If you want to start a GE bashing fest start your own diary and do it.

OK I did it.

There are two things that matter about messages. You can drill down as deep as you want to, and it’s always true. Apply it to bridge building, football, politics, cribbage, recipes, resumes, witnesses in court, and chocolate. Never a variance to left or to right.

• First, the messenger, and yes, that always comes first.
• Second, the message, and yes, that always comes second.

I’ll show you what I mean.

First example: If you read something in the New York Times, you don’t accept it. It doesn’t matter what it is. If you can verify some datum through another source, then it has only the credence that the other source has. It garners no further credence owing to the fact that it showed up in the bottom of bird cages all across New York.

Second example. The Senate receives a nomination for appeals court judge from President Jed Bartlett. Really? So who did he nominate? Silly question, you say. What does it matter what a fictional TV character says? Ah, but doesn’t the message matter?

No. It doesn’t matter. When the messenger is invalid, disreputable, unscrupulous, or known to be dishonest, then you reject the message. Unopened.

And so it is with GE and their tributes to Ronald Reagan in celebration of his 100th birthday today. I don’t care what they have to say. I reject it out of hand, because it came from a disreputable sender, who, to put it mildly, is no friend of conservatives, or Americans for that matter.

General Electric, led by corporate bandit, left-wing scalawag Jeff Immelt, is the most despicable corporation in America that Barack’s government does not physically own. I am not the only one at RedState who holds a dim view of GE. They make their living sucking on the government teat and grifting money out of the pockets of taxpayers. They profit hugely from government implementation of policies responding to the Global Warming Hoax. Not that they actually make a profit, because they do not.

So about those videos, which I will not dignify with a link. Forget the message, because the messenger is the biggest fraud-perpetrating corporation in America. General Electric, go shove those videos. You don’t stand for a single thing Ronald Reagan stood for. In fact, quite the opposite is true. You stand for corruption, bondage, theft, and power bought with bribery.

Oh, and by the way, it’s cute that GE hired Reagan as a spokesman. And at the Kennedys request, they fired him too.

That about covers the GE portion of this diary. I would like now to wish a happy and blessed 100th birthday to President Ronald Wilson Reagan. I love you, Ronnie. When you were President I did not appreciate you nearly as much as I came to later. I thought it was normal for a president to be such a man. Subsequent experience has taught me otherwise, sadly. I have nothing to offer you, except that I take up arms and fight the same war as you do. And I’ll let Fred Thompson finish up my tribute to you (h/t Steve Foley at TMR)

Today, for reasons I get but don’t appreciate, all the buzz in the political world is about one thing: Barack’s annual State of the Union address before the combined Congress, assorted dignitaries, media hounds, and a national TV audience. Just about every angle is being breathlessly pursued:

• Will Barack pivot to the center, at least with his words?
• Will he take credit for an imaginary ‘pivot to jobs’ that has brought an imaginary surge in the economy, which we’ll have to sustain with more not-so-imaginary massive spending, regulation, and union bailouts?
• Will he lecture both parties about ‘tone’?
• Will he fill the room like hydrogen sulfide gas with empty promises that we’ve heard before and which he has not the slightest intention of keeping?
• Will he use back-handed compliments to insult the intelligence and heart of the Great Unwashed of America, who in November rejected his statist policies, tossed his Party out of power, and delivered him his 2-year notice?
• Will the Republicans, sitting next to their “friends across the aisle”, sit on their hands when they should, which is most of the time?
• Will there be another “Joe Wilson” moment? The opportunities will be legion, since Barack may not speak a true sentence the entire night.
• Will Michelle wear something hideous, that the media hounds describe as stunning, beautiful, and elegant?
• Will Paul Ryan bring out the charts and graphs in his response?
• Will the Leftist Media have collective…. mmmm, how shall I put this in a family reading site…. will they all need a cigarette when Barack is done?
• Afterward, will Greta ask her victims 3-minute-questions that require a simple yes or no to answer? Will Hannity talk over his guests? Will they both unmercifully hound multiple prospective presidential candidates to admit to their candidacies?
• Will Alito show up?

Is there a single question that either (a) matters, or (b) does not have a stunningly obvious answer?

