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Category: Liberals suck

  • It’s called principles

    I noticed that we were getting some traffic from the Daily Kos and so I tracked back to this article about Kathryn “Kat” Gates-Skipper who was scheduled to speak at the Republican Convention next week. I had re-posted the link on Facebook last week to express derision. Of course, the Kos picked it up for political reasons;

    Daily Kos

    That last line confuses me; “Her Busting by Stolen Valor Warriors (who generally tend to support Trump, but draw the line at liars and valor thieves).” So, where do Democrats draw their line? Certainly not at “liars” or “valor thieves” otherwise, Elizabeth Warren, Hillary Clinton, John Kerry and Richard Blumethal would be out on their asses. Not to mention that Grayson fellow.

    Where is their line? Just past the part where they announce themselves to be Democrats? I just don’t like liars and thieves. Period. No politics to it. That’s why I don’t pay any attention to Newt Gingrich or Rush Limbaugh anymore. That’s why I turned in my Republican creds more than ten years ago.

    I guess I could ask Joe Lieberman where the Democrats draw their line. He’d know.

    By the way, I’m hearing from the Trump Campaign that Gates has been pulled from the line up because of my own whisper campaign.

  • The road to hell is paved with good intentions

    The road to hell is paved with good intentions

    In his rush to look like a good liberal, carpetbagger Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe restored voting rights to more than 200,000 felons, some of whom are still in prison. McAuliffe claimed that only felons who had completed their sentences and their parole would have their rights restored. However, the task seems to have been too complicated for his staff to accomplish according to the Virginian-Pilot;

    “This is obviously a massive administrative undertaking,” [McAuliffe’s spokesman, Brian Coy] said. “We are working constantly to refine the working administrative database that we’re using to implement this process. As we are made aware of ways we can refine it, we’re executing those refinements immediately.”

    The state corrected the errors Thursday after inquiries from The Post about why the civil rights of Cloud [a murdering child molester in West Virginia prison], Harmon Wright [a murdering cop who killed a Sunday school teacher] and several others were restored, according to a searchable database on the Secretary of Commonwealth website. Their rights were restored on April 22, the day McAuliffe signed the clemency order.

    State Del. Robert B. Bell, R-Albemarle, who is running for attorney general, said the errors confirmed the concerns voiced by critics.

    “This exceeds our worst fears,” Bell said. “He did not even comply with his own very, very modest restrictions. At least if you’re going to do it, do it right.”

    The glitch seemed to have happened with people who were convicted of their crimes committed in Virginia, but imprisoned in other States. But McAuliffe needed to restore voting rights in time for felons to cast their votes for Hillary Clinton, so what’s a few voting violent felons when the revolution is at stake?

    In addition to Cloud and Harmon-Wright, they discovered Cecil Leonard Hopkins, 51, who strangled his girlfriend and pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter. He is living in Maryland under supervised probation.

    Two others – Virgil J. Dantic, 77, and Frank P. Ferrara, 52 – are serving time in Virginia prisons for sex crimes, records show.

    “There’s going to be lots and lots more. That’s part of the problem with rushing this through,” [Jim Fisher, Fauquier commonwealth’s attorney] said.

    Is there room enough in that hand basket for all of us?

    Thanks to Mick for the link.

  • Gee. What A Surprise.

    I’m sure everyone is aware of the economically inane push by our “good friends” on the      Socialist      “Progressive” left to mandate a minimum wage that is higher than reality will support.  Something to do with “fairness” or “it should be a living wage” – or some other such similar bullsh!t.

    I guess they must have slept through Econ 101’s classes about supply and demand.  Or maybe they simply think that they can create new economic reality by legal fiat.

    Well, pretty much anyone with a clue predicted that the effort would be counterproductive – e.g., that it would either lead to layoffs from lost business (due to higher prices) or would lead to job loss through employers replacing human employees with machines.  The left either ignored the warning, or claimed it was bogus.

    Well, libidiots – read ‘em and weep:

    Wendy’s response to minimum wage hike:
    Replace staff with machines

    Wendy’s isn’t the only one.  Carl’s Jr. and Hardee’s are also considering doing likewise.  I’m guessing a bunch of others are too, but simply haven’t made that fact publicly known yet.

    Let me ‘splain it to ya, lefties:  some jobs simply aren’t worth $10+ an hour.  Flipping burgers and mopping floors are such jobs.

    Minimum wage jobs are not and never were designed to support a family.  They’re low wage positions that by design (1) require few skills, (2) can be done by most anyone who isn’t physically disabled or a moron, and (3) are intended to be part-time or entry-level positions.  Anyone who expects to support a family by working such a job, without some second source of income (either in cash or in kind – like SNAP or public housing assistance), is seriously deluded.

    The moral?  Be careful what you ask for, libidiots.  The law of unintended consequences always applies.

    And in this case, the unintended consequences were both predictable and obvious.

