Saturday At The Movies: Support Your Local Sheriff

Two movies from the late 60's and early 70's starring James Garner, Walter Brennan, Bruce Dern, Harry Morgan, and one of my personal favorites, Jack Elam. The Support Your Local blank movies mixed comedy and western into plug and play scripts that probably would have worked for more than they were used. Of the two that were made, this one is my favorite, (lucky, since the other one has not been uploaded to youtube.)

Garner delivers as the slow moving laid back quick drawing sheriff who has no use for a reputation. He cleans up a town that finds being dirty much more fun than the alternative, except that the mine owners are tired of having 20% of their revenues extorted.

Grab a cup of coffee and enjoy a fun movie that is not meant to be taken too seriously. It's about an hour and a half of your time, and fun for those who like either comedies or westerns.

Finding Out What's In It: Part What Ever The Numerical Expression For Holy Crap A Nuclear Bomb Just Went Off Happens To Be.

I his usual manner of everything he does or says appearing as slickly produced Kabuki Theater, Barack Obama yesterday, very publicly announced that he and his crack team of completely disengaged minions had identified the sole guilty party responsible for the latest IRS scandal, in which his Treasury Department had singled out political adversaries for heightened scrutiny and audit, and fired him. When the announcement was made at the Presser, right on cue, his White House Staff erupted in those patented and obviously scripted, "spontaneous," high fives, to highlight their delight in putting an end to the single most egregious case of graft since Tammany Hall got one of their own sworn in as President, (Chester A. Arthur.) They did this as if the source of said graft did not begin as the brain child of their very own Dear Leader.

A funny thing happened on the way to the public hanging though. As it turns out, that fellow, who's name is not even worth typing into the keyboard anymore, has only been in his current position for Eight days now. So much for finding the person responsible for this nefarious plot. Hello to the concept of finding a patsy who's head could be chopped before anything so trite as the truth could get out.

So what happened to the person in the offending position before What's his name took over. Her name, which is worth typing into my keyboard, is Sarah Hall Ingram. As you may have guessed, Eight days ago she got herself promoted. As you also may have guessed from my usual Obamacare introduction, he promotion has something to do with that. Wait, it gets worse.

The person now in charge of Obamacare compliance, for the entire nation is.........Sarah Hall Ingram. With that, we have seen Obamacare move from the merely annoying bad economic policy and a potential for the destruction of the world's finest health care system, to a weapon of political intimidation. The very same woman who used her position at the IRS to intimidate Barack Obama's Political foes, whether he knew about it happening or not, is now in charge of determining which people in the country will receive a doctor's care, and which of Barack Obama's political foes will not.

For years, all conservatives have been referred to as the, "tinfoil behatted." This has been true, even though our arguments have always been policy based, and more often than not based on actual evidence to support what ever claim we may have been making. This however, what has been revealed as fact during the last 96 hours, has gone far beyond the scope of anything even the most committed conspiracy theorist could have imagined. The person our President tapped to be in charge of the IRS' portion of Obamacare, has in fact already proven that she feels it is an acceptable part of her job to target political enemies and do them harm. She has proven that she feels comfortable in using the power of her unelected position within our government to stifle the speech of those with whom she disagrees. What could possibly go wrong with the authority granted her now?

Palooka Of The Month: May's Winner - Darrell Issa

What angers me most about our canvas kissing champion this month is what he didn't say. He didn't say, "we're going to follow the evidence where ever it leads, and take the appropriate action, according to the laws of our land." What he chose to do instead, was to send the signal that with his position as the chief investigator of the Republican controlled House, he would make certain that Hillary Clinton would be protected against the harshest of forthcoming political consequences for what at the very least, was a level of incompetence rarely exhibited by members of our species.

Not everything in life has to be politically motivated. Certainly the tragedy that befell the four American citizens in Benghazi should escape that realm. However, it is impossible to separate politics from the task of figuring out which politician or bureaucrat fomented that disaster. It is most especially impossible to separate politics from the process when political considerations being given a higher priority than national security was itself the root cause of the tragedy.

Hillary Clinton's hands may very well have been tied by the man child President, and his foreign policy agenda which centers on projecting American weakness, but she at the same time did keep mum on things afterward and subsequently campaigned hard to help secure his reelection. Looking back at that time period, I seem to remember suggestions being made to place Hillary's picture on milk cartons in order to locate here. Rush Limbaugh issued an Amber Alert for Secretary Clinton. At no point did Hillary step forward and decide that telling the truth was the way to go. As a matter of fact, she did come forward after a month to accept blame, and promptly spent the next six months attempting to deflect said blame.

When the whistle blowers came forward last week and confirmed for many of us what we already knew, our side had securely placed victory well within our grasp, if not already achieved it outright. Which is why it hurts to watch Palooka Issa take the dive and allow a woman to escape that quite possibly may one day win the Presidency. If the investigation into this event accomplishes nothing else for the American people, it should highlight at the very least why Hillary Clinton is woefully short of the makings of a good President. Her behavior throughout all of this should preclude that from ever being even the remotest of possibilities. Yet here we have Darrell Issa, who in one minute and nineteen seconds, let Hillary off of the hook, that goddamned palooka!

