The Parasite’s Manifesto

Now the “Occupy Wall Street” Movement wants to stage a “National Convention” in Philadelphia next summer so they can “air their grievances”. Among them:

1. All elections to be paid for by “the Public”, with no private monies used at all. Any contribution to a political candidate would be illegal.
2. Immediate reversal of the Citizen’s United case. Guess the 1^st Amendment can only apply to government sanctioned communication.
3. Single payer health care. Paid for by somebody else, ‘natch.
4. Giving the power to the EPA to shut down any business that “intentionally or recklessly damage the environment”, whatever that means.
5. Student debt relief.
6. Immediate passage of the Dream Act.

And it goes on and on. Typical trust funded stupidity from the Ivy League’s so-called best and brightest. Actions demanded without regards to consequences, sort of like spending $200,000 USD of other people’s money to get a degree in Women’s Studies. Nothing like dropping that kind of coin to graduate and find out that one is perfectly qualified to be a woman, regardless of gender.

Rubbish.

Obama losing Wall Street money

I know folks who work on The Street and the word has been for months that President Barack Obama (D- Beltway) has lost their support – not just their votes – but their money as well. In the latest fundraising report, employees at Goldman Sachs (I know, boo hiss) have contributed a mere $45,000 USD to the president’s re-election committee. Those same employees contributed more than $1 million USD in 2008. At the same time, Mitt Romney (R-MA) has raised more than $350,000. While it’s still early, things are not looking so good for the incumbent.

Dept. of Just Desserts

Looks like Lindsay Lohan is going to jail, again, this time for violating her probation. While the management of Davespeak has zero opinion of her guilt or innocence, there is a sense that laws should apply to everyone equally. Lohan broke the law, was convicted, and now must pay the price. Like all those butt-heads that speed through run red lights just after turn yellow to red, methinks Ms. Lohan thinks laws are just for other people.

Enjoy your new roommate, Ms. Lohan.

In God We Trust, all other have to pay with plastic

A little noticed law in Louisiana passed during the busy legislative session banned the use of cash for transactions of second hand goods.

The law states those who buy or sell second hand goods are prohibited from using cash. State representative Rickey Hardy co-authored the bill.

Hardy says, "they give a check or a cashiers money order, or electronic one of those three mechanisms is used."

Hardy says the bill is targeted at criminals who steal anything from copper to televisions, and sell them for a quick buck. Having a paper trail will make it easier for law enforcement.

"It's a mechanism to be used so the police department has something to go on and have a lead," explains Hardy.

Guidry feels his store shouldn't have to change it's ways of doing business, because he may possibly buy or sell stolen goods. Something he says has happened once in his eight years.

"We are being targeted for something we shouldn't be."

Besides non-profit resellers like Goodwill, and garage sales, the language of the bill encompasses stores like the Pioneer Trading Post and flea markets.

Paying by check at a yard sale? Nah, I’ll just keep my stuff in the attic. Forever.

Lions and tigers and bears! Oh my!

The owner of a “private zoo” apparently freed all this animals then killed himself in Zanesville, Ohio. Officials from the Muskingum County Sheriff’s office reported that the owner of the “zoo” let all the animals out of their cages, then killed himself with a gunshot to the head. The animals that were killed included 18 tigers, nine male lions, eight female lions, six black bears, three mountain lions, two grizzly bears, one baboon and two wolves. Some additional animals including three leopards, two monkeys and a grizzly bear were captured and taken to the Columbus Zoo.

Question: As a libertarian / conservative, please defend the practice of private citizens keeping dangerous, non-indigenous animals on their property. Discuss amongst yourselves.

Euro in trouble; watch your 401K turn back into a 201K

French President Nicolas Sarkozy warned that meetings this weekend could spell the end of the Euro. His Prime Minister, Francois Fillon echoed the need for some sort of end to the crisis saying “If we don’t succeed, Europe will be a great risk.”

