For Your Viewing Pleasure/Repulsion

Here are some more videos of libs responding to the shaming their colleagues are getting at their town hall meetings. Apparently the tactic is to smear regular Americans as Nazi's, Astroturf (a liberal invention), Brooks Brothers (upscale men's clothes) and being paid to organize by the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy. This is just another example of how liberals only like "Speaking Truth To Power" when they aren't in power. When George Soros or Media Matters for America type groups pay rent a mobs to appear and slam conservatives, why that's just grassroots! Sure. Cindy Sheehan is probably the best example of a rent a mob. She was so in the pocket of paid handlers she should have had a trademark burned into her forehead. This calls to mind Nixon calling on the "silent majority" of Americans who stood with him for support. It turns out they did and he was reelected. Obama sees the situation a bit different. He is using the vocal super minority to attack the everyday American for speaking out for their rights. Attacking mainstream Americans usually doesn't turn out well. Especially for unpopular Senators. That's for you Ms. Boxer. Anyway, here they be.
(in the interest of full disclosure, in case some Obama net-spy sees this, I am against your policies and would never spend the cash to walk into a Brooks brothers. So there.)

Sen. Boxer advancing the vast right wing conspiracy theory. Apparently she hasn't seen the videos of war vets and house wives at the meetings. Not exactly Brooks brothers.


Nancy Pelosi comparing protesters to Nazi's. Always cute. I'd like to see one swastika before I buy into this one. Or maybe one name of a paid organizer from the insurance companies. Just one Stretch.


Tim Bishop getting his ass handed to him by a Veteran. I'm not sure hitching your wagon to the VA is good for any politician. Tangent thought: Doesn't New York have some of the dumbest politicians. Good Lord.


Part Two of Bishop, if you care.


And just for fun, Ron Paul on auditing the Fed! (audio only)

Quick Hits: 8/4/2009

Hey Barak, I know it seems like a good idea to have your legions of deadbeat, homely, basement dwelling, community agitator types act as a domestic spy agency to try and find dissenters to your ridiculous policies but I can save you even more time. Just walk into any place of business and watch all the people diligently working hard to provide for themselves and their families. All those people are against you. Feel free to send your legions back to their basements and community centers so they can figure out how not to be productive for yet another day.
(see here if you don't know what I'm talking about. )

On a related note, the Alien and Sedition Act of 1798 and all other Sedition Acts are still expired and unconstitutional. In case you were curious.

How nice it is to see that 4/5 of the cash for clunkers cars being bought are foreign. Good job running GM government! Way to stimulate the economy of Japan! More electric merkins, video games and disturbing cinema for everybody!

Great, Soviet subs are patrolling our East Coast again. Thank god we don't care anymore.

The United States' relationship with North Korea mirrors a classic love story of old. North Korea is Bill Clinton, the United States is Monica Lewinsky and, in a magic performance, Bill Clinton himself is the famous cigar. Or blue dress. I've lost control of my metaphor.

Avocado eating sissy crosses local thug. Dead fish futures rise dramatically.

The Office of Gay Agency Logo Design unveils new tribute to Obamacare:



Sha-Zam!
That sound you hear is the last bloom falling off the rose:

NFL Preview: Detroit Lions

QB: C- Oh boy, what a mess. This grade is only this high because you've gotta figure Stafford has some talent. He wasn't deserving the number one pick though, I remember being very underwhelmed watching him in college. Outside of Stafford though they only have the Ghost of Daunte Culpepper and the immortal Drew Stanton. They're going to suck anyway, might as well get the Staph a little gametime.

RB: B Kevin Smith is actually a pretty good back, runs well, catches well. He's probably going to get 700 carries this years since his back ups are Maurice Morris and Avion Cason. FANTASY IMPACT! There are only 2 Lions worth drafting and Smith is one of them. Don't panic and take him the first round though.

WR: B+ Megatron Calvin Johnson is a machine who would be dominant if the QB didn't suck. He's alot like Andre Johnson in the lean days with the Texans. Bryant Johnson, Dennis Northcutt and rookie Derrick Williams are average at best.

TE: D Rookie TE Brandon Pettigrew is already hurt for crying out loud. Don't the ghosts of Rickey Dudley and Kellen Winslow scare these GM's from drafting TE's too high? Guess not.

OL: C Outside of Backus and Raiola, the group is astonishingly average. They can't be all bad, Smith did get almost a thousand yards last year.

DL: D- Washed up or no names, take your pick. Grady Jackson, Jared DeVries, Grady Jackson, Chartric Darby(?) and DeWayne White. This reminds of the scene in major league where the construction workers are reading the names of who made the team. All they could say was "Who the hell are these guys?" Indeed.

LB: A Yeah! A bright spot on D, whoooo! Julien Peterson, Larry Foote and Earnie Sims are all too good to play for Detroit. It doesn't really matter though, see DL & DB. FANTASY TIP! If you're in an IDP league, Sims has the big play potential of the group.

