Thanks, Dumbasses

I wish stupidity was painful.

Bail This.

Gee, sounds like the auto union didn't funnel quite enough cash into a certain Senator's pocket:

WASHINGTON, Nov 13 (Reuters) - A senior Democratic senator raised doubts on Thursday that an attempt to bail out U.S. automakers had enough support to clear Congress this year.

As Republicans amplified their concerns about a bailout, Senate Banking Committee Chairman Christopher Dodd raised the biggest red flag for fellow Democrats trying to craft a $25 billion rescue and pass it during a post-election session set to start next week.

"Right now, I don't think there are the votes," Dodd of Connecticut told reporters about prospects in the Senate. "I want to be careful of bringing up a proposition that might fail," he said.

Although Dodd said "we ought to do something" and personally backed using money from the ongoing $700 billion financial services rescue program to help Detroit, he was skeptical that enough Republicans would support a bailout.

Well, too fucking bad, isn't it? Great business plan, Detroit: Run your companies into the shitter, then act surprised that your companies are in the shiter. And then, run to mommy and daddy the government to fork over other peoples' money to subsidize your failures. I've got a better idea. Umm... No.

Fuck GM. Did the government bail out Packard? No. Studebaker? No. Auburn? No. Did we survive without them? Just fine, thank you. General Motors has been building shit for decades, so good riddance. Let GM sell off what little of their assets that are of any value (perhaps the Corvette division) to Toyota or BMW, then bulldoze the rest into Lake Michigan. At least the foreign companies can build quality cars in America, with American workers, and still turn a profit -- largely because they don't have to pay shakedown protection money to organized crime the UAW, but also because they know how to build cars:

In the 1970s a survey was taken of German and American auto executives. They were asked, "What do you do?" The Americans replied, "We sell cars." The Germans answered, "We build cars." It was a difference in corporate culture. The Japanese noticed. They decided to build cars, and they succeeded. Many Americans today, brought up on Pontiacs and Fords, won't own an American car, unless it's a car made in Ohio by a foreign company. What a stunning change.

American cars suck. I learn this lesson at great expense every 10 years or so when I decided to give Detroit another chance. They never fail to disappoint. I drive a Jeep Wrangler, purchased new in 2003, and the only reason I'm somewhat happy with it is that I bought it with low expectations; when it turned out to be mediocre I felt like I got a bargain. It's got 120,000 miles and is making all sorts of funny noises, but then again it made all sorts of funny noises the day I drove it off the lot. I'll drive it until it dies then bury it in a shallow grave. It will be the last American automobile I ever buy. Does Chrysler Corporation lament this loss of future business? Fuck no... Washington's got them covered, they'll be getting my money one way or another. Sickening.

Simplistic Notions

Oh dear... now that they've taken control over all three branches of government they're not afraid to say it in plain terms that all but the most ignorant among us will understand:



Call me a simpleton, but yes... I DO believe in the "simplistic notion" that I'm entitled to keep the wealth I create and earn. And yes, I do have a seething antipathy towards those who have a more, um, "enlightened" and "nuanced" belief that they can help themselves to my shit.

It really is simple: It's NOT YOURS. It's MINE. So KEEP YOUR FUCKING HANDS OFF.

And you wonder why gun sales are skyrocketing?

Messiah Update

A wrap-up of Week One A.O. (After Obama):

Yet another Obama-Lincoln comparison. I need to vomit. This part I find especially rich:

"To reach out to his critics, Lincoln even allowed a reporter from an opposition newspaper, a journalist named Henry Villard, to virtually move into his office in Springfield, Mo., to chronicle the transition."

Yes, I'm certain Obama will be opening the Oval Office to Fox News. There's plenty of precedent for that, he was always fair and open to media outlets that didn't support his candidacy.

Lincoln... LOL! While Republican talking heads were crying about Obama "already measuring the drapes in the Oval Office" a week before the election, I saw past it all and realized the truth: Obama's supporters sycophants were already measuring Mt. Rushmore. What? No room for The One? No problem, just take down Jefferson's mug - who needs him, he owned slaves, right? And while we're at it, why not a national holiday for The President who hasn't actually done anything yet? Yes We Can!

Then again, maybe the comparison isn't so crazy after all... Wasn't Lincoln's first act as President also to grant enemies of America captured illegally on the battelfield the same rights as US citizens in court, right down to government-issue ACLU attorneys. I think I remember that from history class.

So when I read shit like this...