All this is not a really a surprise, given that our Articles of Confederation – a lot less complicated but not a whole lot stronger – failed miserably. But I guess the Europeans could pull off a quasi-nation thingee that us dumb American’s couldn’t, because, well, they’re Europeans and so much more sophisticated that us.

Prediction: Germany pulls out; France vacillates, China rushes in, pretending to be America and Southern Europe (read “Portugal”, “Italy”, “Greece”, and “Spain”) sink like a stone. The big loser will really be China, who’s only been semi-Capitalistic for a few decades and will get burned because they think they smarter than everybody else.

GM to bankroll new Guy Ritchie remake of Cannonball Run?

While I loved the original in all its beloved campiness, the reports that government owned General Motors is in discussions to fund a new version of Cannonball Run will probably create yet another hearing in the House of Representatives. NO wonder they went Chapter 11 the first time. Stoopid.

Some Things Never Change Dept.

Dateline, Pyongyang North Korea -- The South Headquarters of the Pan-national Alliance for Korea's Reunification made public a statement in denunciation of the fascist oppression by the puppet group on Oct. 14.

The statement accused the authorities of inflicting heavy punishment on the former member of the National Reunification Committee of the South Korean Federation of University Student Councils on charges of the violation of the "National Security Law".

Thank God, somebody’s keeping an eye on those evil capitalist puppets in South Korea. Now, I can rest easy.

Obama Scandal watch v 1.6

The always interesting Ulsterman has an interesting Insider report. The nut: Fast and Furious may well have been designed as a way to advance some gun control legislation AND there might be a memo about it floating around. Straight to the audio tape:

Been told there is a memo, or was a memo, tying Fast and Furious directly to some kind of proposed gun control legislation or plan.  Not certain how developed it was.  Something that was pending.  The memo is a direct link between the program and the gun control issue. An entire coordinated effort that required people to be killed.  It is being talked about, but I have not seen it or spoken with anyone who has.  So who knows?  If it does exist and if [Darrell] Issa (R-CA) or someone comparable to him has it, then it implicates the administration at an entirely new level of corruption here.  We’re talking about people marching on the White House and throwing them out on their ass.

If this is the case – and this Insider, whoever he / she might be is usually right – then this is a really big deal. Rush has been mentioning this for more than a week.We’ll see, won’t we?

Okay, the 21^st Century is officially cool, as far as I’m concerned

Richard Branson has opened the world’s first commercial spaceport. That, coupled with the iPad, mean the sci-fi future of my childhood has finally arrived. And no, I don’t want a George Jetson brand flying car. The same butt head that cut me off on the expressway would be crashing into my house.

Manage your own friggin’ decline, mister

There is nothing more enraging that getting advice from complete losers that made a muck of everything. This piece from the Financial Times of London penned by Gideon Rachman, tells us here in The Colonies that we need to manage our national decline and that “Denial is not a strategy”. This is the same guy who, in 2008, advocated a world government along the lines of the EU. We all know how well that’s working out.

Well, as my old buddy Kevin P. once said, whilst living in jolly old England, “this is nothing more than the socialist underbelly of a former world power. A hundred fifty years ago, they ran the world. Now they’re just another Euro[trash] country. What a bunch of losers.”

And while the Mr. Rachman may have a point about the UK managing their decline – theirs was an empire of conquered territory – they still had a commonwealth that stood astride the whole world. However, since the 1950s, they’ve become, as T.E. Lawrence once said of the Arabs, a “little people”.

Your advice, while appreciated, will go unheeded, at least by Republicans.

Tell us how you really feel, Joe

Joe Klein, that genius that gave us Primary Colors, has just published this little gem:

Herman Cain strikes me as something of a jerk and an ignoramus.

Now, if anyone says that about President Obama, my suspicion is that the gates of Hell would open up and the every conventional MSM apparatchik would scream “BIGOT” in all caps. This however, is just par for the course when it comes to the MSM. Maybe, just maybe, I should cut and paste the entire piece, and replace Barack Obama for Herman Cain. Let’s see how well that goes over amongst the mouthbreathers.

