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NFL = Nazi Fascist League (that’s only OK to say if you’re a liberal)

It’s been a long, long time since I’ve picked up the old laptop for some blog therapy.  With all the travel and crazy work schedule these last couple months, I haven’t had time to watch or listen to the news.  Several things have caught my ears that were worthy of course…  Obama winning the Nobel Peace Prize.  The healthcare reform bill working its way through Congress.  Our softball team winning 5 consecutive games.  These are all worthy topics.  But none could pull me to the desk like this story.

Yesterday, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell commented on Rush Limbaugh’s bid to be part owner of the St. Louis Rams.  I expected Goodell, who’s been a pretty good commissioner so far, to steer clear of controversy and stay in the middle of the road.  After all, it’s not his decision.  It’s the owners who decide who can and who can’t purchase a team.  (I would surely be allowed to purchase a team except for the fact my bank account is shy by a few hundred million).  And Goodell works for the owners.  So why is he commenting on what his employers should and shouldn’t be doing?  Dunno. 

What’s even more surprising was what he said.  He didn’t stay middle of the road.  He drove straight into the barrier on the right… 

“I’ve said many times before, we’re all held to a high standard here… I would not want to see those comments coming from people who are in a responsible position in the NFL – absolutely not.” 

Wait… 

Goodell doesn’t want to see “those comments” from folks in responsible positions in the league?  What comments specifically?  The ones about dog fighting, steroids, tax evasion, strip clubs, murder/suicide with a quarterback’s mistress, shootings, rape accusations, drug dealing?   Oh, wait.  Those are from folks already in the league.  Not Rush.  He just sticks to politics. 

The problem here is Goodell and those like him don’t agree with Rush.  That’s the problem… not that Rush is out there spewing hatred and, as a NFL owner, would run amok, benching players and firing coaches who don’t vote straight ticket Republican.

Where are we as a society when someone’s political leanings can prevent them from being a part of an organization… or from getting into a club… or from getting a job – or in this case, even applying to make a purchase? 

Is that the America we now live in? 

Roger Goodell has every right to say whatever he thinks and not be punished for it as long as it’s within the law.  Evidently he feels others don’t have that same right – especially if they’re on the right.

Someone should notify Roger Goodell about the commentator on Football Night in America…  I think there’s someone over there that’s prone to throwing out a “divisive” comment or two…

Keith Olbermann, co-host of Football Night in America has been called one of the top 100 most influential liberals in America.  And called repeatedly for Bush and Cheney’s resignation… donned a Bill O’Reilly mask at an awards show and made a Nazi salute… called President Bush a liar and war criminal… and on February 14, 2008, called President Bush a “fascist.”  I guess to Goodell, those comments and actions aren’t divisive and meet his “high standards” because they evidently fit within Goodell’s political viewpoints. 

Shame on him.  What a hypocrite.  Yet another sad example of the double standard of liberal America.  Unless you agree with them, you’re divisive and low brow.  I hope he doesn’t read blogs.

Our latest offer – The “Ted Kennedy watch”… it has liver spotted hands and it’s running out of time.

So the barely living legend, Massachusetts Senator Ted Kennedy, has emerged from hiding to request that his state lawmakers change the rules on how to fill his Senate seat after he retires or passes away. 

Normally this wouldn’t stir me enough to turn over in bed, but when you take a closer look at the details, it becomes a very interesting story indeed.

In 2004, there was a junior Senator from Teddy’s state that was running for President… John Kerry.  And “everyone” in the world was 100% certain that we’d have a President Kerry after the polls were manipulated – I mean tabulated.  But this result, while good for the Democrats in that they’d gain back the White House, was bad in that they’d most likely have lost a Senate seat.  Why you ask?

The governor of Massachusetts at the time was the hated Republican Mitt Romney and state law gave Mitt the responsibility of appointing a successor.  And Kennedy couldn’t have that – so he had the law changed to strip the governor of his powers.

