Happy New Year and welcome to the family…

I’m gonna check out for a while to welcome the new addition to my family, my second son.

Be back later.

Quote of the Day

Diplomacy is the art of saying “Nice doggie” until you can find a rock. – Will Rogers

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#occupy still acting like a’holes – go figure

Ron Paul Iowa office protests lead to 5 arrests

Several people blocked the door to Ron Paul’s campaign office in Ankeny this morning.

Five of the protesters were arrested at about 10:15 a.m.

A press release from Occupy Des Moines said they were protesting the candidate’s stances on women’s reproductive rights, as well as his support for cuts to the Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Education….

The action comes less than 24 hours after 10 Occupy protesters were arrested in Des Moines at Mitt Romney’s campaign office and at a branch of Wells Fargo bank.

More detail will be posted as it becomes available.

And these people think they know better how the world should run. The example they set however leads one to believe otherwise. Their example is whine, cry, become an obstacle and then get arrested. So example to follow….

Quote of the Day

[T]here is not in all America a more dangerous trait than the deification of mere smartness unaccompanied by any sense of moral responsibility. – Theodore Roosevelt

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Marine’s message for idiots who shot him: “I Would’ve Whipped His Butt”

Jeff Steele and James Flounory you are pathetic f’ing cowards.

It’s a good thing you did have a gun because that’s the only way you survived your stupid stunt. I hope you run into a few guards who are Marines when you arrive at your local pound-you-in-the-ass-prison.

Marine Lt. Col. Karl Trenker has a message for the criminal who shot him.

“If he didn’t have a pistol I would’ve whipped his butt,” the Miramar resident said.

Trenker’s fiancé advertised a gold necklace on Craigslist, hoping to drum up a little more cash for some Christmas presents.

When Trenker went to the arranged meeting place outside an apartment complex in Deerfield Beach, the would-be buyers snatched the chain and took off running. Trenker gave chase.

“I did not perceive any danger, and being a Marine and all I’m not one to back down from a fight, so I was going to get my necklace back,” said the father of five.

Deputies say Jeff Steele and James Flounory, both 20, are the suspects.

While Trenker was chasing them Wednesday, Steele allegedly turned and fired several shots. At least three hit the Marine. He used his fingers to plug his wounds, then ran back to his pickup truck to assure his four kids he would be OK.

“I can’t believe it, I go to Iraq and Afghanistan multiple times and I haven’t been shot or blown up,” Trenker said Friday. “I’m here at home in Florida, and here I am riding away in an ambulance with a bunch of gunshot wounds.”

Both suspects are charged with attempted murder and armed robbery and are being held on no bond. No attorneys are listed as representing them yet in their court cases.

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Wealth in Congress climbed as others saw net worth stay stagnant, reports show

via Insider trading criminals:

Members of Congress have historically been wealthier than the average American, but the net worth of lawmakers on Capitol Hill has jumped considerably in recent decades, two new analyses show.

From 2004 to 2010, the median net worth of members of Congress jumped 15 percent, the New York Times reports. In that same period, the net worth of the richest 10 percent of Americans held steady while Americans overall saw their median net worth fall 8 percent.

An analysis from the Washington Post shows that from 1984 to 2009, the median net worth of a member of the House more than doubled from $280,000 to $725,000 in inflation-adjusted 2009 dollars, excluding home equity. The average American family saw its wealth slightly decline in that same time frame.

Earlier this year, as part of CBSNews.com’s United States of Influence series, Hotsheet explored the reasons why members of Congress are unusually wealthy: To start with, political campaigns that have become increasingly costly to run. Once in office, members of Congress enjoy access to connections and information they can use to increase their wealth, in ways that are unparalleled in the private sector. And once politicians leave office, their connections allow them to profit even further.

The level of wealth in Congress stands in stark contrast to the economic challenges that many Americans continue to face.

So you need another trillion? Worst most dishonest president ever.

Instapundit:

WAIT, WHAT DID YOU DO WITH THE LAST TRILLION WE LET YOU BORROW? Obama to ask for debt limit hike: Treasury official. “The White House plans to ask Congress by the end of the week for an increase in the government’s debt ceiling to allow the United States to pay its bills on time, according to a senior Treasury Department official on Tuesday.”

Remember back in 2008 when he was promising a “net spending cut?” Just in case, here’s a reminder.

I think that the 2012 question will be What happened to the money?

Just don’t call him unpatriotic.

