Asheville Loved Mitt

It's an hour-and-a-half drive to Asheville, and we left the Land of Livermush as quickly as we could.  But, we got there a little later than we'd hoped (4:30pm), although well before the advertised start time (5:30).  Parking nearby was nonexistent, as was anything resembling organized direction/information.  We found a parking garage and walked about a 1/4 mile to the Civic Center.

There were still folks coming in behind us...

But many, many more in front of us...

The Obamabots know their messiah has such a deplorable, indefensible record, of course they endorse "NoBoDy" as a viable 3rd candidate...

All in all, the opposition was small and meaningless...which is exactly representative of who they are.  Mostly, they were a minor irritation, but I wished I'd have thought to show some appreciation for this guy (at far right, with the RR Money sign).  Dude!  You're on the wrong side.  Money is a good thing.  It represents value, as in "You have this skill, or trade, or product, or service, and I have these folding American dollars...let's trade!...it'll be good for both of us...and Governor Romney is YOUR GUY!"...

On the citizens' side of the barricade, everyone was just lovely.  We're smarter, more well-read, smell better, are much much nicer, and there's so many more of us.

Romney in Asheville 12-1011 from liv erm'ush on Vimeo.

The exit from the parking garage, after the event, was the worst challenge to our patience.  We sat in a line on level three for over an hour without moving.  There was only one exit lane, and a guy in a tee shirt with "SHERIFF" on it, took each driver's ticket and stuck it in the machine (which each driver could have done his/herself), and advised against incorrect change ("you'll get back dollar coins...oh, the horror!").  I asked numbnuts sheriff whyfor the delay, and he blamed Gov. Romney (I am NOT making this up) for not telling him sooner about the event.

No, you dipshit, the solution could have easily been: lock the guard-arm in the "up" position, and have a pocketful of change.  He could've just as rationally blamed George Bush.

There were 3 bumper stickers I saw & loved...sorry I didn't get pix of them to share:

"My dog created more shovel-ready jobs than Obama"

and

"What one thing has Obama done that we want four more years of?"

and my favorite, actually returning to the LoL:

"10 out of 10 idiots prefer Obama"

Ain't it the truth?

The Livermush Audience

In an English Compostion class in kollege, one of the first things I learned was to have and keep an idea of who my audience was.  That is, who did I expect, or want, to be reading what I would write.

I confess that the more I write, the fuzzier and undefined my imagined audience seems to become.

So, for this blog post, I'm at least going to say who I hope to reach...

To those who sit on the fence regarding elections, afraid of making a mistake.  To those family & friends who harbored some sense of "white guilt" for past sins, real or imagined, against black folks and wanted back in '08 to say you've atoned for those sins by pulling the lever for a black man.

To those who've ostracized me for my outspokenness, those who've engaged in character assasination rather than debate, and those who prefer coalition building over community.

To those friends and relatives who believe that celebrity and polish are even nearly as important as honesty and accountability.

I don't care if you like me or agree with me, my country is at the direst of crossroads.  Along one path, there's a chance for America.  It isn't guaranteed, but it's a chance.  Along the other path, everthing good is at risk.  It is just that simple.



Thanks Victory Girls for the above video.

Any of you out there who know me...

If you'll go to Dinesh D'Souza's movie 2016, and bring me your ticket stub, I'll refund you the money.  Whether you like it or not, and whether it affects your opinion or not, I'll reimburse you.  Or, if there isn't a theatre nearby, I'll arrange to have the DVD sent to your home!

Additionally, anyone who wants to join me for Atlas Shrugged Part II tomorrow night, I'll pay your way.

Another video for you, thanks to Sister Toldjah.  James O'Keefe is busting corruptocrats again.  This time it's actual coordinated voter fraud by Obama's supporters.  Don't think your vote matters?  Consider the fact that America's internal enemies are voting twice (or more).



And finally, to Mr. Eberle (hope I recall the spelling correctly), from UCLA (University of Cullowhee Left of Asheville): Thanks for teaching me something.

2 Quotes

Here are two quotes for your Thursday morning, both coming from essays at Townhall.com:

From Thomas Sowell, "The role of a confidence man is not to convince skeptics, but to help the gullible believe what they want to believe."

And from Ann Coulter, "You will never see anything so brave as a liberal fighting nonexistent enemies."

