The Jerkinator Is A Total Genius

In a TV interview our esteemed Governator said that marijuana isnt a drug, its a leaf. When is a leaf not a leaf? Dude, when its a drug! Now this caused me some consternation; so much so that I dropped my pipe in mid-hit and a burning ember put a totally giant hole in my Ronald Reagan T-Shirt. Dont you hate when that happens? I mean, I got totally turned around; after all cocaine comes from a leaf, so I guess when you process it it turns into a drug. But then does that make hashish a drug?And heroin comes from a plant but not from the leaves so that is actually totally a drug. Amphetemines come from Sudafed, which isnt a plant or a leaf. But what about Peyote buttons and mushrooms? Here, wait, left me fire up my pipe and I'll get back to you on this complex problem. AHHHHHHHH..... I've decided that I dont give a shit.
In the 60's we used to often recite the wise adage, "Dope will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no dope." Social Security is going broke, taxes are about to rise to levels that would make a serf in the Middle Ages go ballistic and lets face it, whatever small niches of the economy that will remain unnationalized wont be functioning very well, so we're looking at massive unemployment and a worthless currency. Now this situation might upset some people but we're just a few bong-hits away from it all being OK. We just update the old bread-and-circus routine that the Roman Empire invented to an internet-food stamps-sensemilla regime and just Chill Out! We can even download Arnold's movies, some of which are stoner classics (Conan 1&2 and the 2 Terminators, for example). Our truncated and wasted military and our nationalized energy companies will take the threat of stoned drivers off the table by immobilizing most automobile traffic;in fact, unused Hummers and Navigators would make totally awesome places to toke, the sound systems could be powered by solar panels on the roof.So, like, in this next Depression instead of getting all depressed and stuff like those old dudes did in the 1930's, lets just kick back and enjoy! Oh yeah, we could also include Vicoden and Valiums in the Free Health Care because they go really good with smoking dope.

Higher Rates/ Lower Revenues

Wrangel and the Dems have announced a gigantic tax increase in their quest to 'fix' the Alternative Minimum Tax, and one that makes the tax system much more steeply progressive.
They even describe giving increased 'tax refunds' (aka handouts) to people who dont pay taxes as a 'tax cut'. Its buying votes. Steeply skewing the tax system to milk the productive and hand out free goodies to all and sundry is a sure recipe for decline and poverty. The government's total take of the national income will go up even if you dont factor in the fact that the GNP will spiral down as a result of this bill.
How can these morons (the libs) be aiming to make the same disastrous mistake all over again? High, steeply progressive tax rates crush the economy, raising the cost of existing government giveaway programs. The European Socialist countries have 10-15% unemployment rates and zero growth. There is no example, either now or any time in history, where the policies advocated by the Dems today have not added up to economic disaster. The people who will be most affected will be the Boomer/Yuppies, smugly secure, clutching their fat 401k statements and looking at the plump, well-funded pension plans that they are a part of. That wealth and the equity in your house (already under attack by soaring property tax rates) are the most obvious targets for a greedy, desperate welfare state trying to staunch a Niagara of red ink and seeking ever more harsh means of wealth redistribution. The same dolts that complain about their rising property taxes and declining schools will happily march to the polls and vote for the party that promises free goodies at the expense of someone else. These same people will be standing in the soup line wondering what went wrong.

