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Wednesday, March 31st, 2010We got Bill Ayers un-invited to speak at University of Wyoming. Yay!
Tuesday, March 30th, 2010
60s leftist radical William Ayers (shown above in a recent photo, standing on an American flag) was scheduled to speak at our state university. But now he’s been UN-invited. They also canceled Ayers’ teleconference indoctrination speech scheduled with all the state high school principals.
There were some threats, but mostly there were threats of people who regularly give money to the university saying they will STOP giving money to the university.
From the college’s press release about the cancellation:
“The University of Wyoming is one of the few institutions remaining in today’s environment that garners the confidence of the public. The visit by Professor Ayers would have adversely impacted that reputation.
“During the past few days, controversy over Professor Ayers’s visit has been intense. While this episode illustrated an opportunity to hear and critically evaluate a variety of ideas thoughtfully, through open, reasoned, and civil debate, it also demonstrates that we must be mindful of the real consequences our actions and decisions have on others.”
“Observers in and outside of the university would be incorrect to conclude that UW simply caved in to external pressure. Rather, I commended the director of the center for a willingness to be sensitive to the outpouring of criticism, evaluate the arguments, and reconsider the invitation.”
Though, there were a lot of letters and comments written to the Casper Paper and elsewhere about alumni and others cutting off donations. That is the way to seriously stop most crap…..cut it off at the wallet, not the knees.
I’d like to take some small credit in stopping Ayers from coming to our state. I was the first person to blog about it (post below), before the local news picked up on it, and I tirelessly networked other people (including some politicians and alumni) into action. Kinda felt good to wake up today to the news that we’d actually gotten something done.
Here’s the New York Times article about the cancellation.
Maybe if I keep up the good work, I’ll make Progressive Magazine’s McCarthyist Watch List. Something to work toward. (Though I’d argue that there’s nothing McCarthyist about blocking Ayers . The First Amendment does not apply to treason, and Ayers is an unrepentant murdering terrorist who wishes he’d killed more people and wants to destroy America.)
We didn’t stop his thoughts from being in our state. You can see what he has to say by reading his blog or his books. He’s very consistent in what he says, and if you’ve read his blog or books, I guarantee there’s nothing new he would have said in person.
Stopping him from coming to the state was symbolic. Letting someone speak at a University is an honor. He doesn’t deserve that honor.
Everyone who helped with keeping Ayers out of our state (especially folks from WyWatch and FSW) deserves a pat on the back. Well done.
– Michael W. Dean
Terrorist Bill Ayers to speak at University of Wyoming
Saturday, March 27th, 2010
Bleah!
http://www.uwyo.edu/news/showevent.asp?eventid=28464
Also, they have invited all the HIGH SCHOOL principals to a conference call with Bill Ayers including a suggested reading list of his materials.
http://uwacadweb.uwyo.edu/wsup/showevent.asp?eventid=28285
Here’s my open letter to the Casper Tribune about it:
Do we want a terrorist speaking at the University of Wyoming?
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University of Wyoming has scheduled convicted domestic terrorist William Ayers as a 2010 Spring guest lecturer for Monday, April 5. Ironically, the name of the speech he’s scheduled to give is “Trudge toward Freedom: Moral Commitment and Ethical Action.”
In the early 70s, William Ayers participated in the bombings of New York City Police Department headquarters, the United States Capitol building, and the Pentagon. He is unrepentant about these acts, and is currently a professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Ayers wrote a blurb for the back of President Obama’s autobiography, though Obama has downplayed their relationship.
I think having Ayers speak in Wyoming, especially to impressionable youth, is a HORRIBLE idea. And I think having it paid for by our taxes is a travesty.
I’m all for free speech, but I think Ayers’ past actions and present attitude goes far beyond free speech. I also think it’s a crazy world we live in when former enemies of the state are considered role models, and have a relationship with the president. Wyoming seems more secluded from this sad decline than the rest of the country, and I think we should help keep it that way.
I urge people contact to the public relations coordinator, Jim Kearns at 307.766.2670 or jkearns@uwyo.edu and event coordinator Tanaya Moon Morris, sjrc@uwyo.edu, 307-766-3422 and POLITELY ask them to cancel this event.
Respectfully,
Michael W. Dean,
Casper
Wyoming contact for the Republican Liberty Caucus
http://www.rlcwy.org/
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FOLLOW-UP POST HERE:
Are you fucking kidding me?
Wednesday, March 24th, 2010
People who annoy you
About two weeks ago, a 16 year old kid who was known among his friends for being a clown picked up a courtesy phone at Wal-Mart, punched in the code to access the PA system, and announced, “Attention Wal-Mart customers: All black people leave the store now”. I had an odd sense of deja-vu as the media blew this story up like it was a Klan lynching. I remembered Don Imus, who was fired from two jobs after making his ‘nappy-headed ho’s’ joke in reference to the Rutgers female basketball team- which wasn’t even an issue until a week after it was made thanks to Media Matters. I recalled how Michael Richards was made out to be Hitler after he blew up at two black hecklers in the audience and dropped all kinds of N-bombs on them. Even earlier, Senator Trent Lott was painted as a racist for telling Strom Thurmond at his birthday party that if he had been elected when he ran for president 50 some-odd years before, the country would be better off. Of course, that means Trent Lott wants separate drinking fountains, right? I also fondly recalled how South Park (see image above) ripped to shreds the race pimps and the politics of racial destruction with their ‘naggers’ episode.
This 16 year old kid, whose name is not being released due to his age, has been charged with harassment and bias intimidation. He was arrested. Let me repeat that. HE WAS ARRESTED. Now, granted, his prank was not in the best of taste, to some it was definitely offensive. I don’t even think it was all that funny of a joke, I think it could have been much better had it been thought out beforehand. But I am absolutely appalled that this teenager is being charged with a criminal offense because of what he SAID.
The libertarian in me would leave it up to Wal-Mart to decide whether or not to pursue criminal trespass, after all, the kid did use Wal-Mart’s property and did harm to their ability to do business. That I can understand. What I can’t understand is the thought-policing going on here. Nevermind actual racism, which this was not, but you can’t even make a joke involving race or you will face JAIL TIME.
Are you fucking kidding me? Seriously?
If this is where we’re going as a country then we deserve to be wiped out. A bunch of thin-skinned, whining nellies who can’t even shrug off a poor joke, something so obvious as a kid playing with the PA system. What gets me is that it’s not black people who are outraged about this, except for the black mouthpieces who are always outraged. It’s white people who are falling over themselves to be outraged because they think it makes them look not-racist to black people. It’s this sickening, nauseating, and condescending pandering that guilt-ridden white liberals engage in that is characterized by faux outrage and hypersensitivity to anything racial, whether it’s a joke or a serious point in discussing race relations or politics involving race. They want to be seen as so-not-racist that their racism is clear as day for anyone who looks past their holier-than-thou auras. They think that they have to defend black people from stupid pranks, jokes from Don Imus, angry outbursts from Michael Richards, and innocuous comments made by Trent Lott. Stop it. Black people are capable of deciding for themselves what is offensive and what isn’t. They’re even capable of chuckling at a racial joke or poking fun at the stereotypes associated with black people. They don’t need a white savior to protect them from bad jokes or even real racism. Enough with the pandering and thought policing. This kid does not deserve to be arrested for the content of his joke and charged with bias crimes, especially when racially motivated assaults from blacks against whites are happening more and more in cities all over the country. No more double standards and no more patronization, please.
~Matt Frost
Redistribution of Wealth – illustrated with cats ‘n’ such
Monday, March 22nd, 2010
Damn, the NRA sure is SQUARE sometimes…..
Sunday, March 21st, 2010
Damn, the NRA sure is square sometimes…
I dig them and dig what they do. My wife and I are members, and will continue to be, probably our whole lives. (We haven’t ponied up for the lifetime membership yet, but keep renewing our membership and also send ‘em a check for a little more than that once in a while.) The NRA is, if not the reason guns are still legal in America, they’re at least largely the reason there is shall-issue concealed carry permits and Castle Doctrine in a lot of states (including Wyoming).
But while they’re very in favor of concealed carry with a permit, they don’t seem to want to admit that open carry without a permit, is legal in many states (including Wyoming).
The new (April 2010) issue of the NRA magazine “America’s 1st Freedom” has an article on page 13 called “Should the Brady Campaign Try Decaf”? It’s about how the cranky nanny-statist anti-gun group The Brady Campaign are trying to get Starbucks to ban legal carry of guns in all their coffee shops nationwide. (Which would only turn all Starbucks into “gun free zones” i.e. “victim disarmament zones” where any criminal with a gun could more easily tyrannize and harm law-abiding citizens.) It’s a good article and makes some cogent points: Starbucks is righteous for not giving in, and the Brady Campaign used to be a powerhouse but no one really pays attention to them anymore.
The really square thing about the article is that it does not mention open carry, even though it was open carry events at Starbucks that caught national news attention and got the Brady Bunch gun grabboids involved i the first place! The article simply mentions the Brady Campaign “attacking Starbucks for allowing people to carry firearms in its coffee shops as provided for by state law.”
That’s kind of making the story a little more square than it is.
See, some folks from a really cool web site , OpenCarry.org (I’ve been a member of their forum for almost a year) recently had some peaceful, mellow events at some Starbucks and open carried their guns in holsters on their hips. It got some national news. It got some vitriol from the leftie blogs. And Stephen Colbert even joked about it.
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After it hit the news, the Brady Campaign wet their fussy panties about it and tried to get Starbucks to forbid ALL legal gun carry (open and concealed) at all Starbucks. Starbucks refused, and then the NRA wrote the article. But, again, NO MENTION OF OPEN CARRY in the article.
I’m a member of some smaller gun-rights organizations that ain’t so square. They also ain’t got as much juice, or as many numbers. Maybe being square and compromising is how the NRA stays big and have the juice they do. (They’ve been called “The most powerful lobbyist group in America”, and they are.) But maybe a lot of NRA members are such straight-arrow boyscouts that they are scared of open carry, even though Open Carry is TRULY THE MEANING OF “KEEPING AND BEARING ARMS.”
So I’ll keep up my NRA membership. But I’m also keeping up my membership of the GOA, the JPFO, and the WGOA.
Anyway, I haven’t even BEEN in a Starbucks in a long time, but I open carried and went into one yesterday (East Side, Casper Wyoming), just in the spirit of all this news, and to help support them for being supportive of us. No one seemed to care that I was open carrying, except one lady who’s eyes bugged out at my big-ass revolver. Her husband (or brother) asked me “is that a .44 Magnum”? I resisted the urge to give the Dirty Harry speech verbatim (just kiddin’) and simply replied “No, it’s a .357 Magnum.” Then he nervously chatted with me a bit about his gun-shooting experiences.
