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Add comedic genius to President Obama’s growing list of honorific monikers. The jester-in-chief tested some of his brand new material on the Business Roundtable executives yesterday, to rave reviews.
When wearing his Stand Up Comic hat, the President is known to deliver snide, irreverent, and always hilarious bits dripping with sarcasm and B.O.’s famous sardonic wit. Yesterday’s afternoon set was no different.
In a sort of ask-the-audience exit poll, audience members were nearly unanimous in their choice of the President’s line, “I am an ardent believer in the free market” as the funniest.
Still struggling with composure, laugh-induced tears streaming down his face, an aging oil baron struggled to comment, his voice high and shrill as he fought continuing giggles. “Funniest damn thing I ever heard,” he stammered loudly. “This is the guy who nationalized GM and fired their president!”
Many see Obama’s recent material as a continuation of the solo straight-man/funny man act he’s employed since the 2008 campaign season; an act that has gotten progressively funnier since enjoying an actual legislative and policy making platform.
Paul Hankson of the Presidential Comedic Society commented on the practical differences between the humor of Obama the candidate, and Obama the President.
“On the campaign trail, we knew what he was getting at, and we could guess how he would govern, given the chance. But at that time the dichotomy was really limited to that between what policies he might embrace one day, and the self-descriptions he’d vocalize the next. The real hilarity began with post-election clips, posted primarily on the Internet, that showed banners and promises of “change” next to continued Bushist policies in the Middle East, hawkish foreign policy advisers hostile to sovereignty, and endless spending. It was business as usual despite the endless promises of “change.” That was the joke, and it was exciting to see people staring to get it.”
Asked about public outcry regarding the President saying one thing and doing the opposite, Hankson was unmoved. While some people appear to be upset and honestly think the President continues to lie when he makes assertions like those denying his love of socialism, claims that he is friendly to business and despises taking over private companies, Hankson calmly explained, “Listen, those people just don’t understand the reality. They think that breaking promises is dishonesty. But it’s not a lie–it’s just a funny bit he does. I mean be honest, how many times over the years have you heard someone say, ‘God, this president’s a joke?’
February 25th, 2010
Artus Register
9:10 - They’ve introduced the Emperor twice now
9:12 - <Choke> Obama just opened by referencing the U.S. Constitution
9:13 - Casual swipe at the Confederacy
9:14 - Setting the stage for the concept of we’re-all-in-this-together
9:15 - Lies begin about how EVERYONE agreed government “had to act” to save the economy. Announced that “the worst is over.” Those continuing to lose jobs are likely unaware of this..
9:15 - A few short minutes in he channels “for the children” and bi-partisanism.
9:16 - We’re all the same. Second mention of “the children.”
9:17 - He’s “never been more hopeful about America’s future.” <cue applause sign>
9:18 - ‘Division is bad’ (but he’ll spend the rest of the night deliberately being divisive). “People deserve a government that matches their decency” (no word on deserving a government that doesn’t put law abiding people and other non-aggressors in cages over plants and leaves.)
9:19 - He had to shore up the banks, but he HATED to do it. Poor guy. He said it three times.
9:20 - He did what needed to be done and he rescued the economy and made it transparent (though we still have no idea where the “bailout” money went because the Fed is still top secret)
9:20 - ‘We need bank fees’–the Democrats clap enthusiastically over the prospect a new tax!
9:21 - B.O. is suddenly opposed to the bonuses paid to bailed out firms, and they need to pay back “the taxpayers.” Hilarious stuff.
9:22 - “We cut taxes for 95% of working families,” then he named everyone who received one. No mention of the coming enormous tax increase in the form of hyper-inflation.
9:23 - Because of the steps “we took” two million Americans are presently employed who would be out of work. 1.5 million more jobs are on the way thanks to “The Recovery Act, aka the Stimulus Bill.” This is already getting hard to listen to.
9:24 - Stories about the awesomeness of the Recovery Act are unlimited, and things are speeding toward perfection.
9:25 - Despite the sheer awesomeness of the plan and execution, many are out of work. But now a call for a “Jobs Bill?” (Can’t wait.) “The true engine of job creation in this country will always be America’s businesses.” Wow. Really? “But government can create the conditions necessary for businesses to expand and hire more workers.” No word on removing the countless obstacles to business and job creation or the penalties for hiring a domestic worker.