After Kerry lost, Mitt didn’t run again and a Dem landed in the governor’s mansion.  Teddy, gravely ill, knows his seat will be vacated soon and… he had the law changed so that the people will have a choice in his successor?!? 

Crap!!  Not… the PEOPLE!!!  Why, what if they elected a Republican?  The vaunted supermajority would be dead – as would Ted.

Now Teddy wants the law changed back again to strip the people of the ability to appoint a successor because there’s a Dem in the power chair.

Does anyone else smell hypocrisy?  Better yet, why doesn’t anyone on the planet write or talk about the bigger issue here?

You see, Teddy doesn’t care about the people’s rights to elect their representative.  He doesn’t care about anything but his own party’s power.

Just like Obama/Pelosi/Reid don’t really give a dead flea off a rat’s patootie about Grandma Gertrude’s healthcare plan… or about Jose Hernandez’s immigration woes… or about Joe Johnson’s tax rate. 

They only care about their ability to bend individual rights to support and consolidate their power over American citizens.

They’ve turned into this evil party of selfish, misguided, hateful aristocracy that, at their core, worships government and power.  That’s why you see Obama and most Democrats consistently try to ignore the people’s wishes and ignore what’s good for the nation in favor of their own agenda. 

Now I’m all for the idea that, to the winner goes the spoils.  And occasionally I slip into the mode of “I’m the most important person in the lives of everyone I know and most of the people I’ve never even met,” but Kennedy’s recent actions highlight perfectly the systemic disease of this Party’s arrogance. 

I can just hope that the current collection of miscreants running the Democratic Party will start to fade away and be replaced by folks that want what’s best for their countrymen.

We’re out there… and we’re coming for you.

A new Gallup poll was released today and (liberals beware) it reveals that 40% of the nation self-identify as “conservative” or “very conservative.”   This isn’t just middle-America mind you.  This is across the nation.  All 50 states…

Not only do 4 out of 10 Americans say they’re conservative, only 26% say they’re “liberal” or “very liberal.”  The rest identify as moderates.

None of this really surprises me.  Actually, I take that back.  I’m actually a little surprised the results aren’t more like, 80% conservative, 19% moderate, 1% too stupid to know better when to keep my mouth shut and not admit I’m a liberal.  It’s almost as bad as admitting you’re a moderate.  A moderate is someone who licks their finger and sticks it high in the air to see what way the wind blows and then heads that way. 

How anyone who has actually studied any history could still legitimately be a liberal is beyond me.  That, I would explain in detail, were I to have even the vaguest understanding of how it’s even possible.

Top Ten Signs Your Employer has Switched to ObamaCare

(Thank you to my crazy sister for sending this to me… too funny not to share)

10. Your annual breast exam is done at Hooters.

9. Directions to your doctor’s office include “Take a left when you enter the trailer park.”

8. The tongue depressors taste faintly of Fudgesicles.

7. The only proctologist in the plan is “Gus” from Roto-Rooter.

6. The only item listed under Preventive Care Coverage is “An apple a day..”

5. Your primary care physician is wearing the coveralls you gave to Goodwill last month.

4. Where it says, “The patient is responsible for 200% of out-of-network charges,” it’s not a typographical error.

3. The only expense that is 100% covered is “embalming.”

2. Your Prozac comes in different colors with little M’s on them.

AND THE NUMBER ONE SIGN YOU’VE JOINED OBAMACARE:

1. You ask for Viagra and they give you a Popsicle stick and duct tape.

We’ve lost that lovin’ feeling?

200 days into office, more Americans view Obama’s presidency as a failure than George W. Bush’s presidency.  WOW! 

Almost 4 out of 10 Americans said that Obama’s presidency so far has been a failure (37%).  The same poll taken 200 days into President G.W. Bush’s term had 31% saying it was a failure. 

The kicker?  This was a CNN poll – the same news network that sports more ex-Clinton and Carter staffers than a Democrat National Convention and whose most conservative personality is Lou Dobbs.

