Category: Rants

First of all, let’s revisit my 2003 rant about GeeDuhbya and his use of terrorism as a marketing tool. Ok, caught up?

Now I invite you to change out references to Duhbya and insert Obama. Still pretty much works, right? Not the imperialism so much, but most of it still fits. I am never disappointed when it comes to politicians finding creative ways to divert attention from important issues. Gotta hand it to them, sleight of hand is their forte.

And the media. Ah, yes, the media. I used to think CNN was a reliable source of news, but after last night’s stupidity, now I put them with FOX in biased sensationalism. From their reports last night of “100% certain!” to today’s “Um, well, there is no body, but, um, he was buried AT SEA! Yah, at sea, and uh…” Yah. Sad. If that asshole CNN commentator said “Osama bin Laden is dead” once, he said it 100 times. He was practically chanting it! Wow, trying too hard? They REALLY want the public to believe this.

Good thing I’m not part of the sheeple herd CNN was clearly chanting to. :/

From the CNN site today: “There are photographs of the body with a gunshot wound to the side of the head that shows an individual who is not unrecognizable as bin Laden, the official said.” Um, what? Spin much? Here’s the ever changing article. CNN keeps revising this post – no doubt to make sure to cast as much golden glow of accomplishment onto the administration as possible.

From my Twitter feed:

WTF? “not unrecognizable”?? I call bullshit. Buried at sea? BULLSHIT. Gov’t LIES to divert attn from its ineffectiveness.

And this ALSO shows quite nicely how Obama is not above the ole shuck and jive if it behooves him. Whatever it takes to get reelected.

For all of you who preach the Gospel of Obama, I’d like each and every one you to SUCK IT. He is the lowest of the low: a politician.

I love this WikiAnswers post about Muslims being buried at sea. The answer is the BEST.

The Obama administration is creating this bullshit story – that can’t be proven, with the convenient “burial” of the body – for several reasons:

1. to play off Duhbya’s efforts to kill bin Laden – and be “successful”
2. to divert attention from the fact that this administration has been ineffective at dealing with, well, pretty much anything, just pick one: economy, immigration, health care, reversing the Patriot Act, foreign policies, tax reform, etc., etc.
3. to rally the Obama Faithful and remind them that he is the messiah and ensure his reelection (which is assured IMO, since there will be no viable opponents)

The Obama Faithful will find my comments most unseemly, I’m sure. And they can all eat a bag of dicks. The fact of the matter, which I have stated from the first day of The Messiah’s reign, is that he’s first and foremost a politician. Therefore, his first and foremost goal is extending his reign. He is not above using lies, ruses, unprovable events or whatever is available to make himself look good to his flock of sheeple.

Any politician worth his salt would do the same thing. Politicians are all the same, people. They are grabbing power and money as fast as they can grab ’em. They have gone out of control and sheeple just keep on being led by whatever ruse is presented.

WAKE UP AND SMELL THE LIES.

Here is the transcript of Obama’s victory speech – complete with plenty of god references at the end. Gee, hope that doesn’t hurt anyone’s widdle feewings. Feh.

I’ve come to realise that pretty much across the board, young people who are raging liberals really don’t get it. They are completely unwilling and/or unable to see that entitlements and government intervention into private issues really won’t work for the long term. It never has! This is not a new idea! I’ve never been a raging liberal OR conservative, so I really don’t get the reasoning behind it.

I’m a centrist. Every single political test I’ve taken puts me smack in the middle of all the various parties. Which means, of course, I have absolutely no one representing me, ever. I’ve never been all that liberal or conservative. I’ve got liberal ideas such as free college and healthcare but conservative ideas about entitlements and civil rights and drug enforcement. Just want to get that established before I go into my frustration with 20 somethings who worship Obama and blame the problems of the world on Republicans. Continue reading “Ah, Politics!”

When I call and email politicians, you know I’m pissed. The intertubes have been alight with posts about TSA abuses this week, which is all fine and good, but that does NOTHING to actually stop the abuse. This is the main issue, I think, with Americans. Posting on the internet does NOT send a message to the politicians, contacting them directly is the only way to let them know that they have gone too far.

The stories of abusive, invasive and demeaning pat downs by untrained, low paid TSA staff are numerous. The video of a little girl being groped and crying “Stop touching me!” have been expunged from every source that posted it, which tells you that it is just more damning evidence of a[nother] government agency run amok. Here is the FlyerTalk forum for stories about abuse (sadly, many of the posters have no idea that this abuse is ILLEGAL).

Here is a round up of the various articles I’ve been reading the last few days:
Wear a Kilt on Nov 24!
Johnny Isakson is on the committee over the TSA.
Don’t think contacting them works? Here’s a TED discussion about writing your politicians.
Israelis don’t take shit from anyone – not even airport security!

And to top it all off, our illustrious president wants TSA workers to unionize. What a moron. I try to be nice about the man, but he’s really clueless about most everything. All he sees are workers who want to unionize (always a far left fave). He doesn’t have to deal with the abuse from those assholes, so what does he care? Letting them unionize will make airports even less safe and will allow any and all abuses of the public to go unaddressed.

Yes, it’s a fine mess. And those perfectly safe (LIE) virtual strip search scanners? Yah, the promise that “scans will NEVER be saved”? You can forget that, too. Here’s the first 100 pix that have been “leaked”. Fortunately for those whose naked bodies were published, the asshats that saved the scans also didn’t have the scanner set up right, so the scans are not clear.

If all this evidence isn’t damning enough for you, may I suggest that you, too, are a moron? Anyone who’d put up with this blatant abuse of power by our government should have their voter card revoked. There is neither reason or justification for our government to treat its citizens like common criminals. Nor is there reason or justification for our government employees to unionize to further insulate them from being held accountable for abuses of power.

These TSA employees are semi-literate, untrained, low paid government employees. I know personally from a source who worked with the hiring company for TSA that they dumbed down the application tests THREE TIMES so they could find enough people to fill the positions. There are cursory at best background checks. The training for the full monty pat downs was one class.

These people want to unionize to insulate themselves from citizens’ complaints. Once they are a government union, there will be absolutely nothing for a citizen to do when abused by these low level employees with unlimited power. Just think about it: a person who may not have graduated high school and has had minimal training has the power to grope you, demean you and ultimately detain you.

Does that make sense to you? Well, it must make sense to the majority of the flying public since they have allowed the TSA to keep escalating their “security”. It’s not security, it’s security theatre. And it must work, since sheeple believe it’s really helping. Read more of Goldberg’s excellent posts, like this one with a better idea than kilts and the related posts that are listed within the article. They are worth your time.

Then get your lazy ass to contacting your politicians and bitching about this abuse of your rights. Suggest the TSA be dismantled and that money put to intelligence efforts where it will be USEFUL. Don’t be nice. These assholes are the ones pushing for the war on terror in the first place. And they’re doing it wrong.

As the article says:

“There is absolutely no intelligence and threat analysis done in Canada or the United States,” Sela said. “Absolutely none.” -Rafi Sela, the president of AR Challenges, a global transportation security consultancy. From Cathal Kelly’s report in the Star, Dec. 2009.

It’s your duty as a citizen to jerk an knot in the collective ass of our out of control nanny government. DO IT. And remember this shit at the polls.