Obama's Poll Numbers Down, Imaginary Racism Up

SEE HERE Ann Coulter nails it, again!!

This is what "racism" has come to in America. Democrats are in trouble, so they say "let's call conservatives racists." We always knew it, but the Journolist postings gave us the smoking gun.

Ann nails them, i.e. the liberal hate mongers, not only as liars, but blatant intentional liars. The use an edited video tape of a liberal plant at a Tea Party affair and edit out the part showing the Tea Party people surrounding him and saying get out, you're not one of us.

I'm kind of sensitive to that because we had exactly that kind of incident at a local Tea Party in Court Square in Harrisonburg when some left-wing dingbats came out to a patriotic Tea Party that had the atmosphere of a family picnic with nice folks and their kids and started putting hateful signs in people's faces. It was obvious they were plants and after a while the local police escorted them off the premises.

That's just the way liberals work. They lie. They distort. They call hateful names. Then they turn around as if to say, who me? no they're racists. This is the strategy of the big lie and if you follow its history you'll find out that it traces right back to people like Lenin, Stalin, Mao, and Hitler (yeah, Hitler is a man of the left. All socialists are leftists.)

Handling Somalian Pirates Russian Style

According to my correspondent:

This videotape shows Russian Navy commandos on a Somalian pirate ship shortly after the pirates had captured a Russian oil tanker. The EuroUnion navy that patrols these waters would not interfere because they feared there could be casualties.
 
All explanations are in Russian with a single exception of when a wounded pirate says something in English. All conversations between the commandos are in Russian. If you don't understand Russian, the pictures speak for themselves. The soldiers freed their compatriots, moved all the pirates to their own(pirate) ship, searched the pirate ship for weapons and explosives, and then they left the ship and exploded it with all remaining pirates on it.
 
The commandos sunk the pirate ship along with the pirates and without any court proceedings, lawyers etc. 
 
That is, they used the anti-piracy laws of the18th and 19th centuries where the captain of the rescuing ship has the right to decide what to do with the pirates. Usually, they were hung.
At about 4 minutes and 53 seconds into the video is when the Russians blow up the pirate ship.
 
I would think from now on .... Russian ships will,  NO LONGER,   be targets for Somalian pirates.  HERE's MORE

What Do You Expect With the Lunatics Running the Asylum?

SEE HERE We have a government that simply ignores any kind of reasonable due process.  And you expect something like fairness or equitability or even competence in running health care?  Hey this crowd can't run a good McDonalds.  They go off half-cocked without even checking the most elementary of facts.  We gotta get rid of them.

The More You Tax It, The Less You Get Of It

SEE HERE Yup, it works for work too.  The higher taxes in the European community account for the fact that they work a lot less.  Notice if you will, that this is a an application of the Laffer curve that all the liberals always laugh about.  You increase tax rates and actually get less total money ... why? ... people opt-out!  Here the opt-out is working less.  It's not worth the effort to work more if you just get to pay it out in taxes that are then used to subsidize people who are hardly working.  That's a double whammy!  Taxes that reduce work, and subsidies that increase sloth.  Of course you get less efficient economies.  What did you expect?  Economics 101 and an exposition of how the Laffer curve actually works in real life.

The Ole Two Step: Screw It Up, Blame Someone Else, Fix It by Screwing It Up More

SEE HERE Here's one of those instances of the abominable two step that government seems addicted to.  The drill is pretty straightforward: 1) You make some law that may be well enough intended (although usually it is to privilege some special interest), and 2) When the law has either the expected result, or simply an unintended but likely predictable negative consequence you blame someone else and say that you're going to fix it.  At this point you go back to (1) and repeat as often as possible.  This has resulted in a byzantine morass of regulation often contradictory and pointless and based on poor research or no research or just prejudice.  In this case we'll now pass new regulations limiting the use of fructose or corn syrup or mandating removal or products from the market or some other mindless response.  Just think.  If we could get government regulation out of our lives we could go back to earlier and healthier times.  What a concept!

It Must Be Nice To Be Lindsey Graham And Think You're So Much Smarter Than The Rest Of Us

SEE HERE Lindsey Graham has never been on my good guy list. He tends to be smug and superior which I think is inappropriate even if you are smug and superior. After all we little people have to see you as potentially representative of us, you know even though we're stupid and not nearly as smug and superior. At times like these Lindsey, I realize that you're really just another liberal in deep (well not so deep since you're smug and superior) cover. I hope to see you voted out of office before too long. I'm sure there is a nice young Conservative who can conceal how smug and superior he is for at least a few years out there who would be delighted to take your position. Then you can join Trent Lott and be smug and superior on the sidelines.

States Without Income Taxes, Fancy That!

SEE HERE If some states can do it, why can't all? For that matter maybe we should ask why the government needs all those taxes. What exactly am I getting that I want beyond the courts, the police, and the armed services? When I was a kid that was about all we were paying for and the liberals were complaining about the high cost of the military (about 70% of the budget then) now the military is down to less than 20% of the budget and is as big as it ever was, but now we've grown all sort of other intrusive and unhelpful, largely exaggerated programs that now cost nominally 3 and a half times what the military used to cost. Does this make sense? And it's never enough. There is always some wondrous thing that only the government can provide for us if we just let them tax us more. It's time to end the gravy train.