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May, 2013: Obama vs. NRA

After the recent defeat in the U.S. Senate of the proposed Manchin-Toomey amendment to Obama’s gun control bill (SB 649), Obama stormed to the Rose Garden to rant. Ostensibly, the amendment would have extended background checks to all gun purchases made in the USA, including gun shows.

Obama claimed that survey after survey showed that 90% of Americans want universal background checks. I find that amazing being as I’ve never seen 90% of Americans agree on anything. Who is doing the counting? Joe Biden?

Speaking of Crazy Joe, he appeared to be near tears during Obama’s harangue. Biden about to cry? That’s rich. That’s how I feel every time he opens his mouth.

Obama went on, as usual, to blame the NRA. The NRA, according to Obama, spread the vicious lie that the amendment would lead to a national gun registry. Now, you’ve got to give Obama some credibility here. If anyone knows about lying, it’s him.

Further investigation, however, appears to validate the NRA position.

If you attempt to purchase a gun from a licensed retailer, you will have to fill out ATF Form 4473. You must give your name, address, age, race and a whole lot of other personal information. The dealer will then call the NICS (National Instant Background Check System) hotline. Your name will be run through a database to see if you are a convicted felon or mentally deranged.

If the NICS clears you, the dealer will fill out Part B of the form which lists the make, model and serial number of your firearm. What happens to the Form 4473 after you leave the shop? It’s tossed into the trash, of course. Uh, … , well no, actually not. The dealer is required by law to keep it – for 20 years, no less. And, if the dealer goes out of business, he must turn all the 4473′s over to the ATF.

My question: How is this not a national gun registry waiting to happen? There must be millions of these forms stashed away in myriad vaults across the country. One executive order by Obama and all the 4473′s will end up in Washington.

In fact, is this maybe what the liberals want? They talk and talk about background checks when what they really want is Form 4473′s. Remember, liberals are masters of deception: Fake right, break left.

The proof of this contention is that background checks don’t work. Consider:

(1) The crazy bastard who killed all those Sandy Hook Elementary School children in Newtown, Connecticut back in December 2012 was never backgrounded. All he did was pick up his mother’s Bushmaster semi-automatic rifle located in their home, kill her and then head for the school.

(2) The crazy Muslim bastard who shot and killed 13 people – all the while screaming “Allahu Akbar” – at an Army base at Fort Hood, Texas back in November, 2009 WAS backgrounded. He purchased an FN 5.7 mm semi-automatic pistol from a licensed gun dealership in Killeen a few months prior to the massacre.

Our beloved President, Barack Obama, decided to classify the murders as workplace violence rather than what it was, a typical cowardly Muslim terrorist attack. Obama never ceases to amaze.

(3) Why, you don’t even need guns to commit these atrocities. Consider the crazy bastard Tsarnaev brothers who built bombs in the older brother’s apartment prior to setting them off at the finish line of the Boston Marathon in April, 2013? These cowardly Muslim terrorists killed three people including one child and de-limbed 20 or more others.

In subsequent manhunts, the older brother was killed and the younger brother shot and captured. The younger brother was being interrogated and was giving up valuable information about their accomplices and their future plans.

But alas, our beloved President, Barack Obama, stepped in and ordered the younger brother Mirandized. And, that was that.

So, if background checks are just a smokescreen, the only thing left is a national gun registry. And, the only reason for a national gun registry is to one day totally disarm the America people.

This may take 20, 50 or 100 years. Liberals don’t care. Their visions are timeless. What better groundwork for their final mission than to know where all the gun owners live.

Liberals will, over time, pass a law here and a law there with the ultimate goal of eventually requiring that all gun transactions will spawn an ATF Form 4473.

If you sell a gun to a neighbor, you will have to fill out and turn in a Form 4473. If you inherit a gun, a Form 4473 will have to be filed. If you buy a gun at a gun show, a Form 4473 will result.

If that gun is ever used in the commission of a crime, it will be immediately traced back to the most recent owner. If you sold that gun or gave it away without filing the 4473, the police will show up at your residence. It will go down something like this.

Knock, knock, knock. You open the door.

“Yes?”

“Sir, where is your Smith and Wesson 38 caliber revolver?”

“Geez, I sold it years ago.”

“Did you file a Form 4473 indicating who you sold it to?

“Well, no. I didn’t. I didn’t know you had to.”

“Well, you did. And now, I’m placing you under arrest. Turn around.”

News and details of the arrest will spread like wildfire around whatever community this event took place. Then the news and details will spread like wildfire across the nation. The next law passed by liberals will enjoy massive compliance.

March, 2013: Need Revenue Help

I was so giddy over Obama’s re-election way back in November, 2012 that I decided to reward myself by going on a bit of a shopping spree. Unfortunately, I kind of went overboard and quickly maxed out my only two credit cards at the local stores and malls.

So, I rushed home, remembering that I had a few other credit cards stashed away in my desk drawers. Turns out I had 18 of them, all pre-approved and ready for action. After a few minutes dialing customer service numbers to activate them, I was loaded for bear.

So, it was back to the store and malls. First it was Chattanooga. Then Atlanta. What a grand time. I found that there was nothing I didn’t want. Alas, within a few weeks, I had wrung up a credit card bill of $160,000. Jeez, I thought to myself, I may have somewhat of a spending problem.

At any rate, being as I don’t have that kind of money, I just didn’t make any payments. After a couple of months, the credit card companies got all nasty and raised my interest rates and added in exorbitant penalty fees. The next thing I knew I was in hock for $185,000. Good grief. I thought the liberal-inspired Dodd-Frank consumer protection bill had my back. Guess not.

Fortunately, I had been following the national news and was aware that many politicians think that there is no such thing as a spending problem. There is only a revenue problem.

So, I rang up Nancy Pelosi. She seemed quite sympathetic as I explained how my revenue problem was interfering with my spending. But, when I asked her to send me a personal check for $185,000 she got all huffy and told me in some very unladylike language what I could do to myself.

I then called Harry Reid, but he couldn’t follow my story. He seemed kind of dumb. Eventually, he got disgusted with me and told me to call Barack Obama. So, I did. The White House operator said Barack was unavailable as he was getting in 36 holes that day. She said he would get back to me. I’m still waiting.

By this time, however, I felt like I was getting the royal runaround from the nation’s liberal heavyweights. But then, I had a brainstorm. Surely, the loyal readers of my wonderful blog would help me out.

So, I am asking everyone out there who’s reading this post to send me a nice, big check to help with my revenue problem. Just respond by leaving a comment and I’ll give you my address via a private email. Your contributions will be most welcome.

Now, I know that all the conservatives out there won’t help me. They’ll just say something smart-alecky like, “Stop spending money you don’t have, you idiot.” That’s to be expected of them. After all, we all know that conservatives are just a bunch of uncaring, mean-spirited, wealthy tightwads.

So, it’s going to be up to all my compassionate, liberal friends out there. Liberals, as we all know, care deeply about people and their problems. And my problem is a whopper. But, it’s not my fault. Wanting stuff is very American. So is buying it. Folks like me shouldn’t be looked down on just because our income is pitiful. Those damn Wall Street tycoons make millions for doing nothing. And, they don’t pay a dime in taxes either.

Also, if you kind folks don’t mind, please plan to send me some money each month. You see, I feel the need to keep spending. There are so many things I want to buy. And, please get your children and grandchildren involved. Just have them open an account in my name. I’ll need their help when you run out of money.

Now for the best part. After you’ve all helped me with my revenue problem, I’ll go on Fox News and tell our triumphant story. Then all Americans will know just how rotten conservatives are and how truly caring liberals are.

January, 2013: The Amazing Hillary

So, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was finally able to drag herself before Congress to testify about the Benghazi disaster in which four good Americans were murdered by terrorists on 9/11 of 2012. Well, thank goodness. Finally, all the nagging and disturbing questions about the fiasco were going to be answered.

For sure, President Obama was never going to tell the truth. After all, the terrorist-inspired murders had annoyingly occurred way too close to the upcoming presidential election. The best Obama could do was come up with a lame story that the emotionally sensitive Muslim extremists were merely reacting to a nasty internet video that made fun of Muhammad.

To make sure everyone got it straight, Obama sent his Ambassador to the United Nations, Susan Rice, out on a television blitzkrieg, pedaling the story to the fawning liberal media. They, of course, ate it up.

But, Secretary Clinton, who should have been the “buck stops here” point person before, during and after the 9/11 attack, ultimately stated that she was “taking full responsibility” for the mess. Good for her. It was about time somebody did.

You see, it turned out that our ambassador to Libya, Chris Stevens, had been begging for months for reinforced security at the embassies. Stevens, obviously, was sensing danger. Obama, however, couldn’t be bothered with anything like that since he was locked into his own narrative that Al Qaeda had perished along with Osama bin Laden.

And so, poor Hillary, realizing that Obama was dumping the Benghazi slaughter on her, backed up her words and resigned. Uh … wait a minute. Turns out, she didn’t resign. But, she did stick to her “full responsibility” mantra. Good for her.

Meanwhile back at the Congressional Hearings, some Republicans were hammering her about her lack of response to the crisis. Hillary didn’t budge, delivering one flimsy excuse after another. She just didn’t know what was going on in Benghazi. But wait. She was the captain of that ship. It was her job to know. Not just Libya. Not just Benghazi. But the whole dammed Middle East. That was her job: Secretary of State.