Low flying planes over Burlington?

Apparently. Natives have reported that several “big, heavy transport” type planes flying low and circling over parts of Alamance County. While both the local constabulary and the local airport officials have no insight into the matter, there is the distinct possibility that these are the planes that President Obama uses to cart his “tour” (read “campaign”) buses around.

Krispy Kreme to expand internationally

Why should we have all the fun? Besides, don’t they have cops in other countries?

Missile Defense for the US.

My old man was a rocket scientist, for real. The last thing he told me before he started working on “black projects” was stuff wiped out by the Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty. He loved telling this story of how the Joint Chiefs of Staff were flown into Burlington, NC (through GSO, now PTI) in the 1960s to view the prototype of the fastest computer in the world. Humming along at a blazing seven (7) kilohertz, it could execute some 7,000 instructions in one second. This machine, and others like it, were to be the brainpower of the ABM network designed to protect the US from Soviet missiles.

Now, my Droid™ phone has a gigahertz processor and manipulates data faster than all the computers NASA used to land Apollo 11 on the moon. And, we still don’t have a really good solution to incoming missiles better than simply watching them land. While Soviets are gone and the Russians are as capitalist as we are, the new bad guys are the Iranians and they have missiles too. Do we need to spend mountains of dough we don‘t have to counter a threat that doesn’t yet exist? The folks at National Review think so. If we should spend the money, where should it come from? Which cabinet department should go away? Taxing the rich isn’t the right answer. There isn’t enough money there.

Speaking of cutting Cabinet agencies.

Presidential hopeful Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) says he wants to get rid of the Dept. of the Interior, Dept. of Education, Dept. of Commerce, Dept of Housing and Urban Development, and Dept. of Energy. He says it would save more than $1 trillion (yes, that’s supposed to be a “t”) a year. He would also slash taxes. Paul famously hates The Fed and would move to devolve power away from Washington to The States. Maybe it’s something to think about.

Maybe we need to abolish something whether or not we deploy a missile shield.

Federal spending is up 5% this year.

Cain over Obama?

So Scott Rasmussen says. I guess it’s the bigotry of the Tea Party folks that have catapulted the plain speaking former business exec and head of The Kansas City Fed ahead of The Anointed One. What you think? Personally, practically anybody would be better than Obama.

An 11 year old in college.

Okay, I admit it; I’m a pig. I sometimes watch Jersey Shore in part, to feel better about myself. However, there are times when regardless of my erudition, I feel stoopid (note the two “o’s”). Lucas Kramer is 11, nearly finished with high school, and spends more time than not, at college. Maybe he’ll run for president.

Seriously, good luck with all that.

Dan Wheldon RIP

I know a person who raced against Dan Wheldon and he was crushed by the news that Dan died in a horrific crash in the Indy Car™ race from Las Vegas on Sunday.

I know all the bromides about how racers know that what they do is insanely dangerous and that’s what they get paid for and all that. But there is no reason on Earth to have cars that are that fast on tri-ovals. Formula 1 cars go every bit as fast in straight lines, the straights usually end in hairpins or esses or something to slow things down. On a big fast tri-oval with no chicanes or anything else, they just go faster and faster and faster until somebody dies.

This weekend, it was Dan Wheldon.

The people at Indy Car need to stop thinking that their racing is just like NASCAR™ only faster. It’s not. Cup cars are big and heavy and have roll cages built in. Indy Cars are more like F1 insofar as they are open-cockpit and open-wheeled. And when they crash into the fence like Dan Wheldon did, it’s a death sentence. Enough is enough.

Hitler was alive as late as 1962?

So claims a pair of British authors. Gerrard Williams and Simon Dunstan allege in their new book Grey Wolf, that Hitler actually left Nazi Germany in a submarine (aided by the evil Americans, ‘natch) in exchange for access to German weapons technology. Of course there is a film the works. I’ll go see it if it has zombies.

