How to tell the OWS and Tea Party apart

Gingrich basically says, "Look at them. With your eyeballs."

His full answer is, of course, more diplomatic.

OWS via Comedy Central. Funny? Distrubing? Both?

Jon Stewart always deals with reality. Whatever is happening, he's on the edge of it. Covering it. Mocking it. Providing sometimes accurate, sometimes not, information. And for this, we tune in and watch.

Concerning the OWS movement, Stewart is yet again plowing through the unknowns to bring us the real story, to let this disturbed movement speak for itself. And all it took to motivate this video was a handful of deaths, a murder arrest, the White House shooter, multiple rapes, arson, public defecating, mobs, attacks on police, sexual acts in front of children, outbreaks of lice, TB, and ringworm, as well as dump trucks full of garage to clean-up after they leave their dirty needles behind.

Clap, my friends. Clap loud. It's modern day journalism at it's...tardiest.

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Best line: This is a personal possession. I'm talking...I'm more against private property, not personal property.

Absolutely. Right on. Because private property is something owned by a person or private group and personal property is something...owned by a... Let me give this another try. Because private property only belongs to specific individuals, not the collective, and personal property only belongs to specific....

Okay, okay. I can get this. Private property isn't personal. Personal property is private. Being private about your personal.... Oh, forget it.

World English Dictionary

private property — n land or belongings owned by a person or group and kept for their exclusive use. Like an iPad2.

Pig v Farmer

EE-I EE-I Oh?

Patriotic Millionaires: We heart taxes. We hate donations.

 Did they make their money due to independent thought? I have to question that since they refuse to donate to the U.S. Treasury unless they can "hold hands" - not kidding, one of them said this - and do it together.
All or nothing. And this is why they call themselves Patriotic Millionaires?



You can pay more taxes any day you want. You can pay every day you want. You can pay every hour of the day. The U.S. Treasury gladly takes donations to pay down on the debt. Also, there are things like "deductions" these guys are taking that are not necessary.

So why stand there pounding their Valentino suited chest and demanding taxes be raised? If you truly believe in your ideology, you live it even when you have to live it alone. 


But maybe they can still stand around and hold hands.

When Playboy really does have good articles

First, this article comes with no pictures, other than two patriotic boxing gloves. Both appropriately attired in dead cow hide. Second, it's long. Third, it's worth it.

Andrew Breitbart sat down with liberal headliner Paul Krassner (I hear he's famous; News to me) for a back and forth conversation at, rumors are, an Applebees. The article is the transcript, I'm assuming, unedited, since it made Paul look rather melodramatic, conspiratorial, and biting, while Andrew came off exactly like Andrew always does: armed for a fight but relaxed enough to throw swings at his leisure.

Am I prejudice?

Read it for yourself and find out. They cover every topic from Krassner's - quickly becoming obsessive - interest in Clarence Thomas to the Tea Party to ACORN and even a few notes on agnosticism and Judeo-Christian beliefs.

Best, and most telling, line of the entire conversation is the very last. 

Can you find the journalism in this question?

Where's Waldo was a great game to play as a child. It was so challenging, such a rush. Would I find Waldo? Huh? Would I? It felt as if a clocking was always ticking in the background. This Waldo character was so universally important. I had to find him.

Think of this as Waldo all grown up. Can you find the journalism? You have to look hard.

CNN's Dan Lothian to Obama:

"Last night at the Republican debate, some of the hopefuls, they hope to get your job, they defended the practice of waterboarding which is a practice you banned in 2009. Herman Cain said, quote, 'I don't see that as torture.' Michele Bachmann said that it's, quote, 'very effective.' So I'm wondering if you think that they're uninformed, out of touch, or irresponsible?" 

Okay. Confession. There isn't any journalism in that question. Hey, I never said Waldo was easy.

And just FYI, the intelligence used to find and kill Osama, an accomplishment Obama enjoys beating his spindly chest about, was gleaned through waterboarding. Who says? Obama's CIA Director Leon Panetta.

Yes, Lothian, someone is definitely uninformed. 

Prof. Newt: Class is in session.

Before we get to the part where Newt Gingrich, with the effort it takes to swat a fly, schooled the CBS debate moderator, Scott Pelley, on what is and is not the "rule of law" concerning American terrorists, let's talk etiquette.

Take a look at Pelley's smugness when he - sadly, ignorantly - believes he has the upper hand about that "rule of law". Someone really needs to take a still of that face, incorporate it into college journalism curriculum, and teach it as the expression not to make after age four.

Also note his "no" when Gingrich answers the question Pelley asked.



I had no idea Pelley wanted to run for President as the GOP candidate. If he's going to debate the candidates, get the man a podium and make him the bull's eye of late night comediennes. I mean, if he wants the job, give the man the whole job.

Thank YOU Veterans

Here's a tribute to make you cry.



Here's a song to make you want to kick some anti-freedom, terrorist-garbage butt. 



I think the two make a lovely coupling, don't you?

"This ain’t a day for quittin’.”

Yesterday, in the midst of all the spitting and spewing and backwash about Perry, he had one thing to say, "This ain't a day for quittin."
Then he had 10 things to say and went on David Letterman to give his Top 10 Reasons for his gaffe. Funny stuff. Handled well. View here.