Only that last one holds any interest for me, and it looks like we already have an answer. Apparently Alito, Scalia, and Thomas will be very busy shooting pool down at the local pub at that time. Love, love, love it! The middle finger is sometimes the right gesture, when an impudent Boy President has made a practice of ignoring the protocols of classy behavior. But past that, honestly, what is there that will change, that will inform, that will inspire? Anything at all?

We know Barack’s heart. We know what he intends, and we know now that the legislative avenues for his “change” have been thwarted, he will resort to judicial and bureaucratic fiat to attempt to accomplish his aims. What his lips say have no bearing on what he does.

To sum up, we know Obama. He ain’t changing.
We know the Democrats. They ain’t changing.
We know both camps of the Republicans. For once, they ain’t buying.
We know what the media coverage will be like, on both FoxNews and the Leftist Media. Nothing new.

So why bother?

You do what you want to tonight. It’s a free country, and for me it’ll boil down to whether I feel like straightening things in my garage, or actually getting started on tiling out the rest of my living room. That’s been waiting awhile, and frankly there’s nothing much going on otherwise that interests me. I know what you’re thinking, but it’s not really a pool night for me.

You?

If you want the favor and goodness of the United States government, if you want all the muscle of the United States leaning your way, then I know one thing:

It’s good to be a gangsta

Want the boot of America on your neck? Want America to spit in your face? Meddle with your internal politics, or worse, stand aside, hold coats as it were, as your government represses and murders your freedom-loving people?

It’s not so good to be liberty-minded.

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From the diaries by Erick

It begins.

There has been a good bit of ‘presidential’ buzz about Herman Cain in the right online community, and in the conservative camp in general. He’s not been shy about admitting that he’s considering it. Now he’s taking the next step. I had the privilege of speaking with him for a half-hour last night after he was done with his nationally syndicated talk show, and I am pleased to make the following announcement on RedState.

Moments ago, Herman Cain announced on FoxNews’ Your World Cavuto that he is forming an exploratory committee to determine the feasability of a run for President of the United States in the 2012 election.

So who is Herman Cain, when it comes down to it? Once you get past the tremendous speeches and a magnetic personality that is even more from gripping up close, what you come to know is that Cain doesn’t mess around with idle talk. He’s a doer, a problem solver, and he’s got a track record to prove it. When he takes the bull by the horns, that bull is in for it.

Let’s take a closer look.

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In the aftermath of the Tucson shooting outrage by a loony lone gunman who seems to have had no interest in talk radio, the Left has nevertheless stuck with the Rahm Emanuel adage “Never let a crisis go to waste”. I’ll not recite all the details and examples. You know them. I just want to point out something interesting that came from the mouth of the third-ranking Democrat in the House, James Clyburn(D-SC).

The original source for this, the Charleston Post & Courrier does not report his precise words, which I would have much preferred, but they say this:

The shooting is cause for the country to rethink parameters on free speech, Clyburn said from his office, just blocks from the South Carolina Statehouse. He wants standards put in place to guarantee balanced media coverage with a reinstatement of the Fairness Doctrine, in addition to calling on elected officials and media pundits to use ‘better judgment.’

I don’t care to debate the merits of his assinine idea. I just want to point out that the Left has always claimed that the spectacularly misnamed “Fairness Doctrine” was NOT an attempt to curb the Right’s voice on talk radio. The Right has always known better.

Now we have Clyburn calling for the “Fairness Doctrine” specifically for the purpose of shutting up the Right. And since his daughter is an FCC commissioner, it’s not an idle threat he makes.

Know what I mean?

All the cool people were chiming in with their presidential qualifications list. I thought I’d try to be trendy and urbane too. Possibly smoke some cigarettes with those fancy quellazaires and blowing smoke rings, while breezily opining on the matters of the day. That’s still cool, right?

OK, now the fun and games are over. I mean that. What’s been done to this country the last 4 years isn’t a bit funny, nor have been two generations worth of the march to an over-arching state, the very opposite of what the Founding Fathers built and 10 generations of Patriots fought and died for.

November 2010, America voted to break the seige. We sent 90-odd new soldiers to the wall some of them replacing soldiers who demonstrated no stomach for the fight. What they do for two years, we’ll see. Succeed or fail though, we will send another 50 in November 2012, perhaps replacing some of those who campaigned one way, then governed another. In addition, we will send in a new field general.

