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Pimpin' Ain't Easy

It seems that the Big Daddy Cain is in yet more trouble. He's had two women accuse him of sexual harassment. Now a third woman claims that she had a 13-year affair with the Republican presidential nominee. All of this unwanted attention has compelled to reassess his presidential bid. Perhaps if Cain had game, he wouldn't be in this trouble.

I find it interesting that it takes sex scandals to effectively derail politicians. That most of them are lying bastards who believe that any problem can be solved through the violence of the State does not hurt their prospects. In fact, if a politician actually believes that bombing brown people in foreign countries or arresting people for drug use or molesting people at the airport or killing citizens by presidential decree is immoral, then he is labeled as crazy. But if a politician sexually harasses women or has affairs, then he becomes a pariah who has to reassess his candidacy or resign. (It should be noted that such ostracism can be short-lived. See Gingrich, Newt.)

Why do people continue to fall for this? Democracy is a competition among the most violent, deceitful, manipulative, and immoral people in a nation for power. Should we really expect that a man who has no qualms sending the U.S. military around the world to kill foreigners would keep to his marital vows? The outrage and calls for Cain to drop his candidacy remind me of the Bill Clinton-Monica Lewinsky scandal. Republicans had a conniption over Clinton lying about his tryst with Lewinsky, but where were they after Janet Reno's goon squad murdered men, women, and children at Waco? Were Republicans demanding that Reno and Clinton resign after that atrocity? Oh, but lying about adultery? Why, that's immoral!

Frankly, If I did believe in democracy, I'd take a pimp who wants to end all wars of aggression and the national security state over any of these candidates save one any day of the week.

This Rocks!

Given that so many of my posts are depressing, I do like to share things that make me smile. Here's a 4-year-old boy playing the drum part to System of a Down's "Chop Suey".

 

Don't Let Your Kids Get Fat

The State will take them from you. When you're at war with obesity, the loss of parental rights are collateral damage.

Forgive Them, Father, for They Know Not What They Do

From Fox News, I found this article about a U.S. solider who is upset that an Army Chapel in Afghanistan is removing a cross. According to Commander William Speaks, "Military chapels have to be open to all denominations and as such can’t have permanent symbols of one particular religion or another." Commander Speaks is quite accurate in his assessment. Since the State needs as much cannon fodder as it can recruit, it is in the interest of State rulers no to offend any particular religious group. It does not matter if you are Catholic, Baptist, Methodist, Presbyterian, Seventh Day Adventist, Jewish, Scientologist, Buddhist, Muslim, Agnostic or Atheist; all of you will do well as tools of oppression in foreign countries.

But what is depressing about this article is that there is no objection to a military chapel. Here's an excerpt:

Some conservative leaders said it’s proof of an effort underway to sanitize the military and country of Christianity.

“What’s the purpose of a chapel?” asked Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council. “The timing of this – what a way to celebrate Thanksgiving.”

“There’s a sole purpose of a chapel and it’s to worship – whether it’s Catholic or Protestant. Americans who serve in the military are overwhelmingly Christian.”

The soldier said the military is not hostile towards religion. Instead, he called it a direct attack from secularists and atheists.

“If they are able to erase Christian symbols from the military, then it can be pushed to be erased in the private sector,” he said. However, rules are rules, he said – and in spite of his personal beliefs the soldier said he will follow Army regulations.

“As a soldier, I will follow the orders,” he said.

“My fight is not to have the cross put back up,” the solider told Fox News. “My fight is to have the regulation changed. My God is bigger than a wooden and I don’t need to defend Him.”

"If they are able to erase Christian symbols from the military, then it can be pushed to be erased in the private sector." I see two interesting points in this statement. First, why aren't Christians (other than libertarian Christians) fighting to erase Christian symbols from the military? The U.S. military does not defend the American public, but is an imperial force used to advance the interests of the political elite. The U.S. miltary does not protect our freedoms. So why would anyone who takes his Christian beliefs seriously want Christian symbols to be associated with violence and oppression?

The second point is that if Christian symbols can be erased from the private sector, who will do the erasing? Passing a law is not enough. There must be armed soldiers and policeman to enforce these laws. The soldier said that he would follow the orders. So if his government orders him to assist in erasing Christian symbols from the private sector, will he follow those as well?

This story is a microcosm of the problem with Christianity and the State. It's clear that many, if not most Christians in this country, cannot accept Jesus's teachings on nonviolence. Many believe that the State is God's tool to bring justice on earth. How they reconcile the necessity of violence with the teaching's of Jesus in their own minds is a mystery to me. But as long as they continue to do so, they will empower the State and weaken Christianity.

