A great many like myself have a pretty good notion of what we believe is coming. Some believe it won't be as bad as we think. That sure there's going to be some changes but we'll survive them.
To paraphrase Ambassador G'kar from Babylon 5.."you do not witness history, you can only hope to survive it".
Now with that thought in mind...what makes anyone think that the changes that I'm fairly sure are coming....are good ones?
CurlyWolf.
Friday, November 1, 2013
Friday, October 18, 2013
The "Government Shutdown" and political rhetoric
*Brief programming note first...sorry for the delay in more posts germs and virii. A storm fried the power supply on my pc and it took me several days to get it back up.*
Seriously? I'm getting sick and tired of it. So are many of the people I know. When you have the PPM mouth pieces, pundits, sitting democratic senators and others; calling people who disagree with them and actually want the government to run the way our founding fathers intended.."Tea Party Terrorists". Calling people like Ted Cruz, who got ELECTED on getting the brakes put on Obamacare for one thing, and having a government that actually listens to it's constituents for another "Tea baggers"...political discourse and reason are all down the crapper boys and girls. here's further proof.
A bunch of fucktard ass maggots who have no CONCEPT of the way the government is supposed to work as set down in the constitution [here's a hint...look up the constitution. read article 1 section 7.] are calling for arrest for sedition of sitting republican congress critters because these same people don't agree with the repubs in the house, actually doing their JOBS for once and trying to put the brakes on runaway spending; is asinine.
For those too lazy to go look up Article 1 Section 7 of the US Constitution, it states:
"All Bills for raising Revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives; but the Senate may propose or concur with Amendments as on other Bills"
What that means boys and girls is that the HOUSE ,as you have been told repeatedly, holds the purse strings. To them falls the job of deciding "Hey we can't afford to fund this here, unless we make cuts over there, or over there.". Or..."we flat out can't fucking afford this shit, stop spending money like a drunken sailor on shore leave in a whorehouse!" *note..I apologize to all the naval and other personnel out there who this insults. because at least YOU folks can grasp the concept of 'when you're out of money...stop trying to spend what you don't have or borrow it from other people!'
Sadly this is reminiscent of one of my favorite tv shows. Came out almost 21years ago now. It's called Babylon 5. Sadly in that one, near the end of the second and beginning of the 3rd season...it was considered sedition to disagree with the, and feel free to quote me on this "Head MotherFucker Who's Having Delusions of Grandeur".
Anytime someone disagrees with the Dems or President Obummer about..
health care..its "you hate grandma, you want to shove her off a cliff!"
wanting to stop all this runaway spending and wanting the house to cut the purse strings...it's "you teabagging, tea party terrorist! you can't dictate to the government!" yeah actually...we can.
disagree with them about basically anything, or try and call them to the carpet it's "you old white racist asshole honkies!" Uhmm Really? you still think racism is real? Here...try reading this and open your mind to reality.
In Babylon 5 this story line didn't end well. See what happened was the rational people with functioning brains who actually gave a damn about the Constitution, and upholding it...ended up seceding. And of course the Government couldn't allow this so they started killing people who were protesting and seceding..including and especially civilians. Like now in reality, in the show the gov't basically owned the msm, lock, stock and both smoking barrels. In the show we had the Psy Corp aka quite literally the "thought police". Now we have Political Correctness and a willingness to destroy anyone who doesn't pander or kow tow to it. Sigh...by the time it was all over the good guys succeeded...but a shit pot full of people on BOTH sides had to die first. Now while the current political dissension may very well end up in blood shed, and people on both sides will likely end up dying in job lots...are we going to get the same 'happy' ending? Stay tuned boys and girls because as I said in another post...the jury is still out on that one.
Oh I highly recommend the show. It's one of the few shows out there with an actual beginning, middle and end. It was slated to run a 5yr story arc and ended at the end of 5 seasons. That wasn't the end of the story however. the guy who created the show had this whole HUGE story line on the evolution and future of the human race. of which Babylon 5 is only the beginning. He started to continue it in another show called Crusade but alas...the studio execs being total dicks...they pulled the plug with only half a season worth of episodes in the can. Oh well.
Remember, TANSTAAFL and...
I now return your to your regularly scheduled inanity and insanity.
Seriously? I'm getting sick and tired of it. So are many of the people I know. When you have the PPM mouth pieces, pundits, sitting democratic senators and others; calling people who disagree with them and actually want the government to run the way our founding fathers intended.."Tea Party Terrorists". Calling people like Ted Cruz, who got ELECTED on getting the brakes put on Obamacare for one thing, and having a government that actually listens to it's constituents for another "Tea baggers"...political discourse and reason are all down the crapper boys and girls. here's further proof.
A bunch of fucktard ass maggots who have no CONCEPT of the way the government is supposed to work as set down in the constitution [here's a hint...look up the constitution. read article 1 section 7.] are calling for arrest for sedition of sitting republican congress critters because these same people don't agree with the repubs in the house, actually doing their JOBS for once and trying to put the brakes on runaway spending; is asinine.
For those too lazy to go look up Article 1 Section 7 of the US Constitution, it states:
"All Bills for raising Revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives; but the Senate may propose or concur with Amendments as on other Bills"
What that means boys and girls is that the HOUSE ,as you have been told repeatedly, holds the purse strings. To them falls the job of deciding "Hey we can't afford to fund this here, unless we make cuts over there, or over there.". Or..."we flat out can't fucking afford this shit, stop spending money like a drunken sailor on shore leave in a whorehouse!" *note..I apologize to all the naval and other personnel out there who this insults. because at least YOU folks can grasp the concept of 'when you're out of money...stop trying to spend what you don't have or borrow it from other people!'
Sadly this is reminiscent of one of my favorite tv shows. Came out almost 21years ago now. It's called Babylon 5. Sadly in that one, near the end of the second and beginning of the 3rd season...it was considered sedition to disagree with the, and feel free to quote me on this "Head MotherFucker Who's Having Delusions of Grandeur".
Anytime someone disagrees with the Dems or President Obummer about..
health care..its "you hate grandma, you want to shove her off a cliff!"
wanting to stop all this runaway spending and wanting the house to cut the purse strings...it's "you teabagging, tea party terrorist! you can't dictate to the government!" yeah actually...we can.
disagree with them about basically anything, or try and call them to the carpet it's "you old white racist asshole honkies!" Uhmm Really? you still think racism is real? Here...try reading this and open your mind to reality.
In Babylon 5 this story line didn't end well. See what happened was the rational people with functioning brains who actually gave a damn about the Constitution, and upholding it...ended up seceding. And of course the Government couldn't allow this so they started killing people who were protesting and seceding..including and especially civilians. Like now in reality, in the show the gov't basically owned the msm, lock, stock and both smoking barrels. In the show we had the Psy Corp aka quite literally the "thought police". Now we have Political Correctness and a willingness to destroy anyone who doesn't pander or kow tow to it. Sigh...by the time it was all over the good guys succeeded...but a shit pot full of people on BOTH sides had to die first. Now while the current political dissension may very well end up in blood shed, and people on both sides will likely end up dying in job lots...are we going to get the same 'happy' ending? Stay tuned boys and girls because as I said in another post...the jury is still out on that one.
Oh I highly recommend the show. It's one of the few shows out there with an actual beginning, middle and end. It was slated to run a 5yr story arc and ended at the end of 5 seasons. That wasn't the end of the story however. the guy who created the show had this whole HUGE story line on the evolution and future of the human race. of which Babylon 5 is only the beginning. He started to continue it in another show called Crusade but alas...the studio execs being total dicks...they pulled the plug with only half a season worth of episodes in the can. Oh well.
Remember, TANSTAAFL and...
I now return your to your regularly scheduled inanity and insanity.
Wednesday, October 9, 2013
I aim to misbehave...
okay no politics. Just a geek SQUEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!
They are doing a showing at the local drafthouse cinema of Serenity.
This saturday night. Me..I am now planning to be there...oh yes.
If you haven't seen the film...I say unto thee..Go Watch It. Now.
For those who've never seen the series it's based on[which the dipshits at the studio cancelled half a *13 episodes* in} Firefly. I commend thee to go watch the show.
Remember TANSTAAFL and...
I now return you to your regularly scheduled inanity and insanity
They are doing a showing at the local drafthouse cinema of Serenity.
This saturday night. Me..I am now planning to be there...oh yes.
If you haven't seen the film...I say unto thee..Go Watch It. Now.
For those who've never seen the series it's based on[which the dipshits at the studio cancelled half a *13 episodes* in} Firefly. I commend thee to go watch the show.
Remember TANSTAAFL and...