The choice

Starting in January 2013, we can drive the Visigoths back over the Alps, pursue them all the way back to Dacia, then burn down and raze their homeland into an ash-surfaced parking lot. Thus, and only thus, will be saved the Republic established by Washington, Madison, Jefferson, and other giants not named Sanger, Wilson, Roosevelt, Warren, or Obama.

Alternatively, after breaking the seige we can shout and cheer from the walls of Rome, and party for weeks on end as the Visigoths retreat and lick their wounds. If we do what we have always done, we will leave their forces relatively intact, able to regroup for an even stronger seige in 2014 or 2016. They will as always have a 5th column securely embedded in the city in the form of the media, the government unions, and a massive bureaucracy with the power of stifling regulations ready to continue, unabated, the left’s agenda.

So which road will voting Republicans take? The Party will choose the safe, comfortable option unless we, the voters and the activists, push them and elect leaders who actually lead. Who we select as a presidential nominee will say much about the America we want to build (or rebuild).

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Some things are just wrong, even if they are legal. Some things are dishonorable to such a degree that the perpetrators ought to be scorned and shunned from civil society. The perpetrators of the 2010 Lame Duck follies — chief among them Barack Obama, Harry Reid, and Nancy Pelosi — are reprobates of that order. The rest of them are scarcely better for having lent their votes.

I hold these points to be facts:

• The Democrats were shellacked on November 2, a long-expected result, losing the most (63) of one party since 1938, and giving Republicans a commanding majority of 242-193 in the upcoming Congress.
• It is ridiculous to interpret the election results as less than a thorough repudiation by the voters of what Democrats had done for 2 years.
• The Democrats planned this Lame Duck session long in advance
• The Democrats planned long in advance to exploit the lack of accountability inherent in a Lame Duck session.

It’s not a question of whether this bill passed, or that measure was enacted, or such-and-such deal was struck during this session, or even whether and to what degree Republicans ought to have accepted compromises. Having lost in November, Democrats were not tone deaf. They heard the message. They decided they were going to jam their agenda through Congress in spite of the expressed will of America.

It is an act of moral depravity to plan and use a Lame Duck session to accomplish an agenda intended to thwart the expressed will of the governed.

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[from the diaries by haystack~nice work EPU]

[Full disclosure - Joe Barton is my congressman. I have met him in passing and have sat in a couple of meetings he has conducted, since I was once a precinct chairman. Likewise I have met a handful of his staff, who also probably have no memory of me.]

You may know Joe Barton only as the guy who in a recent committee hearing accused the Obama administration of a “shakedown” and actually apologized to the CEO of British Petroleum for despicable treatment from Democrats and the Obama administration while BP was going to extraordinary lengths to stop the spill and do right by the people in the Gulf. You may remember that as a major “gaffe” by an ignorant and bumbling back-bencher who was quickly and publicly put in his place by GOP leadership.

If that is what you know of Joe Barton, then you know nothing.

You actually know less than nothing, because what you know is wrong. You need to learn about this man. He is currently at the center of a debate whose outcome will be decided before January, whose outcome will tell us whether or not House Republicans heard the American people.

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Hate what you’ve done to the place. Now get out. The grownups have a huge mess to clean up. Hope you like your new name. I know I sure do. Henceforth you shall be called….

46

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Be seeing ya.

[It's the closest I could find, at this early date, to a nationwide tally of who voted for who, a ballpark average of the Senate and Governor races. If you find a better number, let me know in the comments please.]

They’re stealing on an epic scale this time. And you think they are unstoppable. You think they can manufacture phony votes, deny the vote to overseas military, rig enough voting machines, and commit enough intimidation to change the outcomes of far too many elections next Tuesday.

With the Justice Department under Eric Holder, Democrat cheating is now for all intents codified into law. The stories in the last week are rampant, yet the national media ignore it, even trumpeting obviously manufactured counter-stories of supposed Republican intimidation (for example Houston). Even the voting machine technicians in Nevada and elsewhere are SEIU thugs. Unions have spent at least $250 million in campaign donations, and untold more millions in ground game. Evil conspirators include OFA, SEIU, ACORN, AFL-CIO, and thousands of Democrat-owned election boards, precinct judges, poll workers, and union locals. In recent years the thefts committed against Rossi, Stevens, and Coleman were practice runs, and now the operation is running full scale.