But as one person said on OpenCarry.org “Your need to feel safe doesn’t trump my need to be safe.”
– Michael W. Dean
Brick thrown through through Louise Slaughter’s office window
Saturday, March 20th, 2010
From the Buffalo Evening News:
NIAGARA FALLS — The “Slaughter Solution” on health care isn’t the only thing that has come under attack in U.S. Rep. Louise M. Slaughter’s world this week. Sometime early this morning, someone threw a brick through the front window of her Pine Avenue office.
The damage was discovered about 12:30 a.m., city police said.
The brick put a hole in the outer-most window at the office at 1910 Pine Ave., but did not damage a second interior window, police reported. A piece of broken brick believed to have caused the damage was found at the scene.
Damage was estimated at $350.
Slaughter, D-Fairport, is head of the House Rules Committee, which will structure the debate on health care reform votes set for this weekend.
Think whoever threw it knows their history maybe? The Sons of Liberty broke windows of the oppressive just before the revolutionary war.
By the way, the Constitution-shredding Slaughter not only is disgracing the fact that she’s distantly related to Daniel Boone, she’s a hypocrite. Because in April 2006 Slaughter, along with John Conyers, brought action against George W. Bush alleging violations of the Constitution.
–Michael W. Dean
So apparently now if you don’t think politics will reign in the Government, you’re on the “Fringe”
Friday, March 19th, 2010
Well then, Mrs. Palin and Mr. Beck, I guess the Founding Fathers were on the fringe then.
http://www.adn.com/2010/03/19/1190475/palin-beck-to-alaska-patriots.html
This meeting occurred in a town only a 30 minute drive from my house. All these guys said was that if politics could not reign in this federal government, we may have to resort to a revolution. Well if the political system can’t reign it in then what are we supposed to do? Just accept it? No. I would hope that we can turn this around, but if it doesn’t then the sad reality is that yes, we may have to rebel.
As Thomas Jefferson said “I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, & as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.” – Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, Paris, 30 January 1787.
–JD
Michael W. Dean talks about filmmaking, art, life and politics
Tuesday, March 16th, 2010Photos of Michael Dean taken by Lydia Lunch in March, 2002, Los Angeles
Michael W. Dean talks about filmmaking, art, life and politics
podcast episode 38
Michael W. Dean sits in his back yard on a glorious spring day, pets his cats and talks about digital filmmaking, art, life and politics…while answering interview questions from a college student in India. His name is Anamitra Roy and he’s no-budget filmmaker from Kolkata, Westbengal, India and a student of film studies at the Jadavpur University. He has sent me these questions while preparing his dissertation paper on no-budget film making worldwide.
Michael talks about his motivations in making DIY or DIE, How to Survive as an Independent Artist, Hubert Selby Jr: It/ll Be Better Tomorrow, Living Through Steve Diet Goedde, and $30 Film School. He also talks about what has changed in his life since then.
Questions I was asked, then talked for 40 minutes:
1) What does it mean by ‘no-budget film’ ? ( Definition or the concept)
2) What is the philosophical aspect of these non/anti-industrial films? (Marxism, people’s art or Post-modern individual effort / potential role in a democratic state)
3) What Cameras and Edit suits have you used for your films? Why? (availability of digital technology in today’s world)
4) Unless there have been a DV revolution, do you think that the concept of no-budget had flourished to this extent? (The festivals organized all over the world, people making films on their own — could this be real in the era of celluloid too. Please elaborate.)
5) Will you go to Hollywood if they call you? Why? (center – periphery relationship / cultural hegemony)
(I forgot to answer this one, but the answer is “No.” I plan to never ever set foot in the state of California again, mainly because it’s a dangerous place and I can’t legally bring my guns. The California chapter in my life is over. I lived there from 1986 to 2009. That’s well long enough.)
6) How does Digital technology help in organizing screenings? (budget)
The interview is research for his term paper, masters degree dissertation. His blog is http://littlefisheatbigfish.blogspot.com/ and his film group’s channel on YouTube is http://www.youtube.com/anamitra007
After the interview, we hear the Right Arm of Wyoming song, “Government is a Collective Hallucination.” (Lyrics here.)
Why no mention of “hate crimes” in this story?
Monday, March 15th, 2010
I ran across the story of how there were 26 attacks in downtown Denver in four months last year of black gangs targeting and assaulting random white people, while yelling “f*&^ You whitey!” and things like that while they gang up and beat them senseless.
No mention of the phrase “hate crime” in that story though:
http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/21868721/detail.html
If it were whites doing that to blacks, Obama would be making a statement, Eric Holder would put together a task force, and Jesse Jackson & “Reverend” Al Sharpton would both be camped out in the Denver mayor’s office demanding action and apologies.
“Why do you hate white people?” the man recalled asking. “That’s when I got hit. They beat the crap out of me,” he added, saying that 15 to 20 men beat him to the ground. “They just swarmed you,” said the man who curled up on the ground to shield his face. “You basically just had to protect yourself and hope they didn’t kill you.” The victim, who suffered bruised ribs and a cut head, said he was protected by a padded motorcycle jacket. He asked that his name be withheld for his safety.
A couple dozen arrest warrant affidavits unsealed Friday offer chilling insights into the 26 racially-motivated “blitz attacks,” which stretched from July 17 to Nov. 17.One unidentified suspect told police “that the members of his gang earn status in the gang by beating up ‘white dudes,’” according to court records. He added that the gangs targeted “drunk white guys,” exiting bars and nightclubs in the entertainment district.
The suspects allegedly bragged about knocking out white victims with one punch to the head. Victims lying on the ground were “stomped” and even tossed through glass windows. In the more than two dozen attacks, victims’ injuries included a skull fracture as well as broken noses and eye sockets when they were blindsided by punches that often knocked them unconscious. One man was so savagely attacked that he was hospitalized in a coma for a while, police said. Several of the 35 young male and female suspects arrested by police recently said the gangs often targeted lone white and Hispanic men because they didn’t “fight back” and they had money, iPods and other valuable gadgets that attackers coveted.Another goal: to drive whites away from their downtown turf, including a hip-hop nightclub, according to an arrest warrant affidavit.
The gangs “own that area,” one suspect told police.
Police also held off on making this public, which put more people in danger. Can you imagine that would be possible of the races were reversed?
–Michael W. Dean
Paid anti-gun lobbyists engaged in anti-gun edit war on Wikipedia (allegedly)
Friday, March 12th, 2010
Paid anti-gun lobbyists engaged in anti-gun edit war on Wikipedia (allegedly).
I’m saying “allegedly” because these folks probably have an army of lawyers and I’m just stating opinion here, reporting what others on Wikipedia have said.
There are a few people on Wikipedia who have been making edits to gun-rights articles, (allegedly) removing even encyclopedic wording that shows open carry, CCWs and gun ownership in a positive light.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Open_carry#Massive_Conflict_of_Interest_in_Editing
Do the other editors realize that ForwardThinkers is the NEW EDITING NAME of a full-time paid lobbyist for The Coalition to Stop Gun Violence (CSGV)–a gun control group? In fact, “CSGV “was his old editing sign-in name. Talk about conflict of interest! ForwardThinkers has been repeatedly warned in the past not to make substantive edits to gun rights pages by other editors and admins, yet he persists in doing so. This sort of meddling by paid lobbyists and their cronies is POISONING wikipedia, and compromising its neutrality.
Here’s where ForwardThinkers admits he’s “the Director of Communications” for anti-gun rights group the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence:
Here’s an example of an edit this user, ForwardThinkers, made:
ForwardThinkers stripped most of the useful and true information from the article on Concealed Carry. (It was later reverted by more neutral and senior editors.)
If you look at the edit history of this user,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Forward_Thinkers
they pretty much sit around all day, every day, making edits on Wikipedia, and these edits are later reverted by other editors. Me thinks they might be paid to do this.
Also, this user, PeaceLoveHarmony, is “engaged in an edit” war, according to more senior Wikipedia editors, and has been threatened with getting kicked off the site for editing gun-rights articles in a negative light.
This user: SaltyBoatr
Engages in a lot of edits of RKBA articles, including adding a “connection” between Open Carry and “extremist groups” here:
But that user is unlikely to get spanked, he abides by the rules of Wikipedia, and also edits non-RKBA articles, stuff on sports, etc. That goes a long way on Wikipedia for not seeming “spammy” or “sockpuppty.” In fact, he’s been awarded a “BarnStar” (Wikipedia award for outstanding service.)
This non-spammy user GB fan, actually removed the link to OpenCarry.org link on the Open Carry article on Wikipedia, but it was simply a “notability challenge”, a common and needed filtering technique on Wikipedia. Several users challenged the challenge, here,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Open_carry#Removal_of_OpenCarry.org_link
and the link was returned to the site.
ACTION?
I’m only pointing this out. I’m not asking people to challenge this on Wikipedia, unless they are long-time Wikipedia users with many useful edits, and who understand the way Wikipedia works. Any new user who jumps in and starts making feisty edits will usually have their edits deleted. There’s a protocol, and it has to be followed. And old users have more sway than new users, especially old users with many useful edits, with attribution, on a number of topics.
I’d say if there are any long-time Wikipedia users with many useful edits, and who understand the way Wikipedia works, they keep an eye on the anti-gun editors and challenge edits, with verification, and with explanation on the talk page for the article.
– Michael W. Dean
Is the president being impeached?
Sunday, February 28th, 2010(re-post of a blog post I did in June 2008 about George W. Bush. I’m re-posting to quash beliefs that I only dislike liberals and love all Republicans.)
Is the president being impeached? (I hope so.)
I have been watching a lot of C-SPAN lately. It’s basically the only thing worth watching, now that all TV pretty much sucks.
Not a lot of people watch C-SPAN. So I’m one of the small percentage of Americans who know, at this moment, that Representative Dennis Kucinich is on the Congressional floor presenting his resolution calling for Bush’s impeachment. It’s a list of 35 charges, (list here) mostly Constitutional violations and Geneva Convention violations, and he’s been reading it for about an hour, and he’s about halfway through it. A member of the House of Representatives presenting a resolution detailing charges is one of the first steps in impeachment proceedings.