The Feds Are Mutha Ph*****in' Thieves

Our readers already know this, there are still billions of people out there who refuse to take the red pill. A Massachusetts fisherman caught a 861-pound tuna. The Feds take it from him when he returns to port:

Rafael and his crew were using nets to catch bottom-dwellers when they inadvertently snagged the giant tuna. However, federal fishery enforcement agents took control of the behemoth when the boat returned to port. The reason for the seizure was procedural: While Rafael had the appropriate permits, fishermen are only allowed to catch tuna with a rod and reel...

And while Rafael is denied the mother of all fish stories, the federal impoundment of his catch also means he's probably losing out on a giant payday. A 754-pound tuna recently sold for nearly $396,000. NOAA regulators do not share any of the proceeds from the fish's eventual sale with a fisherman found in violation of federal rules.

"They said it had to be caught with rod and reel," a frustrated Rafael said. "We didn't try to hide anything. We did everything by the book. Nobody ever told me we couldn't catch it with a net."

Rafael says he has meticulously prepared for a giant catch like this, purchasing 15 tuna permits over the past four years for his groundfish boats. He even immediately called a "bluefin tuna hot line" (yes, such things exist) to report his catch. "I wanted to sell the fish while it was fresh instead of letting it age on the boat," he said. "It was a beautiful fish."

So this fisherman jumps through every government hoop and yet it's not enough to satisfy these criminals. The Feds take the fish due to some bullshit rules that imply that the U.S. Government owns the phuckin' ocean and can decide how fisherman should fish, and then they plan to sell the fish and keep the money. Mutha phuckin' thieves!

 

Who Owns the Police?

If You Decide to Have Children, Make Sure Your Choice of Names Does Not Offend Our Rulers

Otherwise, they will take your children away from you.

The United States Stands Up for Human Rights Everywhere

As I've said before, the term "hypocrite" doesn't quite do it.

HT Manual Lora

It's Amazing that Anyone Starts a Business

There's a new Trader Jo's opening in Arlington, VA soon. I snapped two pictures of the permits that the company had to get before they could begin renovating the space for the grocery store. The picture below has twelve permits. 

The picture below is the liquor license.

It really amazes me that people still open businesses. I realize that Trader Joe's is larger than a mom and pop grocery store and has the legal resources necessary to deal with government bureaucracies. Nevertheless, Trader Joe's still had to apply for these permits and purchase the liquor license before it could even begin renovating the space in order to sell its products. Such regulations discourage many people from even trying to go into business. And this is understandable. Business is hard. It's always been hard. Providing customers with what they want is tough given that consumers are so fickle. But if the State then adds the burden of regulations, permits, and licenses before one has even begun to create the space to sell his goods and services, we can predict that many people will decide that going into business is simply not worth it. Thus, potential employees lose future jobs. Consumers lose new goods or existing goods at lower prices or better services or all the above. And Frederic Bastiat weeps.

In Which I Weep for the American Mind

This petition is making its way around Facebook. The petition is named "Tell President Obama: Don't sell us out to Wall Street." It reads:

"Don't sell us out to Wall Street. Stop pushing the state Attorneys General to agree to a settlement that gives banks immunity for mortgage and foreclosure fraud that hasn't yet been investigated. Wall Street banks must be investigated, indicted and prosecuted to the full extent of the law."

It is quite depressing to realize just how brainwashed Obama supporters are. Obama has been bought by Wall Street just like almost every president you preceded him. And this is not even a shadowy conspiracy. Just look at the amount of money the big banks donated to Obama's 2008 presidential campaign:

• Goldman Sachs-$1,013,091
• JP Morgan Chase & Co-$808,799
• Citigroup Inc-$736,771
• UBS AG-$532,674
• Morgan Stanley-$512,232

For the 2012 election, Obama has raised more money from the financial sector than Republican candidates combined. This information is out in the open for all to see. Anyone can google "Obama and Wall Street contributions" to find this information. And yet there still are people who believe that signing a petition will compel Obama to ignore all the Wall Street money he has received and actually prosecute Wall Street bankers who broke the law. The very Wall Street bankers who continue to donate to Obama precisely so that they can continue to rob the American people and get away with it. One has to work really, really hard to be this foolish.

 

My Tour of the American Police State-Airport Edition

This summer I did a lot of traveling and visited several cities in the U.S. Since I flew to most of these cities, I experienced the American Police State as it manifested itself in airports. After being scanned on my first two trips (NB: contains a copious amount of profanity), I have not been scanned since. A few of these times were pure luck as I was not chosen for the scanners. A few times all the scanners were off. And the other times were due to choosing lines without scanners. Here's a list of the airports I visited in alphabetical order.