Subscribing to Townhall is free.  They'll deliver fantastic writing from over a dozen of your favorite essayists to your email inbox every day, just like they do for me.

Arm yourself.

2016 Movie by Dinesh D'Souza

Princess Nagsalot & I went out for a rare movie night yesterday evening, to see Obama's America: 2016.  We thought it hit the Corruptocrat-In-Chief square between the eyes.

I don't remember ever going to a documentary in the theatres before, but this was worth it...even the $9 a pop cover charge.  We went to a 10-plex theatre, and I believe the empty parking lot (relatively so, maybe 20 cars total) was as much testament to the damage Obama's economic policies have done to how Americans spend their disposable income, as anything in the film.

The theatre showing the film was empty when we went in, five minutes before showtime, and only one other couple sat for this Saturday night at 9:10 showing.  It was nice to have a semi-private showing, but I was sad (and told the other couple so, afterward) that the place wasn't packed.

I think everyone should see this film before going into the voting both this November.  Because, as the filmmakers say, "...like him or not, do you really know him?"

There isn't any ranting between opposing parties (ala FoxNews, et al), but just methodical historical & cultural analysis by a scholar whose background is remarkably similar to Obama's.

At the end of the film, the producers paint a rather bleak picture of a "post-Obama" America, should he win a 2nd term.  I defy anyone to find holes in his logic.

Consider this point: After Ahmadinijad's Iranian election, Iranian citizens revolted, thinking they had a sympathetic figure in the White House.  They were wrong.  America did not come back them up, as they'd hoped.  By contrast, witness all the violent protests currently occurring in the Middle East and North Africa.  The difference for those folks?

They DO have a sympathetic ear in Washington.  And Dinesh D'Souza tells you why.

Gather your friends and family, and go see this film.

Flight 93 Memorial In Shanksville Memorializes The Terrorists

I recently said in a comment on another blog that, "Until there are no Islamic terrorists, ALL of them are terrorists."  I'd extrapolate this to include: Until there is no such thing as Sharia Law or apologists to Islam, ALL of Islam is an abomination & an afront to civilization.

The "Crescent of Embrace" is being built in Shanksville.  A majority of it has been completed.  It is STILL a memorial to the terrorists.  I refused to help build this thing, and remain steadfastly opposed to it.  Good American men died bringing that plane down.  And Paul Murdoch's design serves to dishonor them with repeated and consistant Muslim imagery.

Read Alec Rawls blogburst here...

9/11: New Park Service images prove the Crescent of Embrace memorial to Flight 93 is unchanged
The original Crescent of Embrace design for the Flight 93 memorial (left) was laid out in the configuration of an Islamic crescent and star flag (right). The crash site sits between the tips of the giant crescent, in the position of the star on an Islamic flag.

When this apparent symbol of Islamic triumph caused a national uproar seven years ago the Memorial Project (a public-private entity overseen by the Park Service) promised to change the design, but as demonstrated by the images below, they never did make any significant changes:


Above: original Crescent of Embrace design. Below: a frame from the Park Service's new virtual fly-by of the Circle of Embrace "re-design" as it is being built. (Comparison image thanks to MaxK.)

The most significant change is the few extra trees that are being planted outside the mouth of the original crescent (starting at the crescent tip on the right, where the flight path symbolically "breaks the circle," and continuing down behind the Sacred Ground Plaza that marks the crash site). These few trees supposedly turn the crescent into a circle, but as you can see, they do no such thing, but only apply the most minor window dressing to what is still a bare naked Islamic-shaped crescent.

I Think We're Gonna Win, Too, Bill

If you're like me (and who doesn't at least want to be, right?) you love the freedom to boldly lean your shoulder into a task that you know with your heart of hearts is the right thing to do.  Everyone's feelings be damned.

That's the way I feel about Gov. Romney's pick of Paul Ryan.  To me, it's Romney saying to the voting public, "You folks justifiably had your reservations regarding my committment to lead from the Right.  I've had to be a politician as Governor of Massachusetts, in the past.  But as President, this country will need an actual leader who's unafraid of getting his nose bloodied.  And the scrapper I'll have backing me up is this guy..."

Watch this video.  Is there anyone out there that makes you punch the air and say "YES!" anymore than Bill Whittle?  I loves me some Afterburner...



