Sage Words from Ricky Gervais

I came across this quote by Ricky Gervais in a New York Times profile of him <link>:

In early December, Gervais called me from the home he shares in Hampstead, London, with his longtime girlfriend, Jane Fallon, a novelist and former television producer, and their cat, Ollie. Gervais was drinking a glass of Champagne, and when I asked if he was celebrating anything, he replied, “Yeah, 6 o’clock.” He merrily added, “Happy 6 o’clock-mas.”

These are very wise words and we should all heed them well. The human psyche prepares for pain, nurses feelings of pain, remembers pain, for whole lifetimes unless we actively thwart this survival mode.

So tonight, open up a bottle of champagne, or a nice wine, for no reason at all.

Or should we say, for the simple reason that we are alive, and that this moment is as full of magic as any moment we may yet experience.

Happy 6 o’clockmas to all.

Booker Beatdown of Obama Campaign

Barack Obama’s attack ads about Mitt Romney’s private equity track recrod in which Mitt is compared to a vampire seem to have upset an Obama supporter, Newark NJ Mayor Cory Booker.

Newark Mayor Cory Booker slammed the Obama campaign’s ad criticizing Mitt Romney’s record as the head of Bain Capital,  and called for an end to”nauseating” attacks from both sides.

“I have to just say from a very personal level, I’m not about to sit here and indict private equity,” Booker, a Democrat, said in an appearance on NBC’s “Meet The Press” on Sunday. ”To me, it’s just we’re getting to a ridiculous point in America. Especially that I know I live in a state where pension funds, unions and other people invest in companies like Bain Capital. If you look at the totality of Bain Capital’s record, they’ve done a lot to support businesses, to grow businesses.” <source>

How about that for not towing the party line. Let’s give the guy credit for at least speaking his mind, if not for his ideological purity, because he of course had to start back-tracking the moment the interview was over.

“This kind of stuff is nauseating to me on both sides,” Booker continued. “It’s nauseating to the American public. Enough is enough. Stop attacking private equity. Stop attacking Jeremiah Wright. This stuff has got to stop, because what it does is it undermines, to me, what this country should be focused on. It’s a distraction from the real issues.”

Stop attacking Jeremiah Wright? Listen, Cory, Jeremy Wright hates the United States — takes it horribly for granted — and Barack Obama sat and listened to his vitriol for 20 years. This simple fact is a legitimate aspect of the portrait of Obama as a young man, whereas Mitt’s alleged vampire status is a complete fiction, as you yourself point out (and incidentally, someone should tell the Obama campaign that vampires are now considered cool).

Cory had some more contortions to put himself through:

“I will fight hard for Obama to win,” Booker wrote. “But just as his ’08 campaign did, I believe we must elevate [and] not denigrate. This is the Obama I know.”

Obama doesn’t denigrate? Oh, Cory, really now: the man has denigrated our great nation every moment of his Impostor presidency. The Obama you know? That is an Obama in your fantasy world, a fiction in your mind, a mental projection that has been soundly destroyed by the ugly reality of Obama’s actual actions during his White House occupation.

Obama is no longer a candidate bringing a message of “hope”. He is at this point a man with a track record of ruthless anti-American policy actions, including the demolition of the energy industry, the propping up of corrupt Wall Street criminals and a dangerous financial system that remains a rigged casino to the detriment of all of society, the destruction of American health care, and the ushering in of patronage politics via various star chambers and government bureaucrats who will control more and more of our daily lives, just as every government fascist who ever lived seeks to do.

Amazingly, Cory’s about-face digs an even deeper hole:

“Yes, Obama must be re-elected. But we as a Nation owe it to him and ourselves to reject politics as usual,” Booker added. 

He “must be re-elected”? Why, exactly?

We “owe it to him…”? What could we possibly owe Barack Obama? Americans do not owe politicians anything. They owe us. This is the nation of, by, and for the people Cory — they owe us, not the other way around.

American history is important, and if we citizens owe anybody anything it is to ourselves to go back to school and remember the founding principles that blessed the world and our lives with the greatest nation to ever grace the face of the earth.

