Are We Hungary Yet?

The Nanny State - one regulation away from total bliss

“ DOCTORS TOLD TO REPORT PEOPLE WHO GAIN WEIGHT GPs will be asked to identify patients who are putting on weight under a new national programme to help fight obesity. Mr Stevens said targeted schemes to prevent obesity, by losing weight, had been proven to work, and now needed to be introduced nationally. "Since certain fat mother-fuckers are unable to take care of themselves, it's up to we, the enlightened few, to make them," Mr Stevens left unsaid. Simon Stevens, the head of the NHS, said it was time for Britain to "get back in shape" in order to protect millions of people from a host of obesity-related diseases. Under the scheme, family doctors will be asked to identify anyone who has gained weight and is at risk of diabetes – particularly those aged below 40. They will then be offered tests for pre-diabetes, followed by healthy lifestyle advice and close monitoring to ensure they are eating better and exercising more. It comes as new figures show Britain is now the second fattest nation in Europe, with almost 25 per cent of Britons classified as obese - compared with a European average of 16.7 per cent. Yes, this is Britain, but could one of our own onion-eyed Progressive minded dewberries saddle us the same way?  Yes, with just a stroke of the pen. Say Baaaaaa. ”

Merry Christmas To All of You, ya big lugs

Walk of Shame

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CIRCLET Cuzzin Ricky Claus

The 1840 Butcher

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Yeah! Try Working Once Ya Shiftless Bastids Oh. Never mind.

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MSNBC ALL-STARS and ilk AP poll: Police killings of blacks voted top story of 2014

Among the 85 voters casting ballots, first-place votes were spread among 15 different stories. The Ferguson entry received 22 first-place votes, Ebola 11 and the Islamic State story 12. There you have it, In all the world, Associated Press writers ... .

Left’s Love Affair With the 4-letter N Word

Hitler's Mustache

“ The Left’s Love Affair With the 4-letter N Word “That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.” - Aldous Huxley I like quotes.  Quotes are wisdom for those with short attention spans.  They are disregarded by many as irrelevant platitudes or obsolete; however, they are knowledge, often hard-earned and considered by their authors to be important enough to be passed on.  I’ve chosen the above quote for today, not only because it is always relevant, but because we bear witness to a time where the political left of this country is trying to realize Aldous’ dystopic “Brave New World” (which I’m reasonably sure he meant as a warning, not a blueprint). To this end, the left has slandered any group that has opposed their fundamental (Socialist) transformation of America, and they love one name more than any other: Nazi (the 4-letter N word).  But how accurate is this?  What traits do the political left and right really share with this infamous party of villains? Let’s first discuss what exactly it was to be a Nazi.  Nazi is short for Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (National Socialist German Workers’ Party); as the name implies, they were socialist and staunchly anti-capitalist.  This contrasts sharply with the Republican’s, Libertarian’s and Tea Party’s pro-capitalist anti-socialist viewpoints, but does align quite nicely with the current Democratic Party platform.  In fact, if you compare the Democrats with any other Socialist Party (e.g., UK Socialist Party – http://www.socialistparty.org.uk/), you will fine very few philosophical differences.  This is also demonstrated by Obama’s support for Occupy Wall Street and various other anti-capitalist movements. THE DISCUSSION I am forced to conclude that the political left in this country throws around the name Nazi, not because they believe that anyone they call one resembles a Nazi, but because they desperately need to draw attention away from the terrifying reality that they themselves are becoming the new Nazi party. Without exception, every generation considers itself to be the smartest generation to have ever existed (despite clear evidence to the contrary).  I wish this one would realize it isn’t, and try to learn something from history. (The Full Monty) Darryl Blonski's article in GUN NEWS updates an argument made by Ayn Rand and others that Nazis ( Fascism) and Communism are the same beast, differing only in how they control the means of production (and even now Red China and a reemerging communist Russia have put production back into private hands).  Tossing in comparisons (I added the Communist line for emphasis) with Democrats, Republicans and the Tea Party makes a point that cannot be ignored, and only argued by them what lie about everything.  Fascists, Communists, and the Democrat Party. Gift Idea.  Print this article and put it in the Christmas snocking of every child . ”