The charges range from election fraud, including disenfranchisement, to illegal wiretapping to illegal torture, to lying about our reasons for going to war, to handing out padded military contracts to his buddies. And a lot more. I can barely keep up. And I’m as giddy as a kid in a candy store about this. So is Debra Jean. She’s glued to the screen. We both love the Constitution. A lot.
It’s history in the making, and it’s not even on CNN.com or Yahoo News yet. I think it’s an emergency meeting, because it’s 10:30 PM in DC right now. I remember seeing the effort to impeach Richard Nixon as news coverage on TV when I was a kid, but he was never actually impeached. (He quit before that could happen, and Ford pardoned Nixon as soon as he took office.) And Nixon was basically just going to be charged with, as I recall, one thing (conspiring to pay people to bug a hotel room). The charges being read against Bush are many, and many are far more serious.
Kucinich is quoting the US Constitution a lot. I wish Kucinich had made it to run for president. He’s smart, and has other things going for him.
I have a prediction: tonight on the Colbert show, Colbert will report this out of character, as he really is, not as his “alter ego” who would be outraged by this. He’ll just state it, and let people cheer.
Here’s a quick 20-minute podcast I recorded, and uploaded while the proceedings were still being read live. It’s about 17 minutes of the charges being read, and about three minutes of us commenting on it. We’re pretty much in shock. And pretty happy.
(behind every great short man is a smart, better looking, and often taller, woman)
Fuck your ideology.
Saturday, February 27th, 2010
Up the independents. I am tired of people trying to put me into a box because they only see other people’s political views in relation to their own. If I am disagreeing with a liberal, that must mean I am a right-wing nutcase. If I am arguing with a conservative, then I am a bedwetting liberal moonbat. Stop already, you people who do this are embarrassing yourselves.
Recently, I had an exchange with someone on one of the message boards I post on. Someone complained that Republicans were abusing the filibuster and stonewalling Democrat-backed legislation in the Senate. When I mentioned that the Democrats did the same thing to President Bush’s judicial nominees, I got a world of shit for it. I was called an ‘apologist’ for the GOP, I was told that it was different since the Dems were filibustering nominees but the Republicans are just blocking everything. I was even called a “traitor” to who I am, since the Republicans generally oppose same-sex marriage and the repeal of the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy. Oh man, did I get pissed. Here’s what I said:
“Who the hell do you think you are to tell me what my political ideology should be based on who I have sex with? Because I like smoking a pole or two, that means I have to support EVERY liberal tax me out the ass, welfare state-loving, illegal immigrant harboring, enviro-nazi chump-stain socialist douche nozzle who runs for office?
Again, fuck you, pal. I agree with what the Democrats SAY about marriage equality and ending DADT, now let’s see them actually DELIVER on it. Maybe then I’ll be more willing to put up with all the other bullshit that spews out of the DNC. Until then, I will support whomever the fuck I want and if you don’t like it, tough shit.”
I was slightly miffed.
The truth is that I can’t stand either major political party. I think they’re both full of incompetent and/or corrupt people out for their own gain and their own power. I don’t think they care one bit about average people. TS, who responds to many posts here, believes that conservatives are selfish and liberals are compassionate. Are they? Or is that what people been led to believe by those who are trying to pose as compassionate? Who or what defines compassion anyway, or selfishness for that matter? Doesn’t anyone ever think that maybe, just maybe, there isn’t that great of a divide between Republicans and Democrats when it comes to their votes and their actions? Put away the rhetoric and look at what they DO.
Both tend to favor big business over the individual.
Both supported bailouts and giveaways to failing industries.
Both were complicit in the signing of the Patriot Act and in sending our troops to war in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Both parties used the filibuster as a cheap way to thwart the executive branch, and both parties even met to hammer out a compromise so they would be able to use the cloture process as a de-facto filibuster in the future.
Both support the massive confiscation and wasting of our tax dollars.
Both support, for the most part, the war on drugs.
Both supported NAFTA and all of the other so-called “free trade” agreements that only served to gut the American workforce and erode our national sovereignity.
Just because they pretend to be on polar opposites every election year doesn’t mean they really are. They’re simply trying to get themselves elected, and the American public buys it, thinking that there are real differences at play.
As George Carlin was fond of saying, “Bull-fucking-shit!”
Words of Wisdom:
Rest in peace, George. A shame you didn’t live to see the final freak show.
Matti F.
How people are FORCED at gunpoint give away their private assets to “help” others.
Saturday, February 27th, 2010
TS asked on a comment on another thread: “Please explain how people are being ‘forced’ to give away their private assets to help others.” (in regard to progressives/liberals/Democrats).
This really is libertarianism 101, but deserves its own post.
But here ya go:
When you vote in people who want to increase social spending (welfare, for instance, or foreign aid), those people raise taxes. If someone who did not vote for that person disagrees, he has to pay those taxes anyway. If he doesn’t pay taxes, agents of the government will come to his house and arrest him. If he refuses to come out, they will come in his house and put a gun to his head.
Therefore, the social services you “benevolently” and “compassionately” vote for are paid for with taxes collected at the barrel of a gun. This is an initiation of aggression and a use of force and is NOT compassionate.
Moreover, Democracy is undemocratic, because 51% can tyrannize 49% with things like this.
This joke explains it well:
I recently asked my friends’ little girl what she wanted to be when she grows up. She said she wanted to be President some day. Both of her parents, liberal Democrats, were standing there, so I asked her, ‘If you were President what would be the first thing you would do? ‘
She replied, ‘I’d give food and houses to all the homeless people.’
Her parents beamed with pride.
‘Wow…what a worthy goal.’ I told her, ‘But you don’t have to wait until you’re President to do that. You can come over to my house and mow the lawn, pull weeds, and sweep my yard, and I’ll pay you $50. Then I’ll take you over to the grocery store where the homeless guy hangs out, and you can give him the $50 to use toward food and a new house. ‘
She thought that over for a few seconds, then she looked me straight in the eye and asked, ‘ Why doesn’t the homeless guy come over and do the work, and you can just pay him the $50? ‘
I said, ‘Welcome to the Republican Party.’
Her parents still aren’t speaking to me.
Another quick explanation is found in one of my lyrics, the Right Arm of Wyoming song “Freaky Liberal Mammal Sex“:
If my neighbor had three cars and I stole one
I’d rightly go to prison
If this “progressive” gub’ment mugs my neighbor for his car
to tax-support crack babies
Liberals think that’s justice
–Michael W. Dean
Alaska Governor wants to make YOU pay for someone elses college.
Thursday, February 18th, 2010
http://www.adn.com/news/education/story/964075.html
Alaska Governor Sean Parnell is proposing a bill that will pay for a students schooling depending on grades (A=%100, B= %75, C=%50). I think this is bullshit. No one has the right to make you pay for another person’s college. And now while this is probably paid for by taxes from the oil companies and other corporation and not individuals, it’s still wrong. Taxation is theft, whether by a mugger in the street or a politician in DC. And what is a corporation but a group of individuals.
And the price of this?:
Parnell is proposing to pay for it by carving out $400 million of the state’s $8 billion Constitutional Budget Reserve Fund savings account as its own separate endowment, saying interest and investment profits from that would be used to pay for the scholarships. State Education Commissioner Larry LeDoux said it’s not clear how much the program would cost the state each year but he figures $20 million could be available annually for covering the costs of the scholarship program.
I would much rather struggle to pay for college and live off of ramen and live on a couch through my schooling than make others pay for my college.
-JD
California cop suggests shooting gun owners who open carry
Monday, February 15th, 2010http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,585807,00.html
East Palo Alto Police Det. Rod Tuason apparently posted the remarks on his Facebook page in response to a friend’s status update, which suggested that gun advocates who carry unloaded weapons openly — which is legal in California — should do so in places like “Oakland, Richmond and East Palo Alto” and not just in “hoity toity” cities.
“Haha we had one guy last week try to do it!” Tuason replied. “He got proned out [laid face-down on the ground] and reminded where he was at and that turds will jack him for his gun in a heartbeat!”
Several comments later, the detective suggested shooting the gun rights advocates, some of whom have carried firearms openly in recent weeks in California’s Bay Area, particularly at Starbucks locations.
“Sounds like you had someone practicing their 2nd amendment rights last night!” Tuason wrote. “Should’ve pulled the AR out and prone them all out! And if one of them makes a furtive movement … 2 weeks off!!!” — referring to the modified duty, commonly known as desk duty, that typically follows any instance in which an officer is investigated for firing his weapon…..
Man. I am SO glad in EVERY way that we moved out of that state. I really feel like it’s almost a different country.
MWD
Here’s a screengrab of the exahange, before they deleted it to destroy evidence:
the world is doomed
Wednesday, February 10th, 2010
Really, if all writing was distilled to its essence, books would be about five pages long, and most internet forums would be blank.
I could say this with a lot more words, but I’ll boil it down “America is doomed.” And America is the last best part of the world, so the world is doomed.
Really, the right may have a “comeback” in the next few years, but within two or three presidential election cycles, there will be enough new kids turning 18, who were educated in public schools, that there will probably be a leftist majority running this country forever.
There will be enough resistance for the next 40 years to have some semblance of “America” into my old age, but the 20 years after that, and beyond, will be hell. The 20 years after I die of old age and people just getting old enough to vote now, that will be the point it really hits the fan.
I predict in 60 years America will look like Haiti. Or Blade Runner. Or Idiocracy. Or Communist Russia. Or Demolition Man. Most likely, some mix of all five.
Here’s what I predict:
– hyperinflation
– to take Tom Waits out of context “everything’s broken and no one speaks English”
– no free speech, “hate speech” a felony
– very high taxes
– All phones and e-mail tapped all the time.
– most everyone works for the government, the rest are on welfare
– total Affirmative Action. Straight, white, Christians will be treated like blacks were in America just post-slavery.
– rewriting of Constitution
–re-writing of history, scrubbing of Constitution, Founding Fathers
– no private ownership of weapons (y’all think I overstate guns, but when the guns are gone, the tyrants can do anything to you. Citizens just having them, not even using them, makes a difference)
So when you say I’m silly for making the modest proposal that we should eliminate voting for people who will only vote in more nanny-tyranny, I really believe that the above is your alternative.
MWD
Charlie Wilson’s war is over
Wednesday, February 10th, 2010Charlie Wilson’s died. He was the 70s Texas Democrat Congressman/playboy/coke addict who basically armed the Taliban.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100210/ap_on_re_us/us_obit_wilson
They made a “heroic” movie about him called “Charlie Wilson’s War” where he’s played by Tom Hanks.