I now return you to your regularly scheduled inanity and insanity
Sunday, October 6, 2013
Government shutdown, what it means and the future.
Some of you may not have seen some of the links I'm fixing to post of our petty Herr Fuhrer wanna be that currently resides in the Peoples House and his diktats in action. Most of you though. Probably have. That being said...perpend.
Homeowners forced out of their homes and off their land
Why because while they own the homes, the Federal Government holds the land.
Here's some folks protesting the closing of parks.
Park Protest
Most everyone I expect heard the following one as it's been so widely covered..
WW2 memorial
Wait there's more to this one as of yesterday..
Barricades at WW2 memorial now wired.
What? never heard of wire cutters? Idiots. What?
"OMG they might move to using CHAINS next? if we cut the wires wolf!" *snort* Depending on the thickness of the links then in that case I'd see their chains and raise them. Either bolt cutters or a goddamn blowtorch. Oh by the way...this park was COMPLETELY privately funded by generous donations to the foundation who built it. They raised 200 MILLION dollars for the project. They had a huge lump sum left afterwards and put those funds, into a federal trust, in trust to the government, so that maintenance of the park grounds would be paid for and taken care of. they would have been better off asking for continued donations and paying a private company to do the maintenance. Hell if they'd asked...they'd probably have unpaid VOLUNTEERS that would come out and clean the park.
read it and weep if you don't believe me
http://www.wwiimemorial.com/default.asp?page=funding.asp
Putting up cones blocking access to Mt Rushmore and the park.
Hmmm one friend suggested just running the cones over in a vehicle. I agreed but on second though...if you want to protest this one with a number of people...put some people in the backs of pick ups in front your convoy to the park. simply pick up the cones and stack them neatly in the back of the truck as you go. then dump them neatly at the park gate when you get there, and go in.
more protesting at the Badlands Park
Someone else protesting the high handedness and payin the penalty.
So the rangers are blocking access to his business? My suggestion...call and make a reservation for a party and ask if there are shrubs near the entrance way and if the property is fronted by a drainage ditch. If no...to the latter anyway. come to the inn and go through the shrubs. bring enough money to be able to pay for replacement. Hell if you own a landscaping company bring the replacements in pots. My other suggestion. Sue the park rangers in court for infringement of your constitutional rights. Because they are sure as shit violating them in this case.
Then there was this bit of gross stupidity....
Really? *facepalm* blows the mind don't it? Or little Herr Fuhrer wanna be has really lost his mind this time. Of course that's always assuming he HAD a mind in the first place.
What it means is that the government in the form of the democrats have gone completely off the rails. See they are throwing a temper tantrum and shit fit because the House of Representatives is surprisingly and amazingly enough...doing the JOB it was created for. Carrying out the purpose it was created for. As a check and balance, a curb on the growth of government. A curb on the spending. The ultimate arbiters of the public's checkbook. They were supposed to be proposing budgets and forcing the government to stay within those budgets by saying "Nope we don't really need this all that badly and we can't afford it. try again next year' or ' we can give you this but you have to work with us to cut this, and this back'. I'm stunned beyond belief that after all these years they are finally doing that goddamn job.
Don't believe that was one of the House's reason for being? I give Federalist paper 58...written by one of the framers of our Constitution...James Madison.
http://www.foundingfathers.info/federalistpapers/fed58.html
Understand me on something. ' WE The People' ARE the government. WE own the land, WE own the roads. The Government, be it the federal fuck ups, state or local are our employees, not our masters. WE hired them to sanely and intelligently manage our assets while we went about our daily lives. Again because this is important to understand the government is our EMPLOYEE; NOT our Master. Everything they are up to right now in this temper tantrum being thrown by the Dems, the Senate and the Herr Fuhrer wanna be...are UN-Constitutional, UN-American and our forefathers would spit in the faces of their political office inheritors.
So in the case of people on Lake Mead being forced out for example? They SHOULD HAVE, en masse said "Boy the people are the government, therefore the people own this land, therefore I own this land...now get off my property" See it would have forced the government to do something that really would not have set well with most...it would have forced them to send in police or federal agents to remove those people by FORCE. Demonstrating out in the open yet again...what dictatorial asswipes our employees are turning into.
See those of us like me...understand this. We want to be free to live our lives without the diktats of a vindictive petty tyrannical overlord/government. It's why our founders created the government the way they did. To try to slow the creeping infestation of the power hungry. I don't think frankly that our founding fathers ever believed that even the government system they set up could slow it down forever or stop it out right. I think they knew the latter was a pipe dream. However if the creep started they expected WE the People to step on it's neck and say "Uh uh. I don't think so junior." We the people and the generations before mine...failed. We failed our duty to keep our government in check and we failed abominably. We the following generations, the inheritors of the legacy of our forefathers have squandered the fuck out of it. Those who sit in their political offices in undeserved splendor. Spitefully and gleefully thinking THEY are the lords and masters of us all. They are WRONG.
There is a symbolic clock face, called The Doomsday Clock. It's been in existence since the creation of nuclear weapons. As a means by which, the committee that created it and runs it; the Science and Security Board of the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, can track what they say is how close we are to a Global Disaster or rather...a Global Thermonuclear War. It's original intent has now been corrupted to include "Climate Change" blah blah blah. I won't get into that now.
Suffice to say I believe that clock should also include the dissolution of governments. For us I believe we are at 5mins to midnight or even closer than that to the brink. There is still time step up to the plate to do our best to step back from the brink. It'll mean making and living with very HARD choices. it'll take decades of diligence and watchfulness to undo the harm that has been done to our country, our liberties and our freedoms. It may even include some bloodshed. Fore, those who crave power of the magnitude now held by those in our government and the sycophants that run the various alphabet soup of bureaucratic agencies, seldom give that power up willingly. History proves and teaches us this lesson, time and time and time again. Sadly some of We the People have closed our minds to that lesson and carry on in blissful ignorance. Content to be....slaves, so long as they don't have to be held responsible for, or live with the consequences of, their own life choices.
The preceding are just some of the thoughts running through my mind recently. Those thoughts and possible conclusions to which they lead me, frankly scare the shit out of me, some of them.
Anyway.....
Remember TANSTAAFL and.....
I now return you to your regularly scheduled inanity and insanity.
Homeowners forced out of their homes and off their land
Why because while they own the homes, the Federal Government holds the land.
Here's some folks protesting the closing of parks.
Park Protest
Most everyone I expect heard the following one as it's been so widely covered..
WW2 memorial
Wait there's more to this one as of yesterday..
Barricades at WW2 memorial now wired.
What? never heard of wire cutters? Idiots. What?
"OMG they might move to using CHAINS next? if we cut the wires wolf!" *snort* Depending on the thickness of the links then in that case I'd see their chains and raise them. Either bolt cutters or a goddamn blowtorch. Oh by the way...this park was COMPLETELY privately funded by generous donations to the foundation who built it. They raised 200 MILLION dollars for the project. They had a huge lump sum left afterwards and put those funds, into a federal trust, in trust to the government, so that maintenance of the park grounds would be paid for and taken care of. they would have been better off asking for continued donations and paying a private company to do the maintenance. Hell if they'd asked...they'd probably have unpaid VOLUNTEERS that would come out and clean the park.
read it and weep if you don't believe me
http://www.wwiimemorial.com/default.asp?page=funding.asp
Putting up cones blocking access to Mt Rushmore and the park.
Hmmm one friend suggested just running the cones over in a vehicle. I agreed but on second though...if you want to protest this one with a number of people...put some people in the backs of pick ups in front your convoy to the park. simply pick up the cones and stack them neatly in the back of the truck as you go. then dump them neatly at the park gate when you get there, and go in.
more protesting at the Badlands Park
Someone else protesting the high handedness and payin the penalty.
So the rangers are blocking access to his business? My suggestion...call and make a reservation for a party and ask if there are shrubs near the entrance way and if the property is fronted by a drainage ditch. If no...to the latter anyway. come to the inn and go through the shrubs. bring enough money to be able to pay for replacement. Hell if you own a landscaping company bring the replacements in pots. My other suggestion. Sue the park rangers in court for infringement of your constitutional rights. Because they are sure as shit violating them in this case.
Then there was this bit of gross stupidity....
Really? *facepalm* blows the mind don't it? Or little Herr Fuhrer wanna be has really lost his mind this time. Of course that's always assuming he HAD a mind in the first place.
What it means is that the government in the form of the democrats have gone completely off the rails. See they are throwing a temper tantrum and shit fit because the House of Representatives is surprisingly and amazingly enough...doing the JOB it was created for. Carrying out the purpose it was created for. As a check and balance, a curb on the growth of government. A curb on the spending. The ultimate arbiters of the public's checkbook. They were supposed to be proposing budgets and forcing the government to stay within those budgets by saying "Nope we don't really need this all that badly and we can't afford it. try again next year' or ' we can give you this but you have to work with us to cut this, and this back'. I'm stunned beyond belief that after all these years they are finally doing that goddamn job.
