Don’t Forget To Thank ObamaCare For Further Societal Collapse

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by Smitty

Via Insty, we have Chateau Heartiste

Men don’t “treat women as toys”. Men get the sex while the getting’s good because women allow — nay, PREFER — themselves to be toyed with by the kinds of men who are good at it.
In other words, Mr. Bennett, women GET EXACTLY THE KINDS OF MEN they deserve. Even more dispiriting to your conception of the universe, women get the men they WANT.

Now, for a quick bit of Google, knowing that the buried details may be for better or worse, consider, emphasis mine:

The first sort of marriage penalties affects low- and middle-income couples who would get their insurance without employer assistance but with government subsidies. The penalties accrue through the “caps” on premiums. In the House plan, an unmarried couple living together with each earning $25,000 would pay no more than $3,076 in combined premiums each year. If the same couple got married, their annual cap would skyrocket to $5,160 – a 68 percent punishment just for saying “I do.” (The penalty in the Senate bill is slightly lower, at 48 percent.)

Now, if you’re a serious SoCon, you know that your marriage is a religious expression of destiny in your life. A government mugging for the privilege of the sacrement is just another brick in pharaoh’s pyramid.

Too, if you think that marriage is something the government should regulate, then maybe families need to pay more, as they could lead to children, which are not cheap, if The World’s Youngest Bloggers bills are indicative. And he’s a stout lad.

No, the real point to be garnered here is that the federal government Has. Precisely. Zero. Validity. In. Doing. This.

Marriage is not an interstate consideration, but tampering therewith, and offering significant financial savings for shacking up, is going to increase shacking up dramatically among those for whom marriage is not the biggest religious issue.

I guess if your goals are to destabilize American society, so that there is increased demand for social workers, this may all be part of the plan. We’ll probably get more blog posts bemoaning the fact that the boys, lacking married fathers in a family setting, no longer recall how to be men.

First Weekend In November:
Defending The American Dream Summit

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by Smitty


A few heads will be attending, among them are a few with whom I hope to score photos:

  • Mark Levin, Radio Host
  • Herman Cain, Businessman and GOP presidential hopeful
  • Judge Andrew Napolitano, Fox News Senior Judicial Analyst
  • Jonah Goldberg, New York Times best selling author
  • Andrew Breitbart Conservative commentator and author
  • Ken Cuccinelli Virginia Attorney General
  • James O’Keefe, Conservative film maker

Sure, listening to red meat speeches in person is kind of inspirational. However, I’d argue the real value is getting to meet other bloggers and readers. The internet and blogs has first and foremost meant that politics is not a spectator sport. You can, indeed you really must, join the chorus, have fun, and let the Ruling Class Overlords know that we’re Americans, not a beat-down pack of Russian serfs who are going to let the nomenklatura run roughshod over us.

Look forward to seeing you there.

Muslim Calls Republicans ‘Extremists’; Muslim Extremist Attacks U.S. Embassy

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Those doggone extremists!

October 28th, Tampa Bay Online posts a column by Hassan Shibly, J.D., a Muslim activist and the executive director of CAIR-Tampa, calling Adam Hasner and Allen West extremists. A few hours after this column is posted a Muslim gunman, in Sarajevo, Bosnia opens fire on the American embassy. . . .
According to Reuters, “The gunman was wounded by a police sniper during the attack in Sarajevo’s busy downtown, in which a police officer was seriously wounded and shop workers scrambled for cover. Bosnian television identified the man, bearded and carrying a Kalashnikov assault rifle, as 23-year-old Mevlid Jasarevic, a Serbian citizen from the mainly Muslim town of Novi Pazar.”

CAIR says it is “extremist” to be concerned about Islamic extremism and yet, every day, jihadis around the world are plotting to kill Americans.

Aren’t you glad Saqib Ali and Khuram Zaman warned you about “an extremist right-wing blogger” speaking today in Annapolis, Maryland?
 

 

Saqib Ali and Khuram Zaman Want You to Know That I’ll Be in Annapolis Saturday

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There is no such thing as bad publicity:

In light of the recent report by the Center for American Progress, “Fear Incorporated: The Roots of the Islamophobia Network in America,” which exposed the $42.6 million industry that fuels the Islamophobia infrastructure in America, American Muslims have begun to challenge this grassroots movement by waging their own counter-grassroots movement. . . .
This national trend is being played out in Annapolis, Md., this weekend. On Oct. 29, the Maryland Conservative Action Network will host the Turning the Tides conference, and they are facing protest due to the involvement of Frank Gaffney and several other leading Islamophobic speakers. Former Maryland Delegate Saqib Ali, along with Khuram Zaman, a social media activist, are organizing a coalition to raise awareness about the event to Maryland residents. Zaman and Ali have partnered with Equality Maryland, CASA de Maryland, the Islamic Society of Annapolis, the Muslim Public Affairs Council, and the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) in denouncing the Turning the Tides conference. . . .

Read the whole thing. I’m mentioned — or rather, denounced — in the context of my alleged hatred of “beaners” and “faggots,” the sarcasm of my mock-xenophobic humor during the 2010 World Cup tournament evidently not being appreciated by Ali and Zaman.

People who cite Little Green Footballs as a source are usually suffering from Humor Deficiency Syndrome, and efforts to provide them a clue (e.g., “Soccer May Be Gay, But  At Least It’s Not Canadian” ) are futile.

