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I Guess Obambi Forgot to Check with his Economic Specialists on this one….

Apr 30, 09 12:21 PM

In an attempt to make Americans gag last night, Obama gave a speech confirming that “waterboarding was torture” just less than a year admitting that it was above his paygrade with regard to when life begins for a baby. 

Let’s see, dripping water down the noses of terrorists versus sucking the life of an innocent child down a tube?  Hmmmm….

Anyway, in the same speech, Hussein expressed optimism over Chrysler:

Obama also expressed much greater optimism now than a month ago that Chrysler could remain a “going concern,” possibly without filing for bankruptcy or with a “very quick” one. Obama did not say so, but Italian automaker Fiat Group SpA is expected to sign a partnership agreement with Chrysler LLC by Thursday as part of negotiations to keep the struggling U.S. automaker alive without bankruptcy protection.

And what to my eye appears today?

CHRYSLER FILES FOR CHAPTER 11 BANKRUPTCY!

Good call, Obambi.  Be sure to tell your capable economists and analysts how much we appreciate their accurate predictions.  I am certain the same deep thought and analysis was performed before deciding to let our enemies know how far our interrogations go now or releasing photos of interrogated prisoners for the world to see.

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Quick! Everybody PANIC!

Apr 29, 09 6:46 PM

That’s right…it’s time for another Quick…Everybody PANIC! post.

Just after 9/11, during the Anthrax scare, I worked in an office that moved a lot of mail. Exactly one week after the 9/11 attacks, a total of seven letters were mailed to major news outlets (including at least one tabloid) and two United States Senators. 22 people became ill with anthrax; half of them contracted the deadly inhaled version, and five died. Now, in a nation of two hundred million people, it is astounding that everyone could freak out for months over something that affected so few. But in the office I worked in at the time, one woman swore up and down during the night shift that she’d discovered white powder in a piece of mail. Our building was evacuated and the fire department was called. Hazmat responded and the suspect mail was bagged and tested. As we stood out in the cold (it was November by that time, well after the final anthrax letter had been mailed), I listened to the woman who caused the brouhaha hysterically demand to know what our employer was going to do. “What if it ain’t nothin’, huh? What are you gonna do? Are you gonna take care of our families?!?”

I found out later that there was nothing in the letter–no white powder, not so much as a grain of sand. Nothing. The same thing happened two weeks later–again, caused by the same woman. Despite the obvious fact that it was likely all a ploy for attention most of the people who worked in my office at the time bought the whole thing, hook, line and sinker, and they all started getting nervous at the slightest mention of anthrax. It took a long time for anyone to lighten up about it. To this day the whole incident drives me up the wall because when something like this happens, people suddenly turn into two-legged sheep, believing every stupid rumor they hear and panicking over what usually turns out to be nothing.

Now our big panic is swine flu. I’m here to give you a few facts so you DON’T turn into one of the baaa-ing masses.

First of all, while any strain of the flu is contagious between humans, it’s already been said by several experts that this strain is actually less deadly than avian (bird) flu or any other previous strain of swine flu. The World Health Organization doesn’t want to take any chances, though, despite the ratio of deaths-to-cases being relatively low. It may suck, but your chances of dying are limited to the same factors that any other strain of the flu are: age (young children and elderly) and a compromised immune system. Beyond that, if you get it it’ll certainly suck, but it’s not as likely to be fatal.

The symptoms of the flu are fever, cough, sneezing, muscle aches, severe body aches, diarrhea and vomiting. Swine flu seems to come more with diarrhea and vomiting than anything else. Tamiflu helps, though, and there are other medications that can help with other symptoms.

Masks: not all masks will help defend against the virus!!! Most masks that you’ll find at local pharmacies are generic and too porous to defend against viruses; the germ can get into the mask and thrive in the warm, damp environment inside there and make you sick. You need to make sure that if you’re wearing masks, they’re N-95 certified or greater. Otherwise you’re doing yourself more harm than good.

It never ceases to amaze me just how many people I see walk out of the loo without washing their hands. Not only do I wash my hands, I use paper towels to open the door with to avoid touching the door handle. WASH YOUR HANDS (mom told you to do that for a reason, folks). Carrying hand sanitizer is a good idea, too–if you’re worried about your hands drying out, use a sanitizer with aloe in it.

