I warned you! Friday, 21 November 2014

back in January of 2013, I warned that we seemed to be seeing the sort of collapse that overtook the Roman Republic (and later, the Roman Empire) and Weimar.  Looks like I was spot-on.
The latest episode, with the President of the United State essentially donning the crown of an Imperator, and proceeding to rule by decree, is the sort of thing I never expected to see in this once-free land.
It ws a nice Republic, while we had it.  But that is, quite clearly, well in the past.

Various Outrages for the Day

I haven't really been keeping up on this as well as intended. Not for lack of material, certainly.

Let's see. Under the heading of "family values don't stop at the Rio Grande", we have the story of a person arrested for rape. After having been deported NINE TIMES. I think it is fair to say that this guy has no intention whatsoever of obeying the law or of respecting the territory of the United States. Being deported at all is an accomplishment these days, given the aroma of criminal nonfeasance in office that seems to pervade. Being deported that often is remarkable. As I said, obviously he didn't learn the first 9 times, I doubt that he will learn ever. Hang him. Rape is one of those crimes that, historically, earned the death penalty anyway. Hang him. And there is room on the gibbet for his apologists and enablers.

Then, under the heading of manifestly criminal non-feasance in office, we have the announcement that those persons at the federal level whose sworn duty is to apprehend and remove illegal aliens may refuse to process those illegals apprehended in Arizona. Read it here.

It is a bit funny to have it revealed that most of the high and mighty who have been criticizing the Arizona law have never bothered to read it. Or who have ignored the fact that it essentially is a duplicate of the federal law. Or that it is largely matched by a long-standing law in California. It is just that enforcement has been ignored, by all political parties. A funny take on the matter is up on YouTube, but you can also find it here.

Survey of the World 27 December

Some days, I have to go over to Jerry Pournelle's site to be reminded that Despair is a sin. That inoculation works, for a while. Then I go out onto the 'Net and see
2009: A year of new lows by Frank Miele. Frank is a national treasure, though not so widely known as he should be. And he has hit quite squarely upon the matter.

Flight 253 terrorist Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab led life of luxury in London before attempted attack a report out of the NY Daily News. that would seem to refute the idiot notion that terrorists are driven by poverty and despair. An idiot notion, pretty much a lie in reality, that was once pronounced by Buraq Hussein Ubama. Odd, is it not, that the LameStream Media almost always overlook the Muslim connection in these deeds of evil?

Perhaps this will make you giggle, briefly. "Don't Say We're Violent, Or We'll Kill You" from John Hinderaker. An article worth reading, and backed up by the listing, 9-1/2 pages of single-spaced listings of MUSLIM terror attacks in just the last two months. Go look. 'Great Religion of Peace' my rump. A cult of demons, in fact. "Allah" is the name of a demon, just like Beelzebub, Asmodeus, and so forth. Islam is as much a false and evil religion as the cults of Dagon, Ba'al, and Asherah ever were, and in fact have some points of continuity. Hinderaker's story owes much to this one as well, also recommended: Headless Death Threat Sent to Leading Counter Jihad Website Just more of those fun-loving jihadists.

Changing gears a bit, how about a small issue of a state government FORCING owners of small independent businesses to 'join' (meaning pay tribute to) a union? Sound un-American? It is. Sound like something the Fascists, the Nazi's, or the Communists (and they are all pretty similar, actually) might do? Right again! Sound like, oh, Michigan? Ding ding ding! You win! Or lose. Whichever. Here it is: Michigan Forces Business Owners Into Public Sector Unions If you think that this was done with the active connivance of the organized crime mob of SEIU, a group with some very interesting ties to Ubama, you'd qualify for a bonus prize.

And some similar idiocy is going on at the national level as well. Hows that Hoax and Chains working out for you? Try this on. Obama union push stymies contractors

And if you want to see where this is all leading, go here and click on the video shown here. It's not for the squeamish, true, but it is worth seeing.

