Nom de plume: Rivrdog

There's a reason to call them "Ass Press"

Two reasons, actually:

1. They are nincompoops. Utter crap flows from their newswire in a constant stream.
2. They have their lips pressed so far into the ass of the Socialists and their agenda item of Gun Control that they can't get the brown off.

Example, current, common, one each

The AssPress article asks the question, of whether Costas overstepped his position, in it's title. The answer is a simple "Yes". The article then goes on to issue a "well, no" answer and deliver a standard lefty excuse that Costas' departure from sports to delve into social engineering and Civil Rights Denial is okay because, well, because his ideas "will keep us safe". Except they won't keep us safe, that science is settled; denying the Bill of Rights is not only unpatriotic, it's treasonable; and just because, well, a sports blatherer is supposed to stick to sports. That's why they're there, isn't it?

When I want to see ass-kissing of the serious sort, I always turn to the Ass Press.

For Maroon of the Month, I give you Bob Costas. Wotta Maroon!

Bloomie steps over the line

NY Citeh Mayor Bloomberg was asked by the Brooklyn Borough President for National Guard help. Hizzoner refused to pass along the request because the Guard would have showed up in uniform and bearing arms, lending the appearance of a...wait for it...wait...a POLICE STATE!

Okay then, first the Marathon issue, now this. New Yorkers, could your city possibly be mismanaged worse than it is now?

I didn't think so.

Recall Bloomberg's incompetent, dictatorial ass, and DO.IT.NOW!

H/T to Say Uncle Blog

The Price of Socialism

Have you Dear Readers ever heard the old British expression, "Buying a Pig in a Poke"?

We, the People bought that pig in that poke when we let the Democratic party have the keys to leadership in this Nation. Those Democrats decided to go "all-in" and push hugely expensive Socialist measures on our Nation, the worst two being ObamaCare and Guaranteed Income (the sane and humane welfare measures of the past generation have morphed into a guaranteed income scheme in this generation, with just under fifty percent of the population involved). No money for these expenses? No problem to the (D)s and (R)s who went along, just up the taxes to pay for some of it, and write rubber checks for the rest. Oh, toss in some $pendy wars for good measure.

Buying a pig in a poke is no joke, because in this case, it is likely to tip the fragile "economic recovery", a smoke and mirrors construct anyway, over the cliff and start us into another severe recession, or worse.

"Taxmageddon" is the term that Americans for Tax Reform prefers to use, because on one day, New Year's Day 2013, dozens of new taxes and tax increases take effect, and the fact that they all take effect at once means that the entire Nation will be impacted. For myself, I will have to set aside at least $500 per month more out of my monthly pensions for taxes than I do now, that's $6,000 per year increase. The loss of certain deductions and the rise in my tax rate guarantees that, and I'm not a rich guy. Last year, my wife and I, both retired, with my Military, my Police and both our Social Security pensions, made just over $105,000 before taxes. I paid a total of $15K state and local taxes. This is just me, but I run a (so-far) unprofitable business out of my pension income, and now I will have to close the business, which cost me $30K of my savings to set up and operate so far. I will likely have to give up my most expensive hobby, boating, so the $4,000-6,000 that hobby spreads out on the local economy will go away, too. That just gets me back to sort-of even.

I'm but a microcosm of the issues this Taxmageddon is going to cause.

You called the Tune, Democrats and the Gimme Generation, and now you have to pay the piper.

Really, our only hope is that we DO have an economic collapse, because it will likely lead to a complete flushing of the politicians who have either forced Socialism on us, or just sat back and allowed it to happen, despite warnings of the consequences.

The consequences arrive in just over 3 months, people.

About that "Arab Spring"...

How's that "Arab Spring" working out for you now, Mister President?

How's that Middle Eastern Apology Tour working out for you now, Mister President?

How's the dumping of US Marines from embassy duty working out for you now, Commander in Chief? It appears that Marines WERE on duty in Benghazi, and two of them were killed defending their Embassy. That leaves open the question of who was guarding the henhouse in Cairo, and why are there not bodies of Islamists stacked high THERE. BTW, the Behghazi attack used artillery missiles, so I guess we don't have to wonder where Ghaddaffi's weapons are NOW anymore, do we?

We backed the wrong horses over there, Mister President, and you can admit it now. You won't admit it though, because it's not in your makeup to say "I fucked up", even when you know that you did.

Let's face it: Radical Islam is well financed, probably by the people we buy our oil from because we are too stupid to use what oil we have within our own borders. Radical Islam adherants are NOT people you can reason with, poke fun at, sign treaties with or lampoon in the media. They are psychotic enough to take ANY perceived insult to their religion as a blood insult requiring a murderous response. We have seen that time and time again. What part of it still suprprises us?

It's time we announced, debated, then employed a new policy vs. Radical Islam. They can adhere to OUR standards of Liberty and Tolerance, or they can die. The Romans would have called that "Pax Romana". Yep, it would be "ethnic cleansing" for you United Nations wusses. Yep, we would be persecuting someone because of their religious beliefs, but when those religious beliefs are so firmly tied to promises of "death to infidels", the people making those promises have just surrendered their pass to live free amongst free men. Mark them for death, and kill them. That is the only solution, for as long as one is left alive with those beliefs, there is danger to any free man who dares to express his freedom by criticizing that religion.

