Tea Party 101

Note To All Political Party Poopers, um, Members: You belittle, dismiss and mock the Tea Party Movement at your peril. I say this not as a member, but as a citizen who has been watching and listening (hint: listening = learning) as this organization continues to gain momentum and is fueling change within this country that most of us have never witnessed before in our lives. Well, witnessed sober. Hello, 1960s!

California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger believes that the tea party movement is “not going anywhere.”

Really? I can see how he would think that as the Tea Party folk's ineffectual movement has yet to produce any tangible or overpowering results. ~coughSCOTTBROWNcoughcough~

Schwarzenegger, speaking Tuesday night with Fox News’s Greta Van Susteren, said the grass-roots movement is only “an expression of anger and disappointment.”

The same anger they're expressing in Austria and Italy and all over the world. So, I mean, they don't have tea parties per se, but they have also a lot of frustrated and angry people and disappointed people, and so on.”

Gotcha. If folks in other places around the globe express frustration and anger, yet do not organize a Tea Party per se, it doesn't take a moron to understand that the Tea Party movement must come to a logical end of waving angry old man fists and loud-talking. Oh wait, maybe it does.

“In the end, when the economy comes back, I think that the tea party will disappear again,” he said. “It will, you know, twinkle and disappear, and that will be it.”

Twinkle?

Damn, brother. Why you have to go and do that? How am I ever going to take you seriously in any action movie after that observation? Way to ruin it for me. Sheesh.

The Tea Party is filled with smart, well-informed, hard working, forced onto the political stage by the inept and dangerous policies of Barry and Crew, fighting for freedom patriots. Anyone who dismisses these folks as nutjobs, as mental lightweights, as right wing extremists, as just an astro-turfing angry mob, will continue to be schooled by the movement until they get it.

I have been in the midst of these electrified and focused folks and they mean what they say, unlike Washington. My money is on them, my money is on their brand of change, not on those whose only defense against them is to point and call names.

Twinkle?! Seriously....

Health Care Summit Game Show!

Health Care Summit Today!

Did that announcement give you a shiver of hope for real change?! DID IT?! Nah, me neither. Especially after Dodd shot off his mouth at a rally yesterday to Republicans:

"Tomorrow we'll have that meeting .... But far more important after that meeting, you can either join us or get out of the way," Sen. Chris Dodd, D-Conn., said at a rally Wednesday.

Hey Chris, get the finger much?!

It's remarks like that that fuel the fight against the Washington machine, yet the left keeps lobbing them at everyday Americans who have dared to raise their voice of HELL NO! against health care in its proposed form. Lefties don't want to hear that the majority of every day folks WANT health care reform (that gets in the way of their world domination plan), but not when it comes with such a beating. The cost, literal and figurative, of this plan is too high.

Makes you feel for small business owners doesn't it? They hire the best people they think can do the job, but once they realize they have made a mistake in judgment by hiring someone who portrayed themselves as something they weren't, they have to stay on top of that horrible employee to minimize the mistakes to the company, hoping like hell the stupid employee doesn't burn the building down and put everyone out of work before they can fire them.

The small business owner not only has his job to do, but the job of the one he hired. Sheesh, talk about productivity taking a hit. The owner dreams of a day when he gets the bad apple(s) out and finds the right person for the position. Then everyone can get back to doing the job they were meant to do and new Fords for everyone!

The End.

Yeah, what am I smoking today?!

Today, I will pay attention to the summit, as I pray in earnest for it's failure. The left had better have their armor on and be ready for battle; the right had better not underestimate the depths to which the left will dive in order to win. It's gonna be a Battle Royale....TELEVISED!

Reconciliation is on the table (reconciliation in this season of Lent sounds right, but is ohso wrong), as is a filibuster. Man, I love a good filibuster. The drama, the crying, the screaming, the figurative wetting of pants.

George Will has an excellent article out today. He lays out the filibuster and talks about how the left has their drawers in a bunch over the threat of a such a thing they deem unconstitutional. Don't you love how they interpret things to be unconstitutional to serve their purpose? They want what they want, Americans be damned.

Today's desperation? Democracy's majoritarian ethic is, liberals say, being violated by the filibuster that prevents their enacting health legislation opposed by an American majority.

Oh Lefties, your mask be slipping.

The best line of Will's article hits the left between the eyes.

Liberals are deeply disappointed with the public, which fails to fathom the excellence of their agenda.

That's you! They think you're idiotic because you don't support their idiocy. Oy.

As long as we never forget that the left will always believe they know what's best for you via what's best for them, we'll be able to defeat their arrogant policies. They won't go easily, but it's a winnable task. Never forget who they are or what they intend for you. Do not let them turn your head, no matter how much they smile or flatter or say they get it. It's all a lie. YOU LIE! Big fat lies intended to get into your wallets and to silence your voice.

Everyone ready?! Let's get ready to rumble!

Fair-warning Note: It's best to wear full body pads and ear plugs during the take-down. They're kickers and screamers.

4 Headlines That Give Me A Blech and 1 That Gives Me A LOL

Blech 1) Ashland Clinic Will Offer Medication-Induced Abortions

Cynthia Pappas, Planned Parenthood's executive director, said the organization's board of directors decided to offer the service to provide women with an option for terminating a pregnancy in the comfort and privacy of home. Medication-induced abortions use drugs to expel a fetus. The federal Food and Drug Administration approved their use in 2000.

Cynthia then offered this: She noted that local doctors who perform surgical abortions are nearing retirement age, and Planned Parenthood wanted to make sure women would have adequate access to the full range of reproductive health care, including terminating a pregnancy.

I write this with a curled lip and queasy stomach. Expelling a fetus in the comfort and privacy of one's home? Really? This is a service to women? The docs are retiring, so let's allow a risky procedure in the privacy and comfort of one's home and hope like hell nothing goes wrong, like a massive bleed-out or a partially expelled fetus. Have we really come to this?! God help us, it is a horror movie in the making.


Blech 2) Pa. Abortion Doctor's License Suspended After Raid

Federal agents raided a clinic where abortions are performed and found "deplorable and unsanitary" conditions, including blood on the floor and parts of aborted fetuses in jars, according to the state agency that shut it down and suspended the license of the doctor in charge.

