Subtle Rantings

This is a great video from the Nuge. I echo his sentiments completely.

Then this is just a funny video and has some 2A tie-ins.

They told me if I voted for McCain, the nation’s “Hope” would deteriorate, and sure enough there has been a 20 point drop in the Consumer Confidence Index since the election, reaching a lower point than any time during the Bush administration.

They told me if I voted for McCain, the US would become more deeply embroiled in the Middle East, and sure enough tens of thousands of additional troops are scheduled to be deployed into Afghanistan.

They told me if I voted for McCain, that the economy would get worse and sure enough unemployment is approaching 8.9% and the new stimulus packages implemented recently have sent the stock market lower than at any time since 1995.

They told me if I voted for McCain, we would see more “crooks” in high ranking positions in Federal government and sure enough, several recent cabinet nominees and Senate appointments revealed resumes of bribery and tax fraud, and two senior democrat congressmen were responsible for much of the economic collapse.

Well I ignored my Democrat friends in November and voted for McCain. Boy, was that a mistake! Because they were right… all of their predictions have come true!

Here’s just another indicator of what’s so wrong with Birmingham. The city’s own Mayor won’t even live there. No media outlet in Birmingham is covering this story other than the Birmingham Weekly. Why have we not heard this story on any of the locals news outlets?

Couple this with the inept and idiotic city council and county commission and you’ve got a nightmare. No wonder they ended up with a $3 billion sewer scandal. If you live in or around Birmingham, you really need to see this story at Birmingham Weekly and please be sure to pass it on to all you know.

Finally, all of this is indicative of something significant about Birmingham. Even the mayor’s fiercest enemies won’t exploit an obvious vulnerability. The mayor doesn’t live here, and while lots of people grouse and groan about it, not one person in this whole town has the initiative to file a lawsuit challenging Langford’s claim to the office. Birmingham has so little self-respect that no one cares anymore if even the mayor lives here.

What do the top ten cities with the highest poverty rates all have in common?

1. Detroit, MI (1st on the poverty rate list) hasn’t elected Republican mayor since 1961;
2. Buffalo, NY (2nd) hasn’t elected one since 1954;
3. Cincinnati, OH (3rd)…since 1984;
4. Cleveland, OH (4th)…since 1989;
5. Miami, FL (5th) …never had a Republican mayor;
6. St. Louis, MO (6th)….since 1949;
7. El Paso, TX (7th) … never had a Republican mayor;
8. Milwaukee, WI (8th)…since 1908;
9. Philadelphia, PA (9th)…since 1952;
10. Newark, NJ (10th)…since 1907.

Do you see a trend here?

Einstein once said, “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.”

It is the disadvantaged who habitually elect Democrats — yet they are still disadvantaged.

Think about that for a moment. You ever wonder why Obama and his Democrat counterparts want to tax the rich more and the poor less? It’s so that they can have a never ending supply of government-handout-dependent, poverty stricken sheeple who will continue to re-elect them into office in order to ensure their government programs are always funded.

Via Democrats’ Ideas For Cities

“Expecting a carjacker, a rapist or a drug pusher to care that his possession or use of a gun is unlawful is like expecting a terrorist to care that his car bomb is taking up two car [parking] spaces.” – Joseph T. Chew

This little “joke” made it’s way around the Internet prior to the election. I just found it in one of my old emails. Either this is reality to come, or it’s just a partisan joke. Take it for what you like.

Dear Fellow Business Owners

As a Business owner who employs 30 people, I have resigned myself to the fact that Barack Obama, will be our next President, and that my Taxes and Fees, will go up in a BIG way.

To compensate for these increases, I figure, that the Customer, will have to see an increase in my fees to them of about 8%. I will also have to lay off 6 of my employees. This really bothered me as I believe we are family here and didn’t know how to choose who will have to go. So, this is what I did. I strolled through the parking lot and found 6 Obama bumper stickers on my employees’ cars. I have decided these folks will be the first to be laid off.

I can’t think of another fair way to approach this problem. If you have a better idea, let me know.
I am sending this letter to all Business owners that I know.

Sincerely,
Ward
JOOA Corp.

Little did I know when I wrote this post about Obama two years ago, how right I would be about America being so desperate and searching for something that they would elect Barack Obama. Like I said then, and I say now, it’s easy to see why people like him. He makes amazing promises, he dresses sharp, he’s black, and he’s a great orator.

