Bride of Rove

Nothing is really pissing me off today, which is not to say that there isn’t stuff to be pissed off about … I just don’t have the energy.

Maybe the Obama administration revealing that the crotch bomber is spilling his guts putting the intel at risk for political points? What can you say about that? This is the most IQ challenged administration in the history of the United States. No. Seriously. High school kids are not this stupid. How can you even rant about that? They are too stupid to understand how dangerous they are and if they did understand they wouldn’t care. It’s pointless to even say anything. In any other country they’d be dragged out of their beds in the dark of night and never heard from again. In any other country it would be assumed that they were clearly working for the enemies of the nation and their access to classified information would be revoked – and they would be questioned within an inch of their lives as to what they knew, who they passed it along to and why? But these days? It’s easier to just pretend that they are too stupid to live and no harm no foul.

I think they are completely ok with the fact that most Americans think they are several fries short of a Happy Meal.

*shrug*

Whatever. My opinion can’t sink any lower.

Some radio show host I never heard of registered the words “Tea Party“, which I always thought was a bad idea for a name if you were ever going to start a gang or a group, and is now suing ayone else using it to make them stop or pay him money. If you must smack a name on yourself that your parents or a preacher didn’t give you, make it one that is marginally feared and loathed and yet appropriate to your personality or modus operandi. Take Bride of Rove as an example. Has there ever been a name more feared and disliked and yet grudgingly respected than Rove?

Don’t answer that. It was rethorical. Just agree with me or we’ll never get to the point.

Would anyone, other than Rove himself, ever bother to take that and either sue me or try to use it themselves? Possibly not even Rove himself …

No. And why would they? That would be silly. The word Rove has so permeated the lexicon that it’s often used in behavioral context. Just as we use “machiavellian”, we also use “rovian” to describe a human behavior and with similar admiration, fear and a certainty that we would never be so ruthless. No one names their baby “Machiavelli” or “Rove” but I guarantee you there are babies being born out there who are named TP, short for toilet paper Tea Party because they were conceived in a recreational vehicle or empty conference room DURING a Tea Party event. PROVE ME WRONG. Some kids will unearth the acronym for toilet paper and some lawyer will be making money trying to unscrew that name: Tea Party. It’s just a name destined for trouble and that’s something no one needs … except lawyers.

Rove? Could most likely care less, may possibly be a little amused even, as long as I don’t turn this into a porn site – and what twisted men would visit a porn site named Rove? – and no one else is going to steal it because they couldn’t figure out how to make it into anything lucrative. So the name Bride of Rove, which was given to me by an atheist, socialist friend because I could take any topic she felt strongly about and twist it fifty-ways-come-Sunday, making her rethink her original opinion by, applying the rovian technique of spin with a little snark tossed in … THAT name? No one wants it. No one – hopefully – would ever sue me for it and demand that I stop using it. But more importantly, no one wants to join my “group”.

People don’t trust “groups” any more. They don’t. They are a necessary evil and by nature have become either lawless free-for-alls or dictatorships that stifle the flow of information and ideas. The instant you seek a name “people will be drawn to”, that people will “want to belong to” that isn’t regulated by the bible or something like it – and sometimes even the bible isn’t enough to prevent the badness from oozing out – you are done.

I propose that the Tea Party’s and 9-12ers spontaneously change their names once every six months because it is the only way to keep the “brand bandits” from swooping in and it will confuse the hell out of the Progressives trying to fight you and keep yourselves entertained and on your toes as you keep the super secret meeting places fluid and creative. Either that or find a name like Rove – if you have the balls to use it – *raised eyebrow* – which you don’t.

Bwahahahahahahahaha!

“The National Tea Party convention is on Thursday — though it’s probably more accurate to call it a Tea Party convention, not the Tea Party convention.” ~Tea Party Star Leads Movement On Her Own Termsby Martin Kaste

Sure. It’s subtle. But trust me when I tell you the first paragraph in this article is exactly how writers like me tell someone they are stupid without overtly insulting them. What makes it even worse is, the writer clearly felt that the subject of his disdain would not “get it”. And here’s the way you acertain just HOW stupid he thinks you are.

Subject of snark: Name

The idea that you can’t even get your name right is a basic a slam as you can get. As insults go in the land of snark, this was a big one. Fortunately people focused on restoring the Constitution and getting the Marxists out of our government and reducing government could give a rat’s ass what writers like Laste think of them, but make no mistake, regardless of anything else in this article, the overriding theme of it was contempt.