Is there any hope?

I’m glad you asked. Yes there is.

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You may already know this: there will be a reckoning. Actually there will be three. This is primarily about the third one.

The first reckoning – America’s second Declaration of Independence

The first reckoning will be on election day, November 2, 2010, when Americans vote overwhelmingly to reject the Democrat agenda. It will be a down payment on the epic 10-year butt-kicking that will be delivered to the anti-American, anti-freedom, corrupt, anti-Constitution movement. We lost our vigilence, allowed this statism to creep up for the last 80 years. Now it’s run amok, and we’ll swing the pendulum back. As Dick Cheney would say, big time. Maybe you think it’s just a short-term temper tantrum, which the media hacks will of course assert. You’ll see.

It is a reckoning that will take your breath away. All your cheating will not keep the Republicans from taking 70 in the House, 8 in the Senate. That is the first reckoning. At least while you’re sitting in prison, you can comfort yourself in the knowledge that your cheating kept it from being 100 and 11.

The second reckoning – retribution

The second reckoning, I will relish this. I am not a nice person at all when it comes to retribution. I will savor it the way I savored the Texas Rangers’ 6-game beat-down of the Yankees (conservative country sure jammed it up left-wing country’s rear, didn’t it?). The events of November 2 will make it perfectly clear to all Americans not named Jimmy Carter that the Democrats and the unions engaged in massive, epic-scale election fraud.

It will be the bridge too far. Regular Americans are not like you and your patronage buddies, union thugs, organized criminals, communists, and radical social engineers. Nor are we anything like the snotty rich baby-killer limousine liberals that control you. Regular Americans are generous and magnanimous. Your mistake is that 80 years of tolerance you have mistaken for cowardice and lack of resolve.

What will happen after this election, when it’s clear that you stole 20-30 House seats and 3-4 Senate seats, you are not ready for. What happens will be fought on your territory, using rules you know but never expected to have turned on you, by a fiercely resolute people possessed of righteous anger that’s been stacking up ever since liberal judges started flouting the consent of the governed. When pressed, they are smarter and more devious than you. They plan. And they stick the knife in the place that will hurt the most.

And let me tell you something. Regular Americans don’t riot. They don’t demonstrate or boycott (very well). They don’t astroturf. They don’t terrorize innocents. They don’t commit indiscriminate violence or indiscriminate property destruction. They know, or will know, the people and organizations who are controlling you. Retribution will be clean and efficient. It will cost you, and your owners,a good bit more than it was worth to save a handful of House and Senate seats that ultimately won’t stop what we do.

Just shooting in the dark here, because like I said, I’m not in on anything. But it hurts a whole lot more to have the stock values of your benefactors wrecked (Soros does not possess especially secret knowledge), deliberately and maliciously by hidden hands, than it does to have some of your low-level thugs beat up. It will hurt tons more when union pensions never see another penny of taxpayer bailouts starting… well, already starting now.

If you have a union pension, let me just say…..no you don’t.

And it will really, really ruin you when a national right-to-work bill gets signed the fourth week of 2013, days after EO10988 is rescinded, making it illegal (again) for government employees to unionize. We will enjoy breaking you.

You’ll see. You yourself will not escape retribution, although I’ll have to say that in the big scheme of things, you are just a tool. Americans will be taking care of the kingpins.

The third reckoning – prison

But let’s get back to you. The third reckoning involves you. You’re a Democrat doing the dirty work. You are in a room signing stacks of absentee ballots, or perhaps ordering it done. Or maybe you are a precinct judge or worker who changes numbers, or after the polls close, you sign a bunch of names of people who didn’t vote, and shoot a stack of pre-filled ballots through the machine. Or you’ve been bringing people into the early voting places and “helping” them vote the right way. Or intimidating the poll watchers like they’re doing in Houston right now, in order to hide the cheating. Or removing signs, keying cars, causing untimely traffic jams (you thought we didn’t know that one, yes?) or doing other dirty Democrat deeds.

