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CRAZY UNCLE RON
Crazy Uncle Ron Paul
OCCUPY STUPIDITY
One of my favorite Far Side cartoons of all time was a picture of a parading group of protesters marching down the street, united arm-in-arm, holding a sign that said imbeciles untie….and the sign was upside down.
That should be the slogan for the Occupy Wall Street gang and their cohorts who have staged similar protests in other cities.
These morons have no idea why they are there. Their protesting “corporate greed” and politics as usual. Of course, they’re tweeting on their Iphones and Droids, supporting two of the greediest most monopolistic companies in the communications industry. Then they call for more government programs and spending. Imbeciles Untie!!!!
OBAMA’S OPPOSITES
Is it just me or does Obama say something then end up doing the exact opposite?
I watched his press conference where he was touting his “jobs program”, which is simply another tax and spend program. He said, paraphrasing, that he was not promoting class warfare and in the next sentence, promoted class warfare.
He said raising taxes during these economic times was absolutely the wrong thing to do….now he is proposing a tax increase.
He said his administration would be the most transparent in history, but it’s turned out to be one of the most secretive.
He rails against “crony capitalism” and says the rich should pay their fair share, but when his big donors promote a failed “green business” (Solyndra) his administration cooks the books, manipulates federal law, and quite possibly commits fraud to save his big donars millions and stick the American taxpayer with a bill for billions of dollars.
IOWA STRAW POLL DEBATE…WHO WON?
The Republican debate leading up to this weekend’s Iowa straw poll was the first real opportunity for all the candidates to earn their first semester grades. The LaughatLiberals.com report card is below. Please blog-in with your feedback.
My overall view of the debate was positive. It was my first real opportunity to see all the Republican candidates side-by-side, in full campaign mode and I was pleased with what I saw. There is quite a diversity of thought among these candidates and throughout the Republican family in general. From libertarian to interventionist conservatism, the GOP is THE party of ideas that can save our country from this economic mess we are in.
HISTORY IS BEING MADE
The debt ceiling crisis could be a golden opportunity to reign in the growth of the federal government. I hope the Republican leadership is up to the task.
This is a watershed moment for our nation. Are we going to continue down the path towards an even more powerful, centralized federal control of all aspects of life, or are we going to return to the fundamental principles on which our country was founded? We are Democratic Republic of United States that has lost its way and allowed to much power to be concentrated in our federal government. It is that concentration of power that has created a political ruling class that sustains itself by growing its power at every turn.
THE LIBERAL’S PROBLEM WITH DEMOCRACY
In Wisconsin, Gov. Walker, then candidate Walker campaigned on the platform of cutting state spending. He specifically said he would deal with the state employee pay and benefit crisis by proposing greater financial participation on the part of state workers in their benefits and by ending collective bargaining for state employees.
He included this in his platform after watching previous Democrat administrations in his state ignore the looming fiscal crisis and use stimulus funds to balance the general budget. They also rammed through tax increase legislation in less than 36 hours, that totaled more than a billion dollars. The Republican minority opposition stood together and voted against these measures.
Anything Goes
After the tragic events in Tucson, everybody from elected officials to leftist talking heads have been pointing fingers at anyone who doesn’t walk lockstep with their politics.
David Rieff of The New Republic put it this way:
“There is really no doubt that the apocalyptic rhetoric that is the common currency of the Becks, Palins, Limbaughs and worse has the potential to make unstable people murderous”
The key there being “unstable people”. Hello! They are unstable people! Based on Mr. Rieff’s logic, Jodie Foster is responsible for Reagan being shot. BTW, the shooter was an atheist too! Is anyone blaming John Lennon, Madalyn Murray O’Hair or Frank Zappa?
Do I think that the Becks, Limbaughs, Hannitys and the like feed our fears or anger? Yes, I will admit that. But then so do insurance companies. Ignoring the dangers to us, our families and our country is foolish.
The leftists don’t use this approach as much. The leftist approach is more often than not superior distain. This is self-massaging in that it offers a sense of intellectual dominance or Holier than thou. The violent garbage being spewed at Palin and other conservatives reflects the frustration with being resisted. Their living with no self-decipline is exposed unless everybody does it.