Ruh-Roh gals, I smells regulations coming to a neighborhood near you if you decide to expel your fetus from the comfort and privacy of your own home. And just a head's up, no need for jars, a clean bucket will do.


Blech 3) Bernie Sanders Compares Climate Skeptics To Nazi Deniers

"It reminds me in some ways of the debate taking place in this country and around the world in the late 1930s," said Sanders, perhaps the most liberal member of the Senate, during a Senate hearing Tuesday. "During that period of Nazism and fascism's growth-a real danger to the United States and democratic countries around the world- there were people in this country and in the British parliament who said 'don't worry! Hitler's not real! It'll disappear!"

Oh Bernie, allow me to introduce you to badass Inhofe:

Earlier in the hearing, Inhofe had chided Sanders: "I know the senator from Vermont wants so badly to believe that the science on climate change is settled but it's not."

Based on the facts, Inhofe's statement is simple enough.

Isn't this fun? The libs says the right is horrible and that it's reprehensible to compare their tactics to boot-stepping Nazis, but if it suits their purpose, it's OK!


Blech 4) On Health Care: If Not Now, When?

The question for timorous Democrats is: "If not now, when?"

Oh Harold, here is the problem with lefty logic. If not now, when?! That's all you got? As if that's a solid reason to vote FOR health care. Cause if you don't then it might not ever never get passed, right? We know it doesn't matter to you that in its present form it stinks, that all you care about is an image of passing something historic and meaningful (kinda like your guy Barry), but it does to us.

Here's a wacky idea fellas, how about thinking along these lines: If not now, why? That question alone, if answered honestly, would yield you far more understanding of the American heart than anything you have done in the last year.

So, in answer to your question, not today, not tomorrow, not ever never.


LOL 1) Obama and Dems in 2005: 51 Vote "Nuclear Option" is Arrogant Power Grab Against The Founder's Intent



The best part of this is Biden's quote: I pray God when the Democrats take back control we don't make the kind of naked power grab you are doing.

Joe, "naked power grab" is more imagery than one needs when thinking of Democrats. What the hell is going on there anyway?!

Oh my....

Unrelenting Snow, Sleet and Misery + Al = D'OH!

Today, the weather forecast here calls for: Snow...light sleet and rain. Less than 1 inch of snow accumulation. While it seems ridiculous to even mention our piddly possibilities when places like Moscow and Dallas, Texas are experiencing record snowfalls, its notable because it hasn't snowed here, really snowed, in almost 23 years. That's right, 23 years.

Darn Global Warming (I will always call it by it's original moniker. it was good enough for the wannbe thugs to call it that before the debunking, so i say let them live or die by the name). Oh, Al. When you go, you go BIG.

So what of Al? Where is the big guy hiding? What is he doing this winter? What does he think about this colossal winter dump of snow, sleet and misery?!

Those are the questions of the season, aren't they?

And we're not the only ones asking. Enter Inhofe's push-back.

Badass of the Day: Senator James Inhofe.

Sen. Inhofe is not only formally asking, but demanding answers. Bravo, James.

Senator James Inhofe (R-OK) today asked the Obama administration to investigate what he called “the greatest scientific scandal of our generation” — the actions of climate scientists revealed by the Climategate Files, and the subsequent admissions by the editors of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fourth Assessment Report (AR4).

Senator Inhofe also called for former Vice President Al Gore to be called back to the Senate to testify.

“In [Gore's] science fiction movie, every assertion has been rebutted,” Inhofe said. He believes Vice President Gore should defend himself and his movie before Congress.

Ohhhhh, I would pay to see Gore having to answer to Inhofe. Like a heavy-weight fight on Showtime. Break out the cigars and Fritos!

In this corner....

DING DING!

Inhofe could take Gore down in a glorious knock-out if he asked Al to PROVE any of his claims. Give us PROOF, backed by FACTS.

...Senator Inhofe will be calling for an investigation into potential research misconduct and possible criminal acts by the researchers involved. At the same time, Inhofe will ask the Environmental Protection Agency to reopen its consideration of an Endangerment Finding for carbon dioxide as a pollutant under the Federal Clean Air Act, and will ask Congress to withdraw funding for further consideration of carbon dioxide as a pollutant.

We aren't naive though, are we? Barry has your money at stake here. And a thief and your money are not easily parted.

The question, of course, is whether the Senate Democratic majority will allow this investigation to proceed, in the face of the Obama administration’s stated intention to regulate CO2 following the apparent death of cap and trade legislation. The Democratic majority has blocked previous attempts by Inhofe to investigate issues with climate science.

That Inhofe is calling for an investigation, that he is playing by the rules, that he is putting the heat on the fallacy of Global Warming makes me want to bake him a cake. Instead, I'll call his office and tell him instead. Don't want to look like a crazy.

Al has that job all wrapped up.

Made Me Smile

Made me smile, thinking of Lt. Dan (reader):

Rep. Ron Paul won the most support for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination in an unofficial straw poll of conservative activists attending an annual conference.

A libertarian from Texas who has railed against spending and the Federal Reserve, Paul won the Saturday contest at the Conservative Political Action Conference with 31 percent backing. He has sought the presidential nomination in the past and attracted a following among a segment of voters frustrated with Washington.

Made me smile, thinking of smart, funny, kickass women everywhere (parts 1 & 2):








Made me smile, thinking of Al Gore's greed biting him in his frozen behind as the Global Warming movement (think giant turd) takes its biggest hit yet:

Environmentalists are still trying to avoid pulling the plug, but the corpse is already cool to the touch and soon it will begin to smell. As the global greens move from the denial stage of the grief process, brace yourself for some eloquent, petulant and arrogant rage. Tears will be shed and hands will be wrung. The world is stupid, uncaring, unworthy to be saved. Horrible Republicans, evil Chinese, demented know-nothing climate skeptics have ruined the world and condemned our grandchildren to lives of sorrow and pain. Messengers will be shot; skeptics will be blamed for asking questions and the media (and the internet) will be blamed for reporting the answers.

Yeah, that's funny enough, but the Best. Line. Evah:

Frankly, I blame Al Gore.

Poor Al. Hope the Pulitzer is keepin' him warm.