Conflict of Interest Carol Browner, czar

Odd, a fairly close reading of the U.S. Constitution reveals no provision for the office of ''czar''. I guess it is possible that I missed it, but it is more likely that such a thing was never imagined by the founders, nor by most Americans then or since.
Yet we seem to have acquired a number of them. The experience to date confirms my belief that this is the wrong way to go.
Case in point, one Carol Browner. You may have heard the name. Ubama stuck her into one of these 'czar' jobs, one long on power and short on accountability and ability to pass Constitutional muster. And, apparently, no more possessed of any ethical considerations, putting her in good company in that band of thieves.
Here's a story worth reading.
This is progress?

Should We Call It 'ClimateGate'' or ''ClimateQuiddick'?

This is really getting interesting. And now we are starting to see more and more clearly the links, the connect-the-dots connections between the AGW Fraudsters and their co-conspirators in the LameStreamMedia. And, now, the connections into the Whte House.

Check this one out. While doing so, think about why this is not being put front page above the fold in the major newspapers in the U.S. The TV networks you already know about - the connections between Immelt at GE, GE to NBC and its cousins, and the so-called 'Green Energy' crap that GE hopes to have us required to buy from them. Made possible by Ubama's cronies. It's an ugly story, and we're not to the bottom of the manure pile yet.

So Protesters Are 'Brown Shirts'? Really?

This is almost funny. Our socialist would-be masters referring to those of us who want our country back as ''almost brown shirts''. Forgetting, as is convenient, that the Brownshirts, the Sturmabteilung of the developing Nazi movement, were, like all the members of that movement, Socialists. That's what the title said, ''National SOCIALIST German Workers Party''. Socialist. Leftist. Not Marxist, true, but hardly conservative, or right-wing, or the like. Socialist. Like the leadership of today's Democrat Party in the USA. Like, in fact, Obama, Pelosi, Reed, and all the rest of that smelly assemblage.
And, sometimes, the peasants (that's us, by the way) stand up.
Here's a good example.

Don't forget to play the video. Worth the price of admission.

Is Pravda More Honest Than the NY Times?

Is Pravda more honest than the Grey Lady? and I use the term ''lady'' reluctantly, regarding the ''Newspaper of Record'' as little more than a whorehouse.

But Pravda has had a more accurate take on Obamarama, and his co-thieves, than the Slimes has, or the rest of the American LameStreamMedia together. Take, as in this case, the use of the term ''czar'', a position and practice that is, politely, 'extra-constitutional'. Meaning the thing hated by those of us who believe in the rule of law, power without accountability. The Russki's had centuries to observe that, from beneath mostly. We are just starting to experience it.

Read up on it here. You won't like it, but read it anyway.

Miserable Failure

So, how's all that Hope and Change working out for every one? Been a lot of change, absolutely. Our country now kisses up to Socialist dicators, our president bows the knee to Islamo-swine of the House of Saud, trashes those sticking up for the rule of law in Honduras, turns a blind eye to the swine shooting the citizens of Iran, trashes the bankruptcy laws in the US, and generally acts much like Ernst Rohm's bronshirts.

Quite a series of ''accomplishments''. If wrecking the nation was your objective, of course.

Perhaps it is.

John Hinderaker of Power Line has put up a graphic that lets us take a good look at the Kenyan's successes to date. Take good look. By the standards established by Zero's people, the employment situation is worse, MUCH worse, than had nothing been done. Take a look here.

''Hope and Change''.

Today's Entry 5 April obersturmbanfuhrer Geithner updated the 6th

Go read the Constitution again. Should be no trouble locating a copy, there does not seem to be a great deal of interest in it. Certainly not in Washington. Certainly not among those near the White House.
Odd, I thought the US was a nation ruled by law and with the government highly restricted as to scope and power, with accountability and little things like 'checks and balances'. An obsolete concept, evidently.
Comes now one Tim Geithner. I do not recall being asked to vote for him. Do you? Probably not. But he has now, in as naked a seizure of power as we've seen in a while, perhaps since the Beer Hall Putsch (look it up), arrogated upon himself the authority to remove banking officials who have somehow offended his tender sensibilities.
Read about it here. Or here.
A shame, this was such a nice country once. Less so, daily.

