What we want:

Summed up very nicely in this article at American Thinker.  Here's the money quote:

...what the voters are craving in the debates and on the stump is someone who can look liberals squarely in the eye and tell them why we are right and they are wrong.  The American conservative base has had to put up with being called stupid, racist, greedy and unfair for decades by not only the Democrats but the vast majority of the media.  The pent up frustration of these decades is magnified by the fact that George H. W. Bush, Bob Dole, George W. Bush and John McCain would not or perhaps could not confront this. 

In fact, rare is the Republican candidate at any level who refuses to put up with this and fights back.  When they do, they become sensations.  Even Chris Christie and Donald Trump -- neither one a real conservative -- earned the love of the Republican base by simply deigning to fight back.  Marco Rubio and Allen West are far more popular and well known than they have any right to be simply because they refuse to accept the argument on liberals' terms.  They fight.  They elicit the roar.

(HT iOTW)

A Century of Unreality

Mark America's best post EVER.  Go read now.

Only a fool holds that one can live without effort, or exist interminably by the efforts of others, and yet this is precisely the stated object of the so-called “progressives,” and it is the unreality that they must peddle.  We are now coming to it, in a time when unreality will crash into reality.  We will be faced with many choices when this occurs, and the problem is that in crisis, mankind has a terrible history of reacting against reality’s bite with even more egregious unreality. What shall we do?  Is this to be the last generation of Americans, as that term had come to mean barely more than a century ago, or is this the time when Americans will reach for reality, and demand a respect for it among men and governments?  Time will tell, and yet I know it seems to run ever against us, but still I wonder in the end: Mustn’t we yield to reality, one way or the other?  I think so, and I suspect this will be a rude awakening through which the fragile among us may not long endure.

This is the core of our decline, and we need to recognize it.  To deny reality is to literally embrace madness.  Any more of this insanity will destroy America completely, and with her, the last beacon of liberty on Earth.  Yes, it IS that important.

Choose this moment whom you will serve:  Good or Evil.  Make your choice, for there is no other.

Thoughts on the GOP Final Four...

...aka, "How the Wraith prefers his crow prepared."

Well, well.  It's come down to four candidates for the GOP nomination.  A guy I told to piss off, a dyed-in-the-wool DeceptiCon, someone I called a non-starter, and a guy I used to support until I started fully analyzing the consequences of some of his positions.  Let's take a look at...

This is not good.

On Banks Refusing Cash Withdrawals

Posted by Ann Barnhardt - January 19, AD 2012 12:35 PM MST

 

I have received enough calls and emails on this within the last few weeks to A.) cause concern and B.) merit a post.  
People are having difficulty withdrawing cash from banks. I just received the SECOND call on this from California this week. The question is, do banks have the right to deny you cash withdrawals?
 
The answer is NO. They do not. And both of the men I have heard from in California were obviously being bee-essed by their bank. The bank couldn't cite statute, and then started haggling over the amount of cash withdrawals they would allow. That's your dead give-away. If there were ANY statute or actual rule, the bank wouldn't set up a conference call and then start haggling. You don't haggle over laws and rules.
 
What banks can do is ask for up to 7 days notice on a large cash withdrawal just so that they can order the cash in special and not completely drain their cash on hand. This is very logical and sensible. For transactions over $10,000 the bank also does have to file a transaction report. Again, this is standard. We may not like it, but that has been the law for a very long time.
 
Also, one chap in CA reported that his bank told him that if he took more than $20,000 out of the bank in cash that he would have to hire an armored vehicle and security. This is an abject lie. $100 bills are bundled in 1/2" stacks. a 1/2" stack contains 100 bills. Therefore $20,000 would be two standard 1/2" stacks of hundred dollar bills, which would fit in ANY purse or easily into the inside pocket of any men's sportcoat. We aren't talking bags and bags of cash. Cash is still shockingly compact.
 
For now, what I would recommend is setting up your new destination bank account FIRST, and then simply closing the old account with the mega-bank and taking the deposit in the form of a cashier's check. Then drive the cashier's check directly to the new bank and deposit it. BUT, if for whatever reason you want or need cash money, no, banks have no right to deny you cash provided you give them the sufficient 7 day notice.
 
Limiting cash withdrawals is a sign of an insolvent or failing banking system. These sorts of limits are happening in Italy as we speak. It is very telling that banks in the U.S. are now lying and dissimulating in order to avoid and thwart cash withdrawals by their customers.
 
If anyone has any more details, information or insight on this question, I would be interested to read it in an email.
 
CITATION HERE.

But don't worry, folks.  Everything is OK.  The government says so, and they've never lied to you before, have they?

Wow, something finally got your attention!

