It's been nearly a year since I last posted something to this website. I wonder if I should just shut it down?

Operation Go Flag Yourself -- The dissent is really picking up speed. I wonder when Obama and his minions will crack down. How much will it hurt?

My email to flag@whitehouse.gov.

Dear Snitch Brigade,

I am bad. I am having impure thoughts about health care reform. I like the system we have. I WORK (shocking... I know) hard to make enough money to live a comfortable life AND PAY FOR THE EXCELLENT HEALTH CARE I RECEIVE...

See. Impure thoughts. I should be taken away to a re-education camp immediately. Please help.

Regards,

Mike Gauthier

Wow! What a cop out!!! Rep. Honda may have a very good reason for not having a face-to-face "townhall" meeting during this year's August recess, but I bet he doesn't. I bet he's simply hiding from answering to his well informed constituents.

Considering the landmark nature of this reform, I believe it is very important that a substantive discussion occur between neighbors, friends, families, and elected officials. This is why I am hosting a Telephone Town Hall on August 25, 2009 at 6:30pm. I would like to invite you to participate, and ask me your questions personally on one of the most important issues of our day: Healthcare reform.

. . .

My office will be randomly selecting a cross-sample of constituents to call, however, if you want to guarantee your involvement in this telephone town hall, please fill out this web form.

Random my ass. I'm going to submit my question and listen in, but I'm sure all I'll hear will be pro health care reform, softball questions. If I'm wrong, I'll eat my hat.

Mike Honda's Telephone Townhall August 2009

UPDATE: It looks like I may as well tell my concerns to the blank wall in front of me. After read this, I now understand the "telephone townhall" much better. He has absolutely no intention of listening to his constituents. I'll try anyway, but I'm not holding my breath.

I'm starting to agree with some of the sentiment out there that President Obama's pick for the Supreme Court, Sonia Sotomayor, may be a racist. Before you call me a racist because I'm a "white boy", read the god damn speech.

On top of that, I believe she's definitely showing signs of being a typical political neanderthal. What do I mean by political neanderthal? I'll let the 30th President of the United States explain for me.

It is often asserted that the world has made a great deal of progress since 1776, that we have had new thoughts and new experiences which have given us a great advance over the people of that day, and that we may therefore very well discard their conclusions for something more modern. But that reasoning can not be applied to this great charter. If all men are created equal, that is final. If they are endowed with inalienable rights, that is final. If governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, that is final. No advance, no progress can be made beyond these propositions. If anyone wishes to deny their truth or their soundness, the only direction in which he can proceed historically is not forward, but backward toward the time when there was no equality, no rights of the individual, no rule of the people. Those who wish to proceed in that direction can not lay claim to progress. They are reactionary. Their ideas are not more modern, but more ancient, than those of the Revolutionary fathers.

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Yet another reason not to trust the "news" on CBS.

'60 Minutes' Promotes $27-Billion Leftist 'Fraud' Efforts Against Chevron

I wonder if Chairman Obama will now sanction (read: tax by divine decree) Chevron for being ba-a-a-a-d.

January 20, 2009

President-elect Obama: "I do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States. So help me God."

Chief Justice John Roberts: "OK... Done."

Chief of Staff: "Mr. President. The North Koreans are threatening the South with war."

President Obama: "Shit. I need a cigarette."

President Bush: "HE HE HE... welcome to reality."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/southkorea/4288961/North-Korea-threatens-South-with-war.html

One thing I hate more than diarrhea... Apple fan boys. I'm sure they're falling for this all over the world.

Apple Introduces Revolutionary New Laptop With No Keyboard

Interesting blog over at the Telegraph. It seems the American Bishops are hammering Joe Biden over his ridiculous stance and comments on abortion.

• Joe Biden loses Barack Obama the Catholic vote

Read some of the comments. FREAKS!

I find it quite interesting that all who support abortion are alive.

Russian President Medvedev has called for a halt. Effectively a cease fire. Let's see how long it lasts. In the meantime, it should be interesting in what ways each party (Russia, Georgia, and America) claims "victory."

UPDATE: Or maybe not.

The most clear thing I've heard on the Georgian War to date. As posted to The Belmont Club by OldSalt.

