Greetings from the stix...

Greetings everyone! My leap away from aguing about politics has been...wonderful. The farm and farmlife are a welcome change that I won't be changing...ever! Since my last posting here, the wheat grew, and was harvested. My hogs went from being tiny piglets to being monsters that are almost ready for the butcher and freezer. I have 4 head of cattle and, a garden that is bursting at it's seems with tomatoes that are comming ripe. Obama is still a douchbag and, regardless of whatever evidence is produced...morons will still blindly support him without question. So, my saved breath goes toward something productive....that the government didn't help me accomplish! This endeavor was a family operation...which Obama's labor secretary FAILED to quash also. I'll try not to be such a stranger on you folk's sites and chime in from time to time from here on until November when the little marxist gets the boot. -Sepp

Too political?

Polish officials requested that Walesa accept the Medal of Freedom on behalf of Jan Karski, a member of the Polish Underground during World War II who was being honored posthumously this week.
The Obama administration said "no" citing that Walesa is "too political"

Yeah, he fought against the communist oppression of the Polish people...which runs counter to everything Obama and his friends stand for.
The last person a communist would hang a medal on would be Lech Walesa...only due to the fact that Reagan is dead.

So who did get a medal from Obama?

The obviously "not-too-political" Delores Huerta...the honorary chair of the Democratic Socialists of America!

No surprise there eh?
Obama shunning a man who had fought against communism for being too political while hanging a medal and kissing the ass of some hag who hates America and, the human liberties it stands for.

Yeah, yeah, yeah...bring it on moonbats. Go into your canned duckspeak about how Obama isn't a socialist etc, etc, etc even though the evidence has always pointed to the contrary and paraded before your eyes.
You're either too stupid to see it or, too smart to admit it.

Obama admin pulls back from moronic farm rule...

Anyone who is still stuck on the idea that the Obama administration is somehow NOT trying to push it's nanny state ideals and stick it's nose into the private lives of citizens where it's not welcome or wanted are obviously still delusional from the kool-aid they drank 4 years ago.

The measure proposed by Obama's blatantly socialist hag Hilda Solis would have prevented kids from doing labor...IE...chores...on their family's farms such as...storing, marketing and transporting farm product raw materials...eggs? ...milk? ...hay and straw? ...chickens?
The measure also would have prohibited them from stacking hay and straw in a loft and operating machinery or handling and showing of animals.

This isn't the first time this sleazy administration has attempted to pull a fast one on the family farmer.
Just over a year ago they were trying to push for anyone operating a tractor / tiller / combine etc to obtain a CDL in order to use the machinery.
THAT idea went down in flames also...which is'nt surprising that the administration would be back with another anti-farm scheme to replace it.

Kids have been helping and doing chores on their family farmsteads since long before this country was founded. Not only is the operation of the family farm a PRIVATE matter that the DOL should stay the hell away from but it's also a parental issue in which the government has no business sticking it's beak into.

What next? Dictating to parents that doing dishes or taking out the trash is illegal for their kids to do too?
How about mowing lawns? A lawn mower is also "farm machinery" which pretty much would have stopped Junior from mowing the lawn and also making a few good summertime bucks mowing the neighbor's lawns too.

What I believe Solis's motive was / is... was to eliminate a section of the workforce (farm kids) and leave the family farmer stuck with having to hire someone...which would likely be an illegal since she's so PRO-illegal alien or be stuck doing everything himself.

The pro-Obama idiots out there have been defending this asshole by stating "It was Solis...not Obama!"

Well sure you could say that and technically be correct had the fact not existed that HE hired her knowing full well that she is a moonbat socialist with pro illegal alien leanings and a history of anti-Americanism...just like many of his appointees...and for the fact that he never stepped in and stopped her moonbat ass from trying.

This entire administration is chock full of shitbags who's interests run 180 degrees counter to American values.
Typical liberal agenda...first they made kids stupid via the dumbed down public school system and now they're trying to make them all lazy by banning common chores.
What better way to usher in the next generation of lazy idiots who become dependent on the government to seek salvation via the freebies offered by the democraps?

A huge part of American exceptionalism is the fact that our farmers can still feed the entire planet while most other nations can't produce enough to feed themselves.
Only a liberal would look at that as a "bad thing" and try to subvert it.
What better way to subvert it than to eliminate the future of farming by destroying the means to learn it firsthand?

