All Utopians (and Democrats): stay out of my wallet

The world is not perfect, and never will be. 

Everyone with any common sense whatsoever knows this to be true.  Unfortunately, there are a whole crowd of people without common sense who believe that we can indeed make heaven on earth in our lifetimes.  They are called Utopians.  In the United States, they are also commonly referred to as Democrats as well, the terms are interchangeable. 

And to make things perfect here in the U.S., of course, we need every American to pitch in and do their part in eliminating every injustice, right every wrong and wipe every tear off of every face.  And again, in their efforts to achieve heaven on earth, these Utopians need resources.  And no, you foolish knaves, not THEIR OWN resources, perish the thought.  They need YOUR resources.  And the more of those resources that they can forcefully take from you through the coercive might of the government, the better, these Utopians (also called Democrats) figure.

And the Utopians (also known as Democrats) will sleep at night like babies in stealing your money: you see, it's for a good cause.  It will go to feed the hungry, quench the thirsty, house the homeless, clothe the naked, enlighten the ignorant, mobilize the immobile, shave the hairy, grow hair on the hairless, and on and on and on  and on and on and on and on and on and on  and on and on and on  and on and on and on  and on and on and on  and on and on and on  and on and on and on  and on and on and on  and on and on and on  and on and on and on  and on and on and on ...............

As the old saying goes, 'the perfect is the enemy of the good.'  Utopians of course want things to be perfect. And in the U.S. of A. as founded, things are not perfect, not by any stretch of the imagination.  There are poor people who don't live on oceanfront property, and who can't afford to sip Sauvignon Blanc and munch brie.  This is just not fair (according to Utopians, also known as Democrats).  It's a 'right' that everyone should enjoy the good life, and not just these stinkin' rich SOB's.

If we just tax these rich, oceanfront living, Sauvignon Blanc sipping, brie munching elites enough, and give the money forced from the greedy clutches of those rich bastards to those not so lucky in life, then we will have heaven on earth.  Things will be fair, life will be in balance.

And how did all of these Utopians get into positions of power such that they can mandate this wealth transfer?  They promised us all heaven on earth, and we believed them.  And we voted them into office. 

These Utopians have now been entrenched into various administrative parts of our government now since the Wilson administration, in addition to way too many of them holding elective office since good ol' Woodrow was calling the shots.  That's a long time, if you ask me.  And we STILL do not have heaven on earth, despite their best efforts.  Life is STILL not fair.  The world is STILL imperfect, despite the Utopians' (also known as Democrats) successful efforts of these last 90 years or so in transferring about 60 TRILLION DOLLARS from those who earned it to others who didn't.

Why do we keep voting these Utopians (also called Democrats) into office? 

Won't we ever learn?

Roman Catholics: 'when you lie down with dogs...."

The latest kerfuffle of the Obama administration: religious organizations must facilitate birth control and abortion access to all employees who request it, free of charge. 

Despite the fact that Roman Catholics are, on paper, opposed to birth control and abortion as a part of their faith.  But lately we are hearing Catholics cry bloody murder on this latest edict by Obama, wailing that in complying with the edict, they are doing so against the teachings of the church.

Right.  Let's get real, here.  The Catholic church has lost its moral authority long, long ago.  It has been nothing more than a business throughout most all of our lifetimes, and in reality the church cares not a whit about abortion or contraception.  All the Catholic executives (the Pope, College of Cardinals, and bishops throughout the world heading up diocesean territories) are truly interested in is the business aspects of the church: how is the Roman Catholic portfolio doing, how are the Roman Catholic collections coming, how are Roman Catholic monetary and real estate interests coming along.  Nothing more.

They have proven this over time by aligning themselves with every liberal position out there, including making their churches sanctuaries for illegal immigrants.  They truly need illegal immigrants to maintain their seats in the pews, and putting their pesos and dollars into the collection plate.  No other reason is apparent for this position that the church has taken against the laws of our land.

They have proven over time that they care more about money than weeding out the pedophiles running amok among their clergy.  They look the other way when these criminals indulge themselves in their sick and criminal behavior, because in taking action it will make the church look bad (and accordingly, some of the contributions to their collection plates will decline, and they can't have that).

Speaking of indulgences, recall that it was the principle of the church to allow sinners to pay an indulgence to the church (in monetary ways) to absolve the sinner and allow access to heaven.  What kind of institution could ever think of such chicanery?  The Catholic leaders have no shame, and never have.

