America’s greatest threat

Nov 23 2011 Published by under 2010 Elections, Congress

What’s the greatest threat facing America today? Turkey. Not the country, the bird. And not just the bird, but the dead bird. The Department of Homeland Security tweeted on Monday how dangerous it can be to fry a turkey. And, in case you thought that someone left their computer unlocked and somebody tweeted it as a joke, they also put up a blog post about it. The Department of Homeland Security, that great arm of Big Brother, knows that Islamic terrorists aren’t so much of a threat. Sure, they want to kill us, but that’s our fault. Just ask Ron Paul. After flirting with the idea that right wingers were a threat — not because of things they’ve done, but because there’s the possibility that some right-winger might do something… Left-wing violence was never an issue. Sure, they’ve been shooting Congresswomen and crashing planes into buildings and raping hippies, but that’s actual violence. The real threat has always been potential violence. Since the left has actual violence, and the right has potential violence, the right must be a bigger threat. Until now. As DHS has so kindly informed us, the real threat is dead turkeys. They’re evil. So evil, that after they’re dead and frozen, they’ll still try to burn down your house. So, as we approach Thanksgiving, be thankful that we have a government department that wants to protect us from turkeys. Now, if we can only find someone to protect us from the turkeys at DHS.

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HuffPo Brushes Off Blogger Strike as Hypocritical “Scabs” Keep Writing

May 12 2011 Published by under 2010 Elections

Laughing all the way to the bank. Labor unions claim to champion the Worker, confronting management in pursuit of “fair” compensation. However, the real enemies of organized labor have always been competing non-union workers. We need look no further than the word “scab.” This pejorative reference to someone who crosses a picket line was coined for a single purpose, to coerce behavior through intimidation . That’s the only way a union can function. The only way to prevent people from filling vacancies left by strike is to – well, prevent them. That is why conservatives tend to oppose organized labor, not because there is anything inherently wrong with collective bargaining, but because we detest coercion . The case is vividly made in an ongoing development as instructive as it is amusing. The Huffington Post has been under strike for weeks, and nobody seems to notice. [The] strike has been called by two legitimate unions: the Newspaper Guild (an affiliate of the Communications Workers of America) and the National Writers Union, Local 1981 of the United Auto Workers. The two unions, and hundreds of bloggers throughout the country, are trying to get a share of the riches pocketed by the owners of the Huffington Post via its sale to AOL, and, as important, set a standard for fair treatment in the future… This strike can be won. But, the many bloggers who call themselves “liberals” or “progressives”–people who collect money from unions and/or ask for labor’s political endorsements–have to stop crossing the Huffington Post electronic picket line. But, they continue to work for–scab– at a workplace that is being struck and boycotted. Part of the unions’ frustration stems from the nature of an “electronic picket line.” It’s a hell of a lot tougher to intimidate people when you can’t physically obstruct them, shout them down, or pay a “visit” to their house. [A] campaign–to publicly identify and praise people who support the strike and publicly identify the scabs –is about to commence in earnest. Why do the unions want to “identify the scabs?” So they can be effectively bullied into acting against their self-interest. That’s perhaps the most amusing aspect of the story, leftists nakedly perusing self-interest. In shrugging off the strike, HuffPo bloggers are affirming a fundamentally conservative principle. Here are three of the justifications from a few of the scabs I have spoken to or emailed with directly–all of whom have received labor money and/or labor political endorsements. … I’ve determined that she [Huffington] is too important to me and I don’t care whether I’m scabbing or you call me a scab. Ok, you are a scab. I get five times as many people to read what I write about [X topic...] so I’m not going to do this. “This” being honoring the picket line. I’m an independent contractor who writes where I choose whether the place is organized or not. Perhaps the lamest of the excuses I’ve heard. Hilarious, isn’t it? What these HuffPo contributors are saying is, Listen, I’m getting value out of my consensual relationship with The Huffington Post . I’m  sorry you’re not. But that’s you’re problem. Indeed, why should anyone refuse to work if the work benefits them? More to the point, why should anyone be kept from working if the work benefits them? Next: What union coercion says tells us about their claims…

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Smelly candles, plastic flowers, and scratching posts

