...And a happy new year!

Today marks the end of a turbulent, busy year both in this blog and in the media's created landscape commonly thought of as "the news." Sadly, I haven't a lot of time to write a lengthy "year in review" piece but I would like to roll the calendar back to last January which, on this blog anyway, started with the tragedy of the Gabby Giffords shooting. I had predicted, semi-accurately, that it would be nary an after-thought by now given some quick mentions in whatever year wrap up news specials one might encounter. I was pleased, however, that what news did come out of that story was the rather miraculous one of her recovery. It was truly inspiring to see her in action and to get a look into her recovery via 20/20's Dianne Sawyer interview. I am not sure I expected that and despite the horrors of that day in January 2011 she has persevered. So, for whatever reason that is the story that captured my attention more than any other this year.

Otherwise, it has been yet another year of splintered division and a sick, sad display of a Congress in full on obstinate sloth. Republicans and their single focused drive to see Obama fail has driven this country to the edge, again, and I can only brace and watch to see what comes of 2012. I do not expect any change for the better and honestly hope for Obama's re-election almost simply to spite those so fiercely opposed. Neither side is actually on our side and that's where this metaphorical, political knife is most twisted in our collective guts friends. We are divided and conquered and obsessed over our own biases and tunnel vision points of view that it interferes with even the idea of progress. We cannot move forward and we can no longer see eye to eye and we all want to blame the other, who or what ever that may be. With the 2012 election cycle going into full swing this year I can't see it get anything but uglier, hideous, intolerable.

Those on the right will be swinging for the fences and do anything and everything to keep those on the left out of the race or at home, feasting on their disappointment and disillusionment with the Obama administration. Those few who still play on Obama's team will do all they can to show that he has done good things, try to keep ignoring all the bad things. It may not matter much as there is no credible threat on the right as I wager they are ultimately stocking up their good wood for 2016. In the end, it will continue to be us, the "people" that lose. We claw and dream and hope and bray all to almost no affect as we are just the noise, the chattel, the common fat of the land that can ultimately be expendable to the will of those who are the haves. If anything that is the lesson that came into sharper focus for myself, that all the insults, television fireworks, and opinions I have expressed at the parlor game of American politics it is a game I am not really playing in anymore that I am actually participating in a fantasy football league. My interests are not being looked out for by anyone other than myself. We can't maintain our status as greatest country in the world if we continue to carry on this way.

All that said, I must also be vigilant in reminding myself that despite all of the above I am still fortunate, more fortunate than most of the rest of the world and squabbling, ideological bickering aside, our generation needs that reminder that we have way more to be happy about than they we give ourselves credit for. Or ability to recognize while we complain about the latest changes in the Star Wars movies, slow downloading speed of our smart phones, or how our last 50 billion calorie meal at Applebee's was not as good as it should have been we remember how easy we really have it. Once in a while, anyway. Or we can continue to waste time blaming Hollywood for making Muppet movies that are trying to teach our children to be communists, anti-corporations and to hate oil companies. Whatever floats your boat, I guess.

Here's to a good 2012! The final year.

MERRY CHRISTMAS True Americans!

By Hamster Running on the Server Wheel

That's correct, you read that right...MERRY CHRISTMAS! I know that this waste of bandwidth website is generally a "pro-liberal-socialist" blog and that most of it's "readers" (aka cretins) are probably uncomfortable that the sole patriotic voice would dare post the words, "Merry Christmas." Why, what if someone who is not a Christian were to visit in December? What if they were uncomfortable and would prefer a weak, empty sentiment such as "Happy Holidays" or "Seasons Greetings?" Well, to those "people" I can only say, "Merry CHRISTmas and if you don't like it...FUCK YOU!" That's right, Christmas is the reason for the season and not Chanukah, not Kwanza, not the "winter solstice" and not whatever other made up, bullshit, UN-American, garbage holiday you  would like to force into this most joyous of months.

Quit trying to ruin Christmas with your sanctimonious, PC, liberal, euphemistic, safe talk that does nothing but soothe your supposed intellectual guilt that you are a superior being put on this earth to succeed and profit. Not to comfort and aid the lazy sacks of shit who are living off the government or "protesting" pointlessly in their occupy wherever because they are unemployable, ignorant, and waste valuable time being unproductive, non-contributing, sponges soaked through with liquid stupidity. Speaking of soft, liberal, socialist, muslims did you get your "holiday greeting card" from the non-American "president" yet?

"From our family to yours, may your holidays shine with the light of the season" (vomit.)

No mention of the word Christmas, no Christmas tree, just some generic "presents," garland, bows and the stupid dog, "Bo," the liberal, unemployed,"first dog" lying by a fire he didn't build in a house he doesn't deserve to be in, not to mention that even their dog is black. I'll shine your season's lights alright. Disgusting, and not the first time Ohbaahhhma has been deliberately "PC" (or better, weak and spineless) like one of our great thinkers, former Alaskan Governor and rightful Vice-President, Sarah Palin said:

“It’s odd,” she said, wondering why the president’s Christmas card highlights his dog instead of traditions like “family, faith and freedom.”
“Even stranger than that was his first year in office when the Christmas ornaments included Chairman Mao,” Palin said. “People had to ask that it be removed because it was offensive.”

