Bride of Rove

Puerto Rico has invalidated all birth certificates for over six million people forcing them to pay fees to obtain a new one. There is a case linked to Drudge in Philly where the state is confiscating beer because the names are supposedly not registered seeking a $75 fee for each and fines. Florida has installed traffic cameras and deliberately shortened yellow lights to auto ticket people. Beware desparate states seeking $$.

Heh. It was inevitable in an sad sick way. This headline on Drudge:

THE CONGRESSMAN AND RAHM: NAKED SHOWDOWN IN GYM SHOWERS…
‘I am showering, naked as a jaybird, and here comes Rahm Emanuel, not even with a towel wrapped around his tush, poking his finger in my chest, yelling at me…’

You have to ask yourself, wth was Rahm thinking attacking a Congressman naked in the showers? Does this happen very often? Are Senators and Congressmen doing this every day in the showers? Is it because there’s no recording equipment in there? It SHOULD be – video too, please? Pay-per-View is fine. Or. A live internet feed by subscription is also fine. Let’s just make this happen asap because clearly there is more than showering going on in there and the public want to watch.

Rahm. You are a bad bad man. In the showers? You can’t get some clothes on or at least a towel first? Watch Spartacus Blood and Sand once too often, did you? I think you have. You are not Manu Bennett, dude. Unless your schwanthsa is ten inches you are not going to dominate anyone in the locker room. I await photographic evidence that you have the equipment to pull that scene off.

Oh the juicy, scandalous Obama Adminstration. They have no morals, no filters, no rules left to break and no souls. It’s practically Caligula level depravity. Get those cameras in there now. Based on what we’ve seen so far I’m guessing they’ll like it.

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Hot Air begins the mockage nicely

(Alternate Title and more apt: The Progressive Party In Puerto Rico)

Most Americans know less than nothing about the island 1000 miles to the south west of Florida, which is a possession of the United States and has been so since 1917 under Woodrow Wilson after the Spanish American War. (It’s not really a Common Wealth – that good ship lillipop sailed a few years ago.) This is a crying shame because it is really quite beautiful there, even if the politics are completely messed up. I lived there for five years between 1992 and 1997 under the Clinton years. My husband’s job takes us where the drug smugglers are most active. During those years the Weather Channel On the Eights would predict “Snow” in certain cities at certain times, which meant “Snow” – the illegal kind – was scheduled for a drop somewhere off shore of that city. There were periodic interuptions on certain marine bands which gave the lat-long of the drop. A load of either drugs or Dominicans or both came in every day sometimes more than twice a day. Puerto Rico is 120 miles long and 40 miles wide and the tallest mountain is about 4000 feet high where there is a town called Aibonito at the top.

I’m sure things have changed some since I was there last, but back then the road to Aibonito was two narrow lanes that switch-backed their way through massive ceiba trees and mahoganys loaded with bromilliads and orchids and coqui frogs screetching at deafening decibles. There is a hospital up there that is one of the few places on the island where anyone not wanting to risk their life in San Juan can go for things like hip replacements, etc. The health care there is very inexpensive, but you work to get seen. My memories of Puerto Rico are a little sketchy but I kept a diary and I was recently rereading it for another book I am writing. A romance. Not your kind of reading if you frequent this blog.

Let’s talk Health Care for a moment now that I am distracted in that direction. I want to get to the taxes and the military and welfare, but the Health care thing is pretty important, too.

You wait at the locked doctor’s office door at 5 am in a line and at seven the receptionist comes and takes down everyone’s name and number in order. The doctor can see only so many people in a day so if you are at the end of the list you may not get seen. If that happens you probably need to get there at 4:30 am the next day to get on thie list. If you are sick, a relative waits to get you on the list. People are seen in order unless they have money or know the doctor very well in which case they get seen right away shifting the list down. If you are getting surgery in Aibonito, you need relatives there with you round the clock. The bed has sheets and nothing else. Any food you get someone must go get for you. Any drugs prescribed, someone must go get the Rx filled at the pharmacia and administer it to you. There are very few nurses and virtually no hospital staff. You bring your towels, pillow, blanket … everything. In every room – even iof there are three or six patients to a room, there is room for a beach chair or something for a relative to sleep next to you. It cost me $20 to have my son at the hospital in Mayaguez. There was no charge for the armed guard we were both given because we were blond haired and blue eyed. My eyes are actually blue-green, but close enough for kidnapping I guess. It did not help that my husband is a Federal Agent and there is a bounty on him and us everywhere we go. In Mexico it was $70k for my husband and we were worth $10 to $20k dead or alive last time I checked. We go where we want regardless. The Puerto Rican hospital guard was not Federal. The hospital assigned them to me the day they saw us arrive. When I say armed I mean machine gun armed. They don’t screw around in Puerto Rico with political correctness nor do they even attempt to be discrete. The police drive the streets with their strobe lights always on to let people know they are there.