Charlie Wilson on a white horse while in Afghanistan. Photograph: AP (actual photo, not from the movie.)
Charles Wilson 
More on Charlie:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Wilson_%28Texas_politician%29
The girls had cocaine, and the music was loud. It was total happiness. And both of them had ten long, red fingernails with an endless supply of beautiful white powder….The feds spent a million bucks trying to figure out whether, when those fingernails passed under my nose, did I inhale or exhale, and I ain’t telling.— Charile Wilson
In 1980, Wilson was accused of using cocaine at the Caesars Palace in Las Vegas; however, the investigation by Justice Department attorney Rudolph Giuliani was dropped due to lack of evidence.
Wilson was presented with the Honored Colleague Award by the CIA. He is the first civilian to receive the award. However, Wilson’s role remains controversial because most of the aid was supplied to Islamist hardliner Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, now a senior Taliban leader and a supporter of al-Qaeda.
MWD
Why not split up the country?
Tuesday, February 9th, 2010
Someone on ConPunk asked “Why not just split it into the red states and the blue states? I think at this point, both sides would be happy with that.”
I replied:
The left would never go for it. They need the red states to steal from, since we’re all in better shape financially. We don’t bail out bums as much, and we have more natural resources. Places like Wyoming, Texas, West Virginia and the Dakotas have all the oil and coal, natural gas and uranium. (And much of the wind and sun.)
People in New York and California think they should be administering that stuff from a comfy office, not out drilling for it.
Also, the leftie blue states would be driven mad by the thought that there are people in the next state raising their kids the way they want, carrying guns, going to church and not supporting crack babies. It would drive the lefties even more nuts than they are now.
MWD
Another crotchety old Democrat dies today….
Monday, February 8th, 2010
He was revered among Democrats — and even some Republicans — for his skill over 19 terms in using the power of the federal purse to make kings and deals. A right-hand man of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, he was considered one of the most influential lawmakers on Capitol Hill and credited with her ascension.
A hint of scandal lingered over much of Murtha’s career. The FBI named Murtha an “unindicted co-conspirator” in its ABSCAM sting operation in the late 1970s and early ‘80s. ABSCAM resulted in the conviction of five House members and one senator. The FBI recorded Murtha on videotape declining a $50,000 bribe from federal agents posing as Arab sheiks. But the Congressman did say he could be interested in future dealings.
The Most Pressing Issue Faced Today
Saturday, January 30th, 2010
With the economy still in peril, troops still on the ground in two theaters, and rogue nations developing nuclear weapons, we would think that our federal government would have a lot to occupy their time. Apparently, nothing can be more important than getting involved in matters that should never be discussed by the Legislative or the Executive. The most pressing issue of the day is the Bowl Championship Series (BCS) for college football.
Of course we all hate the BCS. A playoff series would be more fair, and exponentially easier to understand. We shouldn’t have to have a degree in Statistics to understand the ranking system, but is this how senior members of the Senate and the Obama administration need to be spending their time? Senator Orrin Hatch (R-UT) has requested a review by the Justice Department concerning the matter. Apparently he agrees with President Obama that the BCS ranking system is just too much to bear. Obama stated before his inauguration that he disagreed with the system in place for determining a National Champion football team. I believe the direct quote was “Throw my weight around” to nudge the BCS into a playoff system. Now we have the Justice Department reviewing whether an Anti-Trust investigation is needed. Now I suppose we must sit back and wait for the Justice Department to find a law that would invade into college football. Statist intervention at its finest.
On a positive note, when the issue is big enough, Republicans and Democrats can work together in a beautiful demonstration of bi-partisanship to accomplish far reaching goals. Economy, health care reform, and war are just trivial issues that should be politicized, but college football…
-Justin West
Gun violence is the lefties’ fault
Tuesday, January 26th, 2010
Gun violence is the fault of the progressives.
I don’t really have much of a problem with the Democratic Party. I have a problem with the so-called progressives, the far-Left, which usually lives these days in the Democratic Party (Pelosi, Obama, Reid, Frank, Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, and Ted Kennedy, whom I want to congratulate on getting five months sober this week!) But there are progressives on the Right too. John McCain is one. Rudy Giuliani is another.
The only legitimate, Constitutional, moral role of government is to protect the borders and protect the Constitutional rights of the citizens. This is right-wing/libertarian ideology in a nutshell.
By definition, progressives are people who think that government should grow and should attempt to “solve” everyone’s problems (often the problems created by the government). Progressives are busybodies. They think they’re smarter than you. They tend to say “THERE OUGHTA BE A LAW!” and “THINK OF THE CHILDREN!” a lot. To which I say “You think of your children, I’ll think of mine.”
A good example of progressive thought in action is the financial crisis: progressives (like Obama, but also George W. Bush in his “lame duck” period) caused a problem. Then they try to solve the same problem, using the people who caused it (Ben Bernanke). Then they do exactly what should NOT be done (printing more money, going into debt).
Any eighth grader who’s good at math can tell you that’s the wrong way. The right way is to get out of the way, remove regulations, and let the economy flourish.
Here’s a good video explaining this. It’s sort of “School House Rock” for the new generation:
It is not the role of government to “create jobs.” At best, the role of government is to create an environment (low taxes, no nanny laws) where jobs are created by a free market.
There are tens of thousands of gun laws in America, at the federal, state and local level. Yet not one of them has ever prevented a crime. They only serve to make politicians look like they’re doing their job, and make law-abiding citizens into criminals.
Progressives want to outlaw guns to solve the problem of gun violence, a problem the progressives created!
Right-wing states like Utah and Wyoming have a very low incidence of gun violence. And guns are common, and treated with respect. People are also treated with respect. (The ironic thing is that less “redneck” places look at places like Utah and Wyoming as “primitive.” They laugh at us. They are wrong. We’re far more socialized and decent places to live. I know. I’ve lived in Los Angeles, and I’ve had a knife held to my throat in a mugging in New York City.)
Left-wing progressive places like New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago and Washington, D.C. have high rates of gun violence. Sure, part of this has to do with population, but a lot of it has to do with culture.
I’m not a Christian, but I believe that Christian upbringing ain’t a bad thing. Back when that was the norm, gun crime was much lower. Even the “Wild West”, often considered the go-to example of gun violence, didn’t have that much gun violence. That impression is the work of Hollywood. Which is filled with progressives. When is the last time you saw a person in a movie use a gun in a moral way, in pure self-defense? Almost never. Yet movies are filled with people using guns, almost always in an immoral way. Using a gun in a movie is “shorthand” for excitement. The prevalence of guns in movies is the result of lazy screenwriters, and gun-hating producers.
Right-wing places teach children to work for their goals. Left-wing places teach children that they are “entitled”, that they only have to “dream it, and they’ll get it.”….”I gots to get mine“….. Which place do you think produces more bitter, disappointed people willing to shoot up a crowd of innocents?
Progressives also downplay the role of family. Conservatives tend to have stronger families, and teach that “family is all”. Progressives teach that the family unit is an impediment, that you should “spread your wings and find your own way.”
Which group do you think has a better foundation for dealing with problems?
Progressives are revisionist with history. They downplay the role of guns in the founding of America, especially in the American Revolution. The whitewash the role of hard work in the foundation and strengthening of America. They consider wealth a bad thing, something that only exists to be stolen and redistributed to those who “deserve it” just for existing. This creates an angry underclass of people who not only think the world owes them a living, but reinforces it with a bi-monthly check.
Progressives support revolving-door prison systems, and are usually against the death penalty. Both of these put more violent people back on the street and don’t discourage violent behavior. Progressives generally consider violent felons to be a “victims of a bad upbringing” rather than simply broken machines. A good example is the ACLU, which has reams of writings on the rights of violent criminals in custody, but not one word on self-defense.
Progressives teach that any culture except American culture (including guns) is to be protected. Progressives teach that American culture is embarrassing, something to apologize for.
The progressive media also only ever reports immoral uses of guns. When was the last time you saw a news story about a little old lady using her gun to keep from being killed by some armed scumbag wanting to kill her to take her Social Security check for a fix? Yet it happens all the time.
Progressives teach their children not to have a Christian morality. They also teach their kids that “life is cheap” by telling them that abortion is a valid option if they “inconvenience” themselves with a pregnancy (due to their “fuck everything that moves” progressive morality).
I’m not making a case for anti-abortion or pro-Christianity or anti-”free love”, but I believe that “progressive” views on abortion, sex, family and religion, combined with Hollywood, have contributed heavily to gun violence seeming like a “solution” to many people. I am saying that the anti-Christian pro-abortion anti-family “I gots to get mine” agenda of progressives, and guns in Hollywood movies, are all the fault of the progressives, and contribute heavily to the prevalence of gun violence.
My brother was an Eagle Scout and participated in an after-school riflemanship program at his public school. When he was a high school senior in 1963 (back when America had a Christian morality), he used to bring his .22 rifle and ammo on the school bus and keep it in his locker for the after-school shooting classes. No one got shot, and no one cared. Whereas if you brought a boy scout pocket knife to school now, you’d be kicked out of school and likely arrested.
Obama’s DHS warns to look out for pro-American right-wing gun nuts. But almost all of the recent mass gun violence was done by people who were anti-American and left wing. The Ft. Hood shooter was anti-American. Even the shooter at the Holocaust Museum was a registered Democrat who hated Fox News.
Never forget, the KKK were Democrats! And the guy who freed the slaves was a Republican. And while we’re at it, Wyoming was the first place to give women the vote. Though that may have just been so some of them would move here!
Gun violence is the fault of the progressives. And it’s immoral that so-called progressives try to take away my guns just because they’ve wrecked so much of the world with their policies. Gun violence in secular New York City and Los Angeles has nothing to do with me in Christian Wyoming. So back the fuck off.
–Michael W. Dean
Gun control is immoral
Monday, January 25th, 2010
So, someone asked me today about “sensible” gun control. I maintain that no such thing exists.
First…
Most people who want to regulate guns don’t know much about them.
This comment on another post on this blog is typical:
I do believe that we do have the right to protect ourselves with a firearm like a shotgun or a rifle. The thing that I’m not convinced on is the need to own assault weapons like an AK-47 or an Uzi.
Here’s the thing: an AK-47 IS a rifle. And a pretty anemic one at that. Any .30 cal deer rifle has MUCH more destructive power. And range. And with a scope, it’s pretty much a sniper rifle that could kill a man at a quarter mile. (And most deer rifles are .30 cal, it’s pretty cruel to hunt deer with anything smaller, you need to kill deer in one shot, or they suffer.) An AK-47 cannot kill effectively at a quarter mile.
