Bill Bennett- The Book of Man- Readings on the Path to Manhood (Thomas Nelson Books)

The introduction of talk show host/commentator/former Secretary of Education Bill Bennett’s new book The Book of Man is as thought provoking a handful of pages as I have read lately. In it he makes the case that the state of manhood in America has gone through a dramatic and altogether not good transition over the course of the past couple of decades.

While it is not Bennett’s premise, I think the case can be made that we can trace the current malaise we find ourselves mired in, to the pussification of the American male. We have steadily erased some of the cornerstones of what made men, men. And Bennett’s book wants to put in place a framework, through the written word, to put manhood back into its rightful place, by changing the way we teach the next generation of males.

Think about it. We have erased from our society some of the most basic tenets of manhood. We whimpify boys by not allowing them to keep score in youth sports; going a step further when we actually allow scoring in scholastic sports, teams who win a lopsided victory are chastised for “running up the score.”

We have raised a generation of men not to seek knowledge and pursue critical thinking skills, but to merely get good grades. I recently took part in a discussion with a college professor who studies generational differences who spoke of the disturbing trend where college students are likely to have a parent call a professor about a bad grade or even go so far as to bring along a parent on job interviews!

We have taught a generation of men that they are inconsequential to the family unit; that women are strong and don’t really need them around. Is it any wonder that we have tragic divorce rates, scores of children being born and raised out of wedlock and where in the 1950s 96 percent of males between the ages of 25-54 worked; today that number stands at around 80 percent. Yes, a full 20 percent, one fifth of men do not get up and go to work each day!

Where once men took care of families, the government now plays the role of provider. No I am not a chauvinist, women are certainly a vital part of the work force and the family, but how can you read these numbers and not see that we have created an unsustainable and growing problem of dependency.

The Book Of Man is not a prescription to fix this problem, but gathers the writings of great thinkers on a variety of topics including; Man at Work, Man at Play, and Man with Women and Children, which can at the very least envision a different sort of path to manhood than we currently find ourselves on.

I can’t help but wonder if instead of government handouts if we might see a greater benefit in handing out copies of Mr. Bennett’s book. I also have to wonder if the maggot-infested flock of Wall Street Occupiers might benefit from a copy of the Book of Man…maybe we could enlist someone to read it to them, or better yet, we could set up a large PA system and blast them with the audio book version 24/7.

John Edwards...Quite A Guy

What kind of a guy has an affair, knocks up the dumb slut and then asks other people to foot the bill to try to hide said slut from his wife and the tabloid media all while running for President? Keep in mind that this guy has a fortune estimated at between 30 and 40 MILLION DOLLARS!


That of course would be John Edwards!

                                                     Who smiles for a mug shot?

Now the trail lawyer turned politician is trying desperately to get out from under a Federal case charging him with circumvent campaign finance laws when he asked a couple of wealthy campaign donors to pony up nearly a million bucks in secret cash to try to hide campaign videographer and not too bright slut Rielle Hunter from the prying eyes of the National Enquirer and his cancer stricken wife Elizabeth.

Edwards’s lawyer filed an armload of motions in a North Carolina court room today to try to cut the legs out from under the government’s case. Edwards’ mouthpiece Abbe Lowell is claiming that the “Silky Pony” knew nothing about the payments and that the cash never made its way through the campaign coffers.

You’ve got to wonder what kind of people become so enamored with a politician that that would be willing to stroke checks for huge money to help the guy cover up his indiscretions? Makes you wonder what the expectations were for a quid pro quo if the second tier Edwards miraculously could have pulled off the election win?

Seriously, this whole episode could have been avoided, if Edwards had just sucked it up and took the hit or easier still would have covered his slut fund out of his own fortune. Makes you wonder not only about his character, but also his lack of intelligence.

Bobby the Bundler...Looking Out of Pennsylvania

Running my finger down the list of some 351 campaign donation "bundlers" who collected some $55.5 million in campaign cash, in the most recent quater, for the Obama For America and Obama Victory Fund 2012 Volunteer Fundraisers mixed in among the Hollywood 1 Percenters like Harvey Weinstein and Jeffrey Katzenberg was none other than Pennsylvania Senator Bobby Casey Jr.

Bobby The Bundler apparently wasn't too busy looking out for the best interests of the citizens of the Commonwealth to take out some time to hit up enough foloks to lan himself a spot in the $50,000 to $100,000 catagory on the list

Could it possibly be that things are going so well that Bobby Jr. has nothing else to do but play bank teller to the President? Isn't bad enough that he plays rubber stamp in the Senate?

If You Believe Liberals...

If you believe Liberals...then you would have to believe:

That it would be a good idea to create lists of rich people, so that "social pressure" could be applied to those money grubbers to "give some back." Perhaps former Jimmy Carter national security advisor Dr. Zbigniew Brzezinski, is just longing for the good old days of his youth in Warsaw, Poland. Besides list makers don't have a checkered past in world history right??

Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy

Or if you point out that 47% of Americans DO NOT PAY Federal income tax...then obviously you are a racist. Just ask ask MSNBC Race Relations commentator and The Nation magazine contributor Melissa Harris-Perry...



And last but not least, you would have to believe that well know racist and alleged singer Harry Bellefonte was "meditating" according to his agent, rather than catching a quick nap during a recebt TV interview...



Amazing!

President Obama Left Speechless!

Oh the humanity! NBC affiliate WWBT TV in in Henrico, Virginia has broken a major news story, with word that President Obama was struck dumb today! No it's not some mysterious illness that has stricken the President's voice, but the fact that thieves have apparently stolen the President's Teleprompter from the parking lot of the Virginia Commons Courtyard Marriott, in advance of a Presidential campaign visit.

Known for his soaring orratorrical skills, the President rarely makes off the cuff comments, relying on the ever-present smokey gray screens with rolling text rimming the stage. One wonders what will happen to the man's schedule until replacements can be sourced?

Hank Yanks Back

I pointed out on Monday, ESPN pulled the Hank Williams Jr. song All My Rowdy Friends from it’s intro to Monday Night Football over comments Williams made on Fox And Friends and that the sports network was well within it’s rights to yank Hank.

Well now comes word from the Hank Jr. camp that that he would be pulling the rights to use the song from the networks broadcasts. “After reading hundreds of e-mails, I have made MY decision,” he wrote. “By pulling my opening Oct 3rd, You (ESPN) stepped on the Toes of The First Amendment Freedom of Speech, so therefore Me, My Song, and All My Rowdy Friends are OUT OF HERE. It’s been a great run.”

As an artist who retains the rights to his product, in this case his song, Williams has the right to choose who he wants to do business with. If Hank Jr. does like ESPNs response to his comment, then he has every right to tell ESPN to stick where the sun don’t shine. Freedom is a wonderful thing!

Debbie Does Dumb

Just when you thought she couldn’t get any more stupid, Democrat National Committee chair, Florida Congresswomen, Debbie “Dumbasshit” Shultz rides again. Schultz insisted to CNSNews.com yesterday that “anyone’ can see that the economy is improving and sought to interpret what Pres. Obama really meant when he admitted Monday that Americans were not better off today than four years ago.


“Well, what President Obama said was that certainly since the collapse of Lehman Brothers, that Americans are not better off,” Wasserman Schultz told CNSNews.com. “That was specifically the president’s comment. I thought. And I think anyone who looks at the economy knows we have come a long way.

DNC Chair Debbie "Dumbasshit' Shultz proudly displays her IQ...on two hands

Really? Anyone? I wonder if this clueless, drooling, moron would like to ask the nearly 116 thousand Americans that lost their jobs last month, the largest number in two years, if they think things are getting better?

Does this women really think that all of the American people are as stupid as the voters who elected her? So much for the best and the brightest.

ESPN Yanks Hank

While making an appearance on Fox News channel's Fox and Friends morning program country music legend Hank Williams Jr. criticized President Obama for his golf summit with House Speaker John Boehner this summer; “It would be like Hitler playing golf with (Israeli leader) Benjamin Netanyahu.”



Naturally the comment got picked up by the media and this afternoon ESPN announced that it would dropped Williams classic Monday Night Football open, "Are You Ready for Some Football" from the game broadcast.

ESPN released the following statement:  “While Hank Williams, Jr. is not an ESPN employee, we recognize that he is closely linked to our company through the open to Monday Night Football. We are extremely disappointed with his comments, and as a result we have decided to pull the open from tonight’s telecast.”

Naturally Hank Jr. fans are ticked off at ESPNs actions, lighting up comment sections on news stories about the move, many bemoaning the "death of free speech." Sorry, but ESPN, or any other media company outlet for that matter, doesn't control free speech and they have the right to yank Hank! Feel free to fire away, but first remember the Dixie Chicks. When lead Chick Natalie Maines blathered on about George W. Bush and country music stations yanked the trios music, liberals went berserk about free speech and censorship.

To be consistent, businesses can not censor, only governments can! Hank Jr. or the Dixie Chicks have the freedom to say what they want! And businesses and individual consumers have the same right to deliver consequences for those comments. Maines for all intents killed the Dixie Chicks career as a consequence of her comments. I doubt Williams will feel the same kind of impact, but ESPN certainly has the prerogative to exercise the actions it took.

Mitch Daniels: This Guy Gets It

Mitch Daniels – Keeping the Republic: Saving America by Trusting Americans (Sentinel)


Usually politicians author lofty treatises on their ideas or plans for changing, transforming or fixing America when they aspire to higher office. These books tend to be one part biography, one part historical and one part multi-point road map to fixing a problem.

The fact the Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels has already declared his non-candidacy for the President, makes his new book Keeping the Republic: Saving America by Trusting Americans more intriguing.

Daniels’ book is a guide book for American exceptionalism. He not only understands that the only way out of the country’s current financial mess is to get government out of the way of the American people, he advocates that the answer lies with the people. Daniels knows that the more that government tries to fix the problem (that more often than not they created) the worse the problem becomes.