9:27 - Billions more to the banks will create jobs because banks are only lending to big companies. Starved for profits, aren’t banks lending to any person of business that represents a good risk?
9: 29 - Tax credits to businesses (favored one’s, I’m sure). The broken clock finally gets something right: “Let’s eliminate all capital gains taxes on small business investment, and provide a tax incentive…to invest in new plants and equipment.”
9:31 - Put Americans to work on infrastructure. Referenced light rail plan in Tampa that will only work with subsidies that hide the true cost. The repeated references to ‘infrastructure’ and ‘clean energy’ sound a lot like FDR’s make-work nonsense that EXTENDED the depression. Anyone who doesn’t believe Washington wants to EXTEND this recession/depression must admit the only alternative view: this president is an idiot. There is no other way to look at the deliberate repeating of horrible mistakes.
9:33 - “…it is time to finally slash the tax breaks for companies that ship our jobs overseas, and give those tax breaks to companies that create jobs right here in the United States of America.” in Reality-Based English:
It’s time to penalize companies government has forced overseas, and put a tariff on their goods raising prices on American citizens who want to buy from American-owner companies. Brilliant.
9:36 - ‘The House has passed a bill granting government the authority to mess up the job situation further, and I encourage the Senate to do the same.’ Awesome.
9:38 - ‘People are out of work and they need our help’ Are you sure they don’t just need your boot off their necks?
Only government can help the unemployment situation that greed and the free market caused.
9:42 - ‘I was told addressing big issues like the economic road ahead was too ambitious. But I can solve any problem with Uncle Sam’s checkbook, and authority I don’t legally have.’
9:43 - Other nations are doing things and we will too, con sarnit! We aren’t going to wait. “As hard as it may be…it’s time to get serious about fixing the problems that are hampering our growth [except reducing the size, cost, and scope of government, those are perpetually good ideas].”
“One place to start is serious financial reform.” [Insert nonsense about what 'nearly brought down our economy]. Here comes the call for uber-regulation.
[Was away from keyboard for 8-10 minutes, but by the sound of my wife's groaning and yelling at the TV, I missed some really good (bad) stuff.]
9:57 - ‘We need to spend more tax payer money on community college.’
9:59 - ‘It is still vital that we socialize medicine. Let’s clear some things up. Here’s the deal (laughter indicates hilarity). The reason I took up this issue is because I’ve heard awful stories. The only way to improve health care is to force companies to do XY and Z. Increased competition that would offer enormous savings and better policies by eliminating the prohibition on companies selling to people in other states is a non-issue. The power of government is what’s important here. And although we have zero authority to do so, we’re going to keep fighting to nationalize medical care and hope the $1.2 trillion dollars it will cost will fall into our laps. Whatever the cost, I’m not walking away from [insert sad story].’
‘If you have a better idea, let me know (so I can pretend I didn’t hear it).’
[vomit break]
10:11 - Repeats the lie: “At the beginning of the last decade, America had a budget surplus of over $200 billion.” Yawn, then vomit. Refers to prior lie as ‘fact.’ Trillions in debt and the “surplus” fairy tale is still being told.
10:13 - ‘We added to the surplus but we had to because we needed to save the economy from the free market and greed. And remember, the bubble caused by state-mandated easy credit and manufactured wealth had nothing to do with government.’
10:52 - Mr. Obama just suggested that we “try common sense,” after pretending that his administration bears no responsibility for this massive deficit. He also said he hasn’t seated lobbyists in his administration, and has always been opposed to doing so, despite people like Eric Holder, Tom Vilsack, William Lynn, William Corr, David Hayes, Mark Patterson, Ron Klain, Mona Sutphen, Melody Barnes, Cecilia Munoz, Patrick Gaspard, Michael Strautmanis being tapped or seated.
That last blatant lie pushed me over the edge. I can’t hear anymore. There are simply too any blatant lies coming forth from my television, and it is sickening. In fairness, the SOTU Addresses held by the preceding president were equally dishonest and filled with as many infuriating calls for more government. I tire of the correcting the untruths, stomaching the lies, and listening to the poisoned concepts that government trumps freedom, and individualism is secondary to collectivism and statism. I’ve recorded the program and may tackle the remainder when I have recovered.
January 27th, 2010
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The truth isn’t always pretty, popular, or palpable. But it remains the truth. In many areas, the truth is sacrificed for the closely guarded alternative realities of “conventional” wisdom; particularly in times like these. As Senator Hiram Warren Johnson once said, “Truth is the first casualty of war.”
