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The “very busy Monday, no sleep” post

Okay, so here’s what I can offer today:  Obama?  Pretty much a jugeared disaster.  And don’t even get me started on the administrative state the progressives have put in place to molest us.

I mean, it’s one thing for the EPA to deploy drones to spy on small farms.  After all, excess cow flatulence is going to be the death of earth — unless we first eat all the cows, at which point the disappearance of the cow population will be the death of the earth. And so on.

Still, last night I’m certain I saw a drone doing loops over the acreage behind my neighbor’s house, casing his property and snapping surreptitious pictures of his stuff.  Like, for instance, his labyrinth of stills. And his marijuana orchard.  And the set of his zombie/porno shoot.

And here I thought this was America.  Is nothing sacred anymore?

Forward my ass.

 

 

50 Replies to “The “very busy Monday, no sleep” post”

  1. geoffb says:

    Don’t worry about those drones. They’re just scouting locations for shooting the next big film.

  2. cranky-d says:

    I’m glad you’re okay and it’s just normal life crap keeping you busy.

  3. leigh says:

    geoff, that Ulsterman post is one of the creepier he has written in a while.

  4. BigBangHunter says:

    “If the president loses in November, the left, ever in search of narratives, will settle on this one: Barack Obama was simply too good for America.”

    – Yes, well then, in that same vein, hopefully if we’re lucky, we won’t have ~O~ to kick around anymore.

    – Works for me.

  5. LBascom says:

    Playing With Words –Sowell

    Why are they called “poor” then?

    For the same reason that autism, the national debt and many other things are redefined in completely misleading ways — namely, to justify draining more money from the public in taxes, expanding the government, and allowing politicians to give handouts to people who are expected to vote for their reelection.

    If we keep buying it, politicians will keep selling it.

  6. LBascom says:

    OK, for my daily tin foil hat moment, I give you Madonna:

    The American singer greeted 30,000 Israeli fans in Tel Aviv’s Ramat Gan Stadium with the declaration: “You can’t be a fan of mine and not want peace in the world”. Her management had distributed hundreds of free tickets to Israeli peace activists to the event, which she billed as a “Concert for Peace”.

    “We all bleed the same colour,” Madonna told her ecstatic crowd, standing against the backdrop of an enormous illuminated crucifix and satanic symbols. “If we can all rise above our egos and our titles and the names of our countries and our religions, and treat everyone around us with dignity and respect, then we are on the road to peace. If there is peace here in the Middle East, there can be peace in the whole world.”

    The diva then went on to perform her song “Gang Bang” accompanied by images of blood stains, video clips showing the singer spraying bullets from both a hand gun and a machine gun, and closing on the phrase “die, bitch!”

    Symbolism in place of sanity? You decide.

  7. jdw says:

    Could’ve sworn the nishbot wrote this...

    But here’s the surprising thing. Given the scope of the demographic and ideological transformation of the United States over the last six decades, it’s interesting that the two-party system has not imploded. In the face of sustained centrifugal upheaval — including a proliferation of religious affiliations, the enfranchisement of substantial minority populations, rising levels of economic inequality, and the belief among a plurality of voters, 44 percent, that our economic system (capitalism) and the religious identification of three-quarters of the electorate (Christianity) are not compatible — we still are a nation of Republicans and Democrats.

    How will the center-right adapt when it becomes clear that its dependence on white voters threatens its ability to compete nationally? As presently constituted, the Republicans have become the party of the married white Christian past. This stance proved effective in the 1970s and 1980s, and again in 1994 and 2010, but time is running out. Will the party, of necessity, become more amenable to religious diversity? Will conservatives embrace immigration reform? Will Republicans try to drive a wedge between Hispanic and black voters in an effort to fracture the Democratic coalition? And will Republicans look to a more subdued form of capitalist competition?

    How will the Democratic Party cope with the fast approaching moment when non-Hispanic whites become a minority of its voters? Will Democratic presidential nominating contests become explicitly racial and ethnic? Will religious non-observance and a larger role for the state in the economy become explicit hallmarks of the center-left?

    While a number of political and demographic analysts see current trends giving the Democratic Party an inevitable advantage in the near future, the history of two-party competition — and the continuing 50-50 split in American politics — suggests that the out party, sooner or later, responds to negative feedback and changes course. The only guarantee? Neither party’s future is assured.

    …except for the fact that it’s written in somewhat understandable prose. And not a single Avatar reference!

  8. LBascom says:

    As far as immigration reform goes, the Dems have really hit on something. Provide no jobs for anyone looking for one.

    I still don’t like it though. Besides, the only reform we need is for the powers that be to enforce the laws on the books, and quit suing states that make that attempt.

    It’s really outside the box, I know, but we have to consider options.

  9. motionview says:

    Maybe Madonna should be using this video.