Nutcrackers

Christamas, The Run-up

A very busy yesterday, and no posting.  Had to finish the Christmas village I've been doing for 2 3 weeks.  This year I had the genius to—instead of stacking it on a tabletop, as in the last 30 years—stage the fireplace that we never use.  Why is this genius?  Because; 1) it allows der kinder to play with it; 2) it looks good, and 3); when Christmas is over I replace the black glass fireplace screen, and it's ready for next year.  No packing the Dickens Village away! We also attended the annul Nutcracker Suite that my 7 yr-old granddaughter had a junior role in. This year my aged three grandson had a walk-on role too.  As usual my mind dances around.  I had a notion to stand up in the aisle and prance about.  So strong was this emotion that had I been the least bit under the influence I'd have done it and ruined forever  my reputation as the staid, wise grampa, father, and husband.  Indeed, I'd have been committed.  Also, I had just watched again the delightful Scrooged, where Bill Murry made this inappropriate demand .  So there was that. Anyway, it was great fun and put me in the holiday mood.  The only downside was the program began at 2 PM, the exact time my Terps tipped off in Stillwater against the Cowboys. But that's why God gave us the DVR, wot? I tried to get Merrily to bet with me, but she was unwilling to accept the consequences of winning, and even less eager to be the loser.  This game was a very important test for us; the first real road game this year, and the bookies made us 9.5 underdogs, even though we are ranked 17, and the Cowboys are not at all.  And, we take very seriously our new responsibility to the B1G and wished to help atone for, well,  these embarrassments.  Turns out it was a piece of cake, and I have finally accepted that this team have the ability to contend nationally. Eggnog all around!

Obama Apologizes to Castro

Is the asshole still in charge? Yes

Death Panels

Obamacare Reaches Nigeria

There are no barn doors

Four detainees held for more than a decade at the U.S. military detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, have been released into Taliban custody.  YES

Progressive Christmas Carols

Progressive Christmas Carols Merrily

Yo we's be Tired o' dis here sheeit you know das right!

Liberal Racialists

“ Why Should We Treat People Who Falsely Cry Racism With Kid Gloves? Since we’ve entered the Obama era, we’ve learned that the same America that elected a black President twice is supposedly a seething caldron of secret racism. Don’t like Obama? You must be racist. Don’t like Democrats? SO racist! So you’re opposed to Obamacare? Obviously racist. Sick of the IRS? Racist, racist, RACIST! Are you Republican? A Tea Partier? Just a plain old, white guy? You’re a super racisty racist!!! We’re now even regularly hearing speculation that people are unknowingly racist, subconsciously racist or just racist by virtue of the fact that they somehow benefit from “white privilege.” "Yo ah think niggas forget dat we's’ve lived in da whitey crib fo' six years ... 'bfoe dat, Barack Obama wuz uh black nigga dat lived on da Souf Side o' Chicago, who had his share o' troubles catching cabs what 'chew trippin foo' " Mrs. Obama continued  "Yo ah tell dis here story – ah mean, even as da first beotch – during dat wonderfully publicized trip ah took ta Target, not highly disguised, da only nigga who came up ta me in da swapmeet wuz uh beotch who asked me ta he`p her take somethin` off uh shelf. cuz she didn’t see me as da first beotch, she seen me as someone who could he`p her. Those kinds o' things happen in life. So it isn’t anythin` new Jus' like Orenthawl James." (Translation for homeboys) Here's an alternative idea: 99% of the cries of racism today are made for political reasons, by people who habitually cry racism every time they have a problem or alternatively, just by hyper sensitive, coddled mediocrities who are desperate to blame anyone but themselves for their own failures. Just as an example, nobody wants to hear the poor, put upon first lady of the United States complaining that she was discriminated against because someone asked for her help getting something off the shelf at Target.(Inset) Similarly, someone asked her husband to go get some coffee because he wearing a tuxedo and they mistook him for a waiter? Boo freaking hoo. A lot of people get mistaken for store employees at some point in their life. I’ve been mistaken for a Wal-Mart employee – and despite the fact that I wasn’t wearing a blue smock with, “How may I help you on it,” it never occurred to me to blame it on racism. “That’s because you’re white!” No, it’s because I’m not an asshat who chalks up every minor inconvenience in my life to race. FULL ARTICLE ”