Indeed.
While the claim is rampant, and the sacredity of the cow unquestionable, the reality of our American military personnel is much different. Those fighting a phantom enemy in Iraq and Afghanistan are not fighting for our freedom. Those dying in those theaters of wartime absurdity have not been killed in the service of their country, nor have they made, as is often said, the ultimate sacrifice for we the living.
Though it is much less poetic, and devoid of the tearful, pride-swollen romance of popular sentiment, the dead Americans in the pointless and illegal conflict in Iraq, and the nation-building experiment in Afghanistan have died not for freedom, but for its opposite. These lives have been sacrificed for government. The deaths are part of a not-so-secret neo-conservative plan to remake the world in the shape of “big government conservatism,” (ala PNAC) and to give the United nations a permanent place in the Middle East, another swipe at US sovereignty and step giant leap toward global government.
There was never the slightest threat to U.S. national security posed by a prostrate Iraq, too weakened by sanctions to seriously concern any nation. Without a threat, there can be no protection. Without protection there is no glamorous hero’s death died by our betrayed countrymen.
The other war is at once different and similar. It would matter were our focus on al-Qaeda. But our military is instead focused on spraying Roundup on poppy fields (which drives up the price of heroin, and thus increases drug-related crime domestically), and chasing disorganized remnants of the Taliban, even after we trained an army and installed a government to do this very thing.
It will be said that some vast conspiracy succeeded in hiding the illusive WMDs in Iraq, and that the Taliban may justly be pursued unto the ends of the earth for harboring al-Qaeda operatives (apparently Pakistan harboring such terrorists is permissible).
Other than actually pursuing al-Qaeda in the months after 9/11, one would search in vain for a time since World War II that American military personnel died while protecting the rest of us from a real enemy. This sad reality does not result in fewer claims to the contrary.
So on this Memorial Day, when we are asked to quietly believe the deceit of our “leaders,” and listen silently to the warm, fuzzy lies of all who wish to sound patriotic by repeating the fictions that allow the state to demand more pointless deaths, we should pause to reflect on the reality. We should neither weep in silence, nor nod in agreement. We should instead demand a return to the just war theory, and insist that elected officials charged with commanding our brave men and women in uniform place them in harm’s way solely in the defense of the Republic; not for the benefit of foreign tyrants, blue flags of despotism, or the revived, frightening call for empire.
May 25th, 2009
Artus Register
Imagine an obsessive golfer claiming he hates the sport, or a typical shopaholic making bizarre statements about her hatred of finding a good deal. What would you think about your cousin, the reality TV junkie swearing she can’t stand the contrived, scripted nonsense she can’t miss a second of. Crap, right? And those above would be fairly categorized as liars, or crazy people.
Enter U.S. President and flawless messiah, Barack Obama.
Turns out, gaffing the economy, blaming everyone but the guilty (government), destroying industry, playing God, and attempting to outmaneuver umutable, natural laws is a dirty job, but, sadly, somebody’s got to do it.
That this latest incarnation of a state power is a liar is plain to see, and saying so should shock no one outside cave dwellings. But the blatancy has become similar to the examples in the opening paragraph. The latest whopper doubtless caused many a double take, and an instant did he really say that? check.
He doesn’t like to meddle in the free market.
During a another discourse in patent dishonesty, the unabashed socialist-cum-fascist made the following statements, presumably with a straight face:
If you could tell me right now that when I walked into this office, that the banks were humming, that autos were selling, and that all you had to worry about was Iraq, Afghanistan, North Korea, getting health care passed, figuring out how to deal with energy independence, deal with Iran, and a pandemic flu, I would take that deal.
I want to disabuse people of this notion that somehow we enjoy, you know, meddling in the private sector.
The best way to accomplish such a feat would be to stop doing it, or at least stop smiling as you pillage away accomplishment and pretend to wield more power than the natural laws of mathematics, economics, and human desire.
And that’s why I’m always amused when I hear these, you know, criticisms of, oh, you know, Obama wants to grow government. No. I would love a nice, lean portfolio to deal with, but that’s not the hand that’s been dealt us.
Yes, Mr. President, critics calling things exactly the way they exist in reality is hilarious. Laugh it up, buddy. History will rightly remember you as the destroyer of free enterprise, the man who murdered the greatest system in the greatest country in history. And you dealt the hand.