These are federal crimes. They are punished by federal prison. And when you are sentenced to 60 months in federal prison (see 42 USC 1973gg-10 [h/t Sound Politics]) , you don’t get out in 14 months. You get out in 60 months. Or as I like to put it, 3 years into President Bobby Jindal’s first term. Just in time for you to try to stuff ballots again…..oh wait, there won’t be anybody to pay you, never mind.

Let me introduce you to a handful of concepts:

• Moles. You think conservatives are incapable of guile, of “playing dirty”. Yeah. That’s because maybe 80% of conservatives are that way. The other 20% saw what you did in 2008. Bet 5 years in prison that nobody involved with your electoral crime cell, or up or down the chain of command, is not a mole. Go ahead.
• Traitors. Wretched people who are cheating right there among you, sitting in your meetings, but who will betray their fellows once the game is up. They’ll turn state’s evidence on you two seconds after they’re in handcuffs.
• Voters, poll watchers, the spies and turncoats among you, and regular people on the street have discovered iPhones. You are being watched. Your license plate has already been recorded and logged. Is there a real right-wing conspiracy going on here? Let’s put it this way. Not that I know of. But we don’t need one. You are reading the Kos polls, which amounts to farting in the bathtub, and biting the bubbles. You haven’t really done the easy math here. Americans have rejected you, at astounding levels. They distrust you. And today’s technology just makes it fall-off-log easy to record everything, everywhere.
• You’re not helping yourself. Even in national, liberal-run TV and radio news, the stories of electoral fraud are, eight days out, running rampant. You have already told us you are cheating. You’re too stupid to hide it.
• Just because it’s illegal to record activities in voting places doesn’t mean it won’t happen. It will. Massively.
• Did I mention iPhones? Ain’t it terrible what Americans think up in their spare time? An iPhone app that lets a person record electoral fraud, and send the evidence straight to people who can do something with it.
• Fingerprints.

And lastly, let me introduce you to one more word, a word you should have known.

Relentlessness.

Remember how after 9/11, the evil people responsible assumed we’d do nothing? Yeah. Then we went to the heart of darkness and toppled two dictatorships. Then we camped out in their space for…..going on 10 years now. Just think about that, when you assume conservatives will not be serious about taking down the people responsible for the most massive voter fraud in history. Relentlessly. We
will not be deterred. We will not grow weary. We will hunt you into the hills, and take you down.

Sure, recording electoral activities is illegal. Well, sort of. At least in Texas, a person recording events in the polling place is subject to…….wait for it………..being told by the election judge to turn off the device or leave the premises. As for what you are doing out of sight, how many of the people you are working with have an iPhone? Or any cell phone with recording capabilities? That would be pretty much everybody. Take a look at the person next to you.

And maybe you think the evidence gained by surreptitious recording is not admissible in court. Well on that count, most likely you are right. But you never watched an episode of Forensic Files, did you? Once they find out who did it (even with evidence that won’t be used in court), there’s just no way they’re not going to eventually find the evidence they need that WILL hold up in court. And you think your union or the Democrat Party is going to pony up for good lawyers, when there are dozens of you going to trial, just from your county. Yeah…….OK.

Perhaps you think Eric Holder’s Department of “Justice”, will never fail you. That’s your firewall, your hole card. Isn’t it? Isn’t it? Do you want to bet 5 years of federal prison on that?

Do you know who Darrel Issa is? Starting about January 3, he’s the chairman of the House Government Oversight Committee. He’s got the goods on Holder, and half the appointees in that Department. The That’s not saying all that much. Half of America has the goods on Holder. House committees can bring down AGs, especially when said AGs hand it to them on a plate. And doubly especially when the Civil Rights Commission is itching to take him down. Holder will go down, and while he’s going down he won’t be wasting any time or energy looking out for you.

The truth is, a whole, whole bunch of low-level people are going to go to federal prison, because they are too stupid to do their deeds in such a way as to not get caught. The high level people you thought were your friends, the upper echelons of SEIU and ACORN, will suddenly turn into strangers. Strangers with alibis. Strangers whose fingerprints appear on no ballots. Strangers with all the very, very good lawyers.

