ObamaCare in one sentence

This just HAS to go viral...I laughed my ass off.


Illinois, repent of your sins in sending that thing to the White House and vote for this woman!

(HT TSM)

Far be it from me...

...to say 'I told you so,' but...well, I did.

ROMNEY AIN'T GONNA REPEAL SHIT.

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, who has called for scrapping President Barack Obama's 2010 U.S. healthcare law, said in remarks aired on Sunday that he likes key parts of "Obamacare" despite his party's loathing of it and wants to retain them.

Romney, who faces Obama in the Nov. 6 election, has vowed throughout the campaign to repeal and replace the Obama healthcare law. But asked about the Obama healthcare law on NBC's "Meet the Press" program, Romney said, "Well, I'm not getting rid of all of healthcare reform."

The little bitch is already waffling, but what do you expect from the architect of ObamaCare Beta?  It's not enough that his Master Plan destroyed the economy of Massachussetts--now that the USSC has ruled it legal, he's going to make sure it annihilates the last tattered vestiges of the American Republic as well.

But go ahead.  Vote for this punk.  After all, he's SO much different than Obummer.  We'll 'hold his feet to the fire...'

...somehow.

Immoral, illegal and unConstitutional

I refer, of course, to the ATF, an agency that simply has no Constitutional justification for its existence.  (Neither does the DEA, but we'll cover that another time.)

Brought to you by our friends at Sipsey Street, we have this article that--if true--shows us just how deep "Fast & Furious," aka "MurderGate" goes.

You sometimes meet the most interesting people at the gun range. Recently, I initiated a conversation with a fellow who turned out to be a retired ATF agent. Naturally, I brought up the subject of the foul operation known as Fast and Furious. To my surprise, this fellow stated that an operation such as Fast and Furious is just one part of a 3-part ongoing procedure. Fast and Furious, according to this retired ATF agent, was developed to discredit firearms dealers. If guns purchased in the US “walked” across the southern border and wound up in the hands of drug cartel members, then ATF would have cause to put even more restraints on firearms retailers while at the same time giving the ignorant public a poisoned view of gun shops and gunsmiths.

Second part of ATF’s discrediting procedure is to put an undue strain on manufacturers and importers and in some cases, actually put them out of business. The way they perform this neat little trick is by coming up with rules and regulations that are completely arbitrary.

Third part in the procedure is to “examine” and “test” firearms to make sure they comply with the Gun Control Act of 68, the National Firearms Act and whatever other federal law may apply. This is aimed at the individual gun owner, who is then arrested and prosecuted based on what comes out of the ATF lab.

RTWT.  It's not a damn 'mistake.'  It's a cold, sociopathically-calculated plan to disarm the American people, regardless of who suffers and/or dies in the process.

Your tax dollars at work.  Don't it make ya proud?

So this is how it happened...

No horror movie could possibly be as chilling as this four-minute clip from Anthony Antonello(HT Wirecutter), which demonstrates the same thought processes that must have been widespread in Germany during the establishment of the Third Reich.


Just get in the cattle car, citizen.  Don't worry about the dirt, you'll be able to 'shower' when you get where you're going.

Praise the Lord!

Pastor Youcef Nadarkhani is not only alive, but FREE!!

Story at the Last Refuge:

Iranian Pastor Youcef Nadarkhani, who was originally sentenced to death in his native country for his Christian faith, was acquitted of apostasy charges and released from custody.

Nadarkhani, 32, was imprisoned for three years and waiting execution for refusing to renounce his Christian faith. His charges were lowered to evangelizing to Muslims, which carried a three-year sentence. He was released with time served, according to the American Center for Law and Justice, a Washington-based watchdog group that had been campaigning for the pastor’s release.

“Today our sources in Iran reported that Pastor Youcef was acquitted of apostasy and released from prison. After languishing in prison for almost three years, he has been reunited with his family,” Jordan Sekulow, executive director of ACLJ said in a statement to FoxNews.com.

And God bless all those folks who prayed, wrote, called, protested and refused to let this go.

Government theft...

...otherwise known as "asset forfeiture."  And now the ATF is ramping it up.

The Obama administration is making it easier for bureaucrats to take away guns without offering the accused any realistic due process. In a final rule published last week, the Justice Department granted the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) authority to “seize and administratively forfeit property involved in controlled-substance abuses.” That means government can grab firearms and other property from someone who has never been convicted or even charged with any crime.

It’s a dangerous extension of the civil-forfeiture doctrine, a surreal legal fiction in which the seized property — not a person — is put on trial. This allows prosecutors to dispense with pesky constitutional rights, which conveniently don’t apply to inanimate objects. In this looking-glass world, the owner is effectively guilty until proved innocent and has the burden of proving otherwise. Anyone falsely accused will never see his property again unless he succeeds in an expensive uphill legal battle.

Such seizures are common in drug cases, which sometimes can ensnare people who have done nothing wrong. James Lieto found out about civil forfeiture the hard way when the FBI seized $392,000 from his business because the money was being carried by an armored-car firm he had hired that had fallen under a federal investigation. As the Wall Street Journal reported, Mr. Lieto was never accused of any crime, yet he spent thousands in legal fees to get his money back.

Will someone please explain how 'property' can commit a crime?