Ok. As I said Saturday my new schedule for this blog is a rant on Sunday to get it all out of my system so I can start Mondays all minty fresh. I am currently sitting in my car with the driver side window down listening to Sirius trying out my new At&T Sierra Air Card because every Monday, Wednesday and Friday I have a 4 to 5 hour wait for my husband in the worst section of Homestead imaginable. Since I have to actually get work done and my work is as a computer god for one of the largest private companies in Florida, I can do this work in my car. I should have brought the power adaptor. I have a dilemma. If I run the car I have more security, or at least the illusion of it, A\C, and I don’t drain the car battery. If I leave it off – and the weather is rather pleasant today though it may rain – I drain the battery and I’m a more attractive target for anyone feeling criminalish this morning. I bought the cutest little wooden lapdesk at Office Depot yesterday but I wish it were wider. The laptop is 17.1 inches. Gotta have that for webwork. It is awkward in a car, though, I must say. I am also keeping an eye on the data thru-put. 6.49 megabytes after 18 minutes. Monthly limit is 5 gb. Need to do 4 hours x 12 days and stay under the limit. Can it be done? It’ll be like that Top Gear episode in the economy cars, the race to light up Blackpool. Hillarious series. I am so hooked on that show even if they do hate Southerners.

Shit. It’s raining. Wait one. Ok. Back. Crisis averted.

In the interest of logging into the office before hell freezes over let’s sift the blogs and see how the week is getting started. So it goes in Shreveport thinks Holder’s ass is grass. I kinda doubt it. I have nothing solid upon which to base my doubt other than Obama never does anything right and bagging Holder would be the right thing to do.

Holy crap! My timer thingy just restarted and now I am at 5 minutes at 2.35 mb. That’s some sneaky shit. There’d better be a way to yank a sum total for the day out of the connection tool or I am screwed on the monitoring.

WyBlog say the new NJ Governor is already raising the bullshit flag as only a NJ native who is governor can do it. Go, Christie.

Carol continues to marvel that people believe in global warming in spite of massive amounts of data that disprove it. It’s really quite simple to prove to even the most IQ challeneged individuals. Put it to them like this. If you are in a store and someone comes in and shouts fire, sparking an evacuation of the store. This person is not a fireman or even an employee of the store. This person then remains in the store and robs it blind. Now. You know and I know that there was no fire. That person was an opportunist taking advantage of the guilibility of human beings and profiting off of it. Had there been a real fire that person would have evacuated and called the fire department rather than rob the store. Apply this to AlGore and his minions. If global warming were really happening, wouldn’t they change their life styles at least a smidge? Would they not abandon the mansions and private jets, stop racing all over the world making deals and crafting punitive (financially) legislation designed to benefit their own “green” companies? Of course they would. We can’t evacuate. Now that Obama has killed the moon mission you should see that as further proof that global warming is complete crap. If we were in for a true disaster these fuckers would be spending every dime they had to colonize space and the moon and yet they put the brakes on that. Why? Why are they not changing thier energy sucking ways? Why are they killing NASA and a possible escape route for at least part of the human race? Because GLOBAL WARMING IS BULLSHIT. See? No science expertise needed.

I am up to 18 minutes and 3.31 mb. So. That means … crap … math … 44 meg for 4 hours. 530 meg a month at this rate. Hmmmm. Do I get rollover gigabytes?

Ruby Slippers is marvelling at Obama’s prolific lying skills. Meh. It’s quantity, sure, but he loses points for quality. A good lie is one that at least half the population believes – and you need over half to be believed by total dumbasses if you want to get re-elected so you can keep on lying. Rasmussen reports that even inbred failed genetic splicing experiments still dellusional that they are actually the offspring of aliens from space and the reason they are so smart is that they were bread to be so, but not from anything human, are starting to question Obama’s bullshit. Rasmussen would canvas that demographic if he could get them to admit that they are THAT in addition to being Progressives. For now I’ll just interpolate based on what I read in some students C- dissertation and know to be true and that’s good enough for global warming science and good enough for this blog.

Gotta get to work now. Have a safe and stress free day all. Still raining.

Oh man. the battery is down to 1/3rd. What an energy sucking pig this thing is. Need to work on that.

There are so many things I’ve wanted to rant about all week but my new plan is to only rant on Sundays so I may be all over the map on this first one because I think I am experiencing deadly rant back up.

Rant one.

