So this week, The Rottenest Man Who Ever Ran trots out Wesley Clark, himself the rottenest military man since Benedict Arnold... and John Kerry, to assail John McCain's military record. You might argue that Clark did it all on his own. Fair enough, that's not why Obo is so rotten, anyway.
What adds to Obama's "rotten quotient" is that the very next day, i.e. today, he has the nerve to give a speech in which he uses Clarks remarks to show his "appreciation" for McCain's service and... um... torture, and then he says he'll never criticize his opponent's patriotism and he won't allow anyone to criticize his.
I don't have to tell thinking people what's wrong with this picture, nor can I show the unthinking ones if I tried, so the rest of this I'm just writing to myself. What else is new?
Not for one second do I believe Clark acted on his own. Clark's an Obocop.
It was the same Clark who attempted to build a hero image for John Kerry in 2004, and who tried to transform Kerry and his pin-prick Purple Hearts into a Vietnam era Audie Murphy. So for saying what Clark said yesterday, death by firing squad is too good for him... and Kerry too, for that matter.
The New York Times framed Obama's appearance today thusly: "As he spoke, the senator stood on a flag-bedecked stage and, providing visible refutation to rumors, he wore a clearly visible American flag pin on his lapel."
Got that? Rumors.
Last week, Bobama, banana fanna fo fama created the Republican racist straw man, and this week, he felt the need to preemptively knock down a war hero and create the patriotism straw man. in other words, no Republican I know of has used race to attack Obo, and no one has attacked his patriotism... unless you think saying that he'd be disastrous for America is an attack? Besides, no Republican told Obama to abandon his flag pin and make a production of doing so. It was no rumor... then.
Nor were Mickey's "America is just plain mean," or "For the first time in my adult life I'm proud of my country" rumors... but they probably will be one day when the Times has had enough time to work their magic.
And it's not your eyes playing tricks on you now that Obama can't get enough flags to accompany him.
Everywhere you look, as far as the eye can see we're adrift in a sea of liberal scum.
In an amazing call to Rush Limbaugh this morning that shows both how far liberals will go and how twisted their thinking is, one liberal dismissed both McCain's war record and Clark's attack, but asked Limbaugh to consider how weak McCain was in responding to it. You can't make this stuff up... only liberals can.
McCain: "If that's the kind of campaign that Senator Obama and his surrogates and supporters want to engage in, I understand that," he said. "But it doesn't reduce the price of a gallon of gas by a penny" or do anything else to help Americans."
It's called "being a gentleman" and sticking to the issues, the former being entirely foreign to liberals, and the latter, not in their best interests.
Here's what the Rottenest Newspaper Ever Published had to say about it all:
"The U.S. presidential campaign turned angry Monday as supporters of John McCain rolled out a full-throated defense against attacks on the quality of his military experience and Senator Barack Obama attacked head-on the persistent rumors that his loyalties to the country were doubtful."
See, the campaign didn't turn angry until Monday... until the McCain camp responded. The Times apparently regards Clark's unprecedented assault as offhand comments, and Obo addressed "persistent rumors." you know, the kind that can't be attributable to a Republican version of Wesley Clark because there is none.
The Times continued... "The McCain campaign appeared incensed by comments Sunday by an Obama supporter, the retired General Wesley Clark, that even heroic service by the Arizona senator as a naval aviator in Vietnam did not prepare him for the presidency.
When Clark was pressed by an incredulous Bob Schieffer about Obama having no military experience, Clark said that Obo was running on other traits... one of them he named was - judgment. Apparently Clark thinks that smoking dope and schmoozing with the Chicago Machine and terrorists and "tolerating" a racist church of decades are much better qualifications.
Coincidentally, you might have seen the headline: City Vehicles Painted with Anti-Obama Sayings.
Did you think for a minute these were Republican vandals? Because one article goes on to say they were Hillary supporters. The article that bore the above headline leaves it to the reader to fill in his own blanks.
Dem on Dem racism - per usual.
And per usual, it appears to be Republicans who were the perpetrators, just as when the tires were slashed in Wisconsin on election day, 2004. And remember when Lenny tried to tell me that while the Democrats had all the racists back when, they migrated to the Republican Party in the sixties? One wonders what Lenny is thinking now? More to the point, one wonders how Lenny would spin this.
