Liberal Mental Disorder: Picking wrong bad guys

Liberals claim that government will always perform a service better because they are not driven by profit.

OK. What does that mean? I claim the opposite is true. Let's try to look at government through the lens of a business that provides a service. The government can write a law that will require its "customers" to pay them a certain amount whether the "customers" get anything back or not. And let's not forget that government is not some building down the road. The government is full of people. People, whether in government or not, want what is best for themselves. At least the private sector businessman is required to provide something to his "customers" before he is rewarded with payment. Doesn't that make him more accountable? Doesn't that make him less inclined to be wasteful with every penny? Doesn't that force him to put a price on his service that does not exceed what his customers can pay (free market)?

Quite the opposite is true with the government guy. Because he is not driven by profit he is far less prudent with the money that comes except when it comes to providing his own needs and lining his own pockets. The mere fact that they have the power to make it illegal not to give them more of what the private sector has, when they demand it, is inherently corruptible.

Have you noticed that when people in government get rich solely from being in government, it is more publicly accepted than people who risk everything to provide a service to others and gets rich from it? Why is that? Why is it that Joe Senator, whose only major accomplishment was to get at least 51% of the people in his home state to vote for him instead of the other guy, can get away with amassing a personal fortune through the public trough and influence peddling and not have it seen as immoral?

While likewise, Joe Private Creator, a man who started with nothing and created an entity that is beneficial to the world that subsequently brings him riches is looked at as a pariah who must be punished by Joe Senator by taking a large portion of what Joe Private Creator has made made to be given to Joe Layabout to ensure Joe Layabout's vote every 6 years for Joe Senator?

In the long term we would all be better off if Joe Private Creator were able to keep more of his money to create more and invest more. Joe Layabout would be better off too as there would be more private ventures that would be seeking his employment. And to keep our roads and bridges safe and our police paid, Joe Senator and Joe Local Government would thus have more revenues coming in to fund their pet projects that help keep their talentless rear ends employed in the government.

{This blog is written with the understanding that government has had very good people, like Ronald Reagan, and the private sector has had very bad people, like Bernie Madoff}

God save the republic

Under the auspices of making the bad people think that we are not meanies.

Well Mr. Obama has been in office less than 48 hours and he has quickly handed the terrorists 2 early victories.

Victory #1:

Gitmo war crimes court halted at Obama request

By BEN FOX, Associated Press Writer Ben Fox, Associated Press Writer – Wed Jan 21, 5:18 pm ET

GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba – The Guantanamo Bay war crimes court came to an abrupt halt Wednesday as military judges granted President Barack Obama's request to suspend proceedings while he reviews his predecessor's strategy for prosecuting terrorists.

The judges quickly agreed to a 120-day suspension of the cases of a Canadian accused of killing an American soldier in Afghanistan and five men charged in the Sept. 11 attacks. Similar orders are expected in other pending cases pending before the Guantanamo military commissions.

Full article

Put yourself in the mind of a terrorist. How would this make you feel? Would it bring you comfort or put fear in you? I guess Obama and his ilk believe that this sign of good will would have a positive affect on those who hate us anyway. Obama believes that if the terrorists believe they have someone in the white house that will be fair to them then they will be less likely to attack the country while he is in office. That is the naivate of this man and liberals in general. The terrorists hate free Judeo Christian nations and want us dead unless we convert to islam. What is so difficult to understand.

Victory #2:

Obama to close terror war black sites

Orders limit interrogations

Sara A. Carter and Eli Lake THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Thursday, January 22, 2009

President Obama on Thursday will order the closure of so-called black sites, where CIA and European security services have interrogated terrorist suspects, under executive orders dismantling much of the Bush administration's architecture for the war on terror, according to four individuals familiar with a draft executive order.

Mr. Obama will shutter "all permanent detention facilities overseas," the draft said, according to the individuals, who asked not to be named because the orders had not been signed. There are at least eight such prisons, according to published reports. The Bush administration never revealed the number or locations of the facilities, although several were said to be in Eastern Europe.

Full article


Oh my. Our enemy only understands and only respects the use of force. This is a huge victory for them. They have to feel re-energized. No question about it. Knowing that they will not be tortured into giving up plots against the U.S. has to be incredibly encouraging to them.