If a conservative doesn’t like guns, he doesn’t buy one. If a liberal doesn’t like guns, he wants all guns banned. If a conservative doesn’t want to pray, they don’t pray. If a liberal doesn’t want to pray, he fights to have prayer removed from any facet of our lives. If a conservative wants to be healthier, he eats healthier. If a liberal wants to be healthier, he wants to sue McDonalds into doing away with Kid Meals. You get the idea.
GIFFORD’S SHOOTING? IT’S CONSERVATIVES FAULT
While the blood was still running from the wounds of the victims of the shooting in Arizona, the left smear merchants at the New York Times and MSNBC were carefully crafting every sentence of their lead stories. The goal was to use the tragedy to paint Republicans, the Tea Party, conservatives in general and specific individuals as extremists and somehow being responsible for the acts of a crazed individual.
NEW TSA SCREENING GETS RESULTS
With all the controversy surrounding the new TSA screening techniques you might be interested to know the effectiveness of these screenings. Accorrding to sources at the TSA, since the implementation of the new “pat-downs” in mid 2010, the following has been discovered;
Terrorist Plots Discovered 0
Transvestites 133
Hernias 1,485
Hemorrhoids 3,172
Enlarged Prostates 8,249
Breast Implants 59,350
Natural Blonds 3
TSA, T&A, POLE DANCING AT THE AIRPORT
I have to make the obligitory comparison. What do you think would be happening in the liberal mainstream media if Bush were still in office and these TSA searches were going on?
Aside from that, I just have to laugh at this entire TSA search, pat-down thing. First of all, I you have to touch my junk to allow me on an airplane….OK. I don’t get my junked touched that often, by somebody else anyway, so I’ll take it where I can get it. I think it might open up some job opportunities for rappers, because nobody has more experience in junk-touching than hip-hoppers. They do it so casually as part of everyday life, maybe we should hire some of them to train the TSA. We could even start playing rap music at security check-points and that would make the whole touching of the junk seem appropriate. We could call this the Kanye Procedure.
LAUGH AT LIBERALS ON THE AIR
Hey folks,
Just wanted to post a notice that I will be doing an interview about LaughAtLiberals.com on the Steve Wark morning show out of Las Vegas. His web site is here SteveWarkintheMorning.com.
I’ll let you know how it goes. If you live in the Las Vegas area, listen in on KMZQ AM 670!
THE EVOLUTION PROMO
Below is the text of the voice over on MSNBC’s newest promo. It’s part of their “Lean Forward” promotional campaign. See if you can tell what’s missing.
We hold these truths to be self-evident
that all men have certain unalienable rights
life, liberty and pursuit of happiness.
And the freedom to believe that while history’s gotten us this far
our best days are still ahead.
We’re the United State of come-as-you-are.
Our differences are what unites us.
So starting today the ideas that advance our country
no matter who or where they come from, win.
LIBERAL DEER HUNTER
This is an adaptation of a story a friend of mine emailed to me recently. I don’t know it’s original source, but it has been modified for LAL.
I was having a discussion with one of my liberal friends about gun control laws. Now personally, I don’t think it is constitutional to limit the rights of decent, law abiding citizens who enjoy hunting and gun sports just because some people don’t obey the law. A solid conservative argument, right? Of course my liberal friend doesn’t agree. He thinks that there is no need for hunting and that hunting for sport is just blood lust. My counter argument is hunting actually helps improve the health of the deer population. Fees collected help conservation efforts and most hunters actually do eat what they kill.
PETULANT LIBERALS IN A SNIT AT PMSNBC
Of course I watched Fox News coverage of the election, but in the interest of being fair and balanced, I switched over to MSNBC.
It was like watching a bunch of catty little school girls dissing the new kids on the first day of class.
Lawrence O’Donnell: “Did you see what she was wearing? Oh my gosh that skirt is so last season!
Rachel Madow: “I thought she was cute in a Lindsay Lohan kind of way.”
Chris Matthews: “She must be on drugs. I don’t feel so tingley anymore. Let’s go pick on the stupid freshmen.”
DESPERATE DEMS
The tsunami is on the horizon. As the Republican wave gets closer to shore the desperate Democrats are revealing their power hungry nature with every negative ad and personal attack.
The sorry state of affairs for Democrats can be condensed down to this one story that reads like a dime-store novel.