Don't believe that was one of the House's reason for being? I give Federalist paper 58...written by one of the framers of our Constitution...James Madison.
http://www.foundingfathers.info/federalistpapers/fed58.html
Understand me on something. ' WE The People' ARE the government. WE own the land, WE own the roads. The Government, be it the federal fuck ups, state or local are our employees, not our masters. WE hired them to sanely and intelligently manage our assets while we went about our daily lives. Again because this is important to understand the government is our EMPLOYEE; NOT our Master. Everything they are up to right now in this temper tantrum being thrown by the Dems, the Senate and the Herr Fuhrer wanna be...are UN-Constitutional, UN-American and our forefathers would spit in the faces of their political office inheritors.
So in the case of people on Lake Mead being forced out for example? They SHOULD HAVE, en masse said "Boy the people are the government, therefore the people own this land, therefore I own this land...now get off my property" See it would have forced the government to do something that really would not have set well with most...it would have forced them to send in police or federal agents to remove those people by FORCE. Demonstrating out in the open yet again...what dictatorial asswipes our employees are turning into.
See those of us like me...understand this. We want to be free to live our lives without the diktats of a vindictive petty tyrannical overlord/government. It's why our founders created the government the way they did. To try to slow the creeping infestation of the power hungry. I don't think frankly that our founding fathers ever believed that even the government system they set up could slow it down forever or stop it out right. I think they knew the latter was a pipe dream. However if the creep started they expected WE the People to step on it's neck and say "Uh uh. I don't think so junior." We the people and the generations before mine...failed. We failed our duty to keep our government in check and we failed abominably. We the following generations, the inheritors of the legacy of our forefathers have squandered the fuck out of it. Those who sit in their political offices in undeserved splendor. Spitefully and gleefully thinking THEY are the lords and masters of us all. They are WRONG.
There is a symbolic clock face, called The Doomsday Clock. It's been in existence since the creation of nuclear weapons. As a means by which, the committee that created it and runs it; the Science and Security Board of the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, can track what they say is how close we are to a Global Disaster or rather...a Global Thermonuclear War. It's original intent has now been corrupted to include "Climate Change" blah blah blah. I won't get into that now.
Suffice to say I believe that clock should also include the dissolution of governments. For us I believe we are at 5mins to midnight or even closer than that to the brink. There is still time step up to the plate to do our best to step back from the brink. It'll mean making and living with very HARD choices. it'll take decades of diligence and watchfulness to undo the harm that has been done to our country, our liberties and our freedoms. It may even include some bloodshed. Fore, those who crave power of the magnitude now held by those in our government and the sycophants that run the various alphabet soup of bureaucratic agencies, seldom give that power up willingly. History proves and teaches us this lesson, time and time and time again. Sadly some of We the People have closed our minds to that lesson and carry on in blissful ignorance. Content to be....slaves, so long as they don't have to be held responsible for, or live with the consequences of, their own life choices.
The preceding are just some of the thoughts running through my mind recently. Those thoughts and possible conclusions to which they lead me, frankly scare the shit out of me, some of them.
Anyway.....
Remember TANSTAAFL and.....
I now return you to your regularly scheduled inanity and insanity.
Monday, September 30, 2013
The Presidents Statement on Government Shutdown
Okay boys and girls. I caught a little bit of this bit of sophistry this afternoon. If I hadn't been trying to cook supper at the time so got a grip on my temper...I might be sans TV right now. Okay that and I REALLY don't want to have to shell out for a new television when my excuse would be "the presidents duplicitous deceitfulness and stupidity made me do something stupid.
Anyway my fisking will be interspersed and in bold. Let the fscking commence.....
But if the United States Congress does not fulfill its responsibility to pass a budget today, much of the United States government will be forced to shut down tomorrow. And I want to be very clear about what that shutdown would mean -- what will remain open and what will not.
Again...congress has done nothing but pass "Continuing Resolutions" which allow you to keep spending at current levels without any accountability since your rise to power.
With regard to operations that will continue: If you’re on Social Security, you will keep receiving your checks. If you’re on Medicare, your doctor will still see you. Everyone’s mail will still be delivered. And government operations related to national security or public safety will go on. Our troops will continue to serve with skill, honor, and courage. Air traffic controllers, prison guards, those who are with border control -- our Border Patrol will remain on their posts, but their paychecks will be delayed until the government reopens. NASA will shut down almost entirely, but Mission Control will remain open to support the astronauts serving on the Space Station.
Really? All these things will remain open? Does that include NSA, CIA, FBI, IRS etc etc? If so then the government isn't completely shut down is it?
And in keeping with the broad ramifications of a shutdown, I think it’s important that everybody understand the federal government is America’s largest employer. More than 2 million civilian workers and 1.4 million active-duty military serve in all 50 states and all around the world. In the event of a government shutdown, hundreds of thousands of these dedicated public servants who stay on the job will do so without pay -- and several hundred thousand more will be immediately and indefinitely furloughed without pay.
Yes lets talk about that? WHY is the federal government the largest employer? Our forefathers did NOT create this nation to have a government be the largest employer They BUILT it so free thinking, intelligent FREE citizens could build their OWN businesses and employ each other with minimal interference from the government. Or be self employed, again building a business with minimal interference from the government. The government, the massive number of citizens be DAMNED...was never intended to be the overarching, overreaching overbearing monstrosity that it is now. And that Bill I mentioned that got rammed through in the middle of the night most didn't want? The ACA? Will create 10's of thousands...some say HUNDREDS of thousands of more positions within the government. 16000 in the IRS alone. What. The. Fuck?!
So a shutdown will have a very real economic impact on real people, right away. Past shutdowns have disrupted the economy significantly. This one would, too. It would throw a wrench into the gears of our economy at a time when those gears have gained some traction.
Gained traction? ROFLOLOLOL
Unfortunately, right now House Republicans continue to tie funding of the government to ideological demands like limiting a woman’s access to contraception, or delaying the Affordable Care Act, all to save face after making some impossible promises to the extreme right wing of their party.
Ahh now we're going from extraneous and controversial, to ideological demands to saving face and extreme right wing. Extreme when the republicans presented and passed a budget that would fund EVERY facet of the government monstrosity EXCEPT for ACA?
So let me be clear about this. An important part of the Affordable Care Act takes effect tomorrow no matter what Congress decides to do today. The Affordable Care Act is moving forward. That funding is already in place. You can’t shut it down. This is a law that passed both houses of Congress; a law that bears my signature; a law that the Supreme Court upheld as constitutional; a law that voters chose not to repeal last November; a law that is already providing benefits to millions of Americans in the form of young people staying on their parents’ plan until they’re 26, seniors getting cheaper prescription drugs, making sure that insurance companies aren't imposing lifetime limits when you already have health insurance, providing rebates for consumers when insurance companies are spending too much money on overhead instead of health care.
Insurance companies are spending too much money on overhead instead of healthcare? Hmmmm
readers? read this link...
Yeah that one seems to tell a DIFFERENT story doesn't it? that one company after an income for 60 some million paid out $48 million of that in claims and medical expenses of its customers to doctors, labs, hospitals etc.
Those things are already happening.
So here’s the bottom line: I’m always willing to work with anyone of either party to make sure the Affordable Care Act works better, to make sure our government works better. I’m always willing to work with anyone to grow our economy faster, or to create new jobs faster, to get our fiscal house in order for the long run. I’ve demonstrated this time and time again, oftentimes to the consternation of my own party.
Willing to work with? Seems to me that anytime the other side comes to the table they always go home sorry and sore and it's your way or the highway.
But one faction of one party, in one house of Congress, in one branch of government doesn’t get to shut down the entire government just to refight the results of an election.
YES actually they DO. See the HOUSE controls the nations purse strings; NOT you and NOT the senate. The HOUSE is the nations minder of the checkbook and dispenser of funds...if they don't let the funds go out...whatever pet project your pandering to the profuse number of sheep out there to, doesn't get funded. The house is...for lack of a better analogy...the economic advisor to the PEOPLE. An executor if you will. Wait...I got it. The HOUSE holds a Power of Attorney from the people, giving them financial responsibility and control over the REST of the government. The HOUSE in effect gets to...tell the rest of the government where to shove it, when the funds are lacking. The house has quite frankly been failing miserably in this regard for not just as long as the Second Coming of JFK has been in the white house but for more than a decade. However the failure has been exceedingly egregious over the last 5yrs. Not entirely the fault of the minority party either, though they certainly bear a portion of the blame. Understand now germs and virii?