Made me smile, thinking of how sometimes, the crazy guy who loves America and won't stop hammering until we regain what we have lost, the nutso that makes us shake our heads in worry as we wonder about his mental health, the emotional roller coaster who cries on cable television as he makes over-the-top statements to point us home, sometimes he simply gets it right:

Fox News host Glenn Beck drew cheers from the conservative faithful Saturday evening with sharp criticism of Republicans and Democrats alike in a speech that repeatedly hit upon the theme of personal responsibility.

"We choose our own destiny," Beck said in the closing speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference. "All men are created equal. All men will not end up equal."

Couldn't have said it better myself.

The Mount Vernon Statement

Important Stuff of the Day:



This must be making Barry's head hurty-hurt. If you see him, tell him to take two aspirins and we'll see him in three years.

From The Mount Vernon Statement "about" page:

In light of the challenges facing the country and the need for clarity in the age of Obama, The Mount Vernon Statement, modeled on the Sharon Statement issued on Sept. 11, 1960, is a defining statement of conservative beliefs, values and principles penned by a broad coalition of conservative leaders representing a wide spectrum of the movement including fiscal, social, cultural and national security conservatives.

If you want your name added to this statement, go HERE.

I have never been so proud of my fellow Americans. To be witness such a sustained and passionate push-back, that started with YOU!, gives me hope for our future, for our children's future.

God Speed, Patriots!

Strategery Bubbles

Barry's brilliant political strategery idea bubble to regain his allure (say it slow...aaallluuuure): When all else fails, go on the Jon Stewart Show, the show where the delusional get their political truth. BRILLIANT! I will look like The One that I am.

But, Bar draws the Line at Colbert, because according to Gibbs, "I have yet to see a politician best Stephan Colbert on an interview on his show."

Says it all, doesn't it?

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Barry's brilliant political strategery idea bubble to make amends for shooting off his mouth about Vegas: I'm going to Vegas, baby! To cover my say one thing, but do it anyway about telling the entire world to stay out of Vegas, I'll offer my slippery sentiments to the Mayor and ALL BETTER! Then to the craps tables. Vegas, baby!!

Dude thinks everyone in the world wants to be invited into his presence, and once there they will forget who he is or what he says.

Enter, Badass of the Day: Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman.

Mayor Oscar Goodman has refused an invitation to meet with President Obama when he arrives in town on Thursday. Mayor Goodman called President Obama a slow learner after he told Americans not to blow money on a weekend in Las Vegas if they were saving to put their kids through college.

BOOM, Baby!

Oscar, fair warning bud, if we ever meet, I just may lay a big fat wet one on you.

He goes on to explain that Barry's words matter:

"We are hurting, we have people in foreclosures, we have people having a hard time feeding their families and we can't stand to have a flippant statement made," said Mayor Goodman.

"I haven't heard an apology, I haven't heard a response, all I do is get invitations," Goodman went on to say.

Barry seems to think that all he has to do is extend an invitation to just be near him, and that makes things ALL BETTER! Obviously, Oscar ain't buying it.

Oscar, you are a national super hero. Your cape is ready for pick-up.

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Barry's brilliant political strategery idea bubble to redirect Da' Heat of his poorly run administration and slipping poll numbers: Have Joe Biden appear on any television program, anywhere, and ask him his thoughts on anything. Let 'er rip, Joe!

Harry Smith: "Your critics would say the administration made a maybe even fatal miscalculation in the beginning to spend so much time and energy on health care when in fact it really was the economy."

Biden: "Harry, we had to try to walk and chew gum at the same time."

Whoa. This is one of the most documented, extremely difficult, physical tasks to get right. Keep trying Washington. For all our sakes, keep trying.

Smith: "Unemployment hovering around 10. The real unemployment number is probably closer to between 15% and 20%. People don't think you or a lot of other folks in Washington get it. Does the Obama administration get it?"

Biden: blamed Washington gridlock caused by Republicans: "We get it. We understand why they're angry....It reflects the reality that Washington right now is broken. I don't ever recall a time in my career where to get anything done you needed a super majority, 60 out of 100 senators."

Hehe. Oh Joe, you had me at Republican....

Smith: "You said to me at lunch, you said you've never seen it this dysfunctional."

Biden lamented: "I've never seen it this dysfunctional. I'm trying to get the other team to cooperate to get in the game here a little bit.

Um, Joe? You know you guys, your party, controls things, right?! Why the dysfunction then? I don't think Barry had this in mind when he wanted you to deflect da' heat....DEFLECT DA' HEAT!!

Man, don't you just love well-executed, brilliant, political strategery idea bubbles?! Fun for all ages!

Lent Arrives: 40 Days Without NAW?!

Today marks the beginning of Lent. Most Catholics offer a physical sacrifice during this holy season as a reminder of what Christ sacrificed for us. Chocolate banishing is a favorite standby worldwide. We pray, we fast, we deny ourselves for the course of 40 days, ending in the Vigil of Easter, the Great Resurrection. The difficult denial, the penitential desire to draw closer to The One (not to be confused with the left's one: barry), ultimately strengthens our faith and renews our spirit.

My sacrifice usually involves sins against God.

Are we willing to forgive and offer our hand of friendship to our enemies and those who sin against us? Are we sensitive to the needs of others around us, or do we close our eyes and ears to their cries of plea? Are we willing to go down to the level of the downtrodden to help them? Are we willing to patiently listen to those in distress? Are we willing and brave enough to speak out against injustice wherever it occurs?

These are some issues we must ponder during this season of Lent. We must consider them in the light of Christ’s ultimate sacrifice, the crucifixion.

My faith in God is deep and wide, but that doesn't prevent me from failing Him. No doubt I fail him daily (hourly?!). When I do, I almost always recognize it immediately or even before the offense takes place. Yet, being the petulant child I am, there are days I can't help but roll around on the floor in a screaming fit. I might even shout You made me like this! as a reminder to Him that it really isn't all my fault, as I try to relieve my guilt afterwards for such ridiculous behavior.. Great stress reliever, but ultimately I know He wonders where He went wrong with me. I had such potential.