The problem? He can’t fulfill all those promises he’s made, looks are only skin deep, a person doesn’t deserve to be elected just because no one of his race has ever been elected, and speaking skills do not a President make.

Anyway, take a read of my first post about Obama from two years ago as we prepare to start this new journey – good or bad.

via Neal Boortz @ http://boortz.com/nuze/index.html

CHANGES IN THE WORKPLACE

You small business owners out there are preparing for life under a Barack Obama presidency. One of our listeners sent us some new rules for small businesses based on Obama’s ideals of change and fairness:

As of November 5, 2008, when President Obama officially becomes president-elect, our company will instill a few new policies which are in keeping with his new, inspiring issues of change and fairness:

If for any reason you are not happy with the new policies, you may want to rethink your vote on November 4th.

via The Corner on National Review Online by Rich Lowry

“I meant to post this the other day (so please don’t take it as a response to Rick—in fact it might constitute pleading guilty as charged!), but I got sidetracked. I found the Palin event Friday incredibly moving. Partly because of Trig.

The sentimentalist in me would be willing to see anyone who is loving and unselfish enough to welcome a Down kid into their family elevated to high office.

When I was thinking of Trig, I was reminded of an encounter I had a couple of weeks ago on the Delta Shuttle from Washington to New York. It was a mostly empty plane, but I went all the back to the very emptiest part of the plane to spread out and enjoy he quiet. And there was a man sitting in the very back row who immediately piped up, “Hi. I’m Ian. Would you like to sit next to me?”

He was a guy with Down Syndrome, maybe in his twenties. I declined the offer, but we struck up a conversation. He was going to New York for a family celebration, including for his birthday. I told him I had a birthday coming up too and he lit up and came over to vigorously shake my hand in congratulations—more delighted by my birthday than his own.

When the plane began to fill up a woman and her daughter came all the way to the back with a huge bag. I began to wonder to myself if I should offer to help them with it, when Ian popped up, told them he’d get it, and lifted it up and shoved it in the overhead compartment. When two men came down the aisle with a box they weren’t sure would fit overhead, he intervened and told them it would—”trust me”—and put it up for them.

He chatted amiably with his neighbors during the flight, and when we landed was up out of his seat first thing to help that woman get her bag down.

From this brief encounter, I dare say Ian is friendlier, better adjusted and more considerate than about half of the people on the streets of Manhattan or San Francisco on any given day. Yet most of those people are perfectly unperturbed by the elimination of babies with Down syndrome in the womb. To hell with them. God bless Sarah Palin for bringing Trig into the world, and may he shower those around him with as much sunshine as the gentleman I met on that flight.”

I found this great quote from a posting over @ dmiessler.com a few months ago back when Ron Paul was still in the running. I meant to have posted it sooner.

It’s from a user named “ncloud” who wrote the following about the election:

It really doesn’t matter who you vote for in the long run. They will all take your money to bankrupt this country — the question is only how they will do it. Republicans will throw your money at war and education, the Democrats will throw it at welfare and environmentalism. People will continue to complain about how shitty things are and in four more years will forget all the stupid promises that were made this time around and believe them all over again, while beating their drums and repeating the mantra “change… change… change…”.

There is absolutely no reason that Ron Paul should be loosing(sic). He is on a major platform, has raised enormous amounts of money, has gotten face time (maybe not as much as other candidates, but still) on major media programs, has been a Congressman for thirty years, etc. I can only conclude that people who do not vote for him either 1) don’t understand what liberty is really about, or 2) hate liberty and would rather be ruled by masters who promise gruel at the end of the day, because that is all we will end up on our present course, if we are so lucky.

Ayn Rand once said, and I’m paraphrasing, that living for yourself is the hardest thing you can do. And the reason it’s so hard is because you have to face the scary reality that you are responsible for your life — that your success and failures are your own — that you can’t plunder other people for your sustenance or punish them for your offenses by voting leaders into office to do it for you.

This election is ultimately about people who are scared to be responsible for their own education, their own relationships, their own wealth or poverty, their own safety, their own health, their own bodies, their own thoughts, and their own happiness or disappointment with life.

In other words, politically, Americans have Stockholm Syndrome.

Disclaimer: I still think everyone needs to get out and vote regardless of who you choose. I personally will be choosing McCain. I refuse to throw it away and write in Paul and risk letting Obama get elected.