Keeping the people’s government open is not a concession to me. Keeping vital services running and hundreds of thousands of Americans on the job is not something you “give” to the other side. It’s our basic responsibility. It’s something that we’re doing for our military, and our businesses, and our economy, and all the hardworking people out there -- the person working for the Agricultural Department out in some rural community who’s out there helping some farmers make sure that they’re making some modest profit for all the hard work they’re putting in. They’re the person working for HUD who’s helping somebody buy a house for the first time. They’re somebody in a VA office who’s counseling one of our vets who’s got PTSD.
There you go again using strawmen, and emotional bullying to try and bulldozer over logical thought. Dude seriously? You are starting to bore the hell out of me. Put a zipper on your lips, zip them shut and then have someone come behind and weld that zipper shut. I'm tired of seeing your lips move and hearing the grating annoyance of your lying voice.
The American people sent us here to govern. They sent us here to make sure that we’re doing everything we can to make their lives a little bit better -- to create new jobs, to restore economic security, to rebuild the prospects of upward mobility. That’s what they expect.
No we sent you there to mind the store and then turn it over to the NEXT manager we hire and move the fuck on. Yet you and those like you...especially in congress...seem to have forgotten that. Otherwise there wouldn't be people in the house and senate that have been there as long as I've been ALIVE. There also wouldn't have been seats held for 50-80 YEARS by political DYNASTIES, iow held by the same FAMILIES for multiple generations. That is NOT what our forefathers intended, you and those before that have been corrupting those intentions for decades, some of my friends would say for well over a century.
And they understand that there are differences between the parties and we’re going to be having some tough fights around those differences. And I respect the fact that the other party is not supposed to agree with me 100 percent of the time, just like I don’t agree with them. But they do also expect that we don’t bring the entire government to a halt or the entire economy to a halt just because of those differences.
What I understand is those with you are either your contemporaries and only interested in power and control, or your sheepish servants who seem to CRAVE the slave chain; because acting on their own and exercising not only their constitutional rights, but personal responsibility, scares the ever loving hell out of them.
Now lets move on to "Congress will choose to do the right thing and that the house of reps in particular will choose the right thing" Uhmm they already HAVE chosen the right thing.
However.... in this context germs and virii what the right thing to do is by his lights...is to shut the fuck up, sit the down and do what you are damn well told. Sorry...I ain't built that way.
Anyway my fisking will be interspersed and in bold. Let the fscking commence.....
THE PRESIDENT: Good afternoon, everybody. Of all the
responsibilities the Constitution endows to Congress, two should be
fairly simple: pass a budget, and pay America’s bills.
Yep and you and the dem majority haven't managed to do the first since you and the dems won in 08. Hell you couldn't even be bothered to pass a budget when you had complete control of both fucking houses! Nope...too busy ramming a bill down our throats in the dead of night that gives the government access and control over one of the largest portions of our economy. Medical care.
Yep and you and the dem majority haven't managed to do the first since you and the dems won in 08. Hell you couldn't even be bothered to pass a budget when you had complete control of both fucking houses! Nope...too busy ramming a bill down our throats in the dead of night that gives the government access and control over one of the largest portions of our economy. Medical care.
But if the United States Congress does not fulfill its responsibility to pass a budget today, much of the United States government will be forced to shut down tomorrow. And I want to be very clear about what that shutdown would mean -- what will remain open and what will not.
Again...congress has done nothing but pass "Continuing Resolutions" which allow you to keep spending at current levels without any accountability since your rise to power.
With regard to operations that will continue: If you’re on Social Security, you will keep receiving your checks. If you’re on Medicare, your doctor will still see you. Everyone’s mail will still be delivered. And government operations related to national security or public safety will go on. Our troops will continue to serve with skill, honor, and courage. Air traffic controllers, prison guards, those who are with border control -- our Border Patrol will remain on their posts, but their paychecks will be delayed until the government reopens. NASA will shut down almost entirely, but Mission Control will remain open to support the astronauts serving on the Space Station.
Really? All these things will remain open? Does that include NSA, CIA, FBI, IRS etc etc? If so then the government isn't completely shut down is it?
I also want to be very clear about what would change.
Office buildings would close. Paychecks would be delayed. Vital
services that seniors and veterans, women and children, businesses and
our economy depend on would be hamstrung. Business owners would see
delays in raising capital, seeking infrastructure permits, or rebuilding
after Hurricane Sandy. Veterans who’ve sacrificed for their country
will find their support centers unstaffed. Tourists will find every one
of America’s national parks and monuments, from Yosemite to the
Smithsonian to the Statue of Liberty, immediately closed. And of
course, the communities and small businesses that rely on these national
treasures for their livelihoods will be out of customers and out of
luck.
Sorry but the parks aren't critical are they? Sure they bring in tourist dollars to the parks and surrounding communities but critical to government operation? Nah...don't think so. Why would business owners see delays in raising capital oh great one? Since they can get that capital from their fellow free citizens in private industry? Permits? Permits are nothing more than a means to extort yet MORE money from folks who already pay too much in taxes. Rebuilding after a hurricane sucks but they didn't take anywhere NEAR the damage up north that we took here in the south from say....Katrinaa[and there was a lot of unnecessary and unprosecuted graft there wasn't there?] and Ike. Sorry I feel for the people affected but by and large the people down here picked themselves up by their bootstraps and rebuilt on their own.
Sorry but the parks aren't critical are they? Sure they bring in tourist dollars to the parks and surrounding communities but critical to government operation? Nah...don't think so. Why would business owners see delays in raising capital oh great one? Since they can get that capital from their fellow free citizens in private industry? Permits? Permits are nothing more than a means to extort yet MORE money from folks who already pay too much in taxes. Rebuilding after a hurricane sucks but they didn't take anywhere NEAR the damage up north that we took here in the south from say....Katrinaa[and there was a lot of unnecessary and unprosecuted graft there wasn't there?] and Ike. Sorry I feel for the people affected but by and large the people down here picked themselves up by their bootstraps and rebuilt on their own.
And in keeping with the broad ramifications of a shutdown, I think it’s important that everybody understand the federal government is America’s largest employer. More than 2 million civilian workers and 1.4 million active-duty military serve in all 50 states and all around the world. In the event of a government shutdown, hundreds of thousands of these dedicated public servants who stay on the job will do so without pay -- and several hundred thousand more will be immediately and indefinitely furloughed without pay.
Yes lets talk about that? WHY is the federal government the largest employer? Our forefathers did NOT create this nation to have a government be the largest employer They BUILT it so free thinking, intelligent FREE citizens could build their OWN businesses and employ each other with minimal interference from the government. Or be self employed, again building a business with minimal interference from the government. The government, the massive number of citizens be DAMNED...was never intended to be the overarching, overreaching overbearing monstrosity that it is now. And that Bill I mentioned that got rammed through in the middle of the night most didn't want? The ACA? Will create 10's of thousands...some say HUNDREDS of thousands of more positions within the government. 16000 in the IRS alone. What. The. Fuck?!
What, of course, will not be furloughed are the bills that
they have to pay -- their mortgages, their tuition payments, their car
notes. These Americans are our neighbors. Their kids go to our
schools. They worship where we do. They serve their country with
pride. They are the customers of every business in this country. And
they would be hurt greatly, and as a consequence, all of us will be hurt
greatly, should Congress choose to shut the people’s government down.
Yes those who work for the government will be hurt....but most of the REST of america, outside of those on the dole have been hurting for YEARS.
Yes those who work for the government will be hurt....but most of the REST of america, outside of those on the dole have been hurting for YEARS.
So a shutdown will have a very real economic impact on real people, right away. Past shutdowns have disrupted the economy significantly. This one would, too. It would throw a wrench into the gears of our economy at a time when those gears have gained some traction.
Gained traction? ROFLOLOLOL
Five years ago right now, our economy was in meltdown.
Today, our businesses have created 7.5 million new jobs over the past
three and a half years. The housing market is healing and our deficits
are falling fast. The idea of putting the American people’s hard-earned
progress at risk is the height of irresponsibility.
And it doesn’t have to happen. Let me repeat this: It
does not have to happen. All of this is entirely preventable if the
House chooses to do what the Senate has already done -- and that’s the
simple act of funding our government without making extraneous and
controversial demands in the process, the same way other Congresses have
for more than 200 years.
Anyone ever notice that when someone objects to what the president, the rest of the dems and their lackeys want to do...it's controversial? It's extreme? It's unreasonable? It's UnAmerican? Or any other descriptive you care to name?
