Thoughts of Repressed Genius2008-11-19T22:49:22Zsome dude with nothing better to do than write stuff about you tardswebmaster@rancidkoolaid.comCopyright 2008, some dude with nothing better to do than write stuff about you tardsSPHPBLOGLiberals will save everything, and it only costs your soulSenior party members condemned the reluctance of the White House and Republican leaders to siphon off the money from a 700-billion-dollar finance industry bailout which has already been approved.
Senate Majority leader Harry Reid hit out at Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson for refusing to adapt the huge bailout to aid the auto industry, saying: "All it would take is one stroke of a pen and that problem would be solved.
"We are seeing a potential meltdown in the auto industry, with consequences that could directly impact millions of American workers and cause further devastation to our economy."
And thus the disconnect is exposed: poor management, excessive union benefits, poor quality product, terrible fuel efficiency, no innovation – and all that is fixed with “one stroke of a pen.”
One stroke of the pen takes a problem many years in the making and pushes it back 6 months – at cost to the tax payer.
With this next president and congress seems to come the new era of “free love and nickle beer”, as my old boss would say. Of this new leadership, one point has been driven well home: if you can’t do it on your own, the government will do it for you. My problem with that: if the government will do it for you, why do it for yourself?
And, as sometimes gets lost in the shuffle of ideologies: with freedom comes responsibility; abdicate one, the other must follow suit. If you wish to give the government some responsibility, the cost is freedom. I ain't willing to pay that cost.
While flipping channels a few nights ago, my wife came across “Real Housewives of Atlanta” and I made a starling (if not politically incorrect) discovery: stereotypes are very accurate – and the more you wish to make it not so, the more true it becomes. Don’t understand the statement, watch the show, you will. You will.
And finally, after a pulled muscle in my back caused severe pain and difficulty, I came to understand that few problems in life cannot be solved by a Ping 4-iron and a few hydrocodone.
]]>http://www.rancidkoolaid.com/index.php?entry=entry081118-0955082008-11-18T00:00:00Z2008-11-18T00:00:00ZTo bail or not to bailIn 2004, GM hourly and salaried employees paid 27% of their total health-care costs. That same year, UAW contracts paid just 7% of their health care costs. For each GM vehicle made in 2005, $1,600 of the total price tag paid UAW members’ health-care benefits.
UAW members earn higher wages, get more benefits, and enjoy job security – all while producing an inferior product.
So, do we bail out GM? Do we continue to allow a union of lazy slouches like the UAW to bankrupt their companies?
Bankruptcy might not be such a bad choice. Many industries have survived bankruptcies and emerged stronger. Bankrupt companies do n0ot simply dissolve and go away, they restructure, they adapt.
By bailing out the US auto industry, we continue on the path of their eternal bailout. Till the UAW is addressed, any fix is temporary.
Foreign-brand cars made right here in America are far better vehicles, and the companies that make them are far more sustainable. Ford, GM, and Chrysler are sinking due to the immense financial burden that is the United Auto Workers union.
Free market economics works, but only if you let it work. Weak companies fail, stronger companies emerge, competition fills the void: it only works if the federal government stops supplementing bad business models and poor performance.
Socialism isn’t coming, it’s here – and guess who is gonna pay for all this!
]]>http://www.rancidkoolaid.com/index.php?entry=entry081112-0846582008-11-12T00:00:00Z2008-11-12T00:00:00ZAn endorsement from a racist, freedom-hating freidn of Barrack's My understanding of celebrating greatness is that you do so after greatness is achieved. And he ain’t done that yet! Not by far. Sure, he won an election, so did Jimmy Carter, look how that worked out for us.
And now Louis Farrakhan says he can finally endorse Obama. I guess proclaiming him Messiah isn’t a formal endorsement.
This article has some interesting points, such as:
Many of the voters that backed Republican Senator John McCain "were older Americans and most reside below the Mason-Dixon line where racial attitudes and traditions die hard," he said in a reference to the American South.
Many Muslims are terrorists, many blacks are racists, many northerners are morons: I too find stereotypes to be real time-savers. And mine are just as accurate as his.
"I'm sure that many of our people have unfortunately lost their lives because of the absolute hatred that is manifested now that one of our own has risen to such a high office," he told the crowd at the national headquarters of the Nation of Islam.
