How to be a Good Democrat

A good friend of mine recently sent this list on how to be a good Democrat. This would be funny, if it were not so shockingly true!

1. You have to be against capital punishment, but support abortion on demand.
2. You have to believe that businesses create oppression and governments create prosperity.
3. You have to believe that guns in the hands of law-abiding Americans are more of a threat than U.S. Nuclear weapons technology in the hands of Chinese and North Korean communists.
4. You have to believe that there was no art before Federal funding.
5. You have to believe that global temperatures are less affected by cyclical documented changes in the earth's climate and more affected by soccer moms driving SUV's.
6. You have to believe that gender roles are artificial but being homosexual is natural.
7. You have to believe that the AIDS virus is spread by a lack of federal funding.
8. You have to believe that the same teacher who can't teach fourth graders how to read is somehow qualified to teach those same kids about sex.
9. You have to believe that hunters don't care about nature, but loony activists who have never been outside of San Francisco do.
10. You have to believe that self-esteem is more important than actually doing something to earn it.
11. You have to believe that Mel Gibson spent $25 million of his own money to make "The Passion of the Christ" for financial gain only.
12. You have to believe the NRA is bad because it supports certain parts of the Constitution, while the ACLU is good because it supports certain parts of the Constitution.
13. You have to believe that taxes are too low, but ATM fees are too high.
14. You have to believe that Margaret Sanger and Gloria Steinem are more important to American history than Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Edison, and A.G. Bell.
15. You have to believe that standardized tests are racist, but racial quotas and set-asides are not.
16. You have to believe that Hillary Clinton is normal and is a very nice person.
17. You have to believe that the only reason socialism hasn't worked anywhere it's been tried is because the right people haven't been in charge.
18. You have to believe conservatives telling the truth belong in jail, but a liar and a sex offender belonged in the White House.
19. You have to believe that homosexual parades displaying drag, transvestites, and bestiality should be constitutionally protected, and manger scenes at Christmas should be illegal.
20. You have to believe that illegal Democrat Party funding by the Chinese Government is somehow in the best interest to the United States.
21. You have to believe that this message is a part of a vast, right wing conspiracy.
22. You have to believe that it's okay to give Federal workers the day off on Christmas Day ..........but it's not okay to say "Merry Christmas."

Small Business Stimulus

Hmmm... so today, Obama unveiled a plan to help small businesses. At the heart of that plan??? Encouraging... no... FORCING banks to open up credit and lend to small businesses. TARP-recipient banks that don't reveal every 30 days how they're lending to small business face penalties. Read it any way you want it, but that's actually forcing banks to lend to small businesses.

Where did we see this before??? Oh... yeah... that's right... we saw it in the 1990s with the Clinton administration and a compliant Democrat-controlled Congress forced banks to open up mortgages to consumers. Indeed, a housing stimulus.

We all know how that ended...

Wash. Rinse. Repeat. Expect different results. Man... don't we ever learn???!!!

Auto Bailout Alternative

The auto bailout. Ugh. Though I didn't care for the size, scope and unaccountability of the financial sector bailout, in principal I agreed with it, because a financial institution failure would have undermined the very infrastructure of our economy. I disagree with the current auto industry bailout, and I am none too pleased with the Bush administration's offering up of $17.4 billion to the Big Three to pull them out of their woes.

...because no amount of government money will pull them out of their woes. Alternatively, an organized, carefully executed Chapter 11 bankruptcy would address far more of the industry's fundamental problems. Aside from the facts that 1) the Big Three aren't making a product that people want to buy, and 2) the UAW costs have put the Big Three in an uncompetitive situation, the fundamental problem of the U.S. auto industry is that consumers just aren't buying cars.

THAT is what must be addressed. So here's my practical solution with Bush's "Christmas gift" of $17.4 billion. Still give them that money (and so much more), but in a different form. Effective immediately, the U.S. government will give a $3,000 downpayment for every new American car purchased. Consumers must otherwise qualify for a standard auto loan, and each household would be limited to just one purchase, and the $3,000 "gift" is not taxable. This would drive sales of 5.8 million American cars. Now THAT is a stimulus, and puts sales revenue in to the Big Three, not government handouts.

