Breaking Bad (Apologies to AMC)

All of us at one time or another have blown a good break.  Most of us have blown it over such mundane things like not taking a job, quitting a job, ruining a romantic relationship, or by not taking advantage of a really good bargain.  For me it was ignoring a mental flash of the winning poker hand for a California Lotto game that would have won me $5,000!  I didn't mark the hand on my play slip and thus didn't win the $5,000.  But the good thing with most blown breaks is that no one dies (we hope) and that life goes on most of the time. But what about one of those really great breaks that comes around only once in a lifetime?  You know the kind--the one that is a real life changer. 

 

How about being a professional athlete?  There hardly a guy (or nerd) in the world that wouldn't want to be one and live the life of a superstar athlete.  But the lucky dum-dums that blow those lucky breaks repeatedly really frosts the balls of all men relegated to watching sports on TV.  Notable examples of these dum-dums abound, but here are my two all-time favorites.

Lawrence Phillips, Nebraska University football star dragged his girlfriend by her hair down a flight of stairs in a Nebraska U dorm.  But Phillips got a big break when his coach, Dr. Tom Osborn, didn't kick him off the Nebraska college football team and kept him on the team.  Dr. Osborn sincerely thought that Phillips might benefit from staying in a structured environment like a football team.  So how did Phillips handle that break?  He subsequently screwed up with several pro football teams. But they still kept giving him breaks by signing him to lucrative contracts until it became apparent that he was a troublesome bust.  According to the blog Read and React:

In October 2008, Phillips was sentenced to 10 years in prison for assault with a deadly weapon, after running down 3 kids with his car after losing a pick-up football game to them. Let me say that again. He ran over some kids with his car because of a pickup football game!!! AND, at the time he was arrested, Phillips was also wanted by police for yet another domestic violence charge.

Eventually even a deep well runs dry.  Phillips simply ran out of fortunate breaks.

Pitcher Steve Howe was suspended 7 times by Major League Baseball (MLB) for drug and alcohol abuse.  (MLB is currently on a chest thumping binge in which they say that they disdain drug abuse.)  MLB also reinstated Howe 6 times. And teams kept on signing him to lucrative contracts to pitch a baseball until the talent was diminished by drug abuse.  Howe finished his career in 1997 playing with the Sioux Falls Canaries of the minor league American Association.  (Howe died in 2006.)  To say that Howe blew it on blow would be a gross understatement.  

Tiger Woods on the other hand is at a crossroads.  How Tiger Woods handles his current marital and public relations problems will determine whether or not he's blown his big break.  He is a billionaire at 33.  He has a hottie for a wife and healthy children.  He also appeared to be likeble straight shooter...until we found out that he was a serial adulterer.  Some guys like Bill Clinton can get away with it and continue to have the breaks fall his way. 

But there are some things that Americans get really angry and upset about.  They don't like child molesters, dog abusers (the NFL's Michael Vick notwithstanding), and morally inert golfers.  Golf is the only game where golfers are expected to be honest and penalize themselves when they break the rules.  The only penalizing Tiger did was to several bimbos while on the PGA Tour.  Golf fans are angered that Tiger turned out to be just another cheater not to be trusted.  It's too bad that we don't hold our politicians to the same standard as our golfers.

When you consider that in 220 years only 44 men have been the President of the United States, you get a sense of the great accomplishment that it is to hold that office.  You also realize that it requires a great many fortunate breaks to attain the Presidency.  To bear witness to the current office holder defiling the Office of the President is to watch the destruction of everything that this great country stands for.  

It would be one thing if the Obama's irrational actions were based upon a deeply held belief system and values.  After all, even an evil man is due some respect if only because he recognizes the difference between good and evil and voluntarily choses evil.  Instead, we have Obama who relies on a teleprompter to convey the commands of his master, George Soros.

In Obama we also have an "empty suit" who while an Illinois State Senator voted "present" 193 times on legislation. Take a gander at how Obama's fellow bipartisan political weasels defend such a gutless position:

Obama’s former colleagues who still serve [sic] in the Illinois Capitol say that the attacks are off-base and that either Obama’s opponents don’t understand how things work in Springfield or they are deliberately distorting his record.

“To insinuate the ‘present’ vote means you’re indecisive, that you don’t have the courage to hold public office, that’s a stretch. But, it’s good politics,” said state Rep. Bill Black (R), a 22-year veteran of the House and his party’s floor leader…

The “present” vote in Illinois is sometimes cast by state lawmakers with a conflict of interest who would rather not weigh in on an issue. Other times, members use the option to object to certain parts of a bill, even though they may agree with its overall purpose.