On a related note, think about the upcoming election from the businessman's perspective.  Small businessman, that is...like me...

The American spirit is out there poised like a spring.  We're ready to go.  We're ready to spend money and sweat.  We did build that, with our own money and our hard work.  The only shackles we know of (can you hear me Joe Biden?) are those that government devises.

And it is time, right now, to begin owning the recovery.  Any good economic news you hear reported out there, henceforward, is directly attributable to the positive outlook business has for our near future beyond this November.

Again, if you hear a report of Company X is hiring 45 new employees, it's because of their enthusiasm that those corruptocrats are about to be shown the door.

Happy Milton Friedman's Birthday Day Y'all

I think I've posted this video before, but it certainly bears repeating.

Milton Friedman would have been 100 years old today.  I see that William Jacobson over at Legal Insurrection has done likewise.

Please send this to anyone you know who thinks ...well, send it to anyone who thinks.  And send it to anyone who doesn't.

Care To Guess What I'll Be Doing?

On October 12?

Jonah Goldberg & How Liberals Cheat In The War of Ideas

I keep stumbling on great videos to share.  So, share I will.





You are a racist or an ideologue or worthy of some other label, if only you fail to subjugate yourself to the greater "common good."  This is the same hogwash that Ayn Rand warned you of: that the collective is somehow superior to the Individual.

You'll find the Liberals' same semantical shell-game in The Little Blue Book.  It's just as it claims, a primer on how to close your mind to rational thought, and succumb to group-think collectivism.

Mike Vanderbeogh reminds us that the best way to defeat them is to first know them.  And TLBB is their user's manual.

As Mike points out, among other things, their book identifies "Four Effects of Extreme Conservatism" as justification for subscribing to Progressivism:

The Effect on Democracy- 

Extreme conservatism inflicts its damage in multiple venues: it chips away at democracy and the Public; it poisons the human spirit; and in the world community, it contributes to human agony and damages both America's standing in the world and America's friendships with other nations. Extreme conservatism is not merely about abortion, the size of government, or gun control. Extreme conservatism is an all-encompassing worldview, and its adherents want to bring into its compass the lives of every citizen. 

The consequence is intransigence, a refusal to compromise, a high level of aggression toward other moral views, and the ambition of total control by the ideology itself. (MBV note: Shucks, and here I just thought we wanted to be left alone by these nanny-state tyrants.) This intransigence showed up in the 2010 House of Representatives, controlled by extreme conservatives, who have refused to compromise with President Obama. Not only does their moral system not allow compromise, but extreme conservatives believe that if this intransigence leads to a nonfunctioning government, so much the better, since that would prove that government doesn't work. And if that leads to a failure to fund ongoing social programs, so much the better, since those programs need to go. 

Extreme conservatism's all-encompassing nature and ambition are usually hidden from view. Much of its work is done in think tanks, which are tasked to come up with strategic initiatives to take control of major areas of public life. . . At the same time, conservative communication experts find language for those initiatives that seems simple and intuitive but hides the major effect of the issue on American democracy and the public . . . Democracy is not just about government; it is about all areas of life: family, religion, education, and business. When extreme strict father values are imposed, extreme conservatism comes to run institutions of all sorts, including the following: 

Family: As we have seen, extreme strict father parenting is often destructive and abusive. Children in such situations, if they do not rebel, often grow up reproducing authoritarian family life and imposing it in other areas of their lives. Women who are natural nurturers may have a hard time speaking up when disagreeing in important matters. 

Religion: Extreme forms of conservative religion, whether Christianity, Judaism, or Islam, have authoritarian organizational structures . . .

Education: Extreme conservatism can occur in the classroom. . . Teaching is spoon-feeding: students are not taught how to think critically or how to think for themselves, but are taught to recite the right answers without questioning the teacher.

Continue beyond the fold to learn more of their presumed justification for opposing your individuality...

New Film By Dinesh D'Souza

Probably not really that big a deal that your messiah was mentored & nurtured by a Soviet Communist.  Right?


Even more disturbing is the possibility that the "father figure" in his autobiography is a "compressed" version of imaginary persons to hide the identity of the real father...

Vanderboegh on Lou Dobbs' Show

Programming Alert kids:

Mike Vanderboegh & David Codrea will be on the Lou Dobbs Tonight show, 7PM Eastern this evening, on Fox Business Channel.  They'll be discussing the DC Bar malpractice(?) case against Eric Holder.

