Sword and Sextant

Just read it.

Someday I hope the President learns to like the country he is in charge of. Its a really great place once you get the hang of it. I’d say its the best place in the history of our planet as long as the guvamint is kept the fuck out of it.

They took another ship now, and its got more Americans on it.

Once we get our guys back, its time to eradicate this human pestilence.

This is just terrorism under another name.

God damn it.

“There has been a substantial anecdotal flow over the last six to eight weeks of things that felt a little bit better,” Summers told the Economic Club of Washington. “The sense of a ball falling off a table, which is what the economy has felt like since the middle of last fall … we can be reasonably confident that that is going to end within the next few months and we will no longer have that sense of a free-fall.”

Well, this is a distortion. Dude never said we’d end in a free fall, guys. I’m not sure what the point is here. Breitbart and Drudge are two newsmen that generally don’t let bias completely mask the news (other than a careful selection of stories to forward by Drudge), and now I’m disappointed.

Fact is, we don’t need to misquote anyone to make fun of this administration and their Quixotic tumbles through a real financial crisis and international boondoggles relations. We also possess more than enough intellectual firepower and logic to defeat any liberal argument with straight facts and grounded reasoning.

Please do not stoop to this level again. I don’t care if Andrew and Matt didn’t report the story personally. This is on you guys, as you put your names on it. The quote is fucked up, I know, and its needlessly gloomy about the past, of all things, but just report the news. Its why I turn to you guys instead of MSNBC, CNN, etc.

I’m more than intelligent enough to cut through the liberal forest when I read/watch anything, but I don’t want to have to hack away the conservative undergrowth, either. Mow your own dang lawn.

As it turns out, the Judge thought it was weird that the case fell apart so quickly after the elections, too.

Here’s a link.

Now, this is a bold farce by lefty forces to unseat a GOP Senator under false pretenses (mission accomplished). It worked, but now hopefully these people will pay for their wrongs. It is one thing to wrongfully pursue a defendant for any reason, but additional scorn is reserved for those who do it to upset the normal electoral process. Free, untainted elections are the most important right of our citizens, but these few mongrels have decided to taint the vote, and hopefully they find severe punishment. In my world, tinkering with elections by any means would be a death sentence, but I’m quite extreme.

This is a classic case of liberals using distortion and faulty ethics to influence the outcome of an election. For decades, its known that the far left playbook has always been devoted to below-board means, and this is just the latest installment. Because their ideals make little sense when faced with realism and logic, they must cower in the shadows and use smoke and mirrors to further their destructive agenda and foolhardy policies. (Flashback: Obama won his first office by throwing all other candidates off the ballot, even the incumbent!)

Thomas Jefferson would not be proud of what filth has seeped into his legacy.

What in the hell is he doing in office?

He did this for one of two reasons:

1) He can’t be trusted to give any response to anything not written on the ‘Prompter of the USA,

2) He genuinely has no reaction or message to the first time in 200 years an American vessel has been attacked at sea. No message for the pirates, anyone who may be entertaining an attack on this country or its people, the military, etc. Just a blank slate trying to focus on further ruining the economy with housing policies.

Guess which one I think it is.

Note: I don’t give a crap that Hillary had a response, or that the Navy is coming in already. I care that the everloving President has no message whatsoever one day after an assault on our citizens. I care that this guy doesn’t bat an eye at piracy.

I have always been a believer that the American people are the strongest, smartest, most clever people in the world.  Its part of my jingoism and brashness that I carry with me at all times.  I believe that nothing short of our government stealing our freedoms and lifeforce can prevent us from being the best country in the world, a feat we accomplished in less than 200 years, and still maintain.

Part of this argument is actually genetic, surprising as that may seem.  Back in the day, all our families, excepting the native Americans, had to travel here from distant lands.  Before modern transport could get you and your belongings here in mere hours, voyages by boat would take months.  Ravaged by disease, hunger, boredom, what have you, these people had to be the most crazy adventurous or risk-taking people around to hop in a ship bound for the “new world”, a place they’d never even Googled or Mapquested.

When they arrived, they landed in a world almost completely undeveloped.  There wasn’t even a Starbucks, much less a Baby Gap.  From this nothing they built homes, lives, families, and futures.  Several waves like this came to this great nation over our history, always the daring, desperate, and innovative types.  The genetic bottleneck was in place.  The children of our country are the product of some of the greatest adventurers of the last three centuries of humanity, and thus we succeed at unprecedented levels.

The other side of this argument is that we aren’t overrun by pacifists, and we have at least a segment of our populace that will turn to the long knives when our freedom is threatened.  When old Europe and the Neville Chamberlains of the world go soft, we are stirred at last from our isolation and land on Normandy, carving a path to international peace and freedom once more.  We are nearly the only benevolent people left on this planet that retains the will to resist the fate of Ancient Rome.  When the barbarians are at our gate, that bloodlust for freedom always boils again and we fight.  As history as proven unequivocally, a unified, raging America is a terrible sight to behold, let alone be subjected to.

Anyhow, to the latest example. The US crew that was hijacked by Muslim Somali pirates, has now retaken the ship from their captors.  According to the story, there are only 20 members on the crew.  We haven’t had a story like this since the third 9-11 plane that the passengers overran the cockpit and smote those terrorists like the cowardly mass murderers they were.  There is little doubt in my mind that Americans are the most likely people to attempt such a overthrow, even when faced with guns and death.

I’m uplifted and proud today, as our countrymen have once again stood athwart subjugation, and summarily cast them into the ocean.

Link to UK paper.  Not Barry-friendly, it seems.

