Makes me want to puke...

The President of the United States obviously seems to believe he's the President of Black America.

This past week Mr. Obama cut in front of his puppet Jay Carney at one of those uber-boring pressers and interjected himself once again into the Zimmerman/Martin situation. 

During his 10 or 15 extemporaneous minutes of pontificating, Obama mentioned the term "African-American," or "African-Americans," or the "African-American Community" some 20 separate times.  And if you're wondering how may times he mentioned "Irish-Americans," or "Italian-Americans," or "Greek-Americans," or "Chinese-Americans," or "Native Americans," or "Krygestanian-Americans," the number would be, oh, ummm, let's see...zero, even though all he really knows is "Being Tan as a Community Organizer in Chicago."  He makes me a bit queasy, if I do say so myself.  Tossing my cookies remains an option.

So, ladies and gentlemen, for those who always wondered what it would be like to have a "person of color" as President, you now know.  It means that you're going to be subjected to a never-ending stream of crap about things you don't want to know, or need to know, or hoped you'd never find out, while the economy of America goes straight down the dumper.  In a survey just completed your fellow Americans now openly admit that they believe race relations are much, much worse than they were the day Barry was immaculated.  Wasn't his ascension supposed to make race relations better?  Could it be that events have worked out exactly as planned?  Does he really hate America that much?  And does anyone believe that another black president is in our future?  Me thinks not. 

November, 2016 is...just...around...the...corner.  Thankfully.

MSM = WTF?

Have you wondered whether the just-ended trial in Sanford, Florida would have occurred at all if the racial makeup of the protagonists were somehow different?

What if Jorge Zimmerman was black and Trayvon  Obama Martin was white?  Ummm, no, not a word would have been uttered by the MainStreamMedia (MSM).  Every day here in America black folks murder white folks by the dozens and the MSM is strangely (and predictably...and sadly) silent. 

What if Zimmerman and Martin were both black?  Once again, nary a peep would have been heard.  Black people are killing black people with abandon all across the Fruited Plain.  Look at Chicago, for instance.  Over the Fourth of July looonnnngg weekend, 72 were shot and 12 died.  Including two little toddlers.  All black.  On both sides of the guns.  Not a single comment to be heard outside the Chicago area.  It seems black on black crime is A-Okay with the MSM. 

And by the way, guns have been completely outlawed in the Windy City for more than 40 years.  How's that gun control thing working out?

What if Zimmerman and Martin were both white?  Sorry, but the MSM's meme would not have been fed by reporting on such a story.  White people kill each other all the time.  Not as often as black people kill each other, but often.  So, nothing to see here.  Move along...

But Zimmerman being Hispanic ("White Hispanic," according to the New York Times...maybe the very first time in history such a racial designation has been used, but only to further the story that white people are the only ones who can be, you know, like "racist"), and Martin being a "little black teenager," whoa!  Do we have a story here! 

Little black teenager?  6' tall and 175 lllll bbsss, against a doughy white Hispanic.  Unfair fight, unless you happened to have a Glock 17, of course.

This has been a 24/7 story for more than a year.  And that's why poverty pimps like Jessuh (baby daddy) Jackson and Al (Tawana Brawley) Sharpton, and even the Golfer-in-Chief, arguably a wannabe black, have felt compelled to opine on this situation.  Blacks were forced to work in the fields 400 years ago so we should do anything, anything, to make it up to them, even to the extent of tilting our reportage to include blatantly racial bias. 

So a white Hispanic neighborhood watch-type in a gated Hispanic/Black neighborhood with a Glock, disregards orders from a 911 operator (are they even permitted to issue orders...and are we compelled to comply?) and follows a dope-smoking, kicked-out-of-school, burglary-tool-carrying, heavily tattooed, somebody-elses'-jewelry-in-his-pocket, Facebook-abusing, curseword-spewing tagger, gets sandbagged, cold cocked and MSM-style pummeled, pulls out his heater and lets the air out of this kid.  Only due to the influence of the White House, the MSM, black "leaders" and liberal apologists was this guy charged, and now he's been found not guilty by five white and one "black Hispanic" (again?). 