John McCain seems a perfect fit with the Teddy Roosevelt admonition to speak softly and carry a big stick. No serious person could think McCain would be weak when a situation called for strength, and most especially in comparison to his diminutive-in-the-credentials department opponent his incompetent team of advisors.
Over the years, I've come to realize that all liberals and most conservatives are far more interested in adhering to their ideology than they are in getting and acknowledging the facts, and that even when either side does accept a fact something that contradicts some portion of their belief structure, they are virtually never willing to alter that structure to accommodate the new information. In other words, there are no amount of facts and no measure of importance that would get most people to abandon their long-held notions.
We've recently seen it here in the person of Snowy. Not only are his beliefs and allegiances 100% fact-free, but he actually thinks he argues his points well. We've seen if from Hen and Lenny and that poor hapless liberalite co-ed, who deservedly shall remain nameless, who happened to wander in recently and thought she was dealing with some overwhelmed conservative on her college campus.
Nationally, this dangerous adherence to ideology is the reason why Barack Obama can do no wrong and McCain can do no right in the eyes of so many. It does no good to point out that, for example, while Obama been thoroughly discredited to the very depths of his positions, experience and his being, yet he's still as popular as ever among his believers. Of course, McCain hasn't done anything to assuage the concerns of conservatives, so I can't say definitively how they'd react if he did, but I still feel it's safe to say that there's nothing McCain could do at this point to win over those who hold negative opinions of him. But in fact, the right's collective opinion of McCain is fully justified, the left's opinion of Obama is rooted in nothing but fantasy... which is where the left itself is rooted, of course.
So today I'd like to bring to your attention a column by Anne-Elisabeth Moutet. I found it riveting. Not only does she shed light on the world of mainstream "journalists," but she brings us the closing chapter in a long held lie. What I found most amazing, apart from the story itself, was her command of the English language and the rich novel-like texture of her piece. If I didn't know better, I might have thought she was Camus' daughter which, who knows, she may very well be...
Let's begin with the Supreme Court's outrageous decision today that struck down the Washington D.C. gun ban. It's outrageous because the decision was 5-4. That of course means that D.C. residents should immediately use their new-found right to gun down the four scumbags who voted to continue to unconstitutionally keep them (and us) from bearing arms.
But what made this ruling even more interesting was my recent encounters with Snowy and some comments made by my favorite talk show host, Barry Young, today. For those unfamiliar with Barry, he's about the most intelligent and funny - and rational person I've even heard, and this morning, he tangentially mentioned one of my favorite subjects - stupid people.
Which brings me to Snowy.
I felt badly when I read he last comment about me in that other thread because I realized I was dealing with one of -them-. No, I don't mean a liberal, I knew he was that because he proudly proclaimed it, and I admit that should have led me to the overriding conclusion, but he's clearly a nice guy, and I wanted to give him the benefit of the doubt.
So here's how all the above ties together. When Barry brought up the Supreme Court gun decision, he stated that the Second Amendment is crystal clear, and that only stupid people misinterpret it (four of those being the dissenting justices). Then Barry said something that has been a theme of mine for as long as I've been doing this sort of thing on the Net: the stupid people don't know they're stupid.
If he know about it, he didn't mention the decade-old study on this matter where it was found that not only did stupid people not know they're stupid (thanks to political correctness, no doubt), but that they actually thought they were smarter than smart people.
So when Snowy said that I'd cut him off because he was getting the best of me, there was no more ignoring the fact that he was one of THEM.
I don't know if you realize the implications of that study, but it means that idiots firmly believe not just that they know what they're talking about, but that they will push very hard to implement their idiotic ideas because, well, they thought of them, and therefore they must be right.
That's where we are today. It explains liberalism, environmentalism, the one or two sincere warming wackos, Obama... and the Snowys floatin' around everywhere. I mean, if you thought your ideas and beliefs where exactly correct, you'd fight hard for them, and since you don't know you're stupid, the only way to disprove your views is by implementation and subsequent failure.
