It’s been an interesting couple of weeks, speaking and debating with some of my liberal friends. I have come to an epiphany however, or more precisely, the very same epiphany that I’ve come to several times over the last five years. America’s view of the current Presidential Administration is totally disconnected from reality, and 50.61% of those who vote, prefer it that way.
It’s maddening as all heck to arrive in the arena of ideas, and discover that not only will the other side of our national discussion refuse to accept basic facts as being part of reality, they are not in any way interested in seeing reality. So, when our President states during the State of the Union Address that he has increased our deficit at the slowest rate of any President in our history, while our jaws dropped in speechless disbelief at the brazen absurdity of the statement, 50.61% of American voters have accepted this lunacy as fact.
Here’s a video from way back in 2009, that ancient date that served as Barack Obama’s first year as our President. It should serve as an ample device to illustrate the sheer idiocy of this statement:
While having a similar discussion on one of my favorite topics, Catastrophic Global Warming, I brought up the Henrik Svensmark experiment at the Hardin Super Collider and explained how that piece of actual science discredited the notion that our current climate patterns were caused by human activity, my liberal friend looked at me and said, “I choose not to accept that,”
That statement right there, should be on the gate of every entrance into the hall of fame of childish positions. Just like the little brat who’s fingers find the ears and pretend that a valid point of view which opposes the childish desire can never be uttered if never heard, “I choose not to accept that,” cuts immediately to the heart of the matter. When presented with actual provable facts that challenge their belief system, be it Catastrophic Global Warming, or Barack Obama’s frugality, Liberals would simply like to pretend that reality does not exist and their world view is true after all.
The problem with that of course is two fold. First, even if you accept every word uttered by an obviously treasonous biased media machine, that operates more as a propaganda arm of the Democrat Party than as an objective group of truth tellers who might find use in holding our political leaders accountable, it is difficult to escape the fact that we still have these three pound organs sitting atop our shoulders which given normal usage, are capable of performing the task of critical thought. Just like any part of the human body, discard its usage at your own peril. Organs that are not used have a tendency towards atrophy. As human beings, animals capable of abstract thought, discerning for ourselves fact from fiction, right from wrong, objective news reporting from propaganda, the excuse of a biased media should not substituted for actually paying attention.
Secondly, ignoring reality has its very own danger, for instance the little reported fact that we now owe about $16.5 Trillion and are no longer considered the safest debt to hold. This means that our great great grandchildren will likely be dealing with our irresponsible lifestyle of expecting a bag full of free goodies to tend to our every need and whim. We can demagogue the Chinese all we wish and label them as predatory lenders, (sounds familiar I know,) but the fact of the matter is that China merely did what we asked of them in the first place. Ignoring reality hides the fact that elections have consequences, and we’ve paid a packet for refusing to accept that little fact.
Some will say that we get the government that we deserve, and I agree with that sentiment. Unfortunately the story does not stop there. Our great great grandchildren do not deserve the future we’ve seen fit to inflict upon them. Consequences do not necessarily stop with us, that packet we’ve paid for disconnecting our current President from reality, accountability, or even the slightest hint of responsible behavior pales in comparison to the price which will be exacted from future generations.
In order to illustrate the point further, here are some of the more egregious gems uttered by President Obama during his speech this past Tuesday.
During the last five years, our businesses have created over 6 Million new jobs.
The Affordable Care Act is helping to slow the growth of health care costs.
We’ve cut the deficit by $2.5 Trillion, mostly through cuts in spending.
As each of these statements caused a spray of coffee to be shot through my nose and necessitated a thorough cleaning of a 48 inch television, which mostly is used for watching Hockey games, I could not help but notice that not a single one of those statements was challenged in the slightest sense of the word by a single member of the supposedly objective media.
Marco Rubio took a sip of water, and his political career was labeled as being over by a main stream press that seems intent upon reaching a state I’ve read as being known as, “peak moron,” (Allahpundit at Hotair.)
Give this a think, whether you agree with me or not that the substance of Rubio’s speech was top notch, MSNBC replayed the sip of water well over 200 times, and CNN finished in second place with just under 200 times. Not one moment’s worth of analysis was spent discussing the content of either speech.
The title of the article quotes Shakespeare’s Othello, but another literary work also comes to mind. While Shakespeare may have nailed the danger of willful blindness, it was Jonathan Swift who predicted another angle in his classic, Gulliver’s Travels. The Lilliputians chose their political leaders by judging circus acts, which explains how we got landed with a President Obama as well as any other phenomenon. He you see, is able to tell his whoppers without needing a drink of water, at least not while reporters were paying attention, which admittedly, is not all that common anyhow.
