MObama?

First, congratulations to Barak Hussein Obama, the President elect of the United States of America! I really am speechless. That's not totally true, else I wouldn't be typing and eventually posting this online, but I digress. Obama, president. we're all doomed.

So I saw some stats from the exit polls...95% of blacks voted for Obama. That's a pretty significant statistic, in my opinion. One that won't be talked about, except for here, because it's bugging me, so I'm talking about it. 95%. Imagine if 95% of white people voted for McCain. I know I know, it's not the same thing. He wouldn't have been the first old white man to be President. I'm just saying it's interesting.

I can't believe that 95% of blacks liked Obama's positions on the major issues and it was just a bonus that he was black. That would be ignorant. So why am I still talking about this, angering a good percentage of the few that will read it? I just think the psychology behind all of this is interesting, is all. What about the blacks that support McCain? Or independents? Or Hillary? Do they forget their beliefs to help make history? If I were in that position, I would feel inclined to vote for Obama, however that would be a decision made with emotions rather than logic, which is probably not the best thing for this country. Obviously most chose the easy way, Obama. Nobody wants to be harassed for abandoning their heritage or not taking pride in where they came from. How symbolic would it be to see the first black President of the US elected? Just 50 years after horrible problems with racism? But are these good reasons to vote someone in to the most important office in the world? Uhh, no. In my own humble opinion, those are retarded reasons. Why not just vote Michael Jordan in? Or the guy who played Apollo Creed? They probably have just as much real experience as Obama but they're AWESOME! My point is, we need to vote someone in based on how well we think they'll perform the duties required of them, not based on race, or how hot their Vice President is, or how creepy McCains laugh is.

Quickly, I don't quite understand how the popular vote can be as close as 52/47 percent and the electoral vote is almost 3 to 1 for Obama. Something with the varying number of electoral votes in each state maybe? I mean, Obama got the majority and won, I'm not denying that or claiming that there was fraud involved (although inevitably there will be a small number of isolated incidents, nothing enough to affect 5 million votes or however many it will finally be once all numbers are official.), I obviously just don't fully understand the electoral system.

Next up, on the ballot in the land of the "Governator (who will now have to remove a large foot from his mouth sometime before meeting the new "skinny man" president), gay marriage. 53% of voters in California are for a statewide ban on gay marriage. Way to go California. You might not get annexed after all.

And in Minnesota the race is "too close to call" at this time, but Al Franken might win! Don't know which is worse, Obama, or Franken. Franken is open about being crazy, he doesn't hide it. Obama on the other hand...he hides his crazy side in the same place he stashed his real birth certificate.

Well, it's past 4am now, and I do have a job to go to, else I would've voted Obama! I'm sorry, I couldn't resist. Get your guns while you can folks. Blog it up. Listen to talk radio. Drive your car with 3 flat tires and no muffler. Take that paycheck and invest it, in your business, your savings, whatever it may be. This new administration is all about working for each other. If you make a lot, why not pay a significant increase in your taxes so your hard earned money can go to someone who has not earned it? It's all about "leveling the field" as our new President put it. Whatever money you have left over will be used to negotiate the myriad of government intervention soon to be in our lives (just wait, you'll be thinking "Didn't someone tell me this was going to happen? Oh yeah..."). Sooner rather than later, it will no longer be yours to do with as you please. You may think I'm freaking out, exaggerating, maybe I am. Probably, even. Some of it is I don't like change. Obviously. I sincerely hope that I am wrong about Obama and the Democrats. Maybe we'll just pay a little more taxes for Gore and his church of man-made Global Warming and let the world fight it's own battles, or maybe we're all doomed.

:o)

Text Messages from "The Man"?

Are you ready to start getting text messages from "The Man"? Well it's in the works, so you better be. The FCC has given it's approval to a new program which would task a yet to be appointed federal agency with creating the messages, which would be sent to the participating cellular carriers with information regarding "extreme terrorist attacks, weather disasters and Amber Alerts.