So Mr. Obama would take a deal that allowed him a little extra time to focus on complete economic fascism, and destruction of only these select areas of illegality? Of course he would. He’s in no hurry. The next crisis will afford government the opportunity to use it’s reverse-Midas Touch on other industries. What’s the rush? He has eight years to corral the entirety of the free market, and transform it into a motionless pile of socialist stagnation.
To paraphrase this insane megalomaniac:
If I could illegally use the power, might, and economic strength of this government to insert my opinion into places from which it is Constitutionally forbidden, pretend I am a king, rather than a President, continue illegal, undeclared wars and further weaken the dollar through unlawful nation building, pretend government can solve every issue and that I have extensive medical knowledge, uproot the medical ingenuity tree that is free market health care, blame everything possible on the concept of liberty, and use government to try to solve an energy issue that government created, I would.
I hate to meddle.
April 30th, 2009
Artus Register
It is big of Secretary of State Clinton to admit that the U.S. shares the blame for the drug cartel violence near the U.S.-Mexico border. But as is almost always the case with government types, the reasons she gave were much different than the reality.
Clinton blamed the violence on America’s desire for intoxicants and the lack of American gun control.
“Our insatiable demand for illegal drugs fuels the drug trade,” she said. “Our inability to prevent weapons from being illegally smuggled across the border to arm these criminals causes the deaths of police officers, soldiers and civilians.”
There was no mention of our insatiable demand for more government to deal with every issue, or our inability to demand that government officials read and obey the Constitution they have sworn allegiance to. But more government is, of course the only answer she and her ilk are capable of offering. Had the Secretary not been calling for the Almighty State to “do something,” she wouldn’t have been speaking.
What Mrs. Clinton doubtless realizes and pretends not to is that people the world over seek various levels and types of intoxication, and have since time immemorial. No amount of government intervention is going to change that. People have always sought to alter their consciousness, whether seeking the relaxation from the alcohol gleaned from fermented sugar, the energetic stimulation of coffee beans, coca leaves, etc., or the “mind expanding” hallucinations of various plants and chemicals.
Drugs, once discovered, are not going to be forgotten. And the idea that government can combat desire is about as foolish as ideas come. Stiffer penalties, eradication programs, and more criminalization only succeeds in wasting money and reducing the supply of drugs, which drives up the price and increases drug-related crime. With increased crime government pretends its way out of blame and calls for more money, programs and laws, and the cycle is repeated. And the sheeple clamor for more.
As to our gun problem, we simply don’t have one. What we have is a backward, hopelessly corrupt “justice system” that does little or nothing to prevent violent crime, puts zero focus on restitution, and ensures that those guilty of force and fraud are released while those dealing in the commerce of plant matter remain in cages.
With violent criminals come weapons. The concept that the law abiding, non-violent public should be disarmed as a way to reduce the violent tendencies of the criminal class is absurd prima facia and enjoys attempted justification only by the criminal class of government who pretend to offer people safety from their non-government criminal cousins. While guns are a tool of criminal gangs, they are also a tool of protection for the non-criminal. As with drugs, weapons will be obtained by those who want them regardless of the number of laws passed, or penalties promised.
Mrs. Clinton seems to be blaming the state as a pretext from which this Administration’s statist trap can be sprung on the American people. Government hasn’t done enough, is the implication. And we have one eager to do more. Much more.
Having gone through the illusions, let us sample the reality.
Last fall, the Mexican government had a foolproof plan in motion to stop the drug violence. The proposed legislative changes would have immediately removed the profit with which the violent drug cartels were built and maintained. As Mexico moved toward decriminalizing “illicit” drugs, a panicked U.S. government–clearly concerned that the simple truth of economics would expose the fraud that our own drug war is–put enormous pressure on the Mexican government to abandon the idea. And like an obedient dog, Mexico listened without complaint.
The U.S. encouraged Mexico to follow our shining example of violent coercion and endless budgets that have resulted in the abysmal failure of that is the Drug War. It’s broke, so don’t fix it.
Prohibition Economics 101
Drug gangs, on either side of the border, exist because of the huge profits that are realized in a black market. When a thing becomes illegal, it doesn’t go away, it just becomes expensive. Those dealing in illegal objects, information, or substances are taking a much greater risk than a man selling vegetables, for example. As the risk increases, so must the reward; hence the high prices of illegal drugs.