Cross Posted from Musings of a Mad Conservative.
Listening to NPR this morning, I was struck by the number of booga-booga stories they were doing about the looming possible effects of the sequester. One would think, to hear them tell it, that the entire government was going to shut down instead of what is really going to happen—each department having to trim a little here and a little there to bring its spending down.
What the official government organ is doing is very much like what was done to lay the groundwork for the “climate change” nonsense, which has gotten to the point that if it’s cold, it’s climate change, if it’s hot, it’s climate change, if there’s an asteroid or a meteor, it’s climate change.
We are going to see stories where if any government inefficiency occurs, it’s the sequester; if any poor widow runs through her Obamaphone minutes before the end of the month, it’s the sequester—and, of course, it will all be the Republicans’ fault.
@ buzzsawmonkey:
The truly funny thing is this. The sequester will not actually cut anything. It is all based on the nonsense that is baseline budgeting, and therefore only denotes a slowing of the natural growth inherent in an incredibly corrupt system. That being said, let’er rip! at least it’s something.
The lib media is tearing their hair out because Bob Woodward stated (accurately) that the sequester was Barry’s idea. The libs will just do what Flyovercountry is saying (fingers in the ears) but at least we have someone the libs worship stating the facts.
Do the sequester. We’re not going to win the minds of the lemmings who claim the Republicans are responsible. Save our grandkids, call Barry’s bluff, and JUST DO IT!
Childish minds dream up things such as the reason the cost of health insurance premiums went up after Obamacare passed was because the insurance companies assembled together and raised the cost to make Obama look bad since he promised our premiums wouldn’t go up. It’s never Obama’s fault for anything. I am surprised Bush or Reagan wasn’t responsible in this case somehow by six degrees of separation as well.
@ 96cid:
“I chose not to accept it”
there is your reason for the childishness you see, as explained by flyolver in the original post.
we quit teaching economics in schools for a reason.
Rubio drinks water from a bottle and it’s hot news. Senator Menendez screws underage Dominican hookers and it’s not news at all.
96cid wrote:
There’s the real scandal, and they say nothing about it. That and the influence peddling. The Media is a wholly owned subsidiary of the DNC. They’ve always been biased, but they have gotten worse in the last four years. Democrats can do no wrong.
@ Iron Fist:
The media is openly a propaganda arm of the Democrat Party.
History tells us there can only be one eventual outcome to this series of event.
Which is why libs are making a full-out assault on “gun control” right now. It’s their “Battle of The Bulge.”
@ 96cid:
@ Iron Fist:
Heh. Sen. Marco Rubio gets the last laugh with more than $100,000 in water bottle sales.
@ huckfunn:
Yeah, they’re not going to find him as easy to destroy as Sarah Palin. Palin was “helped” along by McCain’s helpful staff. Rubio can see where the knives are out for him, and take precautions.
@ Iron Fist:
They are targeting Ran Paul as well. But they are pumping up Christie. Its obvious what they are doing.
Rodan wrote:
it will be interesting to see what they do if Doc Carson gets fiesty, successful black conservative being his sin
@ heysoos:
They will call him an uncle Tom and ruin his reputation.
Wow, slow day! Where is eveybody?
@ Iron Fist:
Matrices all around me; massive matrices and krylov space…
@ Iron Fist:
Just sending out some business e-mails. Gotta keep scrounging for that next gig, you know.
@ Mike C.:
Got to keep the dollars flowing. I understand that. My wife is a contractor right now, though we are hoping that her current contract goes permanent sometime this year.
@ Iron Fist:
I’m just lounging watching some DVR stuff. You have to see America uncovered. It proves and disproves alternate theories on who explored America.
@ Iron Fist:
Oh, no permanent for me. I live here, and all the business is elsewhere. Such is life.
Mike C. wrote:
Yup… I use headhunters whenever I can.
@ brookly red:
Headhunters, recruiters, consulting companies -- all the same from my perspective. Haven’t had a direct contract from a client company in a long time.
Mike C. wrote:
about 50-50 for me… I find the headhunter breaks the ice and the client calls me back a year later when they are no longer obligated
this falls under having eyes and not seeing…
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/9875954/Muslim-preacher-urges-followers-to-claim-Jihad-Seekers-Allowance.html
brookly red wrote:
I’m surprised that guy is still alive…he does not deserve to be
What you cannot do.
more living proof that knee jerk liberals are willfully ignorant and treat their constituents like so much dog shit…this should get national exposure
http://seattletimes.com/html/localnews/2020373291_westneat17xml.html
heysoos wrote:
it is getting quite a bit of exposure… Drudge for example
brookly red wrote:
that’s where I got it…maybe tomorrow it will hit the bigger outlets…it’s just a perfect example of why I despise politicians, they lie to the people they serve
@ heysoos:
It is just the Liberals making the mistake of admitting what they really want is a police state. YOu add to that DHS buying enough bullets to shoot every man woman and child in the United States five times, and it isn’t Paranoia to believe that they really want a civil war.