Above all, don’t freak out. If you have a fever, stay home. Adults shouldn’t have fevers above around 101-102 degrees; 103 is the real danger point. For kids, 104 is trouble. If you’re worried, don’t go straight to the ER–go to your doctor. You shouldn’t go to the ER unless you have a real emergency (yes, having a temperature higher than what I just listed definitely qualifies, but those situations are more rare than you might think). Keep a calm head on your shoulders more than anything else.

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Benedict Arlen

Apr 28, 09 12:52 PM

Today, Republican senator Arlen Specter is going to announce that he is switching parties. No joke, folks, he’s moving to the Democrat party. After 29 years as a Pennsylvania Republican (and millions upon millions of dollars in contributions) he’s turning his back on his constituents. The people who worked to keep him in office on November 4 are about to get a big slap in the face. Just one month ago, however, THIS was Arlen’s tune:

I am staying a Republican because I think I have an important role, a more important role, to play there. The United States very desperately needs a two-party system. That’s the basis of politics in America. I’m afraid we are becoming a one-party system, with Republicans becoming just a regional party with so little representation of the northeast or in the middle atlantic. I think as a governmental matter, it is very important to have a check and balance. That’s a very important principle in the operation of our government. In the constitution on Separation of powers.

So what’s his excuse? I mean, we all know his voting record was growing more and more liberal, but it was also remarkably unpopular with his constituents. He was soundly thrashed for voting yes on Obama’s stimulus plan. What could possibly have turned him? I’m not sure I’m all that upset that he actually switched over, but to do it just a month after swearing up and down that he wouldn’t…wow. I can only imagine how much money was involved in this. What’s worse is that Arlen’s move takes the Democrats one vote closer to being filibuster-proof in the Senate, and as soon as Al Franken is seated, they’ll have all they need. So much for bipartisanship. I promise you that just went out the window.

Benedict Arnold at least had a reason to turn traitor during the Revolutionary War. All of his hard work as a commander was undermined by power-hungry generals, and his glory and potential promotions were stolen by men who had little good in mind for others. As a combat commander Arnold was a genius. Even if his traitorous actions are to be damned, at least today we can look back and realize what caused it. There’s no valid reason for Arlen Specter to do what he’s done. When asked what he had to say to his constituents, this was his chickenshit answer: “I don’t have to say anything to them. They said it to me.”

They sure did. They raised nearly six million dollars for your campaign and voted you back into office. Let’s see how far you get in 2010.

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The Real Self-Haters

Apr 27, 09 4:19 PM

We get a lot of liberal gays coming to tell us that we’re a troupe of self-haters here at gayconservative.org. “How can you be gay and conservative at the same time?!?” they scream. “That’s like a Jew calling himself a Nazi!”

I routinely become very irritated with those people because they’re being exactly what they call conservatives: closed-minded, intolerant bigots who can’t listen to anyone but those they agree with. Well, they’re being out-classed, and by the same people they tie their allegiance to. In fact, I daresay they’re all in the same boat on this issue.

Roxana Saberi is an American journalist. She was arrested by the Iranian government earlier this month for allegedly buying bootleg wine. A few days later, Iran said that she had been arrested for working as a journalist in Iran without a permit. On April 19, after a one-hour trial, she was convicted of espionage and sentenced to eight years in prison. Now, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the Iranian “president”, stated publicly that Saberi was to be allowed a full defense. However, when it came down to the trial, neither Saberi nor her lawyer were informed of the date or time of the trial–neither knew until the trial had been underway for fifteen minutes, and according to reports from Saberi’s father they found out about it by accident. In one hour, without being allowed to defend herself at all, Saberi was sentenced to eight years in Evin prison, notorious for its political prisoners and believed to be the dumping grounds for many Americans and other international prisoners still being held illegally by the Iranians.

Many are calling this an outrage, and rightly so. Why couldn’t they get it right the first time they arrested her? Why couldn’t they decide what they were arresting her for? And a full defense? Come on. It was a farce and the Iranians know it. They wanted nothing more than an excuse to throw another Westerner in prison. If they can’t attack us outright, they’ll go the back way. Kill all infidels–one way or another.