Anyone ever notice that when someone objects to what the president, the rest of the dems and their lackeys want to do...it's controversial? It's extreme? It's unreasonable? It's UnAmerican? Or any other descriptive you care to name?
Unfortunately, right now House Republicans continue to tie funding of the government to ideological demands like limiting a woman’s access to contraception, or delaying the Affordable Care Act, all to save face after making some impossible promises to the extreme right wing of their party.
Ahh now we're going from extraneous and controversial, to ideological demands to saving face and extreme right wing. Extreme when the republicans presented and passed a budget that would fund EVERY facet of the government monstrosity EXCEPT for ACA?
So let me be clear about this. An important part of the Affordable Care Act takes effect tomorrow no matter what Congress decides to do today. The Affordable Care Act is moving forward. That funding is already in place. You can’t shut it down. This is a law that passed both houses of Congress; a law that bears my signature; a law that the Supreme Court upheld as constitutional; a law that voters chose not to repeal last November; a law that is already providing benefits to millions of Americans in the form of young people staying on their parents’ plan until they’re 26, seniors getting cheaper prescription drugs, making sure that insurance companies aren't imposing lifetime limits when you already have health insurance, providing rebates for consumers when insurance companies are spending too much money on overhead instead of health care.
Insurance companies are spending too much money on overhead instead of healthcare? Hmmmm
readers? read this link...
Yeah that one seems to tell a DIFFERENT story doesn't it? that one company after an income for 60 some million paid out $48 million of that in claims and medical expenses of its customers to doctors, labs, hospitals etc.
Those things are already happening.
Starting tomorrow, tens of millions of Americans will be
able to visit HealthCare.gov to shop for affordable health care
coverage. So Americans who’ve lived for years in some cases with the
fear that one illness could send them into bankruptcy, Americans who’ve
been priced out of the market just because they’ve been sick once,
they’ll finally be able to afford coverage -- quality coverage -- many
of them for the first time in their lives.
Here's one that never gets discussed. What about those us who are basically healthy and never saw the NEED to shell out for health insurance? See I'm of the mind that health insurance should not cover every single fucking thing. Drugs? Okay cover part of that maybe especially some of the more expensive mother fuckers that cost several hundred dollars a month for just a one month supply of ONE drug. The other side of the coin is the PHARMA companies offer deals and help in that regard. Besides do you have any idea what it costs the Pharma companies to get just ONE goddamn drug to market and how many years of research, testing and jumping through government hoops they have to go through to get it to market?
Here's one article and no you aren't hallucinating..a DECADE minimum goes into getting just ONE drug to market.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/matthewherper/2013/08/11/how-the-staggering-cost-of-inventing-new-drugs-is-shaping-the-future-of-medicine/
However lets go back to those that don't see the point in the expense...like ME. I visit the doctor on average maybe ONCE a year. that's not for a check up either. It's generally when my allergies flare up something awful and I have to go in and get a new script anyway for my nasal inhaler, and now bronchial inhaler for intermittent bronchitis. That's it. So why am I going to spend upwards of $12-15000 a year I could put to better use elsewhere for coverage I don't see a point to. Now if offered the option I might do a plan now that I'm getting older, a plan that offers catastrophic coverage for hospital visits and doesn't cover my drugs or doctors visits. That I might do. Outside of that? No, hell no.
Here's one that never gets discussed. What about those us who are basically healthy and never saw the NEED to shell out for health insurance? See I'm of the mind that health insurance should not cover every single fucking thing. Drugs? Okay cover part of that maybe especially some of the more expensive mother fuckers that cost several hundred dollars a month for just a one month supply of ONE drug. The other side of the coin is the PHARMA companies offer deals and help in that regard. Besides do you have any idea what it costs the Pharma companies to get just ONE goddamn drug to market and how many years of research, testing and jumping through government hoops they have to go through to get it to market?
Here's one article and no you aren't hallucinating..a DECADE minimum goes into getting just ONE drug to market.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/matthewherper/2013/08/11/how-the-staggering-cost-of-inventing-new-drugs-is-shaping-the-future-of-medicine/
However lets go back to those that don't see the point in the expense...like ME. I visit the doctor on average maybe ONCE a year. that's not for a check up either. It's generally when my allergies flare up something awful and I have to go in and get a new script anyway for my nasal inhaler, and now bronchial inhaler for intermittent bronchitis. That's it. So why am I going to spend upwards of $12-15000 a year I could put to better use elsewhere for coverage I don't see a point to. Now if offered the option I might do a plan now that I'm getting older, a plan that offers catastrophic coverage for hospital visits and doesn't cover my drugs or doctors visits. That I might do. Outside of that? No, hell no.
Some of them may be sick as we speak. And this is their
best opportunity to get some security and some relief. Tens of
thousands of Americans die every single year because they don’t have
access to affordable health care. Despite this, Republicans have said
that if we lock these Americans out of affordable health care for one
more year -- if we sacrifice the health care of millions of Americans --
then they’ll fund the government for a couple more months. Does
anybody truly believe that we won’t have this fight again in a couple
more months? Even at Christmas?
Wait, what's this 'don't have access to healthcare' shit? You can go to the hospital if your sick and they will see you. You can even, if you're broke, appeal to the hospital board for hardship cases and the hospital will waive the fees if the board approves. It can be done, I've SEEN it done. So sell that particular pile of shit to someone who believes a single word that comes out of your mouth.
Wait, what's this 'don't have access to healthcare' shit? You can go to the hospital if your sick and they will see you. You can even, if you're broke, appeal to the hospital board for hardship cases and the hospital will waive the fees if the board approves. It can be done, I've SEEN it done. So sell that particular pile of shit to someone who believes a single word that comes out of your mouth.
So here’s the bottom line: I’m always willing to work with anyone of either party to make sure the Affordable Care Act works better, to make sure our government works better. I’m always willing to work with anyone to grow our economy faster, or to create new jobs faster, to get our fiscal house in order for the long run. I’ve demonstrated this time and time again, oftentimes to the consternation of my own party.
Willing to work with? Seems to me that anytime the other side comes to the table they always go home sorry and sore and it's your way or the highway.
But one faction of one party, in one house of Congress, in one branch of government doesn’t get to shut down the entire government just to refight the results of an election.
YES actually they DO. See the HOUSE controls the nations purse strings; NOT you and NOT the senate. The HOUSE is the nations minder of the checkbook and dispenser of funds...if they don't let the funds go out...whatever pet project your pandering to the profuse number of sheep out there to, doesn't get funded. The house is...for lack of a better analogy...the economic advisor to the PEOPLE. An executor if you will. Wait...I got it. The HOUSE holds a Power of Attorney from the people, giving them financial responsibility and control over the REST of the government. The HOUSE in effect gets to...tell the rest of the government where to shove it, when the funds are lacking. The house has quite frankly been failing miserably in this regard for not just as long as the Second Coming of JFK has been in the white house but for more than a decade. However the failure has been exceedingly egregious over the last 5yrs. Not entirely the fault of the minority party either, though they certainly bear a portion of the blame. Understand now germs and virii?
Keeping the people’s government open is not a concession to me. Keeping vital services running and hundreds of thousands of Americans on the job is not something you “give” to the other side. It’s our basic responsibility. It’s something that we’re doing for our military, and our businesses, and our economy, and all the hardworking people out there -- the person working for the Agricultural Department out in some rural community who’s out there helping some farmers make sure that they’re making some modest profit for all the hard work they’re putting in. They’re the person working for HUD who’s helping somebody buy a house for the first time. They’re somebody in a VA office who’s counseling one of our vets who’s got PTSD.
There you go again using strawmen, and emotional bullying to try and bulldozer over logical thought. Dude seriously? You are starting to bore the hell out of me. Put a zipper on your lips, zip them shut and then have someone come behind and weld that zipper shut. I'm tired of seeing your lips move and hearing the grating annoyance of your lying voice.
That’s who we’re here to serve. That’s why we’re supposed
to be carrying out these responsibilities. It’s why we should be
avoiding these kinds of constant brinksmanship. It’s something that we
do in the ordinary process of this extraordinary system of government
that we have. You don’t get to extract a ransom for doing your job; for
doing what you’re supposed to be doing anyway; or just because there’s a
law there that you don’t like.
You aren't here to serve any but your own interests. You proved THAT one with the ACA. You've proved that one with some of the regulations that have come down at your direction, or those of your functionaries, from various agencies like the EPA...just to name one, the ATF for another. the only time you SEE the people is when you look down to see what it is you're stepping on.
You aren't here to serve any but your own interests. You proved THAT one with the ACA. You've proved that one with some of the regulations that have come down at your direction, or those of your functionaries, from various agencies like the EPA...just to name one, the ATF for another. the only time you SEE the people is when you look down to see what it is you're stepping on.
