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The Power of One...

For those that think that they can have no impact on those around them take a gander at these recent news items.

News Item: 1 

A major freeway was shut down for about eight hours Tuesday morning as officers negotiated with a suicidal woman sitting on a freeway overpass, which backed up traffic for miles and created a nightmare for commuters. The woman was taken into custody shortly before 10 a.m. and the lanes were reopened.--Debbi Baker, San Diego Union-Tribune Staff Writer

From 1:30 a.m. until 10:00 a.m., a city was brought to a standstill by a suicidal woman. Every freeway artery was clogged and adjacent surface streets became busy.

News Item 2:

After threatening suicide, a woman slipped and fell off the Lemon Grove Avenue bridge over state Route 94 about 3:30 p.m. yesterday [NN: October 29,2009].  Traffic had been stopped on the busy freeway for about two hours as officials tried to talk her down.  Last week, another distraught woman on an Interstate 5 overpass near Balboa Park created a major traffic tie-up for thousands of San Diego commuters during the morning rush hour. After more than seven hours Oct. 20, the woman voluntarily came down from the bridge.--Breaking News Team,  San Diego Union-Tribune

Far too often, people say, "I want to make a difference."  When what they really mean is that I want to be "famous."  In the case of the two suicidal women they got their several hours of fame. 

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Why I Despise Leftists...

Freedom is not free. Free men are not equal and equal men are not free--sign-off for the 1960s radio show The Voice of Americanism.

For those of you that wonder why I despise leftists, I offer the following tidbits. The Obama administration will first offer H1N1 vaccines to Gitmo detainees.  While long lines of Americans wait for limited supplies of the vaccine for their children, the human chancres at Gitmo are given first preference over citizens of the United States. To quote a Gitmo spokesmouth:

 "JTF Guantanamo conducts safe, humane, legal and transparent care and custody of detainees. As such, we must provide detainees the medical care necessary to maintain their health." CNN.com

Under pressure from  loony left, these murderers and thugs are treated better than the children that the Leftists claim to love and want to protect so much. (Ignore the fact that they are all for the murder of children in the womb.) But that's only one example of leftist radical stupidity.

In California there is a Stage 3 water emergency.  While it partially due to a lack of rain, the primary reason for the water shortage is a court ordered reduction in water delivered to municipal water districts because of a court protective order for the Delta Smelt, Delta Smelt fish are preyed upon by larger fish, especially striped bass and largemouth bass which are invasive species in the Sacramento Delta.  Well, something "smelt" pretty bad when a fish comes before food production by farmers in California's Central Valley.  State Water Contractors sued in March 2009 claiming that the United States Department of the Interior and the United States Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS), challenging regulatory restrictions placed on the state's water operations.

Long ago Herman Kahn warned of the dangers of the radical environmentalist movement.  And we've seen the results of radical leftist environmentalist meddling.  While the Chinese move to drill for oil in US territory, the Obama administration and their cohorts in the Democrat-controlled Congress are standing in the way of drilling for badly needed oil.

We've essentially stopped building nuclear power plants because of a movie, The China Syndrome. Twelve days after its release the incident at Three Mile Island happened. Coincidence?  Maybe or maybe not, but it seems strange that the movie came out right before the the incident and made a lot of money.  Propaganda that pays is the hallmark of modern Leftist propaganda especially in the Hollywood Lefist community.  Most of the plum roles and work go to Hollywood lefties like George Clooney, Brad Pitt, and Tom Hanks.  Political correctness has its benefits.  

 In January of 1969, Union Oil's Platform A blew up and spilled 80,000 to 100,000 barrels of crude oil onto the shores of Santa Barbara County in California.  Since then there are no more offshore platforms within view of the beach homes of many wealthy liberal elitists. Coincidence?

This brings me to my favorite topic--bashing the flawed philosophy of socialism.  My problem with socialism is that it tries to turn men and women into equal, mediocre worker bees.  Meanwhile, the elitists, i.e., those with Ivy League degrees and the old line plutocrats will run things because you the average citizen doesn't understand how things work.  They will call you teabaggers, absolutists, or extremists when they're being polite.  You'll find the Marxist Neanderthals of the Democrat (sic) party plying their irrational intellectual vomit in the hate-filled Daily Kos, which is not exactly a repository of moderate thinking (sic).  But that is the base of the Democrat Party. Village idiot-in-training, Joe Biden said, "This has never been a place that has embraced extremism on the left or the right."  Right you are Joe, except that two of Obama's Czars have recently quoted noted philosopher and über humanitarian Mao Zedong. If you really want to get a picture of what life would be like under a liberal plutocracy/technocracy read Brave New World. If you want to know what life in America will "perfect" into after eight years of the Obama Captivity just look at the mess Robert Mugabe has made of Zimbabwe. 