Iron Fist wrote:
in that case our sneaky investments in stout hemp rope will go ballistic
“People go mad in crowds. They only come to their senses one by one.”
http://www.amazon.com/Extraordinary-Popular-Delusions-Madness-Crowds/dp/1463740514/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top
@ Iron Fist:
If you look at those DHS ammo contracts, you’ll see that the are for deliveries over a 4-5 year period. They aren’t the ones causing the current ammo shortage. That’s American citizens stocking up. Which bodes ill for any attempt by government to step over certain lines.
Iron Fist wrote:
I’ve been saying that since the Liberals forced Bush into creating the DHS in the name of ‘doing something about’ protecting the American Homeland. The DHS is the foundation stone of the coming police state. Creating this agency was one of the worse things to come out of Bush’s Presidency. It will destroy America if Obama is not stopped.
Obama needs his ‘Reichstag fire’ to secure his full powers over America. He is looking for a fight. We mustn’t let his goons provoke us into acting foolishly.
Mike C. wrote:
Folks are digging in and preparing for the worst…
This can’t end well if the government doesn’t start backing off.
heysoos wrote:
yes no mater which side wins we will make a killing
@ Da_Beerfreak:
Doesn’t look like that’s going to happen:
lobo91 wrote:
well that would worry me if anyone in Chicago had any credibility.
lobo91 wrote:
The man isn’t qualified to hold public office, but then he is from Chicago, so it goes without saying that he should be in jail.
lobo91 wrote:
that guy is the poster child for moron…he’s no cop, he’s somebody’s patsy…probably scared to death of the bangers
and further with regard to this Irish blockhead, if policy was dependent on polls, there would have been no stimulus or Ocare…this guy is an idiot
lobo91 wrote:
I don’t expect them to either.
I do expect them to push harder now that their Boss has ‘more flexibly‘.
Iron Fist wrote:
actually he is from NY and used to work for Bloomberg…
On the original topic:
I think we’ve come down to the “I know you are but what am I” school of politics.
Da_Beerfreak wrote:
speaking of which, did the Russians ever call Kerry back?
@ lobo91:
Speaking of disconnected from reality, Jones’ assertion that our not building the Keystone pipeline will result in tar sands “being left in the ground” is laughable.
If that oil doesn’t come to the US, it’s going to China. It’s not going to stay in the ground.
And if it’s used in China, it’s going to be far worse for the environment than if we use it.
heysoos wrote:
well at the end of the day a jury is a public opinion poll… methinks we should be taking more polls.
I’d rather see Congress hold hearings into how the MSM conspires with the Dems to pretend that people like Frum are actually conservatives.
@ brookly red:
Comrade, it be very hot day in Siberia before Sec. Ketchup Kerry gets call returned…
Da_Beerfreak wrote:
Da, must admire Russian pragmatism… can’t make bear drink kool aid.
More “science” from the left:
Makes sense, I suppose. If the test is going to show that the teachers are doing a lousy job, it’s much simpler to just scrap the test than to actually hire good teachers.
lobo91 wrote:
If the lame stream obamamedia don’t tell the Mushrooms that the Chicoms are buying the oil sands then they will still believe that the oil sands will stay in the ground forever…
lobo91 wrote:
It is impossible for the tests to show the teachers are doing a lousy job. The tests can only show that we need to spend more money… silly teachers
@ brookly red:
Obviously, more money is always the answer to any question involving public sector unions.
Neil Cavuto is running a segment right now on eco-terrorists threatening to “dismantle” the Keystone pipeline “by any means necessary.”
lobo91 wrote:
two words…
targets
lobo91 wrote:
there will be blood.
This young man seriously thinks that the government is the only way to improve himself.
ht- Breitbart
@ brookly red:
Of course, since Obama has no intention of ever allowing it to be built, it’s all academic.
lobo91 wrote:
build it anyway
Bumr50 wrote:
job corps = the basic skills the union teachers should have taught you.
heysoos wrote:
and give the contract to Halliburton
brookly red wrote:
That’s the plan.
@ brookly red:
Which they, of course, never learned themselves, which is why they became teachers in the first place.
heysoos wrote:
That would be one way to do it.