Daniels outlines the sheer immensity of the problem we are facing and ties it directly to the growth of government in our lives. In the chapter entitled “Shrunken Citizens” Daniels addresses the reduction of freedoms tied to government growth. It brings to mind the analogy of the frog dropped into a pot of boiling water that hops back out versus the frog in the pot of warm water that slowly has the heat turned up until it is cooked alive. The government intrusion has come a slow, steady, pace.

Daniels drives home the point while outlining the damage done by the passage of Obamacare. He details how government wage and price controls lead to business offering healthcare coverage. This has created the mindset is that somebody else will pay the bill, which has turned into an “inefficient model that has allowed Americans to grow accustomed to the idea to the idea that when it comes to the most personal and important purchase of all, those affecting their health, they are sheep, bystanders to the process in which they have neither the competence to decide what services to buy nor the intelligence to determine for themselves what price is too high for the value they are likely to obtain.”

Amazingly, Daniels approached his job with the seemingly unique mindset that he shouldn’t spend more of the taxpayers money than he takes in. Daniels is an example, or should be, of the new American mindset when it comes to government overspending.

It’s easy to understand why big government, Democrats misread the American people, thinking Daniels would be an easy political target when he ran for re-election. It was Daniels taking a tough stance on spending that transformed his state deficit to a surplus and positioned Indiana in a way to better absorb the recession of 2008.

Daniels approach to governance would not only see him easily win a second term, but also serve as a guidepost to leaders like Governor Chris Christie in New Jersey, Rick Scott in Florida, John Kasich in Ohio and Scott Walker in Wisconsin.

News Flash: Debates Don't Matter!

I love the fact that Liberals want to be so helpful to Republicans when it comes to selecting the nominee who will challenge Barack Obama in the 2012 election. Liberals go out of their way to suggest that the Republican field of Presidential hopefuls is weak and utterly lacking in anyone who has a real shot at removing Obama from 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

It ranges from slurring morons like Chris Matthews who regularly dips into not only the happy juice, but also into the tried and tired Liberal playbook that Republicans are lacking in intellectual curiosity and are generally flat out stupid. This is nothing new; George W. Bush was a stupid party boy, His father was out of touch with “real people” and Reagan was an amiable dunce according to the geniuses of the mainstream media.

Based on Texas Governor Rick Perry’s recent less than stellar debate performance has brought out a cavalcade of liberal critics wanting to handicap the Republican field. Eugene Robinson, the Kermit the Frog voiced, columnist for the Washington Post, utilized his latest column to declare the entire Republican field as a bunch of dogs.

Here’s the rub for Liberals; Presidential primary debates are meaningless. Earlier this week while subjecting myself the Morning Joe on MSNBC, someone posited a question about the importance of debates to which veteran NBC reporter Andrea Mitchell dismissed the question with no debate with the response, “of course debates are important.” Just so I am perfectly clear even to Mrs. Alan Greenspan (Mitchell) let me re-state my point; PRESIDENTIAL PRIMARY DEBATES ARE MEANINGLESS.

For political junkies, debates are high entertainment value events and down right fun to discuss. When it comes to picking the eventual nominee, the really don’t matter. Quick question who won the 2008 Republican Presidential primary debates? Believe it or not there were over 20 debates held during the 2008 cycle. Of those, roughly 11 were what I would call “major” debates; meaning there was a wide array of candidates who participated in a media sponsored format and included top-tier candidates. Sorry but Tom Tancredo standing on a stage by himself does not equal a debate for me.

Of those 11 debates, how many did the eventual Republican Presidential candidate John McCain win? Well based on media reports, Congressman Ron Paul won 5 of the 11; Governor Mitt Romney bested the field in 4 of the 11 and Governor Mike Huckabee won 2, leaving John McCain with zip, zero, zilch, nada in the win column. If debates are such a critical piece of the puzzle when it comes to winning the nomination, then how did John McCain ever get the nomination? (Believe me I have asked myself that question any number of times, but not based on his performance in the debates!)

The bottom line for liberal dipwads boils down to this any one of the announced candidates, including Ron Paul, former New Mexico Governor Gary Johnson, hell even Congressman Thaddeus McCotter and unannounced, potential candidates like Sarah Palin, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie or Florida Senator Marco Rubio would be a better choice for President than the current, temporary resident of the White House.

Clueless in Massachusetts,

Former White House financial reform adviser Elizabeth Warren, who recently launched her bid to unseat Republican Senator Scott Brown in Massachusetts, recently rattled off her spin on class warfare.

Here is the transcript of the certifiable Marxist’s comments;

“I hear all this, you know, ‘Well, this is class warfare, this is whatever. No. There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own — nobody.


