Happy Tax Day.

Enjoy this one.  Next year’s will be a lot worse. 

I wonder if we will be telling our children, “Yeah, back in ’10, we didn’t have to submit our medical records to the IRS.  But you know, son, I really wanted that second Xbox so you will just have to work that second job to pay off my interest and your unsanctioned heart surgery.  Sorry.”

I’m just this much closer to “Going Galt”.

Edited to Add: For any who creep onto this page from, oh say, a referring page that thinks that Obamacare, Taxes, and government control over our lives have nothing to do with each other and that we won’t have to worry about old Uncle Sugar probing into our private lives during tax season; could you please tell me why the IRS should be verifying that I have coverage in the first place? 

I’ve checked my copy of The Constitution (You have one. Right?) and I don’t see anywhere in there where the IRS has any right to see if I have “appropriate healthcare”.

Could you also please tell me of ANY government entitlement that has not grown?  Can you please tell me any government program that does not require increasingly more and more paperwork for verification? 

When Obamacare bankrupts insurance companies with onerous pre-existing condition requirements and they have to be bailed out, like Chrysler, Chevy, AIG (an insurance co.), and the Banks and we have a de facto single payer system, if it is, in fact, the people’s money being spent on healthcare, don’t the people have a right to know what it’s being spent on?  If you weigh 250 pounds are you entitled to the same care someone who weighs 140 at your same height?  No, you are not. You made a bad choice and you will HAVE to be penalized to bring you back into trim (sin taxes on booze and cigarettes ring a bell?).  …And since it’s all being done through the tax code to make it nice and legal(ish), guess to whom the paperwork will be submitted?   

And, just to burst any referrer’s bubbles, we will already have to submit health info soon.  I will have to submit, with my taxes, proof of my, “accepted healthcare program.”  Who pays for my healthcare is as private an issue as what healthcare I receive, because he who pays (and the aim is to make the Government pay for it all), gets to know everything about you.  Once the damn is burst…*

Ok, I’ll grant you, the full takeover is not in this bill.  But like the “sensible regulations” of the FDA; what starts out as an attempt to make some sausage taste better will be an everyday companion in your life.  Like it or not.  And if you can’t see that, well, you are not alone in history.  People of Greece, Rome, Pre WWII Germany, and England never saw it coming either.

One last thing.  If someone’s case is so weak and their desire to paint their opposition with a crazy brush so great that they have to quote a tongue-in-cheek quip that is trying to illustrate absurdity with absurdity, then they’ve really reached the bottom of their ammo bag. 

So I apologize for having to take up ever shrinking web space and increasing the march toward your monthly bandwidth limit (see, there’s that absurdity with absurdity thing again) by Turing a one paragraph frustrated tax day rant into a multi page explanation of that frustration.  But I figured since you were duped into coming to this page to see the Tattooed Two Headed Monkey Boy froth at the mouth for you carnival going enjoyment, I might as well give you something worth seeing.

* Yes, that was meant to be a play on words. 

Something I Hadn’t Considered.

Helen Back, a spokesperson for the American Association for Undead People said, “Insurance companies classify zombiism as a pre-existing condition and routinely discriminate against the undead.

DAMNIT!  So not only will Illegal Aliens be covered, Zombies will as well since you can’t deny pre-existing conditions anymore*! 

Well, not all Zombies will be under Obamacare.  The Dems who voted for it get to keep their Congressional Medical Insurance.  …That we pay for!

*Except for children.  That part doesn’t kick in until 2014, or something like that.  Yet hasn’t that been Barry’s tag line since he signed the bill?

H/T to NJT

Do What The MSM Wants You To Do. …Sort of.

The Dems and the MSM what us to forget about Obamacare and go on with out lives like it doesn’t matter.  Lay back and think of England, as it were.  Honestly, that’s not a terrible Idea at its core.

This coming week, I Dante, do resolve to no listen to the news, to not talk politics with anyone, and to enjoy and celebrate Easter as best I can. 

I’m going to try and post only Non-political stories this coming week and, as Roger DeBris from The Producers suggests, “Keep it light, keep it bright, keep it gay.” 

