“Our job is basically to keep the boot on the neck of British Petroleum,” [Interior Secretary Ken ] Salazar said…
Awesome.
And here I though governments using boots to crush their enemies was an allusion typically reserved for second and third-world dictatorships.
If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – forever.
George Orwell
When you listen to politicans and their lackeys, you expect to be lied to. But the more “professional” the politician, the smoother you expect the lies to be. In the end, you expect the lies to be so well done that they are virtually indistinguishable from reality… just twisted enough to say something that ain’t. It’s relatively rare in American politics for some *major* political operative to tell you a clear and unambiguous lie that is fabulously easy to demonstrate the complete falseness of.
Robert Gibbs, White House Press Secretary, gives us an example of just such an astounding lie.
Gentlemen… BEHOLD!!!
Since the far Left does not have any actual good arguements against the notion of reducing the size and expense of government, they have to rely of emotion and deception. And the deception you can expect to see is summed up succinctly at: http://www.crashtheteaparty.org/
WHAT WE WANT: To dismantle and demolish the Tea Party by any non-violent means necessary.
HOW WE WILL SUCCEED: By infiltrating the Tea Party itself! In an effort to propogate their pre-existing propensity for paranoia and suspicion… We have already sat quietly in their meetings, and observed their rallies.
Whenever possible, we will act on behalf of the Tea Party in ways which exaggerate their least appealing qualities (misspelled protest signs, wild claims in TV interviews, etc.) to further distance them from mainstream America and damage the public’s opinion of them.
Now, obviously it takes a world-class moron to discuss a devious scheme of infiltrating an organization on THE WORLD-FRIGGEN’ WIDE WEB. And what kind of moron is this? A teacher, of course.
http://blog.oregonlive.com/mapesonpolitics/2010/04/beaverton_teacher_faces_invest.html
Jason Levin, the Portland man who caused a ruckus over his plans to “infiltrate” Tea Party protests in an aim to discredit them, teaches in a Beaverton middle school and now faces an investigation by the Teacher Standards and Practices Commission.
Melody Hanson, the commission’s director of professional practices, said Wednesday that the agency opened an investigation because “there was enough concern that there was some neglect of duty” on the part of Levin.
Now, there will be actual racists, actual crazy people at Tea Party rallies, and the press will focus on them. Partially they will do so because crazy people are just plain more intereting than regular schmoes… but mostly because the press, as much as they bleat othewise, is ideologically opposed to the basic Tea Party tenets of limited Constitutional government. But now… whenever the press features these jackholes… make sure to point out “Crash the Tea Party.”
Everything will be all better when the government controls health care…
http://cbs4.com/local/Diana.Smith.Woman.2.1623788.html
But her hopes of receiving the transplant were dashed in March, when she says, the Social Security Administration contacted her –without her soliciting it — and told her that her three year-old son was entitled to receive Social Security disability payments. Even though she didn’t ask for it, she signed the form and received her son’s first check check.
In April, Medicaid canceled her universal health care policy because her income level had risen with her son’s payments – making her ineligible for the insurance program.
So *that’s* how they’re going to make it “defecit neutral…” the government will trick people into signing their own death warrants.
Brilliant. Evil, but brilliant.
Star Trek: Voyager premiered in 1995. There were a number of primary female characters:
Captain Janeway: irritating.
Engineer Belanna Torres: Scary semi-Klingon chick
Kes: Supposedly cute, but since she was only four or so years old… not a sex symbol.
Kes:
After three years, Kes, who was not the draw for the pimply male demographic that the producers had hoped for, was booted off the show and replaced with the catsuited Borg character Seven Of Nine. Seven’s sole purpose was bucka-bucka-wow SEXSYMBOL. Seven:
Seven of Nine was played by actress Jeri Ryan, who prior to this was basically an unknown (one season on a one-season minor sci-fi show). The reason why her last name was Ryan was because she was married to one “Jack Ryan.” However, the two divorced in 1999 for reasons left largely unexplored publicly, although stress from separation due to Jeri’s work in Hollywood, CA on ST:V was claimed to have been a major part (Jack Ryan worked in Chicago). Notable also is that shortly after the divorce Jeri Ryan dated ST: Voyager producer Brannon Braga.