This blog is a great place for me to show off my douchbaggery mad skilz. And I have on countless occasions. I am painfully aware, people. But, the interesting thing is that where the left may think I earned a FAIL!, I believe I scored a WIN! My failing doesn't come from calling out the asshat behavior of our elected kings, or pitching a fit in righteous anger (remember, Jesus stormed through the temple and expelled those committing abuse.) it comes from not researching the story more, it comes from not expanding on my ideas from the day's news, it comes from not paying attention or failing to get my point across clearly. It comes from failing to do what I have been asked to do, which is get it right.

This morning I was asked, in a joking manner, if I was going to give up blogging for Lent. Um, no. Times like these call for diligence, and while my blogging every day, five days a week, is already a sacrifice, it's not the sacrifice.

Speaking of my sacrifice, on to one of the stories that caught my eye this morning:

Three big companies quit an influential lobbying group that had focused on shaping climate-change legislation, in the latest sign that support for an ambitious bill is melting away.

Oil giants BP PLC and ConocoPhillips and heavy-equipment maker Caterpillar Inc. said Tuesday they won't renew their membership in the three-year-old U.S. Climate Action Partnership, a broad business-environmental coalition that had been instrumental in building support in Washington for capping emissions of greenhouse gases.

The article goes on to say that each company will still work towards greenhouse-gas emissions, but it's hardly believable. To take themselves out of the lobbying group is significant and telling. They be giving Barry and Crew the birdy-bird. It's comes down to either doing it the government's way or possibly sacrificing profits while keeping their companies viable, I.E. keeping customers, during this terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day. (name that book!) These companies are in business to make money. Period. The end. Once profits get compromised because their base abandons them based on stupid policies that are based on stupid politics, they are O-U-T.

We're not naive though, are we? These companies joined looking to make an easy killing, then bailed when their greed got the best of them. Once the angry mob exposed climategate for the money-stealing scheme it is, and these companies as complicit in the proposed heist, they ditched in order to remake their images and keep their consumers.

The theater and greed of politics never ceases to astound me.

May all who partake in the holy Lenten season be blessed on your journey.

Net Neutrality: WTH is THAT?

You know how I yammer on and on about net neutrality being the sharp embedded chicken bone caught in the best-left-open throat of a free windpipe, and how all Americans, but especially the younger folks out there (teens - 30's) who made the Internets (thanky al gore!) what it is today, should be enraged about what Barry and Crew want to do to their virtual open road?! Well, I finally found an article that simplifies things for techno-newbs AND it is accompanied by a video! Oh, I know how you loves a video!!!

As Capitol Confidential noted the other day, net neutrality is an issue that that is dear to the left, but has flown under the radar of most Americans. It’s a rather technical and arcane subject, but can be summed up rather simply: Net neutrality rules enforced by the Federal Communications Commission would allow government bureaucrats to micromanage the Internet — thus sucking out the lifeblood of the digital economy and threatening the dynamism and freedom we’ve come to take for granted online.

James Lakely, writer of this easy to understand article even for those who don't understand why the tiny people in their television sets can't hear them, I salute you! You, my brother, are a WIN!

Here's the question that should keep locked and loaded at all times when dealing with the government taking : Why?

Why do Barry and Crew, why do the left, think taking over an entity that is operating just fine, thanky, is what's best for you?

Answer: It has nothing to do with you, silly naive Americans. Once again this is about power and control and limiting what it is you can do without government intervention. Oh and money. It's about all that money.

Gut Says: Anything Barry is pushing is death to that particular industry, to innovation in that field, and needs to be staunchly opposed. I love that he sets up net neutrality as protecting the little guy. Bullshit. Name one government intervention coughcoughtakeovercough that has been good for the little guy. Can't think of one?! Exactly. It's government intervention meant to control. Period.

Now someone get the lights and let's roll video.



He talks of push back. If our youth who haven't yet engaged against this administration and their arrogant freedom grab because they think us old(er) folks are overreacting in our fight for freedom, if those that helped to make the Internet what it is today decide that Barry is overreaching, that Barry is bent on taking away something they hold sacred, then the push back mother lode begins.

James Lakely just made that dream a possibility with his concise and arse-kicking article. Pass it on, won't you?

Let the push back of monumental proportions begin in 3...2...

Greenies Refuse the Truth

The Land of Environmental Ruh-Roh, brings us news we can use!

News story #1:

Becoming Vegetarian "Can Harm The Environment"

The best part of this article (the study was funded by an environmental group that got pwned by the results...BOOM!) is how the Vegetarian Society goes down swinging when faced with a truth they no likey.

"If you're aiming to reduce your environmental impact by going vegetarian then it's obviously not a good idea to rely on highly processed products, but that doesn't undermine the fact that the livestock industry causes enormous damage."

Take that meat-eaters. We vegetarians may be causing environmental harm, but you guys, you, you, you meat-eaters, you cause enormous damage.

My rebuttal: If by damage, you mean to mah double meat cheese burger, then yes, we DO cause enormous damage. Seriously, do you know how BIG those delicious, dripping, meaty, burgers are?! SO BIG!

Yum.


News story #2 (yep, i intentionally used the #2 as a SALUTE to crap!):

World May Not Be Warming

And the prize for the understatement of the year goes to....

The doubts of Christy and a number of other researchers focus on the thousands of weather stations around the world, which have been used to collect temperature data over the past 150 years.

These stations, they believe, have been seriously compromised by factors such as urbanisation, changes in land use and, in many cases, being moved from site to site.

Christy has published research papers looking at these effects in three different regions: east Africa, and the American states of California and Alabama.

“The story is the same for each one,” he said. “The popular data sets show a lot of warming but the apparent temperature rise was actually caused by local factors affecting the weather stations, such as land development.”

Let's see. The temps were rising, BUTT (yes, I know you know) there were extenuating circumstances that any 5th grade scientist would understand, grasp, figure in the data, that led to many of those higher readings.

Oh my. Now I'm worried, really worried. What of Gore? WHAT OF GORE?!

And not to belabor the point of a continuing downward spiral of the "facts" of global warming, but let's see this for what it is: a devious, money-driven, greedy, sinister scheme to steal your wealth and limit your freedom of choice (note to self: this reminds me i need to pick up MORE incandescent light bulbs after causing enormous damage to mah burger).

Climategate U-turn: Astonishment as scientist at centre of global warming row admits: There has been no global warming since 1995

Egg meet face.

