Unhinged Doesn't Even Begin To Sum Up The Left

I started writing seriously about politics right before the US invaded Iraq in 2003. I dabbled before then in pages that have been lost to the ether but my collective thoughts since that first day nearly 14 years ago can be found on this blog. To say I'm a veteran is to describe an Edsel as a used car. 14 years of political writing on one blog is nearly unheard of. Back in the day there were the two guys who seriously got me writing--Glenn Reynolds and Tim Blair--that I admired and they are still at it today although both have expanded their horizons. There was Charles Johnson who went way off the rails, Matt Welch who is still surviving and Allahpundit who along with Ed Morrisey are pros now at Hot Air. Back then, blogs were the wild west and they brought down Dan Rather ushering in a new era of citizen reporting.

Needless to say, I've dealt with more than my share of liberals who disagreed with me on the topics of the day (and in the blogosphere, it was a different topic daily). I think I may have once been offended by being called a racist but as a US Navy vet it wore off quickly. I've been called xenophobic, misogynistic, a chicken hawk (oh the good old days), a tea bagger, a homophobe, a fascist, a warmonger, an idiot, moron, retard and a zillion other derogatory terms. So much so that they became meaningless. Being called a fascist by someone who advocated the forced silencing of their opposition was the norm and being called any of the above terms by people who know nothing about me and even less so the definitions of what they were calling me became more amusing than anything.

I wrote through the days when the left were making imaginary assassination films about Bush and the MSM breathlessly counted down to the day we hit 1,000, 2,000 and even 2,500 dead in Iraq so they could write pieces about the evil George Bush and his disregard for the troops he led. Who can forget the complete meltdown when Abu Ghraib came to light? They wrote as if GWB was holding the damn dog collar himself.

Those days I thought I had seen the complete lowest forms of life I'd ever see. The left was in full on meltdown. The Code Pinko's marched, Not In Our name screamed, Cindy Sheehan was paraded out as often as possible and International Answer and Move On just made nuisances of themselves. On the internet (pre-Facebook) the mobs were relentless. For a couple of years I had a paid gig writing for the now defunct AOL blog The Stump. I was the token conservative and boy did I battle people daily. They said they'd kill me, rape my wife, run over my children, light my dog on fire etc. The full anonymity of the internet was in full force. In short, it was the worst I had ever seen one group act and they were relentless. Blogs like Crooked Timber, Daily Kos, Think Progress and others urged them on by posting everything they could on Bush that was bad. It didn't even have to be real, they were just amping the intellectually stunted up and boy did it work. What we would now call fake news was on every page of those blogs.

Then came Obama and they were even worse. They had won so they were not only mindless and unintelligent but they were also smug. They were in their glory because now they didn't really even have to try to be witty, they just said that anything you said about Obama was racist and that was that. They didn't even try to form coherent points because why should they? In their cold, black hearts they just knew that anyone who was not with them was a racist misogynist pig. If you brought up Fast and Furious (a scandal that would've taken down any other president) you hated Mexicans even though Mexicans are the ones who suffered as did Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry who was killed by one of the guns that "walked". If you mentioned Benghazi and Hillary together you were a misogynist. If you pointed out the insanity that is Obamacare you hated poor people. Really good people were called horrible names by their neighbors just for pointing out the bad things in the country.

Which led us to Trump...

As noted above, I've seen the left at their absolute worst. The rage Ive seen was the same rage that Black men and women saw in the Jim Crow Democrat-controlled south. But that is nothing compared to what I'm seeing now. Perhaps because in the eyes of the left, this was never supposed to happen. Hillary would win easily and continue the path to socialized medicine, oppression of the white male patriarchy, abolishing the 2nd Amendment and abortion on demand at any time during gestation. They knew it was going to happen because the pollsters and pundits said so. They were stuck in the cocoon of MSNBC, CNN, the Huffington Post, Occupy Democrats and the NY Times. Nate Silver and other set the odds of Hillary winning all the way up to 99% right before the election. But then something  happened they never even considered--Trump outsmarted them. This orange, woman-hating, pussy-grabbing, billionaire moron played them. They never considered what the rest of the country thought because "fuck those God-loving, bible reading, gun-toting rednecks and everything they believe".