Am I crazy, or might just such a plan work??? At least in the short-term; the 1) and 2) items I list above must still be addressed (but the current $17.4 billion doesn't address that, either).

Twilight

OK, then... I'll be the first to admit that I'm a middle-aged male whom actually ENJOYED reading the Twilight novels. My wife read them and really loved them, and so to figure out what the deal was, I read all four of them. They're not my typical genre (I'm more of a Vince Flynn, John Grisham, the future-author-John-Goodale type of genre), but for what they were, they were OK, and "not unpleasant." And I could certainly understand the whole draw between Edward and Bella, yada yada yada.

So it wasn't necessarily with a whole lot of expectation that I went to see the movie (with my wife, of course). And ya' know what??? It was pretty good. I can say that I enjoyed it. I thought Edward and Bella were both way too serious, but overall, even the casting wasn't that bad.

But Twilight will certainly be a candidate for the Worst Technology Casting Oscar Award. Hear me out...

So here Bella is. An uncoordinated, intelligent "smartsy" type. The type of person we called while I was growing up, a "smack." She's not creative, nor artsy, nor athletic, nor none of those things. She's just a geek. So... why is it when you see her in the movie e-mailing her mother, she's using a Mac??? By Apple's own advertisements, the geeks of the world use PCs; NOT MACS!!! And in Forks, Washington, so close to Redmond, WA campus of Microsoft??? I'm sure the Redmondians would have thrown a fit!

Nope... never would have happened. That computer should have been cast as a PC. Shame on the production studio; the movie lost all realism to me by that casting choice! :-)

I Agree with Liberals

There's one thing in which liberals always try to pick a fight with me on: spending. It's the solution on which we differ. Liberals always complain to me that the Bush administration has spent like drunken sailors. Well... liberals all need to brush up on their civics lessons, because the President doesn't spend a dime. Nonetheless, I'll concede the point that Bush has been all too supportive of the Republican Congress during his first six years, in spending far too much money. Point conceded.

The reality is that Bush's apparently evil tax cuts have driven quarter-after-quarter of economic growth, and like Reagan did in the 1980s, he has actually INCREASED federal treasury revenues. Those revenues are at all-time highs, and the revenue side of the equation is not what has caused today's astronomical deficit: SPENDING is the problem. But again I'll further agree: Bush has been far to supportive of a Congress with seemingly endless purse strings.

Yet how do the liberals propose we fix this? We elect liberals who promise to spend more money!!! All while promising to raise taxes in a sputtering economy, something "The Chosen One" has even admitted would be a bad idea. Oh but wait a minute... please allow me to clarify: none of these liberals have come out and actually said, "I promise to spend more money." Or... wait a minute, while most elected to Congress have never actually said that, Obama DID (and a majority of the people still voted for him??? - go figure!!!).

But as the electorate should have done with Obama but didn't: let's examine the record. When Democrats took over the Congress two years ago, they promised that they would only embark on "Pay as You Go" spending, or "paygo" for short; they ran on that ticket! Oh goody; makes sense!!! I'm sure glad they've done that. Or... have they??? Oh come on, even Obamazombies should be able to answer this one: NO, they have not done that. In fact, according to the Wall Street Journal, they have not. In fact, they've broken their promise on 12 separate occasions, increasing new deficit spending by a whopping $398 billion!!! And the outrage over "Bush's spending" from the press and liberals (but I repeat myself) is where??? That's right: nowhere to be discovered!!!

But yet here we go again. The last time we had both a Democrat President and a Democrat-controlled Congress, it was Bill Clinton. I happen to remember that Clinton strolled in to office and shouted, "We need an economic stimulus package!!!" (because Bush's tax increases stalled our economy - d'oh just study history folks!!!). He proposed $90 billion in stimulus spending, and the Democrat-controlled Congress aid, "That's irresponsible!!!" and killed it. And Clinton never thereafter had a single one of his proposed budgets approved by Congress (two of those eight years Congress were even controlled by his own party!).

But even today's Democrats are different from Clinton-era Democrats. Even before Obama comes in to office, the Democrat-controlled Congress is begging for billions and billions of stimulus spending.

So to all of my liberal friends who complain about spending over the last eight years? You ain't seen NOTHIN' yet!!!