It turns my stomach to know that it can happen here and is happening now.

The Carter Legacy--Incompetence and Reckless Remarks

Jimmy Carter has got be the most verbally reckless ex-President that we have ever had. In an interview with Brian Williams of NBC, Carter self-righteously stated: “an overwhelming portion of the intensely demonstrated animosity toward President Barack Obama is based on the fact that he is a black man, that he's African-American” and “that African-Americans are not qualified to lead this great country. It's an abominable circumstance and grieves me and concerns me very deeply.”  Hmm, I think that this is a case of one projecting his past hidden attitudes onto others.  We do know that Carter is an anti-semite.

Carter was born in the old South of the Confederacy as was I. The attitude that he now seeks to project onto others was a very common one when he and I were coming up. Perhaps Carter is working out some unresolved guilt about having used the "N" word as a youth in Georgia.  Growing up Latino in Texas, I heard the "N" word as often as I heard the terms "taco bender," "greaser," and "spic." The latter terms of endearment were directed at me by young Anglo boys sometimes during sandlot games and later when I was in competition with them for young ladies.

My point is that coming out of that time and that place, it was extremely rare that an Anglo like Carter never made disparaging remarks about any minority group. And often, others from his time and place joined the KKK like Senator Robert (Grand Kleagle) Byrd did in his youth. (Some reformed bigots now claim that political reality was their "real reason" for joining the Klan.)

Now Carter self-righteously thumps his chest and calls everyone that disagrees with Obama racist. Carter harping about race is like a reformed hooker harping about the joys of chastity--or in my case harping about the evils of cigarettes.  Hmm, Obama is a smoker. Does that make me a racist because I don't smoke?

If anybody is racist, it's Liberals like Carter that constantly harp about race or call any Black person that doesn't sign on to the Liberal-Fascist agenda an Uncle Tom!  I don't object to Obama being black and President.  I object to Obama, the man and his ideas, as President. There I said it.

Destestable, Deplorable, Disgusting, Disreputable, and Downright Dirty!

Your Tax Dollars at Work...

Look at this video clip and you'll easily see why the Democrook controlled Congress has such low approval ratings. After viewing this YouTube gem it's no wonder that Obama seeks legislation to control the Internet and talk radio. These so-called Solons are little more that greedy, overpaid, egotistical windbags. Yet they've given themselves yet another raise in the form of an extra $93,000 in "petty cash" to spend as an office expens. Meanwhile, they have the audacity of a dope to tell private corporations to limit their bonuses and cut down on perquisites, i.e., perks, and Gulfstream jets. Just recently, their attempt to buy several Gulfstream jets for Congressional [mis]use thwarted by the alternative media talk radio, the Internet, the cable news networks. A Mandarin by any other name is detestable.

Wah, Wah, Wah! Democrats cry crocodile tears.

Hypocrisy is nothing new or unique to Washington D.C.  However, the Democrat furor over Joe Wilson's (R-SC) outburst during Obama's health care address before a joint session of Congress would be laughable if it were not so pathetic.  Wilson accurately called Obama a liar. So what!? The Democrats think that no one  remembers the boos that greeted George Bush when he said that Social Security would be broke by 2042 in his 2005 State of the Union address.

After eight years of listening to political ridglings like Sen. Harry Reid call George Bush "a loser" and a "liar" in front of school children, Democrats have little or no credibility with regard to decorum.  The unity that happened following 9/11 lasted about two weeks until the Democrats reverted to their usual douche bag ways critcizing Bush's lack of action regarding Afghanistan.  After Bush attacked Afghanistan the Democrats attacked him for doing that.

All Joe Wilson did was to tell the truth that Obama is lying about illegal aliens not being eligible for ObamaCare.  It's in at least one of the draft health care bills floating around. Of course it's a poorly kept secret that illegal aliens are a big part of the Democrat voter base. So when the health care rationing begins; watch old people be denied coverage while erstwhile non-citizen voters receive health care.  The race card is being played by the Democrats with the assertion that any disagreement with Obama is racist.    Democrats are deplorable.