“You built a factory out there? Good for you. But I want to be clear. You moved your goods to market on the roads the rest of us paid for. You hired workers the rest of us paid to educate. You were safe in your factory because of police-forces and fire-forces that the rest of us paid for. You didn’t have to worry that marauding bands would come and seize everything at your factory — and hire someone to protect against this — because of the work the rest of us did.


“Now look, you built a factory and it turned into something terrific, or a great idea. God bless — keep a big hunk of it. But part of the underlying social contract is, you take a hunk of that and pay forward for the next kid who comes along.”

Apparently Ms. Warren is completely oblivious to the point that the person she talks about building the factory and hiring the workers, likely paid a disproportionate amount of the taxes that paid for the roads, the schools and the police and firefighters that she prattles on about.

Ms. Warren thinks nothing of the fact that this person also put their and their families resources at risk to start the factory, with no guarantee that they would be successful and I would bet that they willingly took that risk without a second thought to having their neighbors bail them out if things didn’t work out and the business was not successful! Something I doubt can be said about Ms. Warren and her ilk, seem to think that the government can fix all problems.

Warren apparently can’t comprehend that people of her ilk have buried factory owners in so many layers of ridiculous regulations that the cost of doing business has been skewed so dramatically, that many folks aren’t willing to take the risk of failure, hence the economic struggles we currently find ourselves in.

While RINO Scott Brown is far from an ideal choice, he’s miles ahead of this clueless, drooling moron.

Social Security = Ponzi Scheme

I love the lazy media’s reaction to Governor Rick Perry, Republican Presidential candidate, calling the Social Security system a Ponzi scheme. Naturally they miss the qualification the Perry puts on his comments, that current recipients and those who are poised to join the system have nothing to worry about, but it is the young workers just starting out that are being taken to the cleaners by this huge lie.

For those clueless media types and their Liberal friends who like to scare old people into thinking that anyone who talks about changing Social Security really wants to take it away…let me share this definition of a Ponzi scheme…

A Ponzi scheme is a fraudulent investment operation that pays returns to separate investors, not from any actual profit earned by the organization, but from their own money or money paid by subsequent investors. The perpetuation of the returns that a Ponzi scheme advertises and pays requires an ever-increasing flow of money from investors to keep the scheme going. The system is destined to collapse because the earnings, if any, are less than the payments to investors.

Does any of that sound like Social Security? HELL YES IT DOES! The last I checked, the actual rate of return on the money that people invest in the social security system is about 1 to 1.5 percent. The need for an ever-increasing flow of money sounds oddly familiar when it come to the social security system.

So is Rick Perry some big dumb cowboy, like the lazy media would have you believe, or is the guy right on?

Follow the Liberal Logic…“Let's take these son of bitches out”

The following is an exercise in Liberal Logic:

Yesterday, while appearing at a Labor Day rally in Michigan, Jimmy Hoffa Jr. the head thug of the Teamsters Union loudly and now famously proclaimed of the Tea Party, “Let's take these son of bitches out”.

Today comes news out of Senator Harry Reid’s state of Nevada, that a currently un-named gunman opened fire inside an IHOP restaurant, wounding six and killing three, including two uniformed members of the National Guard.

Run this through the Liberal Logic machine that claimed that Sarah Palin’s “targeted” Congressional districts, somehow encouraged Jared Loughner to launch a murderous rampage, gunning down innocent bystanders and Congresswomen Gabby Giffords.

So where are the cries of outrage from Harry Reid, DNC Chair Debbie Dumbasdirt-Shultz, Nancy Peolosi and other deranged Liberals, claiming that Hoffa’s fiery rhetoric was the root cause of these terrible, senseless shootings? ***Insert Cricket Sounds Here*** Clearly many members of the military are supporters/members of the Tea Party movement, so it would follow that this shooter was some deranged, union member, hellbent to cap some Tea Party types.

Now do I know for a fact that this shooter was a union member? Or that he heard Jimmy Hoffa’s ridiculous and incendiary comments? No. But when did actual hard facts ever matter to Liberal Logic? They never bothered to get the facts before they launched the attack on Sarah Palin.

Once again, this just another illustration that proves how twisted and illogical the thought processes of Liberals really are.

Warning: Don't Let Your Kids Watch This Crap!

Love the opening paragraphs from the Nickelodeon television network release…


On September 1st at 9 pm, Nickelodeon will premiere their commercial free special on Nick News With Linda Ellerbee entitled What Happened?: The Story of September 11, 2001. This show will help shine a light on the facts and inform kids on the importance of the events of 9/11.

Being the 10th anniversary of the attacks, Nick thinks it is important to teach kids that do not have a first hand recollection of how the events occurred and clear up any misconceptions or unanswered questions they may have.

Now…what television network will air a special to clear up the lunatic liberal misconceptions and out right lies that a card-carrying lefty like Ellerbee is bound to spread? Please avoid the confusion, don’t let your kids watch this crap.

Land of the Free...Home of the Whimps!

Yes. I felt the earthquake. My first reaction was I was bit lightheaded; then I saw my computer monitor shaking. I didn’t say anything to folks in other offices down the hall, because I thought it was no big deal.

