We Owe HOW Much?!??!!?

This much?!??

So this young family's total share of government obligations and debt is $1,069,100.

When these obligations are added to their other liabilities their household ends up in a deep financial hole. Despite all their hard work and responsible financial behavior, decades of financial mismanagement by the government have effectively wiped out the net worth of $270,000 they thought they had. Instead, they owe almost $800,000.

How about you? What does your household balance sheet look like when you factor in $1,069,100 of additional liabilities?

How about this?
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Jewel sing karaoke

Undercover Karaoke with Jewel from Jewel


Below the fold Gelnn Beck uncovers the most insidious progressive plot yet! more...

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alexthechick has been playing with dolls again

Do I really have to point out that it's NSFW?

I really want the corset in picture 18, BTW.  In adult size, of course.

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What if "Firefly" was an 80's TV show

So, so wrong, but so good at the same time:

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Neil Reynolds needs a good whacking with the clue bat

Democracies produced Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy, fulfilling the expectation of Socrates and Machiavelli that democracies end in tyranny. Now democracies are fulfilling the complementary expectation of Nobel laureate economist Milton Friedman that democracies end in bankruptcy.

 

Apparently in order to save the world and the free enterprise system a little good 'ol fashioned socialism is what's needed:

 

Democracies have made people more dependent on the state than any humanitarian necessity required. For Italy, and for other democracies, the worst is surely yet to come. Already, hundreds of thousands of middle-class people have thronged the streets of Paris and Rome, of Milan and Sarajevo, of Reykjavik and Bucharest (where demonstrators stormed the presidential palace, an insurgent act that evokes the spectre of revolution). The World Socialists’ website proclaims an age of rage ahead – and chillingly quotes British historian Simon Schama: “You can smell the sulphur in the air.”

 

I don't really know where to start on this.  It's just so wrong.  I guess the obvious beginning would be to suggest that Reynolds re-read The Road to Serfdom, which traced the origin of National Socialism and Italian Fascism to their socialist beginnings and showed how economic freedom and political freedom are inextricably linked.

I do have to agree with Reynolds on one point public sector debt is out of control, but the way to deal with that is not through central planning and tyranny. 

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World Cup Post Script

Yes, I like the World Cup quite a bit but I'd still like to put some knowledge to people that say that soccer is "the world's sport" or similar bullshit.

Soccer is Europe's sport and was extended by brutal force to the colonized areas.  That's why Africa, Europe and South America always care about it more than anybody else.  In fact, colonies that broke the strangle hold on their own (more or less) like Canada, the US, Australia and India tend to care far less about it than everybody else.  

There is no "world" sport.  Except maybe gymnastics. 

I don't mean the kind in the Olympics.

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A funny concept of disrespect

I could understand the outrage over this if they were dancing on the graves at Auschwitz as an act of contempt, but that's so obviously not the intention here. 


There's a difference between victimhood and survivorhood that I think is often overlooked, especially when dealing with large-scale human-inflicted tragedies.  We memorialize the sites of these cataclysmic events solemnly, creating monuments to the dead and telling ourselves we will never forget.  At what point are we giving the perpetrators of horrible acts a victory by failing to reclaim the sites of terrorism and genocide?  Should we be building a memorial at the site of WTC Twin Towers, or should be building new towers at the same site, bigger than before, to send a message that we will not be controlled by acts of terror?

And frankly, who is anyone to tell someone who survived a Nazi death camp that they're being disrespectful of the memory of that?

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More Democrat Tolerance

Yeah, and fuck you too, pal. Fuck you hard with the fucktiger of fuck for what you want to, and have done, to all of us. Fuck you for your fucking arrogance. And fuck you fuckity fuck fuck style for being an asshole.

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Like a Moon Walk for Adults

That right there could be my next home. It's an inflatable pub, an inflatable Guinness pub to be exact.
They have a bunch of styles, that one is 23'x30'x22' high, it's only around $30K.

There's a bigger one that's 24'x48'x27'high for $45k.