Do you think I’m trying to persuade you to stop the cheating, or perhaps to turn rat on your buddies? Nah, not really. We’ll have plenty of rats once the indictments start. And your cheating? Got it covered. No, I’m just the kind of guy who talks trash about how I’m going to drive on you and dunk over you. Just before I do it. Go, do your thing. I’ll win this thing between me and you.

For the record, if there is a silver lining, it’s that federal prisons have the prison rape thing under much better control than the state prisons. And as we’ve already discussed, the crimes you are committing right now are federal crimes. If you find that information comforting.

Conservatives, patriots, military veterans, families and close friends of military, and plain average Americans will instantly get this movie. There’s no surprise in it for them, although it is gripping from beginning to end. But this movie wasn’t made for them, not really. It was made for the person who doesn’t quite *get* it. If you have allowed yourself to be persuaded by those who:

• think the term American Exceptionalism is smug and self-congratulatory
• don’t believe America is the bright shining symbol of freedom on a hill
• think that America’s history is dominated by government-sanctioned oppression, racism, and the haves stealing from the working have-nots (other than the last 2 years, I mean )
• think the model of ordered freedom needs to be replaced by a grand scheme controlled by smart, benevolent leaders
• have no earthly idea why young American men would flock to recruiting offices by the thousand to sign up for a war in Iraq that could very well get them killed
• think America owes you something, but you don’t owe anything back

but something in your heart gives you the lie, that recognizes something dissonant about it late at night, when it’s just you and your thoughts….

then this movie is for you. Because you don’t get America, but you could. Somewhere in you beats the heart of an American. And there is something splendid, wonderful, and liberating about finally surrendering to the beauty of America.

Taking Chance is the true story of the journey, in April 2004, of the body of PFC Chance Phelps — killed in action — from Iraq to his family in Wyoming, told from the journal of his military escort, LTC Michael Strobl. It was an HBO movie in 2009, and it’s since been released to DVD. You can also get it through NetFlix or the torrents.

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Now is an exciting time to be a Democrat, don’t you think? The midterm election is 40 days away. In a short two years we’ve gotten to see the Democrat vision for America take shape before our eyes. America stands ready to ratify that grand vision at the ballot box.

But instead of being loud and proud of the progress they’ve wrought on America, I see Democrats running from their records faster than Carl Lewis. They dodge any kind of forum where they have to meet constituents. None of their ads mention Porkulus, Cap and Trade, epic deficit spending, or even banking and automotive industry takeovers. By all appearances, the words “health” and “care” are not to be mentioned together, on pain of death. Nobody running for office wants Barack to campaign for them; or if he comes to their state, they mysteriously can’t break away from urgent business in order to be seen with him.

This is a strange and unbelievable thing. Why is this so?

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We had us a glorious time in Austin this weekend. Not only did Governor Perry throw us a party, he was one o’ t’ speakers at T’ Gatherin’. Also prominently featured were Nikki Haley, soon t’ be Governor o’ South Carolina; Chuck DeVore, who be goin’ t’ be a leader in t’ conservative movement; Congressman Tom Graves o’ GA, another shinin’ star; and Herman Cain, who starboard now be me guy for 2012.

Organizations sponsorin’ or workin’ closely with us included AFP and American Majority, both o’ whom I be becomin’ more and more impressed with all t’ time; Citizens United, known for their successful challenge o’ McCain-Fein’old, but also deeply involved in makin’ must-watch documentary films. And t’ Sheraton Austin was very good t’ work with, and frankly they put up with quite a bit.

And you have t’ attend t’ next one. Because thar be unfinished business. Even though I threatened t’ play t’ guitar for folks, I never got around t’ it while we were thar. And that be must-see.

Plus Bush.

And goats.

And word to your mom.

PS – you can do yer translatin’ here: http://www.fissio.com/pirate.pl

I feel I need to get out in front of this, lest the major American media tell you first. It’s not that I am ashamed of this connection, I just don’t want my beloved RedState friends to feel like I am hiding something.