“The ‘present’ vote is used, especially by more thoughtful legislators, [sic] not as a means of avoiding taking a position on an issue, but as a means of signaling concerns about an issue,” said state Rep. John Fritchey (D), an Obama supporter. [Emphasis Added.]

What a total crock of crap!  The slimeball  Leftist elitists think [sic] that the American people are just too damn stupid to understand how things work in the "big time" world of legislation.  These "rubes" simply don't understand that a "present" vote is just plain "good politics" practiced by "thoughtful legislators"!  But think about the scary notion that Obama may also have had 193 potential "conflicts of interest" and then you realize how very dangerous his legislative "experience" really is.  Moreover, in 4 years as a US Senator, Obama attended Senate sessions a total of 143 days.  No busboy in a restaurant dive would keep his job with an attendance record as poor as that.

The offenses against American values committed by Barack Obama have piled up in the 11 plus months since the US government has been under the Bolshevik Captivity.

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  Obama has piled up more debt that the previous 43 Presidents combined!
  
  
  

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  Obama has appointed  militant gay activist Kevin Jennings to be the Department of Education’s director of the Office of Safe and Drug Free Schools, i.e., the “Safe Schools CZAR.”   According to a Wall Street Journal blog article:
  
  
  

Early in his teaching career, Jennings encouraged a teenager who was in a homosexual relationship with an older man. If the boy was underage, as Jennings claimed in a 2000 speech, then Jennings may have violated the law by not reporting statutory rape to authorities. He has since admitted he should have “handled this situation differently” but has also altered the story, now claiming the boy was sixteen, i.e. of legal, consenting age. Surprise, surprise, the boy has come forward to the leftist Media Matters, saying he was sixteen at the time. But actually, the relevant state law requires reporting of sexual activity between an adult and any child less than eighteen years of age.

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  According to WOR radio blogger Steve Malzberg, Anita Dunn, the White House Communications Director, and Ron Bloom the Manufacturing Czar under Barack Obama have both had audio uncovered where they praise the "theology/philosophy" of Mao Zedong, Communist leader and the man responsible for the murder of 70 million people.
  
  
  

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  Obama appointed Tim Geithner, tax cheat, as the Secretary of the Treasury.  This is the guy who's going to come down hard on you to pay the confiscatory taxes that will surely result as a result of Obama's reckless spending.
  
  
  

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  Never mind that "Reidbamalosi" Health Care Plan is NOT wanted by the American people. But the American Mugabe is determined to seize one sixth of the American economy.
  
  
  

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  Obama's Crap and Tax (Cap and Trade) is also unwanted by the American people.  If it passes get ready to pay confiscatory taxes to pay for economic development of the Third World.
  
  
  

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  Obama's radical notions of wealth redistribution reflect an Afro-Leninist approach to destroying capitalism.  Check out his "discussion" with "Joe the Plumber" courtesy of You Tube!
  
  
  
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  Obama's seeming tolerence of Marxists like Daniel Ortega and Hugo Chavez is troubling.
  
  
  

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  Obama's diplomatic faux pas like bowing and shaking the hand of the Emperor of Japan, bowing like a subservient vassal to the Saudi Arabian King, and snubbing the King of Norway's lunch invitation today shows what an incompetent boob Obama truly is with regard to foreign policy.
  
  
  

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  Obama has openly circumvented the Constitutionally mandated oversight function by Congress over the appointment of Executive Branch heads by appointment of unvetted political appointments--Czars--to carry-out the radical Obama Marxist agenda. "POLITICO has compiled a wide-ranging list of President Barack Obama's various "czars."  When you read POLITICO's Czar list and you'll be shocked as you find that there is a "Great Lakes Czar" and a "Central Region Czar." WTF are these Czars in charge of?!?!  Obama's campaign promise of government transparency is illusional because political appointments like these are not subject to the scrutiny of Congressional oversight. There's no light of day shinning on Obama's shadow government.
  
  
  

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Our environmentAL problem

Ever notice how many villians, crooks, and ne'er do wells seem to be named "Al"?  Gangster Al Capone, Al Qaeda, shoe salesman Al Bundy, Senator Al Franken, propaganda mill Al Jazzeera,  the Reverend Al Sharpton, Deadwood's Al Swearengen, and Weird Al Yankovic are just a few of the more questionable persons, places and things named "Al" that have caused or are causing pestilence, disease, famine, crime, poverty, and outright poor taste.  You can be certain that the Four Horseman of the Apocalypse were probably led by a guy named Al.