So most likely you could add a few more points to Obama’s failure percentage and subtract a few more points from Bush’s.  After all, the people who are most likely to answer a poll on CNN.com are of a liberal leaning. 

Either way, these numbers reveal that maybe our fellow countrymen aren’t as dumb as we appear.

Protesters against Obama? Say it ain’t so!

The Democrats just can’t understand why Americans are showing up en masse to town halls across the nation protesting, shouting and carrying signs against President Obama and his healthcare plan. 

How dare these people protest Obama and his policies!  That’s… why that’s… UNAMERICAN!! 

Clearly these can’t be real Americans.  And by “real” Americans, I mean these people can’t be intelligent voters.  They must be paid political mercenaries!?  Probably just landed from Dick Cheney’s talking-points briefing session at his secret underground bunker in Wyoming… flown in Rush Limbaugh’s private jet – fuel paid for by evil Exxon executives, no doubt. 

Everyone knows a true American wouldn’t dare protest the Anointed One. 

After the DNC got over the initial shock of it all, they did what they do best.  They launch an attack on the protesters.  Not on their point of view… but on their character.  Losers.  Angry.  Desperate.  Mobs.  The DNC counter attack ad goes after the protesters, not trying to explain why Obama’s healthcare plan is good for the nation… (because there is no valid argument to support government ran healthcare).

Here’s the copy of the new DNC ad…

“They lost the election,” the narrator says. “They lost on the recovery act, the budget and children’s health care. They’ve lost the confidence of the American people after eight years of failed policies that ruined our economy and cost millions of jobs. Now, desperate Republicans and their well funded allies are organizing angry mobs – just like they did during the election. Their goal? Destroy President Obama.”

So there it is.  Out in the open for everyone to see.  If you don’t succumb to Obama’s agenda and if you think the Democrats ideas are bad, you’re a bigoted loser filled with sour grapes who is just on a personal vendetta out to destroy the President. 

Normally I’d chalk this one up for Obama because the strategy of the Republican party over the last 6 years has been to roll over anytime the Dems launch an attack.  But I have to say, I was pleasantly surprised to see this on CNN.com…

“UPDATE: Republican National Committee spokeswoman Gail Gitcho said Democrats were using the charge to dismiss criticism of the president’s health care plan.

“In a remarkable example of callousness, the White House and Democrats have reduced the concerns and opinions of millions of Americans to ‘manufactured’ and have labeled them as ‘angry extremists,’ for voicing their opposition to President Obama’s government-run health care experiment,” she said. “Millions of American families, small business owners, doctors, veterans, seniors – and even House and Senate Democrats – have real and serious concerns over the president’s risky and costly government-run health care experiment.  And they should – taxpayers will pay for this costly experiment because it will raise taxes without decreasing costs, increase the deficit, will lead to less choice and lower-quality health coverage. Before heading into recess, the Democrats should have read the dozens of public opinion polls showing that a majority of Americans believe President Obama’s government-run health care experiment is a bad idea.” Are Democrats so out of touch that they are shocked to learn that Americans are concerned about their $1.6 trillion government-run health care experiment?”

Babies? We don’t need no stinkin’ babies!

I guess I’m on a roll this week because I’ve come across three fantastic back to back to back stories from la-la-land.  I am really thankful sometimes for Democrats, uber-environmentalists and the Church of the Obama Christ.  With all the stress at work these days, the crazies really provide me with some much needed comic relief!

Don’t know if you had a chance to read my homage to Earth Day but in that little piece I cited human beings who advocate the extinction of human beings so that Mother Earth can breathe easier.  I know… I found it hard to swallow too.  But once I had stopped laughing hysterically and wiped all the tears and drool away, I duly did my part and shared the idiocy of these folks with everyone I know.

Now there’s another “study” (no doubt paid for by a federal grant funded by our tax dollars) on the evils of having babies. 