Up next on the Obama agenda is government takeover of the banking and health care systems, implementation of the "fairness doctrine" to make it difficult for dissenting voices to be heard, open the borders so un-assimilated anti-Americans can vote for Democrats ad infinitem, etc, etc...

While Obama is closing ... he is keeping open the so called "warrentless wiretaps", etc... So he is retaining powers that can be used against U. S. citizens.

God save our beloved republic.

Ze Verd Christmas is now hereby forbidden!

Ok. It is December and retailers and businesses want our money again. However these same retailers have again fallen for the myth that the majority of their customers are offended by the word Christmas but not by the more generic word Holiday. Or perhaps they feel safer lumping all of the big holidays into the word "Holiday" so when you do your Kwaanza and Hannakah shopping you will shop at their store. The irony is that 90% of their potential customers, even the athiests, are buying stuff to give as gifts on Christmas!

Every year it gets worse but this year I am seeing the effort to avoid mentioning the word Christmas at all cost, actually to a point where it doesn't make sense.

Here are some examples:

• I got something in the mail from St. Mary's Bank. If I open an account with them I will get a "free holiday DVD". However ALL of the DVDs I can choose from are Christmas DVDs! So St. Mary's Bank is calling a stack of Christmas DVDs, "holiday DVDs", so as to entice me to give them my business.
• I heard an eBay radio ad the other day in which Santa bellows "Happy Holidays America". OK, well what other holiday does Santa Clause come on besides Christmas? Has he ever been associated with Kwaanza or Hannakah? It's kind of like George Steinbrenner cheering "go organized teams!" from his owners booth so as not to offend fans of other teams or other sports.
• In a UPS ad, the driver talks about the job 'driver helper' as a way to "make extra cash for the holiday". He talks about the joy of bringing people their packages and how happy they are to see him. However, at the end of the spiel but he says "when December 25th hits... you did a good job and I'll see you next year." I guess saying "when holiday hits..." would sound kind of weird so I imagine the spinless marketeers at UPS probably said "well just say 'December 25th' since holiday doesn't fit so well."
  

Anyway, more observations may come but in honor of thought police around the world I say Merry December 25th and a Happy January 1st!

I Get A Peaceful, Uneasy Feeling...

Remember that ditty by the Eagles. Well... I decided to modify it because I am feeling uneasy right now. China, Russia, Iran, Venezuela and Cuba all seem to be on the same page right now. They are feeling empowered and unchallenged as they begin to set up strategic alliances and positions in the western hemisphere. Iran is finalizing its first nuclear weapon and is salivating about "wiping Israel off the map". Russia has a new friend in Venezuela. The ingrates of Iraq are burning effigies of President Bush as the lame duck U.S. administration wants to continue to be polite to the incoming administration, who really couldn't care much less about foreign affairs

The incoming administration is, itself, salivating over the collapse of the American economy so they can make a complete power grab once inaugurated. Since Obama is such a charismatic speaker and the American public is so apathetic, Obama plans to easily have the government take over our private health care system, automobile industry, banking industry and whatever else he will be allowed to grab. When all is said and done, the leftists, taking over in January, will attempt to own as much of the private economy as the awestruck and ignorant majority will allow.

It appears that people are now accepting the fact that government will do make things right, not because there is evidence to support that (there is actually reams of evidence to support the opposite) but because they believe that the private sector failed. Nowhere is the understanding that the government (hello Fannie and Freddie) getting its non-market force hands into the private sector actually was the catalyst to the current malaise.

So two forces are at work here. The evil nations of the the world are feeling emboldened to flex their muscles in America's backyard and the incoming Obama administration is looking forward to a government power grab of the economy under the guise of saving it.

I am getting that uneasy feeling.

So where is the peace? Don't those on the left worship the concept of peace? Well, their peace requires one to put their head in the sand and make pretend there are no bad people. I am talking a different peace. Is it pie-in-the-sky to believe that a higher power is at work here and has a plan? I am not a scholar of biblical prophecy but I can't shake the thought that the Good Book has already predicted the times we may be entering. I also find that during difficult times, we tend to turn to the spiritual. Thus the best answer for that is turning to the Prince of Peace.

Turn to Him and let that peaceful feeling rule your uneasy feeling.