Man, I wish I didn't like to spend money so much so I could save some so I could spend it on stuff like that. But no, I have to spend it on guns.
Speaking of which, the Uberti I ordered in February for BAG day came in last week. Pics to come. It's beautiful. Saving that money all this time has been rough.

Update: The whole time I wrote that I was thinking, "Don't forget the h/t, don't forget the h/t".

H/T Swifty Morgan AKA Wyatt Earp

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A serious question

No, really, it is.  Why is Mel Gibson's career over but Charlie Sheen's and Alec Baldwin's aren't?  Seriously, why?  Charlie Sheen is a notorious abuser and what Alec Baldwin said to his daughter should have him shunned from even uncivilized society.  Yet it's Gibson whose career is over and Sheen remains the highest paid actor on network tv, iirc. 

I don't get it.  I seriously don't.

Palette cleanser of The Good Baldwin (yes, I know they aren't related) below:


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Kenneth Gladney Was Unavailable For Comment

Remember Mr. Gladney? He was the African American gentleman beaten up by union thugs in St. Louis last year outside of a Russ Carnahan Town Hall. And he NAACP has not been very supportive of him as he seeks redress. Well, that perspective is important, given that this almost predictable bit of silliness from the NAACP is about to come forth. My only amazement is that this shit didn't come sooner.

Among the charges lodged against the tea party in the resolution:

•Tea party supporters have engaged in “explicitly racist behavior” and “displayed signs and posters intended to degrade people of color generally and President Barack Obama specifically.”

•Tea party activists have used racial epithets, have verbally and physically abused black members of Congress {is this the discredited story about the walk across the Capitol Grounds on the weekend of the Obamacare vote?-ed}and others, and have been charged with threatening public officials.

Sigh. What a shock that the left, as their policies are unpopular and their grasp on power is set to be loosened this November, retreat back to their old race card gambit, proof be damned.

Oh well, fuck them. Fuck them all. Fuck you eternally with the fuckfury of fucking freedom for telling me that opposition to their side based on policy grounds is racist. Fuck them for making claims without proof. Fuck them for excusing Robert Byrd and his KKK membership, yet calling those of us who pointed it out bigots.And fuck them for trying to silence me without knowing what I think or feel, ignoring my explicit policy reasons for opposing their agenda.

Wanting a better life for my daughter? I guess I am a fucking Klansman on par with Senator Byrd. Wanting to keep my job? I guess I lost my lynching rope last week. Wanting to be able to have my family not wait in a line worse than the Post Office to get medical care? Then lets all sing "Dixie". And wanting to make sure that our country remains strong? Then give me my "Fans of Plessy v Ferguson" card.

Seriously, why should I fucking fuckity fuck have to apologize for something that I and many of my fellow conservatives do not believe and have not helped perpetuate because your side is bereft of ideas? Why should I feel guilty forwanting what I listed above/ And why the fuck in the fuckdumpster of fuck and fury do I have to apologize when our side is lying and distorting facts to present a meme that does not exist?

Fuck you, race hustlers. Fuck you for your lies and deceit to take on an opponent, rather than engage in debate. Get lost, and come back when you have facts and logic to support your claims.

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Well, what did you expect?

This guy should totally get together with Minnie Driver.

Thank you, ladies and gentlemen! Be sure to tip your waitress generously.

(h/t)

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Conservative Debating Styles

Offered without context or comment.

Go.  Have fun!

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Notable quotables

Eventually, there were enough Indians in Edison to change the culture. At which point my townsfolk started calling the new Edisonians "dot heads." One kid I knew in high school drove down an Indian-dense street yelling for its residents to "go home to India." In retrospect, I question just how good our schools were if "dot heads" was the best racist insult we could come up with for a group of people whose gods have multiple arms and an elephant nose.

Who said it? If you guessed Pat Buchanan or Joe Biden, I wouldn't blame you, but you'd still be wrong. Which MFM outlet published it—and apparently has not a single editor who would say "What the fuck are you thinking?" before someone published it? Click here to find out!