I quote the article below:

As Congress gears up to pass another spending "stimulus" bill, there's one political silver lining: Democrats are being forced to abandon the pretense of fiscal conservatism known as "pay as you go" budgeting.

Late last week the leader of the House Blue Dog Coalition, Tennessee Democrat Jim Cooper, announced that with Barack Obama about to enter the White House, "I'm not sure the old rules are relevant anymore." Why not? Because, Mr. Cooper said, "It would be unfair to the new President to put him in a budget straitjacket."

Democrats ran on "paygo" in 2006, promising to offset any new spending increases or tax cuts with comparable tax increases or spending cuts. Once in charge on Capitol Hill they quickly made exceptions, waiving paygo no fewer than 12 times to accommodate some $398 billion in new deficit spending -- not that the press corps bothered to notice. That didn't stop Majority Leader Steny Hoyer from announcing in May that "We're absolutely committed to paygo. Speaker [Nancy Pelosi] is committed to paygo. I'm very committed to paygo. Our caucus is committed to paygo."

Yet now Mr. Cooper is delivering official last rites, as the Washington spending machinery powers up in earnest. Paygo was always a big con designed not to reduce spending but to stop tax cuts. It was invented to stop the GOP Congress and then a Republican President, but it is inconvenient when Democrats run the show. With the recession available as an excuse for just about anything, get ready for the first $1 trillion federal budget deficit. And don't expect any howling from the Blue Dogs.

Minnesota Recount

Oh come on. This whole recount thing and "voter intent" is utterly ridiculous. If you're too stupid, lazy or unprepared to follow simple instructions while voting, your vote should not be counted. Tuesday when I voted, I walked in with a pre-marked ballot (I had studied and knew how I wanted to vote), and it took me probably less than five minutes to bubble in my two-page ballot. And had I made a mistake when bubbling, I could have asked for another ballot. It's really not difficult, people. If you're too stupid, lazy or unprepared to vote accurately, then it shouldn't be somebody else's job to figure out what your "intent" was.

Ending My Job Search

Oh well... at least after the election today, I can end my job search. Obama will cover my healthcare, and according to the ObamaZombie in this video embedded below, I will have my mortgage and my gas covered, as well. I can live on tax redistribution from the "wealthy," and if and when I feel like working again, Obama can give me a job. After all, he's promised millions of them. What a great day!!! I'm so happy to now live in the U.S.S.A, the United Socialist States of America.

Dangers of Socialism

One of the most powerful speeches warning against socialism that I have ever heard!!!

My Apology to the Nation

80+ hour work weeks. Half my time in Asia, away from my family. Severe lack of sleep. Continually fighting a cold or some other bug. Holding a serious revenue target in Asia so my U.S. company can continue to employ dozens. Stress out the wazoo.

But man... I apologize, folks. I'm apparently not working hard enough. Nor am I "patriotic" enough. I hereby solemnly commit under an Obama administration to work harder, be more patriotic, and spread the wealth (yeah... right!!!) around.

What messed up economic thinking!!! How can ANYBODY support Obamanomics???!!!

The best economic greaser is capitalism; socialism has left nothing but failed states littered throughout history.

For a very good preview of what we have in store, see this Wall Street Journal article.

McCain Supporter Beaten; Liberals and Media Yawn

A little more than a week ago, a liberal friend of mine sent me an e-mail, all excited that some McCain supporter yelled out at a rally, "Kill him!" - referring to Obama. My liberal friend couldn't believe such an outrage. Nor could the media. They jumped on this story like white on rice (uh oh... I mentioned "white" and will certainly be branded a racist now). As it turns out, the story was completely false. Nevermind that, liberals still talk about it like it actually happened.

But then a true outrage DOES occur (DA's complaint shown herein), with a McCain supporter being savagely beaten by an Obama supporter. Do I hear from my liberal friend(s) - any of them? Do I hear this in the mainstream media? No... together, they all collectively yawn.

Now... I'm not going to do as a liberal would do, and extend such evil to the party/movement as a whole, but I will ask this: Where is your rush to recognize and call out evil when evil exists, and cry out against it? And I actually WILL lay this charge against your party leadership in general: The liberal leadership's inability to recognize and deal with true evil absolutely frightens me.