• Terry Jones, the nut-job pastor threatening to burn korans on 9/11, is headquartered in Gainesville, FL.
• Emmitt Smith, the NFL’s all-time rushing leader, played and attended college at the University of Florida, located in Gainesville, FL.
• Emmitt Smith played most of his pro career for the Dallas Cowboys, centered in Irving (at the time) and Valley Ranch, TX.
• he won 3 Super Bowl Rings. I work in a place we call a 3-ring circus. Kinda creepy, ain’t it?
• I have lived in the Dallas area my entire adult life, and I have worked at two IT-type jobs in Irving, TX. Coincidence? Hardly.
• I even (this should raise major flags) interviewed once for a contract job with the Dallas Cowboys, while Smith was on the roster. I was given a fairly complete tour of the place, everywhere except restricted areas. While loitering in the main lobby, I even met and chatted some with George Teague, a safety who almost certainly knew Emmitt Smith personally. Extremely nice gentleman, by the way.
• One of my co-workers at one of those jobs in Irving had a sister who was currently dating Nathan Jones, a defensive back for the Dallas Cowboys at the time. Coincidence? Not likely.
• I am an avid Dallas Cowboys fan, frequently wearing the attire. I have replica jerseys of Jay Novacek and DeMarcus Ware, both of whom certainly know Emmitt Smith.

So the Terry Jones-Gainesville-Emmitt Smith-Irving-EPU nexus is pretty unmistakable. It is clear that I share some of the responsibility for this nut-job pastor in Florida.

Good thing I’m not the #1 talk show host in the nation. People might try to pin responsibility for Terry Jones on me. It’s bad enough they try to pin Jerry Jones on me.

So am I alone here. Anybody else out there have a tie to Terry Jones?

The flag behind them bows in shame……..

…..as TOTUS lies yet again to America.

I wholeheartedly believe that most foundational concepts regarding liberty, accountability, and responsible governance are really, really easy. Those truths that are not astoundingly obvious (like ‘it IS NOT the government’s job to regulate my salt intake‘) are at least fairly obvious to the average 4th grader (like ‘it IS the federal government’s job to secure the borders’).

This one is dedicated to the 41, the Republicans in the United States Senate. Considering the intended audience, I will stick to small words and easy concepts.

So here we go.

When to use the filibuster

• When the Democrats submit a bill and it’s over 300 pages, filibuster it.
• When the Democrats submit a bill passed in the House that was not posted on the internet for 72 hours before the House vote, filibuster it.
• When the Democrats submit a bill, the proceedings of which involved locking Republicans out of meetings, changing the locks on doors, or other dishonest shenanigans designed to write the bill without Republicans knowing what was in it, filibuster it.
• When the Democrats submit a bill that authorizes a single penny toward funding the tiniest portion of BambiCare™ or Cap-and-Steal, filibuster it.
• When the Democrats submit a bill that authorizes more of the failed and unAmerican Democrat policies, and attaches it to something great and important that they think you would not dare filibuster, filibuster it.
• When the Democrats submit anything at all during a proposed lame duck session after America massacres them on November 2, filibuster it.
• When Barack submits a nominee for any judicial seat who obviously has no intention of being guided by the Constitution, filibuster him or her.
• When Barack submits a nominee for any cabinet post or anything else which requires a Senate confirmation who obviously has no intention of being guided by the Constitution, filibuster him or her.

But, but, but….it’s not nice to use the filibuster

Listen, sweet cheeks. This is not the 4H Club, and what’s at stake is not who brings next week’s milk and cookies. This is the capital of the United States, the last best hope for the freedom and good of all mankind. What is at stake is that freedom, and the free market system and accumulated wisdom that it protects.

The Democrats, like common street hoodlums, are busy dismantling and looting the wealth and freedom of the country. You, the 41, are in a position to stop them. The filibuster is a tool provided you. Its standard use has been defined by the Democrats.

It’s not a time for nice. It’s a time to save the country. Shut up and use it.

The president is entitled to his nominees

No.

He’s not.

What idiot said that? Somebody who flunks Constitution 101, and badly. Actually I know who likes to say that, and yes, he is an idiot.

The Constitution provides that these positions are to be nominated by the president, with the advice and consent of the Senate. That means president is entitled to his nominees, and the Senate is entitled to give or withhold its consent. If the Senate does not consent, the nominee does not get the position. Just ask Robert Bork. And Miguel Estrada. And John Bolton.

