Did America just win the lottery and not tell me?

Really, where is all this make believe money going to come from?

I am reading up on bailout-mania.

If these idiotic ideas pass, the only realistic outcome is the complete devaluation of the American dollar. Think of Zimbabwe or Italy's problem with the Lira. There are acts of complete financial irresponsibility being considered that boggle the mind.

America became a strong, prosperous nation because we let the market work. Now, it seems that only bad ideas are being rewarded. The rest of us are beginning to feel like suckers. Why am I paying my mortgage when I may soon have more rights by not paying it?

For years, conservatives and economists have predicted that the UAW's pension funding will kill the big Three. Now, great, instead of killing that bad idea, we get to prop it up.

The solution is pain. Short and hard. Kill the gangrene, feed the living. Instead, well, we are going to tax and regulate the fuck out of any profitable business in America and let the cancer grow deeper in the rest.

I can't believe that I grew up in a country where one of the core beliefs was free trade and personal and professional responsibility has now sold out those ideals and is racing towards the bad ideas that have nearly destroyed the rest of the world. It's not like we are going full on, death camp socialism next week, but even Western Europe is waking up from the 5 decade long infatuation with the welfare state. But no, these ideas keep getting pushed on us. And, thanks to some failure on the part of America's intellectuals and opinion leaders, we are going to get a taste of all these bad ideas.

As an aside, I also wonder how "bailing" out the three American automakers affects our Free Trade Agreements with other countries. Could this also mark the dawn of a new age of protectionism? (that would be bad for way too many reasons)

Finally, my hope for change is that now with the baby tantrum party in charge of things, that they'll grow up. The loyal opposition rode Mark Foley and a host of embarrassing Republicans into power. The Democrats associated intellectual vanity with their brand label, so that voting Democrat is as much of a fashion statement (and an act of political reasoning) as choosing to wear what Vogue tells Carrie Bradshaw.

I don't think they will. All indications point to a party in control with no fucking clue how the world operates outside a hyper legalistic perspective.

Is it the end of the world as we know it?

Yes, but it turns out that that happened a long time ago.

And truth be told I blame all the usual suspects.

Bush 41 and 43 for being such inarticulate defenders of this land's source of prosperity.

Ted Kennedy for opening up the floodgates to generations of immigrants who, through no fault of their own, were enmeshed in a public school system that taught them to hate this country in the guise of multiculturalism. Add some of this blame to McCain because he wants to join in on the systematic firing of the voters. It's a neat trick in a democracy, if you find the present citizenry too "reactionary," go ahead and bring in 50 million new citizens to tip the scales the other way.

So, the culture's changed, the economy's going to change, and who knows what else.

These upcoming decisions are going change the world because America will effectively slit her wrists. The thing is, the baby tantrum party has this mushy and naive view of the world where every potential opposing super power isn't that bad. But they are. The world will not be better off with an ascending Russia or China or Iran. And what isms will replace Americanism? Well, we know there is the Mohamedism of Iran, the facsism of China, the thugism of Russia, the nanny statism of Europe, and god knows that communism and socialism are always ready to intoxicate a people's "intellectuals" with dreams of ruling over the red staters.

OMG, Odumbo is the dumbest person ever!

Can you believe the things this guy says?

Democrat Barack Obama, the first black candidate with a shot at winning the White House, says John McCain and his Republican allies will try to scare them by saying Obama "doesn't look like all those other presidents on the dollar bills."

duh, only one president is on the dollar bill! What, give him the benefit of the doubt that he was talking about presidents on each denomination of currency? Never, as we learned from Slate's Bushisms, no mercy will be given. In fact, if we've learned anything from the left, it's that accurate quotation is just a social construct erected by dead white male paternonormative types.

So, let's change it up, can you believe Obama said "I don't believe that I look like president Ben Franklin on the 3 dollar bill!" God damn, what moron. Franklin wasn't even a president and there is no such thing as a 3 dollar bill.

Whew, it's fun being a pain in the ass. If Obie does manage to become president, I can't wait for my Impeach Obama bumper sticker to arrive. or for my 1-29-2012, end of an error sticker.

Anyway seriously, Odumbo gave some speech in front of Eurotrash. And boy, am I embarrassed to report that he did not even give it in French. What a typical moronic American, he can't even be bothered to learn to speak the language of every country to which he travels.

Anyway, in his incredibly boring speech on the Berlin Airlift, he gets everything wrong. First, I listened to snippets of his speech. He managed to turn the story of the airlift into a boring series of declarative sentences and evidently, the airlift was about us all coming together as one.