Everyone can get health care in Puerto Rico, eventually.

It’s not great care. It’s not luxurious. If you are alone you will probably die. But. You can get seen. Now. Ask yourself if that’s the system you want because that is a good indication of what we are going to get in the future if things pan out for the Progressive Party here in the mainland.

I am going to break this up into a few days because I believe Puerto Rico deserves some attention by Americans right now. You need to know what the Progressive Party has done there. You need to know what the Nature Conservancy has done there. You need to understand what’s happening to the schools and the taxes because Puerto Rico? Is falling apart and it’s very germain to our own future if we do not extract the Progressive movement from our own political landscape.

More reading

§ 936. Puerto Rico and possession tax credit

Tax Policy: Puerto Rico and the Section 936 Tax Credit
GGD-93-109 June 8, 1993

Drug makers retreat from Puerto Rico hub – Sun, 18 Nov 2007

Politics of Puerto Rico

Vieques Stakes Raised: Senate Bill Closes Roosevelt Roads Naval Base if Bombing Range Is Not Reopened – 1999

Navy closes its last base in Puerto Rico April 2004

Cash-Strapped Puerto Rico Forced to Close Schools, Government Offices – 2006

Puerto Rico Implements New Sales and Use Tax System. ~ December 12, 2006

Puerto Ricans reject renewed military activity in Vieques – 2009

There’s a lesson in Greece that the US should learn by example and not first hand.

It is harder to take something away from someone than it is to deny them in the first place.

As Germany shames the hell out of Greece I am sure most liberals are recoiling in horror at the cruelty and insensitivity of kicking a country when she’s down, but dammit – some one needs to. This is how we learn. If you spoil the crap out of your kids with money you don’t have, you end up with a screwed up situation that is nearly impossible to un-screw. With every entitlement we enact, with every benefit we borrow money for to provide, we are setting ourselves up for epic failure and, hopefully, just the kind of humiliation we need at the hands of countries like Germany.

When the hell did we become the kind of people who want to be admired for a Lexus we haven’t paid for and a house we can’t aford? We dress nice in clothes bought on credit and we look the part, but that’s nothing anyone should respect. You gain respect when you pay your bills, work hard, live within your means and you TAKE CARE OF YOUR CHILDREN. Putting them and their children into unimaginable debt for the rest of their lives so we can look all posh and gifty right now is beyond disgusting to any rational, logical, honest individual.

Liberals? You are setting us up – all of us – for unimaginable humiliation down the road. How many of you have lost all respect for California? Be honest. Do you feel at all sorry for them? Hell no you don’t. Do you want to bail them out at your own expense? Hell no you don’t. Your state is struggling just like everyone elses state. Screw California. It’s time to shame them like Germany is shaming Greece and I don’t want to hear any compassionate “There but for the Grace of God” bull shit because God is smiting them just as hard as they are screwing themselves by letting them experience the full force of their fiscal madness.

The next time some group of do-gooders want to use the government money to help a group rather than help via charity and individual responsibility, beat the ever loving crap out of them verbally and indentify them as the ne’er-do-well leeches that they are, lest we find ourselves so far in debt to these self inflicted obligations that we can never see daylight again. Their good intentions are the death of this nation. Wean this nation compassionately off the government dime and don’t allow the next generation to latch on. Do this NOW before we have to riot as a result of “austerity measures”.

This is a lunch where everyone agreed to split the bill evenly when we walked into the restaurant, but one person ended up paying the lions’ share while everyone else ordered lobster. WTH is WRONG with us that we can’t see the evil in that? No one OWES us. No one who is capable of working should be getting a free ride while others work to pay for his gas.