(h/t Darleen.)

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Attn: Seattle Area Morons

Arthur Brooks, President of the American Enterprise Institute, will be speaking at Townhall Seattle on Monday.  The topic is "Free Enterprise vs. Big Government".

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Obama Sure Does Want To Help Businesses

Is this part of the "you should be thanking me" policy stance? If so, then any liberal who says they really do not hate businesses and that those of us who criticize them are wrong need to get rocketfucked with the ragefucktipped fuckmissile of fuck.

Devon Energy Corp. had been leasing the Endeavor to drill in the same region of the Gulf as BP's leaking Macondo well, which has been gushing crude since a lethal blowout April 20.

But Diamond announced Friday it will lease the rig through June 30, 2011, to Cairo-based Burullus Gas Co., which plans to send the Endeavor to Egyptian waters immediately.

Devon is one of three companies that has cited the deep-water drilling ban in trying to ease out of contracts to lease Diamond rigs. Diamond, a drilling company, said it expects to make about $100 million from the deal, including a $31 million early termination fee it recovered from Devon.

Larry Dickerson, CEO of Houston-based Diamond, signaled that other of his company's rigs could be relocated, too.

"As a result of the uncertainties surrounding the offshore drilling moratorium, we are actively seeking international opportunities to keep our rigs fully employed," Dickerson said. "We greatly regret the loss of U.S. jobs that will result from this rig relocation."

It was unclear how many U.S. jobs could leave with the Ocean Endeavor, but typically more than 100 workers are on the rig at any given time, doing everything from drilling to cooking meals. Onshore, a network of businesses supplies the rigs with groceries, equipment, uniforms and drilling materials.

"It's not unusual for an energy service company to have 1,000 vendors that they buy from or purchase services from," noted Rep. Kevin Brady, R-The Woodlands. As a result, Brady said, the economic damage from the moratorium stretches far and wide.

Yeah, fuck you, lefties. Fuck you for what you have done and are doing to the economy of an entire region. Fuck you for claiming that those of us who want to see jobs created are the bad guys. And laserfuck you fuckity fuck fuck style for ruining everything.

Get fucked, take your economic ruin with you, and fuck off while you are at it.

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Your tax dollars at work

Los Angeles-area PBS station KLCS (which is, shockingly, associated with the L.A. Unified School District) is running "news" reports from the far-left show "Democracy NOW!"

Not that I believe that it would make a damn bit of difference, but here is where you can contact the Corporation For Public Broadcasting.  And here is the link to their "ombudsmen."

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Academic freedom

I'm gonna go ahead and guess that this guy won't get a tenth of the support that Ward Churchill got form his colleagues, if even that much:

The University of Illinois has fired an adjunct professor who taught courses on Catholicism after a student accused the instructor of engaging in hate speech by saying he agrees with the church's teaching that homosexual sex is immoral.

The professor, Ken Howell of Champaign, said his firing violates his academic freedom. He also lost his job at an on-campus Catholic center.

Howell, who taught Introduction to Catholicism and Modern Catholic Thought, says he was fired at the end of the spring semester after sending an e-mail explaining some Catholic beliefs to his students preparing for an exam.

"Natural Moral Law says that Morality must be a response to REALITY," he wrote in the e-mail. "In other words, sexual acts are only appropriate for people who are complementary, not the same."

An unidentified student sent an e-mail to religion department head Robert McKim on May 13, calling Howell's e-mail "hate speech." The student claimed to be a friend of the offended student. The writer said in the e-mail that his friend wanted to remain anonymous.

Now, my dad is a Catholic, but I'm not—in fact, I consider myself an agnostic—and I don't much care what consenting adults do with their naughty bits behind closed doors, but from what I understand, the official policy of the church (and it's hardly the only Christian denomination to take such a line) that homosexuality is a sin.
Speaking of which...

Howell said he was teaching his students about the Catholic understanding of natural moral law.

"My responsibility on teaching a class on Catholicism is to teach what the Catholic Church teaches," Howell said in an interview with The News-Gazette in Champaign. "I have always made it very, very clear to my students they are never required to believe what I'm teaching and they'll never be judged on that."