Don't get Fox Business Channel?

Demand it!

Seriously, folks.  Fox Business is all the good that is the Fox News network, without hardly any of the Shepard Smith drama-girling (and related nonsensical fluff).

You Show Me Yours...I'll Show You Mine

Lil Debbie WassermanSchultz-her-face and David (the real Darth Vader) Axelrod have recently been heard bemoaning Mitt Romney's offshore holdings.  The point indirectly (and then more directly by the Obamamedia) asserting that unless he "comes clean" about the amounts and nature of those accounts, nobody can really know what's there or isn't there.

One of the montage of talking heads Hannity played yesterday had the nerve to ask, "if he's not willing to release his past tax filings, what does he have to hide?"

Well, yeah.  That's absolutely right.  Why in the world would anyone want to hide  their own hard-earned money from a rabidly confiscatory evermore-gluttonous federal government?  Sure beats me.

If I'm Mitt Romney and get asked about it, my response would be, "I'll be happy to give you every detail about those accounts...on the two following conditions.

"All the President has to do is rescind his Executive Order over the Fast & Furious documents and cooperate fully with the Congressional investigation, and I will submit every last detail regarding those accounts, when they were opened, and how much is in them.  Furthermore, I'll even give his campaign manager the access codes for the largest of them as soon as Eric Holder is arrested for his role in the facility and ensuing coverup of Fast & Furious."

Quid Pro Quo, assholes.  After all, if he's not willing to release those documents, just as you've all said, what does he have to hide?

John Roberts: Your Slavemaster

To suggest that the Chief Justice is like a plantation owner, might be a stretch.  But the visage of him as Slave-boat Captain is pretty accurate, for he's the one that last Thursday delivered you to your new owners.

Get this straight kids: The Obamacare "law" is the most unlawful monstrosity to ever come out of the legislative process in this country.  Ever.

Every facet of it is meant to expand government's intrusive reach into the lives of individuals.  Its raison d'etre is to facillitate more authority for them, and less independence for you and me.  You are not as free as you were prior to last week.  The concept of Liberty is a thing of the past.  You're no longer a citizen, and that's if you could even call yourself that last Wednesday.

You're a subject.

John Roberts pretends that he has preserved the legislative process, that it isn't/wasn't his responsibility to protect the citizens from the consequences of their bad voting-booth choices.  But the fact of the matter is that, yes, it is his job to do exactly that.

Once you and I cast our vote, we have very little legal recourse until four years hence to hold those electees accountable.  Without safety nets in place, like the US Supreme Court's duty to uphold the Consitution, those elected representatives can pass any self-serving nonsense they choose.  In fact, when it became apparent that we'd trusted the wrong sort of folks in 2010, we did our part by kicking many of them (those enablers of the more-insideous power-mongers) right out of office.

What Roberts did was far worse than simply uphold the Obamacare Law.  He validated it as a tax, and in so doing, validated the notion that the Federal Government has absolute authority to dream up any tax for any behavior or activity or lack thereof.  And for him to do that, regardless of his motivations, he had to turn a blind eye to the Framers' intent.

If you don't believe that, then please tell me: Which of those Founding Fathers would endorse Roberts' written opinion?

We didn't just tell the crooks in Washington DC to get out, back in 2010.  We told everyone involved that we didn't like what they'd foisted on us.  The Harry Reids and Nancy Pelosis and Barry Obamas have pretended to not hear that message.  Obviously, John Roberts isn't listening, either.

Instead of following the Constitution, or heeding the wishes of the people, they've doubled down on their big-government schemes.

And we're forced to likewise double down on our resistance to them...

Join Americans For Prosperity.

As I mentioned above, we have pretty much lost any legal remedy to this legislation, except for perhaps the coming election.  The House & Senate have proven to us that they will gravitate toward whatever improves their power and status.  The President is the most corrupt and inept buffoon we've ever elected.  And the fail-safe backstop to protect this country's people from their government has spinelessly thumbed its nose at us.

The most despicable aspect of this is that Roberts' manipulation of the Constitution (which by the way, isn't his to manipulate), is its newly created precedent for future courts to do likewise!

