Fun With Numbers...

Barry The Cowardly Weakling Doesn't Even Have The Stones To ADMIT The Truth About His Tax Hikes...

Then again...we knew he wouldn't

A taxpayer watchdog group is throwing a penalty flag on President Obama's assertion in a Super Bowl pre-game interview that he didn't raise taxes, claiming the president signed into law at least two dozen tax increases.

"Just 16 days into his presidency, Obama signed into law a 156 percent increase in the federal excise tax on tobacco -- a hike of 62 cents per pack," Americans for Tax Reform said in a press release Monday, arguing that Obama's approval of this tax hike was a violation on his campaign pledge not to raise taxes on the middle class.

Seeking to burnish his centrist credentials, President Obama told Fox News' Bill O'Reilly Sunday that he "didn't raise taxes once."

"I lowered taxes over the last two years," he said in an interview that aired before the heavily-viewed Superbowl on Sunday.

But ATR cites the health care law as an Obama administration imperative that contains two dozen new or higher taxes, including the individual mandate tax and the employer mandate tax.

"President Obama's entire claim of being a net tax-cutter rests merely upon the temporary tax relief he has signed into law," the group said. "The tax increases Obama has signed into law have invariably been permanent. In fact, Obama has signed into law $7 in permanent tax hikes for every $1 in permanent tax cuts."

The group estimates that the permanent changes to tax law Obama signed totals a net tax hike of $618.7 billion.

The single saving grace of Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter was their honesty concerning the thrill they received from raising/trying to raise taxes whenever possible. This douche can't even stand up for what he believes in.

Lohan to be charged with grand theft

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Prosecutors said Tuesday they plan to charge Lindsay Lohan with felony grand theft of a $2,500 necklace reported stolen from a jewelry store last month.

District Attorney's spokeswoman Jane Robison said the charge will be filed Wednesday. She is due in court for an arraignment on Wednesday afternoon.

Its disgusting that she is news once again but there should be a bright side to most anything and if even only a relatively few kids learn from her mistakes then its worth hearing her name a dozen times a day seemingly every other day. 

Nah. Stupid me. The liberal lunatics she has for parents ruined the kid and the liberal lunatics she hung out with made it stick. Doesn't excuse her one iota for being a criminal. Even though she hasn't a clue as to what personal responsibility for one's actions means. More girls will probably want to be just like her. Reason number one for me posting this is the fact that I really hate child abusers.

Happy Birthday Ron

Land Grab

Thinking about creating then selling Mars Property deeds and documentations.

No one owns Mars yet, so I better get cracking and start making claims. Here goes:

I, Fits Stotch, do hereby lay claim upon the fourth satellite from our star
(heretofore referred to as The Sun), which is currently known as the planet "MARS".

Beware of Dog...Trespassers Will Be Shot Back To From Whence They Came

Entered by my hand, on this day and year of our Lord, February 7, 2011.

EXCELSIOR

"Death By Gun Control"

When the gun prohibitionists quote a statistic about how many people are killed by firearms misuse, the discussion sometimes bogs down into whose crime stats to believe and how to count crimes vs. the defensive firearm uses. Death by Gun Control works on a level that nobody can dispute: documented world history.

In the 20th Century:

• Governments murdered four times as many civilians as were killed in all the international and domestic wars combined.
• Governments murdered millions more people than were killed by common criminals.

How could governments kill so many people? The governments had the power - and the people, the victims, were unable to resist. The victims were unarmed.

See the chart here.

Thanks to The War on Guns for the link.

Ignoring the Answer in Plain Sight

The title of the Washington Post story poses a timely question of great importance: "Why does Fresno have thousands of job openings - and high unemployment?"

One of the principal causes of Fresno's predicament is censored. Remarkably enough, he spirits it away despite the fact that it has caused the greatest economic damage to that state and represents a growing danger to the nation as a whole. As data show, the once Golden State, the dream-turned-nightmare of America's future, currently has the sixth-highest income disparity in the nation, worse than Mississippi's in 1970, and a state that once had one the seventh most educated workforce in the nation now ranks 50th, dead last.