Jane Fonda’s Treason Never Fades

Although the Liberal media insists on trying to forget Jane Fonda’s treason during the Vietnam war, the truth of her betrayal — the cold objective fact of it — persists.

Which is why silly stories like this one — accompanying a photograph of her on the red carpet in Cannes, which I will not reproduce here — are never free of the dead weight of her crime.

Va-va-va-voom 

At 74, Jane Fonda looks — dare we say — hot! In a body-hugging bronze, sparkling Atelier Versace gown, Fonda looks every bit as fit as the starlets half her age who were at the Cannes Film Festival on Wednesday. 

Certainly having fun on red carpet, Fonda was seen hamming it up — giggling, extending her arms to the crowd, and giving hugs and air kisses as she arrived at the 65th annual film festival’s opening ceremony and “Moonrise Kingdom” premiere in Cannes, France. <source>

Sorry, Yahoo News, we just can’t get into the spirit of your reporting about Ms. Fonda’s latest appearance. Her defining moment happened years ago, on the front end of a Vietnamese anti-aircraft battery, and redemption is impossible.

Betraying one’s country ended her “hotness” long ago, and her “air kisses” are forever malignant, except to the enemies of the United States. I wonder if Barack Obama is a fan…

David Horsey Shits Himself

Sometimes Liberal columnists are very savvy in their use of rhetoric as they skew facts and circumstances to their twisted points of view (Frank Rich is rather skilled in this area), but then other times they really make a mess of themselves. Let’s just say that David Horsey is no Frank Rich given the nonsense in Horsey’s latest column in the LA Times.

Mr. Horsey’s column is a riff on the recent Time magazine cover that depicted a woman breast-feeding her child. Here is the image that gets the Liberal party started on his Liberal fantasy:

Liberals do love their fantasies, don’t they?

You can see the Liberal fantasy at work right away: the comic seems to suggest that Republicans are more stuck to the teat of big business than the Democrats are.

In addition to the image, let’s observe the blunt instrument that is Mr. Horsey’s rhetorical attack (see if you can spot the clumsy slight-of-hand, it’s really easy):

Where once big business favored the GOP by 2 to 1, a survey by the Center for Responsive Politics has found Republicans enjoying a 7-1 advantage in some sectors. Energy companies, in particular, are giving heavily to Republican candidates, but so are financial institutions, insurance companies, real estate firms and agribusiness. <source>

Here we have a very poor attempt at sophistry: he compares the ratio “2:1″ with the ratio “7:1″, though he betrays himself immediately by adding the qualifier “in some sectors” on the latter measure. Comparing an overall statistic with a more narrow one is a rather pathetic attempt to make Republicans look bad, and I for one expect more rhetorical artistry from my Liberal friends. Give us a challenge, at least.

You may wonder why I’ve chosen a rather more colorful title to this essay, and perhaps the following graphic will explain the depths of Mr. Horsey’s depravity. First let me say where it came from: the very same group from which Mr. Horsey borrows his statistics (selectively, without doubt), known as opensecrets.org, or the Center for Responsive Politics <link>.

Behold:

The Real Teat Sucker

Now isn’t that something…Barack Obama received $15.8 million from the “Securities & Investment” industry for his 2008 campaign versus $9.2 million for the Republican candidate. Not only that, but fellow-Democrat Hillary Clinton landed another $7.2 million, bringing the Democratic haul to $23 million.

Is it any wonder that

• Barack Obama bailed out Wall Street criminals in 2008 and 2009;
• Bailed out Wall Street firms were not made to skip even one year’s worth of bonus payouts;
• The Dodd (D) / Frank (D) sham financial “reform” reformed nothing and left the nation and the world vulnerable to Too Big To Fail financial institutions who to this day are free to leverage their investment banking balance sheets without limit

No, it is no wonder, because as the chart plainly shows, it is BARACK OBAMA WHO SUCKLES AT THE TEAT OF BIG BUSINESS. He is King of patronage, and he has rewarded his benefactors handsomely and many times over.

You can go onto the website from which I took the screen shot and click on any number of industries in order to see which candidates — Democrats Clinton and Obama or Republican McCain — won the lion’s share of the corporate campaign dollars in 2008.

And you will see that in almost every case (I got tired of looking), the two principal Democrats — soon the be running mates — received much more than John McCain.

