Fit to be Fried

If he was smart, al-Zawahiri would take this opportunity to surrender instead of making more demands. Of course, if anyone in Al-Qaeda was smart, they wouldn’t have placed themselves in a position of being enemies of the United States. Live and learn, right guys?

Sometimes I just crack myself up.

New Qaeda release expected from No. 2 Zawahri | Reuters

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Al Qaeda’s second-in-command Ayman al-Zawahri is expected to issue a new statement calling for an end to Israel’s economic blockade of the Gaza Strip, U.S.-based Internet monitors said on Tuesday.

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Of course she’s open to becoming Obama’s running mate. Wasn’t she saying something earlier this week alluding to the possibility of BHO being assasinated if he won the presidential election. I wonder who’d become the President then? Oh yeah… THE VICE PRESIDENT. She might as well tell him she’s going to put out a hit on him. If she gets the VP nod and he gets elected, I’m gonna start a pool in Vegas over how long Obama will have before he gets whacked. I’m putting my money on a month, any takers?

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Clinton open to being Obama’s running mate | Reuters

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Hillary Clinton told supporters on Tuesday that she is open to being Barack Obama’s vice presidential running mate, a Democratic lawmaker and a party aide said.

Clinton, the former first lady and New York senator who appears on the verge of losing the Democratic presidential nomination to Obama, made the comment in a conference call with fellow members of her state’s congressional delegation.

semperfried76 is the last hope for humanity.
Too bad he hates you all.

“She said she would do whatever is necessary in order to make certain that we win, and serving as vice president would be one of the things she would be willing to do,” Rep. Charles Rangel, a New York Democrat and Clinton backer, told Reuters.

A Democratic party aide described the conversation in a similar manner, and quoted Clinton as saying, “I am open to it.”

HAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

I haven’t been able to stop giggling since I heard this.

Obama quits church, citing controversies - CNN.com

Sen. Barack Obama said Saturday that he has resigned from the church where controversial sermons by his former pastor and other ministers created political headaches for his campaign.

“We don’t want to have to answer for everything that’s stated in the church,” the Democratic front-runner said. “We also don’t want the church subjected to the scrutiny that a presidential campaign legitimately undergoes.”

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Neither the democrats or the republicans have your best interests at heart. The whole mess in Washington is in fact a complicated web of smoke and mirrors designed to mislead and misinform you. Neither side is on your side. The democrats want socialized medicine, socialized education, and an un-armed, compliant populace. The republicans want to track your every movement, a militarized police force, and a perpetual war against a shadow threat¹. Both sides have a great stake in globalism, a one world government. Read Orwell’s 1984, and you will see that all of these things were foretold for western civilization, that all are tenets of socialism. (more…)

Wait a minute, what?????

Seriously?

File this one under “WTF?”.

‘Paisley’ or ‘jihad?’ Dunkin’ Donuts yanks Rachael Ray ad - May. 29, 2008

BOSTON (AP) — Dunkin’ Donuts has pulled an online advertisement featuring Rachael Ray after complaints that a fringed black-and-white scarf that the celebrity chef wore in the ad offers symbolic support for Muslim extremism and terrorism.

The coffee and baked goods chain said the ad that began appearing online May 7 was pulled over the past weekend because “the possibility of misperception detracted from its original intention to promote our iced coffee.”

In the spot, Ray holds an iced coffee while standing in front of trees with pink blossoms.

Conservative commentator Michelle Malkin complained that the scarf wrapped around her looked like a kaffiyeh, the traditional Arab headdress. ”The kaffiyeh, for the clueless, is the traditional scarf of Arab men that has come to symbolize murderous Palestinian jihad,” Malkin wrote in her syndicated column.

Have we been reduced to this? This smacks of McCarthyism at it’s worst; Rachael Ray, in my opinion, has been one of our country’s finest examples of the American Spirit in action, and to attack her like this over a scarf seems not only childish, but immoral as well. Ray came up from nothing, and through her unyieldingly positive attitude and unmatchable work ethic has gone on to become one of the most recognizable celebrities in the country, if not worldwide. (more…)

In my last post in this series, I laid a little knowledge on you about the Military-Industrial-Complex and the Nanny/Welfare-State, and in this post, I’ll explain how this ties in with my original point, which was to lay bare the diminishing “American Spirit”, and to explain where it went.

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Ten kids in cadillacs,
stand in line for welfare checks
hey, let’s all leech off the state,
Gee, the money’s really great…

The Circle Jerks, When the shit hits the fan

In the last post of this series, I said that America had become a socialist nation.