That's just what I need, the Department of Homeland Security sending me text messages that say "I just wanted to talk" or "what're you thinking about?".

But seriously, I wouldn't mind this assuming it was used for the purposes I mentioned earlier. I don't think we need a brand new government agency to do this, either. Beyond the initial setup and organizing the communication between the agencies providing the alerts, maintenance should be relatively simple and wouldn't require much manpower to administrate.

Apparently you can opt out of the messages just like any other premium text message, so I may take advantage of this option should I start getting text messages that start with FW:

Whats the Buzz about The Buzz?

To: 94.7 The Buzz
From: Rockin Republican

Well, guys, you’ve done it this time. You play non-stop Metallica for 2 days or so repeatedly referring to some announcement to take place that Monday morning at 10am, then play a series of retarded sound clips ending in you guys saying F#$% YOU to The KATT. You then launched into the next songs in the rotation, without an explanation.

I turned my radio off, and with great restraint, I was somehow able to stop myself from smashing my clock radio into bits too small to be identified by an electron microscope. Let me lay the groundwork for this fateful morning. I was listening to your station all weekend at work, at home, in my car. Sunday evening, I went bowling and drank…a lot. Sleep came to be at about 5 a.m., but I had set my alarm for 9:58 a.m. anyways JUST so I could wake up in time to hear your friggin announcement. Don’t get me wrong, every time I heard another Metallica song come on, even though I knew it was coming, I still felt like yelling out “HELL YEAH” (or some equally metal-sounding phrase).

As any rational person would infer, I was not looking forward to waking up so early after a studious night of tom foolery, but I was willing to make the sacrifice. You know why? Because I thought you were going to make an announcement that had something to do with METALLICA. Why would I think that? Because you played NOTHING BUT METALLICA FOR 2 F#$%ING DAYS and kept talking about an announcement Monday morning at 10. If you were just going to switch your format to include 80’s butt-rock, you could’ve played nothing but spandex-wearing, hairspray heavy, dude-looks-like-a-lady BUTT ROCK!

Sweet mother of GOD! You guys practically played the same thing as the KATT BEFORE you “switched formats”. Every damn time the KATT played some weak assed song from Nickelback, I’d switch it to The Buzz to see if you were playing something better only to find the EXACT same song on your station. Occasionally you would switch it up and just play another song from Nickelback. You practically mirrored the KATT 90% of the time.

And another thing, most of your DJ’s sound like you got them from Square Dancing FM in Canada. The KATT DJ’s have a voices that sound like they’ve been rocking the block since the dawn of time. Guys that know that Kill Em All was originally called Metal Up Your Ass, but the record companies wouldn’t put that on their label, so they named it Kill Em All. I don’t want to listen to some DJ that sounds like he wouldn’t know Dimebag Darrell, God bless his soul, from Donny Osmond.

I’ll be honest, I may still check out your station every once and a while if all of talk, sports, and music radio has nothing better to provide me, but that’s gonna be tough, guys. I’d go ahead and slap whoever decided to play nothing but Metallica for 2 days straight.

Furiously,
\m/ Rockin Republican \m/

Master Gates

Ladies and gents, I'd like to take this opportunity to thank SECDEF Robert Gates for reading my blog and responding to my cry for answers. (see here)

I don't really have much to say about it at this point. We appear to be focusing on not so much the singular thought that they deactivated their nuclear weapons program in 2003, but the fact that they are now equipped to restart it, and at a much more competent level than they were in 2003.

Theoretically speaking, the international pressure will continue for unfettered access to Iran's nuclear facilities for IAEA and other inspectors as well as documentation of any nuclear programs/projects of note. We may even throw in some penalties that actually HURT Iran so they maybe think about listening to us.

They're toying with us. Today, Iran, the worlds fourth largest exporter of oil, announced they will no longer use the American dollar for oil transactions due to the dollar being an "unreliable currency".