I got a quick confirmation from the radio stream I was listening to, with news reports of a quake near Washington, DC. Then I went about my business, only to be inundated with BREAKING NEWS reports of building being evacuated in New York and DC followed by wall to wall reports of peoples reactions. ARE YOU KIDDING ME!

The ground shook for about 30 seconds…there were NO reports of buildings being toppled or loss of life…this thing measured 5.8 on the Richter Scale. An interesting rumble, but really…buildings were evacuated in Scranton, Pennsylvania?! Penndot sent a crew of engineers out around the state to examine roads and bridges for possible damage!

When did we become such WHIMPS!?

Were not talking about Hati or Japan where buildings were converted to rubble and the ground was literally ripped open. Read the reports! Some rocks fell off the National Cathedral and the Washington Monument may (or may not) have a crack in it! Really? This deserved wall to wall breaking news coverage? C’mon! The ground rumbled for 30 seconds! BIG DEAL!

Jeez suck it up! Be a man for God’s sake! Next thing you know you’ll be reading about Bill “Big Mac” Clinton becoming a vegan! Oh wait…what’s become of this once proud nation…

What’s the Common Thread Here?

While President Obama was touring lily white flyover country in his Canadian built bus, talking up buying American to put people back to work, the Congressional Black Caucus led by Congress-monster Maxine Waters have been conducting a jobs fair tour in places like Cleveland, Detroit, Miami, Atlanta, and Los Angeles.

Waters made headlines at the Detroit stop when she was quoted as saying; “We don’t put pressure on the president,” said Waters to cheers and jeers as people interrupted at will and yelled at her. “Let me tell you why. We don‘t put pressure on the president because ya’ll love the president. You love the president. You’re very proud…to have a black man [in the White House] …First time in the history of the United States of America. If we go after the president too hard, you’re going after us.”

She then told the fired-up crowd that voters must “unleash” the Democrats on Obama before criticizing him for not visiting any “black community” during his bus tour:

“When you tell us it‘s alright and you unleash us and you tell us you’re ready for us to have this conversation, we’re ready to have the conversation. The Congressional Black Caucus loves the president too. We‘re supportive of the president but we’re getting tired ya’ll…we’re getting tired. And so, what we want to do is…we want to give the president every opportunity to show what he can do and what he’s prepared to lead on. We want to give him every opportunity…but our people are hurting. The unemployment is unconscionable. We don’t know what the strategy is. We don‘t know why on this trip that he’s in the United States now, he’s not in any black community…we don’t know that.”

I thought it was kind of interesting that the CBC chose these five cities to hold their job fairs. What do these five cities have in common? They have largely been run by Democrat Mayors for much of their history!

Look at the amazing electoral history of these cities and it’s easy to grasp the long term problems faced by their residents. The tour kicked off in Cleveland Ohio, a city that elected a Democrat 8 out of the past 10 Mayors, dating back to 1946; including Dennis “Spaceman” Kucinich! Need I say more?

Detroit, has had a Democrat Mayor for the past 49 years, dating back to 1962. Miami has had a Democrat Mayor every year since 1947, 64 years. Atlanta has elected 9 Mayors since 1942, all of them Democrats. Oddly enough it’s Los Angeles that has the most varied Mayoral past mixing both Democrat and Republican Mayors, but with the 20 year tenure of Tom Bradley dominating the cities recent history.

If you have any common sense it has to raise the question, why would voters, facing long term, deeply ingrained problems like unemployment, crime, drugs, poverty…you get the idea; continue to elect Democrats, hoping for a different outcome? Isn’t that the definition of insanity?

Dumb and Dumber

Just when you thought liberals couldn't get any dumber comes this from Obama's Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack: "Well, obviously, it's putting people to work. Which is why we're going to have some interesting things in the course of the forum this morning. Later this morning, we're going have a press conference with Secretary Mavis and Secretary Chu to announce something that's never happened in this country -- something that we think is exciting in terms of job growth.

Yes...this really is Obama's Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack...amazing

I should point out, when you talk about the SNAP program or the food stamp program, you have to recognize that it's also an economic stimulus. Every dollar of SNAP benefits generates $1.84 in the economy in terms of economic activity. If people are able to buy a little more in the grocery store, someone has to stock it, package it, shelve it, process it, ship it. All of those are jobs. It's the most direct stimulus you can get in the economy during these tough times."

Can Anyone Really Be This Stupid?

At the daily press gaggle at the White House, Obama’s mouth piece Jay Carney got into it with a Wall Street Journal reporter and had this to say about unemployment checks
“It is one of the most direct ways to infuse money directly into the economy because people who are unemployed and obviously aren’t running a paycheck are going to spend the money that they get. They’re not going to save it, they’re going to spend it. And with unemployment insurance, that way, the money goes directly back into the economy, dollar for dollar virtually.”