Remember Hillary’s famous question posed to the electorate back during her 2008 presidential campaign against Obama, “Who do you want in the White House when the phone rings at two in the morning?” Well, evidently, if you’re an American in danger overseas, you don’t want either one of them.

Finally, unable to take the Republican abuse any longer, she screwed up her face in that special Clintonian way and shouted, “WHAT DIFFERENCE DOES IT MAKE?”

Indeed. What difference does it make? It’s not like 100 Americans were killed. It’s not like Hillary pulled the trigger herself. It’s not like the liberal media will go after one of their precious icons. It’s not like you’ll remember any of this four years from now.

Ladies and gentleman, the next President of the United States …

November, 2012: Welcome to the USSA

Well, they’ve finally done it. The socialists have officially taken over this country. And, I don’t mean temporarily. I mean, for like forevermore. So, welcome to the USSA, the Union of Socialist States of America.

Look at the demographics of the November 6, 2012 election.

Voting for Obama were: single women (67%), blacks (93%), Asians (73%), Latinos (71%), young people (60%), Supreme Court Justices (56%), Hollywood air heads (99%) and dead people (100%).

Obama won the popular vote by only a few million, but he won the electoral college in a massacre 332 – 206. What an incredible coalition. How can they ever be defeated? Unfortunately, they can’t. The socialists now own America.

During the next four years, Obama will, between vacations and soirees, continue his mission of destroying America and giving free stuff to as many people as possible.

In 2016, Hillary will win in another landslide and rule for eight years. By 2024, liberals will have 75% of the population receiving government handouts. They could run a zombie and win.

I offer a few observations about the USSA’s future.

1) I wonder if it bothers liberals at all, deep down in the gut, that their Commander-in-Chief, hid under his desk in the White House on 9/11 while Americans were being slaughtered in Benghazi, Libya? Obama just couldn’t deal with the fact that ugly, Islamic terrorism is still going strong despite his tiresome denials. A day later, Obama left Washington to go a-campaigning in Las Vegas. All the while, the entire Mid-East was ready to blow. Obama didn’t give a rat’s ass. His beloved main stream media toadies would take care of him.

2) Concerning the 61 million Americans who threw in with Obama on election day, I’m sure that a huge percentage of them were simply voting against Romney. But, what is it that the rest of them were voting FOR? The liberal vote against Romney was, by the way, perfectly understandable. Romney wanted to put people back to work and end the culture of dependence. These ideas are heresy to liberals.

3) Again, as in 2008, the electoral college axis of evil (California, New York, Florida, Pennsylvania, Ohio and Illinois) amassed 171 electoral votes for Obama. Minus the axis of evil, Romney carried 24 of the remaining 44 states. Could some major newspaper please publish another article explaining how the electoral college protects the little states?

4) The unemployment rate will continue to drop precipitously during Obama’s second term. Not because people are actually going back to work mind you, but because Obama’s sycophants will just continue to cook the books by removing workers from the labor force.

5) If the Republican Party nominates the despicable turncoat, Chris Christie, in 2016, I will vote for Hillary Clinton myself.

6) The socialist nation is, of course, ultimately doomed. When the ever-shrinking provider class can no longer provide for the ever-expanding recipient class, the whole mess will collapse. I wonder if there be anything left of the pre-socialist America when the collapse takes place.

7) Meanwhile, can anyone tell me how I can get my free Obama-phone?

August, 2012: One Last Look at Obama

With less than 75 days left until the most consequential presidential election ever held in this country, let’s take one last look at what’s at stake.

If Romney wins and Republicans take over the Senate and maintain the House, there is a chance that the damage inflicted by Obama and his liberal sycophants can be repaired. Even if Democrats retain the Senate, Romney could still turn things around. All he has to do is run the country the same way Obama has: through executive decree.

Imagine how liberals will squirm and complain when Romney goes all despotic and unconstitutional. But, Romney can just cite the precedents set by Obama. What goes around comes around.

What if Obama wins?  Well, in the first place, you can kiss America good-bye. There’s no telling how much damage he is prepared to inflict in order to remake America into his perverted dream of a socialist paradise.

It’s amazing that so many people are still blind as to Obama’s real intent. Obama told us himself that he was going to “fundamentally transform America?” What part of this do so many people not understand?

Why is Obama doing this? Because it’s who he is. He is not some incompetent boob, as many people believe, who screws up everything he encounters. He knows exactly what he is doing. He is a die-hard angry Marxist and is slowly and meticulously destroying everything that is great about this country and replacing it with sucking-the-life-out-of-you socialism.

The incredible part of the story? Half of the citizens of this country are helping him do it. With a dumbass grin on their faces to boot.

Post Script #1: Why is it that liberals go all ballistic if you call them Marxists? If Marxism is so great, so utopian, so terrific, then they should be delighted to be so labeled. Their response should be, “You damn right I’m a Marxist and if you had any sense you’d be one too.”

Post Script #2: Given that Obama is the smartest person in America and the greatest orator the world has ever known, why is it that he can’t go off the Teleprompter for 60 seconds without putting his foot in his mouth? Stuff like, “You didn’t build that” – his ugly rebuke to millions of Americans who survived blood, sweat and tears to create a successful small business.

Post Script #3: Ruining America may be just Act I of Obama’s madness. Subtle indications are hinting more and more that Obama’s ultimate mission is to end American sovereignty and turn it over to the United Nations. If that’s not enough to frighten the living bejeebers out of you, I don’t know what is.

July, 2012: Roberts, The Fifth Marxist

Part I

Well, Obama has finally found the fifth and final member of his Marxist Dream Team, Supreme Court Chief Justice, John Roberts. The Marxist Five: Obama, Holder, Pelosi, Reid and Roberts.

Parenthetical note: Joe Biden was never put on Obama’s Marxist Dream Team. Joe is just flat out too dumb and is best suited for wearing big clown shoes and sticking them in his mouth. To be even a low level Marxist, youv’e got to be smart enough to be dangerous.

Now back to Roberts. He was appointed by a Republican president (George Bush, 43) and gave every indication in his vetting by Congress that he was a true conservative and would obey and protect the U.S. Constitution.

Then, on Thursday, June 28, 2012, Roberts demonstrated to America that he was all along a closet Marxist. Who knew?

Roberts’ defection, which resulted in a 5-4 vote to uphold Obamacare in its entirety, was totally unexpected . The reasoning behind his decision was totally bizarre. The impact of his decision will, over the next ten years, totally destroy the best healthcare system in the world.

What in the world happened?

The legitimacy of the Affordable Care Act as passed by Congress and signed by Obama stood or fell on the commerce clause. Can the government compel Americans to buy something – in this case healthcare insurance – or not? Roberts correctly determined that the answer to that question is a resounding ‘No.’

And, that should have been the end of it: a 5-4 vote to completely toss out the entire statute, which is, by the way, what the four dissenting Justices wanted to do. But, noooooooo. Roberts came to the bizarre conclusion that everything was copacetic if the individual mandate was a tax. So, Roberts rewrote the statute and then cast the deciding vote in favor of it.

Before Roberts rewrote the statute, the penalty for non-compliance was a fine, small at first and then increasing each year until it got big. At least, that idea is understandable. Not constitutional, mind you, but understandable.

What’s not understandable is how the government can tax a decision. We all know what a tax is. We pay gasoline tax, property tax, cigarette tax, sales tax and on and on and on. But whether or not to purchase something is a decision. And, now, you will be taxed for being on the wrong side of that decision.

Here’s a hypothetical for liberals to ponder. Suppose in November, Romney wins and Republicans keep the House and take over the Senate. In January, 2013 they push through a bill which says every American, including liberals, must purchase a Smith & Wesson 357 Magnum for personal protection. And, if you don’t, you will be taxed.

You say, “There’s no way they can do that.” Wrong. They’ve already done it.

Part II

There is a theory going around that what Justice Roberts did was really a coup de grace in favor of conservatives. By declaring Obama’s penalty for failure to purchase health insurance a tax, Roberts has unleashed a potential devastating backlash as all Americans hate taxes, even independents. And so, Obama will pay the price for this ‘victory’ in November.

Furthermore, the fact that the statute is now considered a tax matter will make it very easy for Republicans to repeal it should Romney win the Presidency Republicans take over the Senate. For then, Congress can invoke the same reconciliation process to kill the bill that Democrats used to pass it in the first place. You see, with reconciliation, the Senate can pass a bill with a simple majority, i.e. 51 – 49 as opposed to the usual 60 – 40 majority needed to block a filibuster.

One slight problem with this theory. Suppose Obama wins or Democrats maintain the Senate in November. Then Obamacare is here forever. How are Roberts’ defenders going to spin that outcome?

An alternative theory, espoused by even conservative backers of Roberts’ bizarre decision, is that Roberts was just trying to preserve the integrity of the Supreme Court. Preserve their integrity? Puhleeze. What integrity? They are virtually nothing but political hacks, nearly always voting liberal or conservative depending on which president put them on the bench.

No Supreme Court vote should ever be 5 to 4. That’s ridiculous. Their task on any case appearing before them is pathetically simple. Decide whether a given law is constitutional or not. These people are supposed to possess some of the brightest minds in our nation. I think their intelligence is vastly over-rated. What most of them have is the same disease that plagues all of Washington politicians – they desperately want to be loved by the Washington press corps.