I may even try to hammer out a range report for my LCR.  It’s been fulfilling its role as a dry fire trainer so far, but I feel it needs some lead down its pipe.  I also need to take my MK9 out and make sure it’s still ship shape after I had to detail strip the upper to make sure I got all the water out of its innards.  No, that is not a story I will post.   Not anytime soon anyway.  Too embarrassing.

I suggest you all do the same and give yourselves a reprieve from the simpering sycophants in the media.  This past week sucked for anyone who loves liberty.  But there’s not much we can do about it just yet.  We’ll have to wait until November to see if we can effect any change.  And until they try and ram Instant Samnesty down our gullets, we can’t really do anything about that either. 

The Spineless weasels who voted for Obamacare think that we’ll “Cool Off” by November.  I have news for them.  We already have.  You see, those guys on the left need anger to make them move.  We don’t.  We have a little thing called the Truth on our side.  It doesn’t need false crises to gin up action.  It keeps burning with a gentle flame like the pilot light in an old gas oven.  It doesn’t need to be stoked, it is what stokes.  Rest assured in September when the elections draw near, we will turn on the oven and the fires will be there.  They will feel the heat one way or another.

We are about to go into the Easter Season.  That should be a good reminder that even things that are dead can be reborn.  So let’s put it all on the back burner for a few days and remember what is really important.  They’ll be time enough to go back to sharpening the pitchforks* come Monday the 5^th. 

*or whichever toys you plan to bring to the party.  🙂

Oh Teh Noez, Teh Peeplz, Tehy Is Teh Angryz!

So the Dems and MSM are all exercised about the VIOLENCE that is being shown to Congress.  

Here’s a couple of tips for you Dems out there.

1)      Don’t shank someone in the yard and expect no reprisals.  This bill is NOT business as usual.  You have kicked a hornet’s nest and you can expect to get stung.

2)      The people are mad as hell right now.  But they are holding out for November.  Whoever is engaged in violence is NOT a right wing tea partier.  It’s lone wolves who are mad hell at you. (Or SIEU members looking to short-circuit any protests)

3)      Right now, the people are angry but still willing to “play the game.”  But you try to ram Amnesty down our throats and you will see violence.

4)      When the American People are ready to be violent, you WILL NOT get threats.  You will not have a warning.  They will swarm like angry insects all over the place.  It will be ugly. 

5)      It would do you well to remember that the Hornets you are scorning because you are, for now, inside the protective bubble of DC have very large stingers and know how to use them.    

Are we clear now?  You started this battle and people are quite happy to keep it in the realm of politics and elections.  …For now.  But we do have a tipping point.  And you are getting very close to that point.  Keep on this road and no one will be the same.  

One last thing from the article:

“Here in America, we settle our political differences at the ballot box,”

True.  But when the people begin to understand that the system is rigged and our voices are no longer being heard because of parliamentary rules and rules violations designed to prevent the changes we insist on, what course is left to the people?  The Socialists Dems changed the game we are playing now.  It’s no longer penny-a-hand, it’s life and death for this nation.  Don’t blame the American People if, when, they respond in kind.

Do also remember.  We ARE a violent people.  We do like the rebel who settles fights with his fists and not lawyers.  Don’t kid yourselves into thinking that you’ve “Europeanized” us to the point that we are loyal subjects.  At heart, most Americans are an undomesticated feral beast quite happy to revert back to ending things with flash of teeth and claws.

Love That Sausage!

The headlines read, “GOP sends health bill back to the House.”  Lie. 

Obama already has his Socialist Healthcare reform.  The Senate bill has been passed and as IS law.  So all that the GOP did was send back some of the amendments. 

But it wasn’t the GOP that sent it back.  Biden could have overruled the Parliamentarian.  Why didn’t he?  I know the House was ready to be done with this.  Was it to make it appear that NOW they are playing fair?  Or did the Senate stab the House in the back AGAIN making them stand up for yet one more vote to put their imprimatur on Obamacare?  Or, are they all just that incompetent, like leaving the, “All children will be covered NOW,” portion out of the bill?  You know, the thing Obama has been touting that is an out and out lie. 

