I wonder if I remember how to do this snark thing…

The level of hysteria Sarah Palin is capable of generating still makes me LOL.  It just slays me that those who have their frilly pinks in a bunch over Palin writing speech notes on her hand are the same who don’t mind their dear leader’s seeming inability to memorize his own speeches.

The parallel that can be drawn between liberal and conservative spending habits is just a delicious bonus.

The American Revolution was started by about one third of the population of the thirteen colonies. This one third encompassed the landed wealthy, the educated, the middle class, the yeoman farmers, and the illiterate.  Basically every strata of society in terms of money, education, prestige, personal or political power. But it was ONLY one third of the population. And the reasons theses thirteen colonies eventually revolted against England were what exactly? Come on class, I know you know.  Yes, the young lady in the back.  Correct. They rebelled because they were sick and damn tired of not being represented by their government, weary of abuses by that government, and convinced upon logical, moral, philosophical, legal, and spiritual reasons that their government no longer cared about the well being of it’s subjects.  After the war was over, the Loyalists were allowed to keep their homes, farms, businesses, and lives.  The loyalists went on to become citizens in a new country; free to engage in commerce, free to hold public office, worship how they wished, and be an integral part of their local and state communities.

The French Revolution was another animal altogether.  The French rebelled not just against their king, but their entire wealthy class.  The revolutionaries at this point were the poor and the scant middle classes. They were essentially used as pawns by figureheads. Figureheads who, after the revolution, engaged in bloody purges, expropriation of property, and let us not forget the systematic redistribution of wealth and lands.  The idea of Liberté, égalité, fraternité, took a while to really catch up when pitted against the public spectacle of watching your particularly boorish former landlord get his head whacked off.

And then there was the American Civil War.  To say that the Civil War was fought to end slavery in the southern states is to say that pushing the gas pedal makes the car go.  The complex myriad issues of that time cannot be recounted by anything less than a thorough study of American history and law since the founding of freaking Jamestown up through the actual night Fort Sumter was taken by the Confederates.  Over a deuce and a half centuries of uniquely American jurisprudence, legislation, taxation, bank failures, bitter fights in the new Congress, personal injustices and rivalries, philosophical antipodes of thought, and what exactly our own law (as embodied by our Constitution and Bill of Rights) stood for and exactly how much power our federal government had over local and sovereign rule of the individual states came to a head.  The argument over states’ rights verses federal power grabbing was lost in the emotional impact of the Emancipation Proclamation.   During that little revolution, innocent and apolitical people in the South were murdered and had their homes burned to the ground during Sherman’s march to the sea.  Outnumbered, outgunned, under financed, and with the moral low ground, the Confederacy still managed to stave off Federal oppression for the four bloodiest years in American history.  After losing their revolution, the Confederacy was subjected to punitive taxation, forced labor, direct violation of the Third Amendment for the only time in US history, it’s citizens were locked out of political power for over a generation, its wealth divided by fiat, and property rights trampled.  Aside from the question of the injustice of one person being able to own another person, every single OTHER aspect of the Union’s prosecution of the Civil War was illegal, immoral, and contrary to the very things this country was founded upon.  On the other hand, our country was still young enough that if it had been torn asunder, foreign powers would have looked at the pieces as just something else to fold into their own empires, which could have just led to the cycle repeating itself as in paragraph one.

So what’s my point?

Good question.

When I started writing this, I was thinking about how each time a vast revolution has occurred in the last couple centuries, the warfare has been bloodier and the victors more harshly treated the losers.  (I obviously left out most of the turmoil the world has witnessed as petty dictators and avowed socialists/fascists fomented revolution for their own ends. I left out the changes that happened as progressions of a political nature as well.  I was thinking more about a popular, democratic type of revolution rather than say, a communist one.) As I got to the part about the US Civil War, however, I realized that no fight is more bitter than a fight between brothers.  No one fights more fiercely than the man who knows, in his heart, that his enemy should be his friend and their goals should be toward the common good, not the good of one over the other.  No man, who has to face his brother, or his neighbor, or his friend, across a line of battle, is more aware of that voice in his head that says, “how could he be so wrong about this?”