I can only guess as to the motivations of Congress Critter Issa, and why he chose to publicly let Hillary off of the hook. Not a single one of those guesses is at all flattering for Representative Issa. They range from bizarre to perverse, and in this case, the perverse would be the best case scenario for Darrell. I will add this however, should our nation one day be saddled with the prospect of addressing Hillary as Madam President, we, and I mean every one who considers him or herself a conservative, should surround Darrell Issa with lit torches and pitch forks and run his ass out of town.

The Stark Reality Of A Governing Philosophy

The alternate headline would be, "see what happens GOP professional campaign idiots when you actually take this man child President on and apply a little pressure."

I read this at Hotair today. While I usually have a decent amount of respect for Allahpundit's articles, which means, I'm a fan, he missed the point here, completely. He got it right that the Bamster returned to his familiar and comfortable ground of setting up the straw man that Rush Limbaugh, from his broadcast booth in South Florida somehow manages to control not only the entirety of the Republican Party, but also the thoughts of all who consider themselves conservatives, and then destroying said straw man in a debate where no answer to his charges can be given. He also got it right that this retreat into that familiar territory was fomented by the plethora of breaking scandals that should have plagued him much sooner than they did. Here's where he got it wrong:

“What’s blocking us right now is a sort of hyper-partisanship in Washington that I was, frankly, hoping to overcome in 2008,” Obama said today, according to the pool report. “My thinking was when we beat them in 2012 that might break the fever, and it’s not quite broken yet. But I am persistent. And I am staying at it. And I genuinely believe there are Republicans out there who would like to work with us but they’re fearful of their base and they’re concerned about what Rush Limbaugh might say about them…“As a consequence we get the kind of gridlock that makes people cynical about government,” he told donors. “My intentions over the next 3 ½ years are to govern. … If there are folks who are more interested in winning elections than they are thinking about the next generation then I want to make sure there are consequences to that.”

I believe that there are two phrases in that quote from the Washington Examiner story
which should have us all hopping mad, and not just those of us who are conservative, but all citizens in general.

“What’s blocking us right now is a sort of hyper-partisanship in Washington that I was, frankly, hoping to overcome in 2008,” Obama said today, according to the pool report. “My thinking was when we beat them in 2012 that might break the fever, and it’s not quite broken yet. But I am persistent. And I am staying at it. And I genuinely believe there are Republicans out there who would like to work with us but they’re fearful of their base and they’re concerned about what Rush Limbaugh might say about them.”

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“As a consequence we get the kind of gridlock that makes people cynical about government,” he told donors. “My intentions over the next 3 ½ years are to govern. … If there are folks who are more interested in winning elections than they are thinking about the next generation then I want to make sure there are consequences to that.”

Elected representatives should be mindful of their voting base. That's the whole point of a representative republic. These people who make up the Legislative Branch were not sent to our nation's capitol solely for the purpose of acquiescence to the President's demands. They were sent there by a base of voters who want their interests represented. In the case of the Republican lawmakers, they were sent to Washington on behalf of people who want the President's agenda stopped dead in its tracks. For those of you with learning disabilities who make up the main stream media, that does not mean coming together in some sort of grand compromise which will ultimately decide the best way forward with the President's plan to fundamentally transform America into Amerika, which will exist somewhere to the left of the European style of Socialism that plagues Greece, France, and Spain. It means that we sent them there as a cease and desist order, to inflict gridlock upon a federal behemoth run amok.

Even more chilling is the concept that Barack Obama is comfortable with the concept of our government acting in direct opposition to the will of the people. In fact, according to this rare candid glimpse of this mans thoughts, he feels as though this is preferable to the more antiquated notion that representatives should actually live up to their campaign promises and legislate according to the wishes of those who sent them to do that task.

It's not very often that we get to see and hear the real thoughts of our President, who spends more of his time lying to us than anything else, (formidable when you consider the amount of time he spends playing golf, partying with show people and such.) The reason for this of course is that he is finally facing a minimal amount of pressure from the consequences of his malfeasance. Right now, Mitt Romney should be throwing darts at the mug of which ever genius adviser told him not to take this man on during the campaign, that this would be viewed as mean spirited and petty, (especially considering the amount of mud flung in Romney's direction during the months of September and October.)

The other phrase missed of course is the second one that I have highlighted. Somehow, our President has gotten it into his head that his job is to punish Americans in general should he not get his way. Our Legislators made the correct decision to let the Sequestration go ahead and happen, and our President has used that slowed growth of wasteful spending as a tool with which to inflict pain on anyone he could. Here too, he has allowed, however accidentally, that rare glimpse into his true thoughts, and what has been revealed is that he intends to punish all those who will not simply go along with his whims as our nation's ruler. Those law makers who place the wishes of their constituents above the wishes of Dear Leader will face his wrath, which apparently means some formal consequences. The public airing of one of those aforementioned scandals, which happens to be some of those consequences for the crime of opposing Dear Leader, the IRS inflicting conservative groups with heightened scrutiny, and the lesser talked about targeting of Romney donors with unwarranted audits, has apparently rattled the man to the point where he'll admit his most closely held ambitions.