For every thing the government outlaws, a new black market is created. When operating outside of the law, there are no contracts, agreements, arbitration, or court rooms. Areas of operation, or “turf,” asking prices, and type of drugs sold are often agreed upon intra-criminally. But as in any business, disputes arise. Without a legal system or enforceable arbitration, gangs have only the choice between surrender, and violence.
Decriminalizing drugs would immediately end the profits of those involved in the drug trade, from smugglers, to violent drug gangs government claims to oppose, to street corner dealers. Continuing the absurdity that is our wealth-wasting Drug War creates and maintains the drug economy. In short, prohibition creates, then maintains a new class of criminal.
The massive violence that grew out of alcohol prohibition died with the repeal of the 18th Amendment, while that of drug prohibition remains, and is expanding is size, scope, and sophistication. “Staying the course” in the Drug War means that government will continue to toss good money after bad, and legislate away more liberty, “for the children,” or “for the greater good.” It also means that the dead people on both sides will be replaced, and that the hopeless, pointless war on drugs war on people will continue.
Yes, Mrs. Clinton, the U.S. is certainly to blame. But not for the sophomoric reasons you came up with.
March 30th, 2009
Artus Register
The concept that John McCain would behave exactly like George W. Bush was terrifying for many Americans, and thus an effective campaign tool for the Obama crowd. There were even popular bumper stickers that admonished the thought of a McCain Administration, warning us: McCain: Bush’s Third Term.
It is safe to assume that exactly zero Obama voters ever considered the possibility of their man playing the same role. They probably don’t see it now, either.
The mainstream media’s excitement over the new Administration’s “reversals” of Bush policy is the stuff of headlines, comedy show monologues, and supporter’s bloviations. But despite the droning on about such decisions, the Obama Administration has–in most major areas–parroted the arrogant and unlawful policies of its predecessor.
In the foreign policy arena, Obama and company have promised to copy the Iraq surge in Afghanistan, spending countless billions more in cash and untold quantities of American blood for increasingly vague objectives. The Afghan theater spilling into Pakistan is almost a foregone conclusion. And despite sincere-sounding rhetoric, we aren’t exactly rushing out of the abortion the U.S. has made of Iraq.
Obamanomics needs no explanation, and can enjoy no justification. But for every right-winger shouting “Marxist!” there are three stubborn examples of Bush 43’s abject socialism, indulgent squandering, and exponential government growth.
So-called conservatives (whatever that word means in the post-Bush era) are vocally, and legitimately, if hypocritically, concerned about Obama’s plans to tax and spend, expand government, and gut the Constitution. But it seems such misdeeds don’t count when political and economic tyranny is perpetuated by a Republican the media’s broken compass has signaled as “a staunch conservative” and “strict constructionist.” To the alleged Right, it is the letter that decides the morality of positions, rather than actions: a (D) apparently means “Damn communist!” while an (R) indicaties, “Right on, man!”
The sad reality is that anyone remotely concerned with a healthy economy, the continued survival of a partially-free market, or the rule of law, should be too hoarse from calling for Bush’s head for the past eight years to say much of anything. Those who didn’t certainly have no room to admonish Obama for sins he has not yet committed.
Fortunately as one who recognized the Bush fraud very early, and who experienced daily blood pressure spikes from continued subjugation to W’s endless stream of lies and shattered promises, I am exercising my reserved right to verbally accost this administration and predict the worst kind of governance–a lot of it. Unlike the denizens of hypocrisy that compose the rank-and-file Republicans, I do not spell tyranny f-r-e-e-d-o-m when a Republican dons the jack boots.
Despite the little Easter eggs of difference that will be played up by the media’s abysmal huger for sensationalism and division, this administration will likely do a great service to the cause of freedom by slaying once and for all the perpetual myth that any true and substantive differences exist between the two major political parties.
March 22nd, 2009
Artus Register
What kind of person has no regrets? Perhaps I just live worst than most, and make many more mistakes. But I have many regrets. Sure, it is difficult to truly regret things when mistakes have combined to make you–finally–a person you are proud of. But mistakes are mistakes, and the “butterfly effect” is greatly exaggerated. It is folly to think that a few hundred errors of your past would truly prevent you from finding your way to happiness. At any rate, most of us count among our sins actions taken in relationships, whether with family, partners, co-workers, etc. We may also regret having stolen a pocket knife at an early age, or blamed something on a younger sister. We often chalk such things up to youthful indiscretion.