Banning kids from working on their family's farm...where the hell are we...
Cambodia circa 1975 working toward "Year Zero"?

...kind of explains Obama's logo symbol pretty well.

Stix pix update...

Looking East

Looking West...

Eastward view from yard...

Neighbor across the street...

A better Eastward view...

Northern neighbor's house...perfect!

The wife had snapped these pics of our new place a few weeks back and neglected to mention them until I asked to use her camera. The major difference is that the trees are now in bloom and, I can't take a picture of the peace and quiet that conveys living away from constant traffic, nosey neighbors and, city drama that has been less and less intrusive and annoying.

Yesterday, I fenced my poultry area off with 150' of wire fencing and transported my flock to their new digs and, I've set up a deal to get 2 Katahdin sheep and a Dorper Ram to mow the grass in the back.
Still looking for for a few feeder pigs to round things out but, it seems that lately everyone thinks that every piglet is a 4-H show winner in the making and are trying to charge champion bloodline prices for standard run of the mill piglets...county fair season for kids...go figure.

As for internet, still no concrete decision.

For phone service, I opted for virgin mobile's $35 a month plan that includes unlimited internet over the phone and is still better than any landline deal available...so my blogging days may be numbered unless I shit or, get off the pot and, make a decision for internet service since blogging from a blackberry is out of the question for me.
We'll see what happens but, with the nice weather popping up here lately my favorite medium of working in my yard and, getting the garden prepped will soak up a lot of time.

I picked up 50 Jersey Giant Asparagus crowns to plant and a shitload of garlic and onion sets as well as seed potatoes the other day.
My tomato sprouts will be trans-planted mid-May-ish if all looks well.

Updates to follow!

Here we go again...

While checking around for a hot deal on some hot rounds, my distributor's website had a new disclaimer on his page...

"WHOLESALE PRICES HAVE SKYROCKETED..WE ARE PAYING TOP DOLLAR JUST TO KEEP AMMO IN STOCK..DEMAND HAS DOUBLED JUST THIS YEAR..STAY TUNED BUT IT'S NOT LOOKING GOOD. "

It wasn't the only place that is beginning to see shortages and price hikes not unlike what we'd seen 4 years ago when prices nearly doubled and, common calibers were listed as being "back ordered indef" for months at a time with the exception being that it's only April and, the rush is already beginning.

This being an election year is part of whats fueling the rush as well as the growing potential for civil unrest in many places along with violent crime spiralling out of control.
People simply aren't feeling safe anymore nor, do they believe that police protection actually protects them or, deters criminals.

It's pretty shameful for a few reasons because NO American should ever live with the concern that the government has become such a rogue entity that people actually believe it would remove a constitutional right or, restrict it into being impossible to exercise.

It's also shameful that thugs and criminals no longer fear any deterrent to crime because going to jail is a hoodrat's highest honor second only to killing someone.
That has happened because too few people said a word while the crime culture has been being glorified and sold to kids for 30 years.

Civil unrest? I highly doubt at this point that wide scale rioting will be breaking out anytime soon but, I can certainly see why many folks have concerns about it since it seems that every goofy splinter group of miscreants and malcontents have grown bolder over the last year or, two and, like their "thug and drug" brethren, they have no concern for people, property or, the police catching them.
I've watched in the last year some outright thuggish behavior being performed in direct view of the police who seemed to have had a greater fear of the media's portrayal of them arresting a drama queen than a concern for their law enforcement duties.

Apparently, it's not just the citizens themselves that seem to be expecting some type of domestic unrest since the military has updated FM 3-19 which covered civil unrest operations outside of CONUS to 3-19.15 (2005) which now covers operations within our borders so, it isn't just a bunch of "nuts" who smell something cooking since the government seems to have been preparing for the same thing for some time now.
As reported in multiple sources on March 28th, the DHS has ordered some 450 million rounds of .40 S&W and, some 175 million rounds of .223 ammo.
Nothing to see here, move along, move along! 

Earl Scruggs - January 6, 1924 – March 28, 2012

Rest in peace Mr Scruggs.

I've noticed over the years something about banjo players...they always seem to have a big smile on their faces and appear to be having the time of their lives while playing which is transmitted to the audience who always seem to be smiling back and having the time of their lives too.
Thanks Earl, for years worth of wonderfull playing!

Taking the good with the bad...