Not that any of that is reassuring to anyone who likes gun control, but you will NEVER get guns out of the hands of the millions of deer hunters in America. Never.
Though the “sporting purpose” mentioned by many gun grabbers (as in “we want to ban anything that does not have a sporting purpose”) has nothing to do with the Second Amendment. The “sporting purpose” crap came from an American adaptation of a Nazi Germany gun control law.
Gun control is immoral because all honest, free men have an innate right to self-defense, on a one-to-one level, like a violent mugger, but also on a larger, “opposing tyranny” level.
The Second Amendment has nothing to do with shooting deer. The right to shoot deer was a given in the rural community of early America. If you couldn’t shoot deer, you’d starve.
The Second Amendment has to do with being able to make sure that the government doesn’t get too large. To protect yourself from government. Though even uttering these words today gets you put on a watch list. Fedzilla has grown to the point that it wants to remove the Second Amendment. And they do it slowly, in bits and pieces. Give ‘em an inch and they take a mile.
Because of the Second Amendment, politicians cannot outright ban guns. So they go after them incrementally, and each bit of gun control (or ammo control, lately) legislation is a step toward the unstated goal of the government having all the guns and the people having none. Once that happens, they can cram anything down your throat, and there is nothing you can do about it.
America was founded by guys who were really pissed.
But if you quote the Founding Fathers now, you’re called a terrorist!–”Liberty in Shards” by Right Arm of Wyoming
Most politicians who want to outlaw guns don’t do so for love of the public safety. They only do it for power: the power of having the government have the only guns, and the power of getting votes. Politicians love votes, and promising to be “tough on guns” (instead of being tough on actual crime, which is harder) usually gets a few votes with the “think of the children!” parrots.
Back to the original reason for the Second Amendment: you don’t have to use your guns to prevent encroaching tyranny, you only have to have them. And maybe be willing to use them if things get bad enough. And have the skill to do so.
By the way, you need rifles to oppose tyranny. No revolutions were ever won with pistols, and tyranny is not opposed with a shotgun.
“Progressive” leftists tend to be into banning guns, because leftists think that they know what’s best for everyone. People on the right have more trust in people. They don’t need to “nanny” everyone.
But most leftist gun grabbers have never held a gun, so why should they be in charge of regulating them? Here’s a typical gun grabbing leftist, trying to explain the random indicators that defined an “assault weapon” under the “assault weapon ban” that she helped create.
Would you trust someone who is that stupid about pharmaceuticals to regulate medicine? (Never mind, that’s what the Democrats are trying to do with health care.)
Note that she also uses the incorrect term “clip” (should be “mag” or “magazine”) Also, “assault weapon” is a made-up, meaningless term. As is the specious indicators that “defined” one under that law. A pistol grip on a rifle never killed anyone, nor does it help anyone kill anyone. There is something called an “assault rifle” (a full-auto, select fire AK-47 would qualify, so do the guns our boys carry in Iraq, but both of those are already illegal for private citizens in America), but gun grabboids’ definition of “assault weapon” often includes many shotguns and hand guns too. Basically, it banned anything that looked like a military weapon, was black, and looked scary. They banned some very underpowered guns, and didn’t ban some very powerful guns, based entirely on cosmetics. Some gun lovers even called the “assault weapons ban” the “scary looking ugly black gun ban.”
Obama’s boy Eric Holder tried to reinstate the “Assault Weapon” ban last year, and said it was to help Mexico in their War on Drugs! Trying to limit our Constitutional rights to help a foreign country is treasonous, in my opinion.
All gun control has historically led to total gun confiscation, which has always led to tyrants being able to kill dissenters. Hitler, Pol Pot and Stalin all took away the guns before doing the horrible things they’re best known for.
Gun control and gun registration does not prevent crime. There are thousands of gun laws on the books, and not one of them has made anyone safer. They have only made criminals out of law-abiding citizens. Gun control simply disarms citizens. If your daughter were being stalked, would you want her to have to wait ten days to get a gun, when the criminal stalking her likely already has a gun? And while we’re on the subject of waiting periods: if you think they’re a good idea, keep people from buying a gun when they’re enraged, why should there be a waiting periods on your second gun? And your third, fourth, fifth, etc. ?
A lot of places are going after ammo, since they think that’s more Constitutional than going after guns. But limiting the amount of ammo people can get, and requiring paperwork on ammo, will have some dark unintended consequences: criminals breaking into honest follks’ homes to get ammo, and honest folks not being able to practice much. I think people who shoot should practice often, and with a lot of rounds. If someone is having to use a gun in a self-defense situation, the more practice they’ve had, the less likely they are to hit an innocent bystander.
And when asked why I should be able to have a military-pattern semi-auto gun, I say why not? I’m an honest person. Should you be limited to a slow computer with little memory because hackers can work faster on fast computers? I have a military-pattern rifle because who the fuck knows what’s going to come to my door or my neighborhood? If there were an earthquake and people were looting and trying to kill me, en mass, a shotgun and a handgun (which I also have) wouldn’t save me.
Why should my handgun be limited to a ten-round mag? If a criminal (who, by definition, does not respect the law and does not follow it) tries to mug me, starts shooting, why should I have to stop to reload? That could get me killed. (And anyone who says “If ten rounds isn’t enough, you’re not a good shoot” knows nothing about guns or self-defense. Especially when trying to fend off more than one bad guy, and they’re not standing still.)
A common chirp of gun grabboids is “The Founding Fathers didn’t imagine Uzis and AK-47s when they wrote the Second Amendment.” Well, I can guarantee if they did, they would have included that. They had the cutting edge of battle technology at the time.
A good response I’ve heard to “The Founding Fathers didn’t imagine Uzis and AK-47s when they wrote the Second Amendment” is a response about the First Amendment: “I’m willing to only carry a brace of muskets if the New York Times is willing to only publish on hand-run presses and only deliver papers by horseback.”
A lot of people confuse Uzis and AK-47s with machine guns, because both are also available in full-auto (machine gun). Only criminals have those in America. I know people with AK-47s, but they’re legal semi-auto versions.
By the way, I have several semi-auto rifles that are FAR more powerful than an AK-47.
Which brings me to the “Why do you need so many guns?” question. Well, why do you need so many shoes? I have different guns for different things. Plus, I just like guns. I like the history of them (which is why I own a 1943 gun that was actually used to kill actual Nazis), I like the feel of them, the mechanics and the science of them. Why does a stamp collector have so many damn stamps?
My guns in Wyoming don’t effect you in your state. My guns don’t even affect you if you’re my next-door neighbor. Like most gun owners, I’m an honest person. Assault and murder are illegal, and rightfully so. I will not do those things, I wouldn’t do them even if they were legal. So lay off my guns.
Guns hurt far less people than cars and swimming pools. And you don’t need a gun to hurt people. You can kill someone with a rock or a hammer. So keep your immoral desire to control my guns to yourself, and go after actual criminals instead of trying to make me into a criminal.
–Michael W. Dean
I hate children.
Monday, January 25th, 2010
Look upon this face. This is the face that will steal your liberty every single time. Do you know why? I’ll tell you.
Your freedom is harmful to children, therefore it must be curtailed. The ideal nanny state would reduce us all to this crying child, helpless to do anything without government help or better yet, permission.
About a year and a half ago, Colorado passed a law barring discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity in such areas as employment, housing, credit, public accommodations, and so on. While I am opposed to anti-discrimination laws on principle and believe them to be relics, the response from the social conservatives on the right was to try and scare people by saying that their children would be preyed upon by cross-dressers in public bathrooms. Listen to this ad by Focus on the Family. Try not to laugh, because although it is comical and absurd, a lot of people fall for shit like this.
Here’s another spot by the lovely kooks at the National Organization for Marriage, the lovely bunch who brought you the hysterical “Gathering Storm” ads.
Notice how they use children to make parents afraid, scared that they will learn that gay people exist, that they’re even your neighbors and relatives, with the underlying, unstated threat being that acceptance of same-sex marriage will make your kids gay.
Lest you think I am a one-trick pony with this gay issue, look to other nanny-state laws that were put into effect initially to protect children, but were soon extended to all of us. Seat belt laws are a prime example. Used to be that if someone under 12 was in a car they had to be buckled in, but now we all have to wear them regardless. It doesn’t matter that seat belts can kill by trapping someone in a burning car, strangling a motorist or passenger in a wreck, or holding them firmly to a seat that careens into a tree whereas an impact without a seat belt may have knocked them aside, the government is going to force you for your alleged own good to wear a seat belt, and it all started with the grand, noble idea of protecting the children.
Video games are a favorite target of censors who claim that they make children violent, or turn them into lethargic slugs who shun fresh air and grow obese. Yes, it’s the video game, not the lack of parenting, that makes a child stay indoors on beautiful days. It’s Grand Theft Auto that makes a kid steal a car or shoot someone. Has to be, because the parents in these cases are all in utter denial that their special little zygote would do something so terrible. It’s the same kind of denial that allowed Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold to stockpile guns and grenades and pipe bombs and pull off the Columbine Massacre. Not my kids, not my fault, must be Marilyn Manson’s fault.
The most damaging instance, however, came following the halftime performance at the 2004 Super Bowl, when Justin Timberlake grabbed Janet Jackson’s blouse and tugged, exposing for a mere half a second, one saggy, flappy brown breast that had a gold star over the nipple. You would have thought that she was masturbating with a crucifix in front of Catholic school kindergartners by the outrage, but in reality it was so fast that few people even saw it. Cameras cut away and Janet quickly covered up her, ah, “wardrobe malfunction”. If I remember correctly, this was tame compared to some of the other performances where raunchy bump and grinds were being performed by Nelly and the suggestive lyrics coming from him and Sean Combs (I have no idea what the fuck he calls himself these days). In the aftermath of this event, the FCC increased their fines for indecency tenfold and began going after broadcasters in television and radio for things that wouldn’t have merited a second listen or look. Howard Stern was chased off of terrestrial radio, and many morning “shock jocks” either lost their gigs or were forced to water down their shows to the point where they weren’t funny or engaging anymore. The panic also had a chill factor on what networks and stations were willing to allow, and many programming decisions were now put in the hands of worrywart lawyers and middle management whose job was to insulate the company from fines and possible lawsuits. The television networks are dying dinosaurs, giant carcasses being strangled by regulation, while cable thrives. Terrestrial radio is a dead medium for all but political talk on the AM waves, satellite radio is ascendant. The internet is blowing them all away, it’s truly the last frontier of free speech.