The American people sent us here to govern. They sent us here to make sure that we’re doing everything we can to make their lives a little bit better -- to create new jobs, to restore economic security, to rebuild the prospects of upward mobility. That’s what they expect.
No we sent you there to mind the store and then turn it over to the NEXT manager we hire and move the fuck on. Yet you and those like you...especially in congress...seem to have forgotten that. Otherwise there wouldn't be people in the house and senate that have been there as long as I've been ALIVE. There also wouldn't have been seats held for 50-80 YEARS by political DYNASTIES, iow held by the same FAMILIES for multiple generations. That is NOT what our forefathers intended, you and those before that have been corrupting those intentions for decades, some of my friends would say for well over a century.
And they understand that there are differences between the parties and we’re going to be having some tough fights around those differences. And I respect the fact that the other party is not supposed to agree with me 100 percent of the time, just like I don’t agree with them. But they do also expect that we don’t bring the entire government to a halt or the entire economy to a halt just because of those differences.
What I understand is those with you are either your contemporaries and only interested in power and control, or your sheepish servants who seem to CRAVE the slave chain; because acting on their own and exercising not only their constitutional rights, but personal responsibility, scares the ever loving hell out of them.
That’s what they deserve. They’ve worked too hard, for
too long to recover from previous crises just to have folks here in
Washington manufacture yet another one that they have to dig themselves
out of.
So Congress needs to keep our government open, needs to
pay our bills on time, and never, ever threaten the full faith and
credit of the United States of America.
And time is running out. My hope and expectation is that
in the eleventh hour, once again, that Congress will choose to do the
right thing and that the House of Representatives, in particular, will
choose the right thing.
No what we deserve is a government that stays the hell out our way. My friend Ev read an article some time back that states that there has been so many laws and regulations passed in recent years; that your average american commits 3 felonies a day because he doesn't even know they exist. Ev...if you still have the link feel free to paste it in the comments old friend.
No what we deserve is a government that stays the hell out our way. My friend Ev read an article some time back that states that there has been so many laws and regulations passed in recent years; that your average american commits 3 felonies a day because he doesn't even know they exist. Ev...if you still have the link feel free to paste it in the comments old friend.
Now lets move on to "Congress will choose to do the right thing and that the house of reps in particular will choose the right thing" Uhmm they already HAVE chosen the right thing.
However.... in this context germs and virii what the right thing to do is by his lights...is to shut the fuck up, sit the down and do what you are damn well told. Sorry...I ain't built that way.
Like Captain Mal from Firefly...at least SOME of those up in DC seem to be of the same mindset as me. In that they aim to misbehave. I applaud them for it.
Thus ends the fisking.
Remember TANSTAAFL and....
I now return you to your regularly scheduled inanity and insanity.
Thus ends the fisking.
Remember TANSTAAFL and....
I now return you to your regularly scheduled inanity and insanity.
Wednesday, September 25, 2013
Programming note
I'm going to be away from my own computer for the next day, possibly 3. I will most likely still read your responses. I may not respond to them for a day or 4 though. Just so you are duly forewarned my germs and virii. :)
Signed,
Da Curly Wolf.
Signed,
Da Curly Wolf.
Are we any longer worthy?
Worthy of the legacy our forefathers created and left for us? This is the question that is rolling around in my mind right now. It hit me a little earlier this afternoon...and I've been pontificating on it ever since. Why? Here's 3 reasons. Perpend
1. The ACA aka Obamacare. A bureaucratic, job destroying clusterfuck of a nightmare. A bureaucratic job destroying clusterfuck of a nightmare that was rammed down our throats in the middle of the night strictly by the democrat party because no one else in their right mind would VOTE for the damn thing. Oh and...Job Destroying that is unless your employer is or is soon to be the federal government. Under the ACA there will be 10's of thousands of new government jobs created. 16,000 alone at the IRS to enforce this clusterfuck and make sure people who aren't ON some sort of health insurance plan...pay a fine along with their taxes...upwards of $2,000/yr for the next couple years, if I remember correctly. After which point you can almost assuredly expect the cost of that fine to go up...mark my words.
Yesterday Ted Cruz started a filibuster which the snide are deriding and those in power are calling a waste of time to try and get the funding resolution he supports; which will fund every sector of government except Obamacare passed and educate the people a little bit.
*See my previous post before this one today.
2. We have Justices in their official opinions on a 5th amendment case referring to our constitutionally enumerated and protected rights, as privileges.
http://kindwordand2x4.blogspot.com/2013/09/historical-and-not-in-good-way-ussc.html
I will simply say that, the minute you allow the courts to redefine your rights as privileges...you are farther down that path to fully screwed...and further down the path to communism or outright dictatorship, than I care to contemplate. One more nail in the coffin of the legacy our forefathers left for us. This one should scare the shit out of everybody. No matter which side of the political aisle you fall on. Sadly it's been lost in the shuffle. The pundits and "press" and 'we the people' should have been raising such a hue and cry over this one that it should have shaken the very foundation and rafters of the US Supreme Court Building and brought it tumbling down on the justices heads!
3. Furthermore I hear this one today...
Kerry the quisling signs UN Arms treaty
I have so many problems with this one I don't even know where to start. but let me enumerate one or two.
Are we, or are we NOT a sovereign nation. Because if we are...what the hell are we doing signing a treaty that would enforce regulation imposed upon us from outside, by countries that at best, don't like us much and at worst..hate us passionately and would see us destroyed?
2. This travesty has to be ratified by 2/3's of the senate. The full senate I believe which means 2/3's of all 100 sitting senators. Which means 67 senators. Which means that... of the 46 republicans in the senate 13 would have to spit on the constitution and wipe their asses with it. Which is what they'd be doing. Yeah yeah most of DC has been doing that for decades I know but this one is beyond the pale. Which means for my money...it's not THAT likely. I hope I'm right on that bet..I really do.
So if it ain't likely to be ratified then, what are the odds that Obama is going this route to distract us from the budget fight[what fucking budget...they haven't bothered to pass a budget in 5 goddamn years!] and Obamacare and various other scandals and end runs around the constitution. All perpetrated upon us by this administration and it's minions in the congress?
I'm providing the link to the text of the treaty from the UN website itself in PDF form
UN Arms Treaty
If that link doesn't work...try this one
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2013/06/04/un-small-arms-treaty-full-text/
The long and the short of it is, it would allow a national registry. If I'm reading what I'm seeing in the text on a skim through, it requires it. Remember, registry is the first step towards confiscation.
2b. So if it doesn't get past the senate, what are the odds he will still try and implement it section by section via fiat, by executive order? As he's shown in recent years he really doesn't care what we think, neither does most of congress.
Honestly? I said before, I believe I have an inkling of whats coming. Again..I don't like it one goddamn bit.
So again, I'll posit the question...Are we any longer worthy of the legacy our founding fathers left us?
Honestly? To my mind, as it regards most people in DC, and in the state houses and city councils all over this nation? The answer is, with a few exceptions, not even fucking close.
As it regards We the People? Court is still in session but the gavel will be coming down soon and we are our own jury. .
So think deep and long my fellow jurists and choose wisely.
Remember, TANSTAAFL and...
I now return you to your regularly scheduled inanity and insanity.
1. The ACA aka Obamacare. A bureaucratic, job destroying clusterfuck of a nightmare. A bureaucratic job destroying clusterfuck of a nightmare that was rammed down our throats in the middle of the night strictly by the democrat party because no one else in their right mind would VOTE for the damn thing. Oh and...Job Destroying that is unless your employer is or is soon to be the federal government. Under the ACA there will be 10's of thousands of new government jobs created. 16,000 alone at the IRS to enforce this clusterfuck and make sure people who aren't ON some sort of health insurance plan...pay a fine along with their taxes...upwards of $2,000/yr for the next couple years, if I remember correctly. After which point you can almost assuredly expect the cost of that fine to go up...mark my words.
Yesterday Ted Cruz started a filibuster which the snide are deriding and those in power are calling a waste of time to try and get the funding resolution he supports; which will fund every sector of government except Obamacare passed and educate the people a little bit.
*See my previous post before this one today.
2. We have Justices in their official opinions on a 5th amendment case referring to our constitutionally enumerated and protected rights, as privileges.
http://kindwordand2x4.blogspot.com/2013/09/historical-and-not-in-good-way-ussc.html
I will simply say that, the minute you allow the courts to redefine your rights as privileges...you are farther down that path to fully screwed...and further down the path to communism or outright dictatorship, than I care to contemplate. One more nail in the coffin of the legacy our forefathers left for us. This one should scare the shit out of everybody. No matter which side of the political aisle you fall on. Sadly it's been lost in the shuffle. The pundits and "press" and 'we the people' should have been raising such a hue and cry over this one that it should have shaken the very foundation and rafters of the US Supreme Court Building and brought it tumbling down on the justices heads!