"As Lincoln said to a nation far more divided than ours, we are not enemies but friends," Obama said. "Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection."

...I have to wonder who the Obamunists think he's talking to - the Republicans, or the Jihadists? The latter, coincidentally, seem to believe that Obama is good for jihad.

"The leader of a jihadi group in Iraq argued Friday that the election of Barack Obama as president represented a victory for radical Islamic groups that had battled American forces since the invasion of Iraq."

I never thought I'd agree with terrorists, but whatcha' know? Only a week after The One is elected and I've already reached common ground with America's sworn enemies. He IS the peacemaker!!!

No. Just kidding. It really makes me ill. In fact it almost makes me nostalgic for Bill Clinton, who merely tried to "Change" the military by Presidential decree with his "don't ask, don't tell, don't drop your soap" policy on his first day on the job. Now we've got a President-elect who, if he listens to those "advisors" who pulled the strings to get him elected, may very well set captured enemy combatants free while the war is still going on... unless he first decrees the war to be over, then I guess they won't be enemies any more. Wow, in hindsight Clinton seems like a big, harmless ol' goofball, doesn't he?

Now, I don't mean to pick on our President-elect -- to do so would be racist, anyway. I'm sure terrorists are the last thing on his mind. After all, they haven't attacked America since September 11, 2001 when it became clear that Bush would be leaving office in 7 short years, and now that Bush is on the way out all the radical Islamists will throw down their arms and love America once again, much like the French. No, The One has some serious shit to deal with -- for starters, he must Rescue Human Civilization. Wow, I bet he didn't realize that was in the job description when he announced his candidacy. And what will he have to Rescue Human Civilization from? Why... the weather. More specifically the rapidly cooling...warming...cooling global temperatures, the rising...dropping sea levels, the expanding...shrinking...expanding glaciers, and the bad, bad (white, Republican, rich) humans that are causing all of this Global Warming...Global Cooling...Climate Change, as pointed out by all of...the majority of...some of the United Nation's finest scientific thinkers...politicians, a couple of whom are actual climatologists. So once Obama takes office, he must shift America's limited resources away from the so-called "War on Terror" and start fighting the real war -- The War on Weather.

After the planet is saved, The One can settle into the easy job of fixing our economy that was decimated by the Failed Economic Policies of the Bush Administration and John McCain, who refused to do anything about the impending subprime mortgage market collapse. I say the job is easy, because all you need to do is confiscate wealth from those who earn it and hand it over to those who didn't; history has proven that always works. And those middle-class tax cuts and other miracles that you were promised? Oh... heh. Just kidding. C'mon, can't you people take a joke? Besides, who needs unpatriotic tax cuts -- soon our economy will rebound to new heights and America will once again be taxed into the prosperity of the Carter years. Your dog will shit gold bullion and $100 bills (with Obama's face on them, no doubt) will grow on trees.

And just in time, too -- we've got another failing industry to bail out reward for their incompetence.

HopeChange™, you racists.

Why I Moved To Texas.

Any questions?

VDH: The End Of Journailsm

Memo to all the Obama sycophants and cheerleaders in the so-called "journalism" department of the brothel known as The American Media: The Jig Is Up (no pun intended).

"There have always been media biases and prejudices. Everyone knew that Walter Cronkite, from his gilded throne at CBS news, helped to alter the course of the Vietnam War, when, in the post-Tet depression, he prematurely declared the war unwinnible. Dan Rather's career imploded when he knowingly promulgated a forged document that impugned the service record of George W. Bush. We've known for a long time - from various polling, and records of political donations of journalists themselves, as well as surveys of public perceptions - that the vast majority of journalists identify themselves as Democratic, and liberal in particular.

Yet we have never quite seen anything like the current media infatuation with Barack Obama, and its collective desire not to raise key issues of concern to the American people.

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The media has succeeded in shielding Barack Obama from journalistic scrutiny. It thereby irrevocably destroyed its own reputation and forfeited the trust that generations of others had so carefully acquired. And it will never again be trusted to offer candid and nonpartisan coverage of presidential candidates."

I disagree only in the details -- that is to say, journalism died a long time ago; what occurred this election was just one final putrid outgassing from the long-rotting carcass of Dead Journalism.

Let us rejoice, for now we now know it's all propaganda, as so many of us have been saying for so long. All the media did was provide the incontrovertible evidence, however unwittingly. We can now just ignore the media's charade of impartiality and choose which opinions to read without any pretense of impartiality.

BTW, I have to take a piss... where, exactly, is Journalism's grave?