  • Liberal Logic: Self-Defense Contradicts Justice

    Liberal Logic: Self-Defense Contradicts Justice

    Let me preface this with an apology for perusing on a liberal trash heap blog (Huffington Post).  But every once and a while you need a brief glimpse into the dysfunctional minds of the people who are behind Obama’s fundamental transformation of America.

    Today, I stumbled upon an “article” that attempted to argue that defending oneself (with a gun) contradicts justice.

    Feel free to read the entire article—it’s quite short.  But here are a few of the author’s pseudo-intellectual gems:

    (TRIGGER WARNING!!)

    “using a firearm to defend oneself is not legal because if the attacker is killed, he or she is devoid of his or her rights.”

    “A gun for civilians is a weapon for a revolution and not for ordinary use. The belief that a gun is a useful tool to protect one is counterintuitive because guns get into the hands of people who use them for horrible reasons.”

    If you take some of the article’s arguments to their logical conclusions, you are left with a society of helpless victims.

    Consider the statement,

    “The main problem with the notion of self-defense is it imposes on justice, for everyone has the right for a fair trial.”

    Evidently, the author does not concern himself with the reality that “self-defense” implies an attack, and criminals don’t regard “justice.”

    Only a liberal could ignore the fact that a “criminal” has abandoned his right to due process when he chooses to attack a fellow citizen, and that law-abiding citizens would be the only victims of his imagined utopia.

    The scariest part of this article is the title, “A Revision on the Bill of Rights, Part III”—I wonder what other liberal tweaks he has in mind?

  • Yer Friday Funny: Relativism and PC Defined . . . and Deconstructed

    A word to the wise: be sure you put down any glass or mug – and clear anything out of your mouth – immediately when the images concerning alien abductions first appear on the screen at around 3 min 40 sec. And don’t pick up the glass/mug or eat/drink anything for the next 30 seconds. (smile)

    Yeah, the speaker (Terrence McKenna) was a major-league New Age flake and mushroom aficionado. Regardless, I don’t think I’ve ever heard a better discussion of the subject.

  • Mother Jones advises Left to feign concern in regards to refugees

    Kevin Drum of Mother Jones advises the left that they should at least pretend to be concerned about the possibility that some of those refugees that Obama wants to inflict upon us are terrorists and that they should stop mocking Republicans so they don’t appear to be unserious about national security;

    Here’s the thing: to the average person, it seems perfectly reasonable to be suspicious of admitting Syrian refugees to the country. We know that ISIS would like to attack the US. We know that ISIS probably has the wherewithal to infiltrate a few of its people into the flood of refugees. And most voters have no idea how easy it is to get past US screening. They probably figure it’s pretty easy.

    So to them it doesn’t seem xenophobic or crazy to call for an end to accepting Syrian refugees. It seems like simple common sense. After all, things changed after Paris.

    Mocking Republicans over this—as liberals spent much of yesterday doing on my Twitter stream—seems absurdly out of touch to a lot of people. Not just wingnut tea partiers, either, but plenty of ordinary centrists too. It makes them wonder if Democrats seriously see no problem here. Do they care at all about national security? Are they really that detached from reality?

    So the readers of Mother Jones begin mocking Drum and Republicans;

    Marduk Kur Shogun1x • a day ago

    Being scared of an Islamic suicide bomber in the US is not a reasonable concern.

    It’s bedwetting cowardice in the face of a threat not sigificantly more likely to occur than getting hit by a meteorite.
    mNEPATS52 4 hours ago
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    isis wants chaos.
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    just like american conservatives.
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    thanks for asking.

    Godbob • 2 hours ago

    Finding a conservative with the ability to rationally discuss issues is the problem. Most of them are too ignorant to be able to express why they believe what they do. They just respond to trigger words and stimuli without any thinking… Dogs salivating at the sound of the bell.

    Carol Smith • an hour ago

    Hmmm . . . that sounds strangely familiar, much like the French aristocracy prior to the French Revolution, many of the “Tories” prior to the American Revolution, and exactly like the wealthy Confederates in the South prior to the Civil War. Things didn’t work out too well for those folks in the end, you and your conservative buddies might want to take note.

    mNEPATS52 • 4 hours ago
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    terrorists want chaos.
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    that’s why conservatives are so excited.
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    that’s their goal too.

    From there the discussion breaks into a diatribe about gun control and grammar. I’m pretty sure that these are the same types of people who blame Bush for 9-11=2001. They only worry about terrorism when it happens to them and they can’t see past the end of their noses. They’ll get serious about national security when Michael Moore tells them that it’s time.

  • New Sheriff for ‘Frisco

    Well, it seems Sodom-by-the-Bay will soon have a new sheriff. Ross Mirkarimi, the incumbent, was soundly defeated in an election held yesterday.

    You may remember Mirkarimi (or at least his office, if not his name) from a few months ago. This is the same Sheriff whose jail released an illegal immigrant felon in spite of the fact that INS authorities had requested a hold on the individual. They did so because of San Francisco’s “sanctuary city” laws.