That's not, generally speaking, exactly the most efficacious course for society, but it's one tacitly advocated by the likes of Vox John who is probably the most intelligent idiot I've ever encountered. Never was someone who knew so much so incapable of logically applying his knowledge to real world situations. Snowy's not in John's league, but he's no less convinced he's right. The biggest difference between Snowy and John though is that Snowy doesn't even attempt to defend himself. He merely states his belief and then declares he's gotten the best of you. It's almost endearing. I went easier on him than I otherwise might because his "debating approach" is so amusing - no indication whatsoever that he's interested in arguing his positions, much less detailing how he arrived at them.
But like anything else, fun is fun, and repetition gets old. I'd already decided that I'd been too nice to liberals of late before I heard Barry talking about stupid people today, and how Stupid people can find out for themselves whether they're stupid or not - he said what I used to say early and often in my form, but before I get to that, there's now, thanks to the Supreme Court, a second way to tell if you're stupid - -
Read the Second Amendment - if you think it applies to militias - you're stupid.
And if you're still not sure, call Barry or come here and we'll tell you...
Now this good news for liberals:
MADRID (Reuters) - Spain's parliament voiced its support on Wednesday for the rights of great apes to life and freedom in what will apparently be the first time any national legislature has called for such rights for non-humans.
So what's next, monkey matadors?
Yesterday, James Taranto reported on the failure of the media to identify the party affiliation of a thoroughly despicable lawmaker. This, of course, is standard operating procedure when a Democrat is the villain. So what happens when a Republican strays from the straight and narrow...? Mr. Taranto reports today:
Party Animal
"A Republican activist from Aurora who pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor in connection with a larger fraud prosecution was sentenced Monday to a year's probation and a $3,450 fine," reports the Denver Post. That's the lead sentence. The headline is "GOP Activist Receives Probation in Tax Case."This is an easy one, so we'll give you two guesses as to the subject's party.
In a dramatic lesson of how insane and dangerous liberals are, two prominent talking pigs have stepped forward recently and attempted to infuse new life and fear into an issue that you might otherwise have thought would at least be on a back burner now that everyone is concerned about how to heat their homes and run their cars.
I'm talking, of course, about the once funny, and always idiotic, idea that man is causing the planet to warm because there's too much emittin' goin' on. And when the jokes and ridicule didn't cause these chronologically adult jackasses to just... uh... evaporate, I thought that the worsening fuel crisis surely would. But I can't "think" like a liberal, nor can I be so hypocritical as Al Gore is to tell others they will have to suffer the controls and taxes he seeks to impose on them while using infinitely more energy than the average Filipino, and then following that up with infinite² this year.
We already knew that liberals lack the embarrassment gene, and as a result, it's nothing for them to continue to make pronouncements, to hold positions, to issue dire warnings, and to even attempt to continue to implement their failed ideas long after they've been absolutely discredited,. so maybe we shouldn't be surprised that the "global warming" cabal hasn't faded away despite the fact that their "models" have failed in every instance to duplicate real-world conditions. Their latest "adjustment?" "Global warming" is on hiatus. You didn't hear? Well, just try calling "global warming," you'll get a voice message that it's away from its desk and won't be back for a decade.
But now along comes the self-designated King of Warming, Jimmy "The Mule" Hansen, aka, "NASA scientist and Soros lackey, James Hansen, who wants to imprison those who "cast doubt" on -his- theory. I wish I was making that up, but that's exactly what he said before Congress on Monday. Meanwhile, Kofi Annan, aka the Rottenest Man Who Ever Ran the UN, has called for "climate justice," which I won't even attempt to explain here, but you can get a good idea of what Mr. Oil-For-Food meant just by letting your own mind run on the concept. Bottom line: you need to pay more for your prosperity, and he'll be more than happy to help distribute the funds.
Clearly, if anyone should be in jail, it's those who continue to advance as fact the idea that carbon dioxide is responsible for climate change and who then attempt to profit and gain power from their deception. Not that they themselves don't believe what they say, but then so did Hitler, my apologies to Hitler for the comparison.
By James Taranto:
Man Without a Party
The Great and General Court of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts is considering passing a "Jessica's law." Named after 12-year-old Jessica Lunsford, who was raped and murdered by a repeat sex offender, the proposed law would require a mandatory 20-year prison sentence for anyone convicted of raping a child under 12.
The Boston Herald reports that Rep. James Fagan is a critic of the legislation:
Fagan, a defense attorney, infuriated victims' rights advocates during a recent House debate when he said he would "rip apart" 6-year-old victims on the witness stand and "make sure the rest of their life is ruined."