If you think the government and the FCC don’t want to stick their noses into cable, satellite, and internet, think again. Bet you dollars to donuts the rationale they will use is “protecting the children”, because apparently, being a parent is hard and we need our government to help us out.
Think long and hard before you offer up everyone’s liberty as a sacrifice to protect your children. Those of us who are over 30 grew up with very little of these restrictions and protections and we’re just fine. You’re simply being groomed to accept more and more government intrusion into your everyday life, and they’re getting at you by preying on the fear that parents naturally have for their offspring. Don’t fall for it, whether it comes from a liberal or a conservative, the government does not have your best interests at heart. The leviathan is only after power and can never have enough.
~Matti Frost
IS AA a UN/Freemason plot?
Sunday, January 24th, 2010Freemasons run the country!
lol……
Background: I don’t like the UN, but I have a lot of interest in the Freemasons, and it’s not negative. My dad was a Freemason. And so were many the Founding Fathers.
The Supreme Being and the Volume of Sacred Law
Candidates for regular Freemasonry are required to declare a belief in a Supreme Being. However, the candidate is not asked to expand on, or explain, his interpretation of Supreme Being. The discussion of politics and religion is forbidden within a Masonic Lodge, in part so a Mason will not be placed in the situation of having to justify his personal interpretation.[29] Thus, reference to the Supreme Being will mean the Christian Trinity to a Christian Mason, Allah to a Muslim Mason, Para Brahman to a Hindu Mason, etc. And while most Freemasons would take the view that the term Supreme Being equates to God, others may hold a more complex or philosophical interpretation of the term.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freemasons#The_Supreme_Being_and_the_Volume_of_Sacred_Law
You know, the only other place I’ve heard this line of thought is Alcoholics Anonymous. the whole “create your own higher power”, “god of your own understanding” stuff. I’ve never heard of a connection of AA and Freemasonry. And as a still-sober former AA member, and while I was in AA, I’ve studied the hell out of the history of AA. But I think it’s possible.
I have seen a site that says that AA is a UN-sponsored New World Order plot to remove Christian influences in society and replace Christianity with Secular Humanism.
That’s somewhere on this sprawling site
http://www.orange-papers.org/
written by a former AA member, still sober, but nuts and smart and waaaaay too much time on his hands…..all of it, for years, apparently devoted to debunking AA in a scholarly and heavily annotated fashion.
– Michael W. Dean
All-white basketball league
Sunday, January 24th, 2010
All-American Basketball Alliance
A new professional basketball league boasting rosters made up exclusively of white Americans has its eyes set on Augusta, but the team isn’t receiving a warm welcome.
I see no reason why they should not be able to do this, in a world where all other races have their own “our race only” coalitions and organizations. Can you imagine if someone started the “United Caucasian College Fund” or the “National Association for the Advancement of White People.”? They’d be crucified. Which is ironic, because while the United Negro College Fund” and the NAACP were started to foster a “leg up for people who are downtrodden”, at this point, they’ve accomplished their goals and then some.
For instance, it’s now far easier for a black or Asian student to get into a good university than it is for a white student with the same academic record and economic status.
However, back to the “White men CAN jump” B-ball league, they had to know going in that they’d get a shit storm, which is actually probably why they did it…to make a point.
Although I’m sure it’s guys who enjoy playing ball, and maybe don’t like playing with non-white players. In a libertarian paradise, there would be nothing wrong with this, nor would there be any reason to not have a black-only or Hispanic-only group. The only difference is, in the libertarian paradise, no group would get SPECIAL protections, just equal protections.
If you think anyone is welcome anywhere in today’s world, try being male and having a drink in a hardcore lesbian bar. I’ve tried that when I lived in San Francisco. It wasn’t pretty. Also try being white and having a drink in a bar in a black neighborhood. I’ve done that too. Wasn’t thrown out like in the lesbian bar, just ignored while simultaneously being “studied” like an strange insect.
I think racism is one of the most ridiculous aspects of humanity. But I also think there’s a lot of governmentally and socially protected “reverse racism” (i.e. actual racism, but against white people) in the world now, and I don’t mind calling it what it is.
MWD
Stupid stupid stupid liberals
Sunday, January 24th, 2010Stupid stupid stupid liberals.
From CNN:
My 68-year-old mother-in-law refuses to take a bath but once a week. Is this healthy or even legally acceptable? Please help.
MLK owned guns
Monday, January 18th, 2010
Remember all this when any gun grabber (including Obama, who sometimes seems to think he’s MLK Jr. Jr.) demands you give up your guns.
http://www.lesjones.com/posts/004857.shtml
Well before his decision (apparently in 1955) to embrace Ghandian non-violence as the best tactic in the national showdown over civil rights, King had been a committed civil rights activist, but also a man who believed in protecting himself and his family against constant threats of racist violence (which included the bombing of his home).
Accordingly, the pre-Ghandian King had been armed to protect himself and his family — to the point where his home was described by one activist as “an arsenal“:
King would later admit that at the start of the boycott be was not firmly committed to Gandhian principles. He had initially advocated nonviolence not as a way of life but as a practical necessity for a racial minority. When his home was bombed at the end of January, he had cited Jesus– “He who lives by the sword will perish by the sword”– rather than Gandhi in urging angry black neighbors to remain nonviolent. At the time of the bombing, King was seeking a gun permit, and he was protected by armed bodyguards. Only after the bombing did King alter his views on the use of weapons for protection. His reconsideration was encouraged by the arrival in Montgomery of two pacifists who were far more aware than he of Gandhian principles.
Also see The Racist Origins Of Gun Control
HOPE? and CHANGE?
Saturday, January 16th, 2010Great video put together from my friend Chris from the JPFO.
Death threats to me on YouTube
Saturday, January 16th, 2010Got a nice one today:
suboptimal wrote
This is probably the stupidest video I’ve seen on youtube. You’re a moran!
I replied “The stupidest? THAT would be quite an honor!”
suboptimal wrote
OMFG I know you’re not being sarcastic to me. I don’t know who you think you are or where you’re from but around here we don’t tolerate bullshit like that. If this were on the streets where I’m from, you’d get a cap in your ass, son!
I used to be a nigga on the street tryin’ to kick a beat and now I’ve got a great job as a manager, despite rednecks like yo self trying to keep me down.
We need hate crime laws, but no one needs a god damn bumpkin band putting out anti Obama music.
Peace out.
It was a response to this video:
I don’t know where the guy lives, but I’ll bet he’s posting from his mother’s paneled rec room.
Michael W. Dean
My state of the Union speech, mid-January 2010
Friday, January 15th, 2010
So…..It’s horrible what happened in Haiti. And there have been some really inappropriate comments about it….Pat Robertson saying it’s the fault of Devil worship. (I’m not fan of voodoo, but really don’t believe it can cause natural disasters.) But I’m not sure I disagree with Rush Limbaugh saying “You already give to Haitian relief – it’s called the income tax.”
Then there are the conspiracy theorists saying the US caused the earthquake, to test their new HAARP array in Alaska, the High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program,
The objectives of the HAARP project became the subject of controversy in the mid-1990s, following claims that the antennas could be used as a weapon. A small group of U.S.physicists aired complaints in the Physics and Society letters, charging that the HAARP could be seeking ways to destroy or disable enemy spacecraft or disrupt communications over large portions of the planet. The physicist critics of the HAARP have had little complaint about the project’s current stage, but have expressed fears that it could in the future be expanded into an experimental weapon, especially given that its funding comes from the Office of Naval Research and the Air Force Research Laboratory.
I can’t even touch that theory….can’t wrap my head around the possibility of it. I suppose it’s possible that our gub’mint could be that evil, but I don’t think it’s what happened. I mainly think that there are too many amateur scientists in the world with good equipment who would have detected it.
I can say this: I think that Obama and Rahm “don’t let a crisis go to waste” Emanuel or Eric “shred the Constitution” Holder are going to bring a bunch of Haitian refugees to America, and fast track them to citizenship, just in time to vote Democrat in 2012. MARK MY WORDS.
If you think that’s politicizing a horrible situation, you’re right. But saying it is far less horrible than them DOING IT, which is politicizing in the process.
SPEAKING OF ERIC “SHRED THE CONSTITUTION” HOLDER, how about this?
Black Panther Voter Intimidation Case Dropped – WSJ.com
The episode—which Bartle Bull, a former civil rights lawyer and publisher of the left-wing Village Voice, calls “the most blatant form of voter intimidation I’ve ever seen”—began on Election Day 2008. Mr. Bull and others witnessed two Black Panthers in paramilitary garb at a polling place near downtown Philadelphia. (Some of this behavior is on YouTube.)
One of them, they say, brandished a nightstick at the entrance and pointed it at voters and both made racial threats. Mr. Bull says he heard one yell “You are about to be ruled by the black man, cracker!”
In the first week of January, the Justice Department filed a civil lawsuit against the New Black Panther Party and three of its members, saying they violated the 1965 Voting Rights Act by scaring voters with the weapon, uniforms and racial slurs. In March, Mr. Bull submitted an affidavit at Justice’s request to support its lawsuit.
Holder is refusing to pursue it.
You can be damn sure if it were white people (KKK, Tea Party, take your pick) intimidating black voters, they’d be in prison.
OK, and finally, The Supreme Court is trying a case whereby a sex offender was kept in prison after he’d finished serving his sentence. I think the powers that be intentionally used a kiddie porn guy for this case, because it will elicit a “THINK OF THE CHILDREN! HE MUST BE KEPT IN PRISON, FOR THE GOOD OF THE NATION!” response. The thing is, if this flies, they’ll eventually be able to keep anyone in prison for anything, just based on futurecrime.
Obama would love this.
Meanwhile, he and the Democrats are, behind closed doors (in violation of his campaign promises), selling out America and taking over 1/6 of our economy.
We live in strange times, folks. I’m worried. How about you?
I’ll say this: one of the reasons I have guns is to protect my home and loved ones from looters in a breakdown situation like Haiti’s earthquake or Hurricane Katrina. I would NOT want to have to wait for the government to protect me while roving gangs go door to door using violence to take what they want.
Me and my friend Nunzio did a good double-ender podcast yesterday, on this and a lot of other important subjects. Check it out.
