Egypt and Tunisia usher in the new era of global food revolutions - Telegraph

A worthy read from Ambrose Evans-Pritchard.  Column here.

Quote of the week:

Turkish premier Recep Tayyip Erdogan once let slip that democracy was a tram you ride until you arrive at your destination, then you step off.

And while you're in the car, you're just hanging by a thread.

Undercover investigators buy guns without background checks

CNN Story here.

New York (CNN) -- Undercover investigators purchased semiautomatic weapons at an Arizona gun show, despite telling vendors that they probably could not pass background checks, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg told reporters Monday.

'We have demonstrated how easy it is for anyone to buy a semiautomatic handgun and a high capacity magazine, no questions asked,' Bloomberg said.

Dear Mayor Bloomberg:

You're barking up the wrong tree. 

You should be asking the ATF what it is that they're doing to get guns into your city. 

On the other hand, if you continue sending out buyers to make straw purchases, perhaps someone could prosecute you under the RICO statutes.  Suits me. 

Better yet, perhaps you could try taking care of your own streets before you extend your authority to some other location. 

By the way, have you made this owner of this vehicle whole for the destruction of his car by your employees? 


 
Happy plowing,

Help for the CW2 Cube

A friend and I were mulling over what the crime rate might be in the southwest and what the racial makeup of that region might be. 

He found an image from the National Atlas.gov webpage.  There's a decent resource in there called Mapmaker.  Try it out. 

Unfortunately, you can only do one layer at a time-which leaves you to manually make correlations between more than one parameter.  Perhaps this is Uncle Sam's way of making sure no one associates race, sex, age, or any other anointed parameter with any other piece of information such as robbery rate, murder rate, per capita income, energy consumption, and so forth.  (except them) 

This is a decent tool for learning more about your AO. 

Or someone else's. 

Red Horizons

I just finished Lt. Gen Ion Mihai Pacepa's book Red Horizons.  Released in 1987, it's still valuable for learning what it's like inside the palace of a cult of personality communist government like Ceaucescu, Kim Jong Il, or even Obama.  For this reason, the book is highly recommended by the Cliffs. 

Middle Eastern Unrest

In Tunisia and Egypt, riots have overrun their capitol cities.  In my own ignorance, I didn't know that Egypt still labored under a state of emergency dating back to Sadat's assassination.  Wow.  I wish those folks well in getting some relief from their secular oppressors and achieving freedom.  But I also know that waiting in the wings, quietly watching these kids protesting are the same type of fundamentalists who had Sadat assassinated in the first place.  They'll be only too happy to let the kids do the work of overthrowing the government and then conveniently appear on the scene to co-opt the movement and become their new religious oppressors. 

I include for consideration, a video sent to me.  Ali is putting on a demonstration outside of CNN today at 12 noon in support of their family back in Egypt. 



If I were in Atlanta, I'd be tempted to rifle up and support them. 

I wonder if Iran has turned off their internet this week?  If it were my Theocracy to run, I certainly wouldn't want an already liberty-starved populace to get any bright ideas about linking arms with their kin in the region. 

I'm sure all this will only drive oil prices higher. 

If we had some adults in the White House, perhaps the US could help to improve the situation.  Perhaps HusseinO can bow to them? 

Only Ones

Frank Drebin gives us another nugget of truth about being an Only One. 

Zane Status

I'm finally starting to feel human again.  Yeah, I'm a wimp.  It's only a head cold.  I think this is the most persistent head cold that I've ever encountered. 

Regular snark should be coming through very soon. 

If only Obama would send Nancy Pelosi by to visit.  Maybe then my eyes would open too.

Apologies for the lax posting.  But others on the team clearly have the ball right now and deserve the full attention.  Mike and David with Project Gunwalker.  TL and The Siege.  The Great Magazine giveaway. 

Forward.  Resist. 

Senator Palpatine on Civilty

Down with a head cold this weekend and watched some movies.  Among them, Star Wars I. 

Senator Palpatine gives us this gem. 



Resist. 

RTC Atlanta

Daniel Almond sends.  Another successful RTC rally. 

1-22-2011: Activists hand out Constitutions, 30rd AR mags at intersection in Atlanta « Restore The Constitution

The RTC folks do us proud once again.  

Lord of The Weed - Purple Haze

Because every once in a while, you have to stop and smell the....uh roses. 

As we were watching the LOTR trilogy the other day, Big One noted each time they were smoking the pipe weed.  It turned out that was quite often.  I thought it deserved a soundtrack. 



"Lord of The Reefer" came in a close second for a title. 

The Arctic Patriot: Lessons Learned-Questions Asked- TJIC Incident

Arctic Patriot cites a few passages of holy scripture according to Title 18 of the Federal Bible. 