The good news...I'm now the owner of 8 acres of a rural Sandusky county homestead on a dead-end road...woo-hoo 15 years of house payments.

The bad news...it's so far out in the sticks that cable hasn't even made it that far yet...so in the next few weeks, I'll either be offline for an indef period or, coughing up the scratch to get satelite tv (which I don't watch anyways) in order to connect with something a bit faster than dial-up...which would suck.

Anyone have experience with Sat-internet?
Cost?
Speed?
Down time?

I've also considered doing the cell phone to computer connection
Good? Bad? A ripoff? Limitations?

I have about 2 weeks to decide on something or, possibly be happy in skipping it altogether and missing out on reading about the latest idiotic idea in D.C or, the daily body count from shootings in Toledo.

Liberal groups "shocked and outraged" over government spying

Remember back in April of 2009 when Jan-nut Napolitano issued her homeland security "warning" about gun owners, 2nd amendment supporters,  returning veterans, anti-abortion people, white people who hate Obama, Ron Paul supporters, constitutionalists or, those who are complaining about illegal immigration  who were targeted "without any speciffic information" that deemed those folks as a "threat" at all?

I certainly remember the left's glee in response to that crap. They were rabidly cheering it!

Well, now we've come to find out that LEFTIST groups were also being infiltrated by the police and FBI to monitor their actions and potential for terrorist activity.

It seems that the left doesent like that for some reason and, they feel "violated" now!

Well shitbags, THAT is what communism / socialist / facist regimes do!
And, while your silly asses were cheering for that shit, are you really going to say now that you were too damned dumb to understand that what you've been asking for all along...you're finally getting?

"Oh my goodness...they've been spying on...gasp...US!...they're only supposed to be after "them"!

Sorry dummies, it doesent work that way.

When you were busy cheering that MY rights were being shit on, you were too ignorant to consider that your own would soon follow.
In fact, many of you simply thought that since you supported the regime, the regime would leave your rights untouched.

A lot of Russians and Germans thought the same way not long ago while they were cheering the regimes for getting rid of their enemies and later finding themselves on the same side of the barbed wire wondering what happened.

In this latest matter, it's a simple case of liberals failing to learn from the history of their own foolish beliefs and, not liking the same outcome...again.

You want socialism / communism but, NOT the "bad stuff" that comes along with it?
How do you think those regimes retain power? By respecting the citizen's rights?
You asked for it, you got it!

Open thread 2012 election flowchart...

Atlas shrugged...the movie

I saw the film version of Atlas shrugged a few days ago on netflix.

4 stars and very well done.

The book was written in 1957 and if you've read it, you're seeing life immitating art here in the present.

For those of you who haven't read the book, it's about runaway liberalism that with the help of political correctness and the government goes about trying to destroy the producers of society via class envy.
After being beaten down and, having their businesses destroyed by over-regulation that is designed to ruin them...the business people are offered a chance to "disappear" and create wealth and enjoy life away from the reach of the system and, they do.
And since the government nor, the indoctrinated idiot population it has produced have the ability to run a functional society without the innovators, everything falls apart.

Keep in mind that this book was released in 1957 but mentions,
"Equal opportunity" which in typical liberal fashion has very little to do with actual equality even today.
And,
The government picking winners and losers of industry...look at how many millions have been thrown at "green jobs" and rolled snake-eyes.

If you read Rand, Huxley or, Orwell, it seems obvious that liberalism has taken the worst villians and ideas from those authors and have used them as a script to live by.

Orwell's 1984...an all encompassing government that spies on every aspect of everyone's life and uses fear to control them...or, sends them off to the basement of a secret jail to be tortured.

Huxley's Brave new world...a leftist government that keeps it's citizens drugged, happily hedonistic and too stupid to question anything...consider that when the school is recommending ritalin or, prozac to your 8 year old in order to keep them from acting like an 8 year old and in a daze staring back at the teacher.

Then we have the latest "pink slime" shit that the government is pushing on the schools to feed children that even the nutritional scientists have dubbed "Soylent pink" in reference to the film Soylent green...
Government McNuggets anyone?

Liberals immitating art.

For my good friend muddy...

Liberal life in Imagination land...where you can just pretend that failure is success, poverty is wealth, fools are enlightened, war is peace, freedom is slavery and, ignorance is knowledge and responsibility is the other guy's problem!

A little sarcasm to start your day...

Sorry, liberals...he's mocking you!