The feds have already decided that they’re just going to ignore laws and court rulings that they don’t like. Maybe the states should start doing the same.
brookly red wrote:
ignore BO…when the federal marshals come, ignore them too, throw them off the property at gunpoint…try this, when BO comes calling get inside his reach, right up in his face so he can small your resolve and tell him to go fuck himself
lobo91 wrote:
I do actually believe in evolution but liberals make me doubt because if evolution really worked, God knows they would all have starved to death by now
lobo91 wrote:
exactly bro, and don’t forget to make him eat that shit sandwich
heysoos wrote:
wow talk about a Freudian slip
brookly red wrote:
had to go back and look…heh…messed up the punchline
heysoos wrote:
with no Heinz ketchup
@ brookly red:
Parasites evolve, too.
heysoos wrote:
well at least we didn’t catch you drinking water…
lobo91 wrote:
you know I once saw a maggot with a ponytail…
Today’s equivalent of fiddling while Rome burns…
lobo91 wrote:
I will not rest… http://obamagolfcounter.com/
@ lobo91:
You never hear about him getting any better at it either, do you?
Bumr50 wrote:
He isn’t getting better at anything else, either.
Bumr50 wrote:
Damn that standardized testing!
lobo91 wrote:
he doesn’t sweat as much when he lies as he used to…
brookly red wrote:
He’s Mr. ‘affirmative action’ in da flesh, he don’t need no stinkin’ tests!!
I take the subway so I don’t follow these things but I just saw what the price of gas was and I can’t believe we have not impeached this guy yet…
brookly red wrote:
I live in New Mexico….’down the road’ is 50 miles….’not far’ is two hours
up in Denver is 465mi
over in Phoenix is 450mi
El Paso is 275mi
Dallas is 900mi
brookly red wrote:
It’s gone up about 15% here in the last month. It was $3.49 yesterday. Haven’t looked today.
heysoos wrote:
wow…
@ brookly red:
Colorado is the same. Denver is 75 miles from here, which is the nearest city that would be worth going to.
lobo91 wrote:
Denver due east to KC is over 600mi with virtually nothing in between…
20-30 cents a gallon is huge for us out here
lobo91 wrote:
My sister used to live in Boulder… directly underneath one of the Fliatirons, yes she is a lib.
@ lobo91:
DC is 75 miles from here. I haven’t been there since 1994.
Mike C. wrote:
I haven’t been to Denver (other than the airport) since 2009. Nothing up there that interests me, aside from the Rockies, and their ticket prices are too high.
Mike C. wrote:
most years I vacation and party up and down I-95…from Boston to North Carolina…an absolute madhouse, I just cannot conceive living back there…DC to Balti to Philly to NYC to Boston…another universe to me
Mike C. wrote:
anywhere near Sidney VA? got a GF selling a house near there…
lobo91 wrote:
personally I love Denver…lived there for several years and have been back a few times…excepting the politics of course…easily one of the 3-4 most scenic cities in the country
lobo91 wrote:
wow… culture shock.
@ brookly red:
Not sure where Sidney, VA is…
@ brookly red:
They don’t have much up there that we don’t have here, really. A few more expensive stores that I don’t shop in anyway, and much worse traffic. Colorado Springs is about the same size as Albuquerque, so it’s not like it’s a small town.
Mike C. wrote:
midway between DC and Richmond… never been there
@ heysoos:
I spent 5 days a week living in Denver from 2005 to 2009 and came home on the weekends if I wasn’t off on a mission somewhere.
I’d no more live in Denver than I would in LA.
@ brookly red:
Ick. I’m closer to Dulles airport here. I’m west of DC, in the lower Shenandoah valley.
lobo91 wrote:
I don’t mean to sound negative it is just so strange to me… a free concert or a parade can draw 2 million.
brookly red wrote:
leaving ABQ going north, you drive for hours across the high plateaus til you come to the beautiful Raton Pass right at the CO state line, up and over you go and on the other side the mountains loom to the left and flat high plains to the right, all the way to Cheyenne….mighty impressive country…hours up that way Denver lies in a shallow bowl right underneath the wall of mountains, the famed Front Range…to the north and east is absolutely nothing but open range for hundreds of miles…the west is a vast region, totally unlike anything east of the Mississippi…you are alone out here, miles from anywhere…but there is a vibe that comes from these long distances, a vibe that I really like…I live in ABQ because I want to
@ 9 Mike C.: It’s probably a truth that is the liberals monopolize the course of the country through deceit then violence will prevail over reason.
I remember reading the shock of a liberal Lebanese in a recent war there about how nice and civilized her country was. She couldn’t fathom the violence she was looking at.
