Army of Dog

We’ve known for a long time that Britain is headed down the path to a pure socialist state under the intrepid guidance of NuLabour. Now Gordon Brown is telling us that it’s imperative that we all go with them.

BOSTON (AP) - British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, in his first foreign policy address in the United States, called Friday on the U.S. and Europe to lead a new era of global “interdependence” aimed at solving international problems such as terrorism, poverty and climate change.”We urgently need to step out of the mindset of competing interests and instead find our common interests, and we must summon up the best instincts and efforts of humanity in a cooperative effort to build new international rules and institutions for the new global era,” Brown said to about 350 invited guests at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum.

Rough translation: “If you Yanks would just stop clinging to your silly ’sovereignty’ and go along with our schemes, this would all be a lot easier.” Allow me to be the first to tell you to pack that shit up and take it back to the “mother country.” Most of humanity is awash in levels of poverty and overt corruption that America has spent vast amounts of her blood, toil, and treasure eliminating within her borders. And, by and large, we have been very successful.

We’re always willing to extend help to those who need it, and you would have a very difficult time finding a better ally when it counts. What we will not do, at least what I won’t do, is follow you down the rabbit hole of socialist utopian fantasies. America has helped countless other countries pull themselves out of the mire of poverty and dysfunction without the guidance of a gaggle of corrupt UN overseers. We don’t need your help to do the right thing, we’ve been doing it for more than two centuries better and faster than any international clusterfuck of self-aggrandizing bureaucrats ever could.

Here’s an idea Mister Prime Minister, why don’t you start hitting up the Chinese for massive amounts of money. They seem to be quite proud of their newfound economic prosperity, so let them start paying for shit like the big boys.  Sending money and weapons to the Janjawid for slaughtering Sudanese women and children doesn’t count as “foreign aid,” by the way.  And while we’re on the topic, where’s the demand that they cripple their economy by adopting your ridiculous “binding targets” for greenhouse gas emissions? The Chinese would tell you and your merry band of internationalist nannies to go fuck yourselves, and I heartily suggest that we follow their lead.

Last night’s Democratic debate has given most of the left a world-class case of the vapors. Evidently, when Democrats get treated like Republicans by the media it’s time to throw the outrage machine into high gear. The debate itself has been covered from both sides, and the general consensus from the legions of Obamaniacs was “hey, no fair!”

I can understand their frustrations, mainly because candidates I support have been treated like that by the media for as long as I’ve been politically aware. The fans of Senator Hopey should, however take heart. Their fearless leader has taken this opportunity to plead for more of their lunch money. I know this because I am on the official Obamessiah for America email list and I receive these kinds of critical messages on a daily basis. Yeah, I’m cool like that. I comb through this crap so you don’t have to.

Today’s missive, complete with “Important” tag, is cleverly titled “Gotcha” like every other article, blog post, and email message written by Obama supporters and party activists describing last night’s debate. It’s written by David Plouffe, Obama’s campaign manager, and it starts out like this:

Friend –

Did you see the debate last night?

If you did, you saw more gotcha politics and distractions than questions about the pressing issues affecting our country.

In fact, it took more than 45 minutes before Barack was asked about the economy, health care, or foreign policy.

The horror! Don’t these media bastards know that there job is to throw out softball questions to the Obamessiah so that he can talk about how he’s going to totally bring hope and change to America and rescue us from the clutches of Bushitler. God!

Don’t think for a moment that the media is the only one to blame however, because that Clinton bitch just looked a little too comfortable with the whole thing.

Regrettably, Senator Clinton seemed all too comfortable with that type of debate. She’s running a 100% negative campaign in Pennsylvania, taking every opportunity to make personal and discredited attacks against Senator Obama.

You can send a message that politics doesn’t have to be played this way.

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Senator Clinton’s false, negative attacks are exactly the kind of say-anything, do-anything politics that the American people are tired of.

That’s why polls show that the majority of Americans think she’s running the most negative campaign, and 58% of voters do not find her honest or trustworthy.

Barack Obama wants to end the politics of division and distraction in Washington so we can bring about real change for ordinary Americans.

It takes a special kind of talent to call someone a liar while criticizing them for being negative and get away with it. David Plouffe does not have that talent.

Every four years there is a candidate that constantly throws out phrases like “change the tone” or “politics as usual.” They try desperately to convince the naive among us that they will be different and that they’ll run a completely positive campaign. It’s bullshit, we know it’s bullshit, and the more you try to pass it off as anything other than bullshit, the more it appears that you think we’re stupid. Seriously, shut the fuck up about your opponent “going negative.” The world is a tough place and if you’re going to whine when your political opponent says something bad about you, I reserve the right to think you’re a complete candy ass.

