Obama threatens country with self-reliance if he isn't elected

Obama raised the horrible spectre of a nation of self-reliant, productive citizens if we fail to re-elect him....

From ABC News via Michelle Malkin -- “The one thing that we absolutely know for sure is that if we don’t work even harder than we did in 2008, then we’re going to have a government that tells the American people, ‘you are on your own,’” Obama told a crowd of 200 donors over lunch at the W Hotel.

“If you get sick, you’re on your own. If you can’t afford college, you’re on your own. If you don’t like that some corporation is polluting your air or the air that your child breathes, then you’re on your own,”

I realize that sitting on your ass collecting checks of other peoples' money is hard work, but perhaps after 4 years of government dependency and the geometric expansion of the nanny-State, a little rugged individualism, self-reliance, and boot-strap self-determination is what this country needs.

Is the time finally right for a flat tax?

You want to take the oppressive, Gestapo tactics away from the federal government when it comes to tax collection? You want to strip the IRS of most of it's power? You want to prevent corrupt politicians from using the Byzantine tax code to reward their friends and punish their enemies? Adopt some form of a flat tax. But which one?

Herman Cain's plan calls for a 9% tax along with some other forms of revenue generation. Rick Perry's is a flat 20% on people above the poverty level minus some mortgage and charity exemptions, while Gingrich's is 15% minus exemptions. All are worthy of a second look, but is the US ready to radically transform the way government works.

I hope that after the radically left lurch Obama took the country with TARP 1 and 2, bank, insurance, and car company bailouts, and the mortgage collapse precipitated by Barney Frank and Chris Dodd, the country might for the first time in my life, be ready for radical streamlining of our serfdom regarding the payment of taxes to the government.

I want a flat tax in the US more than any other campaign issue I can think of and I'll be sorely disappointed if the eventual nominee for the GOP doesn't embrace the idea.

Libya, out of the frying pan.....

Will it have been worth getting rid of Moammar Qaddafi if what replaces him is a hard line Islamic state ruled by Sharia law?
From Telegraph -- Mustafa Abdul-Jalil, the chairman of the National Transitional Council and de fact president, had already declared that Libyan laws in future would have Sharia, the Islamic code, as its "basic source".

The US got quickly behind the "freedom fighters" in Libya and their struggle to rid themselves of Qaddafi's oppressive regime, but is possibly another Iran better for the security of the region or the relative stability of a dictatorship?

Here's a fairly common example of what happens under Sharia. This woman was raped and then her face doused with acid because of some perceived insult to Islam....

I don't care what Qaddafi did, the official nationalization of this is worse. Another reason to stay out of other nations' business.

Finally, we're exiting Iraq

Pres. Obama announced today that there would be a complete and total drawdown of US troops currently stationed in Iraq by the end of this year. There are 50,000 troops there now and I guess they'll be coming home by year's end. I think this is a good decision and Obama deserves credit for it.

I'm not sure whether the pullout is political or idealogical on Obama's part, but what difference does it make to the families? I think we should have gotten out of Iraq years ago, but getting out now works for me too. And with the Lybian situatiion pretty much resolved, we shouldn't have any troops deployed in pointless wars anywhere except Afghanistan. I imagine that quagmire will last beyond the next President's administration anyway....these things always do.

The religion of peace claims another life

The 7th century zealots that rule Somalia beheaded a 17 year old boy yesterday....for being a Christian. The Islamic militants have vowed to rid Somalia of Christianity entirely. We are counseled by our leaders that we must negotiate and have open dialogue with these primitive barbarians, but how do you reason with a backward culture across time? They exist 1400 years in the past. The pedophile Mohammad invented Islam in the 7th century(1,400 years ago more or less) and its believers have not progressed at all since then.

Savages cannot be reasoned with except by what they understand, violence and certain death.

Nobel Peace Prize winner gets another scalp

Apparently Colonel Moammar Qaddafi was dragged from his hiding place in a filthy sewer drain and summarily executed with a bullet in his head earlier today. I was horrified by the video clip every time I watched it.

The price tag for our Libyan adventure was in the $1billion range. I hope Qaddafi's scalp and the utter chaos that ensues there for the next 20 years will have been worth it.

I know the British and French have had a much greater military presence there, but the US will take most of the heat for meddling again in the affairs of Arabs. I also wonder when the Nobel committee will notify Obama that they are taking back his Peace Prize, though wholly undeserved in the first place?

Adult baby gets to remain a parasitic sponge on society

It saddens me to report that Stanley Thornton Jr. won't be killing himself any time soon because the Social Security Admin. has ruled that he was not committing fraud by receiving checks because of his declared "disability" known as infantilism.

Despite that fact that he's perfectly capable of holding a job, this parasitic freak gets to wallow around in his own excrement-filled diapers, cram his vacuous maw with gallons of liquefied peas, and suck disgustingly on a giant pacifier all day, because taxpayers like me are working hard at two jobs to pay for it all.

Sorry for the light posting this week

Sorry for the light posting this week. I was in Louisiana for a few days doing some traffic engineering like the guy in the picture, and computer access was sketchy. A friend of mine has a company that collects traffic data and I moonlight doing that to make extra money. You know those black tubes attached to a box that is chained to a telephone pole you drive over once in a while?  ....we put those out.

Loouisiana plumbs the stupidity well even deeper

The Louisiana state legislature sneaked a bill through this week that prohibits the use of cash to purchase any second-hand items. Its purpose is to limit the sale of stolen copper and other products of crime, but it also makes it a crime to pay cash at yard sales, flea markets, metal recyclers, or other dealers in second-hand goods. Effectively it kills those businesses that don't already keep paper records of received items the way pawn shops are required to do.

This is a perfect example of a sweeping law designed to show that politicians are hard on crime, but the unintended consequences are worse than the original crime it was intended to prevent.

In addition, is it even legal to ban the use of cash in any transaction? Right there on the money it says "legal tender". To me that means you can use it to legally purchase anything and no law can be written that denies payment in cash. Or am I wrong about that?

TOTUS is mad as hell and not going to take it any more

Heh heh.....the teleprompter, without which Obama cannot publicly speak, was stolen along with a bunch of other AV equipment when thieves apparently hot-wired a white-house truck from a hotel parking lot yesterday.

Seriously, that's hilarious! I propose that thieves didn't steal the truck, TOTUS(Teleprompter of the United States) finally became fed up with the lying, obfuscation, and misinformation with which he was forced to feed Obama and it stole the truck itself, No.5 style.

Bonus question for a virtual cookie: Without cheating, what did I mean by "stole the truck, No.5 style"?