Jindal Shows We Can Win

Louisiana has been a Democratic State since the days of Huey Long in the 1930's. Even though it started voting Republican in the national elections in 1968 the local elections, especially in New Orleans, still put plenty of Democrats into office. Enough to make it an economic backwater, depending on the oil and chemical industries to keep its economy afloat. But slowly that had been changing as the successful governments of neighboring states showed the folly of the tax-the-wealthy/give-more-handouts philosophy of government. Things were beginning to change. The Dem's started losing their edge.
In 2002 on election day, when it looked like Mary Landrieu was going to lose her Senate seat, Bill Clinton and Donna Brazile got on the phone to party hack officials in New Orleans and within an hour the school buses were out of the parking lots and into the neighborhoods, picking up Democratic voters and delivering them to the polls. But three years later, when Hurricane Katrina approached, the phones were silent. Instead of doing their duty the hack officials fled and the buses stayed in their parking lot. Karma Baby! Its funny that the state that George Bush (according to all you libs) gave the back of his hand to has become so firmly Republican. Maybe the price of decades of pure Democratic corruption (Ms. Landrieu's father being one of the worst) sunk in to the people of Louisiana as the water started pouring over the levees that were supposedly managed by the Demo cronies on the levee commissions.
And when the governor's race rolled around all the usual candidates were swamped by Bobby Jindal, a free-enterprise conservative. The once faithful and plentiful school-bus voters in the New Orleans slums had migrated to fatter welfare checks in other states and there werent enough remaining to turn the tide for the libs. Now that snivelling panhandler Mary Landrieu has her job on the line. With fewer brain-dead welfare slugs on the voting rolls her prospects look dim in '08, especially with a Clinton ticket mobilizing conservatives to get to the polls upstate.
The Corrupt Big Government past of the Dems has come back to haunt them here. We can win seats in the Senate and the Presidency on issues like this. The Dems are weak in a lot of places on the corruption/competence issue if we go on the offensive.

Politics On Hold

Can you see my house in the photo? We weren't too close to this batch of fires. The one in Malibu was just over the ridge four or five miles to the northwest of us and the one at Stevenson Ranch was over the ridge a dozen miles to the northeast of us. The main thing we got, being in the foothills, was the wind. For four days it rushed and eddied and reshaped our plants. All the seed pods were blown off our silk tree and scattered everywhere. The wind knocked a few random branches off the big pine in the backyard and it kind of pruned all the dead wood off the larger ash trees on the hillside. The olive tree is indestructible but the apple tree lost a branch or two. The rush of air knocked over our two garden gnomes. George Bush with his fingers crossed behind his back (Susan's idea, of course) was found lying face-down in the ferns. The statue of Chac, the Mayan rain god managed to keep his feet even though his performance has been pretty miserable the last couple of years (Susan calls him 'Chuck' but I was considering calling him 'Walter' in honor of Walter Mondale's unsuccessful career as a rainmaker for a famous law firm after he left the Vice Presidency).
The wind kept the ash from the fires from settling everywhere outside like it did in the 2003 fires (when we could actually see the giant tongues of flame in Santa Susanna Pass if we walked up to the top of the hill) but dust and ash crept into the house and covered everything. As the wind died down the smoke settled, making the sunsets and sunrises and moonsets and moonrises spectacular and casting a gloomy pall during the day. Of course the local TV guys got into the usual hysteria but I have less and less to do with TV these days so I experienced this fire more as observable phenomena without the kind of insight you get from the local news. You could see the news helicopters swarming towards Topanga on the first couple of days. There weren't any of the big water-droppers overhead, their blades make a super-loud WOCKWOCKWOCK noise as they fly over. I guess they weren't flying out of the valley. Oh well.
The whole dust, dryness, smokiness and the undertone of low, intense whooshing noise gives a strange Pompeii-like atmosphere to everything; there's a tinge of orange in the pallid light, even at noon. The cats were unusually active and jumpy. Maisie treed a baby tree rat in a rose bush but it managed to escape when she lost interest. So, I just wanted to be less political for once. I get too carried away, which is why I started this blog. Nobody really ever pays attention to it and I can get it out of my system without feeling so repressed by the left-wing world I live in. If I can just scream at the top of my lungs where no one can hear me, whats the harm?Its an interesting exercise in writing. Well, the wind has died and changed direction. It actually rained a tiny bit yesterday as I was driving down to Irvine to get my daughter's car's smog certificate. So things are settling back to normal. I have a ton of leaves to pick up and today I'm going to cut down the baby trees trying to grow on the hillside. Bye!