And that, in my opinion is what happened to Roberts. He realized he didn’t have the backbone to do the right thing, so he caved. Too bad for America. Why didn’t he bail out when he was nominated? Did he think he was never going to come up against a liberal ideology vs. conservative ideology case? Hell’s bells. All the Supreme Court cases pit liberals against conservatives.

One final point concerning the theory that Roberts was only trying to preserve the Court’s integrity. Does anyone out there think that if Elena Kagan were the Chief Justice, that she would voted against Obamacare? That, after all would have been the right thing to do, being as the Obamacare statute is patently unconstitutional.

I think not

Part III

Let’s suppose that Obama is re-elected and Obamacare becomes the unchallenged law of the land forever. I don’t for the life of me see how it’s going to do what the liberals would have us believe.

Supposedly, the 40 million people (Obama’s numbers) who don’t have health insurance are going to run out and buy it. Really? Tens of millions of these people just won’t do it. That means, in theory, they will be hit with a tax penalty of $65 in 2013 and $85 in 2014.  Now, who in their right mind thinks these people will choose to pay $2000 to $3000 a year for some minimal plan when they can simply opt for the $65 penalty. They will still get free health care at the emergency room just like they have forever.

And how many of these people even pay taxes from which one could extract a penalty?

So what will likely happen? Well, the federal government will intervene and provide a healthcare policy for the moochers which you, through your tax dollars, will pay for.

Bottom line: you will continue to pay all health care costs for the moochers, just like you always have. Plus you will be paying salary and benefits for the 16,000 new IRS agents Obama is hiring to enforce the penalty.

Businesses, in droves, are going to drop health care programs for their employees. Who can blame them? The costs are astronomical. What will all these employees do? Go fend for themselves. They will have to find their own insurance provider. Guess where they’re going to find one? Why, at one of the many so-called exchanges that the Obamacare statute is forcing the states to provide. It’s not exactly clear at the moment who will be in charge of these exchanges, but is there anyone out there who doesn’t think the federal government will have their hands (and feet) all over them.

Do you see where all this is going? It’s going just where Obama intended it to go from Day 1: Single Payer. The federal government will be your insurer and your HMO. It might take ten years or so. But eventually, they will control every aspect of your health care.

They will achieve the liberal dream of socialized medicine. Just like in Canada and Great Britain. No matter that socialized medicine doesn’t work worth a flip. No matter that socialized medicine delivers extremely poor care. No matter that socialized medicine views people over 60 as huge drains on the system and makes conscious effort to kill them off.

What’s important, you see, is that liberals get their way. They, after all, are way smarter than everyone else, and know what is best for the peasants.

June, 2012: Congress, Broken Beyond Repair

The United States Congress, 225 years after its creation by the U.S. Constitution, is now officially broken beyond repair.

According to the Constitution, the legislature is one of three branches of the federal government, the others being the executive and judicial. In theory, the three branches are co-equal. In practice, though, Congress should be, by far, the most powerful branch.

Why? Because the Constitution declares that Congress shall have the SOLE power of making laws. Neither the president nor the justices may make law. Only Congress. To be sure, the president can veto laws passed by Congress and the Supreme Court can declare them unconstitutional. But that’s it.

Congress – specifically the House of Representatives – also has total control over the federal government’s purse strings. The president can ‘spend’ all the trillions of dollars he wants, but the House can just refuse to authorize the money.

So what are the three branches doing today? President Obama is running the country like a dictator. The Supreme Court is about to reveal its decision on the constitutionality of the most impactful bill (Obamacare) of modern times. Congress is determining whether former baseball player, Roger Clemens, lied to them about steroid use.

So what the heck has happened? Corruption. That’s what. Senators and Congressmen don’t give  a rat’s ass about the state of the union. They care about one thing and one thing only. Getting re-elected.

And, really who can blame them? They have huge salaries, huge expense accounts, access to insider information that will make them wealthy, lifelong Rolls Royce healthcare plans for them and their families and embarrassingly lucrative retirement packages. Who among us wouldn’t say, “To hell with the people, I’ve got to get re-elected?”

The system was bound to fail. Human beings will inevitably turn any noble enterprise into a cesspool of corruption. It’s the nature of the beast. The fact that it took two hundred plus years is a testament to the checks and balances the Founding Fathers wrote into the Constitution.

Is there a solution? Well, maybe. How about amending the Constitution so that the 535 elected legislators (100 senators, 435 congressmen) can never get re-elected. I’m not talking about term limits. I’m talking about one and done. How about a five year term? That’s long enough for them to do some good for America, but too short for them to do incredible damage.

Would the prospect of a one-and-done term limitation deter many of the nation’s wealthy lawyers - folks who overwhelmingly populate today’s Congress - from pursuing a term in Congress? Very likely. To them I say, “Ba-bye.”

Would those who do get elected in the new system really serve their country well?  I don’t know. But, they couldn’t possibly do any worse than the zoological garden of wacko Democrats and spineless Republican running the show today.

April, 2012: OCCUPY THIS

With warmer weather right around the corner, get ready for Occupy Spring, Phase II of last year’s Occupy Wall Street movement. Hopefully, it will be all warm and fuzzy, sort of like the Arab Spring.

SInce the Occupiers were able to spend the winter months in their parents’ basements, they are now fully refreshed and ready to hit the streets with a vengeance.

What exactly is the OWS movement anyway? It all started back on September 17, 2011 when the Occupiers took over Zuccotti Park in New York City’s Wall Street financial district. Similar groups quickly invaded major cities and towns all over the country. Evidently they were protesting Wall Street. Say what?

What was going on back then? Let’s see. Oh yeah:

(1) Wars and conflicts with Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya and Pakistan. Our soldiers being killed.

(2) Looming nuclear conflicts with Iran and North Korea.

(3) Businesses closing down and downsizing and going bankrupt.

(4) Vast numbers of people losing their jobs and homes.

(5) The federal government wasting tens of billions of taxpayers’ dollars.

(6) Gas prices already at $3.00 a gallon and rising.

(7) The TSA groping young children and disabled women in wheelchairs.

(8) Obama and Holder performing a Nixonian-level coverup of the Fast and Furious scandal.

I bet you were angry last fall with all that going on. I bet you were angry at Obama and the effete Congress that had led America to this sorry state. If I had asked you, back then, to list your ten biggest beefs and fears, would Wall Street even have been on the list? I suspect not. It wouldn’t have been on mine.

Yet we are supposed to believe that out of the clear blue sky, a large group of young, unwashed dropouts and drug addicts and people who never worked a day in their lives, just suddenly and miraculously got all wired up about Wall Street?

Raise your hand if you think this entire scam was concocted by the White House Dirty Tricksters, a Nixonesque group of young lawyers and malcontents whose job it is to come up with short range and medium range plots to divert the nation’s attention away from the bumbling Obama.

And, of course, to create chaos. Yes, chaos. Right out of the Saul Alinsky playbook. Keep everyone bewildered and worried. Manufacture resentment of and anger towards conservatives.

Make sure people know that Big Government – with liberals in charge, of course – is their only salvation.

The White House Dirty Tricksters even provided the Occupiers with the catchy slogan, “We’re the 99 percent.” Evidently, this implied they were dirt poor, being as the filthy rich “one percenters” possessed all the nation’s wealth. Funny though: All the Occupiers seemed to have smart phones.

But, I think I have the perfect solution for this whole mess. All the Occupiers should up and move to North Korea. North Korea, you see, is a socialist paradise. Nobody has anything. They’d fit right in.

They’d have to be a little more careful with their language and behavior, though. Kim Jong Un might not love the Occupiers as much as the American liberal media. And, if they defecate on Kim Jong Un’s limousine, the Occupiers will likely find themselves sitting atop the next outbound nuclear-tipped Korean missile.

April, 2012: The Supreme Court and Obamacare

So, here we are at long last. The Supreme Court is finally going to determine the constitutionality of Obamacare. Lawyers from both sides have made their arguments and now the Justices will be forced to render a decision.

It is very likely that they have already done so, although the rest of us will have to wait until June to find out. One thing is for certain: The final ruling will have precious little to do with the United States Constitution and a lot to do with ideology.

The nine justices on the current Supreme Court consist of four liberals, four conservatives and one unknown. The odd man out, Anthony Kennedy, goes both ways, making him the all-important swing vote.

Your future thus dramatically depends on the way the wind was blowing on the day Kennedy got out of bed to cast his deciding vote.

Does this make you a little crazy? One man, one sole human being will make the final decision on a law that will, if green-lighted, forever change America in two seismic ways.

If Kennedy votes yes, we will have socialized medicine. The same wretched socialized medicine that already exists in Canada and Great Britain. The same odoriferous socialized medicine that will cost staggering sums of money and ruin the best healthcare system in the world, with bureaucrats, not doctors, determining all aspects of your medical care.

Even worse, if Kennedy votes yes, the Supreme Court will be giving its blessing to the notion  that Congress can pass any law, no matter how bizarre, so long as the “commerce clause” is invoked. The Supreme Court, will be signing its own death sentence.

By declaring themselves powerless against the commerce clause, they will be relinquishing their Constitutional mandate to vet laws passed by Congress. Kennedy himself, during the oral arguments, stated that passage of Obamacare would change “the relationship of the Federal Government to the individual in a very fundamental way.” You betcham it would. One giant step towards totalitarianism.

The three-pronged co-equal system of government will suddenly shrink to two prongs: Legislative and Executive. Then, all Obama has to do is get rid of the nasty Legislative branch and he will achieve his goal of an American dictatorship. Far fetched? I think not. How many times have you heard Obama say something to the effect that Congress is worthless and, “I’ll go it alone.”