So yes, David Horsey has intellectually shit himself, and his attempts to deflect us all from the ugly truth about Barack Obama and the Democrats add up to precisely nothing.

Mr. Horsey no doubt will protest my indictment and say the following:

“No, wrong, if you will note, sir, I wrote the caption on the baby to say “GOP Congress”, and you are comparing presidential candidates, which is a different category, blah blah…”

To which I say here and now, again: Wipe yourself off and clean yourself up. Your article traffics in blatant distortions of corporate contributions and is invalid precisely because the man who currently occupies the White House is the biggest corporate teat sucker of them all; your omission of this fact makes you and your argument a fraud. Why do you think Barack Obama, who campaigned as a populist, has been the greatest friend in decades of the financial and health care industries, both of which represent an ever-larger strangle-hold on our lives in this country? See the above chart, again.

Your attempt to escape honest reporting and debate via technicalities — using the label “GOP Congress” and the qualifier “in some sectors” — is D.O.A. and makes you look even worse.

I hope this essay has purified you enough to re-draw your comic and place the true sellout at the breast: Barack Hussein Obama.

And while you’re at it, draw another dozen breasts representing the teats of foreign powers, dictators, and America-haters the world over. They have their man in the Oval, for a little longer, and so must we endure him, until the election of Mitt Romney saves our lives and our sacred honor as citizens and as a nation.

The Liberal Blind Spot on Spending Will Bankrupt Us All Unless We Stop It

As more and more states face bankruptcy, we are once again treated to the macabre spectacle of slow-learning and stubborn Liberals who just can’t admit that the LBJ Great Society of Liberal spending must now come to an end — we as a nation are broke.

In Wisconsin, Scott Walker, Republican, won the 2010 gubernatorial election and immediately began making the hard choices, with real cuts to the state budget. Liberals, instead of behaving like responsible citizens, famously fled the state to avoid being present for a vote on desperately needed actions, and then followed up this treason with a petition to recall the governor and reverse the 201o election result.

Lately in California, Governor Jerry Brown, Democrat, has flirted with cuts, but Liberals in the legislature have dragged their feet. Now the budget deficit has come in at an massive $16 billion instead of the previous estimate of $9 billion…

Note the difference between the two political parties:

Senate Republican Leader Bob Huff of Diamond Bar said Democratic lawmakers should have reduced spending on welfare and other social services in March, as Brown requested.

Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg (D-Sacramento) said he didn’t regret holding off on budget cuts earlier this year, even if it cost the state hundreds of millions of dollars. <source>

Democrats just can’t stop spending, and their behavior at this point is a clear danger to the United States.

Let me say right now that yes, Republicans during the George W years also spent like drunken sailors and for that they should be condemned as having abandoned their principles and the fiscal responsibility that our nation needs more than ever at this point in our proud history (yes, Barack — we have a proud history, so deal with it).

Now it is time for all politicians to stand up and be counted:

• Are you for increased spending on entitlements and illegal immigrants and increased taxes on the middle class, or
• Are you for belt-tightening and a reduction in the size of government at all levels

The choice is that simple.

Napolean Obamapart Confidently Heading Towards his Waterloo in NC, with the 41%-er in Hot Pursuit

I had dinner with a friend recently — an Obama supporter — and he was quite ebullient about Obama’s chances for re-election. The basis for this seemed to be some New York Times articles in which Romney was being compared to John Kerry, the notoriously losing candidate against W in 2004. The comparison was meant to show how a largely obtuse, non-charismatic politician usually loses against a charismatic one.

I found myself wondering whether I should be glad that Liberals are deluding themselves into thinking that the America-hating Obama is a shoe-in for re-election, or whether I should be worried about the Liberal media’s naked attempts at creating a self-fulfilling winning prophesy for their Marxist dream candidate.

Luckily for us all, the actual facts of the campaign are on our side, and I delighted in pointing them out to my friend (in a nice way, of course..).

North Carolina – Obama’s coming Waterloo?

First, there is the situation in North Carolina.

Once a bright spot for President Barack Obama, North Carolina is now more like a political migraine less than four months before Democrats open the party’s national convention in Charlotte. The causes are plenty.