On a completely unrelated note, it's cold as a witches tit (sorry Cassa) outside. My windshield was frozen over when I left work at 11:15pm this evening. Yet, there's thunder and lightning and rain. Luckily, my windshield wipers have yet to reproduce, but the winter is young...(see one of my first posts ever).

Iran Victory?

Well, it's been forever since I've posted, figured I'd put something up real quick so people know that I haven't forgotten you. This will be brief, but I'll post again soon. Seriously.

A new NIE (National Intelligence Estimate) has been released regarding Irans nuclear program. Per this new NIE, Iran shut down their nuclear program in 2003 and is showing "no signs of restarting the program".

Here's a link to the article.

Now I don't want to burst anyone's bubble here, but if Iran shut down their nuclear program in 2003, why didn't Ahmadinejad just come out and say that? Why does he consistently state that he will never stop Iran's nuclear program if it is already stopped?

Am I the only one that thinks this doesn't make sense?

Todays Rant.

So I was sitting here tonight trying to find something to post about. I wanted to talk about Mrs. Edwards newest solution for "global warming". Tangerines. That's right. Those little orange bastards. So sweet, and yet, sour at the same time. A multi-faceted fruit of all fruits. Oranges quiver at the raw power of the tangerine. But, I digress. She has come out and made a public statement proclaiming she will stop eating tangerines as she is on the east coast, and they have to be trucked all across the US just so she can have one. Thus, increasing the carbon footprint on those-there tangerines. This is the most retarded thing I have ever heard--from Mrs. Edwards--today.

Moving right along. There were multiple bombings today in Iraq. News? I say yes. You may say, "We hear about that all the time, why is that news?" First off, we are in a war in Iraq right now. We have men and women risking their lives on a daily basis to fight an enemy that wears no uniform. They follow no Geneva Conventions, even though we do. They follow no code of honor, they kill innocents to make a statement. We should, on a daily basis, recognize the fact that we are at WAR and recognize the sacrifices that are being made for this cause. We also should recognize the sacrifices that the civilians are making as well. Every day they practice and experience new freedoms for the very first time, and, barring fanatics, they seem to be liking it.

The US has taken over two hundred years to grow to what we are today and Congress is proposing bill after bill after bill after bill after bill (this may seem redundant...THATS THE POINT) to get us out of Iraq and just leave the Iraqis hanging in the wind after having less than 5 years to go from Saadam to soccer mom's? This process (starting up a democracy were one has NEVER been) takes a little time.

Back to the bombings. Iraqis were celebrating an Iraqi soccer match victory when a suicide bomber exploded in the crowd near a popular ice cream parlor and killed more than 30 innocent people. Roughly 45 minutes later, in a different city, another explosion killed more than 20.

So the Democrats (and some castrated Republicans) want us to leave without finishing the job? They can look at the pictures of the blasts and the body count and literally duck your tail, turn around and run? You see some men beating the hell out of a campaign contributor, I bet my left...pinky, that you would be moving mountains to help them. You see some Iraqi's getting blown to bits by a terrorist organization making major moves into Iraq and also attacking our soldiers, and "it's time for Iraqi's to step up and handle their own business so we can go home?" What is this, sink or swim with IED's?

The Dems think they're going to take office. They want us out before this becomes their baby. They don't care about the costs. Remember Vietnam? I don't (apparently, neither does John Kerry), but I do know from history that when we left Vietnam, thousands of people were slaughtered in "re-education camps". According to John Kerry, he knows of plenty of people people from the camps who, to put it in my own words, got over it. Nobody died because we left, or so John Kerry claims.

Our only hope is that one of the Republican candidates somehow makes a huge turnaround with fund raising and somehow turns into a leader for the Conservative party. Or, an unknown candidate comes in and woos us all. God help us if Hillary gets elected. Ayn Rand keeps coming to mind when I think of Hillary at the helm of the US. If you haven't read her books, PLEASE get Atlas Shrugged. And read it.