But some of those calling Saberi’s imprisonment and non-trial an outrage have long been outspoken opponents of the sanctions against Iran. They’ve demanded that we be more “diplomatic” somehow in our dealings with the extremist theocracy (this while they accuse Bush of founding a “theocracy” in America and screaming that we weren’t more diplomatic with Iraq). We shouldn’t impose sanctions over their nuclear program, they say, because they’re just generating energy. Get out of Iraq, stay out of Iran. Can’t we just keep to ourselves?

Sure…the problem lies with the Iranians. We never started this fight. Yet again, we’ve forgotten that we’re dealing with a culture that believes it is their mandate from their god to kill anyone who does not adhere to Sharia law. They don’t recognize any international law, let alone the laws that govern the countries of the people they’ve tossed in prison to rot. But we’re supposed to be the diplomatic ones. Someone please tell me how you restore diplomacy with a nation that isn’t interested in diplomacy?

In the line of work I’ve been in for most of my life, I’ve learned that there are many people in this world who don’t want to be reasonable. They want what they want and they’re not going to stop until they get it. How do you talk down an inmate who is in prison for the rest of his life while he’s got your partner in a chokehold with a knife in his hand? That guy has nothing to lose. What do you say to him when he knows that no matter what, he’s going to be behind bars for the rest of his natural life? How can you make things worse for him?

Now apply that principle to the extremists in Iran. They believe Allah will be angry with them if they fail to do what they’re doing. How do you argue with that? What do you say to a person who believes their god has commanded them to kill anyone who refuses to convert to their religion? With Western Christians you can at least sit down and have a civil conversation. As much as I’m sure most of the gay community would like to believe Christians are the extremists, I’ve had more meaningful conversation with the Christians I know than I’ve ever seen occur with some Muslims in this world, particularly in Iran.

Jeneane Garofolo proved she is a self-hater by claiming that any and all disagreement by white people is racism. Many a congressman and senator has admitted self-hate by demanding that, many generations after the fact, we pay reparations to certain races for crimes we never committed. And a small horde of Americans have admitted self-hate by demanding that we try diplomacy long after it has failed with a people who have enjoyed watching us sputter and trip over ourselves trying to follow their dance. Roxana Saberi deserves more support from the American people. But the real self-haters are never going to acknowledge her need because it would be tantamount to admitting that we’ve been wrong all this time–and Iran really can’t be reasoned with.

The real self-haters would rather go to their graves defending themselves with words than ever put up their dukes and fight.

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See What I Mean? Perez Proves Me RIGHT!

Apr 22, 09 8:18 PM

Here was the scene at the Miss USA pageant a few days ago:

Before I get into the meat of the issue, somebody please explain to me how Perez Hilton landed a spot on the judge’s panel for Miss USA. PLEASE. Does he have an ounce of expertise, or is he just a horrid attempt at being inclusive? If that was their aim, I’d rather they chose a member of the gay community LEAST likely to pull some half-baked stunt, like Melissa Etheridge. Anyway, you can well guess what was likely after Carrie PreJean’s answer was in the video above made the rounds. Here was Hilton’s equally half-baked response:

My short response? GAG ME.

We’ve all heard the controversy. It’s been all over the news for the past two nights. What really galls me is that this flittin’ drama queen has the balls to post on his blog “this is getting to the point of ridiculous now!”

Perez, you are a sleazeball. You knew what you were doing when you submitted that question, and you knew as soon as Carrie PreJean gave her answer that it was going to become another controversy. I have no trouble at all believing that you were planning what you’d say and do before you’d even pulled your backside out of that auditorium seat, and you absolutely love the attention. You make a living off of it.

That said, Perez has proved me 100% right: the liberal gay community is incredibly hypocritical and completely intolerant of anyone who disagrees, no matter how civil or nice that person is. They are completely incapable of tolerating any viewpoint that differs from theirs. This is where I distance myself from the gay community at large, at least to what degree I can, because I cannot disagree with anyone more than I do right now with those who are castigating Miss California. I cannot wrap my brain around the concept of demanding tolerance while being unwilling to offer it. Perez apologized briefly, then retracted his apology and escalated the whole thing by invoking the c-word on a national news show.