Following this twisted logic; given all of the people who have been collecting unemployment checks during the Obama presidency, if unemployment checks really did create jobs, then wouldn’t our unemployment rate be below 5% rather than hanging where it’s been for months, above 9%?!

Can anyone really be this stupid?

Oh…wait a minute…then Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi said this of unemployment benefits back in July of 2010… “It creates jobs faster than almost any other initiative you can name.”

I guess the short answer is…yes…Democrats really can be that stupid!

If unemployment checks really created jobs…then why work? Don’t you want to help the economy?

Real Hope, For a Change…

While I’m certainly not holding my breath for much to come of the so-called “super-committee” that is tasked with hashing out a debt deal, at least there is some good news as Sen. Mitch McConnell has named Pennsylvania’s junior senator, Pat Toomey to the Republican team.

Toomey is a real deal, small government, conservative with solid credentials on the finance side of things including a stint as the president of the Club for Growth. Toomey is joined in the Republican senate contingent by relatively reliable Arizona Sen. John Kyl and Rob Portman of Ohio. Portman is a guy who cut his teeth on economic issues as a member of the House of Representatives, then moving to the Bush 43 White House. Portman was a close ally of former Erie Congressman Phil English.

The Democrat contingent from the senate is comprised of usual suspect, lightweights including; John Kerry, who “fought” in Viet Nam and has made it his life’s practice to spend other people’s money, Max Baucus of Montana, and Patty “Empty Suit” Murray of Washington. Intellectual firepower is not a term I would use to describe the Democrat lineup.

Rounding out the Republican team is House Republican Conference Chairman Jeb Hensarling of Texas, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp of Michigan and House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton of Michigan. Upton was the genius responsible for putting out the legislation banning the incandescent light bulb, so I can’t say I have high hopes for him to hold the line on tax increases and slashing spending.

House minority leader Nancy Pelosi….sorry…I still like the sound of that so much I need to say it again…House minority leader Nancy Pelosi apparently has some pressing Botox treatments she needs to get taken care of before announcing her choices, she has until August 16 to make her picks. Wonder if they will include a member of the Congressional Black Caucus?

Baltimore Mayoral Candidate Proposes Increase in Crime

It’s is an age old political practice for candidates for office to talk about their plan to deal with violent crime, but a Baltimore, Democrat, Mayoral candidate has a visionary plan that amounts to proposing an increase in crime!

Otis Rolley has rolled out The Rolley Plan to Make Every Neighborhood in Baltimore Safer, an eight page manifesto that includes the cornerstone plan “to impose a $1 per bullet tax (or about $50 per pack).” The genius of Mr. Rolley’s plan reasons that the tax “will increase substantially the financial cost of committing a crime and, unlike guns, bullets cannot be shared after their initial use.” Pretty tough to argue the reuse point…even with Rolley’s habit of referring to himself in the third person throughout the document!

Like most mind-numbed gun control types, Mr. Rolley deludes himself into thinking that average dirt bag criminals all head down to their local gun shop or sporting goods store and fill out all of the government forms and get the necessary clearances and permits to purchase a gun and therefore would head to said weapons purveyor to dutifully pay the buck a bullet tax before committing a crime spree. Since the pack of bullets now features an excessive government tax, the crime problem is solved! Much like the delusional democrats who think you can tax your way to prosperity, this nitwit thinks you can tax your way to safety!

In reality, what this moronic plan will do is make it more expensive for actual law abiding, gun owners to purchase ammunition that they can use to defend themselves from scumbags who want to do them harm! The result will be an increase in violent crime, because the criminals, who more often than not steal their guns and ammunition, will realize that it’s less likely that the potential victim will be less likely to be able to defend themselves!

The problem with Liberal thinking often ends up being the unintended consequences of the actions they take. Eco-geniuses had us ban DDT use in 1972 to allegedly protect endangered species; and the unintended consquences include by some estimates tens of thousands of deaths do to malaria.

Hopefully Mr. Rolley’s political career will amount to a failed run for Mayor, so we don’t have to start a countdown on the unintended deaths caused by his ridiculous plan.

Common Sense Vs. Politi-speak

I love politi-speak. More often than not politi-speak comes about when liberal politicians need to use words to fashion a more voter friendly message. As the debate over raising the debate ceiling continues to rage we have been inundated by calls from President Obama and what passes as leadership of the Democrat party for a solution that includes;“an increase in revenues.”

