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Category: Liberals suck

  • Legislating smarts

    Some people are too stupid to live and no amount of legislation will save them from themselves. Of course, you’ve all heard about Grandma Bloomberg trying to eradicate the scourge of super-sized soda pop drinks in his city, and I’m pretty sure that you agree with me that it’s a clear example of government over-stepping their boundaries. Well, some New Yorkers don’t think the campaigns against their obesity have gone far enough, according to the New York Times;

    At parks, bodegas and fast-food restaurants across the Bronx, many residents had not heard of most of the previous anti-obesity efforts. “If I did, I don’t think I’d be this big right now,” said Faith Coleman-Njikeng, who, at 5-foot-2 and 200 pounds, has never been heavier. “They didn’t do a good job of publicizing them.”

    Yeah, Big Faith needs someone to warn her that she’s hefty-sized, but in today’s PC society, there’s no one to shame her into a slimmer size, so legislate away, Grandma Bloomberg, some people can’t hear you roar.

    For others, nothing had worked. Brett Toney, who is 5-foot-9 and 210 pounds, and his wife, who is also obese, have sworn off fried foods, attended health fairs, used a coupon for a farmers markets and walked in a park for exercise in the past year. He did not lose a single pound. She gained 20.

    Yeah, if that attending health fairs, and using a coupon hasn’t worked, I don’t know what will. Sorry folks you should just give up, curl up into a gelatinous mass and wait for death. But I warn you, your mate will probably eat you.

    So, since the residents of the Bronx are too stupid to not eat, the only answer is to legislate smarts for them;

    Kelly D. Brownell, the director of the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity at Yale University, said that while education and incentives were popular with the public, those programs tended to reach relatively small numbers because of their limited funds. He said he supported the use of regulations like the city’s proposed ban on large sodas as a necessary step toward curbing obesity.

    Any fat people out there who don’t know that drinking huge sugary drinks compound their weight problems? I didn’t think so. Apparently, the problem isn’t education, then.

    I remember that we wrote about Michelle Obama preaching at a DFAC about obesity which strikes me as only looking for your lost car keys under the single working streetlight, whether that’s where you lost them or not.

  • Obama “out-Cheneying Cheney”

    Firedog Lake’s Kevin Gosztola , “The Dissenter” wrings his hands over a segment on Chris Hayes’ show the other day in which Hina Shamsi from the ACLU’s National Security Project complains that President Obama “has been “out-Cheneying Cheney” by “running an assassination program where in a two week span in Yemen he killed three US citizens, none of whom had been charged or indicted or charged with any crime.” ”

    Of course, the real crime here is that Liberals are talking badly about their candidate in an election year, not that three Americans are dead. For eight years we heard about President Bush shredding the Constitution, we listened to the Left’s sympathy for Jon Walker Lindh and Adam Gadahn, we listened to the complaints about the mistreatment of Guantanamo’s detainees and the violations of their basic human rights, but now when someone mentions Obama’s adherence to the same policies on hella-doses of steroids, the Left counters with the fact that it’s getting mentioned in an election year…like some liberal won’t vote for Obama because he’s like Bush.

    Scahill stated “the most dangerous thing” the US is doing “besides murdering innocent people in many cases is giving people in Yemen or Somalia or Pakistan a non-ideological reason to hate the United States, to want to fight the United States.” Hayes told Scahill calling it murder is a “provocative” way of describing what is happening and he wanted Scahill to defend using the word murder.

    Oh, but we’ve all heard this before…for eight fricken years, we heard nothing but. However, all it really does is make the Left look like partisan hypocrites who are only classical liberals when some other party is in charge. After all, the only reason that Obama is taking this hard line against terrorism is because he’s trying to attract conservative votes – because in the previous three years, he nearly coddled the enemy. He couldn’t even put a number of troops into the “surge” that would have had an impact on the war.

    Don’t get me wrong, I fully support the eradication of terrorists in large numbers irrespective of world opinion and how many people we anger in that corner of the world. I’m just going to lean back in my chair, put my hands behind my head, and watch as the best of all worlds swirls around – lots of dead terrorists and Leftist heads exploding – what could be more funner?