And then it happened. Election night started out as a coronation for Hillary and then, slowly at first, the momentum shifted. Hmm, Trump might win Florida but we have Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan and Wisconsin...hell, we may win North Carolina. As the night went on the realization dawned on them that they just might lose and that fear and eventual realization that they had lost caused something to snap. They lost their collective fucking minds that night. And it just got worse.

Fast-forward to inauguration day after two months of Trump antagonizing them and picking a serious cabinet. They protested and burned shit and generally made assholes of themselves. Trump ignored them and started signing executive orders and overturning Obama's EO's. This enraged them even more and I could hear in my head Glenn Close screaming "I will not be ignored!". Worse yet, Trump did not only ignore them but he kept ratcheting up the EO's and the rhetoric. The media were astonished that Trump worked so fast and the left was pissed because they couldn't decide what outrage to settle on before Trump smacked them upside the head again. They posted memes on social media and were rebutted by Trump supporters--but something funny happened, they couldn't just get away with calling those who disagreed racist anymore because they were no longer the smug ones in charge.

Meryl Streep railed against Trump and was not only ignored but openly laughed at. Other celebrities went on the offensive and were subsequently tuned into hilarious memes belittling them that were shared hundreds of thousands of times. They are losing their minds in ways I've never seen before and I've seen a lot. We are exactly 9-days into Trump's term and the left is apoplectic. The level of insanity rises every morning when they see that Trump posted another tweet. They get doubly incensed when Trump throw a curveball and keeps Obama's EO in place that protects the LGBT community at work.

We've got a long, long four or eight years ahead of us. I'll report the latest tirade, blow up or melt down I find amusing but I've a feeling America may very well finally be irrevocably split. Oh well, it gives a blogger something to write about daily.

Protestor Dies From Burning American Flag

Things that make me chuckle:

Some idiot in Pakistan went to meet his 72 virgins in a way he never intended:

Around 10,000 people participated in the main rally organised on The Mall by the Tehreek Hurmat-i-Rasool. The participants marched from Nila Gumbad to Masjid-i-Shuhada on The Mall. Despite a ban on rallies on The Mall, the road remained blocked for vehicular traffic from noon to 6 pm. … 

One of the participants of the rally, Abdullah Ismail, passed away after he was taken to Mayo Hospital. Witnesses said he had complained of feeling unwell from the smoke from US flags burnt at the rally.

It must have been one of those US flags that were made in China.

Anyway, picture the scene, our hero Abdullah gets to paradise and while waiting in line behind numerous jihadi's who died while killing American soldiers trying to help them or premature explosion victims and ultimately finding out they will be sent to hell instead, wonders if he'll get his 72 raisins virgins.

Whichever prophet makes the decision looks at him says "how did you die?"

Abdullah responds "from the chemicals in the smoke of the burning flag of the Great Satan".

"Wait, how exactly did you come to the door of paradise?'

"I was protesting a movie made by some third-rate director and inhaled too much of the smoke from an American flag"

The decision maker doubles over in laughter and passes him out of sheer embarrassment for the man and then calls after him "shalom".

The Union Death Spiral

How quickly things change. The various unions still possessing clout thought they had the man and the timing to stage a labor rebound in a country that has seen union membership plummeting in the last few decades. Instead, they gave Obama millions of their members' money (which member's had no say in) with the expectation that he would push for and sign union-friendly legislation such as "Card Check".

Instead, Obama met reality and reality is that unions are dying and are becoming more and more hated by Americans who are struggling to keep or even find jobs while paying higher taxes, gas prices and insurance premiums. Why, many Americans ask themselves, should we in the private sector have to pay 10%, 20% or even 40% of our insurance premium when the unions are bitching about paying 1.5%? Why should we support organizations run by some of thew most vile people on the planet and take an ever-increasing amount of our tax money while giving us shoddy performance in return?