Record spending, record debt, record gas prices, inflation so, what's a few million here and there on the taxpayer's dime for a few luxury vacations to exotic places every few months?

R.I.P Andy 1969 - 2012

One of the good guys...Andy Breitbart 1969 - 2012 telling the truth.

A warning from the grave...

http://www.snopes.com/photos/signs/grigsby.asp

And, 120+ years later...he's still right!

Camp Democrat...

My kid is going off to 6th grade camp.

Cabins, bonfires, ghost stories, horseback riding, pranks, etc right?

Obviously not.

My son's school had a "primer" for the district's 6th graders to all attend on Friday.
As a parent and, from experience of going myself and, sending my 3 older kids off to 6th grade camp, I assumed it was going to be an informational type meeting that tells the kids what to expect from leaving home for a week for the first time by themselves.

Nope!

It was a "primer" alright...my son was subjected to activities such as "hug tag" where all the kids are on the gym floor while music plays and when it stops...they have to be hugging the first kid they get their hands on or, be "frozen"...IE "bad".
It didn't matter who you were hugging...boys with boys...just so long as you didn't end up "frozen" and frowned upon...and "out".

The next "activity" was touching your knees with another student and gazing into his / her eyes for a timed 2 minutes.

Next came the "anyone who has ever been bullied or, made fun of...stand up and tell your story" time.

My son said that 3 kids who nobody from his school knew, stood up and told stories about being bullied or, picked on and, began to cry halfway through their stories.

What the hell does any of that shit have to do with going to 6th grade camp?
Acting gay and doing obviously gay things is good but, if you're repulsed by it..."you're bad and somethings wrong with you" and, you're just like the villians in the stories those other kids told?

What next? "If Johnny touches your weiner in the bathroom and you don't like it, somethings wrong with you" indoctrination crap?

Fucking liberals. I'm fed up with the crap they try to push on adults but, when they start trying to ram their shit down the throats of kids, I draw the fucking line.

My son was told that the function was "to enhance the kids in mixing with other students as opposed to spending the week hanging with their friends."

Guess what? Kids who decide to go to the archery range or, ride horses or, go hiking...ARE going to meet other kids due to shared interests!

And this entire "school bully" bullshit just teaches kids to continue to be cowards while using "the government" as their crutch.
We're breeding the next generation of anonymus tipsters to every problem people have deep into adulthood.

I myself, saw the former "school bully" from my own school last year.
He took my money...at the carwash he works at!
Wanna teach kids about school bullies?
Explain karma to them and, how it works!

The assholes I went to school with all seem to be 43 years old and still working entry level jobs.
Karma baby...don't forget to wash the wheels!

I teach my kids that if Johnny is an asshole, stay away from Johnny!
And, if Johnny is an asshole to them, kick Johnny's ass and let Johnny know the actual pecking order...backing down from Johnny and telling on him just emboldens him and gets you the "pussy" label.

As for qweers...which it seems this entire "meeting" was all about anyways, I find it disgusting that an adult agenda is being forced onto kids in the 6th grade.

Guess what? If a boy is repulsed by the idea that another boy is sexually atrracted to him, it isn't he that is the odd man out and worthy of public scorn.
He's reacting in a natural way to something that isn't natural.
So liberals feel the need to step in and criminalize the natural instincts of a child and force him to feel an awkward shame for being human as opposed to being a socially engineered drone who is afraid of thinking opposed to what the flock has been conditioned to think?

Liberalism and political correctness...the art of knowing better but, afraid of being honest for fear of being cast out of the flock. Going along to get along while knowing the truth is supressed in order to save feelings.

I can't see any culture surviving when it's forced to lie to itsself to save people from the bitter truths that surround it.

My 6th grader son described the "meeting" as "awkward and creepy for everyone".
Everyone who didn't have an agenda to push I suppose!

Correct again

About a year ago, I told one of the moonbat posters at a liberal blog about a theory I had about Iran / Islamists interrupting the flow of oil to Europe and that the Obama administration instigated "Arab spring" would have nasty results.

Naturally, the expected bombardment of slurs followed indicating their displeasure that I would concoct such a foolish theory.

Now, we have Islamist nutcakes ruling in Egypt, Libya and Tunisia that were previously stable places and, Iran cutting off it's supply of oil to Europe.

Wow...the "idiot / asshole / jerk / etc" once again correctly forecasted the outcome that the moonbats denied would happen.