–Michael W. Dean
AN OPEN LETTER TO THE REPUBLICAN PARTY
Wednesday, January 13th, 2010
AN OPEN LETTER TO THE REPUBLICAN PARTY
From: Michael W. Dean
Wyoming contact, Republican Liberty Caucus
Dear Republican Party,
In the next presidential election, and in all state and local elections, you need to support candidates who are true Republicans and genuine lovers of liberty. The party will not succeed if it does not run candidates who truly understand and respect the Constitution, including the Bill of Rights.
America was once a constitutionally limited republic, and it needs to be returned to that. In the past 100 years, and especially in the past 20 years, America has been reduced to a so-called “democracy”, where 51% of the people can rob and over-regulate 49% of the people.
A true constitutional republic could last in perpetuity; whereas democracies historically survive for 200 to 300 years. After that, they devolve into socialism or oligarchies, as the people who do not want to work vote into office people who will let them not work, and can pay them to do so by stealing from those who do work.
We are at a tipping point. America is in her 235th year. The next presidential election can determine if we regain our constitutional republic, or slide into a permanent “progressive” majority helmed by a deluded far-left who do not listen to the people, and are chomping at the bit to bankrupt us into a socialist oligarchy. Those folks see Republicans not as a force to work with in a bipartisan capacity, but as an impediment to robbing from the productive so they can “give” to those who have no desire or ability to produce.
If Washington followed the Constitution, it would barely matter who was president. The checks and balances would work. But ours has been co-opted into a popularity contest wherein people vote for the candidate with the slickest tongue and the shortest slogan….especially slogans like “HOPE” and “CHANGE.” As we’ve seen, these basically mean “Get me in, and you’ll find out my actual core beliefs later, when it’s too late.”
If the President and Congress followed the Constitution, DC would not be permitted to arbitrarily dictate most of what a citizen does in a given state. We need candidates who stand up for the Constitution, including the true meaning the Interstate Commerce Clause, and the original intent of all parts of the Bill of Rights, especially the First, Second and Tenth Amendments.
If the Republican Party establishment supports a spend-o-crat RINO (Republican in Name Only) in the next presidential election, you will guarantee a victory for the Democratic Party.
The Democrat Party used to have some principles, but has lately been taken over by a few dozen extreme leftist “progressives” with radical ideas and ties. They think they know what’s best for everyone, consider the Constitution a detriment, and consider Republicans a speed bump to be routed around behind closed doors.
America has woken up to the waste, “legal” stealing and “legal” bribes that can only lead to the destruction of America. The Democrats are largely responsible, but some Republicans have helped along the way. If you run a RINO for president, you will guarantee AINO (America in Name Only) in the near future, and forever.
The American people have finally woken up. Americans who have never been active in politics have taken to the streets by the millions. This is just the beginning.
The Democrats have been exposed for their gross spending of other people’s money at all levels, but in doing so have also shown that the Democrats aren’t the only ones. Some Republicans have contributed to this as well.
If you run a constitutional candidate like Gary Johnson, Tom Coburn, Jim DeMint, or Paul (Ron or Rand, take your pick) in the next presidential election, you’ll have a chance. I’ll vote Republican, and help out. So will millions of libertarians, tea partiers, swing voters, independents and even some of the smarter disgruntled Democrats. All combined, this will be enough to make the difference in the outcome of that election.
But 2012 is likely the very last year where even this will be possible. The leftists are working 24/7 to stack the deck against the possibility of retaining any America in America.
The Republican Party needs to run constitutional candidates, not only because it’s the right thing to do, but because it will keep the party from being perceived as “irrelevant naysayers” without any of their own ideas on how to make the country better. Running constitutional candidates will keep you from becoming a footnote in history. And even that footnote will likely be erased with time when a permanent socialist majority takes control of all media and education.
This road to serfdom can possibly be avoided, but it’s up to the Republican Party. You must run Barry Goldwater candidates, not George W. Bush, John McCain, or Rudy Giuliani candidates. Otherwise you’re going to end up with an America you don’t recognize, while you cling to your “Don’t blame me, I voted Republican” buttons.
Politics has become far too complicated. Lawmakers don’t think they’re doing their jobs if they don’t enact dozens of new laws and endless pork-barrel projects to “bring home the bacon” every day. This leads to honest folks becoming criminals, and the federal government having a stranglehold over every single aspect of our lives. We need candidates who will simplify, not complicate. We need candidates who will leash the beast, not feed the beast.
The Republican Party must run candidates who follow the Constitution and understand natural law… people who believe in their heart of hearts that government does not grant rights, does not restrict rights, but has only one legitimate role: protecting rights.
Our Founders are likely rolling in their graves at what the Democrats are doing now. But the Founders surely wouldn’t be pleased with what some in the Republican Party have done, either.
Why make us pick from the lesser of two evils? Here’s a novel idea: how about running someone who’s NOT evil!
Try it, you’ll like it. And America will be better for it.
–Michael W. Dean
http://www.libertarianpunk.com
We picked a good time to leave California
Tuesday, January 12th, 2010Arnold Schwarzenegger to call for deep spending cuts, plead for U.S. aid
“….. he will propose the wholesale elimination of CalWorks, the state’s main welfare program,…”
“”…and a 14% salary cut for more than 200,000 state workers. …”
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Cut welfare, cut funding to public services, sounds like halfway to a libertarian paradise. They’re also cutting salaries of police and firemen. I don’t wanna be there for the transition as this RINO (Republican in Name Only) mismanages the Golden State into chaos.
Glad me and the wife moved to Wyoming, a state that can actually pull its own weight. I saw this California collapse coming, which is why we got the hell out six months ago.
My prediction of the Los Angeles headlines a week after the budget cuts happen and welfare is stopped:
–Michael W. Dean
When guns are outlawed, outlaws will only have acid…..
Sunday, January 10th, 2010Ever wonder what a perfect world it would be if guns were completely outlawed in your country? Well, guns are completely outlawed in Hong Kong and the UK….
Tourists Injured In Hong Kong Acid Attack
This X-ray shows the savagery of the knife epidemic sweeping Britain’s streets. But this teenage boy is one of the lucky ones – he miraculously escaped death after the kitchen knife was plunged into his skull…..
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I could go on and on and on and on and on, but….you get the idea.
Michael W. Dean
Nullification Rally In Texas
Sunday, January 10th, 2010
To expound on my blog about nullification of “health care reform” I wanted to share information about a rally being held in Austin, TX. Several groups led by The Alliance of Texans Against Government Controlled Healthcare are hosting the rally. This event will take place January 16th, 2010 at 2:00 PM on the South side of the Texas Capitol Building. According to their website, it is “A rally to voice our support across Texas. We are serious about nullification and want the governor to call a special session to protect us from the federal government.”
The Texas Legislature meets for 140 days every two years. The latest session was adjourned in February of 2009, so a special session would need to be called in order to nullify any federal legislation. The power to call that special session rests with Governor Rick Perry. Gov. Perry has made bold statements in regards to the federal takeover of health care.
“… I’m certainly willing and ready for the fight if this administration continues to try to force their very expansive government philosophy down our collective throats.” July 23, 2009.
The time for talk is drawing to an end, and it is now time to see if Gov. Perry is willing to take the steps necessary to make the will of the people known. The current administration has promised transparency and honest debate, but has resorted to meetings behind closed doors, political bribery of representatives, and rushing legislation through in the cover of darkness. The time has come for the states to stand up and say “ENOUGH!”
For more information, please see http://www.notintexas.org/.
-Justin West
They’re all the same, stupid.
Saturday, January 9th, 2010
Go ahead and hate me. You have plenty of reasons why, but I will give you one that will probably fill my e-mail box with letters of frothing hatred and disgust from many of you.
I voted for Barack Obama.
Stunned? Shocked? Go ahead, I was too. I didn’t plan on doing so. Up until about 6 weeks before the election, I was undecided and probably looking towards not voting because I really couldn’t stomach either major candidate and Bob Barr… well, come on, it’s Bob Barr, and we all know that the LP doesn’t stand a snowball’s chance in hell on the national stage because we don’t even have the patience or gumption to win smaller offices first. But that’s a topic for another post. I want to say that I voted for Barack Obama not because I believed in his “hope and change” platform, but because I believed that the Republican Party abandoned their principles, abandoned anything close to libertarianism a long time ago, and it no longer deserves my vote or support. I am not going to vote for the lesser of two evils, I will vote for the most evil until the alternative runs something GOOD. Don’t you get it? Voting for John McCain and Sarah Palin would have been like rearranging the deck lounges on the Titanic. I didn’t, and still do not believe, that there’s that much of a difference anyway, and that is evidenced by Obama’s constant caving to the center.
I laugh at the people who thought that Barack Obama was going to sweep into office and change the face of this country overnight. Truth is, he’s not. As president he is constrained, because his actions and what he chooses to do can affect whether or not Democrats maintain the Congress at the end of this year. That’s why he isn’t spending any political capital to make many of the changes that he promised during his campaign. Notice the conflicting messages all over the place- Nancy Pelosi says we’re at war against private health insurers, while the Obama plan creates a giant giveaway to private insurers backed by government gunpoint. Obama says he’s going to end the war and bring the troops home, and then we see him sending more to Afghanistan using a McCain-endorsed surge strategy. Michael’s right in his analysis that liberals are becoming disillusioned with Obama. I wonder when conservatives will be likewise.
When are we going to stop pointing the finger at Barack Obama and start pointing it at the people who betrayed the principles of limited government that they once stood for? It’s easy to look at Obama as the next Mao, Stalin, Castro, but Barack Obama never denied he was a liberal. He embraced it and for a while, even reclaimed it, until he became skittish about delivering on his ‘change’ and settled for ‘compromise’ instead. And yet, he was recently blamed for everything under the sun just a few posts down from this one. The truth, however, is a lot more complex and alarming, and that is that statism and tyranny knows no party affiliation. This country ceased being truly free decades ago, and will become less free as the years go by, as we are constantly on a war footing, and as our decisions are motivated not by principle but by fear. As long as we believe that something is out to get us and our children, we will flock to politicians and throw our liberty at their feet and demand that they save us from the bogeymen- sorry, bogeypersons.
So, I did vote for Obama, in part because I believe that a country gets the government it deserves, and also because I am not afraid of him or his policies. If they’re good policies then they will work and people will be happy, if they’re lousy policies then they will fail and someone else will come in and the process repeats. All of this talk about Obama becoming some kind of mega-dictator and having megalomaniacal aspirations is just paranoia and lunacy. It’s the same thing many on the far left said about President Bush, that he would find a way to stay in office past his two terms and suspend the Bill of Rights. Fuck people, they don’t have to suspend the Bill of Rights when most of us would be willing to give it away for the illusion of safety and security.
