The Rabid Conservative

Call me crazy, but I think one of these basketballs would be a really good thing:

Turns out, over the weekend during the Easter Egg Roll activities at the White House, there was a basketball clinic featuring pro b-ball players. And you know, it can only be an Obama event with something that draws attention to El Presidente’s “awesomeness”.

Gak.

In any case, though, here’s how I think an Obama basketball might be actually a good thing to have:

5. That way, we all can pretend that it’s his head that’s being bounced around – a prospect that would be great stress relief, particularly over the high gas prices, exploding national debt to which Obama promised he wouldn’t add a single dime, and the insanity of bilking millionaires for 30% of their earnings, just because Warren Buffet says so.

4. It would look like just like Obama’s approval rating.

3. It would remind us of how Obama tries to govern, driving down the center, pissing everyone off.  (hat tip: Letterman)

2. It reminds us of the classic excuse for why the Utah Jazz, Orlando Magic, or the Phoenix Suns never won an NBA title, a team in “transition”.  I say transitioning from bad to worse.

1. It would make a video like this, which one would think couldn’t get any funnier, hysterical:

Stay rabid, my friends.

Howard Stern interviewed Elle MacPherson, recently on his show (if you call that mess a “show” and not an exhibit to debauchery, but once in a while (a great while), we see something interesting.

HOWARD STERN: Who should be the next President of the United States Elle MacPherson, go ahead.

ELLE MACPHERSON: I think Obama’s going to do it.

STERN: You like Obama?

MACPHERSON: Yeah, I’m living in London and I’m socialist. What do you expect?

STERN: And you’re living in London and you sense what other foreigners feel. Do they like him?

MACPHERSON: I think foreigners like him. He’s very popular.

STERN: Don’t we look good having a black president and everything? Makes us kind of cool.

MACPHERSON: I think it’s more about his policy. But you know there are I understand that there are a lot of people who don’t, you know, don’t want change. “We want change. We want change.” And he says, “I’ll implement change,” and you go, “Oh, actually, I don’t bleeping feel like I want change. It’s too difficult.”

Now, I’m not all that amazed that MacPherson calls herself a socialist; that doesn’t bother me in the slightest.  All looks and no brain, well, that’s the standard fare for a supermodel, methinks.  But what’s funny is that she likes Obama because she’s a socialist, yet, Obama doesn’t believe himself to be a socialist.

Plenty of times throughout his early presidency, Obama has deflected claims that he is a socialist or that his policies are “socialistic”.  Yet, when we look at some of his policies, he continuously defers to increasing the size and scope of government because he doesn’t believe in the power of the individual.  His arrogance simply tells him that raising taxes on the rich, taking more and more from people (and particularly, the rich) to allow more and more to hook up to the government spigot.  Or do we need yet another review of ObamaCare, Cash for Clunkers, and his current tax plan?

So Obama is not a socialist; he just advocates for things that socialists, like Elle MacPherson, the Occupy crowd (which is raising it’s ugly head again, now that the weather is getting warm) and people like Hugo Chavez really like.  Never mind the comments about “spreading the wealth” around, or some of those lofty comments about how we all have to “work together for our collective salvation”.  Obama isn’t a socialist…

…but Elle likes him anyway.

Someone’s drinking something…with a little more kick than Kool-Aid.

Well, after 244 years, just four years shy of the amount of time it takes for Pluto to complete a solar orbit, the Encyclopedia Britannica is calling it quits to the dead-tree print versions that have been placed on bookshelves in just about every library known to man. I guess the question of note is whether this is a good thing or not.

Sure, we are amassing more information today through digital and online means than we have ever before. And while Britannica will still live on as a digital version, one wonders if its end is an end to a way that many kids discovered the world around them.

Turns out, I grew up reading encyclopedias. I was rather bored with television for the most part, so I passed many hours with an encyclopedia in my lap, reading the articles and leapfrogging from one article to the next. From lightbulbs to Otto Lillienthal, Constitution to coral, Tchaikovsky to turtles (not the ninja ones either), I filled my mind with short articles of things, using the pre-cable version of the Discovery channel. I often miss those days, even though the encyclopedia that I read in my youth was a 1969 version – and I’m an 80′s child.

Yeah, I know the pragmatic reason for this move – we live in a world today where it only takes about one minute for a bit of news occurring in Belarus to be on the boards in Boston. A riot breaks out in Cairo and Chicago can get near real-time coverage of the event. But I kind of wonder if we’re losing something with all of this.

I’ve watched newspapers shrink and diminish into nothing because the news that I want to read is more readily available through an aggregation web site (which Germany for some obscure reason wants to tax) than it is through my local print paper. Interestingly, the paper boy tried to sell me a subscription to the paper based on the merits of all the circulars and coupons I could get. Yet, I told him that I can do better shopping online too. Sorry kid.