Apr 08 2011 Published by under 2010 Elections

So, now the big news is that it looks like the government might shut down. Like that’s a bad thing. All this time, those of us on the right have been complaining about the size of government. Now, it might shut down. And I say “Good!” It could use a good shutting down. Only, the government really won’t shut down . “National parks, national forests and the Smithsonian Institution would all be closed. The NIH Clinical Center will not take new patients, and no new clinical trials will start,” he added in a roll call of expected agency closings. But the air traffic control system would stay up and running, the emergency management agency would still respond to natural disasters and border security would not be affected. That means that the government will still operate to some degree, but non-essential personnel will be sent home : …John Gage, president of the American Federation of Government Employees, the largest federal employee union… (said) “Employees are apparently going to be told to report to work Monday (then) they will be released, and those who are nonessential, nonexempt will be released and the other ones will be told to stay.” What’s all this mean? It means that those of us on the right were right all along. The government is full of people whose jobs aren’t necessary. And they don’t even know who they are. There are too many non-essentials when the economy is good and the government isn’t running a deficit. It’s even worse during this Obama economy. There’s word that some military might not get paid. Which means what? That the Obama administration considers them non-essential? That sounds like a bunch of stupid liberals. Gotta fund those abortion clinics, but not so much the American soldier. The military is one of the essentials. But there are plenty of non-essentials in the government today. Now, I don’t think that non-essentials are necessarily a bad thing. I’m sitting at a computer right now. Not the cheapest computer, either. I spent around $3,000 for this MacBook Pro. That’s a lot of money. And, I could have made do with a $400 Dell, I suppose. And, looking around the room, I see a fish tank. We don’t eat the fish, so it’s non-essential. There are some trinkets on the coffee table and shelves. Some plastic flowers. A Rubik’s Cube (what’s that doing on the coffee table?). Candles. A scratching post for the cat. Non-essentials. In tough times, we wouldn’t have all them. And that’s what the government is full of: non-essentials. Lots of people who work for the government are trinkets and plastic flowers. Some are smelly candles. The military is more like the doors, walls, shotguns, and such: they protect us and keep us safe. Not a whole lot of smelly candles and plastic flowers there. For the U.S. to come out ahead on this, they need to send the non-essentials home. And leave them there. Let the non-essentials get a real job. Oh, sure, there are lots of people out of work right now. Non-essentials. I’m not saying they aren’t qualified. I’m saying their job wasn’t needed when they lost it. I don’t mind so much when business hires non-essentials. They are in the business to make money. And, when they make money, they have more money to spend on the non-essential jobs. Which, after a while of being done exceptionally, gets more focus and becomes essential. The government, not so much. The business world is hurting because it has to cut non-essentials while the government keeps the plastic flowers and scratching posts on the payroll. The government should get rid of all those smelly candles and plastic flowers. Then, they wouldn’t spend so much money. And you could have more smelly candles, plastic flowers, and scratching posts. Personally, I don’t care about smelly candles, plastic flowers, and scratching posts. Wife likes them, though. And things are better when she’s happy.

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DHS and the Walmart

Dec 08 2010 Published by under 2010 Elections

Drudge is reporting that DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano wants you to report on other people. If George W. Bush had said this, the left would be all up in arms. But, since one of Obama’s incompetents made the suggestion, it’s okay with the left. But we on the right are getting our panties in a wad about it. Should we? Heck, I don’t know. Because Big Sis launched the campaign at … Walmart . The “If You See Something, Say Something” campaign—originally implemented by New York City’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority and funded, in part, by $13 million from DHS’ Transit Security Grant Program—is a simple and effective program to engage the public and key frontline employees to identify and report indicators of terrorism, crime and other threats to the proper transportation and law enforcement authorities. More than 230 Walmart stores nationwide launched the “If You See Something, Say Something” campaign today, with a total of 588 Walmart stores in 27 states joining in the coming weeks. A short video message, available here, will play at select checkout locations to remind shoppers to contact local law enforcement to report suspicious activity. You see the problem I have with this, right? Not that Big Sis wants us to report each other. It’s that they’re asking for suspicious activity at Walmart. I wonder has she ever been to a Walmart? I was at one the other day, and saw Elvis : Someone else saw him, too, but in California . On the same day, no less. But, then, it is a Walmart. Where you can find people like this: And this: And this: And this: Okay, that’s enough. It’s more than enough. You can see more, if you like . Anyway, what I’m wondering is, are we supposed to report suspicious people we see at Walmart? And, what’s the criteria for “suspicious” at Walmart? Looking normal? If I was looking for suspicious people to report, I wouldn’t need to go to a Walmart to find some. There’s this person . And this one .

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DHS and the Walmart

Dec 08 2010 Published by under 2010 Elections

Drudge is reporting that DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano wants you to report on other people. If George W. Bush had said this, the left would be all up in arms. But, since one of Obama’s incompetents made the suggestion, it’s okay with the left. But we on the right are getting our panties in a wad about it. Should we? Heck, I don’t know. Because Big Sis launched the campaign at … Walmart . The “If You See Something, Say Something” campaign—originally implemented by New York City’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority and funded, in part, by $13 million from DHS’ Transit Security Grant Program—is a simple and effective program to engage the public and key frontline employees to identify and report indicators of terrorism, crime and other threats to the proper transportation and law enforcement authorities. More than 230 Walmart stores nationwide launched the “If You See Something, Say Something” campaign today, with a total of 588 Walmart stores in 27 states joining in the coming weeks. A short video message, available here, will play at select checkout locations to remind shoppers to contact local law enforcement to report suspicious activity. You see the problem I have with this, right? Not that Big Sis wants us to report each other. It’s that they’re asking for suspicious activity at Walmart. I wonder has she ever been to a Walmart? I was at one the other day, and saw Elvis : Someone else saw him, too, but in California . On the same day, no less. But, then, it is a Walmart. Where you can find people like this: And this: And this: And this: Okay, that’s enough. It’s more than enough. You can see more, if you like . Anyway, what I’m wondering is, are we supposed to report suspicious people we see at Walmart? And, what’s the criteria for “suspicious” at Walmart? Looking normal? If I was looking for suspicious people to report, I wouldn’t need to go to a Walmart to find some. There’s this person . And this one .