And by the way, where's this "Black Community" they keep talking about?  Is it in Compton?  Southside Chicago?  Washington, D.C.?  Or Atlanta, maybe?  I don't know, but I'd like to, or else maybe they should stop talking about it.

But the story's not yet over.  The DOJ has reopened an investigation of Zimmerman, in all likelihood preparatory to filing a civil rights violation.  One thing about this racist Administration; it never changes. 

They're rioting in Oakland.  Ummm, yeah, but that's what they always do there.  Rioting in Oakland is like their main pastime.  Since there's no jobs, what else to they have to do but riot?  Nothing much to report.  In fact, nothing much to report anywhere, except for the fact that the MSM has an an agenda! 

NBC, you socialist, bottom-feeding video-doctoring cretins should be ashamed of yourselves.  You should be, but you aren't.  MSNBC, as the public relations arm for the Democrat National Committee, your bias was expected, and once again you did not disappoint.  ABC, your ilk is growing ever more tiresome.  Does anybody but me remember that ABC anchor George Stephanopolis was Billy Jeff Clinton's Chief of Staff?  CNN, the Clinton News Network, it's time to turn out the lights and go get a real job for a change.  New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, and all other tree-killing, dinosaur media, bottom-of-the-birdcage lefty rags, curl up and die.  To the MSM in general, you all suck! 

There, my spleen duly vented, I feel much, much better...

Global Something or Other

Good news boys and girls!  Obama gave another of his MAJOR POLICY ADDRESSES OF THE DAY recently, and in it he declared an all-out war on Global Warming, or Climate Change, or whatever they're calling it today.

Obama stated that 97% of all climate scientists agree:  Climate Change is here, it's real and it won't be too long at all before we all burn up in a fiery, Hellish cataclysm.  He said that 12 of the hottest days in history occurred during the past 15 years, or something (they didn't!).  He said that carbon emissions are really, really bad, and that they cause all kinds of bad things (like soot on your newly-washed Mustang GT).  He also said that coal is dirty, and messy, and black, kind of like assault weapons, and it should be outlawed before it kills us all.  Not that there's anything wrong with the color black, mind you, especially if it's on a person, especially if he or she (or it) votes Democrat. 

He went on to say that the XL Keystone Pipeline should not be approved unless it can be proven, PROVEN, do you here me?, that it will not exacerbate (I love that word!) the global climate situation (it should be noted that the State Department has issued two, TWO separate studies stating that the Pipeline will have no deleterious (I love that word also!) effects on our environment).  But two is definitely not enough.  We have to keep conducting these studies until we get the results we're looking for. 

And so, in the midst of numerous scandals, rendering His second term a complete failure so far, Obama has done his best to change the subject by trying to further ruin the U.S. economy by sending us off on a tangent to halt Global Something or Other.

Well, I don't know about you, but I'm really happy about this.  Obama's unilateral efforts will serve to kill the U.S. coal industry, surely tanking his favorables in ten coal-producing states.  It's predicted that his executive actions (bypassing Congress completely, don't you know) will put at least 85,000 people out of work.  He's killed 10,000 coal jobs so far via onerous EPA regulations he'd mandated.  Another 75,000 await pink slips resulting from his new focus.  November, 2014 is coming, and quickly. 

And let's not forget another byproduct of his edicts.  Every single homeowner in America will see a dramatic increase in their electric bills because half, HALF the electricity in the country is produced by coal.  And us Californians will see another huge increase because PG&E is mothballing the San Onofre nuclear reactor, which has heretofore produced 8% of all the energy consumed in the once-Golden State.  Californians, look for a 17% increase in your light bill in the very near future.  And look for Robert Redford and the Sierra Club to rejoice at their decision.  At least a couple of commie pinkos are happy about this.

And to those who were coerced into buying one of those electric plug-in cars, where do you think the electricity comes from?  It comes from coal, you eco-weenies.  And eliminating coal will cause your bill from charging up your wussie little overpriced clown car to skyrocket.  Serves you right, you ignoramuses.  Or is that ignoramusi?