Washington claims they need more money, so what better way to get more money than to “increase revenue” right? This poltii-speak has become very popular with the media; with members of the drooling moron media from MSNBC, CNBC, CNN and the like latching on and repeating the term with regularity.
The problem is, not one of the drooling set has called this politi-speak what it really is; an increase in taxes! The Democrats know full well that they can’t come out and tell the American people that they want to raise taxes!
Concerned that there might be a handful of folks who can see through the ruse of “revenue increase” the Democrats have also taken to painting this tax increase as “closing loopholes” in the tax law that give tax breaks to billionaires and corporations for private jets.
That sounds good too, right? Stick it to those greedy bastards and their luxury items. Once again the drooling moron media buys into this line of crap too. Hey even “Republicans” like Joke Scarborough from Morning Joke on MSNBC has labeled this idea as “common sense.”
Here’s the problem, you may think it’s absolutely stupid to give corporations and billionaires tax breaks for buying private jets, but think about it this way; not about who buys these planes, who builds these planes? Add to that who sells these planes? Add to that what goes into building those planes?
Think about it? There has to be millions of parts; plastic, metal, fabric, rubber, the list goes on and on that goes into the building of an aircraft. All of those parts and pieces are built by somebody, sold by somebody, engineered by somebody, manufactured by somebody, sold buy somebody. These somebody’s have JOBS! And they pay taxes! Yes they contribute revenue to the Federal Government!
If we follow the “common sense” thinking of Morning Joke, what is the likelihood that billionaires are going to cut back on buying new or additional planes? If this so-called loophole in the tax law encourages them to take advantage of savings and buy a plane, then that loophole is doing something the Obama administration has failed miserably to do; it’s created jobs!
Instead of closing this alleged loophole, maybe we should look at additional ways to encourage billionaires and corporations to spend more money! The same fundamental flaw exists in the Democrats “increase revenue” strategy. The U.S. economy is consumer driven, when you raise taxes, you not only take money out of the system that could be spent on goods and services, you also create an environment of uncertainty so consumers, businesses and even greedy billionaires stop spending.
This isn’t brain surgery! If you don’t buy that widget, then the guy who builds the widget doesn’t need to make more, and the guy who sells it, sells less and the guy who supplies the pieces of the widget sells less, and needs to build less, and the guy who supplies the raw materials for the widget sells less…and so on. In the end if you sell less then you may need less people, which means more unemployment and less revenue to the Federal Government.
So the genius of the Democrat strategy is to actually create more unemployed people during one of the most difficult economic periods in our history. Instead of raising taxes, what we really need Washington to do is to CUT SPENDING! and CUT TAXES!
If you cut taxes, you will increase revenue to the Federal Government! If you just swallowed your tongue: follow the logic. Tax cuts equal more spending which equals more goods needing to be manufactured, equals more people to make the stuff, equals MORE TAX PAYERS! Now look at history; every time tax cuts have been tried, it has resulted in an increase in revenue to the Federal Government. EVERY TIME!
Think about it; would you prefer a system that relies on a small number of people contributing to the tax base of a country or would you prefer to spread the responsibility of funding government over a wider group of people? What is a more stable foundation for anything; something that is an inch wide and a mile deep or something a mile wide and an inch deep? Spreading the responsibility over a wider range is truly COMMON SENSE!

Federal Budget Debate Really Not That Hard…it’s simple stupid!

There has been a seemingly endless debate about the Federal government budget, debt and spending cap that has dominated the news. I hate to think about all of the money that has been wasted on endless studies and “expert” economists to try and come up with an solution to the problem.

Based on all of this chatter, discussion, debate and brain power, you would think that this is an insurmountable problem. Well I am here to tell you…it’s not. Forget about all of the battles and numbers and boil the problem down to two pretty basic numbers and you can see exactly where the problem lies.

In the 50 years between 1960 and 2010 the revenue coming into the federal government is 20 times greater. In other words the dollars we took into the Federal government coffers is 20 times the amount of money that we took in back in 1960.
The other number is based in that same 50 year period…spending by the Federal government in 2010 is 42 times! greater than it was in 1960.
If you can’t figure out what the problem is, based on those two basic numbers, you’re either not trying, you’re lying or you’re stupid. It’s really that simple.

The Death of Common Sense

By now you have likely heard the story of the 95 year old, Florida women; stricken with cancer, who was forced to remove her adult diaper while being searched by the Transportation Security Administration.

The TSA continued to remain common sense free and chose to defend the actions of its security goons, releasing the following statement about the incident: "While every person and item must be screened before entering the secure boarding area, TSA works with passengers to resolve security alarms in a respectful and sensitive manner," the federal agency said. "We have reviewed the circumstances involving this screening and determined that our officers acted professionally and according to proper procedure."

The fact that these clowns chose to duck behind “procedure” shows exactly how weak minded the leadership of this bunch really is. This really isn’t brain surgery; it boils down to one very easy to answer question: “How many elderly, wheelchair bound women (or men) have attempted to commit a terrorist attack on a U.S. airliner?” We can even go as far as extending the question to include: babies, small children, and tweens.
The answer, if you have been paying even a little attention, is easy. None. Zip. Zero. Zilch. Nada. So why in the name of common sense do these drooling morons continue to step in soiled adult diapers with an ongoing string of ridiculous, misguided, public relations nightmares? Then rather than seeing and stating that they are wrong, they vainly try to defend their stupidity offering up an empty defense like procedure!
Even more amazing is the media’s willingness to run these stories, but make no ultimate stand and demand that this ridiculousness STOP! Yet if a Muslim cries mistreatment, religious profiling, or the need for religious privacy; for burqa wearing women, the media jumps in with both feet and the TSA is cowed into giving them a free pass at security check points.
It’s time for the American people to step up and demand that this ridiculous abuse of our freedom be stopped in its tracks. In it’s nearly ten year existence, the TSA has not prevented one terrorist attack, it’s long past time to end this bloated government bureaucracy and allow the private sector to take over airport security.