This is what I’ve been talking about for so long. The gay community wants tolerance, maybe acceptance to a degree, but the instant someone politely disagrees the GLBT masses (and their PC supporters) jump up and down and scream “HATEMONGERS!!!” at the top of their lungs. In this case, I’m particularly embarrassed because there was no malice whatsoever in Miss California’s words, tone or expression. She simply offered an honest answer, and the ultra-PC crowd can’t handle it.

I obviously disagree with Miss California’s beliefs. I personally know my homosexuality to be normal; loving women, for me, is as natural as breathing. And as cynical as I can be sometimes I still believe there’s some amazing girl out there who is waiting to share this life with me. When I find her, I intend to commit myself to her and I’d like the law to recognize that union. I do NOT, however, condone in any way, shape or form this wholesale evisceration of Carrie PreJean’s character simply because she doesn’t see things the way I do. I hope she can accept this humble lil’ blogger’s apology on behalf of all of the GLBT people out there who believe in her right to her beliefs.

You, however, Perez–you scum-sucking, bottom-feeding lowlife–if you ever grow up, I may forgive you for making us all look like raving lunatics. While I may agree that freedom of speech in America means that having an opinion that isn’t popular may mean you don’t get paid to talk about that opinion, I refuse to let you get away with taking it so far. And for you to post on your blog all this sadness at two 11-year-old kids who killed themselves supposedly because other kids were calling them gay? You have no right to feign such shock, especially considering you feel it is the duty of every gay and lesbian person to come out of the closet and you’ve deliberately outed a few to prove your point.

One last thing…had to add this later…didn’t Barack Obama, Joe Biden and Hillary Clinton all say essentially the same thing? That they “respectfully” disagreed with legalizing gay marriage? Where the hell is all the contempt for them that’s being fired with both barrels at Miss California?!?

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You’re All RACISTS!!!

Apr 20, 09 1:05 PM

Afrocity posted a video clip of Keith Olbermann’s show a couple of days ago that momentarily shocked me into stupefied silence. Take a look:

In case you missed it, between the infantile jokes about teabagging (I think Walter Cronkite turned over in his grave), actress Jeneane Garofolo had the patent nerve to look into the camera and say that the Tea Party movement was all about racism. It has nothing to do with Obama’s continuation of Bush’s horrible economic policies; nope, all of us who supported the Tea Parties are a bunch of “teabagging rednecks” who “hate a black man in the White House.”

Okay. I’m done being shocked. Now I’m pissed.

Jeneane, exactly where do you get off accusing me of racism and being a redneck, you self-righteous, stuck-up, liberal, elitist media whore? Who made you the judge of all things racist? If you wanna hate yourself for being white, go right ahead, but leave me out of your little guilt trip. I’ll tell you exactly what I tell my counterparts in the gay community who whine about “hatemongering”: dissent does not denote hate. Disagreeing with someone doesn’t make them a hatemonger or a racist. It just means they don’t like what that person believes. I could care less about the color of Barack Obama’s skin; my issue is that he tries to push socialist ideals into my free country on the basis of bringing about some twisted version of “hope and change.” That is what I don’t like about him.

Guess what, Jeneane? Tea Party attendees booed Arnold Schwartzenegger. They booed Orrin Hatch. They booed Jon Huntsman. They booed Bob Bennett. They booed Gresham Barrett. ALL OF THESE MEN ARE WHITE REPUBLICANS WHO WERE INVOLVED IN HELPING MAKE THE MESS WE’RE PROTESTING. It’s not about being white, it’s not about being Republican, it’s not about hate. It’s about wanting the current state of the politics in Washington to change drastically. The change Obama promised has become one for the worse. THAT is what we’re angry about.

I am fed up with all of the celebrity/media/liberal assaults on my character. I take it personally because they’re describing me: a white, conservative American who doesn’t like Barack Obama and would have been at my local Tea Party if I could have been. They’re attacking those like me because they can’t come up with a single intelligent rebuttal. I will not be labeled a racist, a hatemonger, or a bigot simply because I refuse to agree with you. If that’s going to be your only mode of debate or argument then you can kiss my Texan ass.