Americans love a fighter. Liberals hope for a quitter. Guess who is and isn't happy today.

Perry Flub: This is news? Seriously?

I try not to get annoyed.

Okay, correction. I try not to get annoyed and blog about it.

Truth is, I can get annoyed about a lot of things. Trivial things. Like when egg white gets on the counter when I crack a shell. Or when I pull out the chap stick from my pocket, pull off the lid, and it's cranked out of the container by a half inch. Or, this is getting bad, when all the tugging in the world won't keep my ankle socks from slipping into my shoes.
I'm annoyed!

What doesn't annoy me, is this.



Bloggers to the left and right are deeming this an irreversible flub. Reporters have spent most of the day asking Perry if, now that he's flubbed a debate answer (oh the humanity!), he'll quit his run for Presidency. And pundits are weighing in to give their bloated opinion about why oh why Perry stumbled.

It's almost as if the man, within 53 seconds of air-time in a debate no more noteworthy than all the other nameless GOP debates, has single-handedly given $535 million in taxpayer money to a bankrupt solar panel company with never a breathe of hope of seeing that money again, armed Mexican drug cartels with weapons that were used in the murder of a U.S. Border Patrol agent, decided a good idea would be taxing Christmas trees in order to promote the sell of Christmas trees, and, only yesterday, cut $4 billion from the national budget only to spend it somewhere else.

Oh wait. That was Obama.

So, yeah, the ridiculous hyper activity over Perry having a brain freeze in a nothing debate doesn't get my dander up. Big freakin' deal. If I choose to vote for him, or for anyone, their debate performances won't even be a factor.

Not even a little bit.

Truth is, I couldn't care less if my President is monotone. If he stutters. If he sings his answers in iambic pentameter instead of speaks them.

What I care about is the devastating direction our country is headed, the unemployment, the lowering standard of living, the fact I - as a business owner - am creating my own wealth in spite of my anti-business President. What I care about are the hours of labor required to remain self-sufficient while a group of potheads dance to drums, riot in the streets, and the sycophantic media lick them clean like a ummmm female dog yeah, that to her newly birthed offspring.  

In the end, do these debates even matter? Honestly? I learn about the candidates according to their core beliefs, not their sound bites.

Supposedly, however, we need a President who can carry himself well in public. But look at what we have: A man-child who reads from a teleprompter and, even then, thinks Memorial Day is Veterans Day, that the Army Corp is just lazy man's speak for "corpse", and insults one of our most long-standing allies because he can't 1) figure out when his mic is on and 2) learn to govern with graciousness.

We already elected an orator. Look what that got us.

Now THAT annoys me.

Todays REALITY CHECK brought to you by reality

According to the New York Post, the 99 percent are actually protesting 20 percent of the 1 percent, not including the 2 percent who are pretending to be the 99 percent.

Confused? So are the 99.

Want to know how 80 percent of American millionaires became millionaires? They earned it.

Roughly 80 percent of millionaires in America are the first generation of their family to be rich. They didn't inherit their wealth; they earned it. How? According to a recent survey of the top 1 percent of American earners, slightly less than 14 percent were involved in banking or finance.
Roughly a third were entrepreneurs or managers of nonfinancial businesses. Nearly 16 percent were doctors or other medical professionals.
Lawyers made up slightly more than 8 percent, and engineers, scientists and computer professionals another 6.6 percent.
Sports and entertainment figures — the folks flying in on their private jets to express solidarity with Occupy Wall Street — composed almost 2 percent.

 Strike another Drum cadenza. Time to work up the crowd before they riot for their evening meal.

Steven Crowder: the alternative universe

Making money is evil. Taking money is righteous. Supporting a black conservative is racist. And Steven Crowder goes Occupy all the way, complete with a peace dance. Welcome to the flip side. Make sure all your container lids burp. Everything is about to get tossed.



New conservative hero: the guy who took on Crowder's evil twin. Now, after witnessing insanity in full summer bloom, all I have left is one question: What brand of jeans have that kind of stretchy give?

VIDEO: What is legislative perfection?

This, apparently. And I do not disagree. 



Honesty has been one of those political footballs that gets tossed around during nearly every major speech, ever major campaign, and used as dishonestly as possible. Oxymoron, anyone?

Will this bill pass? Depends. Honestly, how much honesty do self-proclaimed honest politicians honestly want? I see Republican co-sponsors. No Democrats yet.

Here's my idea: Until a politician can put honest actions behind their "honest" proclamations, they should just shut it. Words are cheap. And far too flexible. Actions are generally cut and dry. So let's have some honest ones.

Misfit Politics: Calling stupid...well...stupid.

I like this guy. No. Really. I like him. He's bold and unapologetic.

About.
Time.



 Just this morning, during my normal routine of over analyzing all the angst of the world, I had one very clear thought: I'm ready for the unafraid. That's right. The fearless. I'm ready for them to emerge. I would like to know them. To shake their hand. I'm ready to be one.

And what do you know, here's one on my computer screen. Misfit Politics. 

Then, I would like to work for them. And charge them money. And take that money I make from the fearless, cash it, and spend it according to my own will - which I pray - will always be God's.

I wonder if he needs a writer....