Oregon State University released their astute findings that children produce 5.7 times the carbon emissions that their parents do.  How this is accomplished isn’t made clear, but they do cite the fact that these spawns of evil will most likely go on to (insert hushed, horrified tone here) have MORE children!

Of course, what self-respecting environmental study would be complete without bashing the United States?  The study notes that children born in the U.S. have 5 times the impact of a child born in China.  Why?  Because, according to this study, they die sooner in China. 

Hmmm… side note… doesn’t China have government-ran healthcare?!?

Let’s kill two birds with one stone.  Get on board with this Obamacare and within a generation we’ll all be dying sooner too and the Earth can be an enjoyable place again.

Of course, no one will be around much longer to enjoy it.  Dang stupid logic!!

Let’s save the world for when I decide to quit living.

Who’s the Joker now?

I’ve been watching this Obama Joker story develop over the last couple days.  At first, I thought it was hysterical that someone in the heart of liberal America would create and circulate this photo.  I was waiting for the media outrage and like clockwork, today the whining has started hitting the news. 

 I must be getting more and more like my father because I’m starting to get to where the idiocy of the left isn’t rolling off my back so easily.  I just can’t figure out these people.  Some guy on the LA Urban Policy Roundtable (whatever that is) has gone off the deep end over this.  Saying that, “Depicting the president as demonic and a socialist goes beyond political spoofery, it is mean-spirited and dangerous.  We have issued a public challenge to the person or group that put up the poster to come forth and publicly tell why they have used this offensive depiction to ridicule President Obama.”

REALLY?!?!  Liberal Democrats are starting to tick me off.  What a bunch of whiny, uninformed, hypocritical cry babies.  Listen, you wanted Obama in the White House.  You got it.  With it comes some political dissention.  Deal with it.  Being called the Joker isn’t the end of the world.  And being called a Socialist isn’t wrong if it fits.  Obama wants to nationalize healthcare… he’s already taken over a good portion of the auto industry and working on the financial sector.  When the government runs the economy, that my friends, is Socialism. 

So someone made a flyer and put it on some underpasses in Los Angeles depicting the Patron Saint of Political Patronage as the Joker.  Boo freaking hoo.

Where were these self righteous hypocrites when a national magazine printed this of George Bush? 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Oh, silly me.  I forgot.  Only Republicans are allowed to be the butt of negative political commentary.

 It’s fitting that this person picked the Joker to represent Obama.  After all, he’s leading a bunch of clowns on the left.

Somewhere in Kenya, a village is missing its Idiot

So there’s this great push by President Obama to socialize healthcare.  At the risk of oversimplifying things, Obama is seeking to nationalize the medical industry, also known as 1/7^th of the US economy… and put it in the same hands that gave us the wildly successful immigration reform…  uh, crud.

Who, exactly, the Democrats are fighting for to push through this socialized healthcare program is kind of unclear.  I mean what person in their right mind would want some government bureaucrat in DC choosing whether or not you really need that extra test to determine if you have cancer?  Who are these people that Pelosi is helping?  I want them deported.

Someone please tell the Dems that we have people all over the world coming here to this country for our healthcare system… because it’s the BEST IN THE WORLD!  Hello?!  And Obama wants to spend billions fixing it?  Don’t we have terrorists to kill?

These IQ challenged Dems are the same folks who drive an hour and a half to a world-famous five star steak house.  When the waiter comes over to take their order and asks, “Would you like to try our world-famous filet mignon or the chicken fingers prepared by the dish boy with bad acne and chlamydia?”  Obama asks, “How exactly is the steak prepared?”

At the risk of sounding like a Bush-43-era Democrat, I’m a little torn between what’s good for the country and what’s good for my party.  You see, if the Obama-Pelosi-Reid trifecta continues pursuing their agenda, it will be bad for the nation… but it’ll wake up the country from this media-induced stupor and put the Republicans back in power. 

I can only hope it’ll be before I need to visit the doctor.