Oh, I'll TRY and post in the next few days on the recent "Debate" that CNN/YouTube hosted. What a joke. "Look to the person to your left and tell them something you don't like about them, look to the person on the right and tell them something you DO like about them." ARE YOU KIDDING ME? I'm done.

It's a Pol!

I put up a poll. I'm going to start paying a little more attention to this blog as I feel I have been neglecting it as of late. Please take the poll, if you get a chance. It'll be fun. And good for you, too!

It's New, BABY!

Apparently, a few people still read this blog. That’s a few more than I thought. So, tonight, I write this blog in your honor. You unnamed few. Seriously, I won’t tell anyone you’re reading my blog. You can keep reading.

Ahhh…what to write about? Illegal immigration would be the obvious pick. Do I want to be obvious, though? Sometimes obvious is good, but, tonight, is not sometimes. It’s tonight. And, since the immigration bill is dead, at least for a few years, we can talk about that some other time.

The Fairness Doctrine. The lib’s new Golden Child. Now that they don’t have to convince us that Americans won’t wash dishes and mow lawns, they can cram the Fairness Doctrine down our throats. It’s a big one, so they’ll have to use both hands and put some elbow grease into it.

The idea is this: They don’t like what talk radio is saying right now, since it’s predominantly (90%) right wing. To restore order, they want to have equal time on all radio programs to voice their “side” of any story they choose.

For example, Rush Limbaugh has Ann Coulter on his show. They take 5 minutes to discuss some political issue; the war in Iraq. They say that they stand with Bush on Iraq and don’t want to have the soldiers brought home until our military leaders on the ground tell us that the Iraqi Police and Military branches will be able to keep order. A MoveOn.org lefty doesn’t agree. He wants to blame Bush for Saddam, Iraq, and the end of the TV series Knight Rider. Under the rules of the proposed “Fairness Doctrine”, anyone who disagrees has the right to call and demand equal airtime on that program to discuss their views on the topic.

First off. Sponsors pay for advertising spots to keep these shows on the air. Sponsors pay big bucks to be put in spots during popular programs because they will receive the most exposure with those, obviously. If any schmuck can call in and take up time on a nationally syndicated program to voice their retarded opinion, the ratings will go down. Millions of people choose those shows because they like the host, Rush, or Michael Savage, or Matt Drudge…not some jackass sitting at home at his computer wearing a tin-foil hat in his Mom’s basement. Without sponsors, no money. No money, no show. It’s free radio folks. Don’t know if you noticed that. You don’t have to pay monthly to listen to AM radio, they make money through sponsors. That’s it. That’s how it works.

Secondly. Why aren’t they talking about fairness on TV? Hardball with Chris Mathews? Keith Olbermann? I don’t see them wanting to give equal air-time to conservatives who want to call in to disagree with Keith. Why is it only radio? Because radio is dominated by Conservatives and the Right. TV and Movies are dominated by liberals and Hollywood (pretty much the same thing).

Look, people. The Fairness Doctrine is nothing but the left wanting to shut up conservative radio. They’re pissed off because Heir America didn’t pan out, so now they’re going after Rush and others. They don’t want to come on the show and debate politics and make their voice heard, they just want talk radio to stop pointing out what should be obvious to everyone else. There is no debate with Liberals. They know they can’t stand up to the truth, so they want it blotted out. Too late. The gig is up. The Fairness Doctrine will never happen.

Besides, aren’t there more important things to be legislating than this? Like why can’t we get more than 2 miles of border fence built in 2 years? We can send men to the moon, but for some reason we can’t get a freakin fence built on our border? Let’s figure out ways to enforce laws we have, that would be cool, right?


Whew. That rant felt great. A little bit of this, a little bit of that. Good stuff. More to come.