Quote of the Day

Here is the Golden Rule of sound citizenship, the first and greatest lesson in the study of politics: You get the same order of criminality from any State to which you give power to exercise it; and whatever power you give the State to do things FOR you carries with it the equivalent power to do things TO you. – Albert Jay Nock

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Most Arrogant President Ever

Another Michael Ramirez Cartoon

#Occupy death toll rises

The Gateway Pundit: #Occupy Eugene Protester Choked and Beaten to Death at Camp – #Occupy Death Toll at 9

Here’s a big thank you to occupy for showing us what the world would look like if they ran it.

If results make any difference, I’m still gonna follow the Tea Party example.

They assumed all Americans were disgusting

via WSJ.com:

We are at a point in our culture when we actually have to pull for grown-up movies, when we must try to encourage them and laud them when they come by. David Lean wouldn’t be allowed to make movies today, John Ford would be forced to turn John Wayne into a 30-something failure-to-launch hipster whose big moment is missing the toilet in the vomit scene in Hangover Ten. Our movie culture has descended into immaturity, deep and inhuman violence, a pervasive and flattened sexuality. It is an embarrassment.

In Iraq this year I asked an Iraqi military officer doing joint training at an American base what was the big thing he’d come to believe about Americans in the years they’d been there. He thought. “You are a better people than your movies say.” He had judged us by our exports. He had seen the low slag heap of our culture and assumed it was a true expression of who we are.

And so he’d assumed we were disgusting.

Thankfully it is our military and not the likes of occupy the Iraqis got to see first hand. If only this nation were filled with veterans of our military rather than adolescent misfits and whiners.

Perjury approved at DOJ. Country remains in best of hands

Hyper-partisan lawyers lying under oath about voter fraud and leaks of privileged materials. How nice.

PJ Media: The Justice Department Condones Perjury … Again

A career employee in the Voting Section of Justice’s Civil Rights Division has confessed to committing perjury, sources say. The employee, Stephanie Celandine Gyamfi, reportedly told investigators from the Inspector General’s Office that she perjured herself during an inquiry into Justice Department leaks during the previous administration. Despite the admission, she has not been fired for criminal malfeasance. Indeed, it appears she has not been disciplined in any meaningful way at all.

The genesis of Ms. Gyamfi’s perjury is apparently rooted in political attacks on the Bush Justice Department. Throughout 2005-2007, numerous attorney-client privileged documents, confidential personnel information, and other sensitive legal materials were leaked from inside the Voting Section to the Washington Post and various left-wing blogs.

All new low for the a’holes at Westboro Baptist if true

A family loses a son in Afghanistan in 2010 and they they lose everything else in a house fire in 2011. What happens next is truly despicable.

I unfortunately have some horrible news. If things weren’t bad enough for the family, Bill got a phone call from the westboro baptist church. They are the idiots who protest military funerals. The caller told Bill that it was the best day of their life when his son was killed, and it’s an even better day that they lost everything in the fire. They were all cheering in the phone. What *%!)&~# ! How can they call themselves a church? I won’t say what I think should be done with all of them, but I’m sure you agree.

via This ain’t Hell, but you can see it from here: Sad News Via Gathering of Eagles

If that was Westboro Baptist on the phone (I only say IF because there’s no real way to prove it from my end), there is no one who can argue against the feeling they are really doing the evil’s work on this Earth. They serve no god with whom I am familiar…

And never forget what idiots the Phelps and their followers are:

Quote of the Day

These dovetail with the previous post nicely.

Early in life I had noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper. – George Orwell

Peace is a condition in which no civilian pays any attention to military casualties which do not achieve a page one lead story – unless that civilian is a close relative of one of the casualties. But, if there ever was a time in history when ‘peace’ meant that there was no fighting going on, I have been unable to find out about it. – Robert A. Heinlein, ‘Starship Troopers’

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The Iraq War: 20 Years, Not 9

I completely agree with the author of this article at CATO who points out our war in Iraq began 20 years ago, not 9. I should know I was there. I have regretted not finishing the job of liberating Iraq from that psychopath Saddam Hussein everyday since. This just goes to show how myopic our media is when it comes to what is really going on in the world:

Here are two newspaper accounts about the conclusion of the Iraq war:

The New York Times: “Almost nine years after the first American tanks began massing on the Iraq border, the Pentagon declared an official end to its mission here, closing a troubled conflict that helped reshape American politics and left a bitter legacy of anti-American sentiment across the Muslim world.”

The Washington Post: “Nearly nine years after American troops stormed across the Iraq border in a blaze of shock and awe, U.S. officials quietly ended the bloody and bitterly divisive conflict here Thursday, but the debate over whether it was worth the cost in money and lives is yet unanswered.”

There is a problem with those accounts. The United States has been at war in Iraq for twenty years, not nine! George Orwell warned us not to confuse war with peace, but we are clearly falling into that trap. More here.