Chairman Mao was their just to signify, in code of course, Ohbaaahma's bona fides as a  communist! Also further proof of his continuing plans to re-make America into a socialist, communist state with no freedoms, no ability to prosper and the final death of the "American Dream."  This week, instead of focusing on family, faith, and true American values the liberal media has been wasting away trying to document the brilliant Republican Congress successfully negotiate their first big legislative win for 2012 by pretending to fight the dumocraps, and their patsy president, on this payroll tax debate. Silly, they fought and acted as if they were to cave today so they can win bigger in two months further demonstrating the utter incapability of democraps to govern. It's all we can do to help cease Ohbaaahma's plan to steal the 2012 election. If this was a serious issue to him then he would be busy working for the American people and fixing this economy instead of going shopping with his black dog in Pet Smart and Best Buy.

What, me worry?

 While I have been constantly sounding the alarm to my like-minded friends that B. Hussein and his merry band of radical leftists have been steadily working towards stealing the election in 2012 I have been remiss to clearly mention that there is one person capable of stopping him next year. One person who the true Americans can believe in, who has never lied, never flip-flopped, never been unfaithful to family, friends or country and one person who is clearly set to take the lead in the GOP polls this month. I give you the only real HOPE and CHANGE for America, our only true potential savior, true patriot, and the only candidate that I have ever seen or heard that I can say, without a shadow of doubt, garners my full faith and confidence in leadership...Ron Paul.

RESTORE AMERICA NOW!

You can tell the establishment is afraid of him, you can tell that the "base" isn't always on board with his beliefs, and you can tell he is exactly what this country needs. The liberal media has nothing but 20 year old bullshit, "racist newsletters" that are allegedly by or about him (lies) and are doing everything they can to try and shrink his current Iowa momentum.

First it was the racist newsletters. Now it’s the direct mail advertising them. In a signed appeal to potential subscribers in 1993, Ron Paul urged people to read his publications in order to prepare for a “race war,” military rule, and a conspiracy to use a new $100 bill to track Americans.

Ooh, lookit everybody LOOKIT ALL THE CONSPIRACY! We must bring down Dr. Paul so that we can run our preferred empty suit Mitt Romney or one of the other flavor's of the month like Newt or Huntsman (LOL!)  The liberal, whiny, rag Talking Points Memo goes on to say that this supposed "newsletter:" 

The eight-page mailer obtained by Reuters via Jamie Kirchick, who unearthed Paul’s newsletter archives in 2008, is mostly focused on a rambling conspiracy theory about changes to the dollar. But Paul tries to bolster his credibility on the issue by noting that his newsletters have also “laid bare the the coming race war in our big cities” as well as the “federal-homosexual coverup on AIDS,” adding that “my training as a physician helps me see through this one.” He also condemns the “demonic fraternity” Skull and Bones, a Yale secret society that “includes George Bush and leftist Senator John Kerry, Congress’s Mr. New Money,” and “the Israeli lobby that plays Congress like a cheap harmonica.”

So, instead of seeing how Big Government is further conspiring against the people they say this is just some paranoid, racist, anti-gay rambling by a fringe nut.  If they paint him "crazy" enough they hope it will stick and then the media can go back to not paying attention to the truth and continue on with their routine oral servicing of approved rich people to run in their establishment popularity contest. Basically, so they can have their empty suit lose to the liberal socialist communist in the stolen election next year as per their liberal wet dreams.

Well, I am not buying it. I am a free thinking American and I refuse to be brainwashed as I know the truth when I hear it. Imagine the debates between Dr. Paul and the fake in office now? Imagine the liberal tears that would be shed as Ohbaaaahma crumbles before Dr. Paul's intellectual might? What would Ohbaaahma do when the truth is revealed before him and all his lies and failures of the past four years are shattered on national TV one by one?

From Ohbaaahma's illegal health care bill; his illegal assassination programs; his constant empire building and illegal military excursions in Libya, Yemen, Pakistan; his support for the vehemently anti-freedom and American "Patriot Act;" his socialist spending on TARP and ridiculous financial bailouts; his doubling of the national deficit; his tax raising schemes; his failed jobs programs; his American economic destruction programs; his illegal wiretapping and surveillance programs; his total "do nothing" failed presidency; his anti-American stances on guns, Christianity, and rural America...Jesus it just goes on and on and on...Ron Paul is the only choice in 2012 if you really love America and THAT, my friends, is why I will have a truly Merry Christmas!

Rick Perry, idiot, homophobe

You surely have seen this already:

Holy motherfuck, right? Even conservatives, well reasonable conservatives, had to wince at this one. The only thing that could make this a more brazen appeal to "the base" would be to walk up to an oil drill while talking and creating a new spill in the gulf on camera then maybe shooting a minority. I need not say much because this one is becoming quite the meme this week. So, for posterity let's examine...