And if you ask me, the Hollywood establishment needs to be banished to the same hell as our politicians.

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Arizona DPS Officers and BP Agents Violating a Pastor’s Rights?

Apr 18, 09 1:06 PM

Be sure to read Steve and Philip’s latest posts below…very well made points made by my boys!

The news here in Arizona has been re-playing a YouTube video by Tempe pastor Steven Anderson in which he tells the story of being beaten up and tazed by Border Patrol and Arizona DPS (Department of Public Safety, our state police) officers. Here’s the video:

It’s easy for us to see this story and immediately want some sort of justice against the officers involved. It seems pretty straightforward, right? His head is banged up, and if you see one of his other videos he actually has some of the tazer wires that he found in his car. I’d like to hear the officer’s sides, maybe read their report (I’ll probably try to find out if I can get a copy of it this week). The story repeated in the video above, however, gives a good look at what the biggest problem was, and it wasn’t the fault of the officers and agents involved.

Pastor Anderson openly admits that when asked where he was going and what he had in his vehicle, he refused to answer. Then he says that when they asked him to exit his vehicle he refused. Now I want to to watch this video, also made by Pastor Anderson of another encounter with police officers–this time in Minnesota:

Now you get an idea of the way he was likely behaving when border patrol agents were asking him questions.

Here’s my answers to Pastor Anderson’s assertions. First of all, the Fifth Amendment does NOT mean you can refuse to answer any and all questions a police officer asks. Here’s the entry in the Fifth Amendment that deals specifically with the issue at hand: “…nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law…” This Amendment says you have the right not to be forced to make self-incriminating statements. And the Supreme Court has never, in fact, interpreted that law to say that you can refuse to answer any questions an officer asks. A police officer’s job is to protect the public. When they see someone stopped and sitting in their vehicle on the side of the road, they may check to make sure you’re okay–and when they do, they may ask you other questions. You may know you’re not doing anything wrong, but THEY DON’T. They’re not mind-readers. To expect that an officer will just leave you alone at your say-so is ridiculous; if they always did that, the bad guys would never be arrested.

Second, the Fourth Amendment says, “the right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause…” When you tacitly refused to answer questions or respond to simple requests, you gave those officers all the probable cause they needed. Border Patrol checkpoints are set up within approximately 100 miles of both land borders to check for drugs, people and weapons being smuggled in BOTH directions across those borders, so like a DUI checkpoint, those officers are working to make sure we stay safe here.

Put in the context of some of Pastor Anderson’s other videos, the story he tells makes a lot more sense. He seems to me to be the kind of person who likes to antagonize police officers and film the experience so he can get attention for it. Well, he has succeeded, although I’m not sure he’s going to like the outcome of the legal proceedings that are still to come. And I have something to say specifically to the good Pastor, a quote from the Word that we both love:

“Every person is to be in subjection to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those which exist are established by God. Therefore whoever resists authority has opposed the ordinance of God; and they who have opposed will receive condemnation upon themselves. For rulers are not a cause of fear for good behavior, but for evil. Do you want to have no fear of authority? Do what is good and you will have praise from the same; for it is a minister of God to you for good. But if you do what is evil, be afraid; for it does not bear the sword for nothing; for it is a minister of God, an avenger who brings wrath on the one who practices evil. Therefore it is necessary to be in subjection, not only because of wrath, but also for conscience’ sake.” –Romans 13:1-5

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Buddies At Last!!!

Apr 18, 09 11:24 AM

SUMMIT/AMERICAS

 

This picture just made my heart swell with pride.  President Obama took time out from his activities at the Summit of the Americas to make nice with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.  A handshake, a smile.  It was a Kodak moment that illustrates the true heart of our beloved leader.  I can’t tell you how proud I am that Hugo Chavez may soon be one of Obama’s “homies.”  It just brought tears to my eyes to see Obama extend the hand of friendship to the proud, principled Venezuelan leader.  Soon maybe, we too, can understand the truth and excitement of the Bolivian Revolution.  I can say that we are well on our way.