However, if Kennedy votes yes, there is one last hope. It’s the fourth branch of government. Never heard of it? Not surprising. It’s a closely guarded secret. The other three branches don’t want you to know anything about it. And, oh, by the way, this fourth branch is actually the most powerful of all of them.

What is it? Think. Nothing? Think some more.

Why, it’s you: The commoners, the citizens, the voters. It’s “We the People.” Although the clock is ticking, this nation is not yet a dictatorship. You still have the right to vote.

So, go, en masse, to the polls in November and vote Obama and the rest of the clowns who shoved Obamacare down our throats out of office. Replace them with Americans who still love this country. Obamacare can then be repealed.

If there’s any justice, Obamacare will be repealed the same way it was approved: Through the  reconciliation process, the brainchild of Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid. “Reconciliation” is a loophole though which the Senate can avoid the filibuster process – the time honored process by which the minority party can block the majority party from passing egregious laws. Reconciliation basically permits the tyranny of mob rule, i.e. rule by simple majority, a concept detested by the Founding Fathers.

March, 2012: 2012 Racial Powder Keg

Ever heard of Allen Coon? I didn’t think so. He is a 13-year-old boy, an eighth-grader attending East High School in Kansas City, Missouri. He is white. On February 29 of this year, he was followed to his home, a short walk from the school, by two black youths.

Upon arriving there, Allen was doused with gasoline by the black youths. As they flicked a lighter to set him on fire, they said to him, “This is what you deserve … white boy.” Allen, while screaming in pain, managed to put out the flames using his shirt. But, he was severely burned on his scalp and face and will be scarred for life.

Surprised you’ve never heard about any of this? The national liberal media managed to bury the story deeper than the Mariana Trench. Why, you ask? Simple. It doesn’t fit the liberal narrative of one way only – white against black – racial violence.

Meanwhile, ever heard of Trayvon Martin? Of course you have. Unless you were recently kidnaped by aliens and spent the past week on the mother ship.

Trayvon, a 17-year-old black youth was allegedly shot and killed back on February 26 by a neighborhood watch participant, George Zimmerman, in an affluent gated community in Sanford, Florida. The original reports played the tragedy as an angry, racist homeowner stalking and cold-bloodedly murdering an innocent black youth.

Funny thing though, Zimmerman is Hispanic. Now the media just couldn’t live with such a lame story as a Hispanic man killing a black youth. So, in order to gin up the race war angle they labeled Zimmerman as a “white Hispanic.”

Since I’d never heard of a “white Hispanic” I did some research. According to the 2010 census, Hispanic is no longer a race. Say what, you say? Yeah, that’s right. Hispanic is now an ethnicity. Hispanics are white people. Who knew? How convenient for the media. With “white” in the mix, the race angle was up and running.

And, all the race hucksters could jump in. Which, of course, they did. The usual suspects – Al Sharpton, Jessie Jackson, Louis Farrakhan – were there spewing their usual venom. Even the New Black Panthers got air time for their obscenities, openly laying groundwork for future racial violence.

And, Obama, of course, couldn’t restrain himself: “If I had a son, he would look like Trayvon.” Whatever in the hell that means. Does anyone besides me just wish Obama would shut the hell up.

So, here’s the bottom line. A black youth is killed by a Hispanic guy and all hell breaks loose. A white youth is stalked and set on fire by two blacks youths and the story is buried. What in the world is going on here? Why, all of a sudden, after decades and decades of dramatically improved racial tensions, is there so much racial violence going on?

Could it have anything to do with His Majesty, Barrack Obama? After all, since becoming President, Obama has seized every opportunity to turn white people and black people against each other. I wonder why. Did Obama have some unfortunate incidents during his life in which he was discriminated against? It’s possible, I guess. Perhaps though, Obama just resents the fact that virtually everything he has accomplished is tainted with the stink of affirmative action.

Or, is the real truth much more disturbing? What little negative vetting of Obama that exists centers on his relationship with Jeremiah Wright. Obama spent twenty years in Wright’s Black Liberation Theology Church, where apparently Obama never once heard a harsh word. That is really hard to believe as Black Liberation Theology espouses little more than visceral hatred of white people.

What has come to light recently though, mere days after the death of Andrew Bretibart, is Obama’s relationship with Harvard Law School Professor, Derrick Bell. Obama, in 1990, while still in law school at Harvard, gave a speech effusively praising Bell for his writings on critical race theory. Said Obama, “Open your hearts and minds to the words of Professor Derrick Bell.”

Trouble is: Bell’s words are vile. Critical race theory has it that all white people are die-hard racists and only begrudgingly now and then throw a bone to black people. Moreover, according to Bell, the white supremacist culture will never change.

Obama clearly believed all this rubbish back in 1990 and, equally clearly, still believes it today. In fact, it is through the lens of critical race theory, that everything Obama does is so transparent. Combine Obama’s Islamic upbringing with his adoration of Derrick Bell and Jeremiah Wright and, you have a vision into the hate-filled psyche of this president.

Together, Obama and his sycophant soul-mate Attorney General, Eric Holder, who won’t prosecute any  crime committed by blacks against whites, have brought us to the unstable powder keg of racial tensions today.

Toss in Trayvon Martin, Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, Louis Farrakhan and the New Black Panthers and you’ve got a perfect prescription for the racial powder keg to explode.

February, 2012: The Electoral College – Bah, Humbug

The electoral college system, although it was not called that, dates all the way back to the U.S. Constitution (Article II, Section 1), which was ratified in 1788. That was 224 years ago.

At that time, the founding fathers had legitimate reasons for instituting the quirky procedure. In fifteen words or less: They did not want the president to be elected by a popular vote. In fact, they didn’t want any kind of a majority-rules type of government, period. That’s why they created a republic.

The masses would elect congressmen from their state and those folks would go to Washington D.C. and make the laws. The idea was that people would elect the best and brightest and they would in turn run the nation well. Which is what actually happened and for a very long time. Today, though, does anybody really think the airheads, crooks and liars in Washington are our best and brightest?

Why, you’ve got Barney Franks (crook), Maxine Waters (airhead and crook), Nancy Pelosi (airhead and crook), Harry Reid (liar), Steny Hoyer (from Maryland, need I say more?) and the like. Even Obama (liar) was a Senator before becoming president (liar). So much for a republic.

And, sadly, in modern times, the electoral college has become a flawed and corruptible way to elect the president. And I’m not talking about the few cases (Gore vs. Bush, for example) when the loser actually had the greater popular vote.

No, I’m talking about a much more personal flaw in the system: My vote doesn’t count. Say what, you say? Let me explain. I live in Georgia. My vote – as are the votes of all Georgians – is canceled out every year by the liberal loonies out in California.

In 2008, California went for Obama by 8.3 million to 5.0 million. Georgia went for McCain by 2.1 million to 1.8 million. So, Obama won the combined states by 10.1 million to 7.1 million. That’s a winning percentage of 59%.

Now, California had 55 electoral votes while Georgia had 15. So, in the winner-take-all methodology of the electoral college system, Obama got a net 40 electoral votes (55 less 15) . That works out to be 57% of the electoral votes, a fairly reasonable outcome what with the popular vote being 59%

But in 2012, now that Obama has shown his hatred of America and the frenzy of white guilt has subsided, things are likely going to be much closer. For the sake of argument, let’s say its Obama versus Romney. Say Obama carries California by 7.3 million votes to 6.0 million. Say Romney carries Georgia by 2.9 million to 1.0 million.

Romney therefore wins the popular vote by 8.9 million to 8.3 million. But, Obama will still get a net of 39 electoral votes (Georgia gained one vote in the 2010 census), just as he did in 2008. How in the world does this make any sense? Especially to me. Personally, it sure seems like my vote got flushed down the Hollywood Toilet Bowl.

The bottom line is that California owns Georgia. And many others states as well.

It gets worse. A presidential candidate needs 270 electoral votes out of the total 538 available to win the election. Consider the seven states with the most electoral votes. They are (after adjustments from the 2010 Census):

California 55
Texas 38
New York 29
Florida 29
Pennsylvania 20
Illinois 20
Ohio 18

In 2008, Texas went Republican. The other six went for Obama. That was an electoral college slaughter: 175 to 34. In November of this year, all Obama has to do is win the Big 6 (Big 7 minus Texas) again and he is basically unbeatable. I can hardly wait for four more years of the only president in United States history who hates this country.

Many groups have tried throughout our nation’s history to eliminate the electoral college, an effort that would require a Constitutional amendment. They have been woefully unsuccessful. Perhaps some new group, people with a lot of clout could get the job done.

Let me think who that could be. Wait, I’ve got it: The coneheads of Occupy Wall Street and Occupy Oakland and Occupy Chattanooga and Occupy Wherever. There the ones. The liberals in Congress love them. Obama loves them.

If only the dropouts of the Occupy crowd had come along a decade and a half ago and motivated Congress to eliminate the electoral college. Why, Al Gore would have been elected back in 2000 instead of George W. Bush. Ah, the wasted years.

Imagine what America would be like today if only Al Gore had been in the White House for eight glorious years: Global Warming wouldn’t exist (Gore would have stopped it), 9/11 wouldn’t have happened (Osama bin Laden would have been a big fan) and nobody would ever have heard of Barrack Obama (can you say Hallelujah?).