I heard Rush put it this way: "It's like your neighborhood chief of police held a press conference and stood at the podium and said to you and everyone in your community, 'From now on, I'm going to be working with the bad guys...against YOU.'"

Is there any question that we are now living in a post-Constitutional America?

When your elected representatives feather their own nests, in direct opposition to your clear objections, and the President places himself above the law and due process, and his Justice Department refuses to enforce some laws, stretches the definition of others, files suit against states to support fraudulent voting processes and lies to Congress about a murderous operation, and the Supreme Court, whose basic responsibility is to uphold the US Constitution does just the opposite, ladies and gentlemen, there no longer IS a law of the land.

This upcoming election is likely to be the last one that stands any chance of being a meaningful one.

What I Said...

...Only much, much better.



"Unrelently evil," he calls them.

Which Is Worse?

Richard Nixon was impeached for his role in covering up the Watergate Hotel break-in.  He may or may not have known about the burglary beforehand, but most certainly knew about efforts to hide the crime afterwards.

The burglary wasn't so much an exercise in thievery, as much as an attempt to spy on the other guys.

Operation Fast & Furious was an attempt by persons in Federal Law Enforcement to facillitate the movement of US-made combat-type firearms into the hands of Mexican drug gangs.  The recurring mistake being presented by some of the few who are reporting on it (Fox News) is the assumption that the operation was "botched".

Nothing was botched, except the schemers' end result.  From the beginning, the scheme was one intended to get American guns into the hands of Mexican criminals (and visibly so) such that common Americans watching their evening news programs might be misled into thinking more legislative "gun control" could perhaps be a thing of necessity.

Just like the Watergate cover-up, Operation Fast & Furious is turning into (as most of us watching objectively always suspected) a case of who knew what and when did they know it.

Again, Watergate was a burglary and a botched burglary at that.  Operation F&F was an illegal (but successful) gun-smuggling scheme, designed to ultimately cast American firearms in a negative light.  Two federal agents, Border Patroller Brian Terry and Immigrations/Customs Agent Jamie Zapata were murdered as a direct result of this crime.

US Attorney General Eric Holder first claimed ignorance (under oath) of the Operation, then later recanted his testimony after evidence was presented disproving his claim.  He's repeatedly stonewalled the Congressional investigation, and "changed" his testimony at least once again.  Demands from Congressman Darrell Issa for documents related to the case have been refused.  It's easy to believe that Holder, not only knew intimately about the Operation, but that he likely orchestrated it from conception.

And with Obama now granting Executive Privilege status over those same documents, shielding them from rightful Congressional scrutiny, can't the exact thing be also said of him?  That is, is there any reason to believe that Obama didn't at least know of the cover-up, and perhaps even originally complicit in the conception and implementation of the scheme?  Does the objectives of the Operation not fit with Obama's ideology, and those of his radical friends?  How blindly devoted to him would you have to be to make the leap of faith that he's above such treachery?

A Democrat Congressman named Maloney said, according to this article by Katie Pavlich in Town Hall, that “I am offended, personally, that you would call the Attorney General a liar”.

Well, Mr. Maloney, I am likewise offended, personally, that you have the audacity to pretend that admitting a lie is the same thing as being honest.  If you lie to me and submit that lie as the truth until I prove you're a liar, and you then recant your earlier lie, there are no longer any mathematics that support your contention of being honest about anything.

And the same goes doubly for those enablers and protectors of your lies.  If you are unwilling or unable to point an accusatory finger at Holder and Obama, then you are as culpable in the deaths of those Agents, Terry & Zapata, as those that pulled the triggers.

Furthermore, your culpability includes those deaths of hundreds (hundreds!) of bystanding Mexican citizens.

Impeachment procedings should commence forthwith.

Reference also for vital/recommended reading:

Sipsey Street Irregulars (ALL of the truth and background dirt pertaining to Fast & Furious, Holder, Boehner, et al).  Vanderboegh is THE authority or F&F.

Yesterday, I was out on a job and had a member of the Contracting team showing me pictures of his very impressive gun collection: scores of pistols, self-defense shotguns, assault/combat arms, etc...  This 30-year-old or so guy had retired from State Law Enforcement (and Federal Task Force teamwork) to help with the family business.  I asked him what he thought, as a retired LEO and certified gun advocate, about the Fast & Furious scandal.