Events playing out in Madison, WI will dictate what strength the unions will have going forward in many states (mine included) and this has turned into an ugly war:

Nine people have been arrested in the third day of widespread protests at the state Capitol.

The state Department of Administration estimated 20,000 people attended protests outside the state Capitol, while 5,000 protesters filled the rotunda and hallways.

Labor supporters and activists have been protesting Republican Gov. Scott Walker’s proposal to strip most public employees of all collective bargaining rights, except for limited negotiations on salary. Walker has said the bill is necessary to close a budget shortfall of $137 million and a looming $3.6 billion deficit in the next two-year budget.

The arrests come after two days of incident-free rallies and demonstrations, as protesters have remained mostly peaceful. State officials did not immediately return calls asking for details on the nine arrests.

Police hand-cuffed one protester after he apparently tried to charge into the state Assembly.

The Tea Party organizers called for a large demonstration in supports of Badger governor Scott Walker and it appears they got a great response based on this picture.

MM has more info including the illegal distribution of doctors' notes to teachers who are staging an illegal sick-out and protesting. She also pics of the signs being carried by those who are paid to teach our children. They are pretty nasty but pretty much what one would expect from the collection of thugs and douche bags up in that liberal shit hole.

I leave you with this picture that about sums it all up:



I'm not sure that's exactly an ally they want at this point.

Waterloo Indeed: Black Protester Beat By Union Thugs

The Democrat's henchmen--the Service Employee's International Union (SEIU)--attacked a black man selling "Don't Tread on Me" flags for doing nothing more than practicing his God-given right to protest:

St. Louis County police say six people were arrested. Two of those were arrested on suspicion of assault, one of resisting arrest and three on suspicion of committing peace disturbances. Carnahan was gone when the ruckus started.

Kenneth Gladney, a 38-year-old conservative activist from St. Louis, said he was attacked by some of those arrested as he handed out yellow flags with “Don't tread on me” printed on them. He spoke to the Post-Dispatch from the emergency room of the St. John's Mercy Medical Center, where he said he was waiting to be treated for injuries to his knee, back, elbow, shoulder and face that he suffered in the attack. Gladney, who is black, said one of his attackers, also a black man, used a racial slur against him before the attack started.

“It just seems there's no freedom of speech without being attacked,” he said.

This is not going well for the Dems with Pelosi's appearance in Denver drawing a crowd that scuffled and events elsewhere ending in violence by unions against protesters.

Everyone knows that unions support Democrats and these videos will be used by the GOP in the midterms with devastating effect. I foresee this driving down support by at least ten points in the next week and if more events are marred by violence, we'll see a twenty point drop by the time Congress reconvenes in September.

The impact this is having on Obama is immeasurable at this point. It may well be his Waterloo.

Iran's Tiananmen Square

From bad to horrible. Update: This is a must read on just how magnificently Obama has failed in what can only be seen as his first true test on foreign policy. A nation of oppressed people begged him for help and he turned his back on them and sentenced others who may try the same thing in North Korea, Burma and The Sudan (update: add Venezuela to the list) to more years of authoritative rule with the complete absence of freedom.


More Chip Bok cartoons here.

Iranian Regime Settles the Score

It only took the silence of a US president to signal the regime that they could start handling the protests in their own, special, hyper-violent way and face no ramifications.

Today the mullahs unleashed hell upon those who dared to stand up for freedom in the theocratic nation and the result will be untold dead and wounded.

Gateway Pundit has all the news plus video and pictures from the crackdown including this:



But wait, their will be serious ramifications on a scale like those levied by the UN: Obama rescinded his invitation to Iranian diplomats who were previously invited to the White House barbecue. It would have been awkward eating hamburgers with the blood of innocents all over their hands I guess. I'm sure Obama would have covered for them by saying it was only ketchup.