Howell also said he makes clear to his students that he's Catholic and that he believes the church views that he teaches.

So, here we have a guy who's an avowed Catholic, teaching students about Catholic doctrine, and he gets fired for doing so? All because a student (who's not brave enough to show his or her face in public) thinks that his teaching of that church doctrine is "hate speech." Did the student know about these teachings before enrolling in the course? Hard to say, but I would guess so.

There's much more at the link, including a statement from a U of I official that Howell's e-mails "violate university standards of inclusivity," thus justifying his dismissal.

To borrow something from Allahpundit, Exit Question: If this had been a Muslim prof discussing his religion's attitudes toward homosexuality, would we be discussing the same outcome?

I think we all know the answer.

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Didn't we fight a revolution over being part of England?

This story has so much that's screwy.

Possible illegal alien thugs steal a guy's trailer. He says they tried to run him down, he fired two shots and hit one in the face. The reporter above says there's some evidence they're illegal.
Yay!, right?
Not if you're a DA in Jefferson County, Colorado.
Nope, the guys who admitted to stealing the trailer, they returned it, at this point appear to be getting off scot-free while Our Hero is facing 12 felonies including 4 counts of 1st degree attempted murder. How do you get 4 counts of attempted murder with 2 shots?
One of the thugs already was convicted of a similar crime and got off of that one with a reduced charge of "Agricultural trespassing", I'm sure this will ensure he never does that again. And by "never", I mean "he's probably already planning his next heist".

First, WTF? Colorado is in America and not Britain, right? In America if you shoot criminals trying to run you down you should get a medal.
Second, notice the journalists in the above vid, they're as surprised as I am. Either Fox 31 isn't a member in good standing of Minitru (unlike DC's Fox affiliate) or even a progressive journalist finds this outrageous.
Third? What, the first two aren't enough?
Via "Are We Lumberjacks", who thinks there's more to the story or the DA has an agenda.

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Bob Inglis and his ilk can get bent

I'll preface this rant by saying that yes, sometimes the Tea Partiers say silly things, and yes, sometimes they don't know what's good for them. That said...

Bob Inglis is the very definition of the problem with the Republican party. He's denouncing racist Tea Partiers, Palin, Beck for a whole host of sins, including "demagoguery", and blaming them for his pathetic failure in the Republican primary.  Good riddance to bad rubbish.

Daily Caller reports:

He cited a claim made famous by Palin that the Democratic health care bill would create “death panels” to decide whether elderly or sick people should get care.

“There were no death panels in the bill … and to encourage that kind of fear is just the lowest form of political leadership. It’s not leadership. It’s demagoguery,” said Inglis, one of three Republican incumbents who have lost their seats in Congress to primary and state party convention challengers this year.

Bob, the whole damn Obamacare mess is a giant death panel. Care will be rationed, and people will be denied care as a result. That's an undeniable truth. Is "death panel" great persuasive language for swing voters? No. But at it's core, it's essentially true.

Here's what really gets my dander up:

Inglis said he was shocked during the health care votes as he watched protesters jeering Rep. John Lewis, a Georgia Democrat who was beaten as a leading civil rights activist in the 1960s.

Inglis said he was too far away during the jeering incident to hear whether the protesters shouted racial epithets, as Lewis and other black lawmakers have claimed. But Inglis said the behavior was threatening and abusive.

“I caught him at the door and said, ‘John, I guess you’ve been here before,’” Inglis said

No, Bob. It didn't happen. That entire event was a fabrication. Countless cell phone videos showed nothing of the sort, and nobody has stepped up to claim Andrew Breitbart's sizable bounty.

Inglis, 50, who calls himself a Jack Kemp disciple because he has emphasized outreach to minorities as the late Republican congressman did, thinks racism is a part of the vitriol directed at President Barack Obama.

“I love the South. I’m a Southerner. But I can feel it,” he said.

Go to hell, Bob.

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