Is this thing on?  (tap...tap)

Disgusting doesn't quite cover it with regard to California Assemblyman Mike Duvall's (Yorba Linda - R) antics.  A married man, whose  sexually explicit remarks about his sexual conquests were inadvertently broadcast over an open microphone has abruptly resigned from office. Legislative leaders stripped him of his committee posts and launched an ethics probe of his actions.  The only redeeming thing that he did was to resign, were it a Democrat that had done the disgusting deed it would have been a resume enhancement for most Democrats that are morally inert.  Not only was the bragging ungentlemanly, especially since it may have been untrue with regard to the female lobbyist, but it was simply crude, lewd, and disgusting.

Keith Olbermann is the Worst Liberal-Fascist Person in the World

The worst Liberal-Fascist person in the world is spreading more "journalistic" (sic) manure by calling for anyone in his audience of 500 basement dwellers to get "dirt" on Glenn Beck.  Beck is the squawk radio guy that almost single handedly got Commie racist Czar, Van Jones to resign.  Apparently the resignation of Van Jones, self described Communist and overt racist has rankled the feelings of the often idiotic leftist Olbermann.  Olbermann, with his track record of stupid remarks and even stupider actions is a non-credible critic of anyone.  But seeking to please his neo-com masters, the MSNBC leftist toadie is going on a McCarthyite witchhunt of Glenn Beck.  (And I thought a Liberal would never be against anyone exercising their First Amendment Rights!)  Well sieg heil baby, Olbermann is just acting out his Nazi tendencies. 

He's also an ungentlemanly dipstick that frequently disses Laura Ingraham; a woman that he dated briefly in the 1990s. (Wottsa matter, Keithy baby?  Too smart of a woman for you? Did she turn your amorous advances down?)  Typical of most Liberal males he's analogous to a gelding or at best a ridgling with the inability to cope with strong smart women like Ann Coulter, Sarah Palin, or Laura Ingraham.


Olbermann will be looking for fresh new dirt since it is common knowledge that Beck was once a substance abuser, but that's really old news.  Olberdork, as he is affectionately known by Conservatives, seeks to take the political dialogue a notch lower, by engaging in the Liberal Fascist game of the politics of personal distruction.  Liberal Fascists can't win the battle of ideas--ever.

This would be the lowest that a Liberal has ever sunk since the 1960 West Virginia primary when then-JFK surrogate FDR, Jr., suggested that the noble Hubert H. Humphrey was a draft dodger.  It was a devasting charge against Humphrey.  Of course by 1992,  draft dodging was a resume enhancement for Bill "I loath the military but I didn't inhale" Clinton. Olbermann's tact has taken not in vigorous argument against an opponent, but instead is the eradication of political opponents.  By displaying his Liberal Fascist Soviet-like urge to purge; Olbermann is disreputible.
 

R U ready 4 scum football? 

 The NFL has begun it's season and like all entertainment enterprises has now entered the world of tabloid journalism. The dust up between Shawne Merriman and reality show diva, Tila [Nyguen] Tequila has made national headlines.  Briefly, Merriman was arrested by San Diego Sheriffs Deputies on a citizen's arrest warrant by Nyguen alleging battery and false imprisonment.  Merriman denies the charges and claims he was trying to prevent an intoxicated Tequila from driving away from his Poway, California home.  The San Diego County DA  declined to file charges against Merriman citing insufficient evidence.  Nyguen has indicated that she will pursue civil charges against Merriman.  TMZ has exclusive fotos showing brusing on Ms Nyguen's arms, which may prompt an out of court settlement.  Both parties deserve each other and definitely qualify as downright dirty.

Short Takes: Michael Moore, Van Jones, B. H. Obama, and Michael Savage

OLD NEWS FLASH: Fat Cat Moore declares Capitalism to be “Evil”!  Yawn, Ho Hum.

The latest Michael Moore movie, "Capitalism: A Love Story," premiered at the Venice film festival Sunday. The movie's theme is that capitalism benefits the rich and condemns millions to poverty. Moore was quoted in a Reuters news story about the upcoming propamentary as saying:

Democracy is not a spectator sport, it's a participatory event," he told a news conference. "If we don't participate in it, it ceases to be a democracy. So Obama will rise or fall based not so much on what he does but on what we do to support him.