The great majority of us have not sent men and women to their deaths searching for phantom weapons, nor continued such an exercise in stupidity after material’s non-existence became clear. We have not started wars for one reason, and continued them for another. We have not lied to to our countrymen, accepted their faith, and stomped on our promises, and their liberty.
The man exiting the White House yesterday did all of that, and more. Had most people behaved this way, the last shred of conscience would scream so loudly at night that it could only be silenced by a drug cocktail Lindsay Lohan would refuse.
Much is said about the difficulty of being the President. Which is nonsense. The problem Presidents have is with reading the instructions. The Constitution is a short and easy read. The job of President has a short description. There are a few things allowed, and everything else is not.
Because they don’t follow instructions, they create a lot of problems for themselves; what with all the unlawful jailing, torturing, killing, etc. From there I would imagine sleeping would top the list of problems. That murderous tyrants slumber at all is testimony to their completely jaded nature. Worse is the smugness of men like Bush, smiling at the cameras, talking about his Christian faith (or perhaps he is truly an *antinomian, and fancies himself above above all human law), and dropping verbal bombs that should be the talk of the media, earn him Most Cavalier ribbons, and exude collective vomit from anyone possessing a soul. The most recent: That he has no regrets.
You’ll find that gem in today’s paper, on page 71-Z. On returning to private life, the new Butcher of Baghdad was brazen, as usual, stating, “When I get home tonight and look in the mirror, I am not going to regret what I see. Except maybe some gray hair.” Yeah, hilarious.
That the MSM basically ignores this amazing proclamation is disgusting. The pundits seem to revere his deceit, and his brash refusal to apologize for mistakes that cost countless lives, many of them American.
“He kept us safe,” they parrot, from either of their several faces.
What is safe about a foreign policy that clones terrorists, turns friends to enemies, and exports hatred, is not clear.
“We haven’t been attacked again,” supporters mutter sheepishly, only fairly certain they repeated correctly the line they heard on Hannity, Limbaugh, or one of the other apologist shows. Except that we have. Bin Laden has stated that he is delighted by our military’s proximity to him and his gang. Iraqis have found common ground with Al Queida, and “insurgents” and terrorists alike can kill Americans without too much trouble; without traversing an ocean, or spending millions of dollars and years of time to finance and plan the deaths of “infidels.” And they applaud the safety success of the man without regret.
Wars aside he and his Republican congress have spent us to the breaking point, growing government, expanding socialism, broadening the rot of education with more Washington, and more tax dollars. The man made criminals out of sick people, terrorists out of dissenters, and a mockery of Constitutional government. He gleefully shredded the Constitution and snarled “9/11″ at anyone who objected. He behaved most often as a dictator, rather than a President. He was “the decider,” after all.
The man who once boasted that the country had misunderestimated him was exactly right. We did. Who could have predicted this agrammaticist’s prophecy? Who would have imagined the man who campaigned on a “judicious use of our military,” and a humble foreign policy free of nation building, would have propped up houses of state on a foundation of innocent corpses?
Documented civilian deaths approach 100,000 in Iraq alone.
Add 28,000 for Afghanistan.
The AP counts American military deaths in at 4,227.
There is no accounting for reputation points lost, but the number would be staggering. Neither is thee a counter for infidelity shown to the Constitution, the same Mr. Bush swore to uphold.
Hands dripping with blood, he has passed the torch, and returned to private life, apparently without regret.
If the worst Mr. Bush sees is some gray hair, there must be a magical mirror in the bathroom at Crawford. Many of us see a beast; a murderous thug and tyrant who spent almost eight years waging a horrific war against peace and freedom.
A nagging sense of moral justice forces one to wonder about the contents of his medicine cabinet.
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*antinomian / an tee NOME ee an/ n • A person who believes that faith in Christ frees him or her from moral and legal obligations.