Title 18, U.S.C., Section 241

Conspiracy Against Rights
This statute makes it unlawful for two or more persons to conspire to injure, oppress, threaten, or intimidate any person of any state, territory or district in the free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured to him/her by the Constitution or the laws of the United States, (or because of his/her having exercised the same).

Title 18, U.S.C., Section 242

Deprivation of Rights Under Color of Law
This statute makes it a crime for any person acting under color of law, statute, ordinance, regulation, or custom to willfully deprive or cause to be deprived from any person those rights, privileges, or immunities secured or protected by the Constitution and laws of the U.S.

An excellent question.  If not, why not? 

Michael Moore - Profiler

On display at Rachel Man now.

Story from Big Journalism here.

“That imaginary person that's gonna break into your home and kill you, who does that person look like? … We never want to talk about the racial or class part of this in terms of how it’s the poor or people of color that we imagine we’re afraid of.”

Transcript of Michael Moore in home invasion, 3:22 AM:
"Who are you!!??  What do you want!!??"
"Hey you guys are black!?  Well why didn't you say so, come on in.  I've been waiting for you all."

Presumably Moore is above stereotyping by race.  Which is precisely why he procedes stereotype by race the people we need to be afraid of. 

Disclosure:
The people of color that I'm afraid of that are going to break into my home and kill me are all black.  Head to toe. 

Black Kevlar helmets

Black body armor

Black pants

Black gloves

Black boots

Black MP4s. 

When a dozen of them crash through your door at 3 AM wearing all of that, does the color of their skin matter to you? 


Me neither.

Donald Trump on State Dinner

Story here.

Trump: "You don't give dinners to the enemy and that's what they're doing."

How has this been violated?  According to Obama, WE THE PEOPLE are the enemy. 

Dumbass. 

Mafia bust nets 127 suspected members

I only wish I had thought of this sentiment first.  I reprint it here for your benefit:


127 down, 408 to go. 

As heartwarming as that might be, the real number of public sector mafia is much higher than this. 

Mafia bust nets 127 suspected members

Story here.

The feds staged a massive Mafia roundup Thursday, arresting 127 suspected gangsters from the city's five mob families - along with hoods from New Jersey and Rhode Island - on charges ranging from racketeering and extortion to murder.



Federal agents launched their crackdown before dawn, and by mid-morning the jail at Fort Hamilton was filling up fast.

When I first read this, I thought it said, "The Fed staged..."  To-may-to, to-mah-to. 

All I can say is the government hates competition.  Just call this a "hostile takeover" of private sector crime.  So in addition to banks and car manufacturers that Obama now owns, he's apparently also the new Godfather-taking out the heads of all the five families. 

I guess this will reduce the number of private sector mobsters-thus clearing the way for new public sector mobster growth. 

"Some of these men were involved in classic mob murders," said U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder. "Some were senseless murders."

So what about these guys, EricH?

Classic, sensible public sector mob hit. 

Updated:
The stupid Blogger always likes to automagically move my italicized quote text to the end of the blog post-thus screwing up the flow.  Sigh.  It's corrected now.  My apologies.

 

The ARkStorm Scenario

Story at USGS: Overview of the ARkStorm Scenario

Experts have designed a large, scientifically realistic meteorological event followed by an examination of the secondary hazards (for example, landslides and flooding), physical damages to the built environment, and social and economic consequences. The hypothetical storm depicted here would strike the U.S. West Coast and be similar to the intense California winter storms of 1861 and 1862 that left the central valley of California impassible. The storm is estimated to produce precipitation that in many places exceeds levels only experienced on average once every 500 to 1,000 years.

But wait, that's only 150 years ago?  Shouldn't this theoretical megastorm wait until 2362? 

Here are some of the projected results:

• Extensive flooding results. The Central Valley experiences hypothetical flooding 300 miles long and 20 or more miles wide. Serious flooding also occurs in Orange County, Los Angeles County, San Diego, the San Francisco Bay area, and other coastal communities.
• Windspeeds in some places reach 125 miles per hour, hurricane-force winds. Across wider areas of the state, winds reach 60 miles per hour.
• Hundreds of landslides damage roads, highways, and homes.
• Property damage exceeds $300 billion, most from flooding.
• Demand surge (an increase in labor rates and other repair costs after major natural disasters) could increase property losses by 20 percent.
• Agricultural losses and other costs ...brings the total direct property loss to nearly $400 billion, of which $20 to $30 billion would be recoverable through public and commercial insurance.
• Power, water, sewer, and other lifelines experience damage that takes weeks or months to restore.
• Flooding evacuation could involve 1.5 million residents in the inland region and delta counties.
• Business interruption costs reach $325 billion in addition to the $400 property repair costs, meaning that an ARkStorm could cost on the order of $725 billion, which is nearly 3 times the loss deemed to be realistic by the ShakeOut authors for a severe southern California earthquake, an event with roughly the same annual occurrence probability.