  10. leigh says:

    Madonna is a fantastic business woman, but that doesn’t make her a fantastic politician. Or in touch with most people’s realities.

    Shut up and sing, girlfriend.

  11. LBascom says:

    Madonna serves an agenda.

  12. leigh says:

    Madonna is all about Madonna. Always has been, always will be.

  13. motionview says:

    Go paraphrase the Mighty Gutfeld, scoff away, damn scoffers

  14. motionview says:

    You can’t be a fan of mine and not want peace in the world
    Yes, I understand submission brings peace. Permanent peace.

  15. sdferr says:

    What a month this promises to be. Batting lead-off, Gov. Scott Walker. Stepping up to the plate in a couple of weeks the Supreme Court of the United States. Leftism will be justly trounced in a rout from the opening to the closing, all on account of their own silly choices to fight battles they are entirely unprepared to engage.

    No mercy, please.

  16. geoffb says:

    Will Republicans try to drive a wedge between Hispanic and black voters in an effort to fracture the Democratic coalition?

    Trayvon wasn’t sainted by the Rs.

    How will the Democratic Party cope with the fast approaching moment when non-Hispanic whites become a minority of its voters? Will Democratic presidential nominating contests become explicitly racial and ethnic? Will religious non-observance and a larger role for the state in the economy become explicit hallmarks of the center-left?

    Already Obama has “been there, done that, buy my $45 t-shirt man.”

  17. newrouter says:

    the Democratic coalition?

    fed gov’t freebies be ending because of no money

  18. Pablo says:

    Does Madonna know that Hamas would kill her first?

  19. happyfeet says:

    that concert is very expensive for to go see

  20. Ernst Schreiber says:

    Some group called the Conserative Republican Victory PAC has been running radio ads saying that Romney is a fake conservative, who was against guns before he was for them and for abortions before he was against them, and telling me to vote for Dr. Ron Paul in tomorrow’s meaningless presidential primary, presumably because he’s for guns and babies, and babies with guns, or something.

  21. B Moe says:

    I wonder if Madonna gave the same lecture to the Arab countries she visited? If she had the same stage backdrops?

  22. geoffb says:

    I believe Ron Paul will use whatever delegate muscle he gets to try and get control of some of the committees at the convention to write rules that will benefit himself and his ilk in future party affairs. Much like the “New Left” did with their “Clean for Gene” delegates at Chicago 1968. He’s about fucking with the future not the present for now.

  23. Ernst Schreiber says:

    Lecturing Arabs is like expecting the Spanish Inquisition.

  24. leigh says:

    Has she gone to Arab countries? They won’t let Lady Gaga in there. Which proves they are sensible about some things after all.

  25. leigh says:

    Ron Paul is an anti-Semitic old creep, even if he is right about the Fed.

  26. Ernst Schreiber says:

    So I was right to suspect that the Conservative Republican Victory PAC was astroturf then!

  27. Ernst Schreiber says:

    Ron Paul is an anti-Semitic old creep, even if he is right about the Fed.

    You wanna blow Dr. Paul’s mind? He’s all for the gold standard right? And doesn’t the International Jewish Bankers’ conspiracy control the world’s gold supply?

    Tool

  28. leigh says:

    Tool

    Heh. There’s no fool like an old fool.

    Where’s he been lately? At the Bilderburger convention eating a roasted golden baby?

  29. leigh says:

    Bishops prepare Catholics for civil disobedience.

    The United States Catholic bishops are readying American Catholics for what may be the largest campaign of civil disobedience since the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960’s.

    In addition to 12 lawsuits against the Obama Administration including 46 plaintiffs from dioceses, hospitals and universities, the US Catholic bishops will urge Catholics to openly defy the Obama HHS Mandate. …

    The USCCB has organized a two-week campaign called the Fortnight for Freedom, which will extend from June 21st through July 4th to raise awareness about the threats to rights of conscience posed by the HHS mandate. On August 1st, the mandate is scheduled to go into effect.

  30. motionview says:

    In this Pew survey out today you will see that Republicans operate in gender equality, 50% men, 50% women, matching the population within the margins of error in this poll, while the Democrats have a terrible problem among men, with their party composed of only 40% men and 60% women.
    And how does Pew report these stunning results? The Republicans have a Gender Gap in Party ID.

    Further, Pew samples 3008 people with land or cell phones in America (which they characterize as 3008 Americans) and the raw numbers are:
    R/D/I/No answer: 26.2 / 30.9 / 37.4 / 5.6, and when pressed
    R&Lean R / D & Lean D / No answer: 42.3 / 44.8 / 12.9

    After some re-weighting (ahem) Pew reports those numbers as:
    R/D/I/No answer: 24/ 32/ 38/ 6, and when pressed
    R&Lean R / D & Lean D / No answer: 40 / 48 / 12

    They have taken a near dead-heat and re-weighted it to an 8 point Democrat lead.