In a fiery soliloquy on the House floor, Fagan said he'd grill victims so that, "when they're 8 years old they throw up; when they're 12 years old, they won't sleep; when they're 19 years old, they'll have nightmares and they'll never have a relationship with anybody."
Fagan did not return calls seeking comment.
What political party does Fagan belong to? The Herald doesn't say, but we'll give you three guesses.
On the heels of breaking his pledge to accept public financing and naming as his reason, those big, bad Republican 527s, the Rottenest Man Who Ever Ran, invoked race again last Friday in a warning to his Snowys, saying that Republicans will remind people that, besides his seemingly endless faults, he's also black.
Rush Limbaugh called him diabolical - adding that Obama would literally do and say anything that he considers to be to his advantage. For the record, I described Obama as the Devil some time ago. Now I can't, but maybe someone else can point to some Republican quote reminding people of Obo's semi-blackness?
The liberal media, by the way, almost universally approved of Obama's "tactic."
For my part, what was most disturbing was the reaction of Obo's supporters in the audience - they whooped and cheered, not unlike the congregation behind "Reverend" Wright.
So this Transformer has not only made the campaign about race, but he's set race relations back decades. At least I hope he has. Because to my astonishment, we come to find out, that's where blacks have always been, and whites didn't even know it. I've mentioned that I thought race was behind us, and that I was shocked when the Trinity Church shed light on the numbers and the intensity of black racism. that initial shock has only grown...
Did you catch Spike Lee's comment implying that Obama would turn all of America into a "chocolate city?"
Has Obama made racism mainstream?
Will we have to redefine "rotten' down?
I can't tell you how much I love it when someone saves me time and effort because:
A) I'm lazy
2) I hate telling people things they ought to know implicitly
C) Other people generally say it better than I can
In light of all that, can you imagine my delight at discovering just now that Randall Hoven has taken time out of his busy schedule to finish off Snowy and Henny for me? I'm going to drop him a thank-you note right now.
Recently, a long-time reader and part-time thinker expressed his anger at the "predictions" he claimed I was making about fuel prices, the future of the Warming religion, and other things, exactly what it's hard to know since his comments were apparently made while he was fully immersed in some sort of stupor. Nevertheless, I thought some clarifying was in order, since if he could have so badly misunderstood what I was saying, it's entirely possible that some other readers could have misunderstood ever so slightly. And you know me, I hate people to be in the dark about anything
So first off, let me make this perfectly clear - I was not predicting. I was merely detailing what was currently happening and extrapolating from there. In other words, what the warmists are saying about what will happen regarding "climate change"... those sorts of things are predictions - they may or may not happen, and since they are arising from rank speculation, any of their predictions that do come to pass are due to Newton's "Crap thrown at the wall" law.
I, on the other hand, was talking about what WILL happen given a continuing rise in fuel prices and the failure of the Democrat Congress to take any meaningful action. You don't have to be a genius (you just have to not be a liberal) to see that oil drives everything, and that the public's uncertainty about price and supply will have a fundamental effect on attitudes - even those of lesser liberals - of the man-on-the-street variety. They are the ones in which economics still trumps ideology, and they are the ones who will be most able to see (because they'll live it) the consequences of failed liberal policy.
Still, having said all that, I don't care if the least among us, i.e. liberals, want to call me a prognosticator, just as long as they don't call me late for dinner, even if dinner is a lot more expensive this year, and well, you ain't seen nothin' yet.
I'm so confident in what I've been saying that I actually have no confidence at all - because I don't need any. What I mean is, to say that I had confidence would also mean that I had some doubt, and since I am only commenting on what's actually happening, albeit it's early stages, words like "confidence" and "doubt" do not apply. Put another way - a way, one even rankest liberal can understand, you're about to see what the meaning of "is" is.
To that end, there's a thoroughly enjoyable article in that magnificent British liberal rag, The Guardian, this very day in which the headline itself would ordinarily be enough to send Hens worldwide screeching that the sky is falling: "Poll: most Britons doubt cause of climate change."
How is that possible? Hadn't they been thoroughly indoctrinated. Ah yes, but what liberals don't get is that economics and security will overcome indoctrination almost every time. Besides, the "warming" indoctrination actually was successful as this quote from the article will attest:
"Those most worried were more likely to have a degree, be in social classes A or B, have a higher income, said Phil Downing, Ipsos MORI's head of environmental research."
