Russia regains #1 ranking in agitprop tourney

Pro-Kremlin video portrays Ukraine invading Russia

Russia has once again taken the #1 ranking in the international agitation and propaganda tournament.  After years of mediocre performance in the field, Russia has regained the glory of the Soviet years.  The temporary fall of the Soviet Union was a serious blow to the Russian agitprop program.  The inventor of the modern form of agitprop was hit hard by democratic reforms in the Yeltsin era.  Tass, Pravda and Izvestia, once world leaders in the field, lost focus; distracted by their new-found freedoms. 

With the fall of the Russian agitprop dynasty, the playing field was leveled.  New faces seemed to come to the fore every year.  Baghdad Bob and his team of young Iraqi talent and CNN veterans made good showings in the 1990 and '91 tourneys.  And who can forget their Cinderella win in the 2003 season?  So many highlights from that year. 

"They're not even [within] 100 miles [of Baghdad]. They are not in any place. They hold no place in Iraq. This is an illusion ... they are trying to sell to the others an illusion."

"God will roast their stomachs in hell at the hands of Iraqis."

This is the stuff of which champions are made.

With no historically strong programs competing in the late 90's, every year seemed to produce a new contender.  The Hamas-Pallywood team performed well; especially among Western audiences.  Hugo Chavez had his moments of fame as did the Kim Dynasty in the DPRK.  

Coming into the new century brought new players into the spotlight.   Capitalizing on the momentum of the Democratic National Committee's 2000 vote fraud triumph, Al Gore went on to his own victory with his global warming squad.  A well-balanced team of climate hucksters, Hollywood liberals and the Nobel Prize committee brought Algore the accomplishment that no amount of dimpled chads ever could.  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his swarthy band of Photoshopping imams were surprise winners following Algore. 

Then, out of the chaos, came a new agitprop powerhouse; the American Mainstream Media.  The MSM established itself with brash campaigns such as "No Blood For Oil", "Bush Lied, People Died" and Bush Caused Global Warming to Kill All the Blacks In New Orleans."  The American MSM quickly racked up nine straight wins.  Talk around the water cooler was that the American Mainstream Media was the next great agitprop dynasty.  While they looked strong, Russia was quietly developing plans to knock them off.

Under GM/CEO/Godfather/President-For-Life Vladimir Putin and Coach Viktor Bolshytskaya, the Russian team has been training hard.  They knew it wouldn't be easy, but they saw that victory was in their grasp.  In a recent interview, Bolshytskaya discussed how Russia returned to power.

"Amerikansky Mainstream Media was once strong, but now allied with weak, lame duck leader.  This where Russia win.  Russian leader strong-like bear.  Fight tiger and kill moose-bare hands only.  President for life with bare chest virility and loins filled machismo.  Not crippled duck in mom jeans."

Bolshytskaya added this about Russia's stunning return to the top of the rankings

"Winning no problem.  Like stealing vodka from slow children.  Mom Jeans say red line.  Putin make number 2 on red line.....and on Mom Jeans shoes." 

Will the Russians stay on top?  Is this the start of the new dynasty?  Only time will tell, but with their current performance you have to think that they are back to stay. 

We are waiting for your apology

Lois Lerner sent privileged tax info to Cummings

I guess Elijah Cummings, the Democrat party and all the race baiting parrots in the mainstream media owe Derrell Issa a f*cking apology right now. Cummings lied, Lerner lied and if they weren't so busy obstructing justice we would have evidence that Obama lied about this just as he lied about Obamacare, Benghazi, Fast and Furious, Solyndra, GM, the Stimulus, and every other damn thing that has come out of his pie hole over the last five years. It is time for impeachment proceedings.

Update: Elijah faces up to 5 years in federal pound me in the ass prison

Safegaurding our borders

 Nigella Lawson denied entry to the United States

God forbid we allow a television personality who occasionally snorts a little coke to enter the country.  We don't need people like that coming to our country.  After all, we already have Tony Bourdain.

I wouldn't be outraged by this if the CBP/Border Patrol had stopped the massive flow of illegal immigrants into this country.  If we had solved THAT problem maybe we could, with good conscience, focus on the lawful traveler with some moral blemishes in their past.  But we don't.  We give lip service to protecting our borders while harassing the friggin' British equivalent of Martha Stewart.

This is what a bloated bureaucracy does.  It is completely incapable of confronting real problems but is perfectly suited to harassing the law abiding citizens just trying to go about their lives without having the hand of government around their neck.  The 'shoe bomber', the 'panty bomber', the Boston marathon bombers all got on planes to the United States with no problem.  Hell, the government even got advanced warning for the panty bomber and the Tsarnaev brothers, but did nothing to keep them from coming to America.  Tons of drugs and hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants-many of them dangerous criminals-stream across our border every year and the head of DHS tells us that the the border has never been more secure.  And even after capturing dangerous criminal aliens the DHS just releases them back into the population rather than deporting them.