It is NOT ok to assume that all aborted babies would have grown up to be criminals. Not.OK. Joy Behar and Whoopie Goldberg need to just shut the hell up. When they say things like:

“The only argument against any of it is, that, you know, he could just as easily become some kind of a rapist pedophile. I mean, you don’t know what someone’s going to be,”

Read more: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/ken-shepherd/2010/01/26/joy-behar-tim-tebow-just-easily-could-have-been-rapist-pedophile#ixzz0eDducN2Q

I have to wonder how we as a nation got to a place where – in anyone’s head – the justification for abortion is by viewing it as a pre-criminal execution. The idea that abortion is a cure for high crime rates has been debunked. In 2001, John J. Donohue III and Steven D. Levitt trie to make a case that abortion lowered the crime rates and if you google it their statistics are all you will be able to find. in fact, back in the day the crime rates were one of the more intense justifications for legalizing abortion. They were wrong.

Virtually every other pro-abortion group also trumpeted the findings of Donohue and Levitt for several months. However, their voices fell silent almost as one when various researchers began questioning the abortion-crime link.

Problems With the Conclusion. While Donohue and Levitt were doing their research, other scientists were addressing the same question and arriving at opposite results.

Law professors John R. Lott, Jr. of Yale Law School and John E. Whitley of the University of Adelaide found that legalizing abortion increased murder rates by up to 7 percent. They concluded that legalizing abortion is a contributing factor to the great increase in out-of-wedlock births and single parent families, which is borne out by United States Census Bureau statistics, as shown in Figure 24-14.[123] Since 1970, the percentage of single-family households in the United States has nearly doubled, from 13.1 percent to 28.3 percent, and the percentage of out-of-wedlock births has more than tripled, from 10.7 percent to 36.0 percent.

There are many other difficulties with the thesis that legalized abortion leads to a decrease in violent and property crimes;

• Statistician David Murray of the Statistical Assessment Service (SAS) pointed out that the drop in crime rate correlates with a number of different social and cultural developments during the same time period (1991 to 2001). Murray confirmed that young males between the ages of 17 and 25 do commit the majority of crimes. However, if abortion did reduce crime, the crime rates in the United States would have dropped first among young people. They did not. Instead, the number of crimes committed by older people dropped first. Additionally, the rate of homicides committed by young females – which should have been equally affected by abortion as males – has not dropped.[124]
• Murray also points out a crucial fact: That other nations with high abortion rates have not shown a decrease in crime about eighteen years after they legalized abortion. For example, in Great Britain, which legalized abortion in 1968, violent crime has been rising steeply since about 1985 – exactly when it should have been declining, according to the Donohue-Levitt thesis. Additionally, russia, with the highest abortion rate on earth, is experiencing a tidal wave of every kind of violent crime in the aftermath of the breakup of the Soviet Union.[124]
• FBI statistics show that the murder rate in 1993 for 14- to 17-year-olds (born in the high abortion years of 1975-1979) was a horrifying 3.6 times higher than that of the kids who were the same age in 1984 (who were born in the pre-legalization years of 1966-1970). Additionally, since Black women were having abortions at a much higher rate than White women, we should have expected the murder rate among Black youth to have declined beginning in about 1991. Instead, it increased by a factor of more than five from 1984 to 1993.[125]
• The huge increase in violent crime that peaked in 1991 and then began to decline is related to the crack epidemic, not to abortion. The Donohue-Levitt study confirms that the crime rate rose and fell exactly where crack cocaine was most easily available – in the large cities and among young Black males.[125] This is also confirmed by the rise in crime during the time period 1984 to 1991, after a decline from 1980 to 1984. If abortion were the primary cause of a decline in violent crime, the crime rate would have been relatively stable during the time period 1980 to 1991 (see Figure 24-12). Donohue and Levitt also describe the current drop in crime as the “greatest since the end of Prohibition in 1933.” Just as that drop in crime was caused by changes in social factors – and not the easier availability of abortion – the current drop in crime is also the result of many interacting social factors.
• Professor Alfred Blumstein and Joel Wallman edited a 2000 book entitled The Crime Drop In America, in which they say “The reader is left with the assessment that 25 percent of the drop was the result of the prison expansion movement and that the significant drops in crime during the 1990s was also a result of changing drug use, increased gun control/intervention efforts, changes in adult and juvenile homicide rates, changes in policing, the labor market, and basic demographics. In other words, the crime drop was caused by a host of key factors mostly resulting from changes in political, economic, and social conditions, thus creating an intricate web of causes affecting the crime rates since 1992.”[126]
• Dr. Ted Joyce of Baruch College and the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) says that he is “pro-choice.” Yet he said that “I analyzed changes in homicide and arrest rates among teens and young adults born before and after 1970 in states that legalized abortion prior to Roe v. Wade. I compared these changes with variation in homicide and arrest rates among cohorts from the same period but who were unexposed to legalized abortion. I find little evidence to support the claim that legalized abortion caused the reduction in crime. I conclude that the association between abortion and crime is not causal, but most likely the result of confounding from unmeasured period effects such as changes in crack cocaine use and its spillover effects.”[127]

Furthermore, there is a pertinent question, albeit one difficult to research: Does the policy of abortion on demand, which reduces children to “choices” and pregnancies to casually disposable inconveniences, contribute to the mentality that does make many children – not just pregnancies – “unwanted” by their mothers? This certainly seems likely, which means that abortion culture itself causes crime.