I also voted for Obama in hopes that maybe, just maybe, Republicans will think long and hard before saddling us with someone like the Alaskan Quitbull. We don’t need any more imperialist neo-cons drunk on Jesus appealing to the stupidest and most short-sighted among us. We need principled, liberty-minded conservatives who believe in protecting individual rights, who believe in not handing over the reins of power to unaccountable giant corporations who are selling out the American people to pelase their stockholders. We need people who believe that IF WE CAN’T AFFORD IT THEN WE JUST HAVE TO DO WITHOUT. There were no tea parties when Bush was spending hand over fist (I called for them but nobody listened), no protest at the fact that he waited until 2006 to veto his first bill which was a pointless fucking ban on embryonic stem cell research funding. Yes, his first veto wasn’t a bloated omnibus bill or Ted Kennedy’s medicare expansion, no, it was a piece of red meat to the lunatic Christian Right who thinks that frozen zygotes that will just be discarded are PEOPLE. The wars we’re fighting now in Iraq and Afghanistan are being funded by borrowed money, our nations’ credit rating is in the crapper, and it’s all because George W. Bush thought we could fight two wars without any kind of sacrifice on the part of the citizens. Let our soldiers fight and die, and keep the rest of us distracted, fat, and stupid. How dare anyone suggest I vote for a Republican when this is the best they have to offer.
Barack Obama has done lots of things worthy of criticism, of that there is no doubt. But I ask, what good is voting for a Republican if he’s simply going to take the gun from Obama, smile, pat him on the shoulder, and point it at us all over again?
~Matt Frost
The Obama-moon is over
Saturday, January 9th, 2010
My friend Andy said: Judging by how my pro-Obama coworkers and in-laws do NOT want to talk about politics any more, I’d say the honeymoon is completely over.
I replied:
….. Kind of like how when a guy starts dating a totally hot chick, brags to everyone all the time about the totally hot chick……then it comes out that she’s cheatin’ on him, treats him like shit, and is only after him for his money?
–Michael W. Dean
Free feisty libertarian punk rock MP3s for our readers
Friday, January 8th, 2010
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So….for the time being, our readers may download the RIGHT ARM OF WYOMING CD free!
DOWNLOAD is HERE, right click to save.
WHAT’S IN THE DOWNLOAD?
It’s a 106-meg zip file of all the MP3s of the new album, plus one bonus song, “Tar and Feather a Tax Collector.” Also included is the lyric sheet and cover art. It takes about 90 seconds to download on DSL. The MP3s are high-quality encodes (192k / 44,100 k, 16-bit joint stereo MP3s, properly tagged). Download, unzip, and you can drag them right into your iPod, iPhone, or whatever chromed-robot-turd folks are carrying this week, and they’ll light up your day.
You can still buy the CD for only 12 bucks, and once the initial pressing of 1000 is gone (fairly soon), I’m probably not repressing. I’m on to making the second CD now, and I don’t like to “paint the same picture twice.”
WHY ARE YOU GIVING THIS AWAY?
I make enough to get by on my day job, writing tech books and how-to stuff. Even though this music is better than most stuff done by people who “define themselves as being in a band”, that’s not me. At least not anymore. I have no plans to tour or get signed, I’ve been there and done that. Touring the gin mills of the world, playing for beer and gas money, and waking up next to hot crazy women whose name I can’t remember….well, that’s no longer in my plans. I’ve done the hell out of it, and lived to tell the tale, and that’s enough.
This music exists to pass on a message. Giving away downloads isn’t taking any food off the table, and I’ve also found that people who download don’t usually buy things. So I’ll still sell as many CDs. Maybe more, given my past experiences doing things like this.
WHAT SHOULD WE DO?
Tell two friends. Blog. Twitter, Facebook, or whatever you kids are doing these days. Get this shit out there.
Also available on BitTorrent, if you prefer (please seed if you do that.)
Michael W. Dean
From Angry Peasant Records. 
Angry Peasant Records is a division of the Nestlandia Institute Libertarian Think Tank 
SONG LISTING:
1. GET OFF MY PROPERTY!
2. MY GUN KEEPS YOU HONEST
3. REDISTRIBUTION OF THEFT
4. GOVERNMENT IS A COLLECTIVE HALLUCINATION
5. GUN CONTROL GETS WOMEN RAPED
6. LIBERTY IN SHARDS
7. FREAKY LIBERAL MAMMAL SEX
8. FAKIN’ THE RACE CARD
9. SINGLE CRACKLING BLUE FLASH
10. WE ARE THE GOOD GUYS!
11. US Bill of Rights (read by Mrs. Dean)
12. LETTER TO A YOUNG ME (SPOKEN)
13. MY GUN KEEPS YOU HONEST – CLEAN VERSION FOR RADIO
Chicago Police may scrap entrance exam
Friday, January 8th, 2010
Obama’s home town is thinking the unthinkable:
http://www.suntimes.com/news/cityhall/1975918,CST-NWS-policeexam06web.article
http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local-beat/chicago-police-scrap-entrance-exam-80790827.html
It’s a sad day when you have to foster “diversity” by dumbing things down.
Dropping the exam would bolster minority hiring and avert legal battles, according to one source, while others confirm that the exam could be scrapped to open the process to as many people as possible
However, the lack of an exam would make Chicago the lone major city without one, and experts contend that the exam is integral to eliminating unqualified applicants.
You know something’s a bad idea when even a Union chief says “It’s ‘too stupid to be true.”
My opinion? An unintended consequence is that this could be Chicago’s way around the NRA lawsuits they’ve had post-Heller regarding handgun ownership. “Whatta ya mean we don’t issue handgun permits. We’ll let anyone carry a gun….”
Michael W. Dean
Obama’s transgressions
Thursday, January 7th, 2010
Today all the news networks did a couple hours of teasers, saying “Obama is going to make a shocking announcement today.”
I thought he was going to announce “While in our secret closed-door health care meeting, me and my fellow socialist Dems found a way to change the Constitution and ban guns. And we’ve also made a deal to make France the 51st state. And I’m putting Osama bin Laden in charge of the TSA, because he knows how those terrorist folks think.”
But that’s just me and where my head goes with things. At this point, those are about the only things Obama could say that would shock me.
The “shocking” thing advertised was just Obama pretending to have some accountability for security breakdowns. Just him trying to be as un-George Bush as his focus groups could come up with.
Yawn.
The reason not much Obama could do would shock me is everything he’s done already. Every few days for the first six months or so of Obama’s reign, my jaw dropped at something the man or his cronies have done to America. My jaw stopped dropping around June or July.
Here’s a list I started a while back. I’ve given up updating it:
I was mainly looking for
– Anything unconstitutional
– Broken campaign promises
– Lying
– Bad decisions that are bad for America
– Just bad presidenting (i.e. stuff that would appall you even if you were a Democrat, albeit a smart one)
OK, I’ll start, with all I remember, or have heard that he’s “ALLEGEDLY” done:
1. broke campaign promise of “no new taxes” by taxing cigarettes and electricity, and trying to mandate health care with a fine and jail time for non-compliance.
2. Trying to send all kids to public school 24/7
3. Talked about reinstating “assault weapon ban”, (but changed his mind, for now)
4. Let his attorney general go after the CIA for doing what they had to do.
5. Wanted to release photos of waterboarding
6. Has an idiot VP (who was only there for the white vote) who has only said about four things, all of them stupid and/or threats to national security
7. Has a DHS that believes that most white middle-aged conservatives, libertarians, third-party voters and many vets are potential terrorists
8. Appoints “czars” (for example Van Jones and Cass Sunstein) who literally used to be terrorists, and who still are communist
9. Puts a guy (Geithner) in charge of the Fed and IRS who couldn’t figure out how to use “TurboTax”
10. Appointed a bunch of czars waiting in the wings who:
a. Want to give animals the right to sue
b. Want to outlaw hunting
c. Want to make it illegal NOT to donate your organs when you die
d. Want to use forced sterilization on people
e. Want to be able to shut down parts of the Internet
f. Are pervert ex-druggies in charge of schools
g. etc. etc. ect.
11. Obama CLEARLY said in pre-election interviews that he wants to “redistribute the wealth” (and used that term), but says he’s not socialist!
12. Wants Congress to sign a 1000-page heath care bill without giving them time to read it
13. Wants to close Gitmo with one hand, while opening many much-worse Gitmos with the other
14. Doesn’t understand 8th grade math. Thinks he can spend our way out of debt.
15. Claims he didn’t know much about ACORN, and didn’t know that they got federal money: AFTER ACORN was a large part of getting him elected.
16. Continually apologizes for America
17. Said “America is the largest Muslim nation”
18. “A new era of transparency. 5 days of public review for any major legislation.” Where?
19. More warrantless wiretapping.
20. Claimed “No tax increase on those making less than 250k. Not a dime!”, then increased their taxes, and continues to do so
21. Says the Economic Recovery Act had “no pork in it”
22. Dropping charges against armed, uniformed men, who were intentionally intimidating voters at polling place(s) on election day
23. Says he’s not a socialist while acting like a socialist.
24. Says he’s not increasing the size of the Federal Government while increasing the size of the Federal Government.
25. Broke campaign promise to rescind “don’t ask don’t tell”
26. Broke campaign promise to decriminalize marijuana (and laughed at people who smoke marijuana when asked about it)
27. Cap ‘n’ trade. Immoral, stealing from producers of wealth and jobs, just creates a new false economy (and a new “stock market”) and fortunes for his liberal buddies.
28. Cash for Clunkers. Didn’t work. Who would want to put health care in charge of the folks who bungled Cash for Clunkers?
29. Disrespects the 2nd Amendment (and the 1st Amendment, when it doesn’t favor him)
30. Let the NEA use Fed grant money to produce propaganda with his image on it
31. Posted photos of himself with the daughters of leader of Spain, illegal in Spain (for security of the daughters)
32. Allowed that “show of force” low flyover of Manhattan that scared the hell out of everybody
33. Expanded extraordinary rendition while simultaneously claiming he was ending torture.
34. Campaigned on “more transparency”, has a bitchin’ YouTube channel and MySpace page, but is having technical difficulties getting the health care bill online
35.-3029. Khalid Sheikh Mohammed To Be Tried In Civilian Court
That last one would be #35, but I made it “#35 through #3029.”
I added in the 2,995 people killed on 9/11.
That’s all I can think of for now. I know there’s a lot more.
Michael W. Dean
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