I hate to say it, but I guess that would put some people to work.  In Obamaspeak, it sounds like this ARkSTORM is $725 billion of "shovel-ready" work for a deeply blue state.  If Obama controlled the weather, it sounds like exactly what he'd send them a'la Elmer Fudd in What's Opera Doc. 

Oh, except for one little detail. 

I saw this article today and noted the amount of unfunded pension liability for California.  Are you sitting down for this?  Curiously, it is at ~$700 billion dollars. 

Sorry, but those two numbers being so close is just too convenient. 

Forgive those of us in the other 56 states, but we're suffering from California Fatigue. 

When it rains?  DISASTER!!!!!!!!! there's mudslides. 
When it doesn't rain?  DISASTER!!!!!!!!! there's wildfires.
When the El Nino effect rolls in?  DISASTER!!!!!!!!! the wind blows too much and there's wildfires.
When the La Nina effect rolls in?  DISASTER!!!!!!!!! the wind blows too much and there's wildfires.
When it's winter? DISASTER!!!!!!!!! it's too cold and there's too much snow.
When it's spring?  DISASTER!!!!!!!!! there's flooding because of snow melt.
When it's summer?  DISASTER!!!!!!!!! there's smog.
When it's fall?  DISASTER!!!!!!!!! the populace gets to vote again.
Not to mention the occasional earthquake, riot, gang activity, and such. 

I figure that each and every "crisis" and disaster that Cali faces now will be met by the professional ululators of disaster with wails of pain, misery and torment that can only be relieved by an infusion of federal tax dollars. 

Looking back, I wonder why I rooted for James Bond in A View To A Kill.  Maybe I should have instead rooted for Max Zorin.


Oh, by the way, that's Max Zorin fulfilling the very outcome I wrote about in Fair Warning.

Time to get tough

Codrea links to the Rev. Robert C. Moore who in this propaganda piece has this to say:

Translation: If only Loughner had used a legally obtained 10 round magazine to do his shooting, then we could all breathe easy. 

But what is quite do-able, and has been done by almost every other industrialized nation, is to have sensible gun violence prevention laws that would prevent anyone who might succumb to such provocations from obtaining such lethality. The failure to do this amounts to allowing individual citizens access to weapons of mass destruction.

Reverend, perhaps you need to see The Gigazine!  All the WMD you'll ever need.   

Note: As some did not get this the first time around, let me encourage you to open the picture, zoom in and study carefully.  Regular readers know that I don't always make it obvious. 

Based on the Reverend's definition of WMD, I guess W is due for an apology by the "where's the WMD?" crowd, huh?   

CS Lewis Quote

In response to my use of the quote from The Last Battle in the Civility= Censorship post,

Mark Matis said...



You quote CS Lewis, but you should understand that The One only REALLY calls on his one true God - Mohammed.

The rest of the time he is merely reading the Teleprompter in Chief. No meaning at all to THOSE words.

In this particular scene in The Last Battle, the Calormenes have the Narnians surrounded and are steadily pushing them to enter a tent to meet their God, Tash.  (Interestingly, the Calormenes have been oft repeating the lie that Aslan and Tash are really the same-the better to weaken the faith of the Narnians.)

This scene in the book and the present reality have a strong parallel.  We're daily pushed ever closer to conformity and compliance.  Whether it's going to the airport, calls for "civility", healthcare, the incandescent lightbulb, the 5 gallon toilet, proposed speech restrictions, existing and proposed restrictions on firearms, "safety" checkpoints, arrests for mere photography, the jihad agianst unprocessed milk and dairy products, the new food "safety" laws.  I'm sure there are a few hundred I'm leaving out, but  you can come up up with them. 

Liberals worship the god of state, self, and power for the sake of power.  They may call upon other gods out of situational convenience, but not out of real faith.  They went into a cult-like trance for the cult of personality that is Hillary.  When Hillary fatigue set in, they upgraded to a bigger cult of personality in Obama.  They do not understand what they've unleashed.  My point is that liberals do not believe in ANY god upon whom they call. 

Perhaps we're not yet at the point where the cat is thrown into the tent (i.e. canary in a coal mine) and the libs have that flash of understanding of the hell they have conjured up and unleashed.  When that god shows up in all its hideous fullness, it's going to be hell for us, but more so for them.

For liberals, it's all about Obama.  But in spiritual terms, I say Obama is small potatoes.  HusseinO isn't worthy to tie the AntiChrist's shoelaces.  (or hold his umbrella) 

He's just the herald crying out in the wilderness, preparing the way.  In this particular context, does it matter which god Obama calls on? 

On this day in history 1-17-1991

It was 20 years ago today.
Sergeant Pepper taught the band how to play.

Operation Desert Storm begins. 

Fetish

I really resent this nonsense from the left that so many on the right have a "fetish" for the Constitution. 