Many of his people have been killed because Obama won? Where, precisely, are black Muslims being killed for Obama’s victory? As a general rule, Farrakhan is a liar and an idiot, and nothing he has said – to my limited knowledge - is more stupid than this. And, for clarity, that includes Farrakhan’s assertions that Whitey bombed the levees and created AIDS to kill the black man.
On Sunday, he also said that the gracious concession speech given by McCain had not assuaged "the pain of loss and frustration and disappointment to those who felt great pain at Obama's rise."
My pain at Obama’s rise has nothing to do with race and everything to do with character, beliefs, and policies. Obama isn’t bad because he is black, he is bad because he espouses socialism, he cares little for me, and he is a blatant, all-out racist.
And he said that for some people, the prospect of a black family in the White House, was a "sacrilege."
Again, as a Southern bumpkin, I presume Farrakhan is referencing us racist southern rednecks. And again, Farrakhan is exactly wrong. I would like little more than to see Alan Keyes in the White House. Keyes is a true conservative, a patriot, and a black man. I like him due to his political views, his character, and his beliefs, race is no part of the equation.
Farrakhan heaped praise upon Obama during the long speech, and said he could speak openly now that the election was wrapped up and his comments could not be used to hurt the Illinois senator.
He never formally endorsed Obama during the long campaign, apparently conscious that such a step might handicap the aspiring presidential candidate given Farrakhan's divisive reputation.
On February 24th, 2008, Farrakhan proclaimed of Obama, “When the Messiah speaks, the youth will hear, and the Messiah is absolutely speaking." Was that not an endorsement? If not, what exactly is an endorsement?
Greatly disliking Obama does not make one a racist. I greatly dislike Ted Kennedy, and Nancy Pelosi, and Harry Reid, and John Murtha – and they are all white devils. I also greatly dislike Jesse Jackson and Quanell X and Al Sharpton: it ain’t about race.
Martin Luther King Jr said, “I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.” My disdain for Obama – like my disdain for Ted Kennedy has nothing to do with race and everything to do with the dis-quality of their character.
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]]>http://www.rancidkoolaid.com/index.php?entry=entry081110-1700482008-11-11T00:00:00Z2008-11-11T00:00:00Z300 Winchester Magnum against the world While contemplating whether to pack up my gear or step outside and relieve myself, I thought I saw a shadow move about 100 yards away. In a small clearing, just on the edge of a tree line, I could barely make out a large patch of black, with a black background. So, after dark, the slightest bit of moonlight filtering through the trees, and I thought I saw something black moving against a black background. I knew the guide was in route to end the hunt, if I was to shoot at the darkness, it needed to be quick. And accurate, one doesn’t wish to miss darkness.
I shouldered my rifle, made out the silhouette, aimed as best I could (i.e.: put my black reticule on the black target with the black background) and squeezed.
Because it was very dark, and because my rifle has a muzzle brake, the fire that burst forth blinded me for about 5 seconds. I heard nothing, no squealing, no gasping at last breaths, nothing. I saw nothing, no dust, no movement, just more black night. Silence and darkness aren’t the most gratifying ways to end a hunt.
As I sat and waited for the guide and my fellow hunters, I watched the patch of earth and slowly convinced myself that I had shot at a shadow. Bare in mind, this rifle has never, ever missed game; and I have never hit an animal with this rifle that moved away from the point of impact. All that seemed destine to change.
Dammit.
As the truck approached and my fellow hunters queried, I said, “I took a shot at what I think was a hog – or maybe not.” After the laughter and lecturing of hunting ethics and need for hunter safety subsided, we went in search of tell-tale signs.
There, in the wallow, was blood, lots of blood. There was, in point of fact, a blood trail even Stevie Wonder could follow. It was an unimaginably clear blood trail – no bread-crumbs, more like a river. Herein was quandary number 1: never, ever, trail a wounded hog of unknown size into thick brush at night. They are “dangerous game” for a very good reason, and become far more dangerous when wounded.
West Point, my good friend and, with all probability, the eventual purveyor of my death, lead the charge, stupidity-be-damned; and “once more into the breach” we went.
The blood was plentiful, the tracking easy, deeper and deeper into the brush we went. My .45 was at the ready, West Point was out front, spouting some macho BS, completely unprepared for contact with the beast.