Apparently, this doesn’t bother people all that much, or maybe it’s just that people didn’t bother reading the post in full, instead skipping along to the archives in hope that there’s been some more Bakken Formation news¹. How disappointed those folks must be to get a history lesson instead?
Too bad, sez I.

You see, it’s important to know these things, and a lot of people just don’t know what’s been going on around them. Truth be told, it’s been going on for a long time, even at the height of McCarthy-era, “Red Scare” paranoia.

Throughout the time spanning the end of WWII, and on to the present day, our country has almost constantly engaged in rampant, constantly-increasing deficit spending². In fact, the National debt of the United States has not been reduced since the Eisenhower administration. Rampant government spending has plagued this country since the Great Depression, and despite every screaming ounce of common sense out there, it just keeps going.

The two biggest offenders in this monstrous crime against the American people are Defense and Health and Human Services spending, the former favored by Republicans, and the latter by Democrats. Spending on HHS is higher than spending on defense, but not by much when compared to the spending in all other areas. In fact, the only other department that receives even close to the federal funding these two agencies get, is the Treasury Department, and this is just to pay down the interest on the National Debt. In other words, no matter what you may have heard during the Clinton administration, there is no such thing as a budget surplus. (more…)

Senator Ted Kennedy was diagnosed this week with an inoperable brain tumor, and it couldn’t have happened to a nicer guy. I know, nobody wants to say it, in this age of political correctness. How dare we make this kind of judgment call on the man when the Grim Reaper is knocking on his door. To these folks, I cite Hunter S. Thompson’s obituary for former president Richard Nixon as published in his book, Better than Sex; Confessions of a Political Junkie as precedent, and must ask you to kindly shut the fuck up.

Edward Kennedy has been a dagger in the back of the American body politic since even before he ever took office. While in his sophomore year in Harvard¹, he was failing Spanish² and was expelled for paying a friend to take his final exam. After being kicked out of school, Kennedy joined the army, but neglected to read his enlistment papers. His parents were horrified at the notion that their son had signed up for four years instead of two, prompting his father, Joe, to pull strings to get his enlistment reduced and have him stationed in Europe³. Kennedy was allowed to return to Harvard after his enlistment ended, and graduated in 1953. He became a Senator 9 years later when he turned 30, filling Jack Kennedy’s old seat⁴

No matter what anyone tries to say to the contrary, Kennedy got away with the murder of Mary Jo Kopechne in 1969. He was, at the time, driving drunk, had an expired license, and a history of reckless driving; in short, he had no business getting behind the wheel of a car, and as a sitting Senator, he damn well knew it. He was acquitted thanks to a team of lawyers paid for through the family fortune, and spent the rest of his life riding on the political legacy of his two smarter, better-looking brothers.

That’s to say nothing of the man’s actual politics. Besides doing everything possible to undermine this country in his tenure as a United States Senator, and actually admitted in 1995 that he was a socialist.

Economist Milton Friedman was testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee in favor of a national constitutional amendment for a balanced budget. Kennedy argued that a requirement for a balanced budget would restrict the federal government’s power and its ability to spend – thus, he said, Washington’s role in more fairly and equitably distributing wealth, goods and services.

“Senator, socialism hasn’t worked in 6,000 years of recorded history,” explained Friedman. “Why won’t you give up on it?”

Kennedy rose to his feet, according to Nuttle, who attended the hearing, and replied: “It hasn’t worked in 6,000 years of recorded history because it didn’t have me to run it.”⁵

As a Senator, Kennedy has supported Affirmative Action, Amnesty for illegal aliens, partial birth abortion, date-rape⁶, and the former Soviet Union (while it was still the Soviet Union). Kennedy is an America-hater of the worst kind, and blames his country for all the world’s ills, despite having had an active part in the running of said country for over half a century. He is also a collaborator , a sexual deviant and a coward, a man whose life is generally not even worth the cost of a bullet similar to the two that killed his brothers Jack and Bobby.

I, for one, sincerely hope the man never gets better, that the cancer takes it’s time eating his empty brain, that it eats it’s way down to his testicles and that he rots in Hell for all eternity.

This one goes out to all those who think that it’s the government’s job to provide them with healthcare, free money when they can’t pay their bills, college education, food, a roof over their heads, personal happiness, etc…

“You must obey this now for a Law, that he that will not worke shall not eate (except by sickness he be disabled:) for the labors of thirtie or fortie honest and industrious men shall not be consumed to maintaine an hundred and fiftie idle loyterers”

Captain John Smith of Jamestown Colony uttered that famous phrase back in the early 1600’s, and for hundreds of years, this was the prevalent attitude in America- the term American Spirit came to embody a can-do attitude combining initiative, ingenuity, integrity and ambition. Men made their fortunes from the sweat of their brow and the power of their minds, and, combined with a tradition of inventiveness sparked by founding fathers Benjamin Franklin¹ and Thomas Jefferson, this spirit caused America to flourish in the face of constant adversity. America, as a young nation, was beset on all sides with forces that would do anything to see it fail², and yet it refused to die even through one of the bloodiest Civil Wars the planet had ever seen. Even up to the 1960’s, this was the case, as evidenced in President John F. Kennedy’s famous quote:”Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country”.