  • They Have no Shame

    One of our liberal Democrat candidates for Congress here in New Mexico is running an absolutely despicable ad using an old Hispanic woman to express her fear that she and her spouse will lose their Social Security if they don’t vote for this lowlife bastard because the evil Republicans want to take away their Social Security. This is an old Democrat tactic which unfortunately works because so many old people are totally dependent upon television for their information about current events. Below is my letter to the editor of the Albuquerque Journal regarding this issue:

    I’m sure that Eric Griegos’ parents and his grandparents are inordinately proud of his accomplishments and the fact that he is now a candidate for Congress. However, I have to wonder if they don’t cringe at the blatant dishonesty of his campaign ad which declares that Republicans are planning to eliminate Social Security. Are they proud of their son and grandson for telling a provably stark lie that is designed expressly to scare old, uninformed citizens into voting Democrat?

    What a despicable tactic, to prey upon the fears of those who are the most likely to be unaware of political realities and the most vulnerable viewers of his dishonest, fear-engendering political ad. I would imagine that Eric Griegos’ parents and grandparents are honorable people. I cannot believe that they would support his campaign’s efforts to create unwarranted fear among the most vulnerable among us, the elderly. C’mon, Eric, this is such an old, over-used, worn-out, Democrat lie trotted out every campaign that now national Democrats won’t use it. It is not only dishonest it is dishonorable to strike fear into the hearts of the viejos for no other reason than your personal political gain.

    You should be ashamed of yourself, young man. With your deliberate, shameful, contemptible effort to strike fear into the hearts of those who have earned the right to enjoy the Social Security they paid into all their lives to obtain some peace in their retirement years, you have unwittingly exposed the fact that you are unworthy to serve as their congressional representative.

    The most gracious move you could next make is to immediately stop those commercials and then beg the forgiveness of all those poor old New Mexicans in whom you instilled an unwarranted fear that they will become destitute.
    Shame, shame shame…

  • It’s OK to bully if you’re PC

    Bullying is the topic of the moment, obviously– although,  when the media gets bored with it they’ll just move on to something else that matters to them. Kids get bullied at school because of the nature of the beast: huge institutions used to house barely supervised children. School is Lord of the Flies, all day. Period.

    That being said, I read this story on Fox about the founder of an anti-bullying campaign, It Gets Better, that is evidently hugely popular– even President Obama has made a video for the group.

    It seems this founder, Dan Savage, who’s sexuality would be irrelevant if HE didn’t make it the POINT,  feels that it is the fault of Christians and, of course, the Bible that  bullying exists (specifically toward homosexuals) and he told a bunch of high school journalists so at a conference.  Many students walked out of his “rant” and were taunted by him.  Students report that he called them “pansy asses” as they left the auditorium.

    Rick Tuttle, the journalism advisor for Sutter Union High School in California, was among several thousand people in the audience. He said they thought the speech was one thing – but it turned into something else.

    “I thought this would be about anti-bullying,” Tuttle told Fox news. “It turned into a pointed attack on Christian beliefs.”

    “The first thing he told the audience was, ‘I hope you’re all using birth control,’” she told CitizenLink. “he said there are people using the Bible as an excuse for gay bullying, because it says in Leviticus and Romans that being gay is wrong. Right after that, he said we can ignore all the (expletive deleted) in the Bible.”

    As the teenagers were walking out, Tuttle said that Savage heckled them and called them “pansy asses.”

    I couldn’t care less if this guy is gay, and married to a man or anything he chooses.  It was publicly known he was gay before this incident.  Clearly he was not being bullied or in any way ostracized  for his beliefs and lifestyle choices– but he felt he had the right to bully and insult high school students for their beliefs and lifestyle choices.

    Hmmm. Students, some Christian,  were respectfully giving him a platform but he could not respect them in return.  Got it.

    CitizenLink sums it up, I think:

    So it’s significant—and extremely ironic— that Savage would feel the freedom to display such intolerance during a speech that was supposed to be about bullying prevention.

    Using profanity to deride the Bible—and then mocking the Christian students after they left the room—is obviously a form of bullying and name-calling. This illustrates perfectly what we’ve been saying all along:  Too many times in the name of “tolerance,” Christian students find their faith being openly mocked and belittled in educational environments.

     

    I’m a mother of high schoolers and a Christian (yes, I bleach my eyes after a day at TAH….  just kidding!)   I don’t  expect the government schools or the main stream to get it right. And I, especially,  don’t expect any government to legislate good behavior.

    But as individuals we can see right and wrong. We can see that painting ANY group of people with the same brush is bigotry, whether you’re insulting a gay man or a Christian high schooler.

    You don’t have to like me, Mr. Savage, just don’t BULLY ME.  Really.   And you damn straight better not bully my kids.

  • Stephen Ortego LA legislature: Why do we want veterans in LA?

