Democracy in the Middle East

I’m watching all news organizations implictly cheer on the violent mobs who have been rioting in Egypt and other Muslim shitholes the last couple of weeks.

If democracy is to be a good thing, the majority of people must not be assholes. In Muslim countries, the majority of people are assholes. Name a Muslim popular revolution that’s turned out well.

Iran and the Ayatollahs?

Afghanistan and the Taliban?

Palestine and Hamas?

There’s a reason we support dictators in that part of the world, and it’s a good reason. As the Pythons said in Life of Brian, “Let’s face it, who else but the Romans could keep order in a place like this?”

What a shitty week it was

I agreed with Rahm Emmanuel and Al Sharpton this week.

It’s BS that they’re trying to stop Rahm from running for mayor of Chicago based on him not having technical residency. Nice job, new-birthers. If people in Chicago want to elect Rahm, that’s what they should get. As HL said, Democracy is the theory that the people know what they want and they deserve to get it good and hard.

And Al Sharpton went after that right-wing douchebag Rick Santorum, after Santorum said that black people should, of all people, especially Obama, be anti-abortion. Rick’s had a pretty hard time explaining why he said that, so let me help Rick’s stupid lily white ass out:

Blacks in America abort their fetuses at a much higher rate than whites. It’s kind of like the Chinese aborting girls. Except blacks abort everything that could cause a child support order unless the mom outweighs the dad. The weight disparity is the only thing that keeps the black not-birth rate from going to 98%.

Anyhow, unless you’re a really stupid black, you would realize this is genocide.

Seriously, that’s exactly what Rick was thinking. Well, I added the crack about fat chicks. Other than that, that’s what Santorum was saying.

I don’t agree with Rick’s secret thoughts that led to his blurt, but I’m still trying to articulate why I don’t agree. Anyway, when Al Sharpton kicks your ass in a debate, you’re a stupid motherfucker. Rick Santorum is a stupid motherfucker.

And black people, seriously, you need to take a good look at your statistics. Crime, unemployment, single mothers, abortions, shitty rap songs…. Seriously, aren’t you getting tired of leading everyone else on all of the above?

Katie Couric – Leni Riefenstahl Lite

Everyone’s focusing on how Katie Couric is so fucking stupid for her suggestion that we should have a Muslim version of the Cosby Show to make Americans love Muslims like Cosby made us love blacks. I know, I know, that stupid pointless bitch thinks that we were all wearing Klan robes till we saw Cosby and realized that black people can load the dishwasher at night too.

Katie is dumber than a box of anchors.

The important thing here is that this stupid bitch is advocating deliberate propaganda. While Tunisia and Egypt are being overrun right fucking now by Muslim monsters.

She’s like Leni’s retarded sister. She’s worse than that. She’s like one of the hydrocephalic sluts in a Road Warrior movie cheering on the bad guys.

God, I’d like to Thoroughly Modern Milly Couric’s stupid ass to Saudi Arabia and see if she can Claire Huxtable her way into a sitcom deal.

How Dare Michelle?

Michelle Bachmann did a “Tea Party” response to President Toonces State of the Union, and everybody in the establishment had a hissy fit.

I wish Dennis Kucinich, Ralph Nader, Ross Perot, Abby Hoffman (is he still alive?), and Al Sharpton would have done it too.

This is a very good thing.

The State of the Union is meaningless tripe and I’d love to see 200 interesting people respond every time on YouTube until the President gets the message and stifles himself.

Oh, and all you Republicunts who’ve been mouthing off about Michelle stealing Paul Ryan’s thunder–I won’t forget.  Fuck your party discipline. You need to start worrying about my paddle on your asses.

Maybe Toonces Can’t Drive But He Sure Can Tap-Dance!

I give President Toonces a B- on his State of the Union teleprompter reading.

Along with the census, the state of the union speech is an outmoded feature of the Constitution that should be discarded, but it won’t be.

Toonces earnestly ignored all living room gorillas and elephants and tried hard not to piss anyone off. Good, I’m glad he’s scared. But he’s not scared enough. Don’t worry, Toonces, you will be.

Ding Dong the Bitch Is Gone

Keith Olbermann just got the boot from MSNBC. They let him have 6 minutes to rant and self-aggrandize and conjure the ghost of Tim Russert, who is no longer here to defend himself, but who I hope will go Christmas Carol on Olbermann’s ass for this.

Keith Olbermann has always been a known asshole, not just in his opinions and persona, but in real life.

He’s a triple threat: he’s everything wrong with the left, everything wrong with Hollywood, and the real life Ted Knight on crystal.

If he ends up homeless, that’s one more good reason to cut off all assistance to the homeless.