Not to put too fine a point on it, but this emotionally broken product of a dysfunctional upbringing seems to be truly convinced that he was elected to the position of Emperor of the United States of America. Unfortunately for the Bamster, there is no such office. In America, we have a President, an office that is constrained by the consent of the governed. Fortunately for us, his fundamental transformation of America into Amerika has been at least so far, temporary. What he has done, can still be undone. The damage he has wrought can be repaired. We just need to win one hell of a lot of elections in order to make that a reality.

The Crime Was Far Worse Than The Cover Up.

For those of you who voted for Barack Obama, I sincerely hope you're proud of your vote. I hope you find the bag of, "free," goodies was worth the cost that America can not only ill afford, but also the hidden costs inherent in electing the emotionally broken narcissist produced by a dysfunctional family to our nation's highest office.

The crime committed by our President is that in two separate instances that we know of so far, Barack Obama put his keen and penetrating mind to the task of performing some political calculus, and determined that it would be better for American citizens to die so that the failures of his policies would go unnoticed just prior to an election. (The other instance of our President performing this calculus and finding murder to be an acceptable part of political expediency was the Fast and Furious scandal. With that little gem of an operation, he decided that a few dead bodies would be useful if they helped him with his gun control legislation.)

While politicians doing bad things in the game of political expediency was not something invented by Barack Obama, he does stand as the first President in our history to make this leap. He is the first President who's belief that his destiny to fundamentally transform our nation to match his vision gives him license to shirk his duty to protect and defend our Constitution, and actively allow citizens to be killed, so that we might not ever learn that Al Qaeda is not on its heels, and projecting American weakness abroad has indeed wrought a frightful consequent harvest.

In this video, Judge Jeanine Pirro does an excellent job of not only parsing the facts, but in placing the importance and relevance of the accompanying timeline. In short, anyone who still believes that Obama is anything other than a national disgrace is either brain dead, or willfully obtuse. Those who voted for him in 2012 are complicit in his crimes against this country. Those who stayed home or lodged a protest vote are guilty of lesser crimes, but are complicit as well.

The cover up, which included some of the worst lies told to the American Public by any administration during my life time, the arrest, incarceration, and usurpation of a citizen's first amendment rights, for producing what must be the worst youtube video ever produced, and some of the most egregious witness intimidation ever seen by our 230 year old republic, has not stooped to the level of murder, at least not yet. Make no mistake about it, that was one of the real crimes committed by our President, Barack Obama, his Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, and her Director of Central Intelligence, Leon Panetta. I would include an, "et al," here, but quite frankly, there are just too many of them complicit on this one. This is the stuff angry mobs wielding torches and pitch forks are made of. This is the Obama Administration in its purest form.

The Last Face Book Posting Of That Nice Kidnapper From Cleveland, Ohio

Ariel Castro shared a status.

May 2

miracles really do happen, God is good :)

You make my day everyday:)

Some things in life will just leave you speechless, and this should be one of them. What more can be said. Here is a man who's facebook page is a living testament for his love of Jesus, and all things related to positive karma, all while holding three women hostage for over a decade. He robbed them of their childhood, forced one to have his baby, kept them in chains, and God knows what else.

I will agree with him on one point though. God is good, and miracles really do happen. One of those women miraculously got away after ten years, and now miraculously, he'll face the judgement of his fellow man for those sins that he's committed. Hopefully, after a lengthy punishment, and I really am having a hard time coming up with something that could even come close to bringing justice to this horrible example of human excrement, he'll be judged by God, personally. May God judge him justly, according to his works.

I'm sure he'll be sobbing tears in court, during his trial and sentencing, exclaiming that he's asked Jesus for forgiveness in his heart. Unfortunately, while Jesus may be able to forgive him, not even Jesus can or will, return the lost childhood to the victims of this mans perverse urges.

Faith is a wonderful thing, and I have my own. It is still up to us however to live up to, or at least make an honest effort to live up to the tenets of that faith. I'm not a Christian, but I'm pretty sure Jesus never said it's O.K. to kidnap small children, torture them, rape them, and keep them hostages for as long as you are capable. No way in any possible interpretation of his good book, or any copy there in, could accepting Jesus into your heart or being born again, absolve you from continuing these sins ad infinitum.

The death penalty would be letting these scum bags off too easy, (turns out there were three brothers involved in this,) as would any length of prison time. Turning them over to the surviving family members and friends for what ever they had in mind would be a start. Too damn bad we're members of a civilized society.

Saturday At The Movies: The Saint.

This one is great fun, as long as you don't think too deeply about the story, the science, or the fact that Elizabeth Shue as a poetry reading physicist who's formulas work somehow because she's figured out how to utilize the magic of her artistic nature is at best ridiculous. Kilmer's character is basically the same one he portrayed when he got to take his turn at the Bat Man gig, and yet, somehow these two seem to work well together. Despite the preposterous problems proposed by a cheesy story, implausible action sequences, unbelievable characters, bad guys who make the Keystone Cops look competent, and cops who make the bad guys seem competent, the movie is still a decent way to kill two down time hours on a beautiful spring weekend.