This happened as the share of California's population comprised of immigrants (legal and illegal) tripled from 1970 to 2008, growing from 9 percent to 27 percent. Unchecked, this colossal drag on the economy has the capacity to undermine American global economic competitiveness. No matter how self-evident, it is conspicuous in the Post story only by its absence. The refusal to mention it suggests willful blindness verging on the irrational. If the Post's commitment to certain cherished socio-political myths weren't so absolute this factor might at least have been mentioned, even as a secondary or tertiary contributor to Fresno's problem. But any mention appears to be impermissible: it would constitute a sacrilege by affronting the political correctness that is the Post's ersatz religion. "

What results from self-censorship is incompetent journalism. This embarrassingly shoddy article curiously mirrors Fresno's situation. The journalist who wrote the story and the paper for which it was written are too ideologically blinkered to get it right. In other words, ideological constraints have dumbed-down a journalist and made him unable to answer his own question. The same constraints have so lowered the standards of one of the nation's newspapers of record that it publishes a story with a gigantic, gaping omission at its center: one that's metaphorically setting off bells, whistles, sirens, and flashing red lights. Like Fresno's workers, the Post can't handle a job that requires advanced skills; it is simply not up to the task. The only consolation its author may find is that no illegal alien is likely to take his job.

Yep. California ranks 50th with regards to genuine education...shame they cannot shuffle the numbers to include "student athletes" who attend campus extensions that do nothing more than hand out diplomas...and things aren't getting better any time soon.

There's a reason all despotic cultures favor unemployment and low literacy rates. It keeps the people angry, and angry uneducated people will believe most anything (global warming, cough) and vote for the most pie in the sky.

And certainly a dumbed-down electorate means a similarly proficient mainstream media. In  order to publish  illogical 'facts' each and every day, newspapers and radio and television must either be staffed by total morons or simply not very good at making up boldfaced lies, at least to the folks who can still read and write. Fiction writing is quite different from news reporting and virtually all of the young 'uns entering the media find themselves not only unprepared to make things up at the drop of a hat, but lacking the talent to spin from whole cloth.

The article goes on to shine the light on another liberal canard; Over three-quarters of the illegal immigrants in the US have no high school education, and most of the ones who have received theirs from terrible school systems. Perhaps the greatest impediment of all, they can neither speak nor understand English even using the watered down definitions of what "fluent" used to mean, and are sent on job interviews lacking even the basics. 


Knowing all of this and a bag of chips, liberals continue to act perplexed at why Pedro can't get a good job. Sure, so okay maybe he won't be another James Earl Jones but isn't knowing when to shake or nod your head just as important? Must be those damned big-businesses wanting to keep him down!

White House Super Bowl Partiers Scarf Down The Salts And Fat...

*Bratwurst

*Kielbasa

*Cheeseburgers
*Deep Dish Pizza

*Buffalo Wings

*German Potato Salad
*Twice Baked Potatoes
*Snyders Potato Chips and Pretzels

*Chips and Dips

*Salad

*Ice Cream

No, that isn't the latest list of banned substances coming from the awesome mouth of Queen Shelly. That is the White House Super Bowl party menu. The Obama's, you see, retain the right to serve whatever foodstuffs they desire...but...don't think that you are smart enough to do the same.

Charming little dictators, eh?

Frost Ends It's Early-Valentine Weekend...

...Until they begin all over again when February 14 gets even closer...

Sometimes, words fail. Picture this. A 280 pound man, who hasn't lost an ounce in years, lecturing a national audience...granted the average IQ of his viewers is probably a third of that weight and couldn't put two and two together...but imagine such a man lecturing about how important it is to treat a disease that is directly related to obesity...

"...now, I have diabetes. I have diabetes but I'm treating it and working on it because I wanna be around for my wife and children and their children and someday great grandchildren and you should take care of yourseff like I take care of mahseff."

I don't care what James A. Frost weighs or does with his life but to have the unmitigated hubris to harangue his customers about their weight is a show stopper. That's what happens when a wealthy man spends his time surrounded by toadies. Nary a one of them had the stones to look him in the eye and say, "Jim. You're a walking billboard for a coronary. You're the poster child for a man soon to expire from gluttony, you're a step away from a stroke or a thrombosis, diabetic and look it, and you're flat out silly preaching to people about anything health related."

There. Someone had to say it. Being a grifter is one thing. Being a pompous idiot is another. Worry about how many cheap potsteels from China go out the door and leave the preaching to better men.