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Palin Saves Babies While Obama Saves Face

Apr 16, 09 11:10 PM

I always love when liberals turn out to be wrong and take the convenient way out of it.  Liberals and Obama demanded justice when George W. Bush fired his own U.S. Attorneys but miraculously, the agents at Guantanamo who liberals have accused of “torture” for the last decade are being excused by the Commander-in-Chief after “the most comprehensive accounting yet of interrogation methods that were among the Bush administrations closely guarded secrets.” 

Is this a joke?  Apparently the “Bush administrations closely guarded secrets” turned out to be nothing.  Does Obambi really expect us to believe that he would do nothing to those involved if in fact there really was “comprehensive” evidence of anything?

So, lets spend a year discussing the fate of Scooter Libby but let’s move on from “a dark and painful chapter in our history?”  What precisely is “dark and painful”, Mr. President?  Is it the fact that liberals; once again, caused hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars to be used to perform such “comprehensive studies” that concludes basically everything we already knew in the first place?  Or is it the fact that you catered to these crazies by referring to the alleged torture as “a dark and painful chapter in our history” while simultaneously announcing that there would be no consequences to anyone involved in what we now know wasn’t ever torture in the first place?

Just admit that your idiot voting base was wrong and explain to them that you cannot serve cookies and punch to lunatics who kill in the pursuit of freely practicing their “religion of peace.”

But of course, you’re “living high on the hog” now earning almost $3M in one single tax year while the modest Palins who earned less than $200K continue to fight for the free market and American ideals of this country.

Liberals, instead of being angry at me – take this as a sign.  Your Presidents don’t mind wealth spread around as long as its business owners footing the bill.  Just as he sold you and your interests out in the case of Guantanamo, he’ll continue to live “high on the hog” while his effortless voting base will continue to sink with no skills whatsoever to survive on their own after he is long gone.  Never to worry, the Christians will be there to help again.

Speaking of good Christians, Sarah Palin took a couple of precious swipes at Obambi tonight – giving the liberals at Huffington Post and the remainder of the left-wing blogs something to salivate over (while simultaneously proclaiming her to be irrelevant). 

She says deciding when babies get human rights isn’t above her pay grade — a reference to Obama’s response to a question from the Rev. Rick Warren last year. Obama said such questions were above his pay grade.

Feisty as always!  That’s why we love her.

Before the event, Michael Steele  “cited Palin among other prominent party figures, including former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, ex-New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani and two congressmen, Eric Cantor and Mike Pence” with regard to 2012.

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Don’t Listen to Me…I’m Just a Right-Wing Extremist

Apr 16, 09 8:36 PM

I’ve been really busy lately and am now as sick as a dying dog (my friends would argue that it’s my refusal to take a break that’s to blame), but since the local pharmacist is going to take TWO HOURS to fill my prescription for codeine, I’m going to channel the body aches, the fever, the racking cough and the near-migraine into a blog. (I bet it’s nothing compared to Steve’s predicament–being a tax guy who just blitzed the end of tax season!)

So much has happened in the news this week that I’m not sure where to start, but it all ties in. I guess I’ll start where the madness began: the DHS report released on Monday, Rightwing Extremism: Current Economic and Political Climate Fueling Resurgence in Radicalization and Recruitment. Unfortunately, I’m not kidding. They actually released this report. Our liberal readers will jump up and down and scream, “they released a report on left-wing radicals in January!!!” Here’s my beef: that report released earlier this year named specific groups, listed the aims of those groups and highlighted specific incidents (such as bombings, break-ins, flooding homes and threatening personal violence) and gave police reports as their sources. The report on “right-wing extremism” does no such thing. It’s very vague. And here’s how it starts off: “the economic downturn and the election of the first African American President present unique drivers for rightwing radicalization and recruitment.” It claims that white supremacist groups are on the rise, and points out “opposition to abortion or immigration” as key indicators of right-wing extremism. Its sources? Not police reports…more like the Southern Poverty Law Center, which has named the American Legion a “hate group” for opposing illegal immigration.

Go read it for yourself. Put down your drink before you do, or you’ll be choking on it. Trust me.