And yet, morons like Goldberg and Behar continue to believe the fiction. Now I don’t give a rat’s ass about what these idiots believe or don’t believe as long as they aren’t out there spreading stupidity. Here’s the facts ladies. No fertilized embryo has ever committed a crime that rose to the level of an executable offense. Hasn’t happened. You two? And everyone else who has ever utters the argument that an aborted baby might have grown up to be a rapist -so by unspoken law it’s just as well that they are dead now … all of you are beneath contempt.

What else struck me as rant-able? Obama – but I’m not in the mood.

Actually – let me clarify for any liberals the reason this topic hits such a nerve. I posted this brief history elsewhere but I will repeat it here.

Liberals. Have you ever wondered why abortion was eventually approved as the law of the land? It did not begin with Roe vs Wade. It did not begin with women’s rights advocates. It began in a far darker corner of the US legal system building precedent upon precedent. In Buck v Bell the following quote is on record:

““It is better for all the world if . . . society can prevent those who are manifestly unfit from continuing their kind. The principle that sustains compulsory vaccination is broad enough to cover cutting the Fallopian tubes.”
~Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

The story is rather horrifying and you can google it yourself, but what I feel is the important thing people should understand if they did not get this in school is that, as the world wondered at the Origin of the Species and all that it meant for mankind and the planet, there were men and women who decided that natural selection was failing the human race and that, as brilliant, sentient beings, we could do better and that we were actually obligated to play god in the face of plague, poverty and hunger. Killing off the non-contributing members of society for the good of the workers was a kindness in the long run. This was common thinking. The class wars were not pleasant. Abortion was the sound of the educated classes winning round one.

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As I have a few more minutes I would like to add that this thinking is not in the past. James R. (Ron) Weddington, c-council in Roe v Wade wrote to President Clinton in 1992:

“But you can start immediately to eliminate the barely educated, unhealthy and poor segment of our country. No, I’m, not advocating some, sort of mass extinction of these unfortunate people. Crime, drugs and disease are already doing that. The problem is that their numbers are not only replaced but increased by the birth of millions of babies to people who can’t afford to have babies.
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There, I’ve said it. It’s what we all know is true, but we only whisper it, because as liberals who believe in individual rights, we view any program which might treat the disadvantaged differently as discriminatory, mean-spirited and…well…so Republican…
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Condoms alone won’t do it. Depo-Provera, Norplant and the new birth control injection being developed in India are not a complete answer…
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No, government is also going to have to provide vasectomies, tubal ligations and abortions…RU 486 and conventional abortions. Even if we make birth control as ubiquitous as sneakers and junk food, there will still be unplanned pregnancies. There have been about 30 million abortions in this country since Roe v. Wade. Think of all the poverty, crime and misery …and then add 30 million unwanted babies to the scenario…
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We don’t need more cannon fodder. We don’t need more parishioners, We don’t need more cheap labor. We don’t need more poor babies”

I especially love this piece of propaganda: “any program which might treat the disadvantaged differently as discriminatory, mean-spirited and…well…so Republican…”

I’m not sure which Republicans he is talking about but it seems oxymoronic to say that the party against abortion is also the party against the individual being treated equally. It is when Republicans advocate equality that we are called monsters. Everyone has an equal right to LIFE, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. What this letter is proposing is that every one is NOT equal and it’s stupid to allow the less equal unfortunates continued control over their miserable existence. Rather than propose opportunities be funneled into these segments of society, liberals always recommend extermination at birth as a way of solving the problem. They say these people are simply not capable of overcoming their disadvantages and they should be “managed” by people who know how.

Cure crime – kill babies.

Notice that this is not about women’s rights. These women are looked on a breeders of criminals and burdens to the system. This has been going on for a century right there in letters and writings and in our history and yet – if you talk to a liberal they act as if this dark side to their shining accomplishment does not exist.

We don’t want our daughters punished with babies.