If you have enough reason to withhold consent, withhold consent. And once again, precedent set by Democrats indicates that the filibuster is acceptable to block nominees. That means 41 can withhold consent. Democrats made the rules. Let them live with them.

Elections have consequences

Yes, indeed they do. In November 2008, the voters of America elected enough Republicans to have 42 in the Senate. In other words, Americans elected enough Republicans to have enough for the filibuster, plus a spare. The Democrats stole one seat (Minnesota) and bought another (Pennsylvania) through illegal acts that subverted the will of the electorate.

But America answered back defiantly. America has spoken. She said “STOP THE DEMOCRATS!!!!” Scott Brown’s election has consequences. We have 41, and we elected 43. Let the Democrats deal with the consequences of that.

So, are we clear on this?

I tried to use small words and short sentences. I hope you got the message (even shorter version – STOP THE DEMOCRATS!!!!!!). While I have your attention, could a couple of you burly guys take Lindsey Graham out behind the school bus and beat the crap out of him?

Hey, it’s one small favor. Just askin’.

In Michigan’s District 1, the SEIU candidate in the Republican primary is proud to announce that the NRA has endorsed him in that primary against Tea Party candidate and physician, Doctor Dan Benishek.

Many conservatives are taken aback and very angry, while rumors abound that the NRA will also endorse Harry Reid in the US Senate race against conservative Sharron Angle. As Senate Majority Leader, Harry Reid has stolen the liberties of Americans on a scale I would call incalculable, nigh unimaginable.

Why would the premier Second Amendment rights group in America endorse an extremist left-wing liberty thief like Harry Reid? His opponent is an arch-conservative tea party candidate who would be 100% guaranteed to fight for all liberties, AMONG THEM the right to keep and bear arms. That’s not even in question. When Harry Reid gets through taking away your freedom of speech, your freedom to assemble peaceably, and your freedom to cast a ballot that has a chance of being counted correctly, THEN he’ll take away your right to keep and bear arms, and you will have no tools to object to it.

So why would the NRA endorse such a character? The short answer is because they are stupid, dishonest, and short-sighted. I say that, as a lifetime member until I get around to cancelling my membership, (which I will certainly do). They assume that an unimpressive but tolerable voting record on the single issue of gun freedom by an incumbent trumps a new candidate, even if that candidate comes from conservative roots and is running on a constitutional platform.

Well, so be it. They endorsed Jason Allen, SEIU’s candidate in MI-1′s Republican primary to replace retiring baby-killer Bart Stupak, because apparently Allen has been amenable to gun rights as a state senator.

You know who else provides a “ringing endorsement” that Jason Allen is proud to tell you about? The Detroit Free Press, a lefty rag from out of the district that also endorsed Barack Obama in 2008.

Just remember, while Dan Benisheck has shouted “Enough is enough!” to Washington spending and stealing of liberties, Jason Allen has been sponsoring bills as a state senator to facilitate the forced unionization of independent day care workers.

So, who will it be for you? The NRA-, SEIU-, and media-approved candidate? Or the tea party candidate?

I know, silly question.

Support Doctor Dan Benishek!

Democrats, you betrayed America’s trust.

On November 2, 58% of voters will sign America’s second Declaration of Independence.

You will lose huge.

Then it’s on: the real War for Freedom.

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This is version 1.1 of In 2012 – no more open primaries – a proposal, that I wrote on January 21, 2008. The nomination process was an absolute miserable train wreck, the culmination of years of a worsening and chaotic system. In this case, it had already given us an inevitable nominee — too early, an unrepresentative and unsatisfactory candidate, with most of Republican America cut out of the process. I thought a better process could surely be devised.

January 2008 was a time for Republicans to begin focusing on the upcoming election, yet this piece was well received. Seemingly I was not the only one dissatisfied with the nomination process. However, now Republicans are in the mood to replace worthless people and processes with productive and vibrant ones. Starting with our own house.

So let’s start with the basic question. What is the purpose of the primary season? It is to select the Republican nominee in the general election for President of the United States. What should the purpose be? For Republicans to select that nominee, having had a fair chance to evaluate the candidates, and the candidates having had a fair chance to make their case.

I offer a proposal that achieves that end.

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