I continually try to think that this stream-of-consciousness style he’s got when caught off-guard doesn’t mean he’s not thinking about these things ahead of time, but if an articulate man (which we are constantly demanded to believe that he is) has a strong feeling and any sort of opinion on a matter, shouldn’t we get better than this?

I remember when Dems were basking in the glow of no more Presidential stutterers in this gilded age of silver tongues.  There goes that utopia, I guess.  

If all it takes to get Obama all confused is a direct question relating exactly to a meeting HE’S LITERALLY ABOUT TO HAVE, two things come to mind.  

1) What is he doing with his time?

2) Color me scared as hell if that’s the plan, and that’s his level of understanding.

By the way, he committed $1T of the world’s dollars to the IMF that afternoon.  At least he’s taking his novice license lightly, and firing the money cannon into the sun with abandon.

Epic fail.

America now allows rogue dictatorial regimes to develop the necessary technologies to visit destruction across the globe.  This is an abdication of international stewardship.

Score one for the American Dream.

Amid a dizzying array of liberal doctrinal blows, the Congress has largely stayed in step, and passed our President’s will, even if he translates the dirty work onto them, like with the stimulus.  However, the men and women representing our country finally faltered from such transformative heights recently when they shot down a cap and trade bill straight from the action hero/President’s mouth.

Turns out, demanding a spike in energy prices for no reason other than to control the citizens of the nation they are supposed to represent is a line in the sand Obama wasn’t counting on.  24 Dems and all 41 GOP senators, even Mr. Specter (who will lose his seat soon, thank God), are lined up against the misinformed notion that when money is tight, you want to spike the price of goods permanently and reroute hard-earned money to the guvamint so they can force less efficient technology down our throats.

You see, Dems don’t care that solar and wind technology isn’t ready for primetime yet.  When they yell and piss and moan about saving the environment, they forget simple things like the enormous cost of overhauling our energy grid, the extravagant cost of a hybrid car battery or its toll on the environment, or the gross inefficiency of many alternate fuel sources at this point in history.  Liberals don’t think the way conservatives do about these things.  They push and push for changes to improve our environment without regard to the fallout, because they only value the thought.  They hoped for the best, and that’s the value of pushing for things that may destroy our economy.  Best intentions are the currency of liberal thought (oh damn, I’m filing that line away for later).

Conservatives often side on the other side of that fence, becoming paralyzed at times by fear that something may go wrong, or just fear of rocking the boat.  Truth is, ingenuity and drive to change are valuable assets in our world and nation, and a certain amount of risk is necessary to move on.  In this situation, however, its clear for all to see that the environmentalist movement is using fear tactics and newspaper headlines to force a change driven only by best intentions, and not reality.  I appreciate the faith and zeal of Dems to push forward, but injuring people’s livelihoods is not the way to get these things done, especially when given the drastic nature of a national energy tax.

The coolest thing about capitalism is that when a technology becomes feasible to compete with the status quo, a company will seize it and overhaul the market without guvamint intervention and subsidy.  This mechanic is why the US paves the way in almost every field of technology in the world, and why we are the biggest consumer of new technologies despite having far less citizens than India, Russia, or China.  Using higher taxes and guvamint handouts to force as-yet inefficient products into the system only lowers the capital base that makes new innovations possible through research and development wings of our greatest corporations.  Remember, whenever you allow the guvamint to dictate how any industry works, you’re taking the power of decision from the experts of that field and putting it into the hands of elected officials who, by and large, have little or no experience in such things.

I wouldn’t hire a lawyer to design cars, but Democrats seem all to happy to pass everything into the hands of a team of lawyers in Washington DC, whose skills include being popular and winning votes.  Scary sentiment when we consider guvamint-run health care.

“Be careful how you make those statements, gentlemen. The public isn’t buying that.  My administration,” the president added, “is the only thing between you and the pitchforks.”

What on Earth is the President doing here?  Why talk super tough to banks that are actually beginning to turn a profit again, and stoke more of the witchhunt that he started in the first place?  Why do we treat the men who will eventually deliver us from this problem with such contempt?  Let’s even say they directly caused this crisis and the guvamint didn’t have anything to do with it.  Would you still impair their ability to right the ship out of spite?  Would you let your anger get the best of you, even if it means prolonging an international recession?

“The only way they could have sent a more Spartan message is if they had served bread along with the water,” says a person who attended the meeting. “The signal from Obama’s body language and demeanor was, ‘I’m the president, and you’re not.’” 

Obama really likes to play the “I’m the President” card, but only verbally, it seems.  Last time he played it, it was about the GOP screeching about the pork-laden stimulus bill.  Of course, he punted the whole thing to Congress right afterward, then said there was no extra spending to be found in the bill.  To complete the circle, he promised to go through the budget “line by line”, only to attempt a rubber stamp when the bill hit his desk.  Democrats in Congress actually forced him to read the damn thing, or at least as much as he could get through in less than 48 hours.

What we’re left with when the dust settles is a man who loves to remind people he’s President, but resorts to fear tactics and mob anger when he has to make a decision.  His leadership has been nonexistent at every turn, and his “solutions” are little more than empty populist sentiments, political handjobs, and cloak and dagger tax hikes.  There are men in this world who can only see the reward of hard work and leadership, and fail to understand the sacrifice and discipline that built those palaces.  Most are 9 to 5ers with two leased cars, a mortgage, and credit card debt.  Somehow, one of them is now President, and while he enjoys all the frills and toys of the Presidency, he is not built to pilot this ship we’re all stuck on.