A Tribute To Not Backing Down, Vol. 2

I doubt any of what I am about to write is truly original or insightful(not that that's stopped me before), but the recent admissions by key Democrats that the "death panels" and "public option" will be/are dropped from the Health Care Reform Debate brings to mind a few points:

1) Our side should must stay vigilant and not get complacent. I am not going to go all Admiral Ackbar and scream that "It's a trap", but no Obamacare bills have made their way through either chamber, or through conference reconciliation. So, some of this stuff may still get reinserted when the Democrats believe nobody is looking.

2) Once again, the fearlessness and courage of many average folks on our side who refused to get fucked up the ass by this piece of shit legislation to go out and protest, speak up at town halls, write letters, harass Congressmen, and endure beatings and harassment from the Obama rent a thugs is proof that not surrendering an inch to them and sticking to our guns (metaphorically) will cause them to back down and even consider ditching aspects of Obamacare. All of this while the other side has supermajorities in both houses of Congress. And who would have thought that YouTube, which helped sink George Allen with the tape of him calling that one Webb staffer a "macaca", may help sink Obamacare, what with all of the videos of SEIU/ACORN thugs being themselves and Congresscritters saying and doing stupid things and then running away from their constituents?

3) And, finally, once again former Gov. Sarah Palin proved how utterly relevant and awesome she is. Yeah, I was bummed when she resigned the Governorship, but by one Facebook posting, she was able to dramatically alter the debate on Health Care, and once again, the left (and too many assclowns on our side), who thought she was finished, washed up, and irrelevant, were caught off guard by her and her statements, along with her refusal to back away from her "Death Panel" statements. And once again, she has reduced her opponents to a quivering pile of douchebaggery not by screams and force, but by sticking her neck out, standing firm, and kicking the fucking collective asses of anybody who dared take her or her statements on.

How many more fucking times must the leaders on our side realize that the Beltway Consensus sucks more ass than a staff meeting for Media Matters? How many more fucking times must the Beltway Consensus realize that the average folks aren't going to take the Extra Value Meal Shit Sandwich lying down? And how many more fucking times will the Dipshits in the Beltway realize that people such as Sarah Palin, as "washed up and irrelevant" as they think, can and will shape the debate just by being there and not abandoning her principles and beliefs?

The Beltway Consenus may think they know better than the rest of us, but the past few weeks have proven how assfistingly stupid they really are. You can spit on us, beat on us, ignore us, and mistreat us. But you do it at your own professional peril.

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WTF Is Right With Wisconsin, Badass Mayor Edition.

I don't give a shit at the moment that Tom Barrett is a Democrat. I don't give a shit that he probably looks the other way while Milwaukee's vote fraud machine keeps the state barely Democratic. I don't care that he was a Congressman who tried to muck up impeachment back in 1998.

I don't care at the moment, because he just proved he is one ass-kicking mayor.

Police said the woman was a grandmother who was trying to protect her 1-year-old granddaughter from a 20-year-old man, an assault authorities characterized as a domestic dispute.

"The mayor stopped and said something (to the man) like, 'Let's all cool down here, I'm going to call 911,'" the mayor's spokesman Patrick Curley said. "He said it one or two times according to him. When he took out his phone, that's when the suspect attacked him."

The suspect hit Barrett in the head and torso with a metal pipe. Barrett apparently fought back, fracturing his hand when he punched the suspect.

"I think he hit the guy," Curley said. "I don't know where, but it was hard enough, whatever he hit, to fracture his hand."

The suspect then fled the area when he heard sirens. He was arrested on Sunday at a Milwaukee home, and police recovered the alleged weapon. The woman and baby were uninjured.

The mayor, who did not ask for security to accompany him to the fair because he wasn't on official duty, underwent successful surgery Sunday on his fractured right hand and also had cuts on his head and lip stitched up, Curley said. The mayor likely will remain in the hospital through Monday, he said.

The mayor's brother, John Barrett, said the family was optimistic about the mayor's recovery.

"We're extremely proud of Tom's selflessness and his courage," John Barrett said, fighting back tears at a news conference.

Gov. Jim Doyle said he also visited Barrett at the hospital Sunday morning and found him in "good spirits and looking good considering what happened."

"The mayor's heroic actions clearly saved a woman and others from harm," Doyle said in a statement.

Dude, that's hardcore.

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The tolerant left, Vol. MMXXVII

So, Rep. Mike Ross of Arkansas, one of the Blue Dog Dems, said that he would "never vote for a bill to kill old people, period," which seems like an admirable sentiment to me. However, commenter "CranialRectalLoopback" at The Hill disagreed:

When are {I can only assume that CRL intended to add the word "we" here--ed.} going to Vick this blue dog?

I don't know what's more entertaining: the idea that CRL is upset that someone would object to offing the elderly or that s/he is apparently endorsing Michael Vick's dog-fighting ring.

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Chipmunk terror sweeps the UK

Heh.  Oddly enough, we don't have many chipmunks in town, save for just a few isolated pockets in a few neighborhoods.  Tons of squirrels though, and this year, rabbits, lots and lots of rabbits.