But since we're "in the mood", let's recognize and name the left's preoccupation with "assault weapons", magazine capacity, and caliber for the fetish that it is.  Let's proclaim to all the world that it is the liberals who have a gun fetish and a penchant for the "fetishization" of guns. 

Be more attractive to $100K employers

Just saw this commercial on the tube for the first time.  At about 35 seconds the main message is "flashed" on the screen.




"Be more attractive to $100k employers."

Many might be inclined to just laugh at the juxtaposition of all this vamping in business suits at the office.  But who ever said this was juxtaposition?  This could be reality TV.  These could easily be real candidates in real leadership development programs at any one of hundreds of companies.  These could be hidden camera views at various "get to know" meetings between the candidates and executives. 

The further up "the ladders" you go, this is what it's all about.  If you want the big money, then you'll just have to whore yourself out to get it.  It's all tied together, folks. 

Uncivility = Freedom

I literally swerved into this while responding to a comment about the Gigazine-the new 535 round Glock magazine.  By the way, I might have called it a Megazine, but that was already taken by some puny 13 round mag.  Sigh. 

If civility is censorship, then the converse is this:   Uncivility = freedom. 

I refer back to what I said a few months ago about freedom and offense. 

Many people are offended by someone who is really free. Especially if they don't perceive themselves to be free.


Freedom isn't obtained through defense, it is obtained through offense. The original Affirmative Action if you like. Freedom requires offensive action and can't be obtained any other way.

Being free means remaining on the offensive. 

Resist the pressure of the herd to be civil for civility's sake.  Resist the forces of nice. 

MLK snow make-up days upset civil rights groups

Story here.

C'mon, at least they didn't build a SnowKlan...

Stay uncivil, my friends

Censorship

Earlier, I told you that Dire Straits Money for nothing was being censored.  It popped up in the news just days after my post in this Reuters article from Canada.

Random:

1) Rollory wrote:

Is there any chance you could change your color scheme? White text on black background gives me an eye-crossing headache within about 30 seconds.

Uh.....help me out, what color schemes are non-headache inducing?  I'm open to hope and change and green energy and jobs and stimulus and recov...sorry, must be the programming kicking in.  My e-mail is on the sidebar, let's open up a conversation. 

2) When I wrote A Contrast, I was expecting someone to say this but no one has.  So I will. 

Al Sharpton must have gone totally weak-kneed here.  In days gone by, he'd have been all over this like the last scoop of banana pudding on the buffet line at closing time.  Clearly the difference in the number of search results is the result of racism.  Maybe the left is just being "civil" and waiting until the funeral flowers fade.  

Service = Servitude

From George Donnelly.com

Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is coming up on Monday, January 17th and it’s about time someone celebrated it RIGHT.  No more of this Orwellian “day of service” nonsense.  Martin Luther King is about freedom and conscience. ‘Service’ is a code word for servitude, or slavery.  How daring of the government to turn an African-American crusader for freedom into an icon for slavery!  It’s up to us to reclaim the true legacy of Martin Luther King and show it to the world in its proud, spin-free glory.

Service = Servitude.

Word.

I can't tell you when I first remember hearing about a "day of service", or "a day on, not a day off" slogans thrown around for this holiday. 
Resist.

I’ve set up a website called I Disobeyed an Unjust Law where people can learn about civil disobedience.  There’s a twitter campaign, comments and I’ll interview dozens of good people who disobey bad laws live on Civil Disobedience TV.  You can watch it right from the website.

January 17th to the 23rd is Civil Disobedience Week.  Not only do we kick it off with Martin Luther King Day, but the 19th is Lysander Spooner‘s birthday!  Are you doing something for these events?  Let’s stay in touch via this mailing list.

Another Great Comment

A reader sends a comment that goes to the head of the line in response to A Contrast.

Toaster 802 said...

What's the difference?

One body can be used by despicable thugs to advance their Anti-American Agenda.

The other body is the result of the same despicable thugs Anti-American Agenda.

Word. 

The Gigazine

Hi-cap?  Wimp.
Extended Mag?  Wussy.
The Megazine?  Puh-lease.

Ladies and Gentlemen at The Cliffs, I give you ...

The Gigazine (click to enlarge)

Stay uncivil, my friends.

A Contrast

Christina Taylor Green. 

Murdered on January 8, 2011-presumably by Jarrett Loughner
About 7,690,000 results on Google.

Aiyana Jones. 

Murdered May 16, 2010 by Detroit Police who were filming a TV show. 
About 54,000 results on Google. 

Seems that society views these two deaths through a very different lens. 

Civility = Censorship

I sometimes turn on some Rush when I'm out at lunch and I'm sure glad I did today.  Not because of what he said, but because of what the caller said. 

Until I looked up the transcript, I thought it was Sarah Palin calling in.  It kind of sounded like her. 

This quote just grabbed my attention. 

"...civility is the new word for censorship."