Moore though has done quite well for himself by capitalism according to the 2005 book Do as I Say (Not As I Do): Profiles in Liberal Hypocrisy by Peter Schweizer. At one point, Moore and his wife’s foundation held more than $280,000 in corporate stock and nearly $100,000 in corporate bonds.

According to Schweizer, Moore has also at various times owned stock in Big Pharma, Big Oil, and yes, even the evil Halliburton. One might say Moore in his own way has been an enabler for big bad capitalism. The better word is hypocrite. By the way, have you noticed that foundations are the last refuge of scoundrels or Liberal plutocrats like Warren Buffett? The common thread among many of these super wealthy indivduals is to have the government tax you even more. Despite the super wealth of many of these Liberal moral paragons, most are only philanthropists with other people's money.

Van Jones--Adios!

The resignation of "Green Czar" Van Jones, on Saturday is a welcome departure. Given the man's public statements which were overtly racist at best and downright nutty at worst, we should applaud the fact that precious tax dollars will no longer fund this fountain of hate speech. But Jones is the product of a system that bends over backwards to extend hyper-free speech rights to leftist radicals.

In nearly every American university, there are ethnic, racial, and women's studies departments that are often run and staffed by non-academically trained community activists or ex-militant group members. These so-called "professors" spread hate and discontent without providing a meaningful academic experience. In the early 1970s, one Chicano Studies class at a California State Univerisity that I attended was a campus joke because the course was a guaranteed easy "A" with little or no work required. (Those were your tax dollars "hard" at work folks.)

But these academic abuses are not limited to marginal academic departments alone.  In one class, my poetry professor called Sarah Palin "white trash" shortly after pontificating for ten minutes about the racism visited against Gypsies.  Another professor in the Telecommunications department at the same school described George Bush and Dick Cheney as "Nazi #1 and Nazi #2" during a lecture on recording techniques. The professor made the comment during a discussion of open microphones and potentially embarrassing situations that could happen. The "teachable moment" concerned the incident during the 2000 Presidential Election in which unflattering comments by Bush and Cheney about a New York Times reporter were overheard via open microphone by the crowd.

Personally, I've had grades lowered in a several of my college classes because my political viewpoint differed greatly from the Leftist professor.  (You'd think that I'd have learned to write like a Marxist drone to get a better grade in order to get into a bigtime Ivy League Law School.) Most of these abuses of power occurred even though I was doing "A" work at the time.  The bottom line is that students are often academically bludgeoned into Leftist viewpoints.  Universities often simulate an ultra-modern chic Chi-Com reeducation camp with the warmth of Soviet gulag.

If there was ever a need for a "Fairness Doctrine" it's in the universities and colleges in the United States.

Television Show Fall Preview: The "Barry O" Cult of Personality Show!

 

The "Barry O Show" debuts tomorrow at a Teacher's Union infested school near you.  Despite the protests from parents across the nation the show will go on.  The content of Barry O's Show is no longer in dispute since the "Kids Help Obama!" lesson plan from the US Department of Education was eliminated. (Hmm, since when does the Federal Government" provide lesson plan content for local screwells)?  The only problem will be Obama apparatchiks disguised as teachers providing the color commentary on Barry O speech.  They're likely to spout the party line for Barry O and cultivate Obama's cult of personality. The picture to the left depicts children thanking Stalin for a great childhood.  Sound Familiar?

Savage is Still on British PNG list! Why won't the US Department of State stand by a US Citizen?

The biggest mystery to date is why Michael Savage remains on the UK persona non grata list populated by murderers, thugs, and bigots.  While Savage is outspoken who isn't these days?  Some third grade teachers are rabid advocates for Obama and will often resort to physical violence when their rhetoric fails them (and it often does because most of them are not smarter than a 5th grader).

It's already been revealed via British government e-mails stating that Savage was put on the list to counterbalance the disporportionate representation of Muslims on the list.  Even though Home Secretary Jacqui Smith resigned based upon her incompetence and malevolence in putting Savage on the list, Savage is still battling to be removed from it.  A good guess is that the the Obama Administration via some State Department apparatchik is involved in this one.  This is also probably why the State Department has done little or nothing. The inclusion of Savage on this list is stupid. Take a look at the list and see if Savage belongs there.  Only an mentally ill idiot that believes that the Daily Kos is an example of rational and truthful thinking would agree with the list.