Undercover Prog!

Peter Schiff is our side's James Bond.  Here he is at the DNC, drawing out the stupid like a commonsense poultice:


Hey, dumbasses...if corporations don't make profits, why the hell would they exist in the first place?  The whole point of a corporation/business is to make profits by providing what the public wants to buy!  (As opposed to the government, which makes its money by stealing it from you whether you want them to or not.)

Mr. Schiff has become Recipient # 11 of the W&PO Award For Extreme Cleverness.  Well done, sir.


(HT Ann)

Off the blogroll

I have removed a blog from TIPB.  Maybe I'm wrong, but something about this guy just seems hinky to me.

I won't name it...but regular readers should notice its absence.

Yes...THIS.

The conservative movement is about the autonomy and worth of the individual. Free market capitalism doesn’t care what color you are, what gear you have between your legs, or who you wish to bang once the bedroom door is closed. It pushes individual liberty, growth, the entrepreneurial spirit, and is distrustful of temporary politicians and bureaucrats who consistently attempt to solidfy power in order to manage our lives for us. It rests on idea of equality of opportunity, and a stable and consistent rule of law. It strives for colorblindness.

Click and RTWT.

Why Romney STILL ain't getting my vote...

...explained in detail by the inimitable MarkAmerica, first in this post calling Shenanigans on the GOP:

That’s it. You can shut down the convention right now. It’s over. Romney’s camp just shut down all dissent, and they rigged it that way. Twitter is awash in angry tweets from people who know this was a sham. John Boehner actually wielded the gavel without a hint of a tear as he said “the ayes have it.” They didn’t have it, and I think it was pretty clear that even if they did, this was a set-up. I have news for the GOP establishment. I am voting in November. I will vote for all the down-ballot candidates who are worthy of my support. I am not going to vote for Mitt Romney. Don’t look at the page as though you’ve read the words of a man pledging treason. It was not I who rigged the primaries. It was not I who rigged the convention. It was not I who rigged the rules committee. All of those things are actual treasons against the conservatives in the America, and all of those things were carried out by Mitt Romney and his legion. I am a small matter to it, but I will have my say. If the Republican party wishes to commit suicide by Romney, they may do so, but they will do so without my help in the matter. John Boehner may have enjoyed his moment in despotic pleasure, and Reince Priebus may have been doing his masters’ bidding, but Mitt Romney had it within his power to put a stop to all of this, but when tested by circumstance, Mitt Romney’s fatal character flaws prevailed.

The Republican Party is dead. It’s time we get on with this convention and consider it a funeral. You’re witnessing a party that will now fall, and I’m going to help it on its way. Some of you diehard Republicans who read this blog may wish to find other haunts. It’s not going to be pretty. When I saw John Sununu begin to surface with regularity on Fox News over the last few weeks, I suspected the fix was in. His conduct of the RNC Rules Committee on Tuesday demonstrates that fact.

I am a person who refuses to separate his convictions from his actions and choices. Mitt Romney could have done many things to gain my support, and the support of many others, but rather than do so, he seized control. He used all his pals and buddies to take over and make the voices of grass-roots Republicans and Tea Party conservatives silent. Some will urge that we remain focused on November, and I agree, but my focus is irrevocably changed. I am out to defeat the GOP establishment in any and every form that may take.

And here, answering the screaming and squalling of those idiots who actually think there's any difference between the half-Black Muslim dictator and the White Mormon wannabe-dictator:

What good is a political party that does not serve my long-held convictions, except occasionally and only by accident? I have listened intently to those who have argued these last months that I should give Mitt Romney a chance, but when it came to it, when he should have been willing to give the party a chance, he did not, instead rigging things in his favor for the future. One must then ask the question I had been pondering as Boehner swung the gavel, shedding no tears for the abominable despotism his actions exemplified: If a man seeks an office but creates a set of rules under which it will be more difficult to challenge him in the future, what is his motive?

The only answer is that Mitt Romney wishes to rule without restraints. He does not wish to be confined by a base that will make trouble for him if he fails to live up to the promises he has made. He does not wish to be held to account, or to even have his arm twisted when it comes to such things as appointments or executive orders, or even such bills as he may sign into law. It is understandable that a politician would not wish to be accountable to people who had not supported him, but the truly baffling aspect of this case is that Romney does not wish to be accountable to people whose support he expects to garner in the coming election. Once one considers the explicit meaning of this action, there really is no method by which to resolve it without concluding that Mitt Romney intends to govern not only in disregard of conservatives, but in contempt of them.

For opposing this, there are those who would label me a traitor should I withhold my vote from Mitt Romney in November. It is at this point that I must say that while all must be free to do as their conscience dictates, I would ask those who wield this label to consider who it is that is committing a treason, and who is being faithful. If one can become convicted of the notion that Mitt Romney’s actions express an ill intention toward conservatism, and if conservatism is the vital life-sustaining philosophy of our great nation, what must be the end result of Mitt Romney’s administration, if he wishes to govern without respect to those principles?

GOP defenders, take your "rah rah team" garbage and shove it where it belongs.  Those of us with actual understanding of rights, principles and liberty will go our own way...and we don't give a damn for your opinion.  Let your chains set lightly upon you, and let posterity soon forget that you were once called Americans.