He had not even heard of it.

I told him if he's getting any news of his world at all, he's listening to the wrong folks.

The Showboat

Just getting around to posting this, but a few weeks ago, Sherry and I toured the USS North Carolina.  And here are some pix of the boat known affectionately during WWII as "The Showboat."

There was a Coast Guard plane passing nearby...

Acting as her "spotter", I helped Sherry scare him away...

I remember visiting the Memorial as a wee lad, but didn't remember the float planes (Note plane in background racing for cover after Sherry riddled his fuselage with bullets)...

Please continue to more pix and video beyond the fold...

Spike This

Listen through to Scott Ott's closing statement, and you'll get the 1-year anniversary speech that should have been. Or, I could say WOULD have been if the Obfuscator-In-Chief had even the faintest idea of how to be a Commander.

From The Densest Of These

I used to listen to Boortz frequently, and I even had a link to his program in the sidebar of this Blog for a while.  And I had a fairly high regard for his opinions, for the most part.  But, he alienated me a few years ago when I heard him suggest that gays are "born that way."  And not only did he adhere strictly to that notion, but he also made it clear that he felt anyone who didn't subscribe to that nonsense was a bigot of the highest order.

Well, I do not subscribe to that idiocy, and so just tuned him thenceforward, out.

This morning, after reading the results of yesterday's voting in the Old North State (happily, I might add), I caught a brief blurb by the self-proclaimed "talkmaster" that he equated those who voted FOR the North Carolina Constitutional Amendment defining the State's only recognition of marriage as being between one man and one woman, with an endorsement of Obama.  I didn't hear the prelude to what he said, but he reiterated that those hicks in North Carolina that have voted against homosexuals are somehow simultaneously endorsing Obama.

I might have stuck around after his commercial break to see how he twisted that into something resembling actual logic, but thought better of the idea when he said, "My God, you people are dense!"

Call me colloquial if you like, but dense?  You've got some nerve there, foureyes.

North Carolinians voted to A) embrace Federalism, B) de-fang activist judges, and C) thumb their noses at the Occupier-In-Chief's presumed influence on American culture.  Yes, we knew he'd be pandering to that segment of his base in short order.

Methinks it isn't my density that is at issue, but your personal agenda.  There are those of us who realize that the whole point of the "gay rights" crusade is only an attempt to legitimize their perversions.

I agree with at least one of my fellow NC bloggers who said that the State can not tell him (or you or me) who we can marry, and that if he (or you, but not me) wants to marry a goat, or a person of the same sex, or an imaginary friend, it's nobody else's business in the whole wide world.

But asking (or insisting) that I recognize that union as somehow equated to marriage as I would define it?  Uh, no.

I quietly supported the Amendment and encouraged those who I care about to do likewise.  Not to shoo the faggots to those places where they're more welcome (New York & California come to mind), although that's a welcome side-effect, but more to be on the right side of a law well-written.  I don't want more laws, and North Carolina already had a "gay marriage ban" on the books, but this was an opportunity to say "This is how we'll define it" in defiance to the creeping perversion that Boortz doesn't seem to mind.  Or perhaps, that he prefers.

Yes, it's a black day in the Tar Heel State for queers, and not the smallest coincidence for their bedfellows, also.

In unrelated burps, and no particular order...

I thought it particularly entertaining that a current federal inmate and convicted felon got more support on the Democrat ballot in West Virginia than did the Corruptocrat-In-Chief.

Idea for a bumper sticker...TRAYVON MARTIN: DEAD CRIMINAL

George Zimmerman: Non-victim, would be another good one.

How about the mug on this guy, known as Bandit?

What If?

What if someone wrote an essay that contained only "what if" questions?  What if Judge Andrew Napolitano wasn't there to ask those tough questions?

What if your government, right this second, has less regard for your Liberty than King George had for that of those pesky Colonists 240-odd years ago?

What if you and I were afraid to speak the answers to those questions?

Sorry

So sorry it's been such a long time between posties.  Can't believe I've contributed nothing to the blogosphere for an entire month.  Here's something Les sent me...



I miss Paul Harvey.  Hope I'm not alone.

For those among us who would maybe say, "Someone should have warned us about those things that were gnawing away at the fabric of our society...", Mr. Harvey warned you 40+ years ago.  And he just did so again.