In 2003, Jack Ryan ran for an open US Senate seat from the state of Illinois on the Republican ticket. The two Ryans decided to allow the divorce records to be made public, but not the child custody records. Nevertheless, those records were also released by LA Superior Court Judge Robert Schnider, showing that the reason why Jeri had wanted a divorce from Jack was because he wanted to do some, er, decidedly non-Traditional Family Values stuff with her in public venues. (So did most Star Trek fanboys who saw her in that silver catsuit.) Still, the release of this selacious info was enough to torpedo Jack Ryan’s run for the Senate; his spot on the Republican ticket was taken up at the last minute by noted nutjob and inevitable loser, Alan Keyes. Thus the election was won by another relative unknown, a twenty-year veteran of the Trinity United Church of Christ, an avowed “black liberation theology” institution. Given the complete disaster that was the Republican run for the Senate that year, the Democratic party didn’t really need to try very hard, and the candidate was able to basically walk in on the promise of Hope, Change, charisma and a complete lack of any real knowledge of him by the public. He did essentially the same thing four years later in a run for a somewhat higher office.
Long story short, Jeri Ryan’s work on Voyager contributed to her getting a divorce. The divorce eventually led to Jack Ryan dropping out of a Senate race, which was then easily won by Barack Obama who used it as a springboard to the White House.
There are two good lessons to be drawn from that:
1) If the selection of a space-elf only a few years old to be the sex symbol on a Star Trek series can have massive and completely unpredictable long-term real-world consequences… then any long-term plan that relies on the future being predictable in detail stands a damned good chance of failing spectacularly.
2) Jack. Dude. Yer married to Jeri Fricken’ Ryan. You get to do the horizontal mambo with the hottest chick in Sci Fi EVAR. Be happy with that. Otherwise your libido can ruin not only your political career, but also the national economy for decades to come.
Via the Out Of Order Blog comes a painting far, far better than anything I could ever slap together. One good result of the Obama administration has been some dandy artwork…
Tonight the House approve and Obama signed the 2300-page government takeover of healthcare. What ar ethe immediate effects? Well, here’s one. Tomorrow I’m going to go out and sign up for welfare. To hell with it.
A guru attempts to use magic to kill a skeptic. It works out about as successfully as just about every other attempt to use magic ever has.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article7067989.ece
When a famous tantric guru boasted on television that he could kill another man using only his mystical powers, most viewers either gasped in awe or merely nodded unquestioningly. Sanal Edamaruku’s response was different. “Go on then — kill me,” he said.
Mr Edamaruku had been invited to the same talk show as head of the Indian Rationalists’ Association — the country’s self-appointed sceptic-in-chief. At first the holy man, Pandit Surender Sharma, was reluctant, but eventually he agreed to perform a series of rituals designed to kill Mr Edamaruku live on television. Millions tuned in as the channel cancelled scheduled programming to continue broadcasting the showdown, which can still be viewed on YouTube.
First, the master chanted mantras, then he sprinkled water on his intended victim. He brandished a knife, ruffled the sceptic’s hair and pressed his temples. But after several hours of similar antics, Mr Edamaruku was still very much alive — smiling for the cameras and taunting the furious holy man.
Three cheers for the Indian Rationalist Association and the “Guru Busters.” Check out the plethora of vids on YouTube on the topic of “guru busters” for more science-vs-magic smackdowns. It’s the sort of thing that the West needs every bit as desperately as India… while Indias superstitions are more blatant and obvious, the west has its own pack of superstitious rubbish holding us back. Appeals to unreason take the forms of socialism, anti-nuclear activism, anti-rights activists, appeasing the percieved wishes of delusional middle eastern deities, etc.
NOTE: “sceptic” seems to be the way the Englandlanderish “press” spells “skeptic.” Remember, this is the same pack of baboons with typewriters who insist on spelling “NASA” as “Nasa.”
Watch THIS, and let me know if Obama’s claim that employer’s health insurance premiums will drop by “three thousand percent” makes any damned sense to you. It sure as hell doesn’t to me.
If your bill drops by fifty percent, that means it’s cut in half. If it drops by one hundred percent, that means you owe nothing. If it drops by two hundred percent, that means that they now owe you the full value of the bill. If your bill drops by one thousand percent, then they owe you nine times the value of the bill.
If a health care premium bill drops by three thousand percent, then doesn’t that mean that the health care insurance company now owes you twenty-nine times the value of the premium? What the hell sort of business model is that?
No insurance company would or could stay in business if they had to pay you in order to insure you. Thus this is a tacit admission on Obama’s part that he plans to put the insurance companies out of business, as he previously claimed he wanted to bankrupt the coal industry. And when that happens… well, gosh, I guess the government will have to step in and just take over, won’t it.
I guess the only other point of view on this is that Obama is a moron when it comes to math, and simply didn’t understand what a “three thousand percent” decrease actually means. Anyone want someone that dumb in charge of the health care industry?