3. Furthermore I hear this one today...
Kerry the quisling signs UN Arms treaty
I have so many problems with this one I don't even know where to start. but let me enumerate one or two.
Are we, or are we NOT a sovereign nation. Because if we are...what the hell are we doing signing a treaty that would enforce regulation imposed upon us from outside, by countries that at best, don't like us much and at worst..hate us passionately and would see us destroyed?
2. This travesty has to be ratified by 2/3's of the senate. The full senate I believe which means 2/3's of all 100 sitting senators. Which means 67 senators. Which means that... of the 46 republicans in the senate 13 would have to spit on the constitution and wipe their asses with it. Which is what they'd be doing. Yeah yeah most of DC has been doing that for decades I know but this one is beyond the pale. Which means for my money...it's not THAT likely. I hope I'm right on that bet..I really do.
So if it ain't likely to be ratified then, what are the odds that Obama is going this route to distract us from the budget fight[what fucking budget...they haven't bothered to pass a budget in 5 goddamn years!] and Obamacare and various other scandals and end runs around the constitution. All perpetrated upon us by this administration and it's minions in the congress?
I'm providing the link to the text of the treaty from the UN website itself in PDF form
UN Arms Treaty
If that link doesn't work...try this one
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2013/06/04/un-small-arms-treaty-full-text/
The long and the short of it is, it would allow a national registry. If I'm reading what I'm seeing in the text on a skim through, it requires it. Remember, registry is the first step towards confiscation.
2b. So if it doesn't get past the senate, what are the odds he will still try and implement it section by section via fiat, by executive order? As he's shown in recent years he really doesn't care what we think, neither does most of congress.
Honestly? I said before, I believe I have an inkling of whats coming. Again..I don't like it one goddamn bit.
So again, I'll posit the question...Are we any longer worthy of the legacy our founding fathers left us?
Honestly? To my mind, as it regards most people in DC, and in the state houses and city councils all over this nation? The answer is, with a few exceptions, not even fucking close.
As it regards We the People? Court is still in session but the gavel will be coming down soon and we are our own jury. .
So think deep and long my fellow jurists and choose wisely.
Remember, TANSTAAFL and...
I now return you to your regularly scheduled inanity and insanity.
The Filibuster of yet another CR.
Senator Ted Cruz has been speaking more or less continually since about 130pm my time[central] yesterday. The vitriol I've seen displayed, the snide comments I've seen about it, are disheartening.
The media quite frankly I expect it from. they are owned lock stock and both smoking barrels, complicit and willingly in league with the democrat party. Hence why some time ago I renamed them the Progressive Propaganda Ministry.
Here's Brit Hume's take
"Utterly Meaningless"
Time making light of him for |
Green eggs and Ham, Ashton Kutcher and White Castle
Now I missed the first two of those things...but...I happen to LIKE the story green eggs and ham still to this day. So bite me. As for White Castle...he was pointing to the stated fact, stated BY White Castle, that White Castle was cutting back on their store openings,because under ACA they could no longer AFFORD to build those stores and more importantly HIRE the staff to man/run them!
From the Daily Caller. ObamaCare can be defunded IF
A Meteor hits Joe Biden
The Atlantic
Why his last stand against Obamacare doesn't make sense
What and Sen Thrumonds 1957 stand against the Civil Rights Act of 1957 did?
Or Sen Huey Long in the 30's? People are making fun of Cruz and making snide comments for his reading of Green Eggs and Ham. Well what about Longs readings of things like "pot likkin" recipes or quoting of Shakespeare?
Now for a few on personal accounts of people on twitter...
★★Von-Von★★ @1969FY
#TedCruz is simply an ignorant bought & paid for #Koch puppet. Anyone who doesn't see that is a shameful idiot.....
I now return you to your regularly scheduled inanity and insanity.
The media quite frankly I expect it from. they are owned lock stock and both smoking barrels, complicit and willingly in league with the democrat party. Hence why some time ago I renamed them the Progressive Propaganda Ministry.
Here's Brit Hume's take
"Utterly Meaningless"
Time making light of him for |
Green eggs and Ham, Ashton Kutcher and White Castle
Now I missed the first two of those things...but...I happen to LIKE the story green eggs and ham still to this day. So bite me. As for White Castle...he was pointing to the stated fact, stated BY White Castle, that White Castle was cutting back on their store openings,because under ACA they could no longer AFFORD to build those stores and more importantly HIRE the staff to man/run them!
From the Daily Caller. ObamaCare can be defunded IF
A Meteor hits Joe Biden
The Atlantic
Why his last stand against Obamacare doesn't make sense
What and Sen Thrumonds 1957 stand against the Civil Rights Act of 1957 did?
Or Sen Huey Long in the 30's? People are making fun of Cruz and making snide comments for his reading of Green Eggs and Ham. Well what about Longs readings of things like "pot likkin" recipes or quoting of Shakespeare?
Now for a few on personal accounts of people on twitter...
★★Von-Von★★
I bet money that Senator Ted Cruz watched The West Wing's second season filibuster episode because I just watched it last week.
Jake Fogelnest @jakefogelnest
Jake Fogelnest
Ted Cruz looks down at his notes. "What else, what else..." He launches into more Obamacare material. It's the worst open mic in history
Okay let me stop right here to respond to that last one. What? And Obama never doing anything except by teleprompter is any better?
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God there are so many tweets it's hard to get em all. That being said... Let me finish this as I listen to Ted Cruz finish out his last 30 mins, unless the majority gives him consent to continue, which I seriously doubt.; that Filibusters be they "true" filibusters that happen on the day of a major or minor bill vote or pre or post cloture votes...don't happen often. They are the last resort in this day and age of instant communcations to TRY and educate, elucidate and illumate people on just what it is these bills are about. To try and change minds if possible. Now again in this day and age when the divisions of ideals are so wide, so set in stone this isn't likely...but it is possible.
To....demean this process, these filibusters be they a "true" filibuster during the time the congress is supposed to be voting on a bill or pre or post cloture floor time filibusters...is to spit upon the people, to spit upon the memories of those who have gone before these politicians, those that filibustered themselves in the past. Whether I agree with the reasons behind those filibusters or not...to demean THIS filibuster and Senator Ted Cruz, the man currently in control of the floor. It spits upon the memories and accomplishments of the founders of our country and those that came after, and those among the rest of us that weren't in DC; WE THE PEOPLE.
When WE The People abrogate our responsibilities and yield up the power to the government as has been happening for decades...we demean the memories of our fore fathers. I haven't bothered to even try and discuss this with anyone because in once case it's by and large preaching to the choir and on the other? The other is childish folk sticking their fingers in their ears and humming REAL loud.
I believe I have.......an inkling what our future holds. Immediate and slightly farther out. I don't like it. I don't like it one damn bit.
And it's over. Sen Cruz is finished as per senate rules. personally I think it was petty for Reid to NOT allow Sen Cruz to proceed until he dropped. Now they are invoking a prayer. A prayer that for my money I believe falls upon deaf ears. I believe a great many of those on the hill worship one thing..POWER.
Now Reid is insulting and spitting upon Sen Cruz, the american people and the memories of our forefathers, by calling Sen Cruz filibuster a waste of time. weep for the future.
Remember TANSTAAFL and...
Okay let me stop right here to respond to that last one. What? And Obama never doing anything except by teleprompter is any better?
................
God there are so many tweets it's hard to get em all. That being said... Let me finish this as I listen to Ted Cruz finish out his last 30 mins, unless the majority gives him consent to continue, which I seriously doubt.; that Filibusters be they "true" filibusters that happen on the day of a major or minor bill vote or pre or post cloture votes...don't happen often. They are the last resort in this day and age of instant communcations to TRY and educate, elucidate and illumate people on just what it is these bills are about. To try and change minds if possible. Now again in this day and age when the divisions of ideals are so wide, so set in stone this isn't likely...but it is possible.
To....demean this process, these filibusters be they a "true" filibuster during the time the congress is supposed to be voting on a bill or pre or post cloture floor time filibusters...is to spit upon the people, to spit upon the memories of those who have gone before these politicians, those that filibustered themselves in the past. Whether I agree with the reasons behind those filibusters or not...to demean THIS filibuster and Senator Ted Cruz, the man currently in control of the floor. It spits upon the memories and accomplishments of the founders of our country and those that came after, and those among the rest of us that weren't in DC; WE THE PEOPLE.