I refer, of course, to SOPA, PIPA and all the other Threats To The Intert00bz that have everyone so up in arms lately.  Now, there is a bit of a positive side to this whole affair, as it has been demonstrated that our voices still matter to some extent.  Former sponsors and supporters of these monstrosities are now fleeing from them as if these happy little bills had suddenly morphed into radioactive mutant zombie pit bulls on crack.  You netheads did that.  Well played, y'all.

However, this begs the question, "Where the hell have you all been up to now?"  Larry Correia, with a boost from Mike Kupari, spells out the real issues in no uncertain terms.

Each time you applauded their efforts. Mocked those that were concerned. Called them uncaring or racist or alarmist or stupid. Each time you asked for more. You begged them to take care of you, protect you, right wrongs, enforce equality.

But now that your Internet porn and bit torrents are threatened, NOW you care?

It’s too late for all that, kids. Turning off Wikipedia for a couple days isn’t going to win back the freedoms we’ve pissed away. It isn’t going to undo decades of expanding government power. They’ve already decided there’s nothing they can’t do, no law they can’t pass.

If America survives in any recognizable form, it'll be a miracle.  If even one percent of the anti-SOPA forces truly come to understand the concept of liberty, it'll be an even bigger one.

Mitt Romney: The ULTIMATE "wasted vote."

"If you're voting for Romney because you think he's a Conservative, you're wrong.

"If you're voting for Romney because you think he can beat Obama, you're wrong again."

And while we're at it, if you think a Romney Presidency will differ in any meaningful way from another four years of Obummer, you're way past wrong and headed for certifiably insane.  Romney and Obummer are both hardcore statists.  No matter which of them wins, we get more government intervention jammed up our asses without lube.

And as for the same old, tired nonsense about 'we have to get behind the most-electable candidate,' just forget about us falling for that bullcrap again.  D00d.  You're betting on the guy who got beat by the guy who got beat by Obummer the last time?*  You call that 'electability?'

Here's a vivisection of Mittens that beats the LSM to the punch, starring our favorite spitfire.  Get some food and beverages ready, because it's 52.5 minutes.  Suck it up and watch it anyway--consider it an opportunity to give your attention span a workout.  You'll need it.



The creators of this video have most definitely earned the 10th-ever W&PO Award For Extreme Cleverness.  EPIC.


*  And I maintain that only the addition of Governor Palin as VP kept Juan McSame from being stomped like a Klansman in Compton.

BREAKING NEWS!

Some DeceptiCon we didn't know was even running drops out and endorses Mittens.

In other news, my cat just yawned.  Further bulletins as events warrant.

Still alive!

No, I'm not talking about me--I've just been absent due to trying to digest the constant barrage of evil from the Thug Regime, and it's making even my cynical head spin.  And I don't matter much anyway, compared to Pastor Youcef Nadarkhani, who I first mentioned here.  Well, guess what?

He's still alive...and notice how the resolve of his captors appears to be weakening!!  It's gone from "renounce Christ and become Muslim" to "just say that Mohammed was a messenger sent by God."

And still, he refuses.  Pastor Nadarkhani is fully prepared to stand with Christ--in body, mind and soul--even unto death.  Seriously, when Muslims threaten to kill you, you can pretty much take it as read that they mean it.  His courage is unfathomable to most, but it is a lesson to us all.

Please include this brave man and his family in your prayers.  May God be with him.

The gun community--what it's all about.

Welcome A Girl And Her Gun to the Infinite Blogroll.  Because this.

In the past 10 months, I have gained so much more than the ability to line my front site on the target.

This group has welcomed me when I had absolutely nothing to offer them.

I was empty.

I was broken.

I need things I was too weak to even know I needed.

I came here desperate and searching.

Day by day this community, these gun people, bult me up.

They never once pretend to be anything other than exactly who they are.

They didn't try to wrap themselves up in a pretty little package to draw me in.

They didn't use smoke and mirrors and they never, not once, lied to me.

They told me things I didn't want to hear.  They showed me things I didn't want to see.  They made me face thing I didn't want to face.

All while holding my hand and guiding me and nurturing me and givng me a safe place to grow.

They wanted me to grow.

They wanted me to be stronger.

They wanted me to be able to depend on myself.

They gave me everything they had, so I wouldn't need them any more.

They gave me tools and guidance, so that I could soar and each and every time I took a step forward, they have been there, to say, good for you.  Job well done.

They did this, not because of me.

Not because I am something special.

They did it because they are special.

No, ma'am.  We're not special.  We just do our best to bring out the often-hidden special qualities of humanity, because we have to.  Because it's the right thing to do.

We know this.  How come so many 'smart' people don't?

The "Conservative Hotties" label is back!

We seem to have been swamped by yet another wave of ladies who are not only beautiful on the outside, but in their hearts and minds as well.  One of them is running for Congress in UT4.  Meet Mia Love:



HT iOTW and Big Breitbart.  Seriously, Utah--vote for this woman.  I'm right below your southern border; don't make me come up there and kick all your asses.