I’d like to say that I’m shocked and amazed of the number of posters on this forum and others who treat this as some sort of internal dispute between a bully (Saakashvili) and an ethnic minority, with the Russians in effect doing a very bad thing, but probably the only thing they could do.

It’s the FSB/KGB playbook - period. Or, it’s the pre-WWII isolationist playbook, avoid foreign entanglements, and the such. Take your pick. Neither describes the real world as it is.

Then there is the absolute fantasy (no insult intended) of perhaps giving nucs to Georgia, of rushing the 82nd Airborne in to key points (followed by what? their reduction via 500 Russian tanks and local air power?), of blowing Iran to hell just because it might make Putin feel bad, or of miracle resupply of superman SOCOM operators changing defeat to victory overnight. It’s not happening, folks.

And of course, there’s the obligatory “it’s all about oil.. oil is bad.. oil causes war..”.

Let’s get serious here, people.

1. This is well planned, naked Russian aggression. The situation on the ground in S. Ossetia was and is irrelevant, and particularly so to Putin. The Russians identified Georgia as a strategic goal on their shopping list for national expansion, and they’re just going to take it. They want the black sea naval base, they want the oil pipeline, and they want the strategic military road network (Southern terminus of the Sukhumi Military Road, the Georgian and Ossetian Military Roads).
2. Putin is a man of great ambitions. He has already set Russia on a course to restore the USSR. If Gorbachav and Yeltsin were the authors of the USSR’s demise, Putin will be the father of a new Union. The FSB is back in full force. Putin has eliminated by force every potential political opponent as well as the free press. He has set a path of confrontation against the U.S. for the past five years, and has returned to the prior Soviet strategy of working to isolate and divorce American from Europe.
3. Energy: Again, lose the left-wing Al Gore storybook fantasy. Natural resources are a strategic concern, and oil is the top concern - bar none. He who controls the world oil supply (if it can be done), controls the world. Oil is not evil. Oil is freedom for America and the West. Those who would deny America access to oil only strengthen our enemies. Those who are enemies of “oil” are also enemies of freedom.
4. We need to view the current Russian campaign and a potential Georgian capitulation in the long view. My heart goes out to the Georgians, but as Saakashvili said, it’s in their hands now. Air superiority, 500 tanks a 5:1 advantage in troops trumps anything the Georgians will put in the filed. Much as France and Eastern Europe were lost in the early days of Hitler’s Blitzkrieg, Georgia may very well be lost to Russian. It’s is vital for the future of Georgia that the nucleus of their leadership and military not share the fate of the Polish military officers and families in the Katyń Forest. They are not fighting for territory, but for survival.

The world cannot wish away tyrants. While America might be able to ignore an insignificant little dictatorship minutes from her shore (that would be Cuba, folks), we cannot ignore a reinvigorated, rearming, territory-hungry Russia, a man of continental ambitions such as Chavez, or a lunatic such as Iran’s Ahmadinejad.

The first lessons I learned and took to heart during my Navy officer training was America’s position in the world as an island nation, the importance of “free sea lanes of communication”, and the value of power projection versus playing defense from one’s own back yard. We need to recognize Putin’s game. We would tend to think “limited excursion”, because the west simply could not fathom a nation state seizing control of another nation state by force. WE would not do it, not in Iraq, not in Iran, not in post WWII Europe, so certainly, no other civilized society would do so. Banish that thought from your FSB-confused little minds, and look at the facts as we know them.

Russian is making it’s move, and Putin will not stop unless stopped. He may not have the remilitarized society he needs to fulfill his ambitions, but he’s been moving methodically to put those pieces in place. A lot of planes, tanks, and submarines can be put into service in 2-3 years, if a country has the will to do so, and the petro-rubles.

We need to think in terms of a long term, military campaign. It may be a cold war, it will certainly be a hot one at times, but it’s not our choice and yet it’s coming. Whether Obama or McCain is the next President is now a pivotal issue. I really do not have a dog in that hunt, i.e. I can support neither candidate based on their history. However, at this point, the fantasy-world-view of the Democrats may prove fatal for America’s future security.

You want change that you can believe in? Well, ask a Georgian about the relevant value of change. It’s time to get real, America.

Follow this most excellent thread at The Belmont Club.