You are free to agree or disagree as you like, but stop kidding yourself that abortion is about a woman’s right to chose. Birth control. Special conditions beyond a womans control. These are choices and freedom at work. Whole sale slaughter of a class of people deemed undesirable? That isn’t about women and equal rights. That’s about one class of people taking advantage of another class for the purpose of social engineering and Hitler did not invent it, we did.

An illness in the family has kept me from being consistent in my posts and I’m taking this weekend to get things back on track. In my tradition of keeping my fractured life fractured, and even though I have several blogs already for writing, snark, politics (this one), etc, I felt the most compelling need to blog this illness so I created a new blog on the side. Starting tomorrow I am going to make Sunday my rant day and Monday my links day. The rest of the week will be notes on whatever is going in in politics and the conservative world.

Today I am catching up on housework and getting the last of the Christmas decorations down. Hope all of you are well, safe and sound.

~ BoR

I listened to a little of Obama’s talk with the GOP at their retreat. I’m not going to be flip and ask, “Is he high?” He is.

No.

What I will do is explain what I heard, because I’ve heard it before somewhere and I think it was in school. I admit, I was a smart-ass in school and many teachers feared and loathed me. They could not fail me because the rules they lived by were laid out in advance for all to see and I never broke the important ones. Even the subjective grades for things like writing were impossible to score against me because I always made certain I was technically perfect and most of the grade was based on the technical and not the style or topic of the piece. My highschool teachers were certain I would crash and burn in college because there, well, those teachers are gods and can make up the rules as they go along. If THEY don’t like you, they will fail you on priniciple. Surprisingly enough, the only teacher who said out loud that she would dearly love to do exactly that, was unable to because she stupidly based the entire grade on one test and it was multiple choice and I aced it. Being vindictive takes real work and energy, something this teacher was unwilling to invest in for the satisfaction of revenge. I had no respect.

Obama is – for all his bluster – unwilling to put in the time necessary to get even or get anything done. Regardless of his “Don’t think we aren’t keeping score, Brother” bullshit, what he really wants is for people to just co-operate with what he wants and he doesn’t want to have to do the work required to win that co-operation fairly. You see? He took the job because he thought it would be pretty easy given that everyone else is stupid and he expected to have summers and Christmas off. Sorry it’s not working out that way, Mr. President. The job you took takes some actual work and the people you are lecturing to are not stupid. He spoke to the GOP today and whined at them for over an hour about how he is not an ideologue and how they could not blame him for shit that happened in December ‘08 and Januray ‘09 because he hadn’t even taken office yet. As he was saying this everyone was thinking about the businesses that started closing down just after the election as the engine of the economy abandoned all hope on the news that Obama was President Elect. His stupid little fake seal did not impress, it depressed. He told them that they could not say all those negative things about him (yes they can) and tell people that he was destroying the economy (he is) and that he was a Marxist (ok he didn’t say that but it’s also true) and still have wiggle room to work with him on legislation. It never entered his head that they do not WANT to work with him any more than it registered with certain teachers that I did not WANT to be their student, because I did not like what they were teaching and how they were teaching it. It was obvious they didn’t want to be there and subsequently, neither did I. Don’t get me wrong. I come from a family of teachers and I had teachers I loved and respected, but teachers didn’t get my respect just for showing up every day. The title did not impress me. Their position, no matter how much power it gave them over me, did not come with automatic awe on my part.

The GOP has no respect for Obama. Conservatives know exactly what he is and what he is doing and they want no part of it. Co-operation with Obama is political death. His own party knows it and the GOP knows it. He gave the SOTU speech and doubled down on the badnesss and for some reason he thinks that because he wants something, regardless of Scott Brown, he should damn well get what he wants by sheer will and position.

Well, Mr. Obama. Respect is earned. Status is conveyed upon you by the opinion of the observer. Co-operation is a process that requires two parties converging in the center. These are simple, simple concepts. You don’t get what you want in this country by just showing up and demanding it. If you had ever had a real job, you would know this. You, little man, are all sound and no substance. There was a window there where you might have provided some evidence that you were a wunderkind worthy of respect, whose ideas are groundbreaking in extraordinary times … but you didn’t. So. Get back behind your desk for that shot of schnapps and just watch the show. Nothing you say can bring the real movers and shakers to heal at this point. I, for one, am looking forward to entropy this next year. We have never had a President in my lifetime so worthless and inept. I have never seen such huge swaths of citizens look up at the same time, comprehend the badness and ask, “What the hell IS THIS nonsense going on and how to we unscrew this?”

Save your breath Mr. President and save your pointless lectures. Your audience? is going to pass this class in spite of you.