Perhaps it’s to give the House a chance to vote, “NO,” so they can use expert Socialist Sophistry to claim, that somehow, they heard you and tried to stop Obamacare?

Either way, Obama doesn’t care.  He has his precious unconstitutional socialist power grab so a few amendments either way don’t matter one damn bit.  Sausage making at it very finest is on display for all to see.

Oh, Please Don’t Misunderstand me.

I read PDB’s blog entry (by way of the lovely and talented Breda) and it set me to thinking.  I don’t want people to get the wrong idea.  As you’ve seen over the past couple of days, I don’t believe we can undo the damage done by Obamacare’s passage.  We won’t be able to repeal it.  It’s in there and we are toast.  But, so nu?

Look, as it has been said, life is a terminal disease.  We all end up worm food in the end.  Yet daily, for no more than the hopes of our loved ones and the inner dreams of the person we struggle to become, we keep going.  None of us, well few of us, on a daily basis pick up a pistol and hold it too our heads and ask, “Why should I step outside today?”  We simply keep going for no more motivation than the sun has risen and it’s time to sally forth. 

Obamacare is a terminal disease, the chances of undoing it are beyond a pipe dream.  And, frankly, there is so little hope that to hold onto it seems to be pointless.  But there is no hope in beating death either yet I’m still typing at my keyboard.  Why?  …Because I believe in a cause.  I believe that because I seek something greater than the lies doled out by society and politicians, I will, in the end, be a better person. 

In the end, Obamacare will probably take this country down the tubes.  It will probably be the straw that broke the camels back and leaves this nation fractured and broken.  But it won’t be because I stopped trying.  With the intensity of doomed warriors throughout history who fought, not for victory, but for honor, I will keep at this.  It doesn’t matter that in the end, Obamacare will still have its flag stuck firmly on the hill when all of us are feeding vultures and jackals in the valley.   What matters is that I believe in The Constitution and no government, no body of religious or professorial zealots…  NO ONE can make me stop believing. 

So please forgive me for publishing the truth.  This nation ceased to be The United States of America this past Sunday.  The America that went to sleep on Saturday was not the same one that woke up on Monday and I’ve stated why repeatedly in past posts.  The America of March 20^th is gone forever.  It is time for all who love liberty to deal with that and understand it.  What is done is done and there will be no going back. 

What’s next is…  Unknown.  The last people that faced this prospect had to fight brother against brother with guns and blood.  In the end, they created The US of A mkIII that, for all its faults won two world wars, the cold war and saved Western Civilization for a century.  Slowly, though, over many years, the mkIII had many minor revisions to the point that it bore scant resemblance to the original mkIII.  Through amendments and laws we ended up with mkIIIa all the way to mkIIIz5/b.  Maybe it was just time for a major revision change.

The USA mkIV (est. March 21, 2010) is a turkey.  RINOs and Blue Dogs think that they can pluck that turkey and make it a sleek turkey.  Socialists are happy with the turkey and intend to protect it with all the power of the US Government, your rights be damned. Conservatives, Libertarians, Blue Collar Liberals, and people who didn’t pay attention to politics and couldn’t ID with a political philosophy if you held a gun to their heads think the turkey needs to be served up for Thanksgiving in November.  Will that happen?  Doubtful.

In the end, however, none of that matters.  What matters is the courageous fight for honor.  I will be waiting for November.  I will be more active in my local state organizations.  I will continue to write and yell and prophesy to any who will listen.  And when all those things become naught, I’ll do what is necessary to leave a legacy of liberty for my children even if that is ONLY the memory that I never lost my honor and courage.

Take the case of courage. No quality has ever so much addled the brains and tangled the definitions of merely rational sages. Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die. ‘He that will lose his life, the same shall save it,’ is not a piece of mysticism for saints and heroes. It is a piece of everyday advice for sailors or mountaineers. It might be printed in an Alpine guide or a drill book. This paradox is the whole principle of courage; even of quite earthly or brutal courage. A man cut off by the sea may save his life if we will risk it on the precipice.