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Look who I ran into at the Rock & Roll Hotel last night...

The Real World: DC people are urrrrrrverywhere*:



In related news, if you happen to watch that season of The Real World, you may see me dancing like a white boy in the back of the shots.  Also, the blond one has good style and I told her as much. 

*This is what DPUD gets for giving me the keys to the blog...

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Maureen, you ignorant slut

I saw this excerpt from a recent Maureen Dowd column a few days ago, and I've seen similar "thoughts" expressed elsewhere recently, and something has bugged me about it, but I couldn't quite put my finger on it until now.

(Warning, link goes to, um, a Maureen Dowd column.)

The young grass-roots army that swept Obama into office has yet to mobilize now that the fight is about something complicated rather than a charismatic hope-monger. No, they can’t?

Instead of a multicultural tableau of beaming young idealists on screen, we see ugly scenes of mostly older and white malcontents, disrupting forums where others have come to actually learn something.

Um, forgive me if I'm just a white malcontent, Maureen, but what was the percentage of black voters in this country that voted for Hopenchange back in November? Who did the majority of Hispanics turn out for, in spite of McCain's (and I'm being charitable here by not using a word that rhymes with, let's say, "gandering") outreach efforts? Oh, and all those enthusiastic young suckers first time voters who turned out? Remind me again who they backed.

People don't like to admit that they were wrong, especially only a few months after they made the wrong choice. Will middle-class black and Hispanic voters come around to the idea that Obama is proposing something that would be disastrous for the country even if we weren't in the depths of the worst economy in decades? Time will tell. The youth voters who really have no idea about how the economy works, not so much.

No matter what the people who show up at these meetings look like or how old they are, I get the sense that they feel like they have a lot to lose if their elected representatives don't pay attention. And they're justifiably angry about that. But keep adding fuel to the fire, Maureen. When you basically imply that these people are a bunch of racist troglodytes (she mentions the "swastikas" thing without any apparent sense of irony) you're sure to win over a lot of the "mob."

Update: You're all fucking crazy. Seriously, click on that link and read something that a conservative humorist like P.J. O'Rourke couldn't have come up with in his wildest dreams.

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Wal-Mart, joins up with SEIU-Obamabteilung, sells out America

Kim Du Toit was right, Wal-Mart is fucking rotten, find somewhere else to buy goods.  They're teaming up with Obama's brownshirts,

In a partnership of unlikely allies, Wal-Mart's CEO, other corporate leaders and the head of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) called Wednesday for universal health care coverage for all Americans by 2012.

During a news conference in Washington, the group announced the formation of a coalition called "Better Health Care Together" and listed several objectives. They included achieving "quality, affordable health insurance coverage" for every American and "having businesses, governments, and individuals all contribute to managing and financing a new American health care system."

You fucking rats. 

Wal-Mart, Intel and AT&T need to pay for this betrayal.  If we let them get away with this shit, they'll sell out American principles again and again, and other corporations will follow suit.  These fuckers are pushing us closer to fascism with this behavior, and they cannot be allowed to get away with it. 

I say this every time some corporation sells out the American principles that let them succeed in the first place, but it bears repeating.  We need to take a lesson from the successful S&W boycott of the 90's.  That company was taken to the brink for their betrayal, and only a fire sale of S&W to a non-statist non-sellout allowed it to recover.  they learned their lesson. 

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Can you go away?

The Twat is all butthurt because people are noting the somewhat fascistic power grabs his Messiah is attempting to make.  Sorry, David, you went full RINO retard, and doubling down isn't doing you any favors.

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Good news for you Wisconsin folks

Your leftist douchetard of a governor won't be seeking reelection, be sure to keep an eye on the Eggman's place for more news.  I'll be kind of curious to see if the GOP up there can take advantage of this, or what you WI people think.

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For Vinty

A little Saturday night Sonic Youth...

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Don't you judge me.

Yes, I am going to watch this.


Lorenzo Lamas AND Debbie Gibson, people. There's your seal of quality right there.

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Chocolate Covered Bacon

I'm going to the Wisconsin State Fair today.

I'm going to eat CHOCOLATE COVERED BACON.

I'm going to take pictures.

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Great Moments In The 2nd Amendment

Armed shopkeep: 2, thugs: 0.

"If every single citizen were allowed to hold a gun, there would be less carjackings and robberies," he said.

Augusto's gun was properly registered with police, and he does not face any charges, authorities said.

The Coast Guard vet, who was born in Yonkers and lives with his wife of 48 years in Irvington, Westchester County, said he had been selling commercial kitchen equipment for nearly 50 years and had no intention of quitting.

"What's the worst they could do? Shoot me? I guess so. I'm not going to lay down and die. I'm just not going to," he said.

J.B. said his boss likes to do things "the old-fashioned way."

"Of course, he's going to keep open," he said.

Augusto and his employees tried to get back to business as usual yesterday, although it wasn't easy. When a woman came to place a candle outside the shop, J.B. angrily kicked it across the pavement.