Playing Politics and Grandstanding

Hairy Reed is accusing Senate Republicans of grandstanding by trying to force a Senate vote on the repeal of Obamacare. Both Republicans and Reed are sure that the repeal won’t make it through the Senate. Republicans are accusing the Mangy Mormon Majority Majordomo of playing politics by trying to stifle an up or down vote on the issue.

Of course, the Republicans are playing politics too and everyone with half a brain cell knows what both sides are trying to do.

The MMMM (D) doesn’t want Democrat senators up for election in 2012 to have to register a vote about Obamacare. He’s afraid many of them, not enough to pass repeal, will defect in deference to voters. A vote will give huge momentum to Obamacare repeal by making everyone show their cards. The Senate vote on this is not meaningless at all. Even if repeal is a sure loser in the Senate, the vote makes a major difference.

The Republicans want politicians to go on the record today about Obamacare in front of voters. Democrats want to hide their position from voters.

Fine, both sides are playing politics. Forget how you feel about Obamacare. Do you prefer your elected congresscritters be straight with you or not, on whatever issue? Obviously, the Democrats are holding the slimeball here.

And the Democrats will probably win this political fight, and I’m glad. It shows they still think they have reality-distortion powers–they’re fighting so hard because they think Establishment stifling still works.

Every Democrat up for election will sooner or later have to give a convincing answer about Obamacare, and a tap dance in a town hall will be considered being in favor of it. 

Being able to point to a Senate vote against Obamacare would have settled the issue. Vulnerable Democrats up for election in 2012 who favor Obamacare should have been given permission to  vote against it to secure their seats. Pelosi gave her orcs this permission, which is the only thing that kept her from losing 80 seats instead of 60.

Despite the corrupt legacy media’s spin on it, Obamacare is on its last legs and the Democrats are throwing Hail Mary after Hail Mary. The state lawsuits against the mandate are likely to succeed, and even Democrats admit this is the linchpin that, if pulled, collapses Obamacare. The majority of Americans are insured, and the majority of insured Americans already saw their employers screw with their insurance this year in anticipation of what’s coming in 2014.  You have to be a complete dumbass to believe anymore that “you can keep your plan if you want it.” The majority of Americans know that they’re being inexorably pushed toward the rotating knives of government health care and that more is going to come out of their pockets to insure the irresponsible and illegal. So far, the change has just been that most people are paying a bit more this year. Wait till service levels start to drop as out-of-pocket costs continue to rise.

The Democrats shoved Obamacare up our asses with ridiculous parliamentary tricks and are trying to save it with the same. Their hubris will be rewarded. Obamacare will be AlbatrossCare for them for a decade or more unless they allow repeal. Obamacare will be dismantled, all at once or over time. The longer it takes, the worse for the Democrat Party.

The Metaphysics of Gun Control

We won’t find common ground on gun control because it’s about conflicting worldviews.

I will call the first worldview, Eeek! A gun!

I will call the second worldview, Eww! a dead bad guy is getting blood all over my shoes!

Bet you can’t guess which worldview I’m in.

The first worldview is that we’ll reduce violence by taking guns away from people. Disarming good people is worth it if you catch bad people in the net. In fact, most bad people wouldn’t find another way to do significant violence if they didn’t have guns. How many bad people would be able to take out 20 people at once with a knife?

The second worldview is that the genie is out of the bottle and the best way to deal with the minority of bad people with guns is to make them worry about being surrounded by a lot of good people who have guns. In a shopping mall. On a street. In a restaurant. At school, for Christ’s sake.

I live in a concealed carry state. I don’t carry. I’m a lazy, selfish sonofabitch. I’m starting to feel guilty about not carrying after the Arizona debacle. Concealed carry is not about protecting yourself. It’s about protecting your community. You’re more likely in this wonderful country to be a witness to violence than a victim of violence.

Give back. Carry.

UPDATE 2016: I have a CCP, I’ve spent a fair amount of time and money getting trained, and I still seldom carry a firearm. In the last few months, I’ve realized I feel competent to carry, after a couple of years of training. I do carry pepper spray and sharp weapons, and the only thing really stopping me from carrying a firearm regularly is shelling out the bucks for a good carry gun, one that is small enough to conceal without having to wear cargo shorts and an untucked Hawaiian shirt everywhere I go.

I also no longer believe in concealed carry as a public duty to protect your fellow citizens, except as a statistical deterrent to the bad guys. . The more training I’ve gotten, the less I care about protecting strangers who refuse to protect themselves.

 

 

Tone it down

If you think that Sarah Palin in any way goaded or motivated the guy in Tucson to shoot all those people, you’re an idiot. No, not an idiot. You’re a tool. And I mean that in every connotation of the word.

I just watched Rachel Maddow slam Tea Party people who are sending out emails raising funds off this tragedy. As well she should.

I wish she’d go off on all the liberal douchebags treating this as an ideological opportunity to push for more gun control and attack the First Amendment.