So let’s be grateful for the left-wing idiots providing free publicity for Saturday’s conference at the fabulous Doubletree Hotel in Annapolis. In addition to such famous personages as Lord Monckton, Frank Gaffney and WMAL radio’s Fred Grandy, the Maryland Conservative Action Network’s “Turning the Tides” Conference will feature a New Media panel, moderated by Jim Jamitis (Anthropocon), Jimmie Bise Jr. (Sundries Shack), Mark Kreslins and Joshua Lyons (The Forgotten Men) and . . . me, “an extremist right-wing blogger” according to HuffPo.

Annapolis, Maryland, is a historic and scenic location, about a 45-minute drive from Baltimore, less than an hour from Washington, D.C., two-and-half-hours from Philadelphia, etc. Saturday’s conference begins at 8 a.m., I speak at 2:45 p.m., and conference registration is $75. If you’re a regular reader who lives within driving distance, I hope to see you there.

And if you’re Saqib Ali and Khuram Zaman . . . OK, I resisted the temptation to make a joke there, but only because I’m saving the punchline for Saturday. Be there!

P.S.: I haven’t seen any of that “$42.6 million” that HuffPo says “fuels the Islamophobia infrastructure in America,” and I’ve got to rent a car and drive 175 miles round-trip. So please: Hit the freaking tip jar!





Is The EBT The BHO Ticket?

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by Smitty

According to Soopermexican, “My EBT” is the new BHO campaign theme:

“My EBT” represents a renewed commitment to Economics, after the retirement of its predecessor, “Because I Got High”:

“My EBT” has met some blowback from the #OWS crowd because it, admittedly, takes a step in the direction of math. Administration officials were quick to point out that the scary numbers where mostly contained within the little swipe gadget, and the 4-digit pin is merely an identifier. You just punch them in to finish the transaction. You don’t really have do throw any operators at them.

Cain HQ: ‘Crazy, Hectic, But Fine’

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“Cain’s success represents a journey into uncharted political waters, like an ancient explorer sailing off toward the part of the map where the legend reads, ‘Here Be Dragons.’ “
— Robert Stacy McCain, The American Spectator, “Herman Cain Sails Into Uncharted Seas”

Admit it: If Herman Cain decided to call it quits tomorrow, what he has accomplished in the past 10 months would still be an achievement of historic proportions. A guy who began the campaign as “Herman Who?” has, against all odds and despite the active opposition of the GOP Establishment, emerged as the legitimate national front-runner, with barely nine weeks to go before the Iowa caucuses Jan. 3.

Having already accomplished what no one ever believed he could, Herman Cain must now turn this astonishing phenomenon into the kind of campaign that can actually win the Republican nomination and then go on to defeat Barack Obama next November.

Everybody who knows anything about politics keeps saying that this can’t possibly happen and yet . . . Continue reading Cain HQ: ‘Crazy, Hectic, But Fine’ →

Whittle Explores The General Welfare And Commerce Clauses, The Peanut Butter And Chocolate Of The Left

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by Smitty

Click to enjoy:

Yet another polished exposition from Bill, this time the specifics of how the context of two tiny phrases in the Constitution have been used substantially to obviate the rest of the document.

Watch, but more importantly, share with those who are still semi-conscious about the current danger to all we hold dear.

Via Ken Gardner this post at Heritage points out that revenues at the Treasury are relatively constant, compared to the malignant tumor-like growth of spending. This is the issue: federal growth, in terms of debt, deficit and over-regulation of the economy. This is why presidential candidates who are not discussing the amputation of vast swaths of Leviathan are not terribly impressive right now.

Sometimes The Gadgets Pay Off

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by Smitty

For whatever reason, the shift to a different host isn’t playing well with the blog. The details are messy, but a browser request going from http://theothermccain.com to a readable blog post involves an awful lot of fragile steps. And that’s when everything works correctly. When you get shenanigans like what OWS Exposed is dealing with, where the network currently points you back to ‘home’, 127.0.0.1, it gets even harder.

Now, I’m not as cool as OWS Exposed. My problem is likely some stale cache data somewhere between me and the blog that will expire soon enough. I’d like to think that Wasted Away Again In My ObamaVille was sufficiently odious to merit special attention. However, I’m not that special. If I was, the resulting nuke would likely hurt more.

What I do have is a Samsung Galaxy S II backed by T-Mobile’s 4G service. Even though Android phones and Mac OS X go together like real-world Economics and Paul Krugman (which is to say they get along poorly), you can set up the Galaxy SII as a wireless router, and connect the Mac to the phone via WiFi. Open protocols spank proprietary stuff like Econom–wait, I already played the Krugman card.

The bad news about the Galaxy SII is that it’s tantamount to a laptop computer, and that shows in the battery life. Maybe I can configure it to blow through the charge more slowly, but it has got legs past a day. So one keeps the USB cable and wall adapter handy.

Then, I finally grasped the hint from @_scarymatt_ and pointed my DNS to 4.2.2.2 down at UNC. I’m all using vi to edit /etc/resolv.conf, until I read the comment that said that, yeah, the text file is more of a report than a useful reference, and went in through the System Preferences GUI.

Because knowledge is really helpful, except for when it becomes a stumbling block.