January, 2012: Three Years of Barrack Obama

In 2008, Obama campaigned on nothing more than the vague sound bite of “hope and change.” This suckered in nearly everybody. After all, who among us doesn’t hope for something or other? And, who wouldn’t like a few changes?

Throw in six decades of white guilt and the least inspiring Republican candidate of modern times, John McCain, and what do you get? Why, Barrack Obama in the White House. That’s what.

Hope and change quickly morphed into “fundamentally changing America.” And now, three years later, it is painfully obvious what that means. Out with freedom. Out with free enterprise. Out with jobs. Out with the can-do spirit that formerly defined this great nation. In with Marxism. In with Islam. In with class warfare. In with Constitutional lawlessness. In with open hostility to the vast majority of Americans.

Sadly, the warning signs of Obama’s Marxism were there for anyone to see as far back as the campaign. Obama had spent his formative years in Indonesia, an exclusively Muslim nation, and attended Muslim schools. It’s hard to believe Obama wasn’t heavily indoctrinated into America-hating Islam during this time.

Obama didn’t set foot on mainland America until he was 18. There’s no way he could have any real sense of what it is to be an American. You can’t become an American by reading about it. You have to live it.

Obama spent twenty years listening to the vile anti-white rantings of Jeremiah Wright in Wright’s Black Liberation Theology church in Chicago. Curiously, Obama claims he never heard Wright utter a single harsh word against white people. Really? Jeremiah Wright’s favorite saying is, “It’s not God Bless America, it’s God Damn America.”

But, Americans didn’t want to be bothered with any of this. Hope and change was working its magic. Obamamania was in full bloom. And, sure enough, Obama won the presidential election in a landslide and was inaugurated in January, 2009.

Here are a dirty dozen of His Majesty’s ‘accomplishments’ since taking office.

01) Stimulus I. With the help of the certifiably crazy Nancy Pelosi, Obama blitzkrieged a massive trillion dollar stimulus bill through Congress. The money created no jobs, except in the mind of looney-tune Vice President, Joe Biden.

02) Obamacare. Obama bullied and bribed Congress into passing a disastrous government takeover of healthcare. By the time this monstrosity was passed, fully three-fourths of the American people were dead set against it. But Obama didn’t give a rat’s ass what Americans  wanted. He was on a mission, and this bill was going to be his Heisman Trophy.

03) Bailouts. Obama used taxpayer money to  bail out Wall Street, banks and car companies, making them dependent on the government in the process. This is exactly what a dictator does.

04) Wars. Obama, without invitation, got involved in Egypt’s ouster of Dictator Hosni Mubarak. He then embroiled the U.S. in a third overseas war, this time with Libya, without the consent of Congress. These were precisely the kind of things, when Obama was still a Senator, for which he so vilified George Bush.

05) Assassination. Obama signed the order for the assassination of Osama bin Laden. This resulted in Navy SEALs secretly popping into Pakistan and blowing Osama’s brains out. There’s something perversely strange, though, about this whole episode. You see, Obama has always been vehemently opposed to torture and especially waterboarding. Yet, he has no problem with firing 9 mm bullets into somebody’s face? Who knew?

06) Immigration. Obama refuses to do anything about illegal immigration and has sicced his scandal-ridden and racist black Attorney General, Eric Holder, on any state which attempts to deal with the problem on its own. The reason? Ten or twenty million future voting puppets for the Democrat Party.

07) Israel and Iran. Obama treats Israel, our only democratic ally in the Mideast, with complete disdain. And, he treats Israel’s Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, with contempt. On the other hand, Obama has nothing bad to say about Iranian nut-case, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, whose fantasy is to drop an atomic bomb on Israel.

08) Fast and Furious. Theoretically, this was a clandestine ATF operation to track gun runners from Arizona to drug cartel warlords in Mexico. It was a disaster, thousands of Mexicans and one American agent, being slaughtered with the assault rifles. The whole episode makes no sense until you realize that the ATF is an enforcement wing of the DOJ, the DOJ being run by Obama’s blood brother, Eric Holder. The real reason behind Fast and Furious was the same tired old liberal dream of gun control. Once the assault weapons had extracted their toll in human lives, Obama would swoop in, all irate and noble, and demand stiff gun control laws for all Americans.

09) Boeing. Obama had his sycophants at the NLRB prevent Boeing from opening a new plant in South Carolina, a project that would have created thousands of jobs. The real reason behind Obama’s decision? South Carolina is a right-to-work state, i.e. you don’t have to belong to a labor union to work there. Obama, of course, cannot count on votes from non-union workers.

10) Keystone Pipeline. Obama, who, according to himself, spends night and day worrying about jobs, also quashed the Keystone Pipeline project. This project, which would involve pumping oil from Canada to refineries in Texas, would have created tens of thousands of jobs. Obama’s reason: Some environmental-wacko nonsense about possible leaks into the Ogallala Aquifer in Nebraska. This is baloney. The Keystone Pipeline would involve only 250 miles of pipeline near the aquifer. There are already some 20,000 plus miles of various pipelines criss-crossing Nebraska, many of them crossing the aquifer.

11) Solyndra. Obama funneled 535 million taxpayer dollars to his pet green energy company, Solyndra. Solyndra, to the surprise of no one, went belly up within a year. Due diligence was never done on this company. Obama had steam rolled the project through so he could portray himself as the personification of green energy. Guess who’s on the hook for the $535 million? You are.

12) SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act). This may well be Obama’s greatest threat of all. Ostensibly, the bill will give the federal government the power to go after online pirates – you know, people who illegally download a copyrighted Michael Jackson song. The real reason for the bill is far more insidious: It will give the federal government the power to censor the internet. Consider that throughout history, the first thing a dictator does is take over a nation’s communications. The second thing a dictator does is disarm the citizens. Obama is working on both.

Anyone who can’t see a pattern here of hatred of America is just flat out brain dead.

Obama is now campaigning for a second term, which if successful, means he won’t leave office until January, 2017. If that’s not enough to frighten the living hell out of you, I don’t know what is.

January, 2012: Natalee Holloway – Gone Forever

The life and times of one Natalee Holloway officially ended on January 12, 2012 when an Alabama judge declared her to be legally dead. Natalee, you may remember was the pretty, recent Alabama high school graduate, who disappeared without a trace from the small island nation of Aruba on May 30, 2006.

Neither she nor her remains have ever been found. More than likely she was murdered by the human deviant, Joran van der Sloot, a privileged citizen of the Netherlands whose life consisted of depraved partying in Aruba.

Apparently, on May 26, 2006, some 124 graduates of the affluent Mountain Brook High School near Birmingham, Alabama, along with seven chaperones, flew to Aruba to celebrate their recent graduation. Of the 124 students, 123 returned home. Not Natalee.

So many questions beg to be answered.

Why Aruba? Aruba is but a few miles from Venezuela. That’s all the way to South America. You’ve got to fly across Cuba and Jamaica and a thousand miles of open ocean just to get there. Are there no fabulous vacation spots in the United States, where you are safer than anywhere else in the world?

Does anyone besides me see here a recipe for disaster? Evidently, few of the MBHS adults did.

You’ve got 124 underage kids, basically unsupervised, partying away with abandon. You’ve got Natalee leaving a bar – apparently wasted – with a total stranger at 1:30 in the morning. Where were her friends? Was there no buddy system? Where were Natalee’s parents? Had she received no instructions during her upbringing as to the danger of running off with strangers?

Now, you can blame all of this on Joran van der Sloot if you like. However, there are evil people all over the world. People who would just as soon kill you as look at you: sociopaths, psychopaths and Van der Sloots. You’ve got to protect yourself. Minimize the dangers.

There is plenty of blame to go around for this senseless death, not the least of which is the permissive, anything goes, morality of the new America.

I hope parents of teenage girls everywhere never forget the disturbing episode of Natalee Holloway and Joran van der Sloot.

Post Script: Joran went on to kill another pretty young girl, 21-year-old student, Stephany Ramirez, in Lima, Peru on May 30, 2010 – four years to the day after Natalee’s demise. Joran recently pled guilty to the crime and was sentenced to 28 years. I wonder if this will give Natalee, wherever she may be, any comfort.

December, 2011: Cooking the Books

According to the United States Department of Labor (DOL), the national unemployment rate which was 9.0% in October, 2011 took a nice drop to 8.6% in November, 2011. Now, isn’t that just hunky-dory for Barrack Obama’s re-election bid? These statistics, by the way, are compiled by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), a unit of the DOL, in a category called U-3.

However, the U-3 data is at best extremely confusing and at worst deliberately misleading.

The real unemployment numbers are maintained in a category known as U-6. This group counts not only the unemployed, but also people who are underemployed, marginally discouraged (still looking) and totally discouraged (not even looking). The U-6 unemployment percentage for November, 2011 is 15.6%.

So, by publishing U-3 instead of U-6, the federal government paints a relatively rosy picture of a national disgrace. I say ‘disgrace’ because there’s no earthly reason why America should have 15.6% unemployment. A couple of examples:

(1) Obama prevented Boeing Airlines from opening a new plant in South Carolina, an enterprise that would have created some 20,000 or so jobs. Obama’s real reason: South Carolina is a right-to-work state, meaning you don’t have to belong to a union to work there. Non-union labor is hated by Obama and liberals.