In any case, I’m not so overly sure why I felt the need to write this article, it’s not of the usual fare that we get around here at The Rabid Conservative, but I guess it just illustrates

More on the downside, Britannica won’t deliver a paper version of the article that details the end of Obama’s presidency. You know, I could read that article over and over and over again.

I guess I’ll just have to get that online too.

Stay rabid, my friends.

President Obama just showed us all, once again, how truly evil and immoral liberalism is. He spent yesterday celebrating how wonderful abortion is, how there is a ‘fundamental constitutional right’ and how it is precious to protect so-called ‘reproductive rights and the right to choose’.

First off, there is no fundamental constitutional right to abortion. Where the heck does the Constitution guarantee a woman to kill her baby? I’ve read the constitution lots of times and there is nothing in there about aborting a fetus, reproductive rights, or a right to choose what a woman does with her own body. The Constitution is a document that limits what the government can do, not permits the government to make allowances, just because the text doesn’t actually forbid it. Liberals love a “living Constitution”, but hate life, unless it’s “convenient”.

Second, the Declaration of Independence discusses the fundamental rights of man, life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. I maintain that this is an ordered list. This means life trumps all, before liberty, before the pursuit of happiness. The pursuit of happiness should never override someone else’s liberty and liberty should never override someone else’s life.

Now, if someone willingly gives their own life for the cause of liberty, that is definitely honorable. But abortion is about sacrificing the baby’s life for the mother’s liberty – and that is detestable.

So, with this milestone of nearly 55 million dead as the result of the holocaust of abortion, I’m going to throw out a series of points that focus on truth, not illusions.

1. The left has made a massive effort to disguise the entire idea sing flowery language such as ‘reproductive rights’ and ‘a woman’s right to choose’ while completely ignoring the life of the baby. I agree that a woman has a right to choose, but maybe she should have chosen to keep her knees together in the first place. No, this isn’t about choice, it’s about having unrestricted sex and not having to face the consequences of that decision.
2. The left calls the pro-life ‘anti-abortion’ as if that’s actually a bad thing. The thing is, if we are ‘anti-abortion’, then they are ‘anti-life’. There is nothing good about destroying life out of convenience – that’s among the highest orders of evil of which humanity is capable.
3. And for all of you drones out there that start talking about the ‘big three’, rape, incest, maternal peril, let me remind you again of the statistics. Less than 5% of all the 1.2 million baby killings in this country are as a result of rape, incest, or maternal peril. But yet, the left keeps throwing this back up in our faces as if this is the majority. That’s a red herring folks. Blood red.
4. Obama makes the point that the government should not interfere in private family matters, and for the most part, I agree. However, in a situation where a family member kills another family member, you can bet that the government, law enforcement, will definitely be involved. A person cannot choose to kill another member of their family and get away with it. So why do we allow it, just because a certain family member has not passed through the birth canal and been born?
5. More of that flowery language stuff, it’s not ‘killing babies’, it’s ‘aborting the fetus’. Because it’s not a “baby”, it’s a “fetus”. (did anyone ever tell these morons that “fetus” is Latin for “baby”. Interestingly when a so-called pro-choicer is pregnant and wants to have the child, she calls it a baby, not a fetus or some other diminishing term.
6. I wonder what would happen if the fetus had a chance to speak on his/her own behalf, what THEY would choose? When a person cannot voice their wishes, it’s generally within the context of the law that we err on the side of safety and caution. But abortion says that the baby’s life is forfeit unless someone else decides it has a right to live.

So there it is – the 39th anniversary of one of the most devastatingly evil pieces of legislation this country has ever known. 55 million dead. Isn’t that worth celebrating?

Every once in a while, we write one of these – just a random smattering of news stories that are barely worth a full blog post, but when put them all together, it makes enough of one.  A long time ago, a fellow brick-throwing blogger started a tradition and I think it’s high time to let tradition have its due – again. 

` Chelsea Clinton returns to the media spotlight as a journalist.  – Oh goodie.  Another reason not to watch NBC.  Why the heck is this even in the news?  What relevance does the young Ms. Clinton have anyway?  The sad part of this article is that the writer talks about the young Clinton running for Congress.  That’s a face-palm moment there.

Obama: It really doesn’t matter who the GOP nominates – of course it doesn’t, because any Republican with a pulse can beat you, Mr. President.  Your socialistically driven nonsense, wasted cronyism spending, and lack of leadership has made it so that any Republican could beat you.  And you are right, Mr. President, most all Republicans have a different vision than you – one where less government and lower taxes with reduced government spending rule the day.

Now this is just funny – turns out that General Hossein "Salami" is saying that Iran won’t return the drone that they captured from the US, boasting about their intelligence program.  Actually, that would be classified as a stroke of luck because for that one that malfunctioned and you found, there are about twenty more taking pictures of those mud-shacks you call houses.  Of course, any military that has a person called "salami" as a General only invites additional ridicule – after all, I guess when a guy’s entire family is named after a sandwich meat, one must resort to silly saber-rattling in order to get some respect. 