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lolgov – Part the last

Dec 03 2010 Published by under 2010 Elections

Harvey will be back at IMAO soon . And, you’ll be able to read new

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Maybe Harvey will be inspired. Maybe.

Nov 25 2010 Published by under 2010 Elections

lolcats inspired Harvey to start up lolterizt . And lolbama . Maybe Harvey will start up lolgov or something. [ Reference ] Maybe not. But, until he does, if you have some to submit, send them to me at lol@basilsblog.net . I’ll post them, or some of them, or all of them, next week. Or tomorrow. Or when I feel like it.

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“Tax-Cutter Obama” Revisited: Daily Beast Blogger Sets a New Standard in Leftist Duplicity

Nov 09 2010 Published by under 2010 Elections

The most amazing thing liberals have done is create the myth of a compliant right-wing media with Republicans badgering baffled reporters into attacking Democrats. It’s so mad, it’s brilliant. It’s one kind of lie to say the Holocaust occurred when the Swedes killed the Jews. But it’s another kind of lie entirely to say the Holocaust occurred when the Jews killed the Nazis. Ann Coulter in Godless Today we have a positively exquisite example of such a leftist lie.  Pseudo-victimhood, boldly claiming the moral high ground, projecting one side’s sins onto the other side…this one’s got it all. The author of today’s opus is Rick Perlstein, who took to the Daily Beast this weekend to bemoan the fact that Rush Limbaugh brazenly lied about Barack Obama’s record on taxes, and that our poor tax-lowering president is too polite and civil to stand up for himself: The caller quoted Obama’s words: “Because of this plan, 95 percent of the working households in America will receive a tax cut –- a tax cut that you will see in your paychecks beginning on April 1.” (Which was true: People did.) Rush responded, fluidly and without a gram of doubt. “Pay no attention to what Obama says. He means the opposite in most cases. What he says is irrelevant.” So the guy to whom all Republicans must kowtow on pain of political death had just laid down a marker that everything Obama said was a lie. PolitiFact says this promise did indeed manifest in the stimulus bill, as a $400-per-worker tax credit.  Limbaugh 0, Perlstein 1? Not quite—remember, redistributive tax credits aren’t the same as tax cuts , and the point Rush was making wasn’t that this particular policy wouldn’t happen, but that Obama was disingenuous in using it to define himself as a tax cutter, because tax hikes due to the rest of Obama’s costly agenda would easily eclipse it. Which is true—as I wrote back in September : Obama’s pledge not to raise taxes on Americans making under $250,000 was undermined from the start by no less than four proposed tax increases that would hit those very Americans (letting the Bush tax cuts expire, lifting the payroll tax cap, raising capital gains taxes, and raising taxes on businesses). Since taking office, Obama has also raised smoking taxes , enacted a staggeringly expensive health care plan , supported (if not enacted) a staggeringly expensive cap and trade plan , and, according to ABC’s Jake Tapper , has proposed a grand total of nearly 1 trillion dollars in new taxes over the next decade. According to Peter Roff of US News & World Report , Obama’s proposed 2010 budge was twice as costly as the 2009 one Tapper reported on—“ without taking into account the potential impact on revenues if the cap and trade energy tax ever passes.” Misleading though it may be, so far this seems like fairly standard Democrat apologetics. Perlstein then takes it to the next level by lamenting that Obama’s dogged avoidance of the “old politics of division” has made him all but powerless in the face of conservative propagandizing, and its enablers in, of all places, the media : (a) A mountebank teaches his millions of followers that everything the president says is a priori a lie; b) The mainstream media that acts as if anything his millions of followers believe is a priori deserving of respect as heartland folk wisdom (note the cover article lionizing Limbaugh in this week’s Newsweek ); That cover article , written by recent Rush biographer Zev Chafets, only “lionizes” him in the sense that it talks about how influential he is (which is true) and doesn’t actively try to paint him as a monster—helpfully illustrating, by the way, what I said in my review of Chafets’s book: to leftists, “the only good Rush book reaffirms their own prejudices.” And given that Newsweek is Perlstein’s only example of MSM Rush-worship (because that case is kind of hard to make with outlets that slander the guy ), it’s worth noting that the last major cover piece the magazine did on Limbaugh was David Frum’s infamous attack , and their archives are full of less “lionizing” stories.

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