  

Hungry for Change—Obama and His Mollycoddled Brown Shirt Thugs & Crooks

By now most of you have probably seen or heard on the news about 65 year old William Rice of Newbury Park, California whose finger was bitten off by an apparent ObamaCare supporter. Rice was with a small group of counter-protesters against a Wednesday night demonstration in favor of ObamaCare that was apparently coordinated by Moveon.org. Rice had gotten involved in a heated discussion with a member of the anti-war group Code Pink, according to Capt. Ross Bonfiglio; the Sheriff’s department spokes mouth. (And you thought that Code Pink only cared about the Iraq War. But hey, protest work is still work and one has to eat. This is especially true when you have no real marketable jobs skills other than being a part of a rent-a-thug cabal.)

After the argument, Rice returned to where his group was standing. A less than coherent witness to the ensuing mayhem was interviewed on September 4th edition of the Chip Franklin morning drive time radio talk show in San Diego. Franklin's assessment of the erstwhile bystander's shaky demeanor and incident description is mostly spot-on. But according to the newspaper account of the story, the fact still remains than an unidentified man walked from Moveon.org’s area toward the ObamaCare opponents and verbally confronted Rice, allegedly calling him names and acting aggressively. (No big deal. That’s just the typical irrational Liberal debating behavior and rhetorical style.) But when the Liberal Fascist head case and thug probably couldn’t make a rational argument in favor of ObamaCare, he bit Rice’s finger off. The above-mentioned witness found the bitten-off finger or rather, as Franklin would put it, "got the finger."

Most any lawyer with little or no legal research would tell you that even if Rice’s assailant asserts the legal justification of self-defense he still probably overreacted to any provocation by Rice. The general criminal law allows for the use of necessary and proportionate, non-deadly force in self-defense anytime the victim reasonably believes that unlawful force is about to be used on him. Absent a showing of aggressive or deadly force being employed by the 65 year old Rice, the perpetrator was the overbiting aggressor.

Bonfiglio said Doctors were unable to reattach Rice’s finger. One of Franklin's staff quipped, "I guess he [the perpetrator] was hungry for change." Funny line, but seriously folks the police are still looking for the perpetrator. According to above-cited the news story, the authorities do not consider the man a criminal suspect and were not looking to arrest him! According to the Sheriff's spokes mouth, “We want him to come forward so we can talk to him. We want to hear his side...” Well now, that's political ecumenity and a very understanding law enforcement protocol.

Meanwhile Black Conservative Kenneth Gladney, who was the victim of an assault by Pro ObamaCare SEIU thugs outside a health care town hall meeting in St. Louis on August 6 is all but forgotten by the Lame Stream Media. So where’s the media outrage for a crime against a Conservative Black man? Little or none so far. But the arrest for disorderly conduct of Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates received huge media coverage including the old standby spin of possible racial profiling by a big bad white cop. (One almost expected Kanye West to proclaim that, "Crowley hates Black people!")

Despite the fact Professor Gates was treated with great civility and superhuman restraint by the arresting officer, Cambridge Police Sgt. James Crowley, the media raved on about racial injustice and profiling. This stagey, vile attempt at playing the race card was contrasted by the exemplary conduct of Sgt. Crowley in the aftermath. But the criminal charges against the noisy, rude, and disrespectful Professor Gates were naturally dropped. Without the privilege of being a celebrity Black Professor many of the rest of us probably would have quietly pleaded guilty and paid our fine.

But really folks, who besides a Liberal in trouble with the law ever gets such kid glove treatment? In some cases it may be a matter of professional courtesy among political crooks. For example, tax cheat of the month and House Ways and Means Committee Chair, Charlie "Tax 'em More" Rangel has escaped all IRS penalties and interest after failing to pay federal taxes on income from Caribbean resort rentals over a 10 year period. For the time being, Rangel need not give up his chairmanship or resign by the edict of House Speaker Pelosi. By the way, Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner, who also is ultimately responsible for IRS is himself a tax cheat.

The "teachable moment" here in ObamaSpeak seems to be that anyone that commits violence or any crime in the furtherence of the Liberal agenda will be entitled to a generous benefit of the doubt. In other words there are two standards of justice in the Amerika of Obama--a lenient one for Liberals and a harsh one for anyone to the right of the revered Hubert H. Humphrey (perhaps the last really good and decent Liberal).

Looking at the Kenneth Gladney and William Rice cases, it is becoming increasingly clear that Liberal thugs may have an implied license to brutalize dissenters without regard to their First Amendment rights. Gitmo detainees were never treated this badly.