    That illegal immigrant, Francisco Sanchez, claims he later allegedly “found” a gun wrapped in a shirt; he further claims that when he picked it up, it “went off by itself” and killed an innocent woman – Kate Steinle – near San Francisco’s waterfront. (If you believe that cock-and-bull story, I’ll make you a great deal on the Golden Gate Bridge.)   Had Sanchez been held and turned over to INS as requested, Ms Steinle would doubtless still be alive today.

    It turns out Mirkarimi was a real piece of work in other respects, too. He had multiple other issues – issues that probably were more important to the “wonderful voters” of San Francisco than the sanctuary city/felon illegal immigrant release idiocy. This Fox News article details those issues.

    The lady elected to replace Mirkarimi, Vicki Hennessy, has called San Frisco’s policies in this area “misguided”. She has indicated a willingness to cooperate with INS in “certain cases”.

    Well, we are talking about Sodom-by-the-Bay; full-time use of common sense and complete cooperation regarding illegal immigration enforcement is probably too much to expect. Still, it looks like there soon will be one less bona fide idiot running the show there.

    That’s a good thing.

  • Why “Clock Boy’s ‘Science Project’ ” Should Have Raised Eyebrows – and Alarms

    Jonn wrote an article the other day about “Clock Boy” – the 14 year old in Irving, Texas, who took apart what appears to be an old Radio Shack digital clock and put it into some kind of carrying case, then took it to his school.

    Many seem to think what happened after he took the device to school was a gross overreaction on the part of local school and police officials.  Some even say that the lad’s “science project” could not possibly have been a “hoax bomb” (illegal under Texas law), was obviously innocuous, and should never have been treated as anything suspicious.

    Perhaps they’re right.  But let me make a couple of observations regarding the situation.

    •  The case into which the clock appears to have been installed looks to be about 9” x 6” x 2”, more or less.

    •  The clock’s working parts take up very little of the case’s interior space; virtually all of the interior of the case remains free.

    •  An M18A1 Claymore Mine is approximately 8.5” x 5.5” x 1.5”; it weighs about 3.5 pounds.

    •  The parts of a Claymore that “make bang/dead” only occupy somewhere around half of a Claymore’s total volume, give or take.  The rest of that 8.5″ x 5.5″ x 1.5″ volume is taken up by the Claymore’s case, sight, and the case’s curvature.

    •  The equivalent of that “make bang/dead” part of a Claymore will easily fit within half of the case in which the lad mounted the Radio Shack clock parts, leaving the rest of the space inside unused.

    •  Add a couple of other things – which I won’t list here, but which terrorists know quite well – and you essentially have a home-brewed Claymore with integral timer/detonator.

    •  Those “couple of other things” will easily fit into the unused volume in that case after the clock and “makes bang/dead” parts are installed.

    •  The total package would weigh maybe 5 pounds – probably less.

    Bottom line:  this kid’s “science project” is about 1/3 of what’s needed for a homemade and quite deadly little time bomb.  The other things needed are well-known to terrorists.  The fabrication required to finish the job is decidedly low-tech, not particularly difficult, and wouldn’t take very long.  And with the clock side towards a wall or otherwise hidden, it would also appear innocuous enough that wouldn’t be all that hard to hide it in plain sight.

    Yeah, maybe this was all innocuous and innocent.  But the possibility exists it wasn’t completely innocent, either.  Hell, the kid could have been duped into making it and taking it to school by someone else.

    . . .

    We Americans want to believe that people are inherently good, and that the world is a safe place.  We usually act as if that’s the case – and in the past it’s usually been the truth, at least in the USA.

    However, reality is now different.  There is indeed evil in the world; there are those who would kill us simply because we are American citizens.  And some of them are here among us today – just as they were living here among us on 10 September 2001.

    Denying that reality and refusing to act accordingly is not only deadly.  It’s also monumentally stupid.

    Now, tell me again why this kid’s actions were “no big deal” and why what the authorities did was an “overreaction”?  Especially since, roughly 4 months prior, a group of terrorists had tried to attack a “draw Muhammed” cartoon contest 10 miles or less from where this kid went to school?

     

    Author’s Addendum:  for what it’s worth,  it’s quite possible that an entire M18A1 Claymore would fit in the case the lad used if the case is indeed 9″ x 6″ x 2″, as it seems to be above.  If the case were slightly larger than that, it would fit easily.  In either case, there would almost certainly be plenty of space left over for the clock entrails and other items required to convert the case into a truly nasty little time bomb.  

    Under those conditions, there would also be very little fabrication work required for that conversion.

     

    Second Addendum:  here’s a link to a nice bit of reverse-engineering on “Clock Boy’s” little “science project”.  It appears to have been based on a clock sold by Radio Shack in the 1980s:

    Reverse Engineering Ahmed Mohamed’s Clock… and Ourselves.