Ooooommmmmmmmmmmm. Boy my chakras feel great with all this hope, change, and unity!

Ok, first, his speechifying. Boring, vapid, pointless. Not exactly how I expected Athiest-Jesus to sound. I mean really, the word on the street is that the guy can't talk without a teleprompter, but this crap speech wasn't much better.

Next, the content. Oh boy!

Right. Since Obie has no clue what he is talking about, others have pointed out that Truman had to hold the line against red-senators who wanted to surrender Berlin and cowardly generals who didn't want to scratch the paint on the USAF's precious planes.

That is, instead of being a feel-good community outreach event, the real Berlin Airlift was predicated on the guts of one president who would not back down, who would not give up. Someone who stood up to the bad guys and told left-wing shit-bag politicians that no, we aren't going to give in to the reds.

So, first, leftists of course, always choose the course of action that will harm America, and the Berlin Airlift was no exception. Sen. McGovern and Sen. Wallace are credited with opposing the damn thing. of course. And, gee, didn't Obie oppose the surge on general anti-american principles? yes. The sad truth about this speech is that Obie would have been one of the knee-jerk leftwing politicians that opposed the Berlin Airlift, his great example of unity and all that. You can see the rationale out there, the moral equivalency between America and totalitarian states, the desire for peace through submission, a desire not to provoke, and plus, Truman, was sort of la-di-dah, yo know? Not quite Harvard material, if you catch my drift.

So, what is the point? Obie should stop using historical lessons to pat himself on the back when it is clear that he would have been one of the brainless people blocking the heroic actions of the President who made it happen, whether it's the lib, soviet sympathizers like Wallace and McGovern who opposed the blockade or whether it's modern lib, enemy-sympathizers like Clinton, Obama, Reid, Kennedy, Mikulski, etc. who opposed the surge that Bush held the line on. Of course, these modern left-wing traitors did so more to fuck with Bush than to support AQ, but the end result would have been the same. And really, they basically fucked with national security for political points.

Also, his praise of the Berliner's seems more like an endorsement of the cargo cultists of certain backwards peoples. check it:

"But in the darkest hours, the people of Berlin kept the flame of hope burning. The people of Berlin refused to give up. And on one fall day, hundreds of thousands of Berliners came here, to the Tiergarten, and heard the city's mayor implore the world not to give up on freedom. "There is only one possibility," he said. "For us to stand together united until this battle is won...The people of Berlin have spoken. We have done our duty, and we will keep on doing our duty. People of the world: now do your duty...People of the world, look at Berlin!"

What really? No, the true heroes were the pilots who kept going, the mechanics who kept the planes flyable, and the president that made it happen. You know, the Americans. Hate to say it, but typical liberal pablum, yes let's praise the Germans for sitting around waiting for food to drop from the sky from Americans. That's liberalism in a nut-shell.

Wow, so much stuff to talk about. First, let's all reflect on the following letters: WWPD That's right, Obie's apparent foreign policy advisor has stated that an Obama foreign policy would be based on the taos of Pooh: That is:

Richard Danzig, who served as Navy Secretary under President Clinton and is tipped to become National Security Adviser in an Obama White House, told a major foreign policy conference in Washington that the future of US strategy in the war on terrorism should follow a lesson from the pages of Winnie the Pooh, which can be shortened to: if it is causing you too much pain, try something else.

Mr Danzig told the Centre for New American Security: “Winnie the Pooh seems to me to be a fundamental text on national security.”

GREAT! Good to know. Does it matter to the Ozombies?


















No, of course not.

Next question, how fast is Obama willing to lose the war? Noone knows. Apparently, Iraq is super special. Unlike Kosovo, Germany, Japan, Korea, and I dunno, Cuba, we can't ever never have a base or troops over there. Oh sure, he promises to leave and to come back any time the bad guys come back (i.e., when we leave), but not to actually maintain a presence there over a skeleton crew necessary to protect an ambassador or something.

Interestingly enough, Obama, his website, his supporters all have different ideas of what his policy on losing the war would actually be were God to forsake us and allow his presidency. If you follow the link, you will find analysis of several Obama flacks each showing the truth to the idea that Obama is a blank slate upon whom other people place their political ideas.

So who knows. I know I am not going to vote for Obie. I was promised a post-racial, pragmatist with god-like levels of empathy and strategery. So far, all I see is a guy who hates America. hates crackers. Someone who has no idea what to do with the country, someone whose idea of debating McCain is to call him old. And, oh God, yeah, a perfect Ivory-tower cluelessness about the world and capitalism. But he can sure read other people's speeches well.