Do you think the environmentalists will make any commercials featuring frolicking, contented polar bears on ice floes, doing what polar bears do, (yet the group originally manipulated many into thinking they were IN DANGER!), while the voice-over says, "Oopsie. Sorry about that. Our bad."

Nah. Those folks are digging in. Trust.


News Story #3:

Big Brother Out Of Control

Don't think the environmentalists are digging in, regardless of facts that disprove their delusions? Audi Super Bowl commercial anyone?

Jeff Jacoby has an great article about the green police and their intent for us.

“Green has never felt so right,’’ proclaims Audi’s dystopian ad. Others agree. David Roberts, who writes for the environmental webzine Grist (and who has called for putting global warming skeptics on trial), says the “thrill’’ of the ad “turns on satisfying the green police.’’ The commercial makes sense, he writes, only “if it’s aimed at people who acknowledge the moral authority of the green police - people who may find those [environmental] obligations tiresome and constraining . . . but who recognize that living more sustainably is in fact the moral thing to do.’’

Who "acknowledge the moral authority of the green police"????? And putting global warming skeptics on trial?!?! Those be fightin' words, Dave.

It isn’t to evil dictators with a lust for power that Americans have been slowly surrendering their autonomy. It is to well-intentioned authorities who believe sincerely that our freedoms must be circumscribed for our own good. At the White House on Tuesday, First Lady Michelle Obama announced what The New York Times called “a sweeping initiative . . . aimed at revamping the way American children eat and play - reshaping school lunches, playgrounds, and even medical checkups - with the goal of eliminating childhood obesity

Nothing in the Constitution authorizes the federal government to take charge of “revamping the way American children eat and play.’’ It is only our passivity that makes such an encroachment possible. This used to be the land of the free. Is it still?

I am hoping so, brother.

Feds Have Their Eyes On You!

I think all of us who tweet, use facebook or utilize blogs as part of our mission to right the course of this country ought to give a big HOLLA! to Big Sis for doing such a stand-up job.

During the Olympics,the Feds will be reading your tweets, social media (facebook!) and websites.

Do It!

(sorry for the non-update yesterday. mah back went out chasing NAW's mascot and i couldn't sit to type for any extended period.)

Tea Party!

So sick of the left getting the truth wrong, aren't you? I'm talking about the Tea Party movement in particular. Part of me is highly amused they have their panties in such a wad over a movement that is uncontrollable by them or their typical scare tactics, tried and true for lesser constituted folks.

Tea Party folks will not be silenced, not on any threat. That this movement is still gaining momentum after all they have done to stop it, should be their first clue, but sadly they are still trying to define something that has already defined itself. That the left continues to belittle and insult this movement is proof those Tea Partiers are on to something B-I-G! The left feels threatened, and rightly so. How dare regular, unschooled in the ways of Washington, hardworking citizens speak up for themselves and demand to be heard.

OFF WITH THEIR HEADS! (the upside: if you'll just let us pass healthcare, you won't have to "pay" to have it sewn back on. win win!)

On the other hand, the left needs to be schooled in their ignorance, or is it stupidity, about this very American, very patriotic, very Tea Party movement. That is what so many of us have been trying to do on a daily basis. We give them the truth of who we are, of what we stand for, of how we want them to proceed on our behalf, but, like ungrateful, spoiled children, they refuse to listen. They want what they want when they want it, and whoa to those who get in their way. GIMME!

They shoot of their mouths and expect people to believe their nonsense. They spitball lies in hopes that some hit the mark, in hopes that more folks will join their efforts to silence the angry mob. ANGRY MOB! While, in comparison, the Tea Partiers use the Super Soaker of truth and history to forward their message.

Mark Davis has written a concise, easy to understand (even for the left...unless they continue to stick their fingers in their ears and scream), article on what the Tea Party is, and what it is not. Pop on over and give him a read.

..the Tea Party movement is not some subculture of bug-eyed lunatics. Any political movement is going to have some characters ranging from colorful to occasionally unhinged, but the insulting tone of much of the coverage of the movement would have you believe that these are fringe extremists who could snap at any moment.

Wednesday Wankers

Made me LOL of the Day (nay, week!):

Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) on Tuesday used the D.C. snowstorm to make a political jab, saying that it provides evidence for global warming skeptics.

The conservative senator took to Twitter on Tuesday amid reports that the area is due to receive another 10 to 20 inches of snow this week:

It's going to keep snowing in DC until Al Gore cries "uncle"

Poor Al. To be a fly on the wall as he watches The Weather Channel. CURSES.

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Barry makes woman's death all about him (hat tip YoYo):



Blahblahblah...some woman dies....blahblahblah...breast cancer...blahblahblah...isn't it sad/pretending that's what the story is about...blahblahblah...but wait! she's wearing a t-shirt of MEMEMEMEMEMEMEMEMEMEME, um ME!....blahblahblah...and now you too can pick up your OWN t-shirt after the teleprompter gives me the signal this talk is over.

Dude, that was skeevey even for you.

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If you thought healthcare was dead (and wearing a t-shirt!), think again.

Obama said he's not interested in starting over on health care, with five congressional committees holding new rounds of hearings and bill-drafting sessions.

"What I don't think makes sense—and I don't think the American people want to see—would be another year of partisan wrangling around these issues," he said.

Proof that we should be ever vigilant, especially in light of the "summit" ahead, Snowe thinks Barry has a good idea. DANGER WILL ROBINSON!

"It could be a serious, constructive endeavor and hopefully it will be," moderate Sen. Olympia Snowe, R-Maine, said Tuesday. "Before Christmas I recommended to the president taking ... time out and regrouping for a broader bipartisan group to see what could be achievable in developing a consensus on some modest, practical proposals."

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Meghan McCain makes me laugh at her arrogant stupidity, an arrogant stupidity that she clings to as her religion, an arrogant stupidity she holds up for the world to see ~LOOK AT ME!~, an arrogant stupidity she wants you to believe as enlightened truth.

Meghan McCain had some choice words for Sarah Palin, former Rep. Tom Tancredo and the conservative Tea Party movement as a whole during her appearance Monday on ABC's "The View."

You lost me at The View. You lost most folks at The View. CACKLECACKLECACKLE-BAKAW!