Kathy in Potomac, Maryland, welcome to the Cliffs of Insanity as one of the all-time great quotes.  If I may abbreviate:

Civility is the new censorship. 

Later she had this to say:

We don't want to criticize the state. So, Rush, the reason I called is I can only take two minutes of that whole Wellstone Memorial yesterday, and that's exactly what it was. In essence, I think people were asked to worship at the altar of the state -- and if I may be so bold as to say the Church of Barack the Redeemer. That's why there were no religious figures reading from the Bible. The statists read from the Bible. It was very discouraging.

Kathy hits this on the head bigtime.

The left is jealous of the church.

This is why liberals hate the church. It's why they screech about the separation of church and state-which is really not about separating church from state as much as it is replacing church with state.  This is why there were no religious figures reading from the Bible.  Because according to the Gospel of Liberalism, THEY ARE THE RELIGIOUS FIGURES.  They are absorbed with self-worship and masturbatory oration. 

Go back to Obama's claim that Giffords opened her eyes for the first time when Pelosi, et al were in the room.  (And as Ernest commented earlier, pity poor Giffords, opening her eyes to see THAT in her hospital room.)  It is Obama attempting to claim credit as if she were blind Bartimeus, Lazarus, and the woman with 12 years of bleeding all rolled into one and her condition improved merely because she touched the hem of his robes and healing flowed out of him to her. 

I'll say this again, HusseinO isn't worthy to tie the AntiChrist's shoelaces.  (or hold his umbrella)  He's just the herald crying out in the wilderness, preparing the way.  That makes the hair on my neck stand up. 

These idiots who worship themselves, the state and power alone are worthy of this quote:

"There goes one who has called on gods he does not believe in. How will it be with him if they have really come?"

- Farsight, The Last Battle by CS Lewis

And if you don't agree with me, then you're an racist tea-party redneck clinger who hates Xochitl Hinojosa!!!

Together We Thrive

Faithful Cliffs readers know that I live by a code of visual snark which reads,
Never let the opposition's propaganda go to waste. 

In practical terms, this means that if I have an idea and ability, I won't let it pass by unchallenged. 

So here's my take on the official T-shirt and logo from the pep-rally for Paul Wellstone.  OOPS!  Gabrielle Giffords.  Sorry, don't know what I could have been thinking there. 

Enjoy, spread it far and wide. 

Giffords Opens Her Eyes (updated)

H/T to the Tennessee III who sent me this:

Gateway pundit put an article up at 5:10 AM this morning.  I was making my post at around 6 AM-having not seen this.  Did Obama Lie about Giffords Opening Her Eyes?

The original article (here) debunking this can't be found.  Dang that pesky internet! 

But the google cache of this article (here) can.  Looks like someone is about to become an unperson at Minitrue. 

And while I'm in a Black Predator mode (sorry, "Black Helicopters" is soooo 1995), it wouldn't surprise me at all if Giffords were to "slip away" just before he House was to hold a vote on taking more of our liberties in her memory. 

Giffords Opens Her Eyes

Story

Snark 1: Then I guess she's no longer a Democrat.

Snark 2: So when are you going to open your eyes, HusseinO?

Snark 3: The quote from the story reads thus:

The lawmakers who were in Giffords' hospital room when she opened her eyes were three of her close female friends in Congress: House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi of California, Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla., and Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y.

Uh, how would those three know she opened her eyes?  They're all Democrats.  

It sure is convenient that she waited for so many politicians to get there to open her eyes for the first time-just in time to allow Obama to proclaimeth the miracle from upon high and bask in the glory of the applause of the crowd as if it were for him. 

I've looked for other stories on this and they all seem to include Obama announcing that this happened.  Which might just mean that it never happened. 

Snark 4: If we had Obamacare right now, then the Democrats would have the martyr they do want instead of the survivor they don't.

Blood Libel

Story here

Palin calls it a blood libel which is an accurate description.

Later, she says this:

"Acts of monstrous criminality stand on their own," she wrote. "They begin and end with the criminals who commit them, not collectively with all the citizens…”

Emphasis added.

Ding ding ding ding ding!!!!

Palin utters the magic word here, "collectively".  Why must guilt/blame/shame be assigned collectively to a group of people?  Because according to liberally orthodoxy, nobody can act upon their own.  No one has liberty within themselves.  No one is really free.  They're not, so how can you be?  Everyone must be programmed.  We’re all just robots who must be programmed and you can’t blame the robot-only the programming and more ominously, the programmer. (cue dark, ominous, foreboding music, rising in volume)

This idea of collectivism reflects reality according to liberals.  Why?  Because programming is all they know.  They do not express independent thought outside of the collective.  They are given their talking points, their banners, handbills, matching T-shirts, and angry chants, and their marching orders to go forth and get on the cameras as the legions of the oppressed.