They are also trying to turn the “elitist” charge around with this cute little graphic:

No, you’re right, “elitist” is not the word for that phenomenon. The word is “gullible.”

When Seung-Hui Cho went into that building and began shooting, he opened what may well be one of the darkest chapters in modern American collegiate history. The one-year anniversary of the event is being used by gun-control advocates to try to make us all defenseless, per their usual position. According to the Dallas Morning News, they are using a bunch of useful idiot college students to protest a proposed law that would allow students and faculty who hold concealed carry permits to carry their guns on campus.

Students gathered Wednesday in front of Dallas City Hall on the anniversary of the Virginia Tech shootings to remember those who died and to protest legislation that would allow guns in schools.

For each one of the students and teachers who died in the worst mass shooting in modern U.S. history, 32 students remembered the victims by lying on the ground. As the name of each victim was read, a bell tolled.

A total of about 100 elementary, high school and college students gathered for the event.

The event was echoed in other cities as more than 80 communities and colleges planned similar protests about guns on campus, said the North Texas Brady Campaign, which describes itself as a group that works to prevent gun violence.

Let’s see, meaningless gesture designed to gain attention? Check. Blatant exploitation of children far too young to understand the issue they’re being asked to protest? Check. Dishonest attempt to connect a policy position with a monopoly on the desire to stop something that everyone agrees is bad? Check. Looks like we have all of the core ingredients of a leftist exercise in ghoulish self-aggrandizement.

We are, of course, treated to the usual breathtaking logic of gun-control advocates.

“We at El Centro (College) say it’s time to do more to stop gun violence, especially in our schools,” said student president Ashley Holmes in a news release. “School is not a place for guns. We have campus police and Dallas police available for our protection,” she later said at the event.

That must have been the problem at Virginia Tech, they didn’t have campus or local police available to intervene. What’s that? They did have campus police and it was thirty minutes into the shootings before they showed up and another five minutes before they made their way in the building and up to the floor where they found the gunman dead?

The stupidity continues.

Some Spruce High School student council members from Dallas who joined the crowd said they were worried that states were considering laws that would allow weapons at schools.

“It’s important that we are here together to stop the law from passing,” said Sanjuanita Hernandez, 18. “There is already enough violence happening, we don’t need more.”

And there we have the crux of the issue. The point upon which leftist gun-control advocates and sane people will never seem to find common ground. In the world of lefties taking guns away from law-abiding citizens who carry them for self defense will keep criminals and psychopaths from using guns to kill innocent people. Just how in the hell that happens no one seems to know. They just believe it and it doesn’t matter if banning guns makes you more, less, or equally safe, because as long as they can feel better about the situation, actual results are meaningless.

In the hopes that some of the people who hold these types of positions on the gun issue are actually open to logic, let me say this. When a criminal decides to attack you, whether it’s with a gun, a knife, or their bare hands, the only way a police officer will be able to help you is if he happens to be standing nearby when the attack happens. Otherwise, the only real chance that most people have to avoid serious harm is dumb luck.

There are a number of people who are not willing to place their own fate or that of their loved ones in the hands of fortune. Those people will choose to be armed with a gun. Most of them will choose to learn everything they can to use that gun safely and effectively in a life-or-death situation. Many of them will be willing to put themselves in harm’s way to protect you in the event of an attack. In short, they are ready, willing, and able to meet the kind of threats we hear about on the news every day. Instead of attempting to deny them their choice, why not be thankful for them and pray that one of them is nearby if, God forbid, the day ever comes that you need them.

I’m quickly coming to the conclusion that I should just become a shut-in. The behavior of ordinary people is changing in ways that are likely to send me to prison for battery. I don’t know when it happened exactly, but at some point in the last few years, everyone in America under the age of 25 turned into a fucking zombie. I see them everywhere I go, the grocery store, restaurants, retail stores, driving in the car. They stare blankly at a small screen and type furiously with one hand as they make a half-assed attempt to negotiate the world around them. Like an army of retarded techno-savants they masterfully type 40 words per minute with their left thumb while completely fucking up the simplest of tasks, like walking and standing in public.

I should say that I am not one of those Luddites who believe that cell phones are evil. In fact, I think they should be standard equipment for any teenager that is allowed to leave the house by themselves. That’s probably an opinion that many will disagree with, but it’s a topic for another time.