They collaborated with Mussolini in Italy and with Adolph Hitler and the National Socialist Party in the 1930's and 1940's, looking the other way as the Third Reich and the Axis powers sacked and looted populations all around them.

It takes an enormous amount of gall to now cry foul, when the Roman Catholic church has been running afoul of the laws of every land that they have a presence in for as long as anyone can remember, shaking down the populations in exchange for entrance into heaven. But now that it's THEIR ox that is gored, Roman Catholics are suddenly indignant?


The Roman Catholic church has associated itself with bad actors throughout its existence.  As the old saying goes, when you lie down with dogs, you get fleas.  Or, to put it another way: when you mess with the bull, you get the horns.  Or perhaps: live by the sword, die by the sword.  Or best yet: 'as ye sow, so shall ye reap.'  Roman Catholic executives can probably understand that last one. 

Maybe.

Something rotten in Fishtown...

After the beating Charles Murray took by critics of his book 'The Bell Curve,' in which he cited racial differences in IQ, he took a different tack this time around in looking just at the culture differences in white America over the last 50 years.

Denounced as racists over the controversial findings in 'The Bell Curve,' Dr. Murray and his co-author the late Richard Herrnstein cited massive amounts of data that decidedly proved their thesis, to the outrage of the left.  In his new book 'Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010', Murray now points out the polarization of white classes over a 50 year span that is widening: the rich white folk living in 'Belmont' (Dr. Murray's rich enclave) have virtually nothing left in common with the poor folks living in Fishtown (Dr. Murray's ghetto for the white trash). He leaves out of the discussion any minority populations, and therefore avoids the cacophonous cries of 'racist' from the left this time around.

The disparate upper and lower class white cultures, Murray points out, have so drifted apart from their common roots in the Eisenhower era that the American way of life is coming apart as a result of this drift.  Before this happened, all whites valued marriage, religion and voter participation, and now only the rich white folks in Belmont still value this, but keep these values to themselves.

He points out that the Belmont folks get married just like everyone used to in polite society, but not so in Fishtown, where illegitimacy is rampant.  White folks in Belmont stay out of trouble, go to college and have jobs, while white Fishtowners end up in prison way too often, and subsist on food stamps and welfare.  The reason he cites is that the American industrial base has virtually collapsed, leaving Fishtown high and dry, while those in Belmont figured out a way to thrive despite all of our manufacturing jobs leaving the country.

The conclusion Murray draws is one of dire consequences, should this rift continue to widen, but his remedy is that the Belmont rich folk need to reach out to the Fishtown downtrodden and show them the way.

Huh?

My conclusion is somewhat different than Murrays, although the facts he presents are pretty solid: indeed Fishtown and Belmont don't see eye to eye these days.  However, nobody in Belmont is going to reach out and help anyone in Fishtown, lest they receive a beating or worse.  This reaching out recommended by Dr. Murray is ludicrous, and the only obvious way that the downtrodden white folk are ever going to get out of Fishtown is for the government to stop subsidizing their existence there. 

The folks in Belmont are living in Belmont for good reasons.  They are self motivated to do the right things, to get an education and to earn an honest living.  Many of them are prior Fishtown residents, but got some gumption to make things better for themselves.  And staying in Fishtown was not in the plans.  The government has thrown money at the Fishtowners to alleviate their existential problems, but has not required anything from them in return for public largess.  Accordingly, these down and out folks simply stay down and out.

Once the government turns off the public trough spigot, I think things will turn around in Fishtown, Dr. Murray.  A little tough love is in order, and not an outreach program from the producers in Belmont.

'Idiocracy' in the here and now

Many of the 14 people who actually watched the movie 'Idiocracy', the flop released in 2006, recall the plot: a dullard is given a top secret hibernation treatment, and things go awry and he wakes up 500 years into the future, where he is the smartest person on earth.  Seemingly, in those 500 years, people just got dumber and dumber, and in the fullness of time everybody on earth became idiots.

I find that plot entirely plausible in the here and now.  We just got Bureau of Labor Statistics figures putting the U.S. unemployment rate at 8.3% in January, 2012, down a fraction from December's reported 8.5% (also a dubious figure) despite the economy dropping around 2.5 million jobs from December to January.  The BLS cites 'seasonal adjustments' as the reason that this lower number makes any sense.