Fujian Fundraising

Clinton has enlisted the aid of Chinese neighborhood associations, especially those representing recent immigrants from Fujian province. The organizations, at least one of which is a descendant of Chinatown criminal enterprises that engaged in gambling and human trafficking, exert enormous influence over immigrants. The associations help them with everything from protection against crime to obtaining green cards.

http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na- donors19oct19,0,4231217.story? coll=la-home-center

Can you believe this? "Human traffickers exert enormous influence over immigrants." Gee, what must that be like, to have enormous influence exerted over you? I'll bet it hurts, a LOT. I'll bet you feel raped and humiliated when the pennies you earned working 12 hour days are ripped off by some thug. So the Clinton Crime Family is either gathering campaign funds by shaking down illegal alien dishwashers and street vendors or they're taking payoffs from people who kidnap young girls and force them to become prostitutes.
Nice for a Feminist.
Except I dont believe it. This is just another gush of Chicom bribe money aimed at their favorite power couple. The amazing thing is she'll get away with it. People will watch a major Presidential candidate either fundraise by getting criminals to rob helpless poor people or by using those same criminals to bundle phony donations to hide a payment from a foreign intelligence service. It's all in the open, there wont be any investigation and the mouth-breathing morons and delusional hippies who are her constituency will buy it hook, line, and sinker that this is all that big, bad, Vast Right Wing Conspiracy saying bad things about the Friend Of The Children. How can the left feel good about this? It goes beyond mere political chicanery, its illegal, its immoral and it points to a very cosy relationship with a hostile, dangerous, corrupt dictatorship that allows these human trafficking gangs to operate in China. This is just one more example of why we have to stop the Clinton menace. If the Clints have a relationship with violent criminal gangs is it not thinkable that they would use these gangs to unofficially silence their opponents once they're in power? If they'll shake down illegal aliens and take bribes from the Chicoms to get themselves in power what else would they do to keep a grip on it?
Every Democrat is totally disgraced by this.

The Nobel Prize For Investigatory Excellence

Torquemada
If you needed to get to the bottom of a case of blasphemy or get screams from an unrepentant Jew this was your guy. A bit too religious for modern times but with the left witch-hunting Neo-Cons (aka Jews) he could be a dark horse.






Antoine Fouquet-Tinville

An emotional favorite. Lenin admired him greatly. A merciless and incorruptible head of the Revolutionary Tribunal during the Great Terror during the French Revolution. Selected counter- revolutionaries were subjected to abuse during their trumped-up trials and then loaded onto carts and sent straight to the guillotine.
Marie Antionette, Charlotte Corday , Danton and Desmoilline were among his many famous victims. Hey, this guy wrote the book on show trials. Everybody afterwards were just copycats. Unfortunately his love of justice lead to his own beheading after his mentor Robespierre fell from power. Still wonky college history professors might put him over the top.







Judge Roy Bean

The proverbial 'Hangin Judge' out of Vinageroon, Texas. By the time the accused got the the barroom where the trials were held they'd been worked over pretty good by the deputies so backsass was kept at a minimum. Every trial ended with a conviction and a hanging. Walter Brennan portrayed him in a film version of his life, making him a favorite of film buffs who to this day repeat his line, " That's my ruling and I'm stickin to it."









Andrei Vishinsky
Oil industry on the fritz? Coal or meat production spiraling down due to disastrous Central Planning decisions? Old Party Pals getting on your nerves? Call in Andrei. Intimidating and bullying people who have confessed after a few months in the cells under the tender care of the GPU takes a certain kind of guy, and Andrei was that guy! They ALL confessed! They ALL apologized! Well the live ones did. Unfortunately the inventor of the Stalinist show trial so beloved of the left, then and now, was himself charged with counter revolution and Solzhenitsyn chuckles with joy in Gulag Archipelago imagining Vishinski being robbed and chased under his bunk by the criminal thugs that Stalin inflicted on his political prisoners. Older Fabians and Social Democrats could pull off a win here.