Mike C. wrote:
I love Google maps…
@ 12 Rodan: Christie is the new John McCain. The new dem trojan horse.
lobo91 wrote:
at the time it was a novelty for me, a hayseed from the mid-west, and it was smaller then
@ brookly red:
The fact that you consider that a plus is strange to me.
@ heysoos:
Colorado Springs now is probably like Denver was then.
Today, Denver is just a smaller version of LA without the beaches.
heysoos wrote:
I went to Arizona once, I really liked it but it was probably the only time in my life I was really alone.
lobo91 wrote:
it is not a plus or a minus it’s just what it is… life is different here.
lobo91 wrote:
the Springs is pretty impressive considering it’s growth, not a bad town at all…when I leave ABQ I’m a tourist…I’m less judgmental
@ brookly red:
People from NYC usually freak out when they come to this part of the country and look up at night.
They’ve never seen stars before.
lobo91 wrote:
bingo! I called it big sky country
@ brookly red:
If you want to feel really alone, try the Mojave Desert at night. I spent a year stationed at Fort Irwin. It’s like being on a different planet.
lobo91 wrote:
no I kinda like the crowds.
lobo91 wrote:
oh man…out here the stars are brighter at the horizon than straight up back east…and the colors and light are psychedelic
@ heysoos:
The Mojave Desert at night under a full moon is amazing. It feels like you’re on the moon. Everything you can see is sand and rocks, all sort of gray in the moonlight, and billions of stars in the sky.
lobo91 wrote:
yup, been there
@ heysoos:
They trained the Apollo astronauts out there.
@ 27 heysoos:
Westneat takes a lot of BS as a lib, but he is a little smarter than most of them. And sometimes will point out Obama is wearing no clothes.
the reason I like to visit the east is because of all the water…huge rivers, bridges, commerce, ships and big cities…all the trappings and vibrant activity…all the history and culture impresses me
@ darkwords:
What you see in Seattle is smart lawyers and smart politicians trying to desensitize the population to police search and seizures. The libs do want to get into your bedroom and check everything out to see if you are ok.
@ 44 lobo91:
Van Jones. What are his beliefs. Anti White? New Age Fairies? Green corruption? If you lay his timeline out on the sidewalk he is closer to hell than most anyone walking the street. But sees himself as an honest person.
@ 45 brookly red: No but the Iranians have asked Kerry to visit and test for their next moon shot.
darkwords wrote:
Why, are they out of monkeys?
lobo91 wrote:
I was recently doing a gig at 42nd and 2nd… getting out of work and walking 3 blocks to Grand Central was surreal. You gotta be single to love NY
darkwords wrote:
I have no doubt they would welcome his visit but for other reasons…
@ 108 lobo91
enver is a bowl that actually collects pollution. Sort of like the Charlie Brown Pigpen version of US cities.
And occasionally a nice storm will sweep down off the mountains and blow all the bad gases into Kansas.
lobo91 wrote:
well we got a PC thing that is so strong even the mullahs don’t want to be seen as Raaaaacist.
I believe Monkeynauts are considered contraband due to the latest US sanctions. Kerry falls through a loophole in the embargo…
brookly red wrote:
had a very good friend, born and raised on Manhattan…he was in love with NYC, knew every inch of town, all the gangster lore, was familiar with the architecture, the history, the complete goomba…I’d fly over from MI, bus and walk to his pad, key was waiting for me, and there was the entire vast city right in front of me…friggin awesome…we’d walk and talk for hours about NY…from his pad up on East 3rd you could see Central Park from one window, or across the Bronx to Met Stadium from another room, 33 floors up…I can’t describe how impressive NYC is
Da_Beerfreak wrote:
well I was very conservative but OWS has enlightened me. We are actually oppressed by the very rich. Kerry is a 1%er and we should actually re-distribute his wealth and Al Gore is next… fuck it the dems are right lets jail Moore, Edwards, Soros, Turner, Pelosie and all the rest and spend their money on one big awesome party!
brookly red wrote:
let’s hire the Stones for the evening, show some sympathy
meanwhile, the sick Jackson drama plays out…prime example of Chicago politics at it’s all star best…meet the Jacksons!
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/chi-jesse-jackson-jr-medical-report,0,5540026.story
heysoos wrote:
Fuck him lock his corrupt ass up and his thieving wife too.
brookly red wrote:
no justice no peace it goes both ways.
@ brookly red:
but he’s sick, not responsible…here’s a candle, let’s pray
brookly red wrote:
Parasites do pretty well until they become so virulent that they kill off their hosts.
lobo91 wrote:
lobo91 wrote:
Except when some mugger gives them a concussion.