The latest miscreant named Al that is causing havoc is the corpulent eco-flim flam man Al Gore.  Now he really hates carbon!   But never mind that his family greatly benefitted from investments and other associations with Occidental Petroleum (liquid  carbon) before the family's Occidental stock was sold in 2003.  Most media stories and more accurately the non-stories on the subject clean-up and minimize Gore's contradictory life and continue to tout Gore's pseudo-science of global warming/climate change.

Since his failed bid for the Presidency, Gore has reinvented himself as an environmental entrepreneur [sic].  Gore's net worth went from $800,000 in 2001 to $100,000,000 in 2009.  That's a pretty good prosperity run for a man with little or no marketable job skills or intellect.  And it's not bad for a guy that dropped out of law school and divinity school.  Although with his tremendous ability to produce verbal and written bovine by-products, Gore might have made an excellent religious flim-flam man in the mold of a Jim Bakker.  He certainly preaches like an eco-Elmer Gantry, who had plenty of skeletons to hide like the Sinclair Lewis character.   The pseudo-religious paradigm also rings true for those like Michael Crichton that have criticized environmentalism as a faux religion of Gore's acolytes.

But that's not what is most annoying about Al Gore. He takes credit for things that he does not truly deserve.  He reminds one of the office weasel at work that steals everybody's ideas and takes full credit for them.  Usually there's an enabler like an idiot boss that condones the office weasel's behavior.  In Gore's case it is the Lame Stream Media that is in loco bulla, giving Gore sufficent cover to inject his eco-Nazi enemas into the enviromental debate.  These enemas result in little more than scientific flatulence as the recent Climategate scandal shows. 

The issue has become a strictly monetary one with huge Carbon Credit profits looming for greedy Leftist eco-plutocrats with Cap and Trade legislation and higher taxes for the average joe; it's hard to separate true scientific inquiry from the pseudo-science being shilled by Gore and others.  The thing that tends to indicate that global warming/climate change is not a perilous threat as presumed, is that it is being treated with a public relations approach instead of coordinated action by government, business, and the scientific community.  Coordinated action was taken in the past to meet major crises like the Depression, World War II, and until 2006, the War on Terror, er, I mean "man-made disasters."

Instead there are slick Public Service Announcements about global warming/climate change with diverse characters like Newt Gingrich and Nancy Pelosi making nice and showing their concern for the environment.  As an aside, Gingrich is no stranger to environmental advocacy.   Part of this propagnda campaign include references in TV programs to environmental issues.  These references  are about as subtle as the old "buy popcorn" subliminal messages allegedly inserted in  movies.  Kids get shows like Captain Planet to help with the indoctrination of future voters.  Gore's "docufiction" is part of that indoctrination campaign.  

If Gore were an honorable man (not likely) he would return the Nobel Prize and the Academy Award that he "won" for that mendacious fraud of a film, An Inconvenient Truth, probably the most ironically named film ever.  But when has a Leftist ever admitted wrongdoing?  The Academy Awards and the Nobel Prize have become forums for rewarding political and ideological correctness and have little to do true with merit let alone artistic merit or humanitarian deeds.  Despite an adjudicated finding of nine major errors in the docu-fictional film, An Inconvenient Truth; the die hard true believers and environmental Kool-Aid drinkers insist that the docu-fictional film's "findings" remain basically true.  Ayn Rand put it best when she wrote in her 1971 book Return of the Primative at page 277:

[O]bserve that in all the propaganda of the ecologists—amidst all their appeals to nature and pleas for "harmony with nature"—there is no discussion of man's needs and the requirements of his survival. Man is treated as if he were an unnatural phenomenon. Man cannot survive in the kind of state of nature that the ecologists envision—i.e., on the level of sea urchins or polar bears. . .


In order to survive, man has to discover and produce everything he needs, which means that he has to alter his background and adapt it to his needs. Nature has not equipped him for adapting himself to his background in the manner of animals. From the most primitive cultures to the most advanced civilizations, man has had to manufacture things; his well-being depends on his success at production. The lowest human tribe cannot survive without that alleged source of pollution: fire. It is not merely symbolic that fire was the property of the gods which Prometheus brought to man. The ecologists are the new vultures swarming to extinguish that fire.

The Plutocrats of the Left are the new vultures swarming to destroy the American economy with their "Cap and Trade" legislation.   Most of us regular Joes would call it "Crap and Tax" legislation because the it'll be the regular people that will get crapped on and be taxed heavily for the privileged elites.