She, along with The View panel, HATE Palin, HATE the Tea Party folks, HATE retards like you that speak English. The last was implied, but she brought up the word.

She thinks her age group has the rights to a revolution.

"And I'm sorry -- revolutions start with young people, not with 65-year-old people talking about literacy tests and people who can't say the word vote in English."

Yes Meghan, revolutions start with the young. By the by, were you at any Town Hall meetings pushing back against union thugs and the administration in a voice so loud and sure of itself that it made Washington soil itself? No? Mostly "old people" stood up for your freedoms there? Mostly "old people" started that revolution? Huh. Weird.

To end it, she brings up smoking the wacky-tobaccy, to make sense of her world.

"This rhetoric will continue to turn off young voters, and anybody that says different is smoking something -- period," she said.

Period? Seriously. That's your only option? If someone disagrees with you, we must be high?! Oh Meghan. You're an idiot. But your peeps seem to love that about you...

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Hollywood wants the conservative movement to shut their mouths and go away. To that end, they continue to alienate their own fans. Alienate enough of those wising-up fans, they will be soon enough unemployed and wondering what the hell happened to their careers.

Case in point: Roger Ebert and his tweet meant to maim the movement, but comes across as nasty and running scared.

I'm reminded the term Teabaggers is pornographic. Didn't know that until MSM told me. Let's face it: The Baggers own it now. about 11 hours ago from web

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Roger Ebert

Doesn't that make you want to support this man any way you can? Hey wait, Megan might not agree with his tweet. After all, Ebert falls into her category of wicked 65 year old men pretending they are part of a revolution when clearly it belongs to the young. What you been smoking Ebert?! (or does her theory just apply to the conservative end of things...)

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I know many of you don't like Palin, but surely (DON'T CALL ME SHIRLEY!) you must be loving the left pooping themselves every time she gets air time. I know I do.

Alex Baldwin anyone?! Yes, he still lives stateside. Yes, he's still annoyed/annoying.

He's pissed about her reading off her hand (Barry has the teleprompter telling him his every move, yet notes scribbled on a hand is the real scandal!). He's pissed folks like her. He's just pissed AND a racist. Gosh, what a surprise.

Palin reads off the palm of her hand because she can't whittle or cast a fly rod or shoot a wild animal while giving a policy speech. (Then again, who knows?) She reads her palm in order to send a message to her anti-Eastern establishment, Obama-hating, OK-You've-Had-Your-Black-President-Experiment, Tea Party types. That message is, "I'm just one person, doing the best I can with what God gave me. Like all y'all out there."

Hollywood (meghan included) continues to demean the majority of folks in America. Question is, when is it going to be enough? Credit where credit is due, he's funny as hell when given words to act, but other than that, he delights me in his arrogant stupidity.

He and Meghan should totally hook-up.

The German Weighs In

Two things:

1) The German (my mom) isn't interested in politics. After living through Hitler, who can blame her?

2) The German rarely calls me. She will call, but only in an emergency, which has been maybe three times in over 28 years. I call her once a week, we have a lovely conversation, and it is enough.

Knowing The German's insider information makes these two items striking:

ITEM #1) When Barry went to Berlin while campaigning, The German called me. Truthfully, when I saw her number on caller ID, it scared the crap out of me. Hope no one died. She was angry as hell when I answered. "Did you see, Obama?" she demanded to know. "Yes, I saw." She went on, "It gave me chills. Like Hitler when he first came into power. Sickening. The adoring crowds. The mindless following. This man scares me."

I told her she wasn't alone, that he scared lots of folks. Before she ended the call, she asked if I thought he would win. "I pray not. If he does, we're in big trouble as a nation."

No truer words were ever spoken between us, and I will never, for as long as I live, forget that phone call.

ITEM #2) The German likes Palin. Did I find out during one of my weekly check-ins? Nope. The German called on Saturday evening while she was watching Palin's live speech coverage on Fox. I saw her number and felt weak in the knees. When I answered she asked, "Do you like her? I like her." We talked briefly, then she cut me off. She had to get back to Palin. Didn't want to miss it.

I think The German is like so many Americans (she is naturalized); She is fed up with Barry and has decided to raise her voice in opposition. She is thrilled to see an openly fierce and unapologetic opponent like Palin hit the national stage. She is ready for real change and is hoping the next election cycle will bring it.

This morning when I called her, she said she tried to watch The View but turned it off because the panel was tearing Palin a new one. She said she's watched the show for some time. She watched through the years of them killing Bush. She watched after Barry's election. But as they torn into Palin she had reached her limit of political hypocrisy.

And really, that's the story here. The German is not unlike countless other Americans who are typically bored by politics. The arena of policymakers doesn't interest them in the least. Until now. Now that the stakes are high, now that freedom is on the line (not hyperbole, just ask The German), even folks like The German are waking up to the horror of this administration and wondering what they can do to stop the pain train.

For those who demean Tea Party folks as radicals or right-wing extremists, demean newcomers to politics as naive or mucking up the process, demean any voice other than their own as inconsequential or dimwitted, I say prepare yourself for the tsunami of push-back politics from Middle America.

Across the board, Americans have drawn their line in the sand. 75% of Americans are angry at government. 75% people. That's incredible. Do you know how many of those in that number wish they didn't have to get involved but now that they are they are in it to win it? That they have been pushed too far?

I know of one. The German. And from my experience, you don't want to mess with her. Poor Barry.

Commercial Indulgence

OK, settle down people. The Saints came marching in and Mardi Gras started early in the French Quarter. And you! Drunk dude! Stop firing your gun in the air. You hit three of your fellow revelers. Not cool.

Like many, I watched for the commercials. They were so-so. Especially the ones with political/moral intent/hype. The pro-life commercial with Time Tebow and Mom was much ado about nothing. Sweet, and not even close to the ~scandal~ pro-abortion peeps played it.




The Green Police commercial gave me a LOL as I drank from my plastic bottle, which I then threw away in the regular trash that was full of orange peels and coffee grinds. I have a feeling the folks who were responsible for writing it wanted to offer their preachy greeny message with humor, but you can bet they are dead serious about making you "save" the planet through all means they parodied.



Oh, that reminds me, I need to pick up some incandescence light bulbs, non-rechargeable batteries, and Styrofoam coffee cups. And I'll carry them all home in a plastic bag before I throw them away with my plastic bottles and compostables. Why? To piss off the morality green police, that's why.


