It's been a while since I last updated the blog, but I have been very busy with work so I've been a lazy blogger.

Anywho I'm back hopefully.

If you want to know what the nation's economy will look like a few years down the road, all you have to do is look at California. California is the world's 8th largest economy and it is tottering on the edge of oblivion.

Now of course the left wing blame Reagan's tenure as governor and Conservatives in general. They like to point to 1978's Proposition 13 as the beginning of the downfall. But there's a lot more to it than that, as Time's Kevin O'Leary points out in his left-leaning article.

Prop 13 itself simply made it harder for California's traditionally liberal politicians to raise taxes. It requires a two-thirds majority vote for taxes to be raised. And even liberal taxpayers hate to have their taxes raised as Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and the legislature found out recently when their tax-laden ballot measure failed miserably. However, there is a liberal failing here--or multiple in this case--as well.

Californians love things for "free". They love water to be shipped across the desert for them and they love the freeways (although you wouldn't know it from their griping about gridlock). They love having large state grants for college students. These are liberal policies that over the years have added to a tax burden in the most populace state in the Union. And most of them have actually made the environment worse.

Californians also love direct democracy, like all Democrats, hence the name. The nation's founders knew that a direct democracy would eventually ruin the country. That's why they created a constitutional republic, with a constitution to restrict the powers of government and a representative legislature to restrict the damage that a runaway democracy would cause. It was all about checks and balances. Californians chose a direct democracy with a government that restricts freedoms instead. Talk about bass-ackwards.

One of the things that Californians are most proud of is that they are the harbingers of "change" (there's that word again) for the rest of the country. Just look at environmental legislation and make-work projects, all at the taxpayers' expense. Their senators and representatives are some of the most powerful members of congress, like Henry Waxman, coauthor of the Cap and Trade bill that just passed with nobody reading it. And then there is Nancy Pelosi who rammed through the same Cap and Trade bill so that she could go on vacation. Now they want to bring their form of liberal government to the rest of us and they have the numbers on their side in congress.

As I said in a previous post: Abandon all hope ye who live here.

SOURCE: Time article

Obama was elected partially on the promise that he would give the middle class a tax cut. What he didn't tell you was that the tax cut would be necessary just so you can make ends meet after the liberals in congress pass the "Cap and Trade" tax.

On the surface the C&T will not directly affect individuals. It is only a tax on businesses that produce greenhouse gases. However businesses cannot stay in business if their costs go up but profits don't. So naturally they will pass their new expenses on to you. So if you voted for Obama, thanks loads.

To paraphrase Dante, "Abandon all hope ye who live here"

The face of Liberty crying out: Neda.

I have been away for a while due to preparing for my new job. Being a college instructor is a lot of work but it gives me an excuse to buy and use 3ds Max so it ain't all bad.

Anyway now that things are settling down somewhat I hope to update the blog more often.

I am enraged over the killing of the abortionist George Tiller. Let me be clear, I am not enraged about the murder. I am saddened that a life was taken. However, I am enraged that the Left in this country has used this incident and hypocritical rhetoric to blast everyone who calls themselves Christian or Conservative.

It doesn't surprise me that the Left would use this tragedy to stoke the flames of hatred against Christians and Conservatives and it doesn't surprise me that they would use hypocrisy to drill their message into the gullible American people. I mean their president did the same before, during and after his campaign. I mean he's the one that told everyone to just chill out over the abortion debate at Notre Dame. However, now his lackeys on the Left are decrying God-fearing Americans as terrorists and hate mongers. There was one abortionist on Anderson Cooper's 360 that said that all Prolife Christians rejoiced when Tiller was killed and that we got exactly what we wanted. Even when Cooper tried to help him modify his statement to say that maybe he didn't mean all Christians since many had come out against the killing, the monster sat there and said that that was a lie. That all Prolifers are for killing abortion providers.

The Left has declared war on free speech and Conservatives and Christians. Today will be remmebered as one of  the first salvos in the war agianst the Right. It may only be rhetorical terror now, but how soon will it be before the Left begin using violence against us? And how long will we be able to survive as a nation under the onslaught of thost that hate us?

It is my opinion that America will not be safe until the Left in this country is marginalized to the point of nonexistence.

The state of Washington has begun the inevitable shift toward State-controlled media. Governor Christine Gregoire has approved a 40 percent tax cut for newspapers in her state.

This is the first subtle step in moving the already liberal mainstream media toward government control without actually seizing the presses themselves. For the past several months liberals throughout the country have been calling for a bailout of the newspaper industry. They have used a modified "too big to fail argument" saying that they are "too important to 'democracy' to fail".

What good does a tax cut do for an industry that's not making any income to tax? This is window dressing for currying favor with the libs in government. For instance, if a newspaper decides to run an expose on corruption in government or on a liberal darling like unions, all that the government has to do is threaten the newspaper's tax cut or bailout money. Story killed.

In the interest of full disclosure the newspaper industry itself is mostly against the bailouts. But one wonders as the industry gets closer to a fundamental shift in their business model and possible shutdown, will they knuckle under and take the money?

SOURCE: Seattle Times story

Well the other shoe has finally dropped: Arlen Specter has switched to the Democrat party. Republicans have known for years that Specter was a Republican-In-Name-Only (RINO). But today he made his party affiliation official.

