From: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/02/03/world/main6169405.shtml

So, Iran has a space program that Ahmadinejad is apparently very proud of. Speaking about the recent launch of an Iranian orbital rocket carrying live animals, he bragged:

The scientific arena is where we could defeat the (West’s) domination

Given the fact that our Idiot-in-Chief just gutted the budget of our own space program, I’m sure the Iranian “President” will make good on that promise, even if progress is made at a turtle’s pace. One thing is for certain, space program or not, Iran is going to be a nuclear nation soon and there isn’t a damn thing Obama, or his pathetic UN, can do about it. Frightening.

I wonder if the PETA zealots will cry for the little astronauts doomed to die for the Iranian space program?

So, the [arguably] most liberal state in the nation is sending a Republican to Washington to derail an incredibly unpopular, bloated and corrupt “health care” bill. More importantly though, this is a rejection of big government and the socialist agenda Obama is spearheading. Granted, they could still ram the bill through before Scott Brown is seated, but doing so would amount to political suicide and even greater losses in the coming elections. With luck, this bill with die quickly and our government can return to the drawing board to seek a bipartisan solution with sensible reforms. Although our healthcare system can be improved, it is still one of the best systems in the world. This fact is constantly underscored by the number of people seeking treatment in the United States.

Earlier tonight I had the desire to listen to how the liberals were going to spin this loss, so I turned on MSNBC with Keith Olbermann covering the election results. His facade of professionalism evaporated when Martha Coakley conceded the race. His broadcast quickly devolved into a frustrated, emotional, bitter and hateful litany of insults beginning with his “apology” to Brown for the following diatribe:

In short, in Scott Brown we have an irresponsible, homophobic, racist, reactionary, ex-nude model, teabagging supporter of violence against women and against politicians with whom he disagrees. In any other time in our history, this man would have been laughed off the stage as an unqualified and a disaster in the making by the most conservative of conservatives. Instead, the commonwealth of Massachusetts is close to sending this bad joke to the Senate of the United States.

During his apology he repeated his words and then joked about forgetting to call Brown sexist. Once this was established, he repeated his insults yet again including the new addition. His broadcast subsequently featured classy words like “crap” and “teabagging” (a sexual reference). It is not surprising that only a handful of viewers (aka left-wing ideologues) take this guy and his network seriously. I could barely watch an hour of this filth before returning to Fox News. Thank you Mr. Olbermann for reinforcing my view that the media is horribly biased and corrupt, and that leftists such as yourself are emotional, dogmatic, whiney and incredibly intolerant [of politicians with whom you disagree].

This political disaster may be the best thing to happen to the Democrats, assuming they take notice of the current political climate. Anyone who follows politics in the US knows that the Dems are headed for a crushing defeat later this year and in 2012 if they don’t reverse course. Unfortunately for them, the progressives at the helm of their party will undoubtedly sacrifice their own to push their unpopular agenda forward.

Fringe leftists and tea partiers gathered together to form a unified front of protest against the Hussein Regime in San Francisco!? We live in interesting times.

http://zombietime.com/sf_obama_protest_10-15-09/

Of course our corrupt media wouldn’t cover this…

Looks like they are arming the bobbies with submachine guns.

England is a case study in the deterioration of a country where liberals socialist-indoctrinated, nanny-statist, multicultralist, secular-progressive leftists are allow to have their way for years and years completely unchallenged. In fact, most burglaries in England take place while the victims are at home (contrasted to the United States where the opposite is true). The “subjects” of England are completely at the mercy of heavily armed criminals and are too stupid to realize they gave their freedom away. It is amazing to think that a country that today produces such degenerate trash once gave birth to the fathers of brilliant thinkers and champions of liberty such as Benjamin Franklin, who said “Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety”.

I woke up this morning and it was snowing! That’s right, it was snowing in October. Maybe if I start a bunch of international hysteria about “global cooling” and then make a movie about it I’ll win a Nobel Prize in 2010.

Since Nobel Prizes are now apparently given out for promises of future accomplishments, I’ll just post this to my blog and expect to win – sweet!

Today isn’t just a break from work for a 3-day weekend. Its a day to remember, and to realize that our freedom isn’t free: it was (and is) purchased with the blood of countless American soldiers.

It is the soldier, not the reporter who has given us the freedom of the press

It is the soldier and not the poet who has given us the freedom of speech.

It is the soldier not the ‘community organizer’ who gives us the freedom to demonstrate.

It is the soldier, 
who salutes the flag, 
who serves under the flag, 
and whose coffin is draped by the flag, 
who allows the protester to burn the flag.”

- Father Dennis Edward O’Brien, USMC

No Man’s Land by Eric Bogle
Reflecting on the grave of one of WWI’s fallen.

Today was garbage day so we put out our trash and a recycle bin full of recyclables. About 15 minutes later a giant gust of wind blew the recycle bin over and most of it’s contents were carried quickly out of sight by the wind. Such perfect timing for earth day. Perhaps next week, we’ll put the recyclables in the trash can since it has a  lid.

Previous Earth Days: 2008, 2007

LRH and I attended our local T.E.A. party in The Dalles, OR this evening. I brought both of my cameras and snapped as many pictures as possible before my battery died. The signs speak for themselves – these individuals are fed up with government spending and alarmed at the socialist path our nation is on. We had a ton of support from motorists who  honked their horn and waved.  It was a great event as we added our voices to the choir of discontent brewing across the nation.

Siena wasn’t thrilled with the wind but she waved our flag with pride!

Time to pay taxes again and feed the greedy swine.

Democrats love taxing us to fund their Utopian socialist revolution. They want social programs designed to reward bad behavior. They want to bail out bad companies and fund their pork barrel projects… but they don’t want to do it with their own money.

Nope, Democrats like Tom Daschle, Al Franken, Tim Geithner, Charlie Rangel, Nancy Killefer, Caroline Kennedy, etc. don’t think they should have to pay. This disturbing (but predictable) hypocrisy, along with the irresponsible spending by our government has angered enough Americans that they are starting to speak out. I find it amusing that liberals claim the tea party tax protests are just a bunch of angry conservatives with too much time on their hands. I’m sure these liberals love paying into a system that keeps them pacified, dependent, poor and stupid.

Add to this the fact that our nation is trending toward socialism. In a recent poll by Rasmussen, 20% of those polled preferred socialism as an economic system, while 27% couldn’t choose between capitalism or socialism. What the hell is happening to America? God help us…

“Change”… what’s left after taxes.

In addition to easily winning the Gun Salesman of the Year award, Barack Obama has also won the coveted Ammunition Salesman of the Year award. Prep that teleprompter, its time for an acceptance speech!

I drove to Portland today for an all-day technology conference. After the conference I ran a few errands including a quick trip to a well known sporting goods store. Amazingly, the ammunition isle was mostly empty. They explained that as soon as a new shipment arrives, it is bought up almost immediately. This eerily reminds me of what grocery store shelves might look like after a crisis. If anything, these empty shelves speak to the importance of preparing for an uncertain future, especially given the monumental incompetence of our government. Those who stockpile food and water will be able to weather any future storm, whereas those who depend on the government to provide the same will end up like the victims of hurricane Katrina.

Even though my driving took me all over the Portland area today, I only saw a single Obama bumper sticker. This is very interesting in that Portland is a bastion of liberalism, yet nobody was willing to show their support for his holiness, the Changer of Ways. (Yes the reference to Tzeentch was intended.) As expected, I didn’t see any McCain bumper stickers either (conservatives are too classy to leave campaign stickers on their cars in bitter protest).