Sure, it makes sense to idiots.  No matter how you do the math, that kind of unemployment rate is simply nonsense.  But, fortunately for President Obama, the majority of voters in the U.S. seem satisfied with this number, and the Dow Jones Industrial Average shot up 150 points on this 'great' news.  I am surrounded by morons, cretins, neanderthals, idiots, simpletons and fools. 

I must be the smartest person in the U.S. right now.  I must be living a real live 'Idiocracy' in the here and now.

Just on its surface, that BLS figure of 8.3% is ludicrous.  Just look around you.  Step outside your own front door and take a look left, and then right: how many of your neighbors are unemployed?  How many 'For Sale' signs are there in the yards to the left and right of you?  A lot, I would wager.  And of those houses for sale in your neighborhood, how many of those are the result of foreclosures, owing to the previous owners' losing their jobs, and were subsequently no longer able to service their mortgages?  More than you might think, I would also wager.

Take a trip to your local mall.  Take a look around at how many vacancies there are in that mall.  A bunch, I would bet.  Does it feel like we are in a roaring recovery?  It sure doesn't to me.

But then again, since I am the smartest person in the U.S., I am out of touch with how things appear to the run of the mill idiot that believes the BLS figures, or anything President Obama says on anything.

Newt Gingrich: book smart, but a social retard

If we've heard it once, we've heard it a million times: Newt Gingrich is one smart honcho.  Smartest guy in the room.  Brilliant, a genius.  The guy's brain is huge.  Yeah, yeah.  We've heard all of that.  Lots of times.

And he's got the resume to prove it, too.  He's got a PhD in modern European history from Tulane, and good ol' Newt can really mop the floor with anyone in a political debate.  He's quick, and can really turn a phrase to get the crowd on it's feet.  Yup, ol' Newt's one sharp fella.

But not so fast...

How smart does one have to be to know that cheating on your spouse (not once, not twice but many, MANY times) will ultimately stain your integrity?  Most dunces know this, but apparently Newt is clueless as to how this works in the fullness of time.  And how intelligent do you have to be to know that there are some things better left unsaid?  Most of us seem to get this, but not Newt, oh no.

It seems that no thought swirling around Newt Gingrich's huge brain goes unsaid.  An idea a minute, and some are great, some not so great.  How about his latest great idea; let's start a colony on the moon.  Sounds good.  Well, maybe not. 

Almost ALL of Newt's peers back in the heady days of the Republican Revolution in 1994 agree that Newt was a terrible leader.  As Speaker of the House, he would call meetings nearly every day, and have a new agenda for each meeting.  No follow up on anything discussed in the past, but always something new and fresh at the meetings.  Nobody could keep track of all of Newt's initiatives, and his freshly won majority soon descended into chaos.

Socially, Newt Gingrich is at best a retard.  He's the guy who, after not seeing a female colleague for a few years and notices that the woman has put on a few pounds, will point this out to her right away.  And I think we all know how much we love to hear from people we know tell us all about our weight gain.  We just love that, don't we?

Newt thinks so, apparently.  The guy can't maintain relationships.  Not with his spouses, nor with members of Congress, and particularly with those in leadership positions.  Dr. Tom Coburn, who was swept into office during the Republican Revolution, was part of that freshman class and recalls Newt's modus operandi back then.  And he in no way supports Newt's presidential aspirations.

When asked why, Dr. Coburn tacitly defers from getting into detail about Newt, but simply reading between the lines suggests that Newt Gingrich as a leader has much to be desired, and seemingly stepped on so many toes, that not a single congressional toe went unstepped on.  Accordingly, not one - NOT ONE - former or current member of congress who served under Newt when he was Speaker of the House is willing to come out in support of Newt today.

He may be the smartest guy in the room, but I would posit that he is arguably the dumbest politician to come down the pike in some time when it comes to maintaining personal relationships with anyone outside his family (not including people to whom he was married).

Newt may be book smart, but the guy's a social retard. 

Wake up and smell the oil, Americans

Spain, a cash strapped socialist country on the verge of bankruptcy, just announced that they are discontinuing the government subsidies to green energy concerns: they just don't have the money anymore to chase this Utopian idiocy.