After trailing for about 100 yards, the trail suddenly ended. We could smell him but we couldn’t see him. The plentiful blood suddenly beame one lat drop, then nothing. We knew he was close. West Point said, “He’s probably not more than a few feet away”, but we saw nothing resembling the target.
We looked, we looked some more, we cussed a little, then we called it quits and went our way.
The next morning, on his way out of the field, West Point saw a “buzzard convention” near where Miss Piggy was thought to have fallen. He went in search of my hog – or whatever left the trail.
Not 3 feet from the last blood droplets, there lay a 300+ hog. It had been running full-tilt when it finally buckled and had halfway buried itself under the leaves and dead-fall on impact with Mother Earth. From one side, it looked like a mound of dead branches and leaves; from the back side, it resembled a huge bleeding ass of dead hog.
We found him, in all his piggy glory, with an exit wound of Biblical proportions. To say he bled like a stuck pig would be accurate, but not nearly accurate enough.
As he was 100 yards into very thick brush, we were finished with all hunting, and we already had 500+ pounds of hog in coolers, I elected to leave him for the vultures. I did extract his tusks (for posterity.) I’d include pictures, but suffice to say the scene was bloody – and gory. He bled like a stuck pig.
Just a few hours prior to finding the hog; I shot my first bobcat, so I had that going for me, which was nice.
It’s a long post, I’ll end with this: scent-lock long johns do indeed seal in the smell of one’s flatulence – I know this. Buy accordingly and with confidence.
]]>http://www.rancidkoolaid.com/index.php?entry=entry081110-1538412008-11-10T00:00:00Z2008-11-10T00:00:00ZTo what avail? Many of those interviewed throughout the country have declared, triumphantly,” We no longer have to worry about paying our mortgages or paying for gasoline for our cars.” Yesterday I noticed a moan cutting into traffic and driving slowly in the fast lane; she had an Obama bumper sticker (and a handicap placard) and seemed to feel an entitlement to be in the fast lane.
So the big question: if some (or many) blacks see Obama as the Messiah and their one true shot at reparations, should we anticipate a decline is unemployment?
Recently, Obama had 375 “part-time workers” looking for pre-paid VISA cards. Are these 375 back at a full-time gig now, or kicking back and not worrying about food, gas, or mortgage?
Promising more money to the poor seems to me a good mechanism for increasing poverty, not prosperity. Most poor people are poor for a reason.
And, this tasty treat:
United Auto Workers President Ron Gettelfinger on Thursday urged the U.S. government to provide another $25 billion in loans to struggling U.S. automakers so that they can meet their health care obligations to over 780,000 retirees and their dependents.
"The U.S. Treasury and the Federal Reserve can help immediately by taking steps to provide liquidity to auto manufacturers so they can get through the difficulties caused by an across-the-board decline in auto sales," Gettelfinger said in a statement released by the union.
Make an inferior product, ask for government bailout, subsidize your vassals forevermore. The United Auto Workers union is the CAUSE of our automakers’ demise. Unions had a place and time and perhaps a need, but that time is long past; now it is a mechanism for lazy people to retain employment and benefits they do not earn.
The UAW is why I buy foreign!
]]>http://www.rancidkoolaid.com/index.php?entry=entry081107-0737492008-11-07T00:00:00Z2008-11-07T00:00:00ZLessons Not Yet Learned
The Republican Party's doors are open to a new generation of leaders as it regroups and re-evaluates its message in the wake of Tuesday night's crushing defeat at the polls.
But what that generation should espouse remains up for negotiation.
"There's always a period of introspection after a loss, as there should be. We need to go back to square one and review our message, the values we communicate and the messengers we choose to communicate them," Republican pollster Whit Ayres said.
"I think we have to have a bunch of smart people reflecting on these results," he said.
While the Republican Party may need to return to the ideas of Abraham Lincoln and Ronald Reagan to center itself, the party's next generation of leaders doesn't look like its father's GOP.
Tomorrow's party leaders defy stereotypes and may seem counterintuitive, said Republican strategist Margaret Hoover. "We're not the old wrinkly guy party anymore.
"We definitely need some fresh leadership and some fresh faces," Hoover said. "Even on taxes, Barack Obama's tax message got more traction with Americans, so clearly we're not doing something right. The wilderness isn't a bad place to be."
Strategists say the party should look to its governors to guide its future, especially Sarah Palin.
Morons!
Morons, morons, morons!