Liberal Stupidity In 140 Characters or Less

The folks from the American Conservative Union are live streaming some of the speakers and panels forums from their CPAC event in Washington, DC. The event, set to run over the next few days, will feature any number of the possible 2012 Republican Presidential hopefuls mixed with some of the usual supects on the conservative end of the political spectrum.

I took the opportunity to dial in a few of the first day, featured speakers and tune out some of the more mudane panels, like the traditional marriage forum, that featured no female speakers! Why do conservatives choose to go out of their way to shoot themselves in the foot?

One of the more annoying features of the CPAC stream, aside from the constant buffering breaks, is a continuous Twitter tweet feed. As the speeches and discussions go there is a non-stop rolling run down of micro-bloggers who are both at the CPAC evebt and watching the stream. This wide open approach allows nitwits of every stripe to spew forth in 140 characters or less on the proceedings from their often twisted persepctives.

One of the most ridiculous comments I saw roll by came during the speech by former Pennsylvania Senator, and possible Presidential candidate Rick Santorum. During his speech on American exceptionalism, Santorum spoke about his (legal) imigrant grandfather coming to the United States. Santorum opined, "My grandfather didn't come to the United States because we had 99 weeks of unemployment."

This was clearly a reference to the hard work that his grandfather and many of his generation did to make this country great, yet some twisted tweeter decided to parade their stupidity with the comment, "Rick Santorum bashes unemployed people." REALLY? What was unclear about this speech being about American exceptionalism? While I don't think this was a great turning point speech, it was clearly a positive commentary that American can still be great.

Twitter and tweeting is sold by marketing gurus as the thing to do and if you're not you and your business will lag behind the rest. Shakespeare said, "brevity is the soul of wit" the problem is most of the tweeters are twits! Most have nothing to say even in the minimalistic 140 characters and more often then not they end up displaying nothing but their own stupidity.

Reaction: Keith Olbermann Quits!

Keith Olbermann quits MSNBC...reaction....YAWN! Sorry to break the news to his liberal fans, but more people know who this loser is based on Limbaugh, Beck, O'Reilly and conservative bloggers bitching about him, then ever actually watched his little cable news mess. Frankly, if it weren't for Dan Patrick, I doubt many would know who Olberman was based on his stint at ESPN. The question becomes, once he's done sitting out his Conan Obrien style hiatis from TV, where does this clown land? He's worn out his welcome where ever he's been for being a pain in the ass to deal with, so I can't imagine there will be a long line of folks fighting for his services.

Wal Mart Shooting Reveals More Liberal Hypocrisy

Given all of the ridiculous, unfounded, rhetoric from the lunatic, liberals in the media and politics surrounding recent shootings in Arizona, where blamed was placed with Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck and Sarah Plain, rather than with the nut bag, shooter, Jared Loughner; why am I not surprised that the same whack-a-mole media is silent on the shootings in Washington state at a Wal Mart store.


The incident left two dead, including the shooter and two deputies in the hospital in serious condition. Given the ongoing, relentless attacks on Wal Mart by labor unions and other liberal groups that paints the retailer as the devil’s spawn, out to kill small business and enslave the masses, why haven’t the lefties drawn the conclusion that this heated rhetoric drove the shooter to act?

Now don’t get me wrong! I don’t believe for a minute that this shooter was driven by the anti-Wal Mart crowd to start shooting. No real details have been released about the incident, so unlike my liberal friends or dimwitted elected sheriffs, I won’t jump to a conclusion. I am simply asking, where is the consistency on the part of the liberal media?

Given all of the ridiculous claims and ballyhoo about the “crosshairs” on Palin’s PAC website, “targeting” Democrat Congress members, for defeat in last November’s elections, let add the following flyer, promoting a protest at the developer of a potential, Washington, DC (yes I know the difference between Washington state and DC) that features the Wal Mart price cutting smiley face, pictured in the crosshairs!

 

The flyer/protest is featured on the website of the community organizers fighting against Wal Mart setting up shop in DC, called Wal Mart Free DC As with all of these “community organizations” you have to dig a little deeper to find the real roots of the group. In this case a little research leads you to another group call the Institute for Policy Studies, a fairly typical liberal “think” tank, whose causes include peace, justice and the environment.

A quick visit to the website for the Institute for Policy Studies reveals a top story on the home page featuring a screen shot of Sarah PAC and the now infamous crosshairs and an added arrow pointing out Congresswomen Gabrielle Giffords, who was one of the victims in the Arizona shooting.

 

The crosshairs double standard is astounding. Like so many previous examples, when it comes to liberals, it’s do as I say, not as I do.