The best commercials, again, featured the e-trade babies.



Pant-load. New catch phrase that we can use in reference to Washington!


How about this one?



OwowOOOOOOOOOOOwwwwwww! This line was mascot approved.


But here's my fav, maybe off all time.



Betty White, I want to be just like you when I'm old(er).

Sunday Housekeeping

Housekeeping Note: NAW is moving to word verification for comments because of unwanted spam (is any spam wanted?!) I know it's a pain in the ass, I KNOW!, but in order to keep the spam trolls o-u-t, it is necessary. Forgive me for complicating your lives.

In other, happier, news, NAW now has a mascot! WHAT WHAT?!

Meet Dexter:


He serial kills us daily with his silly spazzy puppy moves.

He also predicts the Saints take all....



Happy Super Bowl everyone!

Thanks For One Year

One year.

Notawonk.com has been up and running for one year today. Where did the time go?

One year seems like a long time, but as I think back over the year, it has zipped by at astonishing speed. Maybe it seems that way because there was so much to talk about, to rail against, to accomplish in the quest for freedom.

I started this site as a promise to God. And yes, I know that may put me in the kook arena for some, but when God asks you, me, to do something, it has been my experience not to fight it and move forward with the request. And yes, He is aware of my foul mouth, but I am certain He loves me anyway.

One year.

Daily, I offer political information steeped in passion and seasoned with humor. I write about the news that annoys me, scares me, gives me a lol, or pisses me off in ways I have never been pissed off before. I put it down in black and white and leave it at that.

When I agreed to write here, I committed to 5 days a week, and I have kept that commitment. When I started, I had no idea what that would entail, or the time it would take to post 260 times in 52 weeks. It has been an eye-opening experience and I have much respect for anyone who attempts the same.

One year.

The absolute best part of my journey has been you guys and gals, my readers. Many of you just come to read (my personal silent majority), and I appreciate that you pop in to see what's up on this humble site. Some of you come to read and then feel compelled to comment. Man, how I love your comments. (to the rest of you: don't be shy, COMMENT AWAY!) Some of you have become Interwebs (thanky al gore! oh, and here's a snow shovel if you're caught in the biggest snowstorm on record in D.C.!!!! seriously, i love how God is messin' with you warming cultists) friends. I am grateful and humbled that I get to count such an amazing group of avatars as friends. Some come and take the time to link me in anger on your blogs as a hack or a wacko. LOL, and thanks! And finally, some of you come to spy on me. Most likely checking to see if I fall within the Right-Wing Extremist/Angry Mob realm. Check and check.

One year.

I don't know how long I will continue to write here. I'll stop when I'm told. In the meantime, in this year ahead of us, I suggest you strap on your helmets, my babies. It's gonna get ugly out there with elections looming in November.

I am optimistic that many people who never cared for politics have realized that their voice must be heard in order to win the good fight. That now is the time to stand up and make Washington, all party affiliations, understand that we will no longer accept their shenanigans. The Formerly Apathetic Political Giant has been awakened. We are rubbing the sleep from our collective eyes and are not happy with what we see.

Here's to many more entries of takin' names and kickin' ass (note to spies: this would be literally taking names, yet figuratively kicking ass. we may be an angry mob in your book, but we work within the law. dismissed.) of those in Washington who are misguided about our vocal intentions to take back our country, our intent to restore the freedoms they have stolen, or our insistence to retain the freedoms they are hellbent on prying from each and every tax-paying American.

One year.

Thanks for sharing the ride with me.

Onward!

Friday's Filmstrip (edit)

Someone get the lights. Pay attention. No heads on the desk. Time for Friday's Filmstrip!

Enjoy:




EDIT: Yes that was fun, wasn't it? he next film strip features an irate woman who wants the Republicans to "shut their mouth" on things she thinks they know nothing about. My favorite part is the finger follow along as she reads from her GINORMOUS letter. She's so helpful. Doesn't want you to lose your place!

For this film you have permission to lay your heads on the desk and snooze a bit. Nothing like fake-indignant rage when one is pwnd! to bring on sleepy time for those who know the real score.



Oh Mary, you so funny!

Clarence Gets It (edit-1)

Behind the scenes political machinations, or even front and center manipulations, are always more interesting than the contrived images/spins we are offered through the MSM.

Did you notice that Justice Clarence Thomas was absent from the SOTU address? Me too! Wonder why? ME TOO! Wonder no more, my babies.

“I don’t go because it has become so partisan and it’s very uncomfortable for a judge to sit there,” he said, adding that “there’s a lot that you don’t hear on TV — the catcalls, the whooping and hollering and under-the-breath comments.”

“One of the consequences,” he added in an apparent reference to last week’s address, “is now the court becomes part of the conversation, if you want to call it that, in the speeches. It’s just an example of why I don’t go.”

Man oh man, to be a fly on the chamber wall during an address.

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Tea Party. That title has to strike fear in ALL incumbents. regardless of party. If it doesn't, they ignore those who are fed-up with Washington, fed-up with the status quo in politics, fed-up with elected officials saying one thing and voting another, fed-up with the out of control spending, fed-up with Washington's confusion about who they work for, at their peril.

Like McCain:

Arizona Sen. John McCain, the Republicans' standard-bearer in 2008, is facing a surprisingly strong primary challenge from the right, evidence that even party leaders aren't safe from the swell of conservative activism heading into the 2010 midterm elections.

American voters are more serious about cleaning our Washington house than most politicians are willing to recognize or believe. I think they wish we'd just stay out of their business and let them do as they have always done. Yeah, not happening. Head's up Republicans, RINOs and all you shady politicians who think you can still bamboozle us into believing you are something that you're clearly not. Those days are over. We gots the Internets now! (thanky al gore!!)

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UPDATE on Brown swearing in: Sen.-elect Scott Brown (R), the successor to the late Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.), will be sworn in to office Thursday afternoon, giving Republicans 41 seats in the upper chamber.

Leaves you all warm and fuzzy. Until you remember Barry and Crew will fight against America until their last moments in the WH.

President Barack Obama reminded Democratic senators at a retreat Wednesday that they still control the largest majority in a generation.