This is how the left functions (or dysfunctions).

Resist

Remain an individual.

Stay ungovernable, my friends.

The Fall of Communism

Better put some ice on that. 

Liberty under assault

Ordinarily, I might be concerned about McCarthy, Brady, Sherman, Lautenberg, or others who may try to infringe upon my First and Second Amendment rights.  I'd be worried that the Congress might forego ATF oversight hearings so as to hallow this time for the victims. 

But we've got nothing to worry about because so many people out there got in touch with their inner Norris and Triggered the Vote. 



And I'm absolutely certain that you need not worry that the NRB might go along with whatever remedy they come up with. 

Chuck the NRB!

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

Some L.A. Gang police quit over financial rules.  Story here

Interesting.

The watchmen do not want to be watched.  Neither do I.  But then I don't have the opportunity to receive stolen property and skim off the top. 

I hope they’ll take the same approach with me as a private citizen if I happen to deposit or withdraw just under the reporting thresholds like Johnny Gaskins.

See, I have to wonder whether this worsens or improves the situation for L.A.  On the one hand, there might not be as many police to run down gang activity.  On the other, there might not be as many police to abuse their powers against the innocent through no-knock dynamic raids, civil forfeiture cases, and the like. 

Rhetoric will cause next shooting

Rep. Brad Sherman (D-CA) predicts that violent rhetoric will cause the next shooting. 

Updated: Then why don't you all shut the fuck up, sir? 

Is that a promise or a threat, Representative? 

Because if I want violent rhetoric, then I'll be looking out on my left side where they are instructed to "punch back twice as hard", or to "bring a gun" when someone else brings a knife, or having their boot on people's throat or knowing who's ass to kick. 

Just as information Representative, if you threaten one American, then you threaten us all.  And isn't that really the message that Boehner had the other day? 

The more I think about this, the more clear it is that Boehner has stepped on the proverbial crank here by publicly confirming the us vs. them construct of the Ruling Class vs. the Country class as articulated by Angelo Codevilla.  It's not so much that an assault on one of them is an assault on all of them.  It's that an assault by anyone against them is viewed by all of them as cause to push back against all of us.  In short, they view America as being a nation of 300 million Jarret Lee Loughners.

GHI: Goldilocks Happiness Index.

In light of last week's call to monitor people for their happiness level, I'm wondering what could have possibly gone so wrong that Jarret Lee Loughner was overlooked. 

It seems that Loughner's low GHI numbers had well known, well before Saturday.  And were totally overlooked. 

Read Denninger and the embedded links. 

Sheriff Dupnik (pronounced DUPE-nick) is in deep doo. 

Bipartisanship

This is what Bipartisanship looks like.

On the one hand, statements like this one from John Boehner:

"An attack on one who serves is an attack on all who serve."  

and this from Eric Cantor:

"All legislation currently scheduled to be considered by the House of Representatives next week is being postponed so that we can take whatever actions may be necessary in light of today's tragedy,"

So...what kind of action might that be, Mr. Cantor?  What would be so necessary that it must be conducted right now?

On the other hand, endless ranting and raving from the left about the eeeeeeevil nature of guns, semiautomatic weapons, "extended magazines", high capacity magazines, magazines, and promises from Democratic representatives to introduce more restrictive leglation as soon as today.

When you hear bipartisanship like this, reach for your family, your wallet, and your guns. 

I wonder how many people will be condemned to die under the "death panels" that will have to be introduced in Obamacare?  Will it be 6 as it was Saturday in Tuscon?  Will it be ~3000 as it was on 9/11/01?  WIll it be on the scale of hundreds of thousands?  Or will it be on the scale of Stalin or Mao, 30-70 million?  It's not exaggerating to call Obamacare a ticking weapon of mass destruction. 

To shift gears for a sceond, consider this comparison:

On the one hand, abortion was enshrined as this sacred right in Roe v. Wade and has taken an estimated 40 million lives at the beginning of life. 

On the other hand, health care for all is intended to be enshrined as this sacred right in the Obamacare bill and will snuff out God only knows how many lives at or near the end of their life. 

And I can't help but notice the irony that some of the same generation who so championed Roe v. Wade as a positive impact will be negatively impacted by Obamacare at the end of their lives.  How's that for karma? 

Congress should not delay one more minute.  Repeal this in its entirety.  Do it now. 

No one should be surprised in the least at what is proposed or passes the House in the wake of this shooting.  What Boehner said in practical terms means this: If you mess with one of us, you mess with the whole trailer park.  Taken another way, this means that no one representative is any different than the other.  They're all the same.  Thanks for clearing that up, Mister Speaker. 

Conflation Orgy Begins

When I first read of the shooting in Arizona, I saw it on Drudge. 

I noted that Rep. Giffords windows had been smashed last year in the run up to the Obamacare vote.  Mentally, I just set the countdown timer for 1 day.  That's all it would take before Mike Vanderboegh's call to break their windows would be recalled and linked to this shooting. 