    In Louisiana, the legislature debated Governor Bobby Jindall’s education bill. Nick Lorusso, a Republican from New Orleans (I didn’t think such a creature existed) offered an amendment to the bill which would give veterans a chance to get in-state tuition even if they don’t meet the residency requirements to qualify.

    So Stephen Ortego rose to question Lorusso about why Louisiana would want to attract veterans to the State. Lurusso answered that “veterans make good citizens”. Ortego responded that “usually veterans come with a lot of their own issues”. When pressed on which issues those were, Ortego says “homeless rates, mental illness rates…especially when they’re coming out of a war…”

    This meally-mouthed POS, who has never been in uniform and, guessing from his bio, he has never had contact with a veteran, is 28 years old and apparently already he’s an expert on veterans and their “issues” what with his bright and shiny new pubes.

    Can you imagine if he had asked why the state was trying to attract Blacks or Hispanic immigrants to the state because their inherent “issues” might become a burden for the state? Ortego spent his early years building houses in Honduras – so I’m sure he knows exactly what’s good for veterans.

    Some people were just created to be called asshats.

    Thanks to 1stCavRVN11B for the link.

  • America, We Ducked a Bullet…

    Man, did America ever duck a bullet in the presidential election of 2004; and for that she should forever be grateful to a brave bunch of sailors, a group of veterans of Vietnam known as the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth. Not only did their intercession into the 2004 presidential election campaign prevent a scumbag like John Kerry from being elected president but they also kept his vice-presidential candidate, John Edwards, an even dirtier dirt bag than Kerry, if that is at all possible, from ascending to within a heartbeat of the American presidency.

    Kerry was a traitor; about that there is no question. As a reserve naval officer, he traveled to Paris and engaged in negotiations with representatives of the communist government of North Vietnam while his country was at war with that government. That is unequivocally an act for which a normal American citizen can be tried for treason and executed, but most especially a uniformed, commissioned officer of the United States military. That he was not so dealt with because powerful Democrats covered for him, will forever be a chicken bone in the throats of all those Americans who served honorably in the Vietnam War. It would probably be a tossup as to who is the most hated American figure of that war, John Kerry or Jane Fonda.

    So it should come as no surprise that a sleazy self-awarder/awardee of multiple unearned and undeserved Purple Hearts would select as his running-mate an equally squalid trial lawyer, who as we are now finding out, may just actually surpass his mentor when it comes to being a pure old, down and dirty, no-good, rotten son-of-a-bitch. I imagine that as greatness supposedly recognizes greatness, sleaze also recognizes sleaze. Do you suppose that John Kerry, accepting the likelihood that some Vietnam veteran patriot would not allow him to survive through his first term, wanted to inflict on America someone as equally, or perhaps even more, despicable than himself?

    As we’re now finding, thanks to almost daily revelations of John Edward’s loathsome behavior, the man who would be king, John Kerry, personally selected as his crown prince, a man who may well give the future an entirely new and extremely dark connotation of the term Edwardian. Every new thing that we learn about John Edwards is base, repulsive and evil. He is a man to be held in the very lowest regard by honorable men.
    Let me put this snake’s behavior to you in everyday terms that every man can understand. Had Edward’s wife, Elizabeth, been your younger sister, and he had been womanizing with and impregnating a young bimbo, while she, your sister and his wife, was fighting a losing battle with terminal cancer, would you be kindly disposed to this bowel worm, John Edwards? And if, after her death, in trying to throw up an any-kind-of-shit-on-the-wall defense, this scum-sucking lawyer invoked your sister as being a contributory factor to his sleazy behavior, would you not be having thoughts of, well, less than salutary health for this man who could well have been the Tapeworm of America.

    Think about that for a moment: introduced into the healthy body of America by a flea-bag parasite like John Kerry, this even more parasitic tapeworm, John Edwards, could have brought us near death had he succeeded to the top post. And if you think John Kerry didn’t know what a slime-ball he’d picked then you don’t know the dirtball dynamics of John Kerry.

    And here’s what every thinking American should take away from this: these two scumbags were the best the Democrats had to offer to lead America. That tells you everything you need to know about the Democrat Party and what they consider leadership quality.

    Thanks again, Swiftees…

  • Thomas Rick’s Big Idea

    Thomas Ricks of the Center for a New American Security writes in the Washington Post that the all-volunteer military is a thing of the past and we need to go back to the draft. If the Center for a New American Security sounds familiar, it’s because they’re the same numbnuts who started this talk about doing away with 20-year retirement for the military that we talked about almost a year ago. I guess the CNASC has a business plan that calls for one new stupid idea every year. Of course, bringing back the draft is not a new idea, it’s more like the Left clinging to their glory days.