Signs of a Genuine Revolt

Conservatives generally don't protest much. That may be because we are happy with the Constitution and the way the founders laid out the country as a federal republic, plus we have jobs and families that tend to take up the majority of our time.

That's starting to change and it will be a major tsunami if it grows as exponentially as it seems to be doing. people are mad and are not quite sure what direction we are going in. To the conservative eye, that direction is definitely the wrong one.

From the myriad Tea Parties we are seeing (liberals are probably scratching their collective heads wondering why we call them "tea parties") to other events, the nation is trending toward the angry side. Here's a case in point:

More than 500 people who are upset with a plan to change Iowa's tax laws were cleared from a hearing tonight at the Iowa House after they interrupted multiple times.

House Speaker Pat Murphy, D-Dubuque, cleared the crowd at about 8:30 p.m. The decision brought about loud protests as the crowd was escorted from the chambers by Iowa State Patrol officers.

The issue was one of dissolving a law that allowed Iowans to deduct what they pay in federal income tax from their state income tax. In other words, a tax increase cloaked in mealy-mouthed political speak. So some iowans decided to protest and jeered some speakers leading to the order to forcibly remove people from a building they own. But wait, it gets better:

“The idea behind the public hearing is to give people public input and allow people the ability to speak for and against the bill. This is not an athletic event,” Murphy said.

No, it's not an athletic event. At those, men handle things between themselves and not by using such wimpy tactics as tossing those out they disagree with. Go to an Eagles-Giants game or a Phillies-Mets game and you'll see what I mean.

Anyway, this Democrat threw out citizens who were debating what is to happen to their hard-earned money from the very building their money pays for and by the very people they elected. Sounds a bit un-American to me.

This is but one snapshot in a growing wave of protests that will engulf the country. Raise our taxes when we have jobs and we grumble a bit but pay them and go on our way. Raise taxes when the unemployment rate is skyrocketing and you have what we have now, pure rage.

Liberals have been protesting for decades about every stupid thing they imagine in their infantile minds is bad. Organized independents and conservative-leaning folks who decide it's time to protest will make the papier mache puppets and stupid liberal slogans look like a municipal Memorial Day parade by comparison. Only we'll not take up the flags of Hezbollah and Hamas in doing so.

But hey, dissent is patriotic, right?

Loser Admits on HuffPo He Stole McCain Signs

Shocka, he's a "media studies professor. Check out what this douchebag had to say:

A St. Olaf visiting professor bragged about stealing John McCain signs from his GOP neighbors and described it as a thrilling act of political defiance for a highly-trafficked liberal blog.

“Yanking out the signs and running like a scared rabbit back to my idling car was one of the single-most exhilarating and empowering political acts that I have ever done,” wrote Phil Busse in an essay titled “Confessions of a Lawn Sign Stealer” for the Huffington Post.

Dude, get a hobby like macrame, sand painting or better yet, just whack off to pictures of Obama, Noam Chomsky or Katrina vanden Heuvel. It'll keep you out of trouble.

I'm sorry, as a vet, I have a deep respect for not only peoples 1st Amendment rights but the right to vote. This douchebag infringed on both and then bragged about it like he was busting out of a military prison. Speaking of which, I served as did John McCain and every other veteran and active duty military member so that you had certain rights as well. Among them was the right to act like a complete asshole whenever you wanted but to do it on your own property.

BTW, that entire quote has got to be the sorriest excuse for a blog post I've ever read. You sound like a complete pussy like you thought you were James Bond or something. Try busting into a room full of armed Taliban and I imagine you'd get a feeling of "exhilaration", probably while you're pansy ass was wetting your pants.

Update" The Prof got canned. How incredibly stupid does a media studies professor have to be to post his crime on a blog read by zillions of people?