Salami with sharp cheddar cheese and a glass of tea….yum.

Of course, General, if you keep up with all this “hostile act” talk, you might find yourself much like “Baghdad Bob”.

That’s enough for now…more to toss later, as I read more nonsensical news.

This has got to be the most awesome picture I’ve seen all week and company policy statement I have seen all year.

West Georgia business owner Bill Looman of US Crane, LLC  is one of many very frustrated business owners who simply cannot hire people because the government’s insane policies, inabilities to balance its books, and the looming threat of Obamacare are slamming the door on the ability for small biz owners to add new people to the payroll.

Watch out, Bill.  The Occupy rabble may end up in your parking lot complaining about how you’re part of the problem.  But if they put up a tent, you can always use a crane and lift it away.

Today, North Carolina governor Bev Perdue made the stupid

"I think we ought to suspend, perhaps, elections for Congress for two years and just tell them we won’t hold it against them, whatever decisions they make, to just let them help this country recover. I really hope that someone can agree with me on that…you want people who don’t worry about the next election." – Gov. Bev Perdue

Actually, Bev, we do.  We want Congressional members and elected officials to quake in their boots (or wing-tipped shoes) over the notion that they are going to get the voter-sponsored ouster from office.  This is precisely the reason why we have elections – because if they do something in office that the public does not like, the people have the right to remove them from office.  This is a very sacred thing in our Republic.

We all get the gist of why Ms. Perdue made her statement – because Congress members are so worried that they might be elected out of office that they are consumed with that, rather than doing the business of legislating. 

However, for her to even make that statement, even in jocularity, shows that she might not have much reverence for the structure of our country. 

Democrats and Republicans are in general agreement these days that Congress is basically dysfunctional because of partisan bickering and political posturing.  However the bigger question at present is before the Democrats – how will 2012 affect Democratic chances for any sort of significant piece of the political action from 2013-2015?  Right now, President Obama is losing his base in droves.  Democratic senators in 17 races are looking like they might have to face significant opposition – some of which will lose.  With only four seats needed to take control of the Senate, it looks like Thanksgiving next year is going to be really dismal for the Democrats.  And if New York HD9 indicates anything, the Democrats are in real trouble.

Perdue’s comment represents the emerging frustration of Democrats as they see their chances to further their agenda slip away and that’s got to be crushing because they are squandering their opportunities that they have for a shot at the future and that shot is becoming less possible.

Not that I’m complaining because the Democrats have done far enough.

Yet another racist representative has marginalized herself with silly rants about how the world is unfair to people who have melanin in their skin.  Today, Rep Fredrica Wilson (D-FL) griped about how the unemployment rate was due to racism and blamed the Tea Party, calling them the enemy (and racists too).

She yammered on about how the Tea Party is singularly focused on making Obama a one-term president.

I only have one word for her:  DUH!

We Tea Partiers never wanted Obama to begin with.  We warned you about how he was going to sink the economy with his stupid liberal progressivism and he proved us right.  We warned how he would be weak on terror and we were again proven right – even though he was never able to deliver on any sort of exit strategy for Iraq and Afghanistan, although he griped about it during the campaign.  And despite his promise to close down Gitmo, well, that didn’t happen either.  I guess that’s because keeping it open wasn’t such a bad idea.

So, yes, Ms. Wilson, we want Obama to go down in history as a one-term loser like Jimmy Carter.  We want Obama to fail, because, like Rush said, America succeeds when Obama fails.  More essentially, we just want Obama to go down.

By the way, what the crap is with her stupid looking red hat?  I mean, how on earth is anyone supposed to take you seriously when you’re wearing a costume that you would wear when sitting for a photo at Glamour Shots?

You really need to fire your wardrobe advisor – or get one if you’re the one putting that get-up on.

What a moron.  Good people of Florida, vote her out.  Instead of answers, she provides gripes and blame.  That is totally useless.

Kinda like her hat.  Man she’s stupid looking.

I really can’t believe Bam said it.  I just can’t. 

Obama: ‘reversed recession until bad luck hit’.

Holy crap.  Really?? 

I’m firmly convinced now that whenever Bam tells a lie, his ears grow.  Good one, Obamanocchio.

Hell may be freezing over; it’s pretty crazy when Obama gets a bad review from Maureen Dowd

I’ve never been a big fan of Maureen Dowd – most of her stuff is nothing more than liberal nonsense written as balanced reporting, at least as far as the New York Times is concerned.

But it seems that the cruiseliner called Hope and Change may be on its way to the bottom of the ocean and now we’re seeing liberals realizing what we conservatives have known since before Obama took office – that he’s all smoke and mirrors. 

I won’t read the article she wrote to you – I’ll just post it here: President Obama’s Downgrade Blues. But I will quote one blurb from it and let you make your own judgments.

Barack Obama blazed like Luke Skywalker in 2008, but he never learned to channel the Force. And now the Tea Party has run off with his light saber.

I guess That One is glad it was only a plastic toy…