The former president jets down to Florida to pursuade the Democrat candidate for senator to quit the race just one week before election day so the independent candidate, who used to be a Republican, can beat the Republican candidate, who is a dynamic Hispanic male.
HOW TO HANDLE WIKI-LEAKS
Julian Assange, the Wiki-Leaks founder is now wanted for questioning, not for releasing top secret documents that have cost the lives of innocent victims and endangered countless others, rather for charges of rape and molestation.
Like any free thinking adult, I guess I have to question the timing of the new charges by the Sweedish government and Assange himself is posting on Wiki-Leaks saying these charges are lies and the timing jsut too convenient. Really? Like there needed to be some trumped up charge to make this guy any more “wanted for questioning”?
OBAMA-VS-TIGER
My friend Carl sent me this. What a commentary on not only the press, but on us as well.
I THINK IT IS REMARKABLE THAT WITHIN A WEEK OF TIGER WOODS’ CRASHING HIS ESCALADE, THE PRESS FOUND EVERY WOMAN WITH WHOM TIGER HAS HAD AN AFFAIR IN THE LAST FEW YEARS, WITH PHOTOS, TEXT MESSAGES, RECORDED PHONE CALLS, ETC.
AND, THEY NOT ONLY KNOW THE CAUSE OF THE FAMILY FIGHT, BUT THEY EVEN KNOW IT WAS A WEDGE FROM HIS GOLF BAG THAT HIS WIFE USED TO BREAK OUT THE WINDOWS IN THE ESCALADE. NOT ONLY THAT, THEY KNOW WHICH WEDGE! AND EACH AND EVERY DAY, THEY GIVE AMERICA MORE UPDATES ON HIS SEX-REHAB STAY,
HIS WIFE’S PLANS FOR DIVORCE, AND HIS PLANS TO RETURN TO THE PRO-GOLF CIRCUIT.
The Democrats’ Hypocrisy Is Staggering
A story written by John Lott and posted at FoxNews.com demonstrates even more “special favors” that the authors of the Health Care reform bill have given themselves. Below is a key excerpt.
While everyone else in the United States — from the top corporate executives to the grocery store checkout clerk — will be forced to buy their insurance through heavily regulated state-run exchanges, the health care bill excludes one group: the leadership and committee staff. Yes, that’s right. The very people who wrote up this bill are refusing to be included themselves. Given the narrow definition of “congressional staff” on page 158 of the health care bill, the Congressional Research Service memo believes that courts will not require “professional committee staff, joint committee staff, some shared staff, as well as potentially those staff employed by leadership offices” to go through the exchanges. President Obama and his family are also exempt from the law.
The Most Disgusting Health Care Deal Of All
I got a lump in my throat when I saw this article posted on Drudgereport.com. You can link to it here. It reveals the latest backroom deal offered by Pelosi and Company to bribe a few more congressmen into voting for, excuse me, not voting for but sort of kind of voting for health care reform.
I have friends who live in the Central Valley region, near Modesto, CA where water, the most basic necessity of life, is being denied to local farmers and citizens with the stated reason being the salvation of the lowly Delta Smelt. This tiny little fish, which may be endangered by a variety of causes, was championed by environmentalist wacko’s who coerced a willing EPA into shutting down the water supply. The irony is the move may not even save the smelt from possible extinction.
EVERYONE TAKE YOUR CRAZY PILLS
I don’t even know where to begin on this latest Obama-Care push in congress. The so-called, Slaughter Rule or self-executing option now being considered is so ridiculous that any sober thinking American can’t fathom the concept. Only a politician could come up with such a scheme.
The idea is this. Instead of having to vote on a senate bill they don’t like or come up with a house bill that the senate can stomach and then go through reconciliation, Pelosi has released the lawyers in a hunt to determine the legality of not actually voting on the bill. Huh? The way it would work is the senate bill would stand as is and the house would vote on a bill that basically says we’re going to amend the senate bill because we don’t like it. Then President Obama would have to sign both the senate health care bill and the house amendment bill into law. Then the senate would have to actually agree to change the bill they passed in the first place to please the house. Then both houses of congress would vote on the new bill and amendments to come up with a final health care bill that both the house and the senate can live with.