So folks, pick your flavor. Choose your fate. Decide NOW if we need to keep heading towards civil unrest, disobedience, and outright rebellion.  Then decide what it will look like, based on history, and extrapolate out from there.  Decide if what you believe is true and right and good will keep being true and right and good if you have to go a-soldier for it.  I think I know my answer.  I hope I know what the people who hold public trust would answer.  I only fear that both they (and far too many of us) haven’t even thought about the question yet.

cross posted at The Line Is Here

The headline of The Washington Times editorial is:

BLANKLEY: Obama lied; the economy died

No big government, says The Empty Suit, no earmarks.  Well, we’ve all seen just how jam-packed the OhStimulateMeNowYesYESSSSS!! bill is with the latter, and we’ve all seen precisely how Baron Harkonnen-esque these Libtards expect government to get during their tenure.  They’re like children in a candy shop, fatass and cavities be damned!

I think of my (few) liberal friends, and I really, REALLY want to ask them what they think of their Savior now, but I don’t…because I know that will be a friendship-ending conversation.  My incredulity at their naiveté - their wide-eyed, stiff-nippled complicity in the raping of our country, our children’s future – will transform, Megatron-stylee, into scathing contempt and possibly physical violence.  

The question of the hour is What Are We Going To Do About This?  Some insist the problem is self-correcting…and I wish them a fine time entertaining the Secret Service.  

Contact our Congresspeople?  Fat lot of good that does you when their standard answer is “not my problem.”  

March in the streets?  Well, you know, we have jobs – jobs that pay for our mortgages, thank you – and it is hard to leave them to travel to wherever they’re marching.  So not many people show up, the media under-reports it as an added bonus, and we all think there’s not enough others out there who are as outraged, as Fucking Pissed Off, as we are…

So what then?  What do we do??  Because I’m ready for any bright idea you might be saving for a rainy day.

Yanno, from Day 1 of The Messiah’s entré into the campaign, I’ve called his jugeared ass a “socialist.”*   Turns out I was being too kind.

I once wrote  that we could play “Communist Manifesto Bingo”: once President Obama enacts or strengthens five planks from the Communist Manifesto, yell “bingo” and you win.  One month into President Obama’s first term, BINGO!

Read, as they say, the entire thing.  And then try to sleep tonight.

(*For the record, MLG has *always* answered that with “communist.”)

Yeah, it’s been quiet around here lately.  I’d say “sorry” but you punkasses ain’t paying for this shit, are you.  Anyway, workload is slightly lessened and, thanks to the solicitious attentions of Mister Liberty Girl over the past few days, I no longer feel like biting the heads off cute/fuzzy bunnies after reading the news.  Ergo, blogging may now re-commence. 

Which is a good thing because this is some funny shit right here.  It’s a comparison between how Dubya was greeted by Marines in Iraq in December of last year, and how the Fucktard-in-Chief was greeted at Camp Lejeune last week.

I asked MLG if he thought the Marines at Lejeune were instructed to simply come to attention and be respectfully quiet, or if this was some kind of statement.  He replied, “Both.”  Semper fuckin’ fi.

Folks, we don’t usually link to Rush or Beck or Hannity or whoever else because we don’t want to sound like parrots, or mind-numbed robots, but mostly because we think those guys are still worried about losing their licenses and don’t really take things far enough when it comes to giving the whole story.  Today I am suspending that guideline to link to this.

What Rush doesn’t say it that there was more to that little fireside chat with Joe Scarborough.   ZB also mentioned that J. P. Morgan led the charge of the Rich in this country by essentially holding others of his ‘class’ in a locked library until almost 5AM one crisp morning in 1907 to fund “the banks” or they would all be reduced to mere millionaires instead of billionaires.  The Rich of that day were covering their own asses, hedging their bets, and trying to gain a little bit of control of the mechanics of government for themselves.

(Sound familiar? But that’s another show.)