Al Gore Encourages "Civil Disobedience" Over Power Plants

Former VP and environmental hypocrite Al Gore is urging on the the agitators:

Nobel Peace Prize winner and environmental crusader Al Gore urged young people on Wednesday to engage in civil disobedience to stop the construction of coal plants without the ability to store carbon.

The former U.S. vice president, whose climate change documentary "An Inconvenient Truth" won an Academy Award, told a philanthropic meeting in New York City that "the world has lost ground to the climate crisis."

Translated from Gorese into English he's actually saying "that Obama character has stolen my thunder and the rise in gas prices has turned the American people into anti-environmentalist's who encourage drilling everywhere so let's riot".

By the way Al, this is the type of civil disobedience the libs are good at.

The fact that without coal-fired power plants, Gores own house--a building that has a carbon footprint larger than most African nations--would go dark seems to have escaped the Goracle. Obama's success has put a dent in Gore's lucrative business as a hypocritical environmental shill so it's time to take off the (hemp) gloves and get serious about putting coal-fired plants in a "lockbox". I guess Biden is getting his talking points from the Goracle instead of his running mate.

Lefty "Peace" Activists My Ass

The anti-warriors, paroled felons and jobless losers who've been causing mayhem in St. Paul ain't all that peaceful and lovable:

What it found, according to an 18-page search warrant application and affidavit, led to weekend raids on two Minneapolis homes and a temporary St. Paul office for the self-described anarchist group.

According to the document, investigation learned:

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  The self-described anarchist group — whose main goal was to "crash" the Republican National Convention," according to its Web site — traveled to or communicated with affinity groups in 67 cities to recruit members and raise money.
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  Group members discussed the possibility of kidnapping delegates, blockading bridges, using liquid sprayers filled with urine or chemicals on police and throwing marbles to trip police and their horses.
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  At an "action camp" held from July 31 to Aug. 3 in Lake Geneva, Minn., one member talked of concealing inside giant puppets "materials" that could be used on the street. Others discussed the need for Molotov cocktails, paint, caltrops (devices used to puncture tires), bricks and lockboxes for protesters to lock themselves together.
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  Erik Oseland, one of the six group members arrested here, produced a video called "Video Map of the St. Paul Points of Interest." It included such major companies as Travelers Insurance and Qwest, hotels such as the Embassy Suites and the Crowne Plaza. Also included: the Pioneer Press building.

Nice group there. Kidnapping the delegates and throwing marbles are my favorites, I mean what is a little anarchy without hostages and euthanized horses, right?

Anyway, the police have had their hands full and it hasn't been easy for them. Let's hope none of the cops gets injured in the last two days. As for the protesters, a few cracked heads wouldn't even make me cringe as they seem to deserve it right about now.

Convention Notes

Not too much happening inside as the agenda was shortened due to Hurricane Gustav making landfall in Louisiana. The idiots protesters were out in force though.

Some nobody from Democracy Now!--a left wing group of zealots--was arrested and the leftosphere is in high dudgeon over the police state of St. Paul. She was released and whined of course. Perhaps if you all didn't vandalize private property, things would go smoother.

The left-wingers tossed sandbags from overpasses at buses carrying delegates from Minneapolis to St. Paul. A sandbag ways roughly fifteen to twenty pound and could kill someone if dropped from heights. That's not protesting, that's attempted murder.

And yes, these fine, upstanding men and women even went after kids. The Obama nation is in effect, hope (we make it to the arena alive) and change (your shirt because you just got hit by a urine bomb).

The convention continues today.

Convention Recap Day 3

Zombie got himself into some trouble reporting on the anarchists. It seems like the police were definitely prepared for the Recreate 68 idiots. Let's hope the St. Paul PD is as well.

Slick Willy will not attend the Obama coronation speech on Thursday.

Ayers/Obama papers released in Chicago. This story is not going away anytime soon with more revelations such as this coming out daily..

San Fran Nan is getting the old aunt in the attic treatment from Obama advisers.

Obama fancies himself a mythological being I guess. Obama's the gift that keeps on giving.