(2) Obama won’t give final approval of the Keystone Pipeline, a project which would bring much needed oil from Canada to Texas. Refineries would be built along the way to process the crude. Some 20,000 long range jobs would be created. But no. His Royal Muslim Highness, Obama, who preaches that he is consumed 24 hours a day with job creation, just can’t bring himself to pull the trigger on this project. Obama’s real reason: He would be vilified by the environmental-wackos who comprise a large part of his fanatical base.

Why in the world would his Holy Muslimness, who dwells night and day on job creation, kill these wonderful projects? The obvious reason is he doesn’t dwell night and day on job creation. He dwells night and day on his mission of destroying the United States. And, he is doing a damn good job of it.

By the way, did you sort of furrow your brow a couple of weeks ago when you first saw the November 8.6% unemployment figure? Were you somewhat amazed at the rise in employment when you hear daily stories of one business after another all across the nation shutting down or downsizing or moving overseas?

Are you at all suspicious that the BLS numbers might be a little bit cooked? You should be. Here’s how they do it.

Let’s say the total labor force in some fictitious nation, call it La La Land, is 100 people. Suppose 10 of them are unemployed. That works out to 10% unemployment. Now suppose La La Land’s leader, President La La, decides that 5 of the 10 unemployed have been out of work for so long, they just won’t be counted anymore. Now there are 5 unemployed in a total labor force of 95. That works out to 5.3%.

Sweet. With a stroke of the pen, the unemployment rate has dropped from 10% to 5.3%

What impact will the BLS unemployment figures have on next year’s presidential election? Why, everything, of course. Recall the oft quoted election caveat, “It’s the economy, stupid.”

But, isn’t the BLS an apolitical entity? Get serious. They are headquartered in Washington, D.C. They are a sub-unit of the DOL, which is run by the Obama appointee, Hilda Solis, a former California congresswoman and staunch liberal.

How far down do you think the BLS will drive the unemployment rate prior to the election? 7.5% maybe? 3.4% maybe? There’s no telling. With liberals, the sky’s the limit.

November, 2011: The NBA – What a Mess

Brief Background

Ever since the 2010-11 season ended back in June, the NBA owners and players have been battling back and forth to hatch out some sort of labor / management agreement. This agreement, called a CBA (collective bargaining agreement), allows the sport to run fairly smoothly for a number of years – until the contract expires.

A CBA, by the way, is not unique to basketball. All of the big-time professional sports (NBA, NFL, MLB and NHL) have one.

Progress, throughout the summer and fall, towards an agreement has been hampered by considerable acrimony. The owners claim they are losing tons of money. The players claim the owners are trying to cheat them out of tons of money.

Compromise after compromise has been proposed and rejected, by both players and owners. Finally, on Monday, November 14, 2011, the players resoundingly rejected what was supposedly the owners’ final offer. Alas and alack, the 2011–12 basketball season is apparently doomed.

Tens of basketball fans are saying, “Oh, no.” Tens of others are saying “Good riddance.” Tens of others are saying, “If I can’t go to games, how in the world am I going to get good ideas for tattoos?”

Before trying to figure out who are the good guys and who are the bad guys, let me state and then prove that professional basketball is a mess. A BIG mess.

The Mess

Statement: Professional basketball is a BIG mess.

Proof:

(1) There are 30 teams in all in the NBA, split into 6 divisions of 5 teams each. I bet even serious NBA fans would have trouble naming even 15 of these teams.

(2) Year after year, most of these teams have no prayer of winning a championship. Most of these teams, in fact, have no prayer of even getting into the playoffs, which is really saying something, because the NBA makes it very hard to NOT make the playoffs. Sixteen of the 30 teams, some with overall losing records go to the playoffs.

(3) The perennially mediocre and bad teams are in small markets and just can’t compete money-wise with big-market teams. Teams like the Boston Celtics, New York Knicks, Los Angeles Lakers and Miami Heat have loads of money and can buy top-tier players. Teams like Toronto and Milwaukee can not and have to compete with second-tier talent.

(4) Owners, through their colossal greed and stupidity, have thrown away so much money, it boggles the mind. No better example exists than the $120 million long-term contract possessed by Joe Johnson of the Atlanta Hawks. He is a good player and that’s it. He is not a great player and certainly not a franchise player. What the hell were the Hawks’ owners thinking?

(5) Teams constantly make incredibly bad decisions. No better example exists than the Boston Celtics trade prior to the 2011 playoffs of their starting center Kendrick Perkins. Perkins was a big body and a proven reliable center. In fact, the only reason Boston failed to win the 2010 NBA championship against the LA Lakers was that Perkins was injured in Game 6 and couldn’t play Game 7.

Management justified the trade by saying the former superstar Shaquille O’Neal would take over at center. Good thinking. Except for one little detail. Shaq hadn’t played ten minutes total in the previous two years. His legs, like those of so many big men, had long ago given out. Sure enough, in the playoffs he lasted about three minutes and was done. What in the hell were Celtics’ owners thinking?

(6) Lebron James showed up. Despite having zero championships on his resume, James became the sports media darling and was proclaimed the ‘greatest player who ever lived,’ thereby  replacing Michael Jordan as the ‘greatest player who ever lived.’ This was a strange accolade bestowed on a man who had never won an NBA championship. Michael Jordan has won six.

Funny thing happened though to Lebron on the way to demonstrating his unsurpassed greatness: In Games 6 and 7 against the Boston Celtics in the 2010 Eastern Conference Championships, James sort of disappeared. He dribbled the ball to midcourt, passed it off and became a spectator. Perhaps he was already planning his exit from Cleveland and didn’t want to jeopardize it by winning a championship.

Then, in an amazing mid-summer TV special, with the entire sports world watching in  fascination, James announced, “I’m taking my talents to Miami.” Which he did. He forecast that he would immediately win the first of 7 NBA championships. Which he didn’t. In fact, against Dallas in the finals, he repeated the same mysterious disappearing act as before.

I never saw Michael Jordan disappear from a basketball game in crunch time.

(7) The pros play an 82 game regular season schedule. The ultimate champion must win an additional 15 playoff games and may play as many as 26 games in doing so. That’s a third again of the season. This is ridiculous. Why does the NBA need so many playoff games? Why to generate BRI (basketball related income), of course. You need lots of dough to pay those multi-million dollar salaries.

(8) You can’t purchase a ticket to a pro game without taking out a bank loan. Turns out the major markets allow third parties to purchase all the good seats to all the good games and then resell them online for scandalous prices. A couple of years ago when my daughter was still very much interested in basketball, I ventured online to purchase a couple of tickets. To get two good seats would have cost me $400. I declined.

(9) The officiating of pro basketball is so annoying, you can hardly enjoy the game. There are virtually 360 different sets of rules – one set for each of the 360 players. The rules depend on a player’s stature in the minds of the refs. They, of course, deny it. They are full of crap.

If a bottom feeder player gets within five feet of any superstar when said superstar is shooting, it’s a foul. If a bottom feeder player gets knocked unconscious by an elite player, play goes on.

I have seen superstars pick up a loose ball at midcourt, take three strides, one dribble,  three more strides and dunk. How is this possible? Midcourt to the hoop on one dribble?

The worst thing about all of this is that it is so unnecessary. The referees are actually quite capable of officiating the game fairly. They are, however, under orders from above to call the game crookedly so to please the superstars and hence to please the fans of the superstars. The fans will then continue to pay big bucks to keep coming to the games. Get it? More BRI. The owners will, of course, deny this. They are full of crap.

10) You may think none of this matters being as it’s millionaire players vs. billionaire owners. Who cares?

You should. I’ve already mentioned the outrageous ticket prices. What about the never-ending stream of commercials you must endure to watch a game on television? And the never-ending commercial plugs constantly hurled at you by the announcers? You know, basketball equivalents of stuff like MLB’s ever-annoying, “Bell South call to the bullpen.”

I could go on and on, but I think you get the idea.

Good guys vs. Bad Guys

There are no good guys here. The owners have, through greed and stupidity, totally messed this professional sport up, possibly beyond repair. The players and their agents have, through greed and more greed, finally pushed the owners to the brink.

Now, you can side with the players or side with the owners, but that isn’t productive. They are, let’s be kind, equally culpable for the damage.

So, it is only a question of what can be done, if anything, to fix the mess.

A brief, but relevant, aside: During my career as a college professor, there was the usual amount of bad feelings between the faculty and the administration – some of it petty and some of it not. To vent my disgust at these seeming slights, I came up with the following insult.

What would happen if, one day, no students came to the campus? Answer: The college would shut down. What would happen if, one day, no faculty came to the campus? Answer: The college would shut down. What would happen if, one day, no administrators came to the campus? Answer: Who would even know?

A little sarcastic perhaps? Okay, a lot sarcastic. Now here’s how it relates to the NBA.

If the owners went away, dissolving their franchises and shutting down the magnificent basketball venues, professional basketball would be over. Finished. Done With. Curtains.

If the players walked away, shredding their multi-million dollar contracts in the process, who would even notice? Within hours, the owners could raid college campuses, high school gyms and the playgrounds of New York City and find 360 damn fine players. After a couple of weeks to beef the youngsters up and get them tattooed all over their bodies, no one could tell the difference.

After all, it’s not like the current crop of pros are particularly talented. Sure they are big and strong and quick and fast, but how many of them can do anything but dribble between their legs and dunk the basketball (a feat which, by the way, is not all that stupendous when you’re 6 foot 10).