When WE The People abrogate our responsibilities and yield up the power to the government as has been happening for decades...we demean the memories of our fore fathers. I haven't bothered to even try and discuss this with anyone because in once case it's by and large preaching to the choir and on the other? The other is childish folk sticking their fingers in their ears and humming REAL loud.
I believe I have.......an inkling what our future holds. Immediate and slightly farther out. I don't like it. I don't like it one damn bit.
And it's over. Sen Cruz is finished as per senate rules. personally I think it was petty for Reid to NOT allow Sen Cruz to proceed until he dropped. Now they are invoking a prayer. A prayer that for my money I believe falls upon deaf ears. I believe a great many of those on the hill worship one thing..POWER.
Now Reid is insulting and spitting upon Sen Cruz, the american people and the memories of our forefathers, by calling Sen Cruz filibuster a waste of time. weep for the future.
Remember TANSTAAFL and...
I now return you to your regularly scheduled inanity and insanity.
Monday, September 23, 2013
American Gun Use is OUT of Control!
Oh noes whatever shall we do? Shall we cower and simper? I think not. Lets just call on the UN and the rest of the worlds NGO's all of whom hate us...to disarm the american people. My response to this thought line? I hope you've made out your will....
What brings this on my germs and virii? the article of which I will provide the link for, AFTER I rip the shit out of it. *Note I will not provide links for the places where you can find the numbers and attitudes I give you because I am long past tired, and past the point of apathy in regards to repeatedly posting links that back me/prove my point, only to have people ignore it and not read it* Lets start with the following image.
" Dude! thars not a magazine in that thar rifel!" Incongruity number one. If you are going to complain about the violence I'm surprised this idiot didn't use stock footage of swat armed cops, or even your average regular department cops many of whom have AR-15's as standard equipment. That however wouldn't have fit the narrative. Neither would using footage of gang bangers such as the ones under it.
Next the caption of the photo.
A man on a rifle range: 'More Americans lost their lives from firearms in the past 45 years than in all wars involving the US.' Photograph: Scott Olson/Getty Images
Sigh...the man in that photo is most assuredly not ON the range. He might be AT the range in the gun shop, but he's not ON the range.
Lets take the quote....You are including suicides in those numbers laughing boy. I don't. and your numbers for those killed in WARS is off anyway.
By my count it's more like 1.25 million americans killed in all wars since the civil war, just in KIA 620,000 of those ALONE was the civil war. and since you insist on including SUICIDES in your numbers..I'll include casualties/injured and MIA's in MINE. Which brings the numbers for the Civil War alone up to 1.5 MILLION people. That right there by itself, that single war, trumps your 1.384 million killed by guns in the US by.....115,829 people.
"Everywhere you look in America, people are trying to make life safer. On roads, for example, there has been a huge effort in the past 50 years to enforce speed limits, crack down on drink/drug driving and build safety features into highways, as well as vehicles. The result is a steadily improving record; by 2015, forecasters predict that for first time road deaths will be fewer than those caused by firearms (32,036 to 32,929)."
Hmmm. I gotta wonder at those numbers. Be they true or not know this. People like you bemoan the deaths in America and curse gun owners and point to yourselves as though you were better. Here's a newsflash again. Do you people know what the ACTUAL percentage of people killed/murdered in the US are? Not the per capita numbers used by the PPM to inflate, conflate and bullshit the american people? You should...I've posted the goddamn numbers often enough. The actual percentage of the US population that is murdered every year is less than one percent. The numbers are invariably between 5 and 9 THOUSANDTHS of ONE percent of the total population. That's right the numbers are between .005-.009% of 1% of the US population being murdered every year. THAT's it. Now again do ya'll know how the reports are compiled? In the US any murder investigated or suspected as such, whether there's a court conviction or not...goes into the US numbers. Where as in someplace like...ohhh England..unless it's investigated as a murder and garners a conviction of a perpetrator in court, it doesn't go into the yearly government released statistics.
As for the rest of the article, the author can eat shit and die. Holier than thou whining little puppet.
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/sep/21/american-gun-out-control-porter?commentpage=1
As Old Ben once said "they who would give up essential liberty for a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety"
Remember TANSTAAFL and...
I now return you to your regularly scheduled inanity and insanity
What brings this on my germs and virii? the article of which I will provide the link for, AFTER I rip the shit out of it. *Note I will not provide links for the places where you can find the numbers and attitudes I give you because I am long past tired, and past the point of apathy in regards to repeatedly posting links that back me/prove my point, only to have people ignore it and not read it* Lets start with the following image.
" Dude! thars not a magazine in that thar rifel!" Incongruity number one. If you are going to complain about the violence I'm surprised this idiot didn't use stock footage of swat armed cops, or even your average regular department cops many of whom have AR-15's as standard equipment. That however wouldn't have fit the narrative. Neither would using footage of gang bangers such as the ones under it.
Next the caption of the photo.
A man on a rifle range: 'More Americans lost their lives from firearms in the past 45 years than in all wars involving the US.' Photograph: Scott Olson/Getty Images
Sigh...the man in that photo is most assuredly not ON the range. He might be AT the range in the gun shop, but he's not ON the range.
Lets take the quote....You are including suicides in those numbers laughing boy. I don't. and your numbers for those killed in WARS is off anyway.
By my count it's more like 1.25 million americans killed in all wars since the civil war, just in KIA 620,000 of those ALONE was the civil war. and since you insist on including SUICIDES in your numbers..I'll include casualties/injured and MIA's in MINE. Which brings the numbers for the Civil War alone up to 1.5 MILLION people. That right there by itself, that single war, trumps your 1.384 million killed by guns in the US by.....115,829 people.
"Everywhere you look in America, people are trying to make life safer. On roads, for example, there has been a huge effort in the past 50 years to enforce speed limits, crack down on drink/drug driving and build safety features into highways, as well as vehicles. The result is a steadily improving record; by 2015, forecasters predict that for first time road deaths will be fewer than those caused by firearms (32,036 to 32,929)."
Hmmm. I gotta wonder at those numbers. Be they true or not know this. People like you bemoan the deaths in America and curse gun owners and point to yourselves as though you were better. Here's a newsflash again. Do you people know what the ACTUAL percentage of people killed/murdered in the US are? Not the per capita numbers used by the PPM to inflate, conflate and bullshit the american people? You should...I've posted the goddamn numbers often enough. The actual percentage of the US population that is murdered every year is less than one percent. The numbers are invariably between 5 and 9 THOUSANDTHS of ONE percent of the total population. That's right the numbers are between .005-.009% of 1% of the US population being murdered every year. THAT's it. Now again do ya'll know how the reports are compiled? In the US any murder investigated or suspected as such, whether there's a court conviction or not...goes into the US numbers. Where as in someplace like...ohhh England..unless it's investigated as a murder and garners a conviction of a perpetrator in court, it doesn't go into the yearly government released statistics.
As for the rest of the article, the author can eat shit and die. Holier than thou whining little puppet.
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/sep/21/american-gun-out-control-porter?commentpage=1
As Old Ben once said "they who would give up essential liberty for a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety"
Remember TANSTAAFL and...
I now return you to your regularly scheduled inanity and insanity
Sunday, September 22, 2013
Short short rant on illegal drugs/war on same
Saw a post on facebook a while ago that showed an infographic on war on drugs, and cost. It was headed by several things including "victimless crime."
Now while I agree by and large that it's a STUPID war and costs us a shit ton of money for no gain..I take exception to the "it's a victimless crime" shit. I knew at one time plenty of people who used pot...which comprise the bulk of the drug users in the nation, about 95%% give or take. They tend to be, least the ones I knew in the past...successful business owners, and tech wiz kids who run networks for big companies. Where I take exception to victimless crime bullshit is with the hardcore users of hallucinogens, inhalants, heroin and others comprise about 3.5 million of the nation's 22-23 million users. Those who use those drugs tend to be the real problem children, committing robberies and murders, and car jackings and shit to get their next fix. So do NOT tell me the drug business is victimless you assholes.
That is all.
Now while I agree by and large that it's a STUPID war and costs us a shit ton of money for no gain..I take exception to the "it's a victimless crime" shit. I knew at one time plenty of people who used pot...which comprise the bulk of the drug users in the nation, about 95%% give or take. They tend to be, least the ones I knew in the past...successful business owners, and tech wiz kids who run networks for big companies. Where I take exception to victimless crime bullshit is with the hardcore users of hallucinogens, inhalants, heroin and others comprise about 3.5 million of the nation's 22-23 million users. Those who use those drugs tend to be the real problem children, committing robberies and murders, and car jackings and shit to get their next fix. So do NOT tell me the drug business is victimless you assholes.
That is all.
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