Look at Greece. LOOK at her. This is a public pillorying that everyone should be in the square to watch. Bring your children and SHOW them. You want your “There but for the Grace of God” moment? God won’t stop that from happening to us, because if we continue to spend like there’s no tomorrow then THAT is our tomorrow. Learn this lesson and vow to live a better life. If we don’t get this message, it will be China mocking the hell out of us and telling us to sell off our national treasures to pay back our debts and telling us to work more hours.

So help me … if it comes to that, the liberal ass kickings are going to be biblical. I promise you.

You aren’t taking care of your kids and you aren’t good parents if you are giving them everything and borrowing the money to give them even more. What you are doing is raising a generation of kids who can’t support themselves or balance a budget and who have no respect for themselves or for you once the debt comes due. Do you think that if you pass Health Care that generations from now you will be remembered like Jeffereson or Lincoln? No. Our kids and grandkids will be cursing you the way Germany curses Hitler, only worse. As the world kicks our future citizens into crawling subjugates, forcing them to beg for assistance, they will be cursing your names so loudly that you will be remembered for nothing but this … the generation of money sucking wastrels who destroyed the dream that was America.

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Oh. And another thing. When a man like Jim Bunning tries to hold the line and say: If you want this, find a way to pay for it without going further into debt. PRAISE HIM TO THE MOON for it. Every Republican who remained silent is a scum sucking POS unworthy of a vote in the next election. The Democrats? They are a lost cause. But Republicans? WTH is WRONG with you?

Let me just say that I am crushed. On his radio program today he told listeners “don’t waste your money on a Kindle”. He said he has one and he hates it. He went on to say that … he wants it to be a tablet pc. No. That’s really what he described. He said it should be in color. It should have back lighting. I agree with both of those things. then he said he should be able to highlight a term and search the web for more information on that term – a pc functionality. He babbled on about something else that was pointless so I ignored it.

I don’t think he understands the simple elegance of the Kindle. Sure, I’ve succumbed and even as we speak an iPhone is sitting in front of my door at home waiting for me to set it up and start using it. I dropped the Treo and cracked the screen. Very sad. Also, the Miata died and I had to be towed 80 miles home last night. That was sad in as much as I love my Miata and hate it when it’s sick, but being driven home with fun conversation with a complete stranger is rather nice for a change. I saw parts of Miami I’d never visit alone because he had to drop off payments for stuff. Also, he had to pee. He’s divorced and was living with his mom. She died last year. He was released from jail two years ago or so, which could explain the divorce. He has two young kids. He was robbed at gun point in Liberty City. Who hasn’t? All in all it was a fascinating drive.

My son met us at the auto shop. He thinks I enjoy these towing days a little too much. I do. No diagnosis on the Miata problem yet. Where was I? Oh. The Kindle. The iPhone ain’t going to replace the Kindle even though there is an app for that. Just read the damned book, man. No one reading a romance novel highlights a phrase and researches it – well – not many people — not normal people. It can bookmark the juicy spots for you. What more do you need?

Glenn? I respectfully disagree with you on the Kindle.

Dr. Jeff Kuhlman, President Obama’s physician has instructed him to “moderate” his drinking. I don’t know what the hell that actually means but I’m pretty sure he should ignore that advice. I offer an alternate diagnosis:

Drink more, Mr. President.

Clearly whatever amount you are consuming that has alarmed your physician so that he felt compelled to comment on it is not enough to do the job. Churchill was a lush.

It all started back in 1899. Churchill, aged 25, was a correspondent on the Morning Post, covering the Boer war. Sent out to the front line, he took with him 36 bottles of wine, 18 bottles of ten-year old scotch, and 6 bottles of vintage brandy (a drink he believed was essential to a stable diet). Clearly Churchill had better access to alcohol than most people on the South African front: his stores were said to contain “many bottles of whisky, claret, and port.”

Hemingway.

I don’t believe a word of that crap about your wife being a binge drinker, btw. Four drinks over a twelve hour period does not a drunkard make. In the Obamapedia it says you don’t drink alcohol.