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Today's Mention -- Rep. John Larson

Ronald Reagan was famous for, among other things, noting the citizens have a government, not the other way around. Some people are too stupid, or power-drunk, to have paid attention to that. Or to little thinks like the 8th, 9th, and 10th Amendments tot he U. S. Constitution. Those are some parts of that document that demand limited government. And are widely ignored by both major parties and virtually every judge in the land.

Here's another example. Another nanny-stater, another liberal fascist. Care to guess the party?
Worse yet, one with power. As in, House Democratic Conference Chairman John Larson (D-Conn.). The people of Connecticut have proven quite often their preference for liars, knaves, and traitorous creeps in their choices to send off to Washington (and the statehouse as well).

This blithering idiot, this nincompoop, this dolt with delusions of grandeur and importance has taken yet another step in thrusting the nation deeper into tyranny. He has decided that it is up to the (federal) government to ''... Compel Consumers to Use Alternative Energy''. Odd, a thorough reading of the powers granted to the federal government in that Constitution does not reveal ANY grant of power to do this.

This is a naked power grab by another liberal fascist. And YOU pay this bum's salary!
FIRE him!!

Today's (dis)-Honorable Mention

Go read the U.S. Constitution. It is not long, the words are not hard, it's worth the effort. You can find a copy on-line here. in pdf format. Or here. Every U.S. citizen should read it periodically, it's part of our vanishing heritage as a once-free nation.

Now, having done so, a question or two:

• do you see there, anywhere, the grant of power to a judge, at ANY level to ''make law''?
• do you see there, anywhere, any reference whatever to the supremacy of the judicial branch?
• any reference, perhaps, to 'precedent' as having a superior or even equal weight as the written statutes?

If your answer to the above is not only NO, but Heck, NO!!, congratulations. You have passed the test. Unfortunately, you have also proved yourself wiser and more intelligent (the terms are not synonymous) than virtually every judge and most every lawyer in the country.

Case in point. One fed judge with delusions of adequacy. Comes one creepo slinking about under the designator of U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly. By the way, this is yet another ''legacy'' of the sleazy Clinton mis-administration. And now this sad overindulger in good Oxygen has not only found ALL the above matters within the Constitution and, further, has imagined herself to be the female equivalent of 'The Superior Man' as the Ye Ching puts it. And has found the grant of power, somehow hidden from we lower beings, to put a stop to a rule change that worked its way through the Bush administration for years. Repead, YEARS. And this dimwit has deemed it, somehow, notwithstanding that, to be a 'last minute'' change. Guess she not only is not conversant with the Constitution as written, but has not spent much time pondering the plain meaning of the 2nd Amendment either.

FIRE her!

FIRE U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly

Arrogance and incompetence should have a remedy.

FIRE U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly
FIRE U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly
FIRE U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly
FIRE U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly

More on the Democrat Roots of the Financial Mess

View this, while it is still available.

Why are Chuck Schumer and Barney Frank not in prison?

A New Low -- Banning Farmer's Markets??!?!?!

There is no nice way to put this: Obama and, it seems, ALL of the louts and goons who support him are fascisti in the most technically correct way. No, they don't wave banners with the swastika (or the hammer and sickle). Yet. But the more I see, the more that I see a bunch that would have supported Mao's 'Great Leap Forward', Stalin's war against the kulaks, or Benny Mussolini's campaigns.

Case in point: there is now a proposal, a serious one it seems to, well, let me quote a better writer than I am.

Change We Can Believe In: How About the End of Farmers Markets? Say Hello to H.R. 875: Food Safety Modernization Act of 2009

What this will do is force anyone who produces food of any kind, and then transports it to a different location for sale, to register with a new federal agency called the “Food Safety Administration.” Even growers who sell just fruit and/or vegetables at farmers markets would not only have to register, but they would be subject inspections by federal agents of their property and all records related to food production. The frequency of these inspections will be determined by the whim of the Food Safety Administration. Mandatory “safety” records would have to be kept. Anyone who fails to register and comply with all of this nonsense could be facing a fine of up to $1,000,000 per violation.

Neat, huh?

By some accounts, this could outlaw the hot-dog salesman, the pizza delivery, much else.