–Another amazing word from Depraved and Insulting English by Peter Novobatzky and Ammo Shea
January 21st, 2009
Artus Register
Despite the singularity of the campaign, president-elect Obama,the man who campaigned on nothing but his desire for change and outsider status appears to already be out of ideas. Thus far his most significant promises have been:
- Spend more money on fascist-style bailouts of failed industry (just like Bush did)
- Send more Americans to die in a foreign war fought for increasing vague objectives (just like Bush did)
- Use the power of government to take money from some and give it to others in an attempt to “stimulate” the economy (just like Bush did)
The only surprising thing about Mr. Obama’s true colors is that he has displayed them so quickly. I would have bet on concealment until at least Valantine’s Day. But it appears that the current straights are too dire, and the economy too important for delay. Government interference and the subsequent worsening of problems must begin right away.
January 15th, 2009
Artus Register
The current administration has no issue with endless cash printing, fractionally reserving the dollar toward Mugabesque inflation, and debt ceilings that reach into the stratosphere. But the automakers cannot fail. Apparently it is actually impossible.
Congress refused an auto bailout, but the WHite House, never an entity to let the chains of legality hold it back, is going to step in and try to force the issue. One can only imagine whether, if things continue, the White House would issue an executive order disallowing a GM bankruptcy filing, or whether it would demand the FBI arrest any bankruptcy judge willing to consider such a filing.
Nero Bush spokeswoman Dana Perino muddled reality as defenders of emperors and despots often do, stating:
A precipitous collapse of this industry would have a severe impact on our economy, and it would be irresponsible to further weaken and destabilize our economy at this time.
And thus the attitude of government is summed up rather succinctly, allowing natural laws to unfold is tantamount to making thing happen. This position is not dissimilar to stating that by Congress failing to ban the sunset, the government caused the next day to appear illuminated on the horizon.
There is no authority this President thinks he lacks, and his god complex is as understandable as the tearful screams of a spoiled child. Congress has given Herr Bush nearly everything he’s ever wanted, and failed to take away even his most dangerous toys. Even through their alleged anger, name calling, and suggestions of blatant wrongdoing, Congress has not lifted a finger in defense of the Constitution or to ensure any ceiling on executive powers–and the Democrats have had a majority since 2006.
The doom and gloom what-if? prophesies of ignorant government and their economic cronies does not change the fact that bankrupt motor companies will continue to exist; that someone will purchase them, reorganize them and improve them. The repeated nonsense that “we can’t let them fail” sound like the musings of a madman. They have already failed. Taxpayer-funded bailouts will not change that sad fact, nor will such “salvation” last very long under the weight of union contracts ensuring workers at the Big 3 make twice what other autoworkers do.
The sudden interest in the survival of the economy is beyond laughable coming from a President who salivates at the thought of engaging in the unaffordable, like gift to African despots, endless wars fought for increasingly vague objectives, and the largest non-military spending increases in human history. Now we are to believe that further damaging the dollar by creating wealth with which to plug the massive holes in a sinking ship is a good idea. Next he is going to repeat him commitment to the free market while the MSM regurgitates its definition of the nationalizing fascist as a “conservative” and “constructionist.”
Whether to make a real point, or hope to embarrass them into considering the truth, Operation Legislative Education is a real step toward informing Congress that there are plenty of us who aren’t going to stand for government by whim.
December 13th, 2008
Artus Register
Continuing her fearless defense of small government and fiscal conservativism, former vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin successfully stumped for big government, neo-socialist Saxby Chambliss in yesterday’s not-as-close-as-predicted Senatorial runoff. The Republican Senator from Georgia suddenly found himself a key national figure for the political party that once gave lip service to fiscal restraint and federalist ideals.
Apparently trying to strain the credulity even of the talking heads who heap conservative praise on left-leaning figures like the sitting President, Palin toured the state with the 65-year old big spender heating up a motley assortment of Republicans from the wacky fiscal conservatives, to that fringe of thowback GOPers who oppose government funding of the arts who had somehow cooled on Chambliss.
The race was illuminated largely due to the current tally of liberal Democrats versus liberal Republicans in the U.S. Senate. It was said to be vital to the GOP and the smoldering remnants of American conservatism that the Democrats be prevented from achieving the Mordoresque “filibuster-proof majority.” That crisis averted, the American people must now brace for the comedic talents of Republican members of Congress who are doubtless going to feign disgust at government growth, social giveaways, big spending, and the elimination of personal liberties.
The apparently shameless Senator wasted no time with mindless rhetoric, immediately meretriculating about the tired GOP strategy of promising “smaller government, fiscal responsibility, more individual rights and lower taxes.”
This is, of course what they have been promising for many years, with the only real change their willingness to chase the Democrats further to the left.
December 3rd, 2008
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