It's a good thing there's a plastic bubble over America, protecting us from the air in China, indisputably the dirtiest on the planet, from floating across the Pacific and soiling our air in week.  Of course you know that China's opening two new coal-fired electricity plants every week, and India's 1.3 Billion cow-worshipping, snake-charming people are producing pollution at a record rate, but change-the-subject, feel-good efforts to "do something" about the climate, even though those efforts are patent horsepucky, will surely cause latte-loving, sauvignon blanc-sipping socialists to open up their wallets and fork over the cash to the Democrats, which is all that  really counts.

So yes, I'm happy.  I'll have my solar photovoltaic generating array installed by then, reducing my electric bill to just about fifteen bucks a month.  And everybody else, especially all those dodos who voted for this unqualified dufus in the White House, will go nearly bankrupt paying for his flights of fancy. 

Just remember, if you lie down with dogs, you'll get up with fleas...

To Hell With Gold...Let's Buy Ammo!

 

You've no doubt seen those interminable TV commercials extolling the virtues of buying gold, silver and other precious metals.  They tell you that gold will protect you from inflation and the falling value of our once-vaunted currency.  And, so long as Mr. Bernanke, Fed Chairman, continues to print money at the rate of more than $85 BILLION DOLLARS a month, month after month, there's no question that it's just a matter of time before inflation (too many dollars chasing too few goods and services) grinds our dollar into pennies. 

They also tell you that gold and silver have appreciated much more than the stock market over the past decade or so.   That's true; while gold has increased about 400% since 2003, the stock market is up only about 175%.  So yes, my friends, buying gold might be a really good idea.  But I think I have a better one:  Ammunition.

About ten years ago George W. Bush was president and a box of 50 .22 long rifle caliber rimfire cartridges cost about $2.50.  Or, roughly a nickel apiece.  They remained at about that price until something earth-shattering happened on November 6, 2008:  Barack Hussein Obama was elected president. 

Beginning the next morning there was a run on guns and ammunition that has scarcely abated since.  Why?  Because those in the know, know that Obama and his Chicago cronies hate guns and hate the fact that you and I can buy and keep and use them.  He/they want to disarm you, and everything he's done since being reelected has proves it.  Now that he no longer needs to be reelected he can begin to focus on his primary goals; pass carbon taxes, eliminate conservatism, end drilling, make citizens dependent upon the Government, end freedom and - wait for it - disarm us.  His actions after the Sandy Hook massacre is proof positive that I know what I'm talking about.

So, I and millions of others like me have been buying guns and ammo at a record clip.  In fact, Obama was named "Gun Salesman Of All Time" by the National Rifle Association.  Gun company stocks have increased since his election by a factor of ten.  Gun prices during that period have increased by at least 100%.  And ammo is now almost beyond the budget of the average American.  Proof?

A "brick" of .22 ammo, or 500 rounds, will set you back $100, maybe even $150,  or about four or five times what it cost ten years ago!

Other calibers have increased more or less proportionately.  Some of this is simple economics of the supply - demand variety.  Lots of people want it and the manufacturers can't make it fast enough.  And I'm of the opinion it won't calm down until we elect a president who decides to honor his oath to protect and defend the Bill of Rights...including that pesky 2nd Amendment.  

Until then, you decide:  buy gold and hope to get a modest rate of return, or buy ammo and be almost guaranteed to see your investment double, triple or even quadruple in value.  As for me, I'm buying all the ammo I can find... 

My Kind of Job...

I screwed up.  Yes, kiddies, I had a choice to make while growing up, and I chose wrong.  I decided to get an education, take a job, work my ass off and, hopefully, reach the semi-lofty heights of success.  Oh, and reap the rewards that accrue therewith. 

I should have chosen to emulate Lois Lerner.