The party is the people, look to the people, what do the people want the party leadership to do: it ain’t rocket science.
The Republican Party has always been the party of smaller government, less intrusive government, strong national security, lower taxes, more individual liberty, and more individual accountability; the leadership of today have more in common with Democrats than with their party base.
Republicans lost because the candidate was not conservative (and because Bush, never a conservative, is an idiot and, with the help of the Republican leadership, did much harm and only a little good.)
If Republican Party leadership cannot break the code on this, look for far worse times ahead. Conservative Americans have no party at this moment, either that changes soon, or we all suffer.
]]>http://www.rancidkoolaid.com/index.php?entry=entry081106-0749272008-11-06T00:00:00Z2008-11-06T00:00:00ZRevelation
Revelation 13:1-9
1And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy.
2And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority.
3And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast.
4And they worshipped the dragon which gave power unto the beast: and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like unto the beast? who is able to make war with him?
5And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and power was given unto him to continue forty and two months.
6And he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God, to blaspheme his name, and his tabernacle, and them that dwell in heaven.
7And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations.
8And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.
9If any man have an ear, let him hear.
This morning, I saw an article proclaiming Obama the “First Truly Global President.”
We’ll know shortly. Many in the past have thought they lived in the end times – maybe these are just America’s end times, but bad stuff cometh. Zombies ‘n shit.
Buy more ammo!
]]>http://www.rancidkoolaid.com/index.php?entry=entry081105-1333262008-11-05T00:00:00Z2008-11-05T00:00:00ZSo many titles fit“Republicans ponder path to renewal?”
“Obama-nation sounds allot like Abomination”
“It’s kinda my fault”
If the question is, “Are Americans really that stupid?” The answer is a resounding, “Yes!”
“Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.”
Strangely, today I am optimistic. I make a decent living, I am now stockpiling ammunition, I’ve already talked with my CPA, and the Bible pretty thoroughly outlines what the next few years will look like: it could be far worse.
And I say it is partially my fault because I asked the question:
And the average American moron answered it an unprecedented and unanticipated way. Now I know what could be worse.
So, what do Republicans do now? They’ve been routed, they’ve been humiliated, they have played a huge part in handing our once-great nation over to a socialist agenda. With 8 years of rule, they brought our country to the brink of collapse.
Maybe, and this is just a thought, maybe they should get back to CONSERVATIVE ideology: small government, less regulation, strong national defense, strong border security, enforce our laws, stay out of our lives.
Republican leadership has 2 years to get past this identity crisis and regroup into a party that conservative Americans can endorse.
It is a sad, sad day; but one we all knew was coming. Today is our day of reckoning, and our empire falls to resounding applaud – throughout the world and here at home.
You voted for him, embrace the terror you've created.
]]>http://www.rancidkoolaid.com/index.php?entry=entry081105-0655062008-11-05T00:00:00Z2008-11-05T00:00:00ZRevolution or Bust! Case in point:
Drudge and several right-leaning news outlets (Fox, NewsMax) have stories on voter intimidation and voter fraud – intimidation against Republican-leaning voters and voter fraud perpetrated by Democrat-leaning groups.
Coverage of these same stories by left-leaning news agencies (NYT, CBS, MSNBC, CNN, LAT): nothing. They are, instead, all but calling the election for Obama – hours before the polls have closed ANYWHERE.
People today hate Bush and Bush policies – as well they should, in many respects; and Obama is running on a platform of “Change.” From life to death, that too is change. Freedom to slavery: more change. Prosperity to poverty: change again. Security to vulnerability: more change. Hope to fear: you see the trend?
The Marine Corps taught me one thing for certain: change is not always improvement (M14 compared to M16, M1911 compared to M9), and newer ain’t always better.
Today, we will witness the marketing genius that has been the Democrat ticket and the complicit media: the party currently controlling both houses of Congress – the Congress with the lowest approval rating in US history – is about to get even more control. If some is terrible, more must be better, right?
When the Left wins this one, we all lose!
Our economy is 70% consumption, do the poor consume?
Can the federal government spend your money better than you?
Do you have the right to health care and education?
Is there anything fair about the “Fairness Doctrine”?
Does a weak national defense lead to a strong nation?
Does research into alternative fuels solve our energy problems today?
Do reparations via welfare in any way improve lives?
Get ready, “Change” is coming; and with what it costs, “change” is about all you will have left.
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