On to one of the better scams of the evening...

CCN-21439. Frost Cutlery "Damascus" Steel Blade. The knife in this picture looks nothing like the one they're featuring on Cutlery Corner. This version may actually be a cheaply stamped-out Damascus, but the one on TV is absolutely horrid. Only stretch you out $120, then add $12-$15 for shipping. To own 50 cents worth of steel that his Chinamen charge him maybe $3 to put together and ship.

The Crack Shots Of The NYPD

Duck!

Over the past 10 years, (NYC) city cops fired 4,702 bullets, accidentally pulled the trigger 323 times, and missed 78 percent of their intended targets, according to data The Post culled from a decade's worth of NYPD annual firearm-discharge reports.

Referring to a negligent discharge as an 'accident' is one of the steps in removing blame from professionals who should know better. Keeping an uncaring media and uneducated public from understanding the difference between the two completes the fantasy that only super-dee-duper special people, with powers and abilities far beyond those of mortal men, can ever be the ones graced with the extraordinary right to keep and bear arms.

In dirty places like NYC, such delusions eventually become commonplace and a new species of homo sapien is born to do as they damned well please. Hollywood then adds the special effects necessary to keep the rubes believing such delusions, and before you know it every last big city in the known universe enacts different sets of rules for those gifted individuals.

They ain't special or different or even a bag of chips. Then again, if you're reading this you probably knew all that anyway.

Top...

Shit?

Well actually the name of the show is Top Shot. On the History Channel. Usually I can't stand these make believe reality/who can be luckier cheap programs offered by cable, but this one caught my eye as I was doing the full frontal channel flip thing.

Someone I'd known online. Someone you may very well know too. One of the shooting contestants on the show that pits man, and even one woman, against the vagaries of trick shooting. Not just who happens to be the better shot...as they feature knife-throwing and slingshots and bows...but basically who gets the better breaks first. Many of the really good shooters were eliminated for one silly reason or another, except for the familiar fellow who turned out to be as much of a jerk as I pegged him to be while interfacing online. He lost fair and square, after alienating enough people who may have eventually turned a firearm on him just to send him on his way back home.

They called him 'rat'. Little creepy 'rat'. Someone devoid of honor. A squealing little turncoat rat. If you know of whom I am speaking, then drop a line in the comment section.

Friday Toon

91 Year Old Man And 82 Year Old Wife Toss Out Would-Be Robber

ST. CHARLES, Minn. (WCCO) — A 91-year-old Minnesota man and his 82-year-old wife say they weren’t scared, but the guy trying to rob them sure was.

A masked intruder wanting money barged into Wally and Betty’s apartment in St. Charles over the weekend. However, he got something in return.

Wally was sitting at his computer when the man entered his home.

“He just stood there in that doorway, standing there with a shovel,” said Wally. “I thought, ‘what the hell is going on here?’ I thought it was a joke!”

After hearing all the commotion, his wife, Betty, went to the front of the house and found him on the floor. Wally had been punched in the nose and it was bleeding.

“I sat on the edge of the bed. He says, ‘give me your hands! I’m going to tie you up!’ And I said, ‘No, I don’t think so,” Betty said.

They both resisted. It happens to be in Wally’s blood. The World War 2 veteran wasn’t about to give in to the guy’s demands — his wife wasn’t either.

After a couple minutes of struggling, the man ran out the door with nothing.

“I’m damn near 92 years old. So, I’ve lived my life. He’s got his ahead of him, and it might not be too rosy, you know?” Wally said.

The couple will celebrate their 63rd wedding anniversary in March.

“I’m just thankful that everything turned out OK,” said Betty.

The man is described as a white man in his early 20s, with a black stocking cap and gray ski mask. He’s said to be about 5-foot-10, with a slender build, wearing a gray hooded sweatshirt and black nylon jogging pants.

Despite the couples’ bravery, police generally don’t recommend being uncooperative with a criminal’s demands, because it is better to play it safe.