Spain has for the past fifteen years spent an enormous amount of money trying to encourage its citizens to buy green, think green, spend green and breathe green.  And now they are completely broke, after chasing this stupid dream for so long.  They had to give up and smell the coffee - there is no economically feasible alternative to coal, petroleum, natural gas and nuclear energy.  None.  And it only took them fifteen years. 

What lessons have we Americans learned from Spain's misery?  We haven't learned bumpkus.  Jack squat, zilch, nada, zippo.  We as a nation still subsidize corn energy (ethanol), solar energy (the Solyndra's of the world), wind power, just to name a few of the offending dream energy sources.

And by subsidizing these Utopian dream sources of energy, we are spending TRILLIONS that we don't have on this futile effort.  Like the Spaniards, we are told that we need to think green, to recycle our milk cartons, juice boxes, newspaper and the like.  If you give this idiocy even a moment's thought, you will realize that all of this recycling we are doing is accomplishing two things: 1) giving the dolts who buy into the failed concept a feeling that they are doing their part in saving the planet, and 2) employing a guy (or two guys) for driving around all day wasting money and spending tax payer dollars doing it.   That's it.  That's all we get for our green effort, and it's not even arguable.

How much do you think it costs to have a guy (or two guys) driving a great big diesel powered recycling truck around picking up in your recycling bins what amounts to simple garbage?  And maintaining that truck, and insuring that truck, and providing that guy (or two guys) a pension in their old age?  Hmmmmm?  And what do they produce for all of this?  Recycled materials such as bags, floor mats and an endless parade of 'green recycled' products?  How much would these green products cost to produce them the good old fashioned way?  You know, buying raw materials and manufacturing the stuff.  I would hazard a guess that it costs HALF as much as those recycled chatchkies that the greenies want to foist on us.

The chasing of green energy is simply a make-work program paid for by us taxpayers, and it's time we stopped flushing money down the drain chasing these simpleton, ineffective Utopian programs.  Americans, it's time to wake up and smell the oil.

WAKE UP!!

Why indeed ARE Obama critics so dumb?

Andrew Sullivan's latest Newsweek article 'Why are Obama critics so dumb?' will certainly sell some magazines with a title like that.  And there's no  doubt that Newsweek needs to do something to sell its products, as it has become a mere shadow of its former self, and sold for $1.00 not so long ago. And that was the price for the entire MAGAZINE and it assets (and debts), not just a single copy of this fish wrap of a publication.

I'm not sure if Mr. Sullivan is serious about that question, or if he is so blinded by leftist ideology that he can't fathom why a failing president as judged on almost every criteria mentioned would be questioned by his opponents.

But for the sake of argument, let's just go with Andy's premise: conservatives are dumb.  We're all just dumber than a bag of hammers.  Fine. 

I would like to start at the beginning of Obama's record that is being called into question by us dummies.  He walked into office in January, 2009 with a bag load of promises to fix an economy that was faltering, and an unemployment rate of around 6.5%.  And of course, this ailing economy was all George W. Bush's fault, any dummy would agree with that.

We dummies would point out that the housing bubble that burst was all based on liberal policies, under the watchful eyes of Bill Clinton, Janet Reno, Barney Frank and Chris Dodd, which essentially gave houses to poor people, never expecting them to pay for them.

Once this bubble burst, down went Lehman Brothers and the economy with it.  Most of us invested in our retirement accounts saw our portfolios dip by as much as 50%.  Trillions and trillions of dollars of asset valuation vanished in 6 months, and us dummies don't get it that it was the Republicans who caused all of this.  Despite George W. Bush wanting to reign in Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae from manipulating their nefarious real estate Ponzi scheme. 

But we are too dang dumb to understand that it wasn't liberal policies that caused all of this mess, it was Republicans, you see.  And Obama marches into the White House with a pretty bad economy, and what has he done to fix this, with promises of cutting the debt in half in two years, with promises of the unemployment rate never exceeding 8%?

Us stupid morons who criticize Obama's failures see a national debt spiral out of control in three years to the tune of $15.3 TRILLION dollars, up from what Obama called 'an unpatriotic' 9 trillion' dollar deficit left to him under the Bush administration.

And we morons on the right have no legs to stand on when we criticize Obama for failing to deliver on virtually any of his campaign promises, and watch while our credit rating on U.S. government bonds is degraded for the first time in over a century.

Yes, we are indeed the dumbest of the dumb, Andy.