Roland Friesler
This guy was a nobody, just an average judge under National Socialism, you know some retards and cripples shipped off for disposal here, off to the dungeons for defeatist propaganda there, same old crap every day. Until the July 20th bomb plot put this guy on the map, KAPOWEE! The defendants in his show trials were beaten, had their false teeth confiscated and were given overly large clothes and no belts. And if screaming at them wasnt enough Roland would get up and give them a smack. There was only one sentence-- being hung from a tow-truck using piano wire. The leading conspirators were filmed for Hitler's enjoyment. Roland was a busy guy-- his tribunal sentenced 4,000 people and would have done more if Freisler hadnt been hit by a British bomb shortly before the end of the war. It might be the year his energy and his groundbreaking mixture of law and cinema get him the prize.


Henry Waxman



OK, he looks like a nerd. But that funny- looking nose wants to stick itself everywhere! This guy investigates EVERYTHING! Sometimes he comes up against someone like Victoria Toensing who shows him up for the malicious idiot that he is but if you like the sight of trembling corporate executives trying to defend free enterprise or like to see the low-quality Bush Adminstration munchkins get spanked on CSPAN, ya gotta love Hank. Wait'll the push for National Health Care happens, I'll bet there's an urgent need for an investigation of the drug companies. He cant jump across the table and give'em a smack but you can see he'd love to. But for keeping the show-trial tradition alive and well keep your eye on Henry.










AND WE HAVE A WINNER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Bimbo Eruptions anyone? She's got the FBI files, she's got the IRS records! She's got the private dicks! She knows it all and she's not afraid to use it! During the Clinton Impeachment this babe even launched smear campaigns against FDR, Eisenhower, Thomas Jefferson and George Washington (oddly enough JFK and Warren Harding were left unmentioned)! How many of you wives can say you intimidated a woman your husband raped into silence by threatening to destroy her business? When Impeachment rolled around the FBI files were released, lives were destroyed, but the Clints survived! But being one little fiery ball of meanness isnt why she won. She cares about the children and that's what really counts.

Hey, having a morally neutral Nobel Prize criteria is really fun! Those Nobel guys had a great idea when they thought of that. They must be SUPER smart! It really opens up the field.

Earmarkapalooza!

When I look at our fine legislators in Washington (and in Sacramento) I'm reminded of that scene in Cheech and Chong's 'Next Movie' where Chong shows Cheech a bag of cocaine but wont give him any and Cheech yells,"Dont you read Dear Abby,man? That stuff's bad for you!" and then grabs the bag and shoves it into his own face and inhales deeply. Well, the Republicans criticizing the Democrats for spending and earmarks is as sincere as Cheech's health warning, they just want to get their noses in the bag and inhale deeply.
In today's column Bob Novak gives an example of an earmark proposed by the oily Chucky-Schumcky Schumer and Her Royal Thighness (D-NY) to fund a museum (The Bethel Center) dedicated to commemorating the giant acid-party at Woodstock in 1969. You see its SO meaningful to us boomers, even though we've gone from ingesting hand-filled capsules of LSD from the hands of strangers (yes, I plead guilty, your honor) to trying to make hamburgers illegal because they're bad for your health (hey, you know, Dear Abby said taking LSD was bad for your brain and now most of these ex-hippies are mad-dog Democrats. That woman was almost as smart as The Smartest Woman Ever In History-- you know, the one behind the Bethel Center earmark. Maybe we should earmark some money for the 'Dear Abby Center'). Anyway, he goes on to list a pile of earmarks proposed by both Republicans and Democrats and refers to the campaign contributions provided to the legislators by the interested parties. Is this an incurable disease our country has caught? Will anyone elected to legislative office just naturally turn into a swine? Was it always like this but our grandfathers just couldnt think big enough? Are we just doomed to stand there, helpless, while these short-sighted idiots tax and spend us into third-world poverty?
It's too depressing. While others are debating lofty issues Novak is making the case that trading subsidies for contributions is alive, well and sadly bi-partisan. You wouldnt suspect the Dems would have brains enough to drop the earmark crap but after last year's election dont you think the Republicans would have wised up to how mad we all are about this nonsense? Nope, they're shoveling the same old horse dookey hoping we dont notice the smell. I guess none of it matters anyway, as soon as the boomers flock to enroll in Social Security the fiscal rowboat goes under the waves and all these subsidies and pet projects will get swamped along with everything else. Good! Now, I'm not one to say that half a million people taking LSD and fornicating in the mud to the overamplified squeals of electric guitars wasnt a great moment in American history (actually it was a turning point to a society based on total self-indulgence) but I will be happy to hear that a crowd of ragged New Yorkers, stripped of their possessions by pitiless tax collectors have seized the Bethel Museum and are using it as an ad hoc homeless shelter, have ingested some nameless drug and are roasting stolen hamburgers on a fire they've kindled in the foyer using debris stripped from the exhibits for fuel; it'll be what they deserve for voting consistently for liberals.