I would think that after warning them the Obama's idiotic policies and ideas would result in a shitty economy and, high gas prices would have tipped them off too...
but, when I said that, I was a "racist".

It must really SUCK to live in denial while watching everything you've been denying happening before your eyes!

It's gotta sting like hell after touting your boy's green energy program as the gospel only to see billions of dollars funding scam operations masquerading as "green energy" that all have one thing in common besides being scams...they were all Obama campaign doners!
I believe I called those for what they were long ago too while the nut gallery cat-called from the outer rim.

I think it's funny that my moonbat friends accepted every wiki leaks that "exposed Bush" as true but, cry "liar!" at the ones that expose Obama as a fraud!
Selective beliefs, selective facts!
I remember certain moonbats stating that Bush would cause a civil war in Iraq...while cheering Obama while he was bombing Libya and creating anarchy with factional warfare raging today for control or, the Obama administration training, funding and, equipping subversives in Egypt which is now in a state of anarchy.

Oddly, moonbats derided anyone who questioned that Obama was a muslim as a "racist" but, looking at his mideast follies, he's replaced the goverments of Libya, Egypt, Tunisia and comming soon, Syria with hardcore Islamist governments where they didn't exist before.

Why would anyone...especially a so-called liberal...who is supposed to be pro-minority, pro-gay, pro-women's rights engineer the atmosphere for those who believe in the exact opposite to gain power?
Why would liberals who undoubtedly know and understand this continue to make excuses for him?

My guess is racism.
Not the "racism" label a person carrys for hating people because of race but, the "racism" label that liberals have created for anyone who dares carry an independent thought apart fom the Obama worshipping flock.

You see, being pro-gay, pro-women, pro-minority's rights is hip and liberal...until Obama tosses every one of those groups under a bus and allows Islamists to seize control and openly shit on those people while liberals remain silent due to their self-imposed / defined "racism" rules where disagreeing with Obama is concerned.

Fear of another moonbat calling them a "racist" trumps their prior beliefs that women, gays, minorities, etc should be allowed to live in peace or, in some cases, live at all.

God forbid that some idiot moonbat would call me a "racist" for noticing that the Obama administration set the stage for radicals to kill or, subjugate the people I claim to stand with on any other given day and I keep my mouth shut in fear of a word I've helped paint myself AND my beliefs into a corner with.

Then again, moonbats themselves were the ones who were saying that the muslim brotherhood was some benign entity and, it was...act suprised..."racist" to call them what they are.

Any liberals out there ready to say...
"Sorry, gay people...for putting you lives at risk."

"Sorry, women who have been living for decades in a moderate Egypt and, Libya for putting you in back in burkas."

"Sorry, Christians and Jews who have been living in those countries openly for decades for supporting your homes and places of worship being torched by the people we put in power!"

"Sorry for believing the propaganda of the Obama administration and it's puppets working at msnbc and cnn!"

"Sorry, female American reporter who was raped as a "western jew whore" by the Isalmaists we keep covering for!"

"Sorry, American reporters who were murdered last week for being western and white!"

"Sorry, Israelis for supporting the idiot who orchestrated the overthrow of a country you were at peace with!"

"Sorry, middle east for setting you up for Islamic rule while we libnuts in America bawl about nativity scenes!"

Odd isn't it?

Liberals will bitch, whine and, go to court over a nativity scene as if it it's a direct threat to their atheism but, will support Islamic nutcases who have not minced words about their plans for liberalism.
Proof that liberals are self-destructive idiots!

They hate conservatives who will defend their right to be moronic liberals while supporting Islamic nuts who have vowed to eradicate them.
Typical liberalism.

Which forces me to believe that in every country that Islam has taken hold, they must have been chock full of liberals who were willingly submissive in ordr to "prove" that they weren't "racists" or, "Islamophobes".

Liberal princples and values must sell at a cheap price since they're so easily disposable whenever the need to maintain apearances trumps their beliefs.

I.E they will sell out any belief they profess to have in order to support whatever belief they're told to have at any given time.

"Fuck the gays!" It's a worse burden to have a moonbat call me a "racist"!
Pathetic! But, typical!

Ahhh...nostalgia!

I was talking cars with a kid at work last night and the conversation turned on some of the cars I'd had years back.

