap, Baby Jesus christ on a crutch are you kidding me? The "slaughter rule?" HUH? The only thing getting slaughtered is the American People's last whisper of respect for any member of congress.

I think Rico is right. This might be the time for a last-resort revolution that Jefferson was talking about. Because not to put too fine a point on it, there is actual tyranny going on here. Pushing through this beast of a bill is basically voting the government absolute power. It's like the foxes voting to give themselves free and open access to the henhouse. This isn't sort of maybe a little bit of tyranny... this is honest to god tyranny. This is ignoring the American People. This is a coup.

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"Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of a day; but a series of oppressions, begun at a distinguished period and pursued unalterably through every change of ministers, too plainly prove a deliberate, systematic plan of reducing [a people] to slavery." --Thomas Jefferson

I threw a baked potato at my TV tonight. No, it wasn't cuntlosi this time. It was smugbama in Ohio.

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The American people are now getting the same sinking feeling in their relationship with Barack Obama. They see that they elected a president who -- trusting in his own innate wisdom and mental superiority -- doesn't know or care what they think, and who seems strangely indifferent to their well-being.

Yep. Smug. Out, out, out, out, out, out and out.

The leadership running the United States is acting as a fascist state. Imagine all the other fascist like things President Hussein wished for the United States what did he call it his Civilian Defense Force or sum such name that in his words should be funded and equipped as well as the United States Military. This is serious words do matter.

I love how the Hussein Administration is all for terrorists having due process but when it comes to tens of trillions in spending of taxpayer dollars the public in their minds really isn't interested in or cares about the process as to how they go about doing it.

And talking about terrorists the Gitmo prisoners the Hussein Justice Department has gone to great lengths in setting free were at one time represented by members of the Hussein Justice Department. If I didn't say that clearly enough terrorist Attorney General Eric Holder has at least nine politically appointed attorneys working for him that directly represented Gitmo detainees in some fashion prior to joining the Justice Department. Here is a Byron York article discussing it. Holder himself came from a law firm that was representing Gitmo detainees.

This sort of thing is a never ending story for the Husein White House and the Democratic-Socialist Party. These are not invented political straw men used against President Bush like Joe Wilson and Valarie Plame, Katrina etc etc these are real cold facts. The Hussein White House has nine lawyers they appointed to the Justice Department that prior worked to set the detainees free. Van Jones Green Jobs Czar admitted communist welcomed aboard with full knowledge his objective was to destroy our system of government. Let's give more people like that access to billions of dollars.

Oh there is going to be a revolution at the ballot box in November.

Liberty...2010.

I have no problem with Gitmo detainees having lawyers and due process. Even Hitler would have had a lawyer if he faced justice, rather than giving it to himself with a pistol shot to the brain.

Nor do I object to former defense attorneys for scumbags trying to get a job in government. The only question I'd have would be, do they know the law? What I object to, is Holder HIDING THE NAMES of these guys. Which isn't really the kind of, um, transparency that President Obama kept promising us. In fact, it's a blatantly non transparent, political move. It sends a message that he thinks we're too stupid to understand that being a defense attorney is a job. Or that by defending scumbags, that makes you a scumbag.

It's really not about representing Gitmo detainees. Even in a military tribunal, they will have some kind of representation. It's about Holder deciding what to tell and not tell the American People. To make something "Top Secret", doesn't it have to impact national security? Since when has the identity of lawyers in the government had to be dealt with in secrecy, as if they were CIA agents, undercover?

I sort of like that we're the country of laws, that even when we deal with our enemies, we don't let politics and emotions cloud our legal judgements. Justice should be blind. But the American PEOPLE shouldn't be blind. Government can have so much power that they think they can withhold certain facts from us.

The whole "Civilian Defense Force" bullshit, I know what that is. That's to soften us up for gun control, by making the constitutional "militia" argument which has been shot down time and again.

If government can control the militia, they can try to disarm any non-militia citizens, and thus do an end run around the second amendment.

Cuntlosi yesterday with all her talk about kicking the door in, and more and more legislation means that they're all licking their chops about what they can force through next, if this obscene health care bill passes.