Shame on New Hampshire

Shame on you New Hampshire. Once a red beacon of freedom loving light in a sea of blue, big government-loving darkness, the granite state has sought to be like it derelict neighbors. Remember the NH advantage? Well it appears NH no longer thinks it fair that we are head and shoulders above the rest of the New England states or maybe they just forgot why have been.

NH has an advantage because we didn't vote for big government. MA, VT, RE, ME all do. Apparently NH voters now believe it is better if we become like Massachusetts - you know, the corrupt, over-taxed, one-party state to our south?

The biggest tragedy occurred in NH's 2008 Senate Race. John Sununu is the only Engineer in the US Senate is from NH. He is a brilliant and honest man. Unfortunately for voters it doesn't matter what good you've accomplished. If they believe the economy is bad, they throw out members of the senate who are in the same party as the president, even if the Sununu and Bush didn't cause this financial mess.

As a matter of fact Sununu is on the banking committee in the Senate. He sponsored legislation more than once to reign in Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. All the Republicans on the banking committee voted for it and all the Democrats voted against it. Chuck Schumer and Chris Dodd would not let it go to the floor of the Senate. As we all know, Fannie and Freddie's sub prime loans practice was the catalyst to the collapse of the banking industry.

So I ask, why would someone who tried to stop the collapse get voted out and replaced with someone who would have voted for the continued practices of Fannie and Freddie? Do you really think Jeanne Shaheen would write legislation to regulate the Democrat's piggy bank? I don't think so.

So I say shame on you New Hampshire for voting out someone who tried to do the right thing only to replace him with a rubber stamp of those who really caused the economic mess.

Hello end of the greatest idea in human history

The grim reality is history fades, people die and new people repeat history. Only those who live through an historic event and its uncertainty will understand that time period in a way that they will not want to repeat it. However, their children and grandchildren will only read about or hear about it from parents and grandparents.

But then the parents and grandparents, who live through it, die and so goes the first hand account. It's a first hand account of how the days were long and people in the coffee shop thought it was end of the world. Future generations have the luxury of knowing it was not the end of the world, instead they are convinced that what they are facing is the end of the world.

We have the luxury today of having hours of film and reams of newspapers from WWII, not to mention that many from that generation are still alive to relay what it was like. Again, though, the greatest generation is dying away as naturally would be the case. Have we learned from their lessons?

I'd say it is doubtful. In WWII, the US fought and defeated a fascist (Mussolini), a national socialist (Hitler) and an imperialist (Japan). It was not easy but the love of America and its freedoms prevailed.

Today we are about to elect our first unabashed Marxist to lead our nation. Why? Because most voters are uninformed and they believe that Bush caused the current economic problems. However the truth is Barack and his ilk in congress protected the cancer that was Fannie and Freddy. When Fannie and Freddie collapsed, it affected everything. The fact that Bush tried to stop it and the Dems wouldn't let him doesn't matter. The fact that the Bush tax cuts helped strengthen our economy in spite of the Dems doesn't matter.

What is the lesson today? If a republican is in the Oval Office, the Dems can destroy the economy and be rewarded by the voters by winning in a landslide.

Hello high taxes. Hello 20 million immigrants from 3rd world countries. Hello 'Fairness Doctrine' to stifle opposing opinion. Goodbye America, the greatest idea in the history of human civilization. :-(

The Power of the Great Uninformed

All voters fall somewhere along a spectrum.

Informed conservative - listen to talk radio and read the news regularly. They are well informed and tend to vote conservative. They vote for Republicans typically.

Informed liberal - they read the New York Times and watch the network news. They read the internet and listen to some talk radio. They know conservatives are right but they love centralized power so they will usually vote for the most liberal Democrat.

Now it gets more gray:

Minimally informed conservative - They tend to have been raised in a conservative Republican home. They don't keep up with the news but they have a sixth sense about what is right. They usually vote Republican.

Minimally informed liberal - they watch the network news. They pride themselves on being open minded. They tend to have been raised in a liberal Democrat family. They know when they vote Democrat that it doesn't feel right but they tend to do it anyway.

Now here is where the power resides:
The Great Uninformed - They know very little about any of the issues and like it that way. In every presidential election they are generally uninformed on the cantidates. They base their vote on how they feel about the economy and how the two candidates make them feel. It is usually not based on anything concrete but the are adament about who they are voting for. They recycle talking points when they are asked why they are voting for x or y. This group will vote Democrat or Republican. It all depends on how they currently feel.