You see, the public schools did what they were supposed to do - and now reality is doing its job on real people. Me, I got rhythm, I got music, who could ask for anything more? Which is why the following quote is just the cherry on top - -
"There is growing concern that an economic depression and rising fuel and food prices are denting public interest in environmental issues."
YES! And gee, I hope it wasn't something I said?!?
Just kidding, as overly-serious as I may fancy myself to be, even I couldn't affect British thinking... could I? I mean I know I didn't set those European truckers to protestin' fuel prices... did I? No really, did I?
But seriously folks, -denting-? Well remember, the British ARE prone to understatement.
To be fair, the article wasn't all bad news for enviro-warmists. The poll shows people are rightfully doubtful... and cynical... and wary of "stealth taxes, and generally lacking in confidence that their government could handle anything, much less handle it competently, but on the bright side, they are still "broadly concerned" about "climate change."
I'm not worried. it's one thing to be broadly concerned about "warming," and quite another to be imminently concerned about one's degrading lifestyle.
Do I think the Fuel Crisis of 2008 will be the death knell for enviro-wackos? No? If I did, I'd be making a prediction, and if I were to do that, I'd predict just the opposite - no amount of discrediting will cause enviro-warmists to abandon their positions. Why there are still people who believe the Earth is flat, for God's sake. Although in their defense, even those people don't believe man is responsible for "climate change."
And the good news for me personally, and wackos everywhere should be pleased too, is that the rapid rise in fuel prices - and everything prices - has actually caused me to regain my sense of humor. I may be too serious on the outside, but I'm laughing on the inside that the enviro-warmists sowed the seeds of their own demise and that their comeuppance may finally at hand. Looks like we may not have to be hauling dry ice to the arctic after all!
The things liberals have been saying about our current oil price woes are so stupid that even stupid people should be embarrassed for them. But in case you aren't, I'm here to help you revel in the fact that you're now officially smarter than somebody - than an entire group. Yes, it's been speculation and innuendo up to now, but it's finally official - Liberals are morons!
They want to investigate the oil speculators, they want to tax "excess profits," they want to nationalize refineries, and above all, they don't want to drill in areas with proven reserves, and to compound that, they want oil companies to drill in areas where there are no proven reserves - "use it (oil leases) or lose it," one no-name idiot Dem Congressman says. "Thanks, we'll pass," the companies say back en masse.
Now look at the above paragraph and ask yourself how any of that will help lower oil prices?
And here's what the the Democrat Presidential nominee-in-serious-mental-decline had to say recently: “We can’t drill our way out of the problem because there's just a finite amount of oil out there and you have got increasing demand from countries like China and India."
Are you suddenly feeling better about yourself? I bet a serious number of special-ed students can see what's wrong with Obama's statement, but let's not leave it to chance. First, define "finite," because we know that he's right if he means "contained within the Earth." But apart from that, we have no idea what's there, and we're finding more all the time. So it could be a thousand years before the supply runs out, and by then, we should have that "cheaper and greener" energy solution the Enviro Don Quixotes think exists at the end of the rainbow, but more on that and them shortly.
Even more incredibly stupid than the first part of Obama's comment is the second part. He says that we shouldn't bother drilling because China and India will just use it all anyway. Did I just hear you smack yourself in the forehead? What does Obo think they'll use if we don't drill? Even worse, we can't stop THEM from drilling, and they may soon be drilling in waters near you. Oh the irony!
So lets set the record straight. ANY new oil will affect price. Depending on the amount found, it will either restrain future increases or, if the find is a bonanza, prices will stabilize and even decline. In fact, the mere mention that we're going to turn America into Swiss Cheese in an all-out effort to increase our domestic supply could very well drive short-term prices down and keep them down - because then speculators will have a harder time speculating.
I'm sure you get that, so why doesn't Obama? And his advisors? And Democrats in Congress? And liberals in general?
Well, the simple answer is, we don't know that they don't. In other words, such an idiotic comment may just be a diversion, because what liberals really want is higher energy prices and more misery. Without misery, liberals perish, and without high prices, they can't bring about Shangri-La in their lifetimes. No matter that even trying to do that will require they make a lot of people expendable.