You may not know her.  She's the career bureaucrat babe that until a few days ago ran the tax-free organizations office for the Infernal Revenue Service.  Those are the 501c(3) IRS code organizations like Goodwill Industries and the Salvation Army, and c(4) political speech "Citizens United" outfits like Karl Rove's Crossroads USA and George Soros' uber-lefty Media Matters and MoveOn.org.  They can raise money and spend it in an effort to influence thoughts and votes because the Supremes voted in the aforementioned case that doing so is protected by the 1st Amendment to the Constitution.

These outfits make application to the IRS, and those applications are then approved (or denied) by whoever runs the department at the time.  Except in Lois' case.  If the applicant organization consisted of folks with a conservative viewpoint, such as with the terms "Tea Party" and "Constitution" in their names, the applications were neither approved or denied; they were just put into the lower right hand drawer of her desk and allowed to languish there until the applicant sees the error of their ways and converts to socialism, or Jesus decides to finally return.  Or, of course, until Barry leaves office.  If he ever does. 

Look at it this way.  If an organization wishes to influence political thought and speech, and is prohibited from raising money to do so because the Liberal Loons running things at the IRS keep you from proceeding, then you have effectively been shut out.  Your voice has been silenced.  And your ability to provide that influence has been squelched.  In essence, through the unreal power of the IRS only the liberal point of view was allowed to spew forth.  And spew it did during the 2012 election cycle.  And we all know how that turned out.

So good ol' Lois was hauled before Congress. She began her testimony by declaring her innocence, and then promptly claimed her rights under the 5th Amendment to the Constitution.  Of course, as a lawyer she knew she couldn't do that, but she did.  She basically testified, and then refused to testify.  And because of the furor her doing so caused, she was promptly put on extended leave of absence at full pay and benefits!  Whoa!  From what I hear her union will appoint a lawyer at our expense, and she will appeal that absence.  That may take 18 months to wind its way through the courts.  And if she is found against, she has the opportunity to appeal.  And that will take another 18 months!  So Lois gets three years, at least, at full pay, which is $177,000,00 per year, for doing absolutely nothing.  Which, by the way, would take her past her mandatory retirement age, so she could check out at full pay and bennies without ever working another day.  Think of it; because she's caught hosing conservatives she gets to sit home eating bon-bons and watching Jerry Springer reruns at about $100 per hour. 

Of course, we conservatives would prefer it that way, since while she was working she was screwing things up for good, God-fearing Americans.  Reports are that she has been resolute in harming conservatives at every opportunity.  But we poor slugs were never informed of such propensities because her peers in the D.C. bureaucracy were of a like mind...lefty socialist thieves.  

So, Congress will investigate, and possibly recall her to try and pry some info out of her.  And she'll just do that 5th thing again, which will result in more sturm and drang without anything being learned.  But good ol' Lois will still be doing that "cha-ching" thing at nearly $4,000 a week.  

Remember when choosing civil service meant a meager salary but great benefits and absolute, ironclad job security? Now, it's still the same but the salary is just about twice  what an ordinary, run-of-the-mill, tax-paying civilian earns.  Where did I go wrong?  why didn't somebody tell me that civil service is the quickest and most secure way to becoming a millionaire?  I'm pissed...  

The "Chicago Way"

Have you ever thought you might like to live in Chicago?  You know, that "City of broad shoulders," as Poet extraordinaire Carl Sandburg so famously described it. 

Multi-million dollar apartments on ritzy Michigan Avenue, wonderful pubs and eateries on Rush Street, truly awful weather, whether in the summer or winter, or anytime of the year, for that matter, perhaps the very best way to spend a day at the Museum of Science and Industry, and, of course, one big damn place to arrive and depart at O'Hare Airport.  BTW, did you know that O'Hare was named for Butch O'Hare, the WWII fighter pilot ace that exemplified everything that Chicago has since turned it grimy back upon. 

Leave it to me to come up with a segues that twists your minds...