14. From Hyde Park Herald’s Did You Know?:
“Barack(a) means blessed in Swahili
He has been mentioned in songs by Jadakiss and Common, and Neil Young .
Obama does not drink Alcohol
He was mentioned in an episode of “Will & Grace.” He was “Baracking” Grace’s world.
His specialty dish, “I cook mean Chili.” “

They may want to update that entry, but maybe not, because it just adds to your legend, man. It just adds a mystical quality. Water into wine-ish quality. Cause it’s not wine until you piss it out, eh? And yet … and yet … Answers.com says you drink “a variation of the Americano, containing Campari and Sweet Vermouth. Obama discusses it in a (satyrical) interview with RedCarpetCocktails.com“. Add bitters and a raw egg to that and it’s a drink and a hangover cure all in one, baby. It also sounds kind of effete but I’m not going to judge. Just drink … more.

Since you weren’t born with leadership qualities and talent the least you can do is drink until you can act like a man who has them. A little liquid courage, Mr. President. That’s the ticket. Don’t drink and drive. Drink responsibly. Assign a designated Commander in Chief (I recomment Cheney) if you plan on going “whole hog blind stinking drunk off your ass holy gawd did I press that button? I did. Drunk.”

Ahem. But in all seriousness. If you can blame this past year on alcohol abuse I’d take the out if I were you. All that bowing was actually you about to lose lunch. You have an excuse now. Use it.

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What and when President Obama likes to drink

People liked Obama’s policies, his eloquence, and his fierce intelligence and the fact that he was black, that his election would turn history on its ear, was a desirable bonus, but only that — icing on the cake, but not the cake itself.

I submit that a rough inverse of that dynamic now helps define the tea party movement.

~ Tea party fears a matter of race and more
BY LEONARD PITTS

Pitts has been off the deep end for several years now and I have all but stopped reading him. Another blog was praising this particular article this morning so I had to go an look. I’m sorry I bothered. I’m just going to say this and lay it down on the table before I even address the article. Leonard Pitts is the worst kind of racist. Every article, every talk he gives is so deeply accusatory and resentful of anyone who is not black that it is painful to read or hear. He is mired so deep in hate that he has no idea which way is up. He insults the hell out of people and then decries the response he gets certain that it’s a clear indication that racism is fine and well in America – and it is – right there in every column he writes.

The tea party people distrust Obama’s policies, his eloquence, his fierce intelligence and the fact that he is black then becomes the final straw, the difference maker and deal breaker. To put that another way: I doubt most of the tea partiers hate Obama strictly because he is black, but it sure doesn’t help.

I’m not, as of yet, a Tea Partier, but I have to say that his insistence that Obama is “fiercely intelligent” got a laugh out of me. On what do these supporters base their belief that he is so superior an intellect? What has he said and done so far that would support that conclusion? If spending us into oblivion is a sign of brilliance then I’ll have to give it to you there. I personally don’t think it’s very smart to spend like Obama but I guess if it’s somebody elses money it doesn’t matter. He’s planning on being a one term President or so he says. That’s pretty damned smart, because by the time this shit hits the fan he’d better be far away from the Whitehouse and safe behind high, high walls somewhere if he has any hope of escaping the anger of the next generation that will be paying on this debt.

He ends it with this:

One hopes they will find answers that satisfy them because the change they fear will not be turned back. No one ever volunteers to return to the rear of the bus.

So for all the frustration the tea party movement engenders among the rest of us, one also feels a certain pity for people like the woman last year who cried, plaintively, that she wanted her country back.

As if she didn’t realize that it is already, irrevocably, gone.

Not yet, it isn’t. How ironic that a man who was never a slave, who rails against slavery as if he were one and who despises anyone he suspects might be related to some ancestor who may have owned slaves, is so eager to enslave the entire nation to a government bent on controlling us from our toilets to sugar intake to health care to the cars we can drive to how cold we air condition our homes all because this new world order is being promised by a black man. He has no idea what the Tea Party is about and he never will. All he can be is a voice in the darkness yearning for the good old days when from dawn to dusk every moment of his ancestors life was controlled by someone else as they gave their labor to an overlord. Well I don’t yearn for it. In spite of Leonard Pitts, Bill Maher and the rest, I will fight to restore the freedoms that have been eroded, generation after generation. It won’t be as dramatic as the Civil War (I had relatives on both sides of that conflict, Mr. Pitts) but it will be epic, because ignorance like Pitts is hard to overcome. It’s easier to succumb to the cradle to the grave promises of Obama but oh so dangerous.

Snap the hell out of that soul sucking place, Pitts. No one is calling for a return of Jim Crow. No one is begging for the return of the Plantation except YOU.