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"Take a lesson," Westerners...


Christians are being murdered, persecuted and chased out of Muslim lands. If the roles were reversed, Christians attacking Muslims, the world would rightly be crying ethnic cleansing.

Here's what a "moderate" Pakistani imam had to say about the cold-blooded murder of a politician by his bodyguard.  The politician has defended a Christian woman against accusations of blasphemy:

They even went so far as to warn government officials and journalists that the “supporter is as equally guilty as one who committed blasphemy,” and so therefore they should all take “a lesson from the exemplary death” of Salman Taseer. (NY Post)

Are we able to take a lesson?

Pension and benefit packages threaten to collapse entire cities and states

Benefits packages for government workers are unsustainable, and we need to have a responsible discussion focused on the financial facts. The purported cupidity or sanctity of the pensioners has nothing to do with the facts on the ground. If someone opened the door to paradise, who among us would not walk in? So it's not about the people, it's about the fiscal mess we are now in.

We set up a system where people could grab with both hands while being completely insulated from the consequences.

What's the Answer?

Privatize it. City workers, teachers, auditors, logistics. This is not a knock against public servants. The good ones will get hired by the private sector and the bad ones will no longer be able to scam the system. End all government pensions and drive everyone to a 401K-type retirement plan. End all government health insurance plans and drive everyone to private insurance. End government disability programs; anyone who wants such protection can buy it in the public insurance market. These actions would put our federal, state and local governments on a pay as we go basis, reducing future unfunded liabilities.

Sound draconian? The private sector has already done it.

Further Reading:
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-01-03/snowplow-slowdowns-might-become-american-way-commentary-by-kevin-hassett.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/04/us/politics/04fiscal.html?_r=1&ref=todayspaper
http://pajamasmedia.com/victordavishanson/raging-against-them/?singlepage=true
http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2010/12/where_i_differ.html

Nugent Schools Rosanne Barr


Go here and watch Ted Nugent school Rosanne Barr

Notice how every time he shuts her down she moves on to another issue?

My favorite line was when the host said Obama had accomplishments before becoming president; he helped the people of Chicago, to which Uncle Ted replied:  "The people of Chicago don't look very helped to me"

Have a happy weekend!

Why Progressives Must Be Crushed Like Bugs

Daley to Ignore Supreme Court Slapdown on Chicago Gun Ban  

Richard Daley, owner of Chicago and Crime Boss of the Corrupt Democrat Machine that spawned Barack Obama, has announced he won't let an inconsequential thing like the US Constitution stop him from keeping guns away from law-abiding citizens.

The Supreme Court has reaffirmed our God-given right to keep and bear arms, but Chicago progressives are readying a series of fiery bureaucratic hoops a free man must jump through in order to defend himself and his family with a firearm.  I won't stink up this blog by listing them.  

Steve Chapman had this to say about progressive mistrust of personal freedoms:

But really: Whose judgment about the value of guns to law-abiding citizens do you trust? Ordinary people defending their homes against criminals? Or a public official who is shepherded to work each day by police officers?

Indeed.  He goes on to  point out that murders have soared since the gun ban's inception:

The reality that goes unpublicized by the mayor is that the weekend before the Supreme Court decision, at least 26 people in Chicago were shot, three fatally. The previous weekend, the victims numbered more than 50, with at least eight dying. 

Daley downplays the obvious fact that his ban hasn't spared the city from "the full scope of gun violence in America."

After all, the almost total prohibition passed back in 1982 didn't have the effects promised by supporters. It failed to eradicate handguns, of which the city has an estimated 100,000. Nor did the ban establish serenity in the streets. In the decade after it took effect, homicides soared.

This is why liberals can never be trusted to run things.   The right of a person to defend herself is a fundamental unalienable right.  Daley is either drunk with power or he is crazy.

Uncle Ted on Gun Control
And now for some constitutional sanity from the Motor City Madman (who wisely abandoned Detroit for Texas)...





* - Cross-Posted at Rational Nation

Another Stupid PSA: Come to the Forest!

Public Service Announcements really chap my hide!  They are nothing more than the feral government using our tax dollars to propagandize us

I'm not just bellyaching. My solution is at the bottom of this post.

Aggressive texting is bad...  Ask questions to protect yourself from predatory lenders...  Don't post naked pictures of yourself on the internet...  Bla bla bla.  Are we really so stupid we need to be told these things by a government that can't even balance its checkbook?

Come to the Forest!

I really hate that Come to the Forest PSA!  In one version, some booger slug that sounds like a bad droopy dog imitation tells this kid to come back to the forest where he can hug bugs and visit his friends the rocks and the trees. 

As if that weren't gay enough, another version features bright cheery people luring you to the forest for who knows what nefarious purpose.  The fruity background music sounds like something Barney Frank listens to when he's trolling in his lollipop mobile.

Back in my day, they would have used a Davy Crockett or Daniel Boone theme.  Maybe cowboys, or WW II soldiers killing huns in the Ardennes.  Something heroic that hearkens back to our American frontier spirit.  But nowadays it's all tree hugging and Pocahontas PC circle of life crap.

It ain't a proper Forest Service commercial unless it upsets liberals!  How about some Sara Palin and Uncle Ted?