    Ricks’ ill-considered reasoning is that if we still had a draft, the US would be less likely to commit military force where it’s needed;

    Over the past decade, this all-volunteer force has been put to the test and has succeeded, fighting two sustained foreign wars with troops standing up to multiple combat deployments and extreme stress.

    This is precisely the reason it is time to get rid of the all-volunteer force. It has been too successful. Our relatively small and highly adept military has made it all too easy for our nation to go to war — and to ignore the consequences.

    The drawbacks of the all-volunteer force are not military, but political and ethical. One percent of the nation has carried almost all the burden of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, while the rest of us essentially went shopping. When the wars turned sour, we could turn our backs.

    First of all, professional soldiers don’t want a bunch of draftees who we have to babysit for the period of their service. But Thomas Ricks doesn’t know anything about that.

    According to Wiki, Ricks is two days younger than me, but his experience in the military is entirely academic. He has “reported” on the military, he is in the business of criticizing the military, but he has never spent a day in uniform, so basically, he doesn’t know that the impact of his idiot opinions would absolutely destroy the military as it exists today.

    So, Ricks even admits that having a draft didn’t stop Lyndon Johnson from deploying drafted American soldiers to Vietnam, but he likes to give those draftees credit for ending our participation in the war against communists there. Combat forces went to Vietnam in 1965 and it was eight years before the last combat troops left Vietnam.

    Since Ricks called the Iraq War “reckless”, lets’ look at that one and compare it to his reasoning; The US invaded Hussein’s Iraq in 2003 and the last combat troops left Iraq eight years later in 2011. Without a draft. So what’s his point?

    Resuming conscription is the best way to reconnect the people with the armed services. Yes, reestablishing a draft, with all its Vietnam-era connotations, would cause problems for the military, but those could never be as painful and expensive as fighting an unnecessary war in Iraq for almost nine years. A draft would be good for our nation and ultimately for our military.

    Yeah, that’s the same bullshit thing that the Left uses against home-schoolers – that their children aren’t socializing with the public school students who are steeped in liberal bullshit drivel. So the same process should be applied to the military – there should be more idiot hippies in the military to “connect” the military to society. Personally, I’m not all that happy to be connected to society after my service.

    Society is jam-packed with pseudo-intellectuals like Ricks who think I need to be socialized and swallow their idiot opinions whole. I probably would have strangled a whole parcel of hippie draftees if anyone had inflicted those idiots on my platoon.

    The fact that draft didn’t stop Johnson from getting involved in Vietnam should be proof enough for most people, but Ricks is upset that the anti-war movement in this century didn’t get much traction, and he’s flailing around trying to give them some more relevance. He ought to wade into a crowd of college students and preach to them about bringing back the draft. I’ll happily provide the crowd with baseball bats so they can properly address his big idea.

    Thanks to Marine_7002 for the link.

  • Ditz disses Perry

    Y’all probably remember this video I posted a few weeks ago of Katy Perry’s “Part of Me”;

    Well, according to the Military Times, Naomi Wolf didn’t like it calling the video “shameful” and accusing Perry of being a paid shill for the Marines.

    Naomi Wolf, you may remember will go down in history as the chick who made Al Gore wear earth tone suits to help him win his election in 2000. Y’all remember President Al Gore, right? The color of his suits were his only problem.

    Now, I always thought that Naomi Wolf was totally do-able, but, inevitably, she’d have to start talking which would kill the mood. But, anyway, the video doesn’t show anything from war, it only shows training, but that doesn’t stop Wolf from claiming that the video glorifies and “prettifies” violence;

    Like Matthis, she knows all about war because she talked to people who had been in war. I’m sure that gives her some sort moral authority in her mind, but, she might as well said that her neighbor’s cousin’s father had been in war, so she knows what she’s talking about. And I’m sure she thinks that she caught the PTSD from her interviewees.

    Personally, I thought the video would scare away people who thought that military service is all glory and parades. If you’ve seen the video, you know it shows all of the tough stuff about training and none of the glory. There is nothing glorious or pretty about log PT on the beach.

    In my humble and carefully considered opinion, Wolf is just joining in the chorus of voices from the Left who never really supported the troops, they only mouthed the necessary words that were socially approved, probably by some central committee in charge of Liberal talking points. Now, that the wars are winding down, those same pretend Americans feel that it’s relatively safe to push back against anything that portrays the troops and military service in a positive light.

    Wolf says that we should boycott Perry, so I immediately went to Amazon and downloaded Perry’s album. What? That’s not what boycott means?