DB: F This unit makes me sad. Cowboy cast away Anthony Henry mans on CB while Philip Buchanon, yes that one, mans the other side. Dallas's secondary sucks and they still cut Henry. Philip is so inconsistent that Jon Gruden brought him along to Tampa so he could doghouse him for a few more years. You don't know the safties and neither do I but we both know they're terrible.

P/K: B+ Sweet Jesus, Jason Hanson has spent more time in Detroit than Dean Martin spent in purgatory. Probably feels about the same.

COACHING: Inc. Jim Schwartz could be good, could be bad but one thing we know is that he isn't Josh McDaniels. Check and Mate.

BEST CASE SCENARIO: 6-10, 3rd in the North.

WORST CASE SCENARIO: 0-16, Last in professional sports. I have no witty comments. Sometimes the truth stands alone.

RANDOM THOUGHT: The Lions jersey's suck ass. Just wear the throwbacks everybody loves and try and proceed with some dignity, for God's sake.

A Lost Art Reborn

Watching all these politicians (Spector, Bishop, etc.) get laughed off stage by their constituents brings a couple of emotions to the surface.

One, of course, is anger. Anger that they think we are so stupid that we'll just sit back and be lied to without questioning it.

The second was pride and a dawning realization that this society of ours has been missing one fundamental thing since the sixties. Shame.

Shame was one of those things that leftist hippy types destroyed during the "Me" generation. That whole selfish, weak generation got involved with things like biorhythms and being validated. Nothing was good, nothing was bad, everything was relative. We were all just doing our thing. These mental midgets turned into parents and immediately started making sure that little Timmy knew he was a delicate snowflake, as unique and special as a rainbow. He could be whatever he wanted and if he wanted to be a basement dwelling loser, that was fine too. We're all God's creatures. If there was a God.

Unfortunately, with no descent parents or a school system made for sissies, nobody told little Timmy that he was a morbidly obese, barely literate deadbeat that was simply wasting oxygen with his very existence.

Now, just imagine if shame was still in our society. Some well intentioned teacher would have informed Timmy that he was as unique as ragweed and should be destroyed as such and if the parents and teachers were willing to accept this mediocrity out of a generation, the schoolyard would certainly have set him straight. Just like little Spector, Bishop etc. are getting set straight at these town halls.

So that's the answer America, shame. People are getting to comfortable in their own gutter level aspirations. We need to destroy this idea of relativism and start preaching the merits of exceptionalism. Keep score and take names. Losers, liars, failures and stupidity should be clearly labeled as such. Not only will those shamed either excel for higher levels to avoid the shaming or disappear forever, we will then be able to truly appreciate and recognize the greatest amongst us. That will encourage more people to strive for the highest levels of their chosen lives.

There is no better place to start than politics. These are some of the least impressive people in our society yet they walk around like mini demi-gods because we're all to polite to call them out for what they really are. During the August recess, there is going to be a slew of meetings pushing/opposing this communist healthcare power grab. It is the perfect forum to give public shamings to these small men. Not only do they need it but we all do. We must remove the weeds for the flowers to thrive.

NFL Preview: Tampa Bay Buccaneers

QB: C- The only real question is when does the Josh Freeman era start? If it's this year things are going to be bad. If Byron Leftwich plays, things might be . . . . . bad. Luke McCown is stealing money hammering an NFL paycheck as a third string QB.

RB: B+ Derrick Ward could be the next Michael Turner. He'd better be. Backups Earnest Graham and Cadillac Williams are brittle. Seriously brittle. Mike Alstott's neck thinks these guys need to toughen up a little. FANTASY FOCUS: Ward could be a top five pick given that he's going to get all the carries.

WR: B-Uber chemistry poison and injury prone Antonio Bryant turned out to be fantasy gold last year when most people thought he was in a correctional facility. Mark Clayton is ok on the other side but who exactly is going to throw them the ball?

TE: B? Retired corporal Kellen Winslow has reported for duty in TB after some difficult campaigns in the Cleveland theater of battle. He is famous for having more purple hearts in less combat time than any other TE in the league. He once missed an entire war after crashing his own tank. Reservist Stevens can't catch anything when it matters.

OL: C Jeff Faine is a pretty decent center but the rest of the line is remarkably average. The real problem is the QB. If it's Leftwich, these guys need to hold their blocks for a good 65 count. If it's Freeman, who the hell knows where he'll be going? Pity this group

C+ Decent talent but not much production. Gaines Adams should be better with another year experience but Ryan Sims and Chris Hovan are overrated. Stylez White takes the early lead for jackassiest name for a below average player. The gauntlets been thrown Chauncey Stuckey.