So this dried up old failure from the Carter Era is trying to say it’s time that the Rich do this again, for their own good and for the good of the country?  And if they don’t, the Federal Government should do it to for them?  What the fuck?  I know that there are already “discussions” within our government to decide the feasibility of  nationalizing all of our 401K and IRA funds.  I know that the stimulus plan is going to shithammer the salaries and bonuses of private enterprises if they were stupid enough to believe the government when it said there were no strings attached to the TARP program. I know that GM and Chrysler are teetering on self-immolation due to interference from the Federal government and the immutability of the Mob’s the Union’s will.  I know that the Treasury is printing money, literally, like it has never been printed before to monetize the stimulus plan.  I even know that the Patriot Act has made US citizens liable for up to fifty fucking percent in taxes for any money they decide to put in an overseas bank, regardless of whether or not the citizen has already paid taxes on said money.   What I don’t know is what ZB thinks the government is going to do that it isn’t already doing to private citizens or corporations.  More importantly, what does he, as a former muckety-muck and current talking head, think the government should do? Raise taxes up to 90 percent for the richest of the rich? Or just make some electrons dance like Richard Pryor in “Superman III” and suck the money of the accounts of everyone who has more than million in the bank?  Maybe just pull a FDR and confiscate all the gold, after all,  surely only the Rich own gold, right?

As for the riots ZB predicts, I say this:  Let them come.

I know, I know, I can already hear it. “But MLG, surely you know how bad that would be for our country, don’t you?” Yes, I do. And don’t call me Shirley.  But exactly how in the hell can we, free citizens of a formerly free country, say that this is OUR country anymore when we allow horseshit like the stimulus bill, or any of that other shit up there, happen.  How can free men and women sell the future of our grandchildren like a mortgaged property in “Monopoly”?  Our grandchildren WON’T BE free men and women, goddammit!  They will be tax slaves, subjects under the rule of our governors.  So let the riots come.

We are allowing our freedoms to be sold at auction like Kunta Kinte.  We are giving away the power that our constitutional republic is supposed to be based upon. We are allowing our government to demand things OF us, rather than remind it that it is answerable TO us.  We write letters and emails and telegrams or call the bastards in DC on the phone just to get disconnected from voicemail boxes. They are not listening to our voices.  So let the riots come.

When the government tells an employer how much he has to pay his employees, or which doctor they can go see and get which medical treatment, the government then controls the workers. Let the riots come.

When they tell businesses what products they MUST produce, regardless of demand at the market, or which one they CAN’T produce, or who they are no longer allowed to import from or export to, the government then controls the very means of production. Let the riots come.

When the federal government owns or controls huge swathes of land and will not allow businesses to utilize that land for farms or livestock or mining or timber production, the government controls the food in our mouths and the ability for a private citizen to even build a home. Let the riots come.

These people in DC are trying to turn us into a socialist or communist state, shredding the Constitution in the process.  Let the riots come.

I was talking this out with Liberty Girl over the past few weeks.  We disagree on many aspects of the entire clusterfuck of a situation, but we are solid on this one: The system needs to be rebooted.

Let the mutherfucking riots come.

Let the snakes in DC see what happens when they decide that 535 of them know better than 300 million of us.  I want to see the fear in their eyes when they realize that they aren’t.  Let these 535 protazoa find out what happens when the host organism they are attacking from the inside finally call in the white blood cells to fight the infection.

These people are stealing our government, our way of life, and our future.

Let the riots come.

Zog help me, I KNOW I said I wasn’t gonna say anything…   I’ve been watching Twitter while I work, taking the opportunity to dump some of the more clueless follows, and I swear to you, this was posted a few moments ago, absolutely devoid of irony:

Dang, the Dow just dropped 200 points. WTF? I thought BO was supposed to STOP stuff like that from happening.

This kid is SERIOUS,  y’all.  

We’re doomed.

UPDATE:  The stupidity on Twitter continues…

Cannot tell you how proud it makes me feel to be a part of a nation where a newly elected Black President can walk to his new house

What does that even mean??  The bus wouldn’t take him?  Scuse me, but doesn’t that count as backsliding, y’know, civil rights-wise?

Bush was escorted out of the Capitol by police and the new First Lady, and his passport was permanently revoked at the border.

Petty.  Still so very petty.

More to come, I’m sure.

Oh YEAH!

I too feel more powerful. Almost feel as if I have a job already. Yay for President Obama!

That’s some fucking POWER there, man.

Hitler, despite killing millions, total saint, totally deserve respect, as does Bush apparently. Fucking praise this club called humanity.

Dumb as a rock.

Hail to our new chief Obama for this day marks the beginning of a new era in our lifetime.