House Of Cards

There are currently more elderly people than children living in the EU, as Europe's young population has decreased by 21 percent - or 23 million — in 25 years, 10 percent of which in the last ten years alone...

Italy has the least young people (14.2%) and one out of every five Italians is more than 65 years old... However, the decrease in numbers has been greatest in Spain, where the young population has diminished by 44% in the 1990 to 2005 period...

The decrease has been most significant in new member state Bulgaria, which has lost almost 8% of its population (7.94%) in the last ten years...

On top of that, the number of births across the EU has been decreasing and in some member states, the birth rate is almost two times lower than in the US (2.09 children per family in 2006)...

http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/

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Are Belgians, Greeks and Spaniards endangered species? Are Muslims, because their nut-ball misogynistic religion and its strictures against birth control, going to take over the world through overpopulation? What a rosy path our multi-culti social systems are leading us down. We've dumped all the old verities because we're so danged smart but somehow the problems created by wandering away from the truths that made us great seem bad enough to swallow us up and lead us into a new Dark Age. A Dark Green Age where inquiry and scientific advancement are looked on as threats to the environment. This society, where even the poorest citizens live better than the middle class in other countries, is derided as unfair and ecologically unsustainable. The freedom, respect for property rights, equality before the law, and the moral code which were responsible for our society's climb from nothingness to a height never even dreamed of in previous times is being forgotten in a tidal wave of consumerist noise and promises to solve all confusing problems (including changing the weather!) by bureaucratic fiat. Meanwhile the inexorable demographic erosion brings the tipping point closer. At what point will the Socialist systems of Europe collapse? I think that day is a lot closer than we imagine. If the libs get control of the US the last 'Western' bastion of strength will recede, leaving the aged Euros at the mercy of their overpopulated former colonies. But, like the barbarians that overthrew the Roman Empire our current crop of savages wont inherit the old society's prosperity and technical advancement but will live in placid squalor in the ruins. Because the Third World is far from being able to organize food production and distribution, immunization, or energy production and distribution the result will be a much-lower population. Six billion people is sustainable only with modern Capitalism, Socialism, covering the planet, will reduce the population by 90%, with the remaining survivors chained into feudal peonage to the State. The novel 1984 raised to prophecy!

New Hampshipe Yuppies Speak!

Clinton was the overwhelming choice among those polled who want a strong leader or someone who will bring about change _ 44 percent chose her compared with 20 percent for Obama and 11 percent for Edwards.