Let's play 'Guess The Party''!!
Ok, no fair. The author of this piece of asinine fascism is one Rep. Rosa DeLauro, D-CT. You knew it would be a Democrat, didn't you? And you are not surprised, are you, that this chunk of human detritus originates from Connecticut? I mean really.

Tell me again why we fought against Hitler and Mussolini. It would appear that they won.

Barney Frank, Part 2 of Many

Some members of the Kakistocracy deserve to be named to the All-Star team. Barney Frank is one of those. We could, and may well, devote many a post to this creep and to the cloud of creeps around him, but not today.
At any rate, once in a while, someone else puts out something that is so good, you can't top it and instead need to give it wider play. Click on this and you will see what I mean.

Honorable Mention of 1 March 2009 The E.P.A.

Nincompoops.
Blatherskites.
Fascists (or is that fascisti ?)
Fools.
Meddling dolts.

Yep, that pretty well describes the EPA under the best of circumstances.

Now, get this. They have presumed the power to regulate the dust that comes about when farmers plow the fields that they thought were their own. One version of the story is here.

Shut down the EPA! Close it down! This is not, and never has been, an operation whose existence is to be found within the grant of powers of the US constitution. Bluntly, it's an illegal agency. Not just stupid, not just populated by unaccountable bureaucrats who answer to no citizen, but an operation funded by taxes, and whose very existence is a violation of the Constitution.

Close it down!

The Idiocy Of, and Idiots Involved In, the Faux 'Stimulus''

Other than the idiocy of the entire concept, the details of this asinine boondoggle just continue to amaze me. Here's a good example: the louts have managed to de-rail the whole E-Verify system, thereby guaranteeing that many of the few ''infrastructure'' jobs that may be 'created' will go to the illegal aliens that populate the construction business. Of course, they have also pretended to deal with that by making these jobs be unionized jobs. Big payoff for the AFL-CIO thugs, of course.

And now we find that one of these ''stimulus'' provisions is to provide habitat for a mouse in Speaker Nancy Pelousy's district. Some benefit to the country's economy, right?

Yes the inmates have taken over .... uh, well, the burglars have claimed title ...

Some things you really expect to be quips from the Onion. That would make sense.
Some things do not make sense. As in the case of criminal invaders, criminals I say, being somehow deemed to have 'standing' to enter an action against someone, an American citizen, who was (boo! hiss!) trying to prevent them from their criminal activities.

Read this. Then weep for the nation that we love, the nation that is dying the death of a thousand cuts.
I am in favor of a bounty on the ears of illegal aliens. But I am even more in favor of one, a higher payment, for creepy lawyers. And more than a few judges.

A Visual Example

This is as good a visual example as you are likely to see today.

Note: this is not a commercial and this blog gets nothing, nada, from any commercial sites. But it is pretty cool.

February 03, 2009

When one starts to list those who comprise the kakistocracy, the hard part is knowing where to start. The numbers, in comparison to the world population, are not that great, but it's a group one could not count on fingers and toes. Being a technical sort of person, the inclination is always to create categories, sub-categories, and rate that rascals. And, of course, there is always the fact that some of these scoundrels belong in more than one category.

Let us begin with one truly worthless scoundrel: Al Gore.
He fits in more than one category, obviously:

• environazi
• politician
• liberal fascist

and probably others.
I do not blame him for being wrong. All of us have been wrong, all of us have been mistaken, more than a few us, certainly including yours truly, have been a jerk once or twice. But Al Gore has been exceptional in all of those areas, and has added to it his determination to make life miserable for any person or persons who have the temerity to disagree with him. Case in point, the story of Dr. Will Happer, once the Director of Energy at the Department of Energy. Until 1993, when Al Gore fired him for disagreeing about the fraud of global warming. Read about it in this account out of the United States Senate.
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Update:
You can't make this stuff up -- There's a Global Warming thing going on in Buffalo, NY. Temperature there hit -6 Farenheit. I think that they would have preferred warming. By the way, based on the history, warming is good for people. Cold is bad, very bad. Not that the illiterati have figured that out. Read here and laugh.