Sing it with me…”hail to the chief, he’s the chief and he needs hailing.”  No?  How about this:  ”Hail to the Chief if you don’t I’ll have to kill you, I am the chief so you had better watch your step, you bastards.”

(This is a TLIH cross-posting.)

Pam posted something that at first blush, literally made me see red, caused my blood pressure to spike, gave me tunnel vision, sent tingles of anger and hatred up my scalp, and took away my power of speech.  See it here.

After my first explosive reaction, I started to rant to Hazel.  While I was ranting I realized something: the same Constitution that allows these sycophantic idiots to do what they have done is the same one that I do NOT wish to have an amendment attached to forbidding burning or desecration of the Flag.

Freedom of speech.

The single most powerful and important right enumerated by the Bill of Rights.

That these idiots can actually not see the irony involved in plastering 44’s name and picture on the symbol of our country, the same flag that has been burned and pissed on by protesters who are strangely allowed to continue breathing because the United States doesn’t shoot protesters, is not lost on ME, however.  These sub-literate mouth breathers seem to think that the United States hasn’t done anything for them.  They don’t understand that just by being here, they are given a chance that no other subject or citizen of any other country is given.  They have given over their sense to a cult of personality led by an empty suit.  They have false expectations that will not be met, sad little Liberal agendas that will not unfold according to plan, and oddly enough, no idea that the rest of world ISN’T suddenly going to love us all and put down arms.  But they have the right to be that stupid.

As for agendas, mine has become simplified greatly: protect my family from the vandals-including the ones that run our school systems who are trying to brainwash our kids, call these people out publicly on their idiocy at every opportunity, make sure I only give my dollars to politicians or companies who have the same sensibilities I do, and to await the day when the first crack in the ice appears.

They are already putting 44’s face on our flag; how much longer until they put it on giant banners hanging from government buildings?  And when they start, I’m pretty sure us bitter clingers will have something to say about it.

Meanwhile, if anyone can figure out who printed those flags, please let me know so we can hold THEM up ridicule.

I do not know how many of my 103 faithful readers are actually from the state of New York, but those of you who are need to seriously reconsider allowing Rep. Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.) to continue to breathe represent you.

Rangel is the sleazebag currently under investigation for ethics violations, and is also the moron who keeps reintroducing mandatory draft legislation.  Now, I grant you, this source article is definitely written with a slant, but regardless, Rangel’s contempt for his constituency – and anyone who would voluntarily join the military – shines right on through.

A decorated Korean War veteran and a member of the Out of Iraq Caucus, Rangel argues that the burden of fighting wars falls disproportionately on low-income people and that cost should be borne more broadly.

That’s right, only poor people join the military.  And only then because they Have No Other Choice.  No one actually WANTS to join, to help defend their country, and learn a job they can take to the private sector – at a profit, thankyew – some time down the road.  

But Rangel told The Hill that he recently heard talk about rewarding mandatory service with two years of college credit.

“That doesn’t make sense,” he said. “People shouldn’t have to join the military to get an education.”

Ew, of course not.  Much better to matriculate in an environment where discipline and honor are concepts worthy of contempt, and where patriotism is debunked for the ignorant-populace controlling tool that it really is.  Pride in your country is such a bourgeois concept.

So, let’s institute a draft, because when rich people have to send their kids off to war, there will be no more wars!

If a draft had been in place in 2002 when members were making the decision on whether to support the war in Iraq, Rangel has said, Congress never would have approved the war resolution, because the pressure from constituents would have been too great.

No, CHAS, there will always be patriots, and their blood sacrifice will always be what keeps puling ingrates like yourself free from opression, be it foreign or domestic.

You know, Dubya was not perfect.  Exactly ZERO Presidents have been perfect, thankyew, primarily because that role is, ipso facto, typically played by a human being. 

However, his apparent desire to finish strong, as it were, in the approval rating category, is just kind of pathetic:

President Bush on Tuesday declared the District a federal emergency area, clearing the way for the city to receive federal money to help cover the overwhelming cost of providing security for official inauguration events.

Officials said it was the first time the designation had ever been used for anything other than a national disaster, such as a hurricane or widespread flooding.

Unless, of course, this is some D.C.-insider joke, a slam at the indubitably disastrous incoming regime.  Then it’s just fucking funny.