But for liberals, there's a downside to those high prices: they make real people want real solutions - NOW! I don't know how high prices will need to go, but I'm actually with the enviro-wackos and warmalarmists... I want prices to march steadily upward. Because I'll bet the farm that if that happens, I'll win.
And what exactly will I win? Well, as people realize that you can't ride a polar bear to work, but you can get oil from a whale, with any luck, "environmentalism" will become a dirty word, and if I'm really fortunate, enviro-warmists will be afraid to leave home, and not because they don't have American Express cards - it'll be because their predictions were right - the climate will be too hot outside - but only for them.
Why am I so hostile to enviro-warmists, you ask? Is it simply because they are the dumbest people on the planet? Of course not. If that were the case, I'd actually have no compassion for the lowest among us, and as you know, I'm nothing if not compassionate when it comes to the less fortunate. Unfortunately though, the wackos are not less fortunate. Many are actually 'educated,' but I put that in quotes because if they were truly educated, they wouldn't think as they do. So either their educators failed them or they failed themselves, but in any case, we have to deal with the result.
And the result of their thinking is immoral. They would sacrifice real lives for their fantasy, and that's not mere speculation, they already have, and they are perfectly willing to continue doing so. In fact, they won't even notice the carnage.
The worst of it is that their fantasy isn't even attainable/ The idiot who thinks that we'll be finding "cheaper and greener" energy sources first has to manipulate the market so that oil prices go so high as to make their alternatives attractive by comparison. In other words, if Mohammad (you) won't go to the mountain, they'll bring the mountain to you. Sound good? Because if it does, let me make it still worse.
There are two important components to our energy supply - price and availability. enviro-warmists have succeeded in restricting availability. it took three decades or so, and many people saw the current situation coming long ago, but I confess that I hoped to escape this life before it affected me. Still, I didn't turn a blind eye. I took measures that would help insult me from the pain others are feeling.
But no one can escape the consequences completely, and here's an ugly fact - we saw the price of corn affecting the poor in Mexico a year and a half ago. And when the price of corn goes up, it affects the price of other food, from wheat to meat. But that's nothing compared to what happens when the price of oil goes up - it affects the price of... EVERYTHING! Just watch the daily news and see for yourself what went up in price today. I hope you'll think of me when you do, because with each new increase, I'm getting closer to getting my wish - a hunting season on enviro-warmists.
Right now, the Midwest is reeling, and the nation will be along with it since the flooding there is far more consequential than the New Orleans rain-out. The timing couldn't be worse, the corn crop is devastated - good news for those who are still able to grow it, but awful news for everyone else. And Congress has mandated that a huge portion of the corn crop go toward ethanol production - immoral.
And another thing about availability:"cheaper and greener," on top of everything else, requires a non-disruptable supply. So much for corn in your tank, huh? Not only must energy supplies be relatively unaffected by the whims of Mother Nature, but the enviro-warmists and the general liberal population which promotes alternative energy has stymied virtually every effort to establish new and sustainable sources in the real world, thus making sustainable energy unsustainable.
So not only can't we drill our way out of this energy crisis solely because they won't allow it, we also can't blow and grow our way out, nor can we build nuclear plants or refineries, and solar energy remains an inefficient niche. Well, here's another fine mess they've gotten us into.
But the day of reckoning may finally be at hand for these dangerous idiots. Average Americans (and even a liberal plurality) finally want to drill like there's no tomorrow. But nobody's frantic yet, so liberals can still hold press conferences and spout their stupidity without fear of being shot. But the longer they do, the worse it will be for them.
When China's first oil rig goes up off the Florida coast, everyone will take notice, and surprisingly, that will be good news. Not only will it be the wake-up call for which there is no snooze alarm, but it almost doesn't matter who gets the oil as long as someone does. The general supply goes up America just misses out on the profits and taxes.
And wouldn't it be the supreme irony if an eco-disaster happened because the Chinese aren't as skilled and careful as American companies would be, so greased manatees started washing up on Florida beaches, and there was no one we could hold accountable?
That's what I'd call Shangri-La, but I'm not normal. You can look at it another way of you'd like: do you think the imagined results of global warming will be worse than what we're about to experience in the here and now? If you do, cap and trade THIS, you moron.