Where is the American Spirit now?

I wish I knew.

What I do know, is how it started to dwindle

In 1929, a combination of rampant debt, a sudden crash in the stock market, a decline in exports, and a shortage of money caused what was known as the Great Depression. Keep in mind that the Great Depression was a worldwide occurrence, not isolated to the U.S.; People worldwide were out of work and starving as a direct result of mistrust on the international trade market, which caused prices to rise uncontrollably while wages and jobs dwindled. The unemployment rate had soared to over 25% by 1932, a rate that has never been exceeded since, nor has been even halfway matched since 1940. To combat the depression Roosevelt instituted what was known as “The New Deal”, which was, in short, an attempt to give everyone everything they wanted ³.

Though the New Deal can be credited with such notable improvements as the repeal of Prohibition, and the stabilization of the banking system, it was criticized soundly by both the right and left wing of American politics and eventually resulted in a national debt that has never been paid off to this day, and in fact never stopped growing in size. ⁴

More on this Wednesday, I get the feeling this one’s gonna have to be a series…

The New Deal,Roosevelt,Social Programs,lies,Government,Great Deprssion,National Debt,Unemployment

I’m sorry for being so late with this post, but this site wasn’t even truly live yet when the events described occurred, so I hope you’ll forgive me. Even if you don’t, I don’t care, what I’m about to say needs to be said, pure and simple.

A few weeks ago, John McCain, Barack Obama, and Hillary Clinton each made a taped speech on WWE’s Monday Night RAW. For those of you who’ve been locked up in a bamboo cage in southeast Asia for the past couple of decades, RAW is pro-wrestling’s biggest television venue, and I’ve been a loyal viewer ever since Mankind got his ass handed to him by the Undertaker in his 1999 Hell in a Cell match* (yes, I know that was on a pay-per-view, King of the Ring, I think, but it’s what got me back into wrestling) ¹

Anyways, I was watching RAW the night the candidates made their appearances, and what I saw left my jaw hanging down to the ground, and dashed any hopes I had for the future of politics in America. Some may say I’m being too serious, that it was all in fun. THE HELL WITH THAT. What the hell does fun have to do with anything in a presidential election? Pardon the fuck out of me for thinking that this is something that should be treated with the most grave and solemn of attitudes, and that someone who wishes to be the next leader of the free world should have some damn respect for the office. Nobody remembers Nixon going on Laugh-In and saying “Sock it to me?” A lot of people think that’s how he won the 1968 election, because his opponent, Hubert Humphrey, had declined making an appearance². Is that what you want? Another Nixon? Do we need another Bill Clinton, appearing on talk shows in sunglasses and playing a sax?

This is how they get you, America, by making you laugh without letting on that all they’re doing is talking down to you. The politicos think you are too damn stupid to understand or be interested in the real issues, and so instead the pander to the lowest common denominator, turning what should be the most important decision we’ll make in the next four years into nothing more than a Junior High School popularity-contest-style student council election. I, for one, refuse to vote for anyone who’s going to talk down to me, as if I were a child who knew no better, and even if it mean throwing my vote away on someone who has no hope of winning the election, I will not be voting for McCain, nor will I vote for whichever Democrat wins the primary. Fuck all three of the bastards, sez I. Say what you like about Ronald Reagan, but at least he respected and revered the office. Sure Reagan liked to crack jokes, but most of the time, he kept it subtle³, and even though he preferred not to, he was never seen in the Oval Office without a suit-jacket and tie.

Our next president should be so professional, and these three clowns should shut the fuck up.

For any one who’s interested in having their intelligence insulted, here are the links to the offending speeches, which some kind soul was gracious enough to post on YouTube.com

1. Clinton
2. Obama
3. McCain

Just a quick P.S., I’ve been unable to watch WWE’s RAW with any real interest since that night. I think it might be some sort of “Clockwork Orange” style associative aversion sort of thing, like Alex, the main character of the book and movie of the same name, had when he was exposed to his own aversion therapy while being forced to listen to his favorite Beethoven symphony. So, that’s another reason I have to dislike all three candidates. Thanks, guys, for robbing me of something I once enjoyed- I’m sure it won’t be the last time.
Wankers.