My favorite car is, always has been and, always will be the 1969 Dodge Charger.
It was my favorite when my Dad had one when I was a kid and, it was my favorite when I bought one myself the summer of 1988.

The car just had a look and a feel to it that I loved and still do.

When I bought mine, I'd scrimped $900 bucks together and, banged on the door of the guy who had it for sale, took it for a test drive and, paid for it in cash.

As soon as we got back from the bank and the title was notorized, I hopped in and was ready to go do some good old fashioned stoplight to stoplight drag racing down Glendale avenue and, the Anthony Wayne trail...after all, it was Friday night!

As I slid the shifter into drive, the guy I'd bought the car from yelled..."hey man, you're leaking something!"

Leaving the car running, I leaned out the door and looked under the car and, yes...I was leaking something...tranny fluid by the gallon it seemed!

After hauling ass home and parking in the back yard, I learned that I would not be doing any drag racing that night.
The next week was spent pulling the transmission, replacing the front seal and, replacing a dead torque converter.

Never one to leave well enough alone, I noticed that a valve cover gasket was leaking...and if I'm gonna replace that, well I may as well repaint the valve covers and, that carb is crap so I may as well pull the intake and repaint it too and, toss my rebuilt thermo-quad on there while I'm at it...if you're a gearhead...you get the picture.

About a month later after fixing the trans, rebuilding the top end and a rigamaroll of other odds and ends to make it all "just right" while working nights on it in the backyard with a tarp / tent draped over the hood, a junk lamp from the basement for a light and, many forgotten cups of coffee that froze solid in the cups while I was too busy to drink them...at about 4 am one morning, it was ready to be cranked over!

I hopped in the driver's seat, got comfortable, lit a smoke and, turned the key...
RRRR...rrrrr.rrrrr.rrr....click,click,click,click,click!

The fucking battery! After all that work, I'd never once considered the battery as being a weak link in the chain of insanity!

I put the battery charger on quick-fry and went in the house to warm up and grab a cup of non-frozen coffee while I waited...and ended up dozing off until 0730 and went outside to crank it up.

I turned the key and after about 10 seconds, it came to life!

I then grabbed the flashlight and looked under the car...no leaks!

Next, I was checking for valve cover leaks, air leaks, tire leaks, fuel leaks, coolant leaks...nothing! Woo-hoo!

After about 15 minutes of shock that everything was working perfectly, I put it in 1st, then 2nd, then drive to see that the tranny shifted properly...good to go!

So, what does a 18 year old kid do next?
I layed a patch in the driveway!
Tires screeching, tires smoking like a 4 alarm fire and, me watching my neighbor's porch lights all comming on in succession and looking out their doors pretty pissed that some asshole was smoking his tires at 8ish in the morning!

That car was my baby and, I loved driving it and, racing all the suckers at the stoplights on weekends...back when people used to just do that for fun...unlike nowadays.

The car in the picture isn't mine.

Mine was originally the same color but, in doing the body work on it, I'd sprayed the car primer gray and the hood flat primer black while saving for the funds to have it repainted in the original blue.

In August of 1990, a guy I knew wanted the car and I ended up trading it to him for a '72 Barracuda that needed it's un-original 4 speed rebuilt and, top-end work on the 440 motor that was also not the original 318 it came with...and some cash.

Long story short, girlfriend ended up pregnant on the day I got laid off from my refinery job and, I stored the car at my dad's house when I joined the army and left in the fall of 1990.

4 years, I'll be back with a pocket full of cash and, knock it back together...nope.

My Dad was sick of looking at it in his yard under a tarp after 2 years and sold it. My "4 quick years" away in the Army ended up lasting over a decade and, once back with kids and a wife to support, my mopar lust went from taking the back seat on the priority list to being a "one of these days I'll get another one" back burner ideas.

It may still be on my back burner but, gaddmmit, it's still on my stove!

Sustainable government...according to liberals!

The hundreds of pallets represent what the Greek government has already borrowed...which is about to double with the next bailout.

Only a complete moonbat would look at what Greece needs to borrow in order to sustain it's freebie programs and, see nothing wrong with it.

Greece is about to get it's second bailout because after getting the first one, they continued to keep on doing what they'd been doing that had bankrupted them in the first place.