Labor unions, a core Democratic constituency, are up in arms. Democratic Gov. Bev Perdue isn’t running for re-election; Democrats say she was likely to lose. The state Democratic Party is in disarray over an explosive sexual harassment scandal. Voters recently approved amending the state constitution to ban gay marriage, a position that runs counter to Obama’s. And unemployment in the state remains persistently high. <source>

Can you imagine intra-party warfare during the convention? Apparently this is not a mere fantasy, but a distinct possibility:

…traditional Democratic Party groups are threatening huge protests in part because they’re deeply uncomfortable that the convention is being held in one of the least union-friendly states. And thousands of Democrats across the country are calling for the convention to be relocated because of the gay-marriage vote.

“Huge protests”….how fitting for the man who would be King.

Home of a Democratic Convention Disaster this September?

Putting aside national politics for a moment, North Carolina itself has moved decidedly to the right since mr. Obama has governed in ways that are coldly indifferent to the plight of average Americans (yet warm towards Wall Street crooks and government bureaucrats).

Republicans in 2010 captured the Legislature for the first time in 140 years.

Don’t you just love historic Republican landslide victories? “First time in 140 years….”

You think that is significant? You bet it is.

But there is more for us from North Carolina…

Mr. Obama recently ran unopposed in the North Carolina Democratic primary, and here were the results: <source>

100 of 100 counties reporting:

Barack Obama / 79.20% / 759,530 votes

No Preference / 20.80% / 199,473 votes

Here we see a truth that those of us who are awake have known all along: Many Democrats despise the Obama regime and wish it would end. Nearly 200,000 Non-Republicans voted against the man. Two hundred thousand…

In case you are a Liberal and think you can explain this away by saying that Republicans distorted the results in North Carolina, I have bad news for you: the North Carolina Democratic primary is open only to Democrats and unaffiliated voters, but not to Republicans. <source>  I hope you enjoy rationalizing a group of anti-Obama voters that number 200,000 strong (good luck with that).

So North Carolina is going to provide quite a backdrop for the Obama/Clinton ticket (oh yes, you know it’s coming). It seems that the convention will be a probable nightmare instead of the triumphant bit of socialist pageantry that Democrats no doubt imagine.

West Virginia Primary: Federal Prisoner on the ballot wins 41% of the vote, humiliates Obama

Second, the recent West Virginia primary result is another clear indication of the latent anger and rejection of Barack Hussein Obama within his own party.

In an embarrassment to President Obama, Federal Inmate No. 11593-051 – otherwise known as Keith Judd – won 10 counties and 41 percent of the vote in West Virginia’s Democratic presidential primary Tuesday. Mr. Judd is incarcerated at the Federal Correctional Institution in Texarkana, Texas, where he is serving a 210-month sentence for extortion, according to The Charleston Gazette. <source>

Here is the 41%-er himself:

I’ll bet Obama and fellow Obama lovers wish this were some kind of April Fool’s Day joke, but it isn’t: it is REAL. The president lost 41% of the primary vote to a federal inmate.

This supports my contention that as long as Mitt Romney does not make any large errors, he will likely win 40 states in a landslide that will save America.

Perhaps this is my own wishful thinking, but can you blame me?

Airport “Security”, and Other Orwellian Notions

While Bill Clinton fiddled and faddled and spent the Reagan peace dividend on self-aggrandizement, Osama Bin Laden famously attacked American interests around the world with impunity and from the lawless safe-haven of Afghanistan. George Bush, a mostly feckless President before 9/11, became a ruthless warrior and brought Saddam Hussein and Bin Laden to justice and kept the United States safe from further terrorist attacks.

And after all this, we are now stuck in an age of security measures that cause delays, frustration, and more recently the massive violation of our personal privacy through use of the total-body scanner device. The government claims that the scanners do not capture detailed images of our naked bodies, but this reassurance is just another brick in the wall of the government’s monumental charade. What makes this charade completely Orwellian is that all of this extra security has been proven to be ineffective.

Exhibit A

Exhibit A in the ineffectiveness of the naked devices is the recent breach in Afghanistan:

In an episode with worrisome significance for the security industry, two Taliban insurgents with pistols hidden in their shoes evaded an American-operated full-body scanner and nearly succeeded in assassinating the governor of Kandahar on Saturday.