Bureaucratic inertia, political correctness and the wrong-headed policies of an incompetent, liberal administration all create an environment where the DHS is unable to identify and act on on real threats; however, like all giant bureaucracies, it is more than capable of inflicting an insufferable regulatory stranglehold on the average citizen.  Bureaucracies are great at regulating the life and vitality out of any population.  They work great at making the law-abiding, compliant citizenship follow the rules.  They are highly effective at surviving and expanding.  Got a real problem?  Look elsewhere for your answer.

Popular stereotypes of right-wing groups are badly flawed.......shocker!

 German academics and Leftist Israeli newspaper shocked to find that Right-wing extremists not responsible for most anti-Semitic hate mail 

Photo credit: Zombie @ http://zombietime.com/

That right-wing extremists are not the source of the vast majority of anti-Semitic hate male is not the story.  What should be noted is the shock of the academics that it is other academics, lawyers, university students and those in the social mainstream who are the most common spewers of anti-Semitic hatred.  The Left has created a stereotype that couples conservative, right-wing ideology and organizations with Naziism.

The Left never wants to engage in logical debate.  They cannot win in any contest of fact and logic.  So instead of honestly arguing their position they attack the character of their opponent.  The Left has resorted to this tactic so many times, their description of the Right has become nothing but a hollow stereotype.  These stereotypes have become so pervasive they are now accepted as simple, undeniable truth by the Left.

We see with this story the shock and dismay of these researchers when they discover that it is their own community that is behind the anti-Semitic hatred.  Any conservative could have told you this long ago.  We have seen the disturbing rise of antisemitism in the Left going back to the 80's.  Universities are awash in antisemitic vitriol.    But these academics were blind to it.  They have been surrounded by anti-Semites for decades but could not lift their ideological blinders and see what is going on around them.  That is not surprising.  The Left is remarkable in its willingness to submit to groupthink.  The Left never lets little things like fact and common sense distract it from its ultimate objective.

Another little peak into dark soul of the Left.  Oh, don't expect to see this reported in the mainstream media.  It doesn't fit their narrative.  Republicans are racists!  War on women!   Bush = Hitler!!!!

Ya' think?

A little slow at drawing this painfully obvious conclusion.

Increased domestic spending behind massive proposed defense cuts

ObamaCare ain't nothin' but a bad trip

Obama Care heroin stash seized by Mass. State Police

Well, I read through the story a couple of times and there was obviously some information missing.  The people taken into custody were not identified.  I have to ask; were they employees of the Department of Health and Human Services?  Was Kathleen Sebelius one of those arrested?  I mean, seriously; getting everybody hooked on smack is the only way ObamaCare (I won't call that the PPACA, because every word of that title is a lie) could possibly work.  The only way the Administration could make Americans forget about how badly they are getting screwed by ObamaCare is to get them hooked on smack.  It would definitely get their minds off their soaring health care costs and losing the insurance coverage and doctors they preferred.  This could change the whole face of ObamaCare.  No more worries about jacked up websites, massive rate increases and unworkable mandates on insurance carriers.  All HHS has to do is set up public shooting galleries and needle exchanges around the country.  That shouldn't be difficult.  There are plenty of recently shuttered businesses throughout the country that could be used for this purpose.  Getting the drugs will probably be cheaper than the cost of the ObamaCare program.  The Obama Administration would likely be able to get discount rates from the Mexican cartels.  After all, they have worked together before, so there should be some sort of customer loyalty program.

A&E takes a principled stand for and against intolerance and making money

Cowardice, hypocrisy and really, really poor business sense.

A&E really had this one planned out well.  They decided to air a show featuring the Robertson family.  The Robertsons are devout evangelical Christians who are fearless in discussing their beliefs.  It was not unexpected that the liberal outrage machine would eventually find something said by some member of the family that would be used to attack their beliefs.  It was going to happen.  You knew it was going to happen.  Liberals cannot stand it when anybody promoting conservative values becomes too popular.  It was inevitable.  So why was A&E so completely unprepared for this?  This had to have been a giant miscalculation, right?.  No business could have handled something so inevitable this poorly. What was their response plan?  A&E immediately caved to complaints from a special interest group that represents maybe 2% of the population.  They indefinitely suspended Phil Robertson for openly and honestly discussing his Christian beliefs (an integral part of the DD show).  What he said was evidently so terrible and intolerant that A&E felt that they could no longer be associated with him.............

Image from Michelle Malkin

......yet they didn't cancel the shows that have featured Phil Robertson.  In fact, A&E is running Duck Dynasty marathons pretty much throughout the holiday season.  I guess that principled stand against intolerance doesn't apply to shows that were already paid for and have advertising already sold.  Hypocrisy much?