If we continue to allow the democrat's ( and to some extent their enabling republican allies) moonbattish spending to continue unchecked, we'll be the next Greek tragedy being played out on the evening news.
Anyone with a sound mind would want to prevent that but, all you have to do is read a few lefty blogs or, pay attention to what the OWS clowns are also saying to see that they're indeed cheering on and calling for the demise of the United States as a constitutional republic and, wish to replace it with a another slow-dying socialist system of spending and mandate infested living.

Only in moonbatland can you be mandated to piss in your own drinking water and then, mandated to believe it tastes good.

Hopefully someone here recognizes our own future being played out by the Greeks and, moves to stop it before we too have angry moonbats in the streets burning buildings and tossing bricks and firebombs at the cops "protesting" for the government to keep the handout system rolling.

Then again, the cops in America are armed with more than just shields and fire extinguishers and would probably put a cap in the ass of the first moonbat to toss a molotov cocktail their direction as would a property owner who's home or, business was being set ablaze.

Greek microcosm

Newsflash...the Greek communists and trade unions are "striking" (vandalizing everything in sight) again in opposition of losing their beloved unsustainable welfare state.

The whole thing seems insane to me since the country is going to go belly up unless the other Eurozone nations bail them out of their self-constructed mess while the communists and unionists are demanding that nothing changes...just keep right on doing the same crap that has caused the entire mess in the first place!

That seems to be a main theme with most leftists.
Create an unrealistic and unsustainable model,
Go deep into debt while trying to sustain it,
Refuse to believe that it never works,
Refuse to believe that it's too expensive,
Resist trimming costs,
Pretend nothing is wrong,
Find  scapegoats to blame problems on,
And do the exact same thing all over again when it fails!

It seems to me that the Greeks have become so deeply dependent on the government freebies that they're willing to destroy Greece and lose everything before accepting the fact that their welfare state can't possibly continue.
The rioters seem to think that they should get a bailout while changing nothing...as though the Eurozone will just keep sending a stipend.
THAT is the entitlement mentality hard at work. We see the same style of idiots here in America who balk at the idea that their freebies could be reduced.

Sadly, America could also be seeing the same problems as the Greeks in the future if we continue down the same path we're on.

The national debt over the last 3 years has almost doubled from 8.5 trillion to just under 16 trillion...and few are asking how that is even possible!
The CBO's estimate is that by 2016, we'll be hitting about 18 trillion which judging from the last 3 years, sounds a bit short.

What our government is doing is no more sustainable than what Greece is doing.
We may not be in the same boat but, we're busily rowing behind them while trying to get our motor started so we can pass them.
The problem for America is the fact that there is no country that can bail us out if worst comes to worst.

The latest Obamacare drama...

Obamacare and the Catholic church had a nice little pitbull / owner relationship until the church recently discovered that the rules apply to them too.
In other words, the church supported something that turned right around and bit it in the ass.

I can still remember the star-struck idiots who belong to the Catholic churches here in Toledo blabbering the democrat party line about Obamacare.
They foolishly believed (as many other idiots out there still seem to) that only the "good parts" of the law that they agree with will apply to them even though the law is pretty cut and dry...but who needs to read a law when the politicians who are trying to pass it are assuring you that nothing is rotten in Denmark?

The church's leadership either didn't bother to study the law or, were convinced that they would get a free pass on areas they disagreed with...as opposed to simply demanding the removal of those parts.

Now they look foolish for believing that the rattlesnake wouldn't bite them while crossing the river.

They also look foolish for ditching God and placing their faith in the word of self-serving politicians while they ignored the evidence that the populace was placing before them.

Even if you're not a Catholic or even religious, this overstep by the government should concern you because, in the mind of a politician, anything they can take from you, regardless of how small is always going to be used as the stepping stone to take something else later.

And, as witnessed over the last few years, any law that is or, has the potential to be unpopular or, unconstitutional is either buried by the media or, propagandized by the media in order to deflect possible public outrage.
And, you can usually bet that if a democrat is involved in the creation of a law, there will always be crap stuffed between the pages that have nothing to do with the law or, be reflected in the law's title.
The Catholic church's leadership swallowed the obamacare propaganda hook, line and, sinker and advised it's membership to support it.
They're obviously just as foolish as the left wingers who seem to believe that supporting a bad idea will somehow prevent it's bad effects from touching their own values later on.

The Soviet gulags and, the Nazi concentration camps were full of idiots who supported the very ideas that came back around to bite them in the ass.
Why?
Because they were dumb enough to believe that whatever they advocated that would harm others, could never possibly be used on them too.