Sipsey Street Irregulars: Conflation Orgy Begins: Mass Shooting in Arizona Leads Mother Jones to Libel Me.

Let's see ....what else is going on at the moment?  What is the other hand doing? 

• Sharp spike in DOJ hits to Sipsey, Guardians of Liberty, Arctic Patriot and perhaps others. 
• Traver renominated to be the first Senate-confimed ATF chief.  Which could mean real, live, honest to God hearings before the Senate that expose their dirty laundry. 
• ATF Walking gun fiasco clearly indicates ATF knowledge of guns heading across the border to Mexico.  (Begging the question of what action they took or did not take, and why.) 
• Recently, the ATF wanted to place additional restrictions on the purchase of multiple long arms.
• DHS wants to put mobile molocaust stations at malls, hotels, and places of business. 
• Packages that "ignited" in Maryland and elsewhere.  One addressed to Czarina Janet herself. 
• New Congress is sworn in, gavel handed over.

I'm sure none of those have anything to do with any of the others...right? 

From Wednesday, September 29, 2010 here at The Cliffs, I give you this gem for review.  Democratic Fear And Smear: As Predictable As Gravity.

And since conflation seems to be the game of the day, let me say that I am a superstitious man. 


Witness Tampering

I don't know anything about the suspect they've arrested.  But I do know a lot about the people who will run to fear and smear in the aftermath.  I do know a few things about people who hope for another Oklahoma City so their President can look Presidential. 

My sympathies and prayers to the families of the deceased and the victims.

Of Oaths and Loyalties

The latest from TL In Exile-originator of the Siege in D.C.

TL In Exile: Of Oaths and Loyalties

But, they have a choice. They can go along with this unconstitutional government right up to the end, when the government decides to cover their tracks by eliminating the stooges they used to do the dirty work, or they can embrace the legal and proper scope of the Constitution....

Which way should the guns be pointing?

Read it all.

I refer back to one of my longer posts, "Fair Warning to the Collectivists."  In it, I offer up a glimpse into the future of those collectivists-so proud of their current importance to the cause. 

I originally wrote this with the hard-core, SSEIU, ACORN, DNCCCP, true believers in mind.  But there necessarily must be many more than this under the umbrella of collectivism.  If it were only the hard core collectivists that had to be defeated, then we'd be looking at a small number of people who just happen to have a lot of volume.  



True believers

So what are we facing?  We're facing a few true-blue believers who hold up a very large umbrella for their huddled masses who crowd in seeking some protection from the rain. 

The chief function of those huddled masses arrayed around those true believers at the center is to serve as human shields.  Towards the outside, they are more passive, but closer to the center, they are active shields. 



Hussein the First demonstrating human shields.

So who all is under the umbrella?  The "less fortunate", the "downtrodden", the "hardest hit", those who have been "historically discriminated against"-the usual suspects are typically found under the collectivist umbrella. 

What about people who work for the government?  Absolutely.  If you work for the government, then you are under this umbrella in practical terms regardless of where your principle may lie.  You make your living thanks to the machinery of the state which is being turned towards collectivism. 

While we're complaining about the size of government, here's a question I never hear asked:  What if the government posted a job and nobody applied?  A smaller civil service would certainly reduce the size of government, no?

I therefore strongly encourage any/all (insert three letter acronym law enforcement agency here).govs to read Fair Warning to the Collectivists.  You must answer the questions that TL asked.  You must know your position.  You must know your heading.  (Which way are you facing?)  You must realize your speed.  (How fast am I moving?)  You must know your acceleration.  (Am I speeding up or slowing down?)  And you must know that the tyrant doesn't spare his own from tyranny.  (Uh...that's why he's a tyrant.) 





This is not a threat.  This is not a prediction.  This is not a call to action.  It is settled history that has been repeated many times.  It has all happened before and will happen again.  And if you stay under the umbrella, then this time, it will happen to you.  

And remember...no pressure.

Music

In light of the post the other day on the censorship of music, here's one they haven't caught yet. 

Enjoy it while you can. 



(Not sure what the hell that armadillo has to do with anything.) 

If you see something...

H/t to Radiowave for this graphic. 

See, I know what he means here.  But the police I think approach this in more of a literal sense.  The results of countless botched dynamic raids, dead pets, and dead Americans would tend to bear this out. 

Nevertheless, good stuff. 

GHI: Goldilocks Happiness Index.

Saw this on Drudge.  I read the story and the memo. 

Why would the government be asking themselves what programs, policies, procedures, etc. are in place with regard to this subject?

Think about this for a second. The left hand literally does not know what the right hand is doing.  If I received one of these memos, I might consider throwing it in the trash without a response-just to see if anyone missed my non-reply. 