Now that’s a “G” string.

From the “can’t you just chill” file, a Thai Scrabble player demanded that his opponent perform a strip search after the letter “G” was missing:

Furious Chollapat Itthi-Aree, from Thailand, demanded officials take Ed Martin, an IT consultant from London, to the toilet and search him believing he had the missing tile about his person.

The judges were disinclined to agree and let the match proceed. Itthi-Aree went on to lose the match by one point to his male opponent.

Beavis and Butt-head are back

I’m not sure is this the first or last sign of the apocalypse.

When you’ve lost the establishment limousine left, you’re toast.

It seems President Obama has lost the that bastion of the Limousine Left, Mort Zuckerman. For those of you folks in Alamance County, Mort Zuckerman is a really rich guy that owns a lot of big buildings in New York City as well as The New York Daily News and US News and World Report. This piece in The Wall Street Journal is a real hand-wringer, where he decries how America really needs leadership. Never mind that he personally penned the editorial in the NY Daily News exhorting his fellow New Yorkers to vote for Obama. Just saying.

Greeks to default?

Probably. The Euro banks have a lot more to fear that banks on this side of the pond, due mostly to the fact that Fed Chief “Helicopter” Ben Bernacke and TreasSec “Little” Timmy Geithner force dour banks to recapitalize in the wake of the Lehmann Bros. catastrophe. Still, everybody’s 401K will face some choppy times in the coming weeks.

From the “Aren’t you glad cops just don’t sit around and eat doughnuts” department.

Over the weekend, cops have apparently caught the people who stole an entire bridge that they were apparently going to sell for scrap metal. From the Pittsburg Post-Gazette:

Police said that Benjamin Arthur Jones, 24, and Alexander William Jones, 25, used a torch to tear apart the Covert's Crossing Bridge late last month or early this month. The bridge had been in North Beaver Township since at least the early 1900s and was worth an estimated $100,000.

The Joneses, both from New Castle, were being held in the Lawrence County Prison on $25,000 bail, according to court records. They face felony charges of criminal mischief, theft, receiving stolen property and conspiracy.

Some locals say the bridge was haunted by a young woman that often appeared on Prom Night. Other say, it was haunted by police who catch people what try to steal it.

There’s gold in dem dare hills.

Not exactly, but the price of gold is so high, folks in South Carolina are opening a closed gold mine, in the hopes of cashing in. Nice to remember that the first Gold Rush in the US was in North Carolina.

Cancer vaccine in the future.

Startling news out of Europe, where scientists seem to have linked 40% of all cancers to one form of virus or another. This, of course, leads to speculation that if cancer is caused by a virus, then it’s possible to control with a vaccine. That leads to a couple of questions:

1. If lung cancer is preventable via vaccine, can everybody start smoking again? And,
2. What happens to long term health / retirement funding if 40% of cancer patients never become cancer patients and therefore, don’t die from cancer. Discuss amongst yourselves.

I’m not sure this is a good idea.

Steven Seagal – yes, that Steven Seagal – has been appointed a Sheriff's deputy in Huspeth County, Texas near El Paso. Judging from the picture, he certainly knows where the local doughnut stand is located.

OMG, new Spock is gay.

Jeremy Quito, known for playing a young Mr. Spock in the latest Star Trek™ prequel has just come out of the closet. Don’t know what that means, so label this a factoid.

End of the world rescheduled for 21 October.

Mark your calendars. Harold Camping, the same genius who called for the End of the World last May on his Family Radio Network, has rescheduled the Big Throwdown. Thank goodness I won’t have to endure another season of Christmas shopping.

Why is President Obama sending troops to Uganda?

In a word: oil. Imagine that. Won’t lift a finger to drill here, but will send troops to the other side of the planet to defend somebody elses….And of course, the usual suspects are saying that George Soros’ fingerprints are all over it.