He can only get away from death by continually stepping within an inch of it. A soldier surrounded by enemies, if he is to cut his way out, needs to combine a strong desire for living with a strange carelessness about dying. He must not merely cling to life, for then he will be a coward, and will not escape. He must not merely wait for death, for then he will be a suicide, and will not escape. He must seek his life in a spirit of furious indifference to it; he must desire life like water and yet drink death like wine. No philosopher, I fancy, has ever expressed this romantic riddle with adequate lucidity, and I certainly have not done so. But Christianity has done more: it has marked the limits of it in the awful graves of the suicide and the hero, showing the distance between him who dies for the sake of living and him who dies for the sake of dying.
— G.K. Chesterton (Orthodoxy)

So yes, the cause it bleak and with little or no rational hope.  But like Chesterton’s soldier, I will keep fighting until… until… *shrug*You can take a man’s heartbeat, but only he can surrender his heart. 

So don’t let anyone confuse honest appraisal of the situation with a lack of will.  Just because I believe we most certainly will fail, doesn’t me I shouldn’t grin with all of Hell’s own fury as I walk into the fight. And as the old saw goes, “there’s nothing more dangerous than a man who has nothing to lose.” 

I’ve never had a hopeless cause to fight for before.  I’m actually quite invigorated.  *GRIN!*

Fire At Will

… Or Nick, in this case.

In a post yesterday I espoused the “Moderate Delenda est” course for Conservatives since Moderates have been show for the cowards they are.  I submit that this strategy will not only be affective, but funny as hell. 

Thanks to the Monster Hunter in Chief

Some Of You Gun People…

…Made Me Have One More Rant!

I’ve been reading some of the gun boards and gun blogs and there seems to be a bit of a disconnect with some of my brethren and sisteren out there.  Many of you feel this is no big deal.  It’s just big.gov passing another law and it will all be ok because big.gov can’t do anything right.  And it’s no big deal because it’s the Dems and they will get voted out of office and that’s a good thing for gun owner rights.

Let me sum this up one more time for the kids in the back of the class who may have been sleeping.

Your Federal Government just passed an unconstitutional law using unconstitutional means against the will of the American People. 

This law happens to have in mind bankrupting insurance companies and bringing about an inevitable single payer system (Nationalized Healthcare).   This law will give the Federal Government unconstitutional control over your choice of healthcare and eventually over every aspect of your life.

But it wouldn’t matter if the law did give me a $2500 break on premiums and insure everyone from cradle to grave (neither of which it does.  Both complete lies told by Obama). 

It wouldn’t matter if this bill made candy canes rain from the sky and mandate that I get lucky every night by a Victoria’s Secret model. 

IT’S UNCONSTITUTIONAL AND IT WAS PASSED BY UNCONSTITUTIONAL MEANS!

When the government abandons all pretense of even trying to lie to us and just rams something down our throats knowing we can’t do a damn thing about it save marching on DC and having public executions of anyone who holds office, that is a very bad thing. 

And how do you even draw a stupid conclusion that this is somehow good for gun owner rights????? When one part of The Constitution is pissed on, the whole thing is pissed on.  Isn’t that what we in the gun community have been saying for decades?  But somehow it’s ok when it’s not guns that are getting shat upon. 

And let me add one more little morsel of disquietude to this whole happy circus.  Since repealing this is well-nigh impossible, the government, knowing that riots and revolts are in the cards 10 to 15 years down the road when this can’t be paid for, will HAVE to, as a matter of self preservation, remove your rights to not only have guns but to protest about it. Your guns are not safe just because there may be (still doubtful given that illegals will be given the vote soon) a Dem blood bath in November.

Unless there is a very large miracle, we just got handed a script for how this country will end its last 20 or so years of existence.  The rule of law is over.  Congress and the President just told us they can do ANYTHING they want and are immune to us.  The stitching has been pulled out of the hem and the garment will unravel faster than a cheap Chicom Wal-mart T-shirt. 

WAKE THE FRACK UP!!!!

Ok… One Last Rant For The Day.

