Thanks for making me laugh today...

...and why did I laugh? This headline made me laugh:

Obama Jobs Plan May Prevent 2012 Recession

Thanks Bloomberg, you made me laugh!

But seriously folks:

What Obama isn't telling you about his jobs plan

Pantano, Marine Corps Legal, and NCIS

I just finished reading Ilario Pantano's Warlord, recanting his Odyssey through the Marine Corps legal system after a shitbird Sergeant named David Coburn decided to make up a story about Pantano murdering some Iraqi civilians. Pantano had a great career in the Marine Corps before he was railroaded. My main questions after reading the story are:

Why did the Division Legal Office and NCIS believe the story of a disgruntled shitbird Sgt like Coburn over all the other statements and press for an Article 32 hearing? Why did NCIS suppress some statements? The division legal officer was probably a clone of the same idiot division legal Colonel who told me to coerce a statement out of a witness, to which I told him to go to hell. Luckily I had a LtCol who also told him to go to hell.

Why did the NCIS withhold the multitude of witness testimony that was in favor of Pantano's story and only use shitbird testimony that was shredded by the defense during the Art 32 hearing? This was a criminal act by NCIS and I doubt they were held accountable for it (but they tried to hide their stupidity by holding up discovery). They basically ruined Pantano's career by their actions and got away with it without any repercussions. Not quite the shining professionals we're shown on TV, are they?

After it was all over, an autopsy of the Iraqis shot during the incident collaborated Pantano's story, but by that time the Marine Corps had already lost a great officer.

Pericles turns over in grave...

Here in Athens, young and fashionably disheveled people are waving red flags and holding a demonstration while marching around the Syntagma, the Greek Constitution Square.
"Who are they?" I ask a young and pretty Athenian, while we're watching from a trendy coffee shop.
"I don't know." She replied with an empty shake of her empty head. "We see them every couple of days."

But I know. They're communists, protesting the austerity measures of the Socialist Greek Parliament. Too little austerity and too late. I wonder what they're chanting. I doubt it's what I'm thinking:
"We ran out of other people's money,
And we want more,
So I'm protesting that,
While we're about out the door!"

Not the smartest group I've ever seen. Meanwhile the Socialist Greek Parliament is voting in higher taxes for the overburdened few who are paying them. Those who are, are in the minority in the crazy and corrupt tax system. More Socialist bullshit.
Athens, in Pericles time rebuilt it's temples and the streets were lined with beautiful and stately homes of it's wealthy merchants. Now its filled with ugly squat tenements that surround the beautiful government buildings like the new Acropolis museum, a 200 million dollar salute to government, paid for by the people and existing for the government.
Meanwhile, the lefty CNN International here blares about evil Republicans back home stifling Greek style progress by the hero Barack Obama. Oh, what can be done! Also CNN International claims millions of people are up in arms about the execution of Troy Davis while not a one is defending his victim, a cop who Davis shot while the cop was defending Davis' intended victim. I'll speak for that cop. His name was Mark MacPhail. He's the only hero I've heard about, while Pericles is rolling over a few block away.

Socialism kills a small business man

Greek Crisis Exacts the Cruelest Toll

Times Atlas of the World publishes bogus Greenland data, claiming AGW melting ice

Times Atlas 'wrong' on Greenland ice

New Scientist publishes the bogus results. Maybe they should change their name to Known Socialist? Old Liberals? New Falsehoods? Old Lies?

We only print made up crap, here at Old Liberals

A note from the Declaration of Independence

Look familiar?

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.

So the question we need to ask ourselves is: Is the government destroying our rights to Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness? Are the requirements of government becoming a burden that is keeping us from these rights? Not to the government employees making 130k a year for sitting on their fat asses. Not to a Solyndra executive. But for the rest of us, I would say the scale is tipping into the wrong.

Givem what they want

Glenn Reynolds writes about a tax from the fifties on gross box office returns, and why we should give the Hollywood lefties the tax increases they are always clamoring for. A lot of the causes Hollywood supports require high taxes, so let them pay high taxes so they can feel better about themselves and their drug fueled pool orgies.

Or, you can pay $30 dollars a month, set up a seed box in Europe and seed torrents to take a bite out of Hollywood. Of course I don't condone copyright infringement. I condemn it in the strongest terms. Here, a horrible rat-bastard is explaining how to set up a seed box:

BT Dedicated Server Seedbox:

Spank yourself! You are killing Hollywood profits! Bad seeder. Think of all the cocaine and hookers you are taking out of the hands (and noses) of deserving liberal Hollywooders that have run the California government right into the ground. And that your tax dollars will inevitably have to pay to bail out. Whoa, wait a minute...I think I'm on to something here. They are already implicitly stealing from you. Is it OK to steal from a thief? The law says no, it is not OK. So don't do it! Bad seeder!

Here's Glenn's great piece:

Why the GOP should give Obama the higher taxes he wants