The full-body scanners, some versions of which show an image of a person’s naked body, have been installed in dozens of airports worldwide and in the United States, fueling a debate pitting privacy concerns against security efforts. <source>

Pistols hidden in their shoes succeeded in fooling the naked scanner, which begs the question: why must we all be subjected to such a gross violation of our physical selves if actual firearms can make it through?

Exhibit B

Exhibit B comes from our own “Department of Homeland Security” (an agency that needs quotation marks because in the age of Obama it exists for the purpose of turning a blind eye to 11 – 20 million illegal immigrants as part of Obama’s back-door amnesty):

Federal investigators “identified vulnerabilities in the screening process” at domestic airports using so-called “full body scanners,” according to a classified internal Department of Homeland Security report.

…an unclassified version of the Inspector General report, unearthed Friday by the Electronic Information Privacy Center may give credence to a recent YouTube video allegedly showing a 27-year-old Florida man sneaking a metallic object through two different Transportation Security Administration body scanners at American airports.

In a three part series last year, Wired reported that, indeed, there were suspected security flaws with them. Even the Government Accountability Office — Congress’ investigative arm — said the devices might be ineffective. And the Journal of Transportation Security suggested terrorists might fool the Rapiscan machines by taping explosive devices to their stomachs. <source>

It is outrageous that we citizens are all herded like cattle through these machines while terrorists who seek to defeat them can easily do so. The level of privacy violation is extreme, and yet we all line up and go through the machines, no doubt because we have never been shown an image of how much of ourselves is revealed. Where is Wikileaks on this issue? When will scans be leaked to the public so that we can rise up and demand an end to this orgy of images that do nothing to protect us?

Ivy League Naked Shots of Freshmen for “Posture Evaluation”

It reminds me of the Ivy league photo scandals of the 1950s and 1960s in which incoming Freshmen were required to stand naked in front of a camera so that each person’s body posture could be recorded for “science”.

One fall afternoon in the mid-60′s, shortly after I arrived in New Haven to begin my freshman year at Yale, I was summoned to that sooty Gothic shrine to muscular virtue known as Payne Whitney Gym. I reported to a windowless room on an upper floor, where men dressed in crisp white garments instructed me to remove all of my clothes. And then — and this is the part I still have trouble believing — they attached metal pins to my spine. There was no actual piercing of skin, only of dignity, as four-inch metal pins were affixed with adhesive to my vertebrae at regular intervals from my neck down. I was positioned against a wall; a floodlight illuminated my pin-spiked profile and a camera captured it.

It didn’t occur to me to object: I’d been told that this “posture photo” was a routine feature of freshman orientation week. Those whose pins described a too violent or erratic postural curve were required to attend remedial posture classes.

The procedure did seem strange. But I soon learned that it was a long-established custom at most Ivy League and Seven Sisters schools. George Bush, George Pataki, Brandon Tartikoff and Bob Woodward were required to do it at Yale. At Vassar, Meryl Streep; at Mount Holyoke, Wendy Wasserstein; at Wellesley, Hillary Rodham and Diane Sawyer. All of them — whole generations of the cultural elite — were asked to pose. But however much the colleges tried to make this bizarre procedure seem routine, its undeniable strangeness engendered a scurrilous strain of folklore. <source>

The parallel is striking: otherwise well-adjusted members of society allow their naked bodies to be photographed for others to scrutinize. Again, it feels ominously as though we are functioning as all-too-willing sheep in an Orwellian masquerade.

Meanwhile, in Afghanistan, the country where Bin Laden had set up shop in the 1990s, the Taliban continues its resurgence and the poppy fields continue to prosper and fuel the global menace known as heroine addiction, distribution, profit, and violence.

So next time you submit to the naked scanner on your way to your flight, just remember that it does nothing to protect you and that Barack Obama’s anti-American agenda will inevitably result in a resurgence of Al Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan and the simultaneous ongoing and accelerating infiltration of drugs and terrorists into the United States through our southern border.

Mr. Obama’s family and friends, including Bill Ayers and Jeremiah Wright, and of course Michelle, must be so proud.