The impetus for this particular post was an incident that occurred yesterday while I was out running a few simple errands. The kind of tasks that shouldn’t require a three hundred percent rise in blood pressure. At some point along my journey I became thirsty and decided to stop by the nearest convenience store for a drink. As I walked into the store and past the counter there was a line of about five people waiting to check out. This was the middle of the day so I can only assume that a line that long has something to do with lottery tickets and cigarettes. This particular store has only three aisles leading back to the refrigerated case stocked with liquid refreshment, so my options for navigating to the back of the store were limited. The closest aisle was blocked by the line of people waiting to check out, and the far aisle was blocked by an employee stocking the shelves with a half-dozen or so boxes strewn all over the floor. At this point, the middle aisle is my only option. The problem is that three teenagers, probably about seventeen or eighteen, were standing in the smack-dab center of the middle aisle. All three, one guy and two girls, were standing in the aisle with heads hung low typing furiously on their mobile devices. They paid no attention whatsoever to the merchandise on the shelves around them, indeed they seemed to have already selected their purchases. They simply stood there like zombies texting away. This is a pretty normal issue in public spaces in the modern age, so I thought nothing of heading down the aisle to politely excuse myself past the three truants and be on my way.

In virtually any civilization throughout human history, the act of navigating past others in a public area is not generally a complicated one. It involves, at most, the exchange of a few pleasantries and a polite request for pardon as you make your way through. This particular case was, of course, very different. I made my way down the aisle until I came to the first teenage-mutant-ninja texter and politely said “pardon me.” The girl glanced up briefly with a slightly annoyed look and silently moved a couple of steps to one side to let me through. The second girl was at least paying enough attention to her surroundings to notice my presence and join her friend to one side. Then I came to the third little bastard and, since he had not even looked up yet and remained in my way, said “pardon me” yet again. What happened next exceeded my already low expectations of modern teenage behavior. The shithead, without looking up from his phone, said “yea man, just a sec.” I shit you not, you could have knocked me over with a whisper. It took him about five more seconds to finish his text message, during which time I tried my best to remember exactly how long the minimum sentence for battery of a minor is in the State of Texas. By the time I had decided that whatever the sentence, it was worth it, the little turd shuffled off to one side and began another frantic message.

My mind was racing the entire way to the cooler and back to the checkout counter. After I paid for my drink, I turned around and the three teenage speedbumps were still standing in the aisle texting their little thumbs off. Thirty years ago, especially in Texas, this same scenario would have ended with the little shit being dragged out of the way by his ear and subjected to a thorough lecture on public courtesy. Today, the same thing would get you sent to prison, and the kid would be interviewed by the local news weasels with his mother crying about how horrible the experience was for the little choir boy.

The bottom line is that the tide has turned, and those of us who value politeness and consideration for others are, by far, the minority. I was taught by my parents at a very early age that other people were not paying for the privilege of hearing my conversation in a restaurant. Go to any eatery today, and the chance of you being seated next to some loud-mouthed ass who insists on subjecting you to his constant stream of bullshit approaches one. Try driving on a freeway in any major metropolitan area in this country without being cut off, tailgated, or nearly run off the road. You can’t, because the assholes have been given the protection of law and any decent person who stands up for themselves is likely to have the police called on them. In this climate, if I make it to forty without being arrested for assault it will be a miracle.

And while we’re on the subject of assholes and freeways, in the state of Texas, “Yield” is not a fucking suggestion. It is not my job to exit a freeway and come to a complete goddamn stop before changing lanes. If you don’t like having to stop for other traffic, buy the fucking tolltag like the rest of us. Now I need a drink of a different sort.

If you can read this article about the recommendations of a United Nations panel of “experts” regarding the rising cost of food and figure out what the fuck they actually propose doing, you’re a better person than I am. The article goes on for paragraph after paragraph about how the evil “rich” countries are failing to provide cheap food to Africa and other “poor” parts of the world, and in the same breath they’re whining about the need for reduced environmental impact. But make sure you don’t use biofuels, because those are a “crime against humanity.”

“Modern agriculture will have to change radically if the international community wants to cope with growing populations and climate change, while avoiding social fragmentation and irreversible deterioration of the environment,” said Salvatore Arico, a biodiversity specialist with the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, or Unesco, summarizing the report by about 400 experts.