A&E's action has launched a firestorm of protest from supporters of the Robertson Family and the concept of free speech.  Just a little hint for A&E.....I think that the pro-Phil, pro-free speech demo is just a wee bit larger than the gays you tried to appease.  The boycott of A&E has begun and it will make the pro-Chick-fil-A action seem tiny in comparison.  Just one of the A&E boycott groups on FaceBook got 1.2 million followers in less than a day.  Good luck selling advertising now, A&E.  Your cowardice has killed the golden goose.

In summary: abandon the principles of freedom of speech upon which your very existence depends, piss off the fans of the most successful reality show on TV to appease a tiny demographic, piss off the tiny demographic with your blatant hypocrisy and lose lots and lots of money.  Good job, guys.

Hell has officially frozen over

Cairo was blanketed with a light dusting of global warming

Members of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood took time out from their campaign of terror against Coptic Christians to play in the first snowfall to hit Cairo in over 100 years.  They were shivering in their man-dresses as they frolicked in fluffy powder.  Several Brotherhood members joyously made snow angels in the fluffy white stuff, but they were quickly beheaded, because, you know, angels are haram.

Jerusalem was shut down by up to three feet of snow.  Israeli kids laced up their skates, grabbed their Michael Mann-autographed hockey sticks and headed out onto iced over streets for a little pond hockey.

Meanwhile, Palestinian youths didn't let the snowfall interfere with intifada preparations.  They kept their rock-throwing arms in shape by tossing snowballs at police.  The younger children cheerfully built Hamas suicide snowmen.  I wish this were a joke, but.....................

They're Palestinians.  What do you expect.

When an oath of office means nothing

Just a formality.......not an oath sworn before God.

Every government official swears an oath to uphold the Constitution of the United States when they take office.  The president of the United States does this and so do the city council members in Seattle.  All throughout our republic we demand that our elected leaders swear an oath to uphold the constitution.  That is what we expect of them, isn't it?  That they obey and support the supreme law of the land.

So I have more than a little bit of anger and disbelief when an avowed Marxist/socialist takes office and swears that oath to defend and uphold the Constitution of the United States.  Nobody who believes in the principles of Marxism can possibly uphold the Constitution of the United States.  The two are mutually incompatible.  You simply cannot get there from here.  Either you support the principles of individual liberty and limited government that are enshrined in the Constitution or you do not.  Marxism is the polar opposite of individual liberty and constrained, limited government.

If a Marxist swears an oath to uphold the Constitution of the United States, that person is lying.
Avowed Marxist, Socialist Alternative Party member and Seattle City Council Member (elect), Kshama Sawant, a will take the oath of office on January 1st, 2014.  Ms. Sawant will swear an oath to uphold the Constitution of the United States and the Charter of the City of Seattle.  I don't know about the Seattle city charter, but when she swears to uphold the Constitution of the United States she will be committing perjury.  She will be lying, under oath, to the citizens of Seattle.  This woman just called for Boeing, Amazon and Microsoft to be nationalized and the homes of Seattle's wealthy to be seized and given to the homeless.  This is not a minor difference in political philosophies or an issue of semantics.  This is a Marxist who has openly advocated actions that are unconstitutional.  How can she possibly swear an oath to uphold the Constitution of the United States? 


Does this sound like somebody who will support the Constitution of the United States?

Class envy, class warfare, collectivism, anti-business, anti-capitalism, class identity..........Marxism, pure and simple.

You're only fooling the ignorant

Is unrestrained portraiture spending the primary reason why we have $17T in debt?

Bi-partisan Senate bill introduced to crack down on lavish portrait expenditures

Politicians make a great public show of something that is so inconsequential even mentioning it is a waste of time and insults our intelligence.  And in the background they allow the government to go on it's merry way, spending trillions.  Wow, we're going to be responsible in our expenditures on portraits.  Thank you very frakking much.  Now why don't you go and repeal Obamacare?  The government spent hundreds of millions of dollars to create a fatally flawed web site that a business could have put into service for less than a tenth the cost.  You could buy a lot of portraits for that kind of scratch.  How about the $776B in Porkulus spending to satisfy the Keynesian fantasy of kick-starting the economy?  We're not getting that back and it did nothing to end the recession.  We are $17T in debt, have probably $100T in unfunded liabilities, have to borrow 40 cents on every dollar the federal government spends and are printing billions of dollars a year......and this is the only thing that gets bi-partisan support?

This is a cheap PR gesture to appeal to the low-information voters.  They'll see this and think that 'something is being done' to solve our federal spending problem.  Does this tactic actually work?  Are  American voters really this stupid?  Who the Hell am I kidding?  Of course they are.  Obama got elected twice, didn't he?  We are doomed.