Yes, Chicago.  A town that hasn't elected a Republican since Dwight David Eisenhower was Prezz.  Chicago.  A town once owned by the bootlegger barons and depression-era goons, and then by Mafia gangsters, is now owned and controlled by the unions and the lefty political machine they spawned and pay for.  Chicago.  The 3rd largest American city is, except for Detroit, the poster child for how not to run things.  Chicago.  A town run by ward heelers like the guy who decided Chik-fil-A couldn't open any more restaurants there because it's run by religious zealots who don't favor homosexual marriage.  Deeply in debt, Chicago is the very capitol of underhanded political double-dealing.  If you're not a crook, or if your daddy isn't a crook, there's simply no way you'll get a job in this broad-shouldered town.  And this is the place in which Barry O'Bama chose to settle after (possibly, maybe, maybe not, who knows?) graduating from Harvard Law.  How quaint...

So yes, if you've ever thought it might be fun to live in Chicago, guess what?  You do!  Everyone in America now lives in Chicago, or, better put, a suburb thereof.  That's because the "Chicago Way" is now writ large over all of our lives.  And we have proof of that with the multiple scandals now unfolding in Foggy Bottom. 

It starts with "Fast and Furious," that little gun-running effort whereby we bought and paid for millions of dollars worth of "assault weapons," whatever they are, which were then provided to straw buyers, and then on to those fun-loving Mexican drug cartels so they could kill each other and various and sundry civilians.  And, hopefully, a few Americans so Barry's famous admonition to the Mexican Assembly in 2009 that "90% of the guns in Mexico come from America," which is patent horseshit, could help to spur us to demand our elected representatives to erase the 2nd Amendment from the Constitution. 

And then we have Benghazi.  Our Fearless Leader was somewhere the night of September 11, 2013, but taking care of insuring our Ambassador and three other patriots were safe that night wasn't on his agenda.  He had to get a good night's sleep so he could jet off in my airplane to Las Vegas to go raise some campaign cash the next morning.  And so four of our citizens were brutally murdered while Barry snoozed.  And what about Hillary?  We don't know.  She got a call from the Ambassador at 2:00 a.m., begging for help, but she did absolutely, positively...nothing.  Remember her famous campaign ad about Barry getting the 3:00 a.m. call?  Me too.  President Hillary?  Me thinks not. 

And then we have the IRS clamping down on groups desirous of having a voice in the way their country is being run.  The scum!  Any group with the name "Tea Party" or "Patriot" were singled out for scrutiny, and their applications for 501(c)4 tax-free status were uniformly denied.  Or simply ignored.  One group out of Texas, which didn't much care for unfettered abortions in America, were queried about to whom they prayed and exactly what they said during those pesky prayers.  I'm not joking.

Other questions this organization and others like them were asked included:

     - Tell us what books have you read in the past three years, and give a book report on each;

     - Give us copies of all your sent and received emails, letters and tweets for the past three years;

     - Tell us who you associate with, have associated with, and plan to associate with over the past three years and for the next three years;

     - And my personal favorite, "Will you promise not to lobby or advocate for conservative causes if your application is approved?"

Fun folks, those IRS types.

And then there's the AP, and now Fox News, DOJ scandals.  Our boy Eric Holder signed off on a subpoena to tap 20 phone lines at an Associated Press office, in which 100 journalists worked, so he could find out from whom they were getting their leaks.  And he did the same to Fox's James Rosen, in a chillingly brash slap in the face to the 1st Amendment's freedom of speech guarantees.  And then on 5/23 he testified to Congress he knew nothing of such activities, never approved them and would never have anything to do with something so blatantly unconstitutional. The Chicago Way means being able to lie when the truth sounds better.

And let's not forget the NLRB.  Barry illegally appointed three members to the National Labor Relations Board while the Senate was in recess, except the Senate wasn't in recess at the time.  And we know doing so was illegal, because two separate Courts of Appeal have since said so.  And this makes hundreds of decisions made since by the NLRB all illegal.  Fun.  Oh, and the NLRB refuses to stop its activities or send home the illegally appointed members.  Ballsy, these crooks are.

And the EPA?  Oh yeah, these folks are particularly nasty in their partisan approach to what should be a straightforward protections of our environment.  Yeah, they protect us all right.  They protect the Left from the Right, crapping on conservative causes at every turn.  They have so far put more than 10,000 coal miners out of their jobs in seven Mid-Atlantic states, as an example, because they just don't like coal.  Simple.