LB: C Another average unit. Ruud can be a decent playmaker but Angelo Crowell is always hurt and Quincey Black had exactly 20 more tackles than you did last year.

DB: A- Aqib Talib, Tanard Jackson & Ronde Barber are all above average and jackson is a particularly good tackler. Something called Sabby Piscitelli plays the other safety. Yeah, I don't know who he is either.

P/K: Mryant and Bidwell are both fine but not special.

COACHING: Inc. Raheem Morris has no head coaching experience or even coordinator experience but he hasn't screwed the pooch like fellow rookie head coach Josh McDaniels, so that's good.

BEST CASE SCENARIO: 2nd in the South, Wild Card.

WORST CASE SCENARIO: 3rd in the South. Byron Leftwich finally breaks down for good when his leg explodes a la Joe Theismann while he's putting on his beach Crocs. If Cadillac Williams plays in all 16 games, you know something bad has happened.

You're Gonna Do What? Sweet!

In a brilliant move, California's largest state employees union authorized union leaders to start a strike if certain contract demands and furlough protests aren't dealt with. That sound you hear from Sacramento is the Governator not giving a crap.

I'm not sure what the union strategy is but it occurred to me that many of its members probably came up through California Public Schools and are probably illiterate. So maybe they have an excuse for not catching up on the news of the economy.

First of all, what do they think they can get? They don't like furloughs? How about not having a job at all? California is so broke that its legislature makes Michigan's legislature look like a group of Milton Friedmans. How they expect a seriously bankrupt state to pay a bunch of people $32 an hour for $15 an hour work is beyond me. Go to the private sector and see if you can get paid that much for pushing a broom or being rude to people.

Secondly, don't these people know how expendable and/or replaceable they are? Unemployment is skyrocketing, especially in California. I doubt seriously that the State would have trouble finding people willing to cross your picket lines to get a job. In addition, I don't think these people realize how many of them perform useless jobs. Sure, we all need police & firemen bur do we need 48 levels of redundancy in the DMV or to get a building permit. All of you strikers need to seriously look at yourselves and make a hard choice about what you are really worth.

While you do that, just know that Governator is probably hoping you strike and for a good long time. Nothing fills the State treasury up more than not having to pay a bunch of ungrateful, egomaniacs complaining about having to take a few hours off during a state wide depression. Good luck selling that one to the public.

NFL Preview: Green Bay Packers

QB: B+ Aaron Rodgers proved that their could in fact be life after Favre. He played fine and even handled the Green Bay weather which was some question for a California boy. Compared to some of the other drech in the league, the Pack should be ok for quite a while. Backups Flynn and Brohm were both fine in college but aren't any threat to Rodgers.

RB: C+ Well, we all thought Ryan Grant was a stud. Then he got paid and turned into a human hamstring pull. He should be ok for this year but who really knows. What we do know is that Brandon Jackson and DeShawn Wynn aren't going to cut it.

WR: A+ Jennings, Driver(still), Jones & Nelson are as good as any four in the NFL. Driver may finally realize he's a hundred and four years old so look for Jones to play more. FANTASY NOTE: All these guys are injury prone so draft depth at WR if you have Jennings or Driver.FANTASY NOTE#2 No player named Jordy has ever been good. Just sayin.

TE: C If you look up average in Wikipedia, Donald Lee and Jermichael Finley are discussed at length. If they're not, one of you readers should go and do it now as a public service.

OL: B- Chad Clifton is pretty good but one reason the RB sucked last year was they had nowhere to run. Good pass blockers though. Comparatively anyway.

DL: B+ In the 3-4, Raji is a stud NT while Harrell is pretty good manning one DE while Cullen Jenkins is good enough not to get cut at the other DE. As always, the job of the DL in a 3-4 is to keep the LB's free to make plays.

LB: B+ ILB's Hawk and Barnett are both tackling machines. It'd be nice if they could play a few games in a row without getting hurt. Barnnett already has the dreaded red cross next to him name. OLB Kampman is the sack machine and that shouldn't change. OLB Poppinga was signed to use up leftover consenants at the jersey stitchers.

DB: B CB's Woodson and Harris are both fine corners, when they're healthy which has been a problem. Neither one is blazing fast so they need help from the Safeties which is unfortunate since one of them is possible holdout Nick Collins and the other is Atari Bigby. Mr. 2600 himself also happens to be hurt already.

P/K: A- Mason Crosby actually turned out to be a good draft pick. I've never heard of punter Kapinos, which is always a sure sign he does his job.

COACHING: B Mike McCarthy is fine at getting his players to play but doesn't strike me as a master strategist. Seems like his clock management and play calling tanked a few last year, if I remember correctly.

BEST CASE SCENARIO: 12-4, 1st in the North.

WORST CASE SCENARIO: 6-10, 3rd in the North. Grant
proves that he really is a bust, Aaron Rodgers calls Tony Romo for J. Simps number.