It’s no coincidence that the report was released just days before the massive Tax Day Tea Party protests across the country. It was no secret that this was coming, organizers started over a month ago planning this shindig. The Tea Parties were a throwback to the historic Boston tea party, when American colonists dumped shiploads of tea into Boston Harbor to stop the tea tax levied by the Crown without any say in the colonies. Today, we’re angry about being told that it’s our “patriotic duty” to pay more taxes (don’t give me any of that “it’s only the rich” BS, either, because ALL taxes will rise eventually thanks to the Democrats’ outrageous spending). Yesterday’s massive nationwide protests are the backlash that was inevitable, and all of those registered Republicans who couldn’t stand to plug their noses and vote for McCain showed up with people from all walks of life to send the message that we’re not interested in being taxed to death. The aforementioned report is the Democrat government’s version of a preemptive strike.

Not that they really needed it. The MSM did a remarkable hatchet job all on their own, no doubt in an effort to protect Barkey’s messiah-like aura. Anderson Cooper stooped to the level of sexual innuendo by calling them “teabagging” parties, fat bastard James Wolcott from Vanity Fair put his fingers in his ears like a two-year-old and said, “they didn’t appear on the front page of my newspapers, so I WON’T believe they happened!”, and CNN’s Susan Roesgen whined that it was offensive to call Obama a socialist (this after gushing over a paper-mache effigy of Bush with devil horns and a Hitler ‘stache as an “excellent lookalike”). The message? If we don’t agree with you, we’re going to do our level best to make you all look like the radicals that our Democrat DHS says you are!

Then, today, in an amazing, brazen act of hypocrisy, Obama went to Mexico and held hands with Felipe Calderon (well, not really, but what happened is just as nauseating as watching Bush hold hands with the same Saudi king that Obama bowed to not long ago), declaring–and I do quote–“how we can improve our enforcement of existing laws because even under current law, trafficking illegal firearms, sending them across the border, is illegal. That’s something we can stop.”

This is where Philip goes, “oh, REALLY?”

I’d like to know exactly how Obama plans to do that. He not only refuses to secure the border, he also openly announces a brewing plan for amnesty–all the while accusing those of us who want the current laws enforced EXTREMISTS. How does he intend to pull off this heroic act? Send the National Guard to the border to seal it off with orders to let any “workers” coming North to pass by? How does he think the drugs are getting here? How ’bout we look at something that happened right here in Phoenix. In 1999, Phoenix police officer Marc Atkinson spotted a suspicious vehicle and pulled it over. The three men inside hid around a corner and ambushed Atkinson; an armed American citizen had the cojones to return fire in defense of the fallen officer and hold one suspect for officers responding to the scene. Today, that citizen would be labeled an extremist along with the rest of us.

But not only does Barkey swear to stop the flow of cash and guns South and the flow of drugs North, he yet again repeats the tired, debunked lie that 90% of all of the guns being used by the cartels come from the United States (I’m not gonna re-iterate my point, just read it here). The Arizona Repugnant repeats that lie and instead of “reporting” the story of Obama’s visit to Mexico, it gives a personal spin that makes it reek of a badly-placed editorial. So much for journalistic ethics.

What’s really funny is that in a related piece, the same freakin’ paper points out that a .50-caliber anti-aircraft machine gun was recovered in Mexico, mounted to a truck. Where’d it come from? Not the US, but you wouldn’t know that from the tacit omission by the writer who submitted the garbage for print.

If we can commit $350 million to stepped-up enforcement on guns and drugs on the border, then we can sure as hell start enforcing the immigration laws that our government has, so far, refused to enforce. Guess what? This human cost that you’re pointing out here, Barkey–THIS IS THE HUMAN COST OF IGNORING THE LAW AND GIVING A FREE PASS TO THOSE WHO FLAUNT IT. We don’t need reform. Our immigration laws are the way they are for a reason, and guest workers have the H2-A guest worker visa now to make themselves legal with. Stop bending over for the shamnesty crowd or you become the laughingstock you say your predecessor was.

But don’t listen to me. I’m just a right-wing extremist. I believe in the rule of law, liberty for all law-abiding citizens and LEGAL immigrants and small government that allows me to keep what I work hard to earn.

All the things that spell disaster, right?

Hmph…no pun intended.

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