Now Dems will say that this shows that the Republican party has lost its way or that it has become too extremist. But we conservatives know that this is a tired, old, pathetic Democrat in Republican clothing that has finally pulled the costume off. He was already in a battle for his Senate seat and he had no support from true Republicans. And since he was officially in the minority party he was no longer in charge of the Senate judiciary committee. We saw after 2006 how many Republicans "retired" because they no longer were the party in power.

Some Republicans may be scared that the Dems may now have the 60 vote majority that they had long sought. But they already had that since Specter usually voted with them. Now we can dispense with the whole idea of an incumbent Republican in Pennsylvania which usually holds a lot of weight in the primaries. Now Pennsylvanian voters can vote for a true Republican and we can start bringing this country back from the brink. Or better yet, vote Libertarian.

Yesterday across the nation ordinary citizens showed just how fed up they are with the reckless behavior of the U.S. Government. The main thrust of yesterday's TEA parties was that like in the days of the original Boston Tea Party we are being taxed without representation. What's more, our government is spending us into oblivion.

As I mentioned above these were ordinary citizens. However, you would not know that if you listened to the Mainstream Media. Initially they refused to even cover the TEA parties. Then when the story got to big to ignore they began treating the entire idea as laughable. They sneered and smirked and talked about these protesters as if they were some fringe element. And networks such as MSNBC called the participants derogatory names like “teabaggers”. For those of you that don't know it this is a reference to the male scrotum. Lovely isn't it?

A commentator on the aforementioned MSNBC treated protesters as idiots. She would make sarcastic statements about how the taxes paid by them were supporting the parks where the protests were held, and paid for the police and emergency services that oversaw the safety of the crowds. She deliberately missed the point. We are not just protesting high taxes, and we are certainly not protesting the use of those taxes on vital services. We are protesting runaway, insane spending of those tax dollars. And not only spending of the revenue the government already brings in, but spending of money we don't even have, so that our national debt is exploding and we in the thrall of nations like communist China. They even intimated that the parents that brought their children to the rallies to protest the fact that they would paying for this debt long after the parents are dead, were somehow abusing those children. It never bothered liberal anti-war protestors that would stick signs on their children with phrases like “Mr. Bush Please Don't Kill Me”.

But the most enlightening moment of all was during a CNN on-the-street interview where the reporter completely lost her professionalism and exposed something that Conservatives have said for decades: the news media is liberal. Props go to Libertarian Republican for showing the vid.

If the MSM is going to treat ordinary citizens with disdain and contempt, perhaps it's time for us to completely abandon all viewing of their product altogether.

The government is positively losing its mind trying to come up with new taxes and fees to cover lost revenue. Apparently they don't realize that one of the reasons that they have lost revenue is because people aren't making enough money to cover the taxes and runaway spending that politicians and bureaucrats keep perpetuating.

I have never been a big fan of former Alaska Senator Ted Stevens. He always had a reputation as a porker and he had the attitude of a wolverine with a tooth ache. But what happened to him last year was in my opinion, nothing less than a Democrat coup through the Department of Justice.

Just a few months after his loss in the Alaskan senatorial election and subsequent "conviction", the Department of Justice and a federal judge has set aside the conviction. The judge has also called for criminal contempt charges to be filed against the prosecution team from the case.

It was largely due to his indictment for the case that Stevens lost his long-held senate seat. At the time he was the longest, continuously serving Republican in the senate. It was considered by some pundits as a bellweather moment for the shift in power from Republicans to Demcrats. Considering the fact that it was largely due to this loss that the Dems were put into a near super-majority control of the senate, that I believe that liberal member of the DOJ actively sought to withhold evidence during the case to insure that he would either be voted out or convicted.

Let's hope that justice is served both criminally and politically.

SOURCE: Politico article

I am no fan of the Osbourne family. I didn't like their show on MTV and I have no intention of watching their new show on Fox. They are fouled-mouthed celebrities with nothing better to do than to waste the time of those who do watch their shows.

That being said I had to roll my eyes today when I read that the Parents Television Council has sicced the dogs on Fox because of the Osbourne's new variety show. This is one of the groups that sit around watching a television show or a movie so that "you won't have to". People in groups like this either don't agree with people of free-will or they don't know about the channel or power buttons on their remote control.

Now it's one thing if a group of concerned parents ban together to help other like-minded parents to filter what their own children see. It's quite another thing when these groups are too lazy to turn the channel or better yet turn off the TV altogether. When the latter is the case these types of organizations tend to try to use the police powers of the government to force networks and stations to stop showing content that they find objectionable. The interesting thing about these kinds of groups is that there are similar groups on both sides of the political aisle. However, they are equally dangerous.

For every conservative group like the Parents Television Council, there are at least an equal number of liberal groups, like Newshounds ("We watch Fox [News] so you don't have to"), that pop up on the left. They are both dangerous to free-speech, especially when they try to force a network to pull a show using the government as a tool, or when they try to recreate the falsely named "Fairness Doctrine" to allegedly give equal time to opposing viewpoints. One tries to eliminate what they feel is objectionable programming outright. The other tries to manipulate the rules in such a fashion as to make it nearly impossible to air content due to oppressive regulation and the need to give all opposing views equal air time, whether or not sponsors will buy time for those views or not. Both are dangerous in a free society because they stifle free expression.

SOURCE: E! Online article