So, my friends, you don't have to move to Chicago.  You already live there!  And you now are experiencing what it's like to be governed by a bunch of self-dealing, hypocritical thugs.  The only good part of this whole, unfunny deal is that the crime rate in Chicago, with exception of the gun murder rate, which is through the roof, even though there are no guns in Chicago because they outlawed them, has gone down since November  4, 2008.  That's because all the really big crooks have moved to D.C....

       

Drip, drip, drip...

Hardly a day passes without some erosion of our rights as American citizens occurring. 

It could be small.  It often is.  But it could also be quite substantial. 

In the aftermath of the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre, the Left has forged on with flank speed to pass any, any gun control law before the furor amongst the low-information voter subsides.  They want to take advantage, as Barry O'bama's Chief of Staff Rahm Emmanuel so famously said, by not letting this - or any - crisis go to waste.

Example?  There are many, but let me use recent proposed legislation by NY State's Congressweenie Carolyn McCarthy.  She actually suggested that prospective gun owners be required to purchase liability insurance under her "Gun Owners' Risk Abatement Act," or be subject to a $10,000 fine. 

You read that right.  The "...right to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed" in NY State now means you are assumed to be a red-neck, inbred, child-molesting, monotoothed cretin who is likely to do bad things with that awful gun you, for some unearthly and unexplained reason, want to buy, so we must force you to insure yourself and the weapon before that bad thing that's sure to happen, happens.  

We know that the weenies in California are trying their very hardest to tax ammunition purchases, no doubt under the theory that if they make ammo too expensive, gun owners won't be able to exercise their Constitutional rights.  Connecticut legislators just passed a bill that would require you to buy an annual permission slip to buy ammo, which, of course, would come with a stiff fee to afford you that opportunity.  And many of the weeniest states are trying to eliminate the crude and irresponsible act of passing guns on from father to son without an onerous, unnecessary and expensive universal background check to make sure 11-year old little Johnnie isn't a terrorist.

Let's just call this spade a spade (in this hyper-politically correct society, can we still say that?).  The Lefties among us can't quite understand why the One Hundred Million of us gun owners want to own guns.  They think if they just come up with creative little roadblocks to place in our way we'll give up and join their Utopian little, trust the cops and the Gummint to protect us, ranks. 

They are wrong.

But, for the sake of some jocularity, I've decided to help them.  I've come up with a few other plans to help them in their quest.  Nothing head on, mind you, just kind of nibbling around the edges.  So here goes...

The "Anything Black Except People is Bad" bill:  So-called "assault weapons" are black.  If you outlaw the color "black," then people won't be able to buy black weapons.  Ergo, no more assault weapons.  Clever?  I thought you'd like it.

The "No Shooting on Days Ending in "Y" bill:  This little piece of legislation would outlaw the discharge of a gun inside or outside of the city limits of any city, anywhere, on any day ending in "y."  Enough said.

The "Forefinger is Verboten" bill:  Pass this little bill and Americans could no longer use their forefinger to discharge a weapon.  That oughta' slow 'em down!

The "You Have to Eat Everything You Kill" bill:  Except for out-and-out cannibals, this should slow down gang killings in urban paradises like Chicago, Detroit and Camden, Neuwww Jersey.

The "Protecting Animals by Forbidding Aiming" bill:  No more gun sights or telescopic sights would be allowed if this legislation passes.  You have to kind of point the gun and hope.  And if you're unsuccessful, then there's a really good chance you'll simply give up and go to Safeway for your Saran-wrapped packaged meats.  Or, you'll miss your desired target and off some inner-city gangbanger and they'll prosecute the Hell out of you and put you away until Conservatives take power once again. 

Oh, my friends, there are other creative ways to put stumbling blocks in the path of those who would attempt to subvert  our God-given rights.  Maybe you can come up with a few.  Write me with those you recommend.  I'll pass them along to the otherwise unemployables in Sacrarobyou in Round Two in this ongoing screed.  I'm sure they'll appreciate the favor...