What motivates anyone to think that Hillary Clinton is anything but a corrupt, incompetent phony? These are the kind of dolts that vote to infest their local and state governments with Democrats and then complain when their property taxes go through the roof and the holes in their roads dont get fixed. She will raise taxes steeply and progressively enough to cause a depression. She will nationalize health care so that in a couple of years you will be looking fondly back on the free County charity hospitals that exist today and wishing you had them back along with the giant chunk of your paycheck deducted for 'free' health care. When the Social Security, Medicare, HillaryCare tidal wave of deficits arrives our currency will inflate prodigiously, wiping out the 401K retirement plans of the smug yuppies who voted her into office and putting even lower middle class people into the highest tax brackets. Illegal aliens will become legal and, with the integrity of our election system destroyed, they will be able to vote. Judges will legislate freely from the bench. Schools will all be run by the Federal Government (private, religious and at home schooling will be illegal) but the tedious propaganda mandated by the bureaucrats will be so incompetently taught by the ignorant and uninspired teachers (protected in their lifetime tenure by their ferocious Union) that most people will be functionally illiterate. Higher grades will be available for a small gratuity. The elite will, of course have their own schools and hospitals, creating a hereditary ruling class. Union membership (and dues) will become compulsory and secret ballots in union elections a thing of the past. Critics will have their taxes unfairly audited and be unable to receive even the inferior government health care available to normal plebes. High, restrictive tariffs will eliminate export jobs and make consumer goods more expensive and of lower quality. The open bribery at the top will penetrate down through the echelons of government as government salaries will not be able to keep up with inflation and the degraded legal system will make any criminal conviction improbable. The small military remaining after the giant cuts will not be able to protect our interests, causing a huge energy shortage. The deterioration of the power grid and its incompetent management in the hands of political cronies will cause frequent blackouts. No business will be able to operate without kickbacks to local,state and national politicians but businesses will receive compensation for that in the form of non-enforcement of worker wage and safety laws. The Chicoms will seize Taiwan unmolested. Iran will dominate the Middle East after a small nuclear war in which all Jews in Israel are vaporized. The birthrate will plummet far below replacement. Drugs will become effectively legal to mollify the vast crowds of the unemployed who will live on the dole.
Yes, she is the candidate of change!
P.S. If you think that I'm a raving lunatic, just go to any third-world socialist state and you'll see that none of this is original at all. This is the result of the policies presently advocated by Mrs. Clinton and all liberals.

Berglery

Today Katheryn Lopez wrote a column asking why the Clints continue to associate with convicted felon Sandy Burglar and have made him Ms. Clint's foreign policy advisor in her attempt to purloin the presidency.
How appropriate that Ms. Lopez starts her column with a reference to these two felons as characters from the 'Sopranos'. The Clinton Crime Family strikes again! How many ex-Presidents have their toadies sneak into the National Archives and steal Presidential papers? Answer, just one. The worst President in US history. A shameless blowhard, or should I say a pair of shameless blowhards, with contempt for the truth, the law and the American people. The usual liberals are on this site (Townhall) trying, as they always do, to put makeup on this pair of lawless, inept pigs as they run snorting towards terms three and four but if its not this incident then its a thousand others. Chicom cash, criminal associates, incompetence in office, endless lying and changing their heartfelt views with every shift in the political wind, all accompanied by a chorus of hosanna singers in the media; the MO of these two weasels should be glaringly obvious to all. Part of the cover-up agenda is to obfuscate, talk about the crimes of Millard Fillmore, the evil Bush, the runaway chickens in Romania, anything to change the subject away from the serial criminality exhibited by these two marauders and their gawking cohorts. The instant any allegation is made the sock-puppets start spewing nonsense to muddle the debate.
The point of the column is well made; while they were embroiled in domestic corruption and scandals these mutts dropped the ball BIG TIME in the War On Terror and Los Angeles International Airport was saved from a bloody 9/11-style terrorist attack by one vigilant customs agent.And then these gumbahs suborned a felony to cover their tracks. As Mrs. Clinton said so heartwarmingly during the Impeachment Bombing of Baghdad, "Happy Ramadan!"

An afterthought; the Clints were terribly upset that Bush got the credit for leading us after 9/11 when all BJ has for his legacy is Newt's economy and Impeachment. If that danged customs agent in Washington had just let that carload of explosives get by what a legacy BJ would have today! Maybe Henry Waxman should investigate that Republican border guard...