Death to Islam. The Islamists can co-exist peacefully with the rest of the world, according to the First World's standards, or they can die, let's give them that choice. After giving them that choice, it will be time to end this threat to humanity, and end it forever.

This is MY "fatwah": if you threaten me or those I hold close to me, for any reason, I care not what you are or what you believe in, you'd better be out of range when you make the threat, and stay out of range.

If that was the policy of our Government, Radical Islam would cease to exist shortly, because we not only out-range them, but because the diehards in that group would shortly die, and the rest of Islam would suddenly see the advantages of our form of religious liberty.

Problem, meet solution. This solution must start in the White House, and since it won't with the current occupant, that occupant must be removed from there this November. He's not part of the solution, so he's part of the threat.

If it's brown, flush it down...

...It's not yellow, so we won't Let it Mellow.

I awoke to a nice day, but while Mr. Keurig brewed up my first cuppa joe, the morning news on Fox just kept getting worse and worse, so much so that I got the feeling that I need to find the Flush Lever on this toilet of a news-day and watch these news turds begin their spiral swim to turd Hell.

Turd the First: The NCAA, and their "sanctions" against Penn State. I can see fining them the $60 million, but in no way can I see what they did next: change every win by Penn State's football team since 1998 into a loss, specifically to deny Joe Paterno the title of "winningest football coach ever". First of all, Paterno's failing was to tolerate a morally-reprehensible assistant coach on his staff, and he might even have committed crimes in doing so. Paterno is dead. They can't get Paterno now for any sort of justice, so they take it out on all the young men who played football for him for 15 years, and who had NO idea that this moral turpitude was occurring? They take it out on the university itself, which is made up of people who mostly DO NOT play football, but might enjoy the prestige their young football athletes bring to their school? What part of History Revisionism makes sense to YOU, NCAA? If you feel that this "sanction" is appropriate, NCAA, you, in your own way, are as morally reprehensible as Paterno at the least, and maybe as reprehensible as Sandusky himself. You have just buggered and raped everyone who cares about Penn State University.

NCAA, you stink. You're a worthless turd. I hereby consign you to the Sewer of Despair (BLOOOOOOOSH)

Turd the Second: The News Editors, of all political stripes this time, who think that we viewers/readers/listeners have an unlimited tolerance and appreciation for Pathos. Go read this definition of Pathos. Yes, we are all sad about the events at Aurora, CO. Most of us even grieve, in our own ways, for the victims of the terrorist's massacre. Our hearts are full of that grief now, and grief is something that happens, but needs to be managed, so why, oh WHY does the media pile it on so thick? The limit of MY thick skin is watching the fuzzy bears pile up, and the candles, and the mylar balloons struggling to be free of their strings, but then the stories and interviews just keep coming. I am personally DISGUSTED by the crying Police Chief Don Oates, who might have insured some of those deaths himself with his serious mis-administration of his Department. The media have shown the same guy with tearful eyes and the two holes in his face to us, four days in a row now. The horrible stories of young men throwing themselves on top to the women they were escorting to soak up the bullets are four days old. If you are determined to die by soaking up bullets, why not throw yourself on the gun of the assassin? You might just stop him while you die, then no one else dies, then you are MORE of a Hero. Somewhere, maybe 100+ years ago with the invention of movies, came the over-use of Pathos. It is so over-used now that it has become excreta, just more turds to be flushed. Let's hope those Pathos-abusing News Editors cling to those turds, so that when I hit the Flush lever again, they go down the Sewer of Despair with their abusive practice. BLOOOOOOOOSH!

Turd the Third: (Yep, I've been waiting to say "Turd the Third", with so much anticipation, that had there NOT been three turds to list here, I would have made one up!) The Third Turd is Sen. Diane Feinstein of CA. Gravely intoning forth on her insane vision of civil-rights denial on Fox News Sunday (her Government is good enough to have weapons, but not we SUBJECTS of HER Government), she said, (paraphrasing), "Why do we let our people have these weapons of war" (reference to semi-automatic rifles and pistols). OK, Princess Feinstein, "we" let them have them because "we" have a Second Amendment to our Constitution which says that "we" may have them, and "we" have a Supreme Court which has recently interpreted that Second Amendment to say that it IS an Individual Right for us to have them, so "we", the Individuals which make up this Republic are SPECIFICALLY authorized to have "weapons of war". Actually, I ought to THANK Princess Feinstein for her remarks, because if we all looked at them closely, the first question off of our lips might be, "when written, wasn't the Second Amendment ALL about Weapons of War?" It was, you know, the Second Amendment gave all of us the right to Keep and Bear the weapons of Infantry Soldiers (not rifles for deer hunting and shotguns for duck shooting and pistols for target practice). We might, indeed, ask, why are we're NOT allowed to Keep and Bear MODERN Infantry weapons? But, a turd is a turd is a turd, so I grab the Flush Lever for the Third (Turd) Time, and BLOOOOOOOSH, Princess "the Turd" Feinstein swims with the Scupper Trout in the Sewer of Despair.

I feel so much better now, so much lighter, too, and I am secure in the (TMI) knowledge that my colon is working as required (for today).