This is how one definitively defines 'job security'. Forget for a moment that several million times a year, every year, citizens are successful in fighting off would-be attackers inside and outside their homes. Forget that citizens engage more bad guys than police officers do. Forget that citizens have a better track record of hitting what they're aiming at than police officers do. Forget that the nation was tamed by men no bigger, stronger, or smarter than you. Certainly nowhere close to being as well armed. Forget that nature has decreed us to be where the food chain goes to die. Forget that 'playing it safe'  more often than not, means your birth certificate has just expired.

The cops want you to give it up. After all, there's good money in hiring out to avenge you. **** them.

Why Barry Should Pay Particular Attention To Egypt

On the streets of Cairo it was the scene of a jungle. With no law enforcement in town and the army at a loss at how to deal with it, it was the golden opportunity for everyone. In a city that is surrounded with slums, thousands of thieves fell on their neighboring richer districts. People were robbed in broad daylight, houses were invaded, and stores looted and burned. Egypt had suddenly fallen back to the State of Nature. Panicking, people started grabbing whatever weapon they could find and forming groups to protect their houses. As the day progressed the street defense committees became more organized. Every building had its men standing in front of it with everything they could find from personal guns, knives to sticks. Women started preparing Molotov bombs using alcohol bottles. Street committees started coordinating themselves. Every major crossroad had now groups of citizens stopping all passing cars checking their ID cards and searching the cars for weapons. Machine guns were in high demand and were sold in the streets.

I do not aim to turn this into a personal story, but those people are my friends and family. It is a personal story to me. My neighbors were all stationed in my father-in-law's house with men on the roof to lookout for possible attackers. A friend of mine was shot at by a gang of thieves and another actually killed one of them to defend his house and wife. Another friend's brother arrested 37 thieves that day. The army's only role in all of this was to pass by each area to pick up the arrested thieves. Army officers informed the street committees that anyone with an illegal weapon should not worry and should use it. Any death of one of the thieves would not be punished.

EVERY last analyst was caught flatfooted by the events in Egypt. Every decision the Egyptian government made turned out to be the wrong decision. All because the Egyptian government was so far removed from its citizenry as to be rendered incapable of predicting how they'd react.

Sound familiar? Why a government could continue to do the wrong thing at every turn and simply not get-it?

The Obama White House could, I say could, mind you, learn a lot from the Egyptian template. But it will not.  Barry-Barack, just like Mu-Barack, believes himself invulnerable to the slings and arrows of the little people.

This isn't your daddy's revolution, and no revolution will ever be the same again due to the internet and cell phones and cable television. Word spreads. People unite and dictators come crashing down. Take America, for example. A federal judge just voided Obamacare, yet the president...small, little 'p' that he is...shows precisely how much of a Constitutional Scholar he really is by making believe it never happened. 


Our democratic republic is the only true one in existence and a likely foreign-born dictator wannabee doesn't seem to like it that way, but this isn't the '70's where Nixon got away with bloody murder largely in part because the people took a long time to get up- to speed. 


If third-world Egypt could arm itself and toss the bums out just think what America could do if necessary.

"Machine guns were in high demand and were sold in the streets..."

Cutlery Corner Deal Of The Day...

...Perhaps The Very Century...

Thanks to our old pal Bah_Humbug for this delightful catch.

BATF-U Proposes To Ban "Military -Style Shotguns"

A report just released by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (BATFE), “Study on the Importability of Certain Shotguns,” has proposed that, “military shotguns, or shotguns with common military features that are unsuitable for traditional shotgun sports” be prohibited from importation. 

 

This ban would apply to all shotguns—not just semi-automatics.  As a press release by the National Rifle Association (NRA) noted, “as in previous ‘working group’ studies on rifles, the study fails to give proper credit to the widespread use of these guns in newer shooting sports, or to their adaptability to hunting.”

Having failed in many attempts to stroke his lunatic base with visions of lefty sugarplums, the Obama White House has turned instead to a tried and true liberal crowd pleaser. 
Lets go and ban us some firearms. I've contacted my representatives and I sincerely hope you do so too. Not my representatives. Yours. Screw it, call my people as well, but first click the headline link to see the full magilla.

Yippee Ya'll It's Time For The Frost Valentine Special...

"..well now Little Mary reminded to me that this tahm (time) of the year was our best year last year and to celebrate this tahm (time) of the year we're gonna be givin' 'way a pink Katana. And we'll be havin' us a yeller (yellow) knaafh (knife), a yeller (yellow) Trapper, give' in away too..." James A. Frost.