Cute, but I think this one cuts to the chase a little better:

Yessss. Yes it does. You also might consider this submission from Funny or Die:

Rick Perry - Weak (Strong Parody) - watch more funny videos     

"Gays want to fuck Santa right in his Jolly old butt, and that's wrong."

Also, "Bad Lip Reading got into the fun:

Bad Lip Reading: Rick Perry's "Strong" ad - watch more funny videos     

"I'm proud of my gun and I pooed in space."

Man, I am going to miss him when he leaves this race because no other candidate has been this funny this decade. I would die laughing if only for the fact that it's coupled with immense sadness that he is also real and not a stunt like that Herman Cain was. So, quick review: Herman Cain - Womanizer, cheater-cheater; Rick Perry - Biggot, actually dumber than Bush; Mitt Romney - Mormon, boring, flip-flopper; Newt Gingrich - Out of touch, "wrong side of history," quitter; Jon Huntsman - Mormon, perceived as a Democrat; Michelle Bachmann - Crazy, homophobe, silenced by children:

And Ron Paul, who no matter what he does is painted "crazy" by the "lame stream media." So, if the economy doesn't get better then Obama can't win unless the Republican field improves he can't lose. Merry Christmas!

Finally firearms can be purchased in Oak Park!

Back in June 2010 I wrote a little bit about the Chicago/Oak Park Illinois gun bans being ruled unconstitutional and speculated about how quickly gun stores would begin popping up in either place and turns out it would take about one year, five months! Oak Park welcomes, "Windy City Firearms" which I can't help but be a little disappointed as that is the lamest name ever, almost as boring as calling it, "sports shop." As I said last year:

Oak Park has a lot of cute shops and there just happens to be a few vacancies right now right in downtown Oak Park. They need something earthy and clever though, it can't just be some boring old "sports shop." Something kitschy like; Bang-Bang, KaBlam, or Frank Lloyd Shot. You can get a small pistol, matching purse/holster, and earthy floral print all in one trip!

Instead, we get "Windy City Firearms" and they will only be essentially a supplier of rifles and shotguns. BORING!

The store would not have any inventory on site. Rather, customers would be able to purchase their firearms online, and then pick them up at the office on Roosevelt. Windy City Firearms would only deal in long guns, such as rifles and shotguns and not handguns or assault weapons (though Delafuente said he would be allowed to sell handguns to people working in law enforcement).

YAAWWWWNNN!  No handguns, earthy, floral print holsters, or witty no trespassing signs with bullet holes in them? Bugger. Naturally, many (though not all) an Oak Parker is fairly upset about this what with the stores proximity to the somewhat poor and crime ridden west side of Chicago and it's very close proximity to a place called Morningside Children's Academy (an early childhood education center). Oh, and this Justin Delafuente guy who owns the store clearly doesn't care what the village wants!

“I was struck by the disregard he has for what the village wants,” said resident Manning Peterson, who was concerned primarily about the nearby Morningside Children’s Academy, which is about a half-block east.

Yeah, why doesn't he care what the Village wants? And, by the way, what does the Village want anyway? DO they want those 0-5 year old kids to buy guns? Do they want the guns to go off and accidentally kill some of those kids? Do they want all those thugs from the west side of Chicago to raid this place during the day and maybe shoot and steal the children too? What about the property values in the area won't they go to shit now? Does Justin even care about any of this?

That's Justin on the left, look how concerned he is!

 Justin Delafuente says he was suprised anyone would be upset about any of this in Oak Park because,

“The funny thing is you guys want to get more businesses in Oak Park, but the first thing everyone said to me is, ‘Why are you opening a business in Oak Park? Oak Park is anti-business,” he said. “That’s pretty sad.”

Hmmm...What could it be Justin? Is the whole town anti-business or is it that they don't want a gun business? Nobody protested when they opened a third bakery in town. Nobody got upset when Five Guys opened, or Potbelly, or the new pet and fish store perhaps the town is just a whiny, liberal, anti-gun kind of town after all they actually have signs proclaiming that Oak Park is a no-nuke zone so I guess if they take the time to make a ludicrous official statement like that then one might deduce that they just aren't into weapons. 

But whatever, as he said, "it's his right" and it is and I don't care too much beyond the lame ass name and the fact that I won't have any reason to go and browse there because it will be a catalog house with no frills, no range and tons of security:

The store will only sell rifles and shotguns, which are ordered online and picked up in person. All purchasers are required to have a Firearm Owners Identification Card and go through a background check by the Illinois State Police. In response to concerns from the audience, he said he will not have a firing range, will not sell handguns and his intended clientele will be police officers and hunters.

Again, BORING!!!  Call me when they get the handgun range where you can rent a glock and unload on racist-themed paper targets. THEN that will be a GOOD TIME to get that FOID card!