"Who's this for?" he demanded of the startled woman. "For the guy who died? F- - - him!"

Fuck yeah!

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Shocka! Welfare Recipients Are Not Using Their Public Assistance For Its Intended Purposes.

It turns out that the much ballyhooed $200 that went to a bunch of welfare recipients in New York may not be going for its intended purpose.

Yeah, shocking.

Members of Gov. David Paterson's administration defended the program, saying tales of increased sales of video game equipment and televisions are just anecdotes. The program allows families who couldn't otherwise afford back-to-school supplies to equip their children for a new year.

What's clear is that the actual amount of fraud will never be documented because state officials said there is no way for them to see how families are spending the $200-per-child benefit.

The benefit was distributed on Tuesday to families who receive welfare benefits and food stamps, including working families who only receive a limited food stamp benefit. Families with children between the ages of 3 and 17 are eligible, though the children do not need to be enrolled in school.

Wegmans and Tops report that ATMs in their stores ran out of cash on Tuesday, the day the money was deposited to food stamp accounts. The county reports that employees at the Wal-Mart store on Hudson Avenue called the Department of Human Services to say they thought welfare fraud was going on because there was a run on high-end electronics.

The stores received no notice of the program and would have been prepared had they known, spokeswomen from Tops and Wegmans said.

Seriously, how much can $200 stretch for "high end electronics" in NYC?

It's shit like this that pisses me off something fierce. And how much you want to bet that the fucking leeches who used this money to buy junk and not for their children's school supplies will be boarding an ACORN funded bus and start banging on somebody else's door demanding more money later?

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American teevee is boring

Seriously, we could use more of this on our airwaves:



I mean, "How I Met Your Mother" is funny enough, but if Neil Patrick Harris and Allyson Hannigan happened to be toting a shotgun or a chainsaw and killing a zombie or two during every episode? I see viewership trending upward.

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Sammy Davis Jr. was one hell of a quickdraw

Check this out,



Now, I'd heard of Jerry Lewis being a fast draw (go figure), but not Sammy Davis.  That's friggin' awesome.

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An excellent candidate

Vodkapundit has that pic asking if it's the best political banner ad ever. Possibly, but...

Go to his website and roll around in the creamy, small gov't goodness.

Last election I remember you guys trying to push good candidates. I was rooting for you, but I thought you were pissing into the wind. Our political betters still thought they had to listen to the NY Times (see:Toomey, Pat).

Now? They know who they have to listen to.
And Jesse Kelly, Marine, looks like a good start.

His "platform" consists of low taxes, securing the borders, smallening gov't, and his health-care-cheapening plan is get the gov't out of healthcare and tort reform.

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I hate to say it...

...but Nancy Pelosi was right. I mean, you can click right here to see a whole gallery of angry protesters carrying swastikas.

Yeah.

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I wanna have his children

Doctor Zero has been on fire lately.

That right there says what I feel.
One taste but if you want the cone you're gonna have to click.
Republican candidates must recognize the Obama disaster as a unique opportunity to explain the fundamental flaws in the statist model our nation has pursued for generations....snip...

We’ve had enough of people like Obama trying to use the government to change us. We’re tired of being slammed with thousand-page bills that tell us what we have to sacrifice, and what we’re not allowed to do. We want to see some one-page bills that list things the government is not allowed to do.

Go. Read. Bring a sock.

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My first reaction is "You've got to be kidding"

but maybe this isn't so stupid after all.

In July, in a sharp break from tradition, the Army began encouraging its personnel — from the privates to the generals — to go online and collaboratively rewrite seven of the field manuals that give instructions on all aspects of Army life.

The program uses the same software behind the online encyclopedia Wikipedia and could potentially lead to hundreds of Army guides being “wikified.” The goal, say the officers behind the effort, is to tap more experience and advice from battle-tested soldiers rather than relying on the specialists within the Army’s array of colleges and research centers who have traditionally written the manuals.

source

I served a total of 14 years between the Army and the Navy most of it as Hospital Corpsman assigned to the Fleet Marine Force . One of my major complaints at the time was that instructions and training manuals were always years out of date with what was going on in the real world. This seems like an attempt to address that issue and that is a good thing, but I have concerns.

The idea behind doctrine is to have a common jumping off point for everyone. If it is constantly in a state of revision how is that supposed to work? Additionally most US military doctrine is extensively wargamed and tested in various exercises before it ever makes it onto paper but here it seems like anyone who has had one harebrained scheme work once can add it to the wiki and now it is accepted wisdom. That doesn't seem real smart to me. Granted according to the article there will be editors assigned to review each change but what will the criteria for review be, and if this program takes off what will the backlog be?

I hope the review is going to be strict because I have the feeling that the main users of this are going to be the people who feel like "the brass" can never do anything right and good knows wjat kind of moronic solutions they are going to propose.  If this program is utilized by responsible Officers and NCO's and suggestions are properly reviewed however I can see where it could be very helpful in addressing changing situations in a real time fashion.

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