The report tries to provide a comprehensive view on how to produce food that is less dependent on fossil fuels; favors locally available resources, natural fertilizers and traditional seeds; and tries to preserve the soil and water supply.

You see, the problem is that feeding the poor is a good thing as long as it doesn’t have a negative impact on the environment. If getting food to them requires the use of evil fossil fuels, then the bastards should just have the decency to starve.

We’ve had pretty cheap food prices for decades now, and then some jackass had the bright idea to start shoving ears of corn into our gas tanks. Now we have $5-per-bushel corn and every other agricultural commodity is going through the roof.

India and China are developing at an incredible rate and chewing up more and more of the food supply, and yet these dorks are proposing that we abandon the agricultural advances of the last hundred years that have allowed us to feed the world. All because feeding starving Africans might finally be having a negative impact on the cause célèbre of the international jet set. It’s a crisis people and we need to release a report by a panel of “experts” that gives conflicting advice so that we can start getting something done!

In other words, they want money. It’s a really solid rule that when lefties start pitching a fit about something, no matter what the issue, they want your money. At some point I wish they would have the common decency to just go ahead and rob us at gunpoint. At least then I could feel like they put some work into it.

Michelle Malkin highlights this story from the campus of Marquette University.

The whole exchange got started with a class discussion of supposed “over criminalization,” the notion that government outlaws too many things, resulting in a lack of respect for the law. It then moved to a discussion of how police supposedly abuse their powers, using traffic laws as a “pretext” to stop drivers in order to, for example, search for drugs.

At this point the student, Greg Karge, chimed in to point out that police often bear the brunt of this disrespect for the law, mentioning an incident he had seen. An Hispanic who was pulled over proceeded to abuse the cops, calling them “racist.”

In spite of the fact that race was explicitly part of the context of the discussion, Snow objected to the mention of the driver’s ethnicity trying to, according to Karge, “stop me in the middle of my comment, trying to give me a wave” and then saying “why did you bring that up?” Another student remembers Snow saying “Greg, this is offensive, we have a diverse group in the room.” Another student said of Snow’s response “it surprised me because I personally didn’t find his response offensive.”

So a philosophy professor begins a discussion that most likely devolved quickly into a slightly more highbrow version of “Fuck tha Police.” One of her students, who is presumably not of the leftist, all-cops-are-racist-pigs, “Free Mumia” school of thought, had the unmitigated temerity to suggest that perhaps the cops have a very difficult and dangerous job that the vast majority of them do very well and with and incredible amount of patience and restraint. The racist little bastard was, of course, forced to apologize.

After class Snow took Karge aside and told him that his comments “could have been interpreted as offensive,” mentioning especially offense to black students. She “suggested” to him that he should write an apology to the black students. Instead, he wrote the apology to the entire class. It read as follows:

I would just like to apologize for any of my comments that I said today that may have offended anyone, that was not my intention by any means. I did not articulate my argument the way that I wanted to, but that is no excuse if I did accidentally offend anyone I would like to explain myself [and] deeply apologize.

I’m going to give Mr. Karge a break on his use of the non-apology apology because he should never have written the damn thing in the first place. In an ideal world, the professor would have been told, publicly, that no such apology was necessary, none was forthcoming, and if she found that unsatisfactory, she could kiss his ass. Unfortunately, not everyone is capable of the cavalier attitude towards one’s academic well-being that I managed to master during my college years. So, in light of the fact that he was forced to apologize by his tenured toad of a professor, I would at least have hoped for something that went a little more like this:

I am profoundly sorry that my statements during today’s classroom discussion did not reflect a proper sensitivity for the feelings of criminals and lesbian college professors. I realize now that my lack of proper perspective no doubt caused grievous harm to the tradition of academic homogeneity to which the esteemed faculty of Marquette University have devoted their careers. In the future I will purpose to maintain, at all times, an attitude of humility and shame for the millenia of oppression that my white male ancestors have wrought upon the downtrodden of the world, and remember that all representatives of authority, no matter their race, are simply tools of that oppression.

In all seriousness, if you have kids approaching college age, just remember that you’ll be paying tens of thousands of dollars for the privilege of subjecting them to this shit. Meditate on that as you munch your corn flakes.

Yesterday there was a story going around about Barack Obama making condescending remarks about the typical white people in rural Pennsylvania. Today the AP is running a story about the campaign’s response to that particularly huge fuck up.

MUNCIE, Ind. (AP) - Democrat Barack Obama on Saturday conceded that comments he made about bitter working class voters who “cling to guns or religion” were ill chosen, as he tried to stem a burst of complaints that he is condescending.