Think how wasteful and inefficient this is.  Imagine how this has been exploited to date.  Imagine how this can be exploited in the future.

Then there’s these few lines: 

• What metrics do you use to measure “trustworthiness” without alienating employees? 
• Do you use psychiatrist and sociologist to measure:
• Relative happiness as a means to gauge trustworthiness?
• Despondence and grumpiness as a means to gauge waning trustworthiness?

If you're not happy enough, then this means you're a security risk.  If you're too happy, it means you're on drugs.  Clearly, you need to be just right there in that soft, soggy middle of happiness where you understand that the world's going to hell around you, but don't really care that much.  Like Goldilocks, your happiness needs to be "just right"

 

Well I say that this is just crap!!  How can you objectively measure something as subjective as “happiness”?  This is discrimination against Grumpy Americans, plain and simple.  It cannot be allowed to stand!

 

I believe that it is high time for all Grumpo-Americans to unite.  It's time for us to proudly wear our League of Grumpy pledge pins.  It's time for us to proudly push the door closed button on the elevator.  It's time for us to unapologetically leave the coffee pot empty in the break room.  It's time for us to leave 3 squares of toilet paper on the roll for the next person.  It's time for us to put on our turn signals only 20 feet before we make the turn.  It's time for us to not move over to let traffic merge from the onramp.  It's time for us to go into a gas station, use the bathroom and not buy anything at all.  It's time for us to club some baby seals.  It's time for us to say no to the Forces Of Nice charity drives at work and in our community.  It's time for us to stop buying Girl Scout Cookies.  (Sorry, but I must have the thin mints.  I am ashamed!)  It's time to line up four wide and all do the speed limit all around the Washington, D.C. beltway! 

 

While you can still choose your mood, do so.  Because I'm sure that at some point, there will be government rules and regulations governing your mood in the workplace. 

 

 

Bonus Trivia:

Anybody remember what movie this clip came from?

Airport gets a "naughty" neighbor

Story here


In business, it’s all about location, location, location.  So if you were going to try and get customers for such a business where would you go?  Who are your customers?  Why not to a location where hundreds of people known to grope and grab and squeeze the charmin work all day long?  Why not indeed?

The only surprise for me is that they didn’t just put the stripper poles inside the TSA search areas and make people strip and dance for the privilege of getting on the plane.  Of course, in TSA land, "getting on the plane" may be a euphemism for something else that I really don't want to consider.  I really shouldn’t joke about this. I've found that sometimes, the craziest thing I can imagine or joke about can sometimes become reality-even when it violates all standards of decorum, sanity, or reason.  On the other hand, don't pole dancers at least get pay and tips for what they do?  I can't decide which is worse-thinking that I'm being paid to go through the search line or that I am paying the TSA-holes who are watching. 

All that to say that if any of you see any stripper poles being put up in the TSA search areas, remember that you heard it here first.   

ATF source confirms ‘walking’ guns to Mexico

Some more of your tax dollars at work.  Codrea has the latest at GRE.  Mike too.

I can only hope that we'll see this in our future:

I have no illusion that ending the ATF will be a permanent solution.  If they are body slammed by Congressional hearings, the ATF will likely repeat the possum act that played out when communism "died" at the dissolution of the Soviet Union.  The rats will simply find other holes in which to hide. 

And then it's on to the next stage of the game. 

PC Censorship

So I'm in the man cave, cleaning up some new magazines and Dire Straits smash hit, Money for Nothing comes on. 

That ain't workin'!

The second verse comes up and it's like they've played with the mute button. 

See the little _______ with the earring and the makeup

Yeah buddy that's his own hair
That little _______ got his own jet airplane
That little _______ he's a millionaire.

I stood there agape wondering what world I was in.  Maybe it's just that I don't listen to the radio much anymore.  On a different station, I later heard this entire verse clipped completely. 

Just to make sure we're all on the same page, here's the raw version:

See the little faggot with the earring and the makeup

Yeah buddy that's his own hair
That little faggot got his own jet airplane
That little faggot he's a millionaire.

Another time I was watching some Tom and Jerry which has been similarly PC'd.  It has apparently become sport to retroactively apply censorship to older works of art in the name of sensitivity. 

As a quick aside, I was driving Monday listening to Mark Steyn filling in for Rush and Steyn was talking about his experience being sued for hate crime in Canada for his review of Little Mosque On The Prarie.  He simply said that it was propaganda and wasn't funny.  Someone later asked him about this and he declared that "'Muslim' is the new 'Gay'" 

Somehow, I kept it on the road, but it was really touch and go for a minute.

Doing some searching online I was rewarded with tons of hits lamenting this practice of "adjusting" old cartoons to fit our more correct morals. 

Like many things, I'm probably really late to the party.  You think this is any different than what Winston Smith did in Minitrue in Orwell's 1984? 

Me neither.  Welcome to Ingsoc.