Yes, "reminded" them of their control, because let's face it, that's what this WH is all about. That reminder takes your warm and fuzzy and craps all over it, reminding us that the fight is still very much on, LIKE DONKEY KONG!


EDIT: Brown is sworn in!

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Oh Clarence, I totally get you.






P.S. After yesterday's I.R.S./guns post, my footprints indicated the I.R.S. in Cincinnati (?!) came to see my entry. POW! BANG! WTH?!

Seat Brown

Fixin' to get interesting, again.

"We represent Senator-elect Scott Brown. We understand that the election returns from Massachusetts cities and towns were transmitted this morning to the State Secretary's Office and by the State Secretary to the Governor's Office. While Senator-elect Brown had tentatively planned to be sworn into office February 11, he has been advised that there are a number of votes scheduled prior to that date, For that reason, he wants certification to occur immediately. As he is the duly elected United States Senator from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, he is entitled to be seated now.

The scheduled swear-in is Feb. 11.

Stay tuned....

I.R.S. is Bringin' Da Heat!

Gave me a WHOA THERE, BUDDY! of the Day:

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) intends to purchase sixty Remington Model 870 Police RAMAC #24587 12 gauge pump-action shotguns for the Criminal Investigation Division. The Remington parkerized shotguns, with fourteen inch barrel, modified choke, Wilson Combat Ghost Ring rear sight and XS4 Contour Bead front sight, Knoxx Reduced Recoil Adjustable Stock, and Speedfeed ribbed black forend, are designated as the only shotguns authorized for IRS duty based on compatibility with IRS existing shotgun inventory, certified armorer and combat training and protocol, maintenance, and parts.

This can't be good for anyone. Although, I am sure the IRS is already armed and dangerous, seeing it in black and white puts a new spin on this reality. Do we really need shotguns in the hands of those who collect our taxes?

PEW PEW PEW!!!

More interesting, is the place of delivery:

Place of Delivery:

IRS-CI

SE:CI:OPS:STO, attn. S/A Staggs, Room 2003

1111 Constitution Avenue NW

Washington DC 20224

202/622-5114

12 gauge, pump-action shotguns (oh how i love a pump-action shotgun. nothing scares the crap out of an intruder more than the highly recognizable, metallic, scraping CHUK-CHUK sound of a shotgun being pumped. RUN AWAY!) to be delivered to the IRS in D.C.?!

Lawmakers despise the idea of the citizenry of Washington D.C. having guns, but not so much if they are handled by I.R.S. employees. Makes perfect, logical, sense, right?!

POW! POW! POW!

I am not an IRS expert, but I see no reason why they need shotguns. If there is a bust that needs to go down (seriously, who doesn't love cop lingo?!), it seems existing law enforcement could take care of serving the warrants and bringing in the perps. (♥)

I.R.S. + 12 gauge shotguns = DANGER, WILL ROBINSON!

Somethin' don't smell right....

Headlines of the Day (edit-1)

I never likes a political headline that begins "Backdoor..." It means one thing: Bend thee over, cause Washington is taking what you gots!

Backdoor taxes to hit middle class: In the 2010 budget tabled by President Barack Obama on Monday, the White House wants to let billions of dollars in tax breaks expire by the end of the year -- effectively a tax hike by stealth.


EDIT: Reuters pulls "backdoor" story. See HERE. Makes you ask WHY?, don't it.

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Need a job? OBAMA WANTS YOU!

The era of big government has returned with a vengeance, in the form of the largest federal work force in modern history.

The Obama administration says the government will grow to 2.15 million employees this year, topping 2 million for the first time since President Clinton declared that "the era of big government is over" and joined forces with a Republican-led Congress in the 1990s to pare back the federal work force.

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Concerning the terrorist civil trials that Barry is insistent upon, mainly to prove to the world that he isn't Bush (can't quit ya!), Richard Cohen hits the nail on the head so all can understand:

A military tribunal would fit them fine. If it is good enough for your average GI accused of murder or some such thing, it ought to be good enough for a foreign national with mass murder on his mind.

He ends with this brilliant, concise, summation:

No doubt George Bush soiled America's image abroad with what looked liked vigilante justice and Dick Cheney's hearty endorsement of ugly interrogation measures. But more is at stake here than America's image abroad -- namely the security and peace of mind of Americans in America. Bush stands condemned by the facts for 9/11 -- his watch, his responsibility -- and in all likelihood he bent over backward to ensure that nothing like those attacks would happen again.

The Obama administration, on the other hand, seems to have bent over backward to prove to the world it is not the Bush administration and will, almost no matter what, ensure that everyone gets the benefit of American civil liberties. But the paramount civil liberty is a sense of security and this, sad to say, has eroded under Barack Obama. Repeatedly, the administration has shown poor judgment. Abdulmutallab's silence is a scream that something is wrong.

Well done, Richard.

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Big war spending continues under Obama

The war spending proposed by Obama is only slightly less than in each of the last two years of the administration of President George Bush and carries considerable political peril for the Democratic president who took office last year.

Obama campaigned for the White House vowing to end the Iraq war. His party has a large anti-war contingent that is wary of spending more money on the battlefield, and some of its leaders said they would carefully review the military budget.

U.S. troops are to leave Iraq by the end of 2011, but Obama is seeking to escalate the U.S. presence in Afghanistan to step up the fight against al Qaeda and the Taliban.

So. Afghanistan? Barry logic 101: Technicalities are your friend!

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James O'Keefe in his own words on Hannity

This kid makes me root him on and cringe at the same time. Youth!

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This kind of sums things up for me:

Polls: People still like Obama, they just don't believe him

Yeah. That's the dude you want running your country, your business, your healthcare, your pension, your bank, your sports, your daycare, your ~anything important to you here~

Who knew Joe Wilson was such a visionary. YOU LIE!

Polls Are Back?!

Over there to the right. A poll.

They're back! They're back?

Wait, what...

WTF?!

Filed under: WTF?!


Either the glint from a dime caught his eye (BARRY FINDS $$$ TO CUT FROM BUDGET!), he's having a GOP cramp, or he's just practicing for his face to face with terrorist Atmahdinnahjob (more commonly know as Ahmadinejad) in person.

Whatever it is he's doing, I'd wish he'd stop.