It’s also quite likely that, after they’ve frittered away all their millions taking care of their posses, many of the former pros would come back to the NBA and beg for a job. Only this time, the offer would be maybe $100,000 a year, instead of $10,000,000.

The conversation will go something like this:

Player: I want to return to the NBA.
Owner: Okay, you’re a very good player. I will gladly hire you. How does $100,000 a year sound?
Player: Say what? I was making ten million a year before the breakup.
Owner: Yes, and how much do you have left?
Player: Nothing.
Owner: Well, I’m offering you $100,000 a year. Where you going to make that kind of money? McDonald’s? Wal Mart? Yellow Cab?
Player: But, it’s wrong. It’s just wrong.
Owner: You should have thought of that back in 2011 when we trying to work out a deal. You’d still be making ten million.
Player: Damn.

Here’s another problem. Up to November 14, the acrimony between players and owners seemed to be merely the usual labor / management stuff. The players, almost all of whom are black, didn’t maintain that the owners, all of whom are white (except Michael Jordan), were racists.

The reason? It wasn’t yet time to play the racism card. The players always assumed the owners would cave at some point. A very decent assumption actually, considering that owners in all professional sports have always caved in these situations.

But, this time the owners were resolute – a clear indication that many of them WERE actually losing money. On November 14, the owners gave the players an ultimatum: Take the deal or the next deal offered will be worse, much worse. The black players didn’t like the idea of an ultimatum – especially when it was coming down from the white plantation owners.

So now, there is racial stuff in the mix. The players will deny it. They are full of crap. The owners will deny it. They are full of crap.

What Needs to Happen

If professional basketball is going to continue and prosper, it needs to be completely restructured.

(1) A hard cap (i.e. the maximum amount a team can pay its players in a given year) must be put into place. No more soft cap in which teams pay a so-called luxury tax on every dollar they spend beyond the cap. The whole soft cap thing is bullcrap. The wealthy or crazy owners just spend whatever they want and pay the penalty. This has the effect of putting all the league’s superstars on just a few teams. Since there are not enough superstars to go around, most teams are condemned to mediocrity or worse.

(2) The hard cap must be enforced. The owners are too greedy and stupid and starved for worship to police themselves. They are constantly thinking, “Jeez, if I just had so and so on my team, I could win it all, and then I’d be known as a great owner and everyone would worship me.” How about this for enforcement? If an owner violates the hard cap, he will be chained to a chair and forced to watch ‘I Love Lucy’ reruns for a month.

(3) Players salaries must come back to reality. Again, don’t tell me a college star wouldn’t play in the NBA for say, $100,000. If he balks, let him work in a carpet mill for a year and slum down with common, everyday people, making $10 an hour and driving a Volkswagon Beetle.

(4) Multi-year contracts must cease to exist or at least be based on sanity. The definition of insanity is the $120 million 6-year contract awarded to Joe Johnson.

(5) Owners must share the benefits of the newly-found fiscal sanity with the fans. Ticket prices must come way down. The number and length of commercials on broadcasts must be drastically reduced.

Of course, the players will go nuts if any of this actually happens. This is to be expected. They are not bright enough to see how their greed is shredding the game’s popularity.

What Will Actually Happen

The whole mess will end up in the courts. Litigation has already begun. Lawyers are licking their chops.

Corrupt federal agencies like the NLRB will become involved as the players file grievances. Remember the NLRB? It’s the agency which prevented Boeing Airlines from building a major new plant in South Carolina, an endeavor that would have created thousands of jobs. The reason? South Carolina is a right-to-work state, meaning you don’t have to belong to a union to work there. To see how that makes any sense when so many millions of Americans are out of work, you’ll have to consult his Royal Highness, Barrack Hussein Obama. How comforting to know the NLRB will have an impact on the future of the NBA.

Federal judges will end up making rulings that will determine the final outcome of the dispute. One thing you can count on: Their decisions will be bizarre. You can also count on this: They will side with the players. They always do. Whenever the owners in the NBA, MLB or NFL have banded together and said enough is enough, the courts have found them guilty of collusion. Curiously, the courts have never found that players banding together constitutes collusion.

Not only do the federal judges, in these cases, find for the players and demand that the owners give them everything they want, they also fine the owners unmercifully for their sinful act of collusion.

So, we’ll be right back where we were. Joe Johnson will get the rest of his $120 million. Lebron James will continue to execute his midcourt-to-dunk-on-one-dribble move and will work on winning the first of his predicted seven championships. The bad teams will stay bad and get worse.

Fans of all the mediocre and bad teams will continue to lose interest in the game.

And, one day, the whole mess will collapse.

November, 2011: Tick, Tick , Tick …

The United States is currently involved in numerous wars/conflicts – declared or not – against Muslim nations in the Mid East and Africa: Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Libya and Yemen. With Obama in charge, there are likely going to be more of these. The reason? Obama likes these things. Every time he kills off one of the cruel Muslim dictators, he gets a little blip in the popularity polls and a little closer to re-election.

But, all these wars/conflicts are mere foreplay to the inevitable conflagration involving the United States, Iran and Israel. This war is coming soon to a neighborhood near Tehran. The clock is ticking.

Iran, you see, has been feverishly working for years to acquire nuclear weapons. To accomplish this on the world stage a requires a certain level of mis-direction, namely the construction of nuclear reactors sites. You see, you don’t really need reactors to make bombs. All you need is a uranium mine and a uranium enrichment plant.

The problem is that natural uranium consists of two isotopes, U-235 and U-238. Of the two, only U-235 fissions. Unfortunately for terrorists everywhere, U-235 comprises less than 1% of natural uranium.

Before a fuel rod can be placed into the core of a reactor, the U-235 content must be increased to about 5%. This enhancement is done at a so-called enrichment plant. In order to set off a fission bomb, however, the U-235 content must be enhanced up to 90%. So, in reality all that is needed to acquire an explosive critical mass of U-235 is a ready supply of uranium and an efficient enrichment plant.

The whole point of building energy-producing nuclear reactor sites is a ruse. By doing so, Iran can claim to be using uranium for purely peaceful purposes. This gives them plausible deniability of sufficient credibility to bamboozle liberals everywhere. Their real mission is the construction of a handful of atomic bombs.

And, what exactly does Iran need these nuclear weapons for? Why, in order to blow the state of Israel off the face of the Earth, of course. This, according to their nutcase-in-chief,  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Since Israel is such a  tiny country, not many bombs would be needed.

The U.S. has long been aware of Iran’s nuclear activity but has seen fit, under Obama, to do nothing about it. Oh yes, truth be told, Hillary did send a nasty letter to Iran threatening to take them off the State Department’s Christmas list.

Tick, tick, tick, …

By the way, America’s great friends, China and Russia, have been eagerly supplying Iran with bomb-making engineering secrets and materials. Thanks, good buddies. With their help, Iran is perhaps a year or so away from having a fully functional atomic bomb.

Tick, tick, tick, …

There’s only one little problem with this whole scenario: Israel is not going to sit idly by and let it happen. Israel will at some point be forced to make a pre-emptive strike to take out Iran’s reactors and fuel enrichment facilities.

And this is where things get really ugly. Israeli jets will have to fly across Iraq to get to Iran. It’s not clear whether Obama will allow this to happen. In April of 2010 an ROTC cadet at the University of West Virginia asked the then Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, Admiral Mike Mullen, if the U.S. would shoot down Israeli jets in this scenario. Mullen babbled and waffled and babbled and waffled some more (no wish to get fired by Obama). He did not say, “No.”

Should America engage Israel over Iraqi airspace, what a hoot that would be. America vs. Israel, live and in color, with bombs bursting in air and the ‘Rocky’ theme blaring from your television. Israel will be fighting for its very existence and America will be fighting to protect its arch enemy, Iran.

If the dogfights stop Israel from completing its mission, the only option remaining to Israel is to launch their own nuclear-tipped missiles and take out Iran before Ahmadinejad launches his. Whoever launches first, the war will have gone nuclear. What will the United States do? What will China and Russia do?

Tick, tick, tick, …

Armageddon, anyone?

Tick, tick, tick, …

October, 2011: Fast, Furious and Smelly

Operation Fast and Furious supposedly started out in September, 2009 as a very complicated ATF sting operation.

The first step involved selling thousands of assault rifles to illegal buyers (some of them known felons) from gun stores in Arizona. One such gun store was Lone Wolf Trading Company in Glendale. Next, the guns would be handed over to sundry thieves, drug-runners and murderers who would “walk” the weapons across the Mexican border. Finally, the weapons would be delivered to Mexican drug cartel warlords in places like Juarez.

Theoretically, the ATF would track the gun-runners as they transported the weapons from Arizona into Mexico and all the way to cartel headquarters.

Then, the ATF would swoop in, arrest or kill the smugglers, destroy the cartels, recover all the weapons and everyone would live happily ever after.

Three slight problems with this faux scheme:

(1) The ATF already knew where the weapons were going to end up. Duh! Why the pretense that this was some great mystery?

(2) How many innocent Mexican citizens were going to be slaughtered with these weapons? How many U.S. border patrol officers were going to be killed with AK-47′s that crossed back into the United States? One was: 40 year-old Brian Terry who was shot to death on December 14, 2010 near Rio Roco, Arizona.

(3) Even if the various elements of the stated sting operation were true, the ATF has no authority to invade Mexico. That would be an act of war.