  31. sdferr says:

    It’s getting to be hilarious watching the leftists have to go so far out of their way to fool themselves to no purpose, ain’t it motionview?

  32. cranky-d says:

    They’re joiners. They have a herd mentality. So, they have to convince themselves they are right, because they cannot conceive of being wrong.

  33. sdferr says:

    It’d be cheaper for ’em just to stay home and write up suitable reports out of thin air though. Why waste the money and effort just to have to rejigger things to come out right when they already know what it should look like before the cash is spent?

  34. cranky-d says:

    I assume they do what they do because that makes it easier for them to live with their beliefs. It makes no sense to me at all. I agree it’s a waste of time to distort reality to conform to one’s interpretation.

  35. motionview says:

    The tactical goal is to set expectations, in an attempt to meme-drive the low-attentive into thinking the herd is going left.

  36. sdferr says:

    Thing is, even morons catch on they’re being lied to sooner or later — sooner being the current situation running abroad in the land — probably due to the surfeit of lies that have been so earnestly shoveled these last few years. The quantity, not to say the quality, has been nothing short of breathtaking. And it seems the more desperate the lefties get, the more furiously they lie and lie and lie. Like I said, it’s hilarious.

  37. Ernst Schreiber says:

    Pew samples 3008 people with land or cell phones in America (which they characterize as 3008 Americans)

    Great. We’ve gone from polling people who won’t vote (adults), to polling people who can’t vote (presumably some of those Americans are under 18). /sarc

  38. motionview says:

    Absolutely Stephen. I just can’t resist looking at the details of the manipulations sometimes. Wait a minute, are my shoes alphabetized?

    Just kidding, everyone knows shoes are sorted by musical note.

    Anyway, I do think that 50/50 thing is a good nugget. Some talking head: “And now, the Republican’s gender gap. Why does Romney hate women?”
    Spokeshole: “What gender gap? Republicans are split 50/50 between men and women, for Democrats it is 3 women to 2 men. What is the Democratic party doing to repel men? Is that what you mean?”

  39. sdferr says:

    Poll the Soviets. Poll the keys: therein the answer.

  40. RichardCranium says:

    Romney is a fake conservative

    Of course. And?

  41. Ernst Schreiber says:

    And now that it’s too late, Dr. Ron Paul has deigned to share that information with the Paul-bots.

  42. sdferr says:

    What an eleven year old can hear. Scary.

  43. BurtTC says:

    Romney, a fake conservative? Golly, next you’ll be saying Mike Leavitt, the guy who will head Romney’s transition team, loves him some Obamacare.

    Or at least the goodly good parts of it. Not that it matters, of course, because Romney says he’ll repeal it, and that’s good enough for me.

  44. cranky-d says:

    I won’t believe that he’ll repeal it until he actually does it. Even after that I’ll have my doubts.

    I think he’ll just give out waivers to all 57 states and call it done, leaving the law in place for someone else to pick up at a later date.

  45. Ernst Schreiber says:

    Mostly I’m just amused that after Dr. Ron played the stalking horse like a virtuoso, and he thinks that he can get me to vote for him, after splitting the conservative vote* to support Mitt Romney, by pointing out the obvious.

    That’s like Romney trying to get me to support him against Obama by calling him a liberal.

    Also I’m a bit perplexed at the waste of money. The adds didn’t start (that I’m aware of) until after Romney clinched the nomination in Texas last week. Maybe that’s just parochialism on my part.

    *In fairness, he wasn’t the only one splitting the vote, and neither Gingrich nor Santorum could close the deal.

  46. BigBangHunter says:

    – Since one of the lynch pins in the Lefts plan fpr reformation of America, a plan that absolutely depends on redistribution of wealth, and along with that, redistribution of political bias, the fiet of dictum of commerce lost is more of a disaster than they can ever even begin to let themselves admit. With out that control the entire process falls apart.

    – The court has already given enough coment to set the odds at rouhgly 20 to 1 that they’ll strike that section down, and its really the whole ball game, regardless of how desperately the Left tries to temporize.

    – That said, it really doesn’t matter what Romney does, he’ll meet with no better success. Mandating commerce puts you squarely in league with Stalin and Hitler, Castro and Chevez, and there’s simply no way to put a smile on that face.

    – What will be tried in the future is some sort of payroll deduction Federal health care program along the lines of SSI, an extension of Medicare, wherein some percentage of costs for uninsured citizens is payed by the rest, coupled with cost controls, all of which will be worse that the mess we already have.

    – But you know, Washington just has a compulsive uncontrollable urge to act for the sake of appearences, so they’ll keep flogging that mule.

  47. Squid says:

    lynch pins

    I see what you did there.

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