I DON’T CARE ABOUT MARCH MADNESS!  OUR COUNTRY JUST GOT NUT PUNCHED IN THE CONSTITUTION!  I DON’T CARE IF YOUR BRACKET SUCKED!  I DON’T CARE ABOUT A BUNCH OF KIDS PLAYING SO SPONSORS CAN MAKE A MINT AND SCHOOLS CAN FORGET ABOUT EDUCATION! 

DO YOU NOT UNDERSTAND???? THIS COUNTRY WAS JUST THROWN UNDER THE BUS AND WE WILL NEVER BE THE SAME! 

And we wonder why we are in the shape with are in.

Oh, FWIW, the previous post where I talk about the Moderates who frosted the hell out of me in the last election with their naiveté and high mindedness in the face of facts… they are many of the people who are carping about March Madness like it matters one damn whit.

None of you get to use any of my guns when the Zombies attack.  NONE OF YOU!

No More Moderates

If one thing has become painfully clear to anyone watching this Healthcare Sausage Making Demonstration, it is the acute fact that the myth of the Moderate is dead.  If you encounter a RINO or Blue Dog in your life, point out to them quite plainly and in as much politeness are you can muster that there are either FOR the destruction of the country or AGAINST it.  There is no more cover for them to hide behind. 

If you are Conservative, be very proud of that fact and stick in everyone’s face.  Don’t let them get away with talking about moderation and crossing the aisle and compassion.  It’s a very simple thing.  If you can’t say that with 100% of your being that you despise the direction of the country, you are the enemy and must be destroyed.  No equivocation.  No convoluted nuances.  You are either with us or against us and if you are against us, you must be destroyed. 

I was sick to death of “Moderates” cooing about how they were going to rise above politics and elect Obama.  I was sick to death of having them say “Oh he won’t do that,” or “the Constitution won’t let him,” or, “He’s not a king, he wouldn’t dare.”  I was equally sick of them whinging after the election about “I never thought he would do this.”  You bunch of stupid imbeciles. 

Moderates like the Bushs led to socialists like Clinton and now Obama.  They led to the destruction of this nation.  They can not be allowed to exist in either party.  The minute some Republican starts talking about anything other than repealing this legislation, lowering taxes, and cutting spending, they should be shown the door, forcefully if necessary.  That means taking out the party elite as well.  McCain, Grahamnesty, and the like must be beheaded.  If only just politically.

If a Democrat tries to convince you they are “independent minded” and “Moderate”, they should get the same treatment.  There is no room for moderation in the Democrat party as this past weekend and criminals like the “Moderate” Stupak bunch have shown.  If you have a D after your name, you will eventually be forced to do the bidding of Nancy, Harry, and Obama if you want to keep your seat.  If they tell you they are capable of being Conservative or Moderate and they have a D after their name, they are lying and they used to shoot liars on the field of honor.  A practice I think should definitely be reexamined and possibly brought back.  …At least for politicians.

I will only brook quarter for one group that is not truly Conservative.  That is the Libertarians.  I get your stance.  I don’t agree with it. I can’t.  But I think, at least in this case, we can agree that we can quibble about the social concerns you have about Conservatism after Socialism has been defeated.  Besides, your beef with Conservatism, for the most part, is at the State level.  The US Constitution, when followed, gives little more power to the federal government than Libertarians ideals would dictate.   Gay marriage and all the other social issues with the possible exception of abortion (unless you agree with Justice Scalia, which I’m tempted to), are not FEDERAL ISSUES.  So for this fight, we have to bury the hatchet.   We can get back to killing each other at the State level when this job is done.

I type this knowing full well many things.  1) The media will continue to fawn over RINOs and Blue Dogs as “open minded” and “above it all”.  2) Libertarians will never sit happily with Conservatives and vice versa.  3) All of this is an intellectual exercise since we will have Shamnesty that will guarantee Socialist Rule over this country for the foreseeable future. 4) Finally, we probably won’t see the end of this until this country goes Tango Uniform under a mound of dept. 

It’s sad to think that even with maximum effort, the only thing that will probably work is the Balkanization of this country for there to be a place for people who want to remain free to live according to The Constitution.  And with Shamnesty giving millions claim to States that would otherwise more peacefully become independent, the blood is going to be thigh deep when it does, if it does, happen.

*sigh*