"Little Mary" is an unfortunate, mildly retarded young lady, that Jim Frost takes advantage of to make a jerk out of herself and have folks laugh at, rather than with, her antics.

And, much to my dismay, old Toddy Boy Boone isn't tapping his papers on the table as the show begins. Dammit. He can't totally control himself so he just sort of shuffles them to do something with his hands. I truly hope I'm wrong but this is usually indicative of a cocaine problem, or the abuse of some other sort of illegal substance that turns people insane. Well, more insane. Does make sense though. 

And the set was gaily...and I do mean gaily...decorated with all sorts of Valentine's Day fixin's and hangin's and geegaw-gery. Just what we all think about come Valentine's Day. Cheap, pot-metal knives from China. Makes a feller wanna tear up it does. Then again, let's just hope that Big Jim doesn't git too all excited like and start flashin' his Tallywhacker again.

Wednesday Toon

Wisconsin And Florida Declare Obamacare DOA

Wisconsin Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen has taken a great step forward in stopping the implementation of ObamaCare. And quite correctly, Van Hollen said, “Judge Vinson declared the health care law void and stated in his decision that a declaratory judgment is the functional equivalent of an injunction. This means that, for Wisconsin, the federal health care law is dead-unless and until it is revived by an appellate court. Effectively, Wisconsin was relieved of any obligations or duties that were created under terms of the federal health care law.”

Wisconsin has drawn a line in the sand. ObamaCare is not a law, because it was overturned by Judge Vinson. Because ObamaCare is not a law, no state is to follow it. To begin implementing ObamaCare would be in violation of the law of the land.

From Wisconsin Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen on Monday:

Judge Vinson has confirmed the conclusion I reached when this law was enacted.  Congress is free to reform health care, but it must do so in a Constitutional manner. It simply does not have the authority to require people to either purchase health insurance or pay a fine.
Now, we wait to see if the federal government has finally gotten the message.  If they don’t get the message, and decide to appeal the case, as they did when they lost in Virginia, my colleagues and I will continue our fight to defend the Constitution and protect the people of Wisconsin from this unconstitutional law.

Florida has also declared that they will not implement the law. According to Florida Governor Rick Scott, “”We are not going to spend a lot of time and money with regard to trying to get ready to implement that (law) until we know exactly what is going to happen.”

Other states must follow the lead of Attorney General Van Hollen. ObamaCare is not law, and thus, must not be implemented.

I understand that Judge Vinson's injunction is a recent turn of events, but hope that a total of some 40 odd other states will soon make similar declarations. Which leads to the obvious query; where is Texas?

Time For : Messenger Gazes Around Your World

Even after nearly a decade of serving camel omelets to the morning rush to work crowd in Bangladesh, Hadji can still leap between moving dumpster cars with relative ease.

South Dakota Lawmakers Want Mandatory Gun Ownership...

Five South Dakota lawmakers have introduced legislation that would require any adult 21 or older to buy a firearm “sufficient to provide for their ordinary self-defense.”

The bill, which would take effect Jan. 1, 2012, would give people six months to acquire a firearm after turning 21. The provision does not apply to people who are barred from owning a firearm.

Nor does the measure specify what type of firearm. Instead, residents would pick one “suitable to their temperament, physical capacity, and preference.”

The measure is known as an act “to provide for an individual mandate to adult citizens to provide for the self defense of themselves and others.”

Rep. Hal Wick, R-Sioux Falls, is sponsoring the bill and knows it will be killed. But he said he is introducing it to prove a point that the federal health care reform mandate passed last year is unconstitutional.

“Do I or the other cosponsors believe that the State of South Dakota can require citizens to buy firearms? Of course not. But at the same time, we do not believe the federal government can order every citizen to buy health insurance,” he said.

Finally; at long last a law that would be worthy of being called American. Actually though, since the Founders believed that all men of military age were supposed to be ever-ready to defend themselves and their country, there has always been a de-facto mandate for weapons ownership.

And there's FOREVER this thought from liberal loons, the one that goes something like well, if you don't take good care of yourself then you'll be even sicker than those that do, so mandatory health insurance actually saves money in the long run.

So would the firing of a couple million cops if we all handled our own beeswax.