The Big Fear

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Sony’s decision to pull the film (which depicts a fictional assassination of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un) sends a clear message that by threatening people with violence, you can get your way. We’ve always known this to be an effective tactic, of course, but rarely is such violence threatened when the stakes merely entail the showing of a movie. South Park nailed this “lesson” in the 200th and 201st episodes of the series back in 2010. The episodes aired after Trey Parker’s and Matt Stone’s latest run-in with Comedy Central executives who were squeamish about the creators’ desire to depict Muhammad, which of course is haram, as the world found out in 2006 when Muslim fanatics rioted and attacked several European embassies after a Danish newspaper published cartoons of him. In episode 201, Kyle and the boys come to realize what the only “true power” is, as a censored image of Muhammad stands in the background. Now it's claimed that China "helped" the Nork's SONY hack.  Duh, of course they did. Skim through the factoids below and tell me they have the technical wherewithal to hack more than a good cough.  6 crazy facts about North Korea  Here's 14 more crazy facts about North Korea And 20 more! Comedy Central is owned by lefty Via Com, so it is not surprising that they'd fold like a bad poker hand in the face of threats to their sorry asses.  A few years ago, when South Park first attempted to show Muhammad, the network censored it, claiming it was "because they're religiously tolerant"  "No you're not," Stone retorted. "You're afraid of getting blown up. That's what you're afraid of. Comedy Central copped to that, you know: 'We're afraid of getting blown up.'" All of which leads me to this— With metronomic precision each year the national press corps begins running columns by “religion scholars” who wish you to know that Jesus Christ is a fictional character. Mind you, no newspaper of note in the world is brave enough to run a similar story about the Prophet Mohammed. The latest comes from a “lecturer in religious studies” from Australia named Raphael Lataster. The Washington Post felt compelled to run this so the godless heathens in Washington, D.C. can continue on with no consequence. According to Mr. Lataster, “There are no existing eyewitness or contemporary accounts of Jesus. All we have are later descriptions of Jesus’ life events by non-eyewitnesses, most of whom are obviously biased.” These biased, non-eyewitness accounts include the writings of the Apostles Matthew, Peter, and John all three of whom were standing near the cross on which the magical mythological Jesus was nailed. They were just, one might suppose, looking in a different direction.   Full "There They Go Again," if you're interested.   Click-Click

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Weeks you have left

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I found this quite unsettling; don't know why.

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E-Z PASS

It's So E-Z “ From a drawer in a little alcove hidden from the telescreen, Winston pulls out a small diary he recently purchased. He found the diary in a secondhand store in the proletarian district, where the very poor live relatively unimpeded by Party monitoring. The proles, as they are called, are so impoverished and insignificant that the Party does not consider them a threat to its power. Winston begins to write in his diary, although he realizes that this constitutes an act of rebellion against the Party. He describes the films he watched the night before. He thinks about his lust and hatred for a dark-haired girl who works in the Fiction Department at the Ministry of Truth, and about an important Inner Party member named O’Brien—a man he is sure is an enemy of the Party. Winston remembers the moment before that day’s Two Minutes Hate, an assembly during which Party orators whip the populace into a frenzy of hatred against the enemies of Oceania. Just before the Hate began, Winston knew he hated Big Brother, and saw the same loathing in O’Brien’s eyes. Winston looks down and realizes that he has written “DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER”over and over again in his diary. He has committed thoughtcrime—the most unpardonable crime—and he knows that the Thought Police will seize him sooner or later. Just then, there is a knock at the door.-  1984 Warning to motorists: Don't speed in the toll lanes. E-Z Pass is watching. Several states, including New York, Maryland and Pennsylvania, say they monitor speeds through the fast pass toll lanes and will suspend your E-Z Pass for multiple speeding violations. In all, five of the 15 E-Z Pass states have some kind of rules on the books for breaking the speed limit in the convenience lanes. "You can lose your E-Z Pass privileges if you speed through E-Z Pass lanes," says Dan Weiller, director of communications for the New York State Thruway Authority. "You get a couple of warnings. We don't have the power to give a ticket, but we do have to power to revoke your E-Z Pass, which we will." He and tolling officials in several other states say the issue is the safety of human toll collectors. "At most toll barriers, we have a mix of E-Z Pass lanes and standard toll lanes," Weiller says. On Maryland toll roads, drivers' speed is monitored in the free-flowing toll lanes, which have a 30 mph speed limit, says Becky Freeberger, a spokeswoman for the Maryland Transportation Authority. "If we clock you at 12 mph more than that, we will send you a warning, saying slow down," she says. "It's not a ticket." If a driver gets a second such notice within six months, their E-Z Pass account can be suspended for up to 60 days. [Full] In the grand scheme of things this is but a pimple, but illustrative of how government will use any technology available to track the citizenry.  It's prompted me to write this comprehensive paper on how to take yourself out of the loop —now— before you, like Winston Smith, find a rat cage around your head. Chapter One Never connect to the internet ... Fuck. ”

Found Stuff

TWO THINGS Unplugged

What Boot?

Takin' it to da man, chump!

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