How could this operation have ended well? How could this operation – involving AK-47′s, felons, drug smugglers, murderers and drug cartels – POSSIBLY have ended well?

But, perhaps something else was going on? What is the ATF anyway? Why, it’s a law enforcement agency of the DOJ. Oops! Again with the DOJ. And, of course, the DOJ is headed up by none other than our fun-loving scandal-hopping Attorney General, Eric Holder.

There is no way that the stated purpose of Fast and Furious could possibly be true. It doesn’t even pass the smell test. And, there’s no way such a risky operation, fraught as it was with potentially disastrous international repercussions, could have been perpetrated by the ATF without the knowledge and consent of the DOJ. And since Eric Holder doesn’t go to the bathroom without Barrack Obama’s permission, approval of ‘Fast and Furious’ surely came all the way down from the White House.

Perhaps the real reason for Fast and Furious was the same tired old liberal dream of gun control. Once the assault weapons had extracted their toll in human lives (both Mexican and American) Holder and Obama would swoop in, all irate and noble, and demand stiff gun control laws for all Americans.

Or, so the two of them dreamed until Fast and Furious blew up in their faces. And now, Obama and Holder are orchestrating a massive Watergate-level coverup.

With any luck, Eric Holder will end up in prison as a co-conspirator in the death of Brian Terry. And, Barrack Obama after resigning from the presidency, will end up, standing on the threshold of Air Force One à la Richard Nixon, waving one last time to his adoring masses before flying off to Iran to begin the next phase of his affirmative-action driven life.

September, 2011: Stimulus Meets the Werewolf

After a ten-day vacation to Martha’s Vineyard, during which time thousands more Americans lost their jobs, Obama revealed his long awaited jobs bill. Unfortunately, the proposal turned out to be more of the same old crap Obama gave us in his original Stimulus bill.

In fact, many people are refering to this latest mess as Stimulus II or Son of Stimulus. I call it Stimulus Meets the Werewolf.

In truth, this $447 billion pile of junk won’t do anything to produce jobs. Obama knows this full well. He doesn’t care. Obama, for whatever reasons, hates America. The only thing he cares about is getting re-elected so he can complete his mission of destroying America.

Consider what he’s done lately.

(1) Obama sat idly by while the NLRB (National Labor Relations Board) prevented Boeing from opening a new plant in South Carolina — a facility that would have created thousands of jobs. The reason? South Carolina is a right-to-work state, i.e. you don’t have to belong to a labor union to work there. Obama, of course, hates non-union labor, being as labor unions are one of the lynchpins of the Democrat Party.

(2) Obama twiddled his thumbs while the DOJ (Department of Justice) sent heavily armed SWAT teams into the manufacturing plants of Gibson Guitars in Nashville and Memphis, Tennessee. Their mission: Seize supposedly illegal rosewood fret boards imported from India. Yes, armed agents. What were they afraid of? That the guitar craftsmen would beat the agents to death with guitar parts? The real reason for the raid? Gibson’s CEO, Henry Juszkiewicz, has made campaign donations over the years to conservative politicians.

Liberals will insist this was solely the work of Attorney General Eric Holder and that poor little Barrack had nothing to do with it. Come on. Does anyone think Eric Holder can even go to the bathroom unless Obama okays it.

(3) Obama watched as his pet solar panel company, Solyndra, which had received $535 million from Stimulus I, went belly up. Due diligence was never done on this company. Obama steamrolled the grant through so his Chief Nincompoop, Joe Biden, could make a self-congratulatory speech on the pre-assigned ground-breaking day. Subsequently, Obama could portray himself as the personification of green energy. Guess who’s on the hook for the $535 million? You are.

(4) Obama unveiled a new website whereby Americans can turn in anyone who dares disagree with him. The website is called Attack Watch. It is very sinister-looking with blood red graphics glaring at you across a black background. Its purpose is right out of the Saul Alinsky playbook: Turn Americans against each other. Can Hitler’s stratagem of having German children spy on their parents be far behind?

Make no mistake about it, Obama is a bully – a very big and dangerous bully. Being able to smile nicely while reading pretty words off twin Teleprompters does not change who he really is.

August, 2011: Caving, Caving … Caved

Well, the Republicans caved again, this time during the federal debt ceiling crisis. No surprise there. They always cave. But, this time it was a massacre: 156 to 0 in football terms.

What is it with Republican politicians? Are they not very bright? Or, are they just spineless?

Obama got everything he wanted and more. He got his debt limit hike, a massive $2.1 trillion, which he will begin spending as soon as his birthday celebrations are complete. He also got bragging rights for being president when the crisis was averted. Then, so he could pretend the deal wasn’t a slaughter, Obama instructed his sycophants to wail and moan that Republicans had hosed his poor liberals. This his sycophants gleefully did and with a straight face to boot. They are good at what they do.

What did the Republicans get? Why, they got a whopping $900 billion cut in federal spending. One slight problem: Those cuts play out over a ten year period. So, it’s really $90 billion a year on average. That’s chicken feed, working out to about one dollar out of every forty of the $3.7 trillion the federal government spends each year. So, for example, instead of wasting $40 billion on some inane project, they will only be able to waste $39 billion. Yippity-doo-dah.

Wait, it gets better. The Republicans theoretically negotiated further cuts of $ 1.4 trillion. Trouble is these cuts must be made by a soon-to-be-formed committee of 12 senators and congressmen, six from each party. This Super Committee has until Thanksgiving to come up with something. If they don’t, so-called “triggers” will kick in and mandatory cuts will be inflicted, mostly on Medicare and the military.

Who comes up with this stuff?

Does anyone remember that Obamacare already contains huge cuts to Medicare? If the Super Committee does nothing (and, you can bet your rent money that’s exactly what will happen) – Medicare will be on life support. Good luck to any seniors who come down with anything worse than the flu.

By the way: Kudos to the handful of Tea Party Republicans who manned up and voted against the disgusting copout bill. And, kudos to Americans everywhere who support the Tea Party. Obama and all the liberals are deathly afraid of you. This is why they keep vilifying you. First they called you Nazis. Then they called you racists. Now they are calling you terrorists. Yes, TERRORISTS. This is the height of irony, being as liberals can’t even bring themselves to apply that word to American-killing Muslims.

The liberals will never stop. They fight dirty and they have plans – short range, mid range and long range – for the destruction of America.

I wish conservatives would just fight, period! – even if they can’t bring themselves to fight dirty. And what a bonus it would be if they would actually come up with a plan to save this country.

The current debt crisis debate has a supposed expiration date of August 2. If the nation’s debt limit is not raised by then, as demanded by Obama, our nation will theoretically crash and burn. The crisis pits old foes, Democrats and Republicans, against each other once again.

The Republicans, as usual, will lose the battle to the Democrats. Why? Because, they will cave. They always do. For two basic reasons. In the first place, Republicans overall are a spineless lot. Secondly, Democrats hold all the aces.

Here, in no particular order, are the five aces.

Ace #1: Democrats, however misguided, fight hard for what they believe in and they fight dirty, very dirty. Stuff like Obama shamefully telling senior citizens that they might not get their Social Security checks in August. Geez, I thought the Social Security lockbox contained trillions of dollars. Guess not. Stuff like the deplorable leftist television ad showing a Paul Ryan lookalike throwing ‘Grandma’ over a cliff. Republicans, on the other hand, refuse to fight at all much less fight dirty.

Ace #2: Democrats can always get away with accusing Republicans of wanting to eliminate Social Security period, thereby killing off old people and children with disabilities. The fact that this is utter nonsense is irrelevant. The accusation has a life of its own.

Ace #3: Democrats refuse to put out any plan of their own to deal with the deficit and debt problems. Hells bells, in clear violation of the U.S. Constitution, they haven’t even submitted a budget in two years. But, by laying low, they put themselves squarely in the catbird seat from which they can belittle and ridicule every idea or plan offered up by Republicans.

Ace #4: Democrats have the national media (radio, television, newspapers and magazines) in their pockets. This effete national media, which long ago shunned any semblance of objectivity and integrity, continuously fawns over Obama, Reid, Pelosi, the Clintons and all the rest of the so-called progressives. Exactly why they do this I have never been able to figure out. After the progressive leaders have turned the United States into a giant Cuba, what’s going to happen to all the so-called journalists who greased the journey? My guess is that they’ll all end up in prison with bewildered looks on their faces.

Ace #5: Five aces you say? Yes, five. In this deck of fools, the joker is wild, and the Democrats own the joker, who is none other than His Holy Muslimness, Barrack Obama. Yes, the same Barrack Hussein Teleprompter Obama who has been so successful in his plan to destroy America. Am I the only one who is disturbed by the fact that after three years of witnessing Obama’s actions that so few people are able to see what he is trying to do? Am I the only one who is disturbed by the fact that so many tens of millions of Americans are actually helping him do it?

So, what are we going to end up with on August 2?

One possibility being kicked around is to grant Obama his debt ceiling hike while in return he will promise to cut federal spending on a massive scale. Republicans will be so happy to have the confrontation over with, they won’t bother to pin Obama down on the details. Obama, to show good faith, will put an end to a couple of federal projects like the $700,000 grant given to the University of New Hampshire to study methane emissions from dairy cows. And, that will be the end of the cuts.

Another possibility is that caving Republicans will not only give Obama his debt ceiling raise, but also blanket permission to fund another gargantuan stimulus bill. To ease their pain, Obama will invite all Republicans over to the White House for a two-day open-bar pool party.