“I didn’t say it as well as I should have,” he said.

It was just a misstatement you see, he was trying to explain the frustration of rural Pennsylvanians to his fellow sophisticates and he failed to couch his terms in sufficiently populist verbiage. All of these silly wingnuts trying to make a big deal out of this are just failing to understand the nuance and layered thought processes of the Obamessiah.

Let’s have a little thought experiment, shall we? Say, for example, that John McCain was speaking to a group of rich, white businessmen in a private mansion right here in Dallas, Texas. As he was giving his remarks to the assembled party he began to address the struggles that the Republican Party will have in trying to woo the black vote, and he said the following:

You go into some of these urban centers in New York or D.C., and like a lot of major cities on the East Coast, the poverty has been endemic now for 40 years and nothing’s really changed for them. And they fell through the Carter Administration, the Reagan Administration, the Clinton administration, and both of the Bush administrations, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate and they have not. And it’s not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to gangs or basketball or hip-hop, class envy aimed at white people or anti-Republican sentiment or anti-American sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.

I’m going to bet my entire net worth that McCain, or any other Republican for that matter, would not get the benefit of the doubt from the left. He would be decried as a rich, white racist who believes that black people are too stupid to do what’s in their own best interest, and we should all be understanding because their desperate situation and their inferior intellect make them unable to see the wisdom of voting Republican.

Obama is an elitist leftist with a strong background in bitter class warfare indoctrination. If you look at the history of those who have been closest to him in both his political and personal life, it’s a virtual Who’s Who of rabid Marxist ideologues. The “beyond politics” bullshit is just that, a bullshit facade. Every piece of available evidence suggests that this guy is Markos Moulitsas Zuniga with better packaging.

God’s whereabouts are unknown at this time. Police in Terre Haute are calling Him a “person of interest.”

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/04/11/fire-destroys-clinton-cam_n_96215.html

TERRE HAUTE, Ind. — Fire destroyed a campaign office of presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton in western Indiana early Friday.

Two people were inside when the fire broke out but escaped without injuries, said Terre Haute Fire Department spokesman John Gardner.

Gardner said nothing so far had indicated the fire was arson.

“But we’re doing a full investigation on it like any other commercial structure fire,” he said.

In the latest bid for Parent of the Year, a 19-year-old man stormed into his girlfriend’s workplace and began violently threatening her in an argument about how their young son would be raised. It seems that our heroes have strong opinions about which gang their son should claim as his own.

COMMERCE CITY, Colo. — A couple fighting about which gang their 4-year-old toddler should join caused a public disturbance that resulted in the father’s arrest, Commerce City police said Thursday.

On Saturday, Joseph Manzanares stormed into the Hollywood Video store where his girlfriend worked, threatened to kill her and knocked over several video displays and even a computer, Commerce City police Sgt. Joe Sandoval said.After he ran out of the store, police were called and the 19-year-old was arrested at his home.

His girlfriend told police that they had been arguing about the upbringing of their son and which gang he should belong to. The teen mother, who is black, is a member of the Crips. Manzanares is Hispanic and belongs to the Westside Ballers gang, the woman said.”They have different ideas on how the baby should be raised. Basically, she said they cannot agree on which gang the baby would ‘claim,’” Sandoval said.

I’m still not sold on mandatory sterilization for morons for practical reasons, but we’re getting there.

I graduated from Baylor University in the heart of the great state of Texas some years ago. They will not be getting any donations anytime soon after inviting Juan Hernandez to speak. If you don’t know who that is, you may know him by his other name, The Number One Reason Why Brett Will Be Drunk While Voting. Michelle has a few excellent questions for Senor Asshole.

Ask him about this comment: ““We must not only have a free flow of goods and services, but also start working for a free flow of people.”

Ask him about his lobbying for illegal alien driver’s licenses and Mexico first. Ask him about his defense of Mexican bus operators carrying illegal aliens to the USA, and promoted extending banking privileges to illegal aliens.

Ask him about this comment: “I want ‘em all to think Mexico first.”

Ask about his work for the Soros-funded Reform Institute.

I have another question, does McCain think that in the age of the internet this guy’s history won’t be laid open for public consumption? If I were running for President, even as someone who was pissed off at conservatives, you couldn’t get me to